PJKItKY COIIXTY Heal Estate, Insurance, : ' . AMU 1 " ' CLAIM AGENCY. , .,. LEWIS POTTEE & CO., Ileal Estate Broker), Insurance, t Claim Agent Iov liloomliclcl, In. WEINVITEtnenttentlonof bnyel-s and Idl ers to the advantages wo oiler thorn lit pur. chasing or disposing ol real.ealale through our of. We have a vervlnrirdllstiiTdcslrab property, constat InR of farms, town prditerty, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip tion which we arfl prepared to offer at great bur. Rains. We advertise ourpropcrty very extensive ly, and xtse all our efforts, skill, and dllllgnnce to effect sale. We make no charges unless the property is sold while registered with ns. We alsc draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa pers at moderate rates. 1 . ' t ,, . , Borne of the best, -cheapest, and most reliable lire, life, and cattle insurance companies In the United States are represented at this agency. l'roperly insured cither on the Cash or mutual plan, and perpetually at U and J5 per thousand. Tensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims collected. There are thousands of soldiers and belt s of soldiers who arc entitled to pensions and bounty, who have never made application. Sol diers, if you wore wounded, ruptured, orcontraet d a disease in the service from which you are dis abled, you are entitled to a pension. When widows of soldiers die or marry.tlie minor children are entitled to the pension. Parties havlnit any business to transact In our line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as we are confident we can render aattofaction In any branch of our business. -No charge for Information. 4 2Dly Mi WIS lOTTEtt & CO. Xciv Millinery Goods A-t Newport, Pn. IBUG tolnform the publlo that I have Just re turned from Philadelphia, with a till assort ment of the latest styles of . MILLINERY GOODS, HATS AND BONNETS, RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS FEATHERS, CHIGNONS, LACE CAri'-S. NOTIONS, And all articles usually found In a tlrst-class Mil linery Establishment. All orders promptly at tended to. r We will soil all goods as Cheap as cau be got elsewhere. ,.. -. m DltESS-MAKlNH done to order and In the la test style, as I get the latest Fashions from New York every month. (loitering done to order, In all widths. I will warrant all my work to give sat inaction. All work done as low a possible. ANNIE ICKES, , Cherry Street, near the Station, 5 16 13 ' ' Newport, Pa. CARLISLE CARRIAGE FACTORY. A. B. SHE11K baa a large lot of second-hand work on i hand, which he will sell cheap 111 order to make room lor new worn, . FOR THE SPRING TRADE. He has. also, the best lot of NEW WORK. ON HAND. You can always see different styles. The material Is not In question any more, for It Is the best used. If you want satisfaction In style, quality and irlrn iro tit this shon before nurchaslnir elsewhere. There Ta no firm that has a better Trade, or sells more lu Cumberland auu i erry counties. REPAIRING AND PAINTING promptly attended to. Factory Corner of South and 1'iu i , Streets, 3 dp . CAHLlSJLiC, PA. Farmers Take, Notice. fjlUE subscriber offers for Sale ' THRESHING MACHINES. JACKS and HORSE- ., POWER, ' With Tumbllnc Shaft, and Side-Gearing, Warrant d to give satisfaction In speedy and lwrfect iiiresning.iiuiiiaraitana uurauiiuy, on teasoua P 3L. O U O II H i . , j Of Superior Make, , t .. t CORN SHEI.tERR, ' - 1 ' KETTLES, STOVES, . . : SCOOPS i ' ' AND ALL CASTINGS, xnaue at a country rounary. Also, ' ' A GOOD MILL SCREW, In excellent order, for sale at a low rate. I refer those wishing to buy to John Adams, Samuel Shuman, John lloden, Ross Hench, at Ickesburg, Jacob Shoemaker t Son, Klllotts- 1iinci Thomas Morrow, Loysvllle: John Flicking. ,-er, Jacob Fllckinger, Centre. 620 13 SAMUEE LIGGETT. Ickesburg, May H. 1872. J-NSTJRK IN4THE MUTUAL life insurance company : of , , NEW YORK. F. h. WrasTON, President. The oldest and strongest Company In the United States. Assets over W6,OU0,OU0 lu cash. B. M. SHULER, Agent. Liverpool, Pa. turn. V1 liflfi TO hb cnrcniTEn to 1UUU JUUlUAti PUHCX HOLDERS. The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company having bad 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 be equal to a dlvideud 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 lias over IJiiO.OOO lu premium notes, the whole amount cred ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will amount to St.uoo. llad the same policy-holders In sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they would have paid tt.uoo more than It has cost them In this Company. Yet some of our neighbor agents are running about crying Fraud I Fraud I ' and declare that a mutual company must fall. Hut they don't say how many slock companies are failing every year, or how many worthless stock eompauies are represented lu Perry County to day. , . ' . , ' it Is a well known fact that a Mutual Company en n not break. , ' JAMES If. GR Kit, 1 2f . Beo'y of Peun'a Central Insurance Co. J. M. uiiivm. . it. omvm M, GIHVIN SON, ,' CoiumlMMlon 3Ierc)inntM, . No, S, SPEAR'S WHARF, , ( ' ' I! a 1 1 i m o r e , 3t 1 . , , ; IVWi will pay strict attention to the sale of all kinds of country produce, and remit the ainouuU promptly. 