lje imcs, Not Dloomftcl&f 3a NEWi YOBZ CONTINENTAL Br Life Insurance Company, OP NEW YORK, STRICTLY M VTVTAL I YSSTTES all the new forms of Policies. Mid nre- JL scuts as favorable terms as any company in the unuea slums. The Company will make temporary loans on Its roucies. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and me poucy nem gooa uuniig mat nine. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit ure. No extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual prortts of the Company, and have a voice In the elections aud management 01 uie uoinpaiiy. No policy or medical fcecharoed. Justus Lawrence, Pres't. M. B. Wynkoop, Vice Pres't J. P.Hooeks, Bec'y. ' J. F. EATON. (ienerai Agent, No. 8 North Third Street, 4.2a yl College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. Incorporated by the Omrt of Common J'lcas, in lm; oy me limuiure, in ioi. The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company OF POTTSVILLE, PA. Capital and Assets, $156,000. . Premium Notes, $100,000 00 Promissory Notes, 60,000 00 Cash premium due or col lected for the year 1871, $2,028 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for the first three months of 1872 1,800 00 Cash from other sources and agents 1,200 00 Judgment Bonds In Com pany's olllce, 1,100 00 Total Cush 0,128 00 Total cash and uoto assets. April 1st, 1873 $156,128 00 JAMES H. GR1ER, JOHN D. HADE8TY, Secretary. president. DIRECTORS : John D. Hadeety, A. P. Holms, Benjamin Teter, A. SutermelBter, James II. Urler, E. F. lungkurt, iiuas Aimer. AGENTS i H. H. Hill, Edward Fox, John A. Kable, Ed ward Wesley, Charles ueibert, wm.u. j)rlftltb. E. F. Junickurt. General Agent. Arrangements have been made with other slrst-class companses to re-Insure risks taken n the casn plan in sucn amounts as aesirea. . Liberal commission allowed agents, and ex- elusive territory, If desired. This Company -confines itself to lire Insurance exclusively. OFFICE: No. 101 CENTRE ST., POTTSVILLE, PA. NOTICE. The Home Reserve force of The Penn sylvania Central Insurance Company of Pottsville, Fa., will be in ferry county iu considerable lorce, and act as the Com lauy's Agents until a full line of Local Agents can be appointed when the reserve force will be recalled. JAMES II. GUI EH, Beo'y of l'a. Central Ins. Co, InMuranoe Notiee. On and after the tenth day of April, 1873,' The Home Reserve force of Insur ance Agent belonging to "The Pennsylva nia Central Insurance Company" will leave l'oltsville 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 be recalled. As a body of men, I believe they are supe rior Insurance Agents, and most of them speak the i-nglisli, French, Welsh and Uer man Languages. The City Insurance Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual Companies, and continual cry of Fraud I Fraud 1 I &o., cannot muster any better In surance material 1 Why don't the City In eurance papers tell the public that no Mu tual Company broke or failed during the last ten years ? Why don't they toll the public that more than half the Stock Com- 1anics started within the last ten years lave? It is a well-known fact that Mutual Companies cannot fail. JAMES II. GIUEIl, Socretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur ance Company. o id '.New Carriage Manufactory OH HIGH 8TKKKT, EAST Of OaBUBU BT., New Bloomfleld, Perm',. THE subscriber has built a large and eommodl. on bhop ou High He, Kant of Carlisle Htreet, New HIcHiiiiHeld, Pa., where he Is prepared to umu ulacture to order Oil 1 I i L fS 3 H Of every description, out of the test material. 1 -Sleighs of every Style, '- jullt to order, and finished In the most artistic and urauie manner - - . . 9. Having superior workmen, he Is prepared to furnish work that will compare favorably with the bent City Work, and much more aurauie, sua u m.w.li mi... ruuminu 1-lLt.HM. ; WHKPAIKIKO of allklndsueatlysnd prompt ly ont. A tau is souciiea. SAMUEL SMITH. I1U , For the rioomlleld Times. ortuno does not Always Smile on Morit. Gifted men whose deeds of glory ' ' Shine on many a classic page, Sages who have lived In story, . From the earliest to this age, All have seen, and constantly aver It I Fortune does not always smile on Merit. When from prison Pharaoh's butler Was again to freedom brought, (As foreseen by Joseph's subtler Knowledge of his servant's lot), Though ke did his former place Inherit, He forgot the seer's prophetic merit. Even loyal, brave Uriah, Who deserved his monarch's ring For his service, bad to die a Horrid death, because the king .Was unwilling that Uriah's merit Should Bathshcba's loveliness inherit. Bocratcs, whose worth and