new '. --o:r:k: CON TIN EN1 1 AL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, 8TRICTL lr J LTT LT ISSUES nil the new forms of rollcles, and pre sents as favorable terms as any company In the United States. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and the pulley held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture. No extra charges are mado for traveling permits. Policy-holders share in the annual prolttsof the Company, and have a voice lu the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical feecharged. I.. IK. FROST, President. M. B. Wymkoop, Vice Fres't. J. P.Rogeks, Bec'y. J. F. EATON. General Agent, No. 8 North Third Street, College Block, Harrisburg, Pa. THOS. II. MILMGAN, 6121y ' Special Agent for Newport. Perry County Bank! Nponsler, Juiikiii & Co. THE undersign id, 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, OPPOSITE THE COURT BO USB, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on demand. We discount notes for a period of not over60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, five 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 (or some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un. ler which the people of this County labored forthe want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to supplythe want ;andthls being the first Bank ever established In Perry oounty, 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. Rpohbleh, Bloomtleld, Perry county, Pa. B. F. JUNKIN, " " Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle, OFFICKU8: W. A. SPONSLEH, Pretident. William Willis, Cashier New Bloomtleld, 3 5 ly PERRY COUNTY Ileal Estate Insurance, AMD CLAIM AGENCY. LEWIS POTTER & CO., Real Estate Brokers, Insurance, & Claim Agen INo-w IlloomflelU, Pa. WEINVITE the attention of buyer and sell ers to the advantages we offer them In pur chasing or disposing of real estate through our of. Uce. We have a very large list of deslrab property, I consisting of farms, town property, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip tion which we are prepared to offer at great bar- f;alns. We advertise our property very extensive y, and use all our efforts, skill, aud dllllifence to effect a sale. We make no charges unless the property Is sold while registered with us. We also draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa pers at moderate rates. Borne of the best, cheapest, and most reliable fire, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the United States are represented at this agency. Property insured either on the cash or mutual plan, and perpetually at U and K 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. Bol. diers. If you were wounded, ruptured, orcontract ed a disease In the service from which you are dis abled, you are entitled to a pension. When widows of soldlersdle or marry, 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 confident we can render satisfaction lu any branch of our business. -No charge for Information. 4 201y LEWIS POTTER A CO. LOOK 4 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 CASSIMEBS, . , CA8SINET8, FLANNELS, (Plaluand bar'd) OAHPETH, Aco., to exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. BIXLEli. CCNTBlWOOLIltKACTOUr. ,17,m, New Blooniflold, ra. TH Esubsorlberhavlngpurchased the property on (he corner of Malue and Carlisle streets, opposite the Court House, Invites all his friends and former oustoiners to give him a call as he Is determined to furnish ttrst class accommodations. TIW MAS HUTCH, Hi. Proprietor, (ALL KINDS of Printing neatly PRINTING (executed at the " Bloom ri ( Times" Stkam Job Omut. A Boy's Intentions. IT appears from the San Francisco Chronicle that Oregon possesses a youthful genius who deserves more than passing notice. ' This is his story as told by the journal: " A caveat was recently filed In the patent office at Washington for a new motive powor, whioh in the opinion of experienced engineers and scientific gen tlemen who have examined the working modol, will not only supplant the present steam engines in use, but largely increase the use to which machinery can bo applied with profit. Strange to say this invention which promises such groat results is the product of a boy but eighteen yoars of ago, who was born and reared in the backwoods of Oregon. Frank G. Crouch is the name of the young genius. His father settled on a farm in Douglas county ovor twenty years ago, and tho only educational advan tages enjoyed by tho young man were those afforded by the country school. At a very early age he demonstrated a wondor ful ingenuity in the construction of wind mills and watorwhcels. Before he was ten years Of ago ho built a toy sawmill, which was the wondor of the inhabitants for miles