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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-05-15
PENNSYLVANIA r. r. Time Table.
NEWPORT STATION.

NEWPORT STATION.
ON and after Monday Nqy. 9th, 1876, Pas-
senger trains will run as follows:
EAST.
Aifiintown Acc. 719 q. M, daily except Sunday.
Johnstown Express 1922 P. M, daily " Sunday
Mail, ............ 6M ?. M, daily exceptSunday
Atlantic Express, 1902 PM, fag,-daily.
WEST.
wayPass. 9.08 A. M, daily,
Mail, ............2.38 r. M. daily exceptSunday.
Mifiiintown Acc 6.55 P. NJ. daily except Sunday.
Pittsburgh Express, lisp. M, (Flag)-daily, ex-
cept Sunday.
Pacific Express, $40 a. m, daily (iagl
Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which
Is l3 minutes faster than Altoona time, and min
utes slower than New York time.
J.J. BARCLAY, Agent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
Strange Course of the Gold Market.

A recent New York letter says; "The
course of the gold market has baftied the
wisdom of that numerous class who think
that the prosperity of the nation is init
mately connected and bound up with the
success Of their party in the presidential
election, or the state election, or the town
election, or some other election. OF all
the things that could happen in politi,
cal way to send gold up, nothing could
possibly have happened 80 well calculated
to thatend asa disputed presidency. Much
gold was bought at lloi within tewdays
succeeding the election, on the hypoths-
sis that Tilden and civil war, Or Hayes
and military depotism, were coming in,
and in either case that liberty was going
out. The insensate and perverse market
fell steadily to l07 where it remains as
heavy as a stone quarry. The precise
reason for this is that we have beet lat
terly exporting more produce and mer.
chandise than we have been importing,
and the balance has been coming to us in
cold, which gold has to be sold like any
other article OF which there is an over
supply. If the panic stricken politicians
had bought all that was offered, and
we're able to hold it, the price would
have remained at 1l0l; sut, as the sup
ply exceeded the demand, it naturally
fell. The eventuality much yearned
for by Mr. William d. Kelley and other
philosophers for commencing to resume
specie payments. e., balance OF trade
| in our fayor-seems to have come"
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CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE,

On the 9th, the speaker laid before the
house communication from VIM. r. Morri.
son, chairman OF the committee on Iorisi.
ana affairs, relative to the refusal of VIII
liam Orton, president of the western union
telegraph company, to appear before said
committee. Bills were introduced by Mr..
Watterson to regulate commerce among
states. Mr.. White, tKy.) asked leave to Of.
fer resolution reciting that fears were en-.
! tertained lest there shall not be q peaceful
settlement Of the presidential question, and
declaring that any attempt to prejudice and
excite the public mind In advance OF the
decision by the authority provided by The
constitution, is unwise, unpatriotic, and full
of danger, and that iii is the duty of all good
citizeHs to peacefully and faithfully abide by
| the results reached in accordance with the
constitution. Mr.. O'Brien tMd.) objected
Mr.. Schhecher offered a resolution calling on
the president for copies Of papers In posses.
sion Of the state and war departments rela-
tive to the imprisonment Of John J.. Smith,
sn American citizen, by the Mexicans, and
also in reference to the numbering and rob.
bing by Mexican soldiers Of Samuel Higgins.
Adopted. Mr.. Durham, from the committee
| VI iVNioioh Va 'SpoitSo oaCh tuC scu'
ate bill to correct the statute to punish eoun.
terfelting SO as to require intent to be shown.
| Passed. Mr. O'Brien md J, from COMMITTEES
on mines and mining, reported back the sen-
ate just resolution to authorize the president
to appoint three commissioners to attend an
international conference on the subject Of
the relative values Of gold and silver, With
an amendment authorizing the president to
propose such conference to foreign govern
ments The morning hour having expired
and the Joint resolution laid over, Mr.. Rea.
gan, from committee on commerce, reported
back the bill repealing so much OF the act
of December II, 1872, as provides for d pivot
draw In any bridge to be erected over the
| Ohio river between Covington and Cincin.
natl After discussion, the matter went
over and the house adjourned.
In the house on the llth, Mr. Hol-
mans amendment to the consular and d.
plou,stie appropriation bill, decreasing the
salaries OF ministers and consuls, was de.
ieated by s vote Of % to 100. Mr.. Morton,
from the oomu ittee on privileges snd .elec.
t!ons, submitted resolution di'chnrglpg
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
Chinese Coinage.