gooducss, Like a heaven-lit beacon, shone 'Mid the wickedness and lewdness To which Athens was so prone, Found that (though his wisdom did prefer it) Hemlock sometimes is the price of merit. Galileo's great Invention, Bringing myriad worlds to view, Brought about the great contention 'Twlxt him and the priests, who knew Mot enough to own real merit, Which it was not their lot to inherit. Sidney and Epaminondns, Albion's and Grecia's best, Prompt to duty to respond as Sol to near the still-sought west, Worthy all that valor should Inherit, Both received ingratitude for merit. When grim terror's monarch, With contagion's midnight breath, Sweeps the earth, as when the one ark Rode upon the floods of Death, If some Howard cheers a drooping spirit, Fortune here may fall to smile on Merit. Wand'rers, destitute, tormented, Clad in skins of goats and sheep, Doomed to tortures, unlamentcd, Earth unworthy such to keep, May be counted worthy to Inherit Heavenly mansions, but of grace, not merit Least desired, though first in story ( God of heaveu, condemned to death ) Fullness of the Godhead's glory, Yet of him the Scripture salth, The only one who had Intrinsic merit, Did neither natal-bed nor shroud inherit. Kissing a Strange Girl in a stage uoacn. WALTER MARSHALL, when he reached the age of fourteon,arrived in New York from his native village, in the destitute situation that is frequent among New England boys; that is to say, had only the usual accompaniments of these unfledged chips, who afterwards make the merchant and the great men of our country, and not unfrequontly of other lands. He had a white little wooden trunk, pretty well stocked with "humvuidet," a sixty eight cent bible, that his mother packed iu for him, fearful that he might forget it, a three dollar New Haven City bank bill, aud any quantity of energy, patience, per. severance and ambition. Ho entered the counting room of a merchant in South street, nis honesty, activity and industry won for him many friends. Among them was an English merchant, who had a large commercial house in Calcutta,and a branch at Bombay. He was iu this country on business connected with his commercial firm in Calcutta, and did his business with the firm Walter clerked for ; and here the latter attracted his notice. Ho was sixteen years of age only; yet the Bombay gentle man fancied him, and mado him a liberal offer to go to India with him ; which, after very little palaver among his friends Walter accepted. New England boys don't often Btart off on their long wandering excur sions, without first getting leave of absence for a few days preparatory exercises, which they spend in going where they origna lly came from; and then having taken a few good looks at the weatherbeaten church, the high old steeple, which was wonderfully reduced in size and elevation si nee thoy first saw it, to notice it, in school-boy days then they must hear the old bell ring once more, even If they have to take a spell at the rope ; then take a turn among the white grave stones, see if there are any very green mounds, fresh made and if so, to ask who among old friends have gouo to their last resting place; then to kiss mother and sister, shake hands with father, and the stago is at the door of the tavern, and they are ready for a start to go " any where." Walter went up to do, and did do all this ; but be did not get into the stage at the tavern. . lie walked down the road, ahead of the coach, toward tho old bridge, and told the stage driver to stop and let him get in at the . minister's house at Parson Fuller's. Mary Fuller lived there too, for she happened to be the parson' only daughter. She was the merriest, liveliest witch that ever wore loose tresses of auburn hair, and had blue eyos. , She was only twelve years old and Walter was nearly seventeen. She did love him though -he was almost all in all to her he bad fought her battles all through her childish campaign; she had no brother. She was Walter's cousin, a. sort of half-fresh cousin ; for her mother had been the half sister of Walter's mother. .They were not too near related for purposes hereinafter to be named. ... ' , Poor Molly ! She would have cried her eyes out on this occasion, . had it not been that Walter's solemn phiz sot her ideas of the ridiculous in motion: she made a merry ten minutes as a wind up of their parting scone. Three days afterward Walter was in Now York, and just four months and twenty days farther on in Timo's Almanac, he was making out invoices acting as corre sponding clork to "tho firm" in Bombay. I shall not stop to relate how many times he went to the exhibition of venomous