ISTE-W YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OP NEW YORK, STRICTLY MUTUAL I ISSUES all tho new liirnn of Policies, and pre sents as favorable terms as any company In the United States. The Company will make temporary loans on Its Policies. Thirty days' Brace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture. , Mo extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual proms of the Company, and have a voice in the elections and management of Hie Company. No policy or medical fee charged. Justus I.awhknce, Pres't. M. II. VVynkoop, Vice Pres't. J. r.ltoctuns, Bec'y. J. F. EATON. General Agent, No. 6 North Third Street, 4.29 yl College Block, Harrisburg, Pa. Incorporated by the Court of Oimtnnn J'leas, in 1861); by the LegislaUire.in 1871. Tlic Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company, OF POTTSVILLE, PA. Capital and Assets, $156,000. Premium Notes,...'...... $100,000 00 Promissory Notes, , 60,000 00 Cash premiums due or col. lected for the year 1871, $2,028 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for the first three months of 1873 1,800 00 Cash from other sources and agents 1,800 00 Judgment Bouds In Com pany's olllce, 1,100 00 Total Cash,:.:. $ 8,128 00 Total cash and note assets, April 1st, 1873 $158,128 00 JAMES II. GRIER, JOHN D. HADE8TY, Becrctary. . President. 1 , , DIRECTORS: John D. Hadesty, A. Y. Helms, Benjamin Teter, A. Sntermelster, James II. Grler, . F. Jungkurt, Ellas Miller. AGENTS : " II. II. mil, Edward Fox, John A. Kahlo, Ed ward Wesley, Charles F. Delbert, Win. K. GrifUth. E. F. Jungkurt, General Agent. Arrangements have been made with other flrst-cluss companscs to rc-lnsure risks taken n the cash plan In such amounts as desired. Liberal commission allowed agents, and ex clusive territory, if desired. This Company confines Itself to fire, Insurance exclusively. , OFFICE: No. J191 CENTRE ST., POTTSVILLE. PA. AOTICE. The Home Reserve force of The Penn sylvania Central Insurance Company of Pottsvillo, Pa., will be in Porry county in considerable force, and act as the Com pany'! Agents until a full line of Local Agents can be appointed when the reserve force will be recalled. JAMES II. GRIER, Bec'y of Pa. Central Ins. Co. . IiiMiirtiuco Notioe. On and after the tenth day of April, 1873, The Home Reserve force of Insur ance Agents belonging to "The Pennsylva nia Central Insurance Company" will leave Puttsville in heavy force, and 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 bo recalled. As a body of men, I believe they are supe rior Insurance Agents, and most of them speak the English, French, Welsh and tier man Languages. Tho City Insurance Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual Companies, and continual cry of Fraud I Fraud 1 t &c, cannot muster any belter In surance material 1 Why don't the City In surance papers tell the public that no Mu tual Company broke or failed during the last ten years? Why don't thejr tell the public that more than half the Stock Corn panics started withiu the last ten years have? It 1 a well-knowu fact that Mutual Companies cannot fail. JAMES II. GRIER, Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur - auco Company. 610 New Carriage Manufactory, On Ulan Btbbst, East or Caiujslb St., New IMoomflcld, renn'a. THE subserllier has built large and commodt. oils HImp nn High St.. Hunt of Carlisle Htreet, Niw lllouiiint-ld. Pa., wliere he Is prepared to man ufacture to ordor On, rr iagoH Of every description, out of the best material. Sleighs of every Style, built to order, and flnlshsd In the most artistic and durnule manner. . Having superior workmen, ha Is prepared to f urnish work that will compare favorably with the bent City Work, and much more durable, and at much more reasonable rates. 4ur KEPA llilNU of all kinds ueatly and prompt ly done. A call Is solicited. SAMUEL SMITH. liu An Incident in the Mines. A Comical Interview. - f I WERE was a grand time over Buck JL Fanshaw when he died. lie was a representative citizen. He had " killod his man" not in his own quarrel, !t is true, but In defence of a stranger beset by num bers. He had been the proprietor of a dashing helpmeet, whom he could have discarded without the formalities of a di vorce. He had hold a high position in tho fire department, and had been a Warwick in politics. When he died thero was a great lamentation throughout tho town, but es pecially in the vast bottom stratum of soci 1v. ".n the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of , a wasting ty phoid fever, had taken BfiMiic, shot him self through the body cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck; and after duo deliberation tho jury Bad and tearful, but with intelli gence unblindcd by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could tho world do without 'urios ? Prodigious preparations were mado for tiie funeral. AH tho vehicles in town were hired, and all the saloons were draped in black. Regretful resolutions wore passed and various committees were appointed; among others, a committee of one was ap pointed to call on a minister a fragilo, gontle,spiritual new fledgling from an Eas tern theological seminary; and as yet unac quainted with tho ways of the mines. The committeeman, ' Scotty" Briggs, mado his visit. Being admitted to his presence, he sat down before the clorgyman, placed his fire hat on an unfinished manuscript Bormon under tho minister's nose, took from it a red silk hankerchicf, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressivencss ex planatory of his business. He choked and even shed tears, but with an effort he mastered his voice, and said, in lugubrious tones: "Are you the duck that runs the gospel mill next door?" "I am tho pardon me, I believe I do not understand ?" With another sigh and a half sob Scotty rejoined: " Why you see we are in a bit of trouble, and tho boys thought may bo you'd give us a lift, if we'd tackle you, that is, if I've got the rights of it and you are the clerk of the doxology works next door." "I am the shepherd in charge of tho flock whose fold is next door." ' "The which?" asked Scotty, Tho spiritual adviser of the little company of believers whose sanctuary adjoins these promises.'' replied tho parson. Scotty scratched his head, reflected a mo ment and then said: . , . . " You rathor hold over mo, paid. I reckon I can't call that . hand. Anto and pass the buck." : , " How ? I beg your pardon. , What did I understand you to say ? ' , ' . " Well you've rathor got the bulge on me. Or may be we'vo both got tho bulge, Bomo how. You don't smoko me and I don't smoke you. You see one of the boys has passed in his checks, and we want to give him a good send off, and so the thing I'm on now is to rout out somebody to jerk out a little chln-musio for us, and waltz him through handsome." " "My friend I Beem to grow more and mora bewildered. Your observations are wholly incomprehensible to me. , Cannot you simplify thcra some way?. At first I thought perhaps I understood you, but now I grope. Would it not expedite matters if you restricted yourself to categorical state ments of facts unincumbered with obstruct ing accumulations of metaphor and alle gory?" Another pause, and more reflection. Then Bcotty said: " I'll have to pass, I judge." "How?" "You've raised me out, pard." "I still fail to catch your meaning." " Why, that last load of yourn is too many for me that's the idea, I can't neith er trump nor follow suit." The clergyman sank back in his chair perplexed. Scotty leaned his head on his hand, and gave himself up to reflection. Presently his face came up, sorrowful but confident. "I've got it now, so's you can sarvy," said he. "What we want is a gospel-Bharp. Bee?" "A what!" "Gospel-sharp, parson." "Oh 1 Why did you not say so before? I am a clergyman a parson." " Now you talk I You see my blind, and straddle it like a man. Put it there !" ex tending a brawny paw, which closed over the minister's small hand and gave it a shake indicative of fraternal sympathy and fervent gratification. " Now we're all right, pard. Let's start fresh. Don't you mind me snuffling a lit tle, becuz we're in a power of trouble You sco one of the boys has gone up tho flume" "Gone where?" "Up the flume throw'd up the sponge you know," "Thrown up the sponge ?" " Yes kicked the bucket" " Ah has departed to that mysterious country from whoso bourne no traveller re turns." " Return? Well, I reckon not. Why, pard, ho's dead ." "Yes, I understand." " Oh, you do ? Well, I thought may be you was getting tangled once more. Yes, ycj see he's dead again " Again 1 Why, has he over boon dead be fore I" "Dead before? No. Do you reckon a a man has got as many lives as a cat? But you bet, he's awful dead now, poor old boy, and I wish I'd never soen this day. I don't know no better friend than Buck Fanshaw. I knowed him by the back; and when I know a man like him I freeze to him you hear me. Take him all around, pard, there never was a bullier man In the mines. No mau ever knowed Buck Fahshaw to go back on a friond. But it's all up, you know; it's all up. It ain't no uso. They've scooped him 1" " Scooped him." ' "Yes death has. Well,' well, well, we've got to give him up. Yes, indeed. It's