China has no real coinage for purposes
OF trade. Little bits of silver assayed
and weighed, and dollars of the Mexican
republic, battered out of shape and
classed one, two and three, at different
values according as an affected compro.
dor pretends to have found more or less
bronze in their mposition-this is the
ridiculous Coinage of the coast. In
Hong Kong itself, when ! took my let.
ters TO the post and gave dollar to the
clerk to pay for stamps, had to wait
while he bit II, tried 1t with acid, weighed
it, and gave me the change, not as though
my dollar were dollar, but according to
its weight, which was s9-l00 Of what it
should have seen. This was no excep-
tional case, but was the practice gone
through in every instance. Such is the
rapute of English coin that the Hong
Kong mint would in a few years have
introduced the use of its dollars by the
Chinese people throughout the trading
portions of the empire, without contin-
uing to impose any charge whatever on
the English taxpayer. The history OF
dollars would be a curious one. The
Chinese look doubtfully upon all that do
not bear the name Of some well-known
Chinese firm stamped upon them, as we
write names across the back of bank
note, except they are of one kind. Mex.
ican pillar dollars, the two pillars OF
which are described in their Chinese
name, 1.-TWO pi.cy.canneltick" dollars,
that Is, two-candlestick dollars. A note
in the history Of dollars that l propose
would have to record the fact that our
expeditionary force to Abysslnia had to
be supplied with Maria Teresa dollars.
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SENATE.

a., @ha 11,l. tbo oh,;r laid bafnpa the
vi 'he LIN, Uno oNa'i 'oiN ue 'N'
senate the eredentialsot E. ii. Rollins, elect
ed senator from New Hampshire. Laid on
tho toh,. se,otor Fdmonds ryt7 said m
'"e '1
ono Nould questioh tho c'cctioh vi i'' no''
lins, but the certificate did not set forth
whom tho legislature met and the time of
a,,;. IL, l., ,;,oa
MS eiec'lon' Iu''''o'
about the credentials not setuug 1orth aii the
facts. Senator Spencer presented petition
from, n. cit;yons of Alabama in favor of the
a.s,,n,;rr controI ri IN. tele.
;o,oo,,h a,d for obnaner teleoranLic facilities.
Refer,ed senator U,mlin yeported back
tba honse h;II 70 establish certain most.
routes. and saiJ the committee had consider.
ed the disagreement of the two houses in re-
caro- 70 .ne as' s, SefSre h; "n" ~, ,sno,t @ in
favor Of The senate insisting uron its amend.
ments and move that committee Of con
ference be appointed. Agreed TO, ana IN. me
e"ai' @ was ao.nIi.nta %it 10 sppV'nt o,cs tst
early day he would ask the senate to con.
tider the bill for the relief of DR.. j. Milton
best, OF kentncky' wn'ch haa already nssseu
@ we notice no, that II bs conll pe, The soor on
Tuesday next, he should call up the motion
ef Senator Preston in regard to the military
occupation of Petersburg on the dav of the
last general election, and would submit some
remarks. The chair announced Senator Ham.
lin, Paddock and Maxev as the conference
committee on the bill to establish certain
post.routes. Consideration was resumed OF
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CAPTAIN EADS' SUCCESS.
The Jcttiea Officially Certified 20 as mn Ac'
com pIishpd Fact.

