THE TIMES, NEW BL00MF1EIJ), PA. DECEMBER 31,' 1878. 13 RAILROADS. Philadelphia and reading r. r AKKANOKMKNT OK I'ABSKNUEKTKAINB. ,ov. IO(li, I NTS. rilAlMS I.KAVKH AKKISUU1UJ AS FOLLOW S For New Vork, at 6.20, 8.10 . in. fcoup. m. kiiil 7.M p. m. For l'liilmlolihln, Rt 5.20, s.io, P.4ft a.m. 1(H) illil 4 on l. in. . . For Itemtlng, ut 0.20, 8.10, 9.45 a. III. and 2.00 4.(K niui 7.r.r. , , . For i'tittsvlllo at f.20. R.10 a. in., nnd 4.00 p. m.. ami via rt.-.Uuy IK1H and Susquehanna Urannh l 1.40 p. m. For Aiiliurn via S. & H. nr. at 8.30 a. m. For Alleiitown, at6.20, S.lua. in., and at 2.00, 4.0 ami 7.6 1 p. In. . , rim M, 8.10 a. m and 7.55 p. in., trains have through cant lor New York. The 5 Uo, a. in., train hav through cnrsfor rinlmlolnlila. SUNDAYS ! For New York, at ft.2n a. m. For Allcntown ami Way smtloin at V?n.m. For Itemllng, l'lilludelplila and Way Statloiuat 1.45 p. in. TWAINS Fvllt II A UKlsniJlifi, I.KAVK AS FOL LOWS i Leave New York, at 3.4.) u. in., 1.00, .'i.SHand T.4i p. in. Leave i'lilliululililii. at .4.j a. in. 4.(10, and T.20 p. in. Leave Kemll n n, at A'K 7.10, 11.. Ml a. in. 1.:to, (.15 and 1". ;t . in. Leave I'oti.svllle, at 6.1", p. 15 a.m. and 4.40 p. in. And via Suli ilylk 111 and Siixiihauiia Hi am'lint. 8.15 a. in. Leave Anlini n viaS. & s. Itr. at 'i noon. Leave Aliemowii, al.fi.30 5.50, U.Oi a. in.. 12.15 4.30 and 0.0 p. in. SUNDAYS: Leave New York, nt ..; p. m. Leave riilliidelphla, at . 7.i p. m. Leave Heading, at 4.4n, 7.40, a.m. and 10.35 p. in Leave AUontown. :it2 ;io n. in., and 9.05 p. m. J. K. WOOTKN, lien. Malinger. 0. (1. Hancock, uenera) Tteket Agent. tt)ei not run on Mondays. V la Morris and hssvex It. H. Pennsylvania K. II. Time Table. NEWPORT STATION. On and after Monday, .lima 25th, 1877, I'as- eiiKei trains will run an ioiiowb: KART. Mldllntown Aec. 7.S2 a. m., d :(lv except Sunday. Johnstown Kx. Viii p.m., dally" hiiikIus Mail, li.i'il p. M., daily esceotSuiKiuj Atlantic lixpreas, 0.5!i'.m., iHk, daily. WKST. Way Pass. 9.08 A. v., dally, Mail 2.43 p. m. .tally exooptSunday Miiniutmvn Aec. 0.:'i5p. m. dailyexccpt Sunday. F itlstmi'Kh Kxpress, U.57F. M.,(FlaK) daily, ex- ceH. .miiiiay. Paciilo lixpi ess. 5.17 a.m.. dally (flag) Trains are now run hy I'lilladelpliia tline.wlileb Is 13 minutes fatter than Altoona time, aud 4 mill ntesslower than New Vork time. J.J. BAliOLAY, Agent. nUNCANNON STATION. 1 On and after Monday, June 2"th, 1877,tralns will leave Diiueannon. as follows: KASTWAKD. Millllntown Aee dally except Sunday a t 8.12 a. m. .1'iliint.nvii lix. liooP. m., daily except Sunday. Mail 7.30 p. m " " " :lanlli Expresslo.20 p. m., dally (flag) WKSTWAKJ). Wav Passenger, B..S8 a. m., daily Mill. 2.09 p. m, dailyexceptSnndny. Millllntown Ace. daily except Sunday at 6.1p.m Pittsburg Kx. daily except Sunday (Hag) U.33P. M. WM. C. KINO Aeent. gU UPRISING! JUST OPENED A VARIETY STORE, UP TOWN ! We Invite the Citizens of l(LOHMFlFLI) and vlciniiv. t null and examine our Stock ut (iiUK'HUIHS. yUKKNSWAKK. GLASSWAlll!. TIN WAKE. A FULL VAUIF.TY OF NOTIONS, etc., etc., etc. All of which are soiling at astonishingly LOW PEICES. Give us a eill and SAVE MONEY, as we are al most (il V1NIJ THINGS AWAY. jT- Butter and Eggs taken in trade. VALENTINE BLANK, WEST MAIN STUB BT Nov. 19. '78. tf The mnsl Useful present. IFOR. "STO CTR. WIPE, Intended wife, mother, or sister. Is one of our Mlckle Plated ami Polished Fluting or Crimping Irons. 4 Irons on oue handle aud at greatly KE DUGED PKIOKS. King iteveisaule Fluting Iron, 13 fO. Home Fluting and Crimping Iron, iZ 75. SENT PKE 1'Alb on receipt ol price. Hewitt Mfg. Co. Pittsburgh, Pa. 1. O. Uox, 808, or 166 Penn Avenue. AN AGENT WANTED IN TU13 COUNTY w4" ,GC fj ?