THE TIMES NEW ltLOOMFIELl), l'A., MAY 17, 1881.
THE TIMES.
ITew Bloom field, May 17, 1SS1.
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Stanley Matthews was confirmed
to bean Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, on the 18th Inst., by a majority of
one vote in the Senate.
The President has withdrawn the
nomination of V. A. M. Grler as third
Asst. P. M. General, as Mr. Grler de
clines the office. He seems to be look
lug higher.
A Senate Committee called on Pres
ident Garfield a few days ago and asked
him to withdraw the nomination of
Senator Robertson as Collector of the
Port of New York, and the most
astounding reason for the request was
not that he was unfit for the ofllce but
such action would please Mr. Conkling.
Such a request was not only an Insult
to the President but to the people who
had not elected Conkling to that ofllce.
The President, we are glad to see took
that view of the case too.
It is no wonder that Chicago is an
unhealthy place if they often have such
sudden changes as on Monday last. At
one o'clock P. M. the mercury register
ed eighty-one, and was still rising, when
a heavy thunder-storm broke over the
city, which cleared away as the wind
changed from south to northeast. It
grew rapidly colder during the after
noon, until at six P. M. the mercury
stood at fifty, a fall of at least thirty
degrees in. four hours. On Tuesday a
man In the same city died from sun
stroke, showing the great change again.
A terrible storm passed over Blair
county on Monday of last week. At
Hollidaysburg the wires of the Court
House were melted. The first peal of
thunder was so sudden and terrific that
several ladies dropped as if killed. Others
- ran to their mirrors to ascertain if their
hair bad been turned white, but so far
as heard from no person was killed or
permanently made gray. In other parts
of that couuty the storm was terrific.
Windows were broken and many per
sons were badly scared.
Colored Children at School.
Meadville, Pa., May 10. A very
importaut decision was delivered to-day
by Judge Church in the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Crawford county in the
case of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania ex rel. Ellas H. Allen against the
School Directors of the City of Mead
ville. The plaintiff is a negro having
children of proper age to be admitted to
the public school of the city, but who
were refused admission. The plaintiff
applied for a writ of mandamus against
the Directors to compel their admission.
The Directors, the respondents, answer
ed that plaintiff's children were negroes,
and that by Section 21, Act of Assembly
May 8, 1854 , the Board of Control hav
ing established a separate school for
negro and mulatto children in their
district they were not compelled to ad
mit them into the school where the
white children were. The Court, Hon.
Pearson Church, Presiding Judge, in a
very elaborate and learned opinion held
that the twenty-first section of the act
of 1854 was violative of the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Amendments of the
United States Constitution, and hence
unconstitutional and void. A peremp
tory mandamus was ordered to be issued,
requiring and commanding the respond
ents to admit the minor children of
. plaintiff Into the schools. This is the
first case of the kind decided in the
State having Involved the main issues.
The case was ably argued by Thomas
Roddy, Esq., for the plaintiff, and W.
R. Bole, Esq., for respondents.
An Army of Scandinavians Coming Across the
Atlantic.
A few days ago a cable dispatch was
t received in New York city stating that
' the owners of a steamship line In Hull,
England, had contracted with parties in
Norway and Sweden to bring about 80,
COO emigrants from those countries to
the United States. Mr. Christian Bora,
the Norwegian and Swedish consul,
says such a contract has been made with
the owners of the Wilson line of steam
ers. The emigration from the countries
he represents to the farming lands iu
the west Is rapidly developing, and the
applications for transportations during
the winter months were so great that
a contract with one company became
necessary. The Wilson line offered the
greatest advantages, havlnir a fleet of
vessels running between Hull and the
principal ports In Norway and Sweden,
besides having a mutual agreement with
all the transatlantic steamship compan
ies. It proposes to carry the emigrants
to Hull, and then send them by train to
Liverpool, where they will be trans re red
to steamers for New York. Mr. Sander
son the agent of the Wilson line, Bald
that the emigrants from Norway and
Sweden during this summer and fall
will probably excede the number con
tracted for, as a knowledge of the vast
ness and wealth of this country has be
come familiar to them during the past
few years.