At last the official survey has been
made, which declares that at least twenty
feet of water for width of two hundred
feet throughout the entire length Of the
ietties, il TO be found A certificate has
been given by general Comstock, United
States engineer in charge, 70 captain
Eads in proof OF this fact, and captain
Eads has left for Washington to claim
his first installment of $500,00
In accordance with the provisions of
the last section Of the "Grant authoriz.
ing the constructioniof the jetties," it is
expected that the warrant OF the secre'
tary of war upon the secretary Of the
treasury will be paid to captain Eads IN
five per cent. bonds, which the act or
grant authorizes the secretary OF the
treasury to issue for that purpose, "un.
less the congress Of the United StStes
shall have previously provided for the
payment of the same by the necessary
appropriations of money" AS no ap-
preparation of money has been made and
will not now b. made, the bonds should
be Issued, aud no doubt will be, rs the
whole matter is now in the hands OF the
secretary of war, alone.
A navigable depth OF twenty feet, with
out regard to depth of channel, has long
been secured by means of the jetties q
full year in advance OF the time limited
in the grant. The channel is broad
straight and open, go that vessels may
sail in without pilot. A remarkable
illustration of the value OF the jetties, as
harbor and road stead in time OF
rough weather, was seen while the mem
bers of the congressional committee were
at Port Eads few days ago. The
steamship Rappahannock, having been
caught out in storm, sighted the jetties,
and had already put into her furnaces
the last pound Of coal. She without
sails and must have been wrecked had
she not got safelyinto the jetties without
finding bar General Hurlbut certi-
fies this fact to the secretary OF war as
having occurred under his own obseIva'
tiOn.
The auxiliary works at the head Of the
pass--fourteen miles from the iettiCs--
are, with the aid of three dredgeboats
producing Il fine, broad channel through
the obstinate bar at that point. Already
there are more than nineteen feet cleal
in the channel there at low water which
is now seventy feet in width. The
dredges are now rapidly cutting il dowr
TO twenty-iour feet, and with The first
rise in the river the pass will be thrown
oren to commerce. Vessels Of twenty
two feet draught may then enter thi
port with safety.
The jetties are ali accomplished tact
and deep water has been obtained
.Nen orleans Times.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
Story NigIlt.

b" 4 mother" sends the following ac-
count of the way in which the little ones
Of her own and neighbours family are
amused and cultivated, which will be Of
interest to large number OF our readers:
1t is quite easy for grown people to
amuse and entertain themselves and each
other daring the long winter evenings,
but a mere difficult task for children,
10 be sure they have blind mans buff,
magic music, ierteits, parlor croquet, and
similar games, but friend and have
hit upon a plan which has proven very
felcitous in many ways, and which our
children like very much indeed. Every
week we have one evening that is called
story night" On This evening each
penou present tells a story, made up for
the occasion, or CLEANED from readings
TIE youngest members 0pen the enter
tainmcnt, then the next older and 80 on
till the fathers, mothers, aunts, uncIes
and visitors, if any are present, tell 4
story. Lately, since the children Nave
been in school, they frequently select
poems from their reading books and re
cite them with appropriate emphasis aliL
gesture, or write out story and read it.
The evening spent in this way is quite
the pleasantest one of the whole week
and looked forward to with antlcipatiyt
preparation by every member of the tive
families. If any one chooses to sing a
song, or play an instrumental piece On
the piano or organ, that is gladly ac,
ceptcd in lieu OF a story but no one is
exempt from contributing something to
the common fund of entertainment. II
is wonderful the improvement manifest
in the ability oI the younger oncs, and
the elder ones. too, in narrating events
and handling characters. We manage
the affair in such way that there is nc
feeling of embarrassment with even the
youngest, aud as everybody must take +
part, each is kindly and forbcaripg il
criticism, and ready to be amused ant
entertained by all the rest Trjbunc.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
TIE EAST.

A plot for the escape Of the Mollie
4aguires confined iu Jail at Pottsville, Pa,
has been frustrated. James Boyle aud Hugh
McGhee, under sentence Of death, had made
extensive preparations for escape, the former
having already raise the flooring under his
bed.
New York World: The decision of
the Massachusetts, supreme court, that Is.
rselites residing In thc state must be held
amenab.e to It's laws regula ting Sabbath OBJ.
servanee, Is without doubt legal. Hebrew
citizens find themselves at disadvantage in
these matters, being compelled by conscience
to keep one Sabbath, and by law or custom
TO observe another.
Hannah Elberling, Exquimaux Joe's
wife, whe was here with Capt Hall. eur in
trepid arctic explorer, on. the occasion OF
bis last visit home died on the Slst Of De
ecmber at Croton, Conn, where she had re.
sided for several years past. Hannah had
learned to speak English huently, and was
much esteemed by her neighbors, though
she never could bring herself to the full en-
joyment of the Friday evening sewingcir'
eles in which she was expected to move.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
mXSCELLAyEOCS.

