1)C imc0, NcW Bl0omftcIii; )a; , The U. II. Mutual Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Present the fallowing plan for consideration to uch persons who wish to become members: The payment of BIX DOLLARS on application. FIVE DOLLARS annually for Foi'K vbaus, and thereafter TWO DOLLARS annually during life, with pro-rata mortality assessment at the death of each member, which for the FntST Class Is as follows: Age Asettt- ment Age Asmta-l I ntent Age AnfieM ment Age A uses ment 1 70 1 80 1 92 2 04 2 10 2 28 2 40 2 45 2 50 2 65 2 60 2 65 15 60 28 73 41 92 64 18 fil 211 74 42 W 55 17 02 SO 75 4 W 66 IS 63 31 77 44 1W 67 19 64 82 79 45 1 00 68 20 65 33 81 46 1 06 69 21 66 34 S3 47 1 12 00 22 (17 35 85 48 1 18 61 23 68 3D 80 49 1 24 62 24 69 87 87 50 1 30 63 25 70 38 88 61 1 40 64 26 71 3ft 89 62 1 50 05 27 72 40 90 63 1 00 Will entitle a member to a certificate of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, to be paid at Ills death to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death may occur. A inemoer, or ins neirs, may name n nintr,, , Dutli nuticeoi ineueatnoi a inemoer 10 me dcc- f lluMci retary iot accompanied with the name of a Slic cessuif the Society win put in a successor ana ing 'n me wocuuy win puuu n succussor una lit" a aucy, according to the Constitution of itocTety. the Horlntv Simula the mcrnoer nie neiore ms jour uld the member die neiore ms jour pay ments of fire dollars are made, the remaining un paid part will be deducted from the one Thousand Dollars due his heirs: his successor will then pay only two dollar annually during his lifetime, and the mortality assessments. . Male and Female from fifteen to sixty-five years of age, of good moral habits, In good health, hale, and sound of mind. Irrespective of creed, or race, may become members. For further Infoina .tion, address L. W. CltAUMKK, (Sec'y U. B. Mutual Aid Society.) LEBANON, PA. Agents Wanted t Address 1 D. 8. EAKLY. 6 31 8m pd Harrlsburg, Ta. 2l fff TO UK CTtrcniTKD TO 84fc,UUU MUTUAL POLICY HOLDERS. The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company having had but little loss during the past year, the annual assessment on Mutual Tollcy-holders will uwt exceed 60 per cent, on the usual one year cash rates, which would be ccjual to a dividend of 40 per cent., as calculated in Stock Companies, or a deduction of 2 per cent., on the notes below the usual assessment ; and as the Company has over SAK),000 in premium notes, the whole amount cred ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will amount to Jt.ooo. Had the same policy-holders In sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they would have paid 8-1,001) more than It has cost them In this Company, et some of our neighbor agents are running about crying Fraud 1 Fraud I and declare that a mutual company must fail. But they don't say how many stock companies are falling every year, or how many worthless stock companies are represented in Perry County today. It is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company cannot break. JAMES H. GRIEK, 25tf Sec'y of Penu'a Central Insurance Co. K E MO VAL! Merchant Tailoring Establishment. TILE subscriber respectfully Informs the public that he has removed his MERCHANT TAIL ORING ESTABLISHMENT from "Little Store In the Corner," to room formerly occupied by J. G. Shatto, Dentist, where may be found at all times, a varied assortment of Cloths, Casslmers and Testings, ' With a complete line of Tailor' Trimming Of the best quality. Those desiring to purchase ;)OD UOODS. at Reasonable prices, and have them made in the A.A1LST bixi.r.. win piease give us a call. 8. II. BUCK. Also, a 'good assortment of SHIRTS, SUSPENDERS, COLLARS, NECK-TIES, HOSIERY, &C.&0., On hand at low prices. A. H. :FRANCISCUS & CO., No. 513 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA, Have opened for the FALL TRADE, the largest and best assorted Stock of PHILADELPHIA CARPETS, Table. Stair, and Floor Oil Cloths, Window Shades and Paner. Caruet Chain. Cotton. Yarn. Batting. Wadding. J wines, wicks Clocks, Looking Glasses, Fancy Baskets, Brooms, uaskeis, jiucKeis, jnusnes, noines wringers. Wooden and Willow Ware, IN THE UNITED STATES. Our large Increase In business enables us to sel' at low prices, and furnish the best quality of uoous. SOLI AGENTS FOK TUB Celebrated American Washer, Price $5.50. THE MOST PERFECT AND SUCCESSFUL WASnr.it EVEK MADtt. n- AGENTS WANTED FOR THE AMERI CAN WAHHfcR In all parts of the State. 37 13t Perry County Bank! Spongier, Junktu & Co. milEunaersign Hi. havlnn formed a nankins a. L sociuiKin under the above name and style, are now ready to do a General flanking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE, NEW BLOOMPIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on demand. We discount notes for a period of not over 60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, five per cent for any time over lour months; and for four months four per cent. We are well provided with all and every facility for doing a Banking Business) and knowing, and lor some years, leenng the great Inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored torthe want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to supply the want: and this being the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. SpnNsijta.Bloomneld, Terry county. Fa. h. . JUNKIN, " - " Wn. H. Wiu.r.a, Carlisle, orviusiui W. A. SrONBLEB, Pretfdeni. WauAM Willis, Onehiar ' Newliloomneld.g 6 ly Uncle Joe's Story. 