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NEW, "YOEK
CONTINENTAL
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Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YORK,
STRICTLY MUTUAL I
Assets, 0,5aO,3SS.03 !
fBSUESallthenew forms of Policies, and pre
X sent a favorable terms asany company lu 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-nre.
.
No extra charges are made for traveling permits
Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the
Company, and have a voice in the elections and
management of the Company.
No policy or medical feecharged.
L. W. FROST, PrtHdnnt.
M. B. Wtnkoop, Vice Vres't.
J. P.EOOERS, Bec'y. EATON,
General Agent,
No. North Third Street,
College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa.
TIIO& H. MILMGAN, .
6 421y Special Agent lor Newport.
Perry County Bank!
Spousler, Junklii & Co.
TI1K nnderslgnid, 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 COURT BO USB,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, 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, live per cent forany time over
four months: and tor 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 forthe
want of a Bank of Discount and Deposit, we have
have determined to supplythewant jand this 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 mechanics.
This Banking Association Is composed of the fol
lowing named partners:
W. A. SpoNSLin.Bloomfleld, Perry county, Pa.
B. F. Junkin, " " "
Wm. H. Miiabb, Carlisle, ,
OFFICHHS:
W. A. BPONBLER, Pretident.
William Wnxia, Cashier
NewBloomtleld.S 6 ly
BALL SCALES I
-y B. MARYANFltTTT, D. W. DERR and
JJ. JAMES 1L G1UKB. known as . , j
" The Ball Scale Company," .
have now on hand a large supply of Buoy's Patent
COUNTER SCALE, the Simplest, Cheap
est and best Connter Scale i n the market.
iff For Scales, or Agencies In Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, ad
dress '"She Hall Scale Company," l'ottsvllle,
Schuylkill county, Fa. . , .
OT. For Scales or Agencies In this County, ap
ply to the undersigned, where they cau be seen
and examined any time.
J UEIBY & BltO.,
Newport, Perry CO., Pa.
FRANK MORTIMER,
29tf NewBloomfleld,Perryco.,la.
Xj E B -A. 3ST O 3KT
.Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
or
Jonestown, Ponn'a,
TKM0IE8 PERPETUAL at Low Rates. No
X Steam risks taken. This In one ol the bent
.conducted and most reliable Companies In the
State. Country property Insured Perpetually
.at (4 00 per thousand, and Town property at (6 00
per thousand.
LEWIS POTTER,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., '
4 16 ... Agent for Perry County.
LOOK OUT I
I would respectively Inform my friends that I In
tend oalliug upon them with a supply of good
of my
OWN MANUFACTURE.
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OAJS8INET8, v.. ; .
FLANNELS. (Plain and bar'd)
CAUPETS, Jfco.i . -
to exchange for wool or sell tor cash.,
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klniln of country produce, and remit the amount
promptly. , .t '. ' .,i v-'.-i.' .'fWlf
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ENIGMA DEPARTMENT,
v All contributions to this department must
be accompanied by the correct answer.
Enigma. : '
I am composed of 29 letters.
My 1, 8, 14, 8 and 15. Is an article for food.
My , 11, 9 and 16, is tho name of a lake In
the United States.
My 13, 28, 25 and 17, la a delirious fruit.
My 1,5, 8,88, 18, 19, 14, II, 17 and ia, is a
city In North America.
My Si, 20, p9 and 6, la an Island In the
West.
My 33, 25, 4, IS, 26, 6, 23 and 9, U a lake In
Utah.
My 18, 7, 29, 11, 10 and 6, Is a town In
Asia.
My 27, 16, E4 and i, is a small coin.
My whole Is the name and residence of a
reader of the Tims.
A Problem. :
A. B. C. and D. own a stack of hay In the
form of a pyramid, 16 ft. high and containing
16 tons what part of the height shall each
take off, In the order named, so that each shall
take 4 tons 1
Dr. Franklin and His Mother.
IT was an idea bf Dr. Franklin's, if not
a settled opinion, that a mother night,
by a kind of instinotivo natural affection,
recognize her children, even though she
had loBt the reoollootion of the features.
On a visit to his native town of Boston, be
determined to ascertain, by experiment
whether his theory was correct or not.
On a bleak chilly day in the month of
January, the Doctor, late in the afternoon,
knocked on the door of his mother's house,
and asked to speak to Mrs. Franklin. He
found tho old lady knitting before the
parlor fire. lie introduced himself, and
observing that he understood she enter
tained travelers, requested lodgings for the
night.
