&I)c 3ttmc0, Bloomftclir,
3
Bloomficld Academy!
An linylish and Classical School
FOIl
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I
TIIH AVINTKK NKHSION (if this Institution
commenced December !th.
Tim course of study embraces Latin. (!rcek,
KliKllsh liraiichrs, . Mathematics. Natural Science.
&.. and is designed to furnish a thorough lCtifillsli
Kducation, or a complete Preparation for a Colle
giate Course.
Vacations: .July and August, and one week at
Christmas.
Terms: Knr Hoardine. rurnlshed ltoom. Wash
liifr. Tuilliin In Latin, (Jreek, Kildish Ilraiichesand
Matheinaties, for the seolastic year, except board
In vacations. S-'ikuhi.
The Hoarding l)eiartnient Is at the institution,
under the supervision of Willnm drier. Ksi., by
whom good ami substantial board will be fur
nished: anil the pupils will be under the strict tare
of the l'rincipal. Address
T. A. SM VKl.Y. A. ., rrlnclpal,
or W 1 1,1, 1 AM (ililKH.
Sltfl New liloomlield, J'erry county, Pa.
N(5AV HtSl'0 JluillO
15ETWEEN
IJLOOMFIELD and NEWFORT !
WIXl'ER ARRAXOEMEXT.
TIIK subscriber is now running a hack between
Hlonmlleld and iewport. leaving Hlooinlleld
at u a in., arriving at Newport in time to connect
witli the lixpress train Kast.
Heturning. leaves Newport at 2..T0 p. tu., or on
the arrival of the Mail train West.
- He has also opened a 1,1 VICKY in til ' Stables
belonging to Hinesmith's Hotel, where he is pre
pared to furnish horses and buggies at moderato
prices. AMOrt ItOMNSON.
CHEAP GOODS!
Til E subscriber having opened a now Store, ono
door Kast of Sweger's Hotel, solicits a share
of the public patronage. He has Just received a
full supply of
TV o w C2 o o i ss ,
ami will constantly keep on bund, a complete as
sortment of
DRY-UOODS, GROCERIES,
Q UEEXSWARE, HARD WARE,
HOOTS & SHOES, IIATS& CAPS.
And Everything else usually kept in Stores.
Call and sec, my stock.
ltOB'T. X. WILMS.
New liloomlield, Pa.
3 42
New Carriage Manufactory,
On Hiou Stiucet, Kast op Caki.isi.e St.,
New Bloomficld, Pcun'a.
THE subscriber lias built a large and commodi
ous Shop on High St.. Kast of Carlisle Street,
New liloomlield. l'a., where lie is prepared to man
ufacture to order
Oji i r i a g c s
Of every description, out of the best material.
Sleighs of every Style,
liulll to order, and finished in the most artistic and
durable manner.
Having superior workmen, he is prepared
to furnish work that will compare favorably with
the best City Work, and much more durable, and
at much more reasonable rates.
49-ItGlMIKINC: of all kinds neatly and prompt
ly done. A call is solicited.
SAMUEL SMITH.
3 itr
JAMES 33. CLARK,
MANUFACTUltKK AJil) DliALKH IN
Stores, Tin and Sheet Iron "Ware,
New Bloomficld, Terry co., Va.,
KKEl'S constantly on hand every article usuallf
kept in a llrst-class establishment.
All the latest styles and most Improved
Parlor ami Ititclicn Stoves,
TO HUKN EIJEU COAL Oil WOOD !
M- Spouting atWv Hoofing put up in the most
durable manner and at reasonable prices. Call
and examine his stock. 3 1
BELLS.
( ESTABLISHED
1 IJi 1837.
BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY!
c
HURCH. Academy, Factory,
Farm, Kle-
Alarm Kelts, &c, &e., made of
PURE BELL METAL,
(Conner and Tin,) warranted in quality, tone, da
rabllky, &c, and mounted with our Patent IM
PROVED ROTATING HANU1NUS.
Catalogues sent Free.
illustrated
VAND UZEX cC TIFT,
Not. 103 and 104 E. 2nd St.,
CINCINNATI, 0.
