NEW YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STRICTLY M VTVAL ! ISSUES allthe new forms of Polloies, and pre. seats as favorable terms as any company lu the United BLates. Thirty days' grace allowed on eacli payment, and 'the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture. No extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice in the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fee charged. I.. W. FROST, rrenltiml . M. B. Wtnkooi", Vice Prcs't. J. P. Rogers, Bec'y. J. F. EATON, General Agent, No. 6 North Third Street, College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. TH08. It. MIL-MOAN, C 12 ly 1 Special Agent for Newport. 'Perry County Bank! NponsU'r, .Bu it It in fc Co. THE undersign Hi, 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 BLOOMPIELD, 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, for any 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 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 have determined to supply the want ;and this being the nrst Bank ever established lu Perry county, we Jiope we will be sustained in our elforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. HpnNsi.Eit.Bloomtleld, Perry county, Pa. . Y. Junkin, " " " Wm. It. Miller, Carlisle, officers: W. A. BPON8LEU, President. William Willis, Cashier New l)loomneld,3 Sly 1121111 Y COUNTY Heal Estate. Insurance, AND AGKMCY. CLAIJI LEWIS POTTER & CO., . Ileal Ettate Brokers, Insurance, di Claim Agen Now JJloomlleltl, I'd. TTTE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell TT ers to the advantages we offer them In pur- chasing or disposing ol real estate turougn our 01. Dee. We have a very large list of deslrab property, consisting of farms, town property, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrlp- iiou wnirii we are preparen looner ai greni oar. gains. We advertise our urnnertv verv extensive' ly, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to eneci a saie. we maae no cuarges unless cue property Is sold while registered with us. We alsc draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, audall legal pa ners at moderate rales. Home of the best, cheapest, and most reliable fire. life, and enttln lusliriiiieA eitmnaiileit in t)i United Mules arc represented at tills agency. cH'j'vuy iinurru emier on me casn or mutual Dlail. and oernetliallv at JU and IS iwr thnnsiuitl. Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims coneciea. mere are iiiousanrls of soldiers and lielrs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and itoiiniy, who nave never made application. Hoi dlers, if you were wounded, runtured. nrramtraet. ed a disease In the service from which you are dis abled, you are entitled to a pension. When widows of soldiers die or inairy.the minor Children are entitled to the pension. Parties having any business to transact In our line, aro resiiecttully Invited to give us a call, as wearenonnueni we can render satisfaction lu any uiuii'-u "i uui vusiiiens. No charge for Information. 4 20 ly LEWIS POTTEU & CO. LOOK OUT! T would respectively Inform inv friends that I In X tend calling upon them with a supply of goods ""oWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting of CASSIMERS. CA88INETS, FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) OAHPETH, &o., to exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. BIXI.EH. ' Centre Woolem Factort. 6,17,4in, PERRY HOUSE, New Blootnfleld, Pa. THE subscriber having purchased the property on tliesorner of Maine and Carlisle streets. opposite the Court House, invites all his friends ana lormer customers vo give nun a can as ne is determined to luruun nrst class aeoommnaauons. TtfVMAB aiTVH, Kf. , !-! .' Proprietor. m Each Week. tiZZYd ly legitimate. Particulars free. Address, WOUi H at VO., oU Louis, Mo. . U6ii ENIGMA BEPAKTMINT, Enigma. I am composed of nine letters i My 1, 8, 7, and 9 it the name of a town In Bnaln. My 6, 7 and 4 Is a fluid substance In universal use My 8, 2, 6 and 7 Is the name of a town In New Jersey. My 1, 4, 7 and 5 Is the name of a woman recog nizee inurocian mytnoiopy. My whole Is a chemical preparation. A WOMAN'S EXPERIMENT. TT'8n verv convenient, linnsa." said X Squire Northall. " Water flltoring cisterns, asparagus bed, dry basement everything in applcpio order. Such an opportunity don't occur every day." " Yes," said Miss Grace Pennybacker, eyeing the premises in a keen business sort of way. "What do jou think, Gorty, my dear?" "I think as you think, aunty," said Gertrude, who was the most docilo littlo white lamb of a