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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-08-14

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Cumberland County.-We copy the fol-
lowing from the Cumberland county
papers of last week:
Rev. Jesse i. Young, pastor of the
Centenary M. u. Church, Of Carlisle,
will vacate his pulpit next Sunday, and
will sail for Europe on the 10Th inst.
The reverend gentleman will be absent
two months.
The Newville star, which is some on
snake stories, reports that an excellent
COW belonging to Mrs. Reeder, ut the
North Mountain, in the direction of
Three Square Hollow, is regularly suck
ed by an immense black snake which
nightly steals in from the woods to the
stable which Is log and much open. The
COW Is nearly dry in consequence. 1t is
known that blacksnnkes are very fond of
cows milk.
A sad accident occurred on Tuesday at
the Reading ore banks, near Boiling
Springs, by which u man named E. 0.
Webb, Of Adams county, was severely
injured. He was engaged at work in
the mine, when about ton and half of
ore caved in, fracturlng the left leg be-
tween the knee and the hip, and badly
lacerating the ilesl. The unfortunate
nun WIS TeIuOVei 10 llle county ullns-
house, and Drs. Krise, Kefler and Dale,
of Carlisle, summoned. The doctors re-
moved the fractured bones, and the pa-
tient is getting along well, though it is
feared amputation may yet be necessary.
On Tuesday evening last ut about dusk
q bold attempt at highway robbery was
made on the road leading to the turn
pike south of NEVILLE, just beyond the
bridge crossing the railroad. Mrs. W.
A. and Mrs. John Meyers were in a bug
gy on their way home when suddenly a
colored man approached them from be-
hind and yelled whoa to the horse at the
same time clutching at the lines from
the rear part of the buggy between the
ladies. The ladies resisted and pro-
nounced him villain and demanded
that he leave them. BY urging the horse
forward and determined resistance they
got rid of the scoundrel, not however,
until he had torn one of their dresses.
The ladies think they could identify him
If they saw him again.-NeoUUjLle Star.
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TNOR SHERIFF. Being solicited by a num-
u Der OF citizens from different parts of the
county to seek the nomination for Sheriff, by the
Republican Convention, j hereby announce my
self as candidate for that Office, and II nomi
Mated pledge myself to use all honorable means
form the duties Of the oifice faithfully and
promptly. THOMAS SU1CH.
bloomfield, Pa, July II, 1877.
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Destruction Lightning in New York.

RoNDoUT, N. y, Aug. Especial dis
patches to the Daily Freeman give re-
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4 Notice.-The undersigned gives notice
2 to the citizens of Loysville and vicinity
that he is prepared to make and repair
vehicles of every style in the best man
ner. Having had seven years expert
ence, and having on hand good lumber
and we'll seasoned l can guarantee to
turn out wagons, or sleighs of good style
and quality. AS 1 intend to make this
location my home, / mean that my
work shall give satisfaction. 3t*
LOUISVILLE, Aug4, n. JAMES MINICH.
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Railroad Accident.

