THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. DECEMBER 3, 1878. 3 RAILROADS. PHILADELPHIA AND READING r7r ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TKA1N8. IVov. 10th, IS7H. TRAINS LEAVE UAHK1SBUJM A8 FOI.LOWB Por New York, at 8.2(1, 8.10 a. m. S.0up. m., and 7.f" p. in. Por Philadelphia, at 6.20, 8.10, 9.1ft a.m. 2.00 an J 4.00 p. in. Por Reading, at 6.20, 8.10, 9.45 a. m. and 2.00 4.00 and 7.65. For Pottsvllle at B.20. 8.10 a. m.. and 4.00 &. m., and via Hohuy Ikill and Susquehanna ranch at 2.40 p. m. -For Auburn via s. t B. Br. at fj.30 a. m. For Alientown, at 6.20, 8.10a. in., and at 2.00, 4.0" and 7.65 p. m. . . , The 6.20. 8.10 a. m., and 7.65 p. in., traius have through cars for New Yojk. The 6.20, a. in., trains have through cam for Philadelphia. SUNDAYS : For New York, at 5.20 a. m. For Alientown and Way stations at 5.20 a.m. For Reading, Philadelphia and Way Statiousat 1.45 p. m. TRAINS POR HARR1SBURG, LEAVE AB FOL LOWS : Leave New York, at 8.45 a. m., 1.00, 5.30 and 7.46 p. in. Leave Philadelphia, at 9.43 a. m. 4.0", and 7.20 p. m. Leave Reading, at tl.40, 7.40, 11 60 a. in. 1.30, 6.15 and In. .V p. m. Leave Pottsvllle, at U0, 9.15 a.m. and 4.40 p. m. Aud via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at 8.15 a. in. Leave Auburn vi.iS. S. Br. at 12 noon. Leave Alientown, at t.305.60, 9.0a a. 111., 12.15 4.30 and 9.0 p. ni. SUNDAYS: Leave New York, at 5.30 p. in. Leave Philadelphia, at 7.2" p. m. Leave Reading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.35 p. m Leave Alientown. at2 30 a. m., and 9.05 p. m. J. K. WOOTEN, Gen. Manager. O. O. Hancock, General Ticket Agent. fDoes not run on Mondays. Vla Morris and Essex It. li. Pennsylvania R. It. Time Table. NEWPORT STATION. On and after Monday, .June 25th, 1877, Pas engertratnswlllrunas follows: EAST. Mlflllntown Acc. 7.32 a. m., d.illv exceptSunday. Johnstown Ex. 12.22 p. M.. dally " Sunday Mail, 6.54 p. m., dally exceptSunday Atlantio Express, 9.5tp.M., flag, dally. WEST. Way Pass. 9.08 a. m., daily, Mail 2.43 p. m. dally exceptSunday. Miftllntown Acc. 6.65 p. m. daily except Sunday. Pittsburgh Express, 11.67P. M., (Flag) daily, ex. cept Sunday. Pacirtc Express, 5.17 a. m.. dally (flag) 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 25th, 1877,tralns wlllleave Duncannon. as follows : EASTWARD. Mlffllntown Acc. daily except, Sunday at 8.12 a. m. Johnstown Ex. 12.5SP. M., daily exceptSunday. Mail 7.30 p. m ' " :lanticExpresslo.20p. st., daily (flag) WESTWARD. Way Passenger, 8.38 A. M., daily Mall, 2.09 p. m, dailyexceptSunday. MilBintown Acc. daily except Sunday at 6.1fip.M. Pittsburg Ex. daily except Sunday (flag)11.83i. M. WM. C. 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Opposite Patent OtUce, Washington. , TTT ean make money faster at work for ns than -' at anything else. Capital not required j we will start xou : 812 per day at home made by the industrious. Mrs. women, boys and girls wanted vrvwher to work for ns. Now is the time. Mostly oiitntaud terms lnvje. Address THDK & 430., Augusta. Maine. 11 lyr THE DETECTIVE'S WIFE. WITH two weeks holiday nnd at ex ceedingly moderate amount of money to devote to my pleasures, after due consideration, I had selected Rip pling Beach for my airing, Asa third clerk iu the bank, my vacations were few and far between, and I had deter mined to make the best of the occasion. When Mr. Harland, the assistant teller, whose business it was to pay the em ployes their salaries, had given me my check, he had casually asked me where I was going, and I had expatiated on the charms of Rippling Beach, and its being one of the best places on Long Island. Visitors at the Beach House were, though goodtsh people, not congenial. I was iudiirerent, however, to society. Boatmen and fishermen were my boon companions. I had beeu a week at ltlp pling Beach when I became acquainted with Mrs. Bland. This lady was a late arrival. How I came to talk to Mrs. Bland I can hardly tell. I rather think that, hearing the lady express a desire to see a City paper, I had handed her one, and in this way some common-place conver sation had commenced. A certain pleas ant way the woman had, a fulrly well bred manner, a disinclination to indulge In tittle-tattle with the rest of the board ers, made