Harry Deardorf, young son of a
prominent manufacturer of Springfield, o.,
has been arrested for robblng the mails of
81, 600 or 5000. Deardorf was not in need
but was induced to 10 wrong, It Is said, by
an ardent desire to please young lady who
is now missing.
The debts OF most Of the states, as re.
ported in the annual messages of their re.
speetive governors, are gradually lessening
every year, and the debts Of most of the
large cities are steadily on the increase. The
deb, OF Philadelphia may be set down as
the unknown quantity" steadily approach
ing some seventy millions, while that of the
city Of New York begins the present year,
after dcduetins the sinking fund, at little
less than one hundred and twenty millions
of dollars.
The Cincinnati Commercial gives what
purp0rts 10 be list of the suicides In the
United States for the year 1876. The follow.
lowing is the sumtuaYy:
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The Tobacco Crop.

The agricultural report for November
and December says:
The tobacco counties reporting the
comparative product make returns not
quite so favorable in the aggregate as
those of last year, and the decrease Of
the product is Indicated in Masaachu-
setts, Connecticut, New York, Mary
land, Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
nessee. An increase is indicated in Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Kentucky reports about the same a. last
year; in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois the
increase in the product is extraordinary.
In Ohio, Montgomery county reports the
best and finest crop of seed lea! tobacco
ever produced. Monroe county that the
quality was appreciated by excessively
wet weather In Illinois the season WIS
very propitious for maturing and curing;
| in Sabine and johnson the crop was aten
by worms, the ravagcs OF which were
wore than for years. Vermont and
Massachusetts, also had mere worms than
ever before, but other returns are favor
able in respect to both yield and quality
The quality Of the entire crop averages
the same as last year.
No systematic returns of the cotton
crop were collected for December.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25

confederation and constitution OF the
United States. Agreed to. Senator Paddock
intro luced bill 10 authorize the removal OF
the objtructions In the channel OF the Mis-.
souri, river, and to repair and protect the
levees at Omaha, Plattsmouth aad Brt WINS.
vile, Nebraska, and Sioux City and CouEcil
Bluffs, Iowa. Referred II authorizes the
secretary OF war TO expend the sum OF So.
coo In removing sand.bars and other obStruc-
tlons In the channel OF the Missouri river
between Brownsville, Nebraska, and Sioux
City. Iowa, and $50,00O 10 repair the leyees
at Omaha, Platsmouth and Brownsville,
Nebraska, and Sioux City, and Council
Bluffs, Iowa. Senator Chatfee introduced a
bill TO abolish the use OF stsVes for heating
passenger railroad cars. Referred. Senator
Maxey submitted Joint resolution 10 amend
tho resolution OF July 3, 1870 authorizing
the secretary Of war 10 issue arms to certain
states and territories, so as to provide for
the issue OF fifty ball cartridges for each arm
issued. Referred. Senator Gordon intro.
duced btll to create sinking fund for the
liquidation OF the government bonds ad,
vanced 10 the Western Pdcisc railroad com.
pany, the Central Pacific railroad company
OF California, and 10 the Union Pacific rail.
road company, under the act OF July /, 1862,
and the acts amepdatory thereof for the set
tlement of the claims Of the government in
regard to said bonds. Referred. Senator
Booth called up the resolution submitted by
him on Monday lat Ia regard to counting
the electoral vote, and spoke at length in
favor thereof. AT the conclusion OF Senator
Booths remarks consideration was resumed
Of the bill to perfect the revision of the
statutes of the United States. Senator Ham.
lin submitted an amendment, setting forth
in detail the fees TO be allowed TO weighers
aud gaugers and explained that 1t was for the
purpose OF making the revised statutes agree
with the law as originally passed. The
amendment was agreed to and the bill
passed. After executive session the senate
adjourned until Monday.
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Woman Who Defies Time and the
Lawyers.

