l)c tmcs, Mvo Bloomftcl&, flip; -YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, S TlilCTL Y M VT UAL t ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre sents as favorable terms us any company In tbe United States. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Polioies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit ure. No extra charges are made for traveling permits-Policy-holders share lu the annual protltsof the Company, and have a voice lu the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fee charged. I. W. FROST, Present. M. B. Wthkoop, Vice Pres't. J.P.KOOKRS.Sec'y. J, F. EATON, General Agent, No. 6 North Third Street, College Block, ITarrisburg, Pa. TH08. IT. MILLIOAN, 6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport. Porry County Bank! Sponslcr, Jtinltlu A Co. THE undersign id, having formed a Banking As sociation under the above name and style, are now ready to do a General Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square,. OPPOSITE 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 over 60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, Ave 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 s 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 supply the want ;and this being the Brst Bank ever established In Perry eounty, we bope we will be sustained in our efforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of tbe fol lowing named partners: W. A. HpoNSLKB,Bloomfield, Perry county, Pa. B. F. Junkin, " " " Wm. II. Miller, Carlisle, orriCBitS: 1 W. A. BPONSLEB.Preifdenf. William Willis, Costier . . New Illoomlleld. 3 5 ly : . BALL SCALES! B. M AP.YANF.lt TH, P. W. DF.KIl U JAMK8 IL GUI Eli. known as . The Ball Seals Company," and have now on hand a large supply of Buoy's Patent COUNT K K u A 1- it , mo mmpiesi, uneap est and best Counter Scalein the market. W For Scales, or ARencles in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, ad dress "The lliill Scale Compauy," l'ottsvllle, tkhuylklll county, Pa. . J n. For Scales or Agencies In this County, ap ply to the undersigned, where they can be seen and examined any time. LEI BY & BltO., Newport, Perry 00., Pa. FRANK MOKTIMEK, 29tf New liloouiueld, Perryco.,l'a. LEBAN O 1ST Mutual Fire Insurance Company, or . Jonceitown, X:iin'n. T"OLICIE8 PERPETUAL at Low Hates. No X Steam rinks taken. This In one of the best conducted and most reliable Companies in the State. Country property Insured Perpetually at ft 00 per thousand, aud Town property at $5 00 per wiuusnuu. 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 tbem with a supply of good of my i , OWN MANUFACTURE. 1 Consisting of " CASBIMEBS. ' CA6SINET8. FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) CA11PETS, Sep., exchange for wool or sell for cash.. J. M. BIXLEK. CHUTE WOOI.M FACWOHY. : ' ,17,4Ul i v. mavis. , .. .amvm j M.'GIBVIN fc SON, Commission Merchanttt,' NO. I, SPEAB'8 WHABF, Baltimore. 91 d. w win strict attention to the sale of I M..4,t.rrw nrfutlin. Aud JTttlult thtt aiUOUII promptly. .': . Self T71HESII GAKDEN SEEDS ; ' ' 11 V.- UuU it V. MOU'I'MUlU'S, New Blooiunela, P ENIGMA DEPABTMKKT1 mw A U contributions to this department must be accompanied by tbe correct answer. Enigma, I am composed of six letters : Without my 1, 2, 3, 1 am part of a lock. Without my 4, 1 nm the miser's God. Without my 5, 6, I am a member of the Ro man Catholic Church. Without my 1, 4, 5, 6, 1 am a preposition. Without my 2, 8, 4, 5, 1 am a pronoun. Without my 8, 4, 5, 6, I am tlio Initials of one of the United States. My whole is an animal. EST Answer to Mathematical problem pub lished Inst week i "90. 0s. 8d 8-80. For the Bloomfteld Time. MARRYING THE WIDOW. IT WA3 just six months and four days after the decease of Mr. Titus Bubble, when his bachelor friend, Mr. Ichabod Thistlo, found himself in the parlor of his widow. It was evening, and the mellow light of the single gas burner reflected its rays through tho prismntio glass pendants from the chandelier to the opposite wall, in rainbow colors of exceeding beauty. This appearance induced Mrs. Bubble to take a scat near Mr. Thistle, that together they might more minutely scan the beauty of the reflection. Whether Uie near position gave the bachelor renewed courage or not, we never knew ; but the lounge was downy, and his position was altogether an enviable one, especially contrasted with bis straw matting floor at homo, and the old leatbor cushioned chair, which was bis daily scat. Mr. Thistle began thus: "And so, Mrs. Bubble, you think of retaining this bouso and its comforts, just as your husband left it? Titus was a noble-souled fellow, very shrewd withal, and must have loft