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The New York herald., 1878-02-28

ney Stuart who appeared for the prisoner, summed
up In his behalf, coptendng that hts client had no
frnudulent intent whatever when the prop
eriy was obtained. AT the opening OF the
court yesterday Assistant District Attorney Rollins
replied for The prosecution, and, the OF
vigorous address. submitted that the charge against
the accused had been amply sustained by the evi-
dencc. which clearly proved that ABBOTT IN conjunc
tion with Others had deliberately loot scneme
TO swinde all the merchants who believed IN his
fraudulent statementss lie hoped the Jury would
protect interests OF the mercantile community by
conv,cting the prisoner. Recorasr Hackett. having
briefly reviewed the evidence, delivered clear ana
comprehensive charge to the law bearing
case observing that II the jury 10 the conclusion
IRON the testimony adduced that Mr.. Blake
ducsd TO part wuh hts goods by the representations
made and that Abbott, ~ the time OF making them,
them to- be false and fraudu they should
convict him, but that II any doubt existed In their
minds the subject the prisoner entitled TO the
benefit OF L. The jury alter bref absence returned
n verdict OF guilty. and motion oil Mr.. Rollins
prisoner was remandod sentence.
The New York herald., 1878-02-28
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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
A Dogs Fidelity.

A few days since little child only
two years of age, daughter of Mr.. For
ry, who resides q short distance from
Hanover, York county, strayed away
from its home accompanied by large
and very intelligent Newfoundland dog,
which is its constant companion. 1t
wandered to the railroad and there sat
down on the track just few moments
before train came laundering along
In the meantime the dog seemed to un-
derstand its danger, went and sat down
beside it and between the child and the
train.
The engineer seeing the dog but not
the child, which was on the other side,
blew the whistle and tried in every way
to scare the dog. The dog refused to
stir, and thinking it strange the fireman
looked again, saw the child, and as it
was too late to stop ran out on the cow
catcher to catch the little one, when
just as the train touched the dog, the
child got off the track then, and not
until then did the dog leave his post,
and barking with delight, and showing
every manifestation of joy followed its
baby mistress. Was it not something
beyond instinct that caused this dumb
animal to interpose between the child
and harm
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
An Evening Call.

The following from the Detroit Free
Press having several amusing and truth
full hits at society, we give our readers
the benefit of it on the local side of the
house; Seem len" said Brother Gardi-
ner, as he rose up and placed his hand
on copy of 'The Great Orators of
Madagascar len, de ole woman
war out to deliber de washin' de odder
night, and drapped over to see de Wild
der Johnsing fur few minits. L sat
down on de frunt steps in de deepnin'
twilight, an while de skeeters sailed
aroun' frew the sleepy atmospheric
axed de widder' why it was dat de man
who does de moas 'blowin' about hard
times hez de leas' to lose by panic; an
she showed de gold film in her teef ez
she sweetly replied: "Misser Gardner,
dar will be tatur bugs jes' ez long ez dar
am taturs.' "De sof' clouds sailed across
de azure surface of de bewtiful moon,
an axed de widder why de church
preachers stood up in DER pulpits an
wept ober de heathen in China, but for
got to even heave sigh ez dey passed
base ball, dog fights, jumpin' matches,
an nayborhood rows on deir way home;
an de widder she shined up her brass
rings wild her apron an replied: "Mis-
ser Gardner, all butchers may pc honest,
but all butchers scales may not weigh
sixteen ounces to de poun. 1t am pow
erful easy fur us to fin fault wild odder
peoples noses, an jes' like us to forgit
dat de ends of our own turn up ct sat
dar in de increasin' darkness, feelin' a
goneness for de want OBJ sweet turnip
to eat, an 1 axed de widder why de man
who doan' mean to squar' up wild his
grocer am jes' de chap who finds fault
wild de size of quart measure, an she
lodged pinch-beetle an replied /:
''Misser Gardner, dis woruld am so
constitooted dat de dog which barks de
loudest gifts de moas' bones. Money am
powerful good, ole man, but de nex' bes'
fling to it am good par o'lungs an
plenty of surface between de eye an de
chin!' Seem len, ez soon ez de ice goes
outen de river, an git a little time to
fink, I'ze gwine to dwell on such fots ez
de above an figger up conclushuns wild
oftpencil."
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
How the Editor Got His Pants.

