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Circusks Lave all gone into winter
quarters, but the great National Circus
which convenes nt Washington will
be open next Monday.
ArPALLixo distress and destitution
exists among the mechanics and labor
ers of Sheffield, England, in conse
quence of the business depression. The
Mayor has called a public meeting to
devise measures of relief.
EtrnorE has now commenced a war
with Afghanistan. Should Itussia give
the Ameer's arniymaterial aid, the war
will be apt to be a costly one both in
lives and money, llussia is certain to
give her sympathies if not other aid in
opposition to England.
Some peksons find fault with the
banks of New York and Boston for
the course they propose to take in aid of
resumption. Their ground of complaint
is, that the banks are to refuse to take
silver except as a special deposit to be
paid again in Bilver coin. But why find
fault with the banks for not doing what
the government refuses to do? They
simply refuse to give greenbacks or gold
for silver, and the government does the
eame thing, for the secretary of the
treasury will not give either gold or
greenbacks for silver. 'When the treas
ury will pay out other money in ex
change for silver, there is no doubt but
what the banks will do so too, and why
should banks be asked to take a coin
that the makers refuse.
A Bleak Prospect.
England has entered upon a winter
which will witness terrible privation
among tens of thousands. Cotton, coal
and iron workers are all in the same sad
plight. Writing from Sheffield, at the
close of last month, the special corres
pondent of the "Engineer," after re
lating how the iron masters have
told their men that without further re
duction of wages thay cannot possibly
compete with French or Belgian firms,
proceeds to say :
I went over to our iron-workers' dis
trict last Friday. It presents a pitiable
appearance. In Brightside, Grimes
thorpe, etc., there are streets which
have scarcely a single occupant. In
other parts there are whole rows with
the shutters up, and it was rare indeed
to find a road with half the houses in
habited. Nor was this all. I found
that for the sake of cheapness three or
four families had clubbed together and
huddled themselves into one dwelling,
where they are living under conditions
certainly not conducive to health or
morality. The publicans and merchants
have suffered severely during the last
two years, and the weakest have, as
usual, gone to the wall.
County Officials' Bonds.
A readjustment of the amount of
bonds required of county officials has
been made at the state department which
has received the approval of Governor
Hartranft, the last previous classifica
tion having been made in 1818, when
William F. Johnston was governor. In
1676 the legislature passed an act mak
ing the population of the several coun
ties in the state a basis of bond adjust
ment. In counties having between 150,
000 and 250,000 inhabitants sheriffs are
required to give a bond in the amount
of $00,000; between 150,000 and 150,000,
$25,000; between 80,000 and 50,000, $15,.
000 ; between 10,000 and 80,000, $10,000 ;
under 10,000, $8,000. The coroner's bond
required under the law is one-fourth
the amount of that of the sheriff, the
register's one-balf and the recorder's
one-third. No provision is made regu
lating the amounts of the bonds of the
prothonotary and the various clerks of
the court, and it consequently becomes
the duty of the governor to designate
them. Under the readjustment just
perfected the prothonotary'a bond Is
$20,000 to the sheriff's $25,000; $10,000
to the sheriff's $15,000; $5,000 to the
sheriff's $8,000 ; clerk of court bond $5,
000 to sherltrs $25,000 ; $3,000 to sheriffs
$15,000"; $2,000 to sheriff's $10,000; $1,
000 to sheriff's $8,000. Under the ad
justment of 1848 the aggregate amount
of the bonds of prothonatorles was $583,
000, while under the present it is $850,
000, an excess of $207,000. In all the
counties but Lancaster, Chester, Wash
ington and Sullivan the amounts of the
bonds have either been Increased or per
mitted to remain at the old figure. In
Lancaster the bond is reduced from $30,
000 to $20,000; in Chester from $20,000
to $10,000 ; in Washington from $15,
000 to $10,000, and in Sullivan from $0,
000 to $5,000. As the law does not ap
ply to rhiladelphia the bond of the
sheriff ($80,000) and other officers is not
affected by the classification. In Alle
gheny connty the sheriff's bond is in
creased from $25,000 to $00,000 under the
readjustment, but there is a question
whether this action will stand a judicial
test, as the county had over 250,000
population at the last United States
census, on which the new classification
is based.
Was It a Sell?
On Tuesday two men named Wm.
Burke and Hank Vreeland were before
police justice in New York, on the
charge of having stolen Stewart's re
mains. Capt. Byrnes made a long state
ment, detailing minutely all thecircum
stanees touching the arrest of the pris
oners, and the fruitless search he made
in their company for Stewart's body.
His first information came from a man
who told him that some time ago he
met Burke in Sixth avenue, who offered
to put him on something in which there
was a good deal of money. Soon after the
man said he heaid Stewart's body had
been stolen, and suspected Burke. On
this information witness arrested Burke.
