THE TIMES, NEW ltLOOMFIELl), 1A. JULY 22, 1879.
THE TIMES.
New Bloomfield,July 22, 1879.
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State elections will be held this year
in the following order : Kentucky, Aug
ust 4, State officers and Legislature ;
California, Sep. 8, State and Judicial
officers, four Congressmen and Legisla
ture ; Maine, Sep. 8, State officers and
Legislature ; Ohio and Iowa, Oct. 7,
State officers in part and Legislature ;
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Mississippi, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin,
Nov. 8. Governors are elected in all
the States named except Mississippi,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 'Wis
consin. The officers of the Pennsylvania rail
road give notice that hereafter no free
transportation will be issued to persons
attending political conventions, but in
stead therefore, tickets will be sold at
excursion rates, but only to those per
sons who go as delegates or who are
officially connected with the convention.
This is a severe blow to the army of
dead beats and bummers who usually
flock to these conventions with free
passes In their pockets. The railroad
officials have acted wisely in this mat
ter ; and It will have the effect of keep
ing away from the conventions of both
political parties the disreputable crowds
usually found about such gatherings.
Democratic State Convention.
The Democratic State Convention met
in Harrlsburg on Wednesday last and
nominated D. O. Barr, of Pittsburg, as
candidate for State Treasurer. The fol
ing Is the platform in brief:
Jtesolved, first, That the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania renews its vows
of fidelity to free institutions. Second,
That the rights of the States and the
liberties of the people are vital parts of
one harmonious system. Third, That
the Federal administration has no right
to keep on foot at the general expense an
army to invade the States for political
purposes. Fourth, That the way to the
ballot-box must be kept open and free.
Fifth, That Rutherford B. Hayes is the
representative of a conspiracy, and that
his use of the veto is a menace to the
country. Sixth, That the Democratic
party as a whole favors a constitutional
currency of gold and silver and of paper
convertible into coin. Seventh, That
the Democratic party is opposed to sub
sidies and In favor of economy. Eighth,
That it is the friend of the laboring man.
Ninth, That it looks with " alarm and
apprehension" on the pretensions of the
transportation companies. Tenth, That
the recent attempt, under the personal
direction of ruling Republican leaders,to
debauch the Legislature by wholesale
bribery and corruption, should receive
the signal condemnation of the people
at the polls. Eleventh, That the pres
ent condition of the State Treasury a
bankrupt general fund,and even schools
and charities are unable to get the mon
ey long sinoe appropriated to their sup
port -is a sufficient illustration of the
reckless financial mismanagement of the
Republican party.
Peter Herdio Arrested.
Haiiiushubo, July 15. A hearing
took place to-day before Governor Hoyt
and Deputy Attorney General Gilbert in
the matter of a requisition issued by
Governor Robinson, of New York, di
rected to Governor Hoyt, for the surren
der of Peter Herdic, of Williamsport.
The charges set forth in the indictment
accompanying the requisition are that
Herdio in 1870 obtained $25,000 from an
Elmira bank, and deposited as collateral
security one thousand shares of stock of
the Williamsport Gas Company and
'threq hundred and ninety-five shares of
the soek of the Lycoming Gas and Wa
ter Company, of which he claimed to be
the; owner. It is alleged that he falsely
represented the capital stock of these
companies, thereby giving to the shares
deposited as security an appearance of
greater value than they had, and thus
obtained the loan of $25,000 under false
pretences. The requisition was honored,
and a warrant was issued to the proper
officer of Lycoming county.
A Case of Suspended Animation.
The New York Herald says : Emil
Bausch, of Floyd street, near Thoop
avenue, "Williamsburg, who has been
suffering for some time from heart dis
ease, sat down to his dinner table yes
terday seemingly in his usual health.
After partaking heartily of the viands
placed before him he rose from the table,
but was taken with what he thought a
fainting fit and said he felt sick, then,
throwing up his hands, he fell to the
floor. The furnily, thoroughly startled,
though they had long been expecting
such an occurrence, hastened to his re
lief and bore him to a sofa, where, after
two or three efforts to articulate, both
respiration and pulsation apparently
ceased.
The family physician was sent for,
but being absent, word was left for him
to call immediately on his return, Mean
while no signs of life were visible
in Mr. Bausch, and the family con
vinced of his death sent for an under
taker, who came and was also con
vinced of the death of Mr. Bausch.
