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Heal Estate, Insurance,
CLAIM AGENCY!
LEWIS POTTEE k CO.,"
Real Bttatt Brokert, Jnmiranct, t Claim Attn
New liloomfleld, Pti.
WEINVITE 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 property very extensive
y, and use all our eilorts, skill, and dllllgence to
effect a gale. We make ao charges utiles th
property is sold while registered with us. We alsc
draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa
pers at moderate rates. '
Some ol the best, cheapest, and most reliable
Are, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the
United States are represented at Oils agency.
Property insured either on the cash or mutual
plan, and perpetually at 14 and K per thousand.
Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war elalms
collected. There are thousands of soldiers and
hairs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
diers, If you were wounded, ruptured, oreontract.
ed a disease in the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to a pension.
When widows of soldlersdfe 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.
4201y ., LKW18 I'OTTEK & CO.
New Millinery
At Newport,
Goods
IBEQ tolnform the ptibllo that I have Just re
turned from Philadelphia, with a ful assort
ment of the latest styles of
MILLINERY GOODS, '."''.'
nATS AND BONNKTS,
RIBBONS, FRKNCH FLOWERS
FEATHERS,
CHIONONS,
LACE CAPES,
- .i. - MOTIONS,
And all articles usually found In a first-class Mil
linery Establishment.' AH orders promptly at
tended to. r 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 ICKE3, .
Cherry Street, near the Station,
51613 Newport. Pa.
CARLISLE CARRIAGE FACTORY.
A. B. 8HEBK
has a large lot ol second-hand work on CjflPWJ?
hand, which b will sell cheap In order HH3fi
to make room for new work, s
FOR THE 8PRINQ TRADE.
' He lias, also, the best lot of f
- 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 tills shop beforo purchasing elsewhere.
There Is no II rin that has a better Trade, or sells
more In Cumberland and Perry counties.
REPAIRING AND PAINTING
promptly attended to. Factory Corner of South
and Pitt Streets,
3 dp
CAHL1SLB, PA.
Farmers Take Notice.
rriHE subscriber offers for Sale r' ,
-- i i ;i . ...',
THRESHING MACHINES. JACKS and HORSE
' POWER,
1 i i
With Tumbling Shaft, and Side-Gcarfng, Warrant
ed to give satisfaction in speedy aud perfect
threshing, tight draft and du -ability, on reasoua
ble terms.. Also - , ,,
v L-ou'ti-ii h - 1-
Of Superior Make,
CORN 8IIEI.I.EKS, . ' 1 ,
KETTLES. , . ,
8TOVKH, '
, . SCOOPS
... I' AND ALLCASTINGS,
made at a country Fonndry.i 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 Moden, Ross Hench, at
Ickesburg. Jacob Shoemaker 6i Hon, Klllotts
burg; Tliomas Morrow, Ixiysvillat John Flicking
er, Jacob Fllckluger, Centra. . (2U13
SAMUEL LIGGETT.
Ickesburg, May 14. 1874 .,
JNSUHE IN THE , '
'''' MUXTJAX- ' '
, , LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
: of" (,. ..
' . NEW YORK., ''
F. 8. Winston, president. '
The oldest and strongest Company In the United
States. Aew over MaVWOO In cash. . . i
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M413t.
8. ft. BHULER, igent. ' 1 '
Liverpool, Pa. '
S2 A CfC T H !REIITEI TO
3-J:-,VjvJU MUTUAL POLICX HOLDER
The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company
having had but little loss duriuK the vast vear. the
mutual amassment on Mutual Policy-holders will
not exceed 60 per cent, on the usual one year easli
rate, which would be euual to a dividend of 40
per cent, as calculated lit Stock Companies, or a
deduction of 2 per cent., on the notes below the
usual assessment; alula the Company has over
IAKI.000 in uremlum notes. th whole amount cred
ited to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will
amount to 11,000. Had the name pulley-holders In
sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rate, they
would have oald 11.1)01) more tliau It has cost them
In this Company, Yet ome of our neighbor
agents are running about crying Fraud I Fraud I
and declare that a mutual company must fall.
But they don't say how many stock companies are
faillnii everv vear. or how many wort hlens stock
companies are represented In Perry County
to day.
It is a well-known fact that a Mutual Company
cannot urea.
JAMK8 II. GRIEIl,
2Mf . Seo'y of PeHit'a.Cantral Insurance Co.
I. K. OIKVIN. , f i ' ' ' ' J. U. OIHVIK
j m. umvm & son, r . , t .
