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Slnglo Copies, (postage included) I 1 fo Five 7 m Ten 12 no Twenty i3 (10 The person icetllng 11 P clubs of ten or more will be entitled to au extra copy free. Tnn Times foh Nothino. 1'ersons subpciiblng now will receive Tub Times until January Int. 1879 free of charge. Other I'uiiucations, Subscribers who desire other publications can have The Times and Petrrmn't Mnpnzine lor ' 12 V Jtaricr a Mtipuzlne 4 fit) ,. ,. Weekly 4 fit ,. ,. . Ji'tntr .. 4 Ml nodey I Alaffazine 3 00 It is the intention of Rome parties to get another new county formed ut the next session of the Legislature. The proposition is to hike a piece from each Centre, Clearlielil and Blulr. Onk of those unreconciliated Missis sippi papers suj-b : " The questions of the war have simply lieen removed from the battle-field to the ballot-box. The principles of the southern people must and shall rule this country." Geneual Toomiis says that if the south must remain under Radical rule for another term, lie wauts " a full lion not a sneaking sheep." Grant, he says, is a full lion, and he has respect for him, " because he kills or wins." England is now in a sad condition, owing to the financial troubles. To these is to be added the trouble caused by reduction of wages and strikes. At a meeting of the Board of Trade' lu Shields, Mr. Palmer, M. P. for the Dur ham, Bald that a revival of trade could only be brought about by workmen and employers uniting to secure production at the least possible cost. It was use less to haggle over an hour daily, or 5M or 3d per day, when mines aud manu factories were being closed In their midst. He did not believe in the cry of protection or over-production. Produc tion at the minimum of cost would al ways command the markets of the world. Petroleum in New Jersey. The discovery of petroleum in the cellar of John Roofer's house in Mar shall street, Paterson, continues to be the principal topic in that neighbor hood. So many persons rushed to see It that Roofer bad to lock up his cellar. Several have burned the oil taken from the cellar in their lamps, Lola in the neighborhood that were not considered worth $200 a few days ago are now held at $1,000, while the owner of the adja cent property says he would not take $10,000 for his place. Whether there really is a deposit of oil in the rock or not remains to be proven ; but all who have Investigated the case say they are satisfied that is is Just as represented. A Sad Case. Willie Williams was taken from the poorhouse in Detroit when he was a little boy, and made a drudge in a phy sicians family. He was seut to school, where he frequently complained of hard work at home, insufficient food, and severe punishment. A few days ago he went to market with $5 to make some purchases. He returned with the change $2 short, aud said, on being questioned, that he spent the missing money for a pistol with which to shoot himself. The physician tried to take the weapon away from him, but he ran into another room, locked the door, and committed suicide. A man who would so abuse au orphan boy ought to receive the attentions of Judge Lynch. A Girl Killed by a Threshing Machine. One day last week Miss Mary Finley, house-keeper for Mr. Fariow, of Bewick ley township, Westmoreland county, met death in a horrible manner. Mr. Fariow was threshing with a separator at the barn, when Miss Finley and two other young ladles left the bonne for the purpose of witnessing the 'operation. The separator Is connected with the other machinery means of a horizon tal blind known In connection with old threshing machines as the "tumbling, shaft," and runs but a few Indies above the ground. Over this two of the young ladles stepped in safety, and were being followed by Miss Finley, who, while in the act of crossing the rapidly revolving shaft, committed the fatal error of stop ping for an Instant to reach back for one of the children who had followed them. Uuick as thought her clothing was .seiz ed by the shaft, when the unfortunate young lady was drawn beneath it and whirled around again, and again, her body passing through the limited space between the ground and shaft, and striking the earth with a sickening thud at each revolution. The machine was stopped us rood as possible, but too late. The poor girl was dead, and her body mangled and mutilated in the most frightful manner. .... -. Mrs. Norrls Story. This lady who was chloroformed, gag ged, crushed, and