What a Narrow Foot DM.
A young lady took a car which
brought her to the foot of California
Street and there took a seat on the dum
my car, which bore her to the vicinity
of her home oh Octavla Street. As she
left the car and was crossing the track
upon the southern side her foot slipped
and turned and was caught fast In the
track where the wire-cable passes. Some
imperfection in the roadbed had caused
the narrow aperture to expand and the
girl's narrow foot was entrapped. The
engineer of the east-bound dummy saw
the obstacle on the read In season to
check his swift approaching car and
alighted with the conductor and several
passengers of Investigating mind, who
endeavored to release the slender foot,
but their efforts were vain. Another
car and another brought up iu funeral
row, and constant reinforcements in
the way of pressing pedestrians cheered
and enlivened the scene. An attempt
was made to pry the iron rails forming
the cable channel further apart, but they
firmly resisted all efforts. Every body
had a suggestion. l' Push your foot for
ward;" " Pull It back ; " Tip it side
ways ;" ' Lift you heel higher." The
unhappy girl was almost fainting, but
she persevered in her efforts to extricate
the oflending member. By this time
travel on the road had virtually ceased.
The last car had long ago passed, and
was steadily approaching to fall into
the line at the rear of the singular pro
session. Down-town passengers fretted
and fumed or slowly climbed the hill in
disgust. On every street corner groups
of waiting people berated the laxity of
street-car management. Reporters from
ail the down-town dailies were proceed
ing westward to learn, the meaning of
the large crowd reported to have assem
bled in the western addition. From the
scene of the accident envoys had been
dispatched to the railroad shops to bring
appliances for taking up a section of .the
road. At this Juncture a tall, brawney
Englishman, in thedrss of a mechan
ic, forced his way through the throng,
and in a cheery voice, marked by the
Derbyshire dialect, aBked:
" Ha' ye tried onfastenin' the young
leddy's shoe ?"
Ten buttons flew from as many button-holes;
in the twinkling of an eye
the foot was free. San Francisco Her
ald. Lebanon County Fools.
A singular story of the faith some
times placed in dreams, even in the en
lightened days of the nineteenth centu
ry, comes from Lebanon county. Sev
eral months ago a charcoal burner, liv
ing near Indiantown Gap, dreamed that
silver ore could be found at a certain
spot in the mountain. He claims the
dream was repeated for five consecutive
nights, when he started out to find a
place to correspond with that seen In
his dreams. The place was found, and
a clairvoyant, famous in that region for
being possessed of wonderful supernat
ural powers, was consulted. A seance
was held on the mountain, and the re
sult was that a wild excitement was cre
ated among the ignorant natives. A
company was formed of ten of the
superstitious backwoodsmen, each of
whom contributed $100 to the working
capital, and a force of men were put to
work to develop the rich find. Fifty
feet was the depth fixed by the seer at
which the precious metal would be
found, but when that depth was reached
another calculation was made, which
added ten feet more to the original num
ber. This was afterward Increased to
eighty feet, then to ninety, and still the
poor dupes worked on, and regardless of
the gloomy outlook and the repeated
failures of the prophecies of the "fortune
teller," they willingly pay up the neces.
sary assessments on the stock, and the
work goes on. They have secured the
services of an experienced miner to
superintend the work, and will continue
until the stockholders are bankrupt,
although a number of scientific men In
the region have assured thera that there
is no silver ore In that part of the
country.
A Wife Trade.
The case of the two Indianapolis hus
bands who agreed to swap wives, by
means of divorce, is curious. Tho coup
les were intimate friends, and the trade
has been amicably carried out. Dr.
Baumuller went to St. Louis on his
honeymoon tour. "Mr. Rltchter and
I," he said to a Republican reporter,
"are like brothers. Not very long ago I
discovered that I loved Mrs. Itlchter
better than I did my own wife, and that
she preferred me to her husband. I
also discovered that Mr. Rlchter and my
wife stood in exactly the same relation
to each other. What were we to do ?
