THE TIMES, NEW ULOOMEIELD, PA. JUNE 17, 1870.
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PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R
ARRANGEMENT OF PA8BKNOKKTRAIN8.
JIny llTh, 187.
TKAINB LEAVE IIARRISBUROASFOLLOWB
For New York, at 0.15, 8.10 a. m. toop.m.
and 7.M p. in.
Knr IMilladellihl
Illl
at 6.1R, 8.10, M5 a.m.
.00ail.1 4.00 p. III.
For Reading, at 5,15, 8.10, 9.45 a.m. and 2.00
4.00 and 7.M p.m.
For Fottsvllle at 8.15. 8.10 a. m.. and 4.00
&. in., and via Schuylkill and Husquehauua
ranch at 1.40 p. m.
For Auburn via S. (k B. Br. at 5.30 a. m.
For AUentown.at&.lB, 8.10 a. in., and at 1.00,
4.WI and 7.65 p. m. . .. . .
The 6.15. 8.10 a.m., and 7.55 p. m., trains
have through ears tor New York.
The 5.15, a. in., trains have throtmh carsfor
Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS i
For New York, at 5.15 a. in.
For AllHiitown and Way Station at 5.15a.m.
For Rending, Philadelphia and Way Station !at
1.45 p. in.
TRAINS FOR HARRIPBURU, LEAVE AS FOL
LOWS I
Leave New York, at 8.45 a. m., 1.00, S.SOaud
7.45 p. in.
Leave Philadelphia, at 0.49 a..m. 4. Ml, and
7.20 p. m.
Leave Reading, at t-4.40, 7.25, 11.50 a. m. 1.30,
6.15 and in. 35 i. m.
Loave I'ottsvllle, at 5.50, 9.1S a.m. and 4.40
p. m. '
And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branchat
8.15 a.m. .
Leave Auburn vlaS. H. Br. at 11.50 a.m.
Leave Allentuwti, atf!30 5.40, 0.06 a. in., 12.10
4.80 and .03p.m.
SUNDAYS
Leave New York. at5.R0 p.m.
Lei
Loi
p. m
i.utu, PltllnilHinl, nt 7. 'in n. in.
Loave Reading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. in. and 10.S5
i.nivfl Allentnwn.nt2 30 a. m.. and 9.05 n. m.
J, K. WOOTEN, Uen. ManaRer.
0. 0. Hancock, General Ticket Agent.
times not run on Mondays.
Via Morris and Essex It. R.
jEWCOMER HOUSE,
CARLISLE BTM
New llloomfleltl, rcnn'a.
J.' A. NEWCOMER,
Proprietor.
IIAVINO removed from the American Hotel,
Waterlnrd.and having leased and retuinlst.ed
the above hotel, putting it In good order to bo.
commodate guests, 1 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
J March 18. 1870 J. A. NEWCOMER.
JHE MANSION HOUSE,
New Bloomfleld, rcnn'a.,
GEO. F. EN8MINGER,
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.
BW A eareTul hostler always In attendance.
April 9, 1878. tt
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4W Butter and Eggs taken in trade.
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AN UNEXPECTED WITNESS.
I HAD never seen my little client. He
wa olT to boarding school when Ills
mother died, and they burled her the
next day without sending for little
Charley, who was too young, perhaps
they thought, to appreciate his loss.
This was the way little Charley came
to be my client :
After his mother's death, a will was
produced, leaving all her handsome
fortune to Mr. Bryson, her second
"beloved husband," little Charley's
stepfather.
When the will was ofTered for probate,
It became necessary to appoint some one
to protect the rights of little Charley ;
and to this post that of guardian mU
litem, the lawyers call It too often re
garded as one of mere form, I was duly
assigned.
It would have afforded me great
pleasure to break that will, for I had
much less confidence iu the austere Mr.
Bryson thnn his confiding little wife
had, who had trusted him with any
thing, her little boy's future included.
For myself, I thought there was far too
much goodness In his face to leave any
for his heart.
