One of the reasons I love Jane Austen's novels so much is her sarcasm. Here, on the surface, it might seem that the father is criticising Kitty for coughing at inconvenient times. Of course we can't really time our coughs, so the father is actually telling his wife off for being so mean to Kitty.
The expression itself "she times them ill" is archaic and not used today, as others have pointed out below. Austen uses the word "ill" several times. One other example is Elizabeth pointing out that someone wrote the address "very ill" on an envelope. We might say "badly" in both these cases now, instead of "ill".