tStljc ,mc0: $)a. - 3 Incorporated by the Orturt of 0mmnn Pleat, in 1869; by the Lepiilature, in 171. ' t , .The Pennsylvania Central Insurance , Company, OF POTT8VILLE, PA. , Capital and Assets, $156,000. Premium Notes,. ' 1100,000 00 Promissory Notes, ..., ' 50,000 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for tbe year 1871, $3,028 00 Cash premiums due or col- , lected for the first three mouths of 1873, 1,800 00 Cash from other sources and agents, 1,200 00 Judgment Bonds in Cora- , pauy's office, i. 1,100 00 , , Total CaBh $0,138 00 i Total cash and note assets, - April 1st, 1873, $156,128 00 JAMES II. DRIER, JOHN D. HADE8TY, Secretary. President. DIRECTORS: John D. Hadesty, A. P, Helms, Benjamin Teter, A. Sntermelster, James H. Drier, E. F. Junekurt, Ellas Miller. AGENTS! ' H. n. Hill, Edward Fox, John A. Kablo, Ed ward Wesley, Charles F. Delbert, Wm. It. DrIBlth. E. F. Jungkurt, General Agent. Arrangements have been made with other first-class companses to re-insure risks taken n the cash plan In such amounts as desired. Liberal commission allowed agents, and ex clusive territory, If desired. This Company oonilnes Itself to fire insurance exclusively. OFFICE:: J ' No. 191 CENTRE 8T., POTTSVILLE, PA. IS OTIC JC. The Home Hesorvo force of The Penn sylvania Central Insnrance Company of Pottsville, Pa., will be in Perry county in considerable force, and act as the Com pany's Agents until a full lino of Local Agents can be appointed when the reserve force will be recalled. . , JAMES H. UWF.R, . i Boo' y of Pa. Central Ins. Co. ' IiiNiu'f inco Notloo. On and after tho tenth day of April, 1872, The. Home lieserve force of Insur ance Agents belonging to " The Pennsylva nia Central Insurance Company" will leave Pottsville in heavy force, aud occupy ten different counties of the State, where they will continue to act as the Company's Agents until a full line of Local Agents can be appointed, when they will be recalled. As a body of men, 1 believe they are supe rior Insurance Agents, and most of them speak the English, French, Welsh and Ger man Languages. The City Insurance Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual Companies, and continual cry of Fraud 1 Fraud 1 1 Ac, cannot muster any better In surance material ! Why don't the City In surance papers tell the public that no Mu tual Company broke or failed during the last ton years ? Why don't they tell the public that more than half the Stock Com panies started within the last ton years have? It is a well-known fact that Mutual Companies cannot fail. JAMES H. ORIEH, Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur ance Company. 6 10 FKIlltY COUNTY Ileal Estate, Insurance, AND CLAI3I -A-OilOINOV. LEWIS POTTEB & CO., . Ileal Estate Broktrt, Insurance, it ttaim Agent New IJloomf leltl, Xn. E INVITE the attention of buyers and sell, ers to the advantages we oRer them In uur- chasing or disposing of real estate through our office.- We have a very large list of dcslrab property, consisting of farms, town proiwrly, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip tion which we are prepared to oner at great bar- f tains. We advertise our property very extensive y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgenoe to effect a sale. We make no charges unless tbe property is sold while registered with us. We als draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, audall legal pa pers at moderate rates. (Some of the best, cheapest, and most reliable fire, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the United Htates are represented at this agency. Property Insured either on tbe cash or mutual plan, and perpetually at 04 and IS per thousand. l'ensloiw, bounties, and all kinds of war olalms collected. There are thousands of soldiers and heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and bounty, who have never made application. Bol tilers, it yon were wounded, ruptured, orcontract. ed a disease in the service from which you are dis abled, you are entitled to a pension. When widows of soldiers die or marry.the niluor children are entitled to the pension. 1'artles having any business to transact In our line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as we are confident we can render satisfaction in any branch of our business. - No charge for Information. 