Quarrel V It was useless. It was so, and
could not be helped. I had tried to sup
press my feelings, and I would have
done so if I had not found that Lena,
my wife, loved Rlchter, and that Rlch
ter loved Lena. We did not quarrel;
we arranged everything. We met, all
four, Rlchter, Mrs. Rlchter, my wife,
and myself, at Richter's house, and there
we talked the matter over until we
concluded that the best thing to be done
was to seek divorce. " Dr. Baumuller is
a reputable physician with a large prac
tice. Rlchter has been. a Street Com
missioner and is wealthy. In one re
spect he seems to get the best of the bar
gain, for his new wife Is 0, while his
old wife Is 60, and he Is 00. Baumuller
is 39.
Death Among the Horses.
Last week three valuable horses be
longing to Adam Focht, who resides
near Water street, Huntingdon county,
were attacked by a singular disease
which in one instance terminated In the
death of the stricken animal, while our
informant did not regard the others as
entirely out of danger when he saw
the in. The auimuls were suddenly
taken with choking, palpitation of the
heart and other violent symptoms. We
learn that some horses belonging to a
gentleman named Hlleman, residing on
the farm adjoining Mr. Focht had previ
ously been attacked with the same
disease, though we did not hear that
any of them died. The animal lost by
Mr. Focht was valued by him at $225.
AUoona Tribune..
Startling Deathbed Confession.
A Crlsfleld, Md., special says the peo
ple of Princess Anne, Crlsfleld and other
parts of Somerset county are greatly
excited over the reported confession of
Mrs. Patty Ward, who is now on her
deathbed, of having murdered Azariah
Dougherty, who was found dead in his
store eighteen years ago. Two negroes
were executed for the crime In 1803. She
said her son, now dead, was an accom
plice in the murder.
Smothering a Slok Son.
The death of a boy at Decker, Indiana,
who was suffering from rheumatism,
was not caused by the Intelligent drug
clerk. His parents had no faith in the
doctor's prescriptions, and gave the
patient a home-made sulphur bath.
They seated him in a chair, plied feather
beds over him, and burned a lot of
brimstone underneath. When they
thought the disease was smoked out the
covering was removed, but it was too
late; the poor fellow had been smother
ed to death.
Imprisonment for Life.
New York, May 12. William
O'Donnell, who was indicted for mur
In the first degree in having kicked his
wife, Bridget, to death on February 13,
was convicted to-day in the court of
general sessions of murder in the second
degree. The recorder sent him to the
state prison for the term of his natural
life. O'Donnell took his sentence very
coolly. .
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A Jewish Town Destroyed by Fire.
Vienna, May 12. The Press says a
telegram was received from Kleff to-day
stating that the whole Jewish quarter
known as Podol, has been burned. The
damage is estimated at 30,000,000 roubles.
Crowds of refugee Jews are crossing the'
Austrian frontier at Podauloczyska.
Miscellaneous News Items.
Apiarists through the state are com
plaining that they have lost about ninety
per cent, of their stock of bees.
t3T Fifteen children in sixteen years, all
of whom are living aud well, is the record
of a miried couple, residing iu Ban- twp.,
Cambria county.
t3T Brush bad a hard time to borrow
five dollars when be was working at his
electiio light, now bis income is $1,000
per day.
tjjarues Gordon Beunety it is aunouub
ed by the Whitehall Review, is engaged
to marry the daughter of the Prince da
Furstenburg.
MT A little daughter of T. Sotzen, of
Shelby, Ohio, lately died, and tl-.e nllllcted
parents are having constructed over her
grave a building, In which will be stored
her playthings.
tW The spirit of mortal may not be
very proud, but we notice it waxes overly
profane in some cases where rheumatism
is the moving cause. We use St. Jacobs
Oil for ours and we are happy. Milwau
kee Evening Wisconsin.
Pottsville, May 10. This morning the
Jury in tho case of Samuel Garrett, senior
commissioner of Schuylkill county, charg
ed with embezzlement of the funds of the
county, returned a verdict of not guilty,
the county to pay the costs.
