PA. JULY 2, 1878.
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RAILROADS.
PmLADELPHIA AND READING R. R
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TKA1N8.
May 12th, 1878.
TRAINS LEAVE HARRISBURO A8 FOLLOWS
For New York, at 6.20, R. 10 a. in. 2.onp..m.,
and 7.M p. m.
For Philadelphia, at 5.20. 8.10, 9.4ft a.m.
2.00 and S.A7 p. in.
For Reading, at 8,20, 8.10, 9.45 a. m. and 2.00
3.67 and 7.MS.
For Pottsvllle at fl.20. 8.10 a. in., and 3.A7
, in., and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna
ranch at 2.40 p. m.
For A u tin ni via a & 8. Br. at S.30 a. m.
For Allentown, at 6.20, 8.10 a. in., and at 2.00,
3.57 and 7.55 p. ni.
The 5.20, 8.10 a. m., and 7.55 p. m., traina
have through cars for New York.
The 6.20, a. m.. and 2.00 p.m., trains have
through cars for Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS !
For New York, at 5.20 a. ni.
For Allentown and Way Stations at 5.2na. m.
For Reading, Philadelphia and Way StationBat
1.45 p. in.
TRAINS FOR HARRI8RURG, LEAVE A8 FOL
LOW'S :
Leave New York, at 8.45 a. m., 1.00, 6.30and
7.4o p. in.
Leave Philadelphia, at 9.15 a. m. 4.00, and
7.20 p. m.
Leave Rending, at tl.40. 7.40, 11.20 a. m. 1.30.
6.15 and 1''. 3i p. m.
Leave poltsville, at 6.10, 9.15 a.m. ami 1.35
p. m.
And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna 111 nuchal
8.15 a. in.
Leave Auburn viaH. S. Br. at 12 noon.
Leave Allentown, at ti.3!)5,M, (i.oft a. in.. 12.11
4.30 and 9.0 p. in.
SUNDAYS:
Leave New York, at 5.30 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m.
Leave Reading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.35
p. m.
Leave Allentown, at2 30 a. m., and 9.05 p. m.
J. E. WOOTEN, Oen. Manager.
C. G. Hancock, General Ticket Agent.
tDoes not run on Mondays.
Via Morris and Essex It. R.
Pennsylvania It. R. Time Table.
NEWPORT STATION.
On and after Monday June 25th, 1877, Pas
senger trainswlll run as follows:
EAST.
Mlftlintown Acc. 7.32 a. m., d ill y except Sunday.
Johnstown Ex. 12.22 p. M., daily " Sunday
Mall, 6.54 e. m., dally exceptSunday
Atlantle Express, 9.54p.m., flag, dally.
WEST.
WayPass.9.08 A. m., dally,
Mail 2.43 P. M. daily exceptSunday.
Miftlintown Acc. 6.f5P. M. dailyexcept Sunday.
Pittsburgh Express, 11.67P. M.,(Flag) daily, ex-
cept Sunday.
Pacitio Express, 5.17 a. m., dally (flag)
Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which
is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, and 1 min
utes slower thau New York time.
J.J. BARCLAY, Agent.
DUNCANNON STATION.
On and after Monday, June 2ith, 1877,tratns
willleave Duncannon, as follows :
EASTWARD.
Miftlintown Acc. dally except Sunday at 8.12 a. m.
Johnstown Ex. 12.53P. M., daily exceptSunday.
Mail 7.30 P. M "
Atlantic Express 10.20 p. M., daily (flag)
WE8TWARD.
Way Passenger, 8.38 a. m., daily
Mail, 2.09 p. m dallyexceptSunday.
Miftlintown Acc. dally except Sunday at 6.16 p.m.
Pittsburg Ex. dally except Sunday (flag) 11.33P. M.
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STUFFING A BANKER.
THE death of the famous dog Suther
land thus named after the Eng
lishman who had made a gift of It to the
Empress Catharine II. of Russia near
ly caused a trnglo mistake, In so far as it
nearly cost the donor, a celebrated bank
er, his life. The occurrence took place
at St. Petersburg.
