new yore: CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OP NEW YORK, ' STRICTLY M UTUAL I ISSUES nil the new forms of Policies, and pre sent a favorable terms as any company in the United States. ,..-,,,., , . , . Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held goed during that time. Policies issued by this Company are non-forfelt-re. 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 aud management of the Company. . . Mo policy or medical fee charged. Jj. W. FROST, President: M. B. Wtnkoop, Vice Pres't. J. P.Booeiis, Bec'y. ' , J. F. EATON, General Agent, No . 6 North Third Street, College Block, Ilarrlsburg, Pa. THOS. II. MII.UGAN, 6 421y , Special Agent for Newport. Perry County Bank! Hponsicr, Juiiltfu sfe Co. THE undersign id, having formed a Banking As sociation under the above name and style, are now ready to do a Geueral Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, OPPOSITE TUB COURT HO USB, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on demand. We discount notes for a period of not over 60 days, aud sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. ' - On time Deposits, five per cent tor any time over four months; and for tour months four per cent. We are well provided with all and every facility fordoing Banking Business) and knowing, and for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored for the want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have have determined to supply the want ;aud this being the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we hope we will be sustained in our efforts, by all the business men, fanners and mechanics, i This Banking Association is composed of the f ol lowing named partners : W. A. HpoNSi.Eii.Bloomlleld, rerry county, Pa. B. F. Jcnrin, " " Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle, , ornc'EHS: W. A. SPON8LEB, President. William Willis, Cashier . New Bloom Held, S 6 ly .. i : . ' riuitv county Ileal Estate, Insurance, CLAIM AGENCY. ' LEWIS POTTEB & CO., Real Estate Broken, Insurance, dV Claim Agen NW Uloomlicltl, rtt. ,. XTTE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell. W ers to the advantages we ofler them in pur chasing or disposing ol real estate through our of fice. We have a very large llstof deslrab property, consisting of farms, town property, mills, store and tavern stauds, and real estate of any descrip tion which we are prepared to oiler at great bar- f;ains. We advertise our property very extensive y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllirence to effect a sale. We make no charges unless th Sroperty is sold while registered with us. We alsc raw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa pers at moderate rates. Home of the best, cheapest, and most reliable lire, life, and cattle insurance companies In the United States are represented at tills agency. Property Insured either on the cash or mutual plan, and periietually at (4 and tb per thousand. PeiiHlons, 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 diers, if you were wounded, ruptured, orcontraet ed a disease In the service from which you are dis abled, you are entitled to a pension. W lien widows of soldiers die or marry , the minor Children are entitled to the penslou. 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. - No charge for Information. Wly t 1-k.WJH PO-TTEB CO LOOK OUT! I would respectively Inform my friends that I In. tend calling upon them wth a supply of goods of my H"-' ' " i ' ' OWN MANUFACTURE." Consisting of CABSIMERS. OAS8INET8, FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) CAItPKTS, &o., to exchange for wool or sell for cash. . , ' J. l, BIXLLK. CektbeWoolemFactoht. . 6,17,4m, PERKY HOUSE, New Bioomfleld, Pa. THE subscriber having purchased the property on the corner of Maine and Carlisle streets. opposite the Court House, Invites all his friends ana former customers to give hi in a rail as lie is determined to (uruiitli nrt class accommodations. THOMAS survii, ltf, Proprietor. .,..1,. n, it ,7 l , ; . . YO SEMITE VALLEY. ; , The above cut represents as well a so small n picture can, the Chromo " Yo Semite," given as a premium to subscribers for the Timet nnd Wood'i Magazine: ENIGMA 11 K I' A B I M E K I . JW All contributions to this department must be accompanied by the correct answer. A Geographical Puzzle. . Can any of our readers substitute the proper Geographical name where reference Is made to auy place or river, In the following i The morning was a state of South America and I dreaded to go out, but my