HMMM fa) mm"- III I ,"" . 3 ...frfV .'. H -t -i ,ev VOL. XII. ";;NEW BLOOMFIELD, TUESDAY, MAY; 7, 1B78. NO. 10. I Wisest ft ill- ' - nPMffc VV-' J IIC f I J ' I II I I IS I If II ; ! ,. 1 . ..!. t r - -r i - ,. - - - . : ; - ' .; ' t i - ; THE TIMES. Aa Independent Family Newspaper, 18 PUDLlSnBD IVJCBY TUI8DAT BI ' F, MORTIMER & CO. 6 '' SUB9CJIIPTION ritlt'K. ', (WITHIH Tn COUNTY. . One Year, It 2. Hl Mouths 75 (OUT Of TH COUNTT. One Year, (Pmtaire Included) II N) 8lx Months, (Postage Included) 0,5 Invariably la Advance I , . Wr Advertising rates furnished upon appll CONQUER, OR BE CONQUERED. tt's np bill work, this life of ours Bnt the bill li rlcb with wreaths of flowers The Journey It wearisome, though, and some Shrink from It gloomily, overcome By thought of its perils. ' Wcll-a-day I Such travel backward the livelong way. We may crush or gather the bloom at our feet May conquer or yield to the Ills that we meet There's a fight to be fought which we may not evade, ,, ,,, Though we turn from the forces agnlnst us arrayed, ' And fly from the army. Our refuge Is known , The enemy follows we fight, but alone. To live, we mutt act. Mo mortal can shirk UIs Journey his battle his pre-ordained work. . . Though traveling backward and traveling slow, The road Is the same he would otherwise go Ills fight must be fought, In the shadow or snn, , ' ; And bis work, thongb postponed, must be finally done. Bound to Win a Husband. ABOUT the year 18, business bad called me to a remote part of B county .Tennessee, and I was staying at the house of a Mr. Hubert. The family consisted of Mr. Hubert and wife, one son and two daughters. The son's name was Austin ; he was about twenty years of age,and seemed to be very intelligent. The girls were to less intelligent than Austin. Adela, the 'eldest, was about seventeen,and Julia, the youngest, a about fifteen. Prettier girls I never saw. I loved them both aa soon as I had seen them. We were sitting by the blazing fire, talking and laughing as lively as if we had been acquainted for years ; when a sudden noise, as if some large building was falling, interrupted us. " Ugh I ugh 1! ugh 11!" said some one, as if frightened out of his senses. All the family rushed to the door, ex cept Julia who sat still, and simply re marked : " It is Bill Jenkins running from the ghost again."- ',- j r Scarcely had the words escaped from her lips, when in rushed a tall, gawky, awkward and almost beardless fellow, puffing and blowing like a locomo tive. "What is the. matter'r"' asked Mr, Hubert. - . " Matter enough I", said Bill, his eyes looking almost as , large as the bottoms of two common sized teacups,- Out .yonder," he continued, throwing him self down upon a chair ; " out yonder, I heard a baby cryin', and then somebody groanin' and snuffln' ; and I tell ye I jest got away from thar." At this I could not laugh. suppress a You needn't laugh, old boss," con tinued be, turning to me ; " you needn't laugh, for I'll swear it's no fun; "it's Jest so, FJI swear it." . O T , I turned to Austin and said :" ' s " Let us accompany him back to the place where he beard the noise, and " solve" the ghost for him." . . 1 Austin was silent , T "WlllyougoV'Iaaked. Austin began to stammer out some- tllln8- ... . . ) " Darn me !" Interrupted Bill, " darn me gentleman, if you get me back thar tny more, see if you do r' " Then tell -us -where it was," said I, " and if we can hear it, we'll solve it sure.1' " Austin don'H care much about go ing, I believe," eutd Adela. " You are not superstitious, are you V" I asked hi m. No," said be, ," I am no supersti tious, but I'm afraid of catching cold, that's all." " I propose," said Julia, wliobnd been llent till now, !' that we all go, Mr. Marlon, Austin, Adela and myself. The moon Is now up, and it would be a pleasant walk for us, besides, we might have some real fun." After some hesitation on Austin's part, this proposition was accepted. BUI told tiB where be bad beard the ghost, but would not go with us. " Off we started. When we came to the spot,we found that BUI bad knocked down about twenty panels of the fence. We bad gone two or three hundred yardB, talking very lively, when we en tered a low, dark place in the road ; the timber was very tall and thick, which caused it be darker than anywhere else. When advanced a few paces into ' this place, our conversation stopped. Hcarce ly had we ceased speaking when " Boo-woo-woo-ugb 1" went something near us. , "What's tbatV" said Austin, halting.' I advanced and Julia stepped to my side and said: .. , .. "It's BUl's ghost, sure.' " Ou boo-hoo-woo-ugh I " came forth again. I could suppress my laughter no longer. It proved to be nothing more or less than a bog, which was not sleeping com fortably, and was thus complaining. ' " What Is it ?" insisted Austin, who had not yet found out what it was. . Just then we came to the hogs' bed and the hogs all ran off as badly fright ened as BUI had been. ' , t "Hump I" Bald Austin; "it's hogs, I'll swear that caused BUI so much run ning.",. , We turned and went back to the house and had a fine laugh at Bill about his ghosts ; but BUI would not give up but that his were real ghosts. . ; I learned that there were but few per sona in this neighborhood who were not superstitious. , . I was informed that the plaoe where Bill bad heard the ghost, was really haunted. . . i, . Among other stories that were told that night concerning the place was one as follows: .