Tlie U. II. Mutual Aid Society of Pennsylvania; Present the following plan for consideration to uch persons who wish to become members: The payment of BIX DOLLARS on application, FIVK IKiLLARH annually for four teaks, and thereafter TWO DOLLARS annually during life, with pro rata mortality assessment at the doath of eaeh member, which for the First Class Is as iouows: Aee ment AQe ment H"a went A'e I ment 15 60 28 73 41 1A 61 29 74 i 17 62 30 75 4H 18 , 63 , 81 77 44 19 64 82 79 4fi 2Q OS 83 M 4fl 21 66 34 83 47 22 67 .S5 85 48 23 68 30 86 49 24 69 37 87 N 25 70 38 88 fil 2 71 39 89 M 27 72 40 90 63 (14 55 1 80 90 66 1 92 98 67 2 04 1 00 68 2 10 1 06 69 2 28 1 12 60 2 40 1 18 61 2 45 1 24 62 2 60 1 30 63 2 55 1 40 64 2 60 1 60 65 2 65 1 60 Will entitle a member to a certificate of ONE THOUSAND DOLLAltS, to be paid at his death to his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death wiiv occur. A member, or his heirs, may name a successor! but If notice of the death of a member to the Hec retary Is not accompanied with the name of a sue cessor, then the Society will put in a successor and fill the vacancy, according to the Constitution of the Society. , . t, , Should the membor die before his four pay ments of fire dollar are made, the remaining un paid part will be deducted from the ono Thousand Jjollart due his heirs s his successor will then pay only tuo dollar annually during his lifetime, and the mortality assessments. , . . Mninanri Keiini from fifteen to sixty-five inniii mro i,r iTiio.l moral habits, ill eood health. F,aia and mmri nf mind, irrespective of creed, or race, may become members. For further Infoma tlon. address L. W. CKAUMKK. . tii arlilrevB taec y u. u. imuuai mi LEBANON, FA. Agents Wanted! Address D. 8. EARLY, 31 8m pd Harrlsburg. Fa. ''OA fff TO BE CUEIlTF.n TO S4:,UUU MUTUAL POLICY HOLDEKS. The Fennsylvanla Central Insurance Company having had but little loss during the past year, the annual assessment on Mutual Policy-holders will not exceed 60 per cent, on the usual one year cash rates, which would lie 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 02UO,UOO In premium notes, the whole amount cred ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rales, will amount to Kt.ooo. Had the same policy-holders In sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they would have paid M.ooo more than It lias oost thein In this Company. Vet some of our neighbor agents are running about crying Fraud I Fraud 1 and declare that a mutual company must fall. lint they don't say how many stock companies are falling every year, or how many worthless stock companies are represented In Ferry Couuty t0it'is'a well-known fact that a Mutual Company cannot break. JAMES H. GRIEK,. I 25tf Bec'y of Feun'a Central Insurance Co. It, 1 MO VAL! Merchant Tailoring Establishment. THE subscriber respectfully Informs the public that he has removed his MERCHANT TAIL OKXNG ESTABLISHMENT from "Little Store In the Corner," to room formerly occupied by J. O. Shatto, Dentist, where may be found at all times, a varied assortment of ; Cloths,'. Cassimers and Testings, With a complete line of Tailor' Trimming, Of the best quality. ' Those desiring to purchase GOOD GOODS, at Boasonable prices, and have them made in the LATEST STYLE, will please give us a call. , M. MKCK. -Also, a good assortment of SHIRTS, SUSPENDERS, COLLARS, NECK-TIES, HOSIERY, &e.,io.. On band at low prices. A. H. FRANCISCUS & CO., - -I r .'' No. 313 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA, Have opened for the FALL TRADE, the largost and best assorted Stock of , PHILADELPHIA CASPSTS,,; ' ' Table. Btalr, and Floor Oil Cloths. - Cotton, Yarn, Batting, Wadding, Twines. Wicks (JlocKS, LOOKWg liiasses, fancy nasKcis, urooms, Baskets, Buckets, Brushes, Clothes Wringers, Wooden and Willow Ware, IN TUB UNITED STATBS. Our large Increase In business enables us to sell at low prices, and furnish the best quality of uoous. SOLI AGENTS FOB THE Celebrated American Washer, Price $5.50. THE MOST PERFECT AND SUCCESSFUL WASHER EVER MADE. Mr- AGENTS WANTED FOR THE AMERI CAN WASHER In all parts of the State. 37 1 3t Perry County Bank! i Nponstar, Junltlu & Co. rYlHE undersign id having formed a Banking As. L sociation under the above name and style, are now ready to do a General Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, OPPOSITB THX COURT IIOUSB, 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 forany time over four 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 for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored for the 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, we hope we will be sustained tn our efforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banklug Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. Hpowsi.bb, Bloomfleld, Perry couuty, Pa. B. F. Junkin, " " Wm. 11. Miujta, Carlisle, a . orncERS: . W. A. BPONHLER. Prtddent. Wii4jhm Wilms, Outliicr New Bloonineld, 3 6 ly ' ' - ' Fnr the Bloomfleld Times. LOCAL OPTION. Som of the Results of Intemperance. RESULT, OF NO LICENSE. 