The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, September 18, 1877, Page 3, Image 3
THE TIMES, NEW. BIA)OMFIELD,TAi, SEFlEMltEll 1&J 1877. RAILROADS. PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R. ARKANQRMENT OF PASSftSQER TRAINS. Aitgwit 15lh, 1877. THAIN8 LEAVE HARR18HUKG AS FOLLOWS For New York, at B.20, 8.10 . m. .87p. ra. And 7.55 p. m. For Philadelphia, at 6.20, 8.10,9.46 a.m. and and 8.87 p. m. . For Rending, at 5.20, 8.10, 9.43 . m. and 100 3.87 and 7.85. . i . .. For rottHTllle at 8.20. 8.10 a. m.. anil B.87 p. in., and via 8:huylklU and Huaquehanna Branch at 2.40 p. m. . . For Auburn la B. B. Br. at 8.10 a. m. For Allent.ovJn,t 5.20, 8.1oa. m and at 100, 3.57 and 7.85 p. m. . .. , The 8.2Q,8,fo a. m., S.B7anA 7.55 p. m., trains have through cars lor Kew York. The 6.2, 8.10 a.m.. and 2.00 p.m., trains have through cars for Philadelphia. SUNDAYS i For New York, at 8.20 a. m. ForAllentown and Way Stations at 5.20 a.m. For Reading, Philadelphia and Way Atatlonsat 1.45 p. in. TRAILS FOR HARRISBUHG, LEAVE A6 FO L , LOWS : Leave New York, ats.iS a. m., 1.00, 6.80 aud 7.45 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at 9.19 a. m. 8.40, and 7.20 p.m. , Leave Reading, at 1.40,7.40, 11.20 a. m. 1.30, 6.15 and lo. Si p. m. Leave Pottsvllle, fct 8.10, 9.1S a.m. and 4.35 p. m. And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at 8.15 a. in. Leave Auburn vlaS. & 8. Mr. at 12 noon. Leave Alletuowu, at t2.30 5,50, 8.66a. in., 12.1', 4.30 and 9.03 p. m. SUNDAYS! Leave New York, at 5.30 p.m. Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m. Leave Rending, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.35 p. m. Leave AUentown, nt2 ?.e a.m., and 9.05 p. m. J. E. WOOTEN, Gen. Manager. C. G. Hancock, General Ticket Agent. . tDoes not run on Mondays. Via Morris aud Essex K. K. Peunsjlvania B. K. Time Table. NEWPORT STATION. On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, Pas senger tralBswIU run as follows: EAST. ' Miffllntown Ace. 7.32 a. m., dally except Bunday. Johnstown Ex. 12.22 P. H. dally " Sunday Mall 6.54 P. M., daily exceptSundaj Atlantic Express, 9.54p.m., nag, dally. WEST. VTayPass. 9.08 A. m., dally. Mall 2.43 p. m. dally exceptSunday. Mittllntown Ace. 6.85 P. M. dally except Sunday . Pittsburgh Express, 11.67P. M., (Flag) dally, ex cept Sunday. racfilc Express, 6.17 a. m.. dally (flag) Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, and 4 min utes slower than New York time. J. J. BARCLAY, Agent. DUNCANNON 8TATION. On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, trains will leave Duucannon, as follows : EASTWARD. Miffllntown Acc. daily except Sundayat 8.12 a. m. Johnstown Ex. 12.58P. M., daily except Sunday. Mail 7.30 P. M " " Atlantic Express 10.20 p. M., dally (flag) . WESTWARD. Way Passenger, 8.38 a.m., dally Mall, 2.09 p. m dallyexceptSunday. Miffllntown Acc. dallyexceptSunday at 6.16p.m. Pittsburg Ex. dally except Sunday (flag) 11.33p. M. WM. O. KING Agent. D. F. QU1GLEY & CO., Would respectfully Inform the publlo that they have opened a new Saddlery Shop in Bloomfield, on Carlisle Street, two doors North of the Foundry, where they will manufacture HARNESS OF ALL KINDS, Saddles, Bridles, Collars, and every thing usually kept In a first-class es tablishment. Give us a call before going else where. , tea. FINE HARNESS a speciality. REPAIRING done on short notice aud at rea sonable prices. HIDES taken In exchange for work. D. F. QUIGLEY & CO. Bloomfield, January 9, 1877. KINGSFORD'S Osweg-o Starcli Is the 'BEST and MOST ECONOMICAL In the World. Is perfectly PURE free from acids and other for eign substances that Injure Llneii. Is 6THONGER than any otherrequiring much less quantity In using. Is UNIFORM stiifens aud finishes work always the same. Kingsford's Oswego Corn Starch Is the most delicious of all preparations for Puddings, iilanoMauge, Cake, Etc. PATENTS. Fee Reduced. Entire Cost $55. Patent Oftlce Fee ?35 In advance, balance 820 within 6 months after patent allowed. Advice and examination free. Patents Sold. J. VANCE LEWIS CO., 19-3m Washington, D. (X (iflfl AGENTS WANTED to canvass for a JuU grand picture, 22x28 Inches, entitled "Tub Illustrated Lord's Prater." Agents are meeting with great success. For particulars, address H. M. CRIDEK, Publisher, 48 ly York, Pa. . REMOVAL. The undersigned has removed bis Leather and Harness Store from Front to High Street, near the Fenn'a., Freight Depot, where he will have en hand, and will soil at REDUCED PRICES, Leather and Harness of all kinds. Having good workmen, and by buying at the lowest caeti price, I fear no competition. Market prices paid In cash for Bark. Hides and klns. Thankful for past favors, 1 solicit a cou. tlnuance of the same. P. R Blaukets, Robes, and Shoe-endings made a speciality, JOR. M. HAWLEY. Duncannon, Julylfl, 