THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA.' NOVEMBER 5, 1878. RAILROADS PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS. nay 12(17, 1878. TRAINS LKAVE HARRiSBURO AS FOLLOWS For New York, at A.20, 8.10 a.m. 2.oup. m., and 7.M p. m. For I'lillHilelphln, at 6.20, 8.10, 9.4ft a.m. 2.(10 and 8.67 p. m. For Heading, at 8,20, S.10, 9.45a.m. and 2.00 3.S7 ami 1M. . . For Fottsvllle at fi.20, 8.10 a. in., and 8.57 p. in., and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at 2.40 p. in. For Auburn via 8. & fl. Br. at 8.80 a. m. For Allentown, at6.2u, 8.10a. in., and at 2.00, 8.57 and 7.85 p. m. ..... , The 8.20, 8.10 a.m., and 7.55 p. m., trains have through cars tor New York. The 6.20, a. in., and 2.00 p.m.. trains have through cars for Philadelphia. SUNDAYS I For New York, at 6.2i a. m. For Allentown and Way Millions at 8.20 a.m. For Rending, Philadelphia and Way Slationsat 1.45 p. in. TRAINS FOR II ARIURIU'RG, LEAVE AS FOL LOWS : Leave New York, at8.45 a. m., 1.00, 6.S0and 7.4i p. in. Leave Philadelphia, at 9.15 a. m. 4.00, and 7.20 p. in. Leave Reading, at U-40, 7.40, 11.20 a. in. 1.30, 6.15 and 1". 3 p. m. . , . . Leave Fottsvllle, at B.10, 9.15 a.m. and 4.35 P And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branchat 8.15 a. in. Leave Auburn viaS. & H. Br. at 12 noon. Leave Allentown, alR3U5,5U, tf.Oaa. m., 12.15 4.30 and 9.U. p. 111. SUNDAYS: Leave New York, at 5.30 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m. Leave Reading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. in. and 10.35 p. in Leave Allentown, al2 30 a. in., and 9.05 p. nt. J. H. WOOTKN, Hen. Manager. C. O. Hancock, General Ticket Agent. tDoes not run on Mondays. Via Morris and Essex it. K. Pennsylvania 11. It. Time Table. NEWPORT STATION. On and after Monday, Juno 25th, 1877, Fas en get trains will run as follows: EAST. Mimintown Acc. 7.32 a. m., dally except Sunday. Johnstown Ex. 12.22 P. M., daily " Sunday Mail 6.54 P. M., dally exceptSunday Atlantic Express, 9.54p.m., Hag, dally. WEST. WayPass.9.08 A. m., dally, Mail 2.43 P. m. daily exceptSunday. Millllntown Acc. 6.55 P. M. dally except Sunday. Pittsburgh Express, 11.67P. M.,(Flag) daily.ex- cept Sunday. Pacillo Express, 5.17 a. m.. daily (flag) Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which Is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, and 4 mlu utes slower thau New York time. J.J. BARCLAY, Agent. DUNCANNON STATION, on and after Monday, June 2'itli, 1877, trains willleave Duucannon. as follows : EASTWARD. MIHllntown Acc. daily except Sundayat 8.12a. m. Johnstown Ex. 12.53P. M., dally exceptSunday. Mail 7.30 P. M " " " Atlantic Express 10.20 p. m., dally (flag) WESTWARD. Way Passenger, 8.38 A. M., daily Mail, 2.00 p. m, dallyexceptSunday. Mifllintown Ace. daily except Sunday at 6.10 p.m. Pittsburg Ex. dally except Sunday (flag) 11.33P. m. WM. C. KINO Agent. HE MANSION HOUSE, New Illoomfleld, Pcnn'a., GEO. F. ENSMINGER, Proprietor. HAVING leased this property and furnished It in a comfortable manner, I ask a share of the public patronnge, and assure my friends who stop with me that every exertion will be made to render their stay pleasant. A carerul liostler always In atteudance. April 9, 1878. tf JHE EAGLE HOTEL, New Bloomlleld, Penn'a. HAVING purchased this property and refitted and refurnished It in a comfortable manner. I ask a share of the public patronage, and assure mv friends who stop with me that every exertion will be made to render their stay pleasant. II. L. IIOCHENSIIILDT. March 19, 1878. tf IRON 4SJ A full assortment of BAR IRON, ROUND IRON, OVAL IRON. SCROLL IRON' j STEEL AND IRON TIRE, Norway Iron, Nail Rods, PLAIN AND GALVANIZED no or iron, OF ALL WIDTHS. cCC, cCC, cfC, on hand and for sale at the LOWEST MARKET TRICE by K MonriMElt, New iiloomfleld. T A rP li,"VTrPG obtained for mechanl A x- J.JQilN A O cal devices, medical or other compounds, ornwntal designs, trade-marks, iand labels. 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Agents out.llt ii.M). Agents make from $10to 215 per day. Address Excelsior Manufacturing Co., 47 l a Salle St.. Chicago, HI. Incorporated Feb. Hta 1877. Capital. 