I'llK TIMES, NEW HL00MFIEL1), l'AM AP1UL 15, 1870. RAILROADS. PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R RH ANQKMKNT OF FAS8ENGER TRAINS. Sov, lOliT, 1H78. TRAINS LEAVE IIAKRiaBURG AS FOLLOWB For New York, at 8.20, 8.10 a. m. E.lxip. m. and 7.5o p. in. Kur Philadelphia, at 6.2V, 8.1(1, 9.46 a.m. U.IHUlwi i.W p. III. Fur Reading, at 6,20, 8.10, 0.46a. m. and 2.00 4.0(1 and T.fiS. Fur I'oUsvllle at 6.20. 8.10 a. m.. and 4.00 &. in., and via Hchuylklll aud ttusquehanna ranch at 2.40 p. in. For Auburn via 8. ft 8. Br. at 6.80 a. m. For Allentown, at 6.20, 8.1V a. in., and at 2.00, 4.0 and 7.55 p. in. ..... . , The 5.2U, 8.10 a.m., and 7.65 p. m., trains liave through cars (or New York. The 6.2H, a. in., trains have throiiRh cnrsfor Philadelplila. SUNDAYS i For New York, at 6.20 a. in. ForAllmitown and Way stations at VZua.m. For HeudhiK, Philadelphia and Way Station tat 1.45 p. in. TB AINU FOR H ARRISHURO, LEAVE AS FOL LOWS i Leave Now York, at 8.45 a. in., 1.00, 5.8Uand 7 .45 p. in. I, wave I'lillndelphla. at 9.45 a. m. 4.0(1, nnd 7.20 p. in. Leave Reading at t4.4. 7.40, 11.60 a. In. 1.30, 6.1ft and 1". .( i. ni. Leave I'oUsvllle, at 6.10, 9.15 a.m. and 4.40 P And via Suhuylklll and Susquehanna Braucliat 4.18 ft. m. , . , Leave Auburn viaS. & S. Br. at 12 noon. Leave Allentown, alti-3U6.60, V.Ona. in.. 12.15 4.80and K.Uj p. in. SUNDAYS! Leave New York, at 5.80 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m. . Leave Heading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.36 p. in. Leave Allentown, ai2 .40 a. in., and 9.05 p. m. J. K. WOdTEN, Uen. Munaner. C. G.IUhcocK, General Ticket Agent. tDoes not run on Mondays. Vla Morris aud Essex H. It. HE EAGLE HOTEL, CARLISLE ST., New liloomflcld, renn'u. J. A. KEWCOnER, Proprietor. HAVING removed from the American Hotel, Waterford.and having leased and refurnished the above hotel, putting It In good order to ap commodate guests, I ask a share of the public patronage. I assure mv patrons that every exer tion will be made to render them comfortable. t. My stable is still In care of the celebrated J March 18, 1879 1 J. A. NEWCOMRR. JHE MANSION HOUSE, New Bloomfleld, Penn'ft., GEO. F. ENSMINGElt. 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 that every exertion will be made to render their Rtay pleasant. - A carerul hostler always In attendance. April 9. 1878. tf RATIONAL HOTEL. CORTLANDT BTEET, (Near Broadway,) 3STEW YOBK. 1IOCHKI8S&FOND. Proprietors. ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN. The restaurant, cafe and lunch room attached, are unsurpassed for cheapness and excellence of service. Kooms 50 cents, f '2 per day. $3 to 810 per week. Convenient to all ferries and city railroads. NEW FURNITURE. NEW MANAGEMENT. 4 ly gURPMSING ! JUST OPENED A VARIETY STORE, UP TOWN ! 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Having given our astonishment time to work itself in John proceeded : "You see, I made up my mind to move furder West. Bo, after sellln' out what little I had, me and Polly and the baby pulled up stakes, and packln' up a few light articles in a two hoss wagon, set up to travel. (t 'Turna nlnticr nlimit. nnnn fin flip Ban. oml tiny, when four men came gallopln' up, and tiled off two on each side, al the same time pullln'out four pistols. " Halt 1' soys 6ne. " Now, I'd as good a rifle with me as ever d rawed bead on buck or redskin, but I'd seen too many scrimmages not to know that four to one's desperate odds, 'specially when they've got the draw on you. So I Jest asked what they wanted. " ' You," says the one that spoke first. "' What for V" said I. " ' You know where you stopped to bait your horses yesterday V said he. " 1 YeB,' said I. " Well, the money you pnld Is coun- terfeit,and so's that you paid where you slopped last night V" " ' Now, I know you're only jokln',' says I ; ' for the money I paid at both places, I got from Mr. Skimpall, the storekeeper at our crossroads, a standin' candidate for (he leglslater, and the best judge o' money In the county. I got him to change me a fifty dollar bill about all the money Iliad, jest afore I started. Tolly here knows it, for I told her so,' " ' Oh 1 of course,' says t'other, and then they all laughed. " Then they made me git out and sarched me. They took away the rest of my money, and said it was all coun terfeit 'all cut from the same piece.' "After taking possession of my gun, they let me git into the wagon, and with two of them ridln' on each Bide, like pallbearers at a fun'ral, we sot out for a nelghborln' 'Squire's. " The 'Squire was an awful wise-look-in' chap. " Where did you git all this bogus stuff '(" says he, when he hod looked my money over. " It ain't bogus,' says I. "The way he turned up his nose, spoke louder'n words. " ' I got It from Mr. Skimpall,' says I, warmln' up, 'the leadln'eBt man in our parts, and a blamed sight better jedge o' money than any one in this crowd I" " ' Kin you prove where you got it V says he. " ' I kin,' says I. " How V says he. " Well,' says I, ' jest you send for Mr. Skimpall, and if