I)c hues, Netu. JSlooinfitlir, Jau
Terry, County Bank I
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Bponster, .finikin A Co.
TH E undersign 1, having formed a Banking As
sociation uiidor the above name and style, are
now ready to do a General Banking business at
their new Banking Home, on Centre Square,
OPPOSITE THE COURT BO USB,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.
We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. We discount notes for a period ol not
over 60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
New York.
On time Deposits, live per cent, forany time over
four months; and for four months four percent.
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 f orthe
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. BroNSLBR.Bloomncld, Perry county, Pa.
B. F. Junkin, " " "
W. II. Miller, Carlisle,
orriCEiis:
W. A. 81'ONSI.EK, President.
William Willis, Cashier
New Bloomneld, 3 5 ly
CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
STRICTLY M UTUAL !
Assets, J,Orl,S01.l-tr !
ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre
sent as favorable terms as any compauy In the
United States.
Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and
the policy held good during that time.
Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit
ure.
No extra charges are made for traveling permits.
Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the
Company, and have a voice In the elections and
management oi me company.
No policy or medical fcecharged.
L. W. FROST, President.
M. 11. Wtnkoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P.Rooehs, Sec'y.
J. F. EATON.
General Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa.
TIIOS. H. MILLIOAN,
G(21y) . Special Agent for Newport
LOOK OUT!
T would respectively Inform my friends that I In-
JL tend calling upon them with a supply of goods
of my
OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of
CASSIMERS,
CA8SINET9,
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
OAUPETS, Sec,
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
J. M. BIXLElt.
Centre Woolen Factory. 6,17,4m,
Bloomfield Academy I
Spring Session Begins Monday, April 7th, 1871
THIS school Is designed to be a classical and
normal lustltute of the ttrst grade. Students
are prepared thoroughly for any college lu the
land. 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 certlncate of graduation.
Excellent boarding Is provided In the building
of the Institution and the school Is pleasantly lo
cated. The working force Is as follows: ;
Kov. JOHN EDO Alt. A. M Principal,'
Teacher of Classics and Advanced Studies.
A. M. MAHKKti, H. 8..
Teacher of English Studies.
Miss H. LIFE,
Tetcher of Music, Palming aud Drawing.
Miss K. M. MOlUtOW,
Teaoher of Preparatory Department.
rrof.J. ILFLlCKINGKIt.
Teacher of I'enmauihlu.
W For further Information, address Principal,
OF filSO '
WM. OKI EH, Proprietor,
10tf Now Bloomneld, Perry eo., Pa.
CLABK'8 PURE l'EHBIAN
Inwcftt Powtlor,
For the destruction of all kinds of
Insects, viz;
KOACHKS. BED BUOB, ANTH.
FLEAS, MOTHS, tic, tui. Also,
In sects on Animals, Fowls, Plants.&o
''" ASK FOlf '
CLARK'S IN8ECT POWDF.K.
, Warranted Pure.
r Price 23 Cents' per Bottle. For sale by F
Mortimer, New Bloomneld, Pa, J b2"
THE WILL.
1 HOWARD the end of a gusty October
day about the year 1830, a barrister of
the Temple was sitting reading, when the
opening of a door and the servant's an
nouncemcnt of " a gentleman" Interrupted
him. Ho rose to receive his visitor, who
proved to be a perfect stranger, a person of
very gontlomanly but extremely old-fashioned
appearance. lie was dressed in a
grave colored suit of antique cut ; a neat,
tight gray wig surrounded his serious and
even solemn physiognomy ; silk stockings
rolled at the knee, enormous shoe buckles
of gold, a cane Loaded with the same met
al, nnd a broad-brimmed and uncocked hat
completed his equipment, which was in
the fashion of the last years of William
the Third, or tho first of his successor.
Having stiffly bowed in the exact way pre
scribed by the etiquette of the era to which
he seemed to belong, he took.possession of
the ' chair offered him by his host, and,
after a preparatory hem, thus began in a
slow and serious manner:
' I think, sir, you are the lawyer em
ployed by the 8 family, whose prop
erty in Yorkshire you are therefore aware
is about to be sold."
" I have, sir," answered the barristor,
"full instructions and powers to complete
the disposal of it, which, though a painful
duty to me, must be performed."
"It is a duty you may dispense with,"
said the visitor, waving his hand; "the
property need not be sold."
