THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA
RAILROADS.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R
ARRANGEMENT OF PAB8ENGKR TRAINS.
May 12111, 1H7M.
I'RAINH LEAVE HAKItlHBURU A8 FOLLOWB
For New York, at 8.20, 8.10 a.m. loop. m
and 7.M p. m,
, For Philadelphia, at 8.20, 8.10, 9.46 a.m.
2.00 and 3.n7 p. in.
For Heading, at 5.2(1, 8.10, 9.45 a.m. and 2.00
3.57 and 7.55.
For Pottsvllle at 5.20, 8.10 a. in., and 8.57
B. m.. and via Koliuylktll and Husquehanna
ranch at 2.40 p. in.
For Auburn via 8. ft fi. Hi', at 5.80 a. m.
For Allcntown, at6.20, 8.10a. in., and at 2.00,
3.57 and 7.65 p. in.
l'lie 5.20, 8.10 a.m., and 7.55 p. m., trains
have through earn lor New York.
The 6.20, a. in., and 2.oo p.m., trains have
through cars (or rhiladelphla.
RUN DAYS :
For New York, at 6.20 a. m.
For Alleiilown mid Wav Htatlons at 5 2d a. m.
For Heading, Philadelphia and Way ftlatintiat
1.45 p. in.
TRAINS l)U HAItlMRIHJltQ, LEAVE AB FUI.
LOWS :
T.eavo New York, at 8.45 a. m., 1.00, 5.L!0and
7.4.i p. in.
Leave I'lillndolphla, at 9.15 a. m. 4.0'), and
7.20 p. in.
Leave Heading, nt 14. -10, 7.40. 11 20 a. m. 1 30.
6.15 and l'i. :i5 p. m.
l.oave rottsviue, in it. in, u.ta a.iu. and 4.s.i
p. in.
And vln SclmvlklU and Susquehanna Hrnmd t
8.15 a. in.
Leave Aulmin viaH. A H. nr. at li! noon.
Leave AllHiitotvu.nl 14.30 b.5. ll.tl.'i a. In.. 12.15
4.30and9.0p. in.
HUND AY'S :
Leave New York. at.V.'tu ii. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m.
Leave Heading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.35
p. in
ieave Aiieniown, niz .v a. in., aim wop. m.
J. K. WOOTKN. ttem Manager.
C. G. Hancock, General Ticket Agent.
Does not run on Mondays.
V la Morris and Kssex It. It.
Veiinsj Ivanirt It. II. Time Table.
NEWPORT STATION.
On and after Monday, .Iuiie25tb, 1877, l'as
euger traiuswlll run as follows:
EABT.
Mlllllntown Aee. 7.32 a. m., dillv exeeptSunday.
Johnstown lvx. 12 22 p. M. dally " Hiinday
Mall 0.54 P. m., daily exeeptSunday
Atlantic Express, 9.51p.m., Hist, daily.
WEST.
WayPass. 9.08 a. m., dally,
Mall 2.43 p. m. dally exeeptSunday.
Mlllllntown Aco. 6.55P. M. dnllyexceptHiindav,
Pittsburgh Express, 11.671. M.,(l'lag) daily, ex
cept Sunday.
Pacitlo Express, 5.17 a. m., dally (flag)
Trains are now run Ity rhiladelphla time, which
Is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, and 4 min
utes slower than Now York time.
J.J. BAKOLAY, Agent.
DUNCANNON 8TATION.
On and after Monday, June 2'rth, 1877,tralns
will leave Duucannoii. as follows:
EASTWARD.
Mlllllntown Aco. dally except Hundayat 8.12a. m.
Jolinstotvn Ex. 12.5SP. h., daily except Sunday.
Mail 7.30 p. M " "
Atlantic Express 10.20 p. m., dally (flag)
WESTWARD.
Way Passenger, 8.38 a. m., dally
Mail, 2.09 p. m, dailyexceptSunday.
Mlllllntown Ace. dally except Sundav at 6.1KP.M.
Pittsburg Ex. dally except Sunday (liag) lltfttp. M.
WM. U. KING Agent.
JHE MANSION HOUSE,
New Bloomficld, Penn'a.,
GEO. F. EN8MINGKK, Proprietor.
HAVING leased this property and furnished It
In a comfortable manner, I ask a share of the
public patronage, and assure my friends who stop
with me t li it every exertion will be made to
render their stay pleasant.
