Slje Glimcs, NctuDtoomficli), f)a. 3. NEW YORK CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STRICTLY MUTUAL I ISSUES all the new forms of Policing, and pre. Rents as favorable terms as any company In the United Status. 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 In the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice in the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fee charged. L. W. FROST, President, til. 13. Wynkoop, Vice Pres't. ,1. P.ltoGEics, Sec'y, J. V. EATON, General Agent, No . 6 North Third Street, College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. THOS. H. MII.LK1AN, fl 42 ly Special Agent for N ewport. Perry County Bank! Npoiisler, Tuiiklu V Co. milEunrterslKn-d. having formed a Banking As L soclatlon 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 COURTHOUSE, 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, five percent, for any 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 forthe 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 oounty, we hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all the business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association Is composed of the tol lowing named partners: W. a. HprmsLiB.Bloomlleld, Perry county, Pa. B. F. Jdnkin, " " " Wm. 11. Miller, Carlisle, OfFlCKKS: W. A. BPONSLEK. President. William Willis, Cashier NewBloomfield.S Sly BALL SCALES I T B. MAP.YANEltTH, I). W. DElilt and U. JAMfcS ll. GttlEK. known as " The Ball Scale Company," have now on hand a large supply of Buoy's Patent v o u K r E it B u a j k , me nimpimi, mean est ana uesi cannier some in ine market. . - For Scales, or Aeencles In Pennsylvania Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, ad dress "The Hall Scale Company," Pottsvllle, Bcnuyiiuu county, ra. , . . ,-, m. For Scales or Agencies In tills County, ap- liy w vu uiiuursiKiiKu, wueiv mey vau uv sveu aim examineuany tune. . J LKIBY & BltO.. Newport, Perry co., Pa. FRANK MOKTIMER, 29tt New BloomUeld,Perrycu.,Pa. LEBANON Mutual Fire Insurance Com puny, OF Jonestown, Pcnn'a, POLICIES PERPETUAL at Low Hates. No Steam risks taken. This Is one of the best .conducted and most reliable Companies in the State. Country projierty Insured Perpetually at M 00 per thousand, and Town property at 86 00 iter uiuusmiu. LEWIS POTTER, " NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., i 16 ' . , Agent for Perry County, . LOOK OUT! I would respectively Inform my friends that I In tend calling upon them wlih a supply ol good of my ' OWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting of CA8SIMEE8, CA83INKTS, FLANNELS, (Plain and har'd) CA11PKTH, Jteo., lo exchange for wool or sell for cash. ' J. M. BIXLKlt. Ckntub Wooi.km Faotoht. 6,17,4m I. U. GlliVlH. T M. OIUVIN te SON, . n, OIKVIN CommlNNion Mercliuntiei, . NO. 8, SPEAK'S WHARF, ' Unltliuorc, Mil. HWe will flay strict attention to the suleof a kinds of country produce, and remit the amount (iromptiy. 6341y The Battle Hymn of Temperance, - Tune " John Brown." The word from Heaven Is spoken, (ind w ill nevor pass away, That truth and right shall spread, and win a ; universal sway, , And now are pouring o'er the world the glories of the day i ....-. God's truth Is marching on. . Ciionus: Glory, glory,, hallelujah I God's truth Is marching on. From sin and Satan, Christ shall have (ha em pire of the world t . . Through darkest dens, o'er ranks of hell, His lightnings shall be hurled ; Behold from nfhr, and waving wide, Ills ban- : nor Is unfurled : Ills truth Is marching on. The wretched earth has mourned so long the rclgn of vice and crime, That hearts will dance and eyes will shine when comes the better time. Tls coming, coming on apace I In all its golden prime, God's truth Is marching on. The fiend Is doomed. Thy will bo done, ly : woman pledged and sworn, The forts are stormed by prayer and praise i and on the wind Is borne , Exulting shouts of Joyful hosts, as through tho gates of morn, God's truth comes marching on. Arise with Heaven I and bless the world : let all respond below : With heart and hand and voice arise, to foil and crush the foo ; i For God hath cursed the curse of drink, and He will lay It low ! Ills truth Is marching on. Andre's Keenest 'to Washington, I ask thee not for freedom I sock not to be free s I beg not now for money I ask not life of thee. I am about to perish ; And, with my latest breath , I beg thco to allow me To die a soldier's death. A Lawyer's Story. TT was a first night on the circuit after JL vacation, and old Tom Badger's turn for a story. ' : Tom's fort lay in the " criminal line." He had cheated the gallows no often that Bill Quiploy used to say he wondered how he could look a