T THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, T A. JULY .23, 1878. 13 RAILROADS. PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R ARRANGEMENT OF passenger trains. nay I2th", 1878. THAIN8 LEAVE HARKIHBITKO AS FOLLOW S Fur New York, at o.ao, 8.10 a. m. Loup, m., and 7.M p. m. For Philadelphia, at 8.20, 1.10, 9.45 a.m. 2.00 and 8.67 p. in. For Heading, at 6,20, 8.10, 9.46 a.m. and 2.00 3.A7 and T.M, , . For Fottsvltle at 8.20. S.10 a. m.. and 8.87 p. in., and via Sehuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at 2.40 n. in. For Auburn via S. & 8. Br. at 8.30 a. rn. For Allentown, at 6.20, B.loa. in., and at 2.00, 3.57 and 7.65 p. in. ..... . , The 6.20, 8.10 a. m and 7.65 p. in., train have through can lor New York. The 6.20, a. m., and 2.( p.m., trains have through cars for Philadelphia. SUNDAYS t For New York, at 6.20 a. in. For Allentown and Way Stations at 6.20 a.m. For Heading, 1'hlladelphla and Way Statlonaat 1.45 p. in. TRAINS FOKHARIlIsnUKG, LEAVE AS KOL LOWS I Leave New York, at MS a. in., 1.00, 5.S0and 7.45 p. m. Leave l'hlladelphla, at 9.15 a. m. 4.00, and 7.20 p. in. Leave Heading, at f4.4(), 7.40, 11.20 a. m. 1.30, 6.16 and 1". a p. in. Leave Fottsvllle, at fl.lo, 9.15 a.m. and 4.35 p. m. And via Schuylkill andSusquehanua Branchat 1.15 a. in. Leave Autmrn viaS. S. Mr. at 12 noon. Leave Allenlowii, at ti.30a.80, 9.05 a.m., 12.15 4.30 and 9.0.) p. in. , SUNDAYS: Leave New York, at 5. si i p. in. Leave Philadelphia, at. 7.20 p. m. Leave Heading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.35 p. m. Leave Allentown, at2 30 a. in., and 9.05 p. m. J. E. WOOTKN, Uen. Manager. C. O. Hancock, General Ticket Ageut. tOoes not run on Mondays. Via Morris and Essex H. It. Pennsylvania It. R.Tline Table. NEWPORT BTATION. On ami after Monday, June25tb, 1877, Fas sengeiTraluswlll run as follows ! EAST. Mlffllntown Aco. 7.32 a. m., dally except Sunday. Johnstown Ex. 12.22 p. m., daily " Sunday Mall 6.54 p. M., dally exceptSunday Atlantio Express, 9.61p.m., dag, dally. WEST. WayPass.9.08 A. m., dally, Mall, 2.43 P. M. dally exoeptSunday. Mlllllntown Aco. 6.55 P. m. dailyexceptBunday. Pittsburgh Express, 11.57F. M (Flag) dally, ex cept Sunday. Pacillo Express, 5.17 a.m., dally (Mag) 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 STATION. On and after Monday, June 2ith, 1877,tralni willleaveDuucannon, as follows: EASTWARD. Miftlintown Aoc. daily except Sunday at 8.12a. m. Johnstown Ex. 12.53P. 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 dailyexceptSunday. Mintlntown Ace. dailyexceptSunday at 6.16p.m. Pittsburg Ex. dally except Sunday (Hag) U.33P. M. WM. O. KINO Agent. kansasIparms AND-r- FllEE HOMES. 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In a chair which ran on wheels ho was drawn dally over the pleasant paths, sometimes by the faith ful black servant, sometimes by the still more devoted children, who tugged at the rope like so many frisky colts. The loveliness of the spot suited well its name of " Peaceful Retreat," by which it was known through all the country. But In those troublesome times it could not always remain " peaceful." In the spring of 1770, the British took posses sion of all tho sea-board. Oen. Prevost marched up from Savannah and laid siege to Charleston. But hearing that General Lincoln was hastening on with his army, he struck his tents in the night, and retreated rapidly towards Savannah. He crossed the Stone Ferry, and fortified himself on' John's Island, as the Island of Bt. John's was often called. For weeks now the noise of musketry and heavy guns destroyed the quiet joy at " Peaceful Itetreat." The children,in the midst of pluy, would hear the drend ful booming, and suddenly grow still and pale. The eldest daughter, Mary Ann, was sprightly, courageous girl of thirteen. She had the care of the little ones, for her mother's hands were full, in manag ing the great estate and caring for the crippled husband. After a time, the enemy determined to take possession of the beautiful place. A body of British and Hessians quietly captured the landing one midnight, and creeping steadily onward, filled the park and surrounded the house. At day break, the inmates found themselves prisoners. Then came trying days for the family. The officers took up their quarters in the mansion, allowing the family to occupy the upper story. John's Island was less than thirty miles from Charleston, and when tho American officers in the city head that " Peaceful Retreat" had been captured bv the British, they determined to res cue it from the enemy. Two large galleys were immediately manned and equipped and sent to the plantation, with strict orders not to fire upon the mansion. Sailing noiselessly up the Stone River, at dead of night, the vessels anchored abreast the plantation. Suddenly, out of thick darkness burst a Hume and roar, and the shot camo crashing through the British encampment. The whole place was instantly in up roar. The officers In the house sprang from bed, and hastily dressed and armed. The family, rudely awakened, rushed to the windows. . A cold rain was falling, and the sol diers, half-clad, were ' running wildly hither and thither, while the officers were frantically