- ?) . "VTOUNi men prepared for active business life . .1. Advantage unequalled. Course of study and business training tue most comprehensive, lliuruuuli and practical In existence, sn dents received at any time. For ciroulars containing full, particulars address. J. C. SMITH. A. M .. Oct. 24,187 Pittsburgh, Pa. T) A TrpC obtained for mechanl Jl Xv V. Hi asI X IO ' al devices, medical or othei compounds, ormeulul designs, trade marks, and luhels. Caveais.AsslKiiineii is, Intel ferences, Suits for Infringement, and ail'casen arising un. dertlie PATH T LAWS, pioniptly attenced to. UVVESJ'jrUO.NS THAT lt VH HEEN REJECTED SrnaVVTn most eases, be patented by us. Helngopposlte the Patent Olllce, wecau make closer searches, and secure Patents more promptly, and with broader claims, than those who are remote frum Wash ington. INVENTOR S "e, o? AffS your device; we make examinations .fee of cnarrre. and advise as to patentability All cor respondonce stilcily eontidentlal. Prices low, and NO CKAUGE UN LEbS PATENT 18 BE I'UKED. We refer to oftlclals In the Patent Office, to our clients in every Stale ol ilie Union, ai.d to your Senator and Represent nt ve in Coiigiess. Special references given when desired. Address: ' C. A. SNOW & CO.. Opposite Pateut Oitlce, Washington. TTT can make monev faster at work for lis than -J at anything else. Capital not reqnlred i we will start tou : f 12 per dav ui lionie made by the Industrious. Men women, boys and fills wanted everywhere to work for us. Now Is the time. Costly outtit anrt terms free. Address THUE 4ft CDvXugustaL Maine. 11 lyr TADIES AND CHILDRFN will finds t splendid assortment ol shoes at the one rlce store of V. Mortimer. ONLY YAKOB. IT WAS TII13 family naylnu; in the family that" Bite wn the poet, Joe the llnnncler, hihI Cliurley hud iIIh. covered Yakob." It needs very little wit to give a Bay ing long life in u lonely furnihouHe, and Yukob wan ug ltinuiUulilo a novelty among uo uh a jioeiu or a good deal of money would have been. He was a very nhort, very utuinpy, very white-heuded Uuteh boy of (seven teen, whom Charley had found on the Mattery one winter's dtiy. Churley went to New York every winter to buy gro ceries, for the plantation, and clothes for the sluves, and he hud found Yakob on hie lust vlult, lu 1850, Jimt before the war began. Yakob hud landed from uu Antwerp schooner, aud had fallen among thieves, who hud left him lu rugs and peuullesH, when Charley cunie, like the good Sa murltun, to his rescue. " Hut what cun you do with him?" my fnlher deuiundid, when the queer looking creature stood before him, his big cyc8 stilling straight at him. " Oh, there will be some place open for him on the plantation, t-ir," said ('hurley. " He'll be of use somewhere." " You could tuuke more use of a sea horse," said tue, pertly ; und my mo ther nodded. Alolhcr said she had an instinctive dislike to Yukob. I5ut what ever Churley did was right In our mo titer's eyes ; and besides, she would huve been gentle and polite to Yakob even if he hull been a sea horse. Ho Cliuiley, taking me by the hand, led Yukob to the tobacco-house, and set him to work there. Uu stared dismay ed for a minute or two ut the black laces (for he had never seen but two negroes, and hud never been brought in cow tact Willi a black niun), und then went to work intelligently enough uud never raised his eyes again to them. Cliurley und 1 went buck to the house. 1 was a boy of nine then, und the tor ment and pet of my big brothers, We found father on the piuzza rending the K i ch m o n d Examiner. " 1 have brought you a litst-rato ma chine, sir," Charley said, " us steady, as sure, und dumb, us if he was niudo of wood and steel." " It's your property," said father, with a shrug. Now nobody but Charley un derstood German, und Yakob could not speak a word of English. Jt followed, therefore, that Charley had to take cure of his " property." Ho gave him a little wooden shanty, which hud been a tool-house on the edge of the woods, in which to sleep. The Oermun whitewashed