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OF NEW YORK,
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United States.
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Policy-holders share in the annual prontsof the
Company, and have a voice In the elections and
management of the Company.
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IK. FROST, President. ,
M. B. Wynkoop, Vice l'res't.
J. P.Rooeks, Sec'y.
J. F. EATON.
General Agent, '
No . 6 North Third Street,
College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa.
TIIOS. H. MII.LIOAN,
6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport.
Perry County Bank!
Spousler, Junklii & Co.
THE undersign d, having formed a Banking As
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now ready to do a General Banking business at
their new Banking House, on Centre Square,
OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE,
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We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. We discount notes for a period of not
overeo days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
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On time Deposits, five per cent, for any time over
four months ; and for four months four per cent.
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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 first Bank ever established In Perry county, we
hope we will be sustained in our ellorts, by all the
business men, farmers and mechanics.
This Banking Association Is composed of the fol
lowing named partners:
W. A. Sponslxh, 131oomlleld, Perry county. Pa.
B. F. Junkin, " " "
Wh. II. Millkr, Carlisle,
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W. A. SPONSLEU, PresfefenJ.
William Willis, Cashier
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t& Answer to last week's enigma:
" PEMCSTLTANIA."
Romances or Lire.
fFUlE philosophy of domestio history in
JL volves many a problem in real life
that would bo scouted as extravagantly im
practicable iu fiction, and the peculiarly
facile genius of social and legal institutions
in the United States scorns notably favora
ble to the development of such curiosities.
Thus, a, jury in Portland, Me., hns recently
disagreed, and thereby necessitated a new
trial, in u case of alleged mistaken identi
ty, the parties to which are a gentleman
who claims another person's wife as his
own, and tho lady who firmly and indig
nantly denies that she ever even saw the
claimant before Mrs. Waite, wife of a
highly respectable citizen of that name, is
the lady in question, and tho claimant of
her marital allegiance, who is from another
part of the country, persists that he once
married and was deserted by her, and
brings letters and witnesses in proof there
of. She, on tho contrary, is sustained by
husband, children, old friends and ac
quaintances, iu utterly denying all knowl
edge of the man ; aud, as the disagreement
of the jury shows, the evldenco on both
sides is so strong as to bailie the average
of human sagacity to decide tho astound
ing problem.
But yet more surprising nre the anomal
ous legal complications of a case in Ban
Bernardino, California, of which the fol
lowing are the chief facts. In 1872, an
Englishman named Oades came thither
from Australia and purchased a farm in
Temescal township ; representing that he
had experienced bitter domestio bereave
ment and pecuniary loss in the land whence
he came, and exhibiting great despondency
of spirit in consequence. In January of
the following year he wooed and won a
comely and highly respectable widow of
San Bernardino, named Foreland, but not
without giving her the tragic history of
his past errors. About six years before he
had been a thrifty farmer in Wellington
County, New Zealand, on the frontiers of
the seditious Maori county. During bis
absence from home one day, on a short
journey of business, while his wile and sev
eral children were alone in the house, a
band of savage Maoris devastated the
place, and left the buildings in smoking
ruins. Upon his return ho found only
heaps of smouldering embers and ashes in
the place whore the homestead had stood ;
and charred human fragments iu the dread
ful wreck loft him no hope but that his
whole family had been butchered by the
pitiless destroyers. It seemed, indeed,
barely possible at first that some of the
victims had been carried off captive ; but
weeks, months, and even years of pitiful
waiting and inquiring never sustained the
possibility. At last the inconsolable man
had gathered together what little worldly
substance was left to him, and emigrated
to California, and now told the story of his
calamities to her whom he besought to be
his second wife. Thus Mrs. Foreland knew
what Oades had suffered before she gave
him her hand in wedlock, and needed no
further information from blm when, in a
year after the marriage or only a few
weeks ago the first Mrs. Oades and three
children arrived at the farm in search of
husband and parent ! The woman and the
little ones had been made prisoners, in
stead of killed, by the Maoris ; the human
remains found in the smoking ruins were
those of savages who were slain by each
other in a fight for the spoils ; and, after a
captivity of years, the hapless Mrs. Oades
and her children had finally been released,
and followed their natural protector to
California.