6 tnpiIIS wag how it was," began Uncle X Joe clearing his vocal hatchway by rolling an immense quid into one chock. "When I'd made up 'my mind to come out here an' buy. Mother, as I call my wife, she made me a bolt to kerry my mon ey in. Them was the days afore greon- backses, an' bank-notes was no great shakes ef they got too fur from home. So land buyers mostly kerrid what they hed inspecchy, which they commonly did in belts buckled round their bodies a dodge the robbers soon got up to, au' the fust thing they did when they got holt of a chap, was to look for his money bolt. Well, I kissed Mothor, an' bid her good-bye one morniu', an' sot out to hunt new home for us, kcrryin, the price of it with me in hard cash. "Nothin' wuth mentioniu' happened till one night I stopped at a cabin, an' axt for lodgin's. " You can hev 'om,' was the answer that is, providin' you don't object to sloopin' double, for another stranger's here afore you." "I didn't cgsao'ly like the idee ; but houses wore scarce in them parts, an' not carin' to ronk goin' furdor an' farin' wuss, lit, an takin' my saddle-bags on my arm led my critter round to the stablo, the propri'tor showin' the way, an' when Olo Roan'd ben looked artcr, we went into the house. ... "T'other stranger was sottin' by the lire an' give me a sharp look as I come for'ard. " 1 Good-ovemn',' sez I, an' ho scd so too. " Neither of us sod much more till artor supper, which the settlor's wife brung in soon. The cookiu' wa'n't ekol to Moth er's, but hunger, you know's, good sass for enny cook'ry. "T'other stranger, I noticed, kep' watchin' me sharp. I didn't fancy his looks much ; but arter a spell he mode up to me quite friendly an' sociablo like, an' it was always my way to meet that sort o' thing half-way. " lie, too, was on the look-out to buy a n we compared notes on tno sutjjoc tin bed-time. Our host was one o' them sort o' chaps that listens a good deal without sayin' much, an' his wife looked as ef she durstn't say much cf she would. We paid our bills afore coin' to bed T'other traveler scd he was goin' to start afore day ; but as our roads lay but a little ways together, I concluded I wouldn't rise so soon for the sake of only that much com. pany. Sun up was early, enough for me. "Our sloopin' room was one eend o' tho cabin petitioned off by itself. It's a long timo senco you au mo slop' tocethor,' sez the stranger, when we was both ready to lay down. "'So 'tis,' sozl; 'winch, side uo you take?" " 'Front,' sez he, 'of it's all the same to you." "All the same, sez I, jumpin' in. "The stranger follered, an' I don't know what ho done, but I soon fell asleep. " I don't know how late or early it was when I woke up, feelin' chilly like. . The moon was shinin' bright through the win der. The clothed was turned over from the front side o' the bed, and thore stood my bed-fuller, leanlu over me with a big knifo in one hand, a fumblin' at the buckle o' my money belt with t'other. " Of course you grasped the arm that yielded the knife with one of your hands, and the villain's throat with the other I" "Well, no, I didn't." " You cried out, then.", " Not that either." "Well," continued Uncle Joe, "I lay as still as a mouse till that pesky critter ondone my bolt, and slipped it from ondor me, which he did so gently that I bar'ly felt it, wide awake as I was. Then he pulled tho cover over me, an' tuckln' it in as careful s mother could a done, he buckled my belt around him, finished dressin' and slipped out." And you lay there and let yourself be robbed without uttering a word 1" I didn't see no good in speakin'," said Uncle Joe " I knowed he'd sock his knife inter me ef I so much as choap'd, an' take the chance o' cuttin' his way through the landlord arterward, ef so be he woke up. No I didn't say a word, but jest turned over an took another nap, an' in good time got up, an' mounted Ole Roan an' rid off, jest as if nothin' happened. I got to my journey's end that day, an' bought my land the next." " But your money ?" "Oh I that was all right," said Uacle Joe. x " Why, didn't the robber got it ?" "He got the belt," Uncle Joe answered. "You see, Mothor an' me we knowed that money belts bad got to be so much the fashion, that they was the first thing ev'ry robber went for, an' once they got a man's belt, they'd go off contented. So, what does Mother an me do but fill my belt with pewter button), an' Mother she sewed the double eaglos Inter the linin of 'coonskln jacket, which the fur on the outside kep 'em from showin', an' thore