3TEW "YORK
CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
STRICTLY MUTUAL I
Assets, S?0,OOJ,SJ01.J-C5 !
ISSUES all the new forma of Policies, and pre
sents as favorable terms as any company 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 madefor traveling permits.
Policy-holders share In the annual profit of the
Company, and have a voice in the elections and
management of the Company.
No policy or medical fee charged.
L. W. FIIOST, President.
M. B. Wtnkoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P.ROOERS, Bec'y.
J. K. EATON.
General Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
College Block, rfarrlsburg, Pa.
THOS. ir. MILMOAN,
6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport.
Perry County Bank!
tipoiifttcr, Jiinkln V Co.
THE undersign id, having formed a Banking As.
sociation under the above name and style, are
aow ready to do a General Banking business at
their new Banking House, on Centre Square,
OPPOSITE THE COURTHOUSE,
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, five per cent, forany time over
four months; and for four months four per cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
for doing a Banking Business; and knowing, and
for Borne 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 ;andthls 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.BpONBLEK,Uloomfleld,Perrycounty,Pa.
B. F.Junkin, " "
Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle,
orFicERs:
W. A. BPON'SLER. Present.
William Willis, Cashier
New Bloomneld, S My .
PEltRY COITXTY
Real Estate, Insurance,
AUD
CLAIM AGIiNCY.
LEWIS POTTER & CO.,
Real Estate Brokers, Insurance, & Claim Agen
Now HlooiiilIeIl, ln.
WEINVITE the attention of buyers and sell
ers to the advantages we offer them In pur
chasing or disposing of real estate through our of
fice. We have a very large list of deslrab property,
consisting of farms, town property, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip
tion which we are prepared to oner at great bar.
fiains. We advertise our property very extensive
y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to
effect a sale. We make no charges unless tht
property Is sold while registered with us. We alsc
draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, audall legal pa
pers at moderate raUis.
Soino 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 S4 and 8 per thousand.
Pennons, 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. Sol.
dlers. If you were wounded, ruptured, orcontract
ed a disease In the sorvice from which you are dls.
abled, you are entitled to a pension.
When widows of soldlersdfe ormarry.the minor
children are entitled to the pension.
Parties having any business to transact In our
line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as
we are confident we can render satisfaction In any
branch of our business.
r No charge for Information.
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I would respectively Inform my friends that I In
tend calling upon them with a supply of goods
of my
OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of , '
CA8SIMBRS,
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' FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
OAllPIOTH, Jko.,
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
J. M. BIXLElt.
Centue Woolen Factout. 6,17,4m,
PERRY MWSE,
New Bloomfleld, Pa.
THE subscriber having purchased the property
ontheoornrrof Maine and Carlisle streets,
opposite the Court House, invites all his friends
and former outomers to give hlin a call as he Is
determined to furnish first class accommodations.
. THOMAS H U'JVJf,
ltf. Proprietor.
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THE DOCTOR'S BABY.
ONE day the Doctor came in, brlmfull
of excitement.
" "Well, I never," he exclaimed. " Droll
est thing 1"
"Why, what is it, Doctor?" we all de
manded. "Just you come out to the swamp 1"
cried the doctor. " Come quick 1" And
catching up one of the blankets, he strodo
off again. The spider was hastily set asido.
We resumed our snow shoes, and followed
nftor him as fast as possiblo ; but he had
gained quite a start. We did not come up
with him till he had entered among the
cedars, and was coming out one of the
open holes, which looked still broader and
muddier since the thaw. On the very
edge where the icy snow bordered the
black muck, the doctor drew up.
" There V" ho exclaimed. "For pity's
sake, just look here !" pointing to the mud.
"Them's what gets mo 1 JLittlo baby's
feet."
Wo all started. Sure enough, there in
the mud were some little footscps not more
than three or four Inches long, toes and
all, as plain as could be, patted down into
the soft muck. Somo little foot had ev
idently run along there not many minutes
ago. "Just made, too!" continued the
Doctor. Then , after a hurried glance
around, he stooped to examine thorn.
Wash winked to me, theu to Reed and
Wade, who were regarding us with cu
rious looks. We all choked down a great
grin. Unless we are much mistaken we
had a " soft thing" on tife doctor. " Well,
if this don't beat the Dutch 1" resumed
the doctor standing back a step. " There
isn't a house within fifteen miles, that I
know of. How the little thing ever got up
here is more than I can guess ; but (stoop
ing down again) it's a baby's foot fast
enough."
