THE TIMES,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. SEPTEMBER 3, 1878.
RAILROADS
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
May VJtth, 1878.
TRA1N8 LEAVE H ARRISBURO A8 FOLLOWS
For New York, at 5.20, 8.10 a. m. loop, m.,
and T.M p. m. .
For Philadelphia, at B.SO, g.io, MS a.m.
x.00 ana .r7 p. in.
For Headlua. at B.20. 8.10. 9.45 a.m. and 2.00
3.R7 and 7.M. .
For Pottsvllle at 8.20. 8.10 a. m.. and l.fiT
B. m., and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna
ranch at 2.40 p. m.
Fur Auburn via 8. & S. Br. at 8.80 a. m.
For Allentown, at 8.20, 8.1Ua. m., and at 2.00,
8.57 and 7.65 p. m. . ,
The 5.20, 8.10 a. hi., and 7.5 p. m., trains
have through oars lor New York.
The 6.20, a. in., and 2.00 p.m., trains have
through cars for Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS I
For New York, at 6.20 a. m.
For Allentown and Way Htatlons at 8.?a. m.
For Reading, Philadelphia and Way Statlonsat
1.45 p. m.
TRAINS FOR IIARlttSBURQ, LEAVE AS FOL
LOWS I
Leave New York, at 8.45 a. m., 1.00, 8.30 and
7.45 p. m.
Leave rhllndelphla, at 9.15 a. m. 4.00, and
7.20 p. m.
Leave Reading, at 1 1.40, 7.40, 11.20 a. in. 1.30,
6.15 and 1". 85 p. m.
Leave Pottsvllle, at 6.10, 9.15 a.m. and 4.85
p. m.
And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at
8.15 a. in.
Leave Auburn vlaS. (4 H. Br. at 12 noon.
Leave Allentown, at t.30 5,50, 9.05 a. ni., 12.16
4.30 and 9.05 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. WOOTKN, Uen. Manager.
C. O. Hancock, General Ticket Agent.
tDoes not run on Mondays.
Vla Morris and Essex K. It.
Pennsylvania R. It. Time Table.
NEWPORT BTATION.
On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, Pas
enger trains will run as (ollows:
EAST.
Mlffllntown Ace. 7.82 a. m., daily except Sunday.
Johnstown Kx. 12.22 p. M., daily " Sunday
Mail 6.54 P. m., daily exceptSunday
Atlantic Express, 9.54p.m., flag, dally.
WEST.
WayPass. 9.08 A. m., dally.
Mail 2.43 P. M. dally exceptSunday.
Mittlintown Acc. 6.65P. M. dallyexcept Sunday.
Pittsburgh F.xpress, 11.67P. M.,(Flag) daily.ex-
cent Sunday.
Pacfllo Express, 6.17 a. m.. dally (flag)
Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which
Is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, and i min
utes slower thau New York time.
J.J. BARCLAY, Agent.
DUNCANNON STATION.
On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, trains
will leave Duncannon. as follows :
EASTWARD.
Mlffllntown Ace. daily except Bundayat 8.12a. m.
Johnstown Ex. 12-5 3 p. M., dally exceptSunday.
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, datlyexceptSunday.
Mittlintown Acc. dally except Sunday at fi.ltip.M.
Pittsburg Ex. dally except Sunday (flag) ll.S3p. M.
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AN UNEXPECTED WITNESS.
A DARK night In March. , Heavy
clouds hung below the sky, shut
ting out both moonlight and starlight.
The winds moaned, dlrge-Hke, through
the trees ; the waves beat up fignlnst the
rocky cliff with a weird, uncanny dash
and splash.
Above, on the cliff, on the lonely road
that skirted the edge, two forms wiine
slowly along.
" Indeed, darling, you must go no
further," said the man, coming to a
stand-still. " You have left your home
a goodly distance behind you now, and
you know that I have not the time to
go back with you."
" Must we say good-bye then,Allan ?"
moaned the woman.
" It must be done," was the sad reply.
" It Is not for long, darling ; in six
months"
" Oh, six months will seem an eterni
ty!" she walled. "If I could only
shake off this dread of coming evil, I
could endure our parting better. Oh, I
have such a fear that we will never meet
again I that something will happen to
separate us forever 1"
" Those are idle fears, my Annie ; do
not nurse them. You know I Wouldn't
go if it were not that our future depend
ed upon it ; six months' steady work
there will enable me to claim you for a
wife. Hark ! some one is coming."
Both looked in the direction of the
approaching form.
" It's Edward Lane," whispered An
nie, shuddering.
Allan nodded, and even in the dark
ness his eyes could be seen to flash
fiercely.
Edward Lane came slowly along, mut
tering to himself.
As he looked up and saw the two in
the road, he started violently; then
casting au angry look upon them, he
hurried by.