I kerried 'em safe enough. " ENIGMA DEPARTMENT, w All contributions to this denartmout must be accompanied by the correct answer. tW Answer to the Enigma in last week's Tikes "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad." For the Bloomfleld Tlmns. The Bandit of the Apennines. BT 8. H. T. H AVE you over been at the foot of the Apennines and viowed their lofty summits ? To those who have beheld them as I have, it is a grand sight, as their romantio appearance surpasses a!l description. One of my most singular adventures transpired while crossing one of the passes that leads over those mountains. This pass is fre quently travelod by tourists during tho summer and fall months, and it is also in fested by banditti. I had been traveling in Franco, Spain and Italy, during the summer and autumn of 1SG0. It was in the month of October that I determined to cross from the western to the eastern Bide of the Apennines. It was night when I reached a little hostelry called the "Mountain Inn," about one-fourth way up tho pass on tho western side of tho mountains. Here I stopped to take re freshments bofore proceeding any farther. The inn-keeper was a very polite, friend ly man. lie was quite free in conversing with mo, accompanying each little speech with a respectful bow. At last, having fin ished my meal, I prepared to resume my journey. The moon was struggling through great banks of clouds with which the sky was overcast. I was traveling in a large, com fortable carriago, and was on the point of taking a nap, when I was aroused from my lethargy by hearing voices outside. Sud denly the carriage was stopped by a man, ferociously masked, who, seizing the reins of one of tho horses, demanded my money, at tho same imo, presenting a pistol to my head. I folt for my revolver, but it was not at its accustomed place 1 It must have been removed by the postillion. The thought instantly flashed through my mind that this fellow was in league with the ban ditti. I saw no alternative but to give up my money and jewels. Among these was a ring presented to mo by my mother, and which I prized very highly, on account of the donor, who had departed this life about two years before. I asked the leader to lot me retain it, toll ing him why it was of value to me. lie handed it to me, with a polite bow, so much like the courteous salutation of the inn-keeper of the " Mountain Inn," that I could not help fancying that they were one and the same. After stripping me of all thoy could got, they tied mo to a trco, and went off, the postillion going with them. ' After they had gone, I shouted for help, but all in vain. At dawn, while I was waiting in sus pense, (for I was too hoarse to shout any more,) a Count,' with a large retinue of servants, passing by, released me, and then I continued on my journey on foot. Six mouths after this, having business to attend to in Florence, I proceeded thither. On tho day of my arrival at that place, there was to be a public execution. Happening to be out on the streets, I mot the proces sion conducting the criminal to the gallows. "Who is the man whom they are going to hang ?" I asked of a by-standor. "That," said he, "is one of the most daring bandits of the Apennines. - He is the leader of a certain band of out-laws that infest tho pass that crosses the moun tains. They plunder, and, sometimes, even kill travelers who may be so unfortu nate as to fall into their hands," Happening to catch a glimpse of hisfaoo, our eyes met ; with imperturbable polite ness, he rose ic the car, all manacled as he was, and mode me the same bow to which I could have sworn among a thousand. It was no other than my host of tho " Moun tain Inn," and my polite friend of the mountain pass. It was his last Cow, as in less than an hour his body was dangling from the gallows. Singular Adventure of a Man. a Muleuud a Bear. T AST Saturday a gentloman living Li near Madison Station, on the Mem. phis and Little Hock road, left home to go to the village. He had not gone more than 200 hundred yards, mounted on a lineal de scendant of Balaam's ass, when he en countered a great, greasy black bear. The bear was astonished, and without taking time to think, hurried up a scaly bark hickory and seated himself very comfort ably on a limb, thirty or forty feet from the ground. The farmer was completely puzzled. If he rode back to his house to got his gun the bear would surely escape. He therefore tied the mule, a long-eared, melancholy mule, forty or fifty years of ago, to the body of the tree. The mule was bridle-wise, but as no bridle would hold him, a strong leather cable , was coiled about his neck. With this he was fastened to the tree, . The farmer started to the house, aud Bruin, divining his plans, deemed it'proper to get away. He doubt less suspected that a gun was coming, no came slowly down tearing the bark from the body of the tree. It rattled about the sleepy mule's head, who had not yet seon tho boar,and dreamed not of the proximity of the ugly beast. The boar