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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17
Furious Sharks.


The New Haven Journal of the 31st
ult., says: AS the large seine of the
East Haven fishing company was being
drawn to shore yesterday afternoon ,and
when the catch was close in to the sand
beach and the heads and tails of thou
sands of white fish constantly appeared
and disappeared, thickly filling the sur
face of the water in the net enclosure,
an unusual and violent commotion told
of the presence of more sharks in the
net.
On Wednesday one monster man
eater, eleven feet long, was taken, and
on Thursday, with $4,000 white fish,
brought to shore, there were five of the
rapacious monsters captured, one seven
feet in length, one six feet and the rest
smaller.
The capture of these had whetted ex-
pectations of seeing more, although the
company are not at all anxious for their
appearance owing to the danger of their
tearing and thrashing the net to pieces.
When the sharks We're seen yesterday
they had not become aware that they
were prisoners and were rushing about
gorging themselves on the white fish at
great rate.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17

ished old lady, jumping up. " She shall
marry, and l will fix things so that 1
shall have somebody to depend on.-
That Lawton isn't so bad fellow after
all, and she shall have him. Kate, you
shall have Rick Lawton. 1 will see If
we are to be jeered at and Stunned by
this town on account of that fellows
stupidity"
The guests had begun to retreat from
the melee. Either the old lady's mind
was breaking up, or she had mono
mania on that one subject For
hours she walked the floor, cried and
threatened.
g You hear what 1 say, Kate You
shall marry Rick Lawton and live
here"
Yes, aunt"
1t was nearly daylight. / still linger-
ed, fearing some catastrophe from the
excitement. Besides, Bessie seemed to
have grown composed and her blue eyes
shone with something very much like
happiness. She looked so deeply fas-
cinating, and Kate looked so mrthful
behind her pocket handkerchief, that L
was bewildered.
But got whisper of the truth be-
fore left. 1t was Rick Lawton taking
off his wig in the garden that had
frightened Peter, and Kate, taking ad-
vantage of the situation, provided her
lover with sheet, whereby he personi-
fled walking ghost for the benefit of
the poor darkey.
went home for breakfast and in two
hours was recalled to arrange legal doc
uments concerning wedding DOVER
Kate and Lawton were married then
and there. They made tour, but set
tied down in the old mansion immedi-
ately. Privately, think that it was
fortunate that the old lady Immediately
took her bed, or matrimonial bliss might
have been myth for the newly welded
pair.
She was confined to her room for sew
eral years before her death, but made no
trouble. Sometimes when the bell would
peal half dozen times in hour, sum-
moning the doctor to his numerous pa
tients of the surrounding country, she
would smile shrewdly and say:
"Folks don't seem to be afraid to come
here"
was sorry to take her little nurse
away, but Bessie attended her whole
year, after she had promised to be my
wife, and l could do without her no
longer.
A year after Kate's marriage, we heard
from the red-haired young man who
had so befriended us. He had married a
Creole heiress in New Orleans, and he
wished us joy of our haunted old cas-
tie. 1t is haunted with the laughter of
merry children-that's all.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17
ALOnesome Watch.

William McMurtrie, Paterson school
teacher, and his son, while walking
through the woods, near Southfield on
Saturday evening, lost their way and
were unable to find their way out in the
darkness. While they were discussing
W hat to do Mr.. McMurtrie fell forward
on his face dead, it is supposed of heart
disease. The son was compelled to sit
by the corpse all night, not knowing
which way to go. In the morning he
found his way out and. summoned as
sistance
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17

eB- At Bombay lady and gentlema
who were taking stroll sauntered into a
church, and finding the marriage register
on table, the gentleman for fun wrote in
it the names of four people (two couples),
well known in their circle of friends. The
names may not be erased, because any one
tampering with the signatures in the regis
try is liable to seven years penal servitude.
The offender has absconded, the gentlemen
are in pursuit, and the ladies in dismay.
The governor has been appealed to, but
no decision has been arrived at as to what
can be done.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17
TEG GETTNE
Has Entirely Cured Me of Vertigo.