brothcr,who Is as cunning as a small island south of Maine remarked, "you know you want to wear your new town in Scotland to-day." Thus reminded, I was soon ready, and we set ont, I, owing to the weather, throwing a light mountain la Oregon over my bonnet to protect it from the mountains In south Af rica . My brother declared that I had never looked prettier, but this I knew, was a cape west of U. 8 . When we reached the church we found the Key. town In Illinois In the pulpit. He Is not a favorite of mine, but some persons think him a very city In north of Bus sla . Ills text was from one of the epistles of the capitol of Minn. . The preacher com pared our easily bescttln g sins to a city of Western New York and exhorted ns to follow the example of a bay east of Brazil and wage war npon them till they were all a sea In Palestine and we safe across the river con necting Great Salt and Utah lakes. The sermon was so long that it seemed to me It must have covered a city of France but the singing was really a lake between the United States and British America . As we came out we board a bay east of Michigan And I remarked that we should soon see a cape west of Oregon to which my brother re plied, a river of Italy the island west of Scotland Is too nearly a cape sonth of Ire landfor that. tH7 Answer to Enigma In the Timet of the 25th ult. i 1, Eye-lids j 2, Knee-caps 3, Ear drums 4, Feet j 5, Teeth, Joints and Nails j 0, Soles, Muscles ) 8, Palms ; 9, Tulips and Iris 10, Adam'B Apple ; 11, Calves 13, Hairs f 13, Heart ; 14, Eye-lashes IS, Veins ; 16, Arms i 17, Insteps ; 18, Eyes and Nose, 19, Pupils ) 20, Tendons. ' ' . i . My Bachelor Uncle. )EWARE pf her, Herbert 1" said JD my mother, a pair of gold-mounted pebble glasses adding an owlish wisdom to the nature of her remark. "I have mistrusted her from the first," said my sister, Mrs. Beverly. . . " Bo have I," said my other sister, Miss Rosamond Rockthorne. " These girls with greenish eyes aud low voicos ore sure to have something of the cat nature about them." . "'. ' , , " Your argument is thrown away," said I, calling up a comfortable obstinancy of demeanor. " I love Charlotte Courteuay, and I am determined to make her my wife." And I walked out of the room, with all the dignity I could assume. Charlotte Courtenay was my sister's gov nerness, and just at that moment she was in the school-room teaching Dicky aud Billy their impersonate aud nominatives, with little Jesse strumming her scales on a wretched piano la the comer. She looked up as I entered. ' ' Her eyes were a little green green with the dreamy beryl tint that sleeps on a summer sea but her hair shone and glistened like gold, and bur features were small and regular, with flushes of pink on either cheek, and a little ripe cherry of a mouth. " You had better give me up, Herbert," she said, when I told her the story of the recent discussion with the feminine pow ers of the household. ; " Not for worlds would I make dissension in a family. Let me drudge on. Life Is but short, and it will soon be over." The tears started in her beryl eyes. Could I do anything but clasp her in my arms, and vow to be faithful forever aud ever? , And then she went back to her work; and I had to tight it all over again with my mother uud sisters. "Oh, Bertie, don't you see through her?" cried Rosamond. " She, don't care for you at all." . ' " She's a mere scheming fortune-huntress !" cried Helena Beverly, bursting Into tears. , "And I won't keep her one day beyond the quarter no, not if she "begs for bread in the publlo streets 1" " All that is nonsense 1" said I. " She knows perfectly well that I haven't a cent in the world." , " But she knows that you have expecta tions from our bachelor uncle," . said Rosa mond, spitefully. "I wrote to hlin this morning, stating all the facta ,of the case." , I bit my mustache indignantly. , ." Jt'n very , strange you women can't learnt mind your own business," quoth I. ," A little more provocation of this na ture, and I marry ber at once. , . " O, Bertie," cried my mother, "only wait until we hear from Uncle Ulrio." , "Let his docision settle the matter," said Rosamond., ',' We are entirely willing to leave it to his discretion and mature judgment, ad ded Mrs. Beverly. From which I drew the inference that they had all three written to him, each stating the case from her own point of view. AY ell, let them. I promised to wait for Uncle Ulric's reply. . , , . For my bacholor uncle was rich and ec centric, and in consideration of my mid dles initial . being U, had