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The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-01-15
A PROCLAMATION.


By the President II the United States Of America.
Whereas the set of C,ngress, approved June
18Th 1865, c. instituted and after THAT daie
eight hos.rs - day w,ak for all laborers. work
men. and mechan Employ ed By or On behalf Of
the 6ove nmenf uf the United states. and repealed
al sets and pm Is Il inconsistent Herewith:
Now tn refare. ]. ULYSSES s. GRANT. President
# the Uni ed sta es, do hereby irect that, from
and II; this date reduc, ion shall be made in
ths wages paid by the 6oyernmsnt BY The day tn
such bIer-, workmen. aud mechanics &C
count Of such reduction # the hvuYs If laIsr
In testimony vtere.f, hav- hereto cot my
hand and caused the seal # the United States to
b afhxea
Done at tic city of Washington, this inefeen b
day of May in the year Of our lAFsi ono thousand
eigh; hund, ell and sixfy-nine, and II the indie
penden.s If the United states The ninet, third.
IL 81 U. 8 GRANT.
Bs She President:
HAM.zox sIsl. Secretary Of state
Cuuysntiou between the General Post Once Of the
Uojsed States e America and the Ganersl Pust
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The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-01-15
foHfIcIAL.I
Passsi et tie First Session Of the Forty
first Congyess.
PROCLAMATION.
By tie P-ee;den, Of the United states.

By tie President Of the United States.
Whereas objects Of interest to the Cuited Sfa'es
require that the senate should be convened at
twelve O'Clock on the twelfth Jay of April, 1869,
70 receive and act upon such Communications as
may be made To il the part If The Execn i've:
Now IN. refore. j, U. ). GsAxI, President Of
The Caited tnres, have consijer~d it to be my
duty Z, i~us this, my Proci nation, deciari,g
,hrs m ext sordnary occasion requires the Senate
Of tie Uted States for the transact On
Of s.s,si..e-s at the CapitI, the twelfth jay #
ApriI, 1862 a. twelve O'Clock n~'u that day,
of which all ho shall at that time be entiiled to
act rs members Of that body are required to ta.e
notice.
Given under my band and the seal of the United
States. ri ashington, the Str day OF April.
ZEAL in the year Of our Lord one tn, ussnd
eight hundred and sixty nine. and Of the
in.ieyenieuce Of the United States If Amer
lea, the ninety third
U. s. GRANT.
By the President: --...~
HAxILr,S PI>H. Secretary Of State.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
Terrible Child Murder.

In Berks county, on the goth ult,
near Boyerstown, little child of Mr..
William Leedy, about year old, had its
throat cut from ear to ear with butcher
knife, bya girl about thirteen, named
Catharine Hummell, employed in the
family as nurse. The deed was perpe-
trated while the family were out at work
in the hay field.
The girl at first charged the crime on
switchman on the railroad, but circum-
stances pointed almost conclusively to her
guilt, which, it is said, she afterwards
admitted. No motive is known, except
that she killed the child because it was
troublesome. After the murder she fed
to thewoods, ,and was not apprehended till
the next morning, when the driver of the
Boyerstown stage picked her up near Ste
venville, and brought her to Reading,
when she was committed.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05

EBr Mrs. Caroline Vreeland, who, it will
be remembered, has been confined in the
Toombs for attempting to take the life of
Robert Schraeder with knife, attempted
at the Toombs to take her own life by a
similar means this morning. 1t was about
ten o'clock, and she was walking in the
prison yard walking and weeping for her
daughter Ada, who had just been sent to
the House of the Good Sheppard, when she
suddenly stopped, and drawing knife
out of her pocket attempted to cut her
throat. The instrument did not prove
sharp enough for the purpose and she only
succeeded in making slight scar She
was about makins a more desperate effort
to end her existence when she was seized
and disarmed.
EB- A fellow under arrest for murder
in New York and while the coroners inquest
was in progress attacked woman who
was testifying against him, with a chair
with the intention of killing her. The jury
found him guilty of the other murder and
he was committed for trial.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
Double Murder.

