3STE W -STORK
CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
STRICTLY M UTUAL t
A.mot, ,O50,S01.85 !
ISiSUES all the new forms of Follcles, and pre
sent!) as favorable terms as any company In the
United States.
Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and
the policy held good during that time.
Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture.
No extra charges are madefor traveling permits'
Policy-holders share In the annual prottts of the
Company, and have a voice la the elections and
management of the Company.
No policy or medical fee charged.
' Tj. W. FROST, Prertdent.
M. B. Wynkoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P.Rookrs, Bec'y.
J. F. EATON.
General Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
College lilock, Ilarrlsburg, Pa.
TU03. H. MTLMGAN,
6 42 ly Special Agent lor Newport
Perry County Bank!
Sponger, .Tunkiu A Co.
THE undersign id, 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 CO VR T 110 USB,
NEW BLOOMPIELD, PA.
We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. We discount notes for a period of not
over 80 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
New York.
On time Deposits, Ave per cent f orany 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 tills County labored forthe
want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
have determined to supply the want ; and this being
the first Bank ever established In Ferry 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. 8ponsLEK,Bloomtleld, Perry county, Ta.
B. F. Junkin, " " '
Wif .41. Millkr, Carlisle,
officers:
W. A. SPONSLER, President.
William Willis, Cashier
NewBloomrield,3 51y . , ,
l'l.IUtl COUNTY
Meal Estate, Insurance,
Or.-A.IM AGENCY.
LEWIS POTTEE & CO.,
ileal Estate Brokers, insurance, & Claim Agen
New Uloomftold, Pa.
"1TTEINVITE the attention of buyers and sell.
TT ers to the advantages we offer tliem in pur
chaslng or disposing of real estate through our of
lice. We have a very large list of deslrab property,
consisting of farms, town property, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip
tion which we are prepared to offer at great bar-
f;alns. We advertise our property very extensive
y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to
effect a sale. We make no charges unless tht
property Is sold while registered with us. We alsc
draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, audall legal pa
pers at moderate rates.
Home of the best, cheapest, and most reliable
fire, life, and cattle Insurance companies Id the
United Htates are represented at tills agency.
Property Insured either oil the cash or mutual
plan, and perpetually at 84 and IS per thousand.
Pensions, bounties, and all kinds of war claims
collected. There are thousands of soldiers and
Imirs of soldiers who ar Aiit.iHfM tn tuiiult,a m.1
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
diers. If you were wounded, ruptured, orcoutract
ed a disease In the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to pension.
When widows of soldiers die or marry, the minor
children are entitled to the pension.
Parties having any business to transact In our
Ulne, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as
we are comment we can render satisfaction lu any
branch of our business.
r No charge for Information.
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I would respectively Inform my friends that I In.
tend calling upon thein with a supply of goods
of my . ... - - ?,
OWN MANUFACTURE.
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CASSIMBRS, . ' - t ,
,. OABBINIpTS, ', " , ",
i . ' ' : FLANNELS, (Plain and bsr'd)
, ;oAiiri;T,s,i&o '..
toeubaogefor wool or sell for cash. '
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Cbktiib Woolen Faotoky. 6,17,4m,
PEEHY HOUSE, , , ; !
i,' New Bloomfleld, r. t
THEsiibscrlberhavliigpurcbssed the property
on lh cur neT of il uuie and Carlisle si reels,
opposite the Ctoui t Hoiih, InviU nil his friends
ud former otutoBiers to Klvhini call as he is
determined to luruish first dims acuoM.inoilations.
- TUOM AH HUTCH, -
Proprietor.
Never Known to Fail;
.THOMPSON'S
Fever & Ague Powders
TOM THB
PERMANENT CCRE OF CHILLS AND FE
VER, DUMB AGUE, OR ANY FORM
OF INTERMITTENT FEVER I
The Greatest Discovery of the Age t
milERE are no diseases so debilitating In
JL their effects upon the constitution as the
nbovo, and none more difficult to cure by the
usual modes of practice. The Fever and Ague
Powders will effect a cure In cases of the long
est standing, as well as prove a preventive in
the forming stages of disease. Being purely
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ease, totally eradicating it from the system,
and preventing a return at any future period.
Why waste your money and health In trying
every medicine you hear of, when Thompson's
Fever and Ague Powders have never failed to
cure the Chills in any case.