her society rather agreeable than otherwise. Mrs. Bland was dimin utive had a graceful figure, and dressed in quiet taste. Though Mrs. Agnes Bland was fully thirty,, she impressed me with a certain childishness of ex pression, in which vngue description I trust I am not paraphrasing Mr. Bret Harte. The lady's eyes were of a pale blue, without fixity of glance. No one would ever have been rude enough to even attempt to stare Mrs. Bland out of countenance. It would have been, ap parently, too easy a thing to do. With out having evasive eyes, they seemed subdued and the least bit furtive. An immense volume of fair, blonde hair which she wore in one big braid, added most essentially to her charms. If there was any trait of fixity of pur pose iu Mrs. Bland's regularly oval face, the only indication of it was a slight wrinkling of the forehead be tween the eyes. Such furrows, had, however, no permanence. You might see such little winrows on a child's face when some passing matter for a brief moment had engaged its scattered wits. Conversationally, Mrs. Bland was fairly amusing. Educated she was not; but having a good amount of intuitive per ception, her remarks were clear and de fined. It was the day after I had given her the paper, when I said to Mrs. Bland, " Has your budget failed to reach you Y It Is one of the annoyances of an out-of-the-way place. Mails are dila tory, or come in batches." "What do you knowabout my mail V" asked Mrs. Bland, the little wrinkles roughening her foreheard. "Why, Mrs. Bland," I replied, "if you do not receive many letters, at least you have a famous collection of news papers coming to you every day at least a dozen." "How do you know that V' " The only grocery man in the little town, who sells me fish hooks, is the post-master. I go there early in the morning before the mail is sent to the hotel. The grocer generally runs the whole mail before me into a bushel basket, prior to handing me my occasion al correspondence and I see Mrs. Agnes Bland on ever so many journals. Have I the honor of add resting a lady corres pondenta literary women V" " Nonsense ! what an idea I My hus band sends the papers to me. It is a delicate attention on his part. In read ing them time passes away during his absence." Then there is a Mr. Bland, I said to myself. "I expect Mr. Bland will be here in a few days. I hope you will like him. He is a great fisherman. Now, I notice you carry a fishing pole to the water-side every morning and bring back nothing. My husband has sent his fishing tackle down, mq if you want hooks or lines I can spare you some. You come here every season, do you not V" " No ; this is the first time in my life. Good morning, Mrs. Bland, and thanks for your oiler." " Good morning, Sir ; but excuse me a moment. W-ould you kindly look at this bill of ruin the office clerk has sent meY I am an idiot aboutaccounts. Here are some items which I have no doubt are correct, such as express charges on some trunks and things paid for by the office, and the tstrlag of figures puz zles me. Then the handwriting Is so bad. Would you, now, Just make the addition for me Y Oh J I ain't afraid of your looking at the bill. There's no sherry oobblerB on the account, aud one does not trust muslin dresses to sea-side washerwomen." Mrs. Bland had hang ing from her neck a delicate chain, and among numerous rattling appendages there was a dainty gold pencil. With as pretty a dimpled white Land as I ever saw, Bhe bent over and ofl'ered the pencil. The calculation was so simple that I ran it over in my mind without the use of the pencil, and gave the total. It dlfTered a few cents, the advantnge be ing in Mrs. Bland's favor. " It is a trifle in error, Mrs. Bland, but the people are honest. It should be $28.07, Instead of $28.05." " I never could remember the figures ; pray set them down. It will give Mr. Bland so much pleasure to know that I have my bill exactly right. He is such a strict man of business." " Willingly," I replied, and I wrote at the foot of the bill, $28.07. Korrect." " Thanks," said Mrs. Bland. " What a wonderful head you have for figures." She scrutinized the bill closely. "And what a queer way of making sevens !" "Oh In the bank I am in I do little else than add up figures for hours at a