GommlMMlon Merchant,
. , NO, i, SPEAR'S WHARF,
Haiti m r c , M d
' V-We will nay strict attention to the sale of all
kinds of eouiitry product, aud remit the amounts
promptly.
Miy
ENIGMA DEPARTMENT.
Mr All contributions to this department must
be accompanied by the correct answer. , .
Cross-Word Enigma
My first Is In (addle but not In bridle.
My next li In help but not In Idle.
My third Is In play but not In fun.
My fourth It In cake but not In bnn.
My fifth la In earl bnt not In lord.
My sixth la In string but not In cord.
My seventh Is In paper but not In rag.
My eighth Is In horse but not In nag.
My ninth Is in arm but not In leg.
My tenth Is In rack but not In peg.
My eleventh la In lame but not In maim.
My whole Is a famous, Immortal name.
Romance of a Battle.
During General Sheridan's last visit to
Indianapolis, ho talked over his campaigns
with his friends there,says the Journal,and
recalled a preface to one of his most noted
battles in something ' like these terms:
" There is a mighty sight of romance and
a great many interesting episodes connect
ed with the war that the. historians' never
got bold of. For instance, there has been
a great deal Baid about the battle of Win
chester, 'a little affair in which I bad a
hand. Well, it was a pretty square fight ;
but, do you know, that battle was fought
on the strength of information which I re
ceived from a young lady in the town of
Winchester, and if the rebels had known
she was giving it to me, they would bave
hung ber in a minute. I was very anxious
to get information of the rebel's strength
and movements, so as to know just when
and where to strike thorn, but I did not
know how to get it. Finally, I ' heard of a
Union young lady in Winchester who could
be relied on if I could get ' word to ber.
Hor name was Miss Wright. I think she is
in the Treasury Department at Washing
ton now. But the trouble was to commu
nicate with her. One day I ' heard of an
old colored man living outside of my lines,
who had a pass to go into' Winchester to
sell vegetables.' I sent for the old man,
and on talking with him found bim to be
loyal, as all the colored folks were, you
know. , Finding he could keep a secret, I
ask him if be would undertake to deliver a
letter to a young lady in Winchester. The
old fellow said he would, so I wrote a
letter on thin tissue paper and rolled it up
in tin-foil. It made a ball about as big as
the end of your thumb, and I told the old
man to put it in bis mouth and deliver it
to Miss Wright in Winchester. lie went
off, and iq about two days came back with
an answer rolled up in the same pieoe of
tin-foil. ' I found I bad struck a mighty
good lead, and I followed it carefully till I
got all the information I wanted. The girl
gave me more important information than
I got from any other source, and I planned
the battle of Winchester almost entirely on
what I got from her. : She was a nice girl
and true as steel."
Hard to Hake Understand.
A lad arrested by the'police was brought,
before the court, when the following con
versation occurred : '
Justice Well, why are you here?
- Prisoner. Bocause I couldn't getaway
from the officer. " '
J. Why did they bring you here f P.
That's Just what I want to know.
J. Have you ever been condemned?
P. Yes, sir. ,
J. State undor what circumstances.
P. When I was twelve years old I had
au intlamation of the lungs and was con
demned by three doctors. , , : - 'i (
JT. You don't understand me. ' I asked
whether you have ever been proceeded
against? I .;..!.. i.i.
P. Yes, sir.: ..: .. .
J. Tell the particulars. ' ''
V. Willingly, One day, when I was
walking up the Fifth avenue, I was pro
ceeded against by a savage bull, -i I i
i J. That is no answor to my ' question ;
what the court wishes to know is, whether
you have ever been arrested ? ' . ' 1 i
P. I bave nothing to conceal, and benoe
I answer in the affirmative. ' . 1 '
J.--Oh, you do ah t Wbeu was it ? ' 1
P. Last Year. '
J. For what? i t
P. Fow being in the way, I suppose,
The S97th regiment was coming up Broad.
way, and the crowd was so great that my
course was arrested for half an hour.
' Lawyer. Will you- never understand ?
His honor wishes to know whetbor you
bave ever been taken up? ' ' '
P. Oh, yes T Last winter uncle Joshua
took me up to the central park to see the
skating. " - ' if : .
, J. Were you ever In a station house?
. P. Yes, sir ; I havq been in most all the
station house on the Camden and Amboy
railroad.' ' '' 1
L. In one word have you ever been in
the Tombs? , : , . , ,
P. Wall, I can't say I've been exactly
in 'em, but I've 'been -pretty well among
'em. Aunt Jerusha and me was to Green
wood nearly all day a week ago. , ' , .
J.Welli yoo ' go again j and I hop
you and your aunt' may have a good time
together,'.; ;'', ,'! ;v .:":
P Tbank'ee, Judge; that' right; Good
bye. t i i.