look ing cobra de capallos and biting Sepoys for fun, and to show how innocent the beauties were, and how easy their bite was cured ; how often he visited the far famed Ele phant's cave; how many times be dined with good Sir Robert Grant, the govenor of Bombay and how he was with him, aud what he said tho very morning of the day the old scourge the cholera made the Excellent Sir Robert his victim all these things I shall leave to another time, and a more appropriate heading. I skip over all of these, and six years of time besides and land Master Walter at Statcn Island, bring him up to the City in a steamboat, and leave him at a respectable hotel, and let him sleep all night and tako a good "short rest," after a tedious voyage of four mouths and more. The next morning we awaken him; make him got up, pay his bill, take a hack and rido down to the New Haven steamboat, and go on board. It was 7 o'clock A. M. And at 1 P. M. the boat has reach- ed the landing; his trunk and " traps" are on the Litchllold stage; he has taken a scat inside; his destination is n intermediate village. He is alone in the stage; no not alone there is an old woman on the front seat. The stage is up in the city, and slowly meandering about New Haven, picking up passengers who have sent their names to the stage office, as is still custom- ary in that staid and sober city of mineral ogy, theology and 'ologies in general. The stage Jehu pulls np at the door of a neat little cottage in Chapel street to take up a passenger a young lady of sweet seven teen or thereabouts. Before she has fair ly got out side, Walter notices her, and she has noticed him, too. He gazes in astonishment at the perfect vision of love liness before him; he hasn't seen anything of the kind for years. There is not a par- tical of copper about her. She, . on her part, half laughing, has regarded him very attentively pushed back tho golden ring lets that almost shut in her face, and taken another look, as if to be certain that she has made no mistake. ' Here is a seat, Miss, besido me," said tho gospel preacher. "Thank you, sir, I prefer setting on the bock seat with that gentleman, if he will lot me," said the most electrical voice that Walter had listened to for some time. "Certainly, miss," said the delighted Bombayite; and when she seated herself by him, she gazed into his face with such delight and astonishment, that Walter actually took a look down upon himself, to ascertain what there was about his person that appeared so pleasing to the fair maiden but he discovered nothing unusual. The stage rolled towards Derby, at its usual rapid rate of five miles an hour, and Wal ter and the merry maid seemed as chatty and cosy together as though they had known each other for years, instead of minutes. The minister tried to engage the ringlets in conversation, but ho soon found himself " nowhere." She had neith er eyes nor ears for any person but Walter, and ho bad told her moro about his travels, aud Bombay scenery, than he ever told anybody else before or since. At last they came to Derby. There horses had to be changed, and four fresh skeletons were harnessed tackled on to the old stage, Walter handed tho gentlo girl back to her old seat as gracefully as he could have done if he never lived in Bom bay, but always stopped inNowYork. Thoy were alono now. The minister aud tho old lady had got out at Derby. " Well, we are off once more ; how far are you going?" said Walter, as the stage went off: "Not quite so far as Litchfield. You say that your friends reside at Pomperany, How glad they will be to see you." " Very probably,' unless . they have for gotten me, which is likely, for I suppose I have altered some in seven years." "Not a particle : I -." The pretty maid forgot what she was going to say, but at- last romembered and continued. - " I should suppose you have not altered for you said you were seventeen when yon were at home last, and now you are only twenty-three. You. must have been grown as you are now. , '.'Perhaps so; but still I am somewhat tauued by exposure in an East India , cli mate. .. ., , . ," yet I think you will by recognized by every body in the little village. , Do you know young ladyiu Pomperany of the nameof Mary Fuller?" ,, , , , What 1 little Mary I my little wife ?'