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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
A New Source of Wealth.

Within few years, the far west is
furnishing new source of wealth in its
supply of borax. Until very recently
the southern part of Europe furnished
nearly all the borax for the world. Now
the monthly production of California
and Nevada is about 200 tons per month.
The principal refining point is Colum-
bus, Nevada, and the distance from
there to Wadsworth, the nearest station
on the Central Pacific Railroad, is about
$50 miles over desert country. The
means of transportation is train COM
posed of three wagons, the pole of one
fastened in the axle of the preceding.
Twenty-four mules are harnessed to the
first wagon. In this way the load of
about 80 tons Is distributed on the six
axles, an important precaution, as the
route lies over sandy plains and marshes
where roads are unknown. When a
difficult place is reached, the three wag-
ons are separated and the whole force of
mules is attached to one vehicle at a
time, which is thus hauled over or
tufcuBH thS opsltcle' peieloiy ohc
owner of the train conducts it, aided by
one or two assistants, and in the last
wagon is stored the necessary provision,
which includes both food and water, for
men and animals. This journey adds
about II cents to the cost of the borax
per pound. From Wadsworth to San
Francisco the expense of transportation
is II cents additional a. pound. The total
cost per pound in San Francisco is about
81 cents
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
Not Going Home to Vote.

The New York Herdld's Washington
correspondent says: There is no truth
in the report that the Ohio clerks and
employees in the government service
here have been ordered to go home to
vote at the state election next month.
Whatever may have been the practice
in former years no persuasion will now
be employed to induce government
employees to go home and take part in
their state elections. The exercise of the
right of suffrage will not, of course, be
denied to any who may wish to leave
Washington, but the time they devote
to enjoying this prerogative will be de-
Quoted from the thirty days leave of
absence granted by law to each govern
ment employee. furthermore application
for leave of absence will need to be
made in the usual formal manner and
will be granted only when the employee
can be spared without detriment to the
government service. So said Secretary
Schu ritz, on the eve of his departure for
Louisville, when questioned on the sub
ject. Not single application for leave
of absence has yet been filed in the de-
partment Of the interior, and so far as
known hardly dozen Ohio men have
expressed their intention of going home
to vote. And yet there are about six
hundred Ohio republican votes lying
around loose in Washington which
could be utilized next month were the
old system of the free passes and a
holiday to every voter still in vogue.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
The ST. Lawrence Rapids.

The Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott, after
making the trip down the rapids above
Montreal, concludes that there is real
danger in it, OF the Indian pilot he
says: " He was the first man to take
steamboat over these rapids. For thirty
years he has been driving these steeds
down this rocky and dangerous road,
and he knows the path well. But L
notice that while we are in the rapids
his face is in dead earnest, the eye keen,
the lips set, the muscles tense, and when
we are passed laugh breaks over his
face, as if once more he realized the
triumph of doing well difficult duty"
The passage is described as follows =
"The previous ones were rapids; this is
almost little cataract. Before, we saw
the waves beat into foam upon the
rocks once we discerned the rocks be-
meath the foam; but here they push
their sharp and cruel heads above the
waters. These pour about them and
over them, but always in the one direc-
ton; never with returning wave. Now
we no longer seem to be in miniature
storm at sea, but in the very heart of a
rocky current. The tortuous channel is
bounded with visible rocks on the one
side and on the other. The Captain re-
quests the passengers to keep their
places; moving to and fro may throw
the steamer out of her course and into
danger The pilot holds her'head firm
ly for the rock that threatens to pierce
her strong sheathing through until al
most within reach from the lower deck,
then, with a sudden turn, swings her
round, cheats the rock, and aims for
her greedy fellow on the other side. So,
veering from Scylla to Charybdis, we
pass the last rapids"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
An Illinois Mystery.

Jacob Ably, q farmer, residing in the
town of Council Bluffs, was assassinated
by some unknown person about 0 o'clock
Sunday while he was engaged in remov-
ing milk from the spring-house to the
cellar for the night The weapon used
was undoubtedly gun, which was
loaded with buclxshot. Two shots were
fired, both of which took effect, one in
the head, making great hole in the
skull over the right eye, while the right
breast was pierced by nine balls.
A bullet hole was found directly be-
hind the left shoulder Strange to say,
Mr.. Ably lived until o'clock next
morning, and was in possession of his
full faculties up to within hour of his
death. He executed his will during the
night and talked freely about his affairs,
but did not know from whence the shots
were fired or who was the author of the
crime. The whole thing is involved in
mystery, battling the skill of the officers
engaged in investigating the murder.
The terrible affair has caused the
most intense excitement in the neigh
borhood, and vigorous search is being
made through the woods for the muir
derer. Tracks were discovered leading
from the house across meadow and
through a potato patch to a small
stream about hundred yards distant
from the premises.
On the morning of the I4th of jan
uary last the wife of Ably was found
hanging from the limb of tree back of
the house. The coroner pronounced it a
case of suicide, the evidence tending to
show that the woman stealthily left the
house at midnight and committed the
deed. But it is now believed that the
woman was taken from the house in
some manner and hanged by unknown
parties.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
Strange Accident on a Track.