CAIRO, ILL.,, Jan. %, 1878
MR.. III. H. STEvENs:-Dear Sir-I have used
several bottles Of yegetine; 1t has entirely cured
me OF vertigo; have also used 1t for Kidney
blood purifier. N. YOOUM.
PAIN AND DISEASE. Can you expect to enjoy
good health when bad or corrupt humors circulate
WIN the blood; causing pain and disease; and
these humors, being deposited through the en-
tlre body, produce pimples, eruptions ulcers
indigestion, costiveness headaches, neuralgia
rheumatism, and numerous other complaints?
Remoye the cause by taking Yegetine, the most
reliable remedy for cleansing and purifying
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17
VEGETINB-
/ Believe it to be a Good Medicine.

XEN1A, o., March /, 1877.
MR.. A. II. STEvENs:-- Dear Sir wish to in.
tolm you what your Negetlne has done for me-
have been afflicted with Neuralgia, and after
relieved. also found my general health much
improved. believe 1t to be good medicine
Yours truly, FRED. HARVERSTICK.
VEGETINE thoroughly eradicates every kind of
humor, and restores the entire system to healthy
condition.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17
VEGETINE-
Druggists Report,

IL r. STEVENS Dear Sir We have been
selling your Vegetine for the past eighteen
months, and we take pleasure in stating that in
every case, to your knowledge. 1t has given great
satisfaction. Respectfully
BUCK Il COWGILL Druggists.
Hickman, Ky
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-17
v E G E I'll N E
Purifles the Blood 4 Gives Strength


..LL DU QUofr. IN, Jan. 21, 1878.
Mr.. H. X. STEVENS: :--Dear Sir Your Vegetine
mas been doing wanders for me. Have been hav.
ing the yhills and Fever, contracted In the
swamps OF the South nothing giving me relief
until began to. use your Vegetine, if giving me
immediate relief. toning up my system purifying
my blood, giving strength; whereas all other
medicines weaked me, and filled my system with
poison and am satisfied that II all families that
live IN the ague districts OF the South and West
would take Vegetine two or three time week,
they would not be troubled with the ChilIs or the
malignant Fevers that prevail at certain times
OF the year, save doctors bills, and live to q good
old age. Respectfully yours,
j. r. MITCHELL,
Agent Henderson's Looms, st. Louis, Mo.
ALL DISEASES OF THE BLOOD. II vegetne will
relieve pain, cleanse, purify, and cure such dis.
eases, restoring the patient 1t perfect health
after trying different physicians, many remedies
suffering for years, is II not conclusive proof, II
you are sufferer. you can be cured? Why IS
This medicine performing such great cures? 1t
works In the blood, in the circulating fluid. 1t
can truly be called the Great Blood Purifier :.
The great source of disease originates in the
blood and no medicine that does not act directly
upon lt 70 purify and renovate, has and Just claim
upon public attention
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
Setting Tramps to Work.

Boston did something last winter to-
wards settling the tramp question. In
the winter OF 1877 a spectator might
have seen, on pretty much any morning,
a crowd of 100 or more of Migrants wait
ing around the Chardon Street Home
for gratuitous breakfast. These folks
had spent the night in the beds of the
various police stations, and they were
living regularly in this manner At
length the oveTseers provided pile Of
wood and some saws, and then required
every applicant to do two hours work
previous to receiving a meal. Some of
the regular visitor thereupon marched
of and were seen no more, saying that
they hadn't fallen so low as to work for
a meal. The number of Migrants soon
fell off to about fifteen. When this last
winter set in, the overseers procured
some 800 cords of wood from the city,
and for two days work upon it, they
gave the worker an order for 81 worth of
provisions and groceries at wholesale
prices. Then finding that even at that
rate the dealers were making a profit on
the poor OF some 90 per cent, the city
opened store of its own at the home,
and delivered the articles Sought. In
this way the articles with all expenses
added, did not cost wo-thirds as much as
under the old system at wholesale prices
The overseers have succeeded admirably
in relieving the really destitute, and at a
cost of $4,000 less than the year before.
1t is intended to keep up the wood yard
and the supply store, as permanent insti-
tutions.-LOlreU Mass. Courier.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
Hoodlum y the Christian.