- A careful hostler always In attendance.
April 9. 1878. tf
JHE EAGLE HOTEL,
New Bloomfield, Penn'a.
HAVING purchased this property and refitted
and refurnished It In a comfortable manner. I
ask a ilia re of the public patronage, and assure
mv friends who stop with me that every exertion
will be made to render their stav pleasant.
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March 19, 1878. tf
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THAT TERRIBLE JUVENILE.
COLONEL GBAHAMME was seated
In the parlor awaiting the appear
ance of Miss Grey, lie was a nohle
looking man, scarcely past life's merid
ian, though an empty coat-sleeve told of
an arm lost in the defense of his coun
try. Ills thoughts were evidently riot
rose-colored to-day, for his fine face was
clouded with melancholy. Ills revery
was Intctupted by the entrance of the
household pet, Lulu, who had been cry
ing, as lie her tear-stained face bore
evidence. The Colonel took her upon
his knee.
" What's this V my little friend In
tears I"'
" I'se dot to have a tooth out," she
snld, pointing to a loose pearl which
was being displaced by a new-comer.
" What a mlHfortuno I let me see."
The child parted her rose-bud lips, and
Colonel Grnhttinme touched it gently
but firmly, and lo I out it fell.
"It wasn't so bad after all, was It
Miss Lulu?"
Lulu looked at him ruefully.
"Do you think another'll tome?"
then her face brightened suddenly as a
cheering thought struck her, and she
whispered: "If I'd taken laughing
dun I'd have a lovely tooth."
Colonel Grahnuune looked somewhat
bewildered.
" Taken gas! pray tell me, Lulu, what
difl'crence that would make 5"'
lie bent his head to receive the low
spoken confidence.
" Tause Aunt Mamie took it, and she's
got the prettiest set you ever saw so
while and straight. Her teeth were
awful crooked before 1"
Just then Aunt Mamie enme in. Her
cheeks took a rosier hue when she saw
who was entertaining Lulu. Hue gave
him her hand with a welcoming smile.
It was easy to see he was a favorite with
her, as well as with her little niece.
Several times through the evening she
noticed him studying her face in an ab
stracted way, and at last she rallied him
about it. He answered playfully, and
with an ell'ort threw ofT the impression
the child's prattle had made upon his
mind, and resumed his usual courteous,
entertaining manner.
He had long loved Mamie Grey,
though he had been careful to conceal it
from her. He was very sensitive about
his crippled condition, and could not
bring himself to believe that it would
not be a barrier to winning the beauti
ful girl's a flection.
Lulu's speech, however, set him to
thinking. Was he doing a foolish thing
in standing aloof, and not trying his
chances V Perhaps her own trial for
smile, if you will, he looked at It in that
serious light might make her think
more lightly of his.
Ah 1 had he been better versed in the
caprice of a maiden's heart, he need not
have hesitated. That empty coal-sleeve
was his surest passport to Miss Mamie's
favor, though in his utter-freedom from
self-conceit he had nearly misinterpret
ed her shy evidence of pleasure at his
frequent calls. But he suddenly turned
over a new leaf. Invitations to concerts,
to rides behind his fleet-footed bays, ex
quisite bouquets came pouring in upon
her, and she soon learned to associate
him with all things enjoyable' and beau
tiful. One morning he called and invited her
out for a drive. After a time they drew
up before a handsome residence with a
conservatory at its side, whose flowers
of every kind and hue attracted the gaze
of passers-by.
' " Miss Mamie, I would like to have
you see a rare flower which spends its
whole life-time in preparing one blos
som, then fades and dies."
" Ilather an exacting blossom I think,
to require its parent's life ! still I should
like to look at it, all the same."
A colored servant answered the
colonel's ring. , '
" Pomp, I wish to show this lady the
conservatory. Tell the gardener to bring
the keys. Where's your masters?"
"StthV" answered Pomp in confu
sion. " He's out, isn't he V" This time the
tone was peremptory.
" O, yes, sah I out to be sure"" on
the steps," be added in au undertone.
' Well, it's all right," eaidthecolonel,
passing on. Pomp in great perplexity
hastened oil" for the gardener mutter
ing: "De ways of de quality pass my
'standing."