One morning, at daybreak, Mr. Suth
erland was suddenly awoke by his man
servant. " Sir," said the footman, " your house
is surrounded with guard, and the mas
ter of the police demands to speak to
you."
" Show him In," said Mr. Sutherland,
as he hastily donned his dressing-gown.
The footman departed, and returned
some minutes afterwards with His Ex
cellency Mr. Rellew, upon whose face
the banker read at the first glance some
formidable Intelligence. The worthy
banker, however, maintained his calm
ness, and welcoming the master of the
police with his usual urbanity, presented
him with a seat. His Excellency, how
ever, remained standing, and in a dolor
ous tone said :
" Mr. Sutherland, believe me when I
assure you that I am truly grieved to
have been chosen by Her Majesty to ac
complish an order, the severity of which
afflicts me, but which has without doubt
been provoked by some great crime."
" By some great crime, Your Excel
lency !" exclaimed the banker. " And
who, then, has committed this great
crime ?"
" You, doubtless, sir, since it is upon
you that the punishment Is to fall."
"Sir, I know not of any reproach with
which to clmrge myself as a subject of
our sovereign; for I am a naturalized
Russian, as you must know."
"And it is precisely, sir, because you
are a naturalized Russian that your posi
tion is terrible. If you had remained a
subject of His Britannic Majesty you
would have been able to call in the aid
of the English consul, and escape thus,
perhaps, the rigor of the order which I
am, to my very great regret, charged to
execute."
"Tell me, then, what is this order ?"
" O, sir, never will I have the strength
to make it known to you."
" Have I lost the good graces of Her
Majesty ?"
" Oh, if it were only that !"
" Is it a question to make me depart
for England ?"
" Oh, no; even that must not be."
" Is it an order to send me to Siberia V"
" Siberia, sir, is a fine country, and
which people have calumniated. Be
sides, people return from it."
" Am I condemned to prison ?" .
"The prison is nothing. Prisoners
come out of prison."
" Sir, sir !" cried the banker, more and
more affrighted, "am I destined to the
knout ?"
" The knout is a punishment very
grievous ; but the knout does not kill."
" Miserable fate," said Sutherland, ter
rflied. " I see, indeed, that it is a mut
ter of death,"
"And what a death 1" exclaimed the
master of the police, while he solemnly
raised his eyes with an expression of the
most profound pity.
"Howl what a death! It is not
enough to kill me without trial, to assas
sinate me without cause? Catharine
orders, yet"
" Alas 1 j-63, she orders"
"Well, speak, sir. What does she
order ? I am a man ; I have courage.
Speak 1"
" Alas ! my dear sir, she orders If
it had not been by herself that the com
mand had been given, I declare to you,
my dear Mr. Sutherland, that I would
not believed it."
" But you make me die a thousand
times. Let me see, sir, what has she
ordered you to do?"
" She has ordered me to have you
stuffed !"
The poor banker uttered a cry of dis
tress; then looking the master of the
police in the face, said :
" But, Your Excellency, it is mon
strous what you say to me ; you must
have lost your reason."
" No, sir; I have not lost my reason,
but will certainly lose it during the op
eration." " But how have you received such an
order without endeavoring to represent
the barbarity of it to Her Majesty ?"
" Alas ! sir, I have done what I could
and certainly what no one would have
dared to do in my place. I besought Her
Majesty to renounce her design, or at
least to charge another than myself with
the execution of it: and that with tears
in my eyes. But Her Majesty said to me
with that voice which you know well,
and which does not admit of a reply :
" Go, sir, and do not forget that it is
your duty to acquit yourself without a
murmur of the commission with which
I charge you.' "--',
" And then 1"' ' in
" Then," said the muster of the police,
" I lost no time In repairing to a very
clever naturalist who stuffed animals for
the Academy of Sciences ; for In short,
since there was not any alternative, I
deemed It only proper, and out of respect
for your feelings, that you should be
stuffed in the best manner possible."
" And the wretch has consented ?"
" He referred me to his colleague, who
stuffs apes, having studied the analogy
between the human species and the
monkey tribe."