6 Mly THE WICKED CONSPIRACY, T was at once a fortunate and unfortu nate day that pretty Miss Agnes came into possession of a yacht, Ilor pa gave to her in place of a husband. He had resolutely frowned upon as 'handsome a fellow as there ever was Jn the world, and had put an emphatic foot down upon the love making. It is cany to understand that Miss Agnes pined. Tho color quitted her checks, and ohe day' her doting yet immovable fathor, caught her reading ' Dr. Dormcus on the Action of Deadly Poisons." This frightened him, and he went out diroctly and purchased the best yacht he could find along tho coast. lie know Agnes had a weakness for the blue, but sho had a greater ono for Will. Will, rebuffed and furious, beheld the yacht, and ho know what it was meant for. ' By George, they shall not get her away lrom mo I 1 11 got lier, by noon or crook. Marry her 1 I rather think it's worth scheming for 1 So ho went to his lodgings at the hotel and tied a wot to wol around his head and sat down to think it out. " Three hours after he made his way to Miss Agnes' cottage on tho bluff, and al though all the lights were out save tho servants' lamp intho kitchen, he was un daunted. The coachman of the family had once been a former servant of his own, and so he rapped at the rear door. As luck would have it, the Identical , Michael came, and Will drew, him out into the shadow and gave him a ' note for his mis tress, . I , -, Fifteen minutes later, a pretty figure stole down the avenue, and then there was a scene tho historian has no desire to disclose "Oh, why did you come here, Will? Why do you run the risk? You know I love you. You know there is n o danger I would not undertake for' you. B u t but but my father loves me t-t-t-too." " Well, of course he does. He's a sensi ble man in most things. But in regard to me he's made a blunder. I mean to mar ry you in spite of all the fathers: In Chris tendom 1" " Now, I shan't be suited until you are my wife ; and I want to ask . if you are entirely satisfied because they have given you a pretty boat as a compensation for me?" . r . , She simply gave him an astonished look. He felt it even in the dark, and he ' felt ashamed for having asked the question. 1 Then they strolled off a little further, and Will debated to himBelf how . be should put his case to her. His plan, . just at that moment, looked pretty wild and unfeasible; but he felt he must put a bold face upon it.' He put his Hps down to her ear and held her tight until ho had finished. Then she burst from him and ran off a dozen yards, She was pretty well frightened. What Will had said to her had made her trem ble like a leaf. But, after all, he bad a smooth tongue and a taking way. . He per suaded her. - - " It's our only chance, Agnes. ' Either we must do it or be separated forever. It seems like a desperate act, but the crisis is a desperate one. If you will act your part I will promise that in forty-eight hours from this time I shall be a hero in your father's arms and a promised husband to yourself. . What do you say ? , What could she say 7 She had to weep a great deal of course, and Will felt it was necessary to support hor in his arms. She demurred and doubted again, but she finally acquiesced and gave Will her hand. After this there was another , uncallod- for scene. The next day Miss . Agnes seemed to be ill. Her father proposed that she take her yacht and go out for a breath of . fresh sea air. She demurred. He persisted, and pretty soon she languid ly consented. It fortunately happened (for Agnes) that her father was com polled to go away on a matter of business quite early in the day, and, therefore, he. recom mended her to the care of the sailing mas ter, a little tow-headed .old man , with no soul above a dollar. ' At half-past twelve she WAS ou . board her little boat. Everything for hor com fort was to be round there, . a here ' were three sailors on board besides ' the sailing master and an assistant. Now, for some mysterious reason,, the assistant wont ashore and forgot to come back again. Thus there were left only the tow-headod captain and his small ocew, who were all yountr men, hardly more than boys. ' Bo sides, Miss Agnoa had brought her maid for decency's sake. All aoenied delightful, They sailed and sailed.'