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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18
ID oBINsON HOUSE,
(Formerly kept by Woodruff and Turbett,)
NeW bloomfield, Perry County, Pa.
AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor.

This well known and pleasantly located hotel
ent proprietor and he will spare no pains to accom-
modate his guests. The rooms are comfortable,
the table well furnished with the best in the mar
careful and attentive hoster will be in attendance
good livery stable will be kept by the proprietor
April 3, 1871. II ... ID r
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THE CAROLINE PEARL

THE CAROLINE PEARL
VIII he sent to all purchasers free for one quarter
on application 1t will give detailed account OF
our proceedings from time to time. Newspapers
wishing to advertise for us, will please send us
their lowest rates. s II 52b
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18

This is not the lowest priced,
but being much the best is IN
the end by far the cheapest.
Do not fail to give it a trial.
and you will use no other.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18

n1- Whitewater, Wis, was the scene,
recently of a melancholy tragedy, most
startling in its character. A lady who
had been sick for some tiue-Mrs, VIM.
Foster by name--expired at the residence
of her father, Mr.. S. Clark, resident of
that village. As she breathed her last
her husband, who was by the bedside,
drew pistol, and aiming at his own heart,
fred. The ball missed the vital organ,
but penetrated the lung, and the wound
ed man fell across the body of his dead
wife.
AS might have been expected the ut
most CONSERVATION prevailed among those
present at an event so appalling The
next morning Mr.. Foster was living,
but little hopes were entertained Of his
recovery. No cause can be assigned for
this terrible deed, except that he de-
termined not to survive the death of his
wife, to whom he was most deyotedly at.
tached. 1t is said that his health has
been quite poor Of late, and his mind much
depressed over the illness Of her whose
spirit hss just taken its fight
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18
A Horrible Tragedy.

Rumor brings US detail of horrible trag-
edy that is said to have occurred at st.
Clair county, Alabama. The rumor runs
that the Tax Collector of st. Clair had
got together large amount of taxes and
gave them to his wife to keep remarking
as he did so that he was compelled to
take a trip that would necessitate his alb
sence from home for three or four days.
He left and she hid the money.-About
ten o'clock that night party of men,
wearing DISCUSSES, broke in upon the
lonely woman and demanded the tax
money. She refused to give it up or tell
where it was. After attempting in vain
to force her to tell the hiding place of the
treasure, they searched for it and found it.
After possessing themselves firmly of
the money, they ordered her to get them
some supper. While she was busying
herself with this forced task she achieved
the idea of poisoning them, and thus
preserving at once the money and her
husbands honor She deftly slipped
some arsenic in the coffee she was mixing.
They drank heartily and fell dead shortly
afterwards. She stripped the disguises
off and found that two of the villains
were strangers, but the third was her
husband, who had taken this means of
stealing the taxes of the people. The story
is almost too horrible for credulence, but
our informants were confident that the
facts were as they stated them.-Ronie
Commercial
D@- A young married couple were
recently killed at Chicago under tho fol-
lowing circumstances
They had crossed the track to get aboard
the Hyde Park train, which was about to
start. At this moment the Kalamazoo
train approached at high rate of speed,
but they suposing there was no danger
kept their position beside the other train
but as the engine passed the long dress
of the lady she was drawn by the current
Of air under the wheels of the locomotive,
and she was almost instantly dragged
under the fast flying train. Her husband
seized her and he also was drawn under
the wheels.
B@s- Moses S. Terwillger, who chok-
ed his mother to death on the 10th inst,
has been lodged in the Kingston Jail,
and made full confession. He entered
her room in the middle of the night
and after killing her placed her body in
the cellar, and set fire to the premises
Some men endeavoring to enter the house
were met by the murderer, who knocked
one of them down with club. Terwil
Tiger has been insane for some time
/ His mother was SO wears old
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18

sG- On the 18th inst, young Ger
man woman applied for work at Chi
cago restaurant, and was employed
About midnight she went to bed in an
upper room with the hired help, Soon
after loud screams were heard from the
roof The proprietor rushed up and
found the girl on the floor almost uncon-
scious, and bleeding profusely. An ex-
animation showed that she had been stab
bed four times-once in the thigh, once
in the arm, and twice in the head. She
could give no explanation of the affair,
and did not know how it was done or who
committed the deed. The other inmates
Of the room were equally ignorant. The
whole affair is great mystery.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18
Paper Wheels,

