WUJW
CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
. STJtlCTL Y M UTUAL I
ABHotN, lIO,Ool),G01.H5 !
ISSUKS all the new forms of Policies, and pre
sent, as favorable terms as any company In the
United Mates.
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 hate a voice in the elections and
management of the Company.
Mo policy or medical fee charged.
L. W. FROST, PrtUdtnl.
M. B. Wtnkoop, Vice Pros' t.
3. P.Bogeks, Sec'y.
J. Y. EATON.
General Agent,
No. 8 North Third Street,
College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa.
THOS. ri. MILMGAN,
0 12 lyl Special Agent for Newport.
Perry County Bank!
Spoiisler, J mik in A Co.
THK undersign M, 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 COURTHOUSE,
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 Vork.
On time Deposits, five per cent forany time over
four months; and for four months four tier cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
(or doing a Banking Business; and knowing, and
for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un
der which the people of this County labored forthe
want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
bave determined to supply the want ;and this being
the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we
hope we will be sustained hi our efforts, by all the
business men, farmers and mechanics.
This Banking Association Is composed of the fol
lowing named partners:
W. A. HpoNSLEB.Bloomneld, Perry county, Pa.
B. V. Junkin, " " "
Wk. II. Miller, Carlisle,
OFFICERS:
W. A. BPONSLEH, President.
William Willis, Cashier
NewBloomileld.S ly
I'liltltY COUSTY
Meal Estate, Insurance,
AMU
CLAIM AGI3IVOY.
LEWIS POTTER & CO.,
Real Estate Broken, Insurance, t Claim Agen
Now 1 Jloomlieltl, I'll.
WE INVITE 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 deslrau property,
consisting of farms, town property, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip-
f:aius. We advertise our property very extenslve
y, and nse all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to
elleuta sale. We make no charges unless tht
property is sold while registered with us. We also
draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal p
pers at moderate rutin.
Borne of the bent, cheapest, and most reliable
fire, life, and cattle Insurance oompanles In the
United HUtes are represented at this agency.
Property insured either on the cash or mutual
plan, and perpetually at U and 16 per thousand.
Pensions, bounties, andall kinds of war claims
co looted. 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 service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to a peitslou.
When widows of soldiers die or marry, the mluor
Children are entitled to the pension.
Parties having any business to transact In our
line, are respectfully Invited to give us a cull, as
we are confident we can render satisfaction lu any
branch of our business.
N o c barge for i u form at Ion .
12uly LliWIS POTTER & CO.
hiuii which wn r ureuurea to uimr at great Dar-
LOOK 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
CASSIMERS. ' ' ' -CA8SINETS,
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
OAHPETN, &c
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
J. M. I!IXI,Klt.
Cbntkb Woolen Factohy. 8,ljfcin,
PERRY HOUSE,
Sew Blooiuflcld, I'a. '
THE subscriber having purchased the property
on Hie corner of Maine aud Carlisle streets,
opposite the Court House, Invites all his friends
and former customers to give him a call as he is
ucigriuiueatoiurmsnnrHiniuKS accommodations.
THOMAS HUTVII,
ltf. ; Proprietor.'
(AM. HI
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BTH4M JOB OWCit.
A QUEER ELOPEMENT.
PERCY VAN RAPP, by his own say
iug, was of the purest blood of the
Knickerbockers. It was like listening to
one of the Mosaiao genealogies to bear bim
traoe back bis lineage to old Rip Van Rapp,
one of the veritable old Rips who built the
town of How Amsterdam of bricks brought
front Holland, before It was known that
bricks could be made of American clay, or
cheese from any but Dutch milk.
Percy was spending the season at a fash
ionable watering-place, and was the
heaviest swell there ; unless wo accept
Adrian Dodge, a young gentleman of great
putative wealth, and more than average
pretension.
Great rivalry existed between these two.
Which could wear the sleekest hat, and
dance in pumps of the finest kip, was the
daily problem of their lives and thoy put
their whole minds to it till Kate Wily came
and gave thnra something else to think of.
Kate was a beauty and rich. This was
her first season, and she at once beoame
the center of attraction. Foremost among
her admirers were Percy Van Rapp and
Adrian Dodge whom this fresh rivalry
might any day bave personally embroiled,
bad cither known how great a coward the
other was.