Upon hearing the piteous tale from tlie
poor wanderers, Oades and his second wife
were of 0110 mind about what to do in the
matter. They would not relinquish their
own union, for it had been entered into in
perfect good faith on both sides, and was
justified by the mutual devotion it had de
veloped; but the desulute new-comers
must be received into the house as legiti
mate members of the family, and receive
nil the amends that could possibly bo made
for their anomalous condition.
Not so, though, decided the good peoplo
of Ban Bernardino, who, on being frankly
told of the domestic situation, insisted that
there must be a divorce to aooommodnte
affairs to civilized form. As neither Oades
nor either of the Mrs. Oades would move
in the matter, the public prosecuting at
torney was eonstralned ' to institute legal
proceedings.' And then began the judicial
perplexities of the problem. According to
the Los Angelos Express, the husband was
first sued for retaining the woman from
Australia under his roof. He proved that
she was his lawful wife, and the suit was
abaudoned. A suit . was then brought
against him for unlawfully living-with
wife number two. He wosacquitted under
the law, which declares that " the war
l iege, of a person having a husband or wife
living is Told, unless such former husband
or wife living was absent and not known to
such person to be living for (lye years im
mediately preceding such subsequent mar
riagein which case the subsequent mar-'
riage is void only from the time its nullity
is adjudged by a proper tribunal." He
was then prosecuted for bigamy, but the
law ptovidos that ' no person shall be held
guilty of bigamy whose husband or wife
has been absent for five successive years
without being known to such person as
being living." 80 he again escaped. A
fourth suit was finally brought to dissolve
the second marriage That failed because
not biought by one of tho Interested par
ties. They were appealed to, but refused
to take action. At a publlo meeting of
the now fairly rantlo citizens it was pro
posed to petition the Legislature to pass a
special act dissolving Oado's Inst marriage.
But Oades, who was present, immediately
arose to address the meeting, and told
them that that was no go, for by the
twentioth section of the fourth article of
the Constitution of California it is, ex
pressly provided that "no divorce shall be
gi anted by the Legislature." As Oades
produced tho book itself, this argument
was unanswerable. It was then proposed
that tho Legislature should bo petitioned
to call a constitutional convention for the
purpose of annulling one or the other of
Oade's marriages ; but Oades produced the
Constitution of the United Slates and read
tho tenth section of the first nrticlo, which
expressly provides that "NoState
shall pass any law impairing the
obligation of contracts." "and marriage,"
be said, " was well settled to boa contract,
and therefore no earthly power could de
privo him of his vested right in his two
wives. And thus the case stands at pres
entone of the most remarkable examples
of legal and social contradiction ever known
in a civilized country.
Among the Crusaders.
E
LI PERKINS writes the following ac
count of his uncle's experience among
the crusaders, to tho N. Y., Oraphic:
Kansas City, Mo., March 14. My Uncle
Consider just came in from the East.
Wbon I asked the old man why ho lin
gered so long on his way through Ohio and
Indiana, he said :
" Waal Eli, it wuth sorter this way. I
wanted to kum, but them thar tcmp'rance
wimmen which ar' trav'lin' round among
the saloons, they got bold uv me an' I've
been a crusadin' around with 'em. They
wanted me to help 'em 'stablish temp'rance
bar-rooms for religious people an"
" Where a bouts, Uncle?" I inter
rupted. 1
" Why, over in Springfield, where Abo
Linkum's monument la. Thar these wim
men war a processin' around in great
crowd. As they kum by the depo' I asked
one of the pretty gals whar the soln society
waz. ' Whear you all crusadin' to ?' sez I.
"Crusadin' to!" sez she, "Why, we
aint a crusadin' anywhere ; we are a visit
in' saloons licker-saloons. We are or
ganized to put down whiskey. Won't you
jine in, old man ?"