1100,000. Exclusive Territory give. '264t A WIFE'S STRATAGEM. " "PRANK I" I "All right, Dolly I" Ho Bat before the glowing grate, his feet on one corner of the mantel, his chair tipped back. Ills young wlfelook eil at liiin, and her pretty black eyeB, which only a minute before had been brimful with tears, emitted sparks of Are. Her rosy mouth closed with a firm Impression and her dainty foot came down upon the rug In a very decided manner. "I won't stand It," Bhe said, under her breath; " I can't 'twill kill me! To see him thus, night after night, be sotted, degraded, ruining both soul and body. I must do something I must Bave him for my baby's sake!" Then Bhe Bat and meditated. They had been married a little over two years, and the babe In the wicker crudle was a thriving boy. No happier woman than Dolly, the wide world held but for one thing. Her young husband would drink. He loved his social glass, his wine suppers, his club dinners. He did not neglect his wife, but often he came home in the small hours, In rather an unateudy condition. Dolly tried everything tears, entrea ties, persuasions but he only laughed her olF. "Where's the harm, Dolly? Can't a fellow be merry now and then with his friends?" But Dolly saw the filial evil growing upon him day by day, and knew what the end would be. She shuddered, and her eyes filled with tears, but the minute after they flushed fire, and she smiled. "I'll try," she suid to herself; "if It does no good, It can't do much harm." Then she said: " Frank 1" Her husband roused up, and opened his eyes with an imbecile stare. " All right, Dolly." " Frank, you believe that a wife should follow In her husband's steps, don't you ?" " To be sure. You're a sensible wo man, Dolly." " And you're a sensible man, Frank. What's right for you to do is right for me, Isn't it?" " Precisely, Dolly, just so, exactly. You're a wise woman, you are." Dolly smiled quietly. " Very well, Frank, if you go to the tavern any more of nights I'm going too!" Her husband looked up, half sobered. " Nonsense, Dolly," he said, " that's running the thing into the ground. You'll do no such thing." " You'll see that I will, Frank!" she answered, resolutely ; "I love you, and what you do I shall do too ! If you see fit to ruin yourself, soul and body, and shame your son, I shall follow your ex ample. I care for nothing that you can not share. As you do, so will I." His cheek paled and his lip quivered. Her words touched him to the quick. He sat silent for a minute, then he got 'up and said : "Nonsense, Dolly. Come, to bed little girl." Bhe followed him obediently, and nothing more was said on the subject. For three or four nights Frank came home punctually, then his old habit mastered him. Dolly had his supper all waiting, and his slippers and dressing gown before the fire, but he did not come. She waited patiently till ten o'clock, then she called the house-maid, and put on her wraps. " Sit by baby's crib, Mary, and when Mr. Mayfair comes tell him I have gone to the Reindeer. Ask no questions, and take good care of baby, and you shall have a dollar extra this month." " Very well, ma'am," with wondering eyes. Twelve o'clock, one and then the young husband let himself in with his latch key, and came reeling into the sitting room. There sat the maid be side the sleeping child ! Frank looked about him a little anxiously. " Ah, fast asleep, fine little fellow," he said, bending over the crib. Mary my girl, " where's your mistress ? Gone to bed?" " No, sir, she's gone to the Ri.indeer hotel." He stood and stared. " What do you say girl?" " She went out at ten, sir, and bade me tell you when you cama that she'd gone to the Reindeer." The young husband stifled some thing like an oath, and sat down before the hearth. Half an hour went by then he started up and glanced at the clock. " Great Heaven 1 'tis nearly two o'clock and she not here !" He seized his bat and rushed from the house like one mad. By the time he was half way to the Reindeer, he was perfectly sober. "Could she have meant what she aid ?" he asked himself over and over again. Presently a carriage enme down from the lighted tavern on the hill, and as it passed htm a woman's voice rang out, Blnglng the chorus. " We won't go home till morning." It was a wife's voice. He caught at the horses' heads, frantio with rage. Dolly's pretty curly head looked out as the vehicle stopped. "Frank, old fellow hlo - is that you? Get in, get In why didn't you come up ? Oh, we had a jolly time hlo we did. Such a dance. Don't blame you for going out, Frank. Didn't