The truth is, in this matter, both were
deeply in earnest. Mr. Van Rapp's for
tunes were little short of desperate ; and
Mr. Dodgo's notwithstanding reports
chiefly oi bis own circulation were in a
condition not much better. Kate's cash
would be a new lease of dissipated life to
whichover of them could manage to got it.
Kate received their advances coolly at
first,but after a time they seemed to arauso
her what impression they finally made we
must lot our story tell for itself.
Neither suitor had room to boast over
the other. If Kate had any choice between
them, she kept it to horself. There were
times when each would have counted the
day his own, had bo not felt that bis rival
bad equal grounds for confidence.
It was impossible that things should long
continue so. Percy Van Rapp determined
to know his fate at once. Accordingly be
seized his first opportunity of laying bare
his heart to Ka to, only suppressing mention
of a few private motives which lay at the
bottom of it.
Wbon Kate blushed and stammered
something that didn't sound like No,
Percy could have stood on his head for joy.
" But my aunt, said Kate she was In
the care of a maiden aunt, who had a sharp
eye in her head " my aunt, I fear, will
never consent."
" Aunts bave no authority to com maud
the affections," vas tho lover's roply.
"True," she murmured.
" Then fly with me," ho exclaimed " we
will find some spot where . we can be
happy."
Kate paused, as if irresolute
"My aunt," she said, "already suspects.
I can trust the coachman, however. Dis
guised in mail attire," she blushed pret
tily " I can leave the hotel unobserved,
and John will be in roadiness to take me
in the carriage to a rendezvous, agreed
upon. Meet me there, and in half an hour
we can reach the house of a neighboring
clergyman, an old acquaintance of my
father, whoso aid we can invoke, and and
what a little plotter I am 1"
" You're an angel 1" cried Percy.
" But you must promise one thing," said
Kato.
"Anything, darling 1"
" Not to speak a word when we meet,
nor until we are married everything here
abouts has ears."
"I promise, " be said solemnly.
The time and place were fixed, and Per
cy Van Rapp rose to take bis leave. lie
already beard Kate's dollars jingling in bis
pocket.
"One thing more," said Kate.
Percy bowed obsequiously. ,
" It will be the night of the fancy ball.
Let us both wear masks. If we are seen it
will excite no remark, aud we'll thus es
cape recognition."
" Capital," he exclaimed pressing ber
band at parting.
At the hour and place appointed Percy
was in waiting, closely masked, and
poering through the night with the watch
ful impatience of an anxious lover.
The sound of wheels was beard presently,
and in a, few moments a carriage stopped
on the spot agreed on. The driver Blight
ed and opened the door. Percy entered
without speaking, aud the coachman, who
had evidently received instructions, re
sumed bis placo and drove off rapidly.
In the darkness, Percy could barely dis
tinguish the outlines of a figure with a
masked fuce. lie oould hardly refrain
from clasping it In his arms, and giving
vent to a torrent of lender eloquence ; but
remembering his promise, he restrained
himself. His capacity to do so was at the
point of giving out, when, in deep bass, he
heard the words :
" Dearest Kate 1"
".Dearest thunder I" lie shouted, "who
the mischief are you ?" '
' And who the fiend are you ?" exclaim
ed the other, . ,, .,
"Adrian Dodge 1 by all that's amazing!"
yelled Percy.
"Percy Van Rapp I by all that's, in
fernal 1" shrieked Adrian.
" Villain I you shall pay for this 1 roared
Percy, springing on bis rival with the fe
rocity of a tiger.
Cowards fight desperately when corner
ed, and here both were. The uproar
alarmed the coachman, who stopped and
called a policeman. The combatants
wore dragged out and summarily marched
off. Next morning they wore dischagod,
and by that time the truth having come
out, they took the next train for the city,
thus relieving Kate of a pair of unwelcome
suitors, whose selfish designs her aunt's
eyes had been quick to penetrate, and for
whom she herself felt nothing but con
tempt.
The way in which the two lovers came
to find themselves in the carriage together
was this ; Before tho interview between
Kate and Percy, at which tho elopement
was planned, Kate bad received a call, the
same morning, from Adrian Dodge, who,
being interrupted in the midst of a tender
declaration by an inopportune visitor, made
an appointment to return in the afternoon.