" It may be an Indian family is camping
about here, not far off," suggested the
hypocritical Wash. " Perhaps this is a
little pappoose."
" Barefooted too," observed Wade ; " or
else nothing but a very thin moccasin.
Look at those little toe-marks 1 Can't be
over a year and a half or two years old."
"Poor little thing, it must be lost I" re
marked the Doctor, reflectively, and with
a touch of feeling which did him credit,
but came near making us shout with sup
pressed merriment. " And boys," he cried
with sudden gravity, " we must try to
hunt it up. " Poor baby, here all alone in
the dark swamp 1 It can't be far off,
either." .
" If it's a lost child, we certainly ought
to hunt it up," said Reed,
" And if it's a little pappoose, I should
like to see it," remarked Wade.
" Mere common humanity demands that
we find the lost baby," Wash affirmed. .
So we all began to search along the
border of (he muck-hole with effected zeal;
but the Doctor was in earnest.
" Ah 1 there's where he stopped to play
in the mud.' Bee where his little lingers
clawed it up there 1" said he. " And
here's where he clambered up on the snow;
and out here is another track. He's left
the hole, and gone off into the woods."
Here and there we could still see the
little footprints close together on the damp
snow as we hurried on.
" See where he broke off those tender
sprouts'." Wash noticed. "Little cub!
Isn't it curious? I wonder where bis moth
er is? I've heard of children being carried
off by wild beasts, and so growing up to
be ' wild men.' Pherhaps we've stumbled
upon an example !"
"Like enough," said the Doctor.
Luckily it was getting too dark for him
to see our faces.
"I declare, be walks well for little
one 1" said Wade after a little. " Why
we've come as much as a quarter of a mile
from the muck-hole !"
A few moments after we came out to a
large yellow birch-tree, or rather stub ; for
it was all decayed, and evidently hollow,
having a great open hole in the trunk at
the roots. The little foot marks led di
rectly toward this holo.
" You don't supposo he's crawled into
that hole, do you?" asked the Doctor. " I
doclare,he has !" continued he, pointing to a
track in the wet punk within the aperture.
" Gone in there, as I live !"
Wo all took a look.
The inside of the tree had rotted away ;
and the hollow cavity extended both up
ward and downward into the root beneath
the ground a dark hole indeed.
" Fell iu there, I'm afraid !" exclaimed
the Doctor. " Baby, little chuck ! are you
down there? ' Likely 'as any way there's
water at the bottom ! If it weren't so dark
down thore I Got any matches, boys ?
Let's make a torch."
I pulled off a crispy roll of tho curlod
bark, and lighting it, let it down into the
opening. The doctor had not thought of
looking t up the hollow trunk, Nobody
would expect a baby to climb a tree, of
course, but the moment we put in the Are,
there was a great scrambling overhead on
the inside ; and a shower of dust and punk
came rattling down. ' '
" Gracious I" exclaimed the Doctor.
" The little rascal is up instead of down !
I don't believe it's a child. But that is a
baby's foot fast enough," said he, stepping
back, and again , examining the track.
"Yes, little brat ! scared, I suppose. How
he can climb I They say little babies can
swim, too. I shouldn't wondor if they did
make 'wild men' in just this way."
Thon in a coaxing voice, " Come, baby,
comedown. We won't hurt you, Oh no!
we'll take you to your mother.
But the baby gave no indications of com
ing down; and despite the dust which filled
tho aparturo, the doctor again poked in his
head to see if he couldn't discorn him.
"Light nnothor piece of bark, Kit,"
said ho, "and lot mo take it, I can see
something up there ; but I'll be skinuod if
it looks like a baby !"
I got the bark ; and putting it on the end
of a stick, we thrust it up the hollow, and
saw, up somo ten or twelve feet, not ex
actly a baby.but a big raccoon, peering cau
tiously down, with his visage tured askew
as if he thought it a moro than commonly
good joke.
"Sold !" ejaculated the doctor, pulling
out his head, and gazing comically at the
little track. "Well, I never knew that
before ! a raccoon makes a track just Hko.
a child's I Well, live and learn. I've been
completely ' done for.' Go for me, boys ! I
won't say a word ! Go for me as much as
you're a mind to ! But, for pity's sake
don't toll of this in town, boys," he addod
pathetically, a moment later. "'Twould
be the ruination of me. Confound the
raccoon ! Let's give it to him !"