" I told 'er I wud. Sez I, ' Young woman
that's me zackly. I'm jes reddy to cruise
'round with pretty, gallus-lookin' gals any
time, aud, as fur visitin' saloons, I'm jes
t'homo thar, too. I've visited a dog-on
many saloons in my day, and, when it
comes to puttin' down whiskey, young
women', sez I, ' I s'pose I kiu put down
more whiskey an' hard cider, an' Jamaky
rum than '
" No, no I old man, we want you to pray
in the saloons pray for the rumsellors
and'
" All rights sez I, 'that's me agin. I've
preyed 'round all the rumsellors and into
all the saloons in New York, from Harry
Hill's to Jerry Thomas', for years, and
it's jes notbin' but boy's play to pre
'round these little country saloons."
"But who's to furnish the money, young
woman ?" sez I,
"Money 1 old man? Why, this is a labor
of love," sez she, a col'ring up 'a price
less priv'lege 1 without money aud with
out price, ' an' '
"All right," sez I. "I'm jes suited now.
Proyiu 'round saloons and puttin' down
whiskey 'without money and without
price' jes suits me. Z-a-c-k-l-y so 1 Put me
down a life-member. -
"And you say it's all free and don't
cost a ciut, young womau?" sez I, hesita-
tin' like.
" No, sir, old man. Virtue is its only
reward. Go, and crusade, aud humanity
will thank you for doin' it posterity will
heap benedictions upon you the great re
formers for centuries to come will rise up
an' call you blessed and"
"Nufsed, young woman," sez I, and
then I jes handed my perlice to the stage-
man and jiued in. I preyed 'rouud 00
ruuisellers and into 180 saloons puttin'
aowu wnraitey ana beer ana rum an' tnor-
lasses iq ev'ry one, till I lost all 'count of
myself or anybody else until the station
house keeper told me about it the next
mornin'. , ,: , ,
"An now, Ell," said Uncle Consider,
looking over his glasses very mournfully,
"if them thar crusadin' wimmen kuin
'round you to get you to help them prey
'round saloons and 'stablish temp'rance
bar-rooms you' jes don't go. Now; you
mind me. Don't you go 'round si 11 gin'
' " On Jordan's stormy bank I stand,'
but you jes stay at home aud sing '
"I want to be' an angel with Gencial
Butler an Zack Chandler an' rue."
A Pleasant Evening.
bfc
X7"OU see," said the Sqnire, pitching
JL his voice to an excgeticnl altitude.
" It wuz sorter this way. Last Chuseday
wuz a week ago, I sailed down from Gwin
ett to Atlanty with seven bags of cotton.
Al ter I sold 'cm, I . kindor loafed roun,
look in' at things in general an' feolin' jest
as happy as you please, when who should
I run ngln but Knrnel Blasengaine. Me
an' the Kurnel used to bo boys together,
an' wo wuz as thick as five kittens in a rag
basket. We drunk outcn the samo goad,
nn' we got the lint' snatched outcn us by
the same bandy-legged schoolteacher. 1
wuz gitten as lonesomo ns araiucrow, afore
I struck up with the Kurnel, an' I was
glad to see him dinned glad. Wo knock
ed roun' town right sniartually, an' the
Kurnul intcrjiiced me to a whole raft of
fellers mighty nire boys they wuz, too.
Arter supper tho Kurnel snys : '
" Sknggs," snys he, ' less go to my room
whar we kin talk over olo times sui ter com
fortable mi' undisturbed like.'
Grccablo," says I, an' we walked a
sqnar or so an' turned into a nllcy on'
walked up a uaicr par of stars. Tho Kur
nel gin a little rnp at a green door, an' a
slick looken mcrlatte popped out an' axed
ns in. He wuz tho durndest perlitest nig
ger you ever seen. Ho jest got up an'
spun aroun' like a torn cat with her tail
afire. The room wuz as lino as a fiddle
an' full of pictures an' sofys, an' the cheers
wuz as saft as lam's wool, an' I thought
to myself that tho Kurnol wuz a lugsu
riant cuss. Thar wuz a lof of mighty nice
fellers scattered roun' a laflin' an' a tnlkin'
quite soshabel like. Aperient, the Kurnel
wuzent much sot back, for he sorter laffed
to himself an' then he says :
"Boys," says he, "1 hev fetched up a
freu.' Judgo Hightower, this is Squire
Sknggs of Gwinett. Majcr Briggs, Squire
Sknggs," an' so on all roun'. Then the
Kurnel turns to me an' says :
"Rcely, I wuzent expectin' company,
Sknggs, but the members of the Young
Men's Christun Sosashun make my room
there headquarters."