you a handsome fortune." Mrs. Bubble raised a deep bordered handkerchief to her eyes, and replied : "He did so ; but then, Mr. Thistle, I never knew what real trouble was until my hus band died. 1 never shall forgive the un dertaker for his carelessness. That plate on his colli u was buried with him, aud then to think of those mismatched horses in the procoesion. I am told, Mr. Thistlo, that the distant connexions rode in a carriage where a white horse una a red one was naired. Poor Titus ! Why, it seems as if the sight would have made hini rise I you know, Mr. Thistle.my husband had a great fancy for finely matched amimals." Mr. Thistle wondered what he would think of their being yoked. He only bow ed, therefore, to this remark, and added : Unprotected women must have peculiar sufferings arising from their lonohness." " But, Mr. Thistle, you well know my husband was not a domestio character. Poor dear soul I how much comfort he used to take in that Club House. His admis sion foe was five hundred ' dollars, and this sum he always paid annually, because I in sisted that cigar smoke was ruinous to our damaBks : and then lie ! was so fond of games, and nobody could boat him at bil liards or chess ; but the worst of it was, he would keep late hours, and that wore upon his constitution, and I used to reprove him and beseech him, out of pure regard to his own health ; but God's will be doiio, his timo had como 1" and here the widow again wept profusely. "Still," ue addod, " I did my duty as far as I know. I bought the best suit of bombazine and the richest crape I could find ; I have ever since worn the first widow's veil, and conducted just as if he were looking out of his grave upon me. No gontlomen, Mr. Thistlo, by invita tion have crossed my threshold ; for all men are alike to me now, Mr. Thistle ; and when people joke mo about them, I think to myself, could I ever act such a dutiful part to another ? for, after all, Mr. Thistle, a husband has a great many wants, as well as a wife. To keep one's temper when one is slighted ; to have the question rudely put to you,' why didn't you mend this coat, and sew on that button, and oversee the nursing maid, and look into dark, dirty olosets?' to be told that you are not so much of an Invalid as you fancy yourself; to take no interest in a finely executed pioce of embroidery, and object to one's riding, on the ostensible ground that walk ing is more conducive to health, U, Mr Thistle, when I think over all these things, all men are alike, and my dear hus band was only like the race in general only regret now I ever gave him such Cau- die lectures ; but Heaven knows I only did It for his good 1" - And nothiug would indue you to change your mind, I suppose?" inquired Mr. Thistle. . "I said all men were alike," replied the widow. " Perhaps I ought to qualify such language. Titus, you know, sir, had violent temper,and was fond of tome thmge, of which any woman ought to complain.' " But would Mrs. Bubblo object to form ing another connexion, with a sedate, home-loving, pleasing, agreeable conipau- ion, whose whole life should be devoted to her service ?" Mrs. Bubble paused. , 11 ut, sir, I have often insisted upon it to my friends that I should never quit my widowhood ; tl;at all my time should be spnt with Uttla Titus, that I should be perfect laughing-stock were I to chaug it. But," said she, emphatically, "the boy docs need a father, I am satisfied paternal care should be added to maternal, Mr. Thistle." " Certainly," replied the bachelor, feel ing quite at ease. And then as to the guardianship, I have assumed that responsible charge ; and Titus is beginning to have so many wants that big drum cost ton dollars, Mr. This tle, and tho musical instrument, which lie broke yesterday, was fifty ; done in a passion, Mr. Thistle ; and yet he is a dear boy only so liko his father. I am, there fore, free to say, that my care all devolving on one, is enough to break down the strongest constitution. Aud when I used to say to Titus, , I never shall many again in the event of your death,' ho used to call me womanish, and say, in loss than a year Bomebody would be stepping in bis slippers. Poor man 1 ho knew human nature ; but, then, I had never realized the solitude of widowhood ; to act the part of a man at the table ; to sit at the head of a pew ; to ride alone in a carriago ; to pass wholo evenings without expecting your husband to return ; to make solitary journeyings, and everywhere and at all times to feci un protected. It really shatters my nervous system, and makes me at times almost re lout." Thistle's room, on his return, looked cheerless enough. An old bachelor's life seemed to