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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
4 JIIted WOmnn ThroMInr Yitriol.

Maggie Dehl, apparently twenty-five
years old, was arrested yesterday morning
for throwing vitriol on Felix Kennedy, con-
ductor of street car. The girl, who is a
fine looking young woman, says she had
been engaged to be married to Kennedy,
and he had broken his promisog Kennedy
says that Miss Dehl got in the car and took
a seat. He had been told she intended to
injure him, and was on his guard. She
drew a vial of vitriol from her pocket and
threw the contents upon him. Raising his
hands, he saved his eyes, but his face and
neck were burned. His overcoat was de-
stroyed He put her off the car, when she
was taken into custody by Special Officer
Cook, who took her to the Middle District
station. Other evidence showed that Henry
II. Rogers, druggist who was passenger
in the car, received portion of the acid on
his face and neck, burning him severely,
but he quickly got out of the car and went to
drug store near by, and applied oil to the
burns, thereby preventing more serious re-
suits. Prau Wells, also passenger, had
his pantaloons sprinked and eaten in holes
by the acid. At the station it was discov-
cred that the young woman also had re-
ceived injury from the destructive acid
which she had scattered about so recklessly.
Some of it had got into her left eye. DR..
Reynolds, who was called in to attend her,
thought at first that the sight would be de.
stroyed, but last night had hopes of saving
the organ.-BdhimOre Sun of the 22nd inst.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
supposed Mnrder. in Monnt JOY.

On Monday night shooting scene oc-
CURED in Mount Joy, Lancaster county,
which may have fatal termination in the
case Of one Of The parties. The Lancaster
Erpress of Tuesday gives the following ac-
count of the affair It seems there has been
some Ill feeling between Harry Gallagher
and Francis Schlegelmilch for some time,
and last night they met at the time and
place mentioned, and after some angry
words Gallagher drew revolver and fired
its contents at Schlegelmilch, the bullet en-
tering on the left side Of the nose and pen
etrating to the back of the head, where at
last accounts it was still lodged. AS the
wounded man staggered Gallagher raised
his weapon, it is said, and was about to fire
a second shot, when he was knocked down
by a man named Drabenstadt. Schlegel-
milch was carried into Imhoff's and Gal
lagher was marched to the Office of Squire
Sellers. The latter, desiring to know the
exact nature of the mans wounds, stepped
down to Imhoff's leaving Gallagher at his
office; but when he returned 'the bird
had flown" and has not since been heard of
although kilograms have been sent to the
police in all our neighboring cities. The
Drs. Ziegler were summoned to attend
Schlegelmilch and probed for the bullet but
could not find it. Up to the hour of this
writing twelve o'clock midday - the
wounded man is still living but it is be-
lieved to be in a critical condition.
Mr.. Schlegelmich is one of the parties
charged with fraud in the late republican
primary election, and Mr.. Gallagher is a
son of Captain Gallagher, the well-known
auctioneer of Mount Joy. The respecta-
bility of the family connections of both
parties to this sad affair adds painful in-
terest to it," Later accounts say the injured
man will probably recover.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
Attempt to Tow an Island.

The Duluth Tribune of Nov. 49, says
"On Tuesday last strange sight was to
be seen in our inner harbor, few rods be-
low the canal. 1t was nothing more
nor less than attempt of two strong
tugs to tow an island, nearly two acres in
extent out into the lake
All who have visited our city have ad-
mired the charming little islands, heavily
covered with trees, shrubbery and foliage,
with which our. bay is dotted, and very
skeptical have they been when told that
those islands are " floating islands," and
that during very severe winds they not un-
frequently change their locations, and that
during the past few years several of those
which formerly adorned our bay have been
driven across the sheet of water and lodged
against and "grown to" Minnesota Point.
These statements, though rather marvel
Gus, were nevertheless true; and an in
stance of the migratory character of these
islands occurred during the terrible gale of
last Saturday night, and island embracing
nearly two acres in extent, being torn from
its moorings near Rice's Point on the
western side of the bay, and carried clear
across the bay to Minnesota Point, where
it lodged just this SIDE Of the dry docks of
w. w. Allen & Co.
On Tuesday two tugs endeavored to tow
this island out through the canal into the
lake, but after working for long time,
they gave it up, we believe, as a bad job,
at least we notice that it is still there.
This island is kind of boggy tamarack
swamp formation, has black, spongy soil,
and contains large grove of pine, tama-
rack and cedar trees = besides thick
growth of underbrush. What Messrs. AL
! len & Co. will do with their island we do
not know, but we are safe in saying that
they have couple of acres of real estate
which they would sell cheap and on long
| time.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
Terrible Railway Accidents in England

The sexpress train on branch of the
Great Western Railway was thrown from
the track near Woodstock last week, and
precipitated down anembapkment. an Several
of the carriages fell into the canal skirting
the road, and sixteen of the passengers
were drowned. Later reports say
Thirty persons were killed and fifty
wounded by the railroad accident at Wood
stock last week. Some of the latt er are
fatally injured. All have been conveyed
TO Oxford.
London, December GA collision be-
tween two railway trains occurred this
morning at the town of Blackburn, Lanca-
shire. Several persons were killed and in
jured. A collision also occurred this morn
ing on the railway at Dudley Worcester
shire. There was no loss of life, but many
persons were severely hurt.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
Too1 Rad.