Before going back to his store for ice
and box with which to preserve the
body until the time for the funeral he
attached the usual crape insignia of
death to the front door bell.
lie was gone an hour, and then when
he reached the house and prepared to
remove the body to the box the Jar of
removal startled the supposed corpse
into life. Sneezing first, he gasped for
breath, and in a very few moments cir
culation that had been temporarily sus
pended resumed its course, and, though
weak, Mr. Bausch became once more a
man among the living. The family re
joiced at the .recovery, overwhelmed him
with attention, and even the undertaker
felt pleasure in the unusual termination
of his services.
The Great Storm at Boston.
Boston, July 16. Soon after 4 o'clock
this afternoon a storm of terrific vio
lence burst over this city, lasting twenty-five
minutes, and in that period great
damage was done to life and property.
Many small boats and yachts were cap
sized, but the most serious disaster yet,
reported is that of the small schooner
Myrtle, of Charlestowu, having on
board six persons, four women and a
man and boy. The schooner was cap
sized off Bird island, and all excepting
the man, Thomas Dunham, who clung
to the mast, were drowned. Their
names were Margaret Dunham, wife of
Thomas ; Mary Ann Dunham, and
Susan Dunham, Bisters; Lizzie Dun
ham, his nelce, and Arthur Ryan. The
bodies were recovered by a tug and
brought to this city. A boy named
Walter Hittenhame was also drowned
by the capsizing of a boat off Hull.
The damage throughout the city can
hardly be estimated 'at present but will
probably amount to many thousands of
dollars. In the southwestern part of
the town It was particularly severe.
Along the wharves are many anxious
people inquiring about the fate of friends
who left the city to-day on excursions of
various kinds. Breese & Noyea' planing
and saw mill, on Wareham street, was
struck by lightning and took fire, but
was quickly extinguished. A fireman
employed on the premises was burled
in the ruins of a falling chimney.
Workmen are now digging for the body.
On Washington street the Catholic ca
thedral, Madison block and Metropoli
tan hotel were damaged by hail and had
windows broken. The storm seems to
have come up from the southwest.
Cheap Fuel.
An Oil City manufacturer is thorough
ly satisfied fefter a month's trial that
crude petroleum is the cheapest and
most simple fuel that can be found for
generating steam. His apparatus for
the oil being allowed to run from a bar
rel through a pipe Into the furnace at a
regulated speed. The expense of a fire
man is thus dispensed with,-and the
burning oil deposits no Boot in the flues,
as coal fires do. At the rate of six cents
per bushel, the expense of running the
engine used to be about $36 per month,
but during the past month, the manu
facturer says, while the same amount of
work has been done, only sixteen barrels
of oil have been consumed in the fur
naces, which, selling at seventy cents
per barrel, leaves a clear profit of about
sixty per cent.
Tried by Negroes.
George Lewis, a negro aged nineteen
years, who, in January last murdered
his grandmother in Chesterfield, Va.,
and was subsequently sentenced to be
hanged, having obtained a new trial,
was again arraigned on Monday at
Richmond, Va. The jury, much against
the prisoner's wish and the earnest pro
test of his counsel, was composed entire
ly of negroes. The trial lasted ' until
near midnight, when the case was given
to the Jury, who.after an hour's delibera
tion, returned a verdict of murder In
the second degree, and fixed the penalty
at eighteen years' imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
Bound to Marry.
A pair of Kentucky lovers recently
walked forty miles In order to be mar
ried. Before they reached New Albany
the bride was sorely troubled on account
of walking so great a distance, and had
taken off her shoes during part of the
journey, which caused her stockings to
wear out. When she arrived In the
county court house at Jeffersonvllle she
stepped into the office of Recorder Mo
Gonnlgal, who, noticing her bare feet,
gave her a pair of low-neck hose better
known as men's socks. The bride was
ever so much obliged, and waltzed up
and was married.
The Yellow Fever Scare Ended.
Memphis, July 16. The city remains
very quiet. No new cases have been re
ported, and In a few days It is anticipa
ted all quarantine restrictions now in
force against Memphis will be removed.
Norkfolk, Virginia, took the Initiative,
and through cars went to that city last
night. The State Board of Health an
nounces that the present quarantine
regulations will be discontinued Mon
day, if no new cases develop. Judge
Ray's son was better last evening.
July 18. -r Later news report new
cases and another stampede has taken
place.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, July 10, 1879.
