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CONTINENT AL
Life Insurance Company,
OP NEW YORK,
STRICTLY M UTUAL I
AhhoIw, ((,O5l),M01.85 !
ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre
sents as favorable terms as any company Id the
United Mates.
Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and
the policy held goed 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 prntltsof the
Company, and have a voice In the elections and
management of the Company.
No policy or medical feecharged.
Ij. W. FROST, Prentitent .
M. B. Wynkoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P.Rooehs, Seo'y.
J. F. EATON.
General Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
College Block, Ilarrlsburg, Ia.
THUS. II. MILLK1AN,
0 42 ly Special Agent fur Newport.
Porry County .Bank!
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THE undersign d, having formed a Bnnklng 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 CO US T HO VSB,
NEW BLOOHFIELD, 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
(our 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
bave determined to supply the want ; and this 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. Hponsi.er, Bloomtleld, Perry county, Pa.
B. F. JUNKIN, " "
Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle,
officers :
W. A. 8PONSLEB, President.
William Willis. Cashier
New Bloomtleld, 3 S ly
I'KItltY COUNTY
Real Estate,, Insurance,
CLAIM AGENCY.
LEWIS POTTES $ CO.,
Real Estate Broken, Insurance, Claim Agen
New Uloomliolcl, Pa.
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. Wehavea 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-
f;alns. We advertise our property very cxtensive
y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to
effect a sale. We make no charges unless tin
Sroperty Is sold while registered with us. We alxc
raw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, audall legal pa
pers at moderate rates.
Home of the best, cheapest, and most reliable
fire, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the
United Stales are renresented at this acreiiev.-.
j Property Insured either on the cash or mutual
5 plan, and perpetually at 14 and tf per thousand.
1 Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claim
collected. There are thousands of soldiers and
heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Hoi-
idlers. If you were wounded, ruptured, oroontract-
d a disease in the service from which you are dia
lled, you are entitled to a pension.
When widows of soldiers die orumrrv.the minor
hildwn are entitled to the pension.
Parties havliiff anv business to transact In nnr
Ine, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as
'n are connuom we can renaer sausiaction in any
ranch of our business.
No charge for Information.
30ly LLVYlrt POTTEH & CO
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fr would respectively inform my friends that I In.
l. tend calling upou them with a supply of goods
(my
' OWN MANUFACTURE.
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CA88INET8, . . .
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
Jo exchange fur wool or cell for cash.
J. M. B1XLKH.
CbntkiWoolem Factokv. ,17,4m,
,'ERItY HOUSE,
1 New Bloomtleld, Fat
THHE subscriber having purchased the propert y
i on the corner of Maine and Carlisle streets,
i'poslle the Court House, Invites all his friends
lid former customers to give hi in a call as he la
lermiucd to lurulsu nrst nus accoinmooauuD.
IHOMAH HVTl'll, .,t
ltf. ; , , Proprietor. ,
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, YO SEMITE VALLEY.
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Semite," given as a premium to subscribers
for the Times nnd Wood's Magazine.
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E N 1 a M A DEPARTMENT,
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be accompanied by me correct answer.
Enigma.
I am a trunk with two lids two caps j two
musical Instruments; two established measures ;
a great number of articles that a carpenter can
not dispense with. Then I have with me at all
times a couple of excellent fish, and a great
number of smaller ones; two lofty trees of fine
flowers two kinds, also a fruit. Two playful
animals, and a nusgber of less playful ones;
also a fine stag. A great number of whips
without handles; some weather cocks. Also
some weapons of war. The steps of a hotel;
the bouse of Commons on the eve of a division;
two scholars, and a number of Spanish
grandees to wait on nic.
How Harris was Cured.
I WAS sent for in great haste, to attend
a man of responsibility, whose wife a
lady of intelligence and refinement, bad
discovered bim in his room lying senseless
upon the floor.
On arriving at the bouse, I found Mrs.
Harris in great distress of mind.
11 What is the matter with Mr. Harris ?"
I asked on meeting bis lady, who was in
tears, and looking the picture of distress.
" I'm afraid it is apoplexy," jibe replied.