FROM Is. +. 1ayl0r'S DclNccu Tie OaiSS.
Should skittish horse come suddenly
upon the word +" Hoodlum," and it look
ed and sounded to equine organs as it
looks and sounds to mine, that horse
would take fright and run away. You
instinctively infer it names some crea-
ture of the cat species, monstrous and
anomalous, as if puma should swap
heads with the great horned owl. The
very word looks as if it might have a
verbal lair all by itself, and prowl
through the unprotected language by
night. 1t is never found in a place SO
reputable as Webster's dictionary.
The thing it names is a twOfooted,
human, semi-tropical animal, but is
neither the rowdy, Five-Pointer, the
wharf rat, the Bowery boy or the bum
mer. They are his congeners, but he is
creature of finer grain, of hotter
blood, of better breed as breeds 60, and
indefinitely more of a power. He roams
San Francisco like the ownerless dogs of
Constantinople. Heis never alone. He
goes in packs. He is from II to % years
of age, and seldom gets older. He
doesn die, but, like the fawn, he loses
his spots. beg pardon of the fawn!
You see him, slender, wiry, active
fellow with some afectation of style, a
jaunty way with his hat, saucy jerk
with his elbow, an alert and saucy eye;
free, let-all-go stride like a panther's );
sharp-edged chin that can pull out
upon occasion like wash-stand drawer
lean in the flank and lean all over As
Christopher North would say, he is
"scranky" A fat Hoodlum would be as
great curiosity as plethoric grey
hound. He often wears good clothes,
and may be the son of most respectable
parents. There is about one flight of
stairs below him in the cellars of human
degradation. He has ready tongue, a
ready knife and hand that turns to
knuckles any minute. Always reckless
and shameless, often desperate, tyran-
nical by nature, and apprenticed to the
devil by his own consent, he makes
night hideous and darkness dangerous.
No registering sailors ashore, no DULLES
on the rampage can compare with pack
of Hoodlums.
He is creature impossible in any
country with New England winter,
and the homes that are born of. He is
the product of two causes: an out-of-
door climate where January and June
are all one, and the loose, nomadic life
Of the restaurant. Home has neither
charm or restraint for him. He eats
where it chances, he sleeps where the
wee sma' hours ayont the 'twal" over
take him. The Chinaman is a heather
at one end of the human race, the Hood
lum is a heather at the other, and ex-
tremes meet. In their knowledge of
Jesus Christ they are match. Should
the Hoodlums increase like the wielders
of joss-sticks, it would take standing
army to keep the peace. A homemade
heather in Christian land is an utter
heather.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01

bill were nonconcurred it. The regular order was
then taken by Potter, and the question required on
seconding the demand for the previous question on
the Florida resolution. On standing vote the
speaker announced the result to be 80 in the affirm
atlve none in the negative, and the usual point of
no quorum raised by Hale. The speaker ap-
pointed Hale and Potter take their places tell
AT the conclusion of voting, Hale reported it
to affirmative 122, negative none. An exciting
debate followed over ruling by the speaker, and
on the pairing of several members Alter several
calls of the house and ballots, the doors were at
:25, ordered to be closed and resolution was Of
fered by Potter directing the speaker to issue mis-
warrant TO the sergeant-atarms to arrest take INTO
custody and bring to the bar of the house such OF
its mem bers as were absent without leave OF inc
house. Considerable uproar followed over parila-
mentary ruling Potter, at O'Clock, moved 10 ois-
pense with all further proceedings under the call,
stating that he had been informed that every MEM
Der who could be reached by the sergeant-at-arIns
to-day now in the capitol. Agreed to--yeas
2i2, nays 10. The question again REQUIRED on sec
onding the call for previous question, and Hale ad
Potter resumed their places as teers. AS the l4itn
man voting in the affirmative passed between the
telers applause broke out on the Democratic side'
The vote was finally announeed-ayes las, noes /,
and again the Democrats manifested their pleasure
by applause The vote was then taken on ordering
the main question, and the Republicans refraining
from voting it was-yeas 147, nays /, Morse. of
Massachusetts, The question then recurring on the
adoption of the preamble and 1lution vote was
t,ken .and was announced as las to 2 Motion to
reconsider and lay ii on the table was made 6y Pot
ter, bat subsequently Withdrawn, and the hoo Sc
nu med
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
Flight of Storks.

In their preparation for migration,
storks are very interesting. They are
never heard to utter any sound until the
time of their departure has arrived.
They then begin to make a very singu-
lar kind of clatter, communicating with
every member of their flock. They
never started until each Individual Is
collected together. Night is the time
chosen. Strict silence is then preserved,
and they rise Immediately high up in
the air, forming themselves into tri-
angle, and one bird takes the apex. The
duties of this position are too laborlous
to be long sustained, and therefore,
when fatigue is felt, the leading bird re-
tires and another takes its place. We
could not manage better ourselves.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
Ganteel Lies and Shams.

