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I will warrant all my work to give sat isfaction. All work done as low as possible. ANNIE ICKES, Cherry Street, near the Ktatlon, 6 1 13 Newport, Pa. CARSON'S STELLAR OIL. This Is not the lowest priced, but being much the best is 111 the end by far the cheapest. Do not fail to give it a trial, and you will use no other. THE alarming Increase In the number of (right ful accidents, resulting In terrible deaths and the destruction of valuable property, caused by the indiscriminate use of oils. Known under the name of petroleum, prompts us to call your so cial attention to an article which will, wherever l!SKI. remove the CAUSE of such accidents. We allude to Carson's Stellar Oil FOR ILLUMINATING PURPOSES. The proprietor of this Oil has for several years felt the necessity of providing for, and presenting to the public, as a substitute for tiio dangerous compounds which are sent broadcast over the country, an oil that Is HAKE and llltlLLI ANT, and entirely reliable. After a long series of labo rious and costly experiments, lie has succeeded In providing, and now otters to the public, such a substitute In "CAKHON'H HTKLLAlt OIL." It should be used by every family, 1ST, Because It Is safe beyond a question. The primary purpose In the preparation of STELLA K OIL has been to make It PERFECTLY SAFE, thus Insuring the lives and property of those who use it. ID, Because It Is the most BKILLIANT Mould Il luminator now known. 8D, Because It Is more economical, In the long run, than any of the dangerous oils and fluids now In too common use. TH, Because It is Intensely BKILLIANT, and therefore economical, giving the greatest possi ble light at the least expenditure to the consum er. Its present standard of SAFETY AND BRILLIANCY will always be maintained, for upon this the proprietor depends for sustaining the high reputation the STELLAR OIL now enjoys. To prevent the adulteration of this with the ex plosive compound)! now known under the name of kerosene, &c., &c.. It Is put up for family use in Five Gallon cans, each cau being sealed, and stamped with the trade mark of tlut proprietor i It cannot be tamiiered with between the manufac turer and consumer. Noue Is geuulue without the THADK-MAKK. STELLA K OIL Is sold only by weight, each can containing live gallons of six and a half pounds each, thus securing to every purchaser full meas ure. It is the duty and Interest of all dealers and consumers of illuminating otl to Use the HTKLLAlt OI L on 1, because It ulum is know u to lie sate and reliable. , All orders should be addressed to : jakim: a co:, ' WHOLESALE A&ENT8, 136 South Front Street, 1 Bly Philadelphia. New Carriage Manufactory, '. 0 Hiou Stuekt, East or Cahlislb ttv.,' :... New nioomfleld, fenn'a. THE subscriber has built a large and commodi ous Hhop on High Ht., East of Carlisle Hlreet, isew itiooinuem, ri, wnere lie is prepared w man ufaetura to order '. .... .. , .. ,. i ; . Om. i riagOH Of every description, out of the best material. Slclgbs of every Style, built to order, and finished In the most artistic and durable manner. . Having superior workmen, he Is prepared to furnish work that will compare favorably with the best City Work, and much mure durable, aud Ml mucn more reasonauie raws, WREPAlKING of all kinds neatly and prompt lydone. A call Is solicited. ' ... SAMUEL SMITH, sitr ; . 33. CLARK, MAML'rACTUUIH AMU PIAIJtK IN Stoves, Tin and Sheet Iron IVnre ( New Itloomficld, Perry co., Pa., ( , TTt-V.n constantly on hand every article usually aept m iiret-viass esiauiuuiiiivnu AU the latest styles and most Improved 1'arloraud Kitchen Nloveit TO BUltM EITHER COAL OK WOOD I . Rpoutlng and Hoofing put up In the most durable manner and at ruasouable prices. Cull auaeianuue mss'swa. i Soots IN THE WRONG HOUSE. Br K. Delict. MAJOR JOHN PARKINSON, was a good-looking bachelor who bad lived forty-five years, but one who bad taken such good care of himself that be was really quite a young man. He had gone out to India when only fifteen years old and was now returning after a thirty years absence, the possessor of an ample fortune, most of which he bad already sent to America for invest ment. . The major did not like boarding houses and bad therefore written to his agent in New York to purchase and have fitted up for him a comfortable residence in' some good neighborhood. On a cold rainy November evening the " Ghundarce" entered . the harbor bringing the Major unce more to his na tive land. He eagerly hastened to the office of his ngcot for information regard ing