know it was so pleasant hlo I mean to go every night." "You do?" he gaped leaping into the seat besldo her. And grasping her arm. Ever dare to do such a thing again, you will be no wife of mine." Dolly laughed uproariously. " Nonsense, Frank. Le'm me do as you do, that's fair. Let go my arm, you hurt, and you'll break my flask, 'tis prime brandy, Frank tastea drop." "He caught it from her hand and flung it out of the window. " Bah," said Dolly, her cheeks flush ed, her hair awry ; " I wish I'd stayed at the Reindeer. What makes you so cross, Frank ?" "Hush 1 say no more, Dolly," he answered, his teeth Bet hard. "I can't bear it. I I may do something I'll be sorry for. Keep silent I don't want any more crooked words." "Ram's horn, if I die for it!" cried Dolly. Then she clapped her hands, and laughed gleefully, breaking oil' Into, "A Moonlight Night for a Ramble." Frank let his head full into hands. "Good Heaven!" he groaned; I'd rather have died than have seen this sight!" He got her home and Into her own room, atlaBt, but she was very unman ageable, and persisted In cutting up all manner of capers; dancing and singing, her cheeks flushed and her hair Bteam- ing, and asking him if they would not go again another night it was such jolly fun ? His pretty, modest little Dolly I Long after she had fallen into a dead sleep, her husband sat over the smoul dering fire, with his face hidden In his hands. " Dolly," he said, when she awoke late on the following morning, "what happened last night must never happen again." She looked up with her clear eyes. " Very well, Frank, that is for you to say. Just as you do bo will I." He was silent a moment. " I would rather die than see what I saw last night over again ;" he said then. "Frank," she said, her lips quivering, "I've seen the same Bight once or twice every week since the day I married you and only God knows what it has cost me." He caught her close to his heaving heart. " Poor little wife I" he almost sobbed, you never shall see such a sight again. I shall sign the pledge to-day." "So will I, Frank." They both signed It, and kept It too. Ten years after, Mayfield was a rich man, and one of the most renowned temperance men of the day. " Frank," said his pretty wife one doy, as they watched their children playing on the lawn, "I did fool you handsomely that night, Frank, it was all make believe. I didn't go to the Reindeer that night, and not a drop of the hate ful Btuif had passed my lips. Didn't I fool you handsomely, and cure you Into the bargain ? " You little witch," he cried, but the instant after his eyes filled "Yes, Dolly," he said, drawing her close to his side, " you cured me of a habit that would have been my ruin. Heaven bless you for it." MARRIED JUST A LITTLE. SOME men are fastidious in selecting wives. Others are not at all nice in matters matrimonial. But u breach of promise suit in Arkansas, in general, is far too rare and serious to leave a loophole for a laugh to come in. Mr. Johnson Topp moved from Tennessee, into Arkansas. He was not wholly averse to matrimony, but he had a fear of widows. Grass widows especially were a terror to him. He had moved from East Tennessee to Middle Tennes see, and finally over into Arkansas, to escape from real or fancied matrimonial danger arising from enterprising, per haps very charming Tennessee widows. This being Mr. Johnson Topp's history, it surprised his friends that Ills name should appear as defendant in the case of Dublin vs. Topp ; suit for breach of promise. But the Circuit docket of Crittenden County disclosed the fact of the suit, and the affidavit of Mrs Malina Dublin get forth the particulars The plaintiff was put upon the stand to tell how wickedly he had been led into false hopes by this middle-aged bachelor. " I live at home with my old dad," she Bald, " and this feller kept coming round thar, makln' blpeve he wanted to trade mules. After that was done a time or two till that was play ed out, he wanted cotton seed. I knew he only wanted an excuse to come and see me, and I told pap when he come again to bring him In and see whether he would talk turkey or not if he had a chance. And that was just what he wanted. You never see a man set up to a woman pearter than he did as soon as pop Introduced us, telling him " This is my darter, Mallndy." He was power ful shy at the ofTset ; but let him