l)c me0, r. New , Pldomfteltr; )a; NEW, . "YORK CO NT IN.. B NT AL ENIGMA IIKPAKTMENT, , , . . , ,, , . ., - All contributions to this department must be aocompanledby the correct answer. pSf Answer to Enigma In last week's Tinun i" Jacob C. Hostctter. Perry county. Fa." 13?" Answer to Problem In last week's Timet s A J1.5S7.B0 B 708 75 C 513.50 D for store,.. $513.50 " share of profit 256.25 708.75 . P K 8 V R T P rVc T M N VEKPTHSPRCPTSTN. The two lines above were affixed to the Com munion Table of a small church In Wales, and continued to puzzle the learned congregation for several conturles, but at length the Inscrip tion was deciphered. What was it t Life Insurance Company, OP NEW YORK, STRICTLY MUTUAL t Was it Murder ? Assets, no,5:jo,as5.oa : woamrsniltliAnnw fnrms of Policies, and pre. X sent an 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-forfeit ure. No extra charges are made for traveling permits Policy-holders share lu the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice lu the elections and management ot the Company. No policy or medical feecharged. Ij. W. FROST, Prefident. M. B. Wihkoop, Vice l'res't. J.P.ROGERS, Sec'y. j p EATON, General Agent, No . 6 North Third Street, College Block, Ilarrlsburg, Pa. THOS. H. MILMOAN, 6 42 ly Special Agent lor Newport. Perry County Bank! Nponster, .limit In & Co. THE undcralgn id, having formed a Banking As soclation under the above name and style, are now ready to do a General Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, opposite rim co urtiio use, NEW BLOOMPIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on demand. We discount notes for a period of not over60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, rive per cent forany time over four months ; and for four months four per cent. We are well provided with all and every facility fordoing a Banking Business) and knowing, and for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored f orthe 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 Terry county, we hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed ot the fol lowing named partners: W. A. HpoN8LEB,BloomHeld, Perry county, Pa. B. F. Jonkin, " " " Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle, officers: W. A. 8PONSLEB, President. William Willis, Cculiier NewBloomtleld,8 Sly BALL SCALES! LB. MAKYANFKTH, D. W. DERR and JAMES U. GRUSR. known as 'The Ball Scale) Company," . have now on hand a large supply of Buoy's Patent COUNTER SCALE, the Simplest, Cheap est and best Counter Scale In the niaiket Mr- For Scales, or Agencies In Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, ad dress "The Hull Scale Company," Pottsvlue, Schuylkill county, Pa. 1 . For Scales or Agencies In this County, ap ply to the undersigned, where they can be seen and examined auy time. J 29tf LETBY & BRO., .Newport, i"erry co., ra. FRANK MORTIMER, New Bloomtteld, Ferryco.,Fa. Mutual Fire Insurance Company, OF Jonestown, Pcnn'a. POLICIES PERPETUAL at Low Kates. No Hteam risks taken. This i one ot the best conducted and most reliable Companies in the State. Country property Insured Perpetually at at 00 per thousand, and Town property at (5 00 per thousand. LEWIS POTTER, NEW BLOOMPIELD, FA., . 4 is Agent for Perry County. LOOK OUT! I would reflectively Inform my friends that I In teud calling upou them with a supply of good of my own: manufacture; ,: Consisting of . ; ' . ; CA8SIMERS. , ;, OAS31NETS. ' FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) OAUPETS, Ato., to exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M.BIXLEH. Centre Wooleb Factokt. 6,V7,4m j. ii. onivm. 1. a. oiavm M.oiaviN to SON, Commission Merchants, '- NO. , BPEAR'S WHARF, IS alii more. Md. 4.We will pay strict attention to the sale of a kinds of couulry produoe, aud remit the amount promptly. . . . 6 my ITUtEHII GARDEN SEEDS 1 For Hale at . ' F. MORTIMER'S, New Blooratleld, Pa. AGHEAT many years ngo, while I was comparatively a young man, and still unmarried, I rosided in a certain city of Pennsylvania, and enjoyed the reputation of being the cleverest lawyer ever known there. It is not for me to say the praise was merited, but 1 certainly found myself able to discover loop-holes of escape for those whom I defended, which surprised even my follow-lawyers. I possessed by nature thoso qualities which would have made me an excellent dotective, and I was a thorough student of the law. There was no mystery about it, but among the more ignorant classes I had gained a reputation for more than human knowledge. Perhaps it was not polito for them to say thnt the dovil helped mo, but they did. However, I began to tell you about Mad. ame Mattcau. She was an old lady who owned a little house in the