"I found bim lying upon the floor, where
be bad, to all appearances, fallen suddenly
from bis chair. His face is purplo, and
though be breathes, it is with great diffi
culty." I went up to see my patient. He bad
been lifted from the floor, and was lying
upon the bed. Sure enough, bis face was
purple, and breathing labored ; but some
how the symptoms did not indicate ap
oplexy. Every vein in bis bead and face
was filled, and be lay perfectly stupid ; but
still I saw no clear indication of an actual
or approaching congestion of the brain.
" Hadn't be better be bled, doctor ?"
asked the anxious wife.
" I don't know that it is necessary," I
replied ; " I think if we let bim alone it
will pass off in the course of a few hours."
" A few hours I he may die in balf an
hour," sbe exclaimed. '
" I don't think the ease so dangerous as
that, madam."
"Apoplexy not dangerous ?" .
" I baldly think it apoplexy," I repli
ed.
"Pray, what do you think it is, doc
tor?" '
Mrs. Harris looked anxiously into my
face as sbe spoke.
I deliberately hinted that he might pos
sibly bave been drinking too much braudy ;
but this she positively and almost indig
nantly objected to.
" No, doctor. I ought to know about
that," she said. "Depend upon It, the
case is more deeply seated. I am sure be
bad better be bled. "Won't you bleed bim,
doctor ? A few ounces of blood taken
from bis arm may give life to the stagnant
circulation of the blood In his veins."
Tbus urged, I after some reflection,
ordered a bowl and bandago, and opened a
vein, from which the blood flowed freely,
and relieved bim of about eight ounces of
bis circulating medium. But be still lay
insensible as before, much to the distress
of bis poor wife.
''Something else must be done, doctor,"
sbe urged, seeing that the bleeding bad
accomplished nothing. " If my husband
is not quickly relieved be must die,"
By this time seveial friends and relatives
who bad been sent for, arrived, and urged
upon me the adoption of some more active
means for restoring the sick man to con
sciousness. One proposed blisters all over
the body, and another a blister on the
bead ; another, immersion in hot water.
I suggested that it might be well to use a
stomach pump. .
'Why, doctor?" asked one of his
friends.
" Perhaps be has taken some drug," I
replied. ,
"Impossible, doctor," said bis wife.
" He bus not been from borne to-day, and
there is no drug of any kind in the
house."
"No brandy?" I ventured the asser
tion again, '' '
" No, doctor I No spirits of any kind,
not even wine in the house," returned Mrs.
Harris, in an offended tune, i
I was not tbe regular family physician,
and bad been called in to meet the ularm-
ing emergency, because my house happen
ed to be neatest to tbe dwelling of Mr,
Harris. Feeling my position to be a difficult
one, I suggested that the family pbisiolan
bod better be sent for. ,
"But tbe delay, doctor," urged tbe
friends. .
-nonarm win result from it, be as
sured," I replied. .
But my words did not assure them.
However, as I was firm in my resolution
not to do- anything more for the patiout
until Dr. Solly came, thoy had to submit,
I wished to make a call of importance in
the neighborhood, and proposed going to
be back by the time Dr. Solly arrived
but tbe friends of the sick man would not
suffer me to leave tbe room.
When Dr. Solly camo, we conversed
aaiilo for a few moments, and I gave him
my viows on the case, and stated what I
had done, and why I had dono it. We
then proceeded to the bed-side of the
patient. There was still no signs of ap
proaching consciousness. " Uon t you
think bis head ought to be shaved and
blistered ?" asked the wife, anxiously.
Dr. Solly thought a moment, and thou
said, " Yes, by all means. Send for a
barber ; and also a fresh fly blister, four
inches by nine."
I looked into the face of Dr. Solly with
surprise. It was perfectly grave and earn
est. I hinted to bim my doubt of tbe good
that mode of treatment would do ; but be
spoke confidently of the result, and said
that it would not only cure the disease, but
be believed take away tbe predisposition
thereto, - with which Mr. Harris was af
fected in a high degree.
Tbe bead of Mr. Harris was shaved, and
Dr. Solly applied the blister with bis own
bands, and which completely covered the
scalp from forehead to occiput.