Mr.. Daniel Moseart of Ann Arbor, Mich,
well known watch inventor, has been la
boring for years upon avery intricate watch,
which, without being of any larger size
than usual, was to show quarter seconds,
seconds, minutes, hours, days Of the week,
and of the month, and month of the year.
Every flth time the watch was opened, II
was to wind itself. II appears that Mr..
Moseart had completed his model, so that
Il worked successfully and had received a
large offer from parties for the exclusive
right to manufacture. Some slight trouble
in the works neoessitated taking them to
pieces but on attempting to put them TO-
gether again, the inventor found himself
unable to do so--some Of the very delicate
portions probably having beoomeloAt The
intense mental application over the diff
Guilty resulted in delangement Of the mind,
aud it was found necessary TO remove the
unfortunate man to the insane asylum, as
a confirmed lunatie.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
Tragedy on Board a Ship.

The Angle Brazilian Times of November
21st says On October 2Sth, tragedy oc-
Cured on board the American ship King
Phillip from Baltimore for California un-
dergoing repairs. At $50 p. m. the master
on going aboard found the steward, Alfred
III, Jackmah, an Englishman dead, three
seamen severely wounded and two mates
fighting desperately on the quarter deck
He tried to separate them but his efforts
seemed only to exasperate them more and
at last ne went to the United States steam
er Lancaster, from whence force was sent
that secured the two mates, who were af-
terwards handed over to the Brazilian au-
thorities, According to the evidence taken
the first mate, W. p. Byrne, got drunk
and quarreled with the steward, whom he
killed with shots and blows, and then at
tackled the other four men on board, three
Of whom he prostrated with shots, and was
engaged in life and death struggle with
the third mate, when the captain arrived.
The cook happened TO 60 on board during
tho fight, but escaped by the cable to q
neighbOring island si aa. .v44.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
Another Dam Accident.

Haydenville, Mass. Dec. 19.-Hayden,
Gere & Co.'s dam broke away near the
centre to-day, and two-thirds of the struc-
ture was swept away. The large body of
water covered with ice ten inches thick
rushed down the stream with cracking
noise similar to that made by the food of
May last down the same pathway. There
were seventy-five or more children skating
on the pond, all Of whom were saved. The
children on the ponds below Haydenville
had warning in time to escape, and there
was no loss of life. The new dam was
built to replace the one swept away last
May, and but recently completed. The
water side Of the dam was faced with
cement, while each end was fianked with
heavy parapet walls eighteen feet high
Tb' bulkhead was of granite, and was
twelve feet high and ten feet wide 10 the
clear. The loss is about $9,000
The cotton mill dam, about half a mile
below Hayden, Gere & Co.'s dam, held the
water and the ice from the pond Of the lat
ter, and prevented any further destruction
of life or property below. The mill dam
as one of the strongest on the river. A por.
'tien of It was carried away by the May
flood, and has since been thoroughly re,
Daired HTTr hs ra
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
A Good Tran.

The Charlottesville (Va.) Republican" !"
says A gentleman in Louisa county, one
night last week, hearing noise about his
corn house, and seeing what he supposed
to be man, fired, killing him instantly
Upon closer examination, he discovered
that the man he shot at was sitting upon a
lever which had been inserted in crack,
and the house bodily lifted up while two
others were in the cracks getting out the
corn. A still closer examination revealed
the horrifying fact that, as the first man
fell from the lever, the house had closed
down upon the unfortunate wretches,
MASKING the life out of them Thus the
three men all lost their lives in an instant
in trap which they themselves had set
They were all negroes.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
A WOman's Head In q Tin Box.

Some woodchoppers near Nashua, N. H.,
one night last week discovered tin box
with the head Of an old woman in 1t, the
skull having been crushed and her neck
severed with some sharp instrument. II
had probably been there some six months
but. as no one is missing in that vicinity,
the affair is a mystery. eai oiNat
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29

THE man has been found who wants tho
income tax restored. His name is Lough-
bridge, member of Congress from Iowa,
and he has introduced bill to restore that
tax. His term expires next March, and
probably he wants to be Revenue Col
lector.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
Twenty Miners Killed.

An explosion occurred in Begnall Hail
OOlliery, North staaordahire, Eng .,last week,
and twenty miners killed. Thirteen bodies
have been taken out.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-12-29
QUE CLUR RATES.