and re paired his dwelling, und in the Spring planted vines and flowers about it. In siead of being longer on eyesore, it be c.ime the most picturesque spot in the plantation. But the " creaturehimself," Sue declared, " was an animal." Such mountains of pork and rivers of beans disappeared down his throat. Ho showed no signs of Interest in any living thing except Charley, whom he followed about like a dog whenever he could, never speaking, howerer, unless forced to do so. The war came, of which I wish to say little. Our family, like many others on the border, was divided. Joe went iuto one army, and Charley into the other. My father held to the old flag. My mother and Sue presented banners and arms to Southern companies. The negroes caught the excitement, some of the house servants followed their young masters. Yakob alone wus unmoved as a stone. Either Joe or Charley would have been glad to take him as a recruit into their companies. " Never! never!" he grunted. "No fight!" " But don't you want to uphold the Republic ?" said one. " Don't you care nothing for liberty V" asked another. " I cure for meiu kopf," clapping his hands on his head. " I keeps meln kopf on niein shoulders." " Beast I" muttered Joe. Even Charley looked disgusted, which Yakob quickly perceived. "I come to this country for pence," he said, rapidly, in German, "and the men tuke each other by the throat. I know nothing of your North your Suuih." " You know nothing but Yakob!" with a laugh. The light eyes flashed a little. " Yaw, aud Yakob's work," he said doggedly, turning toward the tobaeco-hou.-e. - Even we who were children remem ber the times thut followed ; the march ing und counter marching of our armies; the turning of our lields into battle-(trott nds and our houses into hospitals ; the ravages of bushwackers and guerrillas, first of one side and then the other aud worse than all, the bitterness of neighbor ugalnst neighbor. Two years passed. My brother Joe had been killed at Bull ltun. Charley had been a prisoner for almost a year. I think that Charley's imprisonment wag hnrder for my mother than even Joe's death; for one was at rest, while the Hid'eiings of the other were con tinually lu her mind. Such tales were told of the prison where he was, that I believe she would have been glad that lie too, wag dead. Ouo July morning she came down to breakfast looking more wan and haggard than usual. " I had a strange dream lust night," she sulil. " I thought Charley stood be side me with his rod in his hand, as he Used to when he wus going out to fish, I was putting up his lunch, and he wag Joking with father, us If the war had never been. It was all just as it used to be." " And it will be again," said father, heartily. "Don't lose your trust in God, mother." " I shall never seo Charley again, "she said ; " if lie-should come home it would be to certain death." Our house was at that time encircled by troops; not regular troops, but the rubble uud followers of a greut army that wus encamped a few miles to the north. Until now the olllcers had pro tected us from outrage; but a change lu the position of the forces had left us without their authority. Justus we were rising from the table, Dulton, the couchman, opened the door. The hollows ubout his jaws were gray with terror. " Dey's come, massal Dey's takln' do lust ob du horses out ob de stables 1" My father wus an old man and a crip ple, lie only wheeled his chair to the door und waited in silence. A tramp ing of nrmed men wus heard upon the gravel walk. The next moment u. dozen sturdy fellows, with bloated faces, pistols ut their belts uud lilies in bund, (lushed open the door. They puused, daunted by my father's calmness and cooIiickh. "Huhhiirdl You're Judge Hubbard, eh V" blustered the foremost. " That Is my name.'