Stljc tmcs, NctuBloomfielir; 3m
Perry County Bank!
ftponaler, J link In A Co.
THE undersign d. having formed a Banking As
sociation under the above name and style, are
now ready to do a General Banking business at
their new Banking House, on Centre Square,
OPPOSTTS THS CO KB T BO V8B,
NEW bloomfield; pa.
We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. We discount notes for a period of not
overeo 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 forthe
want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
have determined to supply the want ; and this being
the ttrst Bank ever established In l'erry 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. 8ponsLKB,Bloomlleld, Perry county, Pa.
B. F. Junkin, " , " "
WM. II. MiijLER, Carlisle,
OFFICBRS:
W. A. SPON8LER, President.
Wiujam Willis, CtuAter
New BloomHeld, 3 5 ly
3STEW "Y-OEK
CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
8 TRICTL Y MUTUAL
AsmctH, (t,O50,U01.H.-; !
ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre
sents as favorable terms as any company in the
United Stutes.
Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and
the policy held good during that time.
Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture.
No extra charges are madefor traveling permits.
Policy-holders shareln the annual profits of the
Company, and have a voice In the elections and
management of the Company.
No policy or medical feecharged.
L. W. FROST, President.
M. B. Winkoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P. Rogers, Sec'y.
J. F. EATON.
. General Agent,
No . 6 North Third St reet,
.42ylJ College Block, Ilarrlsburg, Pa.
LOOK OUT !
I would respectively Inform my friends that I In
tend calling upon them with a supply of goods
of my . ,
OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of
CABSIMERS.
OA88INET8,
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
CA11PETS, Ace,
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
J. M. BIXLEIt.
CbntrbWooler Factory. ,l7,m,
Bloomfield Academy!
Spring Sesion Begin Monday, April 1th, 1873.
THIS school Is designed to be a classical and
normal Institute of the first grade. Htudenls
areprepared thoroughly for any college In the
Jand. Those desiring to be teachers receive a thor
ough normal drill on all studies taught In the pub
lic schools. All others are carried forward in the
higher academic studies and on completion of
course receive certificate of graduation.
Excellent boarding Is provided In the building
of the Institution aud the school Is pleasantly lo
cated. ....
The working force Is as follows:
. Rev. JOHN EDO AH. A. M.. Principal,
Teacher of Classics and Advanced Studies.
A. M. MAUKEL, M. H..
Teacher of English Studies.
Miss S. IJPE,
Teacher of Music, Painting and Drawing.
Miss E. M. M OH ROW,
Teacher ol Preparatory Department.
Prof. J. K. FUCKINCER,
ZTeacher of Peumaushlp.
- For further Information, address Prinoipal,
Hit else
WM. OKIEK, Proprietor.
7 lOtf New Bloomtleld, Perry co., Pa.
CI.AUK'S I'llUE PERSIAN
IllMOCt r0"Wll,
For the destruction of all kinds of
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Insects, viz:
KOACHKH, BED-BUGS, A NTH,
v
I 'FLEAS, MOTHS, Ike, &u. Also,
' Insects on Animals, Fowls, Plants.&o
f ASK FOB f
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ClABK'B INSECT POWDER.
' Warranted Pure.
W Price 26 Ceuts' per Bottle. For sale by F.
Mortimer, New Bloonilteld, Pa. 'j8o2
JAM lyg?
PERRY COUNTY
Beat Estate, Insurance,
AND ' '
OLAIM AGENCY.
LEWIS POTTER & COy
Real Estate Broken, Insurance, it Claim Agent
INow IJloomileld, Fa.
WE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell
ers to the advantages we offer them In pur
chasing or disposing of real estate through our of
fice. We have a very large list of deslrab property,
consisting of farms, town property, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip
tion which we are prepared to oiler at great bar-
f:alns. We advertise our properly very extensive
y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to
effect a sale. We make no charge unless tlit
property is sold while registered with us. We alsc
draw up deeds, bonds, juortgages, andall legal pa
pers at moderate rates.
Some of the best, oheapest, and most reliable
fire, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the
United States are represented at this agenoy.
Property Insured either on the cash or mutual
plan, and perpetually at (4 and $f per thousand.
Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims
collected. There are thousands of soldiers and
heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
dlers. If you wore wounded, ruptured, orcontraot
ed a disease In the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to a pension.
When widows of soldiers die ormarry.the minor
children are entitled to the pension.
Parties having any business to transact In our
line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as
we are conlldent we can render satisfaction In any
branch of our business.
No charge for Information.
4 201y LEWIS POTTER & CO.
Neiv Millinery Goods
A-t Newport, 1 .
IBEO to Inform the public that I have Just re
turned from Philadelphia, with a fill assort
ment of the latest styles of
MILLINERY GOODS,
HATS AND BONNETS.
RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS
FEATHERS,
CHIGNONS,
LACE CAPES.
NOTIONS,
Andall articles usually found In a first-class Mil
linery Establishment. All orders promptly at
tended to. -We will sell all goods as Cheap as
cau be got elsewhere .
DRESS-MAKING done to order and In the la
test style, as I get the latest Fashions from New
York every month. Cohering done to order, In
all widths. I will warrant all my work to give sat
isfaction. All work done as low as possible.
, ANNIE ICKES,
Cherry Street, near the Station,
6 16 13 Newport, Ta.
CARLISLE CARRIAGE FACTORY.
A. B. S1IEBK
has a larire lot of second-hand work on
hand, which he will sell cheap in order
to maae room ior 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
price, go to this shop before purchasing elsewhere.
There Is no firm that has a oetter Trade, or sells
more In Cumberland aud Perry counties.
REPAIRING AND PAINTING
promptly attended to.
and Pitt Streets,
S dp
Factory Corner of South
CARLISLE1, PA.
Farmers Take Notice,
T
HE subscriber offers for Sale
THRESHING MACHINES. JACKS and HORSE
POWER, With Tumbling Shaft, and Side-Gearing, Warrant
ed to give satisfaction In sfieedy and perfect
threshing, light draft and durability, on reasoua
ble terms. Also
PLOUGIIH
Of Superior Make.
CORN SIIELLERS,
KETTLES,
STOVES.
SCOOPS
AND ALL CASTINGS,
made at a country Found ry. 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 Bodeu, Ross llench, at
Ickesburg. Jacob Shoemaker & Son, Elliotts
burg; Thomas Morrow, Loysville; John Flicking,
ei, Jacob Flickluger, Centre. 620 13
SAMUEL LIGGETT.
Ickesburg, May 14. 1872.
J-N8DRE IN THE
MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF
NEW YORK.
P. 8. Winston, President.
The oldest and strongest Company In the United
States. . Assets over 146,000,000 In cash.
B. M. 8HULER, Agent.
Liverpool, Pa.
644 13t.
fti rfr TO 1jk if.titei to
WttjVjUU MUTUAL POLICY HOLDERS.
The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company
having had but little loss during the past year, the
annual assessment on Mutual Tollcy-holdeiB will
not exceed HO per cent, on the usual one year 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 i and as the Company has over
100.000 in premium notes, the whole amount cred.
Ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will
amount to f t.ouo. Had the same policy holders In
sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they
would have paid 14,000 more than it has cost them
In this Company. Yet some of our uelghbor
agents are running aboHt crying Fraud I Fraud I
and declare that a mutual company must fall.
But they don't say how many stock companies are
falling every year, or how many worthless stock
companies are represented In Perry County
to-day.
It is s well known fact that a Mutual Company
cannot break.
JAMES II. ORIEII,
25tf Sec'y of Peuu'a Central Insurance Co.
I. M. OIHVIN.
I. B. OIPVIH
JV
M. GIHVIX fe SOS,
CommlMMlon Merchants,
NO. 8, SPEAR'S WHARF,
llaltimoro, Md.
M.we will pay strict attention to the sale of all
kinds of country produce, and remit the amounts
promptly. 6 341y
ENIGMA DEPARTMENT.
09- All contributions to this department must
be aocoinpanled by the correct answer.
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Cross. Word Enigma. -, .
My first Is In heart but not in soul.
My second Is In arch bnt not in hole.
My third la in frost but not In snow.
My fourth is in reap but not in mow.
My fifth la lu time but not in clock.
My sixth Is lu goose but not in duck.
My seventh is in debt but not in money.
My eighth is in sugar but not In honey.
My ninth la in rudder bnt not in boat.