There is reason to believe that terri
BILE murder was recently committed, a
short distance from Warren, Ohio.
The parties murdered were Thomas
Cornells and wife, who lived near Kenton,
Hardin county, and having sold their
farm were moving to Erie county, Pa
Mr.. G. had with him about $1,000. They
travelled in covered two-horse wagon,
sleeping in it at nights. They had a
daughter with them IA years old, who
says she was awakened by cry from her
mother that they were killing her father.
Her mother was then struck blow and
spoke no more. The girl jumped out of
the back end of the wagon and hid in the
woods. She followed the wagon to War
ren, but lost track of it. There is no
clue to the murderer, and the affair is as
yet fearful mystery. The girl tells a
straightforward story, and there is not
any reasonable doubt of the reality of
the case. The murderers drove off the
team and wagon, and took the bodies
with them. The girl followed in the di-
rectiOn in which she supposed the wagon
had gone, and turned up in nearly
crazed and famished condition at Green
vile, Pa, on Sunday.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
A Bank Robbery.

On the 18th ult., the Merchants Bank,
Louisville KY, was robbed in most dar-
ing manner. Henry l.. Pope, the CASH
icr, was alone in the bank when two men
entered, one of them placing knife to
the throat of Pope, threatening him with
instant death if he uttered word the
other taking handkerchief saturated
with chlorotorm, threw it over his face
and threw shawl over his head.
The robbers, as soon as the chloroform
had taken effect, carried Pope to room
in the back part of the building and
locked him in. The robbers then pro-
ceeded in systematic manner with their
work in cleaning out the bank Sixty
thousand dollars in money was secured
and carried of, and twelve or thirteen
thousand left scattered all over the floor.
A clerk, returning at half past eight
o'clock, discovered the bank doors open
and called in two policemen, who hearing
groans from the rear Of the building,
discovered and released Pope from his
disagreeanle situation.
Mr. Pope was still unconscious, and it
was some time before he recovered from
the effect of the drug administered. The
same bank was robbed about thirty years
ago, when Mr.. Banker, the bookkeeper,
was killed, and Mr.. Julian, the cashier,
severely wounded. The robber Dix was
discovered in that act, and blew his brains
out to prevent arrest. The police are on
the track of the perpetrators of this
robbery, but so far have no clue to them.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
Qbe Qines, Mem BLOOMFIELD, 1]a.
A Terrific Explosion.

A few days since as a train of cars was
coming into the depot at Worcester, Mass,
terrible explosion of glycerine, which
was in the last car, took place. An eye
witness of the occurrence, gives the fol-
lowing account of it:
Just as the train was stopping, the
rear car suddenly became hidden from
view by cloud of dust and smoke
Immediately succeeding, there broke upon
the ear a sharp crash. The air was full
of debris; pieces of blazing muslin-a
portion of the freight-were thrown to
an incredible height. and, slowly falling,
alighted all ablaze, rods away, in the
open fields. Following the rear of the
explosion, fragments fell thick as hail
upon the line of the road and the streets
surrounding, and when the cloud cleared
away the results were plainly visible
The three last cars Of the train were
blown to fragments, and only the fore
truck of the third remained The train
stood at the time upon a grade or en-
bankment, high above the level of the
street, so that only one-third, perhaps, of
the buildings alongside were above the
rails. The other side was open country.
For several rods the buildings were de-
molished. Laths and plaster were blown
to the winds as one would knock the ash
es from cigar; partitians were blown
out, windows and sashes splintered to
fragments, bed clothing torn from the
beds and flung into all sorts of places,
and ruin made of what were an instant
before secure and quiet homes.
Below the cars and on the track itself
the rails were twisted from their places,
the ties were annihiated and the axles
broken off and driven into the ground for
half their lengths. In all directions the
shattered and broken iron work told a
plain story of the fearful force that had
been so suddenly developed. For rods
around, the contents of the cars were
scattered upon the track pieces of cotton
cloth, sides and scraps of leather, shoes,
furniture, stationery, Uttered the road
The telegraph poles for several hundred
feet were blown to pieces, and the wires,
twisted into fantastic shapes, dropped
from such as remained standing. The
wheels of the ears were blown to frag-
ments, and one of the pulls that play in
the ratchet of the brake was picked up
half a mile away. 1t went whizzing into
the kitchen of housewife and struck
against the fireplace.
The platen of a large iron planning
machine in the New York Machine
Works was lifted clear of its bed by the
cdhcussion. Children white about the
lips, and men and women with scared fa-
ces ran hither and thither. One man
sick in bed with rheumatism, was blown
out Of bed into an adjoining garden.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
Fire In Pjttsburg.