1870. tf ESTATE NOTICE Notice Is hereby given, that letters of administration on the estate of John Kunkle late of MurysvDle Borougu.I'erry county Penn'a.. deceased, have been granted to the undersigned residing in the same place. All persons indebted to said estate kre requested to make Immediate payment and those having claims to present them duly authenticated lor jset tleinent. JOHN KALER. .Tune 12, 1877. Aduilulstrator. Correyxjti'fenw of Tht Timet. From the Atlantic to the Pacific on Foot . . By a Discharged Apprentice. ' , , .. THIS is the way It come about. A few years ago I became seized with the notion, that I believe is quite com mon among green country boys of my age, that some day or another, I , would see and learn something of this world and of the people who inhabit it. At this time I was earning Ave dol lars per month as a farmer's hired boy. I had no friends to give me counsel or assistance, and it was only last spring that I was the owner of a sufficient amount of hard cash, to warrant me In setting out on my long thought-of-expe-dition. . , , , After paying my passage in the steer age, across the Atlantic, I found myself in Glasgow with about three hundred dollars iu my pocket. A very small sum, one would suppose, for an Europe an tour, but it would have been quite sufficient to have enabled me, In the in dependent and economical way of trav ellng I had adopted, to have walked at my leisure, through every country in Europe. I afterwards found that the major parf of the laboring classes in Great Britain, lived on less than eighteen cents per day, and it was not nn Uncommon thing to find n day labor er In Ireland feeding a half dozen young recruits for the Fenian army, on an in come of 3 shillings (81.75) per week. I talked with an intelligent widow about ten miles out from Belfast, who sup ported herself and three helpless chil dren by making embroidered handker chiefs at twelve cents each. She said that by working from daylight till dark, (artificial light she could not afford), she could do the work on one hauderchlef per day. These same handkerchiefs are bought by the fashionable young ladies in this country, at from two to three dollars apiece, and after being well sat urated with eau de cologne, are used to dash the struggling tear from their eyes, while they read the latest sensational novel in the Ledger. I kept an account of my expenses in England for two weeks, during which time I walked Upwards of one hundred and fifty miles, and they did not exceed fourteen cents per day. Of course I paid nothing for lodging. In the cold of rainy season, when it would not be ex pedient to sleep in the open air or under hay-stacks, about six or eight cents should be added for the expenses of a bed. I mention these facts in this con nection because so much has been said about the great expense of traveling in the Old World, and because these lines may catch the eye of some young man who has the pluck and desires the bene fit of an European tour, but is kept from undertaking it for want of money. I took particular pains to inquire about the expense of living on the Continent of Europe, and I am satisfied I could travel there both summer and winter on twenty-five cents per day and grow fat. As I stated, I arrived in Glasgow with three hundred dollars in my pocket, but I did not long have the care of so much surplus money about me, before I was relieved of it entirely by a dexterous thief and had to resort to an occasional day's work in the harvest field and the rigid economy alluded to, to keep from becoming a British pauper outright. Under these clrcumstances,I was thrown entirely among the laboring classes, or more properly the slaves of the aristoc racy of Great Britain, and it was these poor slaves, a majority of whom could neither read nor wrlte,by them hundreds of eager questions about America, who taught me how little I really knew about my own country. In fact, in many instances, I was looked upon as an impostor, so great was my ignorance, and I resolved, after I had made the tour of Great Britain, if there was enough left of me, I would return to this country and go " from the Atlantic to the Taciflo on foot." I came home in the 6teerage of an emigrant ship along with seven hun dred emigrant passengers, who, after years, perhaps of painful toll in the fac tory or field, and denying themselves every luxury and , many of the most simple conveniences of life, in order to save up the few pounds necessary to take them over the Atlantic, had bade a long farewell to their native land and the home of their childhood, with tear ful eyes and prayful hearts had ventur ed forth they scarcely knew where to that country of the free, where they had been told that the poor man could be " a man for a' that." , It has become quite