C5 v A. r . If n i in m pa kg) -a Its VOL. XtV. NEW BLOOMFIELD, FiV., TUESDAY, AUGUST lO, 1880. NO. 32. '' 14 THE TIMES. In Independent family Newspaper, II PUBLISHED B VSR Y TO BSD AT BT F. MORTIMER & CO. TEltMS t INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. One year (Postage Free) It BO Six Mouths " 80 To Subscribers In this County Who pay tn AnvAncw. 'Discount of 25 Cents will be made from the above terms, making subscription within the County, When Tald In Advance, f 1.25 Per Tear. Advertising rates furnished uponappll cation. A Detective's Story. TTARD case up this way," said the JlX telegram sent in my direction by Harney. A break-out of convicts. Warden Bates killed. Deputy Warden Locke dangerously wounded. Two pris on ere escaped. Get np here on the 1.30 train for further details." Flung on my coat, got under my cap, swung on at the rear car just as the train was moving, and got Into Knox county in due time. Found things even worse than repre sented by the lightning. These were the particulars : As Warden Bates made his usual rounds to ascertain if all was right in the prison cells, he was unexpectedly set . upon by a desperado, who from some outside source had been helped to a knife, and was stabbed in several places, the keys torn from his grasp, and other convicts were speedily released. An unusual sound in the rear of the jail buildings had alarmed Deputy War den Locke, who rushed to the scene, as he went arousing other jail officers. They were met by a half dozen of the liberated wretches, and a fierce fight still raged fiercely. At this juncture a young fellow, lodg ing in a house near the jail yard, hear ing the unusual outcry, sprang out of bed, and plunging into his pants, in his shirt sleeves and bareheaded, seized the first thing that came to hand, which was a heavy oaken club, and with a short run and a marvelous leap that would have done credit to a gutta percha acrobat, seized the top of the fence inclosing the jail yard and flung himself down inside where the fight was raging hotly. But it were better to use his own words: " I mowed around me briskly, help ing to lay down qtilte a windrow of them, and gradually made my way to the gate. At that moment a thin, slight fellow charged upon me, intending as" I thought to attack me with a vengeance. I braced myself for the shock, when with a light, elliptical spring he vaulted quite over me, and caught by the spikes upon the top of the gate. I was fearful that I had lost him, for he drew his rubber legs immediately beyond clutch ing distance of my hand; but swinging my club over my head, I calculated upon giving the fellow a compound fracture ; instead I only emote against his stockinged foot, and a splinter of my battered club caught in that useful arti cle, jerking it off the fellow's foot. " He got off, however. It was just about here that I stood and faith I here's the stocking now." I stooped and picked it up from the little hollow where Tom Saunders had tossed it from his club the night before. There were marks of blood upon it. I turned It inside out, and, sticking to the fibre of wool was the entire great toe nail. "Jove 1" ejaculated Tom, turning away with a shiver, " how do you like my style of paring toe nails V A clean slioe off." Thunder! how It smarts about this time If the fellow has stopped long enough to find out that be has left horn enough behind blm to make a hair comb." Probably the -fellow belonged to a . gang outside, who would aid him to avoid discovery. ' "Photograph him !" said I to Baun . ders " Blender, medium height, young and light oomplexloued," ' " Manner ? What's his usual appear .noe?". " Sullen as a thunder cloud. Lower ing brow ; seldom speaks." The jail officers agree in their descrip tions with Tom. " You get down by stage or some way to Bayton. In every other direction a stream of fire Is ahead of him. To Bay town no especial thunderbolts penetrate. He may cross by water there, strike the stage route and reach Bath. Then he might get out of our reach and bother us." I took the 0:30 train down toward Bretford, and it was a matter of doubt whether I should able to connect with the Btage there, as it would be ten o'clock by the time I arrived in that place. It was late in the fall and chilly. The elections were Just over, and there was considerable exciting talk in the car. I got my attention fixed upon one loquacious fellow, plethoric and excited, who kept every one within hearing In a roar of laughter. I rather regretted being across the aisle, for I lost the pith of the jokes entirely. He spared neither party, and his humorous contrasts or parallels pleased In spite of themselves ' the opponents who could at least appre ciate wit from any source. I was pleased, on leaving the train at Bretford, tp find that the old fellow also got off, and still more pleased to find him heading, wheezy