4 20 ly LEWIS J'OTTKtt & CO. JVew Carriage MaunTat-torj-, On Hioh Street, East or Cahi.isi.r Ht., .New Bloomflrld, I'enn'a. THE subscriber has built a large and commodl. ons Shop ou High Kt., Kast of Carlisle Ktreet, New Bloomfleld, t'a., where be Is prepared to man ufacture to order On, v i i ii o m -Of every description, out of the best material. Sleighs of every Style, 4uilt to order, and finished in the most artUtic and durable manner. . Having suiierlor workmen, he is prepared to furnish work that will compare favorably with itho best City Work, and much more durable, aud at much more reasonable rates. r KEPAIUINU of all kinds neatly and prompt ly done. A call Is solicited. SAMUEL SMITH, iw rJ7o Hlioeiini,li5iH. THE subscribers keep constantly on hand, a U.VE AbWOH t ME.N X OF , FR ENOJ1 CALF SKINS, 1 PINK LIMN OS,' ROANS, MOROCCOS, SHOE THREAD, PEGS, ' . A WLS, and a f antral Msortms at of articles used by She snaksis. F. MORTIitBH. A PLEASANT SURPRISE ! ITT'S no joking matter, Mr. Allaire1 X said Jemima Pendexter. "Of course it' Isn't, Jemima," ,snld Mr. Allaire, rather more soberly than lid had spoken before. " But If yoit come to that, isn't it a deal jollier, and just as cheap, to laugh Bstoory?;' . .. ", ' Miss Jemima PenUozter wan a tall, bloom ing bninnete, with dark brown eyes, hair satin black, aud a good healthy bloom on either cheek, and her greon gingham dress fitted her as perfectly as if a Broadway module had cut and made it.; Ferdinand Allaire was a handsome young fellow of some five or six and twenty, whoso dark sparkling eyes sent out roguish gleams from beneath a pair of arched brows, and whose teeth were as white as a fresh cut slice of cocoa-nut. "But mother wants the money." persis ted Miss Peniloxter. "Not half so badly as I do, Jemima." " It's too bad," pouted Jemima. "So it is. But really Jemima, don't you suppose I would pay her in a minute, if I had the money. If. For I'm' not a ma gician whose word can turn a basket of scrap paper to bank note, or make coined gold out of the cinders uuder the grate." "That's nonsense !" said Miss Pendexter. "Of course it is. Sense is at a discount just at present. Look .it the pile of manu script, if you don't believe mo, that no edi tor will buy; fci) those elegant oil paintings that Do Beaudin declines respectfully to haug up for sale I What's a fellow to do ?" " At least," said Jemima, tossing her pretty head, " you ought to pay your hon est debt !" "I know that, my dear," said Mr. Al laire, gravely. " And I've written at least seven earnestly entreating loiters to my hard hearted old uncle, and of the seven answers that ought to have come back, the first one hasn't made it's appearance. Je mima I'vo an idoa." " Pshaw 1" said Miss Pendexter, trying in vain to maintain tho severe gravity of aspect that was rapidly thawing beneath the merry sparkle of the sloe-black eyes. " But 1 have really. Suppose you take me in part payment of my bill to Mrs. Pen dexter. I believe I have the elements of a first-rate husband about me." Miss Jemima turned resolutely away. " Mr. Allaire, I believe you'd joke if you were upon your dying bed I" And sho went down stairs. "A man might do worse than many Je mima Pendexter," said Mr. Allaire, medi tatively. " She's pretty, and she's spirited; and as for her mother keeping a boarding house, that'B no particular objection in my eyes. Halloo ! what's that commotion out side?" Ho threw up the window-sash aud stretch ed himself half-way out. Mrs. Pendexter, a stout, thrifty matron, in frilled cap and lilac ribbons, was bargaining with a ragged itinerant of the gipsey order to have a load of wood which had just been deposited at her door, sawed and split aud stowed into the cellar. " Couldn't do It for less than four dollars, mem," said the Bohemian of the streets. "It isn't worth three !" cried Mrs. Pen dexter. - " Worst kind of knotty wood, mom." "I wou't give a cent more than three," persisted Mrs. Pendexter. " Very, well, it'll be somebody besides me," said the roan, shouldering his axe and passing indifferently on. He supposed that Mrs. Pendexter would call him back and accede to his terms, but he was mistaken in the buxom i Widow's mental calibre. She was turning in-doors again, when, to) her surprise, she found her self confronting Mr. Ferdinand Allaire, in his shirt sloeves. " I'm your man, ma'am said lie rubbing his white palms briskly together. , "My good Gracious!" ejaculated the widow, "what do you mean, Mrs. Allaire?" "I mean that little job of wood sawing," said our hero. "Bring on your axe and saw. I'll do it for three dollars, and turn it in toward our small account. Now, then, ma'am wide awake if you please !" " But I beg your pardon, Mr. Allaire, If you please you're a gentleman 1" t Very well, what of that ? Is there any thing to prevent a gentleman splitting up a cord of wood ? A great deal more strength ening to the muscles of the arm than dumb bells and Indian clubs, I am sure." "Are you really in earnest?" "Yea, I am." And then Mrs. Pendexter,seeing no reas on why she should not realize a portion at least of the back board for tho third-story ball bed-room in this practical manner, sent Jack the errand boy down after the axe and saw, aud Ferdinand Allaire set briskly to work, whistling " Banks and Braes" most energetically as he toiled. Miss Jemima came aud looked out of the window, her eyes shining merry encourage ment, aud her mischievous mouth framing itself in dimples. Miss Lavina Jones, the elderly maiden lady who occupied the back parlor, pursed up her lips, and wondered "what ridiculous freak that madcap of a Mr. Allaire would be up to next?" Young Jessmay of the