Bill Arp on Bustle.
Bee here Mark Anthony If I was you
I wouldn't take on so about fash tins. They
don't bother mo. It'a none of your busi
n ess what the women put on or put off so
that they behave themselves and look Just
as purtyas the can. They are a heap
better than you or me anyhow, whether
they behave or not. I wouldn't give one
woman for several ' men no time, would
youf Now see bim smile and pat that
off foot. If women want to wear bussels,
let em wear em. I thought that panniers
was the best because they stuck out side
ways and wasn't in the way of leaning
back when they sat down, but they know
which is the side to stick out on, and its
nobody's business but theirs. They may
wear anything they , want to, bussels and
hoops and gangovors and convexes And
collnpes and whimadidles and stickouta
and topnots oome down and anything else
so there is a woman bid away somewhere
inside of it all. It's all a sham that rub
ber bussels there ain't no substance or
backbone in it. I've seen em flat and
seen em blown up. There ain't a bit of
harm in em, but never see one on a woman
that I don't want to hit it Just hard enough
to make it pop. I golly, 'wouldn't she
Jump high and holler ? ' But I'm not go
ing to do it ; no sir ; ' I've got too much
respect for woman. Their bussels don't
hurt nobody, and I do dospise to see a
man always pickin at a woman' close.
If they didn't wear something to disguise
themselves the men ' would quit business
when they come about. Purty women al
ways did wear something to skeer the men
away. It's been so forevor. During the
war I seed one woman who dressed Just
as natural as life, without any padden or
stuflin, and when she cum along the boys
jest laid down and rolled over and holler
ed. They warent fit for business for a
week. Some of the birds are dressed mighty
fine, aud I reckon their pride ain't much
of a sin after all. - But understand mo,
Mark ; I don't banker after bussols, tho'
they say it makes the nicest little shelf for
the arm to rest on in the world, when a
foller is dancing, around with his gal.
That's all right, providing the feller ain't
dancing ' with my gal. ' If he is he may
take her and keep her, that's all.
Clerical Anecdote.
ThoRov. Dr.' Macleod (father of the
late Norman Maclood) was proceeding
from the manse to church, to open a new
place of worship. As he passed slowly
and gravely through the crowd gathered
about the doors, an elderly man, with the
peculiar kind of wig known in that dis
trict bright, smooth, and of a reddish
brown accosted him : m
" Doctor, if you please, I wish to speak
to you." ,
' Well, Duncan," says the venerable
doctor, "can ye not wait till after wor
ship?" 'No, doctor, I must speak to you now,
for it is a matter upon my conscience."
" Ob, since it is a matter of conscience,
tell mo what it is, but bo brief, for time
presses." 1 '
" The matter is this, doctor. - Ye see the
clock yonder on the face of the new church.
Well, there is no clock really there noth
ing but the face of the clock. There is
no truth in it but only onco in the twelve
hours. Now, it is in my mind very wrong
and quite against my conscience, that
there should be a lie on the face of the
house of the Lord." , ;
"Duncan, I will oonsider the point.
But I am glad to see you looking so well ;
you are not young now ; 1 remomber you
for many years; and what a fine head of
hair you have still 1" 1
"Eh, doctor, you are Joking now ; It is
long since I have had my hair."
"Oh, - Duncan, Duncan 1 are you going
into the bouse of the Lord with a lie upon
your head?" "
The doctor heard no more of the lie on
the face of the clock.
, Don't Do It.
Don't invest all your money in
lottery
tickets. Uive some other man a
chance
for a nriza. '
Don't tell an editor how to run a news
paper. Let the poor tool una It out Him
self.
Don't loaf about the streets and depend
on the Lord for your " dally brea d." He
Isn't running a bakery.
Don't discuss sciontlflo questions with
lightning rod men. ' His arguments aro
most generally solid and always pointed.
Don't imagine that the Lord ' will call a
first class preacher to a ohurch paying a
second class salary. He does n't treat bis
children so shabbily. ' ..
14T A Uentleman the other day, saw
bis little daughter dipping ber doll-baby'
dress into a tin cup and Inquired.
" What are you doing, my , daughter ?'
"I'm coloring my doll's dress red."
"With what?" ' I
With beer I" ' '
"What put such a foolish notion In
your head, 1 child? ' You can't oolor red
with beer ',' '
" Yes I can, pa ; because ma said It was
beer that made your nose to red 1"
' 1 And the gentleman had business that re
quired him to be down town lmm.ediat1y,
How Jackson Caught A Mess of Bass..