damsel that tho imagina tion coutd conceive. ' Then we'll take it," said Miss Grace, I'll pay a quartet's rent in advance, and sign tho papers to-morrow night." The Squire took snuff in an embarrassed sort of a way and said : " Excuse mo, ma'am, but is it truo that you're one of the woman's rights people?" ' What difforenco does it make whothcr I am or not?" shortly demanded Miss Pen nybacker. "Because I don't believe in that sort of thing," answered the Squire, " and I won't let my house to one of 'cm." " Well, then," said Miss Graco bravely, "I doboliove in a women's right to vote if she chooses, and to be just as independent as she chooses. If that's being a woman's advocato, I'm one." " Then," said the Squiie thrusting his hands deeply into bis trouser pockets, "I'd rather not let my house to you." " Then you can let it alone," said Miss Grace, tipping her round bat defiantly on her noso. " Come, Gorty." And the obedient niece dutifully followed in her warlike aunt's footsteps. "What shall we do, aunty?" Gertrude asked, when they bad walked on a littlo way. "There are bouses enough," said aunt Grace ; " and I won't be dictated to ! I tell you what, Gerty,the more one sees of men, the more one gets disgusted. I wish I knew of un island inhabited solely by women !" "So do I, aunty," said Gorty, clinging to Miss Grace's protecting skirts. Miss Pennybacker selected tho next most eligible house. on her list a Swiss cottage on the hill, owned by a apathetic old lady, who would let her bouse to Mophistophiles himself if he had come with a dress coat, French boots and a suitable recommenda tion from the real estate agent. " What kind of a neighborhood is it ?" asked Miss Pennybacker. "Well," drawled out old Mrs. Hall, '"taint very lively. The dostor who lives in the big house an eccentric sort of a man, that won t liavo a woman nowhere around, and there ain't no society, and " "I don't wan't society," interrupted Miss Pennybacker. " Givo mo tho keys, and I'll take possession at once." Great was Miss Pcnnybackor's gleeful self-congratulutiou, when she found her self safely installed in "Laurel Lodge," which was the name of tho Swiss cottage on the hill. "Roses, daffodils, honeysuckles, and plenty of current bushes," she, chuckled. " I'll send you a load of books at once, and get your easel up in the northrooin.Gerty." "It will be so nice, aunt," said Gertrude, who was ouo of those human mirrors who reflect the thoughts, ideas, and propensi ties of those who surround them. Miss Grace Pennybacker was fat, fair, and thirty-five a smooth-browed, merry eyed o)d Maid ; and Gerty at sixteen was just like a daisy fresh, innocent and blushing. Miss Pennybacker believed in tho inde pendence of women, and had a store of theories which she ventilatod on every oc casion. Gorty believed just what her aunt did. "And now," said aunt Grace, "I'll show that old blockhoad Northall whether two women can be independent or not. I won't have a man about the premises, for I always believed that what man can do, woman can do much better, If she only chooses to turn her whole mind upon it." So Aunt Grace had her wall whito wash. cd by an Irish female, her garden boed by a stout German frau, and lior piazza col umns painted by a sharp-faced daughter of the sou who " worked around tho neigh borhood, for ten shillings a day and her board. "Doesn't this suit you, my dear?" said Miss Grace, coming in from the flower borders with an apron full of gladiolus bulbs, and a trowel under berarm. " Yes, aunty, dear," said Gerty, descend ing from her chamber with a purple velvet bound prayer-book, In her hand, and a round bat to match. Miss Grace demurred somewhat. "I'm only going to church, aunty," said Gerty. " To bear a man preach ?" ' M But what shall I do, aunty ?" Better stay at home and read a ser mon." ' "We haven't any sermons, aunty." "I could preach one myself, 1 dare say," said Aunt Grace ambitiously. "Well, go just for to-day. Next week, I'll order down Blair, Channing and Spurgeon." They are men too, I suppose, Aunty, said Qertrudo, a little mischievously. But Miss Pennybacker thought proper not to bear, and she went gently on her way. " My birthday," she thought, as she leaned back in tho rocker, as Gorty 's do- parting footsteps died away on the car. ' " Well, well, how the time passes to be sure. It seems but a day that I was as young as Gertrude thero, with Harry Amos drawing my picture in a rustic dress, a wreath of corn flowers and whcat,a Flora. I believe I should havo married Harry Ames if it had not been for the meddling of Sarah Clifford. He