But what could I do? The will was
In legal form. Dr. Dolus, who had at
tended the lady on her deathbed, had
drawn It up and witnessed It, and was
ready to swear to everything necessary
to make It valid. The other witness,
Bandy McBrlde, an old Scotch domes
tic, staunchly loyal to his mistress, died
and was burled the very day before the
case was to come on. The weather was
warm, and Dr. Dolus advised a speedy
interment.
With Bandy died all my hopes. He
was a truthful, honest fellow, and what
ever facts he knew I was certain he
would tell. But now his voice was si
lenced, and all the other side had to do
was to prove his death and handwrit
ing. The night before the proofs were
taken I sat up late and went to bed trou
bled. I fell asleep at last and was dream
ing of Mr. Murdstone and David Cop
perfleld, when a loud rapping woke me.
It was Dick Beton, an old chum of
mine, now a medical student, who had
a habit of calling at all sorts of hours.
"Beg pardon," said Dick, "but I've
something strange to tell you."
I thought it might have kept till
'morning, but bade him proceed.
" My friend, Nol Pellett, and I," he
went on, " have long wanted a subject
to dissect. Bo we hired Paddy Burke
for ten dollars and a jug of whisky,
with another jug contingent, to dig up
and bring us to-night the body of Bandy
McBrlde, who was buried to-day."
" You'll all get into a scrape," said I.
" That's a point on which I promised
Pat to consult you," Dick replied : '.' but
my story first :
" Nol and I were sitting, by turns
'whetting our scalpels and looking over
the pictures In Gray's Anatomy, when
'we heard Patp signal.
" Nol let him in. His face was death
ly pale. Quickly dumping a heavy
sack from his shoulder
"BedadOi've got him 1" he exclaim
ed; " but I wudn't do the job again for
twoice the pay 1"
"What's the matter V" Nol asked.
" After I tuck him up, ye's see,"
Pat said, " he was civil enough for a
whoile: butOi'm blissed if the spal
peen hasn't been kicken' me in the back
for the last half molle I"
" Nonsense 1 a mere fancy a preju
dice of race," said I, as we turned the
body out of the sack, laid It on the table
and took up our instruments.
" Great heaven ! what's this V ex
claimed Nol, tartlng back. "The
man's alive!"
" And sure enough. Poor Sandy, af
ter a few convulsive movements, rose to
a sitting posture, and rubbing his eyes
looked confusedly about.
" Oh, murdher! murdher !" screamed
Pat. '.'Sure the rogue '11 turn States
lvidence on us an' play the mischief
wld us all for dlsturbln'hlsetarnal rest."
And by the way, that's the point ' on
which I promised to consult you.
N "In short, and to be serious," Dick
contlpued, "Sandy McBrlde, the want
of whom as a witness I . heard you so
greatly regretting to-day, is now alive
and at your service. He tells a queer
story about old Dolus giving him some
thing to cure the headache, and his
knowing nothing afterwards. I more
than half suspect the old quack of foul
play. To poison outright would be dan
gerous ; but there are plenty of drugs
which will produce the semblance of
death ami leave no suspicious traces af
terwards. Through such means a man
might be effectually disposed of by
burying him alive."
I hurried on my clothes and set out
with Dick. In a back room we found
Sandy sitting in his shroud, regaling
himself on cold ham and a mug of ale,
Pat Burke looking on with eyes agape
and hair still on end.
I had a conference with Sandy, the
result of which will be disclosed present
ly. Suflice It to say, it was deemed ad
visable that his return should be kept ft
secret for the present.
Two more respectable-looking gentle
men than Mr. Bryson and Dr. , Dolus
never appeared in court to tell a lie or
rob an orphan.
When the doctor took the stand and
kissed the book, he seemed the lmper
sonatlon of truth. He gave his testi
mony clearly and methodically.
He deemed it part of a physi
cian's duty to qualify himself to draft
such Instruments. The provisions had
been dictated by the testatrix herself,
who was of sound mind and memory.
