THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELI), PA., JULY 31, 1877. applying hla handkerchief to his bleed lug nose. "Excuse me, elr," expostulated Mr. Toddy ; " I am neither a beggar nor drunk, I wish to see a lady In this house." At this the crowd hooted and laughed, and Mr. Hluecoat said, " That won't do. I know you my boy. Come along 5" and along he went, followed bya ragged procession, to the station-house. " What's the name V" asked the ser geant, as Solomon stood before him. " My name is Solomon Toddy, and I am Bure somebody Is laboring under a terrible mistake," commenced the poor man. "Stop your talking. What's the , charge, Brown V" asked the sergeant. " Drunk and disorderly. He tried to to get Into Mrs. Hasher's house, and commenced to light when they put him out. I think I remember him, sir, be fore." " Allow me one word of explanation," pleaded the miserable Solomon. " You'll have a chance before the Judge in the morning. Take him be low," returned the Inexorable sergeant. Where was the expectant bride all this time ? Waiting In her room for the summons that the groom had arrived. No Toddy. Toor Miss Tabitha began to think he had proved false, and became sick at heart. The dinner-bell rang, but she was sufl'ering now from a raging headache, and could not respond, but had some toast and tea sent up to her. The evening passed away, and all hope going with It, Miss Tabitha betook her self to a Bleepless couch, soliloquizing on the falsehood and deception of man kind. With pale face and broken heart, Bhe went down to breakfast, where Mrs. Bankum was relating her adventures of the evening before, and young Bankum was reading the newspaper account of Ihp nfl'nlr. ' " At the police station the hardened rufllan gave his name as Solomon Tod dy, of course an alias," read that gen tleman. Over went Miss Tabitha's cup of tea. Up she started. A new light dawned upon her, and in less than fifteen min utes, to the great surprise of the occu pants of the court-room, an excited maiden lady In a hurried morning cos tume bustled up to the justice's desk and whispered In his ear. " I'll give you thirty days on the Island, and it shall be six months If I catch you here again," said the justice to the prisoner under examination. Then to Miss Jones. " Now, madam, please step in here," and he led the way to a private office. Last of all the forlorn and wretched crowd of prisoners, each under the es cort of a policeman, was Solomon, his ' coat covered with the dried mud of the gutter, and his face presenting a very disreputable appearance. V lie naa noticea miss Mammas nasty entrance, but, the poor fellow was bo ' overcome with his disgrace that he shrank further back into the crowd. V Is Solomon Toddy here ? I wish to see him," said the Justice, looking out from the door of his private room. - Solomon's captor pushed him forward while a buzz of amazement ran through the crowd. " Oh, Solomon, how you have been persecuted for my sake!" cried Miss Tabitha, bursting into tears, as she looked upon his sorrowful visage. " This has been a bad mistake, sir.but I hope it will never occur again," said the justice, after some words of explana tion had passed between them; and he smiled as if it was the commonest thing imaginable for a quiet old gentleman to pass a night In the station-house. Solomon looked very grim, and hoped with all his heart it wouldn't. The jus tice's office boy was sent for, and the application of soap and water and a clothes-brush soon rendered Mr. Toddy more presentable. A carriage was called and they passed through the interested crowd who thought poor Toddy was a runaway husband, and drove off amidst great cheering, with three small boys hanging on behind. " Where are we going to, dear V" ask ed the blushing Tabitha. " To the minister's I I'm not going to have this sortof thing happen again," answered Solomon, quite savagely. Great was the reverend gentleman's surprise when, on walking up from his breakfast table with a napkin In his hand, he found Mr. Toddy with Miss Jones In his reception-room, and greater still when he discovered their errand. But he was equal to the emergency, and in a very few minutes Miss Jones ceas ed to exist, and Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Toddy returned to the waiting hack and drove to their hotel. . 