stretch. There is nothing queer about my sevens. I alwayB cross my sevens. Then they do not look like ones. In a great many banking-houses in New York that is the rule. Scientific calcu lators always use the crossed seven." "Ah, Indeed. If you want to see a ludicrous 5 or 3, look at mine. such wormy, twisting things. Look," and Mrs. Bland drew the numerals. " They are quite ludicrous, indeed," I said. " There, make your 3 this way, and dont't bring the tall of your 5 be low the line, like a French 5," and I made the figures. " Thanks, for the lesson. I will de tain you no longer. I must go now and pay my bill $28,07, you say V" With a bow I left Mrs. Bland, and, hurrying to the water-side, got my boat, and was off after blue-fish. I had better luck than usual, and brought home that afternoon some fine blue fish cooked for supper, a portion of which I sent to Mrs. Bland, who seemed to partake of it with relish. I was not idiot enough to think, though it was three years ago, that the lady was especially pleased with me for the attention, but in the evening, a fine moonlit one, Mrs. Bland lingered on the veranda. I was smoking a cigar, seated at the bottom of the steps, within speaking distance of her. " You very kindly ofl'ered me the use of Mr. Bland's tackle. Now you have not congratulated me on my luck," I said. " I do, I do," said Mrs. Bland, quick ly, with a certain amount of expansive ness. She rose from her chair and held out her hand, and it fairly trembled. I was surprised. What possible sympa thy could there exist between us Y I did not care to even have a passing flirta tion with her. How the deuce had my fish called for bo marked an expression on Mrs. BUttd's part V" ll Five blue fish, which would weigh 30 pounds, not counting the weak-fish, and a dab or so," I said, in the most common-place way. "Yes, yes," said Mrs. Bland apparent ly absorbed. " But I have broken my squid, my best one, and I would really like to bor row a hook or so from you to make an other. Could you really lend me some hooks until I send to New York ?" " Willingly. Wait here a moment," and Mrs. Bland rose and went down the hall to her room. Just then David the colored waiter, came in with a telegraph ic message for Mrs. Bland. She return ed at once, and took the message, read it under the hall lamp; then she went to her room. " David," I asked of the waiter, " I did not know that you could telegraph to such an out-of-the-way place as this?" " It ain't often that it is done, Sir. The telegrah station on the road is fourteen miles from here, but you can get messages sent by the coach tho' Mrs. Blaud's messages comes on horse back, with a man a-kitlng." It was none of my business how Mrs. Bland's message came, though now I remember that on hotel bill there were a number of charges for telegraphic messages. In a moment more Mrs. Bland was down stairs, holding in her hand quite a number of large hooks. It was not my fault, but thelady had taken up with the package a small fly-hook, which as she opened the parcel, punc tured a rosy first finger, so that a drop of blood started. "Iam so sorry," I said, " may I not tie this handkerchief around it?" " What, with the hook in my finger? Pull it out. Tlease, no fuss." Here Mrs. Bland's face looked rigid, and the wrink les between her eyes mude a series of archings. " But, but," I exclaimed, really dis turbed, " I can't pull it out. Can you bear the merest cut with my pen-kife ?" " Can I ? Nonsense ; of course I can," and she held out a taper white finger, and I felt my heart sink within me as I made a careiul probe, and, fortunately extricating the barb, drew out the hook, which I deliberately put in my pocket book. " Would Mrs. Bland faint now V" I asked myself. " A glass of water P" I said anxious- iy. "What for? To dip my finger in? Ridiculous 1 I will put it in my mouth. Please do not destroy your pockethand chlef. You will excuse my Bucking my thumb like a baby while I talk. There, It is all over now, young gentleman. I never screamed at a mouse, got Into hys terics over a caterpillar, and do not blink at lightning." " You are a very brave little woman, then. Here, take this telegraphic mes sage which you have dropped," and I handed the message to her. " 1 heard the waiter tell you I