1. In Potter County, a county in which no liquor has been sold for mauy years, we have the following good results : An empty jail ; no poor-houBes in the county ; only eight persons receiving support, and these supported by the different townships ; good hotels and no increase in the charges. Not a single interest has suffered on account of no license. Peace and prosperity reigns in Potter County. 2. Spring township, Crawford County. During twelve years of no license in this township, with a population of three thou sand inhabitants, not a single criminal case has been brought to the court of Crawford County. 8. Vinoland No liquor sold in this town, with a population of ten thousand inhabi tants. The Overseer of the Poor reports that " for six months no settlor or citizen of Vineland lias required relief at my hands." During tho year tlicro was but one indictment before court. 4. Maine In the large district of the State of Maine, the liquor traffic is nearly, if not entirely unknown. In many of the country places, uot only the salo, but the use of liquor has entirely ceased. Grog shops are put in the same category, with gambling bouses and brothels, and are pro hibited because they aro at war with the interests of the State and people. rilODALLK EFFECTS OF NO LICENSE IN rEKMY COUNTY. 1. Perry County receives seven hundred and eighty dollars revenue from license, and pays for convicts at the Eastern Peni tentiary, three hundred and fifty-six dol lars and forty-six conts, and for the support of paupers, four thousand dollars. Two thirds of these, expenses are due to the li quor traffic. We ask, then, does it pay to continuo it ? 2. In Spring township, Crawford County, and in Potter County, Pa., where no liquor has been sold for many years, the hotel ac commodations are improved, and there has been no increase in their charges. The success of temperance hotels in many other towns, proves that they can be conducted on the temperance principle without any increase of charges to their guests. 8. The moral tone of the society of Per ry county will be greatly improved ; our children protected from tho evils which the liquor traffic engenders ; our homes happier ; our churches more prosperous, and the taxes of our county and State ma terially lessened. Are not these considera tions sufficient to induce every thinking man to vote against the liquor traffic ? 4. Cumberland county will join hands with Perry county, in the abolition of the liquor traffic 5. An empty jail, and an almost empty poor house, and but few indictments before our courts will be some of the results of the abolition of the liquor traffic 6. It is fully to advance the argument that it will take trade to adjoining counties which have licensed houses for the sale of intoxicating liquors. Show us one good, honest farmer who would travel twenty miles further to market for the sake of a drink of whiskey, and we will show you one hundred that will not. 7. It is Local Option now, but after awhile it will be State Option. Let us car ry the county now in favor of Local Op tion, and in three years the State. 8. Ten countios have already voted to abolish the liquor traffic. Let Perry fall into line on the third Friday of March. 0. Do not forget that the election will bo held on the third Friday of March. Whit will Ion Take I How often this question U asked by men accustomed to the use of intoxicating drinks. Suppose we put the question in a practical way ? 'Will you take ten conts worth of poison? will you take a pain In the head? Will you take a rush of blood to the heart? Will you take a stab at the lungs ? Will you take a blister on the mucous membrane ? Will you take naa seating sickness of the stomach ? Will you take redness of eyes or black eyes ? Will you take a tint of red for your nose ? Will you take a rum bud for your face ? Will you take an offensive breath ? Will you take a touch of delirium tremens? Suppose we change the qnestlon a little, Will you take something to drink when you are not dry? Will you take some thing to drink which will not quench thirst when you are dry ? Will ,you take some thing to drink which will make you more thirsty than you were before you drank it? There would be some sense in asking a man out at the elbows to take a coat, or In asking a bearheaded man to take a hat, or in asking a shoeless man to take a pair of boots, or in asking a hungry man to take something to eat ; but it is a place of in sane absurdity to ask a man to take some thing to di Ink that which will not quench thirst. Why should he take something? Will it make biin stronger, wiser, better? No ; a thousand times no I It will make him weaker ; It will make him idiotic and base. What does he take if he accepts the invitation? ' Lie takes the enemy into his mouth which steals away his brains. He takes a p'oislon ito lis stomach which dis turbs digestion. Could he make a telescope of the glass which he puts( to his mouth and look into the future, what could he see ? lie would see in the distance not far off, a man clothed in rags and covered with the blotches of drunkenness. lie would see a man deserted by his friends, and dis trusted by all his kindred. He would see a wife with a sad face and a broken heart, and children growing up in ignorance and vioe. He would see the poor house, the penitentiary, the gallows, and the grave yard within easy approach. Take the pledge and keep it. For the Bloomfleld Tunes. TOST-OFFICE RULES. BY A POSTMASTER. 