At the Rush county, Ind, fair, few
days since, as the horses We're warming
for the second heat in the 2.4O race, Kay
Armstrong, driver of High Jack, and
John Spencer, driver of Red Hot,
collided at the first corner from the
stand, at 2.40 speed. Both men were
thrown quite distance and the sullzies
shivered into splinters. High Jack then
passed on few rods and ran into Win
der, breaking his sulky to atoms and
injuring the driver, Samp. Wilson,
slightly.
The three horses then started around
the track with pieces of their sulkies
still hanging to them, very badly fright
ened, and the greatest excitement pre-
vailed. After some dangerous exploits
by Red Hot and High Jack, they were
finally caught. Winder kept on at q
break neck speed until he had run
around the track five times, and back
and forth on the last quarter q number
of time, and until it was impossible for
him to go in the race.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
Miscellaneous News Items.

eB- Mr.. Cyrus Gould, Providence
machinist, who was bitten by Newfound-
land dog about three years ago, was seized
on Friday last with symptoms of disease
resembling hydrophobia.
GB- Lewis Myers, County Treasurer,
from whose Office at Wapakonetta, Ohio,
$50 600 were claimed to have been taken
on the night of September 6, was arrested
on Friday, charged with completely in the
robbery.
esg- Edward G. Dyer, stock dealer of
East Liberty, Allegheny county, was MUIR
dered about sixteen miles from Columbus,
Ohio, on Friday night. 1t is supposed he
was first robbed of about $4,000 and after
ward thrown into the river.
RooKFoRD, ILL.,, Sept. 15.-The roof of
the business house occupied by John B.
Lander 6 Son fell in, last night, entirely
destroying the building and stock of goods.
Mr.. Lander and two clerks were killed, and
two others fatally injured.
eE- Screw making machines are now
being manufactured at the Cambria iron
works, and if they prove a success it is pro-
posed to erect buildings and establish
works of sufficient capacity to turn out
ten thousand gross of screws a day. 81
eg- The Grand Duke Nicholas allows
no pilfering by the troops under his COM
mand. Any offender detected is tried by
court martial and shot. So strictly is the
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
Mysterlous Dlsanpearance.


A few days after the recent -Four Mile
creek disaster valise was found down
the creek which has been broken open
and rifled of Its contents. In 1t was %
letter of late date from Frank l.. Put
nam to George Wolfe, dated at Rock
well, Iowa. Investigation proves that
Putnam wrote such letter, and that he
knew Wolfe, who was travelling for the
Monitor Manufacturing Company, Gin
cinnati 1t is supposed he was on the
fated train, but no trace of him has been
discovered and his whereabouts is a
mystery.
Certain 1t is his body was not in the
wreck, nor could it have been washed
down the creek. How his valse came
where it was found is also a mystery, as
it was not where it could have been left
by the flood. Wolfe is described as nine
teen years old, five and half feet high,
weight 1856 pounds, light sandy hair,
freckled face, blue or gray eyes, scar on
upper lip, and one tooth missing under
the scar face powder-burned, especially
on the lower lip. The whole affair is
rather mysterious.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
A Good Moth Exterminator.

A curious accident occurred at Platts-
burg, New York, the other day, by
which the First Presbyterian Church
was damaged to considerable extent.
1t appears that the sexton had been
sprinkling benzine upon the cushions
and carpets to kill the moths with which
the carpets and upholstery We're infest-
ed. Abouttwo-thlrds Off barrel of ben
zine was used in this manner. He then
went down into the lecture room and
made his preparations to start fire in
the furnace. He ignited a match when
shock came which threw him some
fifteen feet and rendered him insensible
for some time. The shock caused an
alarm, and those who arrived first and
entered the audience room found the
atmosphere hot and impregnated with
gas, the carpets and cushions on fire in
places, several of the memorial windows
ruined and the heavy outside front door
blown out in the street. The theory of
the explosion is that the gas given off by
the benzine being heavier than air, a
considerable quantity leaked down
around the furnace registers into the
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
After the Chinese.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 1S.--Last
night the Chinese quarters of Grass
Valley, except one house, were burned.
Over forty buildings were destroyed. A
supposed incendiary attempt was made
to accomplish the same purpose a few
days ago. This morning body of
armed men left Roseville, Placer county,
and proceeded up the Auburo road warn
ing all Cinnamon, numbering some sixty,
in the seven camps visited, to leave be-
fore midnight under penalty of death.
Some left at once. Twelve at Bardock's
camp refused to leave, though threaten
ed. The proceedings were conducted
quietly and no violence offered. 1t is
believed by Wednesday not Cinnamon
will remain in the township. The re-
fuges are mostly gathering at Falsom.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
Bold Express Robbery.

