3STEW YOBK
CONTINENTAL
AM! f
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Life Insurance Company,
OP NEW YORK,
STltlCTLY M UXUAL t
ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pro.
sents as favorable terms asany company lu the
United States.
Thirty days' ((race 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 profits of the
Company, and have a voice lu the elections and
management of the Company. -No
policy or medical feecharged.
J,. W. FROST, President.
M. B. Wtnkoop, Vice l'res't.
J. P.Kooehs, Bec'y.
J. V. EATON.
Ueneral Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
College Block, Ilarrlsburg, Pa.
THOS. It. MILMOAN,
6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport.
Perry County Bank!
Nponsler, .Ttinkiii 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 UR T HO USE,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, 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, live 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
(or some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un
der which the people ot this County labored forth
want of Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
have determined to supply the want ; and this being
the nrst Bank ever established In Perry oounty, we
hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by ail the
business men, farmers and mechanics.
This Banking Association Is composed of the fol
lowing named partners:
W. A. Sponsleh. Bloomileld, Perry oounty, J'a
B. F. Junkin, " " V
Wh. H. Miller, Carlisle,
orriCKBS:
W. A. SPON8LEK, President
Wuxum Willis, Otuhter
Ne w Bloomileld, 3 5 ly
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" The Ball Scale) Company,"
have now on hand a large supply of Buoy's Patent
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Newport, Perry CO,, Pa.
j FRANK MORTIMER,
29tl New Blooutneld, Perryco.,1'.
LEBANON
Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
i or
Jonestown, Fonn'u,
T01.ICIES PEBPETUAL at low Kates. No
jL Steam risks taken. This Ik one of the best
conducted and most reliable Companies In the
State. Country property insured Perpetually
at (H 00 per thousand, and Town property ut o 00
per thousund.
LEWIS POTTER,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.,
116 Agent for Perry County.
LOOK OUT!
T would respectively inform my friends that I In
X tend call! ng upon thein with a supply ol good
of my i'
. OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of , ?
CA88IMBB8, '
OASSINET8.
, FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
OAltl'ETS, Ate,
to exchange for wool or tell for cash.
J. M. BIXI.Elt.
CehtbiWooj.em Factory. 6,17.4m
i. m. siaviN.
I. U. OIPVIK
J M. GIUVIN A SOTf, . ,
OommlMMlon MercLanU,
Jio. I, SPEAK'. WflAKF,
llaltimore. Md.
W4.W will nay strict attention to the sale of a
kinds of country produce, and remit the amount
promptly. mw
71BESH OAHDHN BEKDtt
For hl at
F. HoltXlMiOt'8, New Bloowneld, Pa.
ENIGMA DEPAItTMBNT,
be accompanied by the correct answer.
A Question of Figures.
A professor of mathematics says that 19
multiplied by 9X will produce 890 as the
true result. I say that this Is not so j that the
right answer Is 890 1-16. And he furthermore
says that 875X yards of silk at 5 00 will
produce 11,881 67, I say It should be
91,881 SO 13-16. Which Is correct t J. T.
Mis3 Bowlesby's Ten Thousand.
JERRY BILZMITII had lived on ox
pectntions until bis fathor died, and
then be spent the money thnt fell to him
as rapidly as possible. After that ho again
lived on the expectations of a fortune from
bis Aunt Julinah.
But she, good woman, wits more thought
ful than tba futlior hnd been, and loft her
money, twenty thousand, in such a way
that Jerry could only spend the interest.
This information bad just reached the
nephew nnd we now And bira sitting in bis
room bemoaning bis sad fate.
This room too was a real curiosity. It
was filled with all mnnnor of ornaments
and pictures, which Jerry bad from time
to timo . fancied, until it was so crowded
that the owner of the articles could hardly
enter.
Now, as he glanced around upon bis ef
fects a smile of satisfaction lighted bis face.
" I might have done worse," he said. " If
necessary and egad ! I think it will be I
can sell off what I've got here, and then
why, bang itl then I'll get married. I be
lieve that's what fellows do when they And
they're fit for nothing else. And I do think
that Lalnge would have me. I only wish
sho bad a few thousand "
"Ah! be t in. Didn't you hear me
knock, Jerry ?"
"O what halloo! Why, bow d'ye do,
Tom ? And Lalage, too. Glad to see you
both. I was busy thinking "
"Hal bat that t'l good, isn't it Miss
Bowlesby? The idea of Jerry Bilzmith
thinking I" And Miss Bowlesby and Tom
laughed in ooncert.
