4 THIS TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, I'A., JULY 8, 1879.
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From LATEi advices It looks very
doubtful whether the spinners' strike at
Fall Rjver will he a success. The manu
facturers seem very determined, and say
they will run as long as they can, and
if compelled to shut down, it will be to
stay down until the Btrike is over. They
know exactly what wages they can
afford to pay, and discounted the cost of
the Btrike in advance. After a season of
trouble, turmoil, and Buffering, the
strikers, who, it is said, are governed
and led by imported workmen from
England, will be glad to get work again
at any price. Strikers rarely learn any.
thing either from their own experience
or the experience of others.
The extra session of the Forty
Sixth Congress adjourned on Tuesday
tlast to the great relief of a much over
governed people. The session wbb oc
casioned by pure stubborness and was
carried through in the same spirit. The
CongresB did,however,succeedin passing
all the necessary appropriations except
one for the pay of marshals and deputies,
which bill was vetoed by the President
and left in that condition by the ad
journment. Nothing was accomplished
that could not have been done at the
regular session, except the expenditure
of the money the extra session cost, and
the stirring up of more bitter feelings
between the members and the tightening
of party lines.
The Number of Bills Received and Signed
by the Governor.
Governor Hoyt has received from the
legislature, which adjourned finally on
the 6th of June, two hundred and thirty
bills. Of this number one hundred and
ninety-four have received the guber
natorial signature and are now laws.
He has found objections sufficient for
non-approval or fifteen legislative meas
ures. Eleven bills are still in his hands
awaiting action. The constitution pro
vides that all bills that are not acted on
within thirty days after the adjournment
of the legislature shall become laws.
Quite a number of local pension acts
will be permitted to be legalized by limi
tation under this provision.
The following is a list of those most
interesting to the general public :
Providing: for the comnletion of the
equipment of the National Guard.
Directing county commissioners to
procure a place for holding courts in the
event of the destruction of a court house
or the insecurity of the same.
Supplement to an act providing 'for
the division of counties having 150,000
inhabitants and providing for the elec
tion of county superintendents.
To define and punish tramps.
Extending the power of county audi
tors, authorizing them to settle, audit
and adjust accounts of poor directors.
Repealing an act giving the several
courts jurisdiction to inquire of, hear,
determine and punish persons charged
with the first offence of receiving or
buying stolen goods or chatties.
Supplement to an act to regulate the
sale of clams and oysters.
To authorize the planting of trees
along the roadside.
Making an appropriation to the Penn
sylvania working home ior blind men.
For the protection of children from
cruelty and relating to their employ
ment, protection and adoption.
Making an appropriation for eastern
penitentiary.
Making an appropriation for Pennsyl
vania institution for the blind.
Making an appropriation for house of
refuge, Philadelphia.
Making an appropriation for normal
schools.
Making an appropriation for northern
home for friendless children, Philadel
phia. To prevent the burning of woods.
Making an appropriation for geologi
cal survey.
For the protection of fishing interests.
Providing for the continuance of
soldiers' orphans' schools.
Providing for the board of public
charities.
For the collection of borough and
township and school taxes which collec
tors have become personally liable for.
Authorizing county commissioners to
levy and collect the taxes necessary to
pay the expenses necessary for the erec
tion of poor houses destroyed by fire.
Fixing the date of commencement of
terms of township officers and of audi
tors' settlements.
Authorizing- the governor, superin
tendent of public instruction and attor
ney general to purchase the real estate
,of normal schools In which the state has
alien.
Jlegulatjug the compensation of audi
tors and cotnmiisioner.
Authorizing appeals to be taken In
equity cases when special or pelimlnary
Injunction has been refused.
Granting power to boroughs which
have Issued bonds to redeem the same
before maturity and issue new bonds at
less rate of interest.
Making an appropriation to mark the
grave of Gen. Anthony Wayne.
Authorizing .banks and savings irx
stitutions to divide their capital stock
into Bharea of par value not less than
$50.
An act relating to turnplkeand plank
roads. Relating to actions of ejectment upon
titles acquired by sheriffs , treasurers' or
commissioners' sales and limiting time
for bringing such actions
Providing for better security of life In
cases of fires In hotels, etc.
Making an appropriation for the en
largement of the western penitentiary.