OMAHA, Neb., September 10.-A bold
robbery was perpetrated on the Union
Pacific Railroad, at Big Springs, Neb.,
last night
AS train No. 4, east-bound express,
pulled up in front of the station and the
express messenger opened the door to
deliver for the station, about half dozen
masked men forced their way into the
express car, and with drawn revolvers
compelled express messenger Miller to
unlock the safe, containing over 100000,
mostly gold coin, with which they es-
capped
The party consisted of about - or 13
meu, some of whom, while the rest
were in the express car, went into the
telegraph office and made the operator
destroy his instruments to prevent his
reporting the occurrence. The robbers
then mounted their horses and started
north.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
Suicide in Iail.

ALBANY, N. Y, September ia
young man giving the name of Frederick
Ballantyne, of No. 10 Front street,
New York, committed suicide in the
Jail here yesterday by cutting his throat
with common table knife. He regis
tered at the Clarendon hotel here three
weeks ago and is supposed to have been
an agent for New York tea house and
his real name is Fred. Boundly. He
had been drinking very hard since his
arrival here and for the past four days
had been an inmate of the Jail, put there
by friends to keep him from drinking.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

minute particulars. The magistrate
committed him and the English Consul
here was advised of the matter. 1t was
ascertained that such murder had been
committed. Henderson, not rellshing
his diet, afterward denied the story he
had told, and said he had made the
bogus confession in order to obtain free
passage back to England. Last week he
was again arraigned before Magistrate
Pole, and the British Consul having
learned that he was not the murderer, he
was discharged from custody.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

There was a tough customer before
the Boston police court the other day in
the person of woman calling herself 10
years old, who has several years worked
as common laborer dressed in male
clothes without detection, and who had
been at sea several times as an able sea-
man before the mast. She had mans
suit in her trunk when arrested, and
says she has knocked down many a
man while wearing it.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
The English Cotton Strike = One Hundred
and Six Mills Closed.

The U. S. consul at Liverpool in
forms the department of state that the
operatives in the cotton mills of Bolton
and vicinity, to the number of ten or
twelve thousand, struck on the first of
the present month, rather than submit
to reduction of five per cent. in their
wages. One hundred and six mills are
closed in consequence. 1t was stated
that the men are in good financial con-
dition to continue the strike, and that
contributions are supplied by other asso-
Citations. These operatives struck, also
in 1874 against reduction of five per
cent, but submitted to arbitration, which
decided against them. The five per
cent. was, however, restored in 1875,
and the present strike is occasioned by
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

the attempt to take 1t Off again. Unless
arbitration is again resorted to the pres
ent strike is likely to prove stubborn
one, for while the men assert their
ability to remain out an indefinite time,
the mill owners, on account of the con-
tinually decreasing American markets
for their goods, the famine now raging
in India and the eastern war, are said to
be well pleased to have their places clos
ed for some time. Y
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

THE Democrats of New Jersey have
placed General Geo. B. Mcclellan in
nominations as their candidate for gov
ernor. AS New York has claimed him
as a resident of that State heretofore, we
suppose that New Workers will now
crow about furnishing candidates and
perhaps governor for another State.
We presume ii will now be in order to
get shovels ready for fall campaign.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
A Bogus Murderer.

John Henderson, an Englishman,
walked into the Sixth District Police
Station on the 18th of last August and
asked to be taken into custody, stating
that he had murdered Sergeant Wheeler,
of Troop e, Eighteenth Hussars of gate,
England, in January last. Hewas taken
before Magistrate Pole, to whom he
confessed the crime, even to the most
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
OUR CIRCULATION.

For the information of advertisers and
Others who may be interested in know
ing, we will state that the present circu-
lation of THE TIMES is between eighteen
hundred and nineteen hundred copies
each week.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

W. J. Rice, Stwgeon and Mechanical
Dentist, will visit Bloomfield the FIRST
TWO WEEKS of each month, profession
ally. Office at Squire Clouser's resi-
dence. The remainder of his time at
his office in lckesburg, Perry CO., Pa.
sT Call and hear his prices. os
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA, SEPTEMBER 25 1877

lecture room, and when the sexton lit
his match 1t exploded. The damage is
varlously estimated at from $500 to
$4,000. tits thought that as a moth ex-
terminator the plan was success.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
THE TIMES.
NeV bloomfield, Sept. 20, 1877.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

No Out Stereotype will be inserted In this paper
unless light face and on metal base
tE Twenty per cent Of regular rates, will
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
NoTICE no sUnsCftIBERs,

Look at the figures on the label Of your paper
Th9seagnres tel you the date 20 which your sub:
RcrfptiUn IL paid. Within weeks after money ~
sent sec II the date is changed. No other receipt
10 necessary.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

ggT BY the death of Mr.. Klock, form
erly of Reading, new field has been
opened for punsters. We presume his
time had run out.--AHentoaO,1 Chronicle.
Perhaps Mr.. Klock, as his name i'm
plies,was one of the Reading strikers" :"
and was killed in the riots. s.-NorristoaO
Herald. Maybe he was a light weight,
and couldn't strike hard when old Death
tackled him. We can figure nothing
else out of the case, looking at the face
of the thing.-Ph1'a North american.
We presume he was run down.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25
A Dangerous Luncheon.