My tenth Is In goat bnt not in shont.
My whole is the name of a city.
Arithmetical Question.
One-half, one-third, two-fifths end three
eighths are consecutive members, or terms of a
uniform series. What I the next member of
the series after three-elghtha ?
fST A boy being asked how many chestnuts
he had In his basket, replied that when he
counted them by twos, threes, fours or sixes,
he had always one left, but when he counted
them by sevens they came out even. How
many had be t Who will answer?
' A KENTUCKY MYSTERY.
NEARLY a year ago, wbon tlio eyes of
the whole country had been directed
to old Jolm Harper by the exciting turf
contests in which his famous horses were
engaged, his old Kentucky home became
the scene of a startling and mysterious
tragedy. He had gone with his stable to
attend the spring races at Lexington, leav
ing his aged brother and sister, Jacob and
Betsy Harper, at home.
The three old people had never married,
and were the owners of a fine estate, worth
at least half a million dollars, to which the
heirs expectant were certain nephows or
other relatives living in the same country,
or but a few miles away in the adjoining
county of Franklin. Tho first or second
night of the old turfman's absence, Jacob
and Betsy were murdered in their beds
with an old short handled axe that had long
been in use about the wood pile. The
servant found Jacob dead next morning,
and Betsy speechless from a mortal wound
in the head, of which she died afterward
without even recoverigg, consciousness suf
ficient to give any olue to the mystery.
The same night old John Harper was
aroused from his couch in Longfellow's
stable on the Lexington course, by bis hos
tlers, who informed him that a stranger
wanted to see the great race horse. Such a
request at such an unreasonable hour was
both singular and suspicious. It seems to
grow out of some evil design against his
Hoot-footed prodigy, but when the whole
story of that night's dreadful deed was
spread abroad next morning, the publio
generally saw in the eurious incident at
Longfollow's stable the partial failure of a
plot for the simultaneous murder of all
three of the old Harpers.
It was rumored that they had made their
wills, and the story had gone forth that these
wills were unfavorable to their nephew,
Adam Harper, of Franklin. All the cir
cumstances indicated that the murder hod
been committed by some one familiar with
the premises. The furniture was untouch
ed, except tho particular drawer in which
the supposed wills were said to be kept.
That had been ransacked and those docu
ments were gone.
Here was enough to direct suspicion to
ward Adam Harper, and nothing was ever
disoovered to divert it. Ilia, conduot dur
ing the Coroner's investigation; his anxiety
to show from the wounds that they never
could have been inflicted by a left-handed
person bis coming to the place at night
with a party of disguised men and his futile
efforts to extort some confession from the
the negroes by pretending to bang them,
had the effect of confirming the suspicion
dT his guilt.
All the circumstances put ordinary rob
bery entirely out of the question as a mo
tive for the crime. The negroes had been
born slaves of the family, and were so
much attached to the old folks that they
refused to leave the place when set free.
Old John Harper set a corps of detectives
at work, and then suddenly dismissed them
undor circumstances that tended still more
to confirm the suspicion against his neph
ew. The rouderers bad come on two horses,
which they bitched back of the house,
where no other horses had been for months.
Leading from the house to this hitching
place were the tracks of two men, one made
by a large heavy man the other by a small
er man, wearing- a dandy boot. The de
tective who followed these horse tracks in
the direction of Adam Harper's house re
turned, and was closeted with old John
Harper.
The investigation was prosecuted no
further. The detective's disclosures were
not made public but the community infer
red that the trail had become rather too
warm for the old man to run it any further
in that direction. Adam Harper went be
fore the grand jury of Woodford county,
but that body found no evidence that
would justify them in bringing him to trial.
Still the people would talk, and finally
Adam broughtsuit against bis cousin, J.
Wallace Harper, for slander, in saying that
Adum Harper and his son John had com
mitted the murder. Owing to the preju
dice against him in tho neighborhood, the
plaintiff got a change of venue to the ad
joining county of Scott, and in Georgetown
a few days ago bis olaim for f 300,000 dam
ages was given to the jury. The evidence
for the defense in this trial made the case
itgainst him stronger than ever. , ,
The facts we havo stated above wero in
evidence, something more besides. His
attempt to prove an alibi on the night of
the murder broke down, and tbo affidavit
in which his son John claimed to have boon
miles away from the scene with a man
named Duvalt until nearly about the sup
posed hour of the murder, was contradicted
by Duvalt in such a way that it seemed the
young man had only met Duvalt for the
purpose of making an apparent alibi.