She eyed him with that cold look of dis
approbation which most people assume
who imagine themselves insulted by being
supposed to exercise an employment which
they deem a degree below their real ocupa
tion in life. . She assured him that he had
been misinformed she did not keep a
tavern, nor did she keep a house to enter
tain strangers. It was true, she added,
that to oblige some members of the Legis
lature, she took a small number of them
into her family during the session that she
bad four members of tho council and six of
the House of 1 Representatives, who then
boarded with her, and that all bor beds
wore full. . ' , '
Having said this she resumed her knitting
with that intense application which said,
as forcibly as she could, if you have con
cluded your business, the sooner you leave
the better. But on tho Doctor's' wrapping
his cloak about him, affecting to shiver,and
observing that tho weather was very cold,
she pointed to n chair and gave him leave
to warm himself. ' i ,
The entrance of the boarders prevented
further conversation.. Coffee was served,
and ha partook with the family. To the
coffee, according to the good old custom of
the times, succeeded a plnte of pippins,
pies and a paper of tobacco, when the whole
party formed a cheerful semi-circle before
the fire. '
Perhaps no man ever possessed a collo
quial power in a more fascinating degree
than Dr. Franklin, and never was there an
occasion on which ho displayed them to
bettor advantage, thau the present one.H
no drew the attention of the company by
the solidity of his modest remarks, instruct
ing them by the now and striking lights in
which he placed his subjects, and delight
ed them with apt illustrations and amusing
anecdotes.
Thus employed, the hours passed mer
rily along until supper was announced.
Mrs. F., busied with her household affairs,
supposed the intruding stranger had left
the house immediately after the coffee, and
it was with dislike that sho saw him seat
himself at the table with the freedom of a
member of the family. . ,
Immediately after supper she called an
elderly gentleman, member of tho council,
in whom she was accustomed to confide,
into another room, complained 'bitterly of
the rude appearance of tho man and of his
introduction into her house and 'observed
that be seemed an outlandish sort of a man.
She thought that . ho had something very
suspicious in his appearand and she con
cluded by soliciting her friend's advice as
to the way that she could most easily rid
herself of his presence. '
, The old gentloman assured her that the
stranger was surely a young man of good
education, and, to all appearance a gen.
tleman that perhaps, being la agreeable
oompany, he paid no attention to the late
ness of the hour. He advised her to will
the stranger aside and repeat her inability
to lodge blm. ', She accordingly : Bent ! her
maid to him, and with as much complacen.
cy as she could command, she recapitulated
the situation of her family, observing that
it grew late, and mildly, intimating that ho
would do well to seek lodgings,
The Doctor replied .thatho would by o
means incommode tho family, but, with
her leave ho would , smoke cub ' more jlpo
with nor boarders and then retire.
: He returned to , the company, filled his
pipe, and with his ' first whiff his conver
sational powers returned with doublo force.
He recounted the hardships 'endured ,ly
their ancestors, extolled' their piety, virtue
and devotion to religious', frcdom,, "Tho
subject of tba day'a debate Juu the House of
Representatives was mentioned by one of
the members. A bill had been introduced
to extend the prerogative of the royal Gov
ernor. Tho Doctor immediately joined in
tho discussion, supported the colonial
lights with new and forcible arguments,
was familiar with the influential men in
tho House, when Dudley was Governor, re
cited their speeches, and applauded their
noble defence of tho charter rights.
During a discourse so appropriately in
teresting to the delighted company no
wonder the clock struck nnperoelved by
them. Nor was it a wonder that the pa
tience of Mi's. Franklin became entirely
exhausted. She now entered tho room and
addressed the Doctor before the whole oom
pany, with a warmth glowing of a determ
ination to bo her own proteotrORS. ' She
told him plainly that sbo thought herself
imposed upon, but she had frionds that
would' defend her, and insisted he should
immediately leave the house.
Tho doctor made a slight apology and de
liberately put on his great coat and hat j
took leave of tho company, and approaohed
the street door, attended by the mistress
and lighted by the maid.
