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CONTINENTAL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
STJIICTL Y MUTUAL!
Asset, 0,S:0,3!3S.J !
TSStTKSnlltltonew forms of Policies, and pre
JL sent as favorable terms asany 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 made for traveling permits
Policy-holders share In the annual proms of the
Company, and have a voice In the elections and
management of the Company.
No policy or medical feecharged.
.. W. FROST, Prertrtent.
M. B. Wvnkoop, Vice Pres't.
J. P.Kooers, Seo'y.
J. F. EATON.
General Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
College Block, Harrlsburg, Fa.
TIIOS. II. MILMOAN,
6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport.
Porry County Bank!
Sponsler, Junkln & Co.
THE undersign d, 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 TUB COURTHOUSE,
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, five per cent forany 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 this County labored fortha
want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
have determined to supply the want sandthls 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 meclmnlcs.
This Banking Association Is composed of thefol
lowing named partners:
W. A. RpoNBLEn,Bloom!leld, Perry county, Pa.
B. F.JUNKIN, " " ' "
Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle,
OrFlCBBSI
W. A. 8PONSLEB, Present.
Wiuuh Willis, Cashier
New Bloomfleld, S 6 ly
BALL SCALES!
T B. MARYANKKTlf, D. W. DEHB and
XJ JAMKS II. Hill tit, known as
" Tne Ball Scale Company,"
have now on hand a large surplyof Buoy's Patent
COUNTEK SCALE, (lie Simplest, Cheap
est auu oest counter ocaiein me mm net.
0f For Scales, or Agencies in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New Jersey. Delaware and Maryland, ad
dress "The Hall Scale Company," Pottavllle,
Schuylkill oounty, Pa.. -
. For Scales or Agencies In this County, ap
ply to the undersigned, where they can be seen
and examined any time.
J LEIBY tt 11RO.,
Newport, Perry CO., Pa.
FRANK MORTIMER,
20tf New Bloomlleld, Perryco.,l'a.
LEBANON
Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
of
Jonctitowu, Fcnu'a.
POLICIES PERPETUAL at Low Rates. No
Steam rinks taken. This in one of the best
conducted and inot reliable Companies in the
State. Country property Insured Perpetually
at 84 00 per thousand, and Town property at 16 00
per thousand.
LEWIS POTTER,
., NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.,
4 18 Agent for Perry County.
LOOK OUT J
I would respectively Inform my friends that I In
tend calling upon them with a supply of good
of my
OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of
OASaiMEBS.
' CA83INETS,
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
CAlU'IiTH, Aco.,
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
J. M.BIXLEB.
CestkkWooi.es Factoby. 6,17,4m
l, x. oibvis. . J, il. oinvis
J M. GIBVIN ft BON, '
CommlMMloii MorohantHi
Nos, BPEAE'8 WHAKJf,
Ilaltluiore, 31 d .
We will pay strict attention to the sale of
kind of country produce, and remit the amount
promptly. 6 ally
IilUKHli GARDEN BEfiDU
J For Hile at
F. MOIUIMUTB, New Bloomlleld, Pa. '
ENIGMA DEPARTMENT.
-All contributions to this department must
be accompanied by the correct answer.
Enigma.
I am composed of 28 letters.
My 7, 8, 18, 19, 17, 19, 23 and 9, Is a cape In
North Carolina.
My 12, 15, 4 and 20, Is a town In N. T.
My 18, 9, 21, 8, 22 and 24, Is a river In Iowa.
My 6, 4, 2, 9 and 25, Is a mountain In Cali
fornia. My 18, 18, 14, 9, 8, 8, 10 and 25 Is a city In
the west.
My 27, 11, 0,23 and 9 Is a river In Now Mex
ico. My 8, 23, 5 and 2, It an Island In the West
Indies.
My 21, 26, 16,19, 23 and 9, Is an island In
the Mediterranean Sea.
My 9, 10, 1, 4, 7 and 24 Is a rlvor In Maine.
My whole Is the name of a Subscriber of the
Times.
A Problem.
A. B. C. and D., entered Into partnership,
with capital as follows
A. pnt In 115,000 t B. 7,500 j C. ?5,000 and
D. $2,500. The profits of the year's business,
was 10X per cent, on the capital employed,
which was divided pro rata In accordance with
the money each had invested. The store In
which the business was done, bclotiftod to D.,
and the rent paid him made his Income the
same at B's. What was each one's Income
for the year, and what rent did p., receive for
the store 1
Who can furnish the correct answer t
How a Merchant was Sold.
