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copies. Our mailing Hat 1b always opon
to the Inspection of advertisers.
The Yellow Fever still seems to
be getting worse. In Mempbla the num.
ber of cases have increased the past
week, while in New Orleans fears are
entertained that the disease will become
epidemic. Several deaths from that
cause occurred there last week and sev
enteen more cases were reported on
Saturday.
In San Francisco on Saturday aweek,
De Young, editor of the "Chronicle,"
shot, and it is thought fatally, wounded
Bev. Kalloch, the Workingmeu's candi
date for Mayor. For a time mob law was
eminent, but better counsels prevailed
and quiet was restored, through the ad
vice of Kearney. The " Chronicle" of
fice was guarded by the police and mili
tary, and De Young was securely guard
ed in the jail. The murder originated
through politics.
The Bonds That Were Not Lost.
Harrisuurg, August 27. Chairman
Davis of the Legislative Committee to
investigate the over-Issue of State bonds
for 1853, says the committee will meet
in Philadelphia in September and report
that no bonds have been lost and that
the mystery was cleared up by the ex
amination of the book containing the
bond account.
Communistic Philadelphia Shoemakers.
Philadelphia, August 27. A large
meeting of shoemakers was held to
night which was strongly communistic
in the ideas enunciated by the resolu
tions and the speakers. Fully six hun
dred men were present. The action of
the Mayor and the newspapers toward
the workingmen was condemned and
Kearney's name was heartily applauded
when referred to by the speakers. An
effort will be made to form a strong
force of shoemakers in this city to effect
an increase of wages.
Austrian Wheat Crop.
Vienna, August 25. The Inter
national Grain Fair opened in this city
this morning. An ofllcial report states
that the Austro-IIungarlan wheat crop
of the present year is 9,000,000 metric
centals less thaa that of 1878, but owing
to the accumulated stocks of 1877, only
2,000,000 centals will have to be im
ported. Importation of 4,000,000 metrio
centals of rye will be necessary, but the
oat crop is sufllcient to allow a margin
for export.
An Increase of the Wheat Crop.
Chicago, August 27.- - Messrs. How
ard, White, Crowell & Co., publishers of
The Daily Commercial Bulletin, issued
their annual estimate of the spring
wheat crop of the Northwest to-day.
Reports received from 308 counties in
the Western States and Territories em
bracing over 8,000,000 of acres devoted
to the production of spring wheat. The
total average is estimated at 10,066,935,
against 6,514,739 last year. The average
yield per acre is estimated at 12.92 bushels,
against 11.42 last year. The aggregate
yield is estimated at 137,850,000 bushels,
against 108,745,000 last year, showing an
increase of 29,105,000 bushels. This is
not considered excessive in view of the
well-known poor crop of last year. The
increase in average is reported at 12.26
percent., or equal in the aggregate to
1,152,000 acres in excess of the returns
of last year. Of the increase in the crop
about 16,000,000 bushels is due to the in
creased average yield, and the balance to
the developement of pew lands. The
average yield of the different States is
reported as follows :
Illinois,
S'iHcouKin,
IMinneaota,
Iowa,
11.43
13.74
13.11
12.30
Nebraska,
K H11HUH,
MiHHouri,
Dakota,
13.W!
k;t3
la.ixl
16.B0
The yield of the different States is
estimated as follows :
Bunhela. I fiuphela.
Illinnla, K4,7:K,(K Wisconsin, 34,fws,U(iO
Mitmttmta, Xri.tiwrt.lK I Iowa, 40,lri2,tftio
KelraKka, lM'&MM I Kansas, trtki.otso
Uukota, ll,4uu,uoo I
The increase in the yield is about as
follows :
Bushels. I Bushels.
Minnesota, ".wmmmki ! Wisconsin, 4,ihumh0
Iowa, lK.tNNi.iHNi Dakota, U,uuu,UHI
Keuraska, 4,wxi,iwu
The othes states show a slight foiling
off. The quality is .reported generally
very good, better than for some years
past.
An Old Bank Robbery Trick.
Columiivs, Ohio, August 26. A man
entered,S.S. ltiekley's bank at 12 o'clock
to-day, and began a conversation with
the proprietor, who was the only per
son In the building, concerning negotia
tions for some bouds. While the two
were thus engnged a " pal" gained en
trance to the bank by a rear window
and carried off $5,000 In currency and
$15,000 in registered bonds. The theft
was not discovered until some lime after
ward. Death In a Hotel Parlor.