While tho Doctor and his companions
had been enjoying themselves within, a
most tremendous storm of wind and rain
had occurred, and no sooner had the maid
lifted the latch than a roaring northeastern
forced open the door, extinguished the
light,and almost filled the entry with drift
ed snow and hail. As soon as the candle
was lighted tho Doctor cast a woful look
towards the door, and thus addressed his
mother :
' My dear madam, can you turn mo out
in this storm ? I am a stranger in this town
and will perish in the street. You look
like a charitable lady I should not think
that you would turn a dog from your houso
this cold, stormy night I"
"Don't talk to me of charity!" replied
his mother, " charity begins at home. It
is your own fault not miue, that you nave
tarried so long. To be plain with you, sir,
I do not like either your looks or your con
duct, and fear you have somo bad design
in thus Intruding into my family."
: The wrath of this parley had drawn the
company - from the parlor, and by their
united interference the stranger was per
mitted to stay in the house, and as no bed
coald bo bad, he consented to rest in the
easy chair by the parlor fire. ,
, Though the boarders appeared to confide
in the stranger's honesty, it was not so
with Mrs. Franklin, ' With suspicious cau
tion sho' collected her silver spoons, pepper
box and porringer, from bor closets, and
after securing the parlor door by sticking a
fork above the latch, carried the valuables
to her chamber, charging the negro man
to sleep with his clothes on, to take the
groat cleaver to bed with him, and to
awaken and seize tho vagrant the first noise
he should make in attempting to plunder.
Mrs. Franklin arose before the sun, rous
ed the domestios, and was quite agreeably
surprised to find her terrible guest quietly
sleeping in her chair. She awoko him
with a choerful good morning, inquiring
how he rested, and invited him to partake
of her breakfast which was always served
previous to that of her boarders.
' " And . pray, sir," 'said Mrs. Franklin,
"as you seem to be a stranger in Boston, to
what distant country do you belong ?"
"I belong, madam, to, tho colony of
Pennsylvania, and reside in Philadelphia.
At the mention oi Philadelphia, the
Doctor declared that he for the first time
perceived something like emotion in her.
" Philadelphia!" said she, while the earn
est anxiety of a mother suffused her eye,
"why if you live in Philadelphia perhaps
you know my Ben?" ; , , ',
" Who, madam?", ' ... ; :''", ",'",'
"Ben Franklin. My dear Ben.' Oh I
how I would, like to see him! He is the
dearest son that ever blessed a mother." ,
"What! is Ben Franklin, the printer,
your son? Why he is my most intimate
friend. ' lie and I work together, and
lodge in the same room."
" Ob I Heaven, forgive me I" exclaimed
the lady, raising .her tearful eyes, "and
have I suffered a friend of my son Ben to
sleop upon a bard chair, whilo I myself
rested upon a soft bed I' ' '
" Mrs. Franklin then told her unknown
guest though he had been absent from her
ever since bo was a child, she could not
fail to know him among a thousand strange
faces, for there was a natural fooling in the
breast of every mother, which sho know
would enable her without a possibility ' of
a mistake, to recognize nor son in any dis
guiso ho might assume., , ,, ' ,,,,'' ,',
: Fiauklin doubted, and took leave to
dispute his mother's disposition on 'the
power of natural feeling, , lie said ho bad
tried the : " natural fooling" in bis own
mother, and found it deilolont in the power
she ascribed to it. , ' .''
i " And did your hiptber," inquired she,
" not know you ? or if she did not seem to
know you1, was not her kindness to you evl.
deuce that she saw something tn 1 your ap.
poarancowhiU was, fear tocher so that
she could not resist treating you with par.
tiaular tendornesS and attention." 'i I i
"No, indeed," replied Franklin,' "she
neither know me, juordid sho treat mo with
tho least sympathy or kindness.. She would
have1 furned me 'out of M doors 1 but for tho
iuterpsltjon ot snngori. She could hardly
bo persuadsd to Jot me sit at her table. I
knew I was in my mother's house, and had
a claim upon her hospitality ; and, there
fore, you may suppose that when she per-
emtorily commanded me to leave the house
I was in no hnrry to obey." ' ' ' ' ' '
'8urely," interrupted his mother, "she
could not have treated you so unmotherly
without some cause."
'.'I gave her none," replied tho Dr. Bbo
would tell you herself I had always been a
dutiful son that she doated upon me, and
when I came to her bouse as a stranger, my
behavior was scrupulously correct and re
spectful. It was a stormy night, and I had
been absent so long that I had become a
stranger in the place. I told my mother
this, and yet, so little was she Influenced
by the " natural feeling" of which you
speak, that she absolutely refused me a
bed, and would hardly suffer what she
called my presumption to take a seat her
table. But this was not the worst for no
sooner was tho supper ended than my good
mother told me, with an air of solemn
earnestness, that I must immediately leave
tho house." . ' .