Burke implicated Whalen, who told
him the body was buried at Orange, N.
J. Burke went with the captain over
to Orange and looked around, but said
the other fellow must have removed the
body to some other place. Burke then
aided witness to arrest Whalen, who
was found at Burke's house. Both ex
pressed themselves willing to do all they
could to aid in finding the body, and ac
companied the captain to the station
house. Thence they accompanied him
to Chatham. When they reached the
place indicated, Whalen asked Burke
what he would get if tried, and when
Burke told him only a year and $250
fine, witness said he wouldn't say any
thing more about the body. Witness
said they had confessed to him and
others of knowing all about the body.
At the examination the persons denied
having had anything to do with the job,
and it seems to be the general opinion
that the police captain has been badly
sold.
Sharp Swindling Dodge.
Messrs. D. Epler & Sons, leading pro
duce commission merchants on south
Water street, are the victims of a sharp
and novel swindling dodge. In the
early part of last week they received
the bills of lading, to which was attach
ed a short sight draft, for sixty barrels
of eggs and twenty-four half tubs of
butter. These were to be shipped by
the Pennsylvania Railroad from a firm
in Chicago styling themselves Peck &
Co. As Epler & Sons supposed the
goods were at the depot in this city as
natural under the circumstances of re
ceiving the bills of lading they followed
a custom that has become quite common
in the trade, and sent an advance of
$1 ,000 to Peck & Co., as requested. A
day or two ago the firm received notice
that the goods were at the depot, and
sent their wagon for them. Upon open
ing the supposed barrels of hen fruit,
the Messers. Epler were not only as
tounded but greatly disgusted to find
that they were filled with sawdust and
brickbats. The entire consignment of
sixty barrels contained this worthless
stuff. The twenty-four tubs, instead of
containing butter, were stuffed with
coarse salt and sawdust. The matter
has been placed in the hands of the
police, and the Produce Exchange will
undoubtedly take some immediate action
in regard to advances on consignments.
Philadelphia Xorth American.
Curing a Suicide.
Melinda White is a widow, and lives
near Elmlra, in New York. Melinda be
came disgusted with the world, and one
day recently she resolved to commit'
suicide. She chose drowning as the
easiest mode of death, and leaped Into
the dark depths of the household well.
The well was narrow, and Mrs. White
was fat. She went down, down a few
Inches more and her head would have
been submerged beneath the chilly
waters. But Just then she got caught
between the walls of the well. In vain
Melinda tried to duck down her head
and thus strangle herself. Her size pre
vented the longed-for immersion. Her
friends were attracted by her cries.
They looked In, and understood the sit
uation. They made no hurry to get her
out, until satisfied that she had ample
time for cool reflection on the folly of
her attempt at suicide.
A Queer Case.
Singular facts have recently come to
light in Lancaster in regard to a law
suit settled some ten years ago. Merrltt
Smith left at the Lancaster National
Bank $3,500 in government bonds in
1850. About a year after he called for
them, when they could not be found,
and he was charged with having already
received them. He sued the bank, and
recovered the full amount with interest.
On the trial the officers of the bank
swore to having returned the bonds to
him, and Mr. Champneys, the teller,
detailed on oath the circumstances of
the delivery. Much hord feeling has
existed ever since over the result of
the trial. A few days ago the identical
bonds were found in an old book in the
lumber room, in the envelope endorsed
by Champneys. Wri'ghlsvillc &lar.
Insuring Life to Some Purpose.
Col. Walton D wight, of Binghamton,
New York, whose death was noticed
last week, turns out to have had $250,
000 life insurance and now the com
panies say that he deliberately swindled
them, deceived them in regard to his
condition, and slowly caused his own
death. He was financially embarrassed,
obtained all his insurance on condition
that lie need only pay premiums quar
terly and never paid more than one
premium on any of them. As one of
the means by which he wrought the
physical breakdown of a vigorous con
stitution it is alleged that on a recent
hunting expedition he stripped off his
clothing and swain across the Susque
hanna river four times ; that he rambled
about the woods day after day without
food, and was endeavoring in every pos
sible way to ruin his health.
A Female Murderer.
Cincinnati, O., November 20. A
special dispatch says that Mrs. Cath
arine Stull, who was suspected of the
murder of the widow Best at Port
Washington, O., last week, was arrested
and placed in jail. She has confessed
the crime. It seems that her husband
had been untrue to her for many years,
and had, it is alleged, been criminally
intimate with Mrs. Best. The prisoner
stated that she sent a decoy letter on the
night of the murder and then met her
victim at a hay-stack on the hill, where,
with a club, she beat her to death. Mrs.
Stull is the mother of seven cuildren,one
of whom, three months old, she has in
jail with her.