- i , . Home time ago a man was coming through this place; it was very dark; he beard something . by the roadside ; turning in the direction of the noise, he perceived something white. : He spoke to her; she raised her arms above her head and said : " John Klnsler, if you wUl be happy, you must marry Jane Merton, and have the Hubert family at the wedding.. He member, John. Klnsler !" Bo saying, she dropped her arms and ascended slowly1 upwards until she was out of sight. ' ' ' ' ' John afterward married Jane and the Hubert family were at the wedding. 1 I expressed a desire to see 6r hear some such ghosts, : but Austin thought I would repent of my wish when I saw them. ' : ' Bed-time came, and we retired as the clock struck twelve. " I lay awake in bed a loiig time think ing of the incidents of the day. ' I thought of Adela and Julia; which I loved best I could not tell. ' Nothing else took place worth re lating here .during my stay at Mr. Rubert's. I left next morning " living and loving." " ' ' Two years after the above mentioned incident took ' plaoe, I ' was passing through that part of the country again, and of course I called on my friend Mr. 'Robert:. ' :--"" 1 ' I found that the neighborhood was as superstitious as ever. The place where Bill Jenkins had heard the ghost was still haunted. Many things had been "heard ; sights bad been seen from an Angel to Beelzebub himself. : 1 I was very anxious to come across one of the ghosts, and during my stay at Mr. Ruberfs I passed through the haunted place at ail times of the night, but saw and heard nothing. I finally came tb' the conclusion that It was all imagination. ' " ; ' v.'"i 1 ' '.' One dark night in 'July I was passing through this place and heard something make a noise In the dry leaves near me ; turning towards the noise I beheld some thing that looked, I thought, very much like a ghost. It seemed to be the figure of a woman. There was no waist in iter dress, and It was very long. All this I could .make out notwithstanding the darkness, i I stood still to see what she would do. I must acknowledge that I did not feel exactly cool Just then, but I managed to appear so. "Marlon," said the ghost," if you will be happy you marry Julia Hubert. Re member, Marlon I " . ' Judge of my surprise and horror when the ghost spread out her arms and ascended upward, until she was lost In the timber I What could I do V Beared as I was, I did not run, knocking down' the fence as Bill Jenkins did. 1 1 started slowly towards Mr. Rubert's) after I had gone a few paces, I heard a distant roaring behind me that contin ued more than two minutes. I did not look back for I did not care about com ing in contact with another ghost that night. At an early hour I retired. Next morning, when I came into the parlor Julia was there alone. When I entered she greeted me blushing and trembling. After I had looked around and con vlnced myself thnt no one was near, I said : "Julia, at lust I think I have seen a ghost." When I said this, Julia again blushed and turned her head again from me. " What kind of a ghost was It?" said she. i i " i. . I told her all I bad seen, but omitted what the ghost bad said. vi i Julia told me that she had seen one just like it two or three nights before. " I suppose," said she, " that you have become superstitious V I could not deny, yet I would not ac knowledge that I was superstitious. I Implored Julia not to mention it until I could And out something more about the ghost, and she promised. I determined to pass through this place every night during my stay at Hubert's which was to continue about two weeks from this time. ' 1 For several nights I heard ' nothing, nor did I see anything like a ghost until the night before ray departure, when walking alone, I beheld the same ghost at the same plaoe, standing about twen ty feet from me when I first beheld it. I stopped, and the ghost said : " Marlon, to-morrow you leave this place, and you have not asked Julia to be your wife, do and ask her at once. Remember, Marlon I" Instantly I rushed forward and threw my arms around the ghost. Bhe shriek ed and started up ; I held fast and up we went. No pen can describe, no tongue can tell, in fact no one can imagine my feel ings at this moment. ' ' Up we went. Still I held on to the ghost. But I was becoming sick of the situation. I bad my whole weight to hold up, by holding to the phantom. " Let me down," I shouted. : - ' Promise me one thing," said the ghost. . " Promise that you will leave the spot as soon as you touch the ground." 