4 THE TIMES. JVew liktom.field, Nov. 19, 1S7S. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. No Out or Stereotype, will ho Inserted InthH rler unless UkM. faee and on metal liaae. Twenty per eent. in eseena of regular rates, will be chawed lor advertisement set In Double Ooluuiu. NOTICE TO SUH!CHIIERS. I.ooli at the Omrcs on Hie label of your paper. rhom nnri'WI vnu rhn rinreto wlilrli yonrmili. irlplton KpnM, Within 3 week; niter money Is eul, see II the dute la chained. No other receipt is necoMearv. Mr The '.present Circulation of THE TIMES exoeeds NINETEEN HUNDRED copies. Our mailing list is always opon to the Inspection of advertisers. OUR OFFER FOR 1879. For the year 187(1 we impose to furnish Tub Times to-slniile subscribers ami clubs at the following rates, payable In advance : Oi'T op -mi? County. SlncVo Copies, (postage included) I 1 EO 1'IVB 7 Oil Ten 12 HO Twenty ,. 23 00 Tho person netting up clubs of ten or more will be entitle! to an extra copy free. Tun Times rou Nothing. 1'ersoiis subscribing now will receive The Times until January 1st, 1879 free of charge. Other Puiilioations. Subscribers whcdeslre other, publications can have Th TiMnstind retfrmn't Mntimlne for tl 75 ., ,. JIarjw-s Mnrinzine 4 50 ,, .. ,. WfH-ly 4 fid ,i u i, llatnr 4 SO (Vixej's Mmjazine 3 00 Gold was old ou Saturday Inst at i per eent. premium, and but few sales! at that. The total voto cast in tills State at the late election was in round numbers 009, 000. The 'Greenback vote was 81,700, being about one eighth of the total vote. Fulton was the only county in theState that did not cast tv single greenbnck vote. The loud smelling trunk which i9 mentioned on the 8th page was opened at Philadelphia, and was found to con tain a portion of a corpse of a grey fox. That is, it had the skin of one with the head left on which' had been killed by a hunter and sent homo as a trophy. The return Judgesof the Eleventh Congressional district met at Mauch Chunk on Thursday last. The judges from Carbon, Luzerne and Lackawanna counties tmade a return certifying to General Albright's election by 61 plu rality, and those from 'Pike, Monroe, Montour and 'Columbia counties certi fied to Robert Klotz's election by 05 plurality. "Progress" is the nameof a new paper just started in Philadelphia by Hon. J. W. Forney. The first 'nutnber, which is now before-us, shows that the paper is to be a new -feature in the line of week ly journals. It is original in every re spect, and with the talent and experi ence of Mr. Forney to complete it, the paper cannot fail to fill a place -in litera ture never before attempted in this country. The subscription price is $5 per annum. Address John. W. For ney, 7th and Chestnut, Street , Phil'a. Preparing the Way for Resumption. At New York the Clearing House Association bad a private session to con sider the report of the committee which recently had a conference with Secretary Sherman. Resolutions were introduced calling upon the different New York banks to aid the Secretary In removing the present premium on gold so that the resumption of specie payments may be a settled fact before the time Axed by law. The Plan of Action for Besumption. New York, November 12. The clearing house to-day decided upon the following plan of action after January 1, 1870: First. Decline receiving gold coin as special deposit, but accept and treat them only as lawful money. Second. Abolish special exchangee of gold checks at the clearing bouse. Third. Pay and receive balance be tween banks and clearing house either ' in gold or United States legal tenders. Fourth. Receive silver dollars upon deposit only under fpecial contract to withdraw the time In kind. Fifth. Prohibit payments of balances at clearing house in silver certificates or in silver dollars, excepting as subsidiary coin in small sums, say under $10. Sixth. Discontinue gold special ac counts by notice to dialers on the 1st day of January next to terminate them. Wholesale Grave Robbing. At Zanesville, Ohio, at 4 o,clock on the 14th, a policeman on the bridge had his suspicions aroused by the movements of a party In a wagon, and when they fepciied the bridge ordered them to halt, but the driver whipped Ms horses into a gnllop and escaped. The policeman procured assistance, and followed them for fourteen miles before he was able to catch up with them ; Upon attempting to arrest them the whole party Jumped form the wagon and escnped to the woods. The wagon was found to contain tlie bodies of four prominent cltl.ens who had been burled In Woodlawn cemetery since Monday. Policeman Still received a pistol wound from one of the men In the wngon dur ing the chnse. It is not known who the robbers were. Poisoned the