It Is a fortunate thing for members of
Congress that Mie "amiable obstinacy" of
the President did not cause him to call
another extra session, for the heat here is
intolerable. The whole city, one may say,
is out of town. The dozen or more of
down-the-river-Potomao summer resorts
are full of Washingtonians. The one soli
tary Congressman who remains is Senator
Kellogg, and a few more days of heat will
drive him away. December, which here Is
something like early October in Maine or
Minnesota, will see Congress again as
sembled, and oomfortable, and let us hope,
disposed to go on with the publio busi
ness. The American Banking Association, by
the way, shows wisdom in calling Its next
meeting at Saratoga in the early days the
6th, 7th, and 8th of August, almost any
one, who could, would go to Saratoga in
August. Let us hope the same wisdom
will be shown in the transaction of
the business of the association as the selec
tion of a meeting. The convention, if it
may be called a convention, will not be
limited to those connected with National
BankB, but is expected to embrace a large
representation of all financial and commer
cial interests.
General Ewing and Charles Foster, of
Ohio, are both very confident of their elec
tion to the Governorship of tfiat State, and
so are their friends. I have never known
a political contest in which both sides ex
pressed greater confidence. Both candi
dates have recently Men East, and left be
hind them wherever they went all manner
of assurances of success. May the best
man win.
Wm. E. Chandler, Secretary of the Re
publican Congressional Committee, has
been tarrying for a short time here, and ex
pressed himself freely on political subjects,
lie thinks that Blaine has better chances
than any one else for the Republican nomi
nation, and Hancock for the Democratic.
He thinks Grant will have mo re friends
than any one else in the Republican Con
vention, but that he will not accept a nomi
nation save in the apparently impossible
event of a unanimous preference for him.
Capt. Eads, in finishing bis labors in con
structing the jetties at the South Pass of
the Mississippi reports that an uncertain
channel, in which 16 feet of water could
not be counted on, haB been changed into
one In which there is absolute certainty of
80 feet. If he can maintain that depth
which he must do, under his contraot, for a
series of years be will be known hereafter
as one of the chief benefactors of the
country. Olive.
Miscellaneous News Items.
CThere were eleven cases of sunstroke
in Baltimore Wednesday one fatal.
tS" Four persons were struok by light
ning at Shelby, Conn., Wednesday after
noon. tWFive persons were drowned at Boston
Wednesday by 'the capsizing of a small
schooner.
tW Lucius Weaver, who committed a
rape on Mrs. Howell, a white woman near
Strawberry Plains, Tenn., was killed by a
mob on Tuesday.
tW John B. R. Spaulding, who went to
Memphis last year during the plague as a
volunteer telegraph operator, died last
Monday from sunstroke.
tW A mulatto named John Breoken
ridge was hung by a mob at Carlisle, Ky.,
Monday for committing a brutal assault
upon Miss King, a white lady.
An attempt was made on Tuesday
last to set fire to a row of houses known
Brown's row, Margaretta and Edmond
Sts., Philadelphia. The perpetrator was
not discovered.
St. Louis, July 14. Wm! J. Lewis, a
prominent merchant and banker and large
ly interested in the Bigmuddy eoal mines
in southern Illinois, was overcome by heat
at Carondelet, this morning, and died in
twenty minutes. "
tW Charles Barth, a baggage master on
the Mall train north on Bedford and
Bridgeport R. R. fell from his car Tuesday
morning, while the train was going at full
speed and was almost Instantly killed. He
had only been running on the road about
one month.
C3T Mrs. Thomas Williams, who lived
on Bellevue Heights, near Scranton, at
tempted to put out a kerosene lamp on
Saturday by blowing down the chimney.
A fearful explosion followed. Mrs. Wil
limns' clothing caught lire, nnd despite ber
cries, she was literally burned to death be
fore any one came to ber assistance. ,(
tST The New York "Sun" says: On
Saturday thirty-four girls, while stripping
tobaooo In a Jersey City factory, were
seized with pain in the side, followed in al
most every case by unconsciousness, convul
sions, and finally hysteria and oolio. Physi
cians could not account for the attack.
tW Miss Ella Kuhn, a young girl whose
parents live at Greensburg, came to a
terrible death on Tuesday by her clothes
taking fire from a low bonfire of shavings
in the middle of a Pittsburg street. She
was burned so severely that all the physi
cians could do was to alleviate ber terrible
suffering until death ensued.