! I used to call ber t Why, Lord love yon, do you know her? .Bless her heart I My trunk is filled with knick-knacks for her special use. Do I know her ? Why I have thought of hor ever since I went away, Young lady ! why, she is a little bit of a girl; she is only ton years old. No she must be older than that now ; I suppose I will find her grown considerably. ' By the way are you not getting cold ? It's getting chilly." The dolightod young lady was trying to conceal her face, which had called forth Walter's exclamation. " Yes it Is getting colder; it is nearly dark, and so it was. Walter had a boat cloak, and after a very little troublc,he was permitted to wrap it aronud her lovely form, and somehow or other his arm went with it ; and in tho confusion ho was very close to her, and his arm was around her waist, out side the cloak, though; then he had to put his face down to hear what sho said, and somehow those long ringlets of soft, silky hair, were playing across his cheek. Human nature could not and would not stand it any longer ; and Walter the modost Walter, drew his arms closer than ever, and pressed upon the warm. rosy lips of his beautiful iellow-travoler, a glowing, burning, regular East Indian Bombay kiBs, aud then blushed himself at the mischief be had done, and waited for the stago to upset, or something elso to happen 1 But no, she hod not made any resistance : on the contray he hod fult very distinctly that she had returned tho kiss, tho very first kiss he had ever prcsssed upon a woman's lips, since ho gave a part ing one to little Mary Fuller, and ho would have sworn that he hoard her saying some thing (about that very moment he had given her that first long kins of youth and love) that sounded like " Dear dear Wal ter.?" The stago was now entering the villago. Iu a few minutes ho would be iu Mary Ful ler's house, no thought of her, and felt ashamed and downright guilty. What Mary, his " little wifo" that was to be, say if she knew ho had been acting so ? As these things passed rapidly through his mind, he began to study how to get out of tho affair quiotly and decently. ' " You go on in tho stage, I suppose, to the next town, or perhaps still farther ?" "Oh, no I pot me." What could she mean? He had not time to indulge in conjecture ; tho stago drove up slap in front of Parson Fuller's door, and there was the venerablo Parson and his good lady in the doorway ; he with lamp in his hand already to receive Wal ter as he supposed. "Where will you stop In the village? I will come and see you." " I shall stop where you stop. I won't leave you. I lore you have boon kissing me this half hour, and now you want to run away and leave me. I am determined to expose you to the old clergyman and his wife, in the doorway yonder. More than that, your "darling little wife" that is to bo, as you call her, shall know all about it." What a situation for a modest, moral man 1 It was awful. To bo laughed at exposed; and who was she? Could it be possible ? Ho had heard of such charac ters 1 It must be ; but she was very pretty; and ho to be the means of bringing such a creature into the very house of the good and pious old clergyman and his sweet old pet and playmate-, his Mary Fuller I He saw it all. It was a judgement sent upon him. What business have I to bo kissing a strange girl if she is pretty? His uncle and aunt had came clear down to the dooryard gate, almost to the stage door, which the driver had opened. Walter felt that he was doomed; but he had to get out. ' "Don't for God's sake expose mo young woman 1" "I will get out!" "Oh 1" thought Waltor.it's all over with me !" and now he shakes hands with the clergyman, and he flings his arms around the aunt. ' " Mary I" exclaimed the mother" 'our Mary in the stage, as I live 1 So you came up with your cousin, eh?" "Yes, mother; and what do you think this impudent East Indian has been doing ? He has kissed me at least a hundred times, and that isn't all ; he tried to persuade me to keep on in the stage aud not get out at all I" ' "Ah I no wonder be kissed you, he has not seen you for some years. How glad you must have been wheu you met. But what is the matter with you, Walter ? Let the driver stop and leave your trunk at your father's as he goes by, and come into the bouse. Why what is the matter? Are you dumb ?" ' - 1 " " Arn't you ashamed of yourself, Walter, not to speak to my mother, when she is talking to you? chimed in Miss Molly Walter now found his voice, and before he got fairly inside, Miss Mary was his dohtor for a round dozen . of kisses, which he took very kindly. ' But as for Walter, bis mind was made up. lie , would marry that strange girl. He was grateful; she had saved him from degradation, loss of char acter and everything else ; but would she forgive him for being so free with a strange girl in a stage coach ? ' . Doubtful ; but i she would have a chance,for he was determined to ask her to take him for better or worse. There is no doubt but what she did forgive him, for a short time afterwards, they were married, and as Mary Rave her husband the first kiss of a wife, she said, " remember now Walter, there is to be no more kissing of strange women in a stago coach." ' , ' i , , ' " Record of Presidents aud Vice President. N view of the approaching Presidential ( campaign, we transcribe for the benefit of our readers, a complete record of all the Presidents and Vice Presidents, when . in augurated as well as those who were can didates for ofTice since the organization of the government. " 1780. George Washington and John Adams; no opposition. 