Stljc (iinc0, : New Clopniftclir, $ct. ISTEW "YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STIIICTIj r M V TV All I ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre sent!! as favorable terms as any compauy lu the United States. Thirty days' frrace allowed on 'eaeh payment, and the policy held good during that time. Pollcleslssuedbytkls Company are non-forfelt-ure. No extra charges are madefor traveling permits Policy-holders share In the annual protltsof the Company, and have a voice In the elections and management of theCoinpany. No policy or medical fee charged. L. W. FROST, PreMent. M. B. Winkoop, Vice Pres't. J.P.RooEKS.Sec'y. j F eaton General Agent, - No. 6 North Third Street, College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. THOS. II. MIM.IOAN, 6 421yJ Special Agent fur Nowport. Porry Comity Bank! Sponster, Junkln A Co. THE undersign ?d, having formed a BanklngAs soclatioQ 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 COURT HOUSE, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. We receive money on deposit and pay back on demand. We discount notes for a period of not overeo days, and sell Drafts on l'hlladelphlaand New York. On time Deposits, five per cent for any 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 tor 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 tn our efforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. SpoN8t.KR, Bloomfield, Perry county, Pa. B. F. Junkin, " " " Wm. II. Miller, Carlisle, orricRiis: W. A. SPONSLEU. President. , William Willis, Cashier . New BloomHeld, 3 6 ly BALL SCALES! T B. MAKYANF.liTII, D. W. DERIt and XJt JAM lis II. OKllill. known as " The Ball Scale Company," have now on hand a large supply of Buoy's Patent COUNTKlt SCALK, the Simplest, Cheap est and best Counter Scale In the market. -For Scales, or Agencies In Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey. Delaware and Maryland, ad dress "The Ball Scale Coniany," Tottsville, Schuylkill county. Pa. " m. For Scales or Agencies In this County, ap ply to the undersigned, where they can be seen and examined any time. - , J LKIBY & BTtO.. Newport, Perry co., Pa. ' FRANK MORTIMER, 29tf Now Bloomfleld,Perryco..l'a. LEBANON Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Of Jonestown, Fcnn'a. POLICIES PERPETUAL at Low Rates. No Steam rinks taken. This lu one of the best conducted and most reliable Companies In the State. Country proxirty Insured Perpetually at4 00 per thousand, and Town property at 15 00 per uiuusanu. LEWIS POTTER, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., 4 16 . Agent for Perry County. LOOK OUT ! I would respectively Inform my friends that I In tend calling upon tueiu Willi a supply of good of my OWN MANUFACTURE. ' Consisting of ' CASSIMERS, , CASSINETS, , , FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) OAltPETS, Ace:, to exchange for wool or ielHor eash . ' J. H. BIXLEK. CbntbbWooleu Factohy. : ,17,4m t. M. OIRVIB. ' . T M. omviN & SON, J. n. amviH NO. 8, SPEAR'S WHAKF, . , II a 1 A 1 in o r e . M d . We will pay strlfst attention to the sale of a kluus of oouutry produce, and remit the amount nrouiutly. ' iy TTIRttaU J AKlKf Him t , , , .,, ,, F. MO lUIMJiBB, NewBlooinltila,P. ENIGMA DEPAllTMENT. -All contributions to this department must be Mathematical Problem. Multiply 0. Os. 9(i. by 9. 6s. 9d. This question has puzzled many men accus tomed to Sterling accounts, and of a great number of persons to whom It has been given to solve, but two have given the correct an swer. It is a question showing the properties of numbers and the relationship of their value, one the other. Can any of onr readers give o corroct answer. PR8VRYPRFCTMN V RKP T H8PR C P T ST N . Auswor to the above : Porscvero ye perfect men, Ever keep these precepts ten. tSf Answer to Geographical enigma in last week's Times i " William Henry Peters, Buck's Valley." t3f Answer to Mathematical problem pub lished last week : " A' 10.0793 feet j B's 3.0109 feet C's 1.8510 feet ( D's 1.4492 feet. Tricks of Sharpers. ANEW YORK lottor gives the follow ing description of some of the meth ods employed by black-mailers, to raise money. In a great city, it is safe to say, that nearly one-half the population .have no good roason for living. The number of rurasellers, gamblers, thieves, confidence mon and people who steal a living would, if put together, make an army large enough to have crusod the rebellion. I now speak of the mnlo ulcers on tbe body politic there are at loast 80,000 women in the city who live by equally disreputable means. Tbe meanest and most despicable of all the scoundrels