Wrong Man. A woman living in Racine, Wis., hnd a misunderstanding with her husband about his running after other ladles. She swore revenge, and Wednesday evening she proceeded to have it. Go lug to a drug store she brought some deadly drug, which she intended to give her husband. At supper time she drop ped a portion of it into a cup of coffee and sat it near where her husband was to eat his meal. Presently he came home and brought with him a friend to take tea. They all seated themselves at the table and proceeded to dispose of the victuals. Ry some mistake the visitor got the cup of coflee that had the drug in, and drank it. About half an hour afterward he was taken sick, vomiting, and having terri ble cramps in his stomach. Everything was all excitement, the woman becom ing almost wild with fright, and when a physician arrived confessed the whole thing. By the most watchful and skill ful attention the man was saved, but now threatens to have the woman ar rested for attempting to poison him, as it is claimed the drug used was a very fatal one. The husband intends eueing for a divorce, and will have the druggist who sold his wife the stuff arrested and put through. The Story of a Portrnit. An oil painting of Lincoln, which hangs in the parlor of Mr. E. J. Smith's residence, No. 1712 L street, is mounted in a cracked frame and has a small round hole in the canvas to show where a bullet went through. The picture has an interesting history. It was painted in 1800 by Wright of Indiana, and is believed to be the only oil painting of Mr. Lincoln executed prior to that date. The picture was owned by a prominent lawyer before it came Into the possession of the present owner, and both before and after the assassination of Lincoln hung upon the walls of the office of the former gentleman. Just before the death of the President, Senator Reverdy John son was looking at the picture, and held in his hand a loaded cane, which ac cidentally exploded, and the bullet passed through the portrait into the wall. Then came the assassination of Lincoln. Shortly after this event the picture fell to the floor face downward. The frame waB never repaired, the owner desiring to preserve it in its injured con dition as a memento. Ex. Fire at Atlantic City. Atlantic City, November 15. A few minutes before one o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in Adams' grocery store, on Atlantic avenue, be tween Maryland and Delaware avenues, and opposite the United States Hotel. This is the richest built up block in the city, and, with the exception of two cottages, was composed of hotels and stores, the latter including Upham's market. Seven building were destroyed before the flames were extinguished, most of them the property of Dr. Reed. The scarcity of water caused the fire to spread. Had it not been for this cause the fire might have been confined to to the stores, and the cottages saved. Disastrous Fire at Bradford, Pa. RuADi-ORi), Pa., November 15. A fire broke out here last night, andbefore it was suppressed two hundred thousand dollars' worth of property was destroy ed. The fire originated In the Theatre Oomique, extended to several dwellings on Main street, and then reached the Riddell House, which was destroyed V A number of buildings around the hotel caught fire and were soon In ashes. Wayne's Opera House, where Lawrence Barrett was playing Richelieu, escaped. A lumber yard and several oil tanks were destroyed. The fire burned over Ave acres. Arrested for Ballot Box Stuffing. Petersiivrg, Va., November 14. Alexander W. Vaughn, judge of elec tions, who was arrested on election day charged with stuffing the ballot box in the Sixth ward, was examined yesterday before J. L. Waterman, .United States Commissioner. The witness against him was R. A. Young, United States Supervisor, at whose Instance the arrest was made. Vaughan was held for trial but enlarged on ball of $1,000. Official Vote of the State The following are the majorities In all the counties in the State at the recent election : republican. Allegheny 7.415 Armstroim till Blair HI0 Renvoi' 110.1 Bradford 2,87 Rucks 49 Cameron V7 Chester.. 2.712 Crawford 2,124 Dauphin 1,203 Delaware 1.012 Kile 1,807 Forest 40 Franklin 41 Indiana 1.92!) Huntingdon 1117 Lackawanna.... 2.0.14 LaiiCHster (1.804 Lawrence 1.271 Lebanon 1.2K8 Luzerne 2,9o8 Mercer 742 MeKean 228 1'lilladelphla.... 16..14I 1'olter :i2 Somerset I'.I4 HiiMiiielianna.... l,rA Unvder 820 Tioga 2,0"0 Dillon 180 Venango 417 Warren 1,110 Wayne .125 Washington Hid DEMOCRAT. Adnms i)n lied foul , Berks (1,074 Butler 120 Carbon Ho Cumbria 1,111) (Marlon 1,707 Centre 1,708 Clearfield 1,024 Clinton 880 Columbia 1,827 Cumberland 1,1188 F.Ik 7l Fayette I,fih7 Fuiton 421 (lieene 1,01 Jefferson 100 Juniata .178 Lehigh 1.710 Lycoming 1,702 Mllllln 12 Monroe 2,227 Montgomery I:'j8 Montour 0O0 Northampton. . . 