around. Nautural philosophy and chemistry wore his favorite studies,not only faithfully followed in school,but fairly revelled in out of school hours. Ho was continually testing the theories of the book by actual experiments, and produced re sults which astonished his elders. Tho frivolous amusements of other children ho turned from, bis whole timo was occupied not only practically demonstrating what he saw in print, but in endeavoring to im prove on the original. Up to four years ago, when he went with his father to Port land, he never had seen a telegraph instru ment ; yet in having its operation explain ed to him, he astonished the operator with a more profound elucidation of its workings than the o perator himself could have given. Upon his roturn home ho construct ed an instrument, mado a battery, and in a rude way could telegraph with it. He came near losing his life at this period, from the strength of a battery which he had constructed, receiving a shock which laid him up for a month. In this connec tion it may bo stated that this young man has perfected a system of telegraph where by messages may be sent and received on board a train of cars, whether standing still or moving at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The young man fully explained this system to a Chronicle reporter, showing plainly that it is feasible, but as his appli cation for a patout is not yot filed it would be unfair to make it public This system also rendors collisions impossible, and greatly reduces the chances of accidents of all kinds. It has been tested on twelve miles of road aud found to work like a charm. Another of his inventions, from which his friends and practical machinists expect great results, is a self-regulating water-feed, to be applied to boilers. The great majority of explosions which occur are caimcd by the water getting low through the carelessness of engineers. By this arrangement the water in the boiler will always be kept a certain height, ren dering explosions impossible, requiring no attention from the engineer, and dispensing with the water gauges. Among all the inventions to which this young man has applied his attention, the one which he was roost desirous to bring before the pub lio was his new steam engine. His father, who is a plain, practical farmer, endeavor ed to turn his head from machinery and electricity to the every-day life of the farm, but finally he was persuaded by ths un oeasing importunities of tho youth to go with him to Portland, and endeavor to got some capitalists to supply the money to bring out the inventions of the boy. They mot with poor success in Portland, and bis father whose means were limited, en deavored to persuade his son to return home. The young man would not listen to such a proposition, and finally Induced his father to come down to San Francisco. They met with poor success hore at first, but young Crouch finally succeedod in gotting a miniature model of his engine manufactured. He took it down to San Jose, whore (several old friends of the Crouch family resided. At Judge Hester's residence, on the Alameda road, the little engine, with but two-Inch cyllinder and two-inch stroke, was applied to a large straw cutter, ordinarily worked by a very strong mule. It easily handled the machine, and accomplished work which the mule could not, cutting off grape vines and bar rel Loops as readily as straw. The mule was substituted for the little engine, and brought to a dead stop when these things were put in the machine. Judge Moore and Mr. Bishop at onco took stock in the undertaking. With the moans furnished by them a large engine is now being con structed at a machine shop In this city, and will be in operation this week. The merit claimed for this new engine is that by it steam is converted into a wonderfully expansive gas, by being superheated in combination with air, thus giving to a comparatively small engine groat power. By this arragement the main obstacle which has prevented .the application of machinery to many purposes will be over come, and the steam carriage for oommon oads made practical. A great saving In fuel as well as in weights, is also seoured by the invention of young Crouch. The en gine and boiler are combined, and an en gine of forty-horse power will not take tip a space of six foot square." Eli in Hot "Water. riHE other day, I sent this paragraph to X "The Graphic:" "Mrs. Johnson is said to be the most beautiful lady in the hotel." I didn't know what I was doing. I'm sorry I did it. Now the ladies are all down on mo, and poor Mrs. Johnson is being persecuted on all sidos. The ladios are tell ing all sorts of stories about her how she poisoned her first hnsband, threw a baby or two down tho well, and all