UOlypi
JJartrcal jSrlfctions.
4?
OVER THE RIVER.
OVKlt the river tliey beckon to me,
Loved ones who've passed to the other Bide,
The gleam of their snowy robes 1 see,
lint their voices are lost In the dashing tide,
There's one with ringlets of snniiv miiil
And eyes the reflection of heaven's own Mao !
own Mao !
ld, M
irtal TtojffJ
there, T
sec; U
Jle crossed In the twilight gray and cold
And the pale mist hid him from inor
We saw not the angels who met him there,
The gates of The City we could not sec
Over the river, over the river.
My brother stands ready to welcome me.
Over the river the boatman pale,
Carried another tlio household pet;
Her bright curls waved it the gentle gale;
Darling Minnie, I see her yet!
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And Tearlessly entered the phantom bark;
We watched it glide from the silver sands,
And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she is safe on the other side,
Where all the ransomed and angels be;
Over the river; the Mystic river.
My childhood's idols are waiting for inc.
For none return from those quiet shores
Who cross with the boatman cold and pale;
We hear the dip of the golden oars,
We calch the gleam of the snowy sails,
And lo! they have passed from our heart
Tliey cross the stream and are gone for aye:
We cannot sunder the veil apart.
That hides from our vision the gates of day:
We only know that their bark no more
Shall sail with ours on life's stormy sea,
Yet somehow I hope on the unseen shore
They watch and beckon and wait for me.
And I sit and think when the sunset's gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore,
1 shall one day stand by the water cold,
And list to the sound of the boatman's oar,
I shall watch for the gleam of the flapping sail,
I shall hear the boat as it gains the strand.
I shall pass from sight with the boatman pale.
To the better shore of the spirit land :
I shall know the loved who have gone before,
And Joyfully sweet the meeting shall be
When over the river, the peaceful river,
The angel of death shall carry mo.
A Geographical Enigma.
I am composed of Fourteen letters.
My 1, !), 13, 3. and 4, is a town in Ireland.
My 3, i, and 13, is a river in liavaria.
My 4. 2, (i, 10, 3. 9, and 12, is a town in Austria.
My , 8, 2, 14. 9, and 12, is a town In Arkansas.
My ti, 9, and 13, is a Cape in the United States.
My 8, 2, and 7, is a mountain in Colorado.
My 9, , and 4, Is a town lu Sweden.
My 11, 14, 4, 5, 3. and 9, is a town in Arabia.
My 10, 0, 2, 12, and 4, is a river in Turkestan.
My whole Is the name of a celebrated explorer.
IN THE WRONG ROOM:
on
Nat. Harrison's Experience.
IN early days old Nat. Harrison was
elected to the Legislature from this
county, said a fellow as wo are all seated
around the stove, in a little hotel at
McLainsboro', Hamilton county Illinois.
Old Nat. was a regular old brick! He
was elected just because there was no one
to run ngainst him. Our county was
rather bad off for intelligent people in
those days. A few days after old Nat.
had gone to Springfield, to attend to tho
duties of his office. I happened to bo
there on business of a private character,
and thinking ho would bo glad to hear
ironi tnc toiks at home, 1 concluded to
call on him at the " J'
inquire after his health. '
" I ve becu well. Tom," 'said he, " but
I got awfully sciired the firstnight Istayed
in this 'ere darned place."
"How was that?" I inquired.
" Well," said Nat. " I'll tell you all
about it. You see that fellow there
behind tho counter; tho fellows here
call him the bard well, I told him I
wanted to see my bed, so I'd know where
to sleep when I'd come in after a while.
Ho took me up stairs to a littlo room, and
said I could sleep there, and then ho went
down. I took good notico of it brown
door with yaller streaks here and there,
and white earthern lock handle.
" I started down stairs a-thinkin" a
bout this, and I wouldn't look at another
door' for fear I'd get 'em kinder mixed
up in my head, and then forget which
was mi no.
" About twelve o'clock that night I
came in with a kind of half-grown hum
min' in my head, and the very first thing
I found at tho top of tho stairs was my
own identical door, with tho yaller streaks
and white lock handle
" Good," says I, and in I lumbers.