suburbs of the city. She her self was of American birth, but her hus band had been a Frenchman, and so the titlo Madame had been bestowed upon her, She was now a widow, and her daughter Gabrielle, and a son named Henri, were her only living relatives. Her iucomo was but slender, and she eked it out by taking a few boarders, generally steady old peo ple, ' who had known her for many years, These respected and liked her ; but the city generally had a prejudice against her. There bad boon two sudden deaths in her house. Each time the victim was a stran ger who came at night, aud was found dead in his bed in the morning. Each time the jury was divided some believing that strangulation had been the cause of death, some that the man had died in a fit. It was a terrible thing that two such deaths should have occurred beneath her roof. Madame's friends pitied her. The rest of the little world hinted that those were strangers, and that their trunks, with no one knew what amount of money and other valuable property, romained In Mad ame's possession. No one said she was a murderess, but every one said it was " very strange," in an odd tone, and no one since that second death had visited Madame Matteau'. I myself perhaps because I admired her a great deal, and bor daughter much more rhad always insisted that it was merely a coincidence, and that in a world in which apoploxy and heart disease were so com mon, it was no such marvel that two men should have met sudden deaths in the house. But my faith in this theory was shaken when one morning it was published over the city that another transient boarder had been found dead in Madame Matteau's house, and that she was arrested on sus picion of having murdered him, bis watch and chain having been found in her posses sion. Beforo I had recovered from the shock of this terrible piece of news, a mossage came to me from Madame Matteau. She desired to see me. Of course I went to her at once. She had been taken to prison ; and I found her in a little room with a barred window, and an insuflioient fire upon the hearth. The logs had burnt in two upon the andirons, and the white ashes were scattered over the hearth. Almost in them sat Madame Matteau, in her widow's dross of sombre blaok. She was chilly with grief and excite ment, and had drawn her chair close to the fire. . . She shook violently from bead to foot, and ber face was deadly pale as she tnrned it toward me and held out her hand. "O, thank Heaven, you have cornel" Bhe said, " I know you can save me. Is it not horrible 7 How could I kill a man? Why should I? Why do people come in my house to die? To die horribly, with block faces and starting eyes, as if some one had choked them ? , Ugh 1 and he was a pretty young ' man the night before. Oh, good Heaven, bow hdrriblo 1" I sat down beside hor. I took her hand. "Madame Matteau," I said, "becalm; oolleot yourself. As your lawyer, I must know all. Tell me front first to lost what happened what was said, what was done. If you " I paused i, her black eyes Hashed upon me. I could not auk ber whether she had any confession to make. I saw she bad not. Unless she was the best actress who ever lived, Madame Matteau was innocent of any crimo. , " If you have any suspicions," I added, "tell them alt to me." " There is no one to suspect," sobbed the poor woman. " In the house were . Gabrielle, my daughter, whom you have seen, old llan- dah, the cook, Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp, friends of my poor doar husband in bis boyhood the. best, the kindest people Mr. Gray, a very old man, too foeblo to leave the house, poor deformed Miss Nor man, and the librarian, Mr. Bassford. Hone of these could or would murder a mouse. See how kind they are ; they re main in my house ; they send me word that they have no doubt of me. Oh, how oan anybody?" "And this man who" I began. "Yes," said Madame Matteau, "I will tell you ; he was fair, young, handsomely dressed; bo asked Mr. Bassford at the depot if he knew of any one who could accom modate him. Mr. Bassford brought him home. My only empty room was the one in which those other two strangers died. I could not boar to put him there ; but Mr. Bassford laughed at me. We had supper afterward. He talked a Ions while to Gabrielle. It was late when he retired late for our quiet household. Hannah had made his fire. She came and told us that she had done so. Ho said good night. After ho had gone, we found that he had left bis watch on the table. He wore it only with a bunch of seals, and he had been setting it by the dock, and showing it to us as something very handsome. I knocked at his door to restore it to him. He had not loft ns but fifteen minutes be fore, but he must have been