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THE TIMES,
NEW BL00MFIEL1), PA. AUGUST 5, 1879.
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Six months ago tbe iron mills and
the furnaces were begging for orders.
Now they have all they can do between
now and Christmas, and It is not a
question of price but of delivery. Orders
can rendily be got within the coming
month to keep all the mills at work
until next summer.
A Shocking Mistake.
Louisville, July 30. Two young
sons of Dr. A. H. Boyd, in Livingston
county, being ill, their father determin
ed to give them santonine, but through
mistake gave them some poison. In half
an hour they had spasms, and one died
in half an hour and the other in three
quarters of an hour. The santonine
will be analyzed.
Another Fearful Storm.
Pittsburg, August 1. Though the
terrible storm which visited this place
yesterday evening was very limited in
the area it covered, it condensed In the
small space an immense amount of fury,
and did a great deal of damage. A large
tank containing 15,000 barrels of oil was
burned, the railroad track was complete
ly washed out for a distance of three
hundred feet, and out buildings, etc.,
were completely destroped. The wife of
Dennis McCarthy was strack by light
ning and instantly killed. The damage
property to will amountto twenty-five
thousand dollars.
England's Loss.
A great sensation has been caused in
Sheffield, England, by the announce
ment that a firm of cutlers in the town,
the chief portion of whose trade is in
America, are about to abandon their
work in Sheffield and commence opera,
tions in the United States. The state
ment is that they are pursuing this step
simply to escape the prohibitory duties
levied upon English goods. About a
hundred Sheffield workmen are, it is
added, removing with them, and a much
larger number of Germans has also been
engaged. No names are, however, yet
given.
A Woman and Child Burned to Death.
Detroit, July 81. A special despatch
from Battle Creek reports the burningof
the pleasure steamer Lew Wallace' at
Gognack lake this morning ; also the
dwelling of James Cleveland and three
boat houses. Mrs. Cleveland and her
infant perished in the flames and two
more of her children are so badly injur
ed that they are not expected to live.
Mr. Cleveland saved his own life and
the life of one of his children by jump
ing from the second story window of his
burning house into the lake. The fire
originated in the engine room of the
steamer.
Pestilence in Iowa.
Dubuqut:, July 30. A disease akin to
cholera is ravaging In Centre Point,
Lynn county, in this State. Fully
twenty persons have died from its ef
fects during the past thirteen days, and
an equal number have been prostrated
by It.
It is also raging in Walker, a little
town seven miles from Centre Point,
several deaths having occurred there.
An order for forty coffins was received
from Centre Point yesterday by a Du
buque undertaker. The physicians of
Centre Point are worn out and residents
are fleeing from the place.
A Terrible Crime.
A German carpet weaver named Eu
gene Walse, who had been lodging over
tbe bakery at 1319 Race street, has been
arrested by the police for the commis
sion of a grave and revolting crime. It
appears that on Tuesday night he en
ticed a child eight years of age, named
Viola Savoy, who lives on Juniper St.,
above Race, into his bedroom, and there
commitfed a felonious assault upon her.
The screams of the child aroused the
neighbors, but the villain managed to
elude capture for several hours. When
he was arraigned at tbe station-house
for examination, tbe father of the child
dealt the prisonor a blow on the
head with a pair of ice-tongs. Had the
police not interfered, the enraged parent
would have killed tbe miscreant. As it
was, he was damaged to no small de
gree, and had to be removed to the hog.
pital. ' The evidence against him is
strong, as the condition of the child Is
pitiable.
Lazy but Effective Fishing.
A Kinston,N.C.,lettersays : Asa Wal
ker, Jr., and tome young companions
at Kennedy's upper mill, have a novel
way of fishing. They take a canoe at
night and place a torch in the head,
and paddle along slowly, giving the boat
a rocking motion, and tbo fish (Jacks)
Jump at the light, and, landing in tbe
canoe, are cnught wlthoutmueh trouble.