WINDSOR, VT, September 16.-John
Hubbard left his home in Clarement, N 4.
H., yesterday noon, to visit this place.
His wife prepared luncheon for him and
he ate it just before arriving here. He
was Immediately seized with convul-
sions, and the physicians pronounced it
a case of poisoning by strychnine. He
is now out of danger, and an investiga-
ton will be made. Mrs. Hubbard ar
rived here to-day. She visited her hus-
band, and denies all knowledge of any
poison being placed in the food.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

CHATTANOOGA, September 21.- The
abundant crops of cotton, corn and
fodder in the valley of the Black War
rior, Alabama, have been entirely swept
away. The river suddenly rose sixty
three feet, which is within two feet as
high as it was in the terrible freshet of
June, 1872. The planters had just com
menced picking cotton and had not
hauled the corn and fodder from the
fields. 1t is estimated that 10000 bales
of cotton have been destroyed. Most of
the planters are ruined, and it is doubt
full if the actual necessaries of life can
be secured now. The town of Tuscaloosa
is about at the head of the devastated
section. Merchants had advanced heavi-
ly on these growing crops.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-25

ROME, N. Y, September 21.-The
west bound Chicago express train, due
in Rome at 5.15 p. M, was thrown into
collision with a pickup freight train by
a misplaced switch one mile west of
Rome depot. Both engines were COM
pletely wrecked, and the mail and bag
gage cars were ground together in an
almost solid mass. The fireman of the
express, said to be VIM. Hendrickson,
of Albany, was instantly killed and
badly mangled. Joseph Durgin, of
Utica, brakeman of the freight train,
was killed. j. L. Tunnard, of Troy, a
mail agent, has died from his injuries.
George w. Fitch, Oneida, mail agent,
had his right thigh and back injured
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-12-26

pledge some stated numbers of member
ships to meet the expenses. There are two
grades of membership. Persons paying
two dollars become members for the cur
reut year, and receive the published re-
port of the transactions of the association
for that year; those paying five dollars
become life members, aud receive copies
of all the reports, past, present, and flu
ture, except us the numbers become ex-
hausted.
Could those farmers who are not already
members realize the advantage to be de-
rived by joining the association and attend
ing the annual winter meetings, there
would be no need for the executive COM
mittee to ask for a place to hold their
sessions, but, like the judges at the agri-
cultural exhibitions, they would sometimes
find it difficult to decide between numer-
Gus excellent offerings. The generous
courtesies extended to the association by
the several railroads of Vermont, mark
the wisdom of these corporations, whose
officers well know that an educated and
enlightened people will, both by their in
creased productions and multiplied wants,
return to the corporations, directly or in
directly, all and more than they receive
through these courtesies. Yet all railroad
managers are not as Garseeing in this mat
ter us the Vermont people have thus fal
been.- IFatchman.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-12-26
An Agreeable Guest.

The longest visit that we read of in
modern days was one which DR.. Isaac
Watts made at Lord Abney's in the Isle of
Wight. He went to spend fortnight, but
they made him so happy that he remained
II beloved and honored guest for forty
yearS.
Few of us would care to make so long
Il visit as that, but it might be worth the
while for us all to try and learn the secret
of making ourselves agreeable and well
come guests. 70 have "a nice time "
when visiting is delightful, but TO leave be-
hind us II pleasant impression is worth u
great deal more.
An agreeable guest is title which any
one may be proud to deserve. A great
many people, with the best intentions
and The kindest hearts, never receive it,
simply because they have never consider
ed the subject, and really do not know how
to make their stay in another persons
home II pleasure instead of an inconven-
fence. If you are one of these thought
less ones. you may be sure that, although
your friends are glad to see you happy,
and may enjoy your visit on that account,
your departure will be followed with a
sigh of relief, rs the family settle down to
their usual occupations, glad that the visit
is over
A great many different qualities and
habits 90 to make up the character of one
whom people are always glad to see and
these last must be proved while we are
young, if we expect TO wear them grace
fully. A young person whose presence in
the house is an Inconvenience and weari-
ness at fifteen, is seldom welcome visitor
in after life.