A Pittsburg dispatch dated June %,
says, the most disastrous oil fire which
ever occurred in this city is now raging
near the Sharpsburg bridge in the Eigh-
teenth Ward.
The Eclipse tank instantly exploded,
Che burning oil running towards the river
and burning all the buildings, including
DIR. Tweedle's house, and setting fire to
the Sharpsburg bridge, which was totally
destroyed.
Atthree P. NJ, during terrible rain
storm in which houses were blown down
and trees uprooted, 10000 barrels of oil
in a tank belonging to the Eddel Rein
cry, was struck by lightning. Another
tank belonging to the Refinery, was
struck at the same time.
Henry b. Foster, brother of the late
Stephen c. Foster, clerk at the Eclipse
refinery, was burned to death, and Valen-
line Holley was injured but not fatally
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
B05- A profuse and MANY times

BO~ A profuse and many times ex-
cessively Offensive discharge from the
nose, with " stopping up" of the nose at
times, impairment of the sense of smell
and taste, watering of weak eyes, impair
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nausea, pressure and pain over the eyes
and at times in the back of the head, oc-
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feeling of lassitude and debility are SYM
toms which are common to catarrh, yet
all Of them are not present in every case
DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures eatarrh
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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A.
Tuesday, July B, 1870.
BASE BALL is fast becoming a greater

BASE BALL is fast becoming greater
evil than racing Many of the city
papers have recently been saying some
hard things about the effects of the game
as at present managed-on the young
men of the city. The same papers how
over give up one, and sometimes several
columns of their space reporting the de-
tails Of match games, to the disgust Of
large majority of their readers, and there
by doing more to popularize the game,
than dozens of their editorials would do
against it.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
A Wild Man of the Woods.

The people of Magnolia and Chatawa,
says New Orleans journal of the 22d
inst, have had sensation of their own
during the past ten days. 1t did not
come in the shape of baseball match or
an attrocious murder, or of the accident
al poisoning Of an entire family, but sim
ply IN the appearance Of a wild negro
The creature, judging from his actions,
must certainly be insane. When first
seen in the neighborhood he was observ-
ed by white man dear Magnolia, seated
upon fallen tree, eating pine cones.-
On being approached he ceased to eat,
threw himself on all fours, and began
scratching up the earth like terrier on
the scent OF rat or vermin, until he
managed to get out of sight
When next seen it was eight miles be-
low, near the railroad station at Chatawa.
Every effort to get him to talk to any one,
even Of his own color, failed, and on be-
ing approached he fed away rapidly, un-
til he was seen no more. He manifests
no savage or brutal qualities, but seems
to entertain an absolute dread of inter
course with human beings. He appear
ed to be about twenty-five years of age,
well-built and healthy. His finger nails
have grown to an enormous length, re-
sembling the claws of some wild feline
animal. 1t is believed that he was orig
inally runaway, and that he has for
years lived in the woods and swamps and
is not aware of the emancipation of his
race. Some parties also believe that he
is identical with the wild man described
in Harper's Weekly as having been seen
near Vieksburg year Or more ago.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
Wholesale Robbery From Freight Cars