They caught In one night last week 170
fish.
Remarkable Occurrence.
Between two and three o'clock on
Monday afternoon a seven-year-old deaf
and dumb boy, son of Benjamin Charles
of Lancaster, was knocked down by a
two horse coach, on North Queen street,
and was trampled under the feet of the
horses. Singular to relate, no bones
were broken, nor were there any Internal
injuries or even severe cuts or bruises ;
but more singular, by far, Is the fact that
the child, who had never been known to
utter a sound before, cried out lustily
when he found himself under the feet of
the horses. He was conveyed to his
home in the coach which ran over him,
and remains to be seen whether the ac
cident will result in his finding speech.
It is regarded as an unusual case.
CJ A young married woman, living
in Lancaster county, received, among
other wedding presents, a few years ago,
a piano. Her musical education having
been neglected, and being of too practi
cal a disposition to lock the instrument
up in the parlor,she determined to make
use of it the only way she could. So
she had it placed in the dairy, and while
the children are amusing themselves
pounding on the keys on one side, she
pounds the butter-milk out of her milk
on the other, while the music (V) at
tracts the cows In from the Held to be
milked.
While William Coghey, of Law
renceville, Allegheny county, was tak
ing his after-dinner nap in a field the
other day, a boy happened to pass that
way, and seeing the sleeper's mouth
wide open, he picked up a small toad
and dropped it in. The man woke up
with a start, and in one great gulp
swallowed the toad whole. He then
ran into the workshop like a wild man,
causing great excitement among the
other workmen. Coghey says that the
toad is still alive, and he is Bure that it
will grow up in its present position.
A special dispatch from Middle
way, W. V., says a bold attempt to
commit a vile assault on Miss Taylor, of
Baltimore, who is visiting Mr. Mc
Clure, near the former place, by a tramp
on Monday night was only prevented
by the determined resistance of the
young lady. . The tramp had been given
a night's lodging.
HT The land at the mouth of a little
stream emptying into the Ohio river,
about 6 miles below Pittsburg, Is said to
contain a rich deposit of iron ore. Cleve
land iron men have been prospecting in
the vicinity for several weeks, and the
famers are reported to have rejected
some very good offers of purchase.
O" At Newton, Mass., last Wednes
day morning, G. F. Baker, a policeman,
attempted to arrest two young men, H.
S. Davis and John Carnell, for fast driv.
ing, when the latter shot and mortally
wounded the officer. They were arrest
ed, and stated that they thought Baker
was a highway robber.
Mrs. Howard, wife of Rev. Mr.
Howard, minister of the Episcopal
church, Dundoff, near Scran ton, com
mitted suicide by drowning herself in
the Lackawanna river. Insanity was
the cause.
l&'Ezra Ping, of Columbus, Ind.,
shot and fatally injured Oma Burnett,
because she didn't want to marry him.
He says he thought it was a toy pistol,
and didn't intend to murder her.
Miscellaneous Mews Items.
tWA. Tramp excitement scared a Char
lotte, Micb., lady so that when her husband
returned borne late in the evening she re
fused to let him in until he had given his
name, and the names of their three chil
dren. tW Mr. J, 11. Alexander, of Augusta,
Ga., has cut sinoe Tuesday last over 400
watermelons just for the seed. lie buys
tbe finest he can find by wholesale, and
has a free watermelon feast every time he
cuts, the only stipulation made with his
friends being that they will rave the seed.
tW Quite a romantio wedding took
place on the levee at Keokuk a day or two
since. A skiff, containing a minister and
a runaway couple, came over from the
Illinois side, and landing oo tbe shore,
were made one in the midst of the drizzling
rain. A soon as the ceremony was over
tbe trio left as silently as they came.