A car company is running car on the
Chicago and Northwestern road with
what are called "paper wheels" The
wheels have steel tires and cast iron hubs,
and the paper is introduced in the way
of filing under the tires, for the purpose
of deadning sound and diminishing the
force of concussion. According to the
" National Car Builder" the wheels have
been running since July last, under this
car, and had been in use some four months
previously. The paper device is said to
be superior to wood for the purpose desig-
mated, being stronger and lighter, and free
from knots, grain or sap. 1t does not ex-
pand or contract, but remains in the con-
ditiop in which it is put in the wheels
withsht liability of change. 1t is cheaper
than wood, and can be made fire and water
proof by asbestos. 1t is, as substitute
for wood, adapted to variety of uses,
especially in the way of ornamentation.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18

rE- A dispatch from Hartford dated
the 10th inst, says:
An evident error has been discovered
in the return of votes from the Fourth
ward of New Haven, by which a hundred
more votes were returned for Governor
English than should have been.
This number was returned more than
was checked on the poll list, and the
Democratic State ticket was declared to
have like number of votes more than
the Representative ticket, while the Re-
publican State and Representative. tick
cts were about equal. wi
The matter will probably be fully inves-
tigated by the Legislature, and if the re-
turn is the result of mistake or traudu-
lent count, Jewell will be Governor.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-18

Years OF Experience have proved that
Rohrer's Tonic Bitters are the only bitters
that can be relied on as an invigorator, for
debility resulting from spring changes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-09-07
what Grhnt Whispered to Lee.

When Lee and Grant met at the
house of Mr.. Mclean, near Apo
mattox Court House, to arrange for
the capitulation of the army OF North
ern Virginia, an incident occurred
which has remained unexplained for
over six years. The terms Of the
proposed surrender were discussed
freely and openly. Drawing his chair
mp to that Of the Confederate chief
tain, Grant whispered few earnest
words in the ear of Lee. A naughty
shake of the head from the latter,
and brief answer in undertone, evi-
IDENTIFY of peremptorily negative or
der was noticed by those in atten-
dance. The import of that bit of
mysterious by-play has just been fur
nished for the first time. In the Au-
gust number of Old and New, Ed
ward a. Pollard, the historian of the
Confederacy, reveals the secret. The
whispered confab was nothing less
than proposition from Grant that
Lees soldiers should then and there,
subscribe to the oath of allegiance,
in which event the Federal satrap
guaranteed that they should be re-
stored, on the spot, to all the rights,
privileges and immunities of Ameri-
can citizens.
If a long and bitter subsequent
experience of Grants audacity had
not blunted the countrys tenderness
in the matter Of being snubbed, over
ridden, and l;lshed, this astounding
declaration might be expected to Gre
ate profound sensation. By what
right paid military servant OF the
nation should arrogatc to himself the
functions oil Congress and President,
perhaps the fuming Radical newspa-
pers that raised su h howl Of an
suish over the famous negotiation,
between Generals Sherman and John
sron, few days later, will now rise
and explain. Chicago Times.
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A COOP JoLE.-A rich joke is told
of Tim Murphy, of Atlanta, now
dead, which is too good to be lost.
Tim was travelling on the West
Point Road, on q train controlled by
Conductor Moore and Engineer Buice.
One night, about two o'clock, the
train ran into large embankment Of
dirt, usually called a slide, by rail
road men and miners, which com
pletely upset everything, to the inju-
~ OF many passengers, including all
ages, colors and sizes, The conduct
or and engineer, neither being injur-
ed, was going the rounds to see the
extent Of the disaster. They found
the passengers piled out in utter con-
fusion, one badly suspended from a
window by her crinoline, following
in a mournful voice for help, who was
rescued.
Next they came to Tim Murphy,
who was going on at a mournful rate.
Well" says Conductor Moore,
:" how are you. getting along"
"Oh!" says Tim: Scalded, scald-
ed-badly scalded !" Upon exami-
nation, they found that the cooler,
containing ice water. had upset its
contents upon Tim and 50 great was
his fright, that he imagined he was
badly scalded.
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How TO Ger RICH. Josh Billings
ought to have this secret. But hes
a little late, and so we fix it up for
him. as contribution for his next
" Allminax. A couple of 4uneduca-
ted but apparently well-to-do Boston
men, in active business, on Saturday
last, came together upon busy street
corner, where for few minutes they
had a red-hot chat over some trivial
business matter. The pith of the
thing was this: One had been doing
something for the other, and to get
even for his work, had sent in his
bill, which was regarded as rather
steep. After a little savage and
rather profane talk. the man who
had done the work Strengthened
himself out and sugared the thing off
into a bit of Josh philosophy,
and in a very cool but dignifed man
ner said to him interrogatively :
well, amt it better to be id
hog and get good pay for what you
10, than TO be good fellow and get
kicked from pillow to post p Il
that remark don't contain, in nut
she'll, the secret of success in busi-
ness, then what does Boston Her
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South Carolina PhOsphates.
TFrom the Washington Chronicle. ]

