Perry County Bank! 8poiiftler, Junk tn fe Co. fTIHE undersign id, having formed a Banking As JL soclatlon under the above name and style, are now ready to do a Genoral Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, OPPOSITE! TUB COURT H0V8B, NEW BLOOMFIELD, 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, Hve per cent forany time over (our months ; and for four months four per cent. We are well provided with all and every facility (or 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 first Bank ever established in Perry 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. Bpowilib, Bloom Held, Perry county, Ta. B. F. .Iunkin, " " " , Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle, OFFICERS: W. A. 8PON8LER, President. William Willis, Cashier , , NewBloomneld.SSly 3STEW YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, , STJtlCTL Y M UTUAL ! A.HHOtH, 0,OC1),S01.H5 ! ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre sents as favorable terms as any company in the united Btates. Thirty days' grace allowed on each paymeut, and The policy neia gooa uunug mat nine. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit ure. , . f No extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice lu the elections and management oi me iompauy. No policy or medical feecharged. W. FROST, President. ' . M. B. Wynkoof, Vice l'res't. J-PKOaBH88eCy-. J.F.EATON, ; ' General Agent, No . North Third Street, .42uyl College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. LOOK OUT! -r umiil.l rniimctlvnlv Inform mv friends that I In X tend calling upon them with a supply of goods of my OWN MANUFACTURE. . i , Couslstlngof ' ;, , ,; CASSIMERS, OABSINETS. I - FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) CAUPETSi &o to exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. BlXLEIt. Ckntrje Woqleh Factoht., - ,. , , 6,17,4m, Bloomfield Academy ! Wing Beuion Begin Monday, April Uh, 187& THIS school Is designed to be a olasslcal and normal Institute of the first grade. Htudeuts .are prepared, thoroughly for any college In the land. Those desiring to be teachers receive a thor ough normal drill on all studies taught In the pub lii HnhiMtla. All (itliurM &rMKrrll forward In the higher acadenilo studies and on completion of .course receive cenincate oi graauauou. Excellent boarding is provided In the building oi me lusiuuuon auu me acuooi pieasantiy io cauio. i 4 , - The working force Is as follows: Rev. JOHN KIHSAK, A. M.. Principal, Teacher of Classics and Advanced Studies. - A. M. MARKET,, M. Rt ' ' Teacher of English Studies. ' ( " ' ' . Miss B. LIKE, ' ' ' . J ' Teacher of Musio, Palming aud Drawing. Miss E. M. MOBEOW, , . . Teacher of Preparatory Ucpartuient. ; y Prof. 3. a FMCKINOER, '. ' ' Teacher of Penmanship. r For further Information, address Principal, 4it aim , . . , t ' ' ' i WM. GUI EH, proprietor. 10tf - New BloomUeld, Perry CO., Pa. v Iimcot I'owdiir, , For the destruction of all kinds of 4 L ' Insects, till-'"' 1 t yFLUA1 MUTUt,,! Aq., , ic( i Also, S Insects on Animal, Fowls, Plants, ASK FORt . i j a k ( ". ire ' '! 'I "f !.: ! In 't f , ' , , i O I, A K K I N S K 0 T e 4) W D K Jt . J i" Warranted Pure. I f,nl. H u.M ;l I, . r Price It Goaty per Boaie.'- For' ififij Mortimer, New BloomtteU, Fa. n 1 " " lit ; ' v . .t smouPa DEPARTMENT. - All contributions to tills department must be accompanied by the correct answer. Scriptural Enlgmn. My first Is formed of letters three, ' ' Of gender feminine, Two-thirds of which yon plainly see, Would makt It masculine. , ' My next has letters four In all, ' But three of them will do ' To name an article much worn By men and women too. My third contains, t freely say,,. Four letters lacking none, Bnt take one-fourth of them away, It leaves you only one. My fourth has letters number four ; That cannot be assailed, But If beheaded it will be ..'"'.' As number two curtailed. My fifth Is like my first In this, Though seeming very strange, . By dropping oneor taking all, , ' The gender It will change. My sixth, of five to be complcto And perfect to behold, Can only be by leaving you Forever in the cold. The answer to' the above Is a commendation of our Saviour's . Enlgmn. I am composed of eight letters i My 2, 8, 4, and 1, Is a fillet. My C, 8, 4 and 5, is what most men like to pos sess. My 6, 8, 8, and 5, Is lndlspensible In the kitch en. ! My whole are tho lultlals of a worthy enter prise. , , t . . ... . ,.;. , . low Smikps Stopped Chewing Tobacco. S MIKES mado up bis mind to stop chewing. IIo nover was much of a cliewer, anyhow, he . 