and aldermanic, towards the one hotel. "Really, gentlemen," said mine host, In fat, sweetened tones, " I hardly know what to do. There's a horse race here to-morrow, a sort of wind-up to the fair, and I'm just chuck full. Howsoever, If you don't mind sharing the same room and ten chances to one the same bed, why, walk in, walk In, gentlemen." " Land alive ! I can't be put out In no way,?' says thy companion, flashing his heavy gray eyebrows loosely about. "You remember me, Nash, of course, Dyer, always at the races always bet and invariably lose." " Dyer 1 yes, seems to me I remember you," says Boniface. " No doubt, no doubt, come one year to lose, the next to win never win, but' still continue to come to punish my self." After partaking of a hearty supper, the landlord informed us that a fire had been kindled in our room, but, of course I expected the social chap would spend an hour or more in the bar-room ; on the contrary, he declared he must get to bed, so as to be clear-headed on the morrow, and thus be able to use judg ment on horse-flesh. We sat some time before the cheerful fire In our room, telling over some com ical or other incidents, and smoking our cigars; but directly my feet feeling uncomfortable in a pair of new, rather tight boots I drew them oft and placed my feet on the fender. My companion prepared to do the same. One boot was removed, and he began on the other, but soon desisted with a violent contortion of the facial muscles. " C-orns ?' queried I. ; " Bunions real John Bunyans at that." By and by, with a huge gasp, and a careful twisting, the useful article was removed. The last uncovered foot, however, was not advanced readily to the fire, and I really sympathized with the cork screw pain that I calculated he felt. After stooping forward to knock the ashes from my cigar, I was seized with an idea so Eudden and extraordinary that I wonder I did not cry out some thing and betray myself. What had I seen that led to this extra ordinary idea ? Only a huge bunched up place in the stocking of my compan ion just where the great toe would nat urally be located. I felt that the surface of my body . waa undergoing that curious transformation known as " goose flesh," although I at the time mentally portrayed myself as a fool. It was a fine time of day if an honest man couldn't have a sore toe If It pleased him without giving a neighbor ague fits. The idea was very disagreea ble, and although I talked on briskly and shook myself, the thought, like a leech, still stuck to my brain. How could I be so absurd as to cling to this Idea V How reconcile the anato my of this man before me with my pocket memorandum ? "Slender, medium height and young, sullen and lowering brow." Antipodes I Just then my companion tipped for ward to knock aside the ashes. His coat collar stood back uncompromisingly, showing a slender ueck draped In front with a small cataract fall of gray whiskers. Looking still closer, I found as he just then laughed uproariously at something which I had said, that there was no rising, falling, or wrinkling of vest or coat. The man who laughed was but the core of the plethoric form before me. What then ? Evidently the bulk was made of stuffing. If a legion of ants had been crawling over me just then it would not have produced a more disagreeable sensation. Here I was, closeted with a ruffian of the most ferocious dye, wuobb bauds were even now stained with a fellow creature's blood, and the least sign to betray that I suspected his identity would be my death warrant. Yet I must have him, and I must also have help to secure him. Directly I fumed out about the cigars, and wondered if the landlord had no better ones said I'd find out before he had gone to bed. I went whistling out, not unmindful that a sharp pain from a stiletto might be the result. As I ran down stairs I tore a leaf from my pocket memorandum, and I scratch ed upon It these words : Bretfc-hd, 11 o'clock. " Harney Quick 1 get down on the midnight ex press. Come prepared to do up a sore toe. Caknes." "Herel landlord," I exclaimed, get that telegraphed to A In two mln- utes quick caution and you shall have a suitable reward." With this I snatched a handful of cigars and went whistling back to my room, while a score of thoughts more vivid than pleasant ran through my mind. I found him still seated unsuspecting ly before the fire offered him a cigar, and again resumed my smoking. The cautious reader may wonder that I did not either remain at a safe distance below stairs, or give the alarm and secure him immediately. Neither plan appeared feasible to me. In the first place It was my business to catch Just such fellows as this one before me ; in the next place an alarm given among a crowd of persons, undisciplined, not knowing how to act, invariably results In defeat. No, I must wait develop ments just then. The night express