AMONG the solid merchants of Boston
two generations ago, none stood
higher than Mr. Ilenshaw. Ho was as fine
a specimou of the old time BoBton merchant
as could bo found ; shrewd and far seeing
in bis business operations, exact in all bis
transactions, bo was withal very lenient
with an unfortunate debtor, especially
when be thought the unfortunnto was hon
est and meant to be honorable.
Ono day a country merchant who bad
been doing business in Now Hampshire,
and who was owing Mr. Heushaw about
$1000, called upon him and with pallid
faco and tearful eyes, told him be bad
failed and that bis endorsement on some
confidential paper bad taken every dollar's
worth of his stock which bad barely re
alized enough to liquidate bis liability as
endorser and that everything was gone
but a farm of 150 acres which he owned
free of incumbrance, and "Here," said
the debtor, " is a deed of that which I have
drawn and duly executed conveying it to
you, here is the abstract of title duly certi
fied, and the papers are all recorded. It is
all I can do, and I have come to ask you to
accept it and give me a release."
And what do you propose to do ?" asked
the kind hearted merchant, fie an
swered that he was going to soil his house
hold furniture, and with the proceeds, take
his wife and child and go west, enter some
land, and try and work out a new home.
This "touched the spot," and seizing him
by the hand, Mr. Heushaw said, (the tears,
meanwhile stroaming down his benevolent
face). God bless you for an honost man 1"
and at once exocuted the release, and then
taking his check book, wrote a check for
$500, and presented it to the bankrupt,
saying, " Take this, it will help you to
start in your new home, and I tell you, sir,
that I never in my life signed a check with
more satisfaction. So with a fervent ''God
speed" from the genorous merchant, the
man withdrew. This occured in the fall
of the year, and when the roads "got set
tled," the following spring Mr. Ilenshaw
thought he would take a trip to Now
Hampshire and see his farm, and either
rent or dispose of it some way. He accord
ingly took the stage early in the morning,
and a little after dark arrived at the village
in sight of which the honest bankrupt had
stated the farm was located.
Taking his supper he retired to rest.
The next morning he was up with the sun,
and walked out upon the steps of the inn,
where he seen the landlord, and stating the
object of his visit, he produced the deed,
and asked if he could tell him the exact
location of bis farm, as he proposed to
take a look at It after breakfast. The jolly
landlord, upon looking at the precious
document, smiled audibly, and said :
"Yes, Squire, that's all right. Your
title is cloar. I am the Town Clork, and
know all about it. But, Squire, ' I guess
you won't care to go over the place. You
can see it all from here."
"Where?" asked Mr. Honshaw. '
The old man pointed to a high ledge of
rocks, covered with loose boulders, com
prising, without donbt, a full 100 acres,
upon the whole area of which a single goat
would have diod of starvation, if limited to
the products of that farm for sustenance.
" Good hoavens! You mean to toll me
thai, pile of rocks is my farm ?"
"Just so, Squire, and it b4 been a prof
itable farm to more than one purchaser, I
can tell you."
"How so?"
"Well, you see, Squire, nobody round
here is fool enough to pay taxes on it, and
every two or three years it Is sold for taxes
and is always bid in by some merchant for a
dollar or two, and be keeps it until he fails,
and then goes to Boston and uses it in set
tling with bis oredltors. Why, I suppose,
Squire, that that air pile of rocks has paid
more'n $5,000, of debts, owln to them
smart Boston merchants. But there's the
bell for breakfast. Won't you take a little
rum and tanzy, Squire ?" It's a real good
' - ,'. i.:. .'j ..' ,. :
thing to brace a man up when he feels a
a little down in the month."
Mr. HenshaW took the return stage for
Boston, and before placing the deed of his
farm in his safe he wrote on the back of it,
bold. '
A Romance or Oshkogh.
A dispatch from Oshkosh to the Milwau
kee Newt states as follows: There has boon
quite a sensation here among fashionable
circles lately, caused by the finding out of
a later will in the estate of W. Durnado,
deceased. The workmen while reparinga
portion of tne house in which Mr. Duratulo
diod,found the will between tlio hearth of
the fireplace aud the chimney, under a
loose tile. The will, if a true one, divides
tho extensivo property of Durnade Park
equally between his sons and heir, G. W.
a fair haired youth of nineteen, aud his
niece, Mina Howard, of New York, a beau
tiful blonde of sixteen, in case they unite
themselves together in holy matrimony on
or before Gerald's twenty-first birthday.