calling them to arms. Mary awoke at the first terrible roar and fled to her mother's room. The ex citable' negro servants uttered most piercing shrieks. The poor little chil dren were too frightened to scream, but clung, trembling, to Mary. Mrs. Gibbes was in great distress. She knew not, at first, whether it was an at tack by friends on the camp, or an assault on the house by the enemy. She ordered the servants to cease their wail ing and dress themselves. Then her husband and children were prepared, and, while the cannon bellow ed in quick succession and the noise around the house grew louder, the father and mother consulted what was best to do. . It was now evident that the attack was by their own friends, and its object was to dislodge the enemy. But Mr. Gibbes did not know that the house would not be fired on, and he advised instant flight. He was carried to his chair, and ihe whole household sallied forth from a back door. The scene waa terrific. The night was pitchy dark, and when just as they step ped out, a sheet of flame belched forth from the vessels, it seemed to be almost against their faces. . The roar shook the ground. The troops were too ,busy saving themselves to notice the fugitives, and they pushed on as rapidly as possible. No one was sufficiently protected from tho rain. Little Mary bad the hardest part, for nearly all the children were in her care. The mud was deep. Some of the little ones could walk but a short distance at a time, and had to be carried Mary having always one, sometimes two, in her arms. Several of the ter- vants were near, but none of them seemed to notice her or her burdens. The Inst horse had been carried off that very day there was no escape but on foot. ' Suddenly, a ball came crashing by them through the trees. Then a charge of grape-shot cut the boughs overhead. They were exactly In the range of the guns I It was evident they had taken the worst direction, but there was ho help for It now it was too late to turn back. In her agony, the mother cried aloud to God to protect hur family. Mary hugged closer the child In her arms, and trembled so she could hard keep up. Another crash I The shot shrieked past them, striking the trees in every direc tion. ' The assault was fierce, the roar was incessant. The frightened family rushed on as swiftly as possible toward a friend's plantation, far back from the shore, but It was soon seen that they would Hot have strength to reach It, even if they were not struck by the flying Bhot. The Americana were pouring their fire Into these woods, thinking the enemy would seek refuge there. The wretched fugi tives expected every moment to be the last. On they pushed through mud and rain and screaming shot. Soon they found they were getting more out of range of the guns. They began to hope ; yet now and then a ball tore up the trees around them, or rolled fearfully across their path. The reached one of the houses where their field hands lived, with no one hurt; they were over a mile from the mansion, and out of range. The negVoes said no shot had come that way. Unable to flee further, the family determined to stop here. As soon as they entered, Mrs. Gibbes felt her strength leaving her, and sank upon a low bed. Chilled to the bone, drenched, trembling with terror anil exhaustion, the family gathered around her. She opened her eyes and looked about, She sprang up wildly. " Oh, Mary 1" she cried, " where is John'" The little girl turned ashy pale, and moaned : " Oh, mother I mother I he's left be hind!" She broke into crying. The negroes, quickly sympathetic, began to wring their hands and wail. "Silencel" said Mrs. Gibbes, with stern, but trembling voice. The little child now missing was very dear to them all, and, moreover, was deemed a sacred charge, as he was one of the orphan children of Mr. Gibbes' sister, intrusted to him on her death-bed. The wailing ceased ; there was silence, broken only by sobs, and the master asked : " Who is willing to go back for the child V" No one spoke. Mr. Gibbes turned to his wife for counsel. As the two talked in low tones, Mrs. Gibbes called the at tention of her husbp.nd to Mary, who was kneeling with clasped hands, In prayer, at the foot of the bed. In a few moments the little maid rose and came to them, saying, calmly : " Mother, I must go back after little Johnny." " Oh, my child," cried the mother, in agony, " I cannot let you !" ' " But, mother, I must," pleaded the girl. " God will care for me." 1 It was a fearful responsibility. The guns yet roared constantly through the darkness ; the house might now be in flames ; it might be filled with carnage and blood. Mrs. Gibbes turned to her husband. His face was burled in his hands. Plain ly, she must decide It herself. With streaming eyes she looked at her little daughter. " Come here, my child," she called through her sobs. Mary fell upon her mother's neck. One long, passionate embrace, in which all a mother's love and devotion were poured out, and the clinging arms were opened without a word. Mary sprang up, kissed her father's forehead, and sped forth on her dangerous mission of love. The rain had now ceased, but the night was still dark and full of terrors, for through the