Evening Mirror (Newspaper) - March 9, 1877, Altoona, Pennsylvania VOL 228 ALTOONA PA FRIDAY MAKCH 9 1877 Central Railroad DECEMBER 10 1876 EASTWARD tit 6.02 IMV J W 1.00 0.26 6.50 Newport Millerstown Port Mifflin Granville McVeytown TS Hamilton Mount Union Huntingdon Spruce Creek Tyrone Tipton C reason Lilly's Scoman South Fork Mineral Pt Johnstown Pittsburgh 10.02 9.15 8.51 8.27 8.00 6.60 6.38 6.16 5.09 4.42 8.15 1.45 7.59 7.42 5.0010154 4.33 9.56 4.25 9.49 4.15 9.37 3.57 3.50 8.45 3.32 3.26 3.17 3.12 3.08 2.50 2.12 1.49 1.38 1.28 1.04 112.49 9.20 9.13 9.08 8.55 8.50 8.41 837 8.34 8.16 752 7.29 7.18 6.58 640 6.33 6.25 6.10 6.00 7.35 A M P M A M on the above table etop only tt figures are given Altoona Accommodation Westward leaves m Kittanning Point 8.68 Gal 9.31 9.41 9.61 10.03 South Fork 10.15 Mineral Point at at 10.33 a m 1040 Westward leares f lit 12.56 a m in at 8.30 Westward at 11.30 p m 5.17 p Tyrone 6.06 p m Altoona fk M arrlre in 80 p m 1 leaves at 8.45 4.15 p.m In Philadelphia at 7.20 p m Eastward leaves 4.50 p m Johnstown 7.61 p m p m Mineral Point 8.11 n m Lilly's 8.46 p TO 8.54 9.04 p m Altoona 10.00 p m 0.17 p m Tyrone 10.38 p m p m 11.16 UAH m Mifflin a m a la Philadelphia at 7.00 a m Eastward leaves Pittsburgh at 8 40 f 12 10 a to 4.10 a m m Express Eastward at m a tn Altoona 7.50 a 8.19 a m Huntingdon 8 56 a m R tn Mifflin m Philadelphia at 3.45 p on tlie and Cove and Branch arrive in Altoona at 7 40 a p m 7.15 p m and p m Liara 7 40 a m 9.20 a 2.40 p m and 7.40 tbe T ft C Railway leave Tyrone at 1.10 ft m 7.10 p tn returning arrive in a m and p m B E V R R leave Tyrone at 8.30 a p m returning arrive la Tyrone at 9.10 p m COMPLETE LIST OF MAILS AM and Received at Altoona GOING WEST a Mail clones at Pittsburgh of Pittsburgh Johnstown and all of Indiana West p m Mail clones at of all Indiana d all offices between Altoona and West a m Mail closes all wes of Altoona Mail on this for points Altoona and Johnstown Will from Bay Express East at noon RECEIVED FROM THE WEST Express arrives at a arrives at and and all points between Altoona Express arrives at Express arrives Fast arrives at a and of Pittsburgh opened at 7 o'clock Branch For and branches leave Altoona closing at branch p m p m Hollidaysburg p m and arrive 8 a- tn p m and Williamsburg branches at p m MAILS SENT EAST Express East p m Mail at for Tyrone Tyrone Lock Haven ronte Jc route Huntingdon and Baltimore and torn Day East Mail closes at 12 m for all mail in at 12 o'clock Mail at a m Mail closes at t for Huntingdon and all points between Altoona Atlantic East at Mail closes at for New York and Tyrone night Mail closes at for all through mail East RECEIVED FROM THE EAST Express Opened at 7 a m from York Philadelphia Bal timore Harrisburg and east of those places Express o'clock From Philadelphia New and Fast Line west Mail from all points east THE STOCK MARKET PRICES OF and Gold Brokers No Street Philadelphia g -J ft J K new March 114 R R and Reading R K R R Copland Co 22 of Jersey Boffalo R R ia R R 11 R R R 113 4414 1ST 2T 17 HARRY SLEP Proprietor Corner Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Street ALTOONA BLAIR FA STATE NEWS workmen on the new Sandy Kan Railroad have struck for wages county owes and it is expected that it will all be paid this was run over and instantly killed laat week near Hopewell in Bedford county Murphy movement has rence county by storm Over tures are now reported possesses a curious young gentlemen with blonde hair and a black mustache Henry Lucas of Philadel- phia injured Tuesday in the railroad col- died on Wednesday men were killed and fourteen wounded in the eastern district of the coal fields during Black Maria is a two- on which drunken men are strapped and hauled to the lock np Huff was recently killed on the line of the Lewisburg Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad by the falling of a tree Schuylkill county has several new cases and it is re- ported that the disease exists in Cats Run Coal tuild one hundred ovens below New Ge- nera OH the Monongahela this spring Samuel Wolf a wealthy and teemed lady in Danville hung herself on Saturday JNo cause is assigned for the terrible act entertainments with admission fees of five cents seem to be going the rounds The ladies of Beaver Pa have just started a series of them Penn cotton mill of Allegheny has been bought by a stock company with a capital of f and will resume op- after a long idle spell Lehigh Valley refused to pay a tax of on the bridge tween Easton and Phillipsburg and the case is to be taken to the Supreme Court Philadelphia papers announce the death on the 14th inst of Matilda Re- becca widow of tbe late Rev John bers D D and daughter of the late Levi A Murray a conductor on a local freight train of the Pennsylvania railroad was run over and killed near Williamsport Friday evening the cars passing over his leg near the Lip Keystone Paint Company is ing a new mill at the junction of the Muncy Canal with the West Branch Canal The mill will be driven by a fifteen horse en- gine and will contain all the machinery necessary to prepare the paint for market broom factory baa been started in Washington and the first broom was made on last Thursday The Reporter says they will soon