" Why, Tom, don't you suppose I ever
think?"
" O yes, of course, after a fashion. But
do tell us the subject of your thoughts."
" Let me Hud a chair for Miss Bowlesby
nrst."
" Here's a camp-ehair. The rest are al
ready occupied. Mr. Tripp, you'll have to
sit ou the floor," said Lalage, opening the
camp-chair.
"Sit on the floor and let my foot bang
off?" cried Tom. " No, I'll try the table.
0 Jerry, if you want me to come to see
you, you must have bettor accommodations.
Why don't you sell off these works of the
old mattert, at least, what you can't hang
up?"
Miss Bowlesby smiled at the mention of
the old masters in connection with Jerry's
pictures, and Tom Tripp grinned.
" I believe I shall sell part of 'em."
" Do, by all means !" cried Tom. "But,
by the way, you were going to tell us what
you were thiuking of when we came in."
" Of myself, to be sure," replied Jerry.
" Not one thought of me ?" asked Tom.
"No."
"Nor mo?" said Lalage, with a sinilo.
" Yes, I did think of you."
"OIO Jerry I Jerry !" cried Tom. "Al
ways thinking of the ladies when you are
not thinking of Jerry Bilzmith."' - '
" I was only wishing for a song with a
harp accompaniment."
"Then do let bim have a song, Miss
Bowlesby, if you can climb over this rub
bish to the harp. Let ma assist you." ' '
"What shall the song be?" asked Lal
age, after having reached the harp with
Mr. Tripp's assistance.
" Something soothing."
" Yes, like Mrs. Winston's syrup," said
Tom. ,
"Art sad, Jerry?"
" Yea, very. My Aunt Julinah's will
lias broken my heart."
" ' Wise men ne'er sit and wall their
loss, . - .
But cheerily seek how to redress their harms,' "
quoted Lalage.
Then she sang, and Tom assisted with a
very fair tenor. 'Jerry listened, meantime
devouring Lalage with bis eyes, and really,
now, for a man with cannibalistic tenden
cies, she did look lovely enough to eat.
Her hair was golden ; eyes blue and
tender ; skin soft and white, and soft as
satin ; teeth of pearl, and lips like roses ;
neck built after the model of " Annie Lau
rie's," and a form as near perfection as
tbey ever allow a female form to be uow-a-days.
In truth, my dear reader, if I wasn't
a married man, I should have fallen in love
with Lalege Bowlesby long ago.
Jerry Bilzmith was in love with her, but
1 don't think be knew it. , lie was certain
that be liked bcr very much, and be was
quite sura that if be married any woman be
should want that woman to be Lalage
Bowlesby. " If she only bad a few thou
sand I" sighed Jerry, Well, she bad, but
the thousands were too few.. . However, she
managed to live upon the interest of wbat
she bad, piecing out her rather scanty in
come by writing stories for the weekly pa
pers. , , . '..-I.
: The song was finished, and Lalage had
retired to her own room. Tom Tripp re
mained. " Wbat the douce am I to do ?" asked
Jerry. "I never can live upon twelve
hundred dollars a year."
"But I do," said Tom, "and I don't
know how to sympathize with a man tfiat
ean't. I'll tell you what to do, Jorry.
Marry Lalage she loves you."
" What, and undertake to support two
upon an iuoome which I have just said was
insufficient for myself alone ? I'll tell you
wbat, I'll marry an heiress ; I swear it by
the great born spoon !"
" And leave Lalage to die of a . broken
heart?"
"Pshaw, Tom! women don't do that
sort of things now-a-days. Besides, thero'd
be a better chance for you if I was mar
ried, that is, if, as you say, she docs care
something for me."
He blushed, for be via jealous of Jerry,
4t i. l l 1 t ..: t . - .. l. : t
While Jorry was wealthy, be had felt that
there was no hope for bim ; but now bo
considered himself a greater "catch" than
Jerry, for be could earn a living, nnd be
was working himself up in the woild slow
ly but surely, while Jorry why, be didn't
work at all, but let things slide at a very
rapid downward pace.
But just at this moment the bell rang,
and Jerry and Tom went down to tea.