he don't say he give me the money, and prove it's good, besides, I'll agree to go to State's prison for life.' " So the 'Squire made out a suppeny for Mr. Skimpall ; but, as it was too late to git him that day, they kep me and roily and the baby under guard till morning. " Then they had me up again. Mr. Skimpall was there, but he treated me very distant; and when the 'Squire asked him to give his evidence, he not only denied point blank glvin' me the money, but pronounced it bogus. " ' Mr. Skimpall,' says I, startin' for rld and layln' my hand on his arm, ' for goodness' sake remember. I come into your store and got you to change me a fifty dollar bill the day I left home. You can't surely have forgot it.' " But he only turned hlB back on me and walked out. " The 'Squire said I must give a thou sand dollars bail. " I bad no bail to offer. All I could do was to let Polly take the bosses and drive back with the baby to a friend's home in the old neighborhood ; and that night I was locked up in jail. " When the Jailer come in with my supper, twirlin' the key on his finger, a thought struck me. "'I'm an innocent man,' says I to myself, without the means o' provin' it, and have a right to escape if I can, just as I used to from' the Injuns.' " Snatchlu' the key from the keeper's hand, I darted out past him and locked him in, and in a few minutes was out of all danger. " After a sharp run of some hours, found myself in the heart of a thick forest. I'd been through it afore, and knowed where there was an old shanty some hunter had built, where I might get a few hours shelter aud rest. " As I drew near It, I teed a light streaming through the chinks. I slip, ped up and peeped In, and soon seed and hearn enough to make me want to see and hear more. I didn't have to wait long before finding out enough to sarve my turn. "I sot out on another run, fnster'n ever this time; but Instead of runnln' to hide, I made for the nearest settle ment, and got together a half dozen men and a constable. ' " Then we hurried to the shanty. The light was still there. We crep up quietly and looked in and listened. There were three men inslde.busy print in' off bank-notes with a little machine they had. Chief among 'em was the respectable Mr. Skimpall. They was jokln' and laughln1 over the sharp trick he'd played me, when the constable walked up and knocked at the door. In bn Instant the light was put out and all was silent. But the door was soon but tered down, and the counterfeiters and their tools captured. Mr. Skimpall was put In my- place- that night. He was forced to make good the money he swindled me out of, and instead o' goin' to the leglslater that fail, as he had made up his mind to, he was sent to sarve the State In another and most likely better way." A Silent Man. 1SIIAKL P. INMAN, who died in Utica recently, had uttered scarcely a word for more than half a century. He was not dumb ; he could talk well enough ; but he became convinced at an early stage of his life that more harm than good was wrought by speech, and remained true to his principles ever after. When his first child was born he rode seven miles In quest of a physician. He carried Blate and pencil, wrote a state ment of the situation, returned with the medicine man, nnd received tue an nouncement of his paternal responsibili ties in silence. His wife, who survives him, says no woman ever had a kinder husband. The relations between the couple were always pleasant, aud Mrs. Iuman has remarked to her neighbors: " If Ishael talked as much as I do, theXord knows what might happen." Some of his written replies to the ques tions of acquaintances who were curious to know why he prefered silence to speech are worthy of mention. One retort was: "A good listener is to be prefered to a poor talker." Another was: " I want to prove that a man can be happy and hold his tongue." An other: " I am trying to think of some thing good enough to say out loud." A clergyman once asked Inmau whether he didn't think the Lord gave him his tongue-to be used. The penciled reply was: " The Lord gave me a mind that tells me when to use my tongue." In 181:1, while he was traveling with his wife in a stage between Syracuse and Itochester,the vehicle was halted in front of a country tavern. A child was sleeping on the porch. Inman, looking out, saw a large black snake crawl to the side of the infant. Grasping his wife's arm, be shouted, " See !" and, pointing to the snake, sprang from the stage, pursued the reptile some distance, and finally killed it. He left a snug fortune, which his son inherits. His last written mes sage was: "Silence is golden." His oft-penciled admonition to his son was: " Keep your mouth shut." Syracuse Standard. The Discovery of Matches. '"PHE story of this discovery has been I told by Mr. Holden himself in the house of commons before a select com mittee appointed to inquire into the working of the patent laws. We can not do better, therefore, than to give it in his own words : " I began as an in ventor on a very small scale," said Mr, Holden, in