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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-06-21


CABINET CHANGES, which have 80
long been rumored, have at last become a
reality. On Thursday last, Attorney
General Hoar handed in his resignation,
which was accepted. The President at
once sent to the Senate the nomination
Of Hon. Amos Z. Ackerman of Georgia.
Thc selection of such man for this po-
sition took the Senate and the whole
country by surprise, aud can hardly be
looked upon in any other light than cnoth-
er Presidential mistake. The Office Of
Attorney General Of the United States
should be filled by a man known to the
whole country, as statesman, as well as
u lawyer of decided ability. The man
nominated not only lacks those important
qualifications, but was actively connected
with the rebellion, having served as
member on Gen. Toombs staff, during the
whole war. The nomination is certainly
not complimentary to the many able men
who were actively engaged in supporting
the efforts of the Government during the
dark days of the rebellion.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-06-21

HEARTH& HOME dated June 25th)
contains the first Ola series of sketches
entitled Jethro 1hroop's Niyht Thoughts,
by JOHN THOMAS WHO is no other than
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY. The great hu-
morist will take an honest country boy
to the city, conduct him through the usual
experience, and restore him to his home
sadder and wiser boy, satisfied that the
peaceful, honest and temperate life of the
farmer is the best and safest life that
can be lived. This is lesson greatly
needed at this time, and NAsBY is the
the man to teach it.
Send to Pettengill, Bates& Co., publish
ers, for copy, or enclose them 81 for
a years subscription as you will be sure
to like it..
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-06-21
A Tragic Court Scene,

On Friday the 10th inst, case was
being tried in the court rooms of the
Tombs, New York, in which Miss Ada t.
Myers was complainant, and Mr.. Robert
Shredder, respectable NJ merchant the
defendant. Miss Ada had. lived with
Shredder as his wife, and the suit was
brought to recover damages on the charge
Of her having been seduced by Shredder
into mock marriage. While the COM
plainant was on the witness stand, Mrs
Caroline Vreeland, the mot her of Miss
Myers, suddenly rushed upon the defen-
dant with large knife, and striking with
it at his breast, did serious injury to his
coat and vest, but inflicted no more seri-
Gus wounds. The court was, of course,
thrown into terrible state tf excitement
which ended in the suit being summarily
dismissed. Mrs. Vreeland Ghen attemp-
ted, butvery unsuecessfully, to play the
role Of IA maniac. She was bound over to
answer for the assault 1t is the same
Mrs. Vreeland who some time ago fgur-
ed in a New York court in suit brought
by her against her third husband for
abandonment, in which she exhibited the
qualities Of a strong -willed, active and ex-
ceedingly perseyering woman. Shredder
WIS dismissed, and the fair Ada was han
ded over to the care of the matron of the
Tombs until she can be sent to one of the
institutions for the care Of young girls.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-06-21
Daga On Thursday last Charles Presser

pa~ On Thursday last Charles Presser
keeper Of a large lager beer brewery at
Thirty-sixth & Sycamore SITS, Phila,, en-
ployed "a German, and on Saturday dis
charged him tor incompetency. About
eight o'clock on Sunday night the dis
charged employ ee went to stone quarry
near by, and procuring a twenty five
pound kog Of powder placed it within 20
feet Of the brewery. a couple of men
saw the movement from distance and
hurried up to ascertain the cause. Mean
time the Teuton. with two companions,
made another visit to the quarry in search
Of more powder, firing fuse sixteen or
eighteen feet long before so doing. Off
GERS Kelley and Dunn arriving at the
proper time, cut the fuse ere the FIRE
had time to reach the powder, and thus
saved not only the property but perhaps
some lives.
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17

him by shs throat, an't fnt tiiiHg I fSsw
she wer hitten me With the pokv, an
wanting to nos what struck her husbasd
for" It was On illustration from sasss
Of life among the Yorkshire hills-that
was little better, thirty years ago, than thj
savage-ofa principle that holds good il
the sweetest aud best homes Of The hsd,
where the utmost Auvt b . SHARP word;
that is repsuted Of and forgotteu tie md'
ment it is spoken. Husband aud wives,
when they are wise, understand and act
up to it as the condition Of being whsf
they are, and bear and forbear withift I'll
fair lines aud limits.
With these elements in them, and form.
ing part of their very structure, my obl
servatiou convinces me that the true match
is the rule. In the overwhelming majority
Of instances those that come to be husband
and wife were made to be husband aud
wife. In the face Of our sins ard follies;
very often BY the tender mercy Of God;
and not at all Of our deserving, the great
gift is given that makes . heaven for ~
where we would have made perdition for
ourselves sometimes, and sometimes the
blessed life comes of honor and truth III
their life long in those that are made ono
in it. John aud Mary sit in their home
and wonder how Thomas and Susan man.
age to make so brave a show Of their smsM
stock Of esteem, and Thomas and Susan
shake their heads now and then about
John and Mary. But you 6nd that some4
how within it all there is worse with tho
better. Very tender aud true are they Ill
when sickness smites them; very sorely
they weep over little graves; and then, il
they must part, and one goes to the long
home and one stays in this, whatever they
may do that are left to mend the poor
broken life is we'll done if they do it mod.
estly and truly, and has the blessing Of
the Risen One. But, then, in that case,
it is always one more ia d heart made
larger to hold one moro; never one cast
out to make way for anotheri The match
made in Heaven is never unmade. LsdS.
pende1t.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17
The Aristocracy Of Rasealdom.

