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.'