. Two o'clock came, then three o'clock, then four o'clock, Miss Agues looked at her watch and then at the sea. , ,', . About half a mile from her there was another yacht cruising about,, and she gazed at it earnestly. , ' Whilo she was thus engaged a terrible wranglo broke but among the three inon forward. They leaped upon each other with every appearance of fury, and began struggling , like so many . demons. . The captain snouteu ai menu, aim swore auu stamped, but they seemed to ignore blm, it looked like mutiny, The maid began to scream and wring her hands, " We shall all be murdored V cried Miss Agnes in her ear. She becaroo frantic The captain braced the tiller and looked to see if there was a steady breeze, and then leaped forward. The three sot upon him with great violence. He gave a tre mendous " Hallo 1" to the other yacht, and Miss Agnes sprang to turn her American flag bottom up. Thus she had a signal of distress. But there was a glorious fight going on. Ono man seemed to be prostrated, timl the rest were in the full vigor of their contest. It was mutiny, clear and simple. In a moment there was ft littlo noiso from the other yacht. Sho was closo un der the loo. They pushed off a bout from hor deck and four men clambered into it. Agnes rejoiced to watch hor maid tremble with terror. ; " What a frightful story she'll tell pa, to bo sure 1" reflected that young lady. But in two minutes the assistance arriv ed. The four men leaped on the dock, three of them deeply in earnest, and the quarreling sailors wore soon separated, and the captain of the party ordored them, in . a ringing voice, to be put into irons. It is needless to mention that this was Will full of ardor. Ho ordered the captain, who seemed ex hausted and half dead to bo carried below, and bo sent thither tho'' maid to nurse Ho then took command of the yacht and turned about, and with his three men forward he ran for shore again. "Deuced woll managed 1" whispered he to Agnes. " You looked exactly like a hero. Will," bIio said. "Did I ?" rejoined he complacently. But, alas !, they were not quite through yet. Will had just said to himself : "He cau't refuse me now. Think it: daughter at sea ; bloody mutiny on board ; death lurking everywhere ; captain disabled ; brave rescue ; nothing to do but to shake hands and give up tho daughter at once." Ho had no sooner fancied this line of reasoning than a liissmg noise, mingled with a roar, came to his ears. The sailors shouted. , He looked uudor the main boom, and his blood froze with horror; for there, close upon him, was the but-eud of a whlte-Bquall. He shoved the helm hard, haulod in his sheets taut, and then abut bis eyes for ono second. Then he braced himself, and held Agnes like grim death. The tempest seized upon the boat as if it wero a straw, and it went flying through the mist and foam like a race-horse. The sailors took in double reefs. The compan ion way was shut and fastened. Miss Agnes first being sent below. For half an hour there was considerable danger. The water burst over the quarters and swept the deck repeatedly. Will began to think this looked like earning a wife. All at once Will heard something give way and felt a tremendous rush and a savage blow upon tho side of his head, and then he saw the sailors rush toward him and then ho felt himself slide down. AVbeu ho came to again, he was . in his own room, un either uana was a uoctor before him was the white and terrified Miss 'Agnes and hor grateful looking father. "What is the matter?" whispered Will, ' Why you're half dead; don't you know it?" said one of the doctors. It seemed that a savage wave had twisted the rail from off the stern of the yacht had hurled it forward and precipitated it upon Will The blow had been severe and bis right arm was badly fractured. , "Pa says I may nurse you, . Will," mur mured Miss Allies, coming forward half scared.' " Of course she can, my poor fellow. Who has a better right than she ? No one that I know of 1 Good gracious, my boy, I didn't know you were such a brave man, Subdue mutiny '..Save a yacht, I Encounter great danger 1 BIcbs me 1" The old gentleman was overcome. It was pretty lucky on the whole that the maid's story was not called for. though she told it below stairs with such great assiduity, that Will has not yet ceased to be regarded with deep respect by all those who ever saw him. ..He fairly achieved his,' honorable, sears, and the father, , whom he took to , his bosom, has not regretted of the gift of his daugh ter. . Sporting Anecdote. ' ' If this is a true story which the Bracken county, Ky., Chronicle tells, it certainly is singular : " Just after the last snow full a little son of Mr. Alex. Eeone took bis gun and.start- ed out one afternoon to see if he could scare up a rabbit. Ho went up over Baker's hill, near the cemetery, and not finding any rab bits, was coming home, it being about dusk. when he accidentally ran into a flock of partridges which raised and st arted to fly down the hill, but being blinded by the snow the entire flock brought up plump against the sido aud roof of a tobacco barn with such force that fourteen of them were killfcd. The boy brought them home, when it was1 found that the craw of every bird was bursted. They had just had a big feed of grain, aud the shock of coming in con tact with the barn bursted their craws, and they were cantuied. . This is rather a siu eulur circumstance : 