They both dcclaro they will not marry, in
spite of tho will, and think it is a shame
that thoir should over be such a will. There
is considerable talk of contesting it. This
strange and romantic will cannot be ac
counted for, unless Mrs. Howard was a
formor sweetheart of Durande's and ho
wished to see the daughtor lady of his
house, if the mother mother could not be.
Value of a Long Nose.
Mozart's nose was a very long ono, a
contrast to bis friond naydn's, who had
almost a flat noso. Many jokes passed be
tween them about noses.
One day, in a numerous and grave so
ciety, tbe subject of musio was being dis
cussed, and Mozart, in reply to the compli
ments made him, laid a wager that no one,
not even his friond Haydn, was capable of
performing, at first sight, a piece which he
bad composed that morning.
Haydn accepted the wagor. Tho piece
of musio was placed before him on the
piano. Haydn easily played through the
first portion of it, then he stopped short,
finding it impossible to go any further.
Tho two hands must each be at tho farthest
extremities of the instrument, and one note
in the musio imperiously demanded that
one of them should be in the centre.
Haydn confossod himself conquored.
As to Mozart, he took up the piece of
music, and when he arrived at the puzzling
note touched it with his noso. Everybody
laughed heartily, and not the least he
who had lost his wager.
Slid Oat of Jail on a Hair PIu.
A mighty implement is the hair pin. Phil.
Gibbs, a prisoner, confined in the station
house at Atlanta, Ga., picked his way
through the brick wall with ono of these
little chignon fastonors, on Sunday morn
ing before day. He scratched out the mor
tar around ono of the bricks with the pin,
took out tho brick, ran bis hand through
the aperture and slipped back the bolt of
tbe door. This let him out into the passage,
and when the policeman on duty hearing
a noise, opened the outer door, Phil shot out
past him and mado good his escape.
An Atrocious Deed.
While about twenty persons were re
turning from Campbell's Churoh, six miles
east of Carbondale, Illinois, on Saturday
night, they were tired upon from ambush,
and Mrs. Hamsull and David Bullmor dan
gerously and perhaps mortally wounded.
It is not known who were the assailants,
but it is believed the affair grew out of an
old grudge existing between Bullmer's
family and some of their neighbors, and
that it was but a continuanco of tbe tragody
which occurred three months ago, in which
young Bullmer's father was killed.
Exposure of Milk Venders.
The Brooklyn EagU has discovered the
existence just beyond the limits of the
city, in stables filled with filth and dirt,
packed together in the closest possible
space, and in all conditions of disease,
eight hundred cows, fed on hot swill, emp
tied from an adjoining distillery, and pub
lishes tbe names of some twenty dealers
who peddle the swill milk as Orange co.,
milk to retail dealers and citizens of the
two pities.
tW Dr. Lothrop, a somewhat eocentrlo
but always sensible clergyman of West
Springfield, Mass., reoently told a young
lady member of his church who foared she
had done wrong in dancing that if she had
a good timo he was glad of it and hoped
she would do the same thing again. He
also informed an old lady who bad made a
great uproar about the girl's dancing that
if she wished to get to heaven she would
do well to use her feet more and her tongue
loss.
EST John Fowler, of Cherry township,
Butler county, went to the war in 1803.
He was taken prisoner by tbe rebels, and
not coming back after the war was over,
his wife took another husband, aged 10.
John now returns and puts in a claim for
his farm. His wife don't recognize him,
and says he is an importer.
' la?" "I fear," said a country minister to
his flock," when I explained to you in my
last charity sermon that philanthropy was
the love of our. 'ajiecles," you must have
understood me to say 'specie,' which may
account for the smallness of the collection.'
SUNDAY READING.
Hearing and Doing.
Hearing is one thing and doing is quite
another. Thousands attend church every
Lord's day and give attention by bearing
the gospel, but comparatively few do what
the Lord has commanded. ' A very intelli
gent lady remarked in my bearing a few
days sinco, that "too many professed
christians think they have done their whole
duty by going to church and heating a
sermon." We must sadly confess that
what the good lady said is to often true.
