THE TIMES, NEW BL00MF1ELD, PA. JANUA11Y 13 1880. A Startling Adventure. DU. KLISItA HARMS, late Regis, trar or Vital Htatlstlos In New York, Ami now Secretary of the Prison Assocl atlon or Unit city, made a special study of mysterious cases of supposed suicide for .war, ami in a conversation with the writer di'claicd his belief that a large )roHiiilon oT the canes of mysterious dcai I?.- Unit go on the records of the city as MiiiriiU's wi re really skillfully planned inuiili ix I'.y (iiikh of men and woman whi m;il;e murder and robbery a busi ness. Along I lie streets bordering upon the river, or In adjacent streets, such as Wuicraiid flurry, are located many Vile IkIIs. nvcftljiations made in a very large number of oases where, bod les.have been found floating in the water showed that the victim were last seen alive In the company of female frequenters of these hells of the metropolis or In the dunce- houses. In most cases or this kind no valuables r any account were found upon i ho remains and rarely any exter nal injuries were developed in a post- .unortetn. 1'lu se facta led .Dr. Harris to the con-rfliifl-m 'that many, If not all, had been 4n veiled into the low resorts by women, where iliy were drugged to death by home Subtle poison administered In liquors, and then, in the silent hours of the nifcht, the inanimate body, after belli),' stripped of money and valuables, would bp carried by the male murderers to an n.'jaceiit dock and quietly dumped into the river. In due time the remains would be carried to the surface and found Iiy a bunt man or the river police. The deadly drua had left no tell-tale mark. The poliee would investigate, and that 'was the end of the matter. So Impressed was I with the conclu sions arrived at by Dr. Harris that I 'communicated with a personal friend ou 4he ik 'Ueiive force my suspicious that a certain bouse on Water street, which I had ecc;r-ion to puss as lute as 2 a. m dal ly, was a den of thieves of this class. He readily consented to join me in an effort to discover something positive regarding the place, which wusaresortofabandon ed women, sailors and countrymen, with a bar attached. ' One night at 11:30, dressed and dis guised as Jersey couulrymeu, Detective T. and f entered the main room on the floor even with the Btreet. In it were . four or live lmlf-druuken women and half-a-dozen sailors. Iu one corner was a small bar, presided over by a villain-om-looking, pock-marked, ex-convict, and 1 1 mother corner was a fiddler playing for the dancers. We spent money freely in treating all hands, talk cd ab nit the price of country "truck" and the best market in which to sell, and premised to go around next day after we bad sold our produce and have a good time all around, remarking that we wanted the tiddler, so we could have a dance. i The convict boss of this deu chuckled at the proposition and readily assented to the further proposition that no "Bail or fellers" should be admitted while we were guests, as we wern't used to "thar rough ways," and wanted to have "a clear swarth all to ourselves." A little before noon on the following day, well disguised, we entered the resort. Hut two women and the propri etor were there, and an air of quietude in striking contrast to the boisterous resort of the previous night pervaded the place. Each of us had provided ourselves with a sponge, hidden away inside of our coat-sleeve, and, as we had previous ly arranged to drink nothing but 'pony" glasses of wine, it was an easy matter by a dextrous movement to deposit the contents, after taking it from the glass, into the sponges. My com panion drauk freely, or at least appeared to drink, displayed considerable money, and after the tiddler had been sent for and the doors locked, indulged in several waltzes " between drinks." An hour was thus passed, when, to all appearances, the "Jersey farmers" were "pretty well fuddled," so well had we simulated intoxicated men. As our object was to see more of the promt--L-g we offered no resistance when the women urged us to retire to a rear room. There more drinks were called for, and in half an hour we were both" apparently unconscious lu a drugged ami drunken stupor. The women retir ed from the room, which wag dimly lighted by the kerosene lamp, and we were loft ttide by side on a mattress iu , one corner for some time. There was a peculiar taste to the wine that satisfied us it contained a drug. Iu a little while " Big Charley," the boss, returned with one of the women, who parsed as his wife, and, stooping over us, lie remarked: "I'm Mowed, Ilunnab, If them fellers isn't good game. Now you hold the door an h6ld the Light, an' the fiddler an' me'll soon lay 'eta awaytill night. They're well salt ed, and we'll fix them at midnight, when all's still." The fiddler was called, and we, limp and apparently Insensible, were carried down a rickety stairway to a sub-cellar and quietly deposited on the floor, which was of stone. Our entertainers retired, leaving the lamp burning dimly. My detective friend got up and cau tiously explored the place. I confess I was not pleased with his report. On one side he found a blind door leading Into a dark passage-way, which, from the sound of running water, lie supposed to be one of the city sewer, through which they carried their vic tims. I was so alarmed that I