? " Well, you've got to deliver up your arms and live stock to us for tho use of the army." " 1 have no urms. You have taken my horses and cattle; not" his color rising "for tho use of the army, but for thieves and murderers who plunder on their own account." " Father! Father !" my mother whis pered in terror, laying her hand upon his arm, " we are ut their mere;'." " The old cock crows well," laughed the leuder, " but its the young fowl we want." ' What do you mean ?" " Your sou Charley has been seen prowling about the neighborhood. We've orders to tuke him and hang him to the nearest tree." My mother put her hands before her. "My son is dead," she said.. For a moment even these ruffians were silent. " We'll soon see about that," cried the foremost. " Come, boys !" They ransacked the house. The family could oirer.no opposition, being but wo men aud children, with two old weuk men to guard us. My father sat trembling with rage and shame, potr old Dutton stood behind him. The negroes had all gone. No body was left but Yakob, duly at work as usual in the stable, for he had turned into aman-of all-work when left alone. He came out from the stable and going to the door of his shanty satdown and lighted his pipe. " He would not move if they blew him up with a pitard," cried Sue, whose knowledge of warlike instruments was but hazy, Presently they came up to him. " Hi, Dutchy I we've heard of you. What side are you on, Reb or Yank ?" " I goes for niein own side." "So do we. Standout of the way. We want to go into this cabin." " Nein ; dish ish meiu house," calm ly. "Get up, you pig!" prodding him with the poiut of his sword. "Oh, yaw! I gets, up" slowly rising and putting his hands into his capacious pockets, lie drew out a couple of re volvers, and pointed them full in the faces of his assailants. " I gets up aud I fires." " He did fire once, twice, it seemed to me a dozen times, turning sharply form one side to the other. The men stuggered back dismayed. Two fell and were dragged oif by the others. Like all other bullies, they were cowards. , For a moment they hesitated, as If uncertain w hether to take the German by storm 'or take to their heels. A stinging bullet in the leader's arm de elded the day In favor of Yakob. They fired a few scattering shots as they retreated, but did not face the de termined Dutchman again. I saw him totter as the last man fired, but he re covered himself, aud stood with the same stolidity aud regularity with which he hammered in a bean-pole. With oaths aud yells the men hurried down the road. We ran out. Yakob laid on tbe floor pale and ghastly. My mother raised his head. "He Is dying 1" she said. " Why did he throw his life away for tho old shanty V" cried Hue impa tiently, Yakob shook his head. "Not do house." The same thought came to us both. We pushed the door open. On the bed lay a pallid skeleton of a man our brave, handsome Charley. For more than a month Yakob had hid him there, afruld to trust even his mother with the secret. If the futthful'Germaii hud died for his friend, It would huve been but one of many such suerlflces which that lest time and uguin brought from men. But Charley lived, and Is now a sturdy farmer on the Shenandoah. Yakob Is his steward and partner known to tell tho country-side as the ugliest, shrewdest most honest man in the vulley. A Long Speech. THE longest speech on record is be lieved to have been that made by Mr. DeCosmos, In tho Legislature tif British Columbia, when u measure was pending whose passage would tuke from a great many settlers their lands. De Cosmos was in a hopeless minority. The Job had been held buck till the eve of the close of the session ; unless legisla tion was taken before noon of a given dny tho act of confiscation would fail. 