REASONS WHY THEY ONLY 8H0TJLD BE
USED:
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of testimonials huvo been received, showing
that these Powders have performed miracles in
curing cases of long standing, many of them
considered hopeless.
There it no Jiltk in Taking Them. They
contain nothing Injurious, and, therefore, cause
none of those lingering diseases so often the re
sult of the mauy nostrums of the day. Physi
cians recommend them as far superior to Qui
nine, orany other known remedy, for they leave
the Bystem in a healthy state, and the patient
beyond the probability of a relapse.
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. The
genuine are put up in square tin boxes, with
"Thompson's Fever and Ague Powders"
stamped on the lid, and the signature of
"Thompson & Crawford," on the wrapper.
No others can possibly be genuine.
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CRAWFORD & FOBES,
141 Murkct St., Philadelphia.
THOMPSON'S
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cases give immediate relief, and a few applica
tions complete a cure. On account of its pow
erful penetrating properties it Is beyond doubt,
the SUREST REMEDY for the most trouble
some diseases to which horses and cattle are
liable. It cures Scratches, Old and Fresh Cuts
and Sores, Chafes produced by collar or sad
dle. Injuries caused by nails or splints enter
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destroy the boofs or bones of the feet. Fnll
directions accompany each bottle. Prepared
only
My Crawford ; & Fobos,
141 Market Street,
29bly PHILADELPHIA.
Why not have a Beautiful Complexion?
WHY BB AHNOYKD WITH '
CHAPPED HANDS or ROUCH SKIN?
when such an agreeable and effectual
REMEDY CAN BE OBTAINED
AT 80 SHALL A COST.
BY USING WRIGHT'S
"ALCONATED GLYCERINE TABLET."
Sold by Druggists It Dealers lu Toilet Articles. 00
Netv Pension Law,
UNDER an act of Congress approved March 3,
187;i, widows of officers who were killed, or
died of disease contracted in the service, are now
entitled to iiOO per mouth for each of their chil
dren. The guardian of a minor child of a soldier who
heretofore only received SH.OU per mouth pension
is now entitled to 110. per inotlL
Holdters who receive invalid pensions can now
have their pensions Increased to any sum or rate
between 18. and fill, per month.
Holdiers who have lost their discbarges can now
obtain duplicates.
Futliors and mothers who lost sons In the serv
ice upon whom they were dependent tor support,
can also obtain pensions.
The undersigned having had over 10 years ex
perience In the Claim agency business will attend
promptly to claims under the above act.
, Call on or address
LEWIS POTTER,
Attorney for Claimants,
, . . New Bloomfleld,
7 iotf.. Perry Co., Pa
JOBINSON HOUSE, y
(Formerly kept ty Sweger and Sliuman.)
. An JiloomJUld, rtrry County, ia.
AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor.
This well known 'and pleasantly located hotel
has been leased for a number of years by the pres
ent proprietor, and he will spare uu i-aln;, to accoiu
module bis guonts. The rooms are comfortable,
tlie table well furnished with the best In the mar
ket, and the bur stocked with choice liquors. A
careful and attentive hostler will be in attendance.
A good livery stable will be kept by thcproprletor
April S, 1871. tf .
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J M. OITIVIN St, SON,
CommlwHloii Merchants,
Ko.1, BPEAB'B WHARF,
11 a 1 1 1 in o r e . M 1 .
J ,n-We will pay strict attention to the sale of at
kinds of country produce, and remit the amount
promptly.
4 ally
I A DMINISTEATOK'8 NOTICE. - Notice to
U- hereby given, that Letters of Administration
nu tlx eslute of VVIIIiain Atlulr, late of J.oysvllle,
Tyrone township, perry county. Pa,, deceaed
have been grunted to the subscribers residing In
Madison township.
All persons Indebted to sold estate are request
ed to make Immediate payment, and those having
claims will pieseut them duly authenticated for
seltlenieut to
ANDREW ADAIR,
KOBlSKr A. CLAKK. ' -September
16, 1873 6t ( AdjuiuUirator.
YO SEMITE VALLEY.
The above cut represents as well as bo
small a picture can, the Clnomo " Yo
Semite," given as a premium to subscribers
for the Timet and Wood' Magazine.
Jim Smiloy's Bets.
