rilK TIMKS. NKW HLOOM KlKLl), PA.. OCTOBKll j 1881. RAILNOADS. PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R. ARKANdKMKNT OF P AS9EN0I E R TRAINS Juno 27lh, 1831. Trains Leave HarrlNburg as Follows : for New York via Allentown, at 8.05 a. m 1.4i anil tm i). in, Kor New Voik via Philadelphia and "Bound. Brook Route," tj.su H.u5 a. in. and 1.45 p. in. Kor Philadelphia, at 0.3J, 8.0.', 9.5oa. in., 1.45 and 4.0(1 p. m. . . Kor Ite idltiK, at d.20, 0.30, S.05, 0.60 a. m., 1.45, 4.0U, and 8.ut p. in. . . ForPotlsvllle. at, .2o, 8.03, 9.50 a.m. and 4.00 &. m., and via hclniylklll and Kusquehanna ranch at 2.4(1 i. in. Kor Auburn, at 8.10 a. in. Kor Allentown, at 6.), 8.05, .6ua. in., 1.45 and 4.00 p. m. The 8.05 a. tn. and 1.45 p, m. train have through cars for Aew York, via Allentowu. 8UNDAYH i For Allentown nnd Way Stations, at 5 20 a. m. Kor ltHailuiK, Plilldelapliia, and Way stations, at 1.45 p. in. Trains Lvuto for llairlsburg as Follows t Leave NewVork via Allentown, b.'-0 and 9 00 a. ill . 1.00 and 5.30 p. III. Leave New York via "Bound Brook llonle."and Philadelphia at 7.45 a. in., 1.30,4.00, land ;i.3U p. in. arriving at iliuiisouiK. 1.50, 8.20, 9 2u p. in., and 12.35 a. m. Leave Kbit idelphla, at 9.45 a. in., 4.00 , f. 50 and 7.45 n. in. Leave Pousville. fi.oo. ",lt'a. ni. and 4. 40 p. ni. Leave Heading, at 4.50, 7.30,11.50a. ih., 1.31, 0.15, 7.60 and 10.35 p. in. Leave HoUavllle viaehnylklll and Susquehanna Branch, 8.15 a. in., and 4 4o p. in. Leave Alleniowu, all) 00,9.00 a. ni., 12.10, 4.50, and 9.05 p. in. SUNDAYS: Leave New York, via Allentown at 6.30 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at 7.45 p. in. Leave ReadlUK, al 7 3 a. in. and 10.35 p. in. Leave Allentown. at 9. US p. m. BALDWIN BRANCH. 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Notice Isherebyglveo that letters of administration nn the estate of Susanna litre), late of Mew Buffalo boioujrh. Perry county. Pa , deceased, have been granted to the undersized, residing In same place. All persons undented to said estate a re requested to make immediate payment and those Having claims topreseDtthemduly authenticated! or set tlement to PAVID T. 8TEEL. MayJl.lBSL Administrator. " f"OMTE Cloths and other Dress Goods In va- ATJL rloua . rlous stylet. F. MORTIMER RKM N A2ST8 of PRINTS of these we have a I ree quantity In good styles. In addition to the above goods we have a nice assortment of Ladies Neckties. Corsets, (jerman tnwu Yarn. Zephyrs, Shoes for Ladies and Chil dren, and thousands of other articles. K. MOKT1MKK. New bloomfleld, Pa. m I 1 1 n AN HOUR IN THE AIR. THE outlook was magnificent. At a height of over two thousand feet our balloon, the "Carrier Pigeon," hung buoyant as a feather In the still August air. Beneath us the earth, like a map, lay bathed tn the warm yellow sunshine. paradise Itself could hardly show a scene more pleasant, more rich tu color, or more pastoral or homelike tn aspect. Leaning out of the basket, I sent my last handful of circulars fluttering down tuto the glowing depths, then for some moments, sat gazing on the beautiful panorama below. "Lovely, isn't It,? ".said my campan nnn an voyage, who was looking out on the other side. "Yet I confess I wish we were safe down,,' he added. "Why," I exclaimed, "It's a beautiful, quiet day as ever was I" "Too quiet," remarked my friend. "Unnaturally Btill. But Just look to the northwest, over the mountains there. Bee that white, pillar-formed cloud, like a torn bale of cotton t There will be a thunder squall herein less than an hour; and these thunder gusts are not pleasant to meet In the air. If only that crowd of people would stop gazing at us, or if an air current would carry us ofl'a dozen or flften miles, I for one, should be most happy to take to the ground again." This was my second ascent with Prof. Lamoille, as he was then known to the public; and though not a professional teronaut, it was my business I was then on the staff of a New York journal to especially report this balloon ascent. To me, however, the professor was simply Ned Brown. Young Brown was, however, an enthusiast, in the business; and he always gave the pub lic Its money's worth. We had ascended from Rockwood that day on the occasion of a grand political rally and mass meeting. The balloon ascent, as will be guessed, was a feature devised to draw people out. Ned had in.hls pocket a check for two hun dred dollars from a prominent politician. For nearly an hour there seemed not a breath of atr. There we hung as if asleep In mid-heavens. Yet still in the northwest the white thunder-caps push ed their snowy heads higher and high er. Still soared those great fleecy masses of vapor In the distance; and soon under neath them dark, watery-looking vol umes began to heave up. Anon, there was a low, far-off growl. A vast, black shadow, miles away, was stealing along the sunlit earth, steadily nearlng us. It seemed