" I ups an says I wuz mighty glad to
meet the boys. I used to be a Premative'
Bap lis myself afore I got to cussin' the
Yankees, an' I hev always had a sorter
hankerin' arter pious folks. They all
laffed an' shuck ban's over agin, an' we
sot thar a smokin' an' a chawin' jest as
muchuel as you please, I disremember
bow it come up but presently Majer Briggs
gits up an' says :
"Kurnel, what about that new pallet
game you got out the other day ?"
"bh says the Kurnel, lookin' sorter
sheepish, " that wuz humbug, I can't make
no head nor tail outcn it."
"I'll bet I kin mauago it," says Judgo
Hightower, quite animated like. .
"I'll show you how, Jcdgo, with plea
sure,.' says the Kurnel, an' then he wont
to a table, unlocked a box an' tuck out a
dock of keerds an' a whole lot of littlo what
you may call ems, similarly to horn but
tons, some white an' some red."
Squire Skaggs paused and supplied his
tireless jaws with a fresh quid of tobacco.
" It ain't no use to tell you any more.
When them fullers got done larnin' me
that gamo I didn't lravo money enough to
take me down stairs. I lay I looked a leotle
wild, for when tho Jedge closed the box he
said :
" We hev bad a ploasant evoniu', Squire.
You'll find the Kurnol waitin' for you on
the stops an' he'll give you your money."
" I ain't nevtr laid eyes 011 the Kurnol
sen ce, an' when I do thar's goiti' to be a
case for the Kurrincr you mind my
words. I seed Rufe Lester next day you
know Rufe ; he's in the Legislatnr now,
but I used to give him pop-corn when he
wuzn't so high I seed Kufe an' he sed I
wuz tuck in by the Pharoah men. Tuck
in ain't no name for it. Dernod ef I
didn't go to to the bottom an' get skinned
alive."
tW One of the best illustrations of what
tact, pluck, and energy will do for a man
is given in the history of Samuel Bryan, of
Cadiz, Ohio. Bryan enlisted at tho open,
ing of the war as a drummer boy, being 20
years old., In a short time he secured a
discharge, and in a little while thereafter a
situation as clerk in the sixth auditor's of
fice in Washington. Here he was placed in
charge of tho British mail desk. Becoming
acquainted with the foreign mail service,
he was struck with the faot that while
Japan had introduced our internal revenue
and agricultural systems, she had roado no
effort to establish a postal department. Ho
determined to make au effort toward doing
this himself, He had n interview with
Minister Dolong, met with encouragement,
and finally having scoured a temporary sit
uatiou on a steamship plying betweeu ban
Francisco and Yokohama, left fori Japan,
He arrived in the latter city with, but twenty-five
cents in hU pocket, and met with
many difficulties in his work; but finally the
government organised a postal bureau aud
made Mr. Bryan apodal commissioner , to
negotiate a treaty with the United States,
Great Britian, France, ftnd Germany, at a
salary of f0,000 per annum, alt "expenses
borne,' and assitauts and clerks to help him
in bis works.' Mr.' Bryan has accomplished
bis mission, go far as th Is country Is concern
ed, and sailed for Havre' on Saturday last.
Though not the nominal! he fs the real head
of the postal department for Japan, and Is
very naturally and properly elated' with his
success. "
A Midnight Sensntion.
rrUIERE was a big excitement near Hov
I olman's store, on East Eighteenth
street, a few r.lghts ago. An nged couple
and a bull dog rcsido there, and on the eve
ning in question tho peace and quiet of the
trio vcro disturbed by tho aggressions of
vagrant cow that "hooked" opon tho gate
and entered the enclosure. The old gen
tleman heard the noiso made by the cow,
jumped out of bed, grabbed his cane,1oosed
Tiger, and attacked the cow. Now this
cow had a Varied experience with all aorta
dogs throughout tho city, and was espec
ially proficient in tho art of handling a bull
dog. So, Just as tho old man caught the
bovine by tho tail, tho said bovine lifted
Tiger high in the air with her horns, and
whisked out tho gate with the old man
still hanging to hor caudal appendage, and .
beating her to his heart's content with hid'
heavy cane. Tho old man and the cow
went Hying down the street, aud Tiger, .
after turning a somersault or two in the
air, came down kersouse into the cistern ,
in the yard, the top of which was open.