him a dreary one. Those easy chairs : that comfortable fortune ; tho am- le ' house, and freedom to range over every part of it ; the fumes of his present residence ; the cold coffee, and cold room, and cold reception of his cold-hearted land- ady, except on quarter days, strengthened his purpose to again call on Mrs. Bubble. The conversation was then resumed, and now tho widow added : " x ou are the most convincing man in the world, Mr. Thistle. I have been talk ing with little ' Titi.' He says ho Bhould love his new 'papa ;' and as I have looked over the whole ciroumstances, I do not see that I can be blamed for changing my mind. I shall, however, Mr. Thistle, keep tbe puree etringt in my own hands ! but we shall mutually bo benefited by the out lays." Poor Thistle was thunderstruck ; he doubted whether he had better hang his bat on that vacant peg ; but he had gone so far, it might look dishonorable. And in seven months from Bubble's death, everybody was gazing at a pair of spleudid white steeds which stood before the church door ; and while .they looked Mr. and Mr. Thistle jumped into the carriage, having UBt been made one I Sarcastic Romance. APPEARING in a Nashvillo paper, whether original therewith or not, and credited to one J. Boateman Smith, is a tremendous romance of facts in Fayette ville, from which the appended chaste de scriptions of tbe lovers concerned may be tastefully quoted ; He was young, he was fair, and he part ed his hair, like tbe average beau, in the middle ; he was proud, ho was bold, but the truth must be told, he played like a demon on Jie fiddle. But, aside from this vice, be was everything nice, and his hoart was so loving and tender, that he always turnod pale when be trod on the tail of the cat lying down by the fender. He clerked in a store, aud the way that he tore off calico, jeans, and brown sheeting, would have tickled a calf and made tho bruto laugh in the face ot quarterly meet ing. He cut quke a dash with a darling moustacho, which ho learned to adore aud cherish ; for one girl had said, whilo she drooped her proud head, that 'twould kill her to see the thing perish. On Sunday he'd search tbe straight road to the church, unheeding the voice of tho scorn- or; and demurely he sat, like a young tab by eat, with the saints in the fur amen corner. He sang like n bird, and bis sweet voice was hoard tuggiug away a long meter ; and we speak but the truth when we say that this youth could outsing a hungry mosquito. She was young, she was fair, and slut scrambled her hair like the average belle of the city ; she was proud but not bold, yet the truth must be told that the way she chewed wax was a pity. But aside fiora this vice, she was everything nice, and the world much applauded her bustle ; and the Fayetteville boys, being calmed by the noise, walked miles just to hear the thing rustle. She out quite a swell, did this wax-chewing belle, and the men flocked in armies to meet her ; but she gave them the shirk, for she loved the young clerk who sang like a hungry mos quito. , Bo she hemmed and she hawed, and she sighed and she " chawed," till her heart and her jaws were both broken; then she walked by tbe store, while he stood at tbe door awaiting some amative token, Bho ralel upber eyes with a pretty surprise, and tried to enact the proud scorner but, to tell tbe plain truth she just grinned at the youth who loved the devout amen corner. UT Josh Billings gives the following ad vice to young men ; " Don't be discour aged if yer mustache don't grow : it sometimes happens where a inustacli duz the best uothiug else duz so well. Appearances Against Hint. T HE history of English law contains few more startling judicial tragedies than that to which the statute against murder owed such humane amendment as to make the finding and positive identification of the body of tbe slain person essential to the conviction of the murderer: and as the same remarkable case had a peculiar moral and social significance for tho young lovers of all times who, in their passionato do votion to each other, are altogether too apt to disregard the fortunes of everybody else in the world, it may be recalled appropri ately for modern reading. Upon tho death of Mr. Goorgo Perkins, a widower of considerable property in Lon don, it was found that his will appointed a brother of his, living near Epping Forest, the sole guardian of bis only daughter, and dirocted that said guardian should inherit the -whole fortune devised in case his young ward should die either unmarried or without children. Implicit conlldcuce in his brother, who was a middle-aged bache lor of limited means, had, of course, in spired the dying man to make