heiup-fiold in the face. "Did I ever tell you," said Tom, giving his tumbler of julep an exhaustive suck " did I ever tell you, boys, about Obed Scott's case?". No he never had. " I should like to have such auother now, he resumed. "It was just desperate enough to put one on hie legal metal ; and I think, with my present experience, I could win three times out of five under similar cir cumstances. But I was a boy thon." " How was it ?" we asked, desirous to cut short the preface. "The case was in a nutshell," said Tom coming to the point. , , " Enos Burdge was an old settler, with out wife or child, who bogan to feel ham' pered as the population averaged half a man to the square mile. He decided to sell out and go West ... ... He had a choice tract of laud, with t comfortable home on it ; and Obed Scott, the likeliest young man in the settlement, made an offer to buy it. Obed, instead of squandering his sains foolishly, as too many youngsters do, had saved them up. ; One reason of his prudonce, mayhap, was his engagement to Hottie Ward, tho pretti est girl I ever saw." The old lawyer stopped to honor her with a remiuiscont swig. " Though others," he continued, " offer ed more, in payments, Euos accepted Obid's bid ; for the latter was ready to pay cosh down, and Enos said he wished to quit tho country for good, anddidn't want to leave unsettled business behind him." " On the day fixed for completing the contract, Enos went before a justice of the peace, and duly executed a deed to Obed Scott, which ho carried away with him saying Obed was to nioet him that evening, pay the money, receive the deed, and take, possession ; after which it was Enos' intcu tion to pass the night with an old friend to whom be was to pay a small 'debt, aud whose house lay in the direction of his journey. " But Enos never reached his friend's house, and the only account given of him after leaving the Justice's was by Obed Scott, who said he had mot Enos at his cabin, as agreed on, paid him his money, and gotten the deed ; and then Euos had gone away, leaving him in possession of his purchase. . " There was no bouester man than Enos Burdgu. That he should have loft the country clandestinely to avoid paying tho que trilling debt he owed, and without stopping to bid his friends good-by, seemed a thing almost Incredible. ' ' " Rumors of foul play began to be cir culated ; find those were not wanting who hinted at the possibility of Obed Scott's having . thought it an economical stroke to put Enos out of the way, and so possess himself of the deed without paying the stipulated price. "Borifodid these rumors grow, sundry good citizens at last called on Obed, and told hira that a thorough investigation was nocessary to vindicate his name. " Instead of Inviting inquiry, as good policy, to put it on no higher ground, would have dictated, Obed was indignant or feigned to be, at the imputation cast upon hira. His tone enhanced rather than allayed tho prevailing doubts, and a search of the promises was begun without wait ing for his permission. " Not far from tho cabin, beneath some scattered straw, signs wero discovered in dicating that tho earth had receutly been, disturbed ; and on digging down a little way, the mangled corpse of Enos Burdgo was exhumed. "Obed admitted that he bad .taken pos session of the cabin ou tho evening of its late owner's departure, and that he Blcpt there that night. Enos Burdgo had never bcon seen alive since. Who was likely to have slain and buried him where his body was found but the man who hnd both the motive and opportunity ? " That was the question I asked myself when retained to conduct Obed's dofonce, and I confess I was unable to return a sat isfactory answer. Still I felt bound to do my best, and I did it. On. tho trial, tho facts were proved much as I have related them. Iu summing up, I niado the most of Obed's good char acter, dwelt on the fallaciousness of cir cumstantial evidonce, read cases from the books to show how many judicial murders it had been accessory to, and wound up with a strong appeal to the jury to give the defendant the benefit of every reasonable doubt. . But old Paxwax, the presiding judge, striped the gilding off my speech by re peating in his charge the usual plantitudes about the impossibility of circumstances lying. True, be told tho jury that the prisoner was entitlod to all reasonable doubts ; but, then, he emphasized the word 1 reasonable' in such a way as to indicate, plainly enough, that in his opinion, in the present case, any doubt would bo whol ly unreasonable. " When the jury brought him in guilty, Obed turned pale, for a moment, though, on the whole, I think ho bore it better than I did. " What have you