Requiring magistrate! in cities of the
first, second and third class to take ac
knowledgement and administer oaths
free of charge to soldiers and widows of
soldiers for purpose of drawing pen
sions. Permitting prosecutors to testify In
cases of forcible entry and detainer.
Suicide of a Lanoaster County Farmer.
' Benjamin Neff, aged between fifty and
sixty years, a farmer in Well-to-do cir
cumstances, committed suicide on Sun
day evening at his home, two and a half
miles from Mountvllle, by blowing his
brains out with a revolver on the second
floor of his corn shed. He committed
the rash act after having eaten his supper
on Sunday evening. His absence was
noticed and upon search being made for
him, he was found as above stated. The
bullet entered the left temple and came
out on the right side of the head. Depu
ty Coroner W. E. Seiple,of Washington
borough, held an inquest over the body,
the Jury rendering a verdict of " Buiclde
while laboring under a fit of mental
aberration." A correspondent writing
from the neighborhood in which the
suicide occurred to the New Era, says :
" It seems for some years past he has
been subject of fits of melancholy, dur
ing the continuance of which he would
wander off and hide, often giving his
family great trouble in finding him. At
one time he was found in a hollow tree,
again under a corn shock eating the raw
corn; he quite frequently burled him
self in the-hay mow, going away down
in the hay and making the task of get
ting him out very d ifflcult. At all times
he was very harmless. Last fall these
spells began to come on more frequent
ly, and thinking some good might re
Bult thereby, he was sent to the Harris
burg insane asylum, from which place
he was taken to his home on the 23rd of
April last, very much restored In mind
and body."
Another Mysterious Affair.
About 0 o'clock last night a woman
named Alberta Specketer, residing at
No. 318 North Eighth street, came to
her death a mysterious manner. It seems
Mrs. Specketer was pregnant, and com
plained to her husband early yesterday
morning of feeling unwell,and expressed
her determination to consult a physi
cian other than the regular one. So she
left the house in the morning with the
intention of consulting Dr. D. B. Bitt
kamp, residing at No. 608 Wood street.
She returned home in a short time and
informed her husband that Bittkamp
was engaged at the time she called, but
he had instructed her to call after eight
o'clock in the evening.
This Mrs. Specketer did, and as she did
not return within a reasonable time, her
husband became alarmed and started to
the Doctor's office, and upon entering
found his wife lying on a lounge, with
her shoes and stockings off, and the
Doctor and a female attendant applying
a galvanic battery. Mrs. Specketer's
rigid features and labored respiration
gave every appearance of approaching
dissolution, and her husband at once be
came much excited, but the Doctor
calmed him, and told him to remain
while he went to procure the assistance
of another physician. Hardly had the
door closed on the retreating figure
when Mrs. Specketer breathed her last
in her husband's arms. Mr. Specketer
immediately went out and called in
Sergeant Smith, of the Eighth district.
In a few moments Dr. Bittkamp re
turned and was taken into custody, and
the house was left in charge of an offi
cer. Mrs. Specketer was childless, and
about 35 years of age. The coroner was
notified and the case will be carefully
Investigated to-day. Philadelphia Press
of the 3rd inst.
A Perilous Position.
A Chicago paper gives these details,
from a passenger, of a recent thrilling
escape of a fast express train on the
Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy rail
road. The train consisted of a baggage
car, two coaches, a smoking-car, two
Pullman sleepers, the "Aurora" and
the " Detroit," and a private car con
taining a party of tourists from the Pa
cific coust. There were about one hun
dred passengers in the cars. The people
In the sleeping-cars had not yet arisen,
and the passengers in the coaches were
very drowey. The rate of speed was
something over twenty miles an hour.
At the station called Rome, a place
containing only a few houses, the road
crosses a deep ravine, which is bridged
with a trestle structure about one hun
dred and fifty feet long and thirty
five feet high. As the train came upon
the bridge the forward wheels of the lo
comotive left the rails, and at the same
Instant the engineer felt the structure
sinking. The cars, one after another,
were derailed, the wheels sinking into
the flooring of the bridge, and some of
the trucks running In a zigzag line the
whole length of the structure. By the
time the engine had reached land
the first span at the west end of the
bridge had sagged down to the centre
several feet. The two sleeping-cars had
slopped In the Bag, their platforms lap
ping each other. The private car.which
was the last in the train, halted at the
end of the bridge. None of the train
men nor passengers were injured, and
the damage to the coaches is slight.