did lovo me and yes,I do think I loved him. Well perhaps, it is bettor so, and yet " " Hallo-o !" shouted a deep gruff voico over the hedge of arbor vitaj that separated Miss Pennybackcr's domain from the cc centrio disciplo of Galen, who kopt house with a selected corps of men, " I wish you would keep your hens nt homo, scratching up my strawberry beds." "Hens yoursolf," somewhat ironically responded Miss Grace. "How can they when I don't keep any ?" " Whose aro they thon?" " How should I know ? Who are you?"' " I'm Doctor Ames J And I wish you'd tell your servant girl to leave off flirting over tho fence with my stable man, at least, until ho gets tho wagon wheels washed." " You are Doctor Ames," philosophic ally responded Miss Pennybacker. "I think you might do better making pills and powders than quarreling over the fence with your neighbors." There was a moment's silence, then a rustling among the leaves of the arbor vitai hedge, and a round, good-humored face appeared above tho green luxuriance. " I do believe you are Graco Penny- backer," said the adjurcr of woman kind. "Of course I am," said Miss Graco, " and you aro Harry Ames, grown older and not half so handsome," "Shake bands," said Doctor Ames. " I would if I could reach," said Miss Graco. " Hold on a minute ; I'll come round by the gate," exclaimed the doctor. And this was the unroraantio way in which the two lovers, separated for eighteen years, met again. " As brisk as ever, eh Grace ?" said the doctor, "and not married yet." ' I should think bo!" Miss Grace answer ed emphatically. "And why not?" " That's my business !" The doctor looked rougisbly up. Miss Pennybacker laughed ; she could not help it. Whon Gorty came homo, casting about in her mind how to tell her aunt that she had promised the Rev. Charles Canterbury to take charge of a class in tho Sunday school, she found Aunt Graco chatting fa miliarly with tho ferocious medical man, who was the terror of half the country. "I needn't tell her just yet," thought Gertrude. But the catastrophe couldn't be put off forever. " Aunty !" gasped Gerty, running into Miss Pennybackcr's room the next day, the Rev. Mr. Canterbury is trying to open the garden-gate. May I go and unlock it?" " Yes, child, yes," said Miss Grace, scratching her noso. "These mon will somehow work thoir way in, and I don't see any use to struggle against fate." So while Gerty and tho Rev. Charles Canterbury mingled romance and theology together in tho front garden, Harry Ames and his sweetheart talked a molody of old lang syne and asparagus, rhubarb plants, and reproach, over the hedge in the kitch en garden. " It's all nonsonce I know," said Miss Pennybacker to herself " but ho certainly has improvod I "Aunty, dear," said Gertrude one day in October, " I wish you would tell me what you really think of matrimony ; am I too young for it ?" " Am I too old ?" demanded Aunt Grace, turning with a look of comio perplexity to her niece. " I don't know what you mean, aunty ?" " What do you mean, Gerty?" " Mr. Canterbury has asked mo to mar ry him," said Gerty, growing pink. " And I've promised to be Doctor Ames' wife," said Miss Pennybacker, striving res olutely not to be embarrassed J "so while we are about it wo may as woll have two weddings." " Oh, aunty !" whispered Gortrude, nest ling close up to Grace. " I'm so glad I because I really don't tbiuk I should have dared to get married unless you did, too I' "Child," said Miss Grace, smoothing the girl's golden hair, " here's an end to our independence." "No aunty," said Gerty, coming out with her first original opinion ; "it's only the beginning of it." And Miss Pennybacker did not contra dict her nieoe. (Via life, as In art, the beautiful moves In curves. Farmer Purnell's Mistake. T LEASE, sir. mnv T rMn 9" , , . . The question was asked by a lad of about twelve years of age, who, with his books under his arm, was on the way home from school. It was a kcon, bright afternoon in January ; the snow crackled under foot and sparkled in the sun, and tho sleighing was excellent. The boy had walked perhaps a quarter of a mile on his way, and had something more than a mile yet to walk. He was a farmer's boy, with many chores to do, and ho knew there would be little daylight left after he had walked home. I say home. It was the place where ho boarded while ho was at tending school that winter, and he was trying hard to do work enough to pay for his board. It was a matter of some con sequence to this lad whether he could save an hour for study in the evening ; and every moment saved on his way