1 , ' , " I promise anything to get from here," said I. 1 ! " Let us down," she shouted aB loud as I had. ' ' ; ' Down' we went. But as we went down I was very busy trying to find out something more about her. I found that she had a large rope around her and was drawn up by it. ' A loop was made for her feet, then one for each hand ; and she could stand up right with the greatest ease. ' Just as we touched the ground, took out my knife and cutthe rope just above the head of the ghost. She shrieked and fell to the earth ; I raised her up. i t'Ohl" said she, "Beelzebub will be here in a moment. Bee ! there he comes now IV. , i . .. i. Here she tried to leave me, but I held on to her. I beard a terrible noise in the dry leaves just behind me. I looked around, and something was approach ing. As near as 1 could discern in the dark, it resembled a very large man. It came up very close to me, and rtood till for a moment ; then It tapped me on the shoulder and said,- in a rpugh, :hoarse voice: . . i . . ,, --"Cornel" . v . , : : , I put my hand down . to the ground and as luck would have it, I put it on a (tick about as large as a man's arm. I snatched it up, and gave " Beetebub" a blow with it which brought him to the ground. My ghostly companion again shrieked and fell. I caught her up in my arms, and retreated as fast my legs could carry me. Presently I ran against the fence, and knocked as much of it down as Hill Jenkins did. But I did not stop, but went on into the house, ... I sat the ghost upon a chair and called for a light. Bhe here made a great effort to escape, but all was In vain. A light was brought ; a veil covered her face, and it was with great difficulty that I removed it. After a considerable struggle the veil was removed, audio! It was Julia Hubert I Bhe shrieked and foil to the floor, and was then carried to her room. , Just here in came a negro girl, a slave of Mr. Hubert's, looking aa though she was frightened out of her senses. "Massat massat run in de kitchen, right quick, 'cause Sambo come in dar all bloody, an' am' a bleedln' yet; he says he got he head broke." Austin and myself went into the kitchen to examine Sambo's head. There was a very large gash, cut to the bone, Just above his left temple. To be brief, Julia had employed a ne gro man, Sambo, to assist her. He had procured along rope, and fastened It around Julia, as I have already describ ed ; and then climbing In a very large tree, put the rope through a fork, and then descended. By this he could raise Julia as high as the forks of the tree, where bhe would be entirely out of sight to any person below, owing to the thick ness of the timber. Julia waa the ghost that told John Klnsler-to marry Jane Merton;- and Sambo had always acted "Beelzebub" when necessary. But after he had act ed "Beelzebub" with me, he swore he "neber would be debbll again." I bore no grudge on account of Julia's manner of courting me on the contra ry, I felt rather complimented. In about six months from that time we were married. Years have since rolled by. A robuht boy and a pretty little girl have blessed our union, and never have I repented for one moment that I saw the ghost, or that Julia became my wife. . : - mm ' . A CONGRESSMAN'S ROMANCE. 11 It YSTERIOUS hints are circulated In JLY1 Washington that the death of Representative John E. Leonard, of Louisiana, in Cuba, was not caused by yellow fever, but that he died from poison administered at the Instigation of a rival or of the parents of a lady with whom be was in love. Mr. Leonard was a widower with two children, who now reside in Germany, where he .finished bis education- . He was born in Chester county, Pa., but removed to Louisiana, where be became a prominent lawyer and a Republican Congressman. The stories circulated after his recent departure to New York, that he waa sent bv the Piesldent to in vestigate the alleged kidnapping of American negroes for slaves, and that he was a messenger from the President to Oov. Nlcholls in relation to the Re turning Board prosecutions, were un true. Mr. Leonard's visit to Havana was purely personal and private, and was of a peculiarly interesting and ro mantic character. Borne time ago, at New Orleans, he met a young lady, a native of Cuba, who was visiting this country with her parents, and between whom and Mr. Leonard a warm attachment sprang up, which . ripened into love, A marriage engagement was the result, but the parents of the young lady, in consequence of her youth, opposed the match, and Mr. Leonard was