get fairly started on mules or shoats, and he was dead sure to end with sparking. And It appeared that he couldn't wait more than a minute for a woman to Bay yes. I I didn't fool with the man as lots do but I said yes; and about the next thing that happened he was trying to crawfish. That's about the whole story. But the lawyer did not think it was her whole story, and he was right there was more to be told. " Will you state to the jury how it happened that the defendant, Topp, went back on his word after he had asked you to marry him ? " Well, as I said before he was the most uneasy man until he got his an swer which was yes. The Fourth of July, I allowed, would be soon enough for the wedding day, but he couldn't wait till then it was impossible. I told him to call pap In and talk it over. I went over to the kitchen to get up a square meal, and show the man I could do the tallest kind of cooking in Arkan saw, when I let myself out for It in dead earnest." 1 And what happened when your father and the defendant, Topp, talked it over?" " Before I left 'cm I told pap the man was on the marry, and I reckoned it was all right. Pup allowed they'd beU have something to take. I sent on the whisky and sugar, and then there was cooking to do ; if they preferred mint in their's they knew just where to get it. V lien 1 came back 1 saw there was something wrong. The first thing the man said, and he looking soberer than a funeral, was : " Curnel Dublin, I allowed your gal, Mallndy, was a single gal till this mlnit. Is she single, or has she ever been mar ried afore?" And pap he told the truth, looking at him plump in the eye " She's been married onst, but only a little only a little." And I said ; that's so ; he's talking the gospel facts only a little. The man lit out then, mighty sudden t ; and me and pap thinks if thars any law in Arkansaw he orter pay." The defendant urged that he didn't .want a wife who had been married ever so little. He though he had been de ceived. But the jury thought different ly. A little married didn't count in Ar kansaw he must pay ; and he did pay. Records of Old Age. HPHE greatest age attained by an in 1 dividual in modern times was one hundred and sixty-nine years. More extreme cases have been recorded, but Haller, who investigated them with great care, doubted their authenticity. In not a few of these instances, as has been said of Moses, there was no senile decay exhibited in life, norkwas any found in the bodies of the old men after their decease. Thomas Parr, the Shrop shire peasant, whose history is rendered doubly interesting by its association with Harvey, affordsastrikingexample, He lived one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months, having enjoyed most perfect health until within a few days of his death, which was attributed to plethora of the lungs brought on by change of air and habits. His viscera were all sound and strong, and his heart was large and fat. The learned court physician could' find in his organs no reason why he might not have lived many years longer if he had remained at home in the country. Parr was a poor farmer's servant, and lived by his daily labor. His second wife, whom he married when over one hundred and twenty, reported of him that he never betrayed any signs of In flrmlty or age during the twelve years they lived together. Charles I. was curious to see so rare a specimen of man hood, and Invited the old peasant to London, where he was treated in so royal a manner at court that a conges tion of his lungs was induced, which soon terminated his life. Henry Jenkins, a fisherman, who reached one hundred and sixty-nine years, was still able to swim across rapid rivers after he had gone beyond a cen. tury. Draakenberg, a Duno, resolved to get married, settle down, and " lead a tran quil life," after having spent one hun dred and eleven years of it principally In the army ; and out-living one wife, a woman of half his age, he sought, In his one hundred and thirtieth year, the hand of a young country girl, but finally, after several rebuffs, concluded to remain single, and in that state lived to ee his one hundred and forty-sixth year. He is described as having been a man of " rather violent temper," and of great bodily strength, many proofs of which he exhibited during the htBt years of his life. Effingham, of Cornwall, died In the one