WATERLOO, N. j., August s.-While
the morning train West on the Morris
and Essex railroad was standing at the
depot, at 10 o'clock this morning, II was
run into by following special engine
and the rear car broken in. No passen-
gers were hurt, but James Wright, en-
gineer Of the special engines jumped Off
and broke his leg.
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TNSTRAY.-A BULL CALF about eight or
IL twelve months old, of light brown color,
came to the premises Of John NJ Foose, in Spring
township, Perry county Pa, on or about the End
ward, prove property. pay charges and take said
estray away, or he will be disposed OF according
to law w. ii. KISTLER,
August IA, 1877. Township Clerk.
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NOTICE TO TREsPAssERs. = The subscri-
in Der hereby cautions all persons against
hunting or trespassing in any manner on his land
in Tuscarora township: as he Is determined to
punish all offenders to the full extent of the law.
JOHN BESSLER.
June 26, 1877 3t*
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Splendid Seed Wheat. Mr.. Geo. Swartz,
of Centre twp, has for three years been
sowing the Loosen Wheat, a new
variety but recently known and finds it
far superior to any other. 1t stands the
weather better, is not apt to be hurt by
the fly, and in weight and general ap-
State. He has few bushels of this
wheat for sale, for seeding. Price 81 per
bushel. Address,
GEORGE SWARTz,
New Bloomfield,
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yard. They were carefully watched,
and their object in moving was
studied. They were observed to go
underneath a large trunk which sat
in the room, and it was presently
raised to see what the insects were
doing under it. 1t was found that
they were leaving their eggs there.
They were not disturbed, and Mr..
Wurzbach continued to study their
movements. He anticipated that
the intuition of the insects had led
them to move their eggs to place
of safety, fearing rain, and this
proved true. 1t was not long before
a heavy shower fell and the ant-bed
in the yard was flooded, but the in,
stinct Of the little bugs had saved
them from any loss--they had
moved indoors to keep dry. After
the rain was over, and when the
skies were clear, they returned to
their outside home. Mr.. Wurzbach
has thrown away his barometer and
will hereafter be guided by these
little ants in making his rain bets.
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livered over his grave; a fiat tomb
stone is placed on his nose; the
friends return to the city to take a
bite; some obituary notices are got
ten up at once; for two or three
days the journalists live on him; a
subscription is started for monu-
ment; the government is informed
of the sad occurrence; a pension is
obtained for the widow and schol-
arship for one of the children; and
all this done, the surviving friends
rush to resume the very same fren-
zied life which killed him. Fare
well thou great man of a year, a
month or a day. Quiet be thy
sleep, now that eternal night has
come!
1t is into this pandemonium, into
this penitentiary, into these sewers
that thousands of young men rush,
with a good-natured, frank smile
on their lips, believing that. they
will meet their fortune and reputa-
tion as easily as one meets a cart
on the high road. They would not
stick to ordinary labor, obscure and
requiring patience, but certain in
its results and sure to make a man
robust, serene, respected, useful
and good. l have gone myself
through these horrible swamps in
the beginning Of my career. sI
came out shivering and pale, terri
fed by what / had seen. And ]
become still terrified when now and
then | have to go back there to
shake the hand of an old comradt
or to take his body and carry it tc
a place Of rest. l would have been
dead long ago if l had remained
there. Blessed be the Lord Of the
destinies of the universe, for his
having shown me the way to gel
out, and for having commuted my
sentence. No, Dante, whose name
is invariably invoked when people
speak of abominable tortures, could
not have dreamed of this damned
production Of intellect, which roll;
its own head as Sisyphus rolled hii
stone and knocks it against iror
walls to get out Of it a last little
spark. ALEXANDRA DUMAS.
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TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER /, 1877.

would be too grand and awful to be
faced with dignity or calm, if it were
actually realized at all? = - Or
finally, as / know is true far oftener
than we fancy, is it that three-score
years and ten have quenched the
passionate desire for life with which
at first we stepped upon the scene ?
We are tired, some Of us, with un
ending and Improbable toll we
are satiated, others Of US, with such
ample pleasures as earth can yield
us; We have had enough of ambi-
ton, alike in its successes and its
failures; the joys and blessings of
human affection on which, what
ever their crises and vicissitudes,
no righteous or truthful man will
cast slur, are yet SO blended with
pains which partake Of their in
tensity; the appetite for life, in
short, is gone, the frame Is worn
and the faculties exhausted and
possibly, this is the key to the phe-
nomenon we are examining-age
cannot, from the very law of its
nature, conceive itself endowed with
the bounding energies of youth,
and without that vigor both of ex-
ertion and desire, renewed existence
can offer no inspiring charms. Our
being upon earth has been enriched
by vivid interests and precious Joys,
and we are deeply grateful for the
gift, but we are wearied with our
life and feel scarcely qualified to
enter on the claims, even though
balanced by the felicities and glories
Of another. 1t may be the fatigue
which comes with age-fatigue Of
the fancy as well as Of the frame
but, somehow, what we yearn fol
most instinctively at last is rest,
and the peace which we can imagine
the easiest because we know it best,
is that Of sleep.
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CortaiaIy, sir.

John Wesley, the great founder
of Methodism, having to travel
some distance in a stage-coach, fell
in with a pleasaut-tempered, we'll
informed officer. His conversation
was sprightly and entertaining, but
frequently mingled with Oaths.
When they were about to take the
last stage, Mr.. Wesley took the Of
ficer apart, and after expressing the
pleasure he had enjoyed in his COM
pany told him he was thereby en-
couraged to ask of him a very great
favor. 81 would take a pleasure
in obliging YOU" said the officer,
" and | am sure you will not make
an unreasonable request" "Then," +"
said Mr.. Wesley, "as we have to
travel together some time l beg that
if | should so far forget myself as
to swear, you will kindly reprove
mel" The officer saw the motive,
felt the force of the request, and
with a smile thanked Mr.. Wesley.
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Ants as a RarOmeter.
San Antonio Express.l

san Antonio EApress.I
Mr.. i. @, Wurzbach is no longer
o disbeliever in the intuitive per-
ception of insects. A few days ago
lot of small red ants made their
appearance in one of the rooms of
his residence in great numbers,
many Of them burdened with eggs
which they had originally deposited
in their subterranean home in the
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Louisville and Great Southern R.R

ll;41 pm. Night Express Connects at Milan
for st. Louis and Chicago. at Mckenzie for
Nashville. CHATTANOOGA, Atlanta and the
Southeast. at tGuthrie for Hopkinsville, Hen
derson and Evansville at Louisville for all
points North and Il ,st.A
lilo pm Day Express Connects for St..
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4:40 pm. Milan Accommodation = Daily
except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
Vile, aud on Night train to Nashville
For tickets or inform alton, apply at Ticket
Office, 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
street.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
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The MtxIcanS In san Antonio.