tho location ot his new home, deter mined to pass the first night of bis arri val under bis own roof. On reaching the office of Mr. Smith, his agent, he learned that he was absent but the key hud been left for him accom panied by a note regretting that business in tho country compelled the writer to re linquish the pleasure of personally greet- ng mo .major on ins arrival, out assuring ltu that he would bud his house in com plete order, with servants to minister to is wants. Though sorry the agent had not been ! able to meet him personally, the Mujor made the best of it, and turned to the urd attached to tho key for instruction, as to the location of his residence and saw written thereon : "No Wakely street, but what number, unfortunately the card did not say I " However, mut tered the Major, " I can't go very far wrong, as it says, betwecu Hudson and Vundani streets. At tho worst, it is otilv trying the doors along with my key until I come to the right one." And tho Major strolled briskly off through the rain, humming to himself, " Homo, sweet home." After much inquiry of policemen and consulting of directories at corner drug stores, and studying ot cubuhstic char acters on the Btreet lamps, our Major suc ceeded in discovering Wakely street a broad, handsome street, lined on each side with substantial looking brownstono houses " A very good neighborhood," thought the Malor, upprovingly ; " very good in deed. I don't object to this sort of thing at all. Smith is certainly n capital judge of real estate. Now I wonder which of these houses belongs to me? They were all painfully alike all with handsome bay-windows on tho first floor, m posing flights of stone steps, and ves tibules of blue and white checked marble. The Major crept softly up the steps of one, and applied his key under tho silver- plated knob. It wouldn't fit. This certainly could not bo the bouse ; moreover, ho felt un pleasantly like a burglar, as he sucaked down the steps aga'n. . He tried the second door, and then the third. Roth obstinately declined to yield to the gentle persuasion of the key. " This is beginning to not awkward," thought the perturbed Major, wiping the beady drops from his brow. "Suppose I should bo obliged to spend the night out here, trying to get in 1 Resides if I'm not curetul, 1 Bhall be arrested the next I know, and my first night 'for thirty years in my native lund will be spent in the station house. 1 11 try one more door, and if that doesn't prove to be the right one, I'll 0 to a hotel." ; , lie suppcu me noy into ine keynote: it revolved noiselessly, and , the , door swung softly open on its polished hinges. "lue right one at lust, as 1 livo I chuckcled. tho Mujor. " Furnished like the Governor Gencrul's, and all lighted up by Jove 1 That good-hearted . rascal, Smith, means to give me a surprise. I see through it all, now ; but I don't in tend to. be .surprised. ,at. anything .after this." . He looked around. The gaslight were burning brightly in hall, reception-room, and parlors; the soft, suuimcr-iike atmos phere of a furnace dispelled all lingeriug luea oi emu ur vvi, unu mere were groups of merry guests moving to and fro to the inspiring notes of a grand piano. " tun l tli never told me a word about the place," thought Mujor Parkinson; " but it's a good idea a capital idea. Called unexpectedly in the county, h?, Ah, he's a sly dog, is Smith." ' 1 ' ' ' He placed his dripping umbrella in the slund, nod deliberately bung up bis.' bat aud overcoat on the elegant black 'walnut hall-rack, and then be came and gtood in the doorway, both bunds serenaly joined under his oouHuils, and a beaming .smile upon his countenance, which ' showed all the white teeth to very good advautage. " Goodness gracious I" exclaimed a portly lady, in btuok velvet" Who is that in the doorway ?" " " Aha," luughed Major , Parkinson, complacently rubbing his bandit; ".you intended to surprise me, but y6a dmn't after all. My dear madunie, how do you do?" - .; ' " Sir, I dou't know who you are," said the lady of black velvet, rather grimly, failing to recognize the Major',s offered hand. ."Dear mo, aunt Rosa, , chirped a younger lady she certainly could not have been more than eighteen,, and was as fresh and blooming as a rosebud trip ping forward, " Don't you see it's cousin John?" The Major looked puzzled; but it would have been very rude for him to back churlishly out, when such a ripe pair of cherry lips were put up for him to kiss, and such a dimpled pair of arms were around his capacious waist. " I nover knew that I had such a pret ty