O Mrs. Simmons, a resident of Miners
viile, went into the woods last Friday to
pick berries, and not returning at night,
her husband and some friends went to look
for her. She was found hanging by the
skirts, head downward, in a deep pit, in
which position she had survived six long
hours.
t3T" Fourteen famtles of Icelanders,
comprising seventy-six persons, arrived at
New York this week bound for Minnesota,
where they will form the nucleus of an
Icelamllo colony. They bring money
enough with them to buy farms and main
tain themselves while the crops are grow
ing, and so are just the kind of immigrants
the country wants.
ty While W. II. Ilondorson, of Green,
field, Ohio, and Handford Home were en
gaged in a game of cards in a saloon at
Washington, Ohio, Thursday afternoon, a
diflloulty arose concerning the mauner in
which a play was made, during which Hen
derson stabbed Home through the heart,
killing him instantly.
tST John Krauz, of East Faimlugton,
Polk county, Wis.,drove into the lake with
bIx children in his wagon, to water his
horses recently near that place. Tbe
horses becoming frightened, ran into deep
water the wagon was upset, and Kranz
and five of the children were drowned.
One boy escaped by swimming. The eldest
lost was a girl of seventeen.
W An engineer in one of the Pitts
burgh machine shops gave utterance re
cently in a tryiug moment to an oath. He
bad always professed very strict religious
principles, and was troubled to suoh a de
gree by his fall from grace that he has
Bince been put in the lockup by his anx
ious family lest he should commit suicide.
tW Some of the farmers in Allegheny
county claim to have become so used to
copperhead snake bites that the most
serious one ouly involves the loss of a day's
work. When a workman is bitten, he
camly sits down, with several quarts of
whisky at his Bide, and drinks until he is
helplessly intoxicatod. The poison then
escapes with the prespiration.
C3T" A Frenchman who was known to
every one in St. Clair township, Bedford
county, as Tony, was bitten by a rattle
snake on Wednesday, while at work har
vesting. Without the slightest hesitation
the plucky Frenchman cut a large piece of
of flesh out of his log, hoping to prevent
the spread of the poison ; but it was of no
use, and after twelve hours' intense suffer
ing he died.
EST" Mr. Brantly, of Banks couuty, had
dammed up a creek on his premises for tbe
purpose of irrigating some part of bis land.
After the water bad risen to a sufficient
depth, he concludod to jump in and take a
bath ; and in so doing, it is supposed his
head stuck in the mud and bis body went
over in such force as to dlslocato his neck.
A brother-in-law was with him, and ren
dered all assistance possiblo, but tbo poor
man died in eight hours after the occur
rence. .
A special dispatch from Wooster,
Ohio, says a terrific rain storm burst upon
that oity Tuesday evening, the water
coming down in a perfect flood, submerg
ing whole streets and rising waist deep in
a number of bouses in tbe lower part of
the town. Tbe inmates of some of the
houses were obliged to be removed by
means of ladders. The water flooded tbe
gas house to tbe depth of live feet. Cows
and smaller animals were carried away.
Tbe telegraph lines and railroad tracks
east of the town were washed away.
tW The farmers in the vicinity of Au
burn, Salem county, N. J., have lost a
number of young pigs recently, as they
supposed by sneak thieves. But on Mon
day a farmer named Ballinger discovered
two bald eagles hovering over a pen iu
which a litter of six-week pigs were kept.
While he was' watching their movements
tbey sud decly swooped down into the pen,
wbe re each caught a pig in its talons and
then soared away. The farmers are now
threatening to shoot the American eagle.
When the express train on the
Hudson River Railroad arrived atNewburg
a fow evenings ago one of tbe train hands
discovered a lad, apparently about seven
teen years old, riding under tbe forward
cars on the truck next to the looomotive.