When the wheels commenced to travel
over the bridge timbers the sleepers in
the Pullman berths and the snoozers in
the seats in the coaches began turning
out in something of a hurry.
The fall of the bridge with the train
on top of it was momentarily expected.
The suspense of the passengers while
making their way through the cars and
off the tottering structure can better be
Imagined than described. The ladies in
the sleepers did not tarry to complete
their toilets. The people In the rear cars
got off at the west end of the brldge,and
those in the forward coaches at the east
end.
The whole train was allowed to re
main on the bridge in the position in
which it was when the engineer brought
it to a halt. It was feared that to at
tempt to move the cars would cause the
bridge and train to go down together.
A Convict's Devotion.
Two years ago Mollie McClennan, a
mulattress, was sentenced at New
Orleans to serve two years In the peni
tentiary. A year and a half of her
punishment had passed when Jerry
Beats was sentenced to six months for
hog stealing. The two convicts met for
a few moments every day lu prison, and
Jerry fell in love with the mulattress to
the full extent of his brute nature. It
was no animal passion, for it manifested
itself in Jerry's anxious solicitude for
Mollie's comfort ; he could not do too
much for her, and he became as patient
and docile as a lamb. Mollie, however,
had a cordial contempt for her slave,
and her greatest grudge against him
seemed to be that he had stooped bo low
as to steal a hog. When they Were
discharged from prison, Jerry followed
the girl like a dog for many weeks
without manifesting impatience, until
one day the limit was reached, and he
fatally wounded Mollie with a sharp
stone. She died a week later, and this Is
New Orleans' latest sensation.
Another Boiler Explosion.
Philadelphia, June 27. The ex
plosion of a boiler this morning at Wilt's
extensive planing mill, Front and
Brown streets, has caused great conster
nation and panic, and, it is feared, the
loss of several lives. The engine house
and a portion of the mill were blown
in all directions, the flying bricks and
iron doing much damage to the surround
ing property. Several dwelling houses
in the vicinity are also in ruins. The
boiler came down in the second Btory of
a dwelling near by, occupied by a family
named Long. Claude Long, eight years
old, was killed and his sister Stella,
eleven yeais old, badly hurt. Their
mother and a Mrs. Ann M'Avoy are
missing, and it is believed they are
buried in the ruins.
Speedy Justice.
At Philadelphia on Sunday evening a
colored man named Abner Allison woe
arrested for a most aggravated and felo
nious assault upon a young white girl
in Alaska street. He was brought be
fore the Grand Jury next day, a true bill
found against him, and the District At
torney had " him brought into court
where he was tried, convicted and sen
tenced to imprisonment at hard labor
five years and a fine of $1,000.
Somewhat Volcanic.
The Northern Tier " Reporter" says
an oil well near Tarpnrt, Pa., exhibited
an unusual freak a few days ago. The
tubing had been removed for the pur
pose of torpedoing, when those standing
near were startled by a sharp hissing
sound proceeding from the hole, and im
mediately several stones were shot up,
and ashes, dust and smoke filled the air
around. After several minutes this was
followed by a copious flow of oil.
Newhvrgii, N. Y., July". 3. Mrs.
Henry Laroe, wife of tho ticket agent
at Negleytown, on the Montgomery and
Erie railroad, together with her sister,
Lizzie Clark, aged 17 years, of Turner's,
jumped from an Erie train at the latter
place this morning. Mrs, Laroe, aged
22 years, a bride of five weeks, was in.
Btantly killed, and Miss Clark seriously
injured. The young ladies had forgot
ten to leave the cars at Turner's, and did
not realize the Bpeed of the train when
they jumped off after passing the sta
tion. London, July 8. Another terrible
explosion occurred in the High Blan
tyre pit, near Glasgow, at 0 o'clock this
morning. Thirty-one men were down
at the time, all of whom are believed to
have been killed. Four were burned to
death. Twenty.one bodies have been
recovered.
A Dlsnusted 'Squire.
Down InEveBboro', Burlington coun
ty, 'Squire Llshman was called upon to
marry a colored couple some time since.
Quite a crowd of his neighbors came In
to witness the ceremony, and after it
had been performed the happy pair hung
around and Beemed loth to leaye.
"What's the trouble r" said the
'Squire. "You are married all right,
and you can go If you want to."