" How I shrink from that man 1" ex
claimed Annie, under her breath. "Ever
since he declared his love for me, and
vowed such fearful things at my refusal
of him that I have trembled at his ap
proach. "Do not fear him, darling; he Is a
coward at heart. Refuse to notice him
when lam away, and he will not molest
you. But now, I must go ; and you
must hurry back to your home. Try to
endure these months bravely, my Annie
and after that we will never be parted."
Again and again he kissed her, as she
clung, weeping, to him. At last he put
her away from him and hurried away.
She stood looking after htm as long as
the faintest echo of his footsteps came to
her hearing ; then she turned and walk
ed slowly back.
Something In the welrdness of the
scene about her seemed In sympathy
with her sorrow, for when she had walk
ed away awhile, she seated herself upon
a rock near the edge of the cliff, and
looked out upon the angry waves.
Full and hour must have passed ere
she started on again.
Then she walked quickly, saying to
herself:
" Father will wonder at my absence, I
must hasten."
She had almost reached her home ; she
could see the light from the windows
clearly now.
She quickened her pace still more,
then suddenly she came to a dead halt,as
her eyes fell upon the forms of two men
struggling on the very edge of the cliff.
She was fairly paralyzed with horror,
she could not move nor speak; she
stood there, swaying, trembling, her
her eyes riveted on the the two forms,
though she fain would have shut the
horrid sight from her view.
The one who seemed to have the ad
vantage at length drew himself up
erect, and for a moment, he stood so
that the light from the window fell upon
him.
Annie saw his face quite plainly, and
with a cry of anguish, she cowered to
the ground, moaning :
" My father I My God, it is my
father!"
She could not take her gaze from him
even then ; she still looked, and she
saw an arm upraised, the glltterlng
blade of a knife, she heard a moan, a
splash ; she saw the man standing on
the cliff, then her senses deserted her,
and she knew no more.
When she recovered the full remem
brance of that horrible scene returned
to her, and she started up in affright,
and ran wildly toward her borne.
It was deserted; the room on the
ground floor was lighted, but her father
was not there.
Beside herself with fear, she left the
house at once, and ran on to one of the
neighbor's dwellings.
There she soon attracted a number of
the villagers about her by her strange
behavior and her Incoherent mutter
ings. " What' the matter wP the child V"
said one. " We'd better send for the
father, thinks I."
" No no !" cried Annie, springing to
the woman as If she would detain her.
" Don't try to find him! He's not at
home."
" Not at home ! and with the light
a-burnlng in the house V"
No, he'B not there. I saw him I
mean I guc-Rg he's gone to town."
"She Is daft," murmured one and
another.
"Come, I'll take you home," said one.
" You're shivering In every part of you,
and you must be put to bed."
"Oh, no no 1" she cried. "I can't
go there ! I can't go home 1"
"Then what'll the father think V"
"O h, he won't come back I He'll go
away, I know he will. Oh, father
father !" she moaned to herself, cover
ing her face with her hands, " how
could he do such an evil"
" Eh ? What?" exclaimed Beveral.
" Nothing nothing ! I didn't say
anything! Yes, I'll go home," she
added, with a desperate eflort at calm
ness. " I'll go home. No, I will go
alone" she cried, In alarm, as sever
al offered to accompany her. "I must
go alone."
The villagers drew back in astonish
ment, and Annie quickly left them.
What a night that was to her I sit
ting alone in that little houso by the
sea, waiting for her father who did not
come.
The next day the greatest excitement
prevailed In the place.
The body of a murdered man had
been found at the foot of the cliff. The
waves, Instead of taking it out to sea,
had dashed it up against the rocks.
It was the body of a stranger who had
lately come to the village, a traveling
agent, who had been known to have
money in his possession.
The money was now gone I
Who was the murderer ?
"Annie's father," was the cry.
Her Btrauge behavior on the previous
night proved that ; and her still stranger
behavior as they came to seek her father
was further confirmation.
Later in the day her father returned,
and instantly he was accused and ar
rested. Ail he could say was that he had been
out on the water all night, as he had
often been before; but, of course he was
not believed.
A week two weeks passed. Day
after day Annie sat alone In that house,
enduring her misery. She had only one
hope to cheer her, and that Allan would
write to her, as he had promised ; but no
word came from him.
Every day she hoped. Every night
she walled :
"I'm a murderer's daughter I he will
not write to me ! We will never meet
again !"
Three weeks had passed ; Btill no let
ter, and the day of the trial at hand.
There was no hope for the prisoner.
The verdict of " guilty," and the sen
tence of death, were things already de
cided upon.
As the trial came nearer and nearer,
Annie secluded herself more and more,
as the full horror of her position chief
witness against her father became more
apparent to her.
Many came to offer consolation to her.
but she repulsed them all.
One day, as she looked up after a
spasm of grief and tears, she saw Ed
ward Lane standing right before her.