promised to re member me amply in his will. lie paid my college bills, allowed me Ave hnndred a year, and generally represented Fortunatus in our family. I sat down myself and penned a molting appeal to my bachelor undo. "She is all that is perfect," I wrote. " Only come and see for yourself." And a telegram reached me the next day. " I will come. Expect me on the 8.50 train .. Ulmo Martin." , . I hurried to impart the tidings to Lottie. " You must be sure and look your pret tiest, dear one," said I enthusiastically. " Put on that blue dress, with the blue ribbons in your hair, and he cannot help liking you." ' "O, Herbert," sighed Charlotte, drop ping her band like a newly gathered lily, "I do dread his coming. Is he very old?" "Not very, darling. Only sixty, or thereabouts." ' "And veiy rich ?" " A hundred thousand, at the least. Our future fortune depends on him, Charlotte, or rather the favorable impression you moke." : Lottie blushed and dimpled and trem bled. My sister had the best bed-room aired, and a Are lighted on the hearth. My moth er went down stairs to prepare a breaded cutlet just as he liked it, for supper. Rosa mond set herself to work finishing a new pair of slippers, worked with the mono gram " U. M." And I took a cab and drove to the depot to meet my bachelor uncle. He came brusquo, bluff and rosy, with a clear complexion, like a well-preserved winter apple, and hair just streaked with dashes of gray. i " Well," said Uncle Ulric. ' " Well," faltered I. " So you're in love." 1 " Beyond all hope of redemption," said I, looking somewhat sheepish. "What's she like?" deraandsd my bach elor uncle. "She's an angel, sir." I assorted pos itively. " "Humph !" said ray bachelor uncle, and he fell to reading the evening paper in a way which was, to say the least of it, im polite. My mother and the girls had the whole afternoon to poison Uncle Ulric's mind,but I cared cot. Lottie would undo it all when she appeared. She came down to dinner with her pu pils looking lovely iu the blue cashmere, and just a knot of blue ribon in her golden braids. ' ' " She is pretty," said my bachelor uncle. And I maneuvered to leave them alone, together after dinner in the school room. That evening I received a telegram to proceed at once to Portland to attend the funeral of a dear deceased friend. " What shall I do?" cried I. ' " " Don't mind me, my . dear bey," said Uncle Ulric. "You will not remain away long?" .... " Three days only, uncle." "All right, I'll stay till you come back." Was ever such an uncle ? I wrung his hand, kissed Lottie, and whispering to her, " Make the best impression you can, dear est," rushed frantically to catch the last train. ' u ' ' ' At the end of three days' I returned. " Where is Lottie ?" was my first ques tion. ' . " Gone out for a walk," said Rosamond tossing her head. ' : " Where is uncle ?" was my second query. '" " ' Gone out for a walk ?" returned my mother frigidly. ..-. Presently they returned, Lottie banging sweetly on Uncle Ulrio's arm. I knew in an instant that she had conquered the old man's rusty, musty prejudices. Uncle Ulrio sat down, aud laid a detain ing band on Lottie's arm. " Don't leave us dear," said he. " I wish to state a few words as briefly as pos sible. Nephew and nieces, you all may understand that you needn't calculate any longer ou the reversal of my fortune. I have other views I am married." "Married !" cried my mother. ''' " Married I" shrieked my two sisters. ' ', " Married !" echoed I, instinctively hur rying to Lottie's side. " Never mind, Lot tie. I will work. I will make myself a rich mau for your sake!." ' ' ' " Pray don't trouble yourself," said Lot tie, turning a charming carmine. ' " The fact is I am married too. I am Mrs. Uirio Martin 1" , That was the end of my great expecta tions. But it is a sort of melanoholy satis faction to know that Lottie leads my uncle a dog's life, spending his money as if it were water, and Openly flirting with all the eligible young men of the neighborhood. I shall never believe in human nature any more, after the way in which Lottie and my Bachelor Uncle have treated me. . . . . A Wonderful Cuse. THE Evansville, Ind., Journal prints the following in a letter from Malone, Washington county, N. Y. Two years ago a farmor started from this neighborhood to go to Nashville, Tenn. He took with him several hundred dollars, a trunk of clothing, a patent right model for a spring bed and several letters of In troduction to parties in the South. The last heard of him he was at Teno Haute, when he wrote