Legal Anecdoteg.
CHANCELLOR KENT, was at all
periods of his long life, one of tho
most simplo, gonial, cheerful, playful men.
Ho manifested in public and in private a
perennial, bubbling gayety. The Chan
cellor, once in his old age climbed a
cherry tree, and, with his foot upon one
branch whilst holding by another, was en
joying the fruits. William his son stand
ing upon the ground beneath, grew nervous
and begged his father to come down, and
to be careful to avoid a fall in doing so.
"No, sir," said the old gentleman, "I'd
have you to know that I am accustomed to
elevated positions : I can maintain myself
in them with safety aud doscend from them
with dignity."
Our courts have at times witnessed
scenes of coarse insult, bitter speech, and
unseemly wrangling. In 1843 John Van
Buren, Attorney Goneral of New York,
and a very distinguished opponent, Am
brose L. Jordan, came to blows in open
court in the course of an important publio
trial, but the fact that this was not deemed
a common or a light offence, appeared from
what followed. The presiding judge, Ed
monds, immediately imprisoned both of
fenders. They, in their return, offered to
the just and prevailing publio opinion, all
the attornment in their power, by acknowl
edging tho flagrancy of their fault and tho
justice of their punishment. Neither har
bored resentment against the court, and
Mr. Van Bnren promptly tendered to the
Governor of the State a resignation of his
office.
The peculiar peril to which the manners
of the young lawyer or the new-mado judge
are exposed, is tho taking advantage of his
privilege and position, to trifle with the
sensibilities of the timid and holplcss who
may come within his power. It is a mean
and petty tyranny, whether practiced by
a barrister or by a judge, which gonerous
minds will generally steor clear of ; but tho
temptation to this sort of unfairness is
sometimes yielded to by very good men.
The anecdote books rolate this of Erakine:
" A commercial traveler appeared iu the
witness box,dressed in the height of fashion
and wearing a starched white necktie.folded
in the Brummol fold. In an instant, read
ing the character of the man, on whom he
had never set eyes, aud knowing how ne
cessary it was to put him in a state of ex
treme agitation, before touching upon the
facts concerning which he had come to give
evidence, Erskine rose, surveyed the cox
comb, and said with au air of careless
amusement, ' You were born and bred in
Manchester, I perceive !' Greatly astonish
ed, the man answered, nervously, that bo
' was a Manchester man born and bred in
Manchester.' ' Exactly so,' observed Ers
kine, "I knew it from the absurd tio of
your neck cloth.' The roars of lauirhtor
which followed this rejoinder so completely
effected the speaker's purposo that the con
founded bagman did not know his ric-ht
band from bis left.
The late Mr. Charles Edwards, iu his
volume entitled, " rioasantries of the New
York Bar." tells us of the grief which
befell a brow-beating advocate of a different
order from Erskino. in the rural districts
of Now York. The story runs thus :"Mark
d used to try causes iu Justices'
Courts. His principal forte, and that ou
which he prided himself most, lay in the
examination or witnesses, lie boasted he
could worm truth out of a stone. In con
sequence of some rather sharp practtce,
Mark had reason to suppose that the
district attorney was preparing an Indict
ment against him for perjury ; aud so he
disappeared from his accustomed haunts,
' on a little law business,' as he afterwards
said, when closely interrogated, sojouining
on what was called Buipe Hill, a sort of Al
satla, being the same place of which some
body said the inhabitants had broken every
law, evory Sabbath, aud every sheriffs
head for the last ten years.
After his return he was one day trying
a oause before a justice, and a boy was
oalled as a witness to whom Mark objected,
on the grouud of his simplicity that ho
was ' non compost,' as Mark safely observ
ed, and he insisted on the voir dire. The
boy was accordingly sworn preliminarily,
aud Mark assumed his sternest face, and
looking at the boy as though he would eye
him into a fit, 'Boy!' said ho, 'who made
you?' " The Lord, I thpotho," lisped the
boy ; 4 who made you ?' Never mind who
made me,' said Mark. ' Folks say you are
a fool ; how is it ?' 'Do they?' responded
the witness, tliath nothign. Thome
folkth thay't you won't cheat. Folkth
will Ho, youtheo' 'Boy ! no impertinence,'
shouted Mark, glowering fiercely, as the
justico chocked the subdued giggle that ran
around tho room. 'Suppose you were to
commit perjury, do you know what that
means?' 'Yeth, thur; thwearing to a
lie, jeth what you did lath winter, aiu't it?'
