THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., 31 AY 20, 1879. 3 RAILR OAD8. PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENOEKTKA1NB. miy 11th, 1879. TKAIN8 LEAVE HARRI8BURGA8 FOLLOWS For New York, at 8.16, 8.10 a.m. 2.00p.m. and 7.65p. in. For 1'hiladelphla, at 6.15, 8.10, 9.46 a.m. 2.pondt.oup. hi. KorReadliiR, at 8,16, 8.10, 9.45a.m. and 2.00 4.00 mill 7.M p.m. . . For Pottsville at 6.15, 8.10 a. m.. and 4.00 6, m., ami via Schuylkill and Busquehauua ranch at 3.40 P. m. For Auburn via B. ft 8. Br. at 8.80 a. m. For Allentown, at.15, 8.10a. in., and at 2.00, 4.00 and 7.66 p. m. ..... . . The s.15, 8.10 a.m., and 7.68 p. m., trains have through oars lor New Yoik. The 6.15, a. m., train have through carsfor Philadelphia. SUNDAYS i For New York, at 6.15 a. m. For Allentown and Way Stations at 8.15a.m. For Heading, Philadelphia and Way Statlonsat 1.45 p. m. TRAINS FOR HARHISBURG, LEAVE AS FOL LOWS 1 Leave New York, at 8.45 a. ra., 1.00, 8.80and 7.45 p.m. Leave Philadelphia, at 9.48 a. m. 4.00, and T.20p. m. ... Leave Rending, at t4.40, 7.25, 11.50 a. m. 1.30, 6.18 and in. 35 p. m. . Leave JPottsvllle, at 6.50, 9.15 a.m. and 4.40 P An'dvla Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branchat ''Leave Auburn vlaS. ft S. Br. at 11.50 a.m. Leave Allentown, att.305,41, U.uoa.m., 12.10 4.30 and 9.05 p. ill. SUNDAYS: Leave New York, at 3.80 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m. Leave Reading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.35 Pi!eave Allentown, at2 30 a. m., and9.05p. m. J. E. WOOTEN, Gen. Manager. 0. Q. HANCOCK, General Ticket Agent. fDoes not run on Mondays. Via Morris and Essex H. R. HE EAGLE HOTEL, CARLISLE ST., New Bloomflcld, Feiui'n. J.' A. KEWCOMER, - Proprietor. HAVING removed from the American Hotel, Waterford.and having leased and refurnished the above hotel, putting it In good order to ao commodate guests, I ask a share of the public patronage. I assure my patrons that every exer tion will be made to render them comfortable. . My stable is still In care of the celebrated JMarch 18, 1879 fj. A. NEWCOMER. JHE MANSION HOUSE, New Bloomfleld, Penn'a., GEO. F. ENSMINGER, 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 stay pleasant. 49-A careful hostler always In attendance. April 9, 1878. tf RATIONAL HOTEL. CORTLANDT 8TEET, (Near Broadway,) TSTETW YORE:. HOCHKI8S ft POND, Proprietors. ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN. The restauran? cafe and lunch room attached, are unsurpassed i ir cheapness and excellence of service. Rooms 60 .'ents. 12 per day, $3 to 810 per week. Convenient to aiifenles and city railroads. NEW FURNITURE. NEW MANAGEMENT. 4 ly gURPUISING! JUST OPENED A VARIETY STORE, UP TOWN ! . 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While daylight lasted, and there seem ed so much life about the farm, It seem ed very pleasant to have the house to ourselves, to be able to wander together through the quaint old rooms and to talk on the subjects very dear to both of us, without the dread of being over shadowed by the London female cousins and the roistering youths who had come to spend a month of the shooting be neath our roof. For a time we reveled In our compara tive solitude, and pitied the female cou sins, the eager sportsmen, poor papa, and the rest of the household, who had been beguiled Into accepting an Invita tion to Mrs. Rattletrap's picnlo at the Scrubs, a piece of moorland some eight miles distant from our house. We were all expected, but my old school-follow, Maude, pleaded headache, and I was not sorry to have an excuse for staying at home with our guest. We had met but seldom since we had left the prim school at Taunton ; and although Maude had already been with us a week, what with the noisy clatter of our friends, the croquet tourneys, the lawn dances, and the other pleasant ways In which our evenings were spent, we had hitherto had no opportunity of in dulging In those mutual confidences so dear to women who are In the blissful state known as "engaged." There was a particular tender bond of sympathy between us, Inasmuch as I was in bi weekly correspondence with her brother John, to whom I signed myself, "yours affectionately," while her betrothed was Harry Somers, who had been a visitor to our house from his childhood. Ere they drove away in the afternoon the other girls twitted us rather severely for not joining them, and It seemed a gen eral opinion that Maude's headache was nothing more than a sham. But the gentleman said little; in my opinion their hearts would have been gladdened had all the party abstained from attending the picnic, their inclina tions tending toward the wheat stubble In " five acre field" and the adjacent turnip patch, where a fine covey had sought shelter the night before. But aa the girls were resolved on going, the males of course, were obliged to act as escorts. By-and-by papa was induced to join them, and thus it was that Maude and I were left alone. So engrossing was the subject of our conversation that we were surprised when the housemaid brought in the tea, and dropping a courtesy, asked if