occidental Club nearly got run over, starting back in amazement at seeing Ferdinand at work; and Miss Adele Maurice, with whom ho had led the Ger man, three nights before for our hero was what is called a ('society, 'young man" stared with all her eyes, and like the priest and Levito in the parable, passed by on tho other side. ' ' ; 1 1 ' ' " "Let her go," said Mr. Allaire to' him self; " What do I care?" , But an open Barouche rolled by, and a stick of viciously minded wood spun from the rending stroke of the axe directly into the velvet-cushioned seat, opposite a tall, white-haired old man, who sat there in dig nified state, our hero looked up apologeti cally. "I beg your pardon, sir I didn't mean " he began politely. And then he stopped, in amazement. It was Mr. Laurence Allaire, the very grim old uncle who had refused to countenance tho unreasonable nephew who presumed to prefer literature and the belles-letters to a seat in the banking-house of Allaire & Algrovc t " Now, I'm done for, past all redemp tion," groaned Mr. Ferdinand, to himself. " Uncle Laurence was quite angry enough with me before, but now he'll have a text to preach a sermon that will hint him the rest of his life. The prodigHl eating husks the Israelites making bricks in a land of captivity. " I told you so, and serves the young scape-grace right." Now what evil genius sent my Uncle Laurence down this street just now, of all times in the world ? He cut me out of his will three months ago; now he will add a special clause of obloquy and disgrace. Well, I can't help it." Old Mr. Allaire had opened his keen blue eyes very wide at the unwonted sight of his aristocratic nephew splitting wood but i,t had not produced exactly the effect upon him which Ferdinand so darkly prophesied. He sat up as straight as ever in his carriage, gravely meditating. "Stokes !" said ho to the coachman. "Sir?" said Stokes. " Drive to Mr. Pennawinks." "Yes, sir," said Stokes. ' Didn't know the boy had so much pluck in him,"said Mr. Laurence Allaire to himself, stroking his frost white moustache. "The only relative I've got in the world, after all; no use in making an obstinate old stage uncle of myself. Pennawinks !" " Yes, sir," said the lawyer, from his leather-covered chair as Mr. Allaire walked into a study little office smelling of law books and stalo cigar smoke. " I want my will restored to its original form, Pcnnawink." Mr. Pennawinks elevated his shaggy gray brows, but made no other sign of amazement. Nile admirari was his motto in legal matters. "Very well, sir. I'll bring it around to morrow," he answered. " No, you'll not. You'll do it now, whilo I am waiting. Now is the accepted time, far old men like you and me, Penna winks." "Exactly so," said Mr. Pennawinks. "So Mr. Ferdinand has reformed?" , "Well, no, I can't say that exactly," said the old banker stiffly. " But there's more genuine stufi' in the lad than I had any idea of. I shall invite him to dinner this afternoon." But Mr. Allaire had issued his last din ner invitation. "Apoplexy," said one doctor. " Heart disease," said a second. " Paralysis clearly paralysis asserted a third." Such were some of the comments when a few hours later, Mr. Allaire was found dead in his chair. His funeral was well attonded, and among the mourners was Ferdinand, who said, "I will pay this respect to the memory of my uncle, although he lias disinherited me." When the funeral wag over and the will was read, probably none were more aston ished at the contents than was the nephew, who expected nothing ; for a codicil added only a few hours before death had called the old man away, read as follows : " The clause in this Will which revokes a legacy of $300,000 to my nephew Ferdi nand Allaire, is hereby declared void, and it is my wish that he not only have tho amount mentioned above, but I also be queath to him in addition, the real estate now occupied by mo as a residence. I make this change because I saw that lie had the spirit to help himself, by manual labor." Feidinand returned to his boarding house that evening with a consciousness of soon being able to pay Mrs. Pendexter her honest debt, and also feeling that it was just possible that having offered to give himself in pay to Mist Jemima when he was worth nothing, that he ought to renew the offer, now the circumstances were changed: I do not know whether this was what in fluenced him or not, but it is a fact that he did renew the oiler, and Miss Jemima this time thought best to accept it, much to tho disgust of Miss Adele Maurice, who would have been glad to have presided over the house once occupied by the rich old banker. UTA person having been mentioned who had been notoriously unfortunate in his first marriage relation, and yet had soon married again, was asked if it was not rash to embark: view In an adventure which he had already found to be so disastrous. "No," said the philosopher, elevating his baud, and his countenance glowing with enthusiasm. " It was tbe triumph