Now what is one Of the most frightfuf
characteristics Of our present mode Of do.
ing business? Is it not the building up
Of great fortunes out Of colossal robberies
And the thing is done by series Of seii.
sational addresses to the cheated. High
interest uotoriously goes with low security !
but We have, sir, in this country, . class Of
rogues who may bc called the aristocracy
Of rascaldom, and who get rich by dazsling
and astonishing others into the hope Of
getting rich. They are the contrivers Of
enterprises which propose to develop the
wealth Of the country, but which CON-
monty turn out to be little more than
schemes to transfer wealth already realised
from the pockets of the honest into the
kuavish. They are financial foot. pads who
lure simple people into stock corners"
and then proceed to pluuder them. They
make money so rapidly, so easily, and ia
such splendid sensational way, that they
corrupt more persons by their example
than they ruin by their knaveries. Az
compared with common rogues, they ap.
pear like Alexander or Caesar as compared
with common thieves and cut.throats.
As their wealth increases, our moral india.
nation at their method of acquiring it di.
minishes. aud at last they steal 90 much
that we come to look upon their fortunes
as conquests rather than burglarics. In.
deed, their operations on 'chsngs vie with
those Of military commanders in tho 6eld,
and are recorded with similar minuteness
of detail. They are the great sensations
of the world Of trade, and have, therefore,
more influence on the imaginatious Of
young men just starting in business than
the dull chronicles Of the great movetnssts
Of legitimate commerce.
Now, sit. take the universal American
desire to get rich. aud combine It with the
rapid, rascally way Of getting rich nov ia
vugne. and you will End you are breeding
mp race Of trading sharks and wolves,
which will eventually devour u afl.
Honesty will go altogether out Of fashion,
and respectabi'i,y Be associated With tho
defect of intellect. Why, tha old robbss
barous Of the middle ages, who plusdersd,
sword in hand aud lance at rest, were moro
honest than the new aristocracy Of swiud.
ling millionaires. Do you object that I
am getting into passion : Why, sir, /
have purchased dearly tho right to nit.
Didn't put my modest coinpsteucs Into
copper? And to recover my losses ia cop.
per didn't 60 madly into pstroleun I
And didn't the small sum which pstto.
lsum was considerate enough 70 leave ~
disappear in the last tura" iu Erie -
AAast. Mon,Aly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17

~ A couple :ss sAssss Assssesax ~
Benedict Arnold we're recsstly ~ - O.
Johns IN. Y y for 81, ,275 each.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17

~ Miss N. 8. Green Is the first female
compositor engaged in the Government Print
ing Office.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17

~ Ons Of the latest Asshieas aueaxa
the ladiss y sodsd hsts thsse sessissi ihisl.a
With eupola bslfty and halseey, asfa ~
at half mast.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17

- An inventive genius in New FORK,
Geo, Tanner BY maine has takes 90
patent far /" Device for holding the Cows.
tail while milking"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17

~ An frishtnan. eating his first green
corn handed tho cob 70 the winter snd
asked. Will 70 plass pas some more
banes upon me sshick Z" a
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Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
THE FRUIT CROP.

There has perhaps never been a more
bountiful fruit crop in this country than
that of the present year. In portions of
New York the yield of orchards has been
80 great that one-half OF the crop has been
paid for gathering the other half. Apples
are said TO be so plenty in New England
that it is impossible to procure barrels in
which 10 ship them. A farmer near
Springfield, Ohio has gathered four hun
bred bushels of cranberries of of three
acres of ground, which yielded a net in
come ofS1 800. Here, in East Tennessee,
we have an abundant yield Of applos,
which, if properly managed will bring
the fruit-grOwers a fair profit We have
long believed that, with proper care, more
money could be made i'm East Tennessee,
and made easier, by growing fruit than by
almost any other avocation. we could,
by cultivation, very much improve the
quality Of our fruit, and render the crop
certain. A great many persons have been
turning their attention to canning and
preserving fruit, and we dare say that the
quantity of canned fruits shipped here
from other States il not as large by half as
it was five years ago. There is no necessi-
~ for us bringing any more from abroad.
In fact, it is no credit 10 our industry and
enterprise if we allow it. We can raise
just as good fruit, and can put it up for
preserving just as well as it can be done in
New Jersey, or any of the Eastern States,
if we will only do it.
And while on this subject, We would
drop word to our farmers, and the city
population Us well. There il much Of the
vile stuff we buy for vinegar that is absO-
Iutely poisonous, and unfit TO be taken in
TO the human system, If our farmers
would only supply themselves with bar
rels and put up cider, from which we
could have pure apple vinegar, they would
get q fair price for apples which would 9TH
erwse rot, and at the same time confer a
benefit on the community.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDU.
CATION.