home from school was something towards it. Solomon Puruell, a rich farmer of the neighborhood, was just passing in a largo box-sleigh, alone, drawn by two stout horses ; and knowing that Mr. Purncll went past his bonrding-plnco, be bad no hesitation in appealing to him for a ride. He did more ho assumed that the farmer would cheerfully grant his request ; and so thinking, ho ran swiftly to tho passing sleigh with his books under bis arm, and laid bis hands on the' tail-board, prepara tory to jumping in. Tho farmer instantly laid the lash to the horses, and the spirited animals bounded away at a fast gallop. Their speed was so much increased that the boy was unablo to jump into the sleigh, but had to run with it, with his hands on tho tail-board. Tho farmer then turned around in his seat, and exhibited bis face tho face of a young man, too, not moro than thirty years of nge glowing with vongeful wickedness. " I'll teach ye, ye young heathen, to catch riders with me " ho exclaimed : and his " black-snake" whip whistled through the air, and descended in a cruel cut across tho boy's check and neck. Astonished, frightened, and humiliated, the lad would have let go at once : but ho Baw that the speed of tho sleigh was now so great that he could not do so without falling. Again the lash descended, this time over his shoulders. Ho relinquished his hold, and was whirled into a snow-bank at the side of tho road, while his cherished school books spun into the snow in tho opposite direction. A loud, rude laugh from Mr. Purnell greeted his mishap, and the sleigh disappeared over a hill. Tho boy arose, grieved, shocked in body, and angered. He was a studious, retiring lad, sensitive to ill-treatment, and scrupu lously careful himself in his treatment of othors. lie picked up his cap and books, brushed tho snow from his clothes, and dashed a tear of mortification from his check. " I only hope, Sol Purnell," he said to himself, " that I shall live long enough, and havo a good chance to resent that meanness as I ought to." Aud then he quietly plodded on home, and was occupied till eight o'clock milking tho cows, whilo Mr. Purnell sat in his arm chair before his own fire-place, and smoked his pipo, forgetting already the thorn that he had planted that afternoon. Thirty years passed. Soloinou Purnell, was sixty years old, a wealthy land-owner and cultivator, and one of the most sub stantial men of tho county. The office of superintendent of the poor was vacant, and an appointment to fill tho vacancy was to be mode by the governor. It was an ollico of much importance in the county, and considerable profit. This appointment was invested with unusual importance, as it was conceded that tho appoiutee would bo the candidate of the dominant party at the next election for tho full term of Bix years, and would unquestionably be elect ed. There were two candidates for tho place, and Solomon Puruell was one of them. It was generally conceded that he would be appointed. He was an excellent party men ; he had contributed largely in times past to tho success of the party, by his labors and his influence, and he had tho names of the greater part of the influ ential men of the party on his petition. Ho was woll qualiflod by nature and experience for the place ; and it was woll understood that be was quite anxious for it. He bad never before asked anything of bis party ; but this place was just such a one as lie should like to fill ; and it seemed to be the voico of the party that he ought to till it. His opponent was a clever, competent man, but possossed of hardly a tithe of the in fluence of Mr. Purnell. At the proper time a delegation of the friends of each candidate appeared before the governor and urged the claims of their respective candidates. For Mr. Purnell, judges, legislators, and men of large prop erty aud position spoke, urging bis ap pointment ; for his opponent, Mr. Sands, only a few political and personal friends. The governor, a middle-aged man, with an earnest, Arm-featured face, heard all that was said, aud then spoke as follows : " Gentlemen, I have heard your argu ments, and have considered them as you made them. There were some others that might have been mentioned, but I will not refer to thorn. It is conceded here that either of. the gentlemen named would creditably and competently fill this office. Such being the case, for reasons that are entirely satisfactory to myself, I shall ap. ' point Mr. Bands. His letter of appointment will be forwarded to-morrow." The friends of tbe successful candidate retired, delighted and