" Let it remain on for four hours, and
then make use of tbe ordinary dressing,"
said Dr. Solly. If be should not recover
during the action of tbe blister, don't feel
uneasy. Sensibility will be restored soon
after."
I did not call again, but heard from Dr.
Solly tbe result.
After we left, tbe friends stood anxious
ly around tbe bed-side upon which tbe
sick man lay ; but though the blister be
gan to draw, no signs of returning con
sciousness showed themselves, further than
an occasional low moan, or an uneasy tos
sing of the arms. For full two hours the
burning blister parched tbe tender skin of
Mr. Harris shorn bead, and was then re
moved. It bad done good service. Dress
ings were then applied, repeated and re
peated again, but still the sick man lay in
a deep stupor.
" It has done no good. Hadn't we bet-
send for the doctor?" suggested tbe
wife.
Just then the eyes of Harris opened, and
he looked with balf stupid surprise from
face to face, of tbe anxious group that sur
rounded the bed. '
"What's the matter?" he at length
said. At tbe same time feeling a strange
sensation about bis bead, be placed bis
band rather heavy thereon. "Heavens
and earth !" He was now fully in bis
senses. " Heavens and eartu I what ails
my head?"
"For mercy's sake, keep quiet," said bis
wife, the glad tears gushing over her face.
You bave been very ill. There, there
now 1" And she spoke very soothing! ya
" Don't say a word, but lie very still ?"
"But my bead. What's the matter
with my bead? It feels as if scalded.
Where's my bair? Heavens and earth, I
don't understand this I What's ray arm
tied up in this way for?
" Be quiet, my dear husband, and I'll
explain all. Oh, be very quiet. Your life
dopeuds upon it."
Mr. Harris sank back upon tbe pillow,
from which be bad risen, and closed bis
eyes to think. He put his band to bis
head, and felt it tenderly from temple to
temple and from nape to forehead.
" Yes, dear. You bave been very ill.
We feared for you," said Mrs. Harris, af
fectionately. "There have been two doe-
tors in attendance."
Harris closed bis eyes again. His lips
moved. Those nearest wore not mucb edi
fied by the whispered words that issued
therefrom. They would bave sounded
very strange to ears polite and refined.
After this, he lay for some time quiet.
"Threatened with apoplexy, I suppose?"
he then said interrogatively.
"Yes, dear," replied bis wife. "I
found you' tying insensible on tbe floor on
happening to come into your room. . It
was most providentiall discovered you as I
did, or you certainly would have died."
Harris abut bis eyes and muttered some
thing, with an air of impatience, but its
meaning was not understood. ,
Finding bim out of danger, friends and
relatives retired, and tbe sick man was loft
alone with bis family.
"Sarah," be said, "why iu braven's
namo did you permit the doctors to butch
er me In this way ? I am laid up for a
week or two, and all for nothing."
" It was to save your life, dear." t
"Save "
" Hu-u-sb t There, do for Iieavena sake
keep quiet, everything depends on it." .'
With a gesture of impatience, Mr. Harris
shut bis eyes, teeth and band and lay per
perfectly still for tome minutes. Tben be
lurueu uis iace w tne wan, muttering in a
low, petulant voice, 'f Too bad! too bad 1
too bad 1" ; . , ,
I bad not erred in my first and last im
pression of Mr. Harris's disease, neither
bad Dr. Solly, although he certainly used
a vory extraordinary mode of treatment.
The facts of the ease are these :
Harris had weakness. He eould not
taste wine nor strong drink without being
tempted into excess. Both himself and
friends wore mortified and grieved at this ;
and they, by admonition, and be by good
resolution, tried to bring about a reform.
But to see was to taste ; to taste was to fall.
At last his friends urged him to shut himself
up at home, for a certain time, and see if
total abstinence would not give him
strength. He got on pretty well for a few
days, particularly as his coachman kept a
well filled bottle for him in the carriage
house, to which he not unfrequcntly re
sorted ; but a too ardent dovotion to this
identical bottle brought on supposed apo
plexy. Dr. Solly was right in his mode of treat
ing the disease, after all, and did not err
in supposing that it would reach the pre
disposition. The cure was effectual.