such a will ; but a number of family relatives pronoun ced tho document un extraordinary piece of servile fatuity, and darkly hinted that harm would ensue from it. This feeling caused an alienation between the occupants of the Epping Forest residence and the aforesaid prophets, and made the latter the bitterest prosecutors of tbe dead man's brother in the strange and tragic succeed ing events, which havo been described as follows : Uncle and niece were both seen one day walking together in the forest, but the young lady suddenly disappeared, and the uncle declared that he had sought her as soon as he missed her, and know not whith er sho had gone or what had become of her. This account was considered improbablo, and appearances being clearly suspicious, ho was arrested and taken before a magis trate. Other circumstances,hourIy cominir to light, rendered his position serious. A young gentleman in the neighborhood had been paying his addresses to Miss Perkins. It was stated, and generally believed, that he had gone, a few days before she was missed, on a journey to the North, and that she had declared that she would marry him on his return. The uncle had repeat edly expressed his disapprobation of tbe match, and .Miss Perkins had loudly re proached him with his unkindness and abuse of his authority over her as his ward. A woman named Margaret Oaks was pro duced, who swore that at about eloven o'clock on the day on which Miss Perkins was missed she was passing through the forest aud heard the voice of a young lady earnestly expostulating with a gentleman. On drawing nearer the spot whence the sound camo, Margaret Oaks testified that she heard the lady exclaim : "Don't kill me, uncle, don't kill me 1" Tbe woman was greatly terrified, and ran away from the spot. As she was doing so she heard the report of firearms. On this combina tion of circumstantial and positive evidence coupled with tbe suspicion of interest, the uncle was tried, convicted of murder, and almost immediately afterwards according to the customs of those days was hanged. About ten days after the execution of the sentence upon the uncle, the niece reap peared, aud, stranger still, showed by the history she related, that all tho testimony given on the trial was strictly true. Miss Perkins said that, having resolved to elope with her lover, thoy had given out that he had gone on a journey to the North, where as he bad merely waited near tbe skirts of the forest until the time appointed for the elopement, which was the very day on which she bad disappeared. Uer lover bad horses ready saddled for them both, and two servants in attendance on horseback. While walking with her uncle.he reproach ed her with her resolution to marry a man of whom he disapproved, and after some remonstrances, bIio passionately exclaim ed : " I have set my heart upon him. If don't marry him it will be death to me and don't kill me, undo, don't kill me 1" Just as she proclaimed those words she heard a gun fired, at which she started,and sho afterwards saw a man come from among the trees with a wood-pigeon in his band, which he had shot. On approaching the spot appointed for a meeting with her lover, she formed a pretence to induce ber uncle to go on before her. - She then fled to tbe arms of her lover, who had been wait ing for ber, and they both mounted their horses and Immediately rode off. Instead, however, of going to the North, they re tired to Windsor, and about a week after wards went on tour of pleasure to France. There they passed some months so happily that in those days, when newspapers were soarce, when there was no very regular postal communication and no telegraphs, they never heard of their uncle's sad fate until their return to England. 3T A lady correspondent wants to know the meaning of " stag parties." They are entertainments whereat bucks usually get enough additional horns to make them tagger. . j . tW A good man who has seen much of the world, and Is not tired of It, says : "The grand essentials to bappiuess in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Saved by Dreams. IARLY in the present century a Wllt li shire farmer had a dream soon after midnight, thrice repeated, to the effect that there was something wrong going on in a cortain field of his J and after dreaming this the third time, so strong was his im pression of its being a reality that ho arose, and taking his gun sot out for the spot. It was Summer time, and an hour or two before dawn. On reaching the field ho saw in a remote part of it a faint glim moring light, toward which be directed bis stops. On approaching he found a man in the act of digging what appeared to be intended for a grave, the