asleep already, for be made no answer. So I kept it for tho night, aud wore it down to breakfast next morning. As I came down I met a gontlomau in tho hall. He inquired for Mr. Glenn. That was the new comer's name. I sent Hannah to wake him. She could not do so, and grow alarmed. She had a key that would open the door, and used it. The next thing I knew we were all in the room and the windows were wide opon, and the doctor had been sent for and the young man who had called was screaming that his brother had been choked to death ; and then there was the inquest and they arrested mo. The brother said tho first thing he noticed was that I wore Mr. Glenn's watch and seals. I bad for gotten it in my terror." ' So Hannah had a key to the room ?" I said. f Yes ; at least it was a key that would open it. It was the key to Mr. Bassford's door, bhe knocked the other out with a stick and put that in." . ' The people who were there on that night were your boarders when tho other two men were found dead ?" I askod. "Oh, yes!" " And Hannah was there also?" " All my married life Hannah has lived with mo." "Your daughter oversees the household in your absence ?" " Yes, poor child, with Hannah's help, I thought a little while. "Madam," I said, " thore is some strange mystery in this affair. I do not despair of proving to all the world your entire inno cence. Meanwhile, be as calm as possible, and endoavor to remember everything con netted with the sudden deaths that have occurred in your .house. The incident that seems the most unimportant may really be of the most immense value." So I loft her and went home. Strangely enough on the way I met the doctor who hod been called in. He was a dull, heavy sort of person, considerably given to beer- drinking, and my opinion of bis ability was not very great. However, I questioned him on the subjoct, and he replied "Well you see, I don't say the old wo man murdered him. If she did, I should say it was by sitting on him, or smothering him with tho bolsters. I suppose the cause of his death was asphixia.. Well, thon, what is asphixia ? Why too little breath to keep on living. He died because he was shorth of breath. So we all do. I wash my hands of tho matter. Only there's the watch ; that looks dark." I had learned nothing from the doctor. The coroner lived near me. His Jury had been twelve of the most Ignorant men in town. This is all he told me: " He was smothered, that man was ; so were tho other two. Men don't smother themselves. We made it inscrutable Prov idence t'other tlmo. We make it murder this time. That there watch, you know." Thus, without auy new lignt, I wont home and formed my plans. There was but one way in which to penetrate the mys tery. I must outer the house ; I must see the people there ; I must penetrute to the room In whloh these men had died so sud doaly, and I must not be known in my real character. That Madame Matteau was ln nooent, I fully believed ; but that some one beneath her roof was guilty I made no doubt, It might be the librarian, Mr. Bassford, whose key fitted the dead man' door. It was possible but no, I would not harbor a mad superstition. There could be no su pernatural power beneath which human have been a spiritualist had she lived to day, was a mere absurdity. " I believe that there are some horrible unseen things in the room," she bad said" some awful, shapoless spirit, that when it is locked in with its victim murdors him. Let others believe What they Will, I be lieve that." ',,. The words hauntod me, but I laughed at them of course. What it was, I would try to know. I had a plan. At dusk that day I want into my bed room alone. , I came out a changed man. I wore a white wig, a pair of great green goggles and an overcoat, the tails of which reached my heels. , I had a muffler about my throat and a littlo hunch ou one of my shoulders. I car.iiod a thick cane and stooped a great deal as I walked. In my hand l carried a carpet bag, and in my bosom a hair of pistols well loaded. As I passed out into the street the early moon was just rising; she lit me ou my way to '.ho door of Madanio Matteau's house. It was opened for me when I knocked by old Hannah. Her eyes were red and swol Ion. Then I told her that I was a stranger and had received Madame Matteau's ad dress from ft gentleman in New York, and desired to stay undor her roof all night. She Bhook ber head. I don't think you can," she said, 'Tho lady is away from homo. Besides, we are in trouble bore. I don't think Miss Gabrielle would ", But here Miss Gabrielle herself appear ed. 