the course of his evidence, " For what I know, I was the first in ventor of lucifer matches ; but it was the result of a happy thought. Ia the morning I used to get up at 4 o'clock in order to pursue my studies, and 1 used at that time the flint aud steel, in the use of which I found very great incon venience. I gave lectures in chemistry at the time at a very large academy. Of course I knew, as other chemists did, ine explosive material mat was neces sary in order to produce instantaneous light; but it was very difficult to ob tain a light on wood by that explosive material, ana tue iuea occurred to me to put under the explosive mixture sul phur. I did that, and published it in my next lecture, and showed it. There was a young man in the room whose father was a chemist lu London, and he immediately wrote to his futher about It, and shortly afterward lucifer matches were issued to the world. I believe that was the first occasion that we had the present lucifer match, aud it was one of those inventions that some people think ought not to be protected by a patent. I think that if all inventions were like that, or if we could distinguish one from the other the principle might hold good If ail inventions were ascertained and carried out Into practice with as much facility as In this case, no one would perhaps think of taking nut a patent. I was urged to go and take out a patent immediately : but I tboueht it was so small a matter, and it cost me so Utile labor that I did not think it proper to go and get a patent, otherwise I have no doubt It would have been very pre- fltable." London Society. A Scotchman's Prayer. WHATdoyouthluk of this for a prayer at, family worship t Adam Scott gives the following as a prayer once offered by a shepherd, and grandmother has herself heard prayers almost as plain, in their comments on the people around, from the lips of Hootch and Scotch Irish folk : "We particular thank Thee, for Thy great goodness to Meg; and that it ever come Into thy head to take any thoolit of sic a useless girl as her. For the sake thy slnfu' creeturs now addressing Thee, in their aln shilly-shally way, and for the sake of mair than we datir weel name to Thee, hae mercy on our Ilab. Ye ken,he's a wild, mischievous cnllant, and thinks nae malr of committing sin than a dog o' llckin' a dish. But put Thy hook intil bis nose, and Thy bridle intil his mouth, and gar him come back to Thee, wl' a Jerk ho no forget the lon gest day he has to live. Dinna forget pulr Jamie, who's far away frae us in the nlcht. Keep thy arm o' poweraboot him, and I wish ye wad endow him wl' a little spunk to act for himself ; for if ye dinna he'll be but a bauchle 1' this warld, and a bach sitter 1' the next. Thou hast added yen to our family (one of his sons had Just married against his approbation.) So has been thy wull. It wad never hae been mine. But, if it Is o' Thee, do thou bless the connection. But, If the fule hath done it out o' car nal desire, against a' reason aud credit, may the cold rain of adversity settle in his habitation. Amen. It Would be Queer if True. At a wedding in South Carolina last month an incident occurred aptly illus trating social life in the United States. The bridegroom, who belonged to the " first Southern family," took exception to the phraseology of the ofilciating clergyman and remarked : " You shouldn't say those uns whom Lord hath jined together, but them uns." The preacher, who prided himself upon the " high-toned" quality of his language, quietly dropped his hand into the pocket of his surplice and inter polated : " You Jlst paddle yer own canoe.young feller, or your trouble'!! begin soon enuff. I'm runnin' this tea party, I am as I said afore, my beloved hearers those uns as the Lord " Just then the bridegroom made a mo tion towards his hip, but before hecould draw, the minister fired from his pocket and the young man fell dead at his feet Instantly the whole church was filled with blazing pistols. In less than five seconds the only person left alive was the bride, who had ducked behind the pul pit early in the action. The half-married female gazed musingly around and remarked as she started for home : " These self-cockin' revolvers is play. ing the mischief round here, and that's a fact." Exchange. How He Won His Drinks He was a sad looking tramp, with pained expression of face, that entered a Sutter street bar room the other day, holding in his hand a small, battered red canister : " Look at this," he said, sorrowfully " I went into a gun-shop and begged for something to eat, and the mean man handed me this can of powder. He said I could go shooting a starving man go shooting. "Just think of it!" "Well, mizzle!" retorted the bar keeper, who had just set up four fancy drinks for a row of customers. " I pledge you my word," said the vagrant, holding the cau within an inch of the open stove. " I'm so mis erable, I've almost a mind to blow my self up." " Dare you to do it," said one of the by-standers, winking at the crowd. The wrecked party gave a sad, linger ing