1707. John Adams opposed by Thomas Jefferson, who, having the next highest electoral vote, became Vice President. 1801. Thomas Jefforson and Aaron Burr; beating John Adams and Chas. C. Pinck ncy. 1805. Thomas Jefferson and Geo. Clin ton; beating Charles C. Pinckney and Ru fus King. 1800. James Madison and George Clin ton; beating Chas. C. Pinckney. 1813. Jas. Madison and Elbriclge Geny; beating DeWitt Clinton. 1817. James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins; beating Rufus King. 1821. James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins; beating John Quincy Adams. 1825. John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun; beating Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and William II. Crawford there being four candidates for President and Albert Gallatin for Vice President. 1829. Andrew JackRon and John C. Calhoun; beating John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush. 1833. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren; beating Henry Clay, John Floyd and William Writ for President, and Wil liam Wilkins, John Sergeant and nenry Lee for Vice President. 1837. Martin Van Buren aud Richard M. Johnson; beating Hugh L. White and Dauiol Webster for President, and John Tyler for Vice President. 1841. William II. Harrison and John Tyler; beating Martin Van Buren and Lit tleton W. Tazewell. Harrison died one month after his inauguration, and John Tyler became President for the rest of tho term. 1845. James K. Polk and George M. Dallas; beating Henry Clay and Theodote Freilinghuysen. 1849. Zachary Taylor and Millard Fill more; beating Lewis Cass and Maitin Van Buren for President, and Wm. O. Butler and Charles F. Adams for Vice President. Taylor diod July 9, 1850 and Fillmore be came President. 1853. Franklin Pierce and W. R. King; beating Winfield Scott and W. A. Graham. 1857. James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge; beating John C. Frcemont and Millard Fillmore for President, and William L. Dayton and A. J. Donelson for Vice President. 1801. Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin; beating John Bell, Stephen A. Douglas, and John C. Breckinridge for President, and Edward Everett, Herschell T. Johnson, and Joseph Lane for Vice President. i ,, 1865. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson; beating Geo. B. McClellunand O. A. Pendleton. Lincoln assassinated, April 14, 1805, and Johnson assumed the Presi dency. 18G9. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Schuy ler Colfax; beating Horatio Seymour and Frank P. Blair. A Very Temperate Man. A Now Bodford man walked into an of fice in Norwich one evening recently, with the blunt speech, " I neither smoke, chew nor drink. I belong in Fall Rivor, and have had nothing to oat to-day." The clerk who was just goiug to close up, said to him, " I think I have seen you before." Never was here before was the reply. The clerk handed him tweuty-flve cents, and locking up and passing into the street a moment afterward, was just in time to see his new friend enter a lager beer saloon. He at once followed, and seeing his quarter laid down for a glass of Teutonio bitters, grabbed it, remarking to the man, "I neither smoke, chew, nor drink." Tho fellow viewed this new method of prohi bition with open-mouthed but dumb sur prise. tSTA Party of emigrants from Texas passed through Bristol, Va., the other day, en route for their former homes in Bath county, Va.- They said they had traveled about 4,000 miles, aud had been on the road over twelve mouths. Their horses, the most of which were Texas ponies, looked remarkably well. - , . ClFDr. Lyman Beechor made a prayer to this effect: " Grant, O Lord, that wo may not think contemptuously of our ru lers and furthermore, grant, we beseech Thee, that they may not act so that we can't holpitl" ' . ' J3TA Kentucklan being asked how much corn he raised answered, "About ten barrels of whiskey, besides what we waste making bread." ' '
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