1st. All who live in sight of a Post-Of fice should not bring their letters to the office until the mail train arrives, for if you do take them to the office before, the Post- Master may lay them to ono side and for get to mail them. It is very important to observe this rule, and if you have a letter to be Registered, the mail coach can wait. 2nd. Although the law and regulations heretofore published do not require any post-master to mail any letter brought to his office unless brought a half-hour before the time to make up the mail, which law and instructions are not repealed, yet they need not be regarded. But if the mail is put up and locked and beon unlocked three or four times, and tho post-master declines opening the bag for the fifth time, or the train does not wait, get mad and blow one or both of them up, giving them to under stand that they should serve you personal ly, instead of the Government and public generally. ' 3rd. Never buy any postage stamps until you take your lottcr to the office, then hand the post-master a V or an X, and when be gives you the change and stamps, leave the stamps lying loose on the letters, and go off especially if tho post-master is very busy. ' 4th. AVhon convenient, bring your letters to the post-master to direct and insist on his doing it before he marks any more let ters r does any other business, as this is a great source of profit aud pleasure, as well as a part of his official business. Gth. If thero are two or three post-of fices in the tow Jf where you wish your let ter to go, be particular to put them all on, bo that it may reaoh the right one, and then if you get the county wrong and omit the State, they will be sure to go (to tho Dead Letter Office.) Cth. If you put on the name of the coun ty and State, you may omit the name of the post-office, as it is supposed the post master knows everybody, or ought to know who lives in the county, especially at the distributing office of each route. 7th. If by mistake, you get to the office before the mail arrives, never hand your letters in until it does arrive, mail assorted, and the post-master is about to lock the bag. GETTING YOUR MAIL. Article 1st. As in mailing letters keep watch for the mail train to arrive, then rush in and before the bags are emptied, commence to inquire if there is anything for you, and keep asking, so the post-mas ter's mind may not be on other business. Art. 2nd. Never close the doors until you have Inquired for your mail, and the post master has had time to examine. N. B., this rule need not be observed in mild or warm weather but only in very cold weather. Art. 8d. If the office is kept in a store and the postmaster is in the office go and stand in the farthest corner of the store, till he comes to you, then ask him if there are any letters for you. Art. 4th. If none for you, call again, or send other members of the family to inquire and when you receive any never forget and ask is that all. ' Art. 6th. Again, if no mail for you, ask the postmaster what is the reason, and when he supposed there will be any. Art. Oth. Drive up in front of post office, and if the postmaster is very busy and don't seem to notice you, strike your whip on tho office window, till be comes to the door. . This rule may be applied when call ing for your mail aud when mailing letters especially if you have no stamp on it, and wish the postmaster to change a ten Dollar bill for you. IWPenury may take the place of ease aud plenty; the luxurious home may be exchanged for a single, lowly room the soft eouch for the straw pallet, the rich viand for the coarse food of the poor, Summer friends may forsake you, and the unpitying pass you with scarcely a look, or word of compassion. Yet be honest and virtuous under all these, and you still will be happy. . t3T" Never lose an opportunity of toeing anything beautiful. Beauty Is God's handwriting, a way-side sacrament ; welcome it in every fair sky, every fair face, every fair flower, and thank Him for It, the fountain of loveliness ; and drink it in, simple and earnestly, with your eyes ; it is a charmed draught, a cup of blessing. tS" The new census of France shows the population to be 86,102,031, decrease of 808,035 since 1805. " OBED AS A SCHOOL DIRECTOR. I ALLERS told Sally Ann I never seed what they wanted to appoint me, Obe- diah Smith school director for. What did I know about education,' generally? To be sure I'd been to school in Batesvllle, every winter since I was ten years old, and cut up as many shines, and tuk as many floggings, and got as much learning as the other ' boys, except Lawyer Morton and Squire Bliss never bad, so much figure head as them fellers. As for the grammar, I never did think it any great go, and as I told Sally Ann, what possessed the fools to elect me school director, I couldn't see. Well, Sally Ann, says she: "Now, Ohed