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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13
1S III
WHEAT SEEDING.

COMPOSED of 100 pounds of No. Peruvian
~ Guano, and 300 pounds of Soluble
Phosphate of Lime (bones dissolved in sulphu-
ric acid, potash and soda, forming the most
concentrated, universal and durable fertilizer
ever offered to the farmer-combining all the
stimulating qualities of Peruvian Guano, and
the ever durablefertilizing properties of Ground
Bones.
Excelsior is in fine dry powder, prepared ex-
pressly for drilling, and can be applied in any
quantity per acre, however small and it is the
opinion of many close calculating Farmers;
after TWELVE years experience in testing it
side by side with other popular fertilizers that
an application of 100 pounds of Excelsior is e
quail to 200 to 300 pounds of any other fertiliz-
er or guano offered for sale, therefore is fully
100 to 200 per cent. cheaper.
gsg- The uery best evidence zoe can offer Of the
Ualue Of our Excelsior as a crop gro,oer and fer
tilizer is the fact Of its being initiated and cou-
terfeited in this and other cities.
rs Farmers should see that every bag is
branded as above, the ANALYSIS and our
name in RED LETTERS. All others are
counterfeits.
Price $50 per Ton.
J.J TURNER Il CO..
AZ Pratt Street, Baltimore, Md.
FOR SALE BY
R.M. LAWSON, Alexandria, Va, and JOHN A.
BAKER, Washington, d. G.
all 4-3m
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13

WE are authorized to announce ROBERT
F" -DIGGES, ST., as candidate for re-elec-
ton as Judge of the Orphans Court subject to
fte acton of the Democratic and Conservative
Nomipat;up Convention. aug 25-tf
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13
TO FARMERS.
Pacific Guano Company's Soluble
Pacific Gnano.

The attention of Farmers and other consuEn-
ers of Fertilizers is invited to this Guano, ~
worthy of their especial notice. Its use for sew.
eral years in Maryland. Virginia and other
Southern States fol. all crops, has given =
standard character Tor excellence unequalled By
ahy other. 1t possesses all the quickness Of Re.
ruvian Guano, With permanent qualities not
found in that article. $50 lbs. of this Guano ase
found more than equal to 800 lbs. of the best Do.
perphospbates. It ripens the crop from fee 70
screen day. earle; than shs hso:gsa: Which
For sale by JOHN s. REESE Co.,,
General Agents for Pacific Guano Co..
sep6-2m No. 10 South St., Baltimore, Md.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13

WE are authorized to announce RICHARD
w T. TUBMAN as a candidate for Judge of
the Orphans Court. sep 29-tf
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13
Alexandria Market, Oct. 9, 1871.

Alexandria Market, Oct. 9, 1871.
FLOUR, Super6ne .............$ 6 81 (9 81
Extra ....................". I so a.. Z IS
Family. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. so Ca) 90
Family choice......"....... 90 (9 so
BUTTER, prime. rs G p
GRAIN
WHEAr.-Offerings of ls4 bushels white and
1874 red, with sales of the former at l62 cts,
and of the latter at l35a146 for fair to good
155a16O for good to prime and l65al66 for
choice.
CoRN-Corn is dull; offerings of Ala BUSH
els mixed, with sales at 8la62 Its.
RYE.-No sales.
OATs.-Sales at So cts.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13

T ANNOUNCE myself candidate for Judge
i of the Orphans Court for Charles County.
sep 22-te. JOHN F. GARDINER.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13
FOR ORPHANS, COURT.

WE are authorized to announce DR.. STOU-
w TON w. DENT as candidate for re-
election as Judge of the Orphans Court.
oct 6-tf.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13

WE are authorized to announce Major
w WILLIAM B. STONE as a candidate
for Judge of the Orphans Court.
sep 29-tf
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13

w E are authorized to announce RICHARD
w BARNES, ST., as candidate for re-elec-
ton as Judge of the Orphans Court.
sep 29-f
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-13

WE are authorized to announce GEORGE
w P. JENKINS as a candidate for Judge
of the Orphans Court. [sep 29-tf
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
Gbe Grimes, Mem Bloonr6elo, 1)a.
One of the SWindlers,