Saratoga, August 25. The wife of
General B. K. Dawson, U. S. A., died
suddenly in the drawing-room of the
Grand Union Hotel this evening. Heart
disease is supposed to have been the
cause. It was at first supposed that she
had only fainted away. She was carried
across to Congress Hall where, with her
husband and two daughters, she had
been stopping since August 2nd.
A Cart Load of Invalids.
The WllmlngtonTN. C, "Star" says:
A colored woman drove into town with
a cart from Cape Fear township, yester
day morning, in the bottom of which
her husband was lying perfectly help
less with fever, while clustered around
him were five of their children, all
suffering more or less in the same man
ner. They were sick with bilious fever,
and the mother, who was the only well
one in the family, bundled the whole
" posse" into the cart and brought them
to the doctor.
A Missing Chester Girl.
Chester, Fa., August 20. Kate Mo
Laughlin was one of the excursionists
who went to Cape May yesterday on a
trip given by St. Michael's Church.
Owing to rough weather the boat did
not return to Chester until 1:30 this
morning. Miss McLaughlin landed
safely, but since then has not been
seen. She is said to have gone down to
the end of the pier to look for her sister.
She did not return, and it is feared that
she walked overboard and was drowned.
Several boats have been grappling for
the body, but have found no trace of it.
Many are of the opinion that the girl Is
not drowned. She was highly respected
and was never known to remain away
from home. The mystery is exciting
and interesting every one here.
The brihery cases arrlslng out of
the riot bill which was before the last
legislature, were paid the attention of
the Grand Jury of Dauphin county last
week. Judge Pearson Las ordered a
special term to be called for the trial of
these cases, to begin November 17.
The grand jury found indictments
against the following persons for cor
rupt solicitation, namely : William II.
Kemble, Chas. B. Salter,' Jesse R. Craw
ford, Christian Long, A. W.Lelsenring,
F. K. Shoemaker and E. J. McCune.
Crawford and Salter have also been in
dicted for perjury. Four members of
the House of Representatives have also
been indicted for corrupt solicitation,
namely: Petroff, Clark and Smith of
Philadelphia, and Rumberger of Arm
strong county.
Mysterious Suicide.
The following account of the suicide
of a Harrisburger at Baltimore is taken
from the Gazette of Thursday :
" About nine o'clock yesterday morn
ing the body of a white man was found
floating in Gwynn's falls by some boyB
who were playing on the Baltimore
county side at the end of Harman's
bridge. The body was identified as that
of David Wensner, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
aged 61. His hat and coat were found
lying on the shore, and in the former
was a letter addressed to Mary Brown,
Harrisburg, Pa., with the request writ
ten on the sealed envelope that it be
sent to her by the finder. Justice J.
Jackson, of Mount Winans, held an in
quest, resulting in a verdict of death by
premeditated suicide. The letter to Miss
Brown was forwarded to her by Justice
Jackson, who also notified the wife of
the deceased."
A Murder Mystery Unraveled.
In June, 1876, an Inoffensive old
man named Jacob Weller, living on the
notorious Walsh mountain in Breck
nock township, Laucaster county, was
killed In a mysterious manner. His
mangled remains weffc found in a deep
ravine, an inquest was held, and a ver
dict of violent death at the hands of
some person or persons unknown was
rendered. Four persons (one of them a
female relative of the deceased) were
arrested for the crime, but when the
date of their trial came, the Common
wealth abandoned the case for want of
evidence. A few days ago David Mo
Neal, a grandson of the murdered man,
returned to his home in the mountain
from the West, where he had been ever
since the tragedy. While visiting at a
residence in the vicinity he" met some
of the children of John Well"? (son of
the murdered man) and one of these, a
girl of about 8 years, looking squarely
at McNeal, said:
" I know who killed grandpa ; Skiles
(one of the parties previously accused),
shot grandpa out of the window while
he stood on the woodpile. He then
went out and put his foot on him, while
my pa took the ax and knocked hi m
on the head. They then dragged hi in
down through the meadow and the
blood ran out of IiIb head; my mother
and I saw them."
This story came to the ears of the
child's mother, who beat her unmerci
fully and threatened to kill her if she
repeated It ; but the neighborhood is
thoroughly aroused, and, It is believed,
the guilty parties will be brought to
ustlce.