Gen. Jno. Eaton is now Commissioner
of Education for the United States, and
has recently made "A report, which is re-
ceiving the encomiums of the press all over
the country. The New York Herald pays
the report this high compliment:
The annual report of the Commissioner Of
Education is an earnest of the intelligent and
thorough manner in which it may DO expected
that the work of the Bureau of Education will
be none under the supervision Of one of the
most competent living writers on the subject OF
education.
The report gives the most complete view Of
the subject which has ever been presented.
Gen. Eaton was Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction in this State, while we had
free school system, and if he had receiv-
ed the support and encouragement that
should have been given him, we would
have had free schools equal to any in the
Union. But, actusted by blind partisan
zeal, the Democrats frat elected an utterly
incompetent Superintendent, for the pur-
pose of bringing the Office into desrepute,
and then abolished the Office, and repealed
the school law.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
A SHORT SESSION

The HemphisSu'1 urges upon the Legis-
lature the importance of short session, it
being the third session since their election,
and there being no reason why the work
they have to do should not be put through
at once. After pointing out what ought
to be done, the Sur closes with this unkind
cut:
Whsa Governor Brown is tnaugurated, he
win be prepared 70 recommend some definite
State policy, and his friends in the Legislature
viii carry It out But both Senter and his Gen
eral Assembly have been tried, and it may be
only a waste Of time to require their longer SER
vice in regard of matters wherein they have go
signally failed. We repeat, then, that this Gen
eral Assembly ought to do whatever may be es-
sential immediately, and go homo.
The idea of ordering the Solons home is
preposterous. Why Hornberger will re-
quire at least two weeks for the evapora-
ton of gas, accumulated during the yaca-
ton. How these mighty intellects must
chafe under the meddlesome spirit of their
friends, demanding that they shaU go
home.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
WHO ARE INTERESTED IN FREE SCHOOLS

The establishment of free schools in Ten
nessee would be one Of the most powerful
inducements we could offer to immigrants.
The better class Of laboring men in the
United States fully appreciate the advan-
tages Of liberal education, and they are
determined that, as far as in them lies, they
will give their children a good education
and thereby place them in a position where
they make a fair race in life with the chill
dren Of more wealthy parents. In Amer
lea man is just what he makes himself
Wealth and social position are very desir-
able and powerful aids in the conflict, but
integrity, education and perseverance are
of more worth. All the latter are in the
reach of every youth in the land. The
absence Of free schools bears more onerous-
~ upon the poor, for without education
they must always labor under great disad-
vantages ar compared with the rich.
There are a certain class of rich men who
appreciate this, and therefore oppose gem
eral education. They feel that when
schools are free and open to all, their sons
lose their present vantage ground. It is
therefore more to the interest Of the labor
ing men than to any other class that this
great question should be agitated, and it is
in their behalf VIC plead.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
FEB. VANCE

Our dispatches from Raleigh show that
Zebulon d. Vance is elected to the United
states Senate as Democrat Zeb's course
has been a tortuous one. First, he was an
Old Line Wing then a Union man; then
A rampant rebel swearing "he would fight
the Yankees until hill frOEe over, and
then fight them on the ice" Now we
have him in the role of Democratic Uni
ted States Senator, when he is admitted
He entered political life as Wing member
of the North Carolina Legislature, and in
1857 beat Col. Avery, late Of the Contede-
rate army, for Congress. He went into
the Confederate service in 1861, as Colonel
of the a5th North Carolina Volunteers.
In 1852. he was elected Governor, and dis
tinguished himself by his classic express
sions in regard to his own soldiers, as well
az Yankees, one Of which was, " that the
Confederate soldiers would charge h-ll
with q barlow knife for 2 haversack, if
there was anything in it, He held up
his head throughout the war, making more
noise than any man i'll the South but
since having fit bled and died in the last
hitch, has been docile as lamb until re-
Gently, when he has set his mind on the
Senatorship. He is a fit exponent OF the
Young Democracy of the South.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
EDUCATE THE PEOPLE,