6nid., IIo had not used tobacco but a fow years, and rarely consumed more than an ounce paper in a day. But be feared the habit might get hold of him and become fixed, and if there was anything he abhorred it was to see a man become a slave to a bad habit. . He had used the weed some, to be sura, but there never had been a time during the last ten years when he could not stop at any moment. But so long as he did not become habituated to its use he did not care to stop. IIo could break off at any minuto, and it was great satisfaction to feel so. Thompson, he thought, was an abject slave to bis pipe. He pitied Thompson for he had seen him 'try to stop smoking several times, and fail ignominlously every timo he undortook it. But Bmikes wanted to show his wife how easy he could quit. Bo Monday morning he remarked carelessly to Samantha that he guessed he would stop using tobacco. Samantha said she was glad of it, and added impetuously, what she had never said before, that it was vile habit. Smikes appeared a little nervous ana coniusea wnen Baraaiuna said this, and mumbled out somothing about being glad he had , never got into it himself. In his agitation be pulled out bis tobacco box and was just about to take a chew, when he recollected himself and plunged out of the front door, forgotting his umbrella. About half way up to the office, he met Jones, with whom he was having some business transactions. While they were talking the thing over, Bmikes got a little enthusiastic, aud he had almost reached the office before he noticed he was rolling an uncommonly plump quid around his mouth like a . sweet morsel. How it got there Smikes did not know. , He puu- zled over the little thing all the rest of the forenoon, aud at last be took It out of his mouth and threw it away, satisfied that be must have taken it while talking with Jones. Twice that afternoon Bmikes took out his tobacco box and looked at it. Once be took off the cover and bmelled of ' the tobaooo,., . It smelt! so good that Bmikes felt 'impelled to remark to himself that it was the easiest thing in the world to stop chewing. Ha congratulated himself again and again that day that he did not become entangled in the meshes of the filthy vice, and he alluded to the matter three or four times that evening , at the tea-table, . till Samantha marveled greoly at the firmness of Smikes. Sbs had always heard, she said, that it was a hard thing to leave off. But Bmikes had told her and kept telling her that it was "jus as easy," and her revert euce for the virile strength and indopen. deuce of character of Sniikesj grew like gourd...., . i , - ' That night Smikes had the .nightmare, He thought that a legion of foul fiends had got him up In tho corner of (he VbacV yard, and had rolled upon his bell j a monstrous quid of M fiuo out" as large' around as a cart-vtheul, auu tliut they were, trylpz to fi-uootit into hUwWonth.i&nlkes strug gled Vlgoroubly, and when Samantha shook him and asked what was the . matter, his uuly reply was' that, anybody could ftop chewing If they tnae un, their mind to It.1 The nent day tiauike was a little nervous, He told everybody who came Id ' what simple thing It was to stop (cbewlug; fThe Uiua uy ue carpea buout, u au , ituy , long He tolij one man "about Jt three r.difforeiit times, ana wnen usai mucu iumrmsa viij dlviJual ventured . the ' -opinio,', that;, he would be chewing again in loss than a week, Bmikes indignantly ejaculated: " Mr. JenklnB, when I make up my mind to do a thing that is the last of it." The fourth day Bmikes heard that chamomile blossoms were sometimes used as a substi tute for tobacco, and just out of curiosity he dovourod a couple of ounces of them. He Baid to the druggist when he bought them that It was easy enough to stop the use of tobacco. On tho fifth day Bmikes got sick. His nerves gave out. He snap ped something nk, Samantha at the break fast table, upset his ink-stand, burnt his fingers poking some cindors out of the grate, and had no appetite for dinner. That day the devil whispered to Bmikes that to bacco was really benefioial to some tem peraments. Smikes had a temperament of this kind. The sixth day Smikes felt like a murderor. He seemed to himself to have been transformed into a Modoo. . His mouth was dry and parched. A stout, healthy looking old gontleman came into Sraiko's ofilce that day. IIo was a great friend of Smlke's and as ho drew forth his silver tobacco box and daintily shook out a morsel of the pungent weed, Bmikes felt his mouth water. He remarked to Mr. Johnson that he bad not chewed any for six days, and that he had refrained just to satisfy himself that anybody could chew or leave it alone. IIo was fully satisfied that it could be done, but he ratbor thought that his was one of those temperaments that are roally acted upon