robbed at the Tre inont House In Boston on the night of December 112th, gives in detail the story of the crime. She went to Boston severul dnys ugo for the purpose of completing a business transaction by which she was to receive money that she relied upon to raise a chattel mort gage on January 1st. After a short visit with her sister, who lives In West Med wuy, a little distance from Boston, she went into Boston to meet by appoint ment the gentleman from whom she ex pected the money. As he was to tuke a train for the West and wus only to pass through Boston, for convenience Mrs. Norrls met him at the depot and received $100, the gen tleman going on West, Mrs. Norrls went to the Tremont House, expecting to pass the night there. While walking up Tremont street she saw a tall man with a heavy dark beard and she thought that he was wiitchiugand following her, but when she got to the hotel she forgot all about him. Later In the after noon, while in Washington street, she saw the same man again, and this time she was certain thuP he wus following her. In the same evening Mrs, Norris went to the theatre with an old fumily friend, and while there suddenly saw the dark eyes of the tall limn fixed upon her. This nnide her nervous, and Bhe spoke to her friend about It, but he thought the matter was of no conse quence. When she returned to the Tremont House she went direct to her room, hav ing requested her escort first to have the office clerk to call her at 7 in the morn ing, as she wished to bee her uncle, who was an employee in the Sixpenny Sav ings Bank, before she took the train for New York. The first Mrs. Norrls did after entering her room was to holt the door there was no lock and she wrote to her mother of her success in getting the money. How long she had been asleep Mrs. Norrls Bays she does not know, but she was suddenly awakened by a crashing sound, which was probably caused by the bursting in of tho door, for It was found that the thief had forced the bolt. Bhe sprang up in bed, and by the dim light saw the tail form of a man, but could not see the features. He sprang upon her, forced her back upon the bed, and Bat with all his weight upon her. ' This was the most serious injury Mrs. Norris suffered, and the next day Bhe had a hemorrhage, one of several she has had caused by this brutality. The robber put a pistol to her head, grasped ber by the throat, and said In a low but clear tone : " If you make a noise I'll kill you." Then he thrust a handkerchief in her mouth and tied the ends, gagging her, and then held a towel that was moist and emitted a pungent odor to her nose, and she remembered no more. In the morning at 7 o'clock the call boy found the door open and Mrs. Nor ris on the bed,, bound, and, as he thought, dead. The housekeeper was summoned and applied restoratives. Mrs. Norris gasped aud whispered, "There's a man in my room." Then it was found that Mrs. Norris had been robbed, but besides the force the thief used to quiet her, mo other indignities had been attempted. She was very ill for ten days, and Insisted, against the advice of her physicians, on returning to New York. The house keeper was sent on to New York with Mrs. Norrls and she arrived at her home on Sunday morning. The gentleman who visited the thea tre with Mrs. Norris spent the night with his business partner at Parker's Hotel. The proprietors of tho Tremont House were greatly chagrined by the outrage. Forty-eiQht Children Drowned. London', Dec. 20. The Telegraph's Paris dispatch says forty-eight children were drowned by the breaking of ice on a pond at Cbapelle Moche, in the De partment of Orne. A Michigan Wolf-Slayer. A letter from Charlotte, Mich., Miyn : William Wall, who died Saturday morn ing, was one of the first settlers of Eaton county, and tho oldest pioneer of of Eaton township living. He moved from Ohio to this county in the fall of 1MB, coming from Ann Arbor with an ox team, and obliged for some dlstunco to cut a road through tho woods before he could bring IiIh goods and wife to the log hut in waiting (or them on tho present Bite of the brick residence In which he died. An. interview with one of ills sons disclosed some very interesting rem iniscences of early pioneer life in Euton county. For several years but few Bet- tlements were made In Eaton township, but in 1H42 Mr. Wall could boast of qulto a " clearing," and four neighbors In a radius of as many miles. In that year the settlers were annoyed by a mad wolf, which