Franklin then proceeded to describe the
scene at the front door the snow drift
that came so opportunely into the entry
his appeal to her " natural feeling" of a
mother her unnatural and unfoelfng re
jection of his prayer and finally her very
reluctant compliance with the solicitation
of other persons in his behalf that he
might be permitted to sleep on a chair, .'.
Every word in his touching recital went
home to tho heart of Mrs. Franklin, who
could not fail to perceive that it was a true
narrative of tho events of tho preceding
night in her own house ; and while she en
deavored to eBoape from tho self-reproach
that sho had aoted tho part of an unfeeling
mother, she could not easily resist the con
viction that tho stranger, who became more
and more interesting to her as he proceed
ed in his course, was, indeed her own son,
But when she observed tho tendor expres
siveness of his eye, as he feelingly ; recap
itulated the circumstances under which she
attempted to turn him shelterless into the
street, her maternal conviction overcame
all doubt, and sho threw herself into his
arms, exclaiming : " It must be it must
bo my dear Ben I" . i i
A Woman's Cariosity. '
A TIRED husband went home from his
work one night recently, and, taking
off his coat, requested his wife to mend a
rent in the sleeve, thon sank upon the sofa
behind the evening paper.. Wife-like she
took up the coat; woman-like she dived
into the pockets. From the inside pocket
she drew forth a letter, directed, in delicate
chirography, to her husband. With dark
ening ; brow, she quickly took tho suspic
ious looking missive from the envelope,
and, without noticing the date, 1 began to
rood : ,
. " vkak uboboe ; i am lonely, on I so
lonely, ' since you left me last Thursday
night."
"Ah, ha I that was lodge night, ho told
me," t said the now thoroughly interested
woman, as she glanced vioiously over at
her husband, who ' appeared to be just
falling asleep. " Oh, how can you sleep
with the weight of this deep sin upon
yon? But I'll see what more the brazen
huzzy has to say, if it kills me." With
one baud pressed to her throbbing heart,
sho read on : ' . ' , '. 1
" I know I am foolish, darling, but
when you are away there seemg to be
barrier between me aud all that is bright
and lovely. The sun does not shine half
so bright ; the moon is but a white spot in
the sky, and the stars stare coldly down,
when you are not with me, lord of my life
and heart.'!
"Was it for this? was it for' this?"
moaned the unhappy wife.
" Fortune speed the day when we may
be united in those indissoluble bonds;that
are sacred in the eyes of Heaven and
earth "
; . " What mockery I Does he or she con
sider that his vows made to mo are not
sacred? What are they going to do with
me, any way, I wonder? Poison, perhaps.
Oh, false, perfidious man I Oh wicked,
hellish, dosigning wanton I", Still the suf
fering woman read the letter, though each
word burned to ashos a thousand hopes
and joys . ', , , ..,, ;
"when we need meet no more clan
destinely and trembled in each other's em
brace" " ,
" I'd make you tremble if 1 had you in
roy embrace a minute 1"
" when my head may bo pillowed In safety
upon your breast " .
. . "The fiendesa I" , ' , , ' ! ,
" and your arms twine in loving pressure
about mo P i ' , .. 'A
" Furies 1" - ' - -' '' ''. '"
"and our lips smother the tendor words
that would escape frorri them." '! '" "
" Ob, the slrenio sha-dovil !" ' hissed the
woman, as she tried to - keep down the
boiling rage '.within ber. She ' crushod the
letter in her bauds, then threw it upon the
floor and sprang upon It with her heels, as
though it were a snake, aud grOuud it iuto
the oarpet Then, with clouohod . hands
and I compressed lips, alio strode' rapidly
back and forth across the room, ever . and
anon making a snovo as if to spring like a
fury upon her husband, who with . a paper
over his face, was apparently sound asleep
dreaming, perhaps, of the wicked temp
tress that bad come between ' him and
his fond wife. Presently a reaction took
place, and the wretched woman sank
into a ohalr and found relief in that
blossod panacea for female ills a flood of
tears.