Tbe boy had crawled into his perilous
position when tbe train had stopped at
Greenwood Junction, and it is almost a
miracle that he managed to cling to tbe
narrow beams through the long journey,
with tbe truck jumping and bouncing over
tbe rails at the rate of forty miles an hour.
tW During tbe terrible storm of wind
and rain that passed over North Carolina
recently, tbe bouse of Mi's. Adelaide Bur
ton,, at Roxabel, Bertie county, was de
stroyed, and Mrs. Burton was buried in
the debris. A fow hours later the inani
mate body was dug out of the ruins and
prepared for burial. As tbe friends of tbe
supposed deceased lady were removing the
casket to tbe hearse tbe next day, she re
vived, and, raising her head, asked to be
informed what they meant by the singular
proceedings. She was iuformed that she
was on her way to tbe grave, having been
killed-by tbe fall of ber house two days be
fore. The sudden revival of the lively
corpse from the trance created great con
sternation among the large gathering of
sorrowing friends, all of whom wore glad,
however, to see Mrs. Burton the next day
superintending the removal of the debris of
her house, preparatory to having a new
one erected,
Jamebtown, N. Y., July 24, At tod
o'clock last night a farmer named James
Crosby returned to his home near Cone
wango station, fifteen miles from James
town. He missed the light bis wife
usually loft burning for him, aud heard a
shrill whistle from tbe trees near by, but
paid no attention to it. He entered tbe
bouse by the unfastened kltoheu door, took
off bis coat aud boots, called bis wife, and
then rooelved a heavy blow on the head.
He fought und held to his assailant until
he was dragged to tbe roadway, where be
received anothor blow and was shot
through the hand. The assailants then
fled. A ory of murder brought neighbors,
who, euterlng the house, found Mrs.
Crosby lying lifeless in bed. She bad
probably been dead half an hour. The
pillows were stained with blood and prints
of fingers on her neck showed that she bad
been choked to death to prevent ber alarm
ing others in tbe house. A little child in
a trundle bed near its mother was not
awakened. Private papers were over
hauled and a revolver and small amount of
money wore carried off.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, July 80, 1870.
It will be remembered that the sum of nluo
million of dollars was voted by the 45th Con
greis for "river and harbor lmprovemtnts."
Much of it was appropriated for rivers and
streams where the expenditure will do little
good. At a Cabinet meeting yesterday the
question as to whether or not any of this money
should bo withheld was discussed, and It was
decided In the negative. The full amount will
therefore be expended this year. A warrant
placing this money to the credit of the War
Department passed the Treasurer of the United
States this afternoon. On a similar occasion,
while Grant was President, six millions was
appropriated, but only a little of the sum was
UBed.
In this connection It is interesting to know
that the public debt statement for the month
of July will show an Increase of over five
millions.
The news received by the National Board of
Health and by private Individuals here, con
cerning the fever in the southwest, It is dis
couraging. There is no longer any doubt that
it will spread throughout a large section of the
country. One case has occurred here, and
fears are felt that this city will suffer severely.
No nominations have yet been made of
Minister to St. Petersburg and London, but the
number of names suggested is simply astonish
ing. ,
There will be a better representation than
was expected of American products at tbe
Exhibitions at Melbourne, Sidney and Austra
lia. Tbo beneats derived by our manufacturers
and others from previous exhibitions are be
ginning to be generally understood.
Citizens of all the States are Invited to con
sider the fact that in Washington city the
Capital of the Republic such a representation
Is nnknown to the people. We are taxed, but
have no voice In the distribution of the money
.raised by taxation. A little agitation of this
subject throughout the country would, it seems
to me, socure a change.
Representative Hendrlck B. Wright's Con
gressional Committee on labor and trade, now
in session at Chicago, docs not seem to get
much more valuable Information and advice
than Mr. Hewitt's Committee received at New
York a year ago. The Ideas advanced by tbe
witnesses are as diverse as they possibly can
be, and in many cases absurd. Olive.
For Tbe Bloomfleld Tiroes.
Cbete, Neb., July 24, 1879.