would attack the stock in the night and bite promiscuously all within reach, the victim of the bite In variably going mad, and Buttering great agony until relieved by death. It seems a peculiarity of the mad wolves that they leave the company, or flock of wolves, and, with remarkable per sistence, bite and destroy every animal within reach. The wolf in question had succeeded In doing considerable damage, and numerous attempts had been made to destroy it to no purpose. One night in the middle of June Mr. Wall was awakened by the squealing of his pigs and bark of bjft dog. Jumping out of bed ho ran to the pen, which was made of logs, and Baw a wolf chasing and biting his hogs. He leaped into the lnclosure, took the wolf by the hind legs, and attempted to dash its head against the logs. The wolf had a firm hold on one of the hogs and would not let go. Wall ran to the wood-pile, got a club, and succeeded in killing the wolf, which proved to be mad. The dog had taken active enough part in the aflray to get several bites, and, with three of the swine, went mad and died. This ad venture cave Mr. Wull the name of " William Wall, the wolf-slayer," by which he was widely known. Another time, while after his cows in the woods, he lost his way and wander ed till dark, when the wolves commenc ed to howl, and hud soon surrounded him, and began closing in from all sides. He could hear them running through the underbrush and howling in a frightful manner. The prospect of being compelled to spend the night In the woods with these half-famished wolves was anything but pleasant. The wolves became more and more daring, and occasionally one would dart past him and Btiap at his legs in a very sug gestive manner. At length he was compelled to take refuge in a tree. He climbed to a goodly height, and was trying to settle himself in a secure position for the nlgbt, when he noticed a light not far distant, and after a little cogitation convinced him self that it was made by a burning log- heap in a clearing, where he had been at work during the day. Heflecided to make a break for the clearing, and for his protection cut a limb from the tree and made a very formidable weapon in the shape of a club. The wolves were howling and dig ging around the foot of the tree in al most almost endless numbers. Taking oir his coat, he made a bundle of it, and when he had descended near the ground threw It far as possible. Itbardly touched the ground before the wolves pounced upon it and began fighting, each attempting to get a chance at the garment, during which time Mr. Wall jumped to the ground, and running for the clearing had gained considerable ground before he was discovered by the pack, when they all sprang after him. It was a hard run and a close race, but he succeeded in reaching a large burning log-heap built around a stump, and Jumping overthe smouldering logs reach ed the stump. The wolves come with in a few rods of the fire and began circling around it, keeping up always their unearthly howling. Mr. Wall passed the night perched on top of the stump, but found no time to sleep, as he was kept busy poking up the dying embers, In order to keep the wolves at respectful distance. At daylight they dispersed, and the prisoner hastened home to his fumily who had expected to hear that " William Wall, the wolf- slayer," had been slain by the wolves A Life History In a Paragraph. Cincinnati, December 24. A special dispatch says that Eva Leroy, a young woman, was found lying In the road, badly frozen, near Rogers City, Michi gan, lust night. Bhe was brought to town, and the surgeons decided the amputation of both legs to be necessary, but she died during the operation. She was a woman of bad repute, who had been driven out of Alpena without funds. Becoming exhausted, she had fallen by (ho roadside, where Bhe was found, It Ih said alio wns onco a beauti ful girl. She was a native of Cleveland, nnd went to Detroit, where a few years ugo alio created a sensation, but after wards sank lower and lower until no ono would give her shelter. A Well that Lost Hi Bottom. For thirty years or more, the family of Mr. A. Hnwtelle, of Augusta, Me., have drawn water from the well in their cellar. The well wus 40 feet deep, and the water therein never failed. The other night, during the Revere storm and gale, tho bottom of the well dropped out. During tho night they heard a tre mendous noise in the cellar, resembling a miniature earthquake. The next morning the cellar