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
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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.
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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.