" But," said the groom, " we Isn't
a gwlne to leave 'fore you salute de bride
It's got to be did legal."
The 'Squire protested that it wasn't
necessary; that it was only a form and
did not amount to anything, but the
groom insisted that he wouldn't leave
until it had been performed, and the
'Squire reluctantly complied to go
through the motions amid the laughter
and "gags" from the bridal pair.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, July 2, 1879.
The old Congressional Globe, filled as it
was with Rets of Cougress,and the speeches
of law-makers, bad at its bead the words
"The world is governed too muob." ItwaB
a great truth, whether or not it was fitting
ly put at the head of such a paper. There
seems to be now in the public mind an idea
that we, the people of the United States,
are governed too much. Several of the
wisest Senators and Representatives were
often in consultation during the session
just closed, with a view to devising some
means by which tbe laws might be simpli
fied and special legislation checked. Sen
ator Carpenter, than whom no clearer
headed man ever sat in Congress, takes a
deep interest la tbe matter, and as his term
of six years has but commenced, be will
have a chanco to be beard.
The extra session closed at S P. 51., last
(Tuesday) evening, having lasted fiord
tbe 18th of March. Only one appropria
tion bill Anally failed, and that was rather
a fraction of a bill than a bill. It provided,
with a reservation for the payment of U.
S. marshals. ' Tbe President very sensibly
declined to call another session. Thefol-.'
lowing are the acts and resolutions of Im
portance, besides the appropriation bills,
which were passed :
To prevent the introduction of conta
gious diseases ; to oontract for the con
structing of a refrigerating ship for tbe dis
infection of vessels and cargoes ; extending
the pension of General James Shields to
his widow and children, and granting a
speoial pension to the widow of Colonel
Fletcher Webster; exempting from registry,
enrollment or license, vessels not propelled
by sail or internal motive power of their
own; joint resolution relating to the Na
tional Board of Health ; to provido for a
Mississippi River Commission ; completion
of tbe foundation of the Washington mon
ument ; directing a monument to be erected
to mark the birth-place of Washington ;
to put quinine on the free list, and tbe bill
to allow tbe exchange of small silver coin
for legal tenders to tbe amount.of twenty
dollars.
That creating a Mississippi River Com
mission is one of tbe moat important meas
ures that ever passed Congress. In terms
it mentions only the one river, but ulti
mately not only that river, but its great
tributaries will be embraced in tbe work of
tbe Commission. A population greater
than that now in tbe country will yet live
in the territory directly effected by the im
provements contemplated.
Olive.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW At a dance at Ida Grove, la., tbe
other night Mr. Beeman Murray, who had
remarked to several that he had never
enjoyed himself better, was in tbe act of
swinging his partner, his wife, when he
fell back dead.
t2T Mrs. Frances D. Ross, a wealthy
lady, was sitting in ber carriage iu front of
her residence, No. 28 west Twenty-third
street, N. Y., Tuesday, when she suddenly
dropped dead. She was sixty-four years
old. Tbe cause of ber death will be inves
tigated. CSSTIt is estimated that the yield of wheat
in Bucks this year will not be more than 05
per cent., counting last year's the average.
The hay crop will be light,not mora than 50
per centof last year's. Corn has not been so
backward for fifteen years. Tbe potato crop
will be large. There will be a fair yiold of
small fruit. Apples and cherries are fail
ures. t$T Tbe Bangor, Me., Whig aays : A
farmer in Holden informed us that, being
much annoyed with crows pulling up bis
corn, he placed a ' large umbrella in bis
field in - order to frighten thorn away.
Imflgine bis surprise one wet day in finding
a good flock seeking Bholter under it from
tbe rain. The umbrella is now used for
another purpose.
Elmiha, N. Y., July 1. At Wyaluslng
Pa., on Monday, a well caved in, burying
a man named Chambers who was working
In it. A party of men were digging alt
night, but had not reached Chambers at
last accounts. The well is thirty-six feet
deep, and is situated near the railroad
track. It is thought the caving was caused
by the passage of a freight train. Cham
bers loaves a wife and three children.
t'if A peasant named Bandsleben, livlug
near Konigsburg, sold a cow and received
as part of the purchase money a hundred
mark bank note. His little son pulled the
note from bis pocket, and In playing with
It tore It into pieces. Tbe enraged father
dragged tbe child to a chopplng-blook and
cut its head off with an axe. Then he
returned to the house and told his wlfo
what he had done. The woman, who was
bathing a younger child, fell down in a
faint, dropping tbe infant into the bath
tub, where it was drowned.
