I)c .dimes, JNnu SloonufauX )a. The U. li. Mutual Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Present the following plan for consideration to uch persons who wish to become members: The navment of SIX DOLLARS on application, FIVE IioLLAHS annually for pouk ybaus, aim (i.nKUnnuTWnlvil.l.Alrtl aniiniltv flliriniz 1 fe. with pro-rata mortality assessment, at the ileal h of each member, which for the First Class is as follows: Assessment 15 . IK) 28 73 lfl 111 211 74 17 02 HO 7") 18 Itl HI 77 19 M Si! 79 20 05 83 81 21 lit! M M 22 07 !ir 2:) OS Sil M 2i OS) .17 7 25 70 i 2l! 71 27 72 40 90 41 92 M 1 70 42 94 f.5 1 HO 4,1 1HI M 1 92 44 9S f7 2 94 4ft 1 90 M 2 1(1 40 1 tW W 2 28 47 1 12 00 2 40 48 1 18 01 2 4.r. 40 1 24 02 2 SO 50 1 SO 03 2 65 51 1 40 04 2 00 52 1 50 05 2 05 63 1 60 Will entitle a member to a ccrtltlcnte of ONE THOUMAND HOLLA KH, to be paid at his death to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death may occur. A member, or his heirs, may name a successor; but If notice of the deatii of a member to the Sec retary Is not accompanied with the name of a suc cessor, then the Society will put In a successor and llll the vacancy, according to the Constitution of the Society. , Should the member die before his foxir pay ments of Jive dollar are msile, the remaining un paid part will lie deducted from the one Tlionmnd Dollar due his heirs; his successor will then pay only tico oirs annually during his lifetime, and tho mortality assessments. iMaleaml Female from 11 f teen to sIxty-Hvo years of age, of good moral habits, In good health, liale, and sound of mind. Irrespective of creed, or race, may become members. For further Inclina tion, address L. W. CKAU MI.ll, (Soc'y U. B. WutuaI,A'.S!S,yA Agent Vantetl I Address 1) S. EAKLY. llarrlsburg, Ia. 6 31 8m pd iltif rrn TO UK CHEIMTKI) TO Otl .V7VJVJ MUTUAL POLICY ilOLDEUS. The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company having had but little loss during the past year, the annual assessment on Mutual 1'oltcy holders will i,i .v. ,1 on ir pntit. mi the usual one vear cash rates, which would be equal 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 $2ki.ihio In premium notes, the whole amount cred ited to mutual oollcv-liolders. over cash rates, will fimdtmt to si imio. If nil the same nolicv-liolders in sured ill a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they vnmiiii l. ivo i,:,il 4 ihiii morn t ban it has cost them in this Company. Vet some of our neighbor ntrontu nr ril II II , II IT llhnilt lU'Villl? Fl'aild I Fl'lllld I .and declare that a mutual company must fail. Hut, they don't say now many siock companies are fiillhiir vrv veur.nr how many worthless stock companies urn represented ill Perry County t0it'is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company .cannot break. JAMES II. GTUER, 2otf Bec'y of Fcnua Central Insurance Co. ii i: mo val: Merchant Tailoring Establishment. THE subscrllier respectfully Informs the public that he has removed Ills MEIKJHAS'I TA1L OKINU ESTABLISH MENT from ."Lltlle Store in the Corner," to room formerly occupied by J. (i. Shatto, Uentist, where may bo found at all tiines.a varied assortment 01 Cloths, Cassimers and Testings, With a complete line of TallorM' Ti'IminlnjjM, Of the best quality. Those desiring to purchase i()()l) liOUllS. at Reasonable prices, and have them made in the LATEST STYLE, will please give us a call. . 11. iJJ'.cn. Also, a good assortment of SHIRTS, SUSPENDERS, COLLARS, NECK-TIES, HOSIEKY, &c., &c, Ou hand at low prices. A. H. FRANCISCUS & CO., No. 313 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA, Have opened for the FALL T1IADK, the largest and best assorted Stuck of PHILADELPHIA CARPETS, ' ' ' I V ' i . , Table. Htalr. and Floor Oil Cloths Window Shades and Paner. Carnet Chain. Cotton. Yarn, Hatting, Wadding. Twines. Wicks Clocks, Looking masses, Fanev Baskets, Brooms JJU9AC19, lull nrin, J 1 ulli "-, HI I tl.3r, T,1IIIC10, Wooden and Willow Ware, ID THE UNITED STATES. Our large Increase In business enables us to sel' at low prices, and furnish the best quality of uoous. SOLI AGENTS FOIITIIC Celebrated American Washer, Price $5.50. THE MOST PEKFEOT AND SUCCESSFUL WAKHEB EVEU MADE. AGENTS WANTED FOB THE AMEItf. CAN W AS11EU in all parts of the State. , Si 13t Perry County Bank! Kponsler, Junkln & Co. 1 fTlHE undersign id. havlns formed a Banklmr As. L lociatlon under the above name and style, are now ready to do a General Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre square, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on domand. We discount notes for a period of not over60dayB, aud sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, live percent, forany time over four months: and for four months four per cent. We are well provided with all and every facility for doing a Hanking Business) aud knowing, aud for some years, eeilng the great Inconvenience un. der which the people of this County labored forth want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to supply the want sand this being the first Bank ever established In Perry county, w 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. KmNHi.EK, Bloomneld, Perry county, Pa J. I". (JUNK1N, Wm. H. Miu.br, Carlisle, , . . . officers: - W. A. HFONSLKB, PruUenl. 