He and the other witness had seen her
sign the instrument. She had declared
it to be her will, and they had subscrib
ed as witnesses at her request, in her
presence, and the presence of each
other. His co-witness was dead ; but he
had seen him affix his signature, and
recognized the handwriting. In short,
he covered every requirement of the
law, and sat down with the air of a
man conscious of having performed his
whole duty. It was no use to cross-examine
him. I think he would have
liked It.
"Have you any "witnesses, Mr.
Galnesr"' the judge asked.
" One, your honor."
" Call him."
" I have sent for him ; he will be here
in a moment," I replied.
The judge looked surprised, the case
seemed so clear. Mr. Bryson and the
doctor looked both surprised and anx
ious. Surprise turned to amazement when
Sandy McBrlde was conducted to the
witness-stand. The spectators, he
passed, gave him a wide berth. They
seemed little Inclined to come in close
contact with a man buried but yester
day. Mr. Bryson and the doctor were the
most 'disturbed of all. They turned
pale, exchanged frightened glances, and,
before Bandy, on whom every eye was
fixed, had half told his story, the
stole out and were seen no more.
Bandy's story was this : On the
his mistress died, he had signed
two
day
the
paper produced at her husband's re
quest, but not in her presence, and
without knowing what it was, being
told that his signature was a merely
formal matter. He had not seen the
mistress that day till he saw her in her
colli ti. As to what happened to him
self, he could only say that, hearing
him complain of a slight headache, to
which he was subject, Dr. Dolus had
given him a potion, after which he was
conscious of nothing till he found him
selflylngona table, and two young
gentlemen standing over him with
knives.
The will was rejected of course, and
little Charley got his mother's fortune.
There was a strong belief that she, too,
had been the victim of foul play ; but
the culprits had gone beyond the reach
of punishment.
'The Little Shoes did It."
A MAN who had been reclaimed from
the vice of intemperance waB called
upon to tell how he was led to give up
drinking. He arose but for a moment
looked very confused. All he could say
was:
"The little shoes did it!" With a
thick voice, as if his heart was in his
throat, he kept repeating this. There
was a stare of perplexity on every face,
and some thoughtless young people be
gan to titter. The man in all his em
barrassment, heard this sound and ral
lied at once. The light came Into his
eyes with a flash he drew himself up
and addressed the audience, the choak
ing went from his throat. 4 Yes,frlends,'
he said, in a voice that cut its way, clear
as a deep-toned bell, " whatever you
may think of it, I've told you the truth
the little shoes did it I I was a brute
and a fool; Btrong drink had made me
both, and starved me into the bargain.
I suffered ; I deserved to suffer. But I
didn't suffer alone no man does who
has a wife and child, for the woman gets
the worst abuse. But I am no speaker
to enlarge on that, I'll stick to the little
shoes. It wa4 one night, when I was
all but done for, the saloon-keeper's
child came into the saloon holding out
her feet for her father to see her fine
new shoes. It was a simple thing ; but,
friends, no fist struck me such a blow as
those little shoes. They kicked reason
iuto me. What reason have I to clothe
others with fineries, and provide not
even coarse clothing for my own, but
let them go bare? says I, and there out
side was my shivering wife and blue
chilled child, on a bitter cold night. I
took hold of the little one with a grip,
and saw her chilled feet. Men 1 fathers
if the little shoes smote me what must
little feet do 1 I put them, cold as Ice,
to my breast ; they pierced me through.
Yes, the little feet walked right Into my
heart and away walked my selfishness.
I had a trifle of money left, I bought a
a large loaf of bread and then a pair
of little shoes. I never tasted anything
but bread all that sabbath 'day and went
to work like mud on Monday, and from
that day I have spent no more money
at the public house. That 'a all I've got
to say it was the little shoes that did
It."
A Female Roblson Crusoe.