Mamie uttered a cry of delight as she
entered the bower of bloom and fra
grance, and they spent a pleasant hour
in searching out and admiring the rare
blossoms, of which the colonel knew
the name and peculiarities of every one,
and described them in a way which
made Mamie think him a miracle of
entertaining erudition.
After a time silence fell upon them.
Mamie felt that the eyes which dwelt so
persistently upon her face were brilliant
with an expression new to her, and un
wonted to them ; and her heart flutter
ed like a frightened bird when he took
her hand, and in low, deep tones told
her of lila love, and that life would bo a
desert without her sweet companion
ship. ,
As she listened, the knowledgo enme
to her that her heart was in his keeping:
but maidenly shyness kept her silent
until he spoke of the loss of his arm as
a drawback, Bhe Interrupted him im
pulsively. " That wns your greatest attraction to
me. 1 would not love you half so well"
she slopped and blushed painfully, but
her lover drew her 16 him and hid her
crimson cheeks upon his breast.
" Bo you do love me V Uless you for
the precious confession. My life will bo
all too short to fill yours with happiness.
Do you know," said he suddenly, "your
tiny niece has hud a share in bringing
this to pass? Had It not been for her
guileless child's revelation, I should
never have thought of oflerlng you this
battered hulk."
Mamie looked up In surprise; visions
of she knew not what floated through
her mind. She well knew of Lulu's
powers of observation and fondness of
telling her discoveries. What could she
have suld ? Her cheeks burned hotly.
Bhe feared that some of her incautious
praises of the Colonel had been remem
bered and poured into his ear. Bhe said
energetically :
" What has Lulu been saying ?"
The Colonel reddened ; but Bhe Insist
ed on having the speech which had had
such tut Important bearing on their rela
tions, and at last he told her, saying she
might think It more serious than it real
ly was. For a moment she looked in
dignant. Then the amusing side struck
her, ond peal on peal of silvery ringing
laughter greeted her astonished lover's
eurs.
It was some time before she could
command her voice. Then sbo made a
deep courtesy.
Bo you thought Lulu meant me I I
thank you kindly for investing me with
such unexpected attributes to beauty,
but shall have to occasion n woeful dis
appointment. Lulu has another aunt
Mamie her papa's sister. I assure you,
Colonel, that every Individual tooth In
my mouth Is my own natural property.
I've never even had one filled." The
Colonel looked embarrassed, but he said:
" I still inslrit that Lulu deserves a large
share of gratitude. 1 1 was a happy mis
take, and she shall have the largest doll
I can lind, with a regular Flora McFlim
sery wardrobe. Now, jesting aside how
would you like to bo mistress of this
conservatory?"
"Why? Do you think of buying
it?"
" It's mine already ; and houso and
servants are waiting for a mistress."
"Yours I" Mamie's blue eyes opened
wide with surprise. " I thought olllcers
olwuys lived on their pay, and were
poor."
"Not always. A rich man cun be
patriotic as well us u poor one; and
though I can not work for my bride, I
can take good care of her. Still, it is
very pleasant to know that you thought
In choosing a crippled lover you were
fond of him to be willing to enter upon
a life of self denial."
It occasioned a great commotion in
Mamie's home when the Colonel asked
permission to address her. Lulu adopt
ed her at once as her uncle, and puzzled
her brain considerably at the quizzical
way in which the Colonel dwelt on the
title of "Aunt Mamie," and at her
young auntie's miles and blushes at
what she, Lulu, considered the most
natural title in the world.
A GHOST STORY.
ANY years ago, when the city of
Providence was quite a village,
an old house stood in a lonely place a
couple of miles from town. It was in
the centre of a large tract of land that
had once been laid out in walks, and
garden spots, and miniature lakes, for
the occupants of the house had culti
vated tastes, and the money with which
to gratify them, so you may be sure it
was a very beautiful place.
But one dreadful night a murder was
committed there, and then the house
was vacant for years, for the people,
more superstitious in those days than
they are now, believed that ghosts in
habited it, and no one could be found
who would live in it. There it stood
year after year, uninhabited and alone,
the lovely flowers choked with weeds,
the once well-kept walks overgrown
with clover and grass, the fruit ripening
and falling ungalhered to the ground,
for no school-boy, however daring, ven
tured to enter those walks.
At the finie my story opens, a party
of young men, my grandfather among
the number, had planned a moonlight
excursion, on horseback, to a neighbor
ing town, and after some debate as to
the place of meeting, they decided on
the front yard of this old house, as they
did not believe in ghosts, and the se
lection of the place exactly suited them.