Harris kept quiet on tho subject, and bore
his shavod head on bis shoulders with as
much philosophy as be could muster. A
wig, after tho sores made by the blisters
bad disappeared, concealed the barber's
work till bis hair had grown again. He
never more ventured on wine or braudy for
fear of apoplexy.
When the truth leaked out as such
things always will, the friends of Harris
had many a hearty laugh, but they wisely
concealed from the object of thoir mcrri
mont the fact they knew anything more
than appeared ou the supposed illness.
Such Fun.
A PERUVIAN, officer stationed en
ut. board a man-of-war lying iu Calleo
harbor (writes a correspondent), bad a
lovoly and devoted Peruvian wife,and both
were devoted to each other, but both un
reasonably jealous. Au American officer
fond of a practical joke, and a great favor
ite with husband and wife,conceived a very
clever trick, as be thought, to break them
of their unfounded jealousy. He caused a
note to be sent to the wife that her husband
was in the habit of going to a certain street
and number, and asking at the door for a
Signorita Mercedes, each week, on such a
day and hour. He also had an anonymous
note sent to the husband that tho wife was
seen weekly going at the same day and
hour to such a street and number and ask
ing at the door for Siguor Mercedes. It
was a large dress-making establishment,
but never patronized by the wife. Secur
ing in some way the aid of a servant of
the establishment, be awaited the " fun,"
as he supposed. The wife, true to her
womanly curiosity and jealousy, came first,
closely veiled, and in a trembling voice,
said, "Signorita Mercedes," and was shown
into an ante-room. The husbaud, a few
minutes later, and punctual to the hour
specified, presented himself at the door and
rung. To the boy who opened it he said
simply, "Signor Mercedes," and was at
once shown into the room where sat bis
wife 1 Both commenced at ouco : " I have
found you out 1" " I have caught you !"
&o. Neither would listen to explanation
or reason. The wife screamed and cried ;
the husband swore and stormed, each ac
cusing the other. After both were ex
hausted, the lady of the establishment,
bearing the noise, came in, listened to
the parties in astonishment, and protest
ed that she had seen neither of them evet
there before. The boy was called in j in
fright he confessed the money paid bim for
the " fun ;" was cuffed, kicked, and dis
charged ; and the husband and wife went
bom arnie iu arm, happy and ashamed.
But tbe friend who baootteu up tbe 'fun':
Tbe evening of the denoument, while in
bis room a knock came at the door. He
said, "Come in," and in walked the hus
band and wife. Without a word tbey
" went for" him tben and there. They
scratched bim and tore out bis bair ; they
banged and beat bim, and pulled out bis
beard ; they cuffed and kicked them, and
loft bim with torn clothes, bleeding and
disfigured. He kept his bed for a week.
bis eyes were closed for a fortnight, and
bis friends on shipboard never dared to
ask bim what was the matter with bim.
IW A good looking Irishman stopping at
a hotel to warm himself, inquired of the
landlord
"What is the news?"
Tbe landlord, disposed to run upon bim,
replied
" They say the devil Is dead." .
"An sure," says Pat, "that's news
indade."
Shortly after, he went up to the bar, laid
dowu some coppers and resumed bis seat.
Tbe landlord, always ready for a customer,
asked bim what he would take.
"Nothing at all," said Pat.
" Then why did you put this money
down." . i
"An sure, sir, it's tbe custom in my
own country, wbeu a chap loses bit daddy
to give bim a few copper to help him pay
for the wake." i ; ,
tW The most noble fueling of the heart
is true love.
Scene at a St. Louis Bank.
i . '
V7"ER ish der gasheer?" ejaculated
T the breathless Teuton as he .
bounded up tbe steps and in the door.
A Courtly gentleman made the bland
response, " I am tbe cashier, sir ; what can
we do for you to-day ?"
" Vot gan you do vor . me, sncrement !