I walked up to the bed, and what do ye
think ? Why, I finds some one of your
long-legged, black-whiskered town fellers
in it fast asleep. 1 takes him by tho
beared, reared him up on his end, and
gives him a short sarment tells him to
leave as quick as double triggers, or I'll
be d d if I wouldn't kick him down
stairs tolls hint I don't want to Jo it
nuther, for I am a member of tho Legis
lature the Representative from Hamilton
but if I git to fighting he'd find mo a
full team. The fellow looked awfully
scared, and without saying a word ho got
up very humble like, and started for his
dry goods, which hung on a chair tip in
ono comer. I sot down the light and
began to undress ; and says I to him.
draw on them duds and toddle from hero
for I'll bo cussed if I 'turning around
at tho same time to look fierce at him
I see's him a comin' at mo with ono of
the drottcst butcher knives iu tho
world.
" Well, thought I, Nat. you've got your
self in a close place, by Jingo ! and so we
begun to lumber around the room like
tho very nation. Hero I went here he
conic . At last I got between him and
tho door, and out I phot.
" This beats tho devil, says I, a Rep
resentative to the Legislature treated in
this way. I went clown stairs and told
the fellow behind the counter that some
cuss was in my room
No' I guss not," said
' perhaps
room is
there is some mistake
number eight."
your
" Thinks I perhaps there may be some
mistake ; and so I goes back. When I
got up to the top of the stairs I began to
count at tho first door, and on till I
counted eight. I found than they all
looked axactly alike. I opened the
eighth door and went in, feeling certain
that it was picked out for me. A candle
was burning on the table, by the light of
which I saw that some person was in the
bed. Not fooling inclined to kick up
another fuss, I conoluded to crawl in
with him and say nothing about it. In
a very short time I was in bed and ready
to go to sloop. I had not been iu bed
long before the door opened, and a young
man and woman came into tho room and
took seats by the candle stand.
" Something else on hand, Nat,"
thought I to myself, "but let 'em rip."
" They looked very serious at first,
but finally it wore off, and they got to
chatting very lovingly, and tohuggiu' and
kissin a little. I was delighted "with tho
performance, and thought the feller iu
bed with mo ought to see it and enjoy the.
fun too : so I whispered to him
'"Say, Captain aid boss, just look
up.'
" They both started up, like a shakin
mill had touched 'cm, and they seemed
to bo awfully scared, till the gal said, ' it
was only tho wind blowin agin the
winder.
" They soon got to hoggin' and kissin'
again, and as I could not rouse our friend
I thought I would jest have a littlo fun
to mysult.
" Slips,' says I, jest as they was a
fetching their lips together, and up they
sprang like lightning and loped lor the
door; but as fortune would have it, the
young feller had dropped the key, and ho
couldn't get out.
"Never mind says,' I , it's fun for mo
as well as you. I love to see sich things
a-goin' on.'
" This seemed to scare 'em more than
ever.
" It was rich, too rich to enjoy alone,
and I deterniiucd to wako up my
bed feller. I slapped my hand on
his chin it was cold as ice. ' Thunder
and St. Louis, Nat,' said I, 'you'ro in
bed with a dead man,' and without wait
ing to consider tho matter 1 sprang to
tho floor. The youngsters gave a loud
squall, fetched up again the closed door,
and I pitched with 'em which resulted
in smashing tho darned thing open.
Without waiting for ceremony or formal
ities wo all bolted for the stairs. Hearing
tho racket, tho landlord who occupied a
room still further back, came boltingafter
us. Catching a glimpse of him I took
him to be tho dead man, and so I put all
the steam on, and ran close in tho wake of
tho lovers. I could not pass them, how
ever, for they were frightened out of their
souses, having no idea but what I was
the deceased in close puruit. In this
condition we all tumbled promiscuously
down stairs into tho bar-room.
"Now let's go and take something,
boss," said Nat, but don't say anything
about this wlion you got home, or Sally
may bo uneasy about me,' "
B, A young man at Muscatine, Iowa,
lately crawled into a boiler to clean it out,
but tho engineer, being ignorant of the
fact, closed the door and fired up. The
young man becaino uncomfortably warm,
and to his horror discovered tho boiler
filling with water. His shrieks were
unheard, but fortunately tho engineer
opened tho door and the half-Buffocated
prisoner was released.
