THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELI), PA. JUNE 15, 1880.
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mw Bloomfield, June lit, 1880.
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Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa,
had the honor to receive the nomina
tion for President on the Greenback
ticket, In the Convention held by thut
party last week. Gen. Chambers of
T exas was named for Vice President.
The Republican National Conven
tion after a seven day's fight succeeded
in making a nomination on the 80th
ballot. The candidate for President is
General James A. Garfield, of Ohio. The
vote on the ballot that nominated, was
Blaine, 42 ; Sherman, 8 ; Washburne, 6;
Garfield, 399 ; Grant, 300. The first bal
lot had by the Convention we give be
low, showing not only the vote each
candidate bad, but from what states bis
supporters came.
STATES.
0 W 2 M -J
g E. S B o S
f S f ?
1 s- p s
: : 1 : 5
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Alabama 18 1 8
Arkansas 13
California Vi
Colorado 6
Connecticut 3 ... 2 ... 7
Delaware 6
Florida 8
Georgia 6 8 8
Illinois 24 10 8
Indiana 1 28 3 1
Iowa 23 ... ...
Kansas 4 6
Kentucky 20 1 8
Louisiana 8 2 6
Maine 14
Maryland 7 7 8
Massachusetts 3 2 20 ... 1
Michigan 1 21
Minnesota ; 10 ...
Mississippi 6 4 6
Missouri 29 1
Nebraska 6
Nevada 6' ...
New Hampshire 10
New Jersey 16 2
New York 61 17 2
North Caaolina 6 ... 14
Ohio 9 84 1
Oregan 6
Pennsylvania 82 23 3 ...
Rhode Island 8
Bonth Carolina 13 ... 1
Tennessee 10 6 1 1
Texas. 11 2 2 1
Vermont 10
Virginia 18 3 1 ...
West Virginia 1 8
Wisconsin 17 3 9
Arizona 2
Dakota 1 l
DiBtrlct of Columbia.. 1 1
Idaho 2
Montana 2
New Mexico 2 ....
Utah 1 1
Washington 1 1
Wyoming 1 1
Grand total 304 284 03 84 10 30
Whole number of votes, 756 j necessary to a
choice, 879.
It will be noticed that the nomination
was made without the 307 votes which
had been cast for Grant. The final bal
lot is thus described by a correspondent
of The Times:
Finally, at about 1 o'clock, the call for
the thirty-sixth ballot began. Connecti
cut was the first (State to break for Gar
field, Alabama, Arkansas, California
and Colorado having stood by their
former votes. Connecticut gave Gar
field 11 ; Georgia followed with 1 for
him, Illinois with 7, her first break, and
Indiana increased her 27 of the proceed
ing ballot to 29. Iowa gave him her 22
solid. It was her first break from Blaine
and she broke entirely. Kansas next
threw over the 6 she had given Blaine
from the start to Garfield. Kentucky
followed with the 3 Sherman had held
from the start and Louisiana with 8
which Blaine and Sherman had shared
before.
So far, with few exceptions, Blaine,
Sherman, Edmunds and Washburne
had all gone to Garfield. Maine then
gave up the contest by casting for him
also her 14 votes. It was some time after
Mr. Hales's announcement to this effect
that the call could.be resumed, for the
excitement over it was intense. Sena
tor Conkling gave a derisive laugh and,
turning to his colleagues, exclaimed :
' Now we've got them I"
Then he went over to labor with Vir
ginia, and exclaimed to her delegation :
" Stand by Grant we shall certainly
nominate him on the next ballot I"
Massachusetts threw 10 votes for Gar
field, and Mr. Boutwell's head went
down into his coat -collar. At Mary
land's announcement of 6 for Grant and
10 for Garfield, Mr. Creswell disputed
the report and a poll was taken which
gave him the satisfaction of showing
that he was still true to Grant. So the
call went on, interrupted frequently
i with applause and shouting, the Blaine
ana onerman lorces uniting on uarneld.
In New Jersey it was 18 solid for him ;
in New York, 20 for him against 60 for
Grant, and in Ohio 43 out of 44 for Gar
field There was a long and noisy dem
embration after the Ohio announce
ment's there wag also when Vermont's
Edmunds force fell into line for Garfield.
Mr. Grier was joined by 20 other belated
but enthusiastic l'ennsylvanlana in this
ballot, and Wisconsin increased her 10
to 18. That gave Garfield 872 votes and
Grant 305.