"May I presume to ask whether you are
any relation to the family ? If so, you
must be acquainted with the absolute
necessity of selling it, in consequenco of
tho claim of another branch of the family,
just returned from beyond tho sea, who, as
heir-at-law, is naturally possessor of the
cstato in default of a will to the contrary,
and who desires its value in money instead
of tho land. Tho present possessor is una
ble to buy it, aud must therefore depart."
"You are mistaken," replied the old
gentleman, rather teBtily. " You seem not
to know of the will of Mr. 8 's great
grandfather which be not only left that,
his real cstato, to his favorite grandson,
this gentleman's father, but eveu entailed
it on his great-great-great-grandson."
"Such a will, sir," said the barrister,
" was, indeed, supposed for many years to
exist, and in tho virtue of it Mr. 8
has, until now, peaceably enjoyed the
property ; but, on the claimant's applica
tion, a renowed search having been made
for it, either the belief proves wholly un
founded, or it has been lost or destroyed
Cabinets, chests, every room, inhabited
and uninhabited, have been ransacked in
vain. Mr. S has given up all hope of
finding it. Tho sale is to bo completed
next week, and the line old place must
pass into the hands of strangers."
" You are mistakon again, young man,"
said the stranger, striking his cane on the
floor. " I say, sir, tho will exists 1 Go
immediately," continued he, in an author!
tatlve tone; " travel night and day. You
may savo an old family from disgrace and
ruin. In the end room of the left wing,
now uninhabited, is a closet in the wall."
"We have looked there," interrupted
tho barristor.
" Silence, sir 1 Thore is a closot, I say ;
in that closot is a largo iron chost ; that
chest has a false bottom, and underneath
that is the deed. I am certain of what I
say. I saw the paper doposited there, no
matter when or by whom. Go ; you will
find it worth your trouble. My name, sir,
is Hugh S . I am not now personally
known to the proprietor of S Hall, but
am his near relation, and have his welfare
at heart. Neglect not to follow , my ad
vice."
So saying, tho old gentleman arose, again
bowed, and at the door put on his hat in a
fashion that would have enchanted an
elegant of Queen Anne's day, and, sliding
the silken string of his cane on the fingers
of his right hand, on one of which the
lawyer remarked a very brilliant ring, he
descended the stairs aud departed, leaving
the barrister In the utmost astonishment
At first ho folt half inclined to considur the
whole thing a boax; thon, again, when he
thought of the old gontleman's grave man
ner and the intimate knowledge he must
have possessed of the house to be able to
describe the closet so exaotly in which tho
chost was, he could not but believe him to
bo sincere
At length, after much deliberation, he
decided upon immediate departure, and
arrived ou tho evening of the fourth day
at S Hall. The sale had been the only
theme of couvorsation at every place ho had
passed through within twenty miles of his
destination, and much and loudly was it
lamented that the 'squire should be leaving
bis house forever, and that poor Mr. John
would nevor enjoy his rights, as they per
sisted in calling the possession of his es
tate On his entrance into the mansion,
signs of approaching removal everywhere
mot his eye. Packages tilled the hall;
servants, with sorrowful countenances,
were hurrying about, aud the family were
lingering sadly over the last ' dinner thoy
were ever to partako of in their old, regret
ted house. '
Mr. 8 greeted his friend with a sur
prise which ohanged to incredulity when
the barrister, requesting his private ear,
declared the reason Of his appearance.
" It cannot be," said he. "Is it likely
that no one should ever have hetyd of the
hiding of the deed but the old gentleman
you mention ? Depend upon it, you have
been deceived, my dear friend. I am only
sorry you should have taken so much
trouble to so little purpose."
The barristor mentioned the name of his
visitor.
" Hugh 8 1" exclaimed the gentleman
laughing ; " I have not a relation in tho
world of that name."
" It is worth the trying, however," said
the lawyer, "and, since I have come so
far, I will finish the adventure."
Mr. 8 , seeiug his friend so determin
ed, at length consented to satisfy him,and
accompanied him toward the apartment he
specified. As thoy crossed one of the
rooms on their way, he suddenly stopped
before a large full-length picture.
" For Heaven's sake," cried he, excited
ly, "who is this?"
" My grandfather," returned Mr. 8 ,
"as good an old follow as ever lived. I
wish with all my heart he was alive now ;
but he has been dead these thirty yoars."
" What was his name ?"
" Hugh 8, the only one of the family
of that name."
" That is the man who called upon me.
His dress, his hat, his very ring are
Uhore,"
They proceeded to the closot, lifted the
false bottom of the trunk, and found the
deed 1
The kind old grandfather was never seen
again.