a kind of hard world, after all, ain't it? But, pard, ho was a rustlor. You ought to see him get started once. Ho was a bul ly boy with a glass eye I Just spit in his face and give him room according to his strength, and it was just beautiful to see hira peel and go In. Ho was the worst son of a thief that ever drawed breath. Pard, he was on it. Ho was on. it bigger than an Injun 1" . . "On it? On what?" " Ou the shoot. On the shoulder. On tho light. Understand? He didn't givo a continental for any-body. Bog your par don friend, for coming so near saying a cuss word but you seo I'm on an awful strain in this palaver, on account of having to cram down and draw everything so mild. But we'vo got to give hira up. There ain't no getting around that, I don't reckon. Now, if we can got you to help plant him" " Preach the funeral discourse? Assist at the obsequies you mean ?" "Obesquiesisgood. Yos, that's it; that's our little game. We are going to got up the thing regardless, you know. Ho was always nifty himself, and so you bet his funeral ain't going to be no slouch; solid silver door-plate on his coflln, Bix plumes on the hearse, and a nigger on tho box with a bilod shirt and a plug hat how's that for high ? and we'll take care of you pard. We'll fix you up all right. There will bo a kerridge for you, and what ever you want just 'scape out and we'll tend to it. .We've got a shebang for you to stand up in behind No. l's house, and don't you be afraid. Just go in and toot your horn, if you don't sell a clam. Put Buck through as bully as you can, pard, for anybody that knowed him will tell you that he was one of tho whitest men that ever was in the mines.. Yon can't draw it too strong. He never 'could stand it to see things going wrong, no's done more to make this town peaceable than any other man in it. I've seen him lick four Greasers in eleven minutes myself. If a thing wan ted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody' to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it him self. He warn't a catholic j but it didn't rntiko no difference about ' that ' when it come down to what a man's right was and so when some roughs jumped the Catholic boneyard and started to stake it out into town ' lots, ho wont for 'era, too t I was thero, and seen it myself." ' " That was very well, indeed at least the impulse was whothor the act was strict ly defensible or not. ' Had deceased any re ligious convictions ? That is to say, did ho feel a dependence upon or acknowledge allegiance to a higher power ?" More reflection. . 1 " I reckon you've stumped me again, pard. Could you say it over once more, and say it slow ? " Well, to simplify it somewhat, was he, or rather had he been connected with any organization sequestered from secular con corns and devoted to self-sacrifice in the in terests of morality ?'-., " All down but nine set 'em up ou the other alley, pard." ., " What did I understand you to say ?" ' "Why, you're a most too many for nib, you know. When you get in with your left, I hunt grass every time. Every time you draw you fill; but I don't seem to have : any luck. Let's have a new doal." "How? Begin again?" - .:. "That's it." t , "Very well. Was heagnci man, and" " There I se that; don't put up anoth er chip till I look at my hand. A good mau, says you? Pard, it ain't no name for it. He was the best man that ever pard, you would have doted on that man. He could lam any galoot of his inches in America. ' It was hira that put down the liot last election before it got a start; and everybody said that he was the only man that, could have done it. He waltzed in with a trumpet in one hand and a spanner in the other, sent fourteen men home ou a shutter in less than three minutes. He had that riot all broke up and prevented nice before anybody evor got a chance to strike a blow. Ho was always for peace, and ho would have peace he oould not stand dis turbances. Paid, he was a great loss to the town. It would please the boys if you could chip in something that would do hira justice. Hore once, like when the Micks got to throwing stones through the Metbodis' Sunday-School windows, Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut up his saloon and took a couplo of sixshootors and mounted guard over the Sunday-school. Says he "No Irish need apply 1" And they didn't. He was the bnlliest man in tho mountains, pard : he could run faster, jump highor, hit harder, and hold more tangle-foot whiskey without spilling than any man in soventecn counties. Put that in, pard; it'll please the boys more than anything you could say. And you