Men even go so far as to hear and under
stand and believe, and yot fail to do what
the Lord hns commanded, and by such
failure lose the reward promised to the
obedieut.
In many churches a preacher is employed
to do the preaching, and the members
think they havo dono thoir whole duty
when they have patiently licnrd what the
preacher lias to Bay. Thousands of sinners
hear, understand, and possibly beliovo, and
yet do not obey God. Such sinners are as
sure of condemnation as that there is a day
of judgmont.
If professed christians simply hear, un
derstand and bcliove, they aro not a whit
better thau sinners of tho world, who do
tbe samo thing aud do no more. Wo must
hear, and if we do not heed wo must bo
lost. But we may hear and still be lost
unless we do. To hear, understand, be
lieve and obey is the sum of christian duty.
Thousands may have their names recorded
on a church book, may give liberally to the
church, may attend church, hear, under
stand, aud believe, and yet bo condemned
because they have not done tbe will of the
Lord.
The first converts to the christian relig
ion earnestly inquired what they must do.
The great Paul so inquired of tho Lord
what he must do. The question is not so
much, what must I hear and what must I
believe ? but what must I do ? The great
est number of mon in this country, no
doubt, have heard and believed, but have
yet to be convinced that they must also do.
The moralist expects to be saved through
Christ without doing the will of God. The
Universalist also hears, and believe Jesus
is the Christ, tho son of God, but refuses
to obey him. He will not do. Thousands
of professed christians bear, know and be
lieve, but will not do. All such professed
Christians, together with moralists and
TJniversalists, will be condemned in the
judgment of the great day for not doing.
The glory of tho lifo of Christ is in the fact
that "he went about doing good." " It is
written in the volume of the book, Lo, I
come to do thy will, O God." He that
doeth the will of God abideth forever.
All that hear, understand, believo, and
do what God has commanded, will be sav
ed with an everlasting salvation. May
God help us not only to hear, but to do his
wm. Hoping, loving ana doing will pre
pare us to enjoy this lifo and fit us for the
grand and glorious lifo above. Christian
Review.
Purity of Character.
Ove the beauty of the plum and apricot
there grows a bloom and beauty more ex
quisite than the fruit Itself ; a 6ft delicate
flush that ovorsproads its blushing chock.
Now, if you Btrike your hand over that and
it is once gone, it is gone fbrever, for it never
grows but once. The flowers that grows in
the morning, impearled with dew arrayed
with jewels once shake It, so that the beads
roll off, and you may sprinkle- water on it as
you please, yot it can nover be mado again
as it was when the dews fell lightly en it
from heaven. On a frosty morning you may
see the panes of glass covered with land
scapes,mountains,lakesand trees, blended in
a beautiful fantastio picture. Now lay your
hands npon the glass, and by the scratch of
your finger, or by tbe warmth of your palm
all the delicate tracery will be obliterated.
So there is in youth a beauty and purity of
character whieh when once touched and
defiled can never be restored ; a fringe more
delicate than frostwork, and which torn aud
broke can never be re-embroidered. A man
who has spotted and soiled his garments in
youth, though he may seek to make them
whito again, can never wholly do it, evon
were he to wash them with his tears. When
a young man leaves his father's house with
the blessing of his mother's tears still wet
upon bis forehead, if ho once loses that
purity of character it is a loss that he can
never make whole agaiu. Such is the con se
quence of crime. Its effort can never be
eradicated, it can only be forgiven. ,
CUT A newly appointed minister was
visiting one of his parishioners, a gentle,
pious old lady, to whom be related a story
of a wonderful and direct answer of God to
prayer, observing that she did not seem
astonished ho euded with saying, "Is it
not wonderful?" VNo I" . Why not?" was
tbe next question of the pastor who began
to think she was simple. ' ' Why, sir I it it
jmtlikt Him."
Br?" It is not what people read, but what
they remember, that makes them learned.
It is not what they profess, but what they
practice, that makes tbem righteous. "Be
ye also righteous."
tW Forty-two hundred and fifty-seven
emigrants arrived at the port of Philadel
phia during tbe year 1873.
Dead but not Buried.