We find in the New York Sun the fol
lowing account of one of the swindlcrs who
are constantly sending letters and circulars
throughout the country.
"Gaius W Hubbard, Jr., came to this
city about ten years ago from Harmony,
near Providence r. l. He is usually sue
cessful in his undertakings, and has accu-
lated fortune. Some of his friends rate
him as high as 800, 900. One of his first
extensive ventures in New York was at
III Broadway, under the name of Hubbard
Bros.
This was pinchbeck watch store, in
which he made money, chiefly robbing the
soldiers who were then fighting their coun-
try's battles. He soon appears at 112
Broadway as T. g. II. Langhan. Here he
was very fortunate but the swindling be-
ing very extensive, and the place growing
too warm for him, he placed it in the hands
Of q kindred spirit, and soon appeared as
Wright Bros. & Bo., 1GS Broadway, where
he did an extensive business for some time,
but was finally cleared out by the police.
One of his swindles here was really inge-
NOUS. He received large sums of money
through the mail, in advance of course, in
payment of the goods which he pretended
to sell. lie employed an old man of high
ly respectable address, whose business it
was to keep book in which all mail pack
ages were registered and checked when
sent. When the old gentleman had check
ed off q lot as having been mailed, another
man in Hubbard's confidence took them
out seemingly to the post-ofice, but return
ed with them all by another door to Hub
bard's private office. In that way q very
profitable business was done on few dol
lars worth of fifty-cent watches, and the
old man could swear to the delivery of the
goods.
Soon after the police had retired Wright
Bro. & Co. from business, Hubbard apear-
cd as Hickey 81 Co., at 20G Broadway.
This concern was of the same general char
acter as the others. All were in fact, the
same thing under these and many other
names. Hubbard usually has number of
swindling concerns under different names
running at the same time, of which the
above are only few specimen tricks. He
lives in splendid style in his own house in
Elliott place, only door Or two from Fort
Greene, Brooklyn, but is not able to frater-
nize with the people Of that aristocratic
quarter. He recently went extensively into
the sawdust business, and is said to be
reaping a rich harvest.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
A Child's Suicide,

The Alexandria, Va, Gazette, mentions
the novel suicide of II little girl twenty-one
months of age, the child of Mr. William
beavers, about nine miles below Alexhn-
dria, ON the Pohick road The child held
her breath while in pet, as children fire.
quently do, and died, although she was
perfectly well before the crying fit. An
effectual way to prevent unfortunate re-
suits of this kind is to throw cold water in
the face of the child as soon as it begins to
hold its breath The shock of the water
will make it gasp, and necessarily force it
to take breath, as well as divert attention
from the fit of anger.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
A Fine Snrlnr.

An exchange says: In Blair county in
this State, there is u spring which at its
source pours out volume of water which
is sufficiently large to turn saw-mill and
which after running ON the surface of the
ground for two or three hundred yards dis
appears entirely from view, beneath an inn
mense arch of limestone. 1t is called the
Arch Spring, and is regarded as a great
curiosity. Picnic parties from adjacent
towns resort there during the summer, the
surrounding country being beautiful, and
the water of the spring as cold as ice.-
The cave into which the stream runs and
disappears, has been explored to the depth
Of half a mile, but never to its terminus.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
Freaks of lightning.

a mule and dog in n stable in Phila-
delphia were last week killed by the cleo
trio fluid. The hoofs of the mule were
torn off. The building was not in the least
injured. 1t is supposed that the lightning
struck the ground near the stable and pas
sed under the door spending its force on
the animals.
There was recently very miraculous
escape from death near Rondout New
York. Mrs. Thomas Weed was lean
ing from the front window of her residence
when fearfully loud and startling peal of
of thunder shook the earth, and simultane-
ously everybody in the vicinity was blinded
with lightning. The fluid descended on
Mrs. Weeds house, splitting open the case
ment of the window out of which she was
leaning, tearing her chignon from her head
and, scattering hair and hair pins in every
direction, continued on its course through
the cellar, and thence into the back yard,
where it shivered plank walk to atoms.
Mrs. Weed though stunned, was unhurt.
During thunder shower one evening this
spring, a Eastwood tree on the farm of Mr.
Elisha Baldwin, of Goshen, Conn, was
struck by lightning, and the fluid passed
down through swarm of bees, scattered
the honey comb and bees in all directions.
The tree was torn to pieces. Mrs. Baldwin
picked up pail full Of white honey comb,
but no honey.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

eB" An important suit has just teimina =
ted at Brooklyn, N. Y, that settles some
points of responsibility incurred by bank
directors "A bank in that city failed some
months since, and failed to pay a depositor
who had left with them $4,000, in full
faith III the solvency of the bank. The
directors are charged with having declared
and paid dividend when they knew the
bank was in perilous condition, A de-
murrer was put in to this complaint. The
court overuled it and decided that the de-
PENDANTS were liable, and that the directors
of the bank, in declaring and paying the
dividend in express terms asserted the
solvency of the institution. II is whole
some principle of law that "no one shall
be at liberty to SOW falsehood broadcast
without being made responsible for the loss
it causes" The decision is an important
one, and might be extended to include many
like cases, for example where insurance is
granted by companies who know they are
ON the verge Of damaging exposure or of
ruin. How far will this principle of respon-
sibility extend to the directors and manag-
ers of other corporations than banks, who
give their sanction TO borrowing money
with which to pay dividends they know
have not been earned, thus giving a ficti-
tious value TO the stocks?
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