'Iam an old man, Miss," I said, "and as you see, quito infirm. I dread another step. I should take it as a kindness if you would accommodate me, and I will pay any price you ask." Miss Gabrielle looked at Hannah. We have only one room," she said, "and that" I ended the question of my stay by beg ging to be taken to it. ' ou will have supper, sir ?" asked the girl. But I declared that I had eaten and only wanted rest. Her reply was : "Hannah, show tho gontloman to the blue room and make a fire." I was in tho blue room, the scene of the threo sudden deaths or murdors. It was a small apartment painted blue. It had also blue window curtains and a blue silk cov- beings drooped aud died. Death as it came to us all was . mystery euough. What had been said to me by a woman, who would set of old mahogany furniture, and a very handsome ewer and a basin of costly china, It was at the time almost a universal cus tom to burn wood. In this room, however, was a small coal stove. I alluded to this as Hannah came in with the scuttle. "Yes, sir," sho said, "Missus does burn coals. Her son is a clerk, or the liifb, at them new mines in Maunch Chunk, and he send it cheap to her ; but it's a nasty, dirty smolling thing, and I hate it. . Now its built and lit, 'will warm up in fifteen min utcs. It takes longer than wood." She went out of the door and came back in a minute with a little tray, ou which stood a pot and cup and saucer, also a little bowl and tiny pitcher, and something in a napkin. "Miss sent a bit and a sip," said she. " Tea rests us old folks mightily. Good- night." ' Good-night," I said "I expect I shall sleep soon ; I must be up very early, though, for I have bills to pay. I have some hundreds of dollars with me to pay out to-morrow, and it's in this bag." ' She looked at me in a queer sort of a way, and lingered beside me. At last she spoke : " Look ye, sir," she said, "I think that old folks of your age do wrong to lock doors on themselves. You might be ill at night, and who'd get in to you ? Leave your door unlocked." The moment she was gone I turned the. key. , , i . Was it this woman's practice to beg trav elers who stopped with ber mistress not to lock the doors? Was there some baneful potion in the cup she had given me? - It was an Innocent looking cup enough an old fashionod affair covered with little gilt sprigs. The tea was. fragrant byson ; but the suspioion that bad crept into my mind tainted it. I fancied a strange color, a ourious smell. I put it from ' me and would not have tasted it for a kingdom I had not intended to sleep, and I did not undress myself. ' I merely removed my disguise, and sat down besldo the table, itb my pistols beside me. That some at tempt might be shortly made to murder me I felt to be possible. I thought of all the old tales that I had heard of (rap doors, and sliding panels, and secret entrances to travelers' rooms. I was not a coward, but I felt strangely nervous ; and singularly enough for a man of my perfect health, my hands were growing eold, and my feet were lumps of ice, while my head was burning hot. ; . Fifteen minutes had passed, and the fire was kindled, but the room was not warm. The blue flames struggled among the black coals, aud flung forked tongues tipped with yellow tints into the room. There was no thing cbeeiful abou the stove, though it was of that open style now called Frank lin. Yet, I drew a chair toward it from habit, and tat with my foot upon the hearth. I do not know how long I sat there. , Suddenly I became aware that I was not myself. I was losing my senses. If un seen hands had been clasped about my neck, nnd an unseen knee bad beon pressed against my chest, my sensations could have been no different. A thought of the evil spirit which my friend had suggested, faintly struggled in to my mind. As I staggered to my feet a noise like the roaring of the sea was in my ears. The flame of the candle turned to. a great yellow .blue. I' barely retained strength enough to stagger to the window and Ming it open. The fresh, cold winter air rushed in at it. It gave me intense pain, but . it revived me. In a moment more I was able to clamber out of it upon the shed below. , Thore I remained until tho day dawn. With my returned senses the truth came to me. That which had murdered the three men who had slept before me in the blue chamber, was nothing more or loss than the coal stove. It was provided with what is called a damper, and this being caught in a man ner closed it, sent the poisonous gas into the room. It bad been kindled as a wood fire would have been at the hour of retir ing, by one ignorant of the danger possible from coal gas, and they had slept never to awaken, iiad l thrown myself upon the bed, 1 also should have been found dead at daylight, in all human probability. As for the fact that noither doctor nor coroner discovered the truth, I have but to say that