Smitli, don't make a pesky fool of your self ; I reckon you kin jest meet with the rest and hold up your bead as big as any of em, and if you ain't as good a scholard as Tim Bates and Joel Barker it's a taina pity, that's all." Now, I always hev done jest as Sally Ann said evei since we were married. Amazin' smart woman, Sally Ann is. If it hadn't beon for hor, I don't know as I'd hev got married to this blessed day. Yon see, she kept kinder hintiu' and hintin', telling what a long distance 'twas 'tween the two farms, aud what amazing Bight of horse flesh might be saved, and how them lazy farm servants was a wastin' my sub stance in riotous livin', till I jest got riled up and asked her if she'd hev me. " Sar tin," says she, as cool as a cucumber, "and much obliged inter the bargain." Woll, as I was Bayin' seein' how I was in for it, and was legally appointed ono of the school directors, I concluded as to how I'd hev to sarve. Things went purty smooth at first. The last teacher had been gone some time, and the school house shet up, and I'd jest begun for to think 'twas no great shakes to bo school director, alter all when up walks Tim Bates ono day and says ho: " We calkerate it's about time to open the school house agin ; the directors are goin' to meet at four o'clock this afternoon to elect a teacher; now, be up to time, Obed,' says be. I was tuck all aback, you'd bet ter believe. My hair litterally stood on end. "Now, Tim, you're joking," says " Honor bright," says he. "But look here, Tim," says I, " thersta plenty of you without me. 1 don t keor a uiu n who you get for tho pesky school, so jest go ahea d without me." " No, sir'ee," says he ; every diiector has got to be thero, and Obed Smith among , the rest," and off he started whistling Yankee Doodle so loud that you never did see. I jest unhitched the hosses and started . for hum. " Sally Ann," says I, " it's come the day of judg ment s come," and then I jest bust out a laughin'. "You're a fool," says she. " You're another," says I, and I was jest ready for an all-fired row, when she said as sweet as honey : " Now, Obed, jist finish up the chores and come in to dinner, and don't go to gettin' all tuckeied out afore you go. For my part, I wonder what gal's applied. I don't know none 'thout it's Sal Bates and Lib Wilkins, and I reckon I know as much as them critters," says she. " It seems to me Belle Winthrop was say ing some lady from the city wanted it but law-a-masso, what she'd want to come from Bosting clean out to Batesville for, is more'n I ken tell. To be sure, eighteen dollars a month Is good pay more'n we've ever given afore or will agin, 1 reckon," and then she fell to thinking, and I went a tearing out of the house in a way that was a caution. Well, jest about four o'clock, I started for that old brick school house. Sally Ann, she'd been up in the garret and brought down all the old books she could, lay hold on, and on top of all was Webster's great thumping dictionary. There she'd been from eleven o'clock till four hunting out questions for me to ax the school marm. " No need of folks thinking you're a fool if you are," says she, kinder snappish. " Now, jest ask her to spell phthisic that used to be the hardest word when I went to school, but I've been a looking for some thing harder and I've got it to. ' Here 'tis, metempsychosis," says she, " that's a pos er," and then I pronounced and pronoun ced it till I was in a perfect sweat. "Now, I've written all the questions and answers down, so you'll know if she answers right or wrong," says she, "here's one of 'em. now high is the tower of Pisa?" and then she gave me the paper. Well, as I was sayin', at four o'clock I started. The clock was too fast, or I walked fast, or soinetbin' for when I got there, there want a living thing in sight, except a little rosy cheeked girl sitting on one of the benches as de mure as could bo. She kinder bowed as she seed mo, and says 1, " Little girl, did you want anything particular ? We're a going 1 to have a school meeting here this afternoon, and I reckon we wouldn't like any extra visitors. She blushod up red, and says she, with tt little saucy twinkle in ber eyes : " I understood there was to be an examination of teachers of the Batesville school. I am one of tho tho applicants, Miss Lester from Boston. Have I been misinformed?" I blurted out an apology, and was gettin' more frustrated than ever, when she jest said as perlite as possible that 'twant no matter of consequence, and began talking so pretty about tho school; and the village, that it quite put me to ease and I didn't much care if the directors didn't come at all, provided Sally Ann did not know that I was having such a nice time a llstenln' when in come the whole posse, and she stopped off at once and ; never said another word. 