The vote that were to follow making
Garfield's nomination certain, Wlscon.
sin's announcement became the occa
sion for a triumphant demonstration.
Everything preceding It In the way of
enthusiasm was belittled into compara
tive insignificance. After the demon
stration had been going on a while the
band struck up " Rally round the fine"
and the audience sang it. The only,
delegates who did not give themselves
up to the occasion were Conkling and
his forty-nine followers. From the be
ginning to the end they kept their seats,
glum and long-faced, In striking con
trast with their surrouudlngs.
The call having been resumed after
about twenty minutes of confusion,
Garfield received 27 more votes, making
899, 20 more than was necessary for a
choice, and Grant 1 more, making 800.
The vote was then reported by the clerk
by States that the record might be cor
rect, and Mr. Hoar declared Mr. Gar
field the nominee. His declaration of
the result brought out another demon
stration similar to the one after the
Wisconsin amendment, in which the
whistles of the steamboats at the lake
piers and a half dozen locomotives out
side, as well as the battery Joined.
Mr. Garfield all this time kept his seat
with the Ohio delegation, where his
friends crowded around him with their
congratulations, which he received with
rare modesty. There was really no
order after that, although Mr. Conkling
tried to make a speech congratulating
the convention on its harmony and its
choice.
The flrst break for Garfield was made
by Wisconsin on the 85th ballot, when
Gen. Garfield rose and stated he was not
a candidate, but his protest was disre
garded, as Is seen by the result of the
final ballot. In 1801 Garfield entered
the army as Colonel of the 42nd Ohio
Volunteers. On January 10, 1802, he
was promoted to a Major-Generalship.
He was elected to the Thirty-eighth
Congress, and to each succeeding Con
gress up to the present time. A few
weeks since he was elected United
States Senator to succeed Thurman
whose term expires the 4th of next
March.
For Vice President General Arthur of
New York was nominated. This was
done to conciliate the Conklln faction,
and to secure the vote of New York
next fall.
Another Western Blow.
Mankato, June 8. A severe rain
storm that raged over Southern Minne
sota on three consecutive days, culmin
ated on Saturday morning in a terrific
hurricane. Total destruction resulted to
everything in Its path. Over a hundred
houses were unroofed. ChuTches, rail
road bridges, telegraph wires, trees and
all kinds of movable property are seat
in every direction. The hurricane was
followed by a heavy rain, which aug
mented the terrible damage sustained to
buildings and stock. The rain poured
in torrents through unroofed buildings
and over unprotected mercantile goods.
Theestimated damage will be about $100
000. The sidewalks in many places were
taken up bodily and carried across the
streets. Shade trees of which there are
thousands, are torn to pieces. Several
houses occupied as dwellings, were
blown down over the heads of the fami
lies, but strange to say no one was seri
ously injured. The destruction of tim
ber in the forest is unprecedented, acres
of the best wood in the vicinity are lev
elled to the ground and the trees torn
and twisted in every conceivable way.
The growing crops, as far as reports
have been received, are not badly dam
aged. The school house in Lime town
ship was blown down. All the wire
connections with Chicago and the East
were interruped until late last night.
The railroads centering at this place are
all heavy sufferers. Bridges, in as yet
unknown numbers, were carried away
and the road bed in numerous places
badly washed. The first train over the
Northwestern railroad eince Saturday
morning arrived here to-night at Lake
Crystal. The storm took away about
two-thirds of the grain elevator.
Tremendous Conflagration Caused by Light
ning. BitADFORD,Pa., June 11. This morn
ing at seven o'clock lightning struck a
20,000-barrel iron tank of oil of the Tidi
oute Pipe Company, located on an emi
nence above Titusville. The oil imme
diately took fire, and later the fire com
municated to another tank of the same
size, owned by the same company. At
one o'clock the burning oil overflowed
and ran down the hillside, consuming
everything in its course. The Octave
refinery and Acme Oil Works, one of
the largest refineries in the world, is
now burning. The oil ran Into Oil creek
and threatened destruction to a large
amount of property In this city. Per
sons residing in the neighborhood have
left their household goods and gone to
places of safety. At seven o'clock the
buildings along both sides of Breed
street were burning and about 100,000
barrels of ojl. There is great excitement
in the city, but the business portion at
this time is believed to be safe, being
mostly composed of briek buildings.