common for Amer icans to sneer at and ridicule the home ly and sturdy emigrants who land on our shores. Just let it once be known that a man or a woman from what ever country, er of however noble a na ture, has arrived in America by way of Castle Garden, and he or she Is no long er thought fit to associate with the genteel and refined, But oh, what a lesson of courage, of fortitude, of self denial, of trud christian patience might our fnehlonabla,slck!y and uselef s young ladies learn from these robust emigrant girls, and some of our white-livered, girlish young men might get a few les sons In true, itrudy manliness from these brawny and broad-shouldered emi grant boys. , ! i After spending a few days in New York to complete the necessary arrange ments, 1 again strapped over my shoul der the little traveling bag that had been so faithful a companion during my ramblo in the Old World, and reached the ferry in time to take the 4 o'clock boat for Jersey Clty on the morning of August 27. The night had been rainy and , the pilot , went I feeling biB way through the thick fog that hung over the bay, liable at any moment to have hlB frail craft dashed into splinters by the staunch vessels coming up from the sea, and which have the right of way. I could but think how typical this all was of the Journey I was about under taking. How many dangers I must pass ere I should reach the other shore by the Faclfic, or whether 1 should ever live to reach it at all or not. All seemed dark and gloomy before me. The few friends who had followed me to the fer ry to see me launch off into this gloomy darkness, had warned me again and again that I was undertaking a witless' Job, if not an utter Impossibility, and even the kind editor of the World gave me a whole column of advice,counseling me to turn back after my t first day's tramp, and that I could see and learn more by walking fifty doys around New York than I would by pegging across the continent on foot. If any one be curious to know why I adopted this mode of traveling, my answer Is, because it is the only way one can study a country and Its people. A horse or two, with a comfortable car riage, would no doubt, be a conven ience, but as the crusty old New Eng land farmer used to tell me, when I asked for a horse to ride into town, that " them's haTn't got horses must go afoot." I have no horses ; and as I can see no crime in a young man walking quietly through one or more countries, because he prefers that mode of studying, to being housed up Inside the cold stone walls of a college, or because he cannot afford to ride, I do not see why the managers of the public press should make such a powwow about it. .1 pay for all the shoe leather I wear and all the bread I eat.and I raise corns and blis ters on no one's feet but my own. : I am walking on no wager; 1 am no jockey walker ; I am not walking "on time." I Intend to reach San Francisco in one hundred and fifty days from the time I left New York. Yet, if I find it better for me to spend two or three hundred days, on the way, I shall do so. I shall walk as far as I please in a day, and rest when I get tired, if I can find a clean dry place to lie down. In my next, I will try to give you something of what I have seen, heard and done, since the pilot put me safely on Jersey soil. , POTTS GETS ASTONISHED. ONE NIGHT during ' the recent troubles in the Pennsylvania coal regions, Judge Potts' brother, Thomas Potts, was round at a meeting of mine owners, and after the adjournment he stepped into a tavern. While there he met some friends, and in the course of an hour or two he got very intoxicated. On his way home he lost his hat, and a miner, who knew him, feeling compas sion for him, clapped on his head a miner's hat ; and in order to make the dark street look brigher, he lighted the lamp in front of the hat. When Potts reached the house his wife had gone to bed and the lights were out; but Potts felt certain the lamp was burning in the hall, but he couldn't for the life of him tell where it was. He looked at the regular lamp, and it seemed to be out ; then hunted in every direction for the light, but he was un able to find it, although it' seemed to shine brightly wherever he went. Presently he happened to stop in front of the mirror in the hat-rack, and then he saw precisely where the light was. After a brief objurgation upon Mrs. Potts for leaving a light burning in Buch a place, he went up to the mirror and tried to blow it out. He blew and blew, but somehow the flame burned as steadi ly as before. " That," said Potts, " is the most ex traor'nary lamp's ever been my misfor tune t' encounter." ' Then he took off his coat, and holding it in front of him, crept cautiously up to the mirror and ' tried to crush the coat over the lamp, which still burned brightly. He said: " That's cer'lnly very extro'nary ! Moz' 'stonishin' clrcumstanz come un'r my observation. Don 'no how t' 'count for it 1" , , It occurred to him that perhaps he might smash the lamp with an urn- brella. Seizing the weapon he went up to the hnt-rack, and aiming a terrible blow fit the light he brought the urn brejla down. He missed and smashed his Sunday hat Intd chaos. " He took nlni again and caught the umbrella In the lamp overhead, bringing It down with a crash. Then he tried ft third time and . plunged the ferrule of the umbrella through the mirror, smashing It to atoms; he felt exultant for a moment as the light disappeared from his vision, but he was perplexed to find there was another light somewhere. So he sat down on the stairs and remark, ed: " Moz' 'stonlshln' clrcumstanz ever come un'r my observation. What n' thunder does it mean anyhow If Light's gone, an' yet It's shlnin' I Perfectly In comprehensible I Wish t' gracious Mrs. Pott'd wake up tin' 'splatn it. Durn 'f I know what I had better do." Then Potts took off his hat to scratch his head, in the hope that he might scare up an Idea, and the truth flashed upon him. Gazing at the lamp for a moment, until he drank in a full con ception . of the trouble it had caused! him, he suddenly smashed it down on the floor in a rage, and extinguished it after covering two yards of carpet with grease. Then he wen t to bed, and in the morning Mrs. Potts informed him that some of those horrible miners had broken into the house the night before and left one of their hats with a lamp.-j-Potts turned over in bed so that she could not see his face, and said if the stern hand of the law wasn't laid upon those ruffians soon, nobody's life would be safe. . . , ... Breach of Promise. On the Norfolk Circuit, Lee was once retained for the plaintiff In an action for breach of promise of marriage ; when the brief was brought him, he inquired whether the lady for redress, whose in jury he was to seek, was good-looking. "Very handsome, indeed, sir!" was the assurance of Helen's attorney. ' ' " Then, sir," replied Lee, " I beg you will request her to be In court, and in a place where she can be seen." Tho attorney promised compliance ; and the lady, in accordance with Lee's wishes, took her seat in a conspicuous place. Lee, in addressing the jury, did not fall to insist with great warmth on the " abominable cruelty" which had been exercised towards " the lovely and confiding female" before them, and did not sit down until he had suooeeded in working up their feelings to the desired point. The counsel on the other side, how ever,speedily broke the spell with which Lee had enchanted the jury, by observ ing that his learned friend in describing the graces nnd beauty of the plaintiff had not mentioned one fact, namely, that the lady had a wooden leg. The court was convulsed with laughter, while Lee, who was Ignorant of this circumstance, looked aghast ; and the jury, ashamed of tho influence that mere eloquence had had upon them, re turned a verdict for the defendant. A Railroad Man's Yarns. I TIPPED over "fTTrain at Winona, said a railroad man, telling the story, on that twenty-foot trestle, on the curve coming to the bridge. We were only running at a Bpeed of six miles an hour, had just started out, and were coming to a full stop before striking the bridge, when I saw my baggage coach lurch; The track just slid out from under us. I picked up n big stick of wood and mashed down the latch of the big wood stove, so the door wouldn't open we had to break it open after ward. Just as I picked up the stick, my brakeman threw up his hands. " My God 1" said he, " we're gone !" " Run to your Btove," said I. He did not understand me, and instead of clinching the latch he ran Jn the for ward car, and lay down flat in the aisle. I ran through the rear car, and told the passengers to drop on their knees and hang to the seats, and the mothers to lay their babies on the seats and put their arms tight over them and hold on to the back of the seats, and we rolled over just'as slow. We' seemed a long time going down. Only one person was killed, and fifteen or twenty slightly in jured. The brakeman was on his feet as he went down, and wasn't scratched. If we had been running fust we would all have been killed. In case of acci dent, passengers should hang tight to something. If possible get on the floor of the car. - I saw one thing happen that I have laughed over a hundred times. We were coming down on a high grade, ' and by the side of the road, fifty or sixty feet lower than the track, there was a shanty, where seven or eight Irishmen were eating dinner. The windows and doors wero all wide open. We were going at pretty good speed, when the cow catcher struck a hog, aud knocked it right down the bank, in at door, and on to tho