to devour the golden landscape. "It's coming rapidly," said I putting up my notes. " Oh yes, It's coming," said my friend cooly. " Can't we rise above it V" I asked. "Yes If you will kindly jump out and lighten us, otherwise not. You see I canuot spare the little ballast I have left." " Thank you," said I, " I prefer to stay with you. But why not descend J"' " And catch a ducking, and get my balloon bursled If nothing worse. No ! I have calculated the chances. We will run before the storm." " But this doesn't look much like run ning," I said. " We are not moving a hair's breadth." " Walt a bit. There will be wind enough, I promise you, within five min utes," observed my companion. " You Bee," he continued, " every shower has its own wind, and it always leads the thunder clouds a distance of three or four-miles ahead. When that catches us, we shall scud in advance of the rain, I think." Just then the gigantic shadow swept across the sun ; and almost the same moment a great cold wave seemed to break agulust us. The balloon rocked like a boat at sea. One after another the vast terlal bil lows struck us. We bobbed up and down on them like a cork. A moment or two later, the fresh damp current caught us on its mighty wing. The " Carrier Pigeon" ducked her lofty head to tho leeward, then slowly gathering headway, sailed majestically off before the shower." "Bee that!" exclaimed Ned. "My theory holds." At leugth the shower spent Itself. The flashes and the loud, rattllug peals ceased after a time ; and the black wall of clouds broke, up in mist. It was get ting toward sunset. " It will soon be roosting time," Ned remarked. "Now hunt for a soft spot," and untying the valve-line, he gave a a steady pull at it. Instantly, the whis tle of the escaping gas sounded the first warning notes of that most trying and perilous ordeal of an meronaut's life a descent. For the first time that after noon, a look of gravity overspread Ned's face. "It's easy going up, aud sailing after you are up," he used to say. . " It's this getting down again that tells the story." It Is a curious sensation, (bis going down ; you feel yourself too light sink ing sinking as if a floor beneath was falling. Still borne on by the air current, the ballon niffjjed slowly towards the earth, as if strung an a long, descending guy; or rather I should say, the earth, with all Its array of orchards, farms and fields, rose steadily to meet us. We are now not, more than eight or ten hundred feet from the ground, tend ing slowly downward, when suddenly we seemed to strike into a fresh, quick wind which whisked us along with it. Bo sharply did It strike us, that the bas ket lurched and swung. "The ground current!" muttered Ned. " I was afraid of it. Generally after a shower there's a fresh, breeze along the ground." We Instantly let go the valve-llne, to close the throtle, and threw out the little ballast we had left ; but it was too late. We had let out too much gas to rise but a brief distance. The great silken globe above us, wrinkling with a deafening noise, like the rattling of sheet-iron, swayed and shook, and then tended still lower. " A hard lighting this time, old fel low !" exclaimed Ned. "Is your neck Insured V" "Four thousand dollars on It, my boy 1" said I. " Policy runs to my dear old mother." "All right, then. Hang hard! I'm going to throw out the grapple,'.'and my comrade tossed out the first of the two anchors. Two hundred feet of line went whizzing off the reel. Still, the anchor did not touch the earth, but swung clear, and went dangling over roofs and tree tops, as we flew along with the speed of a railway train. Our grapple-hook rattled on several roofs; then dangling for some distance above the main street, caught the sus pended rope of a large campaign flag, which we hauled after us for a mile or two. A tremendous hoorahf roBe-ln the rear. 'Twas a Hayea and Wheeler flag. We carried tt far enough for me to read the names. A moment after it tore one of the top railB from a fence and caught in a pile of apple-tree brush, a snarl of which we dragged after us across several fields and pastures till we struck a road which chanced to run in our course. Just then, I saw on the road ahead a load of wheat piled on a rack cart, drawn by a yoke of oxen. " Turn out ! Turn out !" we both yell ed down at It. "Gee, Buck !" shouted the man driv ing. But before he could turn half round we were overhead. A young fellow ou the load gave a yell and a leap oft' at the same moment none too soon, either,for we took the rail off the rack on the high side, and left the apple-brush on the load ! "By Jiug!" I heard the fellow sing out. " Ole Splithuf hleself's ou a flshln, to-night! D'ye see bis big hook V But " dad" was screaming, " Whoa blsh! Whoa-hlsh 1" trying to stop the oxen. The cattle, frightened half to death, were trying to run away, despite the whacks the old man dealt them with the