Atlahtic Citt, July 1. Charles Her
man and TbomHS Welsh were arrested
here to-day for tbe murder of William
Martin, real estate broker, who was mys
teriously beaten to death in his office in
Pbilidelpbia some time ago. The charge
is made by a woman claiming to be Her
man's wife. Her testimony was taken by
tho mayor this afternoon, but the offlolals
are very reticent concerning the affair and
no particulars can be obtained at present.
l3T"The Russian army near tbe Caspian.
Sea are tormented by the common black,
house flies. The commander of tbe caval
ry told the correspondent (who wrote the .
tale in a tent of gauze, within which there
was little light, owing to tbe countless
flies clinging to its exterior) that he had
known horses to fall dead, exhausted by
the Incessant persecutions of these ditniuu--'
tive tormentors. ,
David Schrack, a thirteen year old son
of Wm. Schrack, of Norristown, was kill
ed by falling from a cherry tree on Thurs
day afternoon. There is something strange
in his death in that be' fell fifteen feet, on
soft, yielding grass, without breaking a
limb or making a bruise. His feet struck:
on the ground first, when he fell over nnrl .
stretched himself out as though asleep. :
He was unconscious, and before a physi
cian could get to him he was dead.
tW A brief account of tbe arrest and '.
escape of Homager, the desparado, burglar, T
ana jail breaker, at l'ottstown, on Satur
day, show his captors in a ludicrous light..
Known to be a desperate and ugly custo
mer, he was haudouffed as soon ad arrested,
and fairly surrounded by policemen, was"
on bis way to the jail, when be broke loose
and dashed down the steeet, pursued by a.
large mob. Tbe policemen at once brought
their revolvers into use, and in another
moment a perfect din was created by the
crying children and shrieking women who -were
dodging the whistling bullets. Tbe
trees along tbe road were plugged with,
shot, and one or two accidentally hit - tbe
manacled hands and many pursuers, es
caped. tST The residonce of Robert S. Wil
liams, in Milwaukee, was broken into and
robbed recently during tbe temporary ab
sence of tbe family, and the servant girl'
was found lying on the floor in a most
painful position, gagged and bound hand
and foot. No clue could be found to the
robbery, and the girl has to thank ber own
stupidity for her ultimate detection. She -excited
suspicion by ber lavish expendi
ture of money and was arrested. Then,
she was frightened into a confession, and
made to show how she had planned and
executed the whole robbery herself. After
all the stolen goods had been removed ont
of tbe house to a place of biding, she re
turned and deliberately scratched ber own
face until the blood ran, tore great rents in.
her clothes, thrust a gag into her mouth,
bound her feet, and finally, by means of a
slip-knot, actually tied her bands so tightly
that she could not move. Then she threw
herself ou the floor, and was in a fainting .
condition when tbe family returned.
tW Ben Rosencranz rode into Boise -City,
Idaho Territory, on Wednesday two
weeks ago and whispered to his bar-room
friends a queer story. Ben said that as ha
ana .Lien Lewis were passing along near
Glenn's Ferry, ou Snake river, they had
come across an old canvas blouse half bid
den in the grass. Len bad punched tbe
blouse with his whip, when out rolled
several bright, glittering gold eagles.
Quickly dismounting tbe treasure trove
was counted. There were in the blouse
$1,200 in gold. Lewis took $800 because
he bad first punched the blouse, aud gave
Rosenoranz $400. When Ben bad told bis
story and exhibited his coin tbe Boise City,
men recalled that on June 1, 1879, tbe
bodies of John Basoora, Robert Furgusou
and a stranger bad been found near Glen's
Ferry, on the Snake. A tbe hostile Ban
nocks bad just crossed the Snake, it was
at tue time believed mat tue three meu
were murdored by Indians. Yet when
Ben told his story and exhibited bis coin
the Boise City men arrested hi in, and Len
Lewis as well, and tbey will be held to
nnsworfor the triple murder. There is
nothing against Ben and Len except the
nuaiug oi me goia, ana me niiutmitm, oi
Boise, is inclined to regard them as inno
cent of the crime.