SIMON WHEELER, ESQ., of Angel's
Camp, Calaveras County, California,
tells the following :
"There was a fellow here once by the
name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '40
or maybe it was in the spring of '50 I
don't recollect exactly, somehow, though
what makes me think it was the one or the
other U because I remember the big flume
wasn't finished when ho first came to the
camp ; but, anyway, he was the curiousest
man about always betting on anything
that turned up you ever see, if he could get
anybody to bet on the other side ; and if he
couldn't he'd change sides.
Any way that suited the other man
would suit hi m ; any way so's he got a bet,
ho was satisfied. But still he was lucky,
uncommon lucky ; he almost always come
out winner. Ho was always ready and
laying for a chance ; there couldn't be no
solitary thing mentioned but that fellor'd
oiTor to bet on it, and take any side you
please, as I was just telling you. If there
was a horse-race, you'd find him flush or
you'd And him busted at tho end of it ; if
there was a dog-fight, he'd bet on it ; if
there 'was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if
there was a chicken-fight, be'd bet on it ;
why, if there was two birds setting on a
fence, he'd bet you which one would fly
first ; or if there was a camp-meeting, he
would be there reg'lar to bet on Parson
Walker, which ho judged to be the best ex
horter about here and so he was, too,
and a good man. If he even saw a strad
dle bug start to go anywhere, he would
bet you how long it would take him to get
wherever he was going to, and if you took
him up he would follow that straddle bug
to Moxico but what he would find out
where be was bound for and how long he
was on the road.'
Lots of the boys here has seen that Smi
ley, and can tell you about him. Why, it
never mado no difference to hjm bo would
bet on anything tho dangdest feller. Par
son Walker's wife laid very sick once, for a
good while, and it seemed as if they warn't
agoin' to save her. But one morning he
camo in, and Smiley asked how she was,
and he said she was considerably better
thank the Lord for his infinite mercy 1
and coming on so smart that, with the
blessing of Providence, she'd get well yet ;
and Smiley, before be thought, says :
" Well, I'll risk two and a half that she
don't anyway."
This yer Sniiloy had a mare the boys
called her the ftftoou minute nag, but that
was only in fun, you know, because of
course she was fuster than that and he
used to win money on that horse for all she
was so Blow, and always had the asthma,
or the distemper, or the consumption, or
somethiug of that kind. They used to give
hor two or three hundred yards start, and
then pass her under way ; but always at
the fag end of the race she'd get excited
and dosperate like, and come cavorting and
straddling up, and scattering her legs
around limber, sometimes in the air, and
sometimes out to side among the fences,
and kicking up m-o-r-e dust and raising
m-o-r-e racket with her coughity and
tueeziug and blowing her nose and always
fetoh up at the stand just about a neck
ahead, as near as you could cipher it
down.
And he bad a little, small bull pup that
to look at him you'd think he wan't worth
a cent but to set around and look ornery,
and lay for a chance to steal something.
But as soon as the money was up on him
be was a different dog ; his under jaw'd
begin to stick out like the fo'castle of a
steamboat, and his teeth would uncover
and shine savage like the furnaces. And
a dog might tackle him, and bullyrag bim,
and bite him, and throw him over his
shoulder two or three times, and Andrew
Jack bo n which was the name of pup
Andrew Jackson would never lot on but
what he was satisfied, and hadn't expected
nothing else and the bets being doubled
and doubled on the other side all the time
till the money was all up ; and then all of
a sudden he would grab the other dog jest
by the j'iut of his hind leg and freeze toit
not chaw, you understand, but only jest
grip and bang on till they throwed up the
sponge, if it was a year.
Smiley always come out winner on that
pup, till he harnassed a dog once that
didn't have no hind legs, because they'd
been sawed off by a circular saw, and
when the thing hud gone along far enough
and the money was all up, and he come to
make a snatch for his pet holt, he saw in a
minute how he'd been imposed on, and
bow the other dog had him in the door, so
to speak, and he 'peared surprised, and
then he looked sorter discouraged like, and
didn't try no more to win the light, and so
he got shucked out bad. He give Smiley
a look, as much as to say bis heart was
broke, and it was his fault, putting up a
dog that hadn't no hind legs for him to
take hold of, which was his main depend
ence in a fight, and then he limped off a
piece, and laid down and died.