in a beneficial way by the temperate uso of tobacco. Mr, Johnson said he thought so too, and as he handedJSmikcs his box, remarked that he had chewed regular for thirty years, and didn't know as it had ever damaged him any. As Smikes rolled a large quid back into his left check he said he thought there was a great diilorenco in men. lie was satisfied that he could stop chewing at any time, but there wore some temperaments to which a gontlo narcotic or opiate was really a blessing. Owen' the Tailor. Not many months ago a gentleman by the name of Owen came to Pittsburg, and hung out bis sign as a fashionable tailor- none of the common " cut and try" kind, but a professional costumer and as a con sequence every stylish young gent in the city must have a suit made by the new tailor. Among other customers was a fancy looking gent whose brightly polished boots, close fitting kids and nobby hat do, noted a fashionable, if not an industrious, young man, and he( of course, must have a suit made by the fashlonablo tailor. The suit was mado and accepted, but the young man 'asked as a particular favor that he would give bim credit for a few days, as his remittances from the east were for some unaccountable reason delayed, and, as the next day was Sunday, and the tailor could hardly miss so good an opportunity to have his work publicly advertised, he craciouBly consented to break his rule of " no trust" for once, and the clothes were carried away in triumph by the stylish young man. ' Days came and ' wont, and wocks, and still the remittance did . not come, and at length the tailor made bold to call on his' stylish customer at his hotel. He found him tipped back in his. chair, puffing away at a fragraut Havana, and greeted him with a smile meant to be very cordial and insinuating, but to his surprise was greeted with a stare Of astonishment. Why, don't you know mo ; J am Owon' the tailor." " Indeed, are you, old fellow,' said his stylish customer, seizing his hand " are you V well, good for you ! glad to meet you t So am I owe an old chap down here fortbeso very rags I've got on." "Yes, and that's just what I mean. I am Owen the fashionable - tailor." " So you said, now' did you manage, old chap ? I just shoved my cheek on . an old spoony who thinks he is sharp, but I laid him out, you bet 1" " But, ' sir, don't you know mo, am Owen, the fashionable tailor, and you ought, to know me." Of courso; willing to know' any man who can get ahead of a fashionable tailor; give us yer hand again, old fellow, give us yer hand." Completely dumbfounded by the cool impudence of his cheeky debtor, the tailor gave up the case as hopeless, accepted a proffered cigar from his cheeky oreditor, and retired, and so there are two persons in town who claim to be " Owen, the tai lor." ,, .. , .... ." , tW As a rash Sunday-school soholar we may have spoken disrespectfully of Iscariot. The experience of the last six months shows that Mr. Iscariot may have been a gentleman who was much misun derstood by the people of the period. ' Some Scribe probably placed the thirty pieces of silver where he thought they would do the most good, and when poor Judas found that he had bought into lawsuit (the Hon P. Pilate, chief-justice), he went and iiung himself. That was where he made a mis take. 1 He ought to have sent the iioney down to the Capernaum: Female Dentin ary, and then appealed: to : the generous confidence of a constituency . with . whose feelings and interest every ,'thrdli .of , his heart beat In unison. ; Tho . editor .of the Galiltan TUgram, would nave made very nice thing of that, and the lion; J. Joriot would have been on of the most prominent candidate's at j.he next 'election. -Cclm- jSUNDAY.READIHO. How the Popes are Elected. I'M IE Illness of Pius IX., and his proba . bly speedy death, have turned all eyes toward the Vatican; and perhaps a few words concerning the succession, especially to tho manner in which it is effocted, may not be without interest. Let us im agine ourselves transported to Rome, and a part of the crowd which fills St. Peter's to overflowing. The Pope has been dead ten days, and according to the provisions made at the Lyons Council in 1274, by Gregory X., whose election was dolayed three years through various pretenses, this is the long est time allowed to elapse between the death of the Pope aud the assembling of the Conclave to elect his successor. The last solemn notes of the organ are dying away amid the lofty arches of St. Peter's, the Mass of the Bpirilo 8ancto has been celebrated, and two by two the seven ty cardinals, dressed In their scarlet robes, pass down the echoing aisles. Listen 1 Do you hear the loud strains of the Veni