10 o'clock. Another iron tank has
burst and set fire to the Franklin-strect
bridge. The Octave Refinery, on the
north side Is now in flames, which are
spreading rapidly.
MORE TROUBLE FOR FARMER3.
The Army Worm.
The army worm that has appeared
this year Is about an inch long, and a
slate color, and looks like a durk grub of
the caterpillar species. Its back Is cov
ered with a rough fur, or coating of
bristly hair, which protects it to a great
extent from the wild birds, though the
hard-throated hens eat it up with a
relish. Its eyes are plainly visible, and
from its head project feelers. The fore
port of the body is furnished with un
numbered legs, while the hind part lies
fiat on the ground. Its motion is some
thing between a walk and a crawl, and
it gets over the ground at an astonishing
rate. Its appetite seems never to be sat
isfied. Unlike the potato bug, they care
nothing for the succulent root on which
the latter feeds, and confine their rav
ages to grass, timothy, wheat and corn.
The tomato does not tempt them, nor
do they Beem to relish the grain of the
corn. Were the season a little further
advanced this crop would be safe from
them, but, unfortunately, the harvest is
late this year, and they devour the
young leaves ravenously. Even the
full-grown bearded corn is attacked, but
the grain beneath is seldom touched.
NO DEFENSE AGAINST THEIIl RAVAGES.
In fighting the army worm with Paris
green the poison was used in the way
that had proved most successful to the
potato bug mixed with earth plaster
and thrown over the Invaders ; but the
hair on the creatures' backs received the
mixture, which was too consistent to
penetrate, and the worms shook it off
and Buffered no injury. The Tarla
green mixed with water was tried, and,
so far as primary intention was con
cerned, it was successful. It killed the
army worm but it also destroyed the
crops as surely as the grub itself could
have done, so it was abandoned, and the
farmers fell back ou trenches, coal tar
and fire. This fire is applied by simply
setting a match to the dry grass around
the fields, and it tnay or may not (for
the result is doubtful) kill those worms
that come beneath its Immediate influ
ence; but the mere destruction of a
certain number of the grubs in a given
spot is like an attempt to drain the
ocean with a tea-cup, and Is attributable
rather to a not unnatural desire on the
part of the farmer for revenge than to a
reasonable attempt to stay the plague.
THE TESTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY.
Lancaster, June 11. Farmers In
this county report that the army worm,
cut worm, Colorado beetle, grasshopper,
and all the other pests have made their
appearance and are committing fearful
ravages in the different crops. Mr. L.
Landls, of Catfish twp., says that on
Monday a horde of army worms attack
ed his cornfield, destroyed every vestage
of the growing crop before Tuesday
morning, and then attacked his wheat
field.
CHESTER INVADED nY THE TESTS.
West Chester, June 11. Worms
varying In length from one inch to one
and a quarter inches, have made their
' appearance in Londongrove twp., this
county. Tbey are supposed to be of the
specie of army worms that are now
devastating the farms of Long Island.
A Sad Suloide.
Philadelphia, June 11. Annie
Coppen, aged seventeen years, commit
ted suicide by cutting her throat with a
razor. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon
Annie went to the third story of the
house, and an hour later, not making
her appearance at the supper table, a
young child was sent to call her. On
the latter entering the bed room occu
pied by Annie, she found the latter
lying on the floor in a pool of blood,
with her throat cut in several places
and a razor grasped in her right hand.
The child called for assistance, and every
effort was made to save the girl's life,
but she expired in about five minutes
It now appears that Annie had been
criminally intimate with a man named
Conden, who is about thirty-five years
old, and has a wife and three children.
He was arrested late yesterday after
noon and has been held in $1,500 bail.
Weather Reports.
It has been a quite general belief that
extremely cold winters exert a powerful
effect in reducing the numbers of insects
but observations during the last two
years, show that cold produces little or
no result as an insect destroyer.
During last winter, whenever a zone
of high barometric pressure covered
France, it was found to be warmer at
the mountain station of the Puy-de-Dome
observatory than at the Clermont
station, which is 8,500 feet lower. This
remarkable fact is attracting much at
tention from meteorologists.
Recent discoveries have shown that
the aclent Chaldeans and Babylonians
attributed changes In the weather to lu
nar influence, and kept up a system of
regular observations of the moon for
practical purposes.