who infest the city, next to tho politicians, are the professionablo black mailers, and a few paragraphs devoted to them may be of interest to your readers. The black-mailer is a man, or woman, who possesses some knowledge of anothor per son which will not benr open daylight, and then extorts money as the price of silence. For instance the professional black-mailer goes night after night to a fashionable gambling-house, and watches closely the players. They are admirable judges of human nature ; indeed, this is the first qual ification of the business. Ho fixes upon some nervous player who is losing heavily, and notes to a dollar bis losses. Whcu the player finally quits and leaves the house he does not know that be is being followed, and that the street and number of his residence is taken ; nor docs be know that a watchful eye follows him the next morning to the bank or ofllce where be is employed, and that by noon of that day every fact in bis history is in tho possession of a cool, calculating merciless scoundrel, who by knowing what be is, has a bold on him that will ruin him. We will assume that tbe victim observed in tbe gambling-bouse is the cashier of a bank. From tbe moment tho black-mailor spotted him he is not out of his sight for an instant. ' His losses are carefully noted, his goings to and fro observed and noted, and every incident that at all compromises him is set down with circumstances. For, bo it known, be who gambles has other vices in fact the most of the raw mon at gam bling tables are those who have squandered money not theirs on unlawful pleasures and they fly to gaming in the hope of got- ting even by a Btroke of luck. When the black-mailer Las cot "noints" enough on his man that is when he has facts concerning him, if made known to his employers or family, would ruin him he moves on him. He takes him aside and tells hira boldly what he knows of him, and fixes the sum at which bis silence can be assured. . Tbe victim puts on a bold front and defies him. Mr. Black-mailer expects this, and it doesn't move him.- , He pulls out of bis breast pocket a little book, and he reads to bim that on such a night he lost f 3,000 at John Chamberlin's ; on such another night $1,000 ; an .another night be was at a bouse in 22d street, with a woman closely veiled, but whoso name is Bo-and-Bo, that moreover be pays the board of Miss So-and-So, at such a street aud number ; in short the. block -mailer reads to bis victim a complote history of bis secret lifo, so methodically arranged as to make denial useless. And after this no denial is made. Do wilts and gladly pays the price demanded. But it does not end here. Having once paid he belongs soul and body to bis tor mentor. The threats of exposure, so efll cacJoui the first . time, are equally so the second. He comes again and again, until the dupe becomes desperate and flies the country. ., Frequently they do not wait for tbo com mission of a crime. . They select a timid, nervous man and threaten to accuse bim of crime if be does not come down handsome ly, and in ' many cases they succeed, the victim submitting to be bled rather than to be accused. One of ' these gentlemen met his match the other day. 1 A black-mailer, a graduate of the State prison, accused a clerk of stealing from bis employer and proposed to "hush the thing" for $200. The intended . victim gave seeming assent, but privately made 'ar rangements with the police and had bis black-mailer arrested with the money in his band. It was fortuuulo that the clerk hod pluck. Had be yielded to the first demand for money be would have found himsolf compelled, in time, to pay over to his ac cuser every dollar that he could save or steal. Women make tbe host game for these follows. If a married woman indulges iu what, to her, seems to be an " iunocont flir tation," and happens to fall in the bands bfoneof these men, it costs her dear. Bo valuablo is her reputation that rather than have it called in question, sho will do any thing. She pays the scoundrol money, silvorware, jewelry, anything, as the price of silence, for they imagine a thousand evils whore none could possible occur. Next to women, clergymen are tho fa vorite victims of black-mailers for their po sition is so peculiar and uncertain. In their cases the services of somo fair but abandoned woman are brought into requi sition. Borne years neo a distinguished proachor in a Broadway church resigned his charge and loft the city broken-hearted, because ho had permitted himself to be plundered by a band of mon and women who had combined to place bim iu a false position. His