Unsettled Real Estate.
About eleven o'clock on Wednesday
night, at Mill Hollow, a village near
Wllkesbarre, the ground began to sink,
and about three o'clock yesterday morn
ing some two acres of the gardens and
nurserles,belonging to the three families,
named Moigan, Williams and Welger,
went down about eight feet, cracking
the house and alarming the community
to such an extent as to drive all in the
vicinity from their homes. The ground
around the sunken pit for acres is
cracked, and it Is believed that the entire
surface of the land undermined must go
down, destroying many private, and
public buildings. The disaster was
owing to the fact that the vein of coal
worked is not protected by a rider of
rock and slate, and has been feared for
some time.
A Smart Mule.
Mules are said to be very dull of com
prehension and only pert in the per
verted sense of the term. Why, even
'mulish" is considered a synonym for
absurd obstinacy. There is one mule in
this town who has conclusively proved
that he is a good, smart mule. A few days
ago this bright specimen trotted up in
a limping way to Jeff Holbrook's black
smith shop and deliberately walked Into
the shop. He seemed to be very uneasy
and restless, exhibiting unmistakable
signs of pain. The men in the Bhop
were rather taken aback by the mule
who thus came to the shop unbridled
and loose. At last the mule lifted up
one of his legs and with aesture of his
head directed the attention of one of the
men to his foot. It was then discovered
that a nail had worked its way into
the flesh, evidently causing the ap
parent pain. The nail was then drawn
out and his muleship, much relieved,
trotted off. Columbia (Ga.) Times.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 27, 1879.
Those who have faith in the judgment
of Senator Blaine may now believe that
Maine is to give a Republican majority on
the 8th of September, for in a letter re
ceived here this morning he says so. If
any wish to entertain a different opinion
thoy can accept the statements of prom
inent Democrats and Greenbackers of tlio
State, all of whom claim that the majority
against the Republicans will be larger than
it was last year. "Your pay your money
and you take you: choioe."
From Ohio the reports are equally con
flicting. Evidently the result In Maine
will have a powerful effect in Ohio.
Two prominent journalists of this city,
Messrs. R. F. Baissean and L. D. Inger-
boII, have died this week. Mr. Ingorsoll
was the Washington correspondent for
many years for several western papers of
influence. Ho was the kindest of men
and enjoyed the warm friendship of nearly
all our public men.
Money due to Inmates of Government
" Soldiers' Homes" under the arrears of
pension act, will, by decision of the Attor
ney General made yesterday, be paid to
the soldiers and not to the managers of the
Homes. '
The patent granted yesterday to inven
tor Edison, ou Bome of his electrio light
machinery, was the fourteenth he has
taken out to protect himself in this Inven
tion. The building now being erected for the
use of the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing is fast approaching completion and will
make an imposing appearance. It is lo
cated on one of the Government lots west
of the Agricultural Department and near
ly on a line with that building. When
completed it will be a decided acquisition
to that part of the city.
Large additions have been made to the
collections in the various departments at
the Smithsonian Institute during the past
year, which, by the way, is one of the most
interesting as well aa instructive resorts at
the National Capital. The following re
port of the explorations under the auspices
of the Institute in the French West Iudia
Islands during the years 1877 and 1878 by
Frederick A. Ober, of Beverly, Mass, will
be issued the coming winter, and promises
to be an unusually attractive and interest
ing work.
The New Hampshire Veterans' Re-UDion
at he Weire near Lake Winnepasaukee,
was largely attended and one of the most
important events of the season and of
great, interest to all present. The New
Hampshire veterans were favored with the
presence of two older and distinguished
veteraus of the war, with Mexico as well
as of the east Major Gen, Joe Hooker
and Gen, Ward B. Burnett. These two
distinguished heroes were warmly greeted
and their presence on the occasion added
largely to the pleasure of the day.
Olive.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW So Intense was the heat at Oakland
and Valley Creek, Chester county, along
the Pennsylvania railroad, that the men
were obliged to quit work on last Friday
afternoon aweek.
tW" According to the dooision of the so
licitor of the International Postal Union
at lierue, merchants can send samples,
printed matter, and anything of the sort,
through the mails, by pre-paying the same
at letter-poBtage rates,
HyThe naphtha lamp used by a stove
polish peddler at Danlelsonvllle, Connecti
cut, to light his stand, exploded last week,
setting the clothes of three children, who
stood below, on fire. One of them, AY al
ter Bowman, is dead, and another named
Lucien is not expected to recover.
tW Mr. Kalloch is likely to recover and
will run for Mayor of San Francisco. It is
stated that the "Republican and Demo
cratic nominee. for mayor will be with
drawn, and Judge Blake will receive the
Joint nomination of both parties and the
support of all law and order citizens in
opposition to Kalloch and the sand lots."