When a friend dies and is burled, there's
an end of him. We miss him for a space
out of our daily existance ; we mourn for
him by degrees that becomes meroifully
less ; we cling to the blessed hope that we
shall be reunited in some more perfect
sphere ; but so far as this earth is con
cerned, there's an end of him. However
near and dear he was, the time arrives
when be does not form a part of our daily
thought ; he ceases to be even an abstrac
tion. We go no more with flowers and tears
into the quiet cemetery ; only the rain and
snow flakes fall there ; we leave it for the
fingers of spring to deck the neglected
mound.
But when our friond vanishes unaccoun
tably in the midst of a crowded oity, or goos
off on a sea voyage and is never heard of
again, his memory has a singular tenacity.
He may be to all intents and purposes dead
to us, but wo have not lost him. The ring
of the door boll at midnight may be bis ring;
and approaching footsteps may be his foot
stops; the unexpected lottor with foreign
post-marks may be from his hand. He
haunts us as the dead never can.
The woman whose husband diod last
night may marry within a lustre of months.
Do you suppose a week passes by when the
woman whose husband disappeared so mys
teriously ton years ago does not think of
him? There are momonts when tbe open
ing of a door must startle ber.
There is no real absence but doath.
Not a Pleasant Bed-Fellow.
fcfc"V7"ES;" said the old man with a
JL smile, "I remember one time iu
particular while out prospecting with an
old friend, about twenty years ago. We
were traveling on horsoback, and came
across a tavern one night about ten o'clock.
Being very tired and hungry,' as soon as
we got some supper and something warm
to keep the cold out, wo asked to be shown
to our room.
On looking around we saw the room bad
two beds in it, ono of which was already
occupied by two strangers, who were both
snoring lustily. Tho fact of there being
two beds in the room, did not surprise us,
as in back-woods taverns there were fre
quently three beds in a room. We un-.
dressed, and just as I was going to blow
out the light, my friend who had got into
bed, espied the foot of one of the strangers
Bticking through the bed cloths, at the
foot of the bed.
With a suppresses chuckle he motioned
me to hold on a minute ; he got quietly
out of bed, and going to where the stranger's
boots were, he took off a huge, sharp Mex
ican spur, and carefully adjusted it to tho
bare heel of the unconscious strangor.
With another audible chuckle as he
thought of the consequences that would
follow when the stranger drew in bis foot,
he got back into bed, and I blow but the
light and followed him. He soon managed
to got a long straw from the bed, and,
reached over and tickled the stranger's
foot, no instantly drew his foot under
the bod clothes and then drew his legs up
until his knees almost touched his chin.
In doing this be drew the spur tho wholo
length of his bed-fellow's leg, and making
a bad soratch. The victim uttered a yell
and sprung out of bed with a muttered ex
clamation that I did not make oift, and
then he commenced a wild dance around
tbe room, with his nether garment under
his arm and making frantio efforts either
to dislocate bis neck, or soe how badly he
was hurt, all the while making exolama
tions that would have made a baggage
man with a Saratoga trunk on his shoulder
turn green with envy.
The innocont cause of tho trouble bad
been awakened at the first yell of the vic
tim, and in straightening his legs oat,
scratched himself unmercifully. He did
not yell, nor say bad words, but he jumped
out of bod and made for his friond with
tho purpose of taking vengance, I sup
pose ; but he had not taken, two steps be
fore he jabbed the spur into his leg again.
The landlord then appeared with a light
followed by half tbe boarders in the house,
and inquired what tbe matter was.
An examination brought . to light the
spur, which explained the matter. The
stranger looked sheepishly at thepur,then
at his scratch, and with a sickly smile
said :
"Well boys, I have lived all my life
among people who wore spurs ; but I nev
er before saw a man who eould pull off his
boot and leave his spur on his foot I 1 I'll
treat in the morning,"
A Despicable Father.
The father of Miss Mobar, of Pittston,
N. Y., is nice candidate for a visitation
of Divine Providence or.human vengeance.
Enraged at ber persistent purpose to marry
a young man he didn't like, he beat her so
k terribly that she had just strength to reach
ber sister's, where she met and married her
lover, and then went to his mother's house
and died.
tar There is a lady of Sagadohoo co.,
Me., who has a head of remarkably fine '
hair. The average length is seven feet
nve inches. When unbralded and falling
loose, it trails for quite a distance on the
floor. She baa reftised a large offer for
the hair, on which she naturally prides her.
self, next to her head.
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