to say askod the judge, ' why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon you ?' "Nothin'," Obed auswered ; only you're sgoin' to send me, afore a court as has got more Be use, I hope, thau tbis'n an' whar I'll git a fair trial, even if Squire Badger aru't thar to plead my case. " The judge reproved him for bis levity ; and, after an exhortation to repentence, which would have become the mouth of a better man, old Paxwax sentenced the prisoner to be hanged, at tho end of six weeks. . ' " " I applied in vain for a writ of error and stay of proceedings. Equally in vain I ap pealed to the Exocutlvo clemency. Gov ernors of States are gonorally so much more just than the Great Governor, than when it becomes a question of mercy, the responsibility is commonly shuffled off on the latter. "Obed sent mo a message to come and see bim on his lost night. He was the on ly inmate of the little log jail, with walls three tiers of timber thick. "The jailer let roe in and closed the door upon me. It wasn't usual, then, as now, to keep close watch on condemned criminals to gee that they didn't anticipate their doom. If they hanged themselves, it was so muoh trouble saved. . " ' How do you foel, Obed ?' I Inquired, taking his hand kindly. , " Jest mid'lin,' he answered. ' You see I could a stood it a heap better if Hettie hadn't come to see me." "Die like a man," I said; 'there's no help for it now." "I can't do it," he replied, and what's more, I won't." " I looked at him in surprise." "You see this yor rope," he continued. 'I made it outo' my bod clothes, this after noon, determined, if I had to he banged, to do the job myself ; but since I seen Hot tie, I changod my mind." " My astonishment increased." . "A lawyer han't no right to peach on his cliont, hes he ?! he asked." " This was a question including several others, among them the important one when the relationship referred to might be considered ended." " At any rate, if you give the alacm now, I'll kill you," he said quietly, and Dofoi-e I knew it he had grasped my arm with one bund, uud placed the other on my mouth. "You must submit to be gagged,' ue added, in the same firm determined tone. "I felt that conscience didn't demand the imperiling of my life. I saw that Obed was desperate, aud would stick at nothing. I was moreover an infant iu bis bands." " He stuffed a wad of something in my mouth, aud secured it by a bandage brought round aud tied at the back of my neck." , " Then, compelling me to chango cloth ing with him, he bouud me baud and foot with the cord be had prepared, aud fasten ed mo ou bis bed. Thon bidding me good night, be tapped at the door. my usual eigual to be let out." " I do not know if I would have warned the drowsy jailor if J could, I heard Obed bid him good-night in my voice and walk away unmolested." "I think I was glad I could not feel Borry; for I had never more than half belioved in Obed's guilt, and despite the luconvenionce to myself, I entertainod a secret hope that his plan of escapo might succeed." "Of courso there was a hubbub when the shoriff and his assistants came in the morn ing. Of course my expectation proved sat isfactory ; and of course, it would have been carrying tho doctrine of representation by attorney to an unwarrantable extent to have hanged me iu my client's stead. " Thore wore some who whispered that it was a concerted thing between Obed aud myself ; but my professional standing was a sufficient vindication against such a slan der." ."Hal hat ha!" laughed nn ir revcrout junior. Tho " death rattle" evoked by Mr. Bad ger's last suck at his julep was the only re ply dosigncd to the young men's importi nonco. "And what do you think of the case after all ?" asked Bill Quiplcy. " Oh, the truth came out at last ! Ahab Graudy was paying mo some money, ono day. Among tho bank notos he gave mo ono peculiarly marked, which 1 remember ed having paid to Enos Burdge on tho day ho disappeared. I secretly procured a war rant and bad Grandy's houso searched. The result was the discovery of a number of the murdered men's effects. Among them was a watch he had worn for many years, and which was readily identified. " When confronted with the proofs of his guilt, Ahab confessed that ho had way laid, robbed and murdered Enos Burdge, after the latter had received the money for his land, and that he had buried the body at dead of night whore, if it should be found, suspicion would be likely to fall up on another." "Ahab Grandy was hanged iu due time Obed Scott, who turned up after a season, was happily married to Hattie Ward, who had novor lost faith in hor lover's inno cence in spite of judge and jury. A Dutch Justice. A caso came before a germau judge in