My grandfather arrived first at the
place of meeting, and, tying his horse,
he sat down on the door-stone to await
the coming of bis companions. It was
very still. No sound was to be heard
save the occasional note of the whin.
poorwlll, or the chirping of some In
sect. He had sat upon the step some min
utes, and had become quite lost In medi
tation, when he was startled by tnree
loud raps, breaking the stillness of the
evening air, followed by a deep, sepul
chral voice, saying : "Arise ye dead,
and come to Judgment!" My grand
father Jumped to his feet and looked
around, but could see nothing. He
pinched himself to make sure he was
not dreaming, and peered around the
corners, and Into the windows of the
house; aud finally concluded it was his
imagination playing him a trick, he
seated himself again on lite door-stone.
He had not sat long, however, when the
three loud raps rang out again sharply,
and the same deep voice said after them,
in measured accents, the words uttered
before.
This time my grandfather was con
vinced that he wbb not dreaming. Great
drops of perspiration stood upon his
brow. He arose and looked all around
him as before, but could discover noth
ing. He then walked to the gate to
look for his companions, but none of
them were In sight.
" I should not care to tell them, If
they were here," he inuttered to him
self as he returned to the house, and
commenced to pace buck and forth, for
he could not again sit down.
"What could it have been ?" he sud
denly exclaimed, In a resolute tone, as
he stopped in his walk. "If it is a
ghost, it cannot harm me, and come
what will, I am determined tosolve this
mystery." Bo saying he opened the
door and went into the hall, but there
was nothing to be seen save seven bats
flapping their wings in the dump air.
The paper hung from the wall in long
shreds and wits covered with mould and
the accumulated dust of years. The
noise had seemed to come from above,
so he began to ascend the stairs, which
were old and rickety, and threatened to
give way at every step. As he got near
the top the moon shone out from behind
a cloud with a strange brilliancy that
gave a wierd,ghostly look to everything
around. My grandfather stopped, un
certain whether to proceed or to go back
before It was to late. His heart beat so
loudly he could hear it, and his knees
knocked together so he could hardly
stand. Just here the three loud knocks
began again, and decided him. He
bounded forward, and just as his head
appeared above the landing, he saw,
sitting on the floor by a window in the
hall, a poor old man, with long, white
hulr streaming over his shoulders, and a
cane in his hand, with which he gave
the three raps.
My grandfather recognized him as an
old man who had wandered about Provi
dence and vicinity for years, sometimes
begging bis bread, sometimes living up
on the fruits aud nuts he gathered in
the woods.
He was slightly deranged, but as he
had no friends and was perfectly harm
less, the city authorities hud allowed
him to go on his way unmolested. This
poor old man hud taken up his abode in
the uninhabited house, and in his crazy
fancy, believing himself the Judge of
the deud, he had given the raps and
spoken the words, which had always
been attributed to ghosts.
Of course this discovery exploded the
ghost story, and my grandfather was
quite a hero for some time among the
young people of Providence, and what
was better still, the poor, half crazy old
man was taken care of by the citizens
ever afterwards.
Circumstantial Evidence.
The Charlotte, N. C. "Observer"
says : The unreliability of circumstan
tial evidence has been strikingly ex
emplified within the lust few days, in the
case of the homicide which occurred
here on Thursday morning. Shortly
after the then mysterious shooting a
letter was picked up on the floor of the
house where the tragedy occurred. It
was addressed to a gentleman of this
city, was from a gentleman of a
neighboring State, and was introducing
a young man who had but lately come
here.
Suspicion, of course, pointed to the
young man whom the letter introduced,
since it could point to no one else, the
person to whom it was addressed being
absent from the city, and having been
absent several days. The young man
would have undoubtedly have been ar
rested, but the timely confession of the
principal witnesses of the shooting
saved him this.
It wbb afterwards learned that the
young man who had done the shooting
bad borrowed a coat of the lately-arrived
young man aud had it on at the
time, with the letter and other property
of its owner in the pockets. Suppose
the slayer had fled, and his comrades had
not confessed? Men have been hung
on much slighter evidence than this
letter furnishes against the innocent boy
to whom it pointed at first as the slayer
of the negro.
Not His Trunk.