Witnesses swore that there was hardly
a man in Woodford who did not believe
Adam and his son to be the guilty parties.
Moreover, a detective produced in court
the measures of the tracks leading from
the house to the hitching place, and swore
that they were the feet of tho two suspected
men. Undor thoee circumstances the jury
acquitted J. Wallace Harper of slandor,
and the vordict for the defendant was re
ceived with enthusiastic cheering, which
the Court and its officers could not sup
press. Aud thus the case stands. There is uo
evidence upon which a court could convict
Adam and his son, hut they are sent forth to
wear, without relief or remedy, the burn
ing brand of a terrible crime to live where
every neighbor is a dotoctive, watching for
the missing link that may consign them to
the doom of murderers.
SUNDAY READING.
1 "'Twos My Mother's."
A company of poor children, who had
boen gathorcd out of the alleys and gar
rets of the city, wore preparing for their
departure to the new and distant homes
in the West. Just before the time for the
starting of the cars, one of the boys was
noticed aside from the others, and appar
ently very busy with a cast-off garment.
The superintendent stepped up to him
and found that he was cutting a small
piece out of the patched lining. It proved
to be his old jacket, which, having been
replaced by a new one, had been thrown
away. There was no time to be lost
"Come, John, come!" said the superin
tendent, " What are you going to do with
that old pioce of calico ?"
"Please, sir," said John, "I am cutting
it to take with me. Sly dear, dead moth
er put the lining into this old jacket fra
me. This was a piece of her dress, and it
is all I shall have to remember her by."
And as the poor boy thought of that moth
er's love, and of the sad death bed scene
in the old garret where she died he cover
ed his face with his hands and sobbed as
if his heart would break.
But the train was about leaving, and
John thrust the little piece of calico into
his bosom "to remember his mother by,"
hurried into a car, and was soon far away
from the place where he had seon so much
sorrow. '
Many an eye has moistened as the sto
ry of this orphan boy has been told, and
many a heart prayed that the God of the
fatherless and motherless would be his
friend. He loved his mother, and we can
not but believe that he obeyed her and was
a faithful child.
Will our little readers, whose parents
are yet spared to them, always try to show
their love by cheerful obedience, knowing
this is pleasing to the Lord ? Will the
boys, especially always be affectionate and
kind to thoir mothers 1
The Last Sin.
I was once in a circle of thirteen or four
teen clergymen, engaged in theological
discussion. The subject was the eternal
subject of sin, its place in the system, its
origin, and its cure. I said at last to one
of the truest men, and one of the purest
moralists, now living that we were beat
ing round the bush; that it would be much
bettor to speak from instances than in the
abstracts; to discuss sins than to discuss
sin. " Tell us," said I, " what was the
last sin you consciously committed." The
whole assembly was hushed. My friend
was not startled. He answered immediate
ly, "I will tell you: I bod it on my mind
as I was speaking before. The last sin
that I consciously committed was the sin
of Btaying in bed this morning when I
knew I ought to rise. Voluntarily I did
what at the moment I knew was wrong."
The confession was received with a shout
of amusement and of sympathy. And
every man of the circle acknwledged that
that very sin of laziness the appetite for a
little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding
of the bands to sleep was the speoial
temptation, or sin, which had pointed his
language in the whole discussion.
tW A great man is affable in his conver
sation, generous in his temper, and immov
able in what be has naturally resolved up
on. And as prosperity does not make him
either Jtaughty and imperious, so neither
does adversity sink him into meanness and
dejection; for if ever he shows tiore spirit
than ordinary, it is when he is ill usod, and
the world is frowning upon him. In short,
he is equally removed from the extremes
of severity and pride aud scorns either to
trample upon a worm or cringe to an emperor.
"No Night There."
Toward the close of long summer day,
which had flooded thn earth with hnani.
..
and song, .a lovely boy, wearied with his
very pleasures, atter suent thought, said
with a tone of sadness, " Mother, I am so
tired; and it says in the Bible, There shall
be no night there. What shall I do in
heaven when I am tired ?"