that he was feeling ill, but would push on to Evansville, where bo had an old friend named David Weaver, with whom he intended to spend a few days, after which he would proceed on his jour ney. '' He was never heard of again, or at least such is the claim of his wife and two sons, who are now resisting the claims of a stranger who pretends to be the man, al though he is eight inches taller than Willis Peyton, the missing man ; has brown curly hair and luxuriant board, whereas Peyton had light hair, nearly red, and very scanty beard. Another radical point of difference is, the claimant is round-favored and has an aquiline nose, while Peyton was thin and bad a largo, arched nose, and closely resembled William Bedford, Jr., of your city, except in the color of his hair. So far the case seems Bimply a specimen of artistic lying, but the sequel shows the strangeness of it. About four months ago this man came to this neighborhood, and, entering the houso of tho widow Peyton, as she is called, took a seat, and looking at Mrs, Peyton, said : " I suppose you don't know mo, Addle ?" Mrs. Peyton answered : " No sir, I do not. Who are you? The stranger burst into tears, and said ; " You'll not be lieve me, I know, when I tell you, but I'm Willis Peyton." Mrs. Peyton, who is a woman of nerve and decision of character, ordered the fellow out of doors, and he per sisting that be was her husband, and caus ing trouble, was taken by her sons and a hired man to the nearest Justice, and com mitted to jail as a lunatic ' The question first arose on bis sanity by a commission of lunacy ti iod before a Sur rogate, and it was decided that he was per fectly sane on his own testimony, or rather on an examination of himself. In court, he related to the Surrogate circumstances that had occurred in his court years before, told the lawyers many things of themselves that a stranger could not know ; related his own family history, giving some minute details well known to all, and even remind ed Mrs. Peyton of words spoken during her courtship that it seemed utterly impossible for any one but she' and ber husband to know. His story, as related under oath, is that be left Terre Haute on the train, and after a short time seemed to lose his souse, or at least lost all consciousness of what was transpiring around bim, but be thinks he was taken to a hospital in Evansville where he was sick with small-pox. From the hospital be was released in a state of semi consciousness, entirely bald and toothless, his hair and teeth having fallen out. When be asked for his clothes, they gave him what appeared to be the clothes of a smaller man, his legs going through the pants, and leaving from four to six inches below unprotected. He could get no trace of either bis mo ney, watch or other effects ; and half crazy with mortification he sought out his friend David Weaver, only to be spurned as an imposter trying to sow pestileuce. Wea ver's remarks to him caused him to ex amine himsolf, and to his astonishment be found that although forty-two years of age, he hod grown five inches iu eight weeks. At first be thought ho would drown him self, be felt so miserable, but he concluded to try to get home. On his way back he was taken ill again, and again the world was a blank to him. Where this sickness took place he cannot tell, nor is he certain of any of the events of the past two years after leaving Terre Haute, except what occurred during a few days at Evansville, where, he says, a watchman at an engine-house was kind to bim, and gave hi in a portion of his mid night lunuh, He is now prosecuting his claim to be recognized as Willis Peyton, aud the best legal and medical talent iu the vicinity is engaged in the case. He has thus fur undergone severe scru tiny, and, notwithstanding his claims are most extraordinary, it seems probable that he will establish his identity. The princi pal evidence in bis favor is that of several marks and scars on hi person. When he was a lad he received a severe cut on the instep, which left a bad scar. This scar is on the claimnaut, but is longer than the original. He bud a tattoo mark of an American shield on his right arm, and this appears on the claimant, but out of pro portion, and on his left arm an anchor, which is also elongated out of due propor tion. Peyton had also a very curious scar on one of his fingers, disfigured by being orushed in a cog-wheel. A close and criti cal examination of this finger by the phy sician who dressed it inclines that gentle man to say that it la the iiugor of Willis