Crea tor t It Is chanted by the vast concourse of priests and people as thoy escort the Col lege of Cardinals to the Vatican. Arriving there, the cardinals seek a room in the palace called the Conclave, built particularly for meotings of this kind, and in whose galleries are built assmany cells as there are cardinals. Besides the regular members of the Conclave, each onq of these has two conclavists or attendants, one a priost, the other a soldier. Their duties are to look after the personal wants of the cardinal to whom they are attached, and to act as his secretary. It is an office much sought after,' and the conclavist to the cardinal who is elected Pope feels that the highway to fortune lies clear before him. Tbey, of course, take the oath to keep secret the proceedings of the Con, clave. The fii'Bt twenty-four hours of its session, ambassadors of princes, and those having any special interest in the election of the Pope, are allowed to remain; but at three o'clock in the morning of the succeeding day, a bell sounds, and all except the car dinals and their conclavists retire. The doors are now closed ; all outlets are walled up, except one small window through which food is passed, and no communication whatever is allowed with the outer world. If at the end of three days no Pope has been chosen, only two meals a day are al lowed. If on the eighth no name has been announced, bread, water, and wine are all they will receive till an election is made. Everything being in readiness, the e!eo tion may now be proceeded with ; and ac cording to Innocent III., this may be done in four ways: by inspiration, by comprom ise, by scrutiny, and by access. An election by Inspiration is effected by several of the cardinals calling aloud, as by a sudden impulse, the name of the person whom they wish to raise to tho pontificial throne. This method is not often resorted to, but if a powerful party can be raised It 1b somotimes successful. The election by Compromise is somotimes adopted, when the College, being unable to make a choico, agree to leave the nam. ing of the future Pontiff to one or more of their own body nominated for that purpose John XXII., after receiving the , solemn promise of each cardinal to abide by his decision, declared himself Pontiff. Since that occurrence, this method has not been much practiced. In choosing a Pope by Scrutiny, which is the most common way, the cardinals take from a golden basin a card, upon which each one writes his own name, and that of the person fjr whom he wishes to vote. Those tickets are then, with many bows and genuflexions, placed in a highly ornamented chalice, which stands upon the altar. " When all have voted, these cards, with much form and ceremony, are taken from the .chalice and counted by persons chosen for that purpose. ' If any cardinal Is found to have the votes of two-thirds of the College, he is declared eleoted, When, however, after several trials, this does not occur, a new plan is tried, which is called Election by Access. When this is adopted, , any cardinal may accede to the vote of another, by the alteration of his ticket In tho prescribed form. When pope is elected in this manner, the Ucketi are all carefully burned, to prevent all pre text for future inquiry., The new Pope being now legally eleoted, he is asked what name he will assume in his new station. This alteration of name was first introduced by Sorgius IV., who had been before called Os PoroL It was not surprising that he should wish to Chang so unspirltual a cognomen, and his example has been invariably followed by all his sue. oexsors, ' The' new Pontiff is now presented with the eal of the Church, called the "Fisher man's Ring," : and Is robed in scarlet and white silk vestments. He U then carried to the altar, Upon which he Is placed, and the cardinals adore bim upon their knees, klssimr" hit' feet. - In the meantime the walls of the Conclave are broken down, and one of the cardinals Mils to the crowd as sembled below : ,; " I announce to you great Joy : We havt a Pope : the most reverend Lord Cardinal hM been elected to be Supreme Pontiff, and has chosen the name." One of the largo culverins of Bt. Peter's is now discharged as a signal, and immo- iately all tho artillery in the Castle of Bt. Angelo reverberates among the seven hills; all the bells of the city begin to ring, and amid the sounds of musio and rejoicing, the new Pope is carried to Bt. Peter'. Here he is again adored by the cardinals, prelates, and nobility ; . Te Deum is sung, and from the high steps of the altar he gives the apostolical blessing, and is then borne away to his own. apartments upon the heads Of twelve chairmen. ., A Russian Bargain. When