"Weill"'
" Well, sir, he awaits you."
"Howl he awaits me! But Is the
order so peremptory ?"
" Not an Instant must be lost, my dear
sir ; the order of Her Majesty does not
admit of delay."
"But you will allow me first to write
a letter to the Empress."
" I know not if I ought ; my instruc
tions were very emphatic."
" Listen ! It Is a last favor, a favor
which is not refused to the greatest cul
prit. I entreat it of you."
" But it is my situation which I risk."
" And It Is my life which Is at stake."
" Well, write ; I permit it. However,
I Inform you that I do not leave -ou a
single Instant."
" Thanks, thanks. Pray request one
of your officers to come that he may con
vey my letter."
The master of the police called a lieu
tenant of the Royal Guards, delivered to
him the letter of poor Sutherland, and
ordered him to bring back the answer to
it immediately.
Ten minutes afterwards the lieutenant
returned with the order to bring the
banker to the Imperial palace. It was
all that the sufferer desired.
A carriage stood at the gate. Mr.
Sutherland entered it and the lieutenant
seated himself near him. Five minutes
afterwards they were at the palace,
where Catharine waited. They intro
duced the condemned man to her pres
ence, and found Her Majesty in convul
sions of laughter.
It was for Sutherland not to believe
her mad. He threw himself at her feet,
and seizing her hand In his, exclaimed,
" Mercy, madame ! in the name of
heaven, have mercy on me; or at the
least tell me for what crime I have de
served a punishment so horrible."
" But,my dear Monsieur Sutherland,"
replied Catharine with all the gravity
she could command, " the matter does
not concern you at all."
" How, Your Majesty, is it not a mat
ter concerning me ? Then whom does
it concern ?"
" Why, the dog, of course, which you
gave me, and which died yesterday of
indigestion. Then in my grief at the
loss and my very natural desire to pre
serve at least his skin, I ordered Reliew
to come to me, and said to him, 'Mon
sieur Reliew, I have to request you will
have Sutherland immediately stuffed."
As he hesitated,I thought he was asham
ed of such a commission ; whereupon I
became angry and dismissed him on his
errand."
" Wel!,madam," answered the banker,
" you can boast that you have in the
master of the police a faithful servant ;
but at another time, pray, I entreat of
you, to explain better to him the orders
which he receives."
The four-footed Sutherland was duly
promoted to a glass vice the banker re
lieved. A Lucky Better.
AN OFFICER named Verdier was cel
ebrated in his garrison for winning
all his bets. None of his comrades could
boast of ever having been successful.and
so at last no one cared to bet with him.
One day Verdier was transferred to
another regiment, but the fame of his
peculiar luck had already spread before
him. After a supper tendered by his
comrades on the evening of his arrival,
when champagne had made its appear
ance, Gen. B called out :
" Is it really true, Verdier, that you
win every betr1"
" Yes, General."
" But how the deuce do you do it ?"
"Oh, very simply. Iam a physiog
nomist, and I bet only when I am quite
sure."
" You are a physiognomist ?" Well,
vhat, for instance, can you find to read
now in my face?"
" I can see," said Verdier, promptly,
" that the old wound in your side has
broken out again."
"Nonsense!" thundered out General
B .
"But-"
" No but' after I assure you, Bir."
" Perhaps you do not like to speak of
it perhaps a duel"
"Dlable! you won't believe me ?
What will you bet V"
" Anything you please, General."
" Five hundred francs."
" The gentlemen present are the wit
nesses." With these words the General pro
ceeded without more ado to divest him.
self of his coat and shirt, when a close
scrutiny by all present revealed the fact
that there was no trace of a wound by a
sword or ball.
" You have lost your bet, Verdier!"
shouted the General, resuming his gar
ments. " I have, Indeed, lost this once. Men
may err sometimes. Here are the COO
francs."
With a chuckle the General put the
money in his pocket. After he had
reached home, he at once wrote to his
old chum, the General In command of
Verdler's regiment:
" Dear friend, the story of Verdler's
luck Is all humbug. He has just made
a bet of 600 francs that I had a wound
in my side, and of course he lost it."
