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THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFiELD, PA. NOVEMHEll 10, 1880.
THE TIMES.
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The Circulation of The Times now
exceeds Two Thousand Copies each week.
Our mailing Hut Is always open for the
inspection of advertisers.
The Presidential electors will meet at
their several State capitals and cast their
votes for Treeldentand Vice Tresiden ton
the first Wednesday in December. Con
gress is directed by law to open and
count these votes on the second Wedaes
day in February, and declare the result.
Tile value of one vote is made mani
fest in several instances in the late elec
. tion. In Montgomery county the ma
jority for Garfield Is 1, aud the Demo
cratic candidate for Treasurer Is elected
by 1. In JSew Jersey, a Democratic
member of the Legislature is elected by
1. There are doubtless other cases In
the country proving the importance of
one vote.
When you go to Europe and travel
three months, Europe poorer man when
you come home. (After reading the
foregoing terrible pun, you may be unde
cided whether to Liverpool your issues
and die.) Norrlstown Herald; No
wonder you feel all London after mak
ing such an effort. Rome Sentinel.
Vienna one .could made a better pun
than that. Camden Journal. Genoa of
any one who can ItHome Sentinel.
Taunton him are you V
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APenn'a. dltor Captures a Hoosler Lady.
A dispatch to the Chicago Inter-Ocean
dated Fort Wayne, Ind., November 4th,
says : " The wedding of J. P. Wicker
sham, Esq., one of the proprietors of
the Lancaster Ltquirer, of Lancaster,
Pa., and Miss Jessie Hough, of this city
daughter of the late John Hough, took
place at the First Presbyterian church
this evening. Theaflair was a society
evenb-and largely attended by the elite
of the city. A reception will be held at
the residence of the bride.
Interesting Legal Point.
This week's issue of the Eldora, Iowa,
Ledger says : A case of interest to grain
buyers and counties in this State was
heard before the Federal Court last week.
A large amount of corn had been bought
for shipment and placed in the cribs at
Dennlson, on the Chicago and North
western railroad. It remained in the
crib two years, and, with the advice of
the State Auditor, the assessor was di
rected to assess it for taxation. The tax
amounted to $550, which the owner did
not pay, and a levy was made by the
sheriff on the corn, when the owner
paid the tax under protest. He then
brought an action in the Federal courts,
being a non-resident, to recover the
amount of tax paid, and set up that the
corn was in transit, and therefore not
taxable.. As the State Is directly inter
ested in the matter, the Attorney Gen
eral appeared as counsel for defense.
Should the county gain the case, there
will be a lively hustling of old corn
from this State. There are millions of
bushels two years old now in the State.
A Terrible Aecldent.
Lancaster, November 11. During a
republican celebration last night at Safe
Harbor, twelve miles from this city, a
three-pound wrought Iron Griffin gun,
exploded with disastrous effects. Joseph
Taylor was wounded so badly that he
died In a few minutes, and John Au
ruend died before morning. Mrs. Thom
as Crow had a leg broken, Mr. Ellmier
was seriously hurt and Ellas Funk had
his right leg broken. Funk was firing
the cannon and a charge failed to ex
plode. He reloaded the piece; which re
sulted in the explosion.
- The force of the explosion was terrific,
. and pieces were sent flying in all direc
tions. One about three feet long was
carried to where the spectators were
' standing, about thirty feet away, and
struck Joseph Taylor and John Aument
across the forehead just as they were in
the act of lighting their cigars, and
crushed their skulls. The same piece
struck Mrs. Charles Grow on the leg,
. breaking it, and also slightly wounded
a lady named Mrs. Ellmlre. Mr. Ellas
Funk, who was cIobb to the cannon at
the time of the explosion, had his right
leg so badly crushed at the knee that
amputation was found to be necessary,
and the member was accordingly taken
off about midway between the knee and
hip.
Mr. Taylor lived only a few moments
after being struck. He was aged about
forty years, and leaves a wife and two
children. John Aument, aged about
thirty years, lingered until about 1:30
o'clock this morning, when death re
lieved him of his sufferings.
Mr. Funk, whose leg was amputated,
is married, and the father of four chil
dren, while Mrs. Grow, who will be laid
up for a long time with a broken limb,
is the mother of seven children.
A Clown's Exploit.
Tony Denier, the well-known clown
and manager, has been distinguishing
himself as a hero. A few days ago a
fire occurred in the hotel at Winona,
Minnesota, where he and his company
were. One of the ladles of the company
has a young baby. She started out of
her room In terror and fell. Mr. Denier
who stepped from his room into the hall
saw her and carried Iter down stairs.
She revived from the swoon on reaching
the outer air, and began screaming for
her child. Mr. Denier turned back into
the building through dense smoke, and
explored his way to the lady's room.