A good story is told us of an editor in
a neighboring county, who had made a
trade with tailor by which he was to
receive pair of pantaloons.
Months passed by and the pants were
not ready when one day the tailor had a
law suit in which a lawyer friend of the
EDITORS, now upon the bench, was en-
gagged. To him the editor told his
grievance, adding:
" Now, if you can devise some way to
get those pantaloons for me, / shall be
everlastingly obliged"
The lawyer promised to think of the
matter, and they walked into the court
room. At the lawsuit, just as the tailor
was in the midst of of his testimony, he
was thunder-struck by an inquiry from
the lawyer:
Amt you making pair of pants for
Editor w. 2"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
How a Thief was Trapped.

THE Springville IN. W Journal says:
L Charles Thill is not lank, wild
eyed and long-haired character like the
trapper of the plains, but a muscular
Dutchman, with level head on his
Teutonic shoulders. He keeps hotel and
fills the position of constable in his
town.
On Sunday last citizen of this place
visited New Oregon and hitched his
horse in Thill's shed. The guest left a
brand new whip in the buggy, and that
whip looked very tempting to young
man who CHANGED to gaze upon it, and
the consequence was that when the
Springville man got ready to come home
the whip was gone.
Thill was mortified, as all good land
lords should be, at such an occurrence,
and began search of the premises,
thinking that the thief must have Sc
creted the article to carry away under
cover of darkness.
The shed connects the hotel with the
barn, and beneath the manger which ex-
tends the length of the shed, loose
stone was found in the wall of the sta
bic. On removing the stone the whip
was drawn from the hole. To recover
the whip would be triumph enough for
most men, but our host wasn't satisfied.
He must bring the culprit to Justice
Accordingly he resolved TO watch the
booty. This would be an arduous task
if the fellow should stay away a week.
Thill ruminated. Borrowing large
double-spring rat-trap from neighbor,
he planted it close inside the hole where
the whip had been secreted, anehoring
it firmly by heavy chain to joist, and
then awaited developments.
No one came to claim the prize Sun
day night. Monday passed away with
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
A FEMALE DETECTIVE.

THE late Captain John S. Young, for
i many years the head of the detec-
tive police force of New York, was one
afternoon walking up Broadway with
the writer of this article.
A fashionable young lady, in all the
glory of street toilet passed along, and
while passing, eyed keenly, in the usual
woman's way, another lady going in the
opposite direction. Young looked at the
woman minute, and then said emphat-
ically:
81 would give five years of my life if
could tell all about thief as quickly
and as truthfully as woman can tell
about another woman"
There was great deal of force about
Young's remark. Women have an in
stinct about womanly things, which is
finer, more subtitle, and generally more
sure than mans mere reason. They
know each other there is no glover
about their relations; they discount each
other; they can probe all the shams
and subterfuges to which they resort !;
and We're all criminals female, and did
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
Effects of Emancipation.

Revisiting the scenes of his war ex-
perience, Col. Higginson finds marked
improvement in the social and physical
condition of the blacks. The negroes
sleep in beds where formerly they slept
on the floor. The cabins, in old time,
had no tables, and families rarely ate to-
gether, but now they generally have
family meals. Pictures from illustrated
papers adorn the walls, and the chill
dren's school books are seen on the shelf.
Col Higginson met but one of his black
command who complained of poverty,
and he earned good wages, but having
no wife or children to support, was given
to whisky. Most of his old soldiers had
comfortable homestead, with from five
to two hundred acres of land. Many
were highly prosperous.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03