everal years ago an underlying
deposit was discovered around Char
leston, S. c., which, upon analysis,
WAS found to be phosphate rock, COM
posed largely of bones of extinct ami
mails and fishes. It's fertilizing quail
ties have lately made it prominent
among the commercial manures of the
day. The bones of mammoths, mas
tadons, megatheriums, nyladons, meg.
alonyxes, phocadons, and of several
extinct species of the saurian genus
are found in abundance. Bones and
teeth of horses, dogs, sheep, cattle,
and hogs are also found, mingled oc-
casionally with human bones, stone
hatchets, antique crocllery, &c. This
rock, when ground fine, is said to
equal calcined bone, having seven
per cent. OF organic animal matter,
highly nitrogenous, and Welding one
and a half per cent of ammonia.
Fifteen companies, with an aggre-
gate capital of over two millions, are
now engaged in manufacturing COM
,nercial fertilizers from this material
1t is ground fine and mixed With sui
phuric acid, which, by abstracting a
portion Of its lmy base, leaves it a
,uperphosphate, A little Peruvian
qnano adds greatly to its value. In
1867 FIVE tons of this manure were
shipped to Europe for experiment, in
1868 this export arose to thirty tons,
and in 1869 to 5000 tons. Compa-
MES are now shipping 1000 tons per
day, mostly to England. One com
pany has a contract to deliver 100000
tons. The State collects a duty of
one dollar per ton on the manufac-
tnred article
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DR. RAILWAYS
Perfect Purgative Pills

perfectly taseless, elegantly coated with sweet gum
purge, regulate, purify, cleanse. and strengthen
Railways Pills. for the Of all disorders of the
Stomach. Liver. Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous
diseases, Headache, Constipation Costiveness Indi
gcstion. Dyspepsia, Biliousness Bilious Fever. To-
fanmation Of The Bowels, and all Derangemens o
the internal Yiscera Warranted 10 effect positive
cure Purely Vegetable, containing no mercury
minerals. or dcclcrioHs drugs.
~ Observe the following symptoms resulting
from Disorders Of the Digestive Organs:
Constipation, Inward Piles Fulness Of the Blood
in the Head Acidily Of the Stomach Nauscn Heart.
burn, Disgust of Food. Fullness or Weight in the
Stomach. Sour Eructaons, Sinking or Fluttering al
the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming Of the Head
Hurried md Difficult Breathing.
A few doses Of RA JAYS PILLS will free the
system from all the above named disorders. Price,
25 cents per Box SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.
READ FALSE AND TRUE" Send one lette~'
stamp 10 RADWAY IL CO., No. 81 Maiden Lane
New York. Information worth thousands will be
sent you.
,Jlly 4 " 2S
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Ab0u Ben Butler.

Abou Ben Butler (may his: tribe de-
creasej
Awoke one night from deep dream of
And saw-iiluminated by the silver moon
And glistening like Course similesD a
spoon!-
A goblin writing in book of gold,
A fellow-feeling made Ben Butler bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
:" What writest thour' The vision raised
And, with squint peculiarly uncivil,
Answered, "The name of those who
serve the ID"
I" And is mineone!' r. said Butler; s"Well
guess SO"
Replied the demon. Butler muttered
Then louder,"If lou lei there's any doubt,
shrewd elf,
Write me as one who only serves him
The goblin wrote and vanished. The
next night
1t came, blue-gleaming with sulphur
Gus light,
And showed the names who served Old
Nick the best.
And 10! Ben Buffers name led all the
rncf
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Your House.