be turning them out by the dred dozen and that the factory is under- stood to be the most complete one in the United States have suffered severely this winter in all parts of the State The cause is at- to a scarcity of bees food last fall the bees having commenced to consume their store earlier than usual in the season thereby exhausting their supply before the end of the winter expenses of Columbia county for the trial of Hester and Tulley amounts to about Tne payment of witnesses was no small item as there were eighty-seven iu all and the highest amount paid to any one Con from was Erie Observer The ice in the bay has been gradually breaking up during the past week and a considerable strip of clear water is now to be seen ex- tending from the entrance half way to the cocks Lake men generally anticipate an early opening of navigation new Oliphant Furnace in Fayette county is now making twelve tons of daily The and West Virginia Railroad which is about to be merged with the Southwest Pennsylvania Railway is graded alongside of this furnace The road extends from Uniontown to chance English institution of game pre- serves has been introduced into Berks county by a local Association They have leased acres of forest j field and stream which they will stock with birds and fishes They pay each of the fifteen farmers who own the land five dollars a veAr divide this of i fines for poaching with the farmers on i whose territory game is killed Several 1 hundred and pheasants will be set liberty this Spring i j Cheapest Alpaca in the city at the Bee Hive S Sprankle Bro TELEGRAPHIC Not Hung MAUCH CHUNK Pa March a Mollie Maguire was not executed yesterday his case having been taken to the Supreme Court Joe Goss Captured NEW March Joe Goss the lish pugilist and a principal in the Allen prize fight has been arrested and held to await the arrival of the Kentucky officers EVANSVILLE March 9 A fire in Posey block yesterday morning destroyed Weber's bat store and Gross clothing store Weber's loss is insurance Gross loss is Insurance Loss on building insurance The origin of the fire is unknown That Supreme Judgeship WASHINGTON Maroh 9 1877 The cancy on the Supreme Bench occasioned by the election of Judge Davis to the Senate is attracting much attention and the friends of the aspirants are not idle Upon whom the choice may fall is yet a matter of doubt for no action will be taken until after the Cabinet shall have been confirmed Attempted Murder March 9 Win F Speakman of Oak Pale was arrested yesterday ing while killing his wife who was rescued The dead body of his sister seventy years old was found in a woodshed head and body almost cut to pieces Speakman is a mill operator He was insane from liquor for several days and drunk when the murder was committed NEW March accordance with a call from prominent citizens a ing was held in Wall street yesterday afternoon in front of the to express approval of the announced policy of President Hayes in regard to civil vice reform and the pacification of the South Before one o'clock the crowd father ing wag order there was a large assembly in the street and on the steps of buildings Wm A Booth presided Seven Lives Lost in Panic a Church NEW YORK March panic church of Saint Francis Xavier in Sixteenth street Sixth avenue last night caused a rush of women from one of the galleries and in the tumult which ensued six women and one boy were trampled to death The congregation was composed entirely of women and children it being women's week in Lent The number of persons in- jured could not be ascertained The bodies of the unfortunates were taken to the Twenty-fifth precinct station house where they remain awaiting to be identified Sherman's Successor WASHINGTON March tion of Senator Sherman as Secretary of the Treasury hag set in motion the contest for the succession to him in the Senate The ability and services of the Hon Stanley Matthews before the Electoral Commission will give him Executive countenance and doubtless support Attorney General Taft will leave at once for Columbus to look after his chances General Garfield will also be a competitor in view of the fact that the administration will need a tive in the Senate holding close relations with the President and will command ity and experience Judge Matthews will in all probability be the choice of the The Senate Committees WASHINGTON March can Senators held a caucus yesterday morning at which the report of the com- appointed to revise the standing committees was submitted and adopted The minority gets increased representation so that instead of three the will have four places out of nine on each con- political committee with perhaps the ex- ception of one or two committees which are of a quasi-political character The licans have provided for Senator Davis of Illinois by assigning him to the Judiciary Committee and Committee on Revision of Laws The Democratic lines are not yet completed and therefore no election of committees will be possible before day The Republican members of the Finance Committee will Morrill Ferry of Nevada Allison and Dawes Bargains That No Others Can Match alpaca worth 75 cents for 50 cents at Bowman The Eastern Question March special dispatch from Berlin to the Pail Mall