would be In at 1 o'clock, and Harney would come prepared for the emergency; and it was only 11 now. How would the next two hours pass? and what might not occur ? At half past 11 my companion pro posed retiring and as it providentially happened that the room held the two beds, I could not object. " I never take off my clothes," he remarked, " on such times as this and then if there is fire one is prepar ed." I pronounced the advice excellent, and believed that I should adopt it, and to further win his confidence I suggested that we should place our watches and purses under our pillows. He made a show of doing this, and we flung our selves upon our couches. In a short time he began to snore, and not doubting but this might be a feint, I also began breathing even and heavily. At twelve o'clock some slight noise occurred outside. There was a rustle and a creak in the other bed. " What's that ?" he questioned, and I noticed that his voice was hardly the same as I had listened to an hour before. " Url" I sleepily muttered. He listened intently for a moment, and then fell back and began snoring again. I had no doubt he had planned to rob, perhaps murder me, and get off before the house was astir. A quarter to one o'clock the train came blowing into the heart of the place. A hot flush passed over me. Waa Harney there ? and what would fojlow the attempt te secure this des perado ? At I o'clock precisely there was a creak upon the stairs.. The landlord was vigilant and understood hla busi ness. At the sound.the heavy breathing In the other bed oeased. Then, came another long, tremulous creak of the stairs ; evidently some heavy person was trying to cautiously ascend them. As the second unmistakable sound came Into the room a prescrlent feeling drew my muscles into a ball, and I dropped between my bed and the wall. None too soon, for in a minute after I had left my bed a dull tbud told me that a knife had been aimed at my vitals. He had taken In my actions at a glance. The door was flung open. I rolled like a ball under the bed, caught the rascal by the ankles, and gave him a jerk that floored him, allowing Harney and Offi cer Copps to master him before receiv ing any dangerous wounds. The landlord being near with a light, we soon had off the wig and beard and eye-brows, the wrinkles being penciled on to perfection. The stuffing betng taken care of, there lay before me the exact memorandum " Slender, of medium height, sullen and scowling." Harney brought word that the other convict, who was thought to have es caped, had been so severely wounded In the affray that he had fallen into a ditch In the rear of the jail, and, being unable to extricate himself, had drowned. So we got the sore toe and the corpo real system attached to it nicely bound up for a long term in the penitentiary. Some Odd Fish. IN THE rivers on the coast of Suri nam Is a small flsh, about the big ness of a smelt, which hath four eyes, two on each side, one above another. This flsh, from its faculty of Beeing double, is probably caught half-seas over but in swimming it Is observed to keep the uppermost two under. As many flsh at particular seasons prime that Is, come to the surface and swim half sub merged may not the reflection or refrac tion of the water have had its dual ef fect upon the eyes of the intelligent ob server ? Captain Leigh, in his voyage to Guia na, recounts : We saw a white thing floating upon the water, which sunk when the ship came within fifty or sixty paces of it. It resembled a man's head without hair. Some said they saw a great many of them, and observed two black eyes and a mouth upon them. We also saw a strange sort of fish, about as long as an ordinary lamprey, and equal, ly round, with a large fin or crest above a foot high over Its head, and Btooped in a continued series down to its tall. It swims upon one side, so that the fin, to gether with the body, represents a large flsh of triangular form, and it makes its way by shifting from one side to the other. But when it catches its prey the fin Is straight, and appears above water an ashy color, though the body is as white and round as a tallow candle. This is corroborated by Theyenol. Sir Thomas Herbert gives an account of dolphins, which he says were no big ger than a salmon, and that these also were incredibly swift. He was on the coast of Zanquebar, a large kingdom on the east side of the Cape of Good Hope. There he saw great numbers of dolphins of which he gives the description : That they must effect the company of men, and are nourished like men. They are always constant to their mates embrace, go with young ten months ; are bo ten derly effected to their parents that when they are 300 years old they feed and de fend them against hungry fishes, and when they die carry them ashore and bury them. At Kllgarrlng, Pembroke, there as a cataract in the river, called the