look at the poured out liquor ,as that he might ne'er behold again, and tossed in the can. . The yell that the whole crowd gave as they started for the other 6ide of the street was heard on Telegraph Hill. When they riled In about ten minutes after the empty can did not explode there were four empty glasses on the counter, the lunch table was an empty mockery and trie tiiL looked like a sav ings bank on the day after a really large deposit. New Use for The Telephone. ine telephone lias come into very general use in Chicago through the in. traduction of the district system. Dr, K. M. Hale, of that city, told a Chicago Tribune reporter how tie diagnosed a case where he was called (through the telephone of the District Telegraph Company) by a distant patient whose baby was ill presumably with croup. He asked the temperature of its body, symptoms, breathing and cough, got them to hold the child near the instru ment till be heard the cough and cry which indicated croup, prescrllied the simple temporary remedies, had the telegraph office place him in communi cation with a druggist, who was in structed to prepare a prescription, and in a few minutes the druggist had called a messenger and sent him witli the medicine, and the doctor and the drug gist had returned to their beds. What an Old Man Has Noticed. I have noticed that all men are honest when well watched. I have noticed purses will hold pen nies as well as pounds. . I have noticed that in order to be a reasonable creature it is necessary at times to be downright mad. I have noticed that whatever is, is right with few exceptions the left eye and the leg, and the left side of a plum pudding. I have noticed that the prayer of the selfish man is, " Forgive us our debts," while he makes everybody that owes him pay to the utmost farthing. I have noticed that he who thinks every man a rogue is certain to see one when he shaves himself, and he ought, in mercy to his neighbor, to surrender him to justice. I have noticed that money is the fool's wisdom, the knave's reputation, the poor man desire, the covetous man's ambition and the Idol of them all. K?jTA good story Is told of George White, a notorious thief in Worcester county, Mass. He was once arraigned for horse stealing and was supposed to be connected with an extensive gang, which were laying contributions on all the stables round about. Many induce ments were held out to White to reveal the names of his assoclates,but he main tained a dogged silence. An assurance from the court was at last obtained, that he should be discharged upon his reveal ing, under oath, all he knew of his ac complices. The Jury was accordingly suf fered to bring in a verdict of " not guilty," when he was called upon for the promised revelations. " I shall be faithful to my word," said he, " under stand then, the devil is the only accom plice I ever had ; we have been a great while in partnership ; you have acquit ted me, and you may hang him if you catch him 1" Amen. Deacon B, of Ohio, was a very pious man, was noted for his long prayers, es pecially in the family. Monday morn ing the deacon and his wife were alone; as was his usual custom after breakfast a prayer was offered. There being an un usual amount of work to be done that day the deacon's prayer was short. He seized his hat and milk pail and started for the barn. His wife being very deaf, did not notice hlsabsence,and supposed him to be still engaged in prayer. On his return from milking he was surprised to find her still kneeling. He stepped up to her and shouted "Amen," when she immediately arose and went about her work as though nothing had happened. A Query. Say ! some of you lawyers ; we were just wondering; how is it, if a man's wife runs away with and marries an insurance agent, and never comes back to him, what relation is the bereaved man to bis mother-in-law yet ? As she has not run away, is she still his mother-in-law? Aud if so, is she also the Insurance man's mother-in-law V In what relation, in fact, does a man stand to his wife's relatives when, as in the instance just cited, his wife is not "dead but gone before V" Hired Help. Secure their good will by just aud generous treatment. By proper manage ment they may be led to take an inter est in the work. A little praise will do more than much scolding. It costs as much, or more, to board a ten dollar man as one worth fifteen dollars. A skillful man will save tools.economize labor and time, much more than the extra wages. Good help is cheap at any price. Pay a hired man liberally, and he will study your interests and stick by you through thick and thin. The Great Blessing. A simple, pure, harmless remedy, that cures every time, and prevents disease by keeping the blood pure, stom ach regular, kldueys and liver active, is the greatest blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop Bitters is that remedy, and its proprietors are being blessed by thousands who have been saved and cured by it Will you try it V See an other column.
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