descended slow ly till he was within five feet of the mule's great ugly head. Then it was that the stupid, innocent unsuspecting mule looked up. Ho had never seen a bear before ;IIis knees smote one another, no grew pale in the face. His eyes wore projected from his head the farmer said half a foot. His tail slowly lifted, the hairs all turnod awry, till it stood at an anglo of forty five degrees above his spinal column, and then it was that the mule "hoved a sigh and smoled a smilo." It was an unearthly sound ; tho farmer fifty yards away, says it shook the ground where he stood watching the pro gress of events. The bear suddenly twisted itself about and reascended to its perch. Tho mule swooningly fell at tho base of the tree. He lay still and apparently life less for a time, when Bruin again attempt ed the descent ; but the terrified mule howl ed and roared even more terriblo and pit eously when the bark began to fall, and he dashed and danced about tho tree so fran tically that Bruin hesitated, and finally, in stupefied amazement, sat upon tho limb upon which he first rested. The farmor camo with his rifle, and a bullet soon stop ped tho pulsobcats of tho bear. If fell heavily beside tho mulo, and strango to tell, as told to us, the mule and bear died side by side ; the one, of a mortal wound ; the other, of mortal torror. Tho bear was still black as Erebus ; the mulo's face was already whito with an indescribable agony or mortal fear. Tlio Greatest Criminal Trial on Record. IN the whole history of criminal jurispru dence thore has nevor, probably, been anything equal to the gigantic trial which was concluded at Moscow, in Russia, on the 21st of November, and in which were ar raigned five hundred prisoners, upward of two hundred of whom wore convicted and sentenced to severe penalties. Among tho accused were persons of every station in life gray-haired men and youth, men and women; among the latter some highly ac complished and prepossessing in appearance. All the prisoners wore charged with one of the gravest offences in the criminal code of Russia that of counterfeiting. The code says: "The person that counterfeits the coin or currency of the Imperial Govern ment shall suffer death." Notwithstanding this rigorous provision, Russia has bocn floodod for many years past with well exe cuted counterfeits of the Government treasury notes. The prompt execution of several who were caught in passing the spurious currency did not materially check the evil. Offers of the largest rewards did not load to tho detection of the guilty par- ties. At length, in July last, a curious accident gave the Government the long-looked-for clue, which led to the discovery of an asso ciation of criminals of both sexes, banded together for the purposo of circulating the spurious currency, and which extended from the bleak and frozen shores of the White Sea to the Volga and tho Black Sea. In the course of the two following months three thousand men and women were ar raigned, but after a preliminary examina tion twenty-five hundred of thom were dis charged, and about five hundred were bold for trial. Among the latter were six Frenchmen, of St. Petersburg, who had been caught printing the counterfeit notos, and a comparatively large number of wo men. The prisoners were all conveyed to Moscow, were they were confined iu the vast vaults underneath the Kromlin Palace, Criminal law in Russia is barbarous at the best, and the male prisoners were herded together like so many hogs. Thoy received the coarsest faro, and straw was their only couch. The women were treated but littlo bettor. On the 20th of October the trial was open ed In the large hall of the Kremlin, which holds nearly five thousand persons. The proceedings were protracted for a month, and the prosecution succeeded in establish ing the guilt of over one-third of the ao ousod. Two hundred and three of them were found guilty; among them about fifty women. Sentonoe of death was passed upon the six French printers, and the other oonvicted parties were oondemned to hard labor in the gold mines of the Ural Moun tains for life, or for ten years. The doom ed men and women burst into piercing shrieks and howls, and well they might for in the case of the former, the sentence included barbarous flogging and branding on the forehead with red-hot irons ; while the women, some of whom were of fine descent, shuddered at the idea of having to do the most menial work for life or ten years at the station-houses, where the keep- pers of the male prisoners reside. In their despair some of the unfortunates threw themselves on the ground, and their pier cing cries, mingled with the clanking of their chains, produced a truly horrible effeot. The excitement and frenzy of the condemn ed grew from minute to miuute more in tense, and the Judges, in order to restore quietude, had to call in the soldiers, who, with their kantschubs, boat the prisoner right and left, and then dragged them back to the vaults of the Ereml in. tW When the rain