Beheaded In a Railroad Car.
Martin Gregory, an express agent, of
Elmlra, met with a horrible death on
Tuesday night of last week, while on
his way to Jersey City in a train of the
New Yorkf .Lake Erie and Western
Railroad. As the train was dashing
through the tunnel at Jersey City, Gre
gory leaned out of a window. His head
struck against a post at the side of the
track,and was almost completely knock
ed off. Ills body fell back upon the seat
of the car. The passengers, terrified at
the ghastly spectacle, were seized with a
panic, and it was not until the train
had emerged from the tunnel that they
recovered from their fright. Gregory
was 29 years of age. He leaves a wife
and family In Elmlra.
Many Dollars.
On Monday last it was announced
that one million silver dollars are to be
coined at the mint during the present
month. To accomplish this, it will be
necessary for the entire force .to work
until 10 o'clock each evening. The sil
ver coins now lying in the vaults of the
mint weigh about 32 tons, and in con
nection with the gold on hand, the total
value is $24,201,003.00. The order for
many dollars In gold $2.50, and $5 pieces
is now about two-thirds filled, and the
remaining ten millions will be coined
when the order for the one million silver
dollars Is filled.
A Serious Railroad Accident.
The sleeping cars attached to fast line
east, Thursday morning met with a se
rious accident while running over the
Pan Handle road. A freight train was
backing on a siding when the engine of
the passenger train ran into it. The
passenger engine was rolled down the
bank and the front mashed out of the
postal car. Both the engineer and fire
man were injured, the former probably
fatally, None of the passenger cars left
the track.
Curious Hanging Accident.
Albert Hager who lives several miles
from Salem, Indiana, went into his
stable loft to sleep off his potions. He
slipped off the hay and down through a
lot of harness hanging on the walls of
the stable, one of the lines noosing itself
around his neck and hanging him. He
would have died In this condition but
for the fortunate arrival of a neighbor
at the barn, who cut him down.
Garfield Congratulated.
Toledo, June 9. Garfield arrived
here this evening and was met at the
depot by a large crowd. A committee
of republicans waited upon him to ex
press their congratulations. After a
speech from Governor Foster, Garfield
expressed hia thanks for the reception.
All along the route crowds with flags,
cannon, bands, &c, greeted him.
Tricks of a Tornado.
Lima, O., June 0. During a terrific
wind-storm that prevailed to-day in this
part of the state, a church near Mount
Corey, Hancock county, was complete
ly wrecked. The roof falling on the
congregation, twenty people were more
or less injured, three of them fatally.
O" Lightning struck a wagon load of
people near Neola, Iowa, the other
evening, completely tearing John
Lynch's hat rim from the crown,
thence passing down his neck, severing
his clothes into Innumerable pieces.
The bolt followed his back, burning it
and passing off his hips into the buggy
seat which Mr. Lynch and Miss John
son were occupying, One horse was
instantly killed, and, strange to say, no
other occupant of the buggy was in
jured. Miscellaneous News Items.
Washington, June 10. Curtin and Yo
cum will each get from $8,000 to $10,000
for expenses in their contest, if the report
of the election committee, to be made to
that effect, is sustained by the House.
Dortmund, June 10. There have been
seventy.one oorpses found io the coal mine
where the fire-damp explosion occurred.
Yesterday a number of miners wore severe
ly injured.
Philadelphia, June 10. John Buchan
an, arrested for using the mails in connec
tion with the sale of fraudulent medical'
diplomas, was to-duy committed in default
of $10,000 bail.
tW Ah Foo Woo is a Boston Chinaman.
II is name sounds like the shivering of a
woman when she gets out of bed on a
winter morning and steps ber bare feet on
the oilcloth.
t3T" A solentlst informs us that " the
skulls of the African negroes are dolichocephalic-,
mesocepalio, pronathous,
pirtyahine and mesosome." No wonder
the West Point offloers think Whittaker
clubbed himself.
C3J A dispatch from Petersburg, Vs.,
says: " The crops in this neighborhood
are suffering for the want of rain, and the
streams have fallen so loir that some mills
have been stopped."
tST J. Renwlok, a Grand Trunk Rail
way engineer, who lives at Fort Gratiot,
Mich., ran Baldwin loo omotlve 200,075
miles without having it off Us wheels.