We think that the oldest of us find it
difficult to comprehend an eternal day of
unwearied activity. The home of the re
deemed" is called rest; this must meau
simply freedom from weariness. We know
of no descriptive worlds of heaven which
include more than these: "There shall be
no night there."
tT God's comforts are no dreams. He
would not put his seal on blank paper, nor
deceive his afflicted ones that trust in him
A Good Joke.
E
LI PERKINS tolls this : One Satur
day recently, ti Philadelphia lawyer,
Mr. II , rode down to Wall street, in
a Broadway omnibus. At Stuart's a beau
tiful young lady got in and handed fifty
cents to the distinguished attorney, re
questing him to please hand it to the driver. "
"With pleasure," said Mr. II , at
the same time passing the fifty cents up
through the hole to the driver.
The driver made the change, handing
forty cents back to Mr.' II ,who qui
etly put it away in his vest pocket, aud
went on reading a mowing machine brief.
Then all was silence.
Soon the young lady asked him about
the Brooklyn ferry. Mr. II replied
to the question with courtesy.
" Do the boats run from Wall street to
Astoria?" continued the young lady.
"I don't know, madame," replied Mr.
H petulantly ; " I'm not a resident of
New York ; I'm a Philadelphian."
"Ah ! yes," (then silence.)
Mr. II again buried himself lu his
brief, wbilo the young lady a-hotned, aud
asked h'im what the fare was in New York
stages.
"Why, ton cents, madame tan cents."
" But I gave you fifty cents to give to
the driver," interrupted the young lady,
"and"
"Didn't I return your change? It is
impossible I Here, driver !" he returned,
dropping his brief and pulling the strap
violently, " why tho dickens don't you give
the lady her change forty cents, sir ; forty
cents."
" I did give her the change ; I gave forty
cents to you, and you put it in your own
pocket," shouted back the driver.
" To me?" said Mr. II , feeling in
his pocket, from which his fingers brought
out four ten cent notes. " Gracious good
ness, madame! I beg ten thousand pardons;
but but " '
"Oh, never mind," said the lady, eye-
ing him suspiciously, " you know a lady in
Now York has to look out for herself. It's
no matter it wasn't the forty cents " .
" Goodness gracious ! my dear woman,"
and then the stage stopped, and the young
lady tripped away.
Mr. II . has been so excited about
the affair that be went back to Philadelphia
a ruiucd man. He even forgot to take a
$10,000 fee which Ketchum was to pay
him in a mowing machine case. He sy
he'd rather pay $10,000 than let the Phil
adelphia fellows get hold of the story, foe
fear they would be asking him what he did
with that poor woman's forty cents.
A Wife for Eight Dollars. '
A novel spectacle was recently witnessed
in Detroit, Michigan. About a fortnight
since a widow named Gathner met an ac
quaintance on the street, and said that she
was1 in a destitute cond ition, and bad no
means of keeping starvation and death
from her door. The gentleman thus ad
dressed lookod at the woman amoment,aud
replied that she was young and goodlook
ing enough to marry again. To this Mrs.
Gathner answered that she had no objec
tion to such an arrangement, but she bad,
thus far, been unable to find a husband.
"I'll sell you at auction," replied the gen
tleman, " and the only proviso shall be that
the highest bidder shall court you for 1 a
week, in order that you may know him."
The woman consented, and the sale was
anuouueed. Tho auctioneer stated to the
orowd which assembled that he had known
the woman for years, and that he knew her
to be industrious and of a good oharacter,
and then opened the sale. Bidding was
lively, and evorybody in great humor. In
the crowd was an old bachelor, named
Joslyn, and he was the only one who took
the joke as a real fact. lie jumped the
bidding from 4!) cents to $5, and then rais
ed to $8. The auctioneer called on that
figure, and the widow was knocked down.,
Joslyn handed her the money, agreed to
the proviso, and left the crowd, none of
whom had a thought that a marriage would
take place. One d!d take place, however,
after the terms of the proviso bad beau
faithfully carried out. And while it is.
quite certain that Joslyn has found a good
helpmeet, the bridegroom's friends say
that he is sober, steady, good-tuperel
and well off.
HT This is the rock of ages" said
father, after rocking two hours, and baby
still awake.