Salmon Leap, because they take their tails in their teeth'and spring over the cataract. This notion still prevails In Norway and Sweden. Perhaps the tallow-candle flsh men tioned by Captain Leigh is a relation of the one noticed in the Colonist, Decem ber, 1879, as follows : In the waters of British North Amer ica, as we are Informed, there is a flsh as surprising In its way as the sea serpent, and inflnately more useful. It Is a spe cies of smelt, and may be poetically de scribed as an aquatio glow worm. We are told it may be literally used the same way as a candle, by simply setting a light to the tail, when It will burn with a flame as steady as that of the " dips" which our grandfathers used to have to put up with before gas waa invented. It Is a small silvery fish,averaging about fourteen Inches long, Is excessively fat, and affords an excellent and valuable oil which is so inflammable that the dried carcass will serve as a torch. Among the natives the fish is known as the oolaban, and by them, as by many others who have tasted it, it is consider ed one of the most delicious products of the sea, being far more delicate in flavor than the herring. The flsh are caught in wicker basketB, and are smoked as much as their oily nature will allow. . Here are some very odd flsh from the Danube. The river Danube has a great plenty of flsh, and one sort uncommon called the hellsow, a very large flsh, some of them twenty feet long, which are sup posed to come of the Euxlne sea. They taste like sturgeon, and have a hollow nervous chord down the back, which when dried they use instead of a whip. When they flsh for tbem they blow a trumpet, the noise of which brings great shoals about their boats. There is a fish called a grundel, that has six beards, two short and four long. Mr. Fotherby tells us that In the Cas pian sea there is a deformed sort of flsh be within Its belly. It has a round tail seven or eight feet broad, and as many long, by which it can overturn a large boat. Poisonous fishes are often alluded to in ancient works, and It Is but due to their authors to say that their state ments have been fully confirmed by sub sequent inquiry into results. There is no doubt that congers, pike and barbel In Europe are poisonous at certain sea sons, and the roe of the barbel especially so. But it is curious to observe that identically the same fish caught In two different latitudes shall possess the ex tremely opposite qualities '.of whole someness and otherwise. Dr. Stuart Eldrldge states that the salmon Is doubtless the most common toxto flsh of Japan. From the spring onward this fish is out of serfson and if eaten after that period of the year occa sions such accidents as follow the eating of tainted meat. In Japan the like dan ger follow the eating of the kateuo (bo nlto) and the maguro. The Lethrinus nambo can be eaten with impunity un til it attains a certain size says a length of Ave to five and a half inches after which It became poisonous. Here then it would appear that the age of the fish has something to do with its injurious qualities. Pappenheim gives a list of more than forty poisonous species, prin cipally inhabitants of the torrid zone. Among these we find mackerels, percbe, herrings, sea pikes, and a large number or species belonging to the order of Plectognathls. The latter order, con tains five genera that are poisonous ; the most common genius In Japan is the teutraosow, or swill fish, the species of which are known by the general name of fugu, so poisonous that their sale are prohibited bylaw; but there is strong evidence to show that it is the roe of the flsh and not its flesh that has the fatal effects to which several medical men attest. An Eloquent Passage. The following is from the gifted pen of the late George D. Prentice : " It cannot be that earth la man's only abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a mere bubble cast up by eternity to float a moment on Its waves and then sink Into nothingness. Else why is it the glorious aspirations which leap like angels from the temple of our hearts, are forever wondering unsatisfied? Why is it that the stars that hold their festival around the midnight throne are set above the grasp of our limited facul ties, forever mocking us with their un approachable glory. And finally, why is it that forms of human beauty pre sented to our views arx taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of our affections to flow baok in Alpine tor rents upon our hearts? There is a realm where the rainbow never fades ; where the stars will be spread out before us like the islands that slumber in the ocean ; and where the beautiful beings which pass before unlike shadows will stay In our presence forever." 3 A sour godliness kills every bud of hope about us ; a sunny soul kindles into a glow of life arid freshens the whole circle in which it moves.