For several months past, quantities of
freight transported by the Central rail-
road have been abstracted from packages.
and the matter was placed in the hands of
detectives. On searching four houses in
West Albany recently, at each were
found secreted large quantities of shoes,
boots rubber goods, dry goods, hats, caps,
furs, boxes of tobacco, ladies' writing
desks, &c.
A switohman named Stephen Mona
han, was arrested, and made full con-
fession, duplicating other brakemen on
freight trains. These have escaped, but
will be pursued. The robberies, it is es-
timeted, amount to many thousands Of
dollars.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05

B@~ We hope the following is true, as
it would be a pity to spoil so pretty story
by calling it fiction:
"The western papers have full ac-
count of young lady, brought up in
affluence, who from pure love to her faith
er, who had suddenly become poor, dom
ned male clothing, stained her hands and
face, and cut off the locks (Which had
been the pride and admiration of numer-
GUS beaux," and meandered to the oil
country. Her success was most astonish-
ing In short time she had amassed a
considerable sum, retired to Cleveland,
provided home for her aged sire, re-
sumed the habiliments her sex, and, as
the author of this most interesting sketch
says, "With hands and feet enlarged by
toll, she passes in the promenade the
worthless butterflies of fashion with a
proud consciousness of her superior worth.
A very nice story isn't it?
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05

D9~ A singular and nearly fatal acci-
dent happened last week to one of the
lady teachers of the school in Norristown.
While attempting to push open blind to
= a%indow in the third story it suddenly
gave way, precipitating her with great
force to the ground Fortunately and
singularly too, the janitor of the building
happened to be passing under the win
dow at that moment, so that she alighted
on his shoulders, greatly to his surprise,
and doing km considerable injury
This however, broke the fall of the lady
and saved her from instant death. She
was however badly injured so that she
lies in a precarious condition.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05

AN EXCHANGE gives the following as an
incident that occurred during the annual
visits to the soldiers graves, ON decoration
day.: GA little Indiana girl on Decora-
tion Day strewed flowers on the grave of a
Confederate. A little friend, reminding
her that it was a Rebels grave, she
replied Yes, know it; but my pa was
II soldier, and died in Libby Prison, and
is buried down South. I so much hope
some little girl there will strew flowers on
bis grave, that thought would bring
these and put them on the Rebels graves
May be some of them have little girls at
home, you know"
Could not some older persons learn a
valuable lesson from this child?
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05

CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE the coming
fall are as plenty as blackberries in July,
Judging by the number of " announce
ments' in our exchanges. From the host
Of applicants for Office, there ought to be
chance for good selections, by both par
ties.
In these days a good nomination is of
much greater importance than formerly,
as voters no longer so blindly follow the
dictates of party leaders, and good
nomination is not unfrequently the only
means to secure success, in very many
close districts.
The nominating conventions in Phila-
delphia have set an example which we
trust will find no followers in any part Of
the State, the proceedings being con-
Quoted amid rioting and disorder and a
portion of the ticket being such as only
convention of that class would select
The nomination of such candidates, will
result in many scratched tickets and per-
haps bring defeat where good selection
would have secured victory.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05

A DMINISTRATORsS NOTICE. Notice
"A is hereby given that letters of Administra-
tion have been granted by the Register of Perry
county, on the estate of Margaret ii. Jacobs, late
of Juniata township, Perry county, Pa, to Nicho-
las Jacobs, residing in Tuscarora township, Perry
county, Pa,
All persons knowing themselves indebted to said
estate, will please make immediate payment, and
those having claims will present them duly authen
ticated for settlement,
NICHOLAS JACOBS Administrator.
LEWIS POTTER, Atty for Admir-. 4226t
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-05
GLASS AND QUEENSWARE,

A splendid assortment OF Glass and Queens
ware at greatly reduced prices has just been
eceived by the subscribers, Persons wanti <
any article of this kind, will do well to examine
the stock.
Il. MORTIMER 4 CO.,
New Bloomfield.
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