It was a good pup, was that Andrew
Jackson, and would have made a name for
hisself if he'd lived ; for the stuff was in
him, and he had genius ; I know it, be
cause he hadn't had any opportunities to
speak of, and it don't stand to reason that
a dog could mako such a fight as he could
undor tho circumstances if he hadu't no
talent. It always makes mo fuel sorry
when I think of that liiBt fight of his'n, and
the way it turned out.
Well, this yer Smiley bad rat tarriers
and chicken cocks, and all them kind of
things, , till you couldn't rest, and you
couldn't fetch nothing for bim to bet on
but ho'd match you. He ketched a frog
one day and took him home, and said he
cal'klated to edercate him ; and so he nev
er done nothing for three months but sit
in his back yard and learn that frog to
jump. And you bet he did lonrn him to.
Ho'd give him a little punch behind, and
the next minute you'd see that frog whirl
ing in the air like a doughnut Bee him
turn ono summerset, or maybe a couple, if
be got a good start, and come down flat
footed and all right like a cat.
He got him up iu the matter of catching
flies, and kept him in practice so constant
that he'd nail a fly every time as far as he
could see him. Smiley said all a frog
wanted was education, and he could do
most anything ; and I believe him. AVhy,
I've seen him sot Dan'l Webster down
here on this floor Dan'l Webster was the
name of the frog and sing out, "Flies!
Dan'l flies I" and quicker'n you could
wink ho'd spring straight up and snake a
fly oiFn the counter there aud flop down on
the floor again as solid as a gob of mud,
and fall to scratching the sido of his head
with his hind foot, as indifferent as if he
hadu't no idea he'd been doing any more
thnn any othor frog might do.
You never Bee a frog so modest and
straightfor'ard as he was, for all he was so
gifted. And when it came to fair and
square jumping on a dead level, he could
got over more ground at one straddle than
any animal of his breed you ever see.
Jumping on a dead level was his strong
suit, you understand ; and when it comes
to that, Smiley would ante up money on
him as long as he had a rod. Smiley was
monstrous proud of his frog, and well be
might be, for fellows that had traveled and
been everywhere all said he laid over any
frog that ever they see.
! Well, Smiley kept the beast in a little
box, and he used to fetch him down town
and lay for a bet. One day a fuller a
stranger in the camp, he was come across
him with his box, and says : '
"What might it be that you've got in
that box?"
And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like :
" It might be a parrot, or it might be a
canary, maybe, but it ain't it's only just
a frog."
And the fuller took it aud looked at it
Careful and turned it round this way and
that, aud say : " H'm ! so 'tis. Well
what's he good for ?"
1 " Well," Smiley says, easy and careless,
"he's good enough for one thing, I should
judge he can outjump ary frog in Calav
eras County." ,
The fuller took the box again, and took
another long, particular look, and gave it
back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate :
" Well, I don't Bee no p'inU about that
frog that's any better'n any othor frog."
"Maybe you don't," Smiley says.
"Maybe you understand frogs, and maybe
you don't understand 'em ; maybe you've
bad experience, and maybe you ain't only
an amateur as it were. Anyways, I've got
my opinion, and I'll risk forty dollars that
he can outjump any frog lu Calaveras
County.
An' the follow studied a minute, and
then says, kinder sad like, " Well, I am
only a stranger here, and I ain't got no
frog ; but if I had a frog I'd bet you."
And then Smiley says, "That's all
right tbat'a all right : if you'll hold my
box a minute, I'll go and git you a frog."
And so the feller took the box and put up
bis forty dollars along with Smiley's and
set down to wait.
So he set there a good whilo, thinking
and thinking to himself, and then be got
the frog out and pried his mouth open, and
took a teasjioon and filled bim full of quail
shot filled him pretty near up to the chin
and set him on the floor. Smiley be
went down to the swamp, and slopped
around in the mud for a long time, and
finally be ketched a frog and fetched hlra
in and gave him to the feller, and says :
"Now, If you're ready, set him' along
side of Dan'l, with his forcpaws just even
with Dau'l, and I'll give the word." Then
he says, " One two three jump t" and
him and the feller touched up the frogs
from behind, and the new frog hopped off,
but Dan'l give a heave, and bysted up bis '
shoulders so like a Frenchman, but it
wasn't no use he couldn't budge ; he was
planted as solid as an anvil, and he couldn't
no more stir than if he was anchored out.