not per mitted to see the object of his affections except in the presence of her parents. When the time arrived tor the depart ure of the Cuban and his family from New Orleans, the young lady manifested some reluctance to return home, but an arrangement was finally made by which she and Mr. Leonard were to hold unrestricted correspondence through the mails. After her departure Mr. Leonard wrote ber several letters, to which no answer was received, which cave rise to the suspicion that his letters had been intercepted. After long Interval he received a brief letter from the lady which simply stated that she had n6t heard from him since her return to Cuba, and that she could not bear from him. This letter boreevldeuce of having been hurriedly written, and its broken and soiled condition led Mr. Ieonard to suspect that it had been carried some distance by a negro to be secretly mailed. After writing other letters and walling anxiously for re plies, he became convinced that the parents of the lady were not acting in good faith, and he determined t visit Cuba. A week or two before his depart ure be called on the President, and, informing him of his trouble, requested the President to write a personal letter to the Consul-General, requesting him to ascertain., if . possible, Abe situation and whereabouts of the , lady. The President did so, and in due lime Leon- ard received a cable dispatch from Havana which , Informed him that " Maria had been sent to a plantation in the country." This dispatch was not signed by the Consul-General, but bore the name of a party unknown to Leon ard. This added to his perplexity, and he determined to set out at once for Cuba. He called on Scnor Mantilla, the Spanish Minister at Washington, and making known to him his trouble, ob tained a letter from that official to the Captain General of Cuba, recommend ing him to do whatever was proper to aid Mr. Leonard in bis delicate mission. The sympathies of Mme. Mantilla were also enlisted in behalf of Mr. Leonard, and that lady wrote a letter nrglng the Captain General to do everything possi ble to unite the lovers. With these letters Mr. Leonard sailed for Havana, where he duly arrived. Nothing has been beard from him directly until a few days ago, when a friend in Washington received a letter written by him from Havana, on March 7, in which he said be had seen the lady in presence of her parents. No details as to the success of his mission were furnished, but from the general tone of despondency pervading the letter his friend believes he failed to obtain the consent of her parents to his addresses to their daughter. . The announcement of his death was a painful surprise, and those knowing the deadly vlndictlveness of the Spanish nature do not hesitate to express the opinion that his sudden death was not caused by yellow fever, but that it ia a matter that should have the strictest investigation. A Rich Man on Riches. The following story is told of Jacob Rldgeway, a wealthy citizen of Philadel phia, who died many years agojeavlng a fortune of five or six million dollars. " Mr. Rldgeway," said a young man with whom the millionaire was convers ing) " you are to be more envied than any gentleman I know." ' "Why so?" responded Mr. Ridge way ;, " I am not aware of any cause for which I should be particularly en vied." ' V What, sir?" exclaimed the young man in astonishment. " Think of the thousands your income brings you every month." "Well, what of that?" replied Mr. R. " All I get out of it is my victuals and clothes," and I can't eat more than one man's allowance or wear more than one suit of clothes at the same time. Pray can't you do aa much ?" ' " But," said the youth, " think of the hundreds of fine houses you own.and of the rental they bring you." . " What better am I off for all that ?" replied the rich man. " I can only live in one house at a time; and aa for money I receive for rents, why, I can't eat it or wear it ; I can only use it to buy other houses for others to live in. They are the beneficiaries, not I." "Butyoucan buy costly furniture and pictures, and fine carriages and horses ; in fact anything you may desire." " And after I have lought them," re sponded Mr. R., "what then? I can only look at the furniture and pictures. I can ride no easier iu a fine carriage than you can in an omnibus for five cents, with the trouble of attending to drivers, footmen and hostlers ; and aa to anything I desire, I tell you, young man, the less we desire la this world, the better and happier we shall he. All my wealth cannot purchase exemption from sickness and pain ; cannot procure the power to keep afar off the hand of death ; and what will it avail when in a few short years at most I leave it all forever? Young man, you have no cause to envy me."
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