SAN FltANCISCtT papers contain a
very interesting account of an In
dian woman, who was abandoned on
Bail Nicolas Island off from Southern
California, and spent eighteen years
alone there before she was rescued. The
woman went to the Island with a party
of natives and left them to go iuto the
interior and gather wood. Returning
she found the party in canoes and about
to sail. Not finding her three children
in the boats she swam ashore. She did
not find her children, but supposed they
were devoured by the wild dogs on the
Island. She became very sick and lay
a long time without water or food,
but finally recovered and forgot her grief
in wondering about the Island. She
lived on a plant resembling the cabbage,
roots, seal or sea-lion blubber. Hliejluul
abalone shell fish hooks and lines made
of the sinews of the seal, it is probable
she supplied herself with fish from the
ocean. Eighteen years after this a party
visited the Island on an otter and seal
hunt. The Indian woman was found
in one of the pens she had built as a
wind break. She was clothed In a gar
ment made of the skins of the shag,
without slepves, low neck, and, when
standing up, extending almost to
tin Junkie. She was sitting crossed leg
ged, skinning seal blubber with a rude
knife, made of a piece of hoop-Iron driv
en into a piece of wood.
There was no covering on her head
excepting a thick mass of matted hair
of a yellowish brown color, due to the
exposure to the sun and air. There
were several wild dogs about the en
closure, which growled savagely at the
visitors, but were driven oil' by their
mistress. The woman appeared to be
very happy In her Island home, but it
took very little to induce her to leave.
She landed at Santa Barbara and was a
great curiosity. Change of food and
habits so affected her constitution that
she lived but four or five weeks after her
arrival at her new house.
Guard Your Conversation.
If you say anything about a neighbor
or friend, or even a stranger, beware of
speaking ill. It Is brotherly charity to
suppress knowledge of evil of one an
other unless our higher public duty com
pels us to bear accusing witness ; and If
it be true charity to keep our knowledge
of such evils to our selves, much more
should we refuse to spread the evil re
port of another. Discreditable as the
fact Is, it is the common tendency to
suppress the good we know of ournelgh-
bors and friends. We act in the matter
as though we felt that by pushing our
fellows forward we should injure our
selves. We are jealous of commendation
unless we get the largest share. Social
conversation, as known to every obser
ver, is largely made up of what is best
understood by the term, scandal. It
would be difficult to find a talkative
group of either sex who could spend
an hour together without evil speech
of somebody. " Blessed are the peace
makers," Is not the maxim by which
we are chiefly governed in our treatment
of personalities. Better a thousand
times stand or sit dumb" than to open
our lips ever so eloquently in the dis
paragement of others. What we should
do hi this, as in all other human rule.
If we do unto others as we would that
others should do unto us, we shall be
exceedingly careful not to volunteer ill
words about them. Where other than
a good word is to be spoken, speak to
the person concerned, that he may have
a chance to defend himself.
Curious Case of Alleged Kidnapping.
A very curious story Is going the round
of the papers to-day. Four years ago a
tailor married the daughter of an artil
lery Colonel, and lived happily with her
for a twelvemonth, at the end of which
period he went forafew days to Belgium
on business. On his return the wife was
nowhere to be found, but a month later
the tailor and his friends recogniz
ed her, as they imagined, in the corpse
of a young woman who had been picked
up at Anteuil. ' Unable any longer to
continue in Paris, the tailor went to
New York, where, two years afterward
he married again. In the month of a
January, the new couple came to Paris
find rented an apartment in the Avenue
Friedland.
i.nst Weunesuay, as tue tailor was
walking in the Champs Elysees, he saw
a lady, who looked marvelously like his
first wife, driving in a handsome equip
age, and, hiring a cub, he followed her
to a hotel in the Avenue D'Eylan
There an explanation took place.
It
was Indeed his first wife, who declared
that she had been kidnapped and kept
in Ignoble seclusion for three months by
a man whose name she had never been
able to ascertain. When free, she had
learned to her sorrow that her husband
had gone to Amprlca, and, not daring to
return to her relatives, she had entered
a dress-maker's establishment, and bo
on. inquiries are now being on foot In
order to discover, if possible, who the
kidnapper was.