'nevertheless it 1 is true." Mistaken Identity. N 187--, on the steamer- -, from . Louisville1 to Bowling Grcon was quite large party of passengers. We had got- ton ' some distance up Green River, when, some landing, a gentleman and ' lady came aboard, registered as man and wife, and were duly assigned a stateroom in the ladies' cabin. The boat's cabin presented the usual varied scene, sotno reading, sev eral groups at the card tables, knots here and there engaged in conversation. In a minutes a waiter came forward and told the Captain that tho lady Just come aboard, wished to sco him in her room, who, a littlo surprised and wondering, went ipmcdiatcly back and knocked at the door, which wfls hesitatingly cautious ly, with evident signs of trepidation, open ed. They wore both unmistakably much nlarmcd, and tho lady appealed to the Captain piteously for protection. To his astonished inquiries about the cause of all is, sho explaiuod that in passing down the hall she recognized a man who had been hor husband, but from whom sho had boen sciiarnted and married again, and ho had driven them from their homes with threats of violence and followed them with every possible annoyance; that they had but just loft a place in Indiana, as they thought secretly, whcnlol and be hold, there he was after them in Kentuc ky. She was in despair and implored the Captain to protect them." He assured her that he would, ' but begged her to point out tho man, as he was acquainted with nearly all, and could not imagine which one it could be. Aftor much importunity, the curtain being partially drawn so as to secure hor from view, she was at 1 ast pre vailed upon to pass cautiously out, her husband standing behind her and evident ly equally frightened. Tho ridiculousness of the sceno presented here may be imag ined. 1 Her eye, with torriblo fascination, at lasts rests upon him, and she points out a Mr. well known to the Captain a gentleman whom he had known for years well knew he was not married and had every reason to bolieve never had been. The Captain assured her that she was mistaken ; that ho knew the fact above related in regard to tho man, and that it could not be true, She said; vehemently: ' I know it is . him. Dd you think it pos sible that I could live with a man three years iu the relation of wife, and that only a few weeks should intervene since I saw him, and then be unable to recognize him, or mistake another for him?" ' This was a poser sure enough, and. tq a stranger to all the parties, convincing and unanswerable. But, then, there stood the living, ineradicable, .( insurmountable fact that this was John and not Mr. v i . I had known for five or six years that he was not married, aud had not been within that time. i So. we had it , neither being able to convince the other, , t proposed to bring him up for closer inspection, but she was too much, afraid of .him to consent; but repeated assurances of protection at last prevailed, and I went out for him. Calling him out from his card party, I briefly told him what had occurred, and in his wondering amazement he assumed something of the appearance of a frighten ed culprit. Brought face to face, the lu dicrousness and singularity of the case cul minated. ' ne commences : " What is this you accuse me of, mad am 1 of being you former husbaud ? of fol lowing you with threats to kill? etc Why, I do not know you nover saw you before on earth, to my knowledge, anu i never had a wife.". , She answering " What, sir? You de ny that your name is not , that you were once my husband, and that we were separated lu , Indiana?". , He',' Yes, . madam, I do deny it, each and all, most emphatically." . By this time quite a crowd had been at tracted as witnesses aud auditors. She evidently was not convinced of her mistake, and after a slight pause says l , ' " Woll, there is one way to decide this question of veracity between you and my self. If you are Mr. , and my former husband, you have a deep scar in the edge of aud hidden in your hair and at the top of your forehead." .'('.,' ' Imagine the sceno here. All are euger (o see the result of this test, as he pull off bis hat, and stooping, presents his head for close inspection. She looks again there was no scar' to be seen.' Ho feels that he has triumphed", and the company 'present acquit him ; but she amused and confused, seems but half convinced. '' nere "the case rests. I have never since seen or heard of the strangely deluded lady ; but tho gen. tinman the subieot of this dolusion, is still living on Green River, a respected, good citizen, and the hundred who know him know this was a mistake, but a mis take utterly Incrediblo and incomprehen sible hot committed by an acquaintance, nor even an intimate friend, but by a wife, who bad lived with a man in tho marital state for three or four years, aud only separated from him then for a few months As a case of "mistaken ideutily. it cor taluly is without a parallel. 