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.