trees she saw the fre quent flashes of the great guns. ' The woods were filled with the booming echoes, so that cannon seemed to be on every hand. She flew on with all speed. Soon she heard the crashing trees ahead, and she knew that in a moment she would be once more face to face with death. She did not falter. Now she was again in the fierce whirlwind. All around her the shot bowled and shriek ed. On every side branches fell crashing to the earth. .. A cannon-ball plunged Into the ground close beside her, cast over her a heap of mud, and threw her down. She sprang up and pressed on with redoubled vigor. Not even that ball would make her turn back. . , 1 , , : She reached the house. She ran to the room where the child usually slept. The bed was empty! DUtracted, she flew from chamber to chamber. Sudden ly she remembered that this Might he had been given to another nurse. Up Into the third story she hurried, and, as she pushed open the door, the little fel low, sitting up in bed, cooed to her and put out his hands. ? With tears raining down, her cheeks Mary wrapped the baby warmly and started down the stairs. Out into the darkness once more) onward with her precious burden, through cannon-roar through shot and shell I Three tlraeeshe passed through this Iron storm. The balls still swept the forest ; the terrific booming filled the air. , With the child pressed tightly to her brave young heart, she fled on. . She neither stumbled nor fell, The shot threw the dirt in her face, and showered the twigs down upon her head. But she was not struck. In safety she reached the hut, and fell exhausted across the threshold, , ' And the little boy thus saved by a girl's brave devotion, afterward became General Fenwlck, famous in the war oflH12. A THRILLING ADVENTURE WITH A SHARK. IN 1H50 Capt. Blank the captain does not wish his name mentioned was first mate of a whaleshlp cruising out of New Bedford. Tho William King was one of those old-fashioned tubs peculiar to the last century, sailing equally well either way, bow or stern. Off Telegraph Hill, near San Francisco, a school of whales was raised, led by an Immense bull,andsteering In a northerly direction. Two boats were at once lowered, but they had scarcely touched the water when the school parted, one running north, the other south. Captain Blank's boat followed one band while Jim Watson, the mate followed the oilier. The captain's boat had a crew of magnificent oarsmen they laid to their work with a will, and after an hour's pull came within range of the bull. Capt. Blank got an iron into him In short order, the fish sounded and went down at a speed which almost equaled that of the late "lightning express" train. The line ran out with a deafen ing hum ; the logger-head smoked, and the boat laid her bows deep Into the water. Suddenly the strain ceased,' The whale was coming up, and every eye conned the seas for a glimpse of the monster. He came up like a rocket, struck the boat on the keel amidshlp with his nose, and hurled it thirty feet in the air. . As it descended, it capsized, and fell bottom uppermost. The men Immediately swam for It, and, with the exception of the captain, reached it, where they squatted, holding on the keel and presenting the appearance of a lot of penguins nestling on a chunk of kelp. The captain swam also up but finding the keel crowded, resolved not to risk an upsetting by venturing upon it. So be put an oar under each arm, and, treading water, kept near the boat, cheering the crew, who, as was natural to men in their situation, were nervous and down-hearted. They floated this way some minutes, and were gradually getting over the first shock, when the stroke oarsman, a gigantic negro, called out, " Look dar, a shark !" Nothing so horrifies a sailor as a ravenous fish in hours of peril. The crew looked and saw a hugh bottle-nosed shark floating not more than a fathom below the sur face. The captain saw the monster al so, and felt . his chances for escape dwindle to a cipher ; nevertheless he did not lose courage, and instead of hastening the event which seemed be yond prevention, resolved to escape it if possible. ' He knew that a shark would never bite at an. unsteady bait. The nose of the creature is in its way ; it must turn on its side and snap, and then only when the obj ect is stationary. It may be so for a second only, but that is enough ; the shark darts like lightning, and in a moment seizes his prey. The captain knew this, and his only salvation depended on his keeping constantly in motion. The least pause would be fatal, so with two oars under his arms he kept afloat, moving about incessantly, his eyes fixed on the dark monster beneath him. which followed wherever he moved. Such a situation would be apt to effect the senses terribly, yet the captain says he was never calmer, never less troubled, and never less afraid of death. Ilia mind, however, was un usually active ; every circumstance of his life came before him with the clear ness of noonday. The scenes of his youth in particular passed before him in vivid coloring. He saw the old farm house in which be was born the hills, woods and meadows surrounding it ; the distant village, the church spire, the flocks