gB- The Washington "Chronicle" tells
the story of n victim of the old slave code
who had just returned to the city after an
absence of twenty-eight years. He was
compelled to fly from the country for as
sisting slaves to escape by means of the un-
derground railroad, and sought refuge in
South America, where he remained until
a yearning to visit his old home brought
him back. Upon arriving in Washington
he learned that eight years after his flight
his wife, considering him dead, had con-
tracted another marriage, and what was sin
gular enough, that the second husband,
with whom his wife had lived happily for
twenty years, had died upon the very night
of his return. The name of the man is
james Harris, and he is now about sixty
years of age.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

rs" An instance of sharp practice in re-
gard TO the principal witness in an arson
case is reported by the Syracuse papers.
This witness, having given some very dam
aging evidence in preliminary examina-
tion, was persuaded that he had lost his
senses, and actually induced to apply for
admission to the Utica Lunatic Asylum.
In the absence of DR.. Gray, he was admit
ted ! but the Doctor on his return repudi-
ated the idea that he was otherwise than
sane. Notwithstanding the Doctors YER
dict, the parties engaged in this transaction
have made point, for it is not likely that
jury would attach much weight to the evil
dence of man who is SO weak-minded as
to allow himself to be persuaded he is a
lunatic.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

Us The Sheriff Of Charleston S. c., re-
fuses to receive any more prisoners into the
county Jail until he is supplied with money
to pay the expense of keeping them. He
says that the county already owes him $12,-
600 for the board of prisoners, and that he
has exhausted his personal credit in buy
ing food for them. Nevertheless, the Court
of Common Pleas has decided that the law
requires him to continue to receive pris-
oners and provide for them, as one of the
duties of his Office. What would be done
to him if he should let them starve to death
is not mentioned.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

I5Y" Another horrible outrage of the
Ku-Klux is reported in North Carolina. 1t
was an attempt to intimidate minister of
the Gospel A negro preacher in Lincoln
county has received the following anony-
nous letter:
REV. AND DEAR SIR : You must either
quit preaching or quit stealing hogs.
X. X. X.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

G53~ In some things the Western and
New States are in advance of the older ones.
As an instance of this we see that Texas
has passed compulsory education law
which demands four months attendance
each year of call the scholastic population.
The law provides that when the harmony
and success Of the schools appear to require
it, separate institutions may be established
for the black and white children.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

The Elmira Advertiser says: Almost if
not quite year ago, some half dozen or
more of young lads and misses, all of them
members of the families of our most repu-
table citizens, took it into their heads to be
married. Whether it was premeditated
affair, considered as joke, or was n wild
freak of a moment when they were all col
lected together, and each one more or less
excited to it by the presence Of the others,
we cannot say, but the ceremony was pri
vately and secretly performed for each
couple, and they were really and truly mar =
riad.
That many of them consider it merely a
joke is borne out by the fact that, after the
performance, each returned to his or her
home. AS time passed along, one after
another two or three confessed their stua-
ton and their conduct to their surprised
and saddened parents, and the marriage,
which is said TO be q legal, and binding one
on all in these gases, was acknowledged.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

THE terrible calamity by which about
twenty persons lost their lives in Il coal
mine at Pittston, ON the 27th ult., has been
thoroughly investigated by a coroncr's jury.
They report that the mine was operated by
only one shaft so that in case of fire, all
escape was shut off. They also severely
reflect on the operators, and on the Inspec-
tor, who knew that the mine was operated
in violation of the law passed in 1870, for
the protection of the miners.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

n5S" The little mining town of Aubern,
Colorado, hasa tantalizing mystery. During
the last eighteen months various Cinnamon
have brought into the village and sold
chunks Of pure gold, varying in value from
$50 to $500, which seemed to have been
roughly chopped off from solid mass.
Where they come from nobody knows ; but
their character indicates that the Cinnamon
have found somewhere pretty considera-
bic mass of pure metal from which they
from time to time, visit.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

G8Y" Andy johnson made speech at
Knoxville, in East Tennessee, on Saturday.
He went squarely for reputation of the
national debt. "No nation" he said, ''has
ever yet paid any large public debt without
reputation. The debt contracted in the
Revolutionary War was nearly all repudi-
ated, and we have no right to make the
present debt permanent, He proposed
that the payments of interest, instead of
being applied on that account, should be
reckoned as so much paid on the principal,
and in this way the whole debt could be
wiped out in sixteen years. This is rather
a long period for such an operation. What
is the use of protracting it to such an
extent? While you are repudiating your
debt, you may just as well do it all at once
as be sixteen years about it.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PENN'A.
Tuesday, June 8, 1871.