friends felt that he was innocent, and yet they advised hira to go, because his weakness had put bim under suspicion. Ho had been sent for to console a dying woman, and he went and was ushered into hor room, and left alone with her, and was then surprised by a confederate, who claimed to bo the woman's husband. The house was a regular . trap, the woman a prostitute, and tbe two were black-mailers, but it was enough. Ho was weak enough to pay once, and then it was all over with him. Paying was an evidence of guilt, and, innocent of guilt a child, he was compollod to resign his charge and leave tho city. But it did not end with this. His prosecutors followed him to his now home, and extorted more mouoy, for every step he took to relieve himself only put him more securely in their bauds. Ho was compelled finally to loavo the ministry. But they do not always succeed so well. Not long ago another clorgyman, approached in toe samo way, laid a very neat trap and had his accusers brought to shame. He thus saved himself a life-long trouble. Tho only way is to dofy them, and utterly refuse to pay. That ends it. Tbey have no reason to divulge what they know, in fact, when their secret is made common property it censes to have any value to them. They always leave suoh people alone. The Dutchman's Calf. OUR friend Carl, the butcher, had just bought a fine calf and stopped a mo ment in the bar-room of the drovers hotel to say good bye to the barkocpor. Thoir emotion at parting was very great so much so indeed that the entire crowd joined lu, the most of them taking " sugar in theirs." At this juncture, Mr. Charles nines, offeied to bet champagne for tho party, that be would steal Carl's oalf before he got to town. " Eugh 1 eugh I" grunted Carl, "py tam I dukes dat bet." "Enough said," was the answer, and once mole evincing their emotion, much to the satis faction of the landlord and also three horny handed Grangers who had been ornament ing tbe stove with their "country twist" expectorations, Carl, giving an extra twist round the neck of bis young bovine, mount ed to his seat and drove slowly off, shaking the body of his wagon with suppressed laughter as he roared back ; " Yes, py torn, steal him if you can." "You can't do it, Charlie," said the crowd with one voice, This young gentleman, whose wits had been sharpened by his early piratical life and his occasional intercourse with a few Chinee, said nothing, but buttoned up his coat, and taking from bis pockets bis large buckskin gloves started out, aud with the speed of an antelope ' struck through tho woods, and taking a short cut iu a few minutes came out on the road some dis tance ahead of Carl, who bad not yet turn ed the bend. Throwing down one of his gloves on the roadside be quickly withdrew to the bushes and quietly awaited the ap proach of our worthy butcher friend, whose voice could be beard in tbe distance one moment swearing at the calf, which show ed every Inclination to return to the ma ternal fold, and noxt would be heard that doep gutteral roar: "Py tam, stheal hira if you can," Shortly after the team came to a sudden bait, tbe spirited little bovine to a double bait which nearly dislocated the tailboard to which he was tied, and Carl loaned over and saw a fine large buckskin glove on the road. " Eugh," said he," "why dldu't the fool leave dern both ? Vat's de use of one glove anyhow f - Q'lang I" and off moved - the self-satisfied driver, still chuckling at the idea of anybody stealing his calf. The Ingenious youth, whose mind should have been upon better things, oraerged front his lair In the bushes, and once more, after recovering his glove, started through the woods and bushes, and in loss than half an hour's time was once again upon the roadside, and had deposited a glove. Tbe reluctant oalf, the well-tried tall board, the burly driver, and the straining leador soon appeared in sight, with this ex ception, their positions wero reversed. " Got iu himmell 1" cried Carl as bis eye caught sight of the big buck glove lying in front of hira, , " youst like the odor one, by tam. Why de toufel didn't I pick bim up atouce?" Hitching his borBes to a roadside sapling in another minute he was streaking it up bill and away at a 2:40 pace. The bend in the road was soon reached, and about the same time a swift-footed, smiling youth the ono whose mind as we before said should have been upon better things stepped from the roadside shrubbery,pickcd up the glove, cut the rope, and leading the calf, which appeared willing t3 submit to anything for a change, through trees and bushes was soon lost to sight. Jerry's