'Tho witness is clearly incompetent,' ap
pealed Mark to the court. But the court
could not soe it, and the learned Mark pro
ceeded. ' Well, suppose you were to com
mit perjury and swear falsely, whole would
you go to?' 'To Thnipe Hill, I thuppothe,
where you went lath winter.' The boy was
admitted as a witness."
The law has always been a witty profes
sion, and opportunities for saying good
things have often been the temptation and
excuse for violating tho canons of polite
ness. A spinster of uncertain years being
on the stand as a wituess, tho cross exam
ining advocate deemed it material to in
quire what her age might be. " I am not
ashamed of my age," answorod the lady,
spitefully. The lawyer replied, " Certain
ly, madam, you ought not to be ashamed
of anything you have had so long."
Fortunate Ladles.
The matter of the large bequests to two
ladies of Madison, which has attracted
considerable attention, ",is thus particular
ized by an Atlanta paper: " From authori
ty, we have learned that Mrs. Virginia M.
Campbell and her nioce, Mrs. Elmira
Chambers, of Madison, Ga., are entitled
to twelve millions of dollars now waiting in
France to be claimed by these fortunate
ladies. Mrs. Campbell is a widow about
seventy years of ago. Hor niece, Mrs.
Chambers, is also a widow aged about
thirty-six. The vast property which they
have inherited belongs to the Rennauleau
estate. Information in regard to it was
received by them about three months since,
and by the advice of a gentleman in Madi
son, who says he was once a law partner of
Judah P. Benjamin, they at once wrote to
tho latter at London, asking him what
course to pursue in the matter. Mr. Ben
jamin, after thoroughly investigating the
case, wrote to Mrs. Campbell and Mrs.
Chambers that thero was not a question of
doubt in regard to their claim, and advised
them to come to Europe at once. The
property descends to these ladies through
a Mrs. Rennauleau, grandmother of Mrs.
Campbell and great-grandmother of Mrs.
Chambers. Mrs. Campbell's maiden name
was Maguiro, and that of her mother
Mademoiselle Rennauleau. They are con
nected with one of the best families in
France. It appears that a certain party
who once resided in the United States and
for a number of years transacted business
for several old refugee St. Domingo families
living in this city, in connection with their
indemnities from the French government
for their losses in that island, became aware
some time ago that the huge estate was
waiting in France to be claimed. Ho,
thorofore, hurried post-haste to that coun
try, hunted up a remote branch of the
Rennauleau family, and succeeded in mar
rying one of tho female members of it. He
then presented proofs of the death of all
of the American and nearer branch of the
family, and claimed the estate for the dis
tant branch into which he had married.
Mr. Benjamin, in his letter to Mrs. Camp
bell and Mrs. Chambers, remarks that this
man will soon find out that the dead can be
resurrected. By the terras of an agreement
between Mr. Benjamin and the two ladies,
the former will take one-half of the whole
amount of the estate, and the other half-
six millions dollars will fall to Mrs.
Campbell and Mrs. Chambers, the share
of each being the neat little sum of three
million dollars. Or the entire amount of
twelve millions, seven millions aud o-half
are iu the Bank of France, and four mil
lions and o-half in tho hands of the Roths
childs, the celebrated bankers.
A Curious Revenge.
A woman living in a town in the canton
of Zurich, recently resorted to a curious
mode of revenge. Hor cat of which she was
exceptionally fond, bad for some reason
or other been killed by an official. She ao
oordingly procured several mouse-traps,
and oaught some fifty mice which bIio im
mediately inclosed in a box and sent to the
offending person. He, suspecting nothing,
opened the package, and was horrified to
see a swarm of mice spring out of the box
aud run all over the place. At the bottom
of tho box he found a note containing the
following words ; " You have killed my
cat, I have, therefore, tho honor to send
you my mice."
SUNDAY READING.
' The Clenryman and the Infidel, i
Some years ago a well-known clergyman
delivered a series of discourses against
Atheism, in a town, somd ot the citizons
of which were known to be infidels. A
few days af towards he took passage in a
steamer ascending the Mississippi, and
found on board several of the citizens of
the town, among whom was a noted infidel.