There is one fact very amusing to the
cynical lookerson at the national capt.
tai. This is the costly and gorgeous
raiment which the male and female
Jenkinses make their favorites wear
1t is all pure invention. We knew a
little, modest, bright-eyed girl who read
a description of herself in the paper one
morning shortly after her appearance in
Washington, and was first amazed and
then chagrined at the account, thinking
the ready writer was making sport Of
her. She cried over the matter for an
hour, Irefusing to be comforted. The
daughter of a newly created official with
out two gowns-beg pardon, dresses
and those village made, she could not
comprehend the fact that she wore a real
Worth the night before. The vile
wretch" cried feminine fashionable
correspondent, referring thereby to a
society woman who had sighted her,
+" this is my reward for torturing my
and tearing up my con-
science in making dresses for her-the
dowdy!'- Washington Capital.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
NEWS In BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

WHITTAKER's mill and Grove Co.'s mill,
at Washington, Eng, have been burned by
the striking operators. The Warburton
mill was fred and badly damaged. There
was no rioting at Washington, but the fires
were doubtless incendiary. All is quiet at
Burnley. The mob is very threatening at
Blackburn. One thousand cotton opera
tors at Greenhead, near Glasgow, have
struck against reduction of ten per cent.
in their wages.
BUSINESS in Guatemala is very depressed.
Several failures have occurred, one, that of
the sugar refining company, for $350,000.
ADvICEs from Japan say that minister
Okubo was murdered in the street by FIVE
assassins, while on his way to a cabinet
meeting. All of the assassins were arrested.
THE sentence of Garcia, of Paris, the COM
munist, convicted of taxing part IN the as
sassination of two gen. erals, has been COM
muted to hard labor for life.
AN ammunition factory at Rue Berrenger,
Paris, was destroyed by an explosion on the
18th instant. Two bodies were exhumed
next day, and it was supposed that fifteen
more victims were buried in the debris.
THE race for the Chester trades cup at
Chester, Eng, was won by Pagan on the
18th.
SERIOUS rioting occurred at Blackburn,
Eng, on the 18th. Thousands of the lowest
class of operatives, including women, paraded
the streets, making violent demonstrations.
The residence of Col. Jackson, chairman of
the Masters association, was burned to the
nraunA ba of
partially wrecked and the windows dcmol-
ished in all the mills. Col. Jackson and
wife barely escaped in cab, and Mrs
Horribly was struck with stones. Troops had
to clear the streets.
UNUSUAL excitement prevailed along the
Canadian border on the 14th inst, owing to
report that 400 Fenians had crossed over
from the United States. The militia at Fort
Erie were called out and preparations are
now making for defense along the entire
frontier. The whole thing is looked upon
on the American side as hoax.
INFORMATION has reached Havana, Cuba,
of an earthquake in Venezuela, by which
600 persons lost their lives.
COL DEUFERT ROCHEREAU, well known
for his heroic defense of Belfort during the
Franco-German war, and member of the
French chamber of deputies, died on the
18th instant.
QUEEN VICTORIA, the crown princess of
Germany, and Duke of Cambridge reviewed
fourteen thousand regular troops at Alder
shot, England, on the 18th.
GEN. GRANT, accompanied by United
States Minister Noyes, Consul General Tor
bertrand Commissioner General Mccormick,
visited the Paris exhibition on the 18th
inst. The exhibitors in the American de-
partment lunched the party. The sailors
and officers appeared in uniform
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
A Philosophical Pasha.