Jerry sat opposite Miss McK night, a
maiden lady of thirty-five. She was very
ugly looking and very sarcastic, and she
was in the habit of shooting bor sharp
pointed arrows at poor Jerry ; sinco the
dcatli of Julinah, sho had so little respect
for his feelings as to ask him quite fre
quently about bis aunt's will. But to
night she was in a better mood, nnd greet
ed our hero with a smile Jorry was good
natured too, and they sipped their too, and
chatted in the most sociable manner. Lal
nge noticed it and wondered ; and Tom saw
it, and laughed inwardly, for be thought,
" Well, why shouldn't he bo sociable with
ber? He just told me that he was bound
to mnrry an heiress, and bore is Miss Mo
Knight with plenty of money, and all in
her own bands. To be sure, sho isn't
handsome, and she's rather aged, but of
course be must expect to take the bitter
with the sweet."
That evening Jerry spent in Miss Mo
Knight's parlor, or room, which be had
never entered before, aud bow tbey passed
the time together is more than I know, but
at ton o'clock, when Tom Tripp passed the
door, he beard Miss McKnight reading
"Maud Muller," and thought be beard
Jerry snore. ., . , .
Tom chuckled to himself as he passed on,
but bad he known that another pair of ears
than bis wee listening, and another pair
of eyes were watching for Jerry, perhaps
be wouldn't have gone to bed in such ex
traordinarily good-bumor with himself and
everybody else. He might have wondered
at a certain womau's infatuation, but be
would have known why she had not been
down in ' the publio parlor where be bad
waited and wished for bor the entire eve
ning. The noxt morning Jerry was going down
to breakfast. It was late. The rest of the
gentlemen bad been gone down town an
hour at least. "I'll just take a peep at
Lalage," said he, tapping at her door. " I
feel rather dry and husky after passing a
whole evening with Miss McKnight, and a
peep at Lalage will refresh me. I did have
a pleasant nap, though, while she was
reading poetry to me. Egad ! if she hadn't
been so doaf she must have beard me
snore, for I know that it was my own
trumpot that awakened roe."
He knocked three times, but there was
no answer. Jnst then little Miss Smith
eame tripping down stairs.
" Lalage has gone, Mr. Bilzmith."
"Gone I where?" And Jerry's coun
tenance fell. i i '
"To Bramleigb. She bod a telegram
this morning, and she bad to go right
away. -Somebody's sick, I believe or dy
ing." ,
"And she didn't stop to bid a fellow
good-by," muttered Jerry, turning away.
" Why, you were fast asleep, Mr. Bilz
mith ; but as you feel so bad about a 'good
by,' lot me inform you that there's somo
body in the breakfast-room, sipping ber
cofJ'oe and waiting to bid you 'good-morning
I' " . - '
' " Confound her !" muttered Jerry.
Miss Smith laughed and ran away.
"By Qeorgel I believe they're all laugh
ing at me, and no wonder. But 1 won't
see the McKnight any more. She's bad
ber fling at me for some time, and last
night I paid ber off by playing the lover,
though I was half a miud to marry ber for
money, ' But, no, I haven't the courage to
face her this morning. She might want a
kiss by the way, I did kiss her when we
parted last nighc Faugh I : I oan taste it
now I No, . not any MoKnlgbt for me,
thank you. I'm off for Hull, where I'll
bury myself for a fortnight. Good-by, Miss
MoKnight ; parting is suoli sweet sorrow
that I could say good-by until to-morrow.'
' Jerry was as good as bis word. He went
to Hull and staid a fortnight, without ever
seeing one of his old frieuda. , Then ha re
turned to the oity, hut before going to lilt
boarding-bouse, be thought it best to find
out something about his friends there,
particularly Miss McKnight, and so, as he
walked up Washington Street, he dropped
into Harry Dobson's office.
"Ha! the anchorite hath returned,"
cried Harry.
" Yes ; and now what news of the great
world? I am famishing for news."
" Well, sir, after your villainous treat
ment of Miss McKnight, she first thought
to go into a decline, and then she conclud
ed to go to Long Branch, and thore, my
dear follow, you can find ber, if it is she
you seek,"
"Pshaw ! what would I want of her?"
cried Jerry.
" Why, Tommy Tripp told nil the ful
lows that you were going to marry her
said bo bad it from your own lips."
"Confound bim ! where is be?"
"Gone to Saratoga fortuno-hunting, I
suppose."
"What, Tom !'