been employed in the custom house, but
these are rather more " searchers" than
detectives. They are not supposed to
ferret out anything for themselves, but
only to inspect the persons and toilets
of such women as may be suspected of
carrying and concealing about them
contraband goods.
Perhaps the most peculiar line in
which female detectives are to any eX-
tent employed is that of divorce detec-
tives-women who hunt up evidence in
divorce cases, for or against certain spec
ified persons. The divorce detective of
the present day is generally woman,
and very often an attractive woman to
boot.
One of the most notorious female de-
tectives of the day was one of the most
beautiful women in New York, tall,
stately, graceful blonde, without any
verbal exaggeration, "queenly crea-
ture She was the wife of lawyer who
had ain extensive practice in divorce
cases, and aided her husband very mate
rally in his peculiar line of business.
The majority of divorce detectives are
as unscrupulous as they are undoubted-
ly clever. They hesitate at nothing to
procure the necessary evidence against
or for the party. They will manufac-
ture it rather than miss it, and incite
to the very crime which they were paid
to detect.
OF course they are not faithful to their
trust. How can a woman who would
undertake such role as this be faithful
to anything or anybody save her own
| interest A smart A No. | female di-
vorce detective who recently figured in
a famous divorce case, acted both for the
man and his wife. To the husband she
reported the piccadilloes of his wife, to
the lady she narrated the iniquities of
the husband. On two separate occasions
she entrapped the husband in the inter-
est of the woman, and so to make mat
ters even she subsequently entrapped
the woman in the interests of the man !;
she even went so far in one episode of
the case to personate one of the parties
in the suit, and then to give evidence
about herself in her assumed charac-
ter.
True, these little tricks were finally
exposed through the ingenuity of a
detective employed by the husband, but
not until vast deal of unnecessary
mischief had been done, and not until
the divorce detective herself had secured
nearly $4,000 for her services from the
two equally betrayed employers.
Surely the female detective has it
in her power to become an institu-
ton.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03

out visitant to the place of secretion.
Night came on, and young man of the
place spent the evening at the hotel
When he abade adieu to the host it was
past ten o'clock, and the landlord pre-
pared to retire for the evening, forget
ting all about the transaction of the day
before.
He had hardly disrobed himself, how
ever, when cry of help greeted his ear,
and the cry came from the shed. Others
heard the alarm, and long before the
floor could be taken up to loose the trap
quite crowd had congregated to wit
ness the young mans humiliation.
Sprawled out under the manger, with
one arm through the hole in the wall
and one finger in the merciless jaws of
the trap, he presented picture of dire
distress. Could he have got his head
through the hole and gnawed that fin
ger off it would have given him pleas
ure to have done so but he didn't hap
pen to be rat, and that thing was an
imposibility so, humiliating as it was,
he had to cry out to the landlord for de-
liverance and in calling the landlord he
called the constable also. The young
man isof good family and had hitherto
borne good name.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
A Homesick Pig.

One of the most remarkable cases of
instinct we ever heard of came under
our personal observation a few days
ago.
Mr.. Deveaux, the County Jailer, was
presented with a small pig by friend
living about four miles from town, and
it was tied by him in the Courthouse
yard.
The pig was not over four weeks old
and was brought the whole distance in
a sack. On Friday morning last Mr..
Deveaux united it and did not notice it
particularly. In the evening he noticed
that it had strayed off. On Saturday
morning his friend informed that the
pig had returned to his farm and was
with its mother, it having succeeded in
making its way from town to the place
of its nativity. The journey was the
more remarkable, as the way to be
traversed was first across Briton's Bay,
which is half mile wide, and thence
through the enclosure of three FARMS
The pig was seen by some colored men
while crossing the bay, who tried to in
tercept il, but it eluded them and escaped
to the cornfleld in the direction of home.
st. Mary's (Md.) Beacon.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
Yes" was the slow and mutterlng

+" Yes" was the slow and mutterlng
reply.
When will they be donep"
"Next Friday" answered the tailor.
"And delivered to him 2"
Yes"
"That's all on that point" quietly re-
marked the lawyer. AS soon as the
the tailor stepped off the witness stand
he was confronted by the editor:
"Now I've got you, you old scoun-
drel. You swore you'd have those pants
made and delivered next Friday, and
you'd better do it. If you don't I'll
have you arrested for perjury and sent
to Allegheny, as sure as you're living
man."
1t is hardly necessary to add that the
editor received his pants in good order
at the exact time they were promised.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03