Testimony. The following is a brief report, not heretofore in print, of a law case which camo up some years nno in the Circuit Court of Chesterfield, Virginia. Tho Judge very good-natured mon was rather a favorite with the people. His name was Clopton. The suit was for slander, and had assumed tho form of a cross-suit for the impropor use of tho unruly member. Counsel on each side was of the highest standing. All Virginians will assent to this when told that Samuel Taylor was for the plaintiff and Benjamin Watkins Lee for the defendant. Tho court being opened and tho case being called, the Judge said: "Mr. Taylor, are you ready in this case ?" Mr. Taylor replied, " If Jerry Moody is here, I am ready." "Mr. Leigh, are you ready ?" "May it please your honor, lam ready if Jerry Moody is here." "Sheriff, call Jerry Moody." The sheriff went to the door, and lustily called thrice for Jerry Moody to come into court. Bo Jerry, a tall thin, straight man came forward. The jury were sworn. Then Jerry was sworn. In his solemn and forcible manner, Mr. Taylor said to him: " Be so good as to toll the court and jury all you know about this case." Witnoss said, " Well, I have often heard the defendant say that the plaintiff was a roguo, a thief, and a liar ; and I have often heard the plaintiff say that tbe defendant was a rogue, a thief, and a liar ; and they were the only times I ever heard either of them tell the truth. The counsel looked at each other. Tbe court was embarrassed. The parties were confounded. Jerry Moody was the only man quite self-posessed. Of course the case was thrown out of court. As the par ties and witness were walking out of the court-house, the plaintiff said, "Cousin jerry, you joke too hard." Impudence. The following from St. Louis is said to be true, and it is certainly very good : The venerable Mr. G , is proprietor of a largo planing mill, and is a highly re respected Christian gentleman. Seated in his ofllce ouo morning, he was accosted by a block-eyed specimen of humanity, who asked for ten cents td get a drink. "Fact is," said he, "I have been on a drunk, am broke, and want juBt ouo good drink to sober off on." Now Mr. G., was a strong advocate of temperance, aud turning to tho man, ho said : " I am not a drinking man, but there is my brother Jim over there ; he may help you j" which remark, by the way, was a decided hit on Jim, who did not object to an occasional smile, and knowing bow it was himself, be banded the man tho askod for dime, remarking, " That's for telling the truth j if you had said you wanted to buy bread, or something to eat, I wouldn't hove given it to you." , "Thank you," says the inebriate ; "had I known you were so bloody liberal, I'd a boned you for a quartor." " Here is fifteon cents more for your im pudence," handing the man tho amount. " Good morning." Their visitor backed to tbo door, thon turning to Jim with an amusing stare, he said, ," I would like to tell you somothing pro viding you don't got mad." "Go ahead. Wbat is it?" was the re- ply- " Well, you're the ugliest white man I think I ever saw I" A Lofty City. Potosi, in Bolivia, B. A., is the hlgboBt city iu the world, being at an elevation of 13,800 feet, considerably above the lovel of the summits of the Alpine mountain giants and only U00 feet below the topmast peak of the Icy Jungfrau itself. This is a toler ably lofty latitude for a city ; but then totosl is the metropolis of the richest sil ver mines in the world, which are worked in the neighboring Corra (Sierra, or high ridge) de Potosi, at an latitude 10,000 feet above tbe sea level, a greater height than the top of Mount Blono ; so that the abund ance of the precious metals we may sup pose, compensates the 80,000 Inhabitants (about half of whom are the native races) for the rarity of" the air, the rapid altera tions of climate, which presents the char acteristics of the four seasons every twenty- four hours, and the rugged barrenness of tbo surrounding district. The Minister and the Quaker. AN amusing story under this title has long been currant, in various forms, among good people. An authentic state ment of it, with name and place, is given in the Presbytoriau Standard by the Hon. J. R. Bnowden. Ho says that the minister iu question was the Rev. Dr. Robert Smith, whose fomo as a loarned and eloquent di vino has been overshadowed by that of his sons, John Blair Smith and Samuel Stan bop Smith, President of Princeton Col lege. Dr. Robert Smith, before he becamo President of Hampdou Sydney Collego, was principal of a very successful classical academy at Paquea, Pennsylvania. While