Peyton. SUNDAY READING. ' Whitfield and the Thunder Storm. ' ON one occasion Mr. Whitfield was ( preaching in Boston on the wonders of creation, providence, and redemption, when a violent tempest of thunder and lightning came on. In the midst of the sermon it attained to so alarming a height that the congregation sat in almost breath less awe. The preacher closed his note book, and, stepping into one .of the wings of the desk, fell on his knees, and, with much feolingand fine taste,repeatod "nark I the eternal rends the sky I A mighty voice before Him goes A voice of music to His friends, But threatening thunder to His foes. Come, children, to your Father's arms; Hide in the chambers of my grace, Till the fierce storm be overblown, And my revenging fury cease. " Let us devoutly sing, to the praise and glory of God, this hymn ' Old Hundred.' " The whole congregation instantly rose and poured forth the sacred song, in which they were nobly accompanied by the organ, in a stylo 'of pious grandeur and heartfelt devotion that was probably never -surpassed. By the time the hymn was finished the storm was bushed, and the sun bursting forth, showed through the wondows to the enraptured assembly a magnificent and brilliant arch of peace. The preacher resumed his desk and his discourse with this apposite quotation : " Look upon tho rainbow ; prise Him that made it. Very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof I It compassoth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the bands of the Most High have blended it. The benediction with which the good man dismissed the flock was universally received with streaming eyes and hearts overflowing with tenderness and gratitude. God Loves Bad Children. " What kind of children does God love ?" said a christian, one day, to the children of a Sunday-school. " Good children, " "Good children," was the answer from several voices. The teacher was silent, and the scholars were perplexed to know what answer he desired them to give. Presently he said, "Jesus loves bad chil dren." The children were surprised at this, and one little girl anxiously asked whether it was really true. When she was assured it was really true, because it is written that God loved the world, and in it "there is none that doeth good, no, not one," she burst into tears, and said : "lam so glad then, for I am a bad child." Thus the " Gospel of the grace of God" first dawned upon a little child, and melted a rebellious spirit into tenderness and tears. The Appeal. Nothing Leaves Us as it Found Us. If a sheet of paper on which a key bos been laid be exposed for some minutes to the sunshine, and then instantaneously viewed iu the dark, the key being removed, a fading spectre of the key will be visible. Let this paper be put aside for many months, where nothing can disturb it, and then in darkness be laid on a plate of hot metal, the key will again appear. This is equally true of our minds. Every man we meet, every book we read, or glance over, every picture we see, evory word or tone we bear, leaves its imago on the brain. Those traces, though invisible, never fade, but in the intense light of cerebal excite ment start into prominence, just as the spectre image of the key started into sight on the application of beat. It is thus with all the influence to which we are subjected. A BeauUrul Reply. A pious old man was one day walking to church, with a New Testament in bis hand, when a friend who met bim said : " Good morning, neighbor." "Ah I good morning," replied he, "I am reading my Father's will as I walk along." " Well, what has be left you?" said his friend. " He has bequeathed me a hundredfold more iu life ; and iu the world to come life everlasting." It was a word in season ; his friend was iu circumstances of affliction, but went borne comforted. ' tW So long as God holds you up by the will and determination to serve Him with which He inspires you, go on boldly and do not be frighteued at your little checks and falls, so long as you can throw your self into His arms in trusting love. Go there with an open, joyful heart as often as possible; if not always joyful, at least go with a brave aud faithful heart. tW Human life is a gloomy chamber, In which the images of the other world shine the brighter, the deeper it is darkened. K3yWhen men of sense approve the million are sure to follow ! to be pleased, is to pay a compliment to tbelr own taste. tW He who lends money to the poor is ofteu better than be who give them alms.
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