SO say we. So say all reasonable men,
who believe that Republican Govern
ment-a government of the people and by
the peoples made stronger and more
permanent by the intelligence of the peO-
pie. We rejoice to see an interest mani
testing itself in the cause of education.
The party in power in this State has man
ifested its opposition TO popular education
by repeating the only school law that we
have ever had that was worth a cent, and
not enacting any other in its stead. But Il
number of the progressive journals of that
party are coming out on the subject and
demanding action. Our neighbor, the
Wing and Register came square out on
the question yesterday morning, and talks
in the right spirit. We see light breaking.
Let the subject of free schools be thor
oughly agitated, and our Lawmakers will
be forced to act. Let us know if they be-
lieve people can be better governed in a
state of ignorance than to be educated.
In this connection we call attention to
the communication of Anxious" in an
other column, on the subject Of city free
schools His idea is good one. We
would like very much TO see the expert
ment made. 1t would be very easy to as
certain what such schools would cost Us.
Some of our teachers might enlighten Il.
on the subject. Put the matter in a tangi.
ole shape. Let the people know what
would be required TO support such a sys
tenn of schools, and We believe they would
readily agree to il.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
DEMOCRACY

The Memphis Sun defines Democracy
thus:
This Il Democracy Simple, cheap, honest
government. Local control of local affairs
Protection to AL privileges to none, above his
fellows
Just 80, The simple Democracy was ex-
hibited in the Administration of Frank
Pierce.
James Buchanan and his Administra-
ton, in the light Of facts brought out by
the Covode Investigation, exemplihes the
"cheap, honest government"
Local control of local affairs means
States Rights. Protection to all-who vote
the Democratic ticket and swear that Lee
was greater man than Thomas Privi-
leges to nonc-who believeth there is any
honesty or virtue outside OF the party.
This il glorious Democracy Who wouldn't
be q Democrat?
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,

Tee Presidents Message, a synopsis of
which we print this morning, is clear and
pointed upon all the questions of public
interest. 1t is practical, and takes hold
vigorously of the Alabama claims, San
Domingo, Revenue Reform and Canada
Fishery question. On this point his Mes
sage will be satisfactory to the border oiti-
zens. We have not been able, at the late
hour it reaches Us, to do more than hastily
look over it, and will reserve further COM
ments after more deliberate reading.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-07
OUR GREAT WANT.

Every nine out of ten men who want 30
come to Tennessee to live, will ask among
the first questions as to the inducements
the State offers in respect to its education
al system. This is a point which is of espe-
cial importance to heads of families. What
concerns them Is, what additional expense
must they incur in leaving the free school
system of most other States to come To
Tennessee. Suppose we take family con-
tanning five children, coming to this city
for a home, as basis for q calculation
The average tuition for each child, e cay
three dollars per month. To father OF
five children, this extra expense amounts
to the burdensome tax of fifteen dollars
per month, or, at ten months schooling in
a year, to one hundred and fifty dollars
per annum. This IL what we call bur
densome tax to any working man. 1t Is
tax which he will pay, of course, rather
than see his children grow up in ignC-
rance; but it is a burden imposed upon
him by the iniquitous legislation of this
State, which he ought not to bear. The
highest and first duty every State owes to
its people is Observation-Disclosures "a free
and thorough as money and zeal can fur
nish. 1t is the best Investment made by
any people, and the State that is 80 blind
to its own interests as not to provide for it.
will pay the penalty in n thousand ways
We believe Tennessee is paying this penal
ty to-day in her failure to catch even g
small part of the ceaseless tide of emigra-
ton that is SO fast enriching and populat-
ing the wiser States of the Northwest
We have recently had the opportunity Of
realizing how great disadvantage the 10
sence of free school system is to Tenne--
see, and we wish we could be able to make
others feel it.
1t is the great want of our State, and We
cannot longer afford to do withoutit. Sim
pie justice to the thousands of poor chill
dren who are this day without the means
or opportunities for making of themselves
men and women in the true sense, and as
God intended them to be, demands such
a system, while it is Enthusiastically to our
interest as to those we hope to attract to
our lands, that we should be able to Offer
to them rs one of our chief attractions
schools, free and good.
Let every man take this question home
| to his own door and see how much it
would profit him to have such system OF
education. We have organization and Co
operation in every business undertaking
in life, and the experience of the shrewd-
est and most successful men of business il
favorable to such a system. If co-opera-
ton and organization are good in business,
why not in education? BY good system
of schools, a thousand children can be edu-
Gated in this city for the money now spent
in educating a few hundred. This is 8
question which is of great intesest to every
citizen, and is particularly worthy of at
tention now when so much interest is
manifested in immigration.
Give us good schools, and together with
the other unsurpassed inducements nature
enables us to offer, we can attract hither
the best and most acceptable class ofimmi-
| grants.
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