Meanwhile Percy come and laid bare his
heart, as we have seen, when it oocurred to
Kate to rid herself of the two adventurers
by a little harmless strategy. How she en
ticed Percy into the trap we have already
shown. In the afternoon, when Adrian
returned, he was lured into a similar snare
the only difference being that ho was to
bring a carriage and find Kate In waiting,
the conditions as to silence and disguises
being the same.
Before the year was out Kato was mar
ried to ono who bad known and loved ber,
and whom she had known and loved from
childhood ; and the happy couple often
laugh over the queer elopement, whose
story we have attempted to tell.
A Southern Colored Meeting.
This has never been appreciated as it
ought to be. It actually occurred in the
negro church at Company shops, last
month. The colored people were carrying
on a big meeting, and many were coming
to it. An old Guinea "aunty" went in,
and her bull-dog went with her aud coiled
himsolf up at ber feet. After the preacher
got through, and the shouting and clapping
hands commenced, the bull-dog became en
raged, aud seized a big buck negro fellow
by the throat and threw him down on tho
floor. Some of bis friends ran up, caught
the dog by the log aud pulled him off. Tho
beast turned in bis fury upon the crowd,
and bit four others seriously. You nevor
heard such hollering and squalling in all
your life. There was a tremendous crowd
in the church, and this happening away
up about the "altar," tho crowd,thought
it was the mourners "coming through,"
and they took up the shout and went to
shouting : " Bless the Lord 1" " Shout,
brothers and sisters, shout 1" "One more
poor soul saved 1" etc. But about this
time a frightened negro split through the
crowd, the bull-dog hanging to the seat of
bis breeches, and he a-squalling.
" Pull bim loose I the devil's got me !"
And out went the crowd. Many fell
down and were run over by the balance,
and the lights were put out, and some of
the negroes seriously hurt. The old wom
an keeps a chain on that bull-dog now, as
big as a wagon polo, whenever she " 'tends
meotin'."
tSTThe Rev. Moncure D. Conway, in a
recent letter from London to the Cincin
nati Commercial, says: "Mr. Bpurgeon is
credited with the following, which if not
true, is ben trovato. He is said to have
been taken to task by some 6abbatarian
since bo has found it necessary to employ
a brougham to take bim to church. 'But,'
he urged, 'I only sit in tho carriage I
don't work.' ' Ah, yes sir,' said the other,
' but your coachman think of him !' 'Oh,
he is a Jew, and keeps the sovouth day
Sabbath.' ' But your horse ?' 'Oh,' said
Bpurgeon, getting a little impatient, ' ho is
a Jew tool' This reminds me of another
little story going the rounds concerning
one of our Broad Church clorgymen, who,
being recently on an excursion in Scotland,
was vehemently rebuked by his landlady
for taking a walk on Sunday afternoon.
The clergyman said that he could not see
the barm, and replied, ' You know that our
Lord himself walked with His discip los in
the field on the Sabbath day.' 'Ay,' said
the old lady, ay, I ken it, an' I ne'er
thocht any the better o' him for it neither!'
Why she was Late.
At a recent Boston sewing circle, Sister
Birch was somewhat late, and whon she
came in, some of the members ventured to
ask why it was, as she was usually very
prompt. Sister B. replied that she hod al
ways wanted to see a case of small-pox,
and on ber way to the " circle" she had
found one, and called on it. Then there
was a gathering in hot haste, so to speak,
and scattering, as it were. Mrs. Brown
said she bad forgotten to lock her back
door, aud she must go borne without a mo
ment's delay ; and she went. Mrs. Smith
said she didn't feel just right ; she bad
been taking medicine lately, and she
thought sho felt like going home ; one of
her bad spells was coming on. So tho
houw was cleared without much ceremony,
until Mrs. Birch and the lady of tbe house
woie left. Finally, a dog was set on Mrs.
I B., and she went to call on another "case."
. A Joker on his Journey.
A CHESHIRE agriculturist found out
" What I know about Farming" in
this wise :
Said be, " John, do you know the best
way to raise potatoes ?"
Says I, " I do."
"How?" says he.
" Why," says I, "grab hold of the tops
with both hands and pull 'em up."
Says ho, " Go to grass."
So I started to grass, and I'm now on a
trip over tho Erie railway.