suggested we had seen enough, but he was Inexor able. " Let us see the end," he said. " We are well armed ; we're enough for them. Why If I only showed my shield they'd beat a retreat. Keep quiet and watch me." We did not wait long In suspense. "Charley" and his woman entered. The former examined us critically, and, turning to the woman, said ; " You go up and tend bar, if any one drops In ; send Lilze down to watch the clodhop pers, and have her pour a little more of the "stuff" down 'em In half an hour. I must now go over the river and get Bob to come over and help me plant 'em after we close in the inoruln." Again we were alone. The detective whispered his plans to me, and a few minutes later the woman Llze came down with a bottle iu her hand, and sitting down on the only chair iu the cellar, engaged In the occu pation of knitting. Half an hour must have passed to me it seemed two hours when the woman picked the bottle up from a shelf and walked deliberately over to our corner. With closed eyes I felt her warm hand on my forehead ; then she turned my head over, face upward, and forcing open my mouth when my com panion, with a quick movement, threw himself over, and drawing a pistol, hiss ed, " Ah, Lize t I've got you I Now open your head, and I'll blow it off your lousy body 1 Bee this shield V Ila! ha! trapped at last, eh V" Ho sudden was the thing done that the woman crouched down quietly, as the detective threw off a wig, and she identified him as one who had twice arrested her for shoplifting. To be brief, the woman " Lize made a clean breast" of the fact that sailers and countrymen were drugged and taken to to the sub-cellar, where they were visit ed by " Big Charley," his wife and two men. What disposition was made of the victims she never knew, or professed to know not. The officer promised her protection if she would aid him in solv ing the myBtery of the removal of the drugged victims who might visit the place in future, at the same time warn ing her that he would have her watched, and it would be useless for her to at tempt to flee the city. It was also arranged that when the sub-cellar again had an occupant she was to find means to hang a white cloth from the front window as a signal, and at all events to meet him at a place appointed a week hence. Rue then released us through a side door. Daily the house was watched no sig nal. The trysting time arrived, and Lize came not. Over another week passed withoutother news of the woman. It was supposed she had escaped the detective's vigilance. Beading a description of the body of a drowned woman found at Fort Hamil ton, the detective believed it was Lize. He went there and recognized her as the Water street woman. The detective always maintained that he believed " Big Charley" and his gang, suspecting Lize of treachery, had murdered her and thrown her body into' the river. Shortly after this, my friend, who still had the house under survellance, became Insane, and a few months later died. The Water street den has been demol ished to make way for the Brooklyn bridge, and the inmates were scattered. Yet I still firmly believe that Dr, Harris was right, and that there still exists iu this city, under the very eyes of the police, one or more organized gaugs whose business Is the inveigling of strangers into suspicious places, the robbing of their persons and the con signment of their bodies to the waters of the rivers and harbor. Where is the Vldocq who will fathom the secrets of these malefactors YN. Y, Police Uazette. H3T We have the girl of the . If you would -- her call early;. she has no . Editors should not approach with a as she might look tt at a fellow, or make fcini see " ; but as .ical visits may excite gal Jealousy, we enjoin great caution. Use your $$ freely, and make the Ht pointed, heed not her I!, but get a& de. cisive answer. She may say, ", put him on the -der and give an ' to Au. tumn." SUNDAY HEADING Fathers on the Skirmish Line. TF YOU wish to train up your child X in the way he should go, Just skirmish ahead on that line your self," said wise Josh Billings, and if he was not addressing fathers and think ing of boys, he ought to have been. The writer was present once at a social religious meeting, when a very large man with a very large nose, and no doubt a very large heart, also, arose, and used his space of time to tell what a good mother he had and how her Influ ence had guided blin, and finished with au exhortation to all mothers to make good men of their boys. The divines followed in a similar strain and ended with the same exhor tation. All the brethren settled them selves more comfortably into their seats, and all the sisters bowed their heads with meek faces, as If sweetly taking up the heavy burden thus flatteringly laid upon their ffflll shoulders. No, not all ; for one sat bolt upright, too Indignant for speech, to see those great broad shouldered men thus camly shirking the greatest responsibility Ood ever called them to bear. Because some mothers, blessed with mighty faith and powerful will, have borne their sons triumphantly over the quicksands of youthful temptations and planted their feet firmly on the pleasant upland of righteous manhood, shall it be demanded of every frail womon to whom Ood iias given a son, that she do the same t No ; with equal justice it might be