'Wdjjam Willis, Oatliier New Bloomneld, 3 5 ly Fur Ths Blnnmileld Times. LOCAL OPTION. Sonio of the Results, of Intemperance. ITS INFLUENCE UPON OUK SCHOOLS. 1. Statistics prove that not less than a half a million of the male pupils in the schools of the United States will become drunkards in the course of ten years if the liquor laws of the country are not abolished. 2. In the United States there is an aver age of four whisky shops to one school. 3. At least two million of the children of our country aro deprived of school priv ileges on account of the intemperance of their parents. 4. From these statistics, it is easy to Bee that we are pulling down with ono hand that which we aro trying to build up with the other. 5. The conclusion follows that we have more to dread from the liccnsod liquor shops than to hope for from our schools. ITS INFLUENCE UPON THE FAMILY. 1. One drunkard in a family destroys the peace aud happiness of evory member of it. What family has not, directly or indirectly, felt its blighting influence. Reader, is your family an exception ? 2. The drunkencss of men has been the most prolilio source of misery to women. Should not, then, the mothers and daugh ters who reau tins, use inoir lmiuonce use against a tniilio which hns been the cause of more sorrow to their sex than all other causes combined ? In tho consumption of the liquor an nually mode and sold in the United States, nt least sixty thousand lives aro yearly de stroyed ; one hundred thousand men nnd women nre sent to prison, and two hundred thousand children aro bequeathed to poor. houses nnd chnritable institutions. Sixty thousand a year is more than ono thousand ono hundred and fifty-four per week, ono hundred nnd sixty-four per day, six for every hour and ono for every ten minutes. In addition to this, three hundred murders and four hundred suicides are yearly com. mittcd on account of it. In tho light of these facts, alone, evory man should vote against liccnso. 4. In the State of Pennsylvania, nt least one person in fifteen is made a pauper by intemperance. 5 Whoso fault is it ? Not the drunk ards' for they command our sympathy : but those who sustain and perpetrate the evil by their voto. Will you share tho guilt of such wholesale destruction? G. In tho light of desolated homes, of pinching poverty, of misery, of Buffering brought about by intompcranco, wo be seech you to voto against the further con tinuance of this, the greatest onomy of the domestic hearth. Father, think for a moment I Hus band, consider 1 If you voto against li cense, you are bestowing a blessing upon thousands of families which aro the un. happy victims of this tnrrible evil. ITS INFLUENCE urON THE CHCIICH. 1. statistics prove mat the Cnurcli in the United States loses at least fifty thous and members every day, ou account of in temperance, Only ono person out of every eight is in the habit -of attending places of public worship. Every liquor shop is an enemy to the Church. They sow the seeds of in difference and hostility to religion 3. The present temperance reform is not a political, but a religioui movement. The Church of Christ must tako tho load, if sho be true to her Lord. 4. The abolition of the liquor trnflio is one of the duties of the Church a duty that could bo very speedily accomplished by united and vigorous action. Will tho Church face the responsibility? 5. Every church member ought to vote against license, llow can a Christian love God and his neighbor, and yet be willing to perpetuate that which retards the ex. tension of Christ's Kingdom, destroys the body and soul of his neighbor, , and tho peace and happiness of his funiily. 6. Could the church members of . the country all become . earnest and consistent friends of temperance, then Christianity, in. telligence, virtue, liberty aud justice would make more progress in the next fifty years than has been witnessed since the downfall of the Roman Empire. j 7. In view of these facts, lot every Chris tian come up to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty, and vote against the license law on the 8d Friday in Murck 8. Thus salth the Scripture: "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor strong drink." This applies not only to thoBe who sell it, but also to those who voto to continuo the practice. , , ITS INFLUENCE TjrON TUB STATE. 1, Nine-tenths of the s pauperism and crime i n our community U caused by in temperance. 2. The State pays every year $3,259,010.- 60 for the support of criminals and pan pers caused by liquor selling. Now, if it costs the State so muck for these purposes, ought not tho people to do something to lessen this heavy taxation. Vote against license aud you will remove this heavy burden, S. From statistics we find that out of 1,541 persons committed to the Lan caster prison in 1871,1,418 weie ' placed there on account of intemperance. 