Our Modern Girl.
We talk of the fragility of the mod
ern girl sometimes: we question If she
s as fragile as she appears. She must
have wonderful endurance, else she
could not follow the fashion bo closely.
It Is eleven o'clock In the morning. .
Could Jennie take a long walk this min
ute If called upon to go? You know
she could not. She must step out of
her dainty Bllppers.and spend how many
minutes we don't know in buttoning
those boots, on which she must balance
herself like a flyuranle before she can
step at all. She must take off that fresh
morning gown Watteau, do you call
it V with Its rose colored, ribbons and its
graceful trail ; she must Imbue herself
with a skirt that weighs pounds, In spite
of its scantiness, fluted like a column-
kilted, thank you I and over that an
other swathlngof drapery, of no mortal
use one can see save to hide the decora
tion of the under one. Then, when she
tins knotted a silk kerchief round her
throat, put on a Jaunty Jacket and
given her hat the proper Inclination,
and pinned on two veils, she will be
ready to start. And she will look very
charming, too, and her walk will be
very graceful. But how she wonld stare
if any one proposed a country walk, or
a ramble In the woods I She cannot
climb, or run, or Jump, or do anything
really girlish. She is simply an anima
ted fashion plate, as useless as a mum
my set on wheels.
About Marrying.
Marriage, or engagements to marry,
should not be entered Into Inconsiderate
ly. If the old axiom that haste makes
waste Is true as applied to the ordinary
affairs of life, it may be said that undue
haste often results in unspeakable mis
ery In matrimonial alliances. Love la
proverbially blind ; he is more he is wil
fully blind and should be made to open
his eyes. A little common-sense min
gles advantageously with everything;
so far from being out of place, it is an
absolute essential to safety in affairs of
the heart. Many a girl has had her
whole happiness for life destroyed be
cause she obstinately chose to form her
estimate of the character of a suitor ex
clusively by his behavior towards her,
and his professions of love, rather than
by his conduct towards others. It is a
pretty safe rule that a man whose whole
life is but an exampllcation of selfish
ness will not long continue generous in
relation to his wife. Character is sel
dom revolutionized by marriage. There
may be a slight reform temporarily; it
rarely lasts long. And men suffer as
well as women from ill-assorted mar
riages. Many a towering ambition has
been crushed, many a cupful of happi
ness has been converted into the dregs
of bitterness, from the neglect of a
young man to become thoroughly ac
acquainted with a girl before engaging
himself to her.
Bananas.
The " Scientific American" says that
" few persons who see bananas hang
ing in the shops of fruit dealers think of
them as more than a tropical luxury.
The fact is, they are a staple article of
food in some parts of the world, and, ac
cording to Humboldt,an acre of bananas
will produce as much food for a man as
twenty-five acres of wheat. It is the
ease with which bananas are grown that
is the great obstacle to civilization in
some tropical countries. It is so easy to
obtain a living without work that no ef
fort will ever be made and the men be
come lazy and shiftless. All that is
needed Is to stick a sucker into the
ground, it will at once sprout and
grow, and give its fruit in twelve
or thirteen months without further care,
each plant having from 75 to 125 ban
anas; and, when that dies down, af
ter fruiting, new suckers spring up
to take its place. In regions where no
foot ever reaches, bananas are found in
all stages of growth, lipenlng their fruit
every day and every month in the
year."
Deaths from Cider.
A curious case has just come to light
at Northbrldge, Mass., of the death of
two persons and the expected death of
two others, all in one family, from the
effects of cider drinking. As near as
can be made out, the father, aged sixty,
mother fifty-six,andtwo sons thirty-five'
and thirty one, have drank since last fall
between forty and fifty barrels of cider.
The mother was taken with fits about
six weeks ago, and died the next Thurs
day. The youngest son was taken with
fits about three weeks ago and died on
Tuesday, and last Thursday the oldest
son was taken with fits like the others,
and Friday bis physicians gave him
VP-