Sarah, the cook, might go down with her to the village, until ten o'clock, to join In the festivities with which Farmer Ash combe was celebrating his harvest home. It then occurred to my memory that the servants had asked me for this holi day a fortnight previous, and that I had given a half acquiescent response. In the hurry of my domestic duties, and the exoitement occasioned by a house full of company I had, however, forgot ten the circumstances until now. " Where is Ben V" I inquired, refer ring to one of the carters who inhab ited a snug little cottage on the farm, and was consequently required to place himself at our Borvioe when we so de sired. The domestic dropped another cour tesy, and announced that the individual alluded to had gone to Wells with a load of barley, and would not be back until late. "And the boy Smithy" "Please, 'm, master told him he might go when he'd fed the poultry and fastened 'm up for the night, and he's been gone this quarter of an hour. " I hope he made sure the turkeys and geese were all right, for papa saw a fox cross the meadow this morning." " Oh, yes, 'm, he is a careful lad is Smith, and he's got 'em all right 'enow, I'll be bound," responded the maid. I hesitated a moment as to whether it was altogether safe to be thus left ; but as 1 had given a half promise to the girls, and I knew it would be a sad disappointment to them not to go, I dismissed my apprehensions, nd told them they might leave the tea thing and be off at once. Noticing that after a time Maude be came less conversational, I inquired the reason; but receiving naught but evasive answers, I questioned her more closely. " You are not afraid, are you, dear V" " I shall be only confessing the truth when I tell you that I was very sorry to hear you give your consent to the servants leaving us. Suppose any per son has been watching the house, and was to seize the opportunity of commit ting a robbery "My dear Maude," I responded, "nothing of the kind ever happened in these parts. Living, as we do, some distance from any town, we know all the persona resident within a radius of, say, four miles." "But how about tramps V Are they not dreadful people, sis V" " Perhaps, Maude, even they are more sinned against than sinning. At all events, tramps seldom, If ever, come near ua. You see we He off the main road. The lane lends to the farm, and nowhere else." "But," pursued Maude, "that fact would be all the worse for ua if a tramp should come here." "Really," I replied, "I shall get quite angry with you If you pursue the subject further. To put an end, how ever, to all your fears you shall come with me, and we will bolt the outer doors1' The alacrity with which Maude rose from her chair was a good proof that the proposed measure was of a welcome nature, so, proceeding from thedrawlng room, we walked to the lawn, and, fastening the gate which opened on the lane, we re-entered the house. We then locked, bolted and barred the back premises, saw that all the the windows were fastened, and then came back to the drawing-room. I must confess that when we had se cured all the approaches to our citadel, I was myself a good deal more at ease than I had been previously. Slowly the autumn sun sank beneath the range of hills fronting our dwelling, tinging the sky with radiant hues that varied momentarily. I could have sat for hours watching the numerous hues that swept across the heavens but with the uprising moon and gathering twilight I clearly saw that Maude was 6nce more getting nervoua. " Won't you close the shutters r" in quired Maude. " Not unless you particularly desire it dear," I replied. " But I do," she answered. I was about to shut out the moon light view, and make a desperate effort to change the conversation, when Maude, who had her eyes fixed on the lawn, suddenly clutched my arm, and involuntarily retreated a step. " Sis," she said, " what la that moving in the laurels V" I looked and in a moment observed emerging from the shelter of the lau rels, but still remaining beneath the demise shadows of the overhanging tree, what seemed to be the figure of a man. He looked in height very short, almost dwarf-like, but was stout of frame, and appeared dressed in white, or without a coat ; aud seemed to be in hla shirt sleeves; being alone seen as he raised hia arms in freeing himself from the bushes. "Oh, Sis," exclaimed Maude, "It ia a man. Let us give him all our jewelry , or mayhap we may be murdered ere any of our people may come back." " Maude," I cried " for heaveu'B sake endeavor to retain your Benses. You yesterday remarked that the double- barreled gun hangs over the mantle- piece in the kitchen, and asked me if it were loaded 1 Do you think that you could fetch it to me while I keep watch here?" She nodded ; I knew her freight pre vented her speaking. Clasping her hands tightly within my own, and then released it, I said : "Bring it to me, then; the gun is perfectly safe so long as you do not touch the trigger." While Maude was gone it seemed to me as though the figure drew closer ; it was careful to remain within the shadow of the tree, but it struck