'J,e day beforo tho expiration of the liinilulion De Cosmos got the door about ten o'clock in the morning und begun a speech ugtiinst the bill. Its friends cured little, for they sup posed thut by one or two o'clock lie would be through, and the bill could be put on Its passage. One o'clock came, und De Cosmos wus speaking still hud not more than entered upon Ills subject. Two o'clock hu wus saying "in the htcoiiij pluee." Three o'clock he pro duced a fearful bundle of evidence, and insisted on rending it. The majority begun to have a vague suspicion of the truth he wus going to speak till next noon and kill the bill. For a while they nuido merry over it, but as It came on to dusk, they begun to bealurmed. They tried interruptions, but sooti abandoned them, because each one atlbrded him n chance to digress and gain time. They tried to shout him down, but thut gave him a breuthiiig space, and finally tlity settled down lo wutch the combat between strength of will and weakness. They gave him no mercy. No adjournment fur dinner; no chance to do more than wet his lips with water; no wandering from his subject; no sit ting down. Twilight darkened ; the gas was light ed, members slipped out to dinner in re lays, and returned to sleep in squuds, but De Cosmos went on. The speaker, to whom he wus addressing himself, was alternately dozing, snoring aud try ing lo look wide-wake. Day dawned, aud the majority slipped out in squuds to wash and breakfast, and the speaker still held on. It can't be said it was a very logicul, eloquent, or sustained speech. There were digressions in it, repetitions also. But still the speaker kept on. At lust noon came to a buftled majority, livid with rage and impotence, and a single man, who was triumphant, although his voice had sunk to a husky whisper, his eyes were almost shut, and were bleared und blood shot, his legs tottered under him, and his baked lips were crucked aud smeared with blood. De Cosmos had spoken twenty-six hours, and saved the settlers their lands. Orifjln of Two Wcil-Known Phrases. " pTJTTING aUiiio," is a phrase J older than most people imagined The husband of Dido, Princess of Tyre, was Acerbas, priest of Hercules, and that respectable gen lleuiun was murder ed for his weulth by the King of Pyg malion, brother ot Dido. The widow ed princess was enabled to escape from Tyre.beariug with her the wealth of her husband, aud accompanied by a number of dlsaflucted nobles. After a variety of adventures they luuded upon thecoustof Africa, where Dido burgaiued with the natives for as much land as blie could enclose with a bull's hide. Selecting a large, tough hide, she caused it to be cut in the smallest possible threads, with whicli she enclosed a large tract of country, oa which the city of Carthuge soon begun lo rise. The natives were bound by the letter of their bargain, and allowed the cun ning queen to have her own way ; aud after thut when any one played oiX a sharp trick, they said they had " cut a Dido." That was almost three thou saud years ago, and the saying.hascome down to our day. The phrase " to scrape acquaintance," comes to us from the Homuu Emperor Adrian. He was at the public baths one day, when he saw oue of his veter an soldiers scraping his body with a tile. That was such poor luxury that Adrian ordered thut his old comrade should be supplied with more suitable cleansing materials, and also with money. On a subsequent occasion, when the Emperor again went to the bath, tho spectacle before him was high ly amusing. A score of old soldiers who had fought under Adrian were standing In the water, and each was currying himself with a tile and wins lug at the self-Inflicted rubbing. The Emperor perfectly understood what he saw and what was the purpose of the sight. "Hal httl" he exclaimed, " you had better scrape one another, my good fellows." He added, " you certainly shall not scrape acquaintance with me." How a Poet Gets Ready for Fishing. BUET HAHTe7 the well-known writer and poet, who has been ap pointed to a commercial