The first thing I did after getting into
the cars was to try and make myself agree
able The attempt proved a failure. I
saw a follow with a package in his hand,
and I said, " Have a game ?"
" Game of what," said he.
" Seven up," said I.
There isn't so much bitterness in a ton
of boiled aloes as there was in the expres
sion of that fellows face. Intense scorn
and malignity struggled for the mastery as
he yelled out, " No sir, I'm a minister."
" Well," said I, " you needn't get mad.
Nobody would ever believe it unless you
told 'em so."
Then I told him on closer inspection that
he did look like a minister a minister of
penitentiary and I asked him what he was
doing with those cards.
He said they wero not cards, they were
blank tickets for the Sunday school li
brary. Then said I, " What might your name
be?"
" Said ho, " Barnes."
Then I said, with a smilo, " There are
lots of barns all over the country, ain't
there ?"
To this day he has never answered that
question. He moved into another car.
Back of mo sat a little boy. He had a
half ticket. The conductor punched it. I
said to him, " Is that boy obliged to have
a whole ticket to travel on this train ?"
Ho said, " No."
" Well," said I, "he's got one."
" He hain't," said be.
" I'll bet you," said I. " It was a half
ticket until you punched it ; that mado a
hole one."
He intimated he would "punch me ;" so
wo didn't continue to converse.
I moved over next to a follow who was
Bhort of nose. "Ahem," said I "case of
mayhem?"
" No," he said, " my dog chewod it last
July."
" Ah !" said I, "not mayhem, but July
hem, eh ?"
" Bo you from York?" said ho.
"I am," said I.
" Do you know Smith ?" said he.
"Smith," said I, "what Smith?"
"No not Watt Smith, but Mister Smith;
he keeps a store down there."
He was surprised when I told him " I
never heard of him."
" Hower of water and chopper of grass,
I exclaimed, "what is your biz ?"
He said he was a millor.
"Gin miller?" said I.
"No sir," said he, "I conduct a well
regulated Christian saw mill."
"Ah," said I, "you are a Millerito,
then." Just then I made some further
remarks. I observed, "tho country look
ed fine." I didn't exactly know how the
country ought to look to look fine, but I
hit it right, for ho said, "Yes," and he
said wo were passing through a dairy
country.
" Do they run trains nights through a
dairy country ?" I asked, sweetly.
Ho said yes, and said they made mighty
good cheese in that section. I related to
him how "I didn't liko mite-y good
cheese;" tlion I told him "Truth was
mighty and would prevail, and cheese was
mite-y, and that was prevailing to consid
erable extent, too."
Then we stopped for grub, and I was
served with a piece of the stak old John
Rodgors was burned at, and it was burned
ton per cent, worse than he was, and
tougher than a parboiled pump handle on 1
toast. The proprietor asked me if I bad
been served? I told him yes, I bad been
served darned meanly.
When I got into the cars again the
Millerito observed, " the pen is mightier
than the sword." I told him this wasn't
the case with a hog pen. Then we com
muned about tho grass crop, lie said he
was much troubled with ground hogs.
" So am I," said I ; where I board we are
annoyed to death with 'em all winter."
"Why," said ho, "do you have ground
hogs in York?"
" Yes," said I, "lots of 'em ; we call
'em sassages."
For the space of five minutes ho bowed
his head and wept.
As soon as ho got through weeping I told
him I had recently visited Now England,
and how prolifio everything was up there
and I observed to bim how for miles along
side of the railroads the telegram poles had
sprouted and were bearing apples, quinces,
muskmelons, huckleberries, and bananas.
"No I" said ho.
"Yes," said I.
Then he rose and said, " Wash, I thought
you wore dead." 1 '
" My name isn't Wash," said 1. 1 :
"Excuse me, 'sir," said he, " I called
you Wash because you remind me so
strongly of George Washington who did it
with his hatchet the man who nover told
a lie." . ; -( . '
Says I, "Sir it's lucky you ain't a nigger
for if you were I would kill you, sir, and
let your family go a blackburying in Octo
ber." Then ho went in the next car where the
minister went, then the cars stopped five
minutes, and I had a slight altercation with
a saloon chap. He sold awful small pieces
of pie for ten cents a pieoo, and I asked
him if he would sell three pieces for a
quarter. He said no.