table. , I , never saw fellows jump so in my life ; they got out of that house sudden, scared to death. The hog wasn't hurt at all. i You can hit a hog harder without killing It than any oth er animal. The expression, though, on those faces, as the pig lit ou the table, and the. Irishmen lit out doors, was enough to kill. I laughed for weeks every time 1 passed the place'.' ' In the Colorado Desert. - Tills1 Is a Btory to Illustrate the possi bilities of the Colorado Desert : " Some three years ago a , wandering home hunter, having sold out his rude home stead In Los Angeles county, rigged up a team with a good supply of yearling nursery trees, seeds, &c, Intending tq go to Arizona with his wife and two chil dren. His way was through this desert. Itestlng Ofle day to recruit his bor?es vVliere a few bushes offered browslng.fcis children amused themselves digging a hole. The 'mother noticed that the loamy sand was moist, i In a few mln tites she drove a crowbar down four feet below the' h6le and struck water. A wisp of straw Inserted brought up by iaplllary attraction enough to prove tho water good and to' quench thlrBt. ' Next day they dug a Well, and at six feet found water plenty n Jhe third day. " If this miserable soil would grow any thing we might squat here," said they. While debating a green spot appeared. It was the horses' oats and hay seed which, with spiled water, had grown to a lively green on the fourth day. Where oats1 and grass grow everything will grow; let us pitch our tent right here.' And they did so. Very rude culture, with water, gave them in sixty days vegetables enough to support them for a year. From this rude beginning see now, August, 1877, how quickly industry, with trifling coin, can realize a luxuri ant home in a climate which knows no winter, and where vegetable growth is as active in December as in April. Al ready he has grapes, apples, peaches and bananas. Alfalfa clover he cuts every month. Stacks , of hay, cows, sheep, pigs and fowls make it look like a rich farm long established, ... An Old Homestead's Old Furniture. An auction took place at the old Brown homestead' in the town of Lincoln, Mass., Tuesday, when a varie ty of old furniture and other house hold goods were disposed of. The house of three rooms, ' built by Benjamin Brown in 1080, is almost as ' he left it, save that its rotting sills and moss-grown roof-form a portion of a qualnt,rambling, odd-looking mansion of S3 rooms and closets, which five ' generations of de scendants have grafted on to it. Among the articles sold was a little table brought over by Capt. Abram Brown in 1630. It sold for $5, and Mr. W. E. Baker, of Wellesley, who came late, vainly offer ed the purchaser $15 for it.' From an other table of good English oak,brought over in the Same ship, two rickety otto man frames had been made, and these Mr. Baker got for Tfoi two cushion ed chairs with straight high backs and a generally uncomfortable look,' he paid $12 ; and for two others equally ancient, homely, and useless ha gave $9. Mr. Baker was a liberal buyer, . his bill for oddities and antiquities amounting to between $200 and $300. ; Most of the nondescript stuff and a variety of the modern fixings went at small : prices to general buyers. Many of ; the really valuable keepsakes were taken by repre sentatives of the Browns, and a set of brass andirons, with accompanying shovel, tongs, Ac, were taken for Judge Hoar at $10. A massive eight-day clock brought $00, aud another of similar ap pearance, offered much later, was sold at $1.75. . : :.. ..;. ,,; Good Eyes. : . ; f Half a dozen men staying at the West End Hotel, Long Branch, had left their beds soon after dawn, and were sporting in the surf in the state of nature,, never suspecting that they would be seen by any woman. It seems, however, that a young couple, who were in love with one another when young folks get up very early it is a sure Bign that they are smitten had risen about 4 o'clock, with the intent of taking a long stroll before breakfast, fancying they could not see enough of one another in any ordinary day. They were walking slowly and sentimentally along the bluff, not far from the hotel, when he perceived the men bathing. Passion could not ex tinguish his sense of humor, and so he said to his fair companion, with a show of Indignation, directing his, gaze towards the masculine plungers : " It is a shame that women shbul ex pose themselves so in publlo." l Of course his companion, resentlpg the Imputation upon her sex, replied, with earnestness and intensity : . L "They are not women I" ' " Oh, aren't they, Indeed V" inquired the wag, adding, " Well, I suppose your eyes are better than mine." The maid en's rising blush Immediately Indicated consciousness that she had fallen into thrtrap so adroitly prepared for her.