8.401) Northumberland. 1.3oT 1'etiy 14 1'lke Bin Hrhuvlkill 1.001 Sullivan 102 Westmorland... 1,171 Wyoming 284 York 3,681 Total 42.042 Total 64. .101 I Republican total 04,101 Democratic total 42,042 Republican plurality 22,310 PiTTsnuitOH, November 14. Robert L. Stevens, a white youth, son of a re spectable widow ludy, was yesterday morning, by order of a justice of the peace, given fifteen lashes for stealing a bag of money containing $10 from J. B. Parkinson. This is the first adminis tration of the lash to a white back In the city under the recent amendments to the State constitution. ggrCharles W. WharlT of Farming dale, Me., met with a curious accident the other day. His wife swept up and threw some cartridges into the stove, and just as he lifted the cover a moment after, one of them went off and hit him in the eye, probably destroying it. A Newduro N. Y. school teacher was sued by the father of a lad whom she had whipped in school for miscon duct, laying damage at $1,000. The jury found for the teacher and the judge allowed her $25 from the plaintiff for expenses. gafBen Butler's campaign was carried on in a style altogether unprecedented. Not only was the General lavish with his private resources, but his friends were equally liberal and demonstrative, especially in the matter of ballots. We have before us one of the Butler tickets, voted in the Second precinct, Twenty first ward, Boston, which Is twelve inches long by six inches wide, with a large vignette, containing Butler's like ness and the Massachusetts cont of arms ; the names of the candidates, including Butler'B, are all engraved. On the back of this monster ballot, finely engraved and printed in blue, is another excellent likeness of the General, flanked with medallions containing some of his notable equal rights senti ments, etc. As a whole it is a curiosity in the ballot line. 6"A Winneconne, Wis., Item says: "The Insurance companies have reach ed the decision that hereafter, whenever practicable, all buildings burned in Winneconne will be rebuilt, in place of paying over theamountof the insurance. This will effectually put an end to dis honest fires, as the law distinctly states that in rebuilding the companies may recover the difference between new and old from the insured." Canton, O., Nov. 11. Judge Meyer, of the common pleas court, to-day sen tenced George Fessler, the defaulting treasurer of Stark county, to twelve years' imprisonment in the penitentiary athard labor and to pay a fine of $00, 000 and costs. A Terrible fire swept a large part of the city of Cape May out of existence on Sunday morning a week. Forty acres of ground were burned over destroy ing nearly all the hotels and boarding houses and many of the finest private cottages. K3T William Keller was elected Justice of the Peace in the Second District of Elizabeth, N. J., by a majority of 590 votes. The City Clerk of Elizabeth has just been Informed that Mr. Keller died several months ago. 63-An eight-years old child of John McArthur, of East Saginaw, Mich., fell upon a knife, the blade piercing the child's heart. Of course death ensued almost Immediately. Miscellaneous News Items. tSTTkere are now 384 inmates iu tho Montgomery county Poor House, which is a greater number than was ever before known in that institution at this Benson of the year. U"A young mini named Jacob Baird, of WeBt Providence township, Bedford county, died suddenly on the public- high way, ou Tuesday evening. lie was on his way home from Everett, where he was at tending the election. Hfllon. John SnodgraRS, at one time a member of the Legislature, residing near Grecnsburg, Westmorland county, while weighing cattle last Tuesday, fell over and wns carried into the house and died in a short time of heart disease. inrCalves are dying at a great rate In the vicinity of Morris, Otsego county, N. Y. They are taken with coughing and mope around a few days and die. A num ber of small, hairy worms have been dis covered in tho lights of those that hnvo died. tt5?"The rapid Improvement In business which is daily manifested in Memphis, Is a surpiise to the most sanguine merchants. The wharf last week was lined with steam ers discharging freight, the stores are crowding with customers from the Intel for, nnd the general aspect in commercial cir cles is most encouraging. tSTJIartiu and John Murry and James McIIugh were killed at Spring colliery, Schuylkill county, pa., Monday. Two cars that were being hoisted together be came uncoupled j the hind car rau furiously down the slope and killed the three workmen