Growing calmer after a while, she picked
nn the rumpled letter, smoothed out the
creases, and, with an air of mingled de
spair and resignation, looked for the signa
ture. "Your ever loving and devoted, but
poor, apprehensive "
" What's this T Flut flut tering bir
die, A d a Ada. Why, bless mo I this is
one of my own old letters to George. What
a fool "
A sound from the sofa, first like escap
ing steam, and then like a oar rattling o'er
tho stony street, assured her that her ridic
ulous autionshad been witnessed by ber
husband. Burning with shame, the foolish
woman now to ner room, and locked her
self, in, and she is almost as miserable now
as when she felt that she was a wronged
and deceived wife.
Pawnee Rock.
IN western annals, certain places, unim
portant in themselves, have trained a
large importance and wide colcbritv from
their associations. Such a place was Paw
nee Kock. 1 hough only a landmark of tho
plains, a cluster of reddish-colored rocks In
a bluff on the north side of the Arkansas,
it was a famous place so lately as three or
lour years ago. All frontiersmen and In
dians knew it well. It had witnessed many
a council, many a treaty and "swap,"
mauy a gathering of the clans while yet tha
encroachments of the white man were far
to tho eastward. It occupied the same
necessary place in Indian and frontier
affairs which a country town or commercial
centre might in civilization, and finally be
came endowed with a somi-saoredness in
savage eyes. As a place where momentous
negotiations were carried on, and solemn
compacts made, this red landmark on the
western plains is entitled to more consider
ation than Penn's Oak, and probably has a
stranger history, almost forgotten.
It is strange to reflect that the history of
Pawnee Rock is now merged in the stran
ger history of the wonderful advance of
civilization. Only a few days since, the
quarter section upon which it stands was
turned into a farm. Not by a frontiers
man who knows, anything of its history,
but, as though the extremes of birth and
education should meet upon tho scene of
savage camps and councils, by a Swedish
gentleman named Erio Norburg, one of tho
old Bishop Hill colony, of Illiuois, who
purchased it from tho Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fo R. R. Company. Barton
county, iu which it is, is one of the richest
in western Pan sag. , People are gathering
around it upon all sides, and soon it will
likely be the nearest neighbor to a church
or a school-house. ;
People who are fond of associations, and
who have somo regard for that strange
history of a race which is rapidly passing
away without a record, except suoh as this,
will be glad to reuoct that the famous land
mark is not a tree, or a mound, liable to
waste and decay, but a rock, whose very
ponderous usolessnoss may perpetuate tra
dition in tho midst of the wheat-fields aud
vineyards which are destined soon to come.
, A Mystery Solved.
A churoh in Prussia was used as a maga
zine for provisions for soldiers, but great
care was taken of the high altar on ac
count of the beauty of its construction. A
rumor spread that tho altar was mysterious
ly illuminated every night, and throngs of
people gathered about the church. . The
commandant ordered the key and with a
lantern explored the chnrch, bnt nothing
was found to clear up the mystery, but as
soon as the church was empty the altar
and whole church wore again illuminated.
The commandant issued a proclamation
olTorlng a reward to any one who oould un
ravel tho mystery.
' For two days no one claimed the reward,
but on the third a common soldier belong
ing to the fortress requested a private au
dionoe with the commandant, and explain
ed to him that he was occasionally em
ployed to put frames to mirrors and burning
glosses, and one evening when at work at
a large concave glass it happened to be so
placed as to throw a light into the church,
when finding publio ' curiosity excited he
often threw the light from tho attio to the
altar. The comniaudant explained to the
publio and gave the promised reward to
the joker.'',.',, ' '
1 ' ' A 11111 orSulphur. '
One of the most roniarkable deposits of
native sulphur, as yet discovered, is a great
hill composed of the almost pure article,
found some two years ago at a distance of
thirty miles south of the Union Pacific rail
way and niue hundred miles west of Oma- -ha.
' This marvelous deposit is found to "
consist almost wholly of sulphor, contain
ing only IS per, "cent, ' of impurities.' The
best deposits heretofore available ar those
found in Sicily', The principal supplies for
the manufacture of sulphuric acid come
from there ; the . deposits coutaiu' 35 per
cent, uf impurities aud 64 per cent, of sul, .
phur. Our western sulphur hill, therefore, '.
is much the moat valuable, aud promises to
become ore long of great Importance to tho ,
country. : . . ,. . ,- ,,. , !
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ii -n SW'T i i owiy,