The Earthquake In tho West.
Washington, Nov. 10. The Signal
Corps station at Cairo, 111., reports to
the Chief Signal officer as follows:
"Quite a heavy earthquake occurred
here last night, which lasted one minute
and ten seconds, and was first felt at
fifty-one minutes and fifty seconds after
eleven o'clock, P. M. Houses were dis
tinctly felt to totter, but no damage as
yet has been reported. Another slight
shock was felt at (5.10 this morning.
Houses tottered from west northwest to
east southeast."
Little Hock, Ark., Nov. 19. A
distinct shock of earthquake was felt
here at 1.14 o'clock this morning. Con
siderable excitement prevailed In several
parts of the city.
A Cool and Spunky Woman.
Mrs. John Alzens, of Columbus, Kan
sas, was bitten by a rattlesnake last
week. She was digging potatoes, and
in pulling the vines she felt something
prick her wrist, which she first thought
was a thorn, and soon discovered the
snake among the vines. She chopped
the snake in pieces and called for as
sistance, in the meantime applying her
mouth to the wound and sucking the
poison out. After the arrival of as
sistance, she directed them to bind upon
the wound a piece of the flesh of the
snake, and then went to the house and
drauk some whiskey. Her arm is
swollen to a considerable extent, but no
serious results are apprehended.
A Tragedy In a Court House.
Indianapolis, November 13. War
ren Tate shot and killed W. Love in the
court house lute this afternoon. Love
had been a witness in' a case wherein
Tute is plaintiff. After leaving the
stand he went into the corridor where
Love called Tate a liar and struck hlra.
Tate shot him twice. Love died about
0 o'clock. After the shootlug Tate went
Into the court room, was called to the
stand and gave testimony in the case
then in progress. Much excitement ex
isted and it was some time before it was
considered safe, to place Tate in Jail.
Love was a prominent real estate dealer
and Tate Is of a fine family.
A Movable Hitching Post.
A countryman drove into Xeula, O. ,the
other day with some friends to meet a
train. Arriving at the depot a freight train
was on the side track, and the country
man, not seeing any convenient place
to tie up, deliberately hitched his horse
to the rear car of the freight, and pro
ceeded to promenade the walks around
the depot while waiting for the train.
What wob his surprise when he saw his
hitching post pull out for Cincinnati,
with his horse and wagon bringing up
the rear in not the best of order.
Very Sharp, but Very Mean.
An exchange relates that a poor Irish
man at Rochester owed a rich man some
money and was unable to pay. The
rich man obtained a judgment and an
execution, but there was nothing on
which the sheriff could levy. The
debtor had two large pigs, but the law
allows a man two, and the sheriff could
not take them. The rich man then
bought two little pigs, had them pre
sented to the poor man and thereupon
took his two large ones.
Death Warrants.
The death warrants of Jack Kehoe,
the murderer of Frank Landon in 18G3,
Martin Blrgln,who murdered Patrick
H. Burns lu 1870, Charles Sharpe and
James McDonnell, who murdered Geo.
K. Smith in I8G3, and Alex. W. Sayers,
who killed his wife in a Philadelphia
church last November, were forwarded
to the sheriffs of the counties in which
the crimes were committed on the 19th
instant.
Accident to a Funeral Party.
CortitY, November 22. This morning
at the Union depot In this city, while a
funeral party was taking the train for
Erie, the platform gave way, precipita
ting twenty people into the sewer be
low. The casket containing the remains
was buried in the rubbish. Several per
son were injured, none fatally.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D.C., November 21, 1878.
A dismissal of 50 or 00 employes from
the Patent office the other day, brings
forcibly to mind the great distress that
these frequent discharges cnuBe to those
concerued. It is such a hard matter to
get work now, and especially for women,
iu Washington. Government clerks are as
a rule, above the ordinary in refinement
and education, and it is direful indeed to
see them brought so low as to be beggiug
for sweeping, scrubbing, and employment
that will give them food and shelter. We
do see this here continually. Instances are
not wanting of ladies respectably born and
tenderly reared, who, bereaved by the
vicissitudes of war, employed for a time
by the Government for which tbeir doar
ones offered up their lives, thrown out of
work at last by the constantly occurring
cbaugGB iu tbo Department, are now living
by most laborious work or on charity.
Competent, , sober, industrious men,
college graduates in some instances, are
seekiug for work and in such stern necessi
ty are they and their families that they are
glad to got employment as street car
drivers, or even in sweeping Government
buildings and washing spittoons.
There are scores and hundreds of widows
and orphans here, in ado so by the war, who
go from department to department for help,
for work, for their very living. Some of
them have lived eo for years always with
hope of at last getting positions, subsisting
on as little as four and six dollars a month,
which they have obtained from charitable
friends or by hard manual labor. This
class is that which the Governmeut should
holp. There is work enough for them all,
it is said, for jn many branches business is
far behind hand, but they cannot have it,
and tho dismissals are frequently made
simply for lack of necessary funds which
Congress fails through ueglect or false
economy to appropriate.