of hope over experience." ' . SCIENTIFIC HEADING., How- Gunpowder n Made. , i . T I ., HOW do you think you would like to live fearing every moment to be blown up, not daring to speak loud, to jar anything, for fear of starting an explosion that would send you in an Instant to the other world ? You don't think It would be very pleasant. Well, it isn't, yet hundreds of men live in just that state, work, receive pay and live year after year in the very sight f death, as it were; so that the world may have gunpowder. " You can easily guess that those men go about quietly, and nover laugh. You know that gunpowder is very dan gerous in a gun, or near a fire, but per haps you don't know that It is equally dan gerous all through the process of making. A powder-mill is a fearful place to visit, and strangers are very seldom allowed to go into one. They are built far from any town, in the woods, and each branch of the work is done in a separate building. The houses are quite a distance from each otlier, so that if one blows up it won't blow up the rest. Then the lower parts of the building are made very strong, while the roofs are very lightly set on, so that if it explodes only the roof will sutler. But, in spite of care, sometimes a whole settlement of the powder-mills will go off almost in an instant, and every vestige of the toil of years will bo swept away in a few seconds. But though you feel like holding your, breath to look at it, it is really a very in teresting process to see. It is made, per haps you know, of charcoal, saltpetre and brimstone. Each of these articles is pre pared in a house by itself, but the house where they are mixed is the first terrible one. In this building is an immense mill stone, rolling round and round in an iron bed, and under the stone are put the three fearful ingredients of gunpowder. There they arc thoroughly mixed and ground to gether. This is a very dangerous operation, because if the stone comes in contact with its iron bed it is very apt to strike fire, and the merest suspicion of a spark would set off tho whole. The materials are spread tin ee or four inches thick in the bed; the wheel, which goes by water power, is start ed and every man leaves the place. The door is shut and the machinery left to do its own terrible work aloue. When it lias run long enough the mill is stopped atd the men come back. This operation leaves the powder in hard lumps or cakes. The next house is where the cakes are brokeu into grains, and of course is quite as dangerous as the last one. But the men can't go away from this; they are obliged to attend to it every moment, and you may bo sure no laugh or joke is ever heard with in its walls. Every one who goes in has to take off his boots and put on rubbers, be cause one grain of the dangerous powder crushed by the boot would explode the whole in an instant. The floor of this house is - covered with leather, and is made perfectly black by the dust of the gunpowder. It contains a set of sieves, each one smaller than the last, through which the powder is sifted; and au immense ground aud laboring mill, where it is ground up, while men shovel it in with wooden shovels. The machinery makes a great deal of noise, but the men are silent as in tbe otlier house. The reckless crash ing of the machinery even seems to give greater horror, and one is very glad to get out of that house. The stoving-house is the next on tho list, and there the gunpowder is heated on wood en trays. It is very hot and no workmen stay there. From there it goes to the pack ing house, and it is put up in barrels, kegs and canisters. Safely through all these houses, it goes at last to the store-house. One feels like drawing a long breath to see the fearful stuff safely packed away out of the hand of men in this curious house. You've heard of things being as dry as a powder-house, but you don't think this house very dry. It is almost embedded in water. The roof is' one big tank, kept full of water. Did you ever hear of water roof before? Instead of steps to go in there are shallow tanks of water, through which every one, must walk to the door. In none of those powder-houses is any light ever allowed except sunlight. The wages are good, the day's work is short, ending always at three or four o'clock. But the men have a serious look that makes one think every momout of the danger and glad to got away. Though curiosity may lake a uiau once to visit a powder-mill, he has no desire to go the second time, and be feels all the rest of his life that for once he has been very near death. American Bporttman. tW A pretty, bright little Juvenile friend some five years old, named Iiosa, was teas ed a good deal by a gentle man who visit ed the family. He finally wound up by saying: " Rosa, I don't love you." " But you've got to love ine," said the child. " How so f asked the tormenter. " Why," wid K "the Bible says that you must kwe those that hate you, ami I am sure tun I hat you." The New York Herald. SOME