demanded of every woman that she write books like Mrs. Stowe, entrance large audiences like Miss Wlllard and Anna Dickinson, or be a brilliant newspaper correspondent like Mary Clemmer. What weight has a mother's word when weighed against a father's exam ple ? The mother says, "My son, do not smoke ; it is bad for your health, bad for the purse, bad for the morals, and the pleasure it allbrds is trifling compared to the evil it works." " What does mother know about smokingl1" reasons the boy; "she never smokes ; father smokes, and I am going to." " Don't spend your evenings about the bar room and village store," pleads the troubled mother; "the conversation there is not such as I wish you to listen to." " What does mother know about bar room talk V" questions the boy; "she is at home rocking the baby or darning stockings, father is there and I'm going." One outspoken ten-year-old boy said, " I like my mother well enough ; but I think father Is a great deal smarter;" and he expressed the feelings of the average boy when he enters his teens. Now, which parent is likely to have most Influence in forming the character of that Bon V " I'll take what father takes," Bald the boy at the hotel dinner table, and boys are taking what their fathers take, all the world over. A father and son were clambering up the rough, steep sides of a mountain, when the father stopped to decide which of many patha to take, the ' boy said, " Be careful to choose a good path, father, for I am coming right behind you." Fathers upon the hillside of life, be sure you choose a " good path," for your sons are just behind and almost certain to follow in your footsteps. If the be witching voice of pleasure entices you into the by-paths of self-indulgence and sin, remember that where you trip he will stumble, and the same foul mire that soils your raiment will engulf blm. But if you choose to walk the pleasant highways of temperance, virtue and Christian manliness, he shall keep even step with you, and at last dwell in peace at your side. " The just man walked in his integri ty; his children are blessed after him." FAITH. I APPROACHED the clerk of a steam er, and asked, " Can I engage a state room on this evening's boat?" "Yes," was the reply. I turned and looked at the diagram, or " plan" of the steamer's Siloon, and selecting a room, asked that It bj sit down to my name. "I cannot promise you any room at the present, sir," replied the clerk ; " our returns are not all in yet from the hotel, and I know not yet what numbers have been taken. But I will take your name and secure a good room for you." Feeling doubtful of the slim prospect, it being the season of midsummer, and the traveling heavy by this route, I ventur ed to suggest, " Perhaps it may be that all the rooms are taken up, sir ; how then shall I know that I shall have a roomV" The gentlemanly clerk looked up into my eyes, and with a friendly, firm voice, replied, " Because I tell you so." I could only answer, " Your word Is sufficient sir ; excuse me for doubting you." As I walked away, and through the crowed streets, I repeated several times within myself, " I have the state room, his promise is given to me; his honor requires that he should fulfill It." When, an hour before the boat started in the evening, I returned, the clerk at once recognized me, and pointing to a certatn numberon the diagram, observed, "I have retained that room for you ; it is among the best." And I had all day cheerfully believed that "It would be even as It was told me. It Is not necessary to add even a word to apply this simple Incident to Ood and his promise, or man and his duty to believe HI in. It applies itself. If the promise of a man Is to be taken at par, the word of Ood Is greater and cannot fail. The " word of Ood" is come unto us in those exceeding great and precious promises, and shall we not Joyfully trust In them t Josh Billings on Beer. IHAV finally cum to the conclusion that lager beer as a beverage is not intoxicating. I hav been told by a Oerman who drunk It all nite long, just to try the experiment, and was obliged to go home sober in the morning. I have seen this same man drink eighteen glasses, and if he was drunk it was In Oerman, and nobody coulfl understand it. It Is proper euuff to state that this man kept a lager beer saloon, could have no object in stating what was not strict ly thus. I believe him to the full extent of my ability. I never drank but three glassas of lager In my life, and that made my head outwist as tho it was hung on the end of a string, but I was told it was owing to my bile being out of place; and I guess that it was so, for I never blled over wus than I did when I got horn that ulte. My wife thot I was goin to die, and I was afraid I shouldn't, for it seemed as tho everything I had ever eaten in my life was coming to the surface ; and I believe that if my wife hadn't pulled off my boots just as she did, they would hav cum thundering up too. O, how sick I wuz ! 