Dot ish a pocty node, ai nd it ? Do vor
me ? Ierr Oot donnerwetter und zeifen
blizen I I vants dot inonish mine gold
vot I make deposit mit dis bore pank
pooti-y soon last summer, und"
" We have temporarily suspended pay
ment, sir, by an arrangement similar "
"Arrangements similar, der tuyfelt"
broke in our Hebrew friend ; " vat do I
vant mit your arrangements ? I vants dot
monish five tousand dollar vart I makes
deposid here all der vile und I vants him
pooty quick, too, oof you dond vants some
drooblcs right avay 1"
"Calm yourself, my friend, and let us
talk .this matter over. I shall be glad to
certify your checks for your balance with
us, and "
"Certify nodings 1 Vat you tinks I vas
one fool ? Hore, here I (pouuding the
counter with bis fists) I vants dot monish
dot gold efry cent, und I vants him
right away, quaek, owt, oder I make you
a heep o' drooblcs pooty soon I Gif me
dot monish dot greenbacks dot ish all I
vant 1 Make him owt queek, und I goes
right away off, und you can go mit der
tuyfel und your old bank 1"
Seeing there was no way of reasoning with
his excited customer, the cashier turned to
his paying teller and said : " Mr. ,
cash this man's check for bis balance in
full."
The Chicago dealer in " sheep clothing"
nervously drew up the chock and tbe ur
bane teller counted out the sum it called
for. Tbe Teuton drew in one good long .
breath, counted his money carefully, put it
in his breast pocket, and went his way a
happy man. The cashier went back to his
office, and bad been seated there some min
utes when the prominent nasal appendage
of his Teutonic customeagain overshad
owed the counter and his voioe was again
beard :
" Mr. Gasheer, I vood like to speak mit
you some dings."
Thinking that perhaps his customer had
recovered from bis fright arid desired to re
deposit bis funds, the cashier responded
quickly and came forward to the counter.
" Well, sir, what is the matter now?"
"Veil, you sco, veil I hear about dis dings
mit der panks I was iu .Shecago, und I
must gum righd avay queek here und I
dhinks dot it vill pe all righd ven you bay
mine leedle expenses down here uud pack
home und"
" Pay your expenses I" broke in the
cashier. " Pay your expenses I Well, that
is an idea, to be sure. See here, my friend,
how many brass bands do you suppose
could be supplied with instruments from
that cheek of yours, and then bave bronze
enough left to make a equestrian statue of
Jim Fisk ? About how many six-gun bat
teries of twelve-pound Napoleon howitzers
were melted down to make that cheek,
anyhow ?"
Tbe excited individual . from Chicago
eyed his interlocutor with tbe injured air
of one who thinks he bas been refused a
very reasonable request, and tben sadly
preceded his coat tails out of the bank. He
had got his money.
Right theViTiiner
" A I was riding along the road some
time ago," said the eccentric old Peter
Cartwright, in one of his luBt sermons, "a
man overtook me who looked as though he
might be a preacher. Ho called me by
name, and after some talk asked me if I
was ready to hear the truth. I told him
that Cartwright was my namo, my debts
were paid, my will made, and I was ready
for anything. 'V ery well,' said be, "you
old ignoramus, or hypocrite, you ought to
kuow too much, or be too honest to remain
a Mothodist. I used to be one myself yes,
a Methodist preacher until I found out
the error of my way.' Ho I ho 1' said I,
' and what are you now ?" Cartwright
mentioned the name of the denomination
to which .bis interlocutor had gone, but
which I need not repeat, and then proceed
ed : " Now, brethren, I knew well enough
that the devil bad only one of three ways
to get a man out of the Methodist Church
into that denomination ; and that there
must be rascality in money matters, a
woman scrape, or liquor at the bottom of
this fellow's change. So, judging from bis
looks, I pulled a bow at a venture and said:
" What was the fuss you bad about a
woman?" " Cartwright, you old rascal!"
he shouted In a rage, ' how did you ever
bear about that !' And, putting whip to
bis horses, be was soon out of sight. I
never saw or heard of tbe man before ; but
that' tbe way I treed that coou no, drove
that skunk td bis hole."
tW Gain a friend by a' quarrel, if it Is
possible never lose one however, this is
possible ; for there is peculiar mode of
conduct, even when dissension, reigns, that
oommanda veneration and generates es
teem.: '
tW Conceit and confidence are both of
them cheats, the first always imposes on
itself, tbe second frequently deceives other
too.