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.