Gazette says General Ignatieff throughout his stay here has in conversation with ists held out strong hopes of a peaceable solution and intimates the willingness of Russia to disarm as soon as means of cape have been found out of the present dilemma His principal Secretary Prince has in a private conversation stated war to be inevitable and that the ob- ject of his mission is to obtain for Russia authority from the Powers to inter vene in Turkey That New York Fire NEW March large number of workmen are digging in the still smoking ruins of the building Nos 1 and 3 Bond street to extricate many safes embedded among the neaps of bricks and old iron Two safes were dug ont and hoisted from the cellar and were sent to the factories of the makers to be opened One belonged to Robbing Appleton and the other to win Sexton Peterson Another large safe was uncovered belonging to the last named firm Streams of water were directed upon the ruins which still smouldered and fire lines were maintained by the lice The losers by the fire are unable to state their losses as much of their stock is in the unopened safes which also contain their books The loss of the jewelry firm of Taylor Bro late Taylor Olmstead Taylor is estimated at more than insurance Great Bargains iu boots thoos and ers at the Bee Hive Store of S Sprankle A Bro one price hats and caps at Rice's 1330 CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS loss by the fire in Bond street New York on Tuesday is now mated at upwards of President stated that he did not intend to convene the extra session of Con- gress for an earlier date than about the 1st of June E A Burke returned to New Orleans from Washington From ances he received he is satisfied the government will not be disturbed Ursula Terhune aged 73 and Mrs Eleanor Keut aged 63 were burned to death in N J on Monday night by the explosion of a coal oil lamp Harper and clerk of the Eighth Revenue District of Illinois charged with frauds hag been dis- missed by the U S Court in Springfield on recommendation of Attorney General Taft Republican State Central tee of Louisiana unanimously adopted a resolution asking Mr to resign as their President and as a member of the National Republican Committee the nation to be sent in before the 17th inst T Beads Secretary of the California Stock Exchange in San Francisco has dis- appeared with the books and papers of the Exchange and worth of stocks de- posited as security for loans effected from Collusion with other officers of the Board is suspected Ross and others representing the tribes in the Indian Territory called upon the President to ascertain his Indian policy He said he could indicate no cial line of action until after the formation of his but he did not think there would be any essential large crowd was attracted to the Col- 0 depot Wednesday evening by the report that Mr Tilden was to pass through the city en route South The Democratic ward organizations and a full band were present in force and much in- was manifested wLen it was dis- covered that the story was a practical joke of some one H Lewis who died at his home in Hoboken a few days ago aged eighty-six was for many years in the stationery business in Nassau street New York and accumulated property of more than He bequeathed his en- tire estate to the Government to help pay the national debt making George D H of the Manhattan Bank his ex- It is believed that he had no tives living years ago Miss Athers of ville advertised tor a husband John R Johnston of responded and after a brief acquaintance they were ried and Johnston obtained a situation in a bank at Porterville On Wednesday of last week a fonner wife of Johnston made her appearance He acknowledged that he was a man when he married Miss Athers and the latter shot through the heart and died instantly very sad affair occurred at Coal Run near Marietta O Wednesday resulting in the death of a young man named Davis The victim with some school was rehearsing a minor drama for a school exhibition At one place tne action of the drama required man to stab another and in carrying that ont a companion Rumble at Davis who wore a breast protector Unfortunately Rumble missed the protector the blade of the weapon penetrated Davis heart and he fell SENATE PROCEEDINGS Sherman Confirmed Other Not Acted On WASHINGTON March Senate re- consideration of the unfinished ness being the resolution of Mr Bayard of Delaware that the credentials of John T Morgan Senator-elect from the State of Alabama he taken from the table and that he be sworn Mr Spencer of Alabama moved to amend the resolution 80 as to refer the Ala of JMr Morgan to the Committee on Privileges and Elections After some debate the resolution that Mr Morgan of Alabama be sworn in as a ator was agreed to without division Mr Wallace then offered a resolution that Mr Grower of Oregon be sworn in Mr Conkling then addressed the Senate making the point that there was no tude between the Oregon and Louisiana cases In the one he legally and legislature existed in the other there were two claimants for the governorship and two distinct bodies each pretending to be the true legislature of the State The general government so far had been unable to decide upon the merits of