There are no prettier creatures
Upon the face of earth,
In figure or in features,
Than schoolgirls full of mirth.
For innocence and joyance
What can with them compare,
SO free from fierce annoyance,
And books their only care +?
They are like all things pleasing
Like singing, bright-winged birds,
Our souls with beauty seizing,
And melody of words.
They are like budding roses,
Which purest dews begem,
And every day discloses
Some sweet, new charm in them.
They are like young fruits growing,
With cheeks of crimson dyes;
Their lips like cherries glowing;
Like fountains clear their eyes.
Like that of brooks their laughter,
Now ripping low, now loud:
OF what may hap hereafter
No thoughts their spirits cloud.
o happy, happy mortals,
Hearts unbeguiled and true,
As look ye through life's portals,
What lattering scenes ye view
With no dark clouds behind you,
With sunshine bright before,
Unblighted flowers still find you
Along life's smiling shore.
In you no frosty chill is,
But all is warm with love,
And ye bear yet the lilies
Ye brought from fields above.
Your soft cheeks winsome roses
Wear not the hint of shame;
Heavens light there still reposes,
And ye are void of blame.
o lovely, little ladies,
What magic ye possess
Enshrouded in what shade is
The spot ye fail to bless
With your enchanting presence,
And your ethereal bloom,
And joy, which is joys essence,
The darkest ye Hume.
love you-how love you,
Ye schoolgirls one and all !
Fair be the heavens above you
Thence blessings on you fall
My love is as brothers.;
May all, fondly pray,
Be happy wives and mothers,
When school-days pass away
Georgetown, D. c., W. l.. SHoKMAKl
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03

"a If you wish to preserve continual
harmony, learn that the great secret lies
in being sometimes blind to things you do
not care to see and deaf to things you do
not care to hear.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03

witching beauty in the world. JOHN BURROUGHS :
WINTER SUNSHINE
The delicious faces of children the beauty of school
girls, g the sweet seriousness of sixteen" we
know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire
and enlarge us. r. w. EMERSON THE CONDUCT OF
LIFE
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-03
For The Bloomfield Times.
SCHOOL GIRLS.

no MISS lulu WALTON.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-13
SOUTHERN HOME AND FARM.
We DrI,o Horsea TO Exce.1.

We DFt, Q HOrSea to Excess.
By driving to excess we mean that
horses are pulled and hauled, isrked and
twitched too much with the reins.
There Is too much guiding with the
lines. Concerning this subject the
Prairie Farmer says lin tIuth) that the
" most vicious and inexcusable STYLE of
driving If the manner which 30 many
drivers adopt, to wit, of wrapping thu
lines around their bands and pulling the
horse back with all their might and
main, so that tine horse, in peint of fact,
feels the weight back of him with his
mouth, and not with his breast and
shoulders. This they do under the inn
preston that such dead pull is needed
in order to steady " the horse
The fact Is, with rare exceptions,
there should never be any pull upon the
horse at all. A steady pressure is allow
able, probably advisable. but anything
beyond this has no justification in nature
or reason For nature suggests the ut
most freedom of the action OF the head,
body and limbs, so that the animal NAV
attain the highest possible rate of speed.
In speeding a horse the lines need seldom
be grasPed in both hands when the road
is straight, and free from distractions.
The true way to drive is to let the horse
drive himself, the driver doing little but
directing him and giving him that conf
dence which a horse gets in himself only
when he feels that a guide and friend Is
back of him"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-13
Two wasted Lives.