of our readers may be interested in a correct statement of the cost of publishing and labor required to conduct the New York Herald, the oldest of the quarto dailies in that city. The editorial staff consists of ono chief, ouc managing, one financial, one oity editor and eight editorial writers. The ship news, foreign news, domestic news, statistical matters and transaction departments each bas a chief, with such assistants as may be re quired while the city department is presid ed over by a chief, who must have gone through all the gradations of the repor torial department. This force consists of twenty-seven reporters, who cover all the news points in New York, Jersey City, Brooklyn and contiguous places of easy ac cess to New York. The salary of the managing editor is $3,000 per anuum; the financial editor, $5,000 per annum, and the writers, or sub-editors, $40 to $00 per week; reporters $25 to $35 per week. In the composing room seventy-five men are em ployed, whose pay depends upon the skill and steadiness of their labor, some making as high as $44 dollars per week. The cler ical force of the paper numbers about twenty, divided Into relays for day and night work. The editorial force meet dnily in the "council room" of the establishment. The meeting is presided over by Bennett, father or son, as the case may be, or in the ab sence of both these gentlemen then by the senior writer, Dr. George B. Wallis. At this council all the current questions of the day'are discussed, all formality in speaking on topics is avoided, and it partakes more of a family gathering. Mr. Bennett, after carefully looking over his memorandum of "points," breaks silence, and the conversa tion takes a cheerful turn, and continues for upward of two hours. In the interim each editor is assigned to write a certaiu article. Mr. Bennett, senior, has not written an article for the Herald for upwards of thirty years, yet he identifies himself with the editorial colums by requiring the editors to keep tho tone aud style of their articles within certain cardinal points. Mr. Bennett has a telegraph wire (nine miles) connecting the Herald oflico with his residence at Fort Washington; also a shorter line (three miles) to his house on Fifth Avenue. By this means he is in con stant communication with the office. Im portant news from Europe, and indoed from any part of the world, is announced to him, and he frequently sends the points for a leader over the wires, the telegraph keys being manipulated by the gentle hand of his daughter, Jeanette. Tho foreign cor respondence of the Herald is now in charge of a gentleman residing in Lon don, who receives a salary of $5,000 a year in gold. He moves and inculcates the correspondents at the various European capitals. Tho receipts from advertising range from $3,500 to $5,000 per day. Printing Gazette. An Apt Quotation. A lady writing to her father, described the loss of a favorite cow as follows: "Yesterday poor dolly strayed from the pasture, and unfortunately selecting the railroad track for her luckless liberty, was caught by the late afternoon train from the north, and left in nearly equ -1 portions on either side of the track." To which the father promptly and sue- cinctly replied. " Apropos of your cow, see Ouuosis, xv. 17." Consulting Genesis according to his di rections, she read: "And it came to pass that, when the sun went down, it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and burn ing lamp passed between those pieces. IW Piggy got into a large yard where he did not belong, aud trying to get out again he stuck fast under a high board fence and there began to kick and squeal in the good old way. His owner, a big, fat, Irishman, hearing tbe hubbub, ran out of the house near by, and caught his pig by the ears, endoavored to pull him through the hole before the trespass was detected. But this treatment had no effect but to make the pig yell the more. An old ram in the yard hearing tho noise!, and seeing piggy's hlud-lcgs and tail flourishing away in a menacing mauner, accepted what he thought was a challenge, and lowering his head charged with all his might. He struck bis mark squarely and fairly, ami the pig shot through the hole like a pork cannon-ball, and striking his master full in the breast knocked him flat on his back. The only person who witnessed this closing scene was just entering the yard, and not being aware how many actors were engaged in it, was very much surprised to hear what ho supposed to be the pig, swearing in Irish on the other side of the fonce. KSTCbildren will ask queer questions, even in Sunday suhool. A teacher says: I have a class in Sabbath school. One of the children, a bright little girl about six years of age, I noticed one day looking very Intently at another of the teachers, u gentleman with a heavy moustache. After a long and earnest look, she turned to me with; " Teacher, teacher t hat that man got a hair lip t"
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