0Do you really believe, Mr. Todkius, that anybody could make a head from butter Y asked the landlady. " Well, yes, ma'am, I should think they might," , eaid TodkinB, as he pushed back his individual butter plate, " somebody has ot as far as the hair with this." AN ADVENTURE ON THE INDIAN OCEAN. THE merchant ship Druid, from Bom bay, for London, lay becalmed off the West coast of Hlndostan, between Ooa and Mangalore, where the Chants Mountains were seen towering In savage grandeur, thousands of feet in the air, with wild torrents leaping down the rocks, dashing through the dark green shrubbery, and rushing with the din of thunder. " If the wind does not rise ere to-morrow morning, we will have to anchor," said the captain to Robert Wlnfleld, a handsome young naval lieutenant 011 leave of absence from the frigate sta tioned at Bombay. "I don't want to lay the ship's bones on that coast, nor do I like to get too near it. I have heard bad stories of the natives there, at any rate, I believe that almost every Hindoo is a thief and murderer by nature." Bell Upton, daughter of Mnjor Upton, who was on his way home from his India regiment, on sick leave, heard the words, and shuddering, drew closer to her Invalid father. A qulok glance was exchanged between her and the young lieutenant, whose reassuring look Beem ed at once to dispel her fears. Major Upton, noticing the glance, frowning, said to his daughter, " Come Bell, let us go below." Wlnrteld had been a suitor of Bell's since she came to visit her father at Bom bay, some months before. The girl fa vored him, but not bo the major. The lieutenant watched her admiringly ,until she disappeared in the cabin. " No harm shall befall her, not while I live," he thought, as he now glanced uneasily towards the coast. " We have arms aboard, have we not V" he added aloud to the captain. "Ay, ay, sir; but it is not likely we shall be attacked. We are full two leagues from the coast, and before we are near enough to be boarded a breeze will spring up, I have no doubt." A few hours later night closed around the ship. Before 11 o'clock the quarter deck was deserted by all save the officer of the watch, who was now stretched on the carpenter's chest half asleep, while the watch forward, as Winfleld could perceive by the light of a lantern in the fore rigging, lay reclining oh the hatch, some of them snoring. Not feeling sleepy, the lieutenant, resolved to go aloft on the mizzen top-sail yard, and watch for the first sign of a breeze. Arrived on the yard the gloom was so intense that he could not see the waters below although as he Btlll gazed In that direction was it reality or imagination V he thought he could detect the dim outline of something shooting around the ship's stern. He was about descending when, the moon parting the clouds, a flood of (sil very light was poured down on the ship and water, revealing a spectacle that filled the young man with horror a scene so sudden and unexpected that his heart seemed to stand still. While he was aloft, Bell Upton had come out on the quarter deck, and; now, with her back to the rail, about two feet from it, her head bowed as if in deep thought, bo that her beautiful white neck shone like polished ivory in the clear moon light. Unseen, unheard by the young girl, a Hindoo, with a long, lithe body, naked to the waist, had clambered the Bide from a large canoe containing half a dozen of his companions, and had con trived to glide serpent-like, on the out side of the ship until he had gained a position directly behind her, when he drew a large dirk, which he waB now on the point of plunging into the snowy neck of the fair passenger, that she might not give an alarm I The lieutenant's hand clenched the yard like a vice, as he beheld the young lady's peril. He must save her he would save her, he thought ; yet, how was It to be done V To give an alarm would only hasten the girl's doom ; to descend, no matter how quickly, by means of one of the backstays, would be no use, as she must perish before he could reach the deck and attempt to stay the deadly hand. Like a lightning flash, the instinct of love, the resolution to Bave Bell in some way from his immediate attack, sent a sudden thought through the brain of the agonized spectator. The Hindoo murderer, in his position on the outside of the ship, was under the yard.although about forty feet below him, while the girl, standing