He took the child and started down
stairs, but was driven back by the
flames. He ran to the window, shouted
to those below to " look out," and turn
ed a forward somersault from the win
dow ledge. Happily he landed on his
feet and escaped iDjury, his experience
as a clown proving valuable. The child
was given to its mother, and then the
people swarmed about Tony, several
men lifting him Upon their shoulders,
and he was borne to a saloon, where
wine was liberally, poured out in his
honor. The company lost nothing, and
modest Tony gained considerable.
Eight Men Meet a Horrible Death.
LSiiadford, Ta., November 11. A
number of men were gathered at their
boarding house at Brown's saw mill,
Bordill City, last night. The fire being
low In the stove, one of the men took a
cup of oil from a bucket and threw it on
the coals. The oil remaining in the cup
catching fire and burning his hand, he
threw it away and it fell into a bucket
nearly full of oil. An explosion instant
ly ensued and the burning fluid was
scattered through all the room, delug
ing the clothes of the men with flam
ing oil. They ran out the doors covered
with a sheet of fire and writhed on the
ground in their agony. Meanwhile the
house burned rapidly to the ground and
in the embers were found the charred
bodies of four men who had gone up
stairs. Their names were Elliott, Brown,
Healy and Hisde. Of those who were
down stairs Joe Dannock, Henry Mon
roe, Frank Welsh and another man,
name unknown, are dead. Another vic
tim is not expected to recover.
Why He Joined the Methodists.
The bridegroom of a Waukegan wed
ding was a Baptist and the bride a Meth
odist. They had agreed that, immedi
ately after the ceremony, they would de
cide by chance which should embrace
the other's religion. The officiating
clergyman declined to toss up a cent,
partly because be would not countenance
such a proceeding, and partly because,
being a Methodist, he might be accused
of fraud if the bride won. The bride
herself finally threw the coin, and lost.
When she went to join the Baptist how
ever, they rejected her because she did
not believe in close communion. That
displeased the husband, and he went
over with her to the Methodists.
A Town Demolished.
A cyclone passed over Keachle Thurs
day evening at four o'clock, literally de
molishing the town, including the Bap
tist Church and Baptist Female College,
killing Professor Reynolds, who had arri
ved the day before from Mississippi, and
badly wounding and breaking the leg
of the Rev. Mr. Tucker,prlncipal of the
college, also breaking the leg and Bhoul
der of his son Bush, and wounding Mrs.
Annie Thomas badly.- Several others
received painful but not dangerous inju
ries. The residences and outbuildings of
Hon. Sidney E. Hall, Jasper McMillan
and Mrs. Thomas, and the Baptist
Church were blown entirely away.
A Much Married Man.
A sensation was created in Philadel
phia by the discovery that Mary Ann
Connor, who died six weeks after her
muriage and just after making her will
leaving all her properly, about f 0,000, to
her husband, Michael Connor, was the
seventh wife of the man, his sixth wife
having died within a few months of his
marriage to the woman who expired
last week. It Is alleged that he treated
his wife with brutality, and immediate
ly after death her face turned light blue
and her body became swollen.
Burled Alive.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Mary Mayer, of
402 First street, Jersey City, died of
typhoid fever and was burled. The body
appeared life-like, and the cheeks after
death were highly colored. This preyed
upon the mind of a daughter of the
deceased to such a degree Hint she
caused the remains to be exhumed. It
was then discovered that . the woman
had turned on her fitce.ln the coffin, and
that in her struggles she had torn one
ear almost off.
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Fatal Gunning Aooldcnt.
John Koons, aged 22 years, a son of
Christian Koons, mason, of Tremont,
while out gunning with several of his
companions on Tuesday morning of last
week, accidentally shot himself, which
proved fatal almost Instantly. The
body was found lying between a log and
a large stone, on the Sharp mountain, a
short distance below Tremont, on the
Pinegrove road. The position he was
found in indicated that he fell from the
log. The contents of the gun entered
his left temple. His remains were in
terred on Thurdny afternoon. Lebanon
Courier.
A Joker Joked.
A Harisburg man was caught by the
tricky offer of a wager that one city in
the United States of over a hundred
thousand Inhabitants would not give
five hundred votes for Hancock. The
stake was a supper for a ward campaign
club of the winner. The city named
was Washington, where there Is no
voting for President at all. 1 The victim
Bald nothing, except to name the time
and place for the supper. On that occa
sion the viands looked all right and
were Just such as the written terms of
the bet called for ; but were found to be
seasoned with snuff and other unpalata
ble substances.
Very Pointed.