EST Forty years ago a roan in Bucks
county purchased a now hat on the occa
sion of his wedding. He wore the tile
continuously until the other day when he
bought a new one of considerable style and
meandered home. His wife failed to reoog
nize him wheu he entered the house, and
taking him for a tramp whacked him un
mercifully over the head with a broomstick.
tT Charles Smith of Pennsylvania an
Itinerant vender of lottery tickets, was
arrested in Baltimore Tuesday and held
for action of the Grand Jury. A number
of Kentucky Lottery tickets were found on
his person and several parties were discov
ered to whom he had sold tickets. The
penalty is $1,000 flue or one year's impris
onment, or both in the discretion of the
Court.
St. Louis, August 27. Samuel II. Pem
berton and William Roberts, while return
ing from Gallatin, 111., to their homes near
Walpole, were waylaid yesterday and as
sassinated. Pemberton had beeu to Gal
latiu to take charge of a lawsuit,and while
there had a difficulty with parties inter
ested in the suit, but nothing serious oc
curred. The theory seems to be that the
persons with whom be had trouble commit
ted the murder.
C3? After a child's funeral at Milwaukee
the other day, the sextons had not filled
up the grave when a second funeral ar
rived. It waa also that of a child, but the
grave prepared for it was too short. The
men therefore deposited the second child in
the first grave, and when its friends were
gone, actually transported the coffins to
suit the size of the excavations. They
were detected, and compelled to remedy
the difllculty in a more decent way.
t3T" In the town of Hartford, Wiscon
sin, two. strangers, named Cook and
Owens, laid claim to the same wife,
Owens and the woman came there some
time ago together. Cook followed, and on
Saturday entered the house to get his wife
to return home. He was driven out and
beaten with stones and brickbats, where
upon he drew a revolver and shot Owens.
Cook was arrested, Owens is not expected
to recover.
t3f Mrs. Haley returning with her babe
from a picnlo near Altoona was suddenly
precipitated to the bottom of a pit shaft
falling eighty feet. Her screams brought
assistance, and she was found up to the
neck in mud, and the babe, which she had
dropped in her fall, was struggling in the
water a short distance away. Both were
quickly taken up, and although seriously
injured, will recover.
IW During the storm of last Saturday, at
about 3 P. M., the large barn of Eli Emig,
iu Hellam township, York oounty, was
struck by lightning and was destroyed
with all its contents threshing machine, a
large supply of hay, grain, etc. Mr. Emig'a
hands were employed at threshing at the
time, and so rapid was the destruction of
the large building that some of the live
Btock could not be got out of the way of
danger soon enough and was destroyed by
the flames.
(3 Here is a fact in connection with
Potter co., Pa., very little known, that it is
the highest land east of the Rocky Moun
tains and that there are located in one town
ship in that county three springs, the wa
ters of one of which forms the head of the
Allegheny river, and empties Into the Gulf
of Mexico; oit another, the head of the Gen
isee river, emptying luto the Gulf of St.
Lawrence; and of the third, the headwaters
of Pine Creek, which empties into the
West Branch of the Susquehanna, and
thence runs into the Cbesapeak Bay.
"3TA terriflo cyolone struck Orange,
Texas, Friday evening a week, the wind
rapidly increasing in velocity uutil seven
o'clock, when there was a short lull, and
the wind veered suddenly to the South,
blowing down fences, unroofing bouses, up
rooting trees and doing othor damage. -Nearly
all the saw mills were damaged,,
and several mllllod foet of lumber were
blown or floated away. The steamboat
Flora was sunk, and other steamers were
seriously damaged. Cars standing on the
track were blown off, and the railway con
struotlon camps were demolished, the
laborers being compelled to seek the open
prairie for safety.
tar The Eddyvllle, la., "Advertiser"
tells this bottle story : June 0, 1878, two
romantic young ladies of this place con
signed to the waves of the placid Des
Moines a bottle which oontained a request
for the flnder to write to them. One day
last week one of the ladies (the other one
has married and gone away) took out of '
the office here a letter, and upon opening
It found that two gentlemen whilo wander
ing along the beach near Quincy, 111., had
discovered the above bottlo almost buried
in the sand. They wrote after returning
home. There is a splendid opening hero
now for a bottle factory.