" Yes, Tom. Lalage liovilexby is there,
and you know you always vtuio sweet upon
her. By the way, you didn't know that
she'd stepped Into a fortune?"
' What ! Lalage ? No. How ?" cried
Jerry, starting out of his chair.
"U, she had an uiicle, same as you did,
and he died the other day aud left her a
hundred thousand."
" Whew ! you don't say so ! Who told
you?"
"Old Bulger tho lawyer."
"Then it must be so, for he knew all
about bcr affairs. She used to go to him
for advice, and he invested bcr inonoy for
ber."
" O, it's so, you may be sure ; and Tom
my Tripp is just 'going' for that hundred
thousand."
" Hope he may get it !" cried Jerry.
" By-by, I'm off for Saratoga." And bo
loft the office in a hurry.
" A hundred thousand dollars does make
a woman attractive," muttered Dobson, as
ho turned to bis ledger.
Four days afterwards Jorry met Lalage
in Saratoga. Tom Tripp was beside her,
and they were drinking that villainous
water together.
" Lalage !"
" Why, Jerry 1 who'd have thought of
seeing you?" But she blushed rosy red,
and was too glad to see bim to attempt to
disguise it. Poor Tom turned pale, and
bis voice faltered when he greeted bis old
friend, and ' then bo turned away aud sigh
ed, " I'll go bomo. Tbe game is up." And.
us no one took any notice of bim, be slip
ped off to his botol and began packing his
trunk.
" Why did you run away from me, Lal
age?" asked Jerry, still holding the hand
she bad given him at meeting.
" Run away 1 it was you that ran away,
Jerry. Wbeu I came back from Bramloigb
you had gone, no one knew whither. But
why did you flirt so terribly with Miss Mo-
Knight?"
" O, don't ask me ! I'm sure I got the
worst of it," cried Jerry. "And I don't
mean to flirt any more." "
"Not flirt any more?" asked Lalage,
with pleased surprise.
" No, I'm going to got married ;" and
Jerry looked very serious. " Yes, I'm go
ing to get married that is, if a certain
woman will have me."
"O, by tbe way," oried she, looking
around and seeing that Tom had gone, " I
had a proposal last night."
, "From whom, if I may ask?" And
Jerry began to look blue around the lips,
" Why, from Tommy Tripp, to be sure.
You know he was an old lover of mine."
" But, good heavens 1 you didn't ac
cept?"
"Why not? I always liked Tommy."
" Why why," gasped Jerry, " I wanted
yot myself ; aud I thought you loved me."
"Woll, and if I do?"
"Won't you be mine? iou didu't say
yes to Tom?"
"No."
" And you will say yes to tne ?"
She looked up into Jerry's eyes. Her's
wore just tender with love.
" Do you really want a wife, Jerry ?"
"Yes."
" Then take me."
A fortnight afterwards Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Bilzmith arrived in Bostou. It was
evening, and they drove directly to a hotel,
where several of their friends were await
ing to receive them. Dobson and bis wife
wero there, and Tom. The latter bad
brought little Miss Smith with bim, and
upon ber be seemod to be lavishing a great
deal of genuine affection, and we will hope
that it was requited.
Late in the evening Mr. Bulger dropped
in ; and he kissed Mrs. Bilzmith, in a
fatherly sort of way, you know, and told
Jorry be ought to be the happiest man in
tbe world, as he presumed be was.
" And I am," said Jerry. " But, by the
way, Mr. Bulger, can I have a few minutes'
private conversation with you f"
" O, certaiuly, Mr. Bilzmith. We'll go
into tbe next room. There's ao one there."
They walked away arm iu arm.
"We'll take a seat on this sofa," said
Mr. Bulger; "and now, Mr. Bilzmith,
wbatisit" , '
. Well, you know I'm just married'?
MExaotlf." , , . -
"And well, really, I don't feel like
speaking to ray wife about her pecuniary
affair" 1
"O no, of oourse not; quits natural,
quit natural, Mr. Bilzmith."
" But still I well, I should like to know
somothing about 'em, and I dare say you
oan give me all tbe information I desire."
" I dare say I can, Mr. Bilzmith."
"Now, my wife's uncle died lately, and
I've understood be left ber considerable
money. Somewhere about a hundred thou
sand."
"A hundred thousand ! Let me see a
hundred thousand I O, ah, yes yes yes,
be did. I'd forgotton, you see. Singular
that I should, too. Yes, your information
is correct ; he did leave a hundred thou
sand. Who told you about it?"