Now the old lady, noticing that tho 'noise
in tho yard had ceased, and wondering at
tho prolonged absence of hor husband,
stepped out into the yard to see what was
tho matter. She heard a splashing of the'
water In the cistern, and, horror of horrors, '
she thought it was the old man.
Yell 1 well, hor shrieks would have '
drowned out the sound of Gabriel's trump
et had that angel entered into competition
with her. The neighbors, alarmed at her ,
cries, gathered around her at once, and n,
quite a crowd. " My husband's iu the
cistern!'' she cried. "He can't swim I"
"Oh, he'll bo drowned, he'll be drowned," ,
and away went two or three for a ladder. ;
The ladder was brought, placed in tho cis
torn, and a man doscended, just as the old
gentleman rushed in at tho gate. He had
haard a block or two away, as he was re
turning from his chase after the cow, that
some one had fallen into the cistern at his
bouse, and he believed it was his wife, for
who else could be about there? Seeing
the prowd of sparsely-dressed neighbors
around tho cistern (the old lady had
swooned away by this time and been car
ried into the house), he ran into the crowd '
crying in the greatest agony, " Save her t '
for God's sake 1 Ob, my poor wife 1'!
" Save the d 1," exclaimed three or four 1
in a breath; "your wife says that you are '
in the cistern." .
1 By this time the old lady had recovered 1
sufficiently to resumo hor hysterical '
screaming again, and commenced yelling '
at a greater rato than evor, just as the man
who went down into the cistern crawled
out and exclaimed, " It's nothing but that
blamed dog 1"
I The night was cold, the neighbors had
not taken time to dress, and their bodies
were , cold as their indignation was warm '
when . they learned what had disturbed
their rest and dragged tbera from their '
beds at such an untimely hour of the
night. They had one consolation, how-'
ever Tiger was as dead a dog as ever '
breathless lay. , '. " '
J A Pyrotechnic Story.
: A Wilkinson county Ga., man carried .
home some fireworks for his son and heir,
and his wife undertook to superintend the
display.. The husband protested that he
would fix the tricks, but a sarcastio remark
from the partner of his joys, . to tho effect '
that some men thought they knew every- (
thing, silenced him. The woman then pro- t
cccded to show her son how it was done.
She first soized a Roman candle and grimly '
proceeded to ignite it. The fuse was damp,
and to facilitate matters tho woman funned
tho spark into life by blowing on it. : The'
response of the caudle was too sudden to
contemplate.
I The front hair and eyebrows of the ad-,
venturous femalelisappeared as if by magic,
and the candle fell into the collection of
fireworks, . and proceded to fire itself off
With great exactness, igniting the other
projectiles. A casual sky-rocket skimmed
along the grass, causing the family cat to
make an ascent of tho nearest tree with .
great violence, while a fiery serpent took
refuge in the husband's bosom. The author ,
Of all, the trouble, discovering that her,
clothes were on fire, Sailed around the house -with
as much earnestness as the : liveliest 1
pyrotochnio, aud it was some time before
10 frightened husband , could arrest her.
Wild career.: Later, the son and heir was ;
found, under the house with the back of his
jacket , burned out. The woman is now
an invalid, and the man writes to a friend
that be never had a more enjoyable New'.
Year. - ...
t3T",A minister once said: "Suppose, some
cold morning, you should go into a neigh- '
boil's house and find him busy at work on hia
windows, scratching away, and yon should '
ask' what he was up to, and he should reply,
jwjjy'lm trying to remove the frost; but
is fust, a I get it off one square it come on
another; you would say t 'Why, let your
windows alone and kindle a fire and the"
frost will soonconie ofif? And have you not
seenj people who try to break off their bad
bnbits, one after another, without avail.?
jvyell they' are lik tlia roan who tried to,
orati. the frost from .his windows.,, Lei
he he of Lpvo to God aud man, kindled at i
he altar of prayer burn in their hearts, and.;
he bad habits will soon melt away. , , i