Some of the French jokes connected
with the Russo-Turkish war are not bad
these for example,:
A Russian general rides forward to
the grand duke. Il have the honor,
your imperial highness, 20 announce a
great victory"
every well. Go and congratulate
your troops"
"There are none left"
Another:
A Turkish pasha is surveying the field
with his glass. An aid-de-camp rides up:
"All our artillery has been captured"
The pasha strokes his beard philosoph-
ically, and says, Fortunately it has not
been paid for"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, May 1873 100 P. M.-Cotton-
Quiet at sc in advance. FIour-Dull; re-
ceipts $4,000 bbls; sales 5000 hbls. Wheat
Unsettled; receipts 278.0 900 bus; sales 56, 900
bus; No. spring seller May $1.I9. Rye
Steady. Corn-kc lower; receipts $50, 900
bus; sales 100000 bus at 4S@50Hc for west
ern mixed. Barley-Dull. Oats-Heavy
receipts 5000 bus; sales "a 900 bus at 500
&c for imi1ed western; 3415@351ac for
white. Pork-Heavy at$9.10. Lard-Quiet
at $697E. Wnisky-At s1.06H. Petrole-
um-Crude at nc; refined at 1113c. Coal
Steady. Leaher-Heavy at 20@21c.
Wool-Firm at 30@4Sc.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
MilWa.ukaa.

MILWAUKEE, May 1880 P. M.-Flour-
No demand outside of the local trade and
prices weak but not lower choice spring
extras $5.25@5.50; fair to good, $4.75@5.00;
common at 81 50@4622; super fine $3.50
@4.O0. Wheat-Quite unsettled No. l reg
ular at $l.1oA@11oH; No. at s1.0S@
at $1.04R@1.051s. Corn-Dull and lower
new sold at SIC; No. nominal at 39%c
Oats-Dull and lover 251lc. Rye-Tame
and lower; 5Sc. ley-Demoralized No.
for cash and June weak at 64c. Pork
Dull at SS.12 cash. Lard--Very dull at 81
961c. Hogs-yery dull at at $3.10@3.20.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
Chicago.

CHICAGO, May Isl 80 p. M.-Wheat
Heavy and lower at $1.0915 for cash and
seller May; S1.05s5@ GLOSS for seller June;
$1.031s91. 03A for seller July. Corn-Weak
and easy at 391sc for cash. 3S14c for seller
June. Oats-Weak and lower at 2513c for
cash; 253sc for sellers June. Rye-At 5Sc.
Barley-51c asked Pork-Heavy and
lower; $50 for cash and seller u une $S.15
@S.1719 for seller July. Lard-Weak and
lower; $3.50 bid for seller July. Whisky
At s1.04. Hogs-Receipts 10000 head :;
moderatively active light shade lower; at
$3.l593.20; heavy grades dull and weak at
$3.05(93.3O
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01

THE electric light is making rapid
strides toward general adoption in this
country. A practical application of
these lights for general Illuminating pur-
poses is now being made in Chicago,
which is said to be great improvement
over the one in general use in Europe.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01

DEMoGET calculates that the sound
transmitted by the telephone is $4,000
times weaker than that emitted by the
speaker, and he is therefore of the opin-
ion that the present apparatus is far from
having reached a stage of perfec-
ton
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01
VARIOUS TOPICS.

DURING the year 1877 the only states
where the receipts for postal service
exceeded the expenditures were New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01

FLORENCE the Beautiful, as the Ital-
ians call it, is in bad way financially.
In other words, it has adopted the fash
ion of bankruptcy, and bankruptcy in
the old world is far more serious than it
is in the new. With population of
10000, it owes more than Milan and
Naples combined, representing popula-
ton of near 100000, and taxes are so
many and so large that they have Grip
pied enterprise and paralyzed trade.
Everything except crime is stagnant in
the Tuscan capital; the population is
steadily decreasing, and the sole source
of revenue TO the citizens the past season
has been from foreigners and tourists,
who have been preyed upon with even
more than the usual mercilessness.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01

SENATOR HERMAN is said to have
long, practical, sensible nose; Senator
Conkling a handsome, fighting nose;
Senator Lamar an artistic nose of great
possibilities; Senator Senator Howe a
long, triangular nose, with sharp point;
Senator Bayard an inquisitive, yet a
courteous nose; Senator Edmunds a
firm nose, the nose of gnarled and
knotted character; and Senator Barnum
dashing and needless nose. So gossips
a Washington writer, who thinks he
knows all about it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-06-01

AT length the Chinese, in spite of the
prejudice and superstition Of centuries,
appear DESTROYS of utilizing the valuable
coal and iron deposits of the empire. A
native company is about to develop the
rich coal mines of the province of Shan
tung. The coal and iron known to exist
IN the province of Chill, to the north
west OF Tientsin, are also to be mined on
an extensive scale. If these enterprises
are successful, the effect upon the social
and commercial condition of China will
be incalculable.