Mr. John Jackson was walking along
the river bank one day, when he saw a
piece of string attached to a peg stuck in
the ground. He picked np the string, of
which One end was in the water, aud haul-
ed in three line bass, which by some means
or other bad strung themselves through
the gills ou the line. Jackson was so as
tonished by this circumstance that , he did
not know what to say, but be determined
to take the fish home and show them. Be
fore doing so, however, ho looked about to
see if anybody oould give him an explana
tion of the affair, but . ho only saw a gen
tleman fishing some quarter of a mile off,
and not wishing to interrupt bim in his
sport, - picked up his prize and walked
home with it. John Jackson had bis fish
for supper and pronounced them very fine,
but to this day he cannot explain how three
s could possibly string themselves
through the gills, tie themselves around a
peg, and go back to the water again. The
gentleman who had been fishing must have
made just such another curious capture
and bave lost it, for be was heard later in
the evening talking very loud, aud asking
somebody, profanely, what the something
had become of it. , , ,,, -. . .
Hnmors of Prohibition.'
A lady but lately settled in Concord N.
II. relates the ralriot of that city went
into a drug store and innocently asked for a
pint of alcohol to be used In a spirit lamp.
'Have you a proscription?" inquired the
clerk, politely. " A . what?", asked tho
lady, in surprise. " A prescription from
a physician 1" explained the clurk, " we
are not allowed to sell alcohol unless it is
ordered by a physician." " Not even alco
hol ?" said the astonished customer.
' Well, that is strange. I was not aware
that any one ever drank pure alcohol as a
beverage." "Very true. I think myself
that such a regulation is ridiculo us, but we
must obey it. I am sorry if you are incon
venienced, but cannot sell you any alcohol
unless you bring a prescription." , Tho
lady left the drug store, and when last
seen, in the middle of the afternoon, was
circulating around looking for a physician
who would be willing to certify that her
spirit lamp was seriously ill with some
disease or other peculiar to lamps at this
season of the year and that its case was
one requiring treatment with stimulants.
The Sensation of Drowning.
Dr. Hoffman, of Dixon, 111., who was
one of the victims of the recent bridge dis
aster In that town, and was very nearly
drowned, thus describes his sensation while
in the water : ' '
I could feel the water running down my
throat and in my ears, and all at once ex
perienced tho most delightful sensation. I
seemed to bo at peace with everything-, and
perfectly happy. My whole life passed before
mo like a flash of lightning, the events ap
pearing in sequence, the most prominent
appearing to be indelibly stamped upou
my mind. Circumstances I had forgplteu
appeared vividly, and I did not want to be
disturbed. I should have preferred to re
main where I was. While in the midst of
a beatiflo reverie, thinking what my wife
would do if she were saved and I were
drowned, 1 felt a hand on my shoulder.
I was pulled out and placed on a rock. , I
was greatly astonished at the number of
events that passed through my mind while
under the water. Nothing that occurred
during childhood was evident but every
thing since I was about nineteen years old
r.ppeared before me as if photographed,'
Tho sensation I experienced while the wa
ter was going down my throat was not un
pleasant. It seemed as if I was going on a
journey, and was surrounded by all kinds
of beautiful things. '
, , Hon he Kept his Seat.
The male American is, as a national rule,
polite and considerate to the other speaie.
It is proverbial that women are more safe
and comfortable in travelling in this coun
try, alone, than anywhoro else in the world.
There was a good illustration of this
pleasant trait, by the way, recently, in a
Walnut street car, Philadelphia. An old
gentleman wa soatsd In. one corner, and
the ear was full. A bevy of the fair ones,
of all ages and weights, swarmed in, and
there were no seats. Whereupon the gal
lant old ' gentleman said, aloud: " Ladies.
I shall be most happy to give my seat to
any one of you who is over thirty-two
years of age." All remained standing. "
t2TTbe professor of German flatters
himself that be has mastored English pro
nunciation, and tells some friends: "Iss
it not a shdrainch ting, Latios, dat de Latin
race gan not agulre de Euklish pronuncy
atlon ? . I baf choost dis momend bardet
from an Idaliancbendleman (a crade vrent
of mine ant a very glefler roan), wbo has
lifi'ed In New York almoste as long a
haf tveudy-vlfe eecerrs an foot you pe
llet it ? be shbeegs Eoklish vit a kwite
shdrong vortlgn indouatlon 1 . How to, you
agound vor a ao eggshdraortiuary seer-
goomshdanc az tat ?" ,
'.' Sclf-SIflcV.7 1 ' -
, Boy (to Lady Visitor) " Teacher, there
Is a girl ovor there a wiukln at me "
Teacher " Well, then, don't look at
her 1" ."" V . ;
; Boy-" But If I don't look at her, she'll
wink at somebody else t"
SUNLATJtBADXNCr. .