light being at the bottom. "What are you doing here?" demanded the farmer. But without replying the fellow bounded off at the top of his speed, leaving bohind him his jacket, in a pocket of which was found a murderous weapon in the Bhape of a knife. The farmer did not pursue, but retraced bis steps, and on approaching bis house met one of his ser vant girls carrying a bundle. He inquired whither she was going at that unseasona ble hour. But having formed her plan she seemed bent on carrying it out, and showed a disposition to avoid him. This, however, he would not permit, and insisted upon an explanation. It appeared that the wretched man who had just been surprised in the act of pre paring for his wicked design had promised to marry the 'girl ; and the arrangement was that she should clandestinely leave her place and meet him at a specified hour and spot in tho field in question, bringing with her the money she had saved while in ser vice. It need hardly be said that, after being apprised by ber master of what he had witnessed, tbe poor girl was only too glad and thankful to return with him thus . doubtless escaping, through the interposi tion of a merciful Providence, an untimely and violent death. In June, 1752, Mr. Robert Aikenhead, farmer in Denstrath of Arnhall, in the Mearns, about five miles north of Brechin and seven from Montrose, went to a mark et called Tarronty Fair, where be had a large sum of money to receive. His eldest son, Robert, a boy between seven and eight years old was sent to take care of the cattle and happened to lie down upon a grassy bank, and before sunset was fast asleep. Although tbe boy had never been far from home, he was immediately carried in his imagination to Tarrenty market, where he dreamed that his father, after receiving the money, set out on his return home, and was followed all the way by two ill-looking fellows, who, when bo had got to the western dykes of Inglismauldy (the seat of then Lord Halkerton, now Earl of Kintore) and a little more than a mile from home, attacked and attempted to rob him ; where upon the boy thought ho ran to his assis tance, and when he came within a gunshot of the place he called out to some people who were just going to bed, who put the robbers to flight. He immediately awoke in a fright, and without waiting to considor whether it was -a vision or a reality, ran as fast as be could to the place be had dreamed of, and no sooner reached it than he saw hiB father in the very spot and situation ha had seen in his droam, defonding himself with a stick against tbe assassins. He therefore imme diately realized bis own port of the vision ary scene, by roaring out " Murder I" at the top of his voice, which soon brought out the people, who, running to Mr. Aiken head's assistance, found him victor over one of tbejvillains whom he had previously knocked down with a stone after they had pulled him off his horse, but almost over powered by the other, who repeatedly at tempted to stab him with a sword, against which he had no othor defense than his stick and bis hands, which were considera bly mangled by grasping the blade. Upon sight of the country people the villain who bad tho sword ran oft, but tbe other, not being able, was apprehended and loged in jail. Meantime there was a hue and cry after young Robert, whoso mother missing him and finding the cattle among the corn, was in the utmost anx iety, concluding he had fallen into ome water or peat moss. But her joy and surprise were equally great when her hus band returned with the boy and told her bow wonderfully both his money and his lifo bad been saved by his son's dream. A Hint to Young Ladies. '. Female loveliness never appears to so good advantage as when set off by simplic ity of dress. No artist ever decks his an gels with towering feathers and gaudy jew elry ; and our dear human angels if they would make good their title to that name should carefully avoid ornaments which properly belong to Indian squaws and Af rioan princesses. 'These tinselries may serve to give effeot on the stage or upon a bail-room floor, but in daily life there is no substitute for tbe charm of simplicity. A vulgar taste is not to be disguised by gold and diamonds. ' The absence of a true taste and refinement of delicacy cannot be com pensated for by the possession of the most princely fortune. Mind measures gold, but gold cannot measuro mind. Through dress the mind may be read, as through the del icate tissue the lettered page. A modest woman will dress modestly ; a really refin ed and intellectual woman will bear tbe marks of careful selection and faultless, taste. i
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