Mrs. Mira Clarke Gaines, says the
Washington correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Commercial, is wee bit OF woman,
with eyes Of piercing brilliancy; in color
one moment of the blackest hue, the mex t
a steely gray, and the same eyes, when
softentd by the recital OF anothers dis
tress, becoming of the most tender blue.
She wears her light hair in curls, and
rarely appears without her bonnet, ii
the dainty bit of lace and velvet, hall
concealing a few rare flowers, can be
called bonnet. She is one of the best
conversationalists you ever listened 10,
aud one of the most agreeable women it
was ever my fortune to meet. Her
Laugh" has been celebrated for forty
years, and time, that ruthless destroyer,
has neither marred nor destroyed the
ripping qualities which make it so in.
fectious that whoever hears it must join
in with 1t, even though he knows not
nhat hs, provoked the uiir.b.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25
The School Formulation.

Gen. Eaton, the commissioner OF edIs
cation, says in his annual report thar
only one state, Delaware, and three tea
ritories, the Indian, New Mexico ard
Wyoming, dc, not report their school
population. In the other thIrty-s'E
states and eight territories there wtr"
l4,0O7 ,52l children by their several laws
entitled to instruction. All the states.
either by actual count OF by estimate
report pupils enrolled in the Publ,d
school system, giving total OF s,I56,o5i.
The commissioner says most gratifying
fac. often noticeable is the interest SKI,
and energy with which evils, old ara
new, arc encounter d. The great ne.
dom of thought and action encoalsegf,
truth in the encounter With evil, ana ~
are rt liberty to folIow the wisest evuf''
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-01-25

Russia has purchased 100, 900 rifles for
Servla.
The Posts Berlin special says the Rus.
sian consul at Bucharest has been summoned
to KiehinoG.
Servia, Roumania and Russia are in.
ereasing their armaments and otherwise pre-.
pairing for war on an extended scale.
1t Ia rumored that the Russian army
In Turkistan, ~. 900 strsng, has been destroyed
BY an uprising of the Inhabitants.
A dispatch from Belgra le reports that
Seryia continues the work Of armament.
The fret class Of the reserve has been called
out, and will be stationed al Glsdova ind
Negotin.
Gen. Nikitin has sent adjutants to
Rado!svatz, Giadoya and Negotin, to pre-
pare plans for the march Of Russian army
corps coming via Roumania. II Is consider
ell In Belgrade that the conference has mis-
carried, and speedy declaration OF war by
Russia is expected.
Diag is reported to bs carrying every
thing before him in Mexico. The ambitious
Iglesias doubtless wishes he had remained
quietly ON the bench, as his followers are
aookIng to Diaz. DlaE's regent general, Men
dec, full.blooded Indian, hos issued a proc
lamation for another election, but as nod osy
but Dia2lsts can be candidates, 10 Is evident
that Diaa and Mendez will count themselves
In. Poor Lsrdo Is said 10 have hed TO Aca
pulco, of the massacre fame, and thence enl
barked foi San Francisco, where he has
many ardent admirers. =
1t now appears that Russiais trying to
Q awi ont OF her difficulty with Turkey,
Gen. ISnaief, the Russian representative,
has sent a confidential communication to
Midhat Pasha, urging the acceptance of Ger
tain points Of the conference proposals, and
indicating the means Of evading others, He
advised the acceptance of an international
commission with eonsultive powers only, and
suggested the appointment OF officers OF in
stTuction instead Of the establishment of a
foreign gensdarmerie, and the appointment
Of Bulgarian ins tead OF European gov.
erner OF Bulgaria. He guaranteed Russia's
assent to the proposals thus modified, and
denied in the course Of his letter that Rus.
81 had inoited Servia to make war.
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The pir.S EAors;tnn.

A good & a. anxiety, not loudly ex-
pressed but ,, dent nevertheless, is
manifested !esp, c:ing the success of the
exhibition of 1878. Not only has Ger.
many testified her refusal to take CHI.
eially any part therein, but Italy has not
yet signalized any intention Of partici-
pating. As to the United States, pre-.
sumo that congress will indulge more
in speech making respecting it than ap-
preparations. AS to the French them
selves, they grumble heartily over the
near approach Of another exhibition,
when, IS they cay, they have made no
particular progress in any form Of art or
industry since the last one, and will have
nothing new to show. Trade is very bad
in Paris just now, the exports having
fallen of greatly, and the usual influx Of
winter visitors having failed to arrive.
House agents, trades people and hotel.
keepers all complain that there are nsi.