. TT" i Freely - ForgiTe7" '7
It Is very easy to say we will forgive
those wbo injure us, but it is quite another
thing to put It in practice.' ' Many people
forgive very much as the littlo . school girl
did to whom her teacher said, "Mary, if a
naughty school girl should hurt you, you
would forgive her like a good little girl,
wouldn't ytju ?'.' ' '
"Yes, maam," she said,1 ''If I couldn't
catch her?". ' .-.l
Another Sunday-school scholar had a
notion of forgiveness very muob like hers.
His lesson bad been upon this subject, and
his teacher asked him if, in view of what
be had been studying he could forgive
those wbo wronged him.
"Could you," said the teacher, "forgive
a boy, for instance, who had struck you ?"
" Y-e-s, sir," said the lad slowly, after
thinking a little, "I conld I guess I
could ;" and then added in a husky tone,
" I know I could if be were bigger than I
am I
These little folks put me in mind of an
old gentleman who bad a quarrel with a
neighbor, and thinking he was about to
die, Bent for the neighbor, that the diffi
culty might be settlod before be died. " I
can't bear," said be, "to leave' this world
while there is any bad feeling between us.
But, mind you," be said with all the en
ergy his feeble voice could assume, " If
I get well the old grudge stands !" -
Ah, that is not like the teaching of Jesus.
The enemy is not only to be forgiven bnt
treated like a friend. True forgiveness
empties the heart of all remembrance of
old grudges and hate, and fills it with kind
ness and love. '
Concerning the Soul.
A preacher once endeavored to teach
some children that their souls would live
after they were dead. They heard his
words, but did not understand 'them. He
was too abstract ; be shot over their heads. '
Snatching his watch from his pocket he
said, "James what is this I hold In my
hand?"
"A watch, sir."
"A little clock," Baid another.
"Do you see it?"
."Yes, sir." , ' .
"How do you kuow it is a watch?"
"It ticks, sir.",, . . .
" Very well ; can any' of you hear it
tick?". . . . ...
All listen. After a little pause :
"Yes, sir, we hear it?"
Then he took off the case, and held that
in one hand and the watch in the other.
"Now children which is the watch?"
"The little one in your hand, sir.".
"Very well, again. Now, I will put the
case aside put it away down there, in my
hat. So it is with you children. Your
body is nothing but the com. The soul is
insido. The case mar bo taken off. and
buried in tho ground ; may be cast in the
fire,or thrown into the sea, aud the soul will
live on just as well without the body, as
this watch will keep on ticking when the
case is laid aside."
Now, that illustration and that thought
will live in the minds of thoso children
who heard It forever.
Origin or tho Word "Lady."
Formerly, in England, when the affluent
lived all the year round at their mansions
In the country, the lady of the manor dis
tributed to her poor neighbors, with her
own hands, once a week, or oftener, a cer-.
tain quantity of bread, and she was called
by them " Leff-day," that is, in the Saxon,
the bread-giver. These two words were
in time corrupted, and the meaning is now
as little known ' as the practice whioh gave
rise to it; yet it is from that hospitable cus
tom that, to this day, the ladles of that
kingdom alone serve the me at attheir own
tables. i :,;.) s. . .
Fonr Good Habits.
There were four good habits a wise man
earnestly recommended in bis counsels, and
which he considered to be essentially neces
sary for the management of temporal con
cerns; and those are punctuality, Accuracy,
steadiness," and despatch. Without the
first of those, time is wasted; without the
second,' mistakes the most hurtful to our
own credit and interest and that of others
may be committed, "without, the third,
nothing can be well done; and without tho
fourth, opportunities of great' advantage
are lost, which it is impossible to recall.
. '' Heal Children.
It Is bad to think that children are going
out of fashion, and in their places wa have
fashionable attired little men and women
tricked out In all rings and furbelows and
costly absurdities of the reiguing folly. It
la too bad to cheat ' bumau beings out of
thoir childhood in this ridiculous way, and'
still more to palm off such little bundles of
millenery as real children. Pray let ua
hav real boys and girls or none at all.
, Wod'g Care, '
Two little girls were walking homeward
one moonlight evening. I overheard one
of them say, " Sister Annie, it don't make
any difference how fast we walk' the moon
keeps up to us every step or the way ; it
don't move at all, aud yet it is always
going along with us." So it is with the
dear Qod In heaven ; though He seems far
away, He is keeping stop with us lway
In the march of life. '