THE house committee on appropriations
agreed to the bill appropriating $50, 900 for
defraying the expenses of entertaining
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich islands.
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NOTICE.

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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02
Administrators Notice.

All persons having demands against the Es-
tate of Aaron Shirley, deceased, will present
them to me, duly attested, within the time
prescribed by law.
JAMES II. MCCONNELL, Admir-
June %, 1874 so 3
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02
May II, 1874
THE BROWN COTTON GIN.

THE attention of planters and others is again
called to the above old and reliable make OF
Cotton Gins They are furnished this year
greatly improved, and nothing which an expe-
rience of thirty years in their manufacture
could suggest has been left undone to make
them the most reliable and perfect Cotton Gin
in market. AS the result of our efforts we
need only refer to their established reputation
and widespread popularity. For PERFECTION
OF WORKMANSHIP, STRENGTH, DURABILITY,
LIGHT RUNNING, QUANTITY and QUALITY OF
LINT PRODUCED we challenge competition.
We are prepared to WdT'rdnt to any reasonable
extent pe,ject satisfaction to every planter or
operator. The Gins arc sold at the lowest pos
sible prices for good machines, and on reason
able terms. We invite examination OF the
samples in the hands of our local agents, VINO
will give all desired information and furnish
applicants with circulars and copies of COM
mandatory letters from parties using the Gins III.
in all sections Of tho cotton planting country.
Circulars, Price Lists, and other information,
may be obtained of our agents or by addressing
THE BROWN COTTON GIN CO.,
New London, Conn.
w. s. SHARPE. Ag't., Anderson, S. c.
May II, 1874 Al om
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02
THE IMPROVED
Home Shuttle Sewing Machine.

rENHIS Machine docs the same kind of work
Il as any high-priced Machine, making the
Lock STITCH, and using q straight needle
Tho price Of the "Homc shuttle places it
within the reach of all persons who are need
ing Machines, and can't afford to pay for a
high-priced Machine.
CHINE, than which there is no better high
priced Machine in the country. Both of these
Machines are warranted by the company. who
manufacture them for five years, and if any
part fails from any imperfection during that
time, said part will be supplied free of cost.
Prices Of 'Home"-from $50 to $l25. Prices
of Homo Shuttle from $25 to $50.
For samples of work and circulars, address
A. 81 L. BACON, Agents for Greenville and
adjoining Counties.
Local Agent Anderson, S. c.,
At Dental Office, over N. X. Sullivan Il Co.
Agents wanted to whom libcral commits
sions will be given.
March 5, 1874 81 ly
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02
Don Piatt in q Sleeping Car.

Don Piatt, writing of a journey from Wash
ington to New York in sleeping car,
We were swinging away in the midst of
dreams when we were again disturbed. This
time soft voice said:
81 beg pardon, sir, but you are IN my
BERTH"
"Sorry to learn it my sweet sir" we respon-
ded "for have not the remotest idea OF vaca-
ting"
'And why not, sir" 49,,
because O claimant! consider my title
good. For and in consideration of two dollars
Inflated currency purchased ticket marked
NO T. With this ticket was given posses
sion."
"But it is my berth and I want it."
"Man wants but little here below, nor wants
that little long" ::
"My name is not Long, sir; my name is
Stebbins."
sStebbins, have you a card about you?"
'What has that to do with this berthT :,
Nothing, Stebbins, nor have YOU, But don :
be profane. / quote you hymns and words or
solemuess. Now will not vacate. I have ar
ranged myself for sleep. have divested my
self of some clothing. Do you suppose for a
moment that will descend and make an inde-
cent exhibit of my suspenders to that fair lady
sitting opposite? Shame on you Stebblns:
am astonished-I may say, Stebbins, am dis
gusted." .,
'But what am I to do, I'd like to knowW -.
"Well, l don't know, Steb., unless you sit all
night on the water-basin."
II won't stand it, /"
'I don't ask you, Steb. You can sit There
are several good places to sit"
"Now, don't want to be trihed with in this
way-will you give me my berth %
''Really, Stebbins, you wound me. If my
talk seemed trifing apologize I withdraw
the talk. But see here, Steb., have a private
reason for remaining as / am. Come closer,
friend, let me tell you confdentially. I dis
covered a hole in the heel of my left stocking
would you have me expose that to the crowd %
'I am not an impatient man, sir; don't
want to quarrel-I am Christian, | hope. l
come on as a delegate to the Episcopal Evan
gelcal Association, now"
At this moment the free and independent
citizen of previous condition of servitude in
charge of the sleeper came to US.
"What's de matter wild bofeyou gents, eh?" he
asked, and we explained. The colored speci.
men of civil rights, late ward of the lamented
Sumner, took Stebbins ticket, and said solemn
"Why, boss, dis call for No. 8. Come dis
way"
And Evangelical Christianity, led by Africa
disappeared. 1t is our private opinion, and WE
express it with pain, that the said Stebbins
delegate, aforesaid, was intoxicated: We can,
not believe that he was so low in the scale OF
one Drained humanity as not to know, in his
normal condition, ''9" from a "7" Yes steb
bins was drunk. We are prepared to make
affidavit to this deplorable fact and had the
Committee of Investigation of District Affairs
subpGnaed us we could have given some valua
Bile information as to Stebbins' condition, that
the Sun reporter could have telegraphed under
his sterotyped headline of "A1ore Damaging
Developments"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02
Sewing Machine Sales, 1878.