MT A miscreant gave a little girl in
Dennlson, Ohio, two railroad torpedoes,
telling her they contained candies and that
she must open them with a stone. The
child tried one of them, and the torpedo
burst and destroyed her sight.
tW The Elmira Advertiser asserts that
a boy, carrying a basket of eggs, jumped
from a freight train in that city one day
last week, that was running at least twenty
miles an hour, and that while the boy was
considerably shaken up, not one of the
eggs was broken.
. tV The divorce case of Purcell vs. Pur
cell, last week occupying the Circuit Court
at Ottowa, 111. They are au old couple,
aud the old man swore that his wife bit
him in the lip once aud be jerked away
aud pulled one of her teeth out. He said :
"Her teeth are no goad, anyhow."
tST There is a teamster in Philadelphia
who during the last fifteen years has taken
ten driuks at the same store daily. This
makes a low average of three thousand a
year, and the proprietor of the store vouch
es for the truth of the statement. At five
cents a drink, wholesale, he has consumed
12,239 worth of whisky in that time.
t3T Mis. L. S. Hi IT, the owner of the
largest cattle range in the world, has sold
one half of her herd of 25,000 cattle to her
managers, and sailed for Europe on the
28th of May. Her range extends from
Greeley to Julesburg, Colorado, embracing
a country about 100 miles wide. She has
made a round million since the death of herr
husband, "the Cattle King," three years
ago.
IW On a recent Sunday some Hollidays
burg boys who were iu the neighborhood of
Manning & Lewis' stone quarry, near Loop
station, went to the bottom of the quarry
to get a drink of water. They had hardly
quenched their thirst and moved a little
distance away until there came a heavy
fall of earth and slate, covering the spot
where they had stood but a moment be
fore. to the depth of three or four feet.
S3T A remarkable case of the "ruling
passion" was lately witnessed in the United
States Court-room at Cincinnati. Mr.
Ilaskeil, who has been the court crier for a
quarter ef a century, fell at the noon ses
sion stricken with paralysis. Tbey picked
him up, placed bim unconscious in a
chair, wbeu the bailiff opened the Court
and the trial of a case proceeded.
Suddenly the old man revived, and noticiug
the Judge on the bench begau to shout, iu
a feeble tone of voice, "Oyez, oyez, the
district," etc. Immediately he was strick
en a second time and carried home.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Wasuinoton, D. C, May 11, 1881.
The Republicans have been holding caucuses
every day this week upon the contested nom
ination of Judge Robertson, bat so far have
arrived at no definite conclusion .as to the
course to be pursued. Senator Conkling has
made several long speeches before the caucus
endeavoring to enlist Senators on his sido in
his light against the President and Robertson.
In spite of the frantic struggles of Benator
Coakllng it is becoming plainer every day that
the administration carries too much weight for
him, and that the chances of Robertson's nom
ination are growing higher every day. It is
known that within tho last three days some of
the prominent stalwart Republicans of New
York, warm and true friends of ConUllng, have
advised him to abandon his contemplated fight
to prevent Robertson's nomination to bo re
ported from the Commerce Committee without
recommendation, and let the Senato dispose of
it without argument. That If Rabertson should
be confirmed for Conkling to say notbiug
unless attacked by a friend of the administra
tion tbon be could talk as the cause of creat
ing a disturbance would be upon the adminis
tration side and should the Senate reject
Robertson, still Conkling should say nothing,
but iu either case to let the quarrel die out.
Mr. Cockling did not reject this advice nor did
he give any sign of accepting It but It came
from men who are accounted devoted friends
of his, and whose object Is ascribed to be to
save Conkling from what they believe will be a
crushing defeat if he makes a light against
Robertson.
Tho Stanley Matthews case was not taken
up yesterday but will probably be considered
to-day. The Judiciary Committee yesterday
morning agreed to recommend the confirma
tion of Don A. Parnee as United States Circuit
Judge for the fifth Judicial Circuit, and subse
quently reported the nomination favorably to
the Beuate. The nomination of Michael J.