If it were possiblo to count the
number of men and women who have been
sacrificed to the force of mere circumstan
tial evidence, the result would scarcely be
satisfactortory to the enforcers of the law.
Iu illustration of this, an. interesting inci
dent appears in a French paper. Thirty
years ago two French peasants were at
tacked on their return from a village fair ;
one of them being murdered outright, while
his companion was able to make his escape
badly wounded. No trace of the assassins
could be discovered for some time, but
about a year after, two men, named Lion
net and Dussud,wore arrested on suspicion.
The survivor, who at first said he should
be ablo to identify his assailants, was in
duced to swear that those were the men ;
and though two persons of respectability
declared that Dussud had passod the eve
ning upon which the crime was committed,
at a houso many miles distant, tho court
condemned him to fifteen years' penal ser
vitude, aud his alleged companion to hard
labor for life. Tho husband and wife who
bad come forward to prove an alibi in favor
of Dussud, were, moreover, sentenced to
seven years at tho galleys for perjury.
They served their time and have since
died, as also has Lionnct. Dussud, the
solo survivor, who always asserted that ho
was innocent, has long since came back to
his native village, and, dospite tho stigma
attaching to a returned convict, has been
slowly regaining tho good will of his neigh
bors. A short time ago au old man named
Rambin, who was lying ill in a hospital at
St, Symphorion, sent for him, stating that
he had some important communication to
make, and in presence of the priest and a
commissary of police, he confessed that he
was the murderer, whence it followed that
Dussud and Lionnet had been unjustly
punished. But for tho favorablo antece
dents of the accused, they would havo un
dergone the extrome penalty of the law ;
and even as it was, they not only suffered
very severely ; but wore the innocent
cause of ruin to the witnesses who came
forward to speak the truth in their behalf.
Want of bleep.
We confess we never could relish the
propriety or the act of many farmers of
getting up at four o'clock on winter morn
ings, for no other apparent purpose than
the burning of a foot of firewood or so be
fore daylight for that was apparently
the sole objoct of their so doing and
keeping everybody in the house in a mis
erable half-wake condition until the proper
time to get up arrives, and in a state of
semi-lassitude all day thereafter. . The
practice is evil in its effects every way,
Want of sleep the worthy farmer justly
says is one of the chief causes of much of
the physical and montul trouble of farmers
and their families. During the busy
season, whon the farmer rises at four in
tho morning and works till six or seven in
tho evening, then eats his supper, does his
chores, and sits up an hour or two later to
read his paper, or chat with a neighbor, ho
does not obtain sleep enough to keep eithor
body or mind in perfoct hoalth or vigor.
The waste of brain is not fully mado up.
Little by little it decays, and insanity or
incurable disoase is the final result of us
ing the hours which should bo devoted to
sloop for othor purposes. Fa rmer's wives,
who are kopt awake at night by the ex
haustion caused by overwork or by crying
and fretting children, aro tho greatest suf
ferers, and yearly many of this class go to
tb insane asylum or to the grave. It is
slow but certain suicide to ourtail the
hours of sloop, and no man, woman or
child need expect to long continue in good
health without taking the fullont amout of
quiet rest.
A STORY FOR PARENTS.
'T) OB NOYES, do stop your racket.
JO Nobody can have a minute's peace
if you're in hearing."
Bob's face flushed scarlet, and he laid
down his hammer, leaving the nail bnlf
driven. He turned the toy wagon he had
been working at over and over, with a
wistful look which told of a pitiful heart
ache It was a pretty wagon in his eyes,
and he had made every bit of it himsolf,
aud if he could only drive six more nails it
would be finished. But there must be no
racket, so ho laid it away carefully, and
going to one corner of the yard, stretched
himself undor a tree, and kicking the turf
with his heels, pondorod ovor his many 1
troubles. His mother had said thore was
no peace with him anywhere about home.