4- In the Eastern aid Western. Penlten tarlos of Pennsylvania, out of 459 convict, 800 bad been Intemperate 5. Out of C07 persons admitted to the Lancaster poor-house, in one year, 450 wore classified as intemperate. 0. Lancaster county is taxed $105,104.35 for the support of criminals and paupers, caused by intemperance. Lancaster Co. receives as revenue from license, $9,710.00, and the liquor traffics makes her still a debtor to the amount of $95,475.25. Query Does Lancaster County make or loso by the liquor business ? 7. We have cited this county becauso we have statistics. Of course tho same pro portions can bo applied to almost every county. So jtiBt in that proportion will the citizens of Perry County be obliged to pay on account of this great evil ! Let us voto it down. 8. Dauphin County receives $111.50 as its share of the revenue from license, whilst sho pays $51,880 for crimo and pov erty caused by intemperance. As in Dau phin, so in Ferry. Tax-payers, vote to your interest. 0. It is estimated that four hundred and ninety million gallons of spiritous liquors wore drank iu the country in 1808, which, if loaded upon thirty foot teams holding ten barrels each, would reach nearly seven thousand miles. 10. Tho annual cost of the five hundred thousand paupors caused by intemperance, amounts to thirty-five millions of dollars ; of the insanity resulting from it, twelve million dollars ; tho expenso to tho country of tho crimes committed by it, is forty million dollars. 11. Tho revenue paid to tho Stato for license is tho price of blood. Large it may bo, yet not enough to bury tho multitudes who are tho victims of tho pernicious traffic. Destroy the practico of social drinking nnd the victory over intemperance is easily won. CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK. A California Story. A San Francisco paper gets off tho fol lowing good one: Returning home late one night, a man living on Mason street disrobed without lighting the gas, aud lay peacefully down beside the partner of his joys. Sinking back upon the pillow, he straightway raised himself and remarked : " I say, wifo, how's your pillow warm?" " Why, what a foolish question," return ed she; "my pillow is all right." "Is it real warm?" he asked. " Certainly it is ; I've had my head on it for throo hours." Apparently satisfied, ho laid down and was silent for a time, when a vigorous nud ging in tho stdo of his wife proved he had another idea. " I say, wifo ?" "For goodnoss sake, what do you want?" pttulautly answered tho sleepy dame. " I say, you don't use hair oil, do you?" "Of courso not ; you know that as well as anybody else. Do, for mercy sake, go to sleep." Another half hour passed in silence, broken by tho solemn ticking of tho clock iu the darkness, Then thoro was another spasmodio nudging. " I say, wife, you didn't put that calf under the bed, did you?" " Gracious mo 1" returned the matron, " what is the matter with you ? Of courso, the calf is not under the bod. Will you never go to sleep ?" " Well," continued the lord, sliding his legs sideways out of bed, "I'm d d if there ain't something live under hero." There was the sound of scrambling round a partial upheavol of the couch, the quick gleam of a white garment making for the open window, through which it disappeared a thrashing sound in the rose bushes out side, find all was still again. The custody of the children lias been awarded to tho husband. Tracking a Rich Vandal. Some timo since a little town In Ohio was infested by incendiaries, and all other means of ' detection having failed, two or three persons clubbed together and pur chased a bloodhound, one of the kind used by the chivalry to buut down runaway ne groes in the pleasant days before the war, In some manner the news of this bit of en torprise became noised about and the fires suddenly ceased, not an opportunity having been offered since to put the animal on the trail of an incendiary. The day before Christmas, however, a citizen discovered that a beautiful ever- green tree in front of tils residence bad been cut down and carried off the night be. fore, aud tho long looked for chanco was af. forded for testing the new purchase. To the astonishment of all, the four-logged de teclive took a straight line to the house of one of the wealthiest denizens of the town, nearly three-quarters of a mile distant, and placing his fore paws on the window glared through and bayed savagely at the owner, who was engaged in decorating the tree for the festivities of the morrow. The scone that followed may, perhaps, be imagined, and a considerable sum of money was readily paid in order to husk the affair up. t3f Wbeu persons are sea-sick what do they most desire ? To feel sea-cure of euurse. I A Trapper's Encounter Tilth a Panther. Dave Mosher, a trapper and guide In the jjt Tth Woods, had a terrific encounter with ft fl.ortk Woods beast a few weeks since. Thret ' mlles fiom Sacondaga Lake thore is a wild, rugged pass, between the moun tains, knv1wn tu Black Cat Valley. The mountains on either side nre very