Says I, " by gosh, you do do it."
He swore lie didn't. Then I told him be
did that there were three pieces to every
quarter of a pie on his coutiters, and that
was three pieces for a quarter.
A Hairy Suit.
There was recently filed in a 8an Fran
cisco court, as reported by the Chronicle of
that city, the following curious complaint :
" Joseph R. Tilton, plaintiff, complains of
P. Taylor, dofendant, aud alloges that on
and prior to the 28th day of March, 1873,
said defendant was bald in certain places
on his head and scalp, and partially bald in
and about other places thereon ; aud being
and partially bald, as aforesaid, said de
fendant entered into a contract or agree
ment with plaintiff, whereby plaintiff
agreed to restore the hair upon defendant's
head whore it had become bald and part
ially bald, and said dofendant in conse
quence thereof agreed to submit himself to
tho treatment of plaintiff, and to pay
plaintiff the sum of $100 as soon as new
hair should be started on defendant's head
in places where defendant had become
partially bald, and the further sum of $100
when a good bead of hair should be restor
ed to defendant by plaintiff; provided, the
treatment of defendant by plaintiff should
cause defendant no injury. That after
wards, iu pursuance of said agreement,
plaintiff treated said defendant's head and
the scalp thereof for said baldness, and
made application of certain remedies for
the purpose of carrying out his said agree
ment and restoring the hair upon said de
fendant's head ; and plaintiff says that by
reason of said treatment and the applica
tion of said remedies by plaintiff, as afore
said, new hair did start out in places where
defendant bad bocome partially bald, as
aforesaid, and that defendant's scalp and
head, in said places where the same was
bald, and bad become partially bald, as
aforesaid, became and is now covered with
new and healthy hair, and a good bead of
bair is restored to defendant by reason of
the promises. And plaintiff further says
that defendant was not injured, nor was
defendant's head or scalp injured in any
manner by the application of plaintiff's
remedies ; and that defendant, though oft
en requested, has refused and still wholly '
neglects and refuses to pay plaintiff either
of said sums of money, or any part thereof,
and that said sum of $200 is still unpaid
from defendant to plaintiff. Wherefore
plaintiff demands judgment against dofend
ant for the sura of $200 aud costs.
Coloring Artificial Flowers.
, The coloring substances selected to give
the requisite tint and shade to artificial
flowers are varied, and this feature of the
trade is of the utmost importance, in order
to produce the beautiful appearance so es
sential to the combination and harmony of
tho object. For red and purple colors car
mine, Brazil wood, madder lake, and gar
ancino aro used. Tho red of Brazil wood
receives a purple tint by the addition of
salts of tartar, or of potash ; by the addi
tion of alum it assumes a rich crimson
tinge. Flesh, peach color and salmon tints
are produced by the aid of various acids
and alkalis. Carmine is the base of rose
color, varied iu tint by salts of tartar. Blue
colors are obtained from indigo, Prussian
blue, etc. The various shades of blue are
modified by admixture with alcohol and
potash. Yellows are the result of the ap
plication of saffron, gamboge, annatto, and
chrome yellow ; Green is obtained by mix
tures of blue aud yellow. If tbe coloring
proportyisto be applied with a pencil or
brush, the mixture is prepared before
using ; but if the material is to be stainod,
as with a liquid dye, it is first dipped in
yollow, and afterward in blue. For violet,
combinations of blue and rod are necessa
ry, such as Prussian blue and garancine,
Prussian blue and carmine lake, or cobalt
and crimson lake. Lilao is produced by a
mixture of carmine or crimson lake with
cobalt or ultramarine.
Jack and the Toll (into.
A famous elephant, called Jack, was
onco traveling with his keeper from Mar
gate to Canterbury, in England, when they
came to a toll-bar. Jack's keeper offered
the right toll, but the man would not
take it. He wanted to make them pay
more than was right. Bo he kept the gate
shut. On this the keeper went through
the little foot gate to the other side of the
bar, calling out, "Come on, Jack," and
at once tho elephant applied his trunk to
tho rails of the gate, lifted it from its
hinges, and dashed It to the ground. He
went ou his way, while tho toll-bar man
stood petrified to see what a mistake ho
bud made In demanding an unjust toll from
an elephant.
tW Carpets, though bought by the yard,
are worn by tho foot. .