The MtxIcauH in san Antonio.
Harper's MagsEine.l
Everywhere about the outskirts
OF the town are innumerable low
huts built of sticks and mud and
straw and any old drift, rooted with
thatch coming almost to the ground,
and presenting an appearance of
the utmost squalor. These are the
Mexican jacals. The chimney and
its ovens are usually in a cone of
baked and blackened mud a little
removed, and under rude awning
or tree the whole family is usually
to be seen, with mules, donkeys,
chickens, and a horde of dogs,
among the latter hideous, hairless
animal, promiscuously intermixed.
Dogs are largely in the majority of
the population in San Antonio,
and their baying divides the noises
Of the night with the cock-crowing
that resoundS from house to jacal,
from farm to ranch, and rises on
the ear in broad surgeS of sound
like the waves of the sea. If you
should glance into one of these
Jacals, YOU would find an earthern
floor cleanly swept, a bed neatly
made and brightly covered, and the
place garnished after its sort; and
although the general idea is that it
is nest of filth, to the casual eye
it seems clean and orderly, but poor
to the last degree of poverty. Yet
the Mexican here can live on less
than any. In the summer the corn
and onion and peppers of his gar
den patch meet his needs; in the
winter, even when he owns his bit of
land, fiye-penny soup bone and
one sweet potato comprise his usual
marketing. But poor as he may
be, his daughters do not 90 out to
service; his mother wraps her
ribosa-that remnant of the Span
ish mantilla-about her with the
grand air and he himself, although
in rags, salutes you on the street
with the grave courtesy of Span
ish don. Making exceptions of the
proud old Mexican families Of lin
cage and repute, who live in seclu-
sion, it is not possible to feel that
these people who are known as
Mexicans have any claim. to the
name as we use it. TheySre sim
ply a gentler Indian, accepting a
sort of civilization, now and then
with a fairer tint, now and then
with a wave in the hair that tells of
darker blood, and always with a
high cheek-bone, following them to
the tenth generation. The proud
Castilian has but small part in
them; the gentle Montezuma race
perhaps has less. One having these
two strains in his veins-the Span
lard, with his hemisphere of poetry
behind him; the Montezuma, rep
resenting ancient and rightful en-
pire of the continent-should wear,
it would seem, other than these
low .browed faces stamped in their
dumb and sullen ignorance, whether
you see them on the women squat
ting on the brick floor Of the cathe-
dral, or on the men lounging in
the plazas against anything which
will uphold them, darker aud more
sullen for the shadow of their huge
sombreros.
San Antonio is, in fact, Span
ish town to-day, and the only one
where any considerable remnant of
Spanish life exists in the United
States
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Future Life aud the Fear OF Death.
w Grov In tha N;nataanth Canturv

Future Life aud the Fear of Death.
W. K. Gray, in the Nineteenth Century,
1t must be conceded that the
doctrine Of future life is by no
means as universally difused as it
is the habit loosely to assert. 1t is
not always dlscoyerable among
primitive and savage races. 1t ex-
listed ameng pagan nations in a
form so vague and hazy as to be
describable rather as a dream than
a religious faith. 1t can scarcely be
determined whether the Chinese,
whose cultivation is perhaps the
most ancient existing in the world,
can be ranked among distinct be-
levers; while the conception Of
Nirvana, which prevails in the
meditatiye minds of other orientals,
is more sort of conscious non
existence than a future life. With
the Jews, moreover, as is well
known, the belief was not indigo
nous, but imported, and by no
means an early importation. But
what is not so generally recognized
is that, even among ourselves in
these days, the conviction of
thoughtful natures varies curiously
in strength and in features at DIFF
ferent periods Of life. In youth,
when all our sentiments are most
vivacious and dogmatic, most of us
not only cling to it as an intellec.
tual creed, but are accustomed to
say and feel that without it
as solace and a hope to
rest upon, this world would
be stripped of its deepest fascina-
tions. 1t is from minds of this
age, whose vigor is unimpaired, and
whose relish for the joys Of earth
is expansive, that the most glowing
delineations Of heaven usually pro-
ceed, and on whom the thirst of fe-
licity and knowledge which can be
slaked at no earthly fountains has
the most exciting power, Then
comes the busy turmoil of our mad
career, when the present curtains
off the future from our thoughts,
and when renewed existence in a
different scene is recalled to our
fancy chiefly in crises of bereave-
ment. And, finally, it is not the
case that in our fading years-when
something of the languor and pla-
cidity Of age is creeping over US,
just when iuturity is coming con-
sciously and rapidly more near, and
when one might naturally expect it
to occupy us more incessantly, and
with more anxious and searching
glances- think of it less fre.
quently, believe in it less confident
ly, desire it less eagerly than in our
youth? Such at least has been my
observation and experience, espc-
cially among the more reflective
and inquiring order of men. The
life Of the hour absorbs us most
completely as the hours grow fewer
and less full; the pleasures, the ex-
emptions, the modest interests, the
afternoon peace, the gentle affec-
tions of the present scene obscure
the future from our view, and rem
der it, curiously enough, even less
interesting than the past. To-day,
which may be onr last, engrosses us
far more than tomorrow, which
may be our forever. And the grave
into which we are just stepping
down troubles us far less than in
youth, when half a century lay be-
tween us and it. What is the ex-
PLANTATION Of this strange phenom-
enong 1t is a merciful dispensation
arranged by the ruler of our life to
soften and to ease u crisis which
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RAILROADS.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