cousin," was the Major's internal ro floction ) " but I dure say it's all right. Smith knows." " And here's cousin George, and Stephen, and aunt Margaret, and her girls 1" cried the cherry-lipped damsel, eagerly pulling him forward. Major Parkinson shook hands with thorn all round, feeling that be had just come into a large and unexpected in heritance of relations. " I knew the Ghundarce would be in to-night "' cried one of tho girls, clapping her hands. ''We have been counting the days cousin John." . " The Ghundaree 1 Then I'm all right, after all," thought the perplexed Major. " I was beginning to think there might be some awkward mistake here, but the Ghundarce settles matters." " Oh 1 and here's grandma !" exclaimed the irresistible cherry lips, dancing back ward and forward like a pretty little Dervish. " Grandma he's come 1 I know ho would bo here to-night. Come and speak to grandma, quick, cousin John." And the Major was pulled along by the sleeve of bis coat toward a silver haired old lady, with a white lnce cap, and a Btring of enormous gold beads round her shriveled throat. "Well, John, I do declare!" cried grandma. " Who would havo thought the climate of India would have changed you so? Why, you used to be tall and slim, like a beanpole; but I suppose it's the hurricanes and earthquakes, and all that sort of thing that has settled you down so short and stout. Major Parkinson did not know exactly what to say to this, so he shook the old lady's hand, saying : " How do you find yourself this eveuing, ma'am ?', " Aud you huven't even asked after Clara poor Clara !" chimed in the eighteen-year-old girl. " Oh, ah, pardon me !" stammered our hero. " I was just going to inquire after Clura." The lass with the cherry lips beckoned to a tall, graceful girl in the bay window, not exactly young, but still passing pleasant to look npon, with large gray eyes and soft, drooping curls of glossy brown. " Clura 1" she cried. " Come 1 haven't you a word of welcome for cousin John ?" But the graceful girl shrank back, blushing and confused. " Don't mind her !" said the other one, iu an undertone. ' " No I won't!" said the Major. " She'll be all rijjht presently." " I dare say she will I" answered our hero. ' " Rut it is such nonsense 1" went on the elf, whom the matrons addressed as " Grace." " Now Clara, you know it is, when you are to be married i to him in less than a week !" ' ' Oho 1 ..This was boginning to grow a little serious. Married 1 In less than a week 1 He Major John Parkinson, who had lived a life of conteutcd celibacy for five and forty years I , . . . , . . In spite of his resolution not to allow himself to be surprised, the Major felt the sensation creeping rapidly upon him, not only ot surprise, but also a species ot dismay 1 Married ! He blushed more vividly than Clara's self. ' ' Surely it was time for an explanation now; and he was just ' opening bis lips, when Grace whirlod him round, Standing on tiptoe to ' whisper, knowingly in his eur : . " Don't you want to see the ' weddin g cake, cousin John ? and the wreath ? aud the vail?" Without waiting for an answer, she tiptoed him into another room, pulling him along by the coat-tail, . It was very embarrassing, to be sure : but then how pleasant it was 1 The vail was a heap of snowy lace, like a cloud of vapor , the wreath was all orungo . blossoms, woven in with tiny green buds, but the cake 1 Tbo cuke was a miniature mouutain ot icinir, and irosted flowers and cupids, chiseled in sparkling white sugar, clinging rouud the boquet of white flowers on the crest.. " Ouly think of it," said Grace, a little thoughtfully, as ' she pulled an orange blossom into its place in the obaplet, "to havo the wedding-day so near, after an engagement ot flfteeu years 1 Oh, cousin John, you ought to be a very happy man !" ' ' ' " I will explain I thought the bewil dered Major, breaking into a cold pep spiration I " Yes," he began, aloud, " but I " '" ' " You'll show uie the ring, won't you ?" coaxed Grace, as if with a sudden thought. " 'Hint's a darling I for . of course you have got it in your voat- pocket. And what have you brought for Clara r An India shawl, of course ; and I hope it's very very splendid, for there is nothing in all tho world too good for our Oiara." . " Grace," (aid the Major confidentially, taking her hand in his, " I want to tell you something. It's very awkward, but it isn't really my fault, and I'm sure yeu'll forgive me, when you come to hoar now entirely I have been the victim of circumstances." Grace's blue eyes grew big; her cherry lips