Be true to yourselfa at the start, young
man,
BE true to yourself and to God;
Ere you build your house, mark well the
spot,
Test ali the ground, and build you not
On the sand or the shaking sod.
Dig. dicthe foundation deep, young man,
Plant firmly the outer wall;
Let the props be strong and the roof be
high,
With an open turret toward the sky,
Through which heavens dews may fall
Let this be the room of the soul, young
man,
When shadows shall herald care:
y chamber with never a roof or thatch
TO hinder the Lighter door or latch
To shut in the spirits prayer!
Build slow and sure-tis for life, young
man,
A life that outlives the breath;
For who shall gainsay the holy word?
Their words do follow them," saith the
Lord,
"Therein there is no DEATH"
Build deep, and high, and broad. young
e. man,
Is the needful case demands;
Let your title deeds be clear and bright,
Till you enter your claim to the Lord of
light,
For the house not made with hands.
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Not One of Them Ar Sort.

At session of the Circuit Court
of Mississippi, at a county term, the
lawyers were in the habit of putting
up at house of entertainment kept
by buxom widow lady, Of a very
high sense of propriety and great
dignity of department. This lady
presided at the head of the table
during meals, and the place of honor
at her right hand was regarded as
due to the most staid, proper and
elderly member of the bar. BY
unanimous consent Of the. lawyers,
Colonel B-,a a very modest, dis
Greet and pious counsellor, was elect
ed for this distinction. Now, though
possessing many sterling virtues, Colo
mel B-possessed one weakness,
but it was not weakness of the
head or heart, but of the eyelids.
He had the habit of winking inces-
sanity and involuntarily, which, with
persons who did not know the cause
of it, left an unfavorable impression
of the Colonels seriousness and sin.
certify. -, 60
When on the first occasion the
Colonel took possession of the seat
nearest to mine hostess" his bland
and amiable expression and dignihed
address created quite favorable i'm
preston upon her ladyship. The
soup was over and the hostess began
to ply the Colonel with various
tempting dishes, all of which he &C
cepted or declined with a pleasant
smile, and with his invariable wink.
At last it was perceptible to the COM
pany that the hostess was eyeing aher
distinguished guest rather inquir-
ingly and significantly; these CLAN
ces were always met by the Colonel
with his usual smile and wink. FL
nallv, to the horror of the bar and
utter annlnilation of the worthy
Colonel, the hostess slapped the table
Indignantly with her right hand, and
fixing her eyes very pointedly and
fercely upon the objectof her wrath,
cried out at the top of her voice:
You sancti6ed, weazen faced old
villain, Illlet you know I'm not one
Of them ar sort :"
What might have followed this ex-
plosion of wrath it would be impos-
sible to conjecture, as the unfortunate
possessor of the weak eyelids de-
camped in haste from the seat of
honor, and he never after could be
persuaded to act the agreeable to
buxom widows. -
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study. Around that last refuge of
barbarism floats an atmosphere Of
taste and refinement in which the
pretty wife lives and moves and has
her being. And from this tone of
tie home grows the tone of society.
the social laws of good humor, OF
propriety, of self-restraint, of consld,
GRAFTON for others, Of gentleness, OF
vivacity. The very hush OF the
rough tones that thundered over Pc
loponnesus as Pericles bends over
Aspasia, the littleturnings and deleca-
cies of phrase, the joyous serfdoms
and idleness of the manifest and most
energetic of men, tells of the triumph
of pretty women.
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IN Otice.

TFHE undersigned. COTTON FAC
Il TORS, and GENERAL COMMITS
SION MERCHANTS, of Augusta, Geor-
gia, take pleasure in announcing to the
public generally and particularly to the
citizens Of Edgetield and djoining Coun-
ties Of South Carolina, that they have
associated with their firm, Capt LEWIS
JONES, of Edgefield County, S. c.. who
is duly authorized to receive and extend
orders, or transact any matter of business
connected with our House.
We earnestly solicit liberal share of
patronage, and guarantee full satisfaction
to our customers.
JENNINGS, SMITH q co. +
~ We have for Sale PURE PETIT
GULF COTTON SEED, at One Dollar
per Bushel.
Augusta, Mar. 29, 1871, If Is
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.uGGarcs of Pr. i!y !, onlen.