SCHEDULE ON AND AFTER SEPT. Ie,
- 1877;
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail and Express, daily.ll 90 pm 5.45p.m
Somerville accom- 'dat'n
daily lex. Sunday)...... 5.o0p.m S.lSa.m
Time Twenty Minutes Faster than
City fime.
SOmerviIIe train Will stop at reg
uiar and flag stations.
The III. .50p.m. TTRIR makes the quick.
est time ever made to Chattsnooga, Knox
vile. Lynchburg, Washington, and the East,
and will stop at all Regular stations, and at
Flag Stations when tagged, except Flag Sta
tions between Colliefville and Memphis.
Ticket Sifce 21S M1in Atrres aud Depot
Memphis and Charleston railroad.
JOHN A GRANT,
Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
I. s. DAVANl,
1St Assistant General Passenger Agent
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MEMPHIS a LITTLE ROCKR.R.
ShrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas,
rIMECARD,

THE CARDS
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily ....,....,.5.3O pm. 11.3O pm
Freight train daily lex.
sunday).......... ...........7. 90 am. 5.2Opm.
Passengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville. Nash
vile and elreat Southern railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argenta for
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars ON all night
trains.
Fer tickets and information apply at Ticket
Offices 27S and 2S7 Main street, and at depot
foot Of Washington street. or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
or to the underlined.
r. A. WILLIAMS, Pass. Ag't, Memphis.
NJ. s, JAY g. P. aad I. Ag't, Little Rock.
"; 3. SMITH, Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
l23-t
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Ia her last novel. Avis" Elizabstb
Stuart Phelps discusses the point
whether wsman engaged in business or
a profession should marry or not, and
she decides the question adversely.
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Stop that cougHiDg if you do not it
may kill you A bottle Of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup only costs you 25c, aud it's
timely use may save your life.
The Hickman courier., 1877-08-10
womEN1v G o oyERNM1sNr EMPLOY

Among the 5Istinguished women of
fallen fortunes now holding situations in
the departments at Washington are Mrs.
Mary Wilcox, the granddaughter of
President Jackson, and the only person
living who was born in the white house;
Mrs. Charlotte L. Livingston, whose
5000 position was obtained by her rela-
tive. Senator Paddock, after an argument
AGAINST her endeavoring to support her
SELF had failed Mrs. c.. f. Morris, OF
New York, granddaughter of Robert
Morris; Miss Sophie Walker, the daugh-
ter of Robert J. Walker, who was secre-
tarv of the treasury during the presi-
dency of James K. Polk, from 1915 to
1S4s: Miss Dade, whose mother was a
cousin of General Scott; Miss Markoo,
daughter of Francis Markoo, who for
thirty years was attached to the diplo
matte corps Of the state department
Mrs. Helen Mclean Kimball, widow of
Colonel Kimball, who signally distin-
ruisbed himself in the Mexican war
Miss Sallie Upton, of Brooklyn, n Y,
daughter of the late Francis Upten, a
distinguished lawyer, ard the author of
several standard works on admiralty and
jurisprudence Mrs. Chaplin, widow of
United States District Judge Chaplin !;
Mrs. Tifey, cousin of the present sec
retary Of state, ard Mrs. Granger, the
widow o. The late General Gordon Gran
ger, the circumstances of whose massacre
Il, the Indians with General Custer ere
too recent to require the story here,