At a County Court held in the county
of Durham, England, the other day, the
learned Judge denounced the defendant
in a case as a " d d fool and ill-conditioned
vagabond.'' This strong de
scription seems fully justified by the ev
idence ; but such language is scarcely
Indicative of a mind of judicial Berenity.
Halifax, N. S., November 12.
About 0.30 this morning an explosion of
gas occurred on the south side of Ford
Pit at Stellarton. All the miners were
at work in different bands. The explo
sion was so terrible as to sweep quite
across to the other side of the pit, kill
ing men and horses within reach. Al
most all the men on the north side will
be saved, while all at work on the south
side have been lost.
At least sixty are missing. Full par
ticulars are not yet known. Five men
have been brought up and are likely to
recover. Probably forty are shut up
with the fallen coal on the south side.
The accident, it is presumed, was caused
by some miner firing a shot in the for
bidden part of the workings.
tA Washington city physician and
photographer tried to frighten a widow
into paying them $200 by charging that
she had poisoned her husband. The
plucky widow didn't scare worth a cent
But she placed their letter in the hands
of the police, and now the writers are
scared.
Miscellaneous News Items.
C3TA " cave in" of the surface of the
earth occurred on Friday at Sevastopol,
near Pittston, Pa., destroying several thou
sand dollars worth of property. A num
ber of dwellings were abandoned and
mining in the vicinity was suspended.
The earth settled about six feet.
New York, November 10. At an early
hour this morning Charles Miles, resid
ing on Clifton place, Jersey City Heights,
brought to the Fourth precinct police sta.
tion a male child about two months old,
which he had found on his doorstep.
C3?A Battlett pear tree on the premises
of Mr. Chester Kepner, Pottstown, bas
now upon it a second crop of fruit, the
pears being about the size of walnuts.
The first crop ripened and was taken off
in August, and at that time the tree was in
bloom for the second bearing.
tSTAt the Stirling colliery, Northum
berland county last week, a boy named
Swoibentz was thrown from a mule and
the mule then stepped on the boy's face,
cutting it badly. The mule had been bit
ten by a dog aud this seems to bave pro
voked the mule and caused It to aot in the
way it did.
tWA. valuble heifer belonging to a far
mer near Northallerton recently broke its
leg and it had to be amputated. The animal
has since been fitted with a wooden leg,
on which it moves with the utmost ease,
which proves the absurdity of hastily or
dering the destruction of animals that
meet with suoh accidents.
C3TA young and prepossessing woman,
neatly attired in black.at 10 o'clock Tuesday
night banded her infant, soarcely a month
old, to a little girl at the corner of Bergen
street and South Orange avenue, Newark,
with instructions to mind the little one
while she entered a store. She did not re
turn, and the infant was sent to the police
headquarters.
IWPartofa graveyard at Morehond,
Ky., was dostroyed in bul ldlug a railroad,
and Indignant ghosts from the disturbed
coffins have taken posesslon of the station
house which stands on the spot. Bo say
the ticket agent and other employees, at
least, tbey have proved their sincerity by
resigning their positions.
t3r"01d Uetz," an old Indian squaw of
the Hioux or Dakota nation, died in Men-
dota rooently. Old Betas Is said, to be 110
years old. .Sue was married to an officer
of the army, by whom she had three chil
dren, and afterward to an Indian of the
Chippewa tilbo, who was a cousin of Flrst-
IIole-in-the-Day. She was well known by
the early settlers of Minnesota.
tSTPolloeman Egolf of Philadelphia is
usually accompanied on his rounds by a big
hound. Egolf went into a house to arrest
a man who was whipping his wife, and was
set upon by a number of roughs, knocked
down, kicked, and dragged about. Then
the dog went into the fight, and enabled
his master to win. But it was a hard
struggle. The officer's skull was fractured
and the dog had three ribs brokou.
ty Matthews of Mowryville, Iowa, rises
early every morning and rings a big boll at
S o'clock to awaken his workmen. Pinney
who lives close by, likes to sleep late, and he
begged Matthews in vain not to sound the
bell. Ho never goes to bed till 12 o'clock ,and
now at midnight he fires a cannon to dis
turb the slumber of Matthews. Between the
midnight gun and the 5 o'oclock bell, the
inhabitauts of Mowryville curse both Pin
ney and Matthews.
ISrin Stokes County, N. C.j four white
mon started to a circus in a wagon driven
by a negro. The negro was a Republican,
and they concluded to proselyte him to the
Democraoy, in which tbey wore soon suc
cessful, especially after giving him a circus
ticket. On the road home he declared
that he couldn't keep his new-born faith
unless he was baptised, and upon the ar
rival of the party at the Dan River Rob
ert Mitchell, one of the white men, delib
erately got out into the water and immers
ed the new convert in the name of Han
cock and the regenerated Democracy.