14 years ago, and I can taste it now. I never had so much experience in so short a time. If any man shud tell me that lager beer was not intoxicating, I shud believe him ; but if he shud tell me that I wasn't drunk that nite but that my stummick was out of order, I shud ask him to state over a few words just how a man felt and acted when he was set up. If I warn't drunk that nite, I some ov the most natural simtums had that a man ever had and kept sober. In the first place It was about 80 rods from where I drank the lager beer to ml house, and I was jest over two hours on the road, and a hole busted thro each one of my pantaloon neez, and didn't hav any hat, and tried to open the door by the bell-pull and hlccuped awfully and saw every thin in the room trying to get round on the back side of rut, and, Bitting down on a chair, I did not wait long enough for It to get exactly under me when I wuz going round, aud I set down a little too soon and missed the chair about twelve inches, and couldn't get up soon enough to take the next one tnat come along; anu mat ain'i awi, my wife seu I wuz as drunk as a beest, and, az I sed before, I began to spin up tilings rreeiy. If lager beer Is not intoxicating it used me most almighty mean, that I know. Still I hardly think that lager beer iz intoxication, for I hav been told so; and I am probably the only man living wno ever utuuk eny wnen nis nver was not rjlumb. I don't want to say anything against a harmless temperance beverage, but if ever I drink eny more, it will be wttn ml bands tied behind and ml mouth pried open. I don't think lager been is intoxicat ing, but if I remember rite, I think it tasted to me like a glass of soap suds that a pickle had been put tew soak In. No More Hard Times. If you will stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich food and style, buy good healthy food, cheaper and better clothing; get more real and substantial things of life every way, and especially stop the foolish habit of employing ex pensive, quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust In that simple, pore remedy, Hop Bitters ; that cures always at a trifling cost, and you will see good times and have good health. See another column. 2t 2 The Stomach Is Strengthened, The Liver Regulated, the Bowels put in proper order, the Blood enriched and purified, and the nervous system ren dered tranquil and vigorous by this in estimable family medicine and safe guard against disease, which is more over, a most agreeable and effective ap petizer, and a cordial peculiarly adapt ed to the wants of the aged and infirm. CJT For sale by all Druggists and Deal ers generally. 2 1m SELLERS' CO UOU SYlWPt 50 Years Kefore the Public ! Pronounced by all to be the most Pleasant and efficacious remedy now in one, for the enre or uougns, cowls. Uroup, Hoarseness, Tickling sensation of the Throat, Whooplncr CoiiKh, etc. Over a million bottles sold within the last few years. It gives relief wherever used, snd has the power to Impart benefit that cannot be bad from the cough mixture! now la use. Sold by all Druggists at 25 cents per bottle. SELLERS' LIVER FILLS are also highly recommended for curing liver complaint, constipation, sick-headaches, fever and agne, and all diseases of the stomach and liver. Boldjuy all by all Druggists at 25 ceoU per box. 40 j R. E. SELLERS & CO., Pittsburg, Pa. J. M. OtitviN. J. H. GlRVIM J.M. GIRVIN & SON., FLOUR, GRAIN, SEED Sl HROWJCE Commission Merchants, No. 64 South Kay, St., BALTIMORE, MD. We will pay strict attention to the sale of alt kinds of Country Produce aud remit the amounts promptly. 45 Ivr. J. M. GIRVIN & SON. jypSSER & ALLEN CENTRAL STORE NEWPORT, PENN'A. Son alter the public A RARE AND ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OP DRESS GOODS Consisting st all shades suitable for the seasoa BLACK ALP AC CAS AM) Mourning Goods A SPECIALITY? BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED MUBLIN8, AT VARIOUS PRICES. AN ENDLESS SELECTION OP PRINTS! We sell and do keep a good quality of SUGARS, COFFEES & SYRUPS And everything under the head of GROCERIES I Machine Needles and oil for all makes of Machines. To be convinced that our goods are CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, 18 TO CALL AND EXAMINE STOCK. r No trouble to show goods. Don't forget the CENTRAL STORE, Newport, Perry County, Pa. DRUGS. DRUGS. JACOB STRICKLER, (Successor to Dr. M. B. Btrlckter) NEW BL00MFIELD, PENN'A. HAVING succeeded the late firm of Dr. M. B. Strlckler In the Drug Businewt at his store-room. 011 MAIN 8TKKKT. two doors East of the Big Spring. I will endeavor to make ft Id every war worthy the patronage of the public. Persona) and strict attention AT ALL TIMES given to the compounding and dispensing Physi cians' preset ptious, so as to insure accuracy and guard against accidents. , IH'.AIt IN JIIM that my stock has been recently selected and ear taken to have everything .f the BUST QUALI TY. The public may rest assured that ALL med icines that leave my store shall be as represented -PUKE and UNADULTERATED. I HATE CONSTASTLY OS HAND IT i TH ftTT. mnA TlJ k TWO ! HAIK. TOOTH and NAIL-BRUSHES. BUKUKONS, toii.kt, and CAKKIAOE HPONOKS. PUfF B.XKS. TOILET POWDERS, CA8IILB aad FANCY SOAPS. PERFUMERY OF ALL KINDS, Together with Fresh and Genuine Patent Medi cluas of every description. ALSO, Segars, Tobacco, School Books, &c,' ORANGES, LEM0N3 & BANANAS, In season. Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal Purposes. Terms, Strictly Oasli. By strict attention to business. T hope to merit the contldeaoe and favor of the public . JACOB 8TBICKLER,P.Q. April 29, 1870.
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