two feet from the rail, was within easy reach of the native, whose arm and body, as already stated, were now drawn back from the bulwarks to give force to the meditated blow. The young man, therefore, deemed that it would be an easy matter to reach the Hindoo in the only way it could now be done with sufficient rapidity to prevent the accomplishment of the dead ly purpose a way at once novel and desperate, and which would, perhaps, involve his own destruction. In a word, not hesitating to risk life or limb for, the woman he loved, Lieutenant Winfleld resolved to drop down from near the end of the mizzen top-sail yard upon the Hindoo, forty feet below, and thus dash him from the rail Into the sea, perhaps killing himself, ere he could deal the fatal blow with the uplifted dirk. He would utter a shlll cry, a warning to the crew, as he cleaved the air, thus rousing them, perhaps, in time to meet the attack of the robbers and ensure the further safety of Bell and the ship. The emergency admitted of no delay. The young man.clutohlng the yard arm near the end, hung by it a second to make sure he was in a line with the Hindoo beneath, then, just as the dirk was about to descend, he let go of the Bpar with a long, Wild cry that pierced every corner of the ship, and down he went, cleaving through the air with terrlflo velocity. There was a whirling, rushing sound, then a loud thud as the heavy boot heels of the falling body crushed upon the head of the native ere he could use his knife, dashing him from the rail into the sea and killing him Instantly. The watch had heard the warning cry of tlie lieutenant, and before the other natives could recover from their surprise at the occurrence which had so suddenly and unexpectedly broken upon them, the decks were alive with the whole crew, and the entire gang of robbers beat a hasty retreat. Meanwhile Bell Upton had been so bewildered by that sudden, fearful cry she had heard, and the Budden plash of the bodies in the water, that, not until a boat was lowered, and the lieutenant, who had been struggling in the sea, was brought aboard and into the cabin, to explain in a faint voice how he had sav ed her life, did she clearly comprehend all that had happened. Then she threw herself down by the prostrate form of her lover, and hung over him in agony, fearing that he was fatally injured. Soon, however, the doctor gave cheering information to the contrary. The young man had sustained a fear ful shock from his contact with the Hin doo's body, but as that body had offered but little resistance to his downward progress when he struck it, being slm ply driven before him into the sea, his lower limbs, although partially par alyzed for the time, were not broken. He had, however, fallen dangerously near to the rail. A roll of the ship to the other side, ere he let go of the top sail yard to descend, would have caused him to fall on the bulwarks, when, of course, he would have been killed. "Never before," said the doctor, " did I hear .of such a daring performance." " Ay I" exclaimed Major Upton, "God bless him I Here, Bell.he shall have you, girl, for he has earned you." He put both hands of his daughter's, who had clasped her lover's neck, in the lieutenant's, and turned his head away to hide a few tears upon his bronzed cheek. Immediately after the young man had been brought aboard, an off-shore breeze Bprang up, enabling the captain to head seaward. In due time the vessel reach ed her home port, when the lieutenant, who by this time had fully recovered from his fall, claimed his beautiful and willing bride. A WONDERFUL STORY. A MOST extraordinary event has oc curred at Oban, which I give in detail, having been witness to the whole affair. I allude to the stranding and cap ture of the veritable sea serpent in front of the Caledonian Hotel, George street, Oban. , About four o'clock an animal or fish, evidently, of gigantlo size, was seen sporting in the bay near Heather Island. Its appearance evidently per plexed a large number of spectators as sembled on the pier, and Beveral tele scopes were directed toward it. A care ful look satisfied us that it was of the serpent species, It carrying its head fully twenty-five feet above water. A num ber of boats were soon launched and proceeded to the bay, the crews armed with such weapons as could be got handy. Under the directions of