they were not deeply scientific) men that coal stoves were soarcely used in the place, and that it had not been men tioned that the blue chamber was thus heated. Of course I rejoiced the household bv mv discovery the next morning, and equally, of course, Madame Matteau who was not only freed from all suspicion, but became the object of universal sympathy. She was always grate to mo, and she proved her gratitude by giving me what I soon asked tor, the Hand ot her daughter Gabrielle in marriage A Debt of Gratitude. ONE day, not long ago, while an En glish merchantman was on a voyage in the Mediterranean, the captain was call ed to the hammock of a dying sailor who bad askod to see him. The invalid seafarer desired bis commander to draw up for him a last will and testament, wherein the sum of $7,000 in English sovereigns was to be devised to a citizen of Memphis, in Tennes see, li. ., auu the uncontrollable surprise of the captain in his performance of the re quest of the sinking man caused the latter w umtio luo luuuwuiir exmuuuuuu oi lue past circumstances enabling him to be queath such a sum of money. An English man uy uirtu, ne was a mechamo, in Mem phis in the year 1801. No matter about the causes of his expatriation and humble for eigu occupation. Suffice it to say he had chosen to be a mechamo in America. Only for a short time, though ; for when the se cession war began he enlisted in one of the Tennessee regiments, having been scarcely able to earn a living as an artisan, and be ing just recovered lrom a weary sickness of ' which he must have died but for the gener ous ministrations of a family of strangers. Shortly after the discouragod convalescent's enlistment, and before his regiment march ed further southward, ho received from his family in England the sum of 97,000 in gold, which hud beon left to bim by a dy ing uncle. Instead of availing himsolf of this windfall, however, to withdraw from the army and devote himself otherwise than as a soldier, it was his eccentric whim to bury his whole treasure under a tree, in a lot belonging to the gentleman whose family had been so kind to him in his sick ness, and to neither speak nor act as though he bad ever received any such money at all Leaving the gold thus secretly placed, he . marched away with his military comrades. JNot long was it though before bis eccen tric character again displayed itself. Be coming speedily weary of the precarious fortunes ot war, be deserted from the army into Mexioo, and from thence embarked on au English vessel as a common seaman. Reaching England in due time, instead of rejoining bis family there, he at once be came a sailor on another vessel for a voy age around the world ; and had remained an obscure sailor until the fatal sickness overtook him in the Mediterranean and an expiring impulse of gratitude induced him to bequeath his gold yet hidden in Memphis to thoso who had so long ago befriended bim in that city. , . Such was the strange, soarcoly credible story which he told to the captain in ex planation or Dm curious will ; and, after siguing the latter with another name than that by which be had been known on ship board, he carried the . remaining mystery of his career with bim into the world of shadows. i The captain hardly knew ' whether to re gard either Btory or will as anything more than tho diseased fancy of a madman, but, upou reaching port, mailed the document, as he had solemnly promised, to the ad dress of the Memphis gentleman to whom the buried gold had been devised. ' And, according to a late issue pf the Memphis Iiegitttr, that gentleman's reception of the will, together with the Captain's explana tion of the' foregoing circumstances, has been followed by a realization proving that the dying wanderer of land and sea spoke truly. The gentleman iu question ''had some time before sold and delivered to another party the lot on which the valu able sovereigns were deposited. How to got at it now without incurring opposition and perhaps litigation was the question which arose In his mind. After taking the advice of counsel, he concluded to develop the wholo matter to the purchaser and own er of the place, and asked for the right to make search... This was done, and the new proprietor generously forwarded his wishes and gave bim every facility to possess him self of the treasure. On digging at tho foot of the tree described in the will tho gold, amounting to $7,000, was happily found aud the new owner made glad by the glittering heap,". Who the departed giver of this little fortune really was in bis native personality is not known, aud the secret is buried with him beneath the blue, waves of tho Mediterranean.
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