surprised at their good fortune, those of Mr. Purnell went away, astonished and chagrined beyond measure. One of the latton, a personal friend of the governor, 'remained after all the rest had gone, and, taking advantage oi ins intimacy, began to remonstrate against what he termed Injudicious action of his cxcullency in this matter. The gov. ernor stopped him at once. " I know Solomon Purnell a gieat deal better than you do," he said. "Let me tell you a little story." He then went on to relate the iucidont narrated above. " Well, sir, I was that boy. I proBume I was somewhat in the wrong on that oc casion," but that was no exouse for the exhibition of such a hateful, unchristian spirit as Mr. Purnell showed towards a poor schoolboy. I don't know what kind of man ho is now ; I hope he has changed ; but I certainly cannot commit the interests of tho unfortunate poor of that county into such hnnds. I refuse him this appoint ment, not in retaliation, but as a duty to the public ; I dare not trust the Interests of any class of tho pcoplo in his keeping. You are at liberty to toll him all I havo Baid ; indeed, I request that you will for I think that what I have said is a full justification for refusing him the appoint ment." : It was a bard blow to the ambitious old farmer a much harder one than the one ho had deolt upon the poor schoolboy thirty years before but it taught him a much- needed lesson, which he never forgot dur tho rest of his life a lesson which it is de sirable that all tho cruel, selfish Solomon Purnells of this world might recoivo for themselves. One or Beau Hickman's Tricks. Beau once made n raid on the Baltimore restaurants. He determined to dine well that day, or know the reason why. Ho waiKed into Guy's restaurant and asked for the proprietor. "Sir," said ho, "I want the best dinner you can give me." "All right, sir." said Mr. Guv : " wnlW in here," showing him into a neat littlo private room. The Beau ato and drank of the best. and, just after ho had finished his cup of caje noir, and had lit his cabanas, a ser vant entered with a folded taner on a silver waiter, which he gravely handed to tne ucau. " What is this ?" inquired the Beau. "Do bill, sah," said the waiter. "Bill; I don't want any bill. Ask the proprietor to come here. The proprietor appeared, bowinir and smiling ; ho hoped there was nothing wrong, ana that his guest had liked his dinner. " I liked the dinner well enough, ami tho wine," said Beau Hickman, " but I want to know what this means." " That's the bill, sir," said the proprie tor. " Well. I never pay anv bills. I am Beau Hickman. I don't pay anybody. liesiues, you nave no right to charge mo for this dinner. I asked vou for the best dinner you could give me." "Woll, Beau, you have rung in on me aud got the better of me fairl v. Now T'll not only forgive you for this trick, but I'll give ao if you will play this trick on the St. Clair, on the othor side of the way." The next day the Beau fared sumptu ously at the St. Clair, and the scene was re-enacted. Hie bill was presented, and the proprietor wound up with " Beau, I'll give you $50 if you will play this off on Guy." . "My dear, sir," Baid the Beau, "why didn't I call here first. Guy has paid me 2S to play it on you." . Annual tirorrth of Antlers. Deer, raooee, the elk and that family of animals to which they are related, cast their branching horns every year. Their rapid reproduction indicates a great deter mination of blood to the head, ud partic ular activity in those vessels which secrete the osseous material. Between casting these organs of defence aud the growth of a new sot, the males manage to be on very peaoeable terms with rivals, but assoon as they feel the new hostilities, or commen cing new quarrels for eminent position in the herd, they fight vigorously. "The survival of the fittest" insures a progeny from the strongest and most perfect source. At Salt Lake City, a tine collection of na tive animals Is on exhibition, which tho Mormon proprietors are augmenting as new or strange specimens are secured. At Woodword's Garden, a beautiful public resort about four miles from San Francisco, is another large collection of California wild beasts and birds, an institution emi nently worthy of examination of all Paoillo eoast visitors. In that native menagerie are several splendid elks. While their broad spread palmated antlers are In per fection, they are imposing objects. The moment they drop oil, they seem to realize their defenceless state by a subdued, re treating manner.
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