hundred and forty-fourth year of his age, having hardly known what sickness was up to IiIb one hundredth year, working to the last as a day labor er, and walked three miles only eight days before he died. Stender, of the Duchy of Ilolsteln, who reached his one hundred and third year, it Is said, " was never sick, and could never be put out of humor." A remarkable instance of longevity was reported by Dr. Orsteln, surgeon-ln- hief of the Greek army, a year ago. Btravarides, a Greek, died toward the close of 1H76, at the age of one hundred and thirty-two years. His history was that he had led a rather intemperate life, consuming daily more than one hun dred drachms of brandy, and yet, up to the time of his death, he was in poses sion of all his senses, and still retained his teeth. He was quite active, dancing when Intoxicated. He was born twenty six years before the great Napoleon, and witnessed the reign of nine sultans. The natural duration of mau Is cou ectured by Hufeland to be two hundred years, the life of animals being, as a rule, eight times the period of their growth, and man reaching maturity on ly at twenty-five. But there is the serious difficulty in the way of this hy pothesis, that no human being since the age Immediately succeeding the Hood has attained to two hundred years. Abraham reached only one hundred and seventy-nine, and Jacob, the most aged of the patriarchs, only to one hun dred and eighty. In truth, we have to confess that we know not what is the natural term of human life. We are unable to explain these cases of extreme longevity;, nor can we tell why the duration of life varies so much among animals, why the swan and the crow among birds, for example, are " many wintered," while the domestic fowl, which matures at the same age, lives only a few years. Judge Mullin'8 Teapot. JUDGE MULLIN, of Watertown, is reported as telling a newspaper re porter the other day, at Henderson Bay, the following story of his encounter with a New York policeman. The nar ration runs thus : "Judge," said I, "they tell me that you once fell into the hands of a police man while visiting New York, and that he accused you of stealing a silver tea pot." The Justice smiled and drew his coat collar around his neck, for the night air was a little chilly. " Well," he replied, " there is a grain of truth in the report, but the incidents were much exaggerat ed at the time. My wife had a silver teapot, on which she sat great store. From constant use it received several dents on the sides, and she was anxious to have them taken out. I told her that when we went to New York we could take the teapot down with us and have some expert jeweler pound out the dents. This was ten or twelve years ago. Soon afterward we visited the city and put up at the St. Nicholas Hotel. She had wrapped the teapot in an old newspaper, and packed it in the trunk. One after noon, after dinner, I tucked It under my cloak and started for Tiffany's. As I was going down the corridor of the hotel I felt a tap on tho shoulder. On turning, a police officer caught me by the arm. " There's been a good many things stolen in this hotel lately," said he, "and I want to see what you've got under your cloak." " I told him that I was a guest, and that I was taking my wife's silver tea pot to the jeweler's to have the dents taken out of it. He gazed at me doubt fully for a few seconds, and walked off as though perfectly satisfied. I went across Broadway, left the teapot at Tiffany's, and returned to the hote within a few minutes. As I was going up to our room I met the same officer. Thinking that he had consulted the register and learned who I was, I said : " I presume you are now perfectly satis fied that I am all right." "Oh, yes," he answered. " How did you find out ?" I asked. "Find out?" he repeated, in an off hand manner, " Why, I followed you, of course." The Justice paused, and a small me teor flashed in the moonlit sky. " I have never seen the man since," he continued, after a yawn, "but I have always thought that he displayed re markable common sense." y A meddlesome old woman was sneering at a young mother's awkward ness with her Infant, and said, "I de clare a woman never ought to have a baby unless she knows how to hold it !" " Nor a tongue either," quietly re sponded the young mother.
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