Jacksonville, Fla., November 10.
The train from Madison Court House hav
ing aboard five citizens of that county in
charge of the deputy U. B. marshal,
arrested for alleged violation of the elec
tion laws was boarded on Tuesday night as
It was leaving Madison by a party of mask
ed men who released the prisoners and
mad a the witnesses disembark. The train
was then permitted to proceed. No injury
was sustained by any person.
The persons so released, surrendered
again the next day and declared they did
not know who their resouors were
Buffalo, N. Y., November 10. Rus
sell Dart, a prominent citizen, shot (proba
bly fatally) Emil Seifert, a music teacher
and violinist, this morning. Seifert made
love to Mr. Dart's daughter, while acting
as her teacher, and had been forbidden
the house. Yesterday he visited the house,
and producing a carving knife threatened
to kill any one who prevented him from see
ing Miss Dart. lie was ejected and promis
ed not to return. At 7 o'clock this morn
ing he returned and was shot by Mr. Dart'
who was arrested and asserted that he act
ed In self-defense.
Skimming a Fortune.
Last August Hugh Potts was out of
work. He leased a plot of ground pear
Tarport. The Tuna creek runs through
it. Potts put a boom across the creek.
He bad a large tin boat pump made. By
the time he had a 250-barrel tank on the
bank of the creek his boom had collected a
pool of waste oil that stood six inches deep
on the water, and covered space enough
to hold many hundred barrels.
Potts went to work pumping the oil out
of the dam by hand. lie filled his tank in
three days. Then he put up four other
tanks. When these were done a freshet
came. The boom was carried away, and
with it ten thousand barrels of oil that
had been collected. Since then Potts has
filled his five tanks, besides selling several
hundred barrels at $1 a barrel. The cold
weather has thickened the oil in tbe creek,
so that it cannot be pumped.
Potts is having a boiler put on his lease,
and intends to iiiject steam by numerous
jets into the lake of oil. This he thinks
will reduce the oil to pumping consistency.
He says that if he had commenced business
sooner ho would have had 25,000 barrels
of oil on hand now. He sells the oil to
Buffalo, Franklin, and Chicago parties.
It is mixed with Franklin oil and used as
a lubricator. Potts has made $2,000 since
he put up his dam in August.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, November 10, 1S80.
Work continues on the Washington monu
ment, and the friends of the great shaft have
no longer a donbt that the full proposed height
will be reached during the next Administra
tion. The credit for the new life shown la the
monument's affairs is generally and properly
given Secretary Sherman, who, while still a
Benator, urged through Congress an appropri
ation of $200,000 for the neglected work.
Much more will be required, hut wilt be
promptly supplltd.
Speaking of Secretary 81ierman,remlnds me
of his late letter to an Ohio friend concerning
the Senatorihlp from that Stale', The Secre
tary says In that letter very plainly that ho
does not know what General Garfield's wishes
in the matter are. If any one knew of the
coming President's Ideas as to that subject, or
as to his Cabinet, I think Secretary Sherman
would be the man. This leltor of his, there
fore, I take to be strong evidence that Ooneral
Garfield has not made kuown to any one,
Grant, Conkllng, Blaine, or . anybody else
what his plans are. The story of a bargain
between him and Conkling, made before the
latter entered the field in the late coutest, was
absurd at least. Probably, as a Philadelphia
editor says, no man, not even 'Washington,
became President with less entanglements
than General Garflold. Speculations as to the
Cabinet are numerous, but no responsible
author can be found for any of tbem.
It has been said that Secretary Thompson
would ask for an Increased appropriation for
the Navy, for the next year. There Is the best
authority for saying that tbe amount required
will be loss than for last year. The Secretary
will, however, make suggestions, the carrying
out of which would Involve heavy expenditure,
but tbey will be suggestions only, and he will
leave to his successor the responsibility of
recommending such Increase as may be
necessary in the Navy.
Colonel A..B. Mechatn, of the Vte Commis
sion, reached Washington last Monday night,
direct from Denver. He says the Utes do not
want a war, and will not fight unless they
think It their last resource. Becrelary Scburz
has requested Mr. Pappleton, of Omaha, the
attorney for Standing Boar in the celebrated
Ponca case, to defend tbe six Sioux Indians
now held at Fort Omaha, under charge of
horse stealing, and has tendered to him the
fee of 8350 raised by the Spotted Tall Indians
among themselves, and sent to the Great
Father recently, with tbe request that he hire
a lawyer to defend their brethren In difficulty.
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If the Boys and OlrU of America could but fwe the
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A NEW STORY by GEO. T1ACD05ALD,
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ROCKY FORK
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