Life becomes more harmonious. il
; heats with Il keener pulse Of ENJOY
mcnt. in the presence Of pretty NO
men. After all, charming little
tisur.., . piqnant lite face, Is thv
best remedy lor halt the WORRIES II
eyistance, It's veXatiors It's dullneS
It's disappointrnents. And even III
the larger and more placid types OF
beauty OF Lady Dulabelle, if there
is q tinge OF stupidity, there is at any
rate, an atmosphere Of repose, al
genial influence, moulding our social
converse and habits into gentler
shapes.
lit is amusing to see how the pret-
tiness Of wonan tells on her dress,
how the order and propne y Of her
dress tells on The home. TIE pursuit
of beauty, the habit of Irettiness,
give an ideal dignity to the arrange
ment OF her bonnet strings. In every
movement, in the very sweep of her
ample folds in the pose of her Ian
guor, in the gay start of her excite
rnent, one feels the softening, har
monizing influence of her last look in
the glass She may be gay or sur-
rowful, quiet or energetic, but she
must be pretty. Beauty exercises an
imperceptible compulsion over her,
which moulds her own life into grace
full and harmonious form. Her dress
rises out of the mere clothing of man
into the rigions of science, OF poetry,
OF art. A thousand considerations of
taste, harmonies Of color, contrasts,
correspondencies, delic 4te adj djusslnents
of light and shade, dictate the choice
OF shawl or the tint of a glove.
And as prettiness tells on dress, ii
tells on the home Flowers, pictures,
the gay notes of a sonata, the choi-
cest, gorgeous hues of Indian tapes
try, glass-worll of Murano, a hundred
exquisite something's and nothlngs
are the natural setting of pretty wo-
men. The art OF the boudoir tells
on all but the chaos Of the husbands S
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Y. Richards & Bros.

pleasure offering regard
thai they buy their Goods for Cash thus getting all the
purchasing that house had successful the
twenty feel that their stock well suited the wants
And lgas they oil the ad
vanages their and much better than the
they those who buy of them for cash
They will few leading articles
They have DRESS GOODS of all descriptions from l2!c the
CALICOES from l2lc
PERCALES, at l6c, 20c and 25c -.s . .
The best BLACK ALPACAs offered market and from that
to the best.
PIQUEs from 2Oc to the finest
MOURNING GOODS of all descriptions
PLAIN CoLoRED STRIPED and CHECKED SILKS great variety
BLACK LLAMA and WHITE LACE POINTS ALSO many other style
BLACK Silk LAcEs EMBROIDERED BANDS LACE COLLARS
great variety NOTIONS FANCY ARTICLES TRIMMINGS RIBBONS
FANS, PARASOLS, CORSETS, HOOP SKIRTS &C.
TABLE DAMASK ToWEINGS NAPKINS MARSEILLES QUILTS
All the leading BEACHED GOODS DOMESTCS Linen and Cot
SHEETINGS &c,
Always superior Goods suited the of Gents
and BOYS X.
all which they respectfully
distance pay special attention Orders;
and send samples by mail when requested
They will the freight Goods when ordered from their Stock at
retail provided the ordered is $40 and Cash.
afford they fill the order leisure moments which is
and them worth the freight they pay and which they willing to
the customer thus placing the Goods their Depot Cheap if they lived
sending Orders trusting the judgment of the firm to make
that their best efforts will used trying
anything which the the
money will be refunded Give
" RICHARDS & Bros,
FREDERICKSBURG STORE
Corner bv the Planters Hotel
AUGUSTA, GA.
Augusta April l2 16
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English
TURNIP SEED.

w E have just received by Steamer
Africa, direct from England, the follow
ing kinds:
Early White FLAT DUTCH,
Red Globe LINCOLNSHIRE,
White Globe POMERANIAN,
Yellow Purple Top ABERDEEN,
Purple Top Bangholm RUTA BAGA,
Skirvin's Liverpool RUTA BAGA, +.
Bronze Top Improved RUTA BAGA.
For sale by nj,
MOORE & co.,
235 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
Aug2 I'm 50