Malcolm NIcholson,our boatman,they headed the monster, and some of the boats were within thirty yards of it when it sud denly sprang half length out of water and made for the open boat. ' A random fire from several volunteers with rifles seetned to have no effect upon it. Under Mr. Nicholson's orders the boats now ranged across the entrance of the bay, and by the screams and shouts turned the monster's course, and it headed directly for the breast wall of the Great Western Hotel. One boat, containing Mr. Donald Campbell, the Fiscal, had a most nar row escape, the animal actually rubbing against it. Mr. Campbell and his broth er Jumped overboard, and were picked up unhurt by M. John D. Harpie in his small yacht, the Flying Scud. The animal seemed thoroughly fright ened, and as the boats closed In the vol unteers were unable to fire more, owing to the crowds assembled on the shore. At a little past six the monster took the' ground on the beach in front of the Caledonian Hotel, In George street, and his proportions were now fully visible. In his frantlo exertions, with his tall sweeping the beach, no one dared ap proach. The stones were flying in all direc tions, one seriously wounding a man called Baldy Barrow, and another break ing the window of the Commercial Bank. A party of volunteers under Lieutenant David Menzle now assem bled and fired volley after volley into the neck, according to the directions of Dr. Campbell who did not wish, for sclentlfio reasons, that the configuration of the head should be damaged. As there was a bright moon, this con tinued till nearly ten o'clock, when Mr. Stevens, of the Commercial Bank,waded in and fixed a strong rope to the animal's head, and by the exertions of some 70 people it was securely dragged above high water mark. Its exact appear ance as it lies on the beach Is as follows : The extreme length is 101 feet, and the thickest part is about 25 feet from the head, which is 11 feet in circumference. At this part is fixed a pair of fins, which are 4 feet long by nearly 7 feet across at the Bides. Further back is a long dorsal fin, extending for at least 12 or 13 feet, and 5 feet high in front, tapperlng to 1 foot. The tall is more of a flattened ter mination ic the body proper than any thing else. The eyes are very small in proportion and elongated, and gills of the length of 2r feet behind. There are no external ears, and as Dr. Campbell did not wish the animal handled till he communicated with some eminent scien tific gentlemen we could not ascertain if there were teeth or not. Great ex citement is created, and the country people are flocking in to view It. Mr. Duncan Clerk, writer, took possession of the monster, In the rights of Mr. M'Fee, of Appin, and Mr. James NIcol, writer, In the name of the Crown. Glasgow (Scotland) News. A DARKEY WITNESS. THE venire being impaneled, and the jury solemnly charged by the clerk, the Commonwealth's attorney called in support of the indictment the witness Buck Byrant, who being solemnly sworn the truth to tell testified as fol lows : Questioned by the Commonwealth's attorney Tell all you know about the cutting of the prosecutor by Cassady, the prisoner at the bar. Answer: " Well, gentlemen, it was election day 'twas a dark, cloudy, wet sort of a drizzly day, and says I to my old woman, I believe I'll go down to Elggold and 'posit my vote ; and says my old woman to me, well Buck, an It is a sort of a dark, cloudy, wet sort of a drizzly day, says she, hadn't you better take your umbrll 5 Says I to the old woman, I spect I had better take the umbrll. So I took the umbrll,and when I got down thar, Mr. Cole corned, and, says he, Uncle Buck, have you seed any thing of old neighbor Harris ? Says I to Mr. Cole, for why ? Says he, he's got my umbrll. (The witness was here interrupted by the court, and told to confine himself to the actual fray be tween the prisoner and Cole, the prose cutor), in answer to which the witness remarked in a tone of Indignant remon strance : Well, now, Mr. Judge, you hold on, for I am sworn to tell the truth and I am agwine to tell it in my own way, so 'taint worth while for you to say noth ing more about it. Whereupon the court and Commonwealth's attorney be ing anxious to get rid of the witness on any terms, told him to go on and tell the tale in his own way. " Well, as I was going on to say, 'twas on 'lection