1- " - ! ! i ' 7f Opportunities to do good create obli gatioug to do it ; he that bath the means must answer for the end. Cultivating a Pnre Expression. Every word that falls from the lips of mothers and sisters especially ' should' be pure, and concise, and simple ; not pearls, such as fall from the lips of tho princess, but sweet, good words, that little children can gather without "fear's ofj soil, or after shame, or blame, or any regrets to pain through all their life, i ' I i - ' Children should be taught' the frdquout use , of good, strong, . expressive , w"'ds words thut mean just' exactly what they should express in thoir proper places. If a child, or young person has a loose, ilung-together way of stringing words when endeavoring to say something, he should be made to "try again," and see if ho cannot do bettor. H is painful t5 listen to many girls' talk. They begm with a " My goodness 1" and interlard it with "oh's" and "sakes alive!" and "so sweet 1" and "so queenly," and so many phrases that ono is tempted to believe they have had no training at all, or else their mothers were very foolish women. Thero is nothing more disgusting than the twaddle of ill-bred girls ; one is provoked often into taking a paper and reading, and letting them ripple and gurgle-on, like brooks that flow they know not whither. My heart warms with love for sensible girls and pure boys ; and, after all, if our girls aud boys are not this, I fear it is our own fault, that this great trust rests - in heart and hands of the women of our land. If wo have a noble, useful purpose in life, we shall infuse the Tight spirit iu those around us. Arthur'i Home Magazine. ' ' Two Pictures. " Hundreds of littlo Italian loyt are kept by old hags on Cherry and Baxter streets, just to steal and beg. If they come homo at night without having stolon or begged a certain sum, the roor little . fellows . are whipped and mado to go to bed on the floor without any supper. Most of these boys turn out pickpockets, and eventually go to the Island or to Sing Sing as burg lars aud housebreakers. One little fellow who has lived on Cherry street for seven years didn't know what the Bible was, and he told us ho had never heard of Christ." " The Rov. Mr. Van Meter, who estab lished the second ' Five Points Mission House, has raised funds' enough to estab lish a Protestant mission church in Rome. He writes that three more Italian tubjects have been rescued from Popery and con verted to the Protestant faith, and that he is deeply solicitous for further contribu tions from brothers and sisters in the cause to help on the glorious work and enable them to build a snug little parsonage for tb.e residonce of the Americari mission aries." Five Poinlt Minion Report. ' ' Would it not be far better to help reform these Italian boys so near at home first, and thereby do good at far loss expense ? I've got Orders net to go. , I've got orders, positive orders not to go thereorders that I dare not disobey,." said a youth,, who was being tempted to smoking and gambling saloon 1 1. . "Come don't be so womanish come along like a man," shouted the youths. " No, I oan't break orders," said 'John. " What special orders have you got? Come show them to us, if you can. - Show us your orders." .; . : . John took a neat wallet from bis pocket, aud pulled out a neatly folded paper. " It's here," be said, unfolding the paper, and showing it to tho boys.. i ' . i They looked and read aloud : " Enter, not Into the: path of the wicked man. Avoid it ; pass by it ( turn from it, and pas away.'.' 'it " Now," said John, " you see my orders forbid me going with you. . Tbey are God's orders, and, by his help, I don't mean to break them." , i, The two Lire. , , Beautiful is old age beautiful is the slow-drooping, mellow autumn of a rich and glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled flier work ;' she loads him with the fruits of a well spent life; and, surrounded by his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call It beau tiful, but not the most beautiful. ' There is another lifo, hard, tough, and thorny, trodden with bleeding feet' and aohing brow; the lifo of which the " cross Is the symbol; a battle which no poace follows this side of the grave, which the grave gapos to finish before the victory is won ; and, strange that It should be so, this is the highest lifo of man. Look along tho great names of history ; there are none whoso life has been other than tins. ' A Unman Lookiug-Glass. Every parent is like a looking-glass for bis children to dress themselves by. There fore parents should take care to keep the glass bright and clear, and not 'dull aud spotted, as their - good example is a rich inheritance for the rising generation. XfT, Witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping off a broken string ; but a word of kindness is seldom spoken , iu vain. It is a seed which, even when I dropped by chance, springs up a flowel.
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