He had entered unbidden.
" Go away !" she cried, starting up,
and turning aside from his dark, un
pleasant face.
" I have come to help you, Annie,"
he said, softly.
" There Is no help forme," she return
ed fiercely. " You have come to mock
me! Go I say!"
" Be calm, Annie, and listen I can
help you"
" How ?" she interrupted, turning to
him with a wild glimmering of hope in
her eyes.
" By saving your futher."
" Oh, Edward Lane, do that do that
and I will bless you forever ! Oh, can
you save him? and will you?"
" Yes, on one condition."
"And what is that?" she cried,
eagerly.
" That you become my wife."
" Oh, no no, never !"
" Then your father must die die a
shameful death. You have it In your
power to save him, and you refuse."
"Ob, God help mel" she moaned,
falling on her knees In her agony. "Ed
ward Lane, do not be so cruel ! Save
him, save my father, if you can, but do
not ask me to become your wife. I do
not love you"
" But you will In time."
" I love some one else "
" But he loves you no longer. Has he
not deserted you V I know that he has,
and I know why! He Is a villain, as
you will learn. I ask you once again
will you be my wife ?"
She knelt there, moaning, and rock
ing herself to and fro, for some time.
Edward Lane stood looking on, his
arms folded, his dark face glowing with
triumph.
At length, she raised her wan, white
face and fulntly uttered :
"Yes."
" At last!" he cried, exultantly, as he
stooped to lift her In his arms.
She sprang up suddenly, crying pas
sionately !
" Do not come near me 1 Go go,now !
I wish to be alone. Do not come again
until father is free! then you can come
and claim your price."
He could not do else than obey her
now, so he left her.
The next day was the day of the
trial.
The prisoner was In the dock, bowed
and bent.
Annie was on the witness stand.
Edward Lane waB to be called next, as
he had given out that he had Important
disclosures to make.
The hush of expectation was upon all.
A moment of dead silence reigned, and
the proceedings were about to begin,
when suddenly the court-room door was
flung wide open, and a tall, manly form
entered.
A murmur ran through the assembly.
Edward Lane started to his feet, and
looked wildly around, as if seeking a
way of escape.
Annie leaped from the witness-stand
and sprang to the new-comer, crying,
Joyfully :
" Oh, Allan Allan ! have you come to
save us ?"
Yes, It was Allan. He clasped his be
loved to his bosom and held here with
one arm, while with the other he pointed
to Edward Lane, and said, In a clear,
accusing voice :
" There stands the murderer I"
All looked at Lane, and and all saw
guilt written upon his face.
He was instantly seized and hand
cuffed. Allan, standing there with his weep,
ing Annie clinging to him, told the fol
lowing :
"On the night of the murder I left
our village, expecting to be absent for
six months. When I got to town, I
found a letter awaiting me, that con
tained words to the effect that I need
not absent myself, that I could do the
work as well at home. I hastened back
at once with the joyful tidings. I went
to my betrothed's house it was empty.
Filled with misgivings, I hurried along
the road, and to my horror, became a
witness of the murder. I knew Lane,
even through his disguise, and when he
was alone on the cliff, I went to him
and denounced him.
" It was a rash thing to do. He
struck me I became Insensible. When
I recovered, I found myself on board a
craft out at sea, and managed by a vil
lainous crew. Each day I expected to be
my last, for each day I was threatened
with death. I succeeded in making my
escape, however, by jumping overboard,
I was picked up by a vessel, and after
going out of my way for weeks, I at last
succeeded In reaching this spot. I
heard at once of the trial and circum
stances, and I hastened here to denounce
the murderer and save an innocent
man."
Cheers filled the court-room, as Annie's
father was released. Hisses followed, as
Edward Lane, cowed and trembling, was
led away to a murderer's cell.
Annie's misery was at an end. Allan
made her his wife at once, and the dark
time they had Just known made the
present and the future shine with re
doubled brightness.
An Obstinate Woman.
What was generally considered the
best Btory told about Captain Jim Em
mons, an old North Itlver Captain, who
died lately related to an Incident that
occurred while beating down stream
against a head wind. Among many
passengers was an old maiden lady.
She had heard that the Captain was a
great disciplinarian, that he made the
ladies go below when he was taking in
or making sail.
She determined if such a thing occur
red she would have her own way and
remain on deck. The vessel had made a
long leg toward the Western shore, and
the order " ready about !" had been
given preparatory to putting the wheel
hard down. At this all the lady passen
gers except the one In question went be
low. The Captain noticed the lady sit
ting upon the poop-deck directly in the
path of the main boom.
" I'm going to jibe, madam," he said
politely, " please go below."
" You can jibe, Capt. Jim, and jibe,"
she answered tartly," " but I'll not go
below."