The answer came back :
"Youf naivete Is truly charming I
Your winning the 600 'francs cost me
2,000 which Verdier bet me, on the day
of his leaving, that he would make you,
on the first evening of meeting, take off
your shirt In the presence of your fel-Iow-oftlcers,
and that you, yourself,
would Inform me of the fact."
A Much Married Minister.
THE TIMES has been Informed of the
arrest at Bangor, Me., of the Rev.
J. M. Wells, alias Chenoweth, on a
charge of bigamy. He was brought to
this city, and is now in Jail here await
ing the action of the Grand Jury of the
Sangamon Circuit Court.
He was born In a small town in Ohio
in 1821, and learned the trade of a tailor.
When he was 22 years old he married
and lived with his wife seven years.
One day he left his home and did not
return. He then went, so It appears, to
Iowa, where he joined the M. E. church
and became a class leader. He married
there, and lived with his second wife
about two years, when he left her and
went to Kaskkaskla, in this State. It
does not appear that he got married
while at Kaskkaskla,but in 1853 he mar
ried in Manchester, Scott county, and
began business as a tailor. He had a
good business and made a little money,
but is described as being " of a lively,
sporting turn," and he drank freely,
gambled a little, and made his shop the
headquarters for fast men and youth of
the neighborhood.
After seven months of this sort of life
he told the boys that he was going to
quit his bad habits and join the church,
and this he proceeded to do with great
celerity. He professed great admiration
for the teaching of the Rev. G. W. S.
Beer, the Baptist clergyman of the place
and was very attentive to his ministra
tions. He was soon converted and bap
tized, and w'as afterward licensed to
preach. He married a Miss Ruth Cle
ment and devoted himself to the work
of the ministry, being In succession the
pastor of the Baptist churches at Waver
ly, Applebrook, Manchester, Mount
Sterling, Clayton, Glrard, Whitehall,
and Auburn.
In the full of 1805, his Manchester
wife died, and on July 14th, 1807 ,he mar
ried Miss Anna Wrightsman of Auburn.
In the fall of 1874 he was in great finan
cial trouble and left Auburn.
For three years the people of Auburn
heard nothing of him, but in the fall of
1877 the Standard, the Baptist organ of
Chicago, published a letter from the
church at Aurora, Ind., detailing the
misdeeds of the Rev. M. Chenoweth.
The people of Auburn wrote to the
Aurora church and an exchange of pho
tographs revealed the fact that the
Auburn fugitive and the ex-pastor of
Aurora, Ind., was the same person. He
had got married at Aurora, and after his
exposure there bolted from that place.
When he left Auburn he went back to
his old home in Ohio, and there found
that his first wife had got a divorce and
married a man who afterwards died,
leaving her well fixed in the way of
property.
He professed the utmost penitence for
his desertion of her, swore that the story
of his marrying in Iowa was not true,
and was remarried to her. After a time
he took charge of the Baptist church at
Dunkirk, Ind. He had steadily urged
his wife to sell the property left her by
her late husband, but she refused, and at
last, as his treatment was brutal, she left
him and went back to her home in Ohio.
Then Chenoweth went to the church at
Aurora, and there, it is reported, forged
the name of one of his deacons of his
church to a note or check, got the mon
ey, and fled. The friends of the Auburn
lady spent the time and money required
to trace him up, and he is now in jail.
The offspring of his many marriages
are one child at Manchester, two at
Auburn, five in Ohio, and one in Iowa.
Chicago Times.
3 I heard a man who had failed in
business, and whose furniture was sold
at auction, say, that, when the cradle,
and the crib, and the piano went, tears
would come, and he had to leave the
house to be a man. Now, there are
thousands of men who have lost their
pianos, but who have found better
music In the sound of their children's
voices and footsteps going cheerfully
down with them to poverty, than any
harmony of chorded instruments. O,
blessed is bankruptcy when it saves a
man's children 1 I see many men bring
ing up their children as I should bring
up mine, if when they were ten years
old, I should lay them on the dissecting
table, and cut the sinews of their arms
and legs, so that they could neither
walk nor use their hands, but only sit
still and be fed. Thus rich men put the
knife of Indolence and luxury to their
children's energies, and they grow up
fatted, lazy calves, fitted for nothing, at
twenty-flve,but to drink deep and squan
der wide; and the father must be a slave
all his life,ln order to make beasts of his
children. How blessed, then, is the
stroke of disaster, which sets the chil
dren free, and gives them over to the
hard but kind bosom of Poverty, who
says "Work!" and, working, makes
the man ! Beecher.