can say, pard, that he never shook his mother." ' " Never shook his mother ?' , " That's it any of the boys will tell you so." " Well, but why should he shake her?" "That's what I say but some people does." " Not people of any repute ?" " Well, some that averages pretty-so-so." " In my opinion,'a man that would offer personal violence to his mother ought to" "Cheese it, pard; you've banked your ball clean outside the string. What I was drivin' at was that he never throwed off his mother don't you see?' No, indeedy. He gave her a house to live in, and two lots, and plenty of money; and he looked after her and took caro of all the time; and when she was down with tho small-pox, I'm d d if ho didn't set up nights and nuss her himself. Bog your pardon for sayin' it, but it hopped out too quick for yours truly. You've treated me like a gen tleman, and I ain't the man to hurt your feelings intentionally. I think you're white. I think you're a square man, pard. I like you, and I'll lick any man that don't. I'll lick him till he can't tell himself from a last years corpse 1 Put in thero 1 An other fraternal handshake aud exit. Tho obsequies were all that "tho boys" could desire. Such a marvel of funoral pomp had never been soen in Virginia. Tho plumed beaise, the dirge-breathing brass-bands, the closed marts of business, the flags drooping at half mast, the long plodding procession of uniformed secret so cieties, military battalions, and fire com panies, draped engines, carriages of officials and citizens in vehicles aud on foot, at tracted ' multitudes of spectators to the siedwalks, roofs and windows ; for years afterward, the dogrce of grandeur attained by any civio display in Virginia was de termined by comparison with Buck Fan shaw's funeral. . .. A Popular Superstition. The Washington correspondent of tho Boston Post writes as follows : " It is queer how much superstition still lingers in the best and of course most cultivated society.- That as to having thirteen at table is probably the most wide-spread and generally received.' Not long since at a fashionable dinner-party hero, a gentleman appearing without his wife who had been expected until tho last moment; made the thirteenth guest, and bo was politely but decidedly invited by the hOstoss to return home and come back after dinner. This he did most amiably. In another case a guest failing to appear at a dinner, leaving the ominous number to be seated at table, the hostess brought in one of hor child ion rathor than have thirteen. A singular verification of the fears the superstition provokes, was that of the death of William S. Huntington, cashier of the first National Bank of this city, which occurred a fort night since. At his funeral, which was largely attended by prominent citizens, one gentlemen said to another, " I'm surprised to see you here, I thought you had been in Washington so short a time that you didn't know Huntington " Oh, yes,' returned the other ; 'don't you remember I met him at a dinner party at George Alfred Town send's ? It was rather a momorable dinner, for you recollect there were sixteen invited and only thirteen at tablo. While we were dining, it was remarked that the fatal number was present, and we discussed which of us would probably dio before the year was out. I remember I thought -1 was the most likely subject, and I am so much obliged to Huntington for taking my place, that I camo to his funeral.' Mr. Huntington was probably' the youngest man present at that dinner, yet ho was the first to die." 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' t3TIt is predicted that Lake Erie, now the pathway of mighty commerce, will in time dry ' tip and become the homo of a teeming population. Careful surveys have shown that while Lake Michigan has ' an average depth of 1,800 feet, Lake Superior of 000 feet and Lake Ontario of 500 feet, Lake Erie has an average depth of only 130 feet, which is said to be ' constantly de creasing. The bottom of the lake is quite level, and ' composed of soft' clay. This clay Is constantly accumulating from sodl- ment carried down by tributary streams. The south shore is composed of easily disintegrating blue, gray and olive shoals and gray sandstone. The western and notheru coast are made up of limestone of tho Ueldorborg group, which quickly'ylolds to the action of the waves. ' Consequently both shores constantly are contributing to fill up the bed of tho lake. The work is not rapid, but it is said to be as certain as fate. ENIGMA DEPARTMENT. A Curious Puzzle. Two Arabs sat dowa to dinner, and were ac costed by a itrangor, who