The vessel was n earing the rocks, and
time was short. The man at the wheel
saw this, and, to save the vessel, hove
the wheel over. As he did so the ship
turned quickly round on her heel, and
the main boom cameover with a crash.
Copt. Jim had seen It, however. He
seized the lady In his arms, and sprang
to the main deck just in time to save
her from being knocked overboard. Al
most crazed with excitement and fear,
she screamed again and again. The
danger sho had been In through her ob
stinacy was finally explained to her.
Then she shook the Captain's hand and
apologized for her conduct.
EUROPEAN LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent).
Brussels, August 7th, 1878.
There Is a belief in our own country
that there Is scarcely any drunkenness
in Europe, and that this plague Is pe
culiar to America. I have frequently
read as much In American popers, and
in letters of tourists, and I have heard
Americans on this side assert that they
have never Been a drunken man In Eu
rope. I can only say that those Ameri
cans who have not seen a great deal of
Inebriety here have been almost mi rue- '
ulously preserved from a sad and dis
gusting, but very common spectacle.
There may not be as many persons found
dead drunk, as the saying is, here as In
America, but a much larger proportion
of the people are always In a state of
semi-Intoxication, or, It may be said,
never quite sober. But It Is bard to un
derstand how any one can have lived In
Europe, tor even a Bhort time, and not
have seen men dead drunk. I have
seen them In Paris too drunk to keep
their feet, and while In Frankfort on the
Main, last week, I saw, In the space of
five minutes, two men carried to the
lock-up so helplessly Intoxicated that
they could not lift a hand. The mani
festation of drunkenness in the Euro
pean and the American is very different
and the Infrequency of crimes arising
from Intoxication here is, I think, one
reason why It Is so generally believed
that there is less of the vice on this than
on the other side of the Atlantic. So
thoroughly have ages of oppression, and
rigid subjection to authority, trained the
European nature that, in moments of
exhilaration, and even of maddest ex
citement, he never forgets the terror of
law. Thi9 I think is not consistent with
the fact that a large proportion of our
criminal population is of foreign birth.
The sudden transition to a new country
and an entirely new life, the elevation
to citizenship, and peershlp so utterly
confounds his Imported Idea9 of political
and social relations that he lie runs
amuck and of ages of despotism falls, as
it were, upon the liberator.
It has been frequently said In favor of
of European institutions and habits that
they have no bars, that they have
not the vile practice of walking up like
Americans and swallowing a drink at a
bar, but have, instead, gardens and sa
loons where they go with their families,
and sit down aud drink at leisure. - It
is difficult to see wherein the superior
virtue of the European custom, now
largely introduced in America, consists.
If a man must drink It would seem that
the sooner he swallows it down and
goes about his business the better.
I believe if there could be compiled
accurate statistics, not of the men pun
ished lor crimes of drukenness, but
through some Intoxlcometer that would
precisely gauge the amount of inebria
tion, be its manifestation in individuals
extreme or mild ; it would be found that
there Is a much higher average accord
ing to Its population in Europe than in
America.
The usual manifestation of intoxica
tion in European countries is loud, ex
cited talking and gesticulation, and
casual observers, ignorant of the lan
guage, are disposed to attribute this to
national habits, vivacity, and good hu
mor. But those acquainted with the
demon discern pther signs, such signs as
would cause a lawyer or a physician to
lose some practice in America, or make
what is called a " worrying man" less
eligible In the eyes of penitent parents.
Wine biblng and beer bibing is a uni
versal habit in France, Germany,
Switzerland and Belgium. Men, women
andchlldren,alldrink,and some of them
drink nearly all the time. I do not
think that the great tun at Heidelberg
would last some families a great while.
In France wine Is the beverage of the
rich and the poor, aud I do not think
that it is an exeraggeration to say that
the French drink more wine than water.
Americans, no matter what may have
been their prejudices and pledges, as a
usual thing take to wine and beer drink
ing as soon as they have been a month
in Europe. It Is said that the water
of many European cities, and especially
of Paris, is not good, and our country
men and countrywomen give this as an
excuse for their fall of abstinence. But
I do not think there is anything the
matter with the water except a lack of
ice. The water in Paris is perfectly
clear, sweet and not very warm even in
the hottest weather.
C. A. S.
Before the discovery of America,
money was so scarce that the price of a
day's work was fixed by act of the Eng
lish Parliament in 1351 at one peuny
per day; and in 1314 the allowance of
the chaplain to the Scotch bishops (then
in prison in England) was three half
pence per day. At this time, 24 eggs
were sold for a penny, a pair of shoes for
four pence, a fat goose for 21 pence, a
hen for a penny, wheat three pence per
bushel, aud a Cut ox for six shillings aud
eight pence. On the whole, human la
bor bought on the average about half as
much food, and perhaps one-fourth as
much cloth or clothing as it now does.