before they could get awny from the track. IHTJudgo Barrett, of Now York, has refused a mandamus to compel the Con troller to pay another million dollars of the city's money toward the completion of the Brooklyn bridge, on the ground that the $8,000,000 voted by Brooklyn and New York have been expended. tSTAt West Chenango, N. Y., on Sun day, a quarrel between three brothers, named Taber, living on a farm together, resulted in the murder of one of them, who was stabbed several times with a pitchfork. The murderer fled to the woods, and subsequently blew his brains out with a shotgun. g-Pottsville, November 12. Lindlay Sellers, proprietor of the Sellers hotel, Schuylkill Raven, while gunning with a party of friends on Blue Mountain to-day, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a gun iu the hands of Gideon Nice. EOn last Friday night II. D. Meek, bookkeeper of the Bellaire, Ohio, Gas Works, was arrested, charged with arson in firing the office for the purpose of de stroying the books of the company, and thus covering up supposed defalcations. Meek had given a bond for his appearance on Saturday, but did not appear. It is sup posed that he has left the country. Owing to the complicated condition of the books the amount of the defalcation, if there is one, is not determined. S2TNew York, November 13. Officer Kemp this morning arrested Nicholas Leck ler, who, it is supposed, was endeavoring to kidnap the officer's little girl. Leckler was carrying the child away iu his arms, when she discovered her father and called out to him. The man was arraigned and bold in default of $1,000 bail. Cf7"A special dispatch reports the hang ing of Floyd Smith and his wife Maria (colored) by an armed mob on November 4, near Hernando, Miss. They were charged with murdering a little white girl six years old, which had been left in the care of its mother. OTJoseph Fenwick, of noar Holly, Mich., was robbed of $8d0 the other night. He is a bachelor and lives alone. The robbors gagged and bound him, and then went through his house at their leisure. The rogues are unknown. Fenwick pre ferred to hoard his mouey at home, believ ing it safer than to trust it to the banks. tA Boston child was at the point of death from water on the chest. Its parents would not oonsent to a surgical operation, although told that nothing else could save its life. The physioian got a priest and several nuns to interfere, but their argu ments had no effect. At length the society for the prevention of cruelty to children took forcible possession of the little patiout, who was then cured by the pbypioian. EST A Mr. Banner, of Clifton, Kan., aud a German had a difficulty about some cause. The German fired on Banner with a revol ver, but without effect, when Banner seized the revolver and with it knocked down his assailant. He then very coolly bound him with a stout 'cord, loaded him into a wagon, and took bira before a justice of the peace, who bound him over to tho district court in the sum of $500. t-E A special says that intense excite ment exists at Fort Washington, Tuscara was county, Ohio, over the discovery on Sunday last that Mrs. Best, a respectable widow, had been brutally murdered tho night previous. She started on Saturday night for her son's house, half a mile dis tant. The body was found the next morning hidden in a pile of rails with the neck dis located aud finger marks about the throat. Suspicion rests on a neighboring woman who, it is said, had been jealous of the deceased, suspecting intimacy between her husband and Mrs. Best. H"Dr, Sample went to Dayton, Ohio, while a temperance revival was In progress tbere,and soon became a foremost speaker. He was eloquent, looked like a philanthro pist, sang melodiously, relating thrilling incidents of his past career of drunkenness, and made himself exceedingly popular with the women, who petted, fed, and clothed him. One day he lapsed Into the old evil, and, while drunk, cxultingly showed love tokens from several of the women who had figured most conspicuously In the temperance work. A husband of one of the women had him arrested on a charge of stealing her watch but it was proved that she had lent it to him. Now he is under accusation of blackmail. tSyMost of the towns In Connecticut have voted no license. October 81 ull the licenses expired in the state, and not a hotel, drug store, saloon or shop of, any kind has tho privilege of selling spiritous or malt liquors. Only a very few of the towns have voted to grant licenses, Hart ford being among the latter class, while New Haven, Norwich, New London and other cities will try to carry out tho total abstinence scheme. -a . WHY CHEAPEST AND BEST? We see some envious mortals object to