The Increase of Crime.
Pennsylvania, New York, Massachu
setts and some other States are Increas
ing the number, the accommodations
and the population of their penitentia
ries, prisons, jails, reformatories, houses
of correction and asylums. They differ
about solitary and congregate systems
and many other points of administra
tion, but they are all troubled to find
sufficient accommodation for those who
have been sentenced to Imprisonment.
Something of this is due to Increased
population, naturally yielding a greater
number of criminals. Something is due
to a more rigid construction of the laws;
something to its more vigorous enforce
ment. But it demands unfurnished
comparisons of the convicts of previous
years, and of other lands as well as this,
to show whether those dreams of an ap
proaching millennium, many prophesy
and some prepare for, are not the unsub
stantial substance of fancy. We count
over our schools and churches; we
proudly reckon our reformatories and
asylums, in evidence of current im
provement and nineteenth-century pro
gress. Does not their steady increase
and constant crowding prove something
too, against that optimistic imagining
that declares virtue greater and more
general to-day than heretofore ? We say
nothing against churches, schools and
courts. Of course, if these were not,the
criminality they repress would bequlckly
enlarged. But if with this enlargement
despite all that is done to cause a diminu
tion, the Increase continues, have we
not some unpalatable truths to confess
and mingle with our boasting? Crime
was certainly never before so expert if
so bold over all the world. Is it not gain
ing upon virtue and the commandments
everywhere? Phil. North American.
A Siory of a Trail.
She was a tall, stout individual, and
sprang out of the wagon as lightly as a
spring chicken after a grasshopper. He
was a little, withered, dried-up weasel,
and followed slowly, bringing a basket
of eggs with him. They entered one of
our stores, and she asked :
" What are ye glvin' for eggs V"
"Eight cents," was the reply of the
counter-jumper.
" Well, here are three dozen," said the
fat party, " and I'll take it into calico."
" But I want some yarn to mend my
socks," put in the old man.
" The weather is warm," replied the
fat party, "and you can go without
socks."
"But my boots hurt my feet," insisted
the old man.
"Go barefooted," said she, rather
sharply. Then turning to the clerk she
changed her tune, and remarked :
" Young man, please count me out the
eggs and give four yards of calico to
match this 'ere drees. "
" But" the old man was going to
continue when she raised her huge in
dex finger and said :
" Henry Winter Davis Spriggins.them
'ere eggs are mine : the hens that laid
'em are mine ; the corn what fed 'em
was mine ; and I'se going to have a trail
on this 'ere dress as long as Betsy
Gowen's if every toe on your feet turn
into gum biles. Now, shut. And you,
youngster, yank off four yards of that
'ere calico, or you will hear a bumblebee
a buzzing."
The old man shut and the clerk yank
ed off the calico.
Advice to Boys.
The big boy who loves his mother at a
middle age is described by a popular
writer as a true knight. Next to the
love of her husband nothing so crowns
a woman's life with honor as this second
love, the devotion of a son to her. He
declares he never knew a boy to turn out
badly who began by falling in love with
his mother. Any man may fall la love
with a fresh-faced girl, and the man who
is gallant to the girl may cruelly crush
the poor and weary life. But the big boy
who Is a lover of his mother at middle
age will love his wife as much in the
sere-leaf autumn as be did in the daisied
spring. There is nothing so beautifully
chivalrous as the love of a big boy for
his mother. And yet how often la the
ear shocked at the loose and disrespect
ful manner in which young men speak
of their mothers among their boon com
panions. The boy or man who does not
love and venerate his mother la un
worthy of the respect of honesi men
and virtuous women.