THE BRIDAL HANDKERCHIEF.
"Y7E all prepared to go to
tho wed
T T
ding, lwas going, father was
going, the gals was going, and wo was
going to take the baby. But como to
dress the baby, I couldn't find its littlo
shirt. I'd laid a clean one out of the
drawer a-purposc ; I knew jest where I'd
,1 1 n . .
put ii, om como 10 iook ior it, it was
gone.
" lor mercy s sake, says I, " gals, has
any of you seen that baby's shirt ?"
Of courso none of em had seen it, and
I looked again, but it wan't no where to
bo foutid.
" It's the strangest thing in all nature,"
says I ; " here I had this shirt in my hand
not niore'n ten minutes ago, and now it's
gone, nobody knows where! Gals," says
1, " do look around, can t ye :
But fretting and fuming wouldn't find
it; so I went, to tho bureau and fished up
another shirt, and put it onto the baby,
and at last we were ready ior a start.
Lather had harnessed up the double
team, and the gals was all having a good
iimo going to see iMary Ann married
but somehow I couldn't get over that
baby's shirt. 'Twant so much the shirt :
but to have anything sperrited away right
ironi unuer my laco and eyes, 'twas too
provoking.
" What be you thinking about, mam
ma i says copnrony. What makes vou
so sober V says she.
" I'm pestered to death thinking about
that baby's shirt," says I. " One of you
must a took it, 'm sartain," I says.
" Now, ma," says Sophrony says she,
"you needn t say that." And, as I had
laid it onto 'em a good many times, they
was beginning to get vexed, and so we
had it back and forth, all about that
baby's shirt, till wo got to tho wedding.
Seeing company kind o' put it out o'
my mind, and I was get-tin good natur'd
again though I couldn't help but say to
myself, every few minutes, what could
have become of that baby's shirt t till
they stood up to be married, and forgot
all about it.
Mary Ann was a real modest creature,
and was niore'n half-frightened to death
when she came into tho room with Ste
phen, and tho minister told them to jino
hands. She fust gave her left hand to
Stephen. " Your other hand," says the
minister : aud poor Steve, ho was so
bashful, too, ho didn't know what ho was
about : ho thought 'twas his mistake, so
he gave Mary Ann his left hand. That
wouldn't do, any way ; but by this time
they didn't know what they was about,
and Mary Ann jined her left hand with
his left, then tho left with his right, then
both their loft hands again, till I was all
in a fidgit, and thought they would never
get fixed. Mary Ann looked as red as a
turkey; and to make matters worse, she
began to cough to turn it off I s'pose
and called for a glass of water. The
minister had just been drinking, and the
tumbler stood right there. I was so ner
vous, and in such a hurry to see it all over
with, that I kctched up the tumbler and
ruu with it to her ; for I thought to
goodness she was going ier faint. She
undertook to drink. 1 do not know how
it happened, but the tumbler slipped and
gracious me ! if between us both, we didn't
spill the water all over her collar and
sleeves.
I was frustrated, for it looked as though
'twas all my fault, and tho first thing I
did was to out with my handkerchief and
give it to Mary Ann. It was uicely done
up. Sho took it and shook it out. Tho
folks held in putty well up to this time,
but then such a giggle and laugh as
there was. I didn't know what had
given thorn such a start till I looked and
see. I'd give Mary Ann that baby's
shirt.
(Hero Mrs. Jones, who is a big, fleshy
woman, undulated and shook liko a
eighty jolly with mirth ; and it was some
time before sho could proceed with her
narrative.)
" Why," continued she, whilo tears of
laughter ran down her cheeks, " I'd
tucked it into my dress pocket, instead of
a handkerchief. That came of being
absent-minded and in a fidget."
" And Mary Ann and Stephen were
they married after all V
" Dear me, yes," said Mrs. Jones ;
" and it turned out the gayest wedding I
ever 'tended.'