The makers have made him a present of a
dock worth $150.
tW Salutes were fired at the following
places in New York Bate in honor of Gen
eral Garfield's nomination: Albany, Sar.
atoga, Auburn, Canandalgua and Hudson.
The nomluatlon gives general satisfac
tion. tW People up at Newburyport, Mass.,
are fond of saying money. A resident of
that town has a season ticket to and from
Boston, aud during a recent trip to the
Hub bought a bedstead, but to save freight
charges on it, took it to pieces, and carried
home one piece at a time in the passenger
car.
Washington, D. C, June 10. Among
the nominations sent to the Senate to-day
were John F. Hartranft, Collootor of Cus
toms for the district of Philadelphia, and
Lewis Thompson, Collector of Custom for
the district of Delaware.
New York, June 10. John Glmpel, a
German fresco painter, No. 19 Delancey
street, beat his wife this morning until he
thought her dead. He then threw her out
upon the stairs, bolted the bed-room door,
set the house on fire and cut his throat
from ear to ear. The firemen found him
on the bed enveloped in flames and dragged
him into the street, where he died. The
woman's skull is fractured and death is ex
pected. Cause jealousy.
LACES! LACES! LACES!
Just received,
SOME PRETTY STYLES
ntiACK 1WENCII LACE,
I,A101ED0C POINT LACE,
and other Styles of Lanes
and Embroideries.
F. Mortimer,
New Bloomfield, Pa.
The TIctor or Blue Peerless Potatoes
so much used for planting can be had
at Jones Brothers & Co., Newport,
Pa. 22 4t
Still Alive I I am still alive and ready
to cut and fit suits in good style. If
wanting any work in my line, give me
a call. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Samuel Bentzel,
TAILOR,
April 0, '80.tf pew Bloomfield, Pa.
tETPhysIclans freely prescribe the new Food
Medicine, "Malt Bitters," because more nour
ishing, strengthening, and purifying than all
other forms of malt or medicine, while free
from the objections nrged against malt liquors.
24d4w.
Fanoy Brown Spreads. Very Hand
some, at $1.00 cents each.
' F. Mortimer,
New Bloomfield, Pa.
A False Report. It having been re
ported by Interested parties that I have
retired from the Marble business, I take
this method to inform my friends and
the publlo generally, that the report is
false, and that I am prepared to manufac
ture from American or Italian Marble,
Tomb Stones of every description, at
low rates.
tW My Shop is situate in Centre twp.,
two miles East of Bloomfield, on the
road leading to Duucannon. Call, or
address Daniel G. Fickes, New
Bloomfield, Perry Co., Pa. 15 3n
New Millinery and Fancy Store.
We would respectfully inform our
friends and the public generally, that we
have opened a
MILLINERY AND FANCY STORE,
on Main St., two doors East of Spons
or's Law Office, and that we will keep
constantly on hand, all the latent styles
of goods in our line, and at prices to suit
all persons. Our Goods are all NEW
just received from New York, Phila
delphia' and Baltimore. Call and see our
fine stock SPRING BONNETS AND
HATS before purchasing elsewhere.
We will also keep on hand many spe
cialties In Staple and Fancy Notions, all
of which we will sell at the lowest Cash.
prices. H. V. Lane & Sisters. 22
Onondaga Plaster. This is Bluo
Plaster and by analysis is shown to be
nearly 10 per cent, purer than any other
in use. lor sale by Jones Brothers
& Co., Newport, Fa.
Also, White or Nova Scotia Plas
ter on hand. 22 4m
Ladles Will bs Pleased to look over the
pretty assortment of Lawns now shown
by F. Mortimer. It is the greatest va
riety ever brought to this county.
Other Summer Dress Goods too, are
worthy the attention of the ladies. Call
and see them. tf
To know as much as possible about a
horse is the duty of every one who owns
one of these noble animals. Kendall's
Horse Book will give very full informa
tion. Mailed on receipt of 25 cents
Address, Times, New Bloomfield, Pa.
White Bed Spreads. An assortment
varying In price from $1.00 to $4.00 at
Mortimer's.
Prime Wheat and Corn wanted at the
Newport Mills. Price according to the
quality of the grain.
Milton B. Esiileman;
19. Newport, Pa.
Dress-Making, Plain and Fancy Needle
Work executed in the best style, by 1I
y. Lane & Sisters, New Bloomfield.