received ten messages a day. Now can you put that together w.tli my dozen newspa pers V" " I cannot do not care to. It is not any of my business, Mrs. Bland. I am not curious," I replied." " Well, I am very much so and my business is to ahl " here she stopped, for David just then rang a bell, which meant that the stage-coach with the passengers from the railroad was com ing. This coach stopped at the house first, then continued on its journey to a small tavern further up the coast. "All I can tell you is this, Sir, that in that coach you will find a man you hardly expected to see. Go and look." With that Mrs. Bland fanned herself quite composedly, and went to her room. I went to the coach, not understanding what the woman meant. Some three women got out of the vehicle, followed by an old gentleman, who had to be helped out evidently an invalid. On the box by the driver was a man who, as I approached lit a fuze, and with it his cigar. His face I did not recognize. I then felt some little curiosity to find out what Mrs. Bland meant about the man " I hardly expected to see." I did peer into the coach. I was aided by David, who, with the lantern, was look ing for a parasol one of the lady pas sengers had left. There was a man, apparently asleep. Though it was Sum mer, a handkerchief was thrown par tially over his face. One glimpse was enough. Though his whiskers had been cut, and his reddish hair stained black, it was the face of George Harland, the assistant teller of our bank I He looked at me in an agonized way, then put his finger to his lips, aud said in a low, broken voice : " My God I Henry, I am a thief, trying to escape to escape. I know they are after me." Then he shuddered. "I am mad crazed have lost my head. You here Y Do not be tray me!" " To Dickerson's," cried the driver, aud olF went the coach. From Dicker son's I knew that small fishing-boats ran to Martha's Vineyard and the Mas sachusetts coast. I stood appalled, dazed and speechless. Mrs.. Bland met me on the veranda with some flowers iu her hand which exhalted a deep luscious perfume. The odor quite sickened me. " Ladies and gents," cried the good-natured, familiar landlord in his shirt sleeves. "It isn't down on the bill of fare, but we have been quite short of fruit, peaches nnd filch, for the last three days, and nary a boarder has grumbled. I came across a fine lot of fruit this afternoon, and they is sot in the dining-room, and do you all jess go in and help yourself." Mrs. Bland was near me, and clapped her hands with childish glee, notwith standing her pricked finger. " Will you take me in Y" she asked quite natur ally. I had no heart for peaches, still I of fered the woman my arm. There was a group of noisy boarders at a long table, but, through David's care, Mrs. Bland secured a small kitchen table, on which was placed a dish of peaches, flanked with huge half-moons of watermelon, "You saw him V" asked Mrs. Agnes Bland, paring a peach with a silver pocket fruit-knife, which she drew from her pocket. "Dear me! the Juice of the peach gets into my cut finger, and really stings." " Saw him, Mrs. Bland I For God's sake, what does this all mean V" "I like cling-stones better than free stones. I should be so much obliged to you if you would pare a peach for mo. My finger makes me so awk ward." " Are you a Nemesis, Mrs. Bland V" " A what Y I don't know what that means." " Explain 1" " Oh 1 the man in the coach Y Now, Sir, listen. The '$28,07, Korrect,' you wrote on that bill of mine gave me the clue to your handwriting. Mr. Bland there is a Mr. Bland sent me down here after you. Those figures and K-o-r-r-e-c-t cleared you. There were no figures like yours in the altered ac counts. George Harland was the thief. I was glad when I could congratulate you on your luck," " Luck, Madam ! what do you mean?" " You were the only gentleman here all the rest of them were cads and mulls. Your society was not unpleasant to me, and I should have disliked to have been the means of bringing theft to your door. Mr. Bland was on that coach, with the driver. You may have no ticed first a blue splutter and then a red splutter from his match. That meant ' All right, Mrs. Bland.' George Har land hns ' misappropriated $75,000 be longing to your stupid old bank, and did