the Chicago & North Western Railway being called the greatest and best line In the country. What means greatest t Is it more length of line, miles operated and business transported? What means best V Every one knows the reply. That this line is greatest, a few facts will de monstrate. It operates nearly twenty one hundred miles of road (2,078 to be exact) and reaches nearly every import ant point in Northern Illinois, in Wis consin, in Northern Michigan, in Iowa, in Minnesota, and runs many lines Into Dukota. What other line begins to tra verse so many States V None Not one. A road 500 miles in length Is a long one. A thousand miles mukes a great line. What, then, should be said of one 2,100 miles long V Just think of it If it was laid eastward from New York it would reach more than two-thirds of the way across the Atlantic Ocean, or from the pine clad hills of Maine to thesunny shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Great is it not 'i Then for a moment look at its business. It carries millions (think of what millions mean) of passengers a year, to say nothing of the silver and iron, and lead, and lumber, and cattle and hogs, and thousands of thousands of car loads of wheat, and oats, and corn, and horses, sheep, and the thou sand and one other kinds of freight that Is grown or used or handled by the peo ple of the great North-west, through which it is the great iron highway. Tuke down your map aud trace its routes. Fix your eye on Chicago as a starting point. Westward, in nearly an air line, you will trace its California line until you reach the Missouri river at Council Bluils, opposite Omaha here is a single run of nearly 500 miles. Back to Chicago again you look North-west, and follow another of its routes through Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin, through the pine woods of that whole State and into Minnesota, and on to St. Paul and Minneapolis this is 400 miles more. Again looking from Chicago you can trace a line through Sparta, Wiscon sin, LaCrosse, in the same State, Winona, Owatonna and New Ulm, in Minnesota, and North-westward far in to Dakota here we have 025 miles more of road. Again coming to Chicago we see two lines runningNorthwardly one along the lake shore to Milwaukee, and thence to Fond du Lac, and the other running more inland, through Janes ville, Watertown, etc., also to Fond du Lac, thence North through Oshkosh, DePere, Green Bay and Escanaba, to Negaunee, Ispheming and Marquette here is another 410 miles of road. Then we have a line from Chicago to Elgin, Rockford and Freeport, another from Clinton, Iowa, to Atiamosa in the same State, another from Kenosha on t Lake Michigan to Rockford, in Northern Illinois, and after all longer lines we have many short spans to traverse be fore we have found out all of the Chica go & North Western Railway. Is it any wonder, then, that this line is called the great Western Trunk Line? So far ahead of anything else is it in the way of road bed, cars, locomotives and hotel coaches, that even its competi tors are obliged to acknowledge that it is the best. The passenger to or from California, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, the Black Hills, Minnesota, Manitoba, the East, West, North or South, should see thar they are furnished tickets by this great line. Forget not that this alone of all the roads west or north of Chicago, run the world-renowned Pullman hotel car. No other western road has Pullman or any other form of hotel car, 110 matter what they claim. The Herald. Removal. J. T. Messimer has remov ed his Shoe Shop to the room adjoining F. B. Clouser's office, 4 doors west of the Post-Oflice, where he will make to order Boots and Shoes of all kinds. Repair ing promptly and neatly executed. He will also keep on hand a good assort ment of Boots and Shoes, which he will sell at low prices. Give him a call. 17 Home-Mado Carpets Beautiful Style. Call and see twelve pretty patterns. Prices from 45 cents per yard up. Rag9 taken in exchange, at 8 cents per pound. F. Mortimer, New Bloomfield. Blank Receipt Books for Administrators and Executors. Also blank notes and all other blanks for sale at this office, tf n 120O Pianna for ""'J j . SWIO J 1 1 I I I 1 Piano fnr trtj 1"7F, UUUill! $410 Organ for only $140 ; $335 Organ for only $75; $285 Organ for only 00. All Warranted for six years. 63" Don't fail to send for Illustrated Circulars. Bunnell & Miller, Original Manufacturers. 37 3m Lewlstowu, Pa. Farm Bells. I have on hand several of the patent rotary farm bells, suitable either for farm, Fuctory or School house which will he sold at about half price to close the consignment. F. Mortimer.
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