He had slipped into the parlor after din
ner, and was having a good chat with Miss
Somers, and she was telling him about
throe wonderful black and white spotted
puppies at her house, when sister Jennie
came in and asked him what he was im
posing on Miss Somers for. He wasn't
imposing, Miss Somers said so. Guess he
could talk as well as Jennie, if she was
eighteen two months ago. But Jennie
mado him leave the room without learning
how the littlest and prettiest puppy got
out of the cistern when 1 foil in. Maybe
he didn't get out. Bob kicked harder, and
wished he knew. After his ejection from
the parlor, Bob started for the garret to
console himself by rocking in the old-fashioned
red cradle grandmother Noyes rocked
papa and Uncle John in, but Noll and the
boys would not let him in ; they were get
ting up surprise tableaux, and didn't want
any little pitchers' around. He next
sought his father's study, to look at an
illustrated edition of natural history. But
papa objected he couldn't have Boh in
there making a disturbance. Almost
broken-hearted, he turned to his mother's
room. " Go right away, Bob, you'll wake
the baby," mot him at the threshold. He
looked into the kitchen, and begged to
help mako pics ; but Bridget told him to
cloar out." He "cleared out" to the
wood-house and sought to aesuago his
sorrow by working on his wagon, and now
he was forbidden that.
He could not understand why he was
driven from everything he had not been a
bad boy and lost his tompcr. It was be
yond his six-year-old philosophy. His
poor little brain puzzled over what other
childron called certain inalienable rights,"
without finding a solution of his troubles
of coming to a conclusion. Had he been
strong-mindod, be might have called a
convention, and doclared "in the present
order of things little boys have no rights
big folks are bound to respect," and draft
ed petitions for a change ; but he was sen
sitive and submissive, aud lot peoplo snub
and trample on his toes without remon
strance. The tea-bell roused bira from his cup of
bitter, puzzled thoughts.
"Bob, come to supper."
no wouldn't have to wait, that was some
cousolation.
At the table Mrs. Noyes was tolling Miss
Somers about a troupe of performing mon
keys. " Ono smart monkey with a striped
tail played on the violin, and"
" Mamma, it was ring-tailed, " inter
rupted Bob, eager - to have the account
exact.
" Bob, how many times have I told you
not to interrupt ?"
Bob subsided, but he know it was ring
tailed, for he counted the rings and watch
ed it for half an hour, while mamma gos
sipod with Mrs. Layton. ''
' "AU the monkeys turned somersaults
when their keeper played Captain Jiuks,"
continued Mrs. Noyes. ' ' '
"Mamma, it wasn't Captain Jinks, it
was O vare is My little Tog.' ','
Bob was CDrreot, and he knew it ; he
could whistle like a mocking bird, while
Mrs. Noyes did not know one tune from
another. The two reproofs in presence of
Miss Somers was too much for his sensitive
bashful temperament, and mortified him
beyond self-control. ' His little fingers
trembled and dropped a glass of water,
spilling the contents upon the cloth.' '
" Bob, where's your manners ? Leave
the table," commanded the fathor.'
The children laughed, and Jounle called
Bob an ill-maunercd little boor, and the
mortified little fellow crept sadly into bed
and sobbed until asleep.
The day's experience was a fair sample
of Bob's whole boyhood. Nowhere about
homo could bis light sjiine freely; tho whole
household triod to thrust it undor a bushel.
IIo must not sing, whistle, shout, talk, ask
questions or pound; yet he must have him
self handy to run errands aud pick up
chips. IIo must not have company, "littlo
boys are to be seen, not beard ;" he must
not have any company of his own, becauso
of tho consequent noise ; and be could ftot
go visiting, becauso he did not know JUpw;
to behave properly. The idea tlia;,jqb
had any feelings and rights was nq,U)ofa
tod. The family did not intend tt. a ftt
jubtly ; they loved Bob ; hutches) (.woW
selfish aud did not want to be disturbod,
and Bob was such an inveterate'' talker iand
questioner, and so noisy, if 'gWeif liberty. :
IIo was olothed and fed. and fcenl'io'Uchool.
and to church and Sabbath School V"te'y
that was all duty required:
Bob made a discovery after a while. He
could pound and saw and bang as much as.
he pleased in Tom Smith's carpenter
shop.
Smith's wild, half dissipated apprentice
made a discovery, too that bashful Bob
Noyes had a wonderful faculty for saying
witty things, and whittling and singing,
when he became acquainted aud they
coaxed him off more than once, to enliven
the evenings at tho ' Excelsior' and ' Star'
saloons. .
They were as blind as moles at home,
until a reckless, almost criminal deed,
committed during the tumultuous period
between manhood and boyhood, Bhowed
them that Bobby's young life was being
stooped in degradation and sin. They wept
bitterly, but not in sackcloth and ashes.
Wrapped in self righteousness, they shift
ed the responsibility from their own shoul
ders, and as he went from bad to worse,
washed their hands of that unavoidable
family affliction a black sheep.