Many are the amusing anecdotes told of
publio meu made famous for their life in
Washington aud the deeds done hero.
Among them is one, only recently told, of
how a little girl advised Abraham Liucolu
to lot his whiskers grow and cover his ugly
features. Bho lived in New York State,
and was led to write Mr. Lincoln a letter
by seeing a coarse, exaggerated campaign
likeness. She wrote that his face would
bo much prettier if he would cultivate a
beard and offered, as an inducement, to
coax her two big brothers to vote for him
if he would not shave any more. Although
the ocourrenco was at a time of peculiar
turmoil and anxiety in Lincoln's life, yet
be auswerod the child's letter saying in a
pleasant note, " As to the whiskers, having
never worn any, do you not think peopl
might call it a piece of silly affectation if
should begin wearing them now?"
Nevertheless it la known that he acteif
upon the suggestion, and afterward, pass
Ing through the town, where tho little glr
lived on his way to Washington, In speak
ing to a crowd of people from the car plat
form he asked if " Grade Bedelo" was ii
the assembly. She was, and was taken t
him, when Lincoln kissed her and said ai
he touched his beard, "you see I let them
grow for you Grade." Olivk.
tarSome Saginaw City. Mich., achool
boys found a black bear loafing around in
that city, and a fight ensued. The bear
was squeezing one of tho boys with com
mended affection when others interfered
and the bear was killed. If they had given
him a fair show be would soon hnve thin
ned out one Saginaw school a little.
t3JCbrles Purington, of Epping, N.n.,
Hearing a knock at bis door about mid
night, the other night, went to answer the
summons, and on opening the door found
a bundle in which was wrapped abov bakv
about two weeks old, $150 in cash aud
clothes enough to last the child a year.
tW Jacob Babst, on entering his bank
at Crestline, Thursday raoruintr. was stun.
ned and narrowly escaped death by the
explosion of a burglar trap, he falling to
aetatcu a wire, as was hia usual custom
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We" ask our patrons to call
and see the bargains we can
now offer.
Read and think over these prices
Bilk Finished Velveteen, 60 cents per yard.
Pretty Dress Goods for 8 and 10 cents per yard.
Good " " " 12K and 15 cents per yard.
Cashmeres, double fold, 28 cents per yard.
Balmoral Skirts, - - . 50 cents.
Good Canton Flannel at 8 cents per yard.
Very Heavy Canton Flannel at 10 cents per yard
Bleached Canton Flannels.
Double Thick, 14 cents per yard.
A 1 L of Prints, good styles,
and fast colors at 5 cents per yard-Patch-Work
Prints good stjles, 6J4 cts.ier yd.
fin..n .(.... d rtn..i- n..n .
jiuscues, gnoa aiyie. at z ana a cents eacu.
r ' V.
Foxed Button Gaiters at
Children's sizes ditto at
ft 69 per pair.,
tl 25 " "
The best Turkey Morocco Button Hhoe
made, every pair warranted S2 10 " "
S- These Shoes are made to order for our trads
by the best Manufacturer In the couutry.and are
all made from the best stock. We can warrant
the quality in every particular.
A Splendid Assortment of Hats suitable for men
auu Doys.
Men's Heavy Boots,
Overalls,
A Pretty Tumbler.
12 60 & 3 00 " "
50 cts. " "
40 ' perdoz..
Goblets, 02 " per doz..
Kail Koad Lanterns 93 cents oach.
Kail Koad Lantern Oil.
GROCERIES VERY LOW !'
Good Syrup 10 Cents per Quait,
Choice Kalslns 10 Cents per Pound.
Dried Currants-10 Cents per Found.
French Prunes 10 Cents per Pound.
Pure Fresh Ground Spices.
Also lots of other Bargains too numerous to speci
fy. Call and seethe stock) It will
Kot Coat You Anything to Look I"
F. MORTIMER,
Neiv Bloomfield, Pa..
JHE ST. ELMO HOTEL,
817 & 819 ARCH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
has reduced tha rates to
PEIl DAY.
The high reputation of the house will be main
tained in all respects, and the traveling publio
will still hud the same liberal provision for their. '
comfort. , , ,
The house been recently refltted. and Is com
plete in all Its appointments. Located in the im
mediate vicinity of the-larKe centres of business
and of places of amusement, and accessible to all
Hiulroad depots and other parts of the City by
btreetcars constantly passln its doers. It offeis
siwoial inducements to those visiting the City ou
business or pltasuie.- v
JOS. M. FEtJKR, Proprietor-