me as exceedingly Bt range that, although the white sleeved arms seemed continually raised, as though their owner had just aroused from a sound sleep, I could not Bee the creature's head. In a very short time I heard Maude's approaching footsteps. As Bhe placed the gun in my hand I felt that her fin gers were cold and trembling. At that moment the mysterious being came a few paces nearer, and seemed to have a limping gait, whether from natural infirmity or drunkenness I could not tell. Throwing open the window, and raising the gun, I cried at the top of my voice, " who's there Y Answer or I'll fire." A few seconds elapsed, but no response came to my inquiry. " Who are you I again shouted. My fingers closed upon the trigger, then came a flash of light and a loud re portthe intruder upon the lawn stag gered ana fell. Simultaneously poor Maude sank fainting on the carpet. Not daring to move from the room, I rested the gun against the table, and raising Mauie's head in my hands en deavored to restore her to consciousness, What seemed to me hours, but it could not have been more than twenty min. utes, and then came the sound of ve hicles driven rapidly up the lane. heard my father clamoring for admit tance, and hurrying to the door fell al most swooning into his arras. As coherently as I could I told him of our adventure, and that the body of a man lay beneath the laurel bushes ; so resigning me to the care of one of the gentlemen, he hurried to the spot indi cated. In a moment after hla cheery voice sounded through the still night air " I've got him; but he is more fright ened than hurt. Why girls Its a repre sentative of yourself I It's nothing but a goose.' And so It was. That boy Smith, who waa so much to be depended on, had for once proved himself unworthy of his trust, and this poor bird, in ita futile endeavors to seek its companions, had in our nervoua fancy, become magnified to the proportions of a house-breaking desperado ; lta out-stretched wings in the shadow, to which it ao persistently kept, helping to carry out the delusion we entertained. Of course we were pretty considerably rallied about the matter, but we never thereafter volun teered to remain in the house alone. A Virginian Tobacco Mart. THE James River winds in erratic mood through Midland Virginia, and upon its banks, one hundred twenty miles above tide-Water, which reaches Richmond, Is located Lynchburg. Here ia the heart of Tobaccodom. The visitor to this picturesque city will find much that is provincial and quaint along the streets and about the "breaks." Hobbling old negroes veritable prototypes of " Uncle Tom" whose possession of freedom has not eradicated their obsequious servility; swarthy, well-built young Virginians mounted upon handsome horses ; lank, loose-jointed " poor whites," whose chief ambition in life ia to get iuto town for a day ; groupa of athletic negroes waiting, with good-humored indiffer ence, for a job. Every day an appari tion appears upon a street corner an ebony Gabriel armed with a tin horn longer by half than himself. He exe cutes a fanfare which for unmitigated discordance Is without a parallel in the history of acoustics. It Is the signal for the breaks. The breaks, by-the-way, la the auc. tion, the name originating in the prac tice of breaking open aud exposing the contents of the bales and hogsheads pre. vlous to the sale. The breaks take place in a - shed of wide proportions, beneath which the tobacco wagons have been waiting, many of them all night, their occupants cooking their frugal breakfasts at small fires built near the vehicle, drawing their supplies from the tail boxes with which each is equipped. By nine o'clock the street in front of the shed is alive with teams, the drivers impatient to unload. Each lot, as it is removed to the building, is weighed and given a separate space upon the floor, being ticketed with ita weight and owners's name. Boon buyers begin to come in, samp ling here and there with practiced eye and scent. After these comes the auc tioneer a business-like-looking man whose manner indicates that he has no time to waste; and lastly, after him comes the clerk, with portable desk and book of sales. Then it is that Gabriel, clothed with brief authority, rends the morning air with the notes of his terrl ble horn. Rapidly the auctioneer proceeds to "knock down" the invoices of weed. When all are sold, the farmers get their cash, and go their way, let us hope, re joicing. Plug and smoking tobaccos are made at different factories. The former re quires considerable manipulation. The green leaf ia strewn upon a floor and sprinkled with a sirup of enriching in gredients, compounded to suit the fancy of the manufacturer. Then it goes, for a time, into a room Where the temera- ture is 130. Liong tables are occupied by negro workers of both sexes, who twist the leaf into braids with skillful hands, singing almost constantly some refrain in a cadence sweetly melancholy. They are encouraged to sing by employers, aa it has been observed that under the in. spl ration of their own music they work better, and are apparently more