A stranger sat In a corner of the car
hence to New York, In easy attitude,
his feet upon a large bluck trunk. The
gentlemanly conduetor.golng his rounds
at the first station, politely Informed the
stranger that the trunk must be put in
the baggage car.
To which the stranger nothing re
plied. At the third station the vexed con.
ductor more imperatively told the
stronger that he must put the trunk in
the buggnge car or it would be put oft'
the train.
To which the stranger nothing re
plied. At the fourth station the irute con.
ductor hud the trunk put off and left.
To which the stranger said nothing.
At the fifth station, the mollified con
ductor addressing the stranger, begged
him to remember thnt he had done what
ins duty required, and that he had done
It only after repeated warnings, and
thnt it wns solely the stranger's fault.
To which the stranger laconically
replied: "Don't care; 'taint my trunk."
(fir The inmate of a certain cell tn the
Sacramento prison complained that it
was haunted by ghosts. He said that
he would certainly go crazy If kept there
any longer, and was removed to another
room. He now confesses that helled,
his object being to get more comfortable
quarters ; but his story was the cause of
much suffering by several prisoners
who successively occupied the cell In
question. They thought that they heard
unearthly noises and saw unearthly
sights. Kuch had about the same ex
periences, being awakened every night
by a strange, Jarring sound, and then
lights would flit through the cell, reveal
ing processions of ghostly visitants.
An Investigation proved that the noise
was made by a passing railroad train,
the lights from which shone Into the
cell between the bars of a door, making
grotesquely movlngslmdows. The pris
oner, already Influenced by the ghost
story, and scarcely awake, could readily
Invest what he heard and saw with
supertiuturulism.
A Wicked Little Boy.
PA fi r 1. A wicked little boy of the
Chrystle Street Public School yestcrdoy
sharpened his slate pencil and fixed it
firmly to the seat of Frankle Frost's
chair. Then he calmly awaited the ar
rival of Frunkie.
Part 2. Frankle sits down ; but only
for a moment.
PAnT 8. In the scene that ensued the
teacher took a bund and the wicked lit
tle boy played un important but sec
ondary part.
An hour later a surgeon of the Cham
bers Street Hospital extracted a pointed
Blate pencil from the fleshy part of a
schoolboy's leg. N. Y. Herald.
A Seared Undertaker.
An undertaker in New Jersey was re
cently called to prepare the body of u
woman for burial. From some cause
the lower limbs had been seized with
cramps just before death and weredrawn
up out of shape. In the attempt to
straighten them he was pressing them
into the proper position in the coflln
when something struck him from be
hind, and turning his head to see what
It was he was confronted with the face
of the corpse close to his own. The
pressure upon the legs had tilted the
body upright, but the poor undertaker
not understanding the cause ran from
the house in mortal teror.
tW Capt. Charles R. Porter sailed away
from Boston twenty-five years ago, leavlDg
his sweetheart, Amelia Hollis, behind hiro.
While voynging on the other side of the .
world he receivod the news that she had
married another. He was crushed by the
disappointment, and never returned to
Boston until last year. Then he received a
note from Amelia requesting bin) to call on
her. lie went, and was told by her that
she was a widow, that she had plenty of
niojtey, and that she had never ceased to
love him. Of course a marriage ensued.
Up IO this point tbe story is a pleasant one,
but there is a disagreeable sequel. ' Porter
bad become a drunkard. He and his wife
quarreled, parted, became reconciled, and
parted again ; and now Porter baa commit
ted suicide in an insane asylum.
E3T" A deep excavation la being made in
Indianapolis for the foundation for a State
house. A layer of sand three feet iu depth
has been removed, in which appear tbe
trunks of trees accurately moulded in the
harder soil. Tbe explanation is that loDg
ago trees were growing on a much lower
surface ; that tbe river cbaDged its course
and flowed over the spot, depositing the
saud ; that the river subsequently altered
iu course again, leaving tbe place dry ;
that tbe trees rotted away, and their
places iu the sand weie filled by tbe accu
mulation of soil.
tWA. Nevada, la. baiter the other day,
after having been away from bis dough a
short time, noticed a white substance upon
it which did not apparently belong there.
Suspicion was arotiRed und the substance
analyzed and found to be sulphuric acid, a
deadly poison. A rival baker, who bad
been in the shop during tbe absence of the
proprietor, baa been arrested as the result.