that. A few moments ago a tall, muscular man entered my room, holding the Daily Oraphio in his hand. He looked mad. I wasn't afraid. O ! no ; but I was writing and hadn't time to talk. "Are you Mr. Perkins ?" he continued. " No, sir ; my name is La " " Did you write this article about Mrs. Johnson being the most beautiful woman?" he interrupted. "Why?" I asked modestly. " Because my wife is horo, sir Mrs. Thompson a very handsome woman, sir, and " "Ah 1 Thompson yes ; only the fact Is I sont it down 'Thompson,' and those ras cally type-setters they mado 'Johnson ' of it. Why, yesterday, Mr. Thompson, I wrote about Prosidont Porter, tho woll dosorving President of Yalo College, and those remorseless type-setters set it up 'hell-doservmg,' and President Porter has been cutting me dead ever Binco." " All right, then, Mr. Perkins, if you really sent it down 'Mrs. Thompson,' I'll put up my pistol and we'll be friends J but if I ever hoar of your writing about any lady being more beautiful than my wife I'll send you to New York in a metalio case I will, sure 1" and Mr. Thompson strode out of the room. A few moments afterward I mot Julia, ray fiancee the ono I truly love. " You look lovely to-day, Julia !" I com menced as usual. " You're a bear, Eli you're a dreadful person a false bad man. You" " What is it, Julia ?" what has displeas ed you now ?" I interrupted, sweetly. " Why, you base deceiver J haven't you been calling me beautiful all the time ? Haven't you made sonnets of my eyes, compared my cheeks to the lilly, my arms to alabaBtar ; and now here you go and call Mrs. Johnson the most boautiful wom an in the hotel. You mean, false, two sided man, you 1" and Julia's eyes snapped like sparks of electricity. "But, Julia, dear Julio, lot me explain." I repeated. "It was all a rute, Julia. Don't you know newspapers tell a great many lies they must, you know ; the people must have them ; and there is a rivalry between them to see which can toll the biggest and longest ones, you know and tell them the oftenest?" "Yes," she murmured, sweetly. " Well, I've been tolling so muoh truth lately that the Daily Graphic folks tele graphed to me to change my course a little to throw in a few lies, and "And you did?" " Why, yes, and this was one of them. Of course you are the most beautiful wom an in Saratoga. Of course you are." This seemed to make Julia happy again, and I thought it was all right. I wont to my room thinking so, but was all wrong. In a moment, Rat I tat I tail sounded on the door. " Come in !" I said, as I stood with my pantaloons off, thinking it was the boy to take this letter to the post " Is it you who is making fun of ray wiio ." " I beg pardon, sir ; if you and your wife will just keep back a moment, I'll draw on my pantaloons and try . and tell you," I said, trembling from head to foot. " No, sir, we won't withdraw j but say, sir, did you say my wife, Mrs. Johnson, was the handsomest woman in Saratoga ; she that has been known as the plainest wom an and I the plainest Methodist minister in this here olrcuit say, '.did you ?" The woman was a fright. I could see it from behind the sofa where I stood soootch ed down. She wore spectacles, had freck les, crooked teeth, and peaked chin. " No, sir 1" I said, vehemently. " No Sir-r-r 1 1 never said your wife was the most beautiful woman in Saratoga, for she ev idently is not. I meant somebody else another Mrs. Johnson." I could not tell a lie about it, and she is positively ugly that is, she is not handsome ; she is not beautiful. "Fardifforent." " Far different 1 My wife not good-looking? My wife far different? I'll teaoh you to attack my wife in that way." Then his umbrella flew up and flew down. I don't know bow long I staid there, but I do know that the next hour I found my self in a strange room, and my clothes smelt of chloroform and camphor. The doctors say I met with an accident. I don't know what It was, but I do know that I shall never say anything about that baud' some woman again. Never ! "The tiray Mare (he Better Horse." rilHIS woll known proverbial saying or JL iciuated from the following circum stances i A gontleman of a certain oounty in England having married a young lady of considerable fortune, aud at the same time possessed of many other charms, he found, not long after marriage, that she was of a high domineering temper, and always contending to be mistress of him and his family : therefore be formed the resolution of parting from her. Accord ingly he waited upon her father, and told him that he found his daughter of such a temper that he was heartily tired of bor, and if he would take hor home again he would return every penny of her fortune The old gentleman having inquired into the cause of his