was visited, and lo I the well had vanished. It must have sunk to a considerable depth, as the pump wus nearly burled out of sight. A portion of the underpinning o( the house wns undermined and will have to be rebuilt. ---- OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, D. C December 25, 1878. This is the day of all others In the year. Given up to tho children, to be sure, but men and women, being but children of a larger growth, enter IdIo the joys of the merry Christmas time with as keen a de light as the happiest of the little ones. For weeks past, what mysteries have been bid den, what secrets carefully guarded, what lies told, all about this lovely day and its bolongings I Everybody is surprised to day. That is a part of the pleasure of it. And it does seem thnt there was nover bo fore a year wheu so much could bo made and obtained at sin nil expense in the way of holiday preparations as the present one. Shopping is a rionr delight this winter and the varieties from which to select small presents are boundless. Every taste, con dition, ago and sex may bo easily suited. Another feature of the year, brought about, doubtless, by tho vicissitudes of the stringent times which have affected all classes more or less, is the usefulness of gifts purchased for this day. Even articles of wearing apparel, gloves, boots, hats, coats, hose, handkerchiefs, etc, so often eschewed as gifts because they constitute some of life's necessities, are to day given and welcomed perhaps even more than jewel cases, ornaments for the house and person, book racks,' pictuies and fancy things in general. Tho children are fully as happy to find their beautiful trees laden with such things as school books, satchels, warm mittens and leggings, hoods, scarfs and furs, useful chairs, books and writing desks, as to see upon them all dolls,blocks, puzzles, confectionary, sweetmeats, rib bons, sleds and skates, horns, drums and tea-sets. Much care is very properly taken here that all children shall have a merry Christmas. Sunday schools, day schools, and private families cause their children to contribute from their store of toys and books, both old and new, something for the childreu of the Orphans' IIome,Found ling Hospital, Foster Home and similar charitable Institutions, so that the poorest and most friendless shall Dot feel themselves alone or forsaken on the birthday of the fiiend of all. Olivk. Miscellaneous News Items. 3?At Gearysville, Bucks county, two tramps rewarded an old man for a night's lodging by gagging and robbing bim of $30 and some clothing. tSTAn extensive dealer in counterfeit trade dollars, named Frank Osborn, has been arrested at Garland, Erie county. Hitherto be is said to bave been highly respected, being a well-to-do farmer. tUThiring Governor Ilartranft's admin istration about forty-five murderers have been executed, and four more are to be banged before the expiration of his pres ent term. GET An oil well near Rixford, Mclvean county, is flowing 125 barrets a day, and is now the largest natural well in the State with the exception of some in the lime stone region. tSPA lady was attacked on the road near Hyde Park, Luzerne county, on Fit day, by turkeys, and before assistance arrived bad been badly pecked in the face and about the body. J3T0U City bas an Enoch Arden case, A man who bad been absent for four years oame back the other day, and found bis brother called papa by bis children and husband by his wile. HTNinoty per cent of the colored men of St. Louis will be disqualified from serv ing on juries through a decision that, under the general law of Missouri, jurors must be able to read. t3J" Louis P. Tberasson, a New York lawyer was sentenced on Saturday to two years' imprisonment at bard labor, for ob taining a signature under false pretences, A stay of exeoution pendiDg appeal waa granted, and be was admitted to bail in $20,000. tSr At New Castle, Delaware, George Draper colered, convicted of murder in the second degree, for killing John Wilson, wns placed in the pillory in a blinding snow storm, and afterward received sixty lashes, il accordance with his sentenae, lie will now be Imprisoned for life. tWDr. Heyl, found Builty of arave-rob- blng at Znnesvllle, Ohio, bas been sentenc ed to pay a fine of one thousand dnllm-a and to nndergo one year's imprisonment. Eaton, convicted as bis aooompllce, wa sentenced to four months' Imprlaoumeut aud one hundred dollars fine. Shamokin, Decembor 23. Saturday evening