parted what could it be ? " Well," she ejaculated breathlessly. " I'm not cousin John at all !" said the Major, with a jerk. " It's a mistake t I am Mojor Parkinson 1" "You are not John Milwardl" " No, I'm nothing of the sort," said our Major, visibly brightening up. " Rut I knew John Milward very well. I came over with him in the Ghundaree, and if he's your cousin John, you've got a splen did fellow for a cousin 1" And then the Major told Grace just exactly bow it all happened, and she blushed and laughed, and wondered how they could all have been so stupid, and confessed that " after all, she didn't think ho had been so very much to blame !" " Except that you oughtn't to have kissed me back so heartily," Grace added maliciously. " I won't next time," said the Major humbly, i " Rut fifteen years in India it would of course alter any one so completely," she said ; " and what can become of the real John ?'' She conducted him back to tho parlor, where he made his excuses as fluently as he could. Grandma was a little inclined to bo offended at first,, and Stephen, a muscular young man, muttered some half-inaudible words about punching the Major's head for him. Rut fuller ex planations restored a friendly feeling once more, and the putcr-familias, sensible tuuu, insisted on the Major remaining. " For if you are not our cousin John, you came over in the same steamer with him, and that ought to insure you a wel come," he said cheerily. " So sit down, sit down, Major. You are the rich East India nabob, then, who has bought the house next door? We'vo teased Grucie a good deal about Betting her cap for the new neighbor, haven't we, Graoie ?" " Papa 1" remonstrated Grade, coloring up as bright a scarlet as a flamingo's wing! ' I'm glad to make your acquaintance, went on the comfortable old gentleman, "evon if the manner isn't quite so formal as etiquette books insist on 1 My name is Corey Vptet Corey and now let me introduce you to our fumily circle and frieuds !" So in less than five minutes, the Major, entirely set freo from tho trammels of bis fulse position, was made cordially at home, in the merry party, and exceedingly sung and jolly he found it!" , Presently a ring at the door-bell an nounced a new arrival, and the real gen uine ccusin John rushed in, all aglow with his rapid walk, and dripping from head to foot with rain-drops. " Had no end of trouble at the custom house with my luggage couldn't come a second sooner, 1" he explained, hugging Grandma and Clura, and Grace all at once, with two or three little ones swarm ing over his back and legs the while ! "Why, halloa! Major Parkinson., how tbo deuce came yo here?.'' Then of course, ensued a third edition of expla nations and comments, and then they were merrier than ever.' , Of course the Mojor will stay here," cried Mr. Corey, when finally his guest mudo a move to go. "Tonight, at least I" "Of course!" echoed John Milward. "Mustn't he Grace?"' ' " Ho must do as he pleases," said that young lady demurely. ' " ' ' ' "Yes," said the( Major,: ' I will." And he Bat down again.' Mujor Parkinson attended the wedding the next week, and ho helped to decorate the drawing-room with flowers, and he carried chairs back and forth, and wont on errunds, losing himself, invariably, on the way, and he sent the brido a solid silver tea-service, and altogether he made himself so useful that Mrs Corey said, feelingly : , ; " What thnuld we havo done without that dear Major?" Grace, the gypsy, insisted on - calling him cousin John just the same as ever j but from all appearance there will bo another wedding before tho year is out id tho Uorey luuniy, and Mujor 1'ui kin- son's brown-stone house will be graced by a mistress who waa first seon by the Major in the wrong housr. A Knotty Problem. . . A Western debating society are trying to decide the following : Suppose a brother and sister the man 35 years old. the girl 5 this makes the man seven times as old as the girl they live together uutil the girl is ten years this makes him 40 years old, and four times as old as tho girl ; they still live until she is 15, the man being' 45 this makes the man three times as old J they still live until she it 80 yean old this makes the man CO, only twice as old, and so on. Now, how long would they have to live to uiuke the girl as old as the man ? , SUNDAY. BEADING, . Maplo Leaves. Turning brown, turning golden fall ing gently to earth with every breath of autumn air dying your autumn death, as the old man dies when the autumn of human life is reached. The frost has withered you, and the soft