either and so he considered the reference of Kellogg's case to the committee an eminently proper course bat Mr Grover should be sworn in at once and any charges now made against him might be gated hereafter During his remarks Mr Conkling defended the policy of the new administration as foreshadowed in the in- augural address Mr Thurman stated that he had been authorized by ME Grover to state that he Grover courted investigation that when he was Admitted he would offer a resolution for the appointment of committee for that purpose Mr Grover was sworn in The Senate then went into executive sion and when the doors were reopened ad- Immediately after the Senate went into executive session at four o'clock this after- noon a motion was made to take from the table and bring before the Senate for action the nomination of Mr Sherman aa tary of the Treasury Objections being in- on the ground that the been ordered to referred to Finance Committee when appointed and that it could not now be acted tipon out unanimous consent Mr Wheeler de- that the rules applicable to reference to committees etc were not in force aa no committees were in existence After considerable discussion concerning the point of order the decision was sustained without a division The question was then taken on the confirmation of Mr Sherman's nomination It was confirmed by the vote of the Republican Senators against 26 votes in the negative cast by Democratic members of the body Several of the Detr from voting No attempts were made to confirm any of the other Cabinet nominees Legislative March tbe Senate the following bills passed finally To mit fishing with nets in the waters of the Commonwealth Providing the means for securing the health and safety of persons employed in the bituminous coal mines of Pennsylvania In the House various appropriations were passed among which was an act to appropriate for the relief of certain ties which have sustained unusual ex- penses in suppressing and bringing to tice of the secret order of Ancient Hibernians or Molly at the dress goods ten and twelve cents per yard at the McDowell Mercantile Company's limited store Dyspepsia Dyspepsia Dyspepsia is most perplexing of all human ailments Its symptoms are almost infinite in their variety and the forlorn and despondent victims of the disease often fancy themselves the prey in turn of every known malady This ix due in part to the close sympathy which exists between the ach and the brim and in part also to the fact that any disturbance of the digestive function rily disorders the liver the bowels and the nervous system and effects to some extent the quality of the blood E F Bitter Wine of Iron a sure cure This is aot a new preparation to be tried wanting it has been prescribed daily for many years in the practice of eminent physicians with unparalleled success it is not expected or intended to cure all the diseases to which the human family is subject bat is warranted to cure Dyspepsia in Us most obstinate form Bitter Wine of Iron never fails to cure Symptoms of Dyspepsia are loss of wind And rising of the food dryness of the mouth heartburn distension of the stomach and bowels constipation headache dizziness ness and low spirits Try the great remedy and be convinced of its merits Get the genuine Take only is put only in 259 North Ninth St Philadelphia Tape Worm Entirely removed with passing from the system aHw Xa fee until tbe head and refer to patients treated Or E F North Ninth St Phila- delphia Advice Seat Pi a aod Stomach Worms also The medicine for all others hut Tape ask frr K WOKS SYRUP Price BUSINESS Iff P to 1128 attention giren to in Blair Cambria Huntingdon Mi Clear field counties pi EO A Allegheny Street attention glrem to in Blair and adjoining counties r D Of THl AJTD TAMES F Allegheny Street t given to the Collection cf dford Cambria Huntingdon and JOHN B Justice of the Peace And Collector PA at the Shoo M D Physician and Surgeon on Seventh bttwMn lltk nl F J TV KERR FINDLEY i INSURANCE AGENTS OFFICE Second Floor Altoona Baa ft Building avenue between Twelfth and streets Altoona Pa 1860 Altoona Bread 1877 AND ONLY CRACKER BAKERY in ALTOONA F HEESS Proprietor No 713 Thirteenth Street ami faacy to ABLETT CO 23 and 25 Seventh Street Manufacturers and Dealers in All Kinds of Write for prices before baying our prices arc fti ways as low as good oils can be 1008 ELEVENTH AVENUE OPPOSITE DEPOT We have received a fall line of all of Parlor Chamber and Kitchen FURNITURE for the spring trade such as Lounges Mattresses Chamber Suits Beds Springs and stands in fact every article found iu a class store which we positively sell per Cent Less than they can be bought for elsewhere in this city We sell for cash avoiding thereby losses by bad debts and are offering goods at the PRICES Please give ns a call acd price oir elsewhere JOsIAH ARTHUR LEWIS Salesman Proprietor R A 0 KERR CO No 1316 Street Altoona Pa ESTABLISHED IN 1856 Brokers and Dealers iu Foreign Exchange POLICIES ISSUED and losses promptly paid at our office No 1310 road Pa INSURE NONE BUT and pay honest losses promptly Wl SELL TO AWT PORT IN A FARM AND HOMI OF TOUR Now is the Time to It best aid cheapest lands in the 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