agency In Ger many, is a careless, restless sort of a fellow, and bus never learned to take care of money. A prominent Journalist of tho Paclfle Slope once told un tun using story of the way Harte used to do when he lived in San Francisco, and was in the zenith of ids fume uud prospeilty. He hud an arrangement with a great New York publishing house by which tho latter hud the first right to refuse or accept any of his productions. One morning he cuuio sauntering Ju.iiy into the Sun Frunclsoo office of the New York house mentioned, and after seat ing himself lu a comfortable arm chair, began to fun himself with Ills iinincnsw sumbrero. Tho gentleman in charge of tho office being well acquainted with Harte aud bis ways, said, " Well, Bret, what can I do for you '(" " I want to go a .fishing," drawled out the poet, " and 1 haven't any money. I wrote this thing beiore I got out of bed this morning, und you cun huve it for S.jOO," and lie handed over four or live sheets of muiiusciipt of u poem. After reading it, tho representative of Ills pub lishers said it was only worth a hundred dollars. "All right," responded Bret, " 1'Jl let the A -s have It." " Hold on a minute, and I'll telegraph to New York lor instructions," said the uneasy publisher. When ho returned from tho telegraph olllce he found Bret sound asleep ; wuk ing him up, he shook a little bundle of bank notes in the poet's face and said, " There's your $.5(10. The firm said it is all rigbt." " Well, I knew that from the first," growled Bret, sleepily, and cramming the money iuto his pocket lie started oir to arrange for his fishing trip. In less than two weeks he came back to San Francisco " busted," aud buckled into the harness again. A Novel Fight. A New Orleans gentleman tells the following curious anecdote : In Natchi toches parish a pedestrian noticed on a lonely road a frog fighting desperately with a tarantula and a tarantula return ed the compliment by stinging the frog. Every time the frog got stung he would hop to the side of the road, where some green plain tain was growing, aud nib ble off a piece after swallowing which he would hop back to the fight. This be ing repeated about half a dozen times, the human spectator resolved to satisfy his curiosity, took out his Jack-knife aud lopped oh" the plantain close to tbe roots, while the frog and tarantula were carrying on his duel. When the frog got stung for the seventh time he leap ed back to where the pluintain had been, and not finding it, uttered a peculiarly helpless cry, staggered a little, vulnly tried to hop into the high grass, shud dered, fell over on his side and gave up the ghost. CaT A traveler, who was following a trail on horseback down the White Pine Mountains, in Nevada, recently, heard a rumbling noise above him, and on turning discovered that a vast vol ume of water at least ten feet high, wus rapidly approaching him, a water spout having descended in the vicinity. He jumped from his animal and climbed oue of the steep banks that rose abruptly on either side of the trail, which he did just in time to safe his life. The horse was taken by the flood and rolled aud tumbled down the ravine some hundred yards, where the owner found him after the water had subsided, lodged among the rocks and rubbish, dead. A New Lead Mine. A Kansas man dropped a little note to a neighbor's wife, inviting her to meet him under the pale silver moon. The husband got the note first, and kept the appointment. Two doctors have been at work on the Kansas man takiiig out lead for a week. $500 Reward. They cure all diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys aud Urinary Organs, and SOOO will be paid for a case they will not cure or help, or for any thing Impure or In jurious found in them. Teat it. See " Proverbs" in another column. 02 2t
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