two Russian merchants are about to conduct a purchase or a sale, they bcglu by swallowing half a dozen cups of tea, smoking a score or so of cigaretes, talking about the weather, the crops, their fam ilies, their neighbors, and in this way they edgo up to the subject, which is uppermost in their minds. If you want to buy a dog, you must begin ' by pretending that you want to sell a cat with a litter of kittens ; the other party does not want any foline property, nor does he know anybody who would accept it. At this stage of the con versation you may venture to hint your desires in the dog line, and after more tea, or somothing stronger, and more cigarettes, you can conclude the negotiations. At Irkutsk I wanted to buy a sleigh for a journey westward, and hearing of a man who had one for sale, I went to see it A Russian acquaintance went with me, and after an introduction to the merchant we sat down in his parlor to drink a glass of nalifka, a sort of home made cordial analogous to currant wine, though some what stronger. We drank nailf ka at least half an hour before we touched on the topic of business, and it was introduced very gingerly by my companion, who ven- turcd to remark the deep sorrow that had fallen upon him in consequence of my pro spective departure from Irkutsk. Then we took another drink, and it was hinted that I could not leave without a vehicle of some sort. This axiomatio proposition re quired moistening like its predecessor, and so, step by step, we went 'on for a quarter of an hour, drinks alternating with hints, and hints with drinks, until wo took another drink, and went into the yard to look at the sleigh. We had a fresh drink of nalifka when we returned from the yard, and another and another as the talk went on, until by the timo the business was ended, and I had paid over the money, my unaccustomed head was whirling like a rifle-ball, and I would have found'it diffi cult to soe any difference between a sleigh and a side-wheel steamboat. My compan ion assured me if we had gone at it in the blunt American way, we would have spoil ed the whole affair, and I Bhould have been compelled to look elsewhere for a vehicle. The Betel-Nut. There is a fascination in the betel-nut more extraordinary than in the tobacco passion. The consumption of the latter in chewing alone, in the United States, is a modern phenomenon. An inveterate chew er may have moral resolution enough to break off the habit, though it rarely hap pens that an effort is made to do so, as an apology is found for continuing a practice that is positively destroying the founda tions of health. Onoe addicted to chew ing tobacco, to abandon it is an achieve ment few have the happiness to perform, notwithstanding the melancholy motality of men in the meridian of life who are con stantly being destroyed by the subtle in-' fluenoe of that strange plant on the ner vous system. Thus sudden palsy of the heart, palsy of a limb, palsy of one-half the tongue, and even instantaneous death, -are traceable by physicians to excessive use of tobacco. But the vice of betel-nut chewing U still more remarkable. When this is established there seems no retreat. -The victim wears out his teeth, gums, and digestion, and dies with an unsatisfied longing for another quid, i Betel-nut trees thrive lu most parts of tropical India, the Indian Archipelago and the Philippine Islands. ' They grow up gracefully about thirty feet, rarely more than eight inches in diameter. It is an areca oatechu. ,Pen ang . is the universal name of the nut in those places where it is produced ; hence, Pulo Penang means a betel-nut island. At six years of age the tree commences bear ing nuts of the size of a small pullet's egg, of a bright yellow color, inclosed in a husk similar to that of a cocoa-nut ; within Is a aperloal nut, very muoh . like a nutmeg. Broken, a bit of it is wrapped up with a piece of uuslacked lime in a peculiar leaf, the Bill betelpiper, extensively cultivated for that purpose. The gums and mucous membrane of the mouth are quickly stain ed a brick red ; the teeth crumble to a lev el with the gums ; and in that condition an inveterate betel-chewer is wretched with out a supply. There are large plantations of betel-nut tree in Java to meet the de mand for home consumption and In distant provinces. .' To augment the pleasure, those who can afford it add tobacco to the lime. Of An exemplary lady who was about to send a somewhat faded black silk gown to the dyer's bad hei mind changed by hap pening to apea het prayer-book , at the hymn, ' Sinaer, turn, why will you. die ,? ' and she turned it accordingly. : ! ,'( --,: I . . i r
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