Smiley was a good deal surprised and he
was disgusted, too, but he didn't have no .
idea what tho matter was, of oourse.
The fellow took the money and started
away ; and when he was going out at the
door he sorter jerked his thumb over Ms
shoulders this way I don't see no p'ints
about that frog that's any better'n any
other frog."
Smiley ho stood scratching bis head and
looking down on Dan'l a long time, and at
last he says, " I do wonder what in the na
tion that frog throwed on for ; I wonder if
there ain't something the matter with him,
he 'pears to look mighty baggy,somebow."
And he ketched Dan'l by the nap of the
neck and lifted him up, and Bays : " Why
blame my cats, if he don't weight five
pounds !" and turned him upside down,
and he belched out a double handful of
shot. And then he seo how it was, and ho
was the maddest man. He set the frog
down and took out after that fuller, but be
never ketched him.
A Devilish Woman.
A SINGULAR disclosure took place in
Chicago recoutly at the "Home for
the Friendless," the circumstances being
as follows : Some years since Mr. David
Grimes, of Osceola, la., married a lady of
that state, sister of a Mrs. Hoffman. A
short whilo ago Mrs. Grimes died, leaving
three daughters and a son. On her dying
bed she desired that her sister -might be
made a guardian and mother to them.
Mrs. Hoffman accepted tho charge, and
soon after went to Chicago, where she took
up her residence at 113 West Jackson St.
Mr. Grimes sent her money regularly to
defray the expenses of clothing, feeding,
Bchooling.and received frequent letters from
his sister-in-law, giving satisfactory ac
counts of their progress. Ho had an oc
casion to pass through Chicago ou his way
to New York, and availed himself of the
opportunity to visit his children. He found
the boy with his aunt, but she stated that
the girls had been for some weeks at boarding-school.
She drove with him to tho
building, where he saw the girls occupied
in the Industrial School. After leaving
her, Mr. Grimes happened, in course
of conversation with a friend, to re
mark that he had been to see his girls at
school, and that the school had a very odd
name.
" What name ?" asked his friend.
" Why, " The Home for the Friendless,"
replied the unsuspecting but puzzled farm
er." . " That is no boarding school, it is a char
itable institution" replied bis friend.
It was not many minutes thereafter ere
Mr. Grimes was at the refugo, and had
rescued and taken home Bia children. Ho
found that Mrs. Hoffman had brought them
to the Home, declaring herself unable
longer to support them, their olothing
being iu tatters. On leaving the Home
the eldest girl said to the matron :
" All night long we cried togethei, my
self and sisters, because we thought our
father had forgotten us. We knew that
he was able to support us, and when one
day I realized this was a charity home, I
thought I should die. I didn't know why
we were left here, and we promised each
other never to say to any one that father
was rich. I don't know bow rich he is,
but I knew he owned a very large farm,
aud I had heard that each one of us chil
dren were also heirs to some property.
Then we prayed to God to send fathor to
tW The inmates of the Winthrop House
iu Boston, were recently startled by the
rushing of a woman in flames through one
of the main halls. With wonderful pres
ence of mind, she opened a closet door and
leaped into a set-tub, of about two feet in
depth, turning on the water from both the
hot and cold faucets, and ourling down into
the mingled steam and smoke and flame
before any one could reach hor. The serv
ants rushed with water to quench the
embers which were catching the carpet in
all directions, while a gentleman occupy
ing a room on the same floor leaped for the
closet door, which Bhe bad olosed. On
opening it she raised herself up, but ira
mediatelf fell forward in a swoon. The
flames wore extinguished, and she was
taken to bed, where it was found that her
injuries will keep her an invalid for many
days. Her hands, wrists, body and lower
limbs were badly criBped.
Embalming the Dead.
In the Vicuna Exposition there were sev
eral specimens of the embalming of parts
of the human body. Those exhibited by
Dr. Mariul, of Naples, were particularly to
be noted. One of these was a large round
table made of muscles, sinews, etc., of a
dark brown color, with a handsome polish.
Among his other exploits he petrified Thai- ,
berg, the deoeaued pianist, and the widow
is eaid to keep the corpse in her drawing
room. He also embalmed Mazzlnia, and so
well that some of the more economical ad
mirers of that statesman urged that the
body should be set up in Rome as a statute,
and thus save expense. The adoption of
this suggestion would well test the pernip.
nenoe of the preserved bodies.