hero, he had a near neighbor, a Friend, whom Mr. Snowden, having forgotten his real name, calls William Jones. Dr. Smith and Mr. Jones wore very good friends, and often visited each other. One day Dr. Smith said, " Friend Jones, I r.otico that although we are good friends and neighbors, yet I have never seen you at my church, or . meeting-house, as you call it." "That is very true, friend Rob ert, but thee knows tho reason. We Quakers, as we are called, are not in favor of a hireling ministry, who are educated especially for that purpose. We favor those only who preach by the Spirit." " Well," says the Doctor, " without enter ing upon tho first point of your objection at present, I think I can say that we Pres byterians follow the teachings of the Spirit in our sermons to the people." "O, no, friend Robert ; thee knows vory well that thee prepares thy discourse before thee en ters the pulpit." " That is quite true to some extent, but nevertheless I can preach without suoh previous preparation." " Woll, then," Bays tho Quaker, " I will try thee ; I will go to hear thee preach on this condition, namely, that I will give thee a text, which thee must not see until thee goes into the pulpit." " I accept the offer," says Dr. Smith. "Very well, then, I will go to thy meeting-house next first day, and will send up the text by tbe sex ton after thee has made tbe long prayer, which I learn thee makes." "That is not quite wbat I expected when you made the proposition," says Dr. Smith, "but I ac cept it ; and will expect to see you at the Pequoa church noxt Sunday morning." Dr. Smith entered his pulpit the next Sabbath with some anxiety. A glance over the congregation showed him that bis Quaker neighbor was there, and at the ap pointed time he expected the text. He commenced his services in his usual man ner, and after the " long prayer" he com menced a very long psalm. I believe it was at tho 119th Psalm throughout, but it was quite a long psalm. As soon as tbe precentor, or fine singer, roso, the sexton came up tbe aisle, and handed to the proachor the text. It was from the book of Ezra, 1st chapter, and latter clause of the 0th verse : " Nine and twenty knives." A sharp, as well as a hard text, thought the Doctor. The singing of the long psalm gave him a fow minutes for reflection when that was ended he arose and an nounced his text, and noticed many a smile upon tho faces of his congregation, even some venerable elders could not pre serve tbe usual solemnity of their counte nances. But the preacher proceeded with his discourse. He spoke briefly of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon ; of their condition there ; the proclamation of Cyrus; of the wonderful preservation of the uten sils of the Temple, which had been taken from Jerusalem by the conquerors of Ju dca ; none of the knives which were used for slaying and preparing the sacrifices were lost, mislaid, - or destroyed. They were, said Dr. Smith, under the special care and protection of God, and were in due time restored to tbe temple. He then enlarged upon the special providence of God. " Not a sparrow falls without his notice ;" " and tbe very hail's of our head are numbered." " Tbe Lord knows them that are his, and none of them shall per ish." The Quaker was not only pleased, but he was aroused and delighted. The next day he sent for Dr. Smith to dine with hira,. After dinner he invited Dr. Smith to take a walk around bis farm, and coming to a pasture field in which were his cattle, he stopped abruptly and said, " I was much pleased with thy dis course, friend Robert, last first day. Now, thee knows we follow our leader, George Fox, who . bore his testimony against a hireling ministry; we, never pay our publio friends, but we sometimes give them pres ents I have many good milk cows. I wish thee to select one for thyself. Dr. Smith wished to decline the gift, but the Quaker insisted and said, " I will be offended at thee if thee refuse. Tbe Doctor having noticed a small and 111-lobklng cow, said, " Well, if I must take one of the cows, I will take that small red cow," pointing to the one be had noticed, and Which ho sup posed the least valuable. Well, I do pro fess," says Friend Jones, ' " thee does not only preaoh ' by the Spirit, but thee can choose by the Spirit ; that little red oow is tbe best one I have ; my wife would not sell ' It for one hundred dollars ; but thee shall have it." And accordingly the same evening the little oow was driven to the " manse," and proved to be a valuable aoquUltloii to tbe domlue's dairy. "
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