Cramer now charge d affaires to Denmark to
be charge d' affaires to Switzerland was report
ed favorably from the Committee on Foreign
Relations during the Executive Session yester
day afternoon. Tha Judiciary Committee
reached the nomination of Wm. E. Chandler
us Solicitor General at their meeting jesterday
but laid It aside for consideration at another
special meeting to be held, probably to-day.
Olivs.
tWBtft blood always causes tronbte. It
may be a family fight or bolls, pimples, Itch,
tetter, Act but no matter, "Dr. htndney's
Blood Searcher" Is the cure-all. I9d4t
Third Trip.
We have Just returned from the city
for the third time this spring, and, again,
are able to offer our customers some
bargains.
In Lawns, we have a fine assortment.
Prices are 7 cents, 10 cents, 124 cents,
and IS cents, and It costs nothing to
look at 'em.
Our Summer Prints, are pretty, and
we think the styles are hard to beat.
Prices 6i to 8 cents.
Scone Ginghams, and other styles
of dress Ginghams, we have from 0 cents
to 16 cents per yard.
Lace for trimming we have in great
variety, and for the wool and part wool
goods we have a full line of silks, satins
and novelties for trimming.
Ladies wanting Dress Goods or No
tions of any kind will find it to their
advantage to give us a call. Those who
cannot call, can get samples of Dress
Goods by mail, and mail orders will, be
promptly filled.
We have many other lines of goods
we would like to mention, but have not
the space. We extend you an Invita
tion to call and look at our stock of Ties,
Gloves, Hosiery, White Goods, Buttons,
etc., etc.
Questions for Men.
Do you want Cottonades or Casslmers
foryourselfortheboysasult? If you
do come and see what we can show
you.
Do you want a Hat for the boy or your
self ? We have them at various
prices.
Do you want Shoes for yourself, wife or
child? We have a good assortment
of a quality we can recommend.
Do you want Paints, Oils, or" anything
in that line? If you do come and see
what we can do for you.
Do you want Iron or Hardware of any
description ? If so we can supply
your wants. Suppose you let us try it.
If you want any kind of goods, you
stand a good chance to find the article
you want in my stock.
F. Mortimer,
New Bloomfield, Pa.
n Church Notices.
Presbyterian Church Preaching nest
Sunday at 11 A. M., and 7i P. M. Sun
day School at half past 9 A. M. Prayer
meeting on Wednesday evening.
M. E. Church Preaching next Sun
day at 8 P. M., Sunday School at 9:15 A.
M.,and prayermeeting on Wednesday
evening.
ATTENTION!
For choice material, for beauty of
styles and latest fashions, for everything
in the millinery line, at especially mod
erate prices, call at M. L; BELL'S.
Ladies' Hats and Bonnets, Fancy
Braids, Chips, Tuscans, and fine Straws,
Children's Hats and Caps.
Elegant new width ribbons. Silks
and Satins in beautiful shades.
A line of Embroideries and Laces
unsurpassed in quantity aud quality;
Beautiful Swiss Embroideries and In
sertings, Gloves in Lisle, Silk and Kid,
also Lace Mitts, Children's Collars, &c.
Veiling In all shades. Hosiery in great
variety.
M. L. BELL,
Old Stand, Centre Square,
19 lm NEWPORT, PA.
a. oaiii.
A new enterprise has been started in
Mechanlcsburg, Cumberland county, by
J. W. Rlngrose & Co., and that is the
making of a new style of Leather Fly
Nets. These nets are said to be a great)
improvement over any style yet made,
while the price they will be sold at, is no
greater than is asked for the poorer
article. Store keepers, before supplying
themselves should see these nets and
learn prices, and farmers should ask
the merchant with whom. they deal to
get at least a sample to show them. . For
price list, etc., address J. W. Ringrosk
fc Co., Mechanlcsburg, Pa., or Kenne
dy, Willing & Co., 100 and 102 North
3rd Street, Philadelphia. 6tf.
Still Alive I I am still alive and ready
to cut aud lit suits In good, style. If
wanting any work In my line, give me
a call. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Samuel Bentzel,
TAILOR,
April 6, '80. If New Bloom field, Ta.