complaint, asked him why he should be moro disquieted at it than any other married man, since it was the com mon case with them all, and consequently no more than he might have expected when he entorod into the married state. The young gentleman desired to be excused if he said he was so far from giving his as sent to this assertion that he thought him self more unhappy than any other man, as his wife had a spirit no way to be quellod, and most certainly no man who has a sense of right or wrong could ever submit to be governed by his wife. "Son," said the old man, " you aro but littlo acquainted with the world if you do not know that all women govern their husbands, though not all Indeed by the same method ; however, to end all disputes between us, 1 will put what I have said upon this to proof, if you are willing to try it. I have five horses in my stable ; you shall harness theso to a cart, in which I shall put a basket containing 100 eggs ; and if, passing through the country and making a strict inquiry into the truth and false hood of my assertion and leaving a horse at the house of every man who is master of his family himself, and an egg where the wife governs, you shall find your eggs gone before your horses, I hope you will thon not think your own case uncommon, but will be contented to go home and look upon your own wife as no worse than her neigh bors. If on the other hand, your horses are gone first, I will take my daughter home again and you shall keep her for tune." This proposal was too advantageous to be rejected. Our young married man, therefore, set out with great earnestness to get rid, as he thought, of his horses and his wife. At the first house he came to, he heard a woman with a shrill and angry voice call to her husband to go to the door. Here he loft an egg, you may be sure, without making any further inquiry. At the next house he met with something of the same kind, and at every house in short, until his eggs wore almost gone, when he arrived at the seat of a gentleman of fam ily and figure in the country. He knocked at the door, and, inquiring of the master of the house, was told by the servant that his master was not yet stirring, but if he pleased to walk in, his lady was in the parlor. The lady with great complaisance desir ed him to be seated, and said if his business was urgent she would wako her husband, but had much rather not disturb him. "Why really, madam," said he, "my business is only to ask a question, which you can solve as well as your husband, if you will be ingenuous with me ; you will doubtless think it odd, and it may be deem ed impolite, for any one, much more a stranger, to ask such a question, but as a wager depends upon it, and it may be some advantage to yourself to declare the truth to me, I hope these considerations will plead my excuse. It is, madam, my desire to be informed whether you govern your husband, or he rules ovor you." " Indeed, sir," replied the lady, "this question is somewhat odd ; but as I think no one ought to be ashamed of doing their duty, I shall make no scruple to say that I am al ways proud to obey my husband io all things; but if a woman's own word is to be suspected in such a case, let him answer for me, for here he comes." The gentleman at this time entered tho room, and after some apologies, being mado acquainted with the business, con firmed every word his obedient wife had re ported in her own favor, upon which he was requested to choose which horse in the team he liked best ; and to accept of it as a present. A block gelding struck the fancy of the gentleman most, but the lady desired he would choose the gray mare, which she thought would be very fit for her side-saddle ; her husband gave substantial reasons why the black horse would be the most useful to them, but madam still persisted in her claim to the gray mare. " What,' said she, " and will you not take her, then? But I say you shall, for I am sure the gray mare is much the better horse." . " Well, my dear," replied the husband, " if it muBt be so " " " You must take an egg," re plied the gentleman caller, " and I must take all my horses bock again, and endeav or to live happy with my wife." tW The great struggles in life are limit ed to moments ; In the drooping of the head upon the bosom in the pressure of the band on the brow. , .r ATell-Talo Skeleton, v The following advertisement appears in the last numbers of the Oeitimunde (North Germany) Gazette , . , "The following heirs of Catharine SDelllne and her daughter Dorothy, both of whom died a violent death in 1851, at Amsterdam, are re quested to send their addresses Immediately to iuu noyai rronate conrv at Amsterdam So phia Behrensbrung, Otto Kelenaer, Anna Der lilng, Maria Derfling, Joseph