Mb. Editor i It is a fact that Eastern peo
ple are very much gratified to receive informa
tion from the great West, where their friends,
and relatives are scattered to and fro j and
especially those who still cherish a desire
to come West. In order therefore to comma
nlcate facts for the consideration- of tbe many
readers of Thb Times, we shall have to give
yon the adverse as well as the prosperous side
of Western life. Our observations, however,
will not be confined to Nebraska alone, but we
shall extend them to Iowa Illinois and other
Western States, because we are able here to
gather Intelligence touching the customs and
habits of the people, as well as the nature of
the soil and variety of products In the greater
portion of the Western country. We shall,
however, first notice a few tblugs near our
present home. The Inhabitants of Saline Co.,
are composed of what we call the mixed ele
ment. The Bohemians are, however, in the
majority. In Wilber, the County Scat, nearly
all the business Is transacted by these people.
C. Duras, tbe Couuty Treasurer, can speak and
understand the English, Bohemian and Ger
man languages. There are more than forty
thousand Bohemians In this State. The native
people of the State are distinguished by the
name of Americans. All others are called Bo
hemians, Germans, Irish, fcc., according to
their respective nationalities. Most of the for
eigners are good citizens and neighbors. Ex
cepting the Southern and Eastern counties in
the Big Blue Valley, the other Inhabitants of
the State &re mostly native Americans. The
Bohemians are nearly all In pretty good cir
cumstances, having settled here ten or twelve
years since under the Homestead Act.
The financial condition of many in this part
of Nebraska Is not very flattering, especially
among that class of persons who, came here
destitute of means to purchase land. These
people are compelled to settle lu cities and
towns, where they have become impoverished
by high rent and scarcity of employment.
Thus tbe majority of the inhabitants of Crete
are poor people, many of them worth less to
day than when they first landed In the Btate.
The same state of affairs exist In other towns
also. Many others have secured homes by
Homestead, or purchase and having contracted
debts by building and for machinery, are now
embarrassed with mortgages due and must
sell their farms at greatly reduced prices.
Hence there are dozens of Improved properties
In the market for sale and must be sold by
Real Estate Agents and other persons. Some
of these mortgages are already foreclosed, and
consequently the properties are" gone. You
will therefore perceive that with a few hun
dred dollars a man can purchase an Improved
proporty at a very resonable price.
We would here observe that there are greater
advantages In baying Improved farms even at
higher prices than to purchase raw land and
spend time and expend money to Improve prop
erty. Farmers will finish cutting Bprlng wheat
this week. The Chintz bug has damaged the
wheat In places so that the average ylbld In
this section will not be more than ten bushels
per acre. Oats are good and the corn crop
will be excellent. Harvest wages are 11.60
per day for binding on the ground, and ?2.00
on the Harvester, where two hands do the
work. Good carpenters get from 91-50 to 92.00
per day and board themselves. Building me
chanics can get employment at reasonable
wages In all the new railroad towns where
building is so extensively carried on. Several
hundred hands are at work on the A. & N. R'.
R., which Is bolng extended from Lincoln via.
MUford and Seward to Columbus, Nebraska,
of the North Platte river. Another new rail
road Is under construction by the U. P. Co., to
extend from Valparaiso Southward through
Lincoln and Beatrice. These roads when bull t
will be effectual competing lines with tbe B. fc
M. R. R., and thus control Its imposing and
exorbitant rates of freight and fare.
But enough for this time. In our next cor
rospondence we shall write more particularly
of tbe general character of the people In Ne
braska. J. W. Rice.
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one-forth mile West of Blaln, containing
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Blain.
Perry county.
June 10, 1879. Pa.
JHE ST. ELMO HOTEL,
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has reduced the rates to
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The high reputation of the house will be main
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comfort.
The house been recently refitted, and Is com
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mediate vicinity of the large centres of business
and of places of amusement, and accessible to all
Railroad depots and other parts of the City by
Street cars constantly passing its doers. It olfei
special Inducements to those visitlug the City ou
business or pleasure.
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8 Vli GEO If DENT IS T,
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