content ed, than when silent. The braids are placed in iron cells, and pressed into compact cubes, bearing polish worthy of mahogany. They are then packed into cases by hydraulio pressure, and the finishing touch given by adding a showy label. How She Described t. He was a bald-headed bachelor, whose heart for the first time had been moved by the tender passion. " Then you confess," he said, in a trembliug voice, to the object of his re gards, " that you like me a little that you admire certain qualities of my head?" " Yes," shyly responded the young lady. " And may I ask," he continued, in a voice of my emotion, "what thosequall ties are V " I can hardly explain," said the young lady, bashfully; " but I thluk it is because your head la so mellifluent I can't express it more clearly." And you can never know how I appreciate your high opinion," exclaim ed the happy bachelor, aa he pressed her hand. He didn't know Just what "melli fluent" meant, but he waa sure it was the synonym for something grand and ennobling, and when he bade her good night, he rushed eugerly home, excited ly took down the dictionary, and fever ishly turned to the endeared word. His blood changed to ice as he read : "Smooth, soft, mellow." A Wealthy Beggar. A PROFESSIONAL beggar has re cently died in Berlin, leaving a fortune of more than a million and a half of marks to hla heirs. He had many children and grandchildren, and lived in splendid style, giving sump tuous "entertainments, at which the champagne is said to run in streams. The soires were only attended by mid dle-class society, and were held only during the winter. In summer the jovial old gentleman invariably left his house for four or Ave months. It is now known that he has regular ly frequented, at least until a few years, ago, the principal bathing places of Germany, and that he gathered his im mense plunder by begging. In wretch-, ed dress, with an Invalid's cap, blue spectacles, long snow white hair, and apparently palsied limbs, he used to shamble slowly along the promenades. He never directly asked for anything, but used to receive voluntary offerings . from the visitors aud these amounted to. a large sum, which was regularly dis patched to Berlin every week. His. biggest harvests were collected In the gambling towns, when those places, were in full bloom of their prosperity It was supposed that he had formerly been very rich, but had lost everything at the gambling table. He would pace to and fro in and around the great building at Baden Baden, and more than once during the day some player who made a lucky stroke of business would sympathetically press a piece of gold upon the old man's acceptance. He is said to have driven this profitable trade for thirty seasons, The Parker-Smith Marriage. THE fame of the Smith sisters has extended almost throughout the "wide world." Abby died last year, and since that sad event Julia E. has been lonly, and on Wednesday was married by the Rev. W. W. Scudder to Mr. Amos G. Parker, of New Hamp shire. The parties were drawn together by their literary affinities, and this has culminated in one of the happiest unions known to those who in old age be came one, and walked during the rest the pilgrimage in the affections of true love and sympathy. It is difficult, however, to see how one who has lived for eighty-six years as Miss Julia Smith, and whose fame end renown are so well established, can dis solve her identity into that of Mrs. Julia E. Parker. Mr. Parker is a man of fine and personal appearance, and though advanced to the ripe age of hla wife, still he looks as if he might live to enjoy many years to come. The laws establishing the relations property-wise between man and wife in this State have for some years been undergoing successive changes. The present status ia certainly the oppor tunity for Miss Smith, who, as it hap pens, not only secures a husband, but at last fulfills in peace the ambition that has so often sacrificed her Alderneys in the past. As we understand the last change In the married woman law the wife owns her own property absolutely, has the use and control of it, and cannot trans fer Its management directly to her hus band even if she wished, but still, by virtue of his being her husband, he is required to pay taxes on it as if it were his. Assuming that this ia correct, the lady Is now removed from the burden of tax-paying, but remains aa ever mis tress of the cows and farm Hartford Paper. "I Don't Want That Stuff." Is what a lady of Boston said to her husband when he brought home some medicine to cure her of sick headache and neuralgia which had made her miserable for fourteen years. At the first attack thereafter, it was adminis tered to her with such good results, that she continued its use until cured, and made so enthusiastic In ita praise, that Bhe induced twenty-two of the best fumilles in her circle to adopt it aa their regular family medicine. That "stuff" is Hop Bitters. 20. C3T I know not any crime to great that a man could continue to commit as poisoning the sources of the eternal truth.
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