Richard Eisenhard and Joseph llerr, both men of families, became involv ed in a quarrel concerning a penny stick of candy, when Eisenhard drew a revolor and' shot Deir in the neck. Derr Is now lying In a crit ical condition. No arrest has yet been made. Buffalo, December 23. The beaveat snow toi m sinco 11571 visited this seotion last night, and Is still raging. The soow s fully three feet deep on a level and badly Irifted. Trains on all the roads ruoning :o and from the city are delayed, and it is uncertain whether any trains will leave before night. The weather is very cold. No sorious casualties are reported. tWA sensation bas been caused by the liscovery of a small out How of petroleum, through the fissures of the rock walla of a. cellar in South Patorson. New Jersev. The oil has been tested, and is pronounced unusually pure. Indications of oil have- been found about Patersou before, but nothing was ever developed. iWNinoteon of tweuty-six mules were found smothered to death in a coal mine of tho Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company on Friday morning. A fire bad occurred in tho mine the night previous, and the animals were found in positions . that showed they bad struggled terribly to free themselves. Poktsmoutu, N. II., December 22 The late George M. Marsh, of this city, leaves the bulk of his property estimate value between fifty and one hundred thousand dollars to the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, the rector of ' St. John's Church and other trustees for the purpose of erecting a church to be called " Christ Church " and Episcopal in form of worship. tW The flood at West-field, Mass., car ried tho house of Frank Ash, a larga dou ble tenement, a distance of a quarter of a mile and landed it high and dry in a mead ow without breaking a dish on the shelves of the china closet. The owner is in a quandary, since it would cost about as much to move the bouse back as to build a new one. tW Frunkie Chapman, daughter of a Methodist clergyman in Jackson, Ohio, went to'a publio ball in Cincinnati, where she bad been living, and drank so much wine with a friend Miss Agaus, that she became intoxicated. They went horae together, quarrelled, fought, and Miss Chapman killed her antagonist by striking, ber on the bead with a pitcher. tW Mrs. Wm. A. Lighter was struck . by a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad while crossing tho track at North Eliza beth last July. Mr. William A. Righter . sued the company for $50,000 damages -done to his wife and carriage. A sympa thizing jury gave bim 3, 000 for bis car riage and $5,000 for bis wife's sufferings. . tiyAn Ohio exchange says : The body of au unknown ' man, nearly naked, was . observed by the conductor of a. aont hern bound freight train, lying by the track, near Grafton, last week. He was brought to town , is about five feot.seveo inches tall,, and weighs between 150 and ICO pounds, bas light hair and a mustache ; apparently 35 or 40 years of age. Supposed to have been robbed and killed by tramps. tW Samuel Emery, in a saloon in . Washington Wednesday afternoon,- during a tow, drew a revolver and accidentally shot James Coombs dead. They are both young men and quite respectably con nected. Lancaster, Deo. 20. A disturbance occurred at the Eagle Hotel, Smithville,. Providence township, this county, last night, resulting in the death of Joshua Winters, an old resident of this neighbor hood. It seems one Martin Kriedcr, a. young man twenty-five years of age, and nephew of Mr. Winter, while nnder the iufluence of liquor, used insulting language to Miss Witmer shortly after 13 o'clock, and when the guests were about retiring for their homes Kreider grasped bold of Mr. Winters, when the latter struck him several blows. Kixider then gave Win tew a sudden jerk, which caused the latter to fall over. He died shortly afterwards. This morning Coroner Groff was notified, , and repaired to the scene, accompanied by T- f ... 1. 1. 1 .1 . . t 1 Ul t VUUIJJkUU, WHO UOIU AJBI UiUIWlil examination. The Coroner also notified Alderman Spurrier to go with them and arrest Kreider if the reports were true. Erieder was found in a store near by and at once arrested. The result of the exam ination nrnvd that the heart had been. ruptured. Kriedcr was brought to thin city and lodged it jail. The affair bas- .... .. 1 .1 ., . oilman, TtiM Aa- ceased leaves a wife aud four children.
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