SW A span of flue black horses, owned
by Mr. A. S. Shlmer, Redingtou, took
fright while on the road Tuesday, and
dashed over a sixty-foot cliff, falling on the
track of the Lehigh and Susquehanna
Railroad. Both animals were killed, and a
light carriage to which they were harness
ed was broken Into the smallest fragments.
t-People who went up Mount Wash
ington last week were surprised to find
the Summit House windows,on the exposed
side, all snowed up and frozen and the
promenade platform, like the rocks about
it, still almost over shoes in snow, and
every post and northwest facing rock still
covered to a depth of nearly half a foot.
t3T According to observations made
during an attempt to sink an artesian well
at Cape May, the ocean has, at three dif
ferent periods, covered that locality. The
lowest point at which deposits of regular
sea-sand were found was over one hundred
feet. Solid cedar logs were encountered
and bored through at a depth Of eighty
seven feet.
tW Robert Culbertson and Wm. Truax,
two boys hailing from Pbiladelphia,arrived
at Harrlsburg on the Cincinnati express
early Thursday morning and were arrested
for stealing rides on said train from Phila
delphia to Harrlsburg. When searched
new six shooters were found on eaoh of
them. They were held for carrying con
cealed weapons.
tW A school-house In Pitcher, la., was
torn to pieces by lightning the other day.
It occurred in the morning before school
opened. A few of the children had ar
rived and, seeing the storm coming,' crawl
ed into the school house through the win
dow. Afterward for some cause they came
out again and nestled up in the coal bouse
close by. This latter move saved their
lives. As it was, they were badly shocked.
J3f A severe rain-and wind-storm, ac
companied by much lightning, visited
Bingham ton, New York, Tuesday. A cigar
maker named James W. Stephens, while
standing under a tree in the outskirts of
the city, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed. A dwelling just outside of
town was also struck and burned. Many
trees were blown down and considerable
damage was done to corn and other crops
in that vicinity.
Wells River, Vt., July 14. A terriflo
storm and hurricane passed over here at 5.45
this morning lasting 15 minutes, follow
ed by a thunder storm. Some hail stones
were two Inches in diameter. Crops and
vegetation was destroyed and torn to shreds.
A third of the glass in the place were bro
ken. Large trees were torn up, fences de
stroyed, houses unroofed and a barn blown
over. It was the most severe storm ever
known here. The people were very much
alarmed.
(3T During the shower that passed over
Titusville on Friday, several boys erawled
under some freight cars standing on the
Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo railroad
traok to escape from the rain. Before the
end of the shower a locomotive moved up
the track and bumped against the cars.
All the boys except one scrambled from
their dangerous position. Peter Rounds,
a crippled youth, was not as active as the
rest, and just as his body was laid across
the traok the wheel struck it,- and the un
fortunate boy was instantly killed.
tW Two fishermen found, on the bank
of Taylortown creek, a trout stream in
Pike oounty, a few days ago, a long, low
pile of stones, whose curious Bhape and
inapproprlateness in the middle of a green
field, at once attracted their attention.
Fulling a few rocks away, they discovered
the skeleton of a man. Several years ago
a pack-peddler mysteriously disappeared
from this neighborhood, and It is now
believed by the towns people that these are
his remains.
t3T Henry Hertzel, the German who
almost succeeded in committing suicide in
Reading the other evening, has been an
inmate of the poorhouse for the past four
or five years. A few months ago, when it
became known that the old man was the
possessor of property at Reading of con
siderable value, he was made to pay his
board at the almshouse. This seemed to
make Hertzel very miserable, and preyed
upon his mind until life became intolerable.
The little son of Mr. Eugene Clem-
mens, who lives near Brandywine, King
William county, Va, chased a hare to the
hollow of an old cherry tree, last Wednes
day, says the Richmond "State," and put
his band Into the hollow to pull It out. As
he did so ha felt something like a stinging
sonsatlon on his palm and drew It out. A
few moments later he put his hand back
In the hollow and received a bite upon It so
severe that the pain caused him to hasti
ly withdraw his hand. As he did so he
drew with it a moccasin snake. The rep
tile glided baok into the hollow as soon as
released, and the boy seeing that he had
been bitten started for home. It was only
a short distance, but before he reached
there his arm was swollen to twice Its nat
ural size and his bodv was covered with
black spots. A doctor happened to be
near and administered the usual remedies.
His body turned black, and when he breath
ed he emitted a unnnrt Wta ttm lilm nr a
snake. The boy is in his thirteenth year.
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Now Bloomfield, Ta.
July 22, ISTOi
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