15Y Peter Schwab, of Hamilton, Ohio, one
of the judges at last falls election, has
been held in $4, 900 to answer to the charge
of stuffing the ballot box.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
5 90 VOLUMES IN ONE
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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

"a" Judge Bowling, of New York, SEN
fenced the prize fighters Collins and Ed
wards to the penitentiary for twelve months
each, and to pay fine of a thousand dol
lars, the sentence to continue, in default of
fine, for another twelve months. The UNI
pire, Thomas M'Alpine, was arrested and
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six
MONTHS imprisonment and fine of $500.
The court was crowded, and when Collins
and Edwards were being removed, de-
monstration of sympathy was evinced, but
it was quickly suppressed.
For this action Justice Bowling deserves
the thanks Of the entire community. A
few instances of such prompt and efficient
punishment will do much towards breaking
up these brutal exhibitions We trust 9TH
er officers will, when similar offences are
committed, follow this worthy example.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06
Singular Effect OF a Poison.

Thomas Lyon, lad ID years of age, is
employed in the factory of Stephens, Rob
erts & Havel, in Philadelphia. lie has
manifested an early love for strong drink.
Recently, in prying about the place, he
found bottle containing what he supposed
to be liquor, but which was in reality moth
ing but gold solution, used for gliding pur-
poset, and which is a deadly poison.
The boy drank the contents, and in
short time began to feel the effects of the
poison, and exhibited symptoms of mad
ness. He took refuge in an outhouse, and
from thence fled to the roof of q shed near
by, where he thought no one could see him.
He was finally captured, and from his wild
talk it was learned what he had talen.-
He was taken to the Office of DIR. Cross,
where emetics were given him, and it is be-
lieved he is now out of danger.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-25
The Striped Bug.

The editor of the Germantown Tsle
graph thus gives his method of protect
ing cucumber. melon and other vines
from the depredations Of the striped
bug, which, he says, after several years
trial has proved complete success.
Instead Of aiming to drive away the
insect BY SCOT, ashes, &c, we pet it or
rather furnish it with food better than
the young melon and cucumber plants.
We sow around each hill at the time Of
each planting few radish seed, and
coming up about the same time, the
tops supply pasture for the bug which
,hs much prefers to the vines. Lettuce
will also answer, but the radish israther
liked the best While our vines are un.
touched by making this little provision
for it, the. young radish tops are com
pletely perforated. Should this fail
which is seldom the case, and has never
been with us-sprinkle the vines with a
solution of whale oil soap and water.
No other insect but the curculio can
stand this soap. Where this prepare
ton is not attainable, weak solution
OF carbolic disinfectant soap will answer
as well" ...
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-25
cos.e-I., Use a. . Di,infectant.

Coffee is one Of the best disinfectants
known. While chlorid Of lime and
similar substances produce q smell that
is almost as disagreeable as the stencil
sought to be destroyed, coffee is almost
as effcacious, and leaves a smell that is
delightful to all. Experiments with it
show, in one case, that room in which
meat in an advanced state Of decompo-
sition had been kept for some time, was
instantly deprived of all smell on an
open coffee rooster being carried through
it, containing pound Of coffee newly
roasted. In another room, exposed to
the effiuyiunf occasioned by the clearing
out Of a manure pit 80 that sulphuretted
hydrogen and ammonia in great quaint
ties could be chemically detected, the
stencil was completely removed in half
q minute, on the employment Of three
ounces Of fresh coffee, while the other
parts of the house were permanently
cleared of the same smell BY being sim
ply traversed with the coffee roaster'
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-25

THw Michigan Farmer, Detroit, has
this about top.dressing:
"IIere is a farm that few years ago
would hardly raise feed enough on five
acres to keep single head of neat
stock. By means OF tile-draining and
top-dressing, the heaviest crops Of clover
and grass are now being raised, and a
field of clover that had been sown last
year promised a crop that would yield
at the rate Of two and a half tons to
three tons per acre from the first cut
ting. 1t was solid mass of vegetation
that a mouse could hardly find its way
into. The manure on this farm is
soaked at all seasons when wanted with
the liquid-manure from the yards and
barns, and this is applied as top
dressing to the grass-felds."
We know Of lot containing an acre
upon which the growth Of grass was
raised from less than half ton to over
two tons an acre by the spreading, for
three years, of eight loads of manure
annually.