A wedding party was lately block
aded in a narrow street by two loads of
cradles and buby wagons.
iSF Lovo is a good thing, but it will
not survive more than two years without
a basis of bread and beef.
SUNDAY READING.
For Tht Bloomficld Times.
LIFE'S DECAY.
BY O. J. 8-
0!
kNE beautiful summer evening, as the
sun was sinking in the Western
horizon, tinting everything with its de
parting rays, a yonth and fair maiden
were sitting in a delightful grove, enjoy
ing the rctrcslnng breeze, and sweet per
fume that surrounded them. Everything
seemed dazzling to their youthful visions,
and never, lor a moment, did they dream
that anything was in store for them, in
the future, but unalloyed pleasure and
uninterrupted bliss. Many were the lov
ing words spoken, and the air-castles
built by them. Tho fact that they were
mortal, and that death not only cut dowo
the aged who are tottering on the verge
of eternity ; but also tho young, amidst
all their hopes and plans for the mysteri
ous future, did not seem to be realized by
them ; and the future appeared as clear
and unclouded as the past.
A few years have passed since the
youth and maiden were sitting in that
delightful bower years fraught with
many changes. The bell in the church
tower is tolling, sending abroad the sa
intelligence that a soul has been sum
moned by the dark angel of death, am
that the body was being borne to its fina
resting place. .
" Who lies beneath that coflin-lid ?
said I, to my companion ; " Ls it an agc
person or a youth; a male or a female!"'
" Do you remember," replied ho, " the
happy, youthful couple, we saw in that
lovely grovo, ono fine summer evening,
years ago 1"
" Well do I remember," I replied. " I
can yet, in imagination, see them at that
very spot, smiling,and beaming with joy."
" That coffin," resumed he, " contains
all that is mortal of that fair maiden.
All her earthly hopes have been blasted,
arid sho has been cut off in the beauty of
her womanhood. This is the day on
which sho was to have been married.
But, alas ! how sad the change ! Instead
of her bridal day, it is the day on which
she is to be consigned to the dark, dreary
tomb."
We followed the cortege into the church
yard, and stood around the open grave,
prepared for the reception of that once
fair and flourishing, but now cold and
lifeless maiden. Wc saw the coffin low
ered, and heard the words of the minis
ter, " Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and
dust to dust," as he committed tho body
to its mother earth.
We lingered around the sacred spot,
and when the sound of the clods, as they
fell upou the coffin, came to my ears, I
thought, as 1 never thought before, ot
tho instability of all that is earthly ot
the perishable nature of everythinp
whieh surrounds us in this world !
" What is life ; and what js gained "by
the struggle for wealth, and ambition, and
worldly honor V thought I, " when ib
the course of a comparatively few shor
years, we, too, liko this fair creature, wili
fall asleep in tho icy embrace of death,
and be laid in tho dismal confines of th
grave. Then only one thing will bo ire
portant, and that will be, whether w
have devoted ourselves to a life of virtur
and lived according to the precepts of ou
Maker. Tho reward of such a life i
eternal happiness in the society of Gd
and His holy angels. But if, on th
other hand, wo have lived a life in dircc
conflict with tho teachings of the Grea
Author of our existence, the Lor
shall say unto us, " Depart from me in'
Everlasting Fire, prepared for the Dc
and his angels." Choose ye now whii
portion yo will strivo to obtain.
Three Steps to Heaven.
Tho Ilev. Rowland Hill once visited
poor man, of weak intellect, and on cor
versing with him, said :
" Well, llichard, do you lovo the Lor
Jesus Christ?"
" To bo sure I do, don't you ?"
" Heaven is a great way off," said ti
minister, " and the journey is difficult.''
" Do you think so ? I think Heave
is very near."
" Most people think it is a very difti
cult matter to got to Heaven."
" I think Heaven is very near," sa:
Richard again, " and the way to it
very short ; there are only three Btei
there." '
Mr. Hill replied : " Only three steps !
Richard ropeuted : " Yes, only thrt .
steps."
" And pray," said the pastor, " whatd,
yon consider those three steps to be t"
" Those three steps are : out of reU!
into Christ, into glory." '