" Dobson," answered Jerry, smiling
sweetly.
" Dobson ? O yes, to be sure. I intend
ed that he should. You see, Mr. Bilzmith,
I know that Lalage loved you, and I know
that you loved her, nnd I wanted you two
to marry, because I knew she never would
be happy without you, and jou never
would be anything without her ; aud so I
told that story" 1
" What ! Didn't ber uncle loavo her a
hundred thousand ?" cried Jerry, starting
up.
" Yes keep cool, iny boy ho luft her
just one hundred thounand cenlt ! which,
according to iny arithmetic, is precisely
one thousand dollart."
"O my prophetic soul! her uncle!"
groaned Jerry.
" Was a very worthy man," said Mr.
Bulger ; "and bis neice is just the bost
woman In the woi Id, and you have won a
treasure iu herself alone. Now try to be
worthy of her."
"Hang me, if I don't!" cried Jerry.
" I've made a fool of myself, but don't let
ber know."
" Not a word. Come, let us go back,"
Jerry cleaned out bis toom tho next day,
sending most of tho things off to be sold at
auction. He saved the harp, though, for
Lalago. Then be hired a pretty little
house out in tbe suburbs of tho city, fur
nished it, and began life anew, with some
thing to live for and work for, and I really
beliove that they are the happiest pair of
married lovers among my acquaintances.
At present Jerry is studying law with
Mr. Bulger, and it is possible that he may
yet make a stir in the world. I hope,
though, that the first use he makes of his
legal knowledge may cot be in an attempt
to break his Aunt Julinah's will.
A Japanese Taper Factory.
About two hundred miles from Yeddo is
a plain twenty miles long, and varying
from two to eight miles in width. Around
this plain rise mountains covered with the
paper mulberry trees, and in various vil
lages upon this plain is paper manufac
tured. One of these manufacturers is now contin
uing the business which has boen prosecu
ted iu tbe same place by his family for not
less than six hundred years. In a yard
near his bouse, a dozen boys and girls were
seen by the visitor employed in peeling the
mulberry branches which bad been dried
and macerated until tbe soft inner bark
could be readily separated from the outer.
These strips wore then boiled iu a lye
formed from tbe ashes of rice straw; tbey
were afterwards beaten almost to a pulp,
and finally thrown into a vat of Bizing
made from the bark of tbe slippery elm
and ground, boiled rioe. They were agi
tated in this mixture until the sheets could
be removed singly on flue matting, to be fas
tened on boards and dried in the sun. The
sheets are afterwards pressed in an ordi
nary wedge and lever press, aud finally
receive a finishing gloss.
The establishment employs forty per
sons, at from six to eight cents per day and
cleared about one thousand dollars a year.
A Misunderstanding.
One of tbe prominent physicians of this
city was accosted by his son with, " Father,
doyou think Bill Hoar will get Mr. Sumner's
place in the Senato?" Tbe father replied,
" why, what do you mean ?" "I mean will
Bill Hoar be elected to fill the vaoancy
caused by Mr. Sumner's death?" "My son,"
replied the father," there is no such person
as 'Bill Hoar, and if thore was, that is not
the proper way for you to speak of him;
you should be more respectful." " Why,
father," said tbe boy," that's the way Mr.
Sumner spoke of him, himself." "I don't
understand what you mean," answered the
father, when the boy explained," I read it
in all the papers that when Mr. Sumner
was dying he said to Mr. Hoar,' Take care
of my civil rights, Bill!" '
The Right to tio to Hell.
Recently, at a revival meeting in tho
north part of Wright oo., Ia., the exorcises of
the evening closed by a general invitation
to all who wanted to go heaven to rise.
The entire congregation, with a solitary ex
ception in the shape of a boy, rose) to their
feet, Tbe conductor then varied the invita
tion by asking all who wanted to go to hell
to arise. The solitary exception arose to his
feet. Of oourse the good people were scan
dalized, and the result was tbe arrest of the
youth and his trial for disturbing the meet
ing. But to tba intense disgust of those
liberal souls, the court held that if the boy
wanted to go to hell he bad a right to do
so, and that such did not necessarily disturb
tbe meetlpg within the meaning of tbe law;
and dismissing tbe case, tne boy was sent
on bis way rejoicing.