Derfling, all of whom emigrated to the United States since 1804. . Earhhst Rkmuh. t . , Solicitor." This advertisement was issued In conse- L . - i quence ot the discovery of the murdorer of tho widow Spelling and her daughter, and tho recovery of the spoils of his fear ful crime, upwards of twenty years after it had been committed. In July 1353, the police of Amsterdam saw on the door of the house on Harlem stroet, where Catharine Spoiling lived with her daughter Dorothy, a notice to the elToct that the two women had gone to the country. This notice aroused no suspicions, ' but when the old lady and her daughter did not roturn after the lapse of six weeks the police entered it. A foarful sicht met their eyes. Tho widow and her daughter, with their throats cut from ear to ear, were ly ing on tho floor in an advanced state of de composition, while all the bureaus were rilled of their contents. It was ascertained that the murderer had carried off diamonds, money aud bonds amounting to nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Time passed by and the double murder was almost forgotten, until on the third of July last the house in which the crime had been committed was torn down. Between it and the adjoining house was a space of about one f jot in width, and hemmed in there was found a male skoleton. At the bottom of this space lay a large leathern pocket containing the diamonds, the money and bonds of the murdered widow. This skeleton was undoubtedly that of the mur derer of the two women, who, after assas sinating them and bagging his plunder,had tried to escape over the roof of the house, but, slipping his foot, had fallen into the space between the two buildings. There he mot with just retribution of his terrible crime. He died there the excruciating, pain ful death of slow starvation. The Engineer's Signal. An enginoer on a Rhode Island train liv ed in a house quite near the track. lie had been for years employed on that road, aud was a most faithful, excellent man. It was his custom, every time he passed his house, to give a peculiar short signal with the steam whistle, which said to his wife, " I am here, and all Bafe." By day or by night he never omitted sending that mes sage to his home when he passed it. Fre quent passongers on the train learned to recognize the sound, and would say, "That is Guild signalling to his wife." . It was a little thing, but told much with regard to the man, and his noble, manly, loving na ture, which would spare his dear ones every breath of anxiety in his power. But there came a morning when that sig nal was not heard. The night train came thundering over the road, and there was no one to warn the doomed passengers that a bridge on the meadows had been washed away. ' On, on it camo, and daBhed down into the chasm, the engineer aud fireman dying at their posts, and many of the af frighted, shrieking passengers being hurled down after them to the same fearful fate. Ah, never more would that signal sound be heard by the watchful ear which bad grown so accustomed to it. How vividly would every passing train recall it 1 Yet the sorrow in this home was only a type of that which darkened many hearth stones. there was no one to watch at that little bridge ; no one whose business it was to go over the route, through the night, espe cially in such a time of freshet, and see that all was safe. How dreadful the re sults of such negligence. But, alas, worse wrecks are made than this, because people do not watch. The en emy comes in to the soul, and takes it cap tive, then hurries with it down to a more fearful destruction. , We have all need to watch and pray lest we, too, thus misera bly perish. Children. Many a child goes astray, not because there is want of virtue at home, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as well as flowers need sun beams. Children look little beyond the present moment. If a thing pleases, they are apt to seek it ; if it displeases, they are prone to avoid it. If home is the place where faces are sour and words harsh, and fault-finding is always in the ascendant, they will spend as many hours as possible elsewhere. Let every father, and mother, then, try to be happy. Let them look happy. Let them talk to their children, especially tho little one, in such a way as to make them happy. Cry Innocence is not virtue, and thoso who fancy that it is, make a fatal mistake. Innocence is simply the ignorauoe of evil ; virtue knows it, appreciates it, rejects It. Infancy is lovely in its Innocence ; but life, with Its stern realitles,deraands the strong, ripened vigor of manly virtue to resist evil, to protect its good to build up character, and to bless the world.
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