THIC table OF Sewing Machine sales 1Or 1910,
show that the sales were as follows:
SINGER. 232,444.
Wheeler & Wilson, lis, 1870.
Domestic, 4O,
Weed, 2,969.
Wilson, Z!,A41.
American Button Hole, 14,1S2.
The table shows that sales of the Singer ex-
ceed those of any other Company, for the Pc
Rod named, by the number Of liz, ,254 Machines,
or nearly double those Of any other Company.
It may be further stated that the sales OF
1878, as compared with those of 1872, show
other makers than of any other year. For in
stance, in 1872 we sold $4,000 Machines more
than any other Company, whereas, in 1873, the
sales were
113,254 Machines in Excess of our Highest
Competitor.
These figures are all the more remarkable,
for the reason that the sales of the principal
Companies in 1873 are less than their sales in
1872; whereas, as has been shown, our sales
have largely increased.
The account of sales is from sworn returns
made to the owners of the Sewing Machine
Patents.
1t will hardly be denied, that the superiority
of the Singer Machines is fully demonstrated.
AT all events that their popularity in the house
hold is unquestionable
The Singer Manufacturing Company.
J. 3. CLARK & SON,
Anderson, S. c.,
Agents for Abbeville, Anderson and Plckens.
J.H. CLARKE and D. CUN1ISKEY,
Travelling Agents.
May II, 1874 Al
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02

AN INcREDULoUs SToRY.-A negro preach
er in Selma, Ala, has been telling his congre-
CATION strange yarn, which might possibly 90
for sthe marines" but is rather steep tor sensl-
BILE people. He said that a young man, living
in one of the many towns that he had visited,
asked q young lady to accompany hlm 10
church on the Sabbath day. She replied, pet,
tishly, that her hair had not been c;'r!ed, ana
that she would go to the bad place with her
eyes wide open before she would venture TO
church with her hair uucurled. And she went
not, at that time; but the next Sunday, having
gotten her curls adjusted, she ventured out and
listened patiently to the sermon until its close;
When the congregation had been dismissed
she moved towards the door, bit fell, on reach.
ing the portal, with her feet to the door and
her head towards the pulpit. As she fell her
clothing cracked like Chinese crackers explod,,
ing, and on examining her face it was found
that her eyelids were completely gone. She
was dead, but it was impossible to close her
ewes, because of the loss of the lids. When
her friends crowded around to raise her up,
they found themselves unable to move her.
The sequel showed that it took twelve strong
men to lift her from the floor and twelve to
put her in her coffin. 1t also required the
united exertions of twelve ministers to preach
her f1neral-an exceeding heavy job, doubtless.
When the last sad rites were being observed,
the lid of the coffin suddenly raised of its own
accord, and something "about the size OF
black cat, but which was not black cat"
leaped out. And as the creature jumped to
the floor it cried aloud to the petrifed audi.
ence eWait! wait! until curl my hair"
GAS I expect to answer in the day of judg-
ment," said the sable divine, II saw this scene
with my own eyes, and it was just as l have
told itp'
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02

- "Nfy dear boy" said fond aunt to very
fast-living nephew, "don't you know that in
leading this irregular life you are shortening
your days?" "It's quite possible that [ may
be shortening my days, but then look how 1
lengthen my nights" was the cool reply.
A Kansas boy earned a nice Bible by
committing three hundred verses to memory,
and then he traded his Bible for shot gun and
accidentally shot his aunt in the leg.
- A correspondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal notes the "curious fact" that during
the month of May we had two full moons. He
asks, "when did that occur before in May or
any other month. and when will it be so again
in May or any other month %
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ING, but the General relieved it at once BY
coming forward and expressing his happiness
at having him at his house. and asking him to
stop few days and recover from his fatigue.
''IB But + wi why delay the denouement Of a story
which is becoming plain to all. The Major of
course accepted the invitation, and while stop,
ning at tho Generals hospitable home, wooed
and won the fair lady, and in due time Miss
Butler wended her way with her romantic
lover to the sunny cline of Georgia, where
many of their descendants remain and are
growing in numbers, respectability and for
tune.