But God aud the angels knew that Bob
was not alone to blame, knew that because
his light was put under a bushel at home
and kept there, he had groped around
in the darkness, and fallen into the ditch..
" Mamma Is Dead."
John W. Van Brocklin, of Twin Bridges,
near Virginia City, Nevada, was helping
to build a church at Sheridan, and was
away from home with his wagon and team
from Monday morning till Saturday night.
He had been several weeks so occupied.
He was thorofore absent from his wife and
two little children, the eldest five years old,
all the week except Saturday nights and
Sundays. Mrs. Van Brocklin and the Chil
dron enjoyod good health, and the husband
and father had no fear for the safety of the
birds in the home nest. Thore were near
neighbors too. On Saturday evening the
two children usod to toddle a good distance
along the road by which their father came,
to meet him and get a ride homo in the
wagon. On a late Saturday Mr. Van Brock
lin was returning home as usual, and the
two little follows had gone quite a distanco
to meet him. He stopped to take them in
the wagon, and as he lifted them up he
asked, "How is mamma?" Two. littlo
voices replied, "O, papa, mamma's dead 1"
He thought he did not hear correctly, and
asked again, " Your mamma." The little
voices again chimed togother, " Yes, papa,
mamma's dead in the bed." Van Brocklin
hurried his team home. He found bis wife
indeed in bod insensible and fast sinking in
death. She was there alone, no neighbors
wore near. He callod loudly for help the
neighbors were alarmed ; a doctor was
summoned, but before he arrived the poor
woman had passed away. The doctor said
her attack was of a paralytio nature. This
is the children's story, gathered from them
by odds and ends I : On Thursday evening,
Mrs. Van Brocklin callod her children to
her, aud told them she was sick, and to run
and call the nearest neighbor. Then she
fell down on the bed. She never said any
thing more to them, and they at, first sup
posed she wasasleepi It was growing dark
aud they were afraid to go for the neigh
bors. They slept iu their clothes, and tried
to waken their mother in the morning, but
she would not rouse. Thoy ate what they
could fiud cooked in the house, and drove
up the oows morning and evening to be
milked; but there was nobody to milk
them, and at the usual time they turned
them out to pasture agaiu. The neighbors
seeing the children at their usual daily task
supposed, of course, that all was right with
them at home, and it so happened that none
of them called. Tho oldest child began to
be a little frightened, and suggested to the
other, " What if mamma should be dead.
She must be dead or she'd waken up;" and
so the, little boys came to the conclusion
that their mother had gone away from them
and wondered . what papa would say when
he heard of it. Their curiosity on the point
was excited, and, with hearts full of news,
they started out to meet their father com
ing home iu his wagon. They haOpen
forty-eight hours with the shadow of death
lu the house, and were not old enough to
realize what it meant. ,
t27" Little five-year-old AnnieV'Whd "was
suffering from bad oold, Went'' to' pay ,; a
visit to auntie. During the; "day febe-' re
lated her various successesft schooland
ended by declaring she could I read' '4' 'good
deal better than Babiiiawho'JwTW "eight
years old. ! " Well,")' questioned auntie,
"wouldn't it sound 'better' if some1 one else
said it?" Ybi" lin8wred Annie wltti a
sober couuttdari'MTtDink! W Would. - ' I
have sucbabad obld leaft'tBayiVvory well.'
tW What sha.e.saidot,t;ht benighted
bachelor who, beinjj .called QU for a toast,
Sav.i:jL Our fUtP cvawdtstac0 funds
enchantaiout to otbo yYW ;,'!;; And; that
oAbe jone,, if passible shade, more ropco
bato,.whPiPnl)osdi Mi Wouwn7themorn
4n&8tu of ,iufiiuoY:ttioj,duy statof Rge ;
bJwou stars,) iul may, tbey,.' always be
KitntateleflixrpJe dKttaoee' .r.;.vj
7 W A? Scotch minister In V' strVngVpar
vis'li;',wtshin"t6' "kiibw'whaV nTs', people
.vuuifgui, oi mi) prcacnuig, quostionea tlie
beadl6'!'(l;a' ilo thc say 'of 'Mr.i'
lil'S prbapc'esso'r: Oh'" ' aid the i ' beadle,
"thoy 'iny W is"not' sound." "Minister :
Wh'at'Udttiqy ; say'o'f li'e new mlnistbr?"
thljnsolf;. Boadiei '",6: Jhby say he's l ull
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