of the plains; the winding river, the cows browsing in the fields ; he heard the clatter of the mill, the songs of the mowers, the birds singing in the groves aud the gun echoing among the hills, He beard, too, the voice of one dearer to him than all on earth, the voice of one but this all took place while a ra- I paclous monster was floating within a few fret of lilm, waiting only a mo ment's pause In his movements fo rend III in to pieces 1 The second boat, having now rescued the wrecked men, approached the cap tain, who ordered Its crew to shoot by him at full speed, and as it passed hi in he would grasp it and spring in, the critical moment being when lie would lose motion, and the shark would be likely to seize him. However, that risk must he taken. The mate faithfully carried out his directions. The men strained every sinew. They were whale, men, and as such topgallant oarsmen, and the speed at which they sent that boat driving through the water, would have shamed the flight of the swlftent sea bird. The boat Itself was scarcely seen, burled In a double wall of foaming spray, the oars bending like reeds and the gunwales quivering at each stroke. It took a steady nerve, and eagle glance and a lightning grasp to secure the flying craft; but the captain had these, and as it passed, seized the starboard gunwale, and was thrown like a shot into the boat. At the same Instant the shark's head rose above the water, and Its jaws snapped with a sound audible for a con siderable distance. The captain as he himself remarked, escaped "only by a scratch," the moment he was stationary the shark snapped at him, the velocity of his subsequent motion only saving him from a hideous death. A Wise Madman. ' PEOPLE accuse Geo. Francis Train, the eccentric philosopher who feeds the children with candles and the spar rows with crumbs on Madison Square, of being crazy) but It he Is crazy, there Is certainly " method in his madness." The advice of Polonius to his son has always been held up as a model of wis dom Indeed It has been held to be ex haustive on the subject ; but If a report in the College Tell-Tule of an interview which some students had with George Francis be true, then the latter has fair ly equalled Shakspeare in his advice to youth. ' " We have been sent to you," said one of the students, " for some words of wis dom and admonition." ' Whereupon the philosopher, without a moment's hesitation and " speaking without an unhesitating gllbness that was astonishing," spoke as follows : "Rise early; be abstemious ; be fru gal; attend to your own business and never trust it to another; be not afraid to work, and diligently, too, with your own hands; treat every one with clvill ty and respect good manners insure success ; accomplish what you under take; decide, then persevere; diligence and industry overcome all difficulties ; never be mean rather give than take the odd shilling ; never postpone till the morrow what can be done to-day ; never anticipate wealth from any source but labor ; honesty is not only the best poli cy, but the only policy ; commence at the first round and keep climbing; make your word as good as your bond ; seek knowledge to plan,enterprlse to execute, honesty to govern all ; never trade be yond your stock ; never give too large credit ; time is money ; make few prom ises; keep your secrets; live within your income; sobriety above all things ; luck is a word that does not apply to a successful man ; not too much caution slow, but sure, Is the thing ; the high est monuments are built piece by piece ; step by step we mount the pyramids ; be bold be resolute when the clouds gather ; difficulties are surmounted by opposition ; self-confidence, self-reliance is your capital, your conscience the best monitor ; never be over-sanguin e,' but don't underrate your own abilities; don't be discouraged; ninety-nine may say no, the hundredth yes;' take oft' your coat, roll up your sieves, don't be afraid of manual labor; America is large enough for ail ; strike out for the West ; the sea-shore cities are too crowded ; the best letter of introduction is your own energy ; lean on yourself when you walk ; keep good company ; the Spaniards say If you lie down with dogs you will get fleas ; keep out of pol itics, unless you are sure to win ; you're never sure to win, so keep out; when you are old enough to vote, vote not for parties, but for men ; if there are no men up for office don't vote at all." tW A screech-owl took possession of a box at Lancaster, Pa., the other day, in which a pair of martins were building their noat, and when they returned would not let them enter. The birds sooo flew away and returned with a whole army of compan ions, each bringing iu bis beak ' piece of mud, with which tbey hermetically sealed the entranoe of tbe box. When the box was opened a few days later, the owl was found to be dead. O" A" Female Hercules," a native of France, is to be seen in London. One of her feats is to lift up an anvil by the hair of her bead, aud then have the same anvil placed on her bosom, , while three smiths forge a horse shoe with their hammers, she talking and singing all the while.
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