pitchfork. We could look back, as we flew on, to see the result of the mis chief we had unavoidably caused. A minute after, our basket almost grazed a ledge of rocks on the crest of a hill, and lo, right down in front of us lay a great pond. In the dim light it looked like a sea. A fog hung over it. "That's fatal for us, I'm afraid I" cried Ned. " We shall be down Into it. I can't even see the other side 1" We were not half a mile off from it. Black and cheerless enough the water looked. Ned gave one glance and decided what to do. " Goodby, Frank I" he exclaimed. " Stick to the basket. I'll drop off and take my chance. Then the balloon will rise, and you will cross the pond." Be fore I could even speak, he swung out of the car, and went down the anchor line, hand over hand. The rapid motion whirled him round and round. The grapple Itself was trailing and bouncing along the ground. We were close to the water before Ned was half way down the long line. "Drop!" I screamed "or you'll bo drowned 1" He looked downward, but even then was too late. The Hue switched him violently through some willow tops, and the balloon sailed out over the water. A man of less nerve would assuredly have lost his presence of mind and full en Into the lake. For, oi cevrse, no one could bold on to a small line like iul for many minutes switched and jerked about as be was. For my own part, a thudder of horror went through me. I began to haul him up with might and main as rapidly as I could. To my surprise, Ned called out to me to " hold on !" to " stop 1" Glancing down, I saw that he was still cautiously descending, hand over hand. There was less wind, and the balloon was ruunlng slower. " Ned I Ned !" I shouted. " Are you crazy ? Are you going to drown your self V You never can swim ashore with your clothes and boots on !" But already hU feet were spattering In the water; a moment more he was waist deep borne along like a huge bob. For some distance he was carried on thus and then I began to divine his motive. The pond was not bo wide as we fear ed. Immediately I saw that we were close In to a wooded shore. The wind had died away, almost, and so well checked was the balloon's speed that, directly Ned's feet touched the shore, with a dexterous turn of the line around a stump, he brought.lt to a standstill. I had then only to let out the of the gas; and thus our voyage ended. An Irishman's Strange Fight. IT WAS In the Island of Borneo. A queer place It Is, I- tell you, and the queerest lot of people I ever saw in my life. But, at the same time, If a man gets used to their ways, an old Bailor might have a happy time living among the Dyacka. I landed from my ship one day, and with Ned JIcKltrlck, a boy from the green Isle, I started for a cruise on the shore. Wereckonedon a hunt, and brought guns, though we didn't know what kind of game we were likely to scare up. And, If I must tell the truth, we didn't neither of us know much about a gun. "Seth, acushla," said Ned, " phat kind av a counthry is this at all at all? Look at the threes. By the great gun of Athlone but did ye iver see Bech big wans in all yer loife?" Where we landed there was a little river making its way down to the sea, and while we were walking up to the woods, a big water snake, as thick as my arm, went buzzing up the stream. Ned gave a war-whoop and jumped four feet from the ground ; for If there is anything on the face of the earth that an Irishman hates It Is a snake. "Look at that fellow." he cried. "Shoot him, Seth. Kill him. Whoop! I niver saw seen a baste in all my loife." I got him quiet after a while, and went on Into the woods. Ned was wild at the fruits and flowers he saw, and If I had let him, he'd have poisoned himself a dozen times before we got a mile on the road. We kept the river for a guide, because neither of us knew the country, and if we once got lost In the trackless woods, there was little chance of our ever gel ting out alive. . Many a queer sight and sound disturb ed us, and at last we sat down under a tree and took our lunch. I had just mixed a little stiff horn of grog, when Ned started up. " Look yer here, Seth," he said. " See the hairy man. Get out av that, ye black thafe av the world." Not far away, standing in a stooping posture, with his long arms swinging by his side, was a huge orang-outang, looking at us in the queer, inquisitive way which seems bo natural to monkeys and those of her tribe. He was a big fellow, nearly as tall as a man ; and no wonder Ned, who had never seen anything like it, thought it was a man. I didn't say anything, and Ned stood looking at the orang in the ugly way peculiar to an Irishman who thinks himself imposed upon. "Look here, ye rascal," he said,angrl ly, " d'ye want anything out av me 1"' The orang did not move or make any Bound, and Ned began to get mad. He shook his bead and walked to ward the orang in a fighting posture, and I followed, because