falls, docs it ever rise again ? Yes, in dew time. SUNDAY HEADING. Is Temperate Drinking Safe 1 AT a certain town meeting, iu Pennsyl vania, the question came up whether any person should be licensed to sell rum. The clergyman, the deacon, the physician, strange as it may appear, all favored it. Only one man spoke against It, because of the mischief it did. The question was about to be put, when all at once, there arose from the corner of the room, a mis erable woman. , She was thinly clad, and her appearance indicated the ' utmost wretchedness, and that her mortal career was almost closed. Aftorra moment's si- lence,and all eyes being fixed upon her, she stretched her attenuated body to its utmost height, and thon her long arms to their greatest length, and raising her voice to a shrill pitcli, she called to all to look upon her. ' Yes 1" she said, "look upon mo, and then hear me. All that tho last speaker has said relative to temperate drinking, as boing the fathor of drunkenness, is true. All practico, all experience, declares its truth. All drinking of alcholio poison, as a beverage in health, is excess. Look upon me ! You all know me, or once did. You know I was once tho mistress of the best farm in the town ; you all know, too, I had one of the best, the most devoted of husbands. You all know I had fino, noble heartod, industrious boys. Where are they now? Doctor, where are they now ? You all know. You all know they lie in a row, side by sido, in yonder churchyard ; all, every one of thom filling the drunkard's grave I Thoy were are all taught to believe that temperate drinking was safe, the ex cess ojone ought to be avoided , and they never acknowledged excess. i hey quoted you, and you, and you, (pointing with her shred of a finger to the minister, deacon, and doctor) as authority. They thought themselves safe uudor such teaohers. But I saw the gradual change coming over my family and its prospects, with dismay and horror. I felt we were all to be overwhelm ed in one common ruin. I tried to ward off the blow ; I tried to break the spell, the delusive spell, in which the idea of the the benefits of temperate drinking had in volved my husband and sons. I begged, I prayed ; but the odds were against me. ' " The minister said the poison that was destroying my husband and boys was a good creatue of God ; the doacon who sits1 undor the pulpit there, and took our farm to pay his rum bills, sold them tho poison ; the doctor said a little was good, and ex cess only ought to be avoided. ' My poor husband and my dear boys fell into the snaro, and could not escape ; and, one after another, were conveyed to the sorrowful grave of the drunkard. Now look at me again. You probably see me ' for the last time. My sands have almost run. 1 I have ' dragged my exhausted frame from ' my present home, your poor house, to warn you all ; to warn you, doacon, to warn yon, false teacher of God's word I" And with her arms flung high, and 'her tall form stretched to its utmost, and her voice raised to an unearthly pitch, she exclaimed, " I shall soon stand before the judgment seat of God. I shall meet you there, you false guides, and be a witness against you all !" The miserable woman vanished. A dead silence pervaded the assembly ; the min ister, the deacon, and physician, hung their heads ; and when the presidont of the meeting put the question. "Shall any license be granted for the sale of spiritous liquors?" the unanimous response was, " No 1" Homo Influence. Rev. Dr. Cuyler, in one of his articles, talks in this wise of family topics : j " If the father usually talks of 'money, money,' at home, he generally rears a family in worship of the almighty dollar. If he talks of horses, games, and races, he breeds a batch of sportsmen. If fashion is the family altar, then then the children are offered up as victims upon the altar. If a man makes his own fire-side attractive, he may reasonably hope to anchor bis own children around it. My neighbor Q makes himself the oonstaut evening com panion of bis boys. The result is that his boys are never found in bad places. : But, if the father hears the clock strike eleven, in his club-bouse or in tho playhouse, he need not be surprised if his boys hear it strike twelve in the gaming-room or the driuking-saloon. If he puts the bottle on his own table, he need not wonder if his son staggers in by and by at his front door. When the best friend that childhood and youth ought to have,beoomes their foe, the home becomes the 'starting point' for moral ruin." , , CSyTbere is no greater every -day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle, renewing moisture to parched herbs. The light of a choorful faoe dif fuses itself, and communioates the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of con tinuous good humor. ' t3T Keep your heart's window always open toward heaven. Let the blessed light of the Savior's countenance shine in. It will turn tears into rainbows.
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