'Squire Bliss and Lawyer Morton con ducted the examination. Sal Bates and Lib Wilkins were thero, but the little Bos ting lady took the shine off 'em. She was a pretty little thing with just the sweetest little bonnet and cloak that I ever did see. She desired the school, : she said, because she liked the country, and it was on a line of failroad. Then we axed her all manner of questions, and she answered as prompt and perlite as could be. Tim Bates got up quite grand, and says be, Could you tell me how old Methuselah was, Miss?" She stared at him kinder curious like, and says she, "Nine hundred and Bixty-nine, I be lieve sir." Then came my turn. My stars if I wos'nt flustrated you'd better believe. "Co-ca-can you spell phthsic?" says I, and she spelt it off beautifully. Now for Sally Ann's word. I puzzled over it. I couldn't stand thore like a fool nil day, so I just blurted out, " Can you spoil string o' po sies?" She just colored a little, and said she didn't quite understand. Lawyer Mor ton, he just snatched the paper out oi my hands as mad like, and says he, " Metem psychosis, dear." " How high is the tower of pison ?" says I. She bit her lip and put her handkerchief to her face, aud then, says she, "I'm afraid I don't quite com prehend." " The tower of Pisa, dear," said Lawyer Morton, giggling so he could ' hardly speak, and I just sat down and wi ped off tho perspiration. Then they asked how old she might be. " About twenty," says she; and Tim Bates chuts out, " I'm afraid you're too young Miss. We'vo got a pesky lot of obstroperous boys here." She was fond of boys, she said, smiling, and as she ruled by love, she did not ap prehend trouble. " Yes, but if you fall in love," says Tim, "we'll lose our teacher, and that won't suit us nohow." She col ored up, and snys she, turning to 'Squire Bliss, "Explain to him, sir, if you please." Well then we put it to voto. " All in fa vor of Lucy Lester as teacher for Batesville say aye, and we all said "aye," except Tim, who looked as mad as a hornet's nest, 'cause he wanted his cousin Sal Bates to get it. " You have done very finely, dear," snys Lawyer Morton as sweet as oould be. Very much of a gentleman, Lawyer Morton is. though folks do say he's mighty fond of the girls. Then sho came up to me and says she, as purty as you' please " When does my engagement with you commonce?" " Good Heavens !" said I, "I'm married, or else I'd like it fust rate. ' I I never said nothin 'bout no engagement." Would you believe it ? she just sank down in a cheer and laughed as if she'd kill herself and 'Squire Bliss and Lawyer Morton fol lowed suit. " You darned old fool," says Tim, -'she means her engagement to teach school," and then we all roared together, ell, that is my fust attempt at Meeting a school marm. We've got her, aud sho's a purty little thing too purty for Batesville, Sally Ann says. I was in hopes Sally Ann wouldu't hear of all the blunders I mado up at the school house; but somehow or 'uuther everything leaks out in Batesville, and she's a terrible hector, Sally Ann is about my engagement with the school marm. Spontaneous Combustion. The first case of alleged spontaneous combustion which attracted general notice happened in 1723, and was put on recoid by the celebrated Le Cat. Le Cat, hap pening to be at Hoims in the above men tioned year, lodged in the house of a man named Millet. One morning in February, the body of Madame Millet, a woman woll along in years and addicted to drink, was found almost entirely consumed upon the kitchen floor, near the hearth. Only the bead, part of the legs, and a few of the vertebras, bad escaped combustion. The floor bonoath the body was also slightly burnt. Millet himself was at once arrested on charge of murder, and supposed intrigue with a servant woman furnisbiug the motive for the crime. In defence, he stat ed that be and his wife bad retired as usual, when she, being unable to sleep, went out to the kitchen, as ho thought, to warm herself. He was subsequently awak ed by a smell ofiurning, and going to in vestigate, fouud the body of his wile lying in the manner described. In spite of this story, Millet was convicted of murder; but appealing to a higher court, was saved by the plea of spontaneous combustion. And, certainly, whatever may have caused the death of the deceased, there was no evi dence of oriine on the part of the husband. The case of Gi aoe Pitt, in England, in 1774, was in some respects, like , that of Madame Millet, except that thore was no suspicion of murder. Three separate ac counts of this oase nearly coincide. The victim was about sixty years of ago; and, it is said, had recently drank large quanti ties of spirit. It was her custom to descend every night, half-dressed, to the kitchen, to smoke her pipe before the kitchen-fire. The night of her death she arose as usual, and was missed by her daughter in the morning. The latter, going in search of her mother, found her stretched out upon the right side, the bead near the grate, the body extended on the heartli, aud the legs on the floor, resembling a log of wood con sumed without llunio. Tho fire being quenched by pouring on water, the remains were found to reseniule a heap of coals cov ered with white ashes. And, near the body, were found a child's clothes and a fiaper screen, both quite uninjured, shbw ng that the combustion could not have been particularly violent,
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