Truth stranger that fiction could be
told OF the lite of the late Mrs @ one
of the most eccentric characters of the
south west. From the administration of
Washington to that OF Van Buren,, she
was an habitue of the capital. Jefferson,
Randolph and Madison were her con
temporaTies. Her youth was spent on
the shores of the Ohio when Pittsburg
was 8 trading-tort. She held during her
lie all OF her husbands great wealth.
The heir, his nephew, who was to re-
ceive the property at her death, when he
came of age re used to learn any profes.
sion or trade, as Mrs, @. was then City
in inirm health. Sne would not give
him penny, although she was childless,
living alone on her plantations, sur
rounded only by slaves.
''Ysu better go to work, George" she
would say to him. 'Pn walk over your
grave yet"
He waited twenty, thirty, forty years
He was pauper, but the dead weman's
shoes were not yet ready for him.
She made preparations apparently to
live forever. Every year she bou ght
the costIiest dresses and laces, made in
the prevailing fashion, and st red them
heir, feeble old man, died at last in the
almsheuse. She lived on.
In her hundred and first year she was
prevailed upon to make her will. Alter
of various properties, the law
yer reminded her of the Bogg farms,
which she had inherited from her father.
"They are mine," she said, quietly, and
continued devising her husbands estate.
"That is ALL" she said at length, hold
ing out her hand for the pen.
"But you have not left the Bogg
farms to anybody"
Sir, they are mine forever |" cried the
dying woman.
She fingered for another year, in which
her former slaves plunderec her of all her
boarded treasures, and died at last poorer
in friends, in spirit, in the real riches OF
life, than even her dead pauper heir.
What sermon of efeminscy, pride and
eovetousness could preach sRch lesson
as these two lives?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-13
English Mothers

1t IS marked feature of social life in
England, and certainly one of its special
charms, that mothers and daughters are
40 uniformly Seen together at home.
Not only is the mother the first lady to
whom you are introduced at the house
where you visit, but she is mistress of the
ceremonies throughout: not only does
she preside at the dinner table, but at
the evening party she sits as queen.
Whatever may be your first impressions
of such an arrangement, If it happens
that your sympathies are with the
younger ladies, you will very soon learn
to think that the mothers absen &C would
be very sincerely regretted by the daugh>
tiers. As picture, sll must admit the
arrangement to be perfect. The portly
form and matronly dignity of the mother
are an exquisite toll to the youth u
beauty and maidenly coyness OF the
daughters. And you will find nothing
to mar, but everything to enhance. the
interest of the picture, The mother:
presence never seems to operate as 81
unWelcome restraint. Between her anC
the daughter you will mark the most
joyous, playful, loving freedom, without
the sscTifce of little of maternal dig
nifty and authority on the one hand, or o
sweet and graceful duty on the other
1t may be SAID of English families, gen
orally, that these two things are emf
nently characteristic, namely, uniform
parental authority, and the most charm
ing freedom of intercourse between pa
rents and their childran.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-13
Parn.,tIo Fuurs.

Fungi, says the learned DR.. J. Lippin>
colt, are an extensive family of cryptOg.
amous plants, generally known as mush-
mildew, etc. They are generally para
site, deriving their nourishment in
whole or part from the substances they
infest. Taey are found wherever there
is decaying vegetation on which to feed,
aud sometimes prey upon living tissues.
Nothing of vegetable origin is free from
their ravsges, when exposed to influences
favorable to their growth. They are
founi also on animal objections, whose
death they cause on the human skin,
and even on stones, on iron, but g few
hours removed from the Jorge, and on
acid chemical solutions. Some cutan-
eous diseases are the result of these vege-
table parasites Oldham olbjcans forms
. disease called sptha on the mucous
rnembrane of the tongues of infants,
Penetrating so deeply as To be irfemova-
HE by art. II is found also in the nose,
the wind pipe, stomach aud intestines
FunOi are attendants of diphtheri8, aud
are 6ressnt in cholera mOrbus, as we'll as
in yellow fever. Other parasites, not
much dissimilar, abound in the scalp,
causing disease; others on the teeth,
sone on the respiratory organs of
birds. In their brains aud eggs, and they
have even been observed IN tic .niist of
the human eye.
the silk worm is often destroyed by them;
The potato rot is occasioned by one and