steep and rocky, a."1! are covered with, a heavy growth of blav-k balsam and spruce timber. As tho snows d.eepen and the woathor be comes cold, man.V dcor and animals tako shelter in that locality. Among the rest aro the rock mat tin, having a valuable dark-colored fur known among trappers in those regions as " Black Cat." They sel dom move by day, keeping concealed in trunks of trees or between the fissures of rocks. Owing to tho uncertainty of find ing one twice in a place, and their natural shyness, it is quite difficult to trap them. However, when they become pinched with hunger, they will jump at the bait without hesitation. A keen, Btrong steel trap is set and covered with snow or leaves, directly under a drooping branch that the animal can reach by rearing ; upon this is secured tho bait, and in tho effort to reacli which it is pretty apt to step in tho trap. Then comes a system of desperate mancouvcrs, and tho only way to hold them is by hav ing tho trap chain attached to a small Bap pling that will spring and lift them off the ground. This sleek, fine furred animal is about tho sizo of a red fox, and, as David used to express it : " They're a sassy var mint to get holt on." As Mosher was go ing the rounds of his traps, ho saw through tho bushes ahead, a terrible commotion un der a largo white birch, whero a trap had been set. As he approached, a long,gauut, tawny-colored, fierce-looking animal, whoso wild scream upon tho mountain side tit night will send a thrill of horror to those who aro safe in the cabin, sprang upon a lower limb of the birch and bade defiance with gazing eyes. It was drivcti to desper ation by hunger. Ho raised his old rillo and fired. In a moment all tho clothes he had on him would not havo mado a bib for a china doll. Ho directly found himself besido a log, partly scalped, with his lower limbs looking as though they had been through a threshing machine, while at the same moment, with a spit and a scream, a panther disappeared up tho mountain sido. When he came up, the panther was engaged in killing aud devouring a marten which was caught iu tho trap, and his hunger being partly appeased, was tho means of tho trapper's crawling off with hislifu. A Hold Exploit. The following is from tho diary of tho lato Mr. Adolphus tho ban ister and histo rian : "May 8th, 1810. Wo had a dinner party, among them Mrs. Mathews and Curran, who told an amusing story of au agent to a noblomau in Ireland. It was known to some ruffians in the neighbor hood that ho had collected a largo sum for rents duo to his employer. In tho middle of the night he heard thieves breaking into his house, lie jumped out of bed, nnd arming himself with a carving-knife stood behind the door, and closed it, so that only one could enter at a timo, which one would be shown in the moonlight whilo he re. mained in tho shade. Four of the thieves entered and were despatched ono after anothor, those without not knowing what happened. The fifth saw a gleam of the moonlight, seized tho man, and a trenicn dous scuffio ensued. The agent struck several blows with bis weapon, but made uo impression. He was got down, and his antagonist over him, wheu feeling the knife he found tho point was bont. He had the presence of mind to press it strongly against tno iioor, so as to turn it back. stabbed his adversary dead, and as he was alone in the house and could have no as sistance till the morning, retired to bed. He was knighted for the exploit. Somo one said to him, " I wonder you could go to bed while there were on the lloor the corpses of five persons whom you bad killed? ' His answer was, "It did make me very uneasy ; I could not get a wink of sleep lor nearly an nour : ' Where They (Jot Their Shells. There is not much lime in the sea proba bly not more than there was iu Falstalfs "sack" but there is enough. And the use it is put to is one of the ouriositios of natu ral history. , Every iidiabitant of the ocean which lias a shell derives the materials of which that bard oovering is composed from the water Besidos, the lime is secreted or rather sep arated from its food, as birds do it for ma king a covering for their eggs; mollusks take up the largest amount directly out of the water they breathe. Every time an oyster draws water through its gills, some of its limo, which is held in solution, taken possession of by appropriate vessels and goes directly to the living membrane which deposits it, aud thus the thell grows It is assured that a siugle drop of sea water contains only about the ton thousand six hundred! part of a grain of lime. But the Incessant respiration of the dweller, in one or two years uuikes a house weighing In nuiiiu uttcuB iiiiuiy jiuiiuun. iv uuu lue uuiuini dies most of the shells gravitate and aggre gate to the bottom, where, becoming broken and impacted iuto solid masses, mixed in line earthy deposits under immense hydro static pressure and chemical forces, they become marble. All marble quarries are supposed to have thus originated iu the abysses of primitive seas, and they were afterward elevated to where