THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. DECEMBER 3, 1878.
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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. KING Agent.
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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"