it, clever as you are in flgureB, right under your nose, Sir. The papers for the last week have had an inkling of it not where you would look for the news, but in personals and advertise ments. That is why I read the papers. Please don't go ; any sympathy I might have had and I have not much to waste was really that of thankfulness that quite a decent young man like you was safe. Mind, I never Buspeoted you, though Mr. Bland might done so. Geo. Harland ought to have $50,000 in notes with him, on his person, this very mo ment." There was a base look of greed in the woman's face. " You are, then, Madam V" "The wlfeof Mr. Bland. Iam afraid," and here Mrs. Bland smiled, showing me a set of white teeth, a single black melon seed increasing their pearly lustre by contrast, " that you do not like me as well at least my society as you did say an hour ago." There was a lit tle bit of killing disdain about the woman, I suppose the soorn upon my" face was manifest, for I made no effort to conceal it. " Great Lord save us!" said David, coming in and addressing us, "some thing drefTul happen dut mau in stage coach" " Not run away escaped I" said Mrs. Bland, springing to her feet with the latent energy of Jonathan Wild. Her eyes had lost their pale blue shimmer, and glinted like coal steel ; the furrows between her eyes took Btrange, arabesque, sinister traceries. It was a dreadful face to see. "No, Ma'am woss nor that. He blow his brains out, right in de conch." " David," said Mrs. Bland, now as quiet and unrippled as a dish of milk in a diary; " David, bring me a napkin; and I will take another bit of melon if you will help me, Sir V" But I did not help Mrs. Bland, the detective's wife. Sunset Cox The Story that He Tells on Himself. TOM BROWNE not of Rugby, but of Indiana tells a good story on Sam Cox ; or rather repeats it from the genial Samuel, who repeats it himself. One day, shortly after election, Mr. Cox was seated in his study hard at work, when a card was brought in. It was rather a rough looking piece of pasteboard, betokening that the caller was not exactly of the cultured class. " Show the gentleman in," said Mr. Cox ; whereupon there appeared a rough ; looking customer, clad in the garb of a workingman, who, without waiting for ceremony, remarked, interrogatively : " Your name Is Cox Y" " I have the honor." "S. S. Cox?" "The same." " Sometimes called Sunset Cox ?" "That is a soubriquet by .which I am known among my more familiar friends." " You formerly resided in Columbus, Ohio?" " That happiness was once mine." "Represented that district in Con gress Y" " I enjoyed that distinguished honor and, I may add, at a somewhat early age." " Alter a while they gerrymandered that district so as to make it a bad dis trict for an aspiring democrat V" " You have evidently read the politi cal history of your country to good pur pose, my friend." "Then you moved to New York, where there was a better show for a democrat Y" " Well, my friend, your premise is correct. I did move to New York. But your conclusion is hardly admissible in the form of a necessary sequence. My reasons for moving to New York were not wholly political." " We won't discuss that. After un successfully trying the State at large, you availed yourself of the opportunity afforded by the death of James Brooks to move into his district Y" " I moved into the district formerly represented by the Hon. James Brooks, but again I must dissent from your con clusions." " Let that pass. You were elected to Congress from Mr. Brooks' former district Y" " I was. But let me remark, my friend, that my time just at this moment is very much occupied. Your resume ' of my biography, faulty as some of your deductions are, in point of logio, is deeply interesting to me, and at a time of greater freedom from pressing en gagements, I would be glad to canvass the subject with you at length. But Just now, being unusually busy even lor me, must request you to state the precise object of your visit, and let me udd that I shull be glad to serve you." " I have no favor to ask. I am an admirer of yours. I always vote for you, and always desire to do so. I called this morning merely to inquire if you had selected your next district Y"
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