they are now found, by upheaval. A Lottery for a Wife. A young lady who lives In the town of Champaign has written to the editor of a Chicago paper to announce that she desires to be lottoried off. and to ask his advice on the subjoct. Her letter Is now before us, and it must be admitted that the advanta ges to be derived from her intended pro ceeding are sot forth by the lady with sin gular grace and modesty. Sho has been acknowledged, she says, In all the cities whore she has resided, to be " the bello of society." She is "young, .handsome, tal ented, and attractive." ' Her age is twenty one, and she Is a brunette. She has "many, many admirers," but none, as yet, whom she can appreciate." Consequently, be ing averse to the singlo state, and in'tbe hope of pitching on some one she can like, Mibs K. proposes to put liorsolf up as the prize in a lottery. Thore are to he 100,000 chances at a dollar apieco. Satisfactory proofs of her respectability, education, and good faith are placed in the hands of the Chicago editor. The drawing is to take place at the earliest possible moment, and tho blushing bride is to be handed over to the lucky fellow who happens to hold the right ticket. Thore are, however, some important reservations. If the young lady does not happen to like the man who draws her, or he happens not to liko her, the bargain is to be put off, tho gentloman receiving $500 by way of smart money. Whether Miss is to keep the remaining $90,500 does not appear, but we suppose tho idea is to have the drawing resumed until the fair candidate for matrimony gets somebody to suit her. In an army of 100,000 bachelors, one, surely, ought to be found eligible for the smiles of even so lovely a creature as Miss IC. describes herself to be : and it would, indeed, bo a pity, after devising and setting in motion so complicated and or iginal a matrimonial machine, if tho sole object of its existence were to come to hu miliating defeat. IIIXTS. If you are introduced to a stranger by a friend, aud ho retains his hold of your hand, expressing great delight in having the honor of your acquaintance, be sure ho don't care a fig for you or your acquaint ance. When you hear a man declare ho is the wisest in his line of business, set him down as tho weakest, and all thinking men will approve your decision. Wheu you hear an editor call his brother editor an ignoramus, be sure he has applied tho epithet to the wrong man. When you hear a man relate a story which has the appearance of truth, and closo it with an oath, sot it down as doubt ful. Wheu you hear a man boast of his pioty, go to a different church than tho one he at tends. When you hear a man boldly declare that thcro is not an honest man to bo found, lend him a mirror. When you hear a man justify profano swearing on the ground of habit, don t make him your agent in business. If you think of forming a partnership with a man of whom you know but little, invito him (before signing papers) to tako a walk of ton squares and back, and if ho elbows you into the gutter, or runs you against tho walls m the buildings, bo sure and take time to consider the matter. If your clerk or salesiftan is civil and po lite, avoiding all that is vulgar and profane, whilo engaged in his duties, but is found iu the saloon as profane and vulgar as the most abandoned, keep your money under lock and key, aud have all bill paid on tickets to the cashier. If a mau tells you he does all his business on conscientious principles, don't put him to tho test. The Difference. When a woman has a hen to drive into a coop she takes hold of her hoops with both hands, shakes them quietly towards the delinquent, and says, " Shew I there." The hen takes ono look at the object to convinco herself it's a woman, and then stalks majestically into the coop, in per fect disgust of the sex. A man don't do that way. Uo goes out doors and says, " it is singular nobody in this house can drive a hen but myself," and pioking up a stick, of wood burls it at the offending biped, and observes, , " Get in there, you thief." The hen immediately loses her reason and dashes to the other end of tho yard. The man straightway dashes after ker. . She conies back again with her head down, her wings out, and followed by an assortment of stove-wood, fruit-cans, and coal-clinkers, with a much-puffing and a very mad man in the rear. Then she skims up ou tho stoop and under tho barn, and over a fence or two and around tho bouse, and back again to tho coop, all the time talking as only an excited hen can talk, and all the while followed by things convenient for handling, aud by a man whose coat is on the ground, and whose per spiration and profanity appear to have no limit. By this time the other hens have coino out to take a baud in the debate and kelp dodge tho missiles aud then the man says every ben , on the place shall be sold in the morning, aud puts on his things and goes down street, aud the woman dons ker hoops and has every one of those bona boused and contented in two minutes.
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