requested to Join their party, saying, that as he could not buy provisions in that country, If they would per mit him to eat only an equal share with them selves, he would willingly pay for the whole. The frugal meal consisted of eight small loaves of bread, Are of which belonged to one of the Arabs, and three to the other. The stranger having eaten a third part of tho eight loaves, arose and laid before them eight pieces of money, saying i " My friends, there is what I promised you. Divide it between you according to your Just rights." A dispute arose, of course, respecting a di vision of the money , but reference being made to the Cadi, he adjudged seven pieces of money to the owner of the five loaves, and only one to him who had the three loaves. And yet the Cadi decided justly. ' What was his decision ? tSTAnswer to Cross-Word Enigma of last week William Fry. Answer to Riddle The letter O. We have received several correct answers to the riddle, but the flrst received was from Ada Stewart of Duncannon. Sullie's Proposal 1 LI PERKINS has undorgono matri .J monial proposals at the hands of one of his lady friends and ho has this to say about it : First I called on my liquid eye brunette friend Miss Sallio Morris of Madison avenue. Now I've spent a good deal of monoy on Miss Sallie for operas, boquets, Delmonico lunches, oto., I've been trying for two years to win her affections. Last night, full of love and hope I rang old Morri's door bell. In a moment Miss Sallio was by myself on the retired sofa. After speaking to her of the coming opera I felt her velvet hand touch mine. . " Do you know, Mr. Perkins, she said looking mo straight in the face, " that to day is our proposing day?" " Well ; I suppose so,V. I romarked, look ing modestly down on hor mosaio bracelet. ," Well, you know, Eli, my dear Eli that I have been out with you a good deal." " Yes," I replied beginning to fell em barrassed. "You know my dear,she said, taking both of my hands, " that it is costing me a good deal for drosses and gloves, and' "And costing me a good doal for carri ages, bouques and Delmonico lunches," I interrupted with increased embarrassment. kl And while I have enjoyed myself all winter going with you, Eli," "In expensive carriages to tho Acadomy and Dolmonico's," I suggested. "' ' '"Yes, while I have beeii' happy to go therewith you I - feci I feel Oh, my dear Eli, I don't know how to say what I want to !" and then tho beautiful child hid her face in my bosom.' ' ' ' "Do not fear for my answer, beautiful . one," I said soothingly. " What is it that weighs upon your sorrowful heart ?" "Oh ? Eli, it is love," shq said, sobbing wildly and twisting her jeweled lingers in my auburn hair. . J,r ' ' ' . ' " Heaven be praised,' I sighed, as I felt tho beating of hor heart against' my vest. "For whom is this love, darling?" 1 asked;1 " for you know I am deeply interosed in you." " ''" - ' ' ' ; "You will not bo mad with me Eli ?" ' ' ' " No, sweet ono. I shall only be ' too happy," I said wiping' tho tears from my eyes. ''.'.'"'' "Well, my dear my long cherished friend, I love" ' " Who dear Bailie, who do you love ?"' " Well, Eli, I love Charley Brown, to whom I am engaged ;" and then the scald ing tears fell thick and fust ou my shirt bosom. " Well Sallie, what have you to say to me?" I asked, hositatinig, as I loosened her hands from my nock. ' Why my doar Eli, Charley and father thought that I had better see you and propose" "Oh darling one, I am thlno. 1" I said, with great emotion ; " take me as I am ; take" ." . , But Eli, let me' explain. They wauted me to see you and thank you for your manly kindness, aud propote that you don't com any more !" . i -. - tSTNot long since ,a sleepy , member . of the lower branch of .the , Legislature re quested a follow member to wake him when a certain bill that involved, the interest of tho lumbermen, .. came up. : Th agreed upon the Bloepy member was soon in the happy land of dreams. It so happened that a certain bill upon theft and perjury camo up that day. So when the, latter bill was fairly under way, the sleepy member was aroused. He rubbing eyes, arose and addressed his Speaker ; " Mr. Speaker, I wish to say a few words upou this bill, for the foot Is the most people up our way make thoir living by this trade.". It is neodless to add that his remarks were ap preciated and highly applauded." tlT At a spirit meeting the other night, gentleman requested tho medium to say what amusements wore popular in the spirit world? 'The reply was, " Reading our obituary notices.'
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