MEADViLLE,Pa., August 87. Last night
at 7 o'clock the turnkey discovered a pris
oner lowering himself from an aperture
in the wall of the jail by means of knotted
bed clothing. After a lively chase the
prisoner was overtaken, when it was found
that Ave others had escaped. They effected
their exit by removing a large stone from .
the wall, it apparently being accomplished
only after soveral hours work. No clue has
as yet been discovered as to their where
abouts. The escaped men are George
Warden, Charles Brosell, John Sheridan, .
R. II. Henderson and Frank Sherwood.
tW The Moscow journals relate an ex
traordinary esoape of a young Nihilist girl
named Gobieslawska, from the bands of
the police. The latter had discovered the
l.n.ID In L!,.I. .I,-
uuuno iu nuibu OUfJ was uulluetlilou, ami
were about to make the arrest, when, to -their
surprise, they saw a balloon rising
from the garden with the object of their
search and two men.' They rapidly disap
peared for some unknown destination,
Ipflvinir thn frnnrlArmna tram rliamnan-
. . n ...... n - h J
lately after them.
IS?" A remarkable meteorological phe
nomenon, in the shape of a water-spout, ..'
visited Mr. Nelson Suther's place, about
5 miles from Concord,N.H.,on Tuesday. It
struck in the thicket, and large trees as -well
as tho small ones were twisted off and
swept away from the spot, leaving tho
place perfectly barren. The houses lu the -neighborhood
shook from the effects of tho
waterspout as if there had been a severo -shock
of earthquake. Lightning also -struck
five or six times. In the immediate
vioinity.
Notice. On account of the Inclemen
cy of the weather, the O, U. A. M.
Basket Pic-Nic has been postponed un
til Saturday, the 6th day of Septem
ber, 1879, and will be held in Dromgold's -woods,
in Carroll twp., about half a
mile west of Lackey's School House.
Addresses by able speakers. Music by
band. All Councils in the county are -invited
to attend in regalia. Everybody ;
is invited.
John F. Stouffer, "
Jos. Hair,
G. W. Reeder,
T. J. Rineiiart,
Aug. 26, 1873. Committee. .
Town Property for Sale. A good J
house and lot located on North side of
West Main Street, this borough, will be
sold cheap. Call on or address Mrs
Ellen Miller, New Bloomfleld, Per. .
ry county, Pa. 31 1
How to Save Money, We are now lo
cated In our new store room in The
Times building, where we will gladly
welcome all our old customers, and as
many new ones as will favor us with a
.call. We are supplied with nearly an
entire new stock, and can offer some
bargains that cannot be had later in the
season,owing to a sharp advance in price -of
all kinds of goods. Those who pur
chase now will save money. You will '
find it to your advantage to give us a
call. F. Mortimer, New Bloomfleld,
Phoenix Pectoral will cure your Cough.
Phoenix Pectoral cures Hoarseness quickly.
Phoenix Pectoral tastes good and brings rest.
Phoenix Pectoral costs 25 cents prbot.,5 bottles il.
21y Bold by B. M. EBY, Druggist, Newport
WChew Jackson's Best Sweet Navv Tobacco.
Camphor Milk cures Headache and Neuralgia.
Camphor Milk cures Rheumatism and lame back. .
Camphor Milk will cure Cuts, Bruges and Burns.
Camphor Milk costs 25 cents pr bot., 5 bottles . t-,
12 ly Bold by F. MORTIMER. New Bloomfleld.
JHE ST. ELMO HOTEL,.
817 & 819 ARCH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
has reduced the rates to
The high reputation of the homo will be main- -tallied
lu all respects, and the traveling public
will still tliid the same liberal provision lor their '
comfort.
The house been recently refitted, and Is com
plete in all Its appointments. Located In the Im
mediate vlciuity of the large centres of business
and ol places or a muse me ut, and accessible to all
Railroad dejiots and other pans of Hie City by
Kueet cars constantly passing its doers. It olleis
special inducements to those visiting the City ou.
business or pleasure,
JOS. M. FEtiEK, Proprietor.