So soon as this man : discovered the clor
gyman, he commenced his blasphemies ;
and when he perceived hira reading at one
of the tables, he proposed to one of his
companions to go with him to the opposite
side of the table and listen to some stories
that he had to tell about religion nnd re-,
ligious men, which he said would annoy
the old preacher. Quite a number, prompt
ed by curiosity, gathered around him to
hear his vulgar stories aud anecdotes, all of
which were pointed against the Bible and
its ministers.
The preacher did not raise his eyes from
the book which he was reading, nor appear
to be in the least troubled by the presence
of tho rabble. At length the infidel walked
up to him, nnd rudely slapping him on the
shoulder, said, " Old fellow, what do you
think of these things ?" The clergyman
calmly pointed to the land and said, " Do
you see that beautiful landscape spread
out in such quiet lovolinoss before you?"
" Yes." " Well, if you were to send out a"
dove, it would pass over the scene and see
in it all that was beautiful and lovely, and
delight itself in gazing at and admiring it ;
but if you were to send out a buzzard over
precisely the same scene, it would see in it
nothing to fix its attention, unless it could
find some rotten carcass that would be
loathsome to all other animals. It would
alight and gloat upon that with exquisite
pleasure." "Do you mean to compare me
to a buzzard ?" said the infidel, coloring
deeply. " I made no allusion to you, sir,"
said the clergyman, very quietly. The in
fidel walked off in confusion, and went by
the name of "The Buzzard" during the
remainder of the passage.
A Drunkard's Warning.
A young man entered the bar room of a
village tavern and asked for a drink.
"No," said the landlord, " you have too
much already. You have had delirum
tremens once, and I can not sell you any
more." Ho stepped aside to make room
for a couple of young men who had just
entered, and tho landlord waited upon
them very politely. The other had stood
by sullen and silent, and when they had
finished he walked up to the landlord and
thus addressed him : ' Six years ago, at
their age, I stood where these young men
now aro. I was a man with fair prospects.
Now, at the ago of twenty-eight, I am a
wreck body and mind. You led me to
drink. In this room I formed the habit
that has been my ruin. Now sell me a
few glasses more and your work will be
done I I shall soon be out of the way,
there is no hope for me. But they can bo
saved ; they may be men again. Do not
sell it to them. Sell it to me, and let me
die aud the world will be rid of me ; for
neaven's sake sell no moro to them !"
The landlord listened pale and trembling.
Setting down his decanter, he exclaimed,
" God helping me, that is the last drop I
will ever sell to any one !" And he kept
his word.
In the depth of tho fni-est. tlmi-a
lived two foxes. One of them said, " Let's
quarrel ?"
" Very well, how shall we begin ?"
"It cannot be difficult," said fox num
ber one, " two-legged people fall out, why
not we?"
So they tried all sorts of ways, but it
could not be done, because each one would
give way. At last number one fetched
two stones.
"Thore!" said he, you say they are
yours, and I'll say they are mine, and we
will quarrel, and fight aud scratoh. Now
I'll begin. Those stones are mine !"
" Very well, you are welcome to them,"
" But we will never quarrel at this rate!"
cried the other jumping up and licking his
faoe. "You old simnleton. don't
know that it takes two to make a quarrel?"
bo tuoy gave it up as a bad job, and nev
er tried to play at this silly gamo again.
1ST The prejudiced mau is like a man
walking on a narrow Dath with h
downward, aud will not raiso them to be
hold the grandest sceneries which appear
on eithor hand ; or, like a man shut up in
a house, with the doors locked, the win
dows closed, the shutters fastened aud the
blinds down; without a candle or lamp to
light his dismal condition, and in the dark,
without much hope of seoing things dif
ferently ; yet he is indulging a kind of sat
isfaction that he is right, and all who differ
nom mm necessarily wrong.
tW Life, according to the Arablo nrnv.
erb, Is composed of two parts that which
is past, a dream ; and that which is to
como, a wish. 1 '
tW'The ground work of all manlv !.-
acter is veraoity, or by the habit of telling
iuo uniu. xnai virtue lies at t in tnnnA-
tiou of everything said.
tJT The great happiness of life, I fiud
after all to consist iu the regular discharge
of some mechanical duty Sciulxeii.