flakes will cover you ovor and blacken your golden tints, and the heel of man will grind your dust into the earth. Clinging to life, nestling yet closer to twig and branch as you feel the frosty touch, you cannot stay the seasons march. The strong wind will seek you out, every one, and you must full to earth, and be forgotten, just as the bravest and best are laid away to moulder out of recollection. Through tho busy streets, along the winding path of the oountry wood, over the brown, bleak meadows robbed of green, the gale will scatter you afar, until some eddying gust mercifully whirls you into a corner for tho slumber of decay. Oh 1 leaves, brown leaves and golden, falling and dying, you are truo emblems of human life. Fading, even as we grow old, cling ing as we clutch to life, though it be full of heart aches, falling as we all fall when lifo is no more, and tho grave is ready to keep guard over our long, last sleep. We shall soon forget you, and will look at the leafless branches, moaniug and tossing in tho gale with no more than a single thought that you lived a brief life. The bravest of to-day are the unrcmoui borcd dead of to-morrow. Judicious Praise. No heart is insensible to words of praise, or the kindly smile of approbation; and none are utterly ubovo being effect ed by censure or blame. Children are particularly sensitive iu this respect. Nothing cun discourage a child more than a spirit of inccssunt fault-finding; and perhaps nothing enn exert a more baneful influence upon both parent and child. If your little one, through tho day, has been pleasant and obedient, and you say to hint, " My son, you have been good to day, and it makes me very happy ;" and if, with mere than a usually uticctionute . embrace, you say, " Good night, my dear child," a throb of suppressed feeling fills his breast, and ho resolves on always earn ing such approval. If your grown son or duughter have accomplished some diffi cult piece of work, rendering you essen tial assistance ; or havo climbed some steep in tho daily drill of study ; or have acquired some new accomplishment, or added grace ; or, better than all, have gain ed the victory over some bad habit or besetting sin acknowledge it, Bee it, praise them for it. Let them see by your added tenderness, the deep joy and comfort it gives you. Thus you will create a greut incentive to right conduct, and lay a broad foundation for a character which shall be redolent with succulent fruit aud fragrant blossoms. TemjjemncJ Fable. Tho rats once assembled in a large cel lar to devise some method of. safely get ting the bait from a steel trap which lay near, having seen u umbers of their friends and relatives snatched from them by its merciless jaws. After many long speech es aud the proposal of many elaborate ' but fruitless plans, a happy wit, standing erect said : " It is my opinion, that if with one paw we can keep down tho spring,' we can safely tuke the food from the trap with the other." , All the rats present, loudly pqucaled assent. They then were startled by a faint voice, and a poor rat, with only three legs, limping into the ring, stood up to speak t My friends, I havo tried the method you propose, and you see the result. Now let me suggest a plan to escape the trap. Let it a Ion." Cause and Effect. , One kernel is felt in a hogshead y one drop of 'water helps to swell the ocean ; u spark of fire helps to light the world. You are a Binull man passing amid the crowd ; you are hardly noticed ; but you have a drop, a spark within you that may be felt through eternity. Do you believe it? Set that drop in motion, give wings to that spark, and behold the results I It may remove tho world I Mono are too stiiull, too feeble, too poor, to be of ser vice. Think of this, and act. Life is no trifle. ' Aslutmcd of the Tlcture. The writer was told by one bearing the honered name of Rouur, that when a young mun in an office, he was greatly shocked with the language of the young men beside him. One evening when they were conversing togother, unknown to them he copied their light and profane lunguago,' and then showed it to them written out. Even they were ashamed their own words when they saw them ? ' 1 1& The great man is he who chooses the right with So vincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from without and from wilbin ; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; who is calmest in storms and most fearless under meoanre aud frowns j and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering.
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