I didn't know what he was going lo do. "Now, look," said Ned, extending bis hand. "I've got five fingers or four fingers and a thumb, which manes the same thing as well as you, an' be the powers, av ye don't spake till me, I'll show ye how they do the trick in ould Ireland." "I wouldn't stand this nonsense, if was you, Ned," I said, setting him on. He didn't need any backing, and went closer. " Now smell av that fist," he said, " an' mark me while I spake. Av ye don't beg me pardon for not answering a civil question, may I nlver see ould Ireland again av I dont knock ye into Bmlthereens." The orang uttered a harsh, grating cackle, which Ned took for a laugh, and he at once slapped the orang across the jaws and danced around him with an Irish yell, his hands up in true fighting style. Nu one but an Irishman would have ever thought of such a thing, and I was bursting with laughter. "Step up, ye villain," roared Ned. " How d'ye lolke that, now V" The orang gave a yell like a panther and sprang at Ned's throat, his claws going like a windmill. In less time than It takes to tell it, Ned wns the worst-looking Irishman In or about the Island of Borneo. I don't know what would have hap pened to him If I hadn't got out a knife and gave the orang a dig, for I didn't dare to Are at him while he was hanging on to Ned and clawing Into him. The minute the orang felt the knife he lit out, leaving Ned mad with rage, dancing wildly about, and blood run nlg down his face from a dozen scratch es. " D'ye call that fulr fighting, ye black thafe?" he roared. " Howld on ( I'll come till ye." To my surprise he set out on a run after the orang-outang, which was run ning away 'among the trees, looking over his shoulder with an angry snarl, and licking the blood which flowed from his wounded arm. Ned wouldn't stop.aud the only thing I could do was to run after him, for I didn't know what kind of trouble he'd get Into If I wasn't by to help him. I didn't fully realize myself how dan gerous it was to chase a wounded orang, but I couldn't have left Ned anyway. He was a good runner, and was over hauling the man-monkey hand-over-flst, when four or five more dropped from the trees and joined their companion. " Hold hard there, Ned," I yelled. " Don't you see he's got help If" "Sorraa bit I care!" roared Ned. "I can whip the party, av they'll ouly fight fair." Theorangsset up a chattering and yelling such as you never heard In your . life, three of them, the one I had hurt among the rest, began to come toward us with such mischief in their eyes that I knew were in for a fight. "Look out, Ned," I cried. "Fire at them or you are gone." I pulled on the big fellow I had hurt, and he keeled over beautiful. Ned, who began to have a faint idea of .the truth, had the good luck to break the leg of another. The pitiful yell he uttered brought the others at us, and I drew my knife, a regular old bowie, and waited. Ned clubbed his rifle and dashed in. But the ourang at which he struck leap ed back to avoid the blow and stood chat tering. My antagonist made a jump at me, and I felt the sharp claws In my throat, and struck out wildly and at random, and heard a half human groan, and my enemy lay dead at my feet. As I jumped to help Ned, I saw him astride of the ourang which had pitched into him, pummeling him to his heart's content. "Ah, wud ye, then V" he yelled. "Taste that, an' that, an' that. How d'ye loike that?" "Come away, Ned," I said. "You'll have a whole colony of the hairy things on your back If you don't look out." "Whoop I I'll tache thlm to pitch ln til a thrue hearted Irish bye that nlver harmed tbim in his loife. Taste ay that, me jewel." I dragged him off and got him away. I didn't tell him that they weren't men we were fighting with until we got to the ship, and he was bragging how many Dyacks he'd licked. Then I told the story, and a madder man you never saw In your life. Of course it came to a fight, and I had to win. An Old Maid's Opinion. She had been called an old maid, and rather resented It. Said she, "I am past forty. I have a good home. I think you know I have had abundant oppor tunities to marry. I have been brides maid a score of limes. I ask myself with, which one of the beautiful girls that I have seen take the marriage vow would I exchange to-day ? Not one I Some are living apart from their husbands; some are divorced ; some are uivet of drunken men; some are hanging on the ragged edge of society, endeavoring to keep up appearances ; some are tolling to support and educate their children, and these are the least miserable; some tread the nar row line beyond the boundary of which lies the mysterious land, and some have gone out in the darkuess and unknown horrors, and some are dead. A few there are who are loved and honored wives, mothers with happy homes; but, alas, only a few." Kaiioka, Mo., Feb. 8, 1880. 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