day, Buchanan and Fllmo was runnln' for the Legislator', and Bays my old woman to me, says she, Buck, as its a sort of a dark, cloudy, rainy, damp.drlz zly Bort of day, hadn't you better take your umbril, says Bhe ; says I to my old woman, says 1,1 'spect I had better take my umbril, and advanced on towards Elggold, 'til I 'rived thar. Well, the first thing I did when I got thar was to take a drink of Buchanan whiskey, which was monstrous good, and Bays I to myself, says I,oId hoss you feel better now, don't you V And while I was advancing around Mr. Cole, he came to me and says he, Uncle Buck, says he, have you seen anything of our neighbor Harris V Says I for why ? Says he the old cock's got my umbril. Arter a while I 'posited my vote, and then Mr. Cole and me advanced on to wards home, and Mr. Cole was tighter than I ever seed him. - And so we advanced along till we got to whar the road and path forked, and Mr. Cole and me tuck the path, as any other gen tlemeu would, and after ad vancing a while we arrived to old neigh bor Harris, a settln' on a log with the umbril under his arm, and 'bout that tiaie Elijah Cassady (the prisoner) corn ed up, and we advanced till we arrived at Elijah's house. Elijah is my neffew and likewise my son-in-law, he married my darter Jane, which is next to my darter Sally. Arter we had advanced to Elijah's house, we stood In the yard awhile a Jawln' and presently two somebody's rid up on a hoss, which was Johnston before and Whitfield Cassady behind. Whitfield and Klah Cassady being the same. Elijah and Klah is brothers, both born In the nat'ral .way like anybody's else's brothers 5 no gals between 'em, and both of 'em is about the same age, especially Klah, which are the youngest. Klah was drunk, and he and Mr. Cole got to cussln one another about polltlx, and I advanced in the house whar was Elijah's wife, which is my darter Jane which is next to my darter Sally. Well, arter Jawln' awhile with 'em, my little neffew says he to me, Uncle Buck, let's go home; says I, good pop, bo we peg ged on together, and I heard somebody a callln' me, but I never tentloned 'em, nor advanced back ; well, got home and was eatin' my supper ,and Elijah, which is my son-in-law, and married my dar ter Sally, arrived j and Bays he to me, Uncle Buck, I've killed a man. Says I, the you have; and this is all I know about the stabbing because I wa'nt thar." SCHEME'S SEA WEED TOXIC. In tbe atmosphere experienced here during anmmer months, the lethargy produced by the heat takes away the desire for wholesome food, and frequent perspirations reduce bodily ener gy, particularly those suffering from the effects of debilitating diseases. In order to keep a natural healthful activity of the system, we must resort to artificial means. For this pur pose Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic is Tery effectu al. A few doses will create an appetite and give fresh vigor to the enervated body. For Dyspepsia, It is Invaluable. Many eminent physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be permanently cured by tbe drugs which are generally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed Toulc In its nature Is totally differ ent from such drugs. It contains no corrosive minerals or acids 1 In fact It assists the regular operations of nature, and supplies her deficien cies. The tonic In Its nature so much resem bles the gastric Juice that it is almost identi cal with that fluid. The gastric Juice Is the natural solvent which, in a healthy condition of the body, causes the food to be digested 1 and when this Juice is not excreted In sufficient quantities, indigestion, with all its distressing symptoms, follows. The Sea Weed Tonic per forms the duty of the gastric Juice when the latter is deficient. Schenck's Sea Weed Tonle sold by all Druggists. 87 4t JOSSER & ALLEN CENTRAL STORE NEWPORT, PENN'A. Now oiler the public A RARE AND ELEOANT ASSORTMENT OF DRESS GOODS Consisting sf all shades suitable for the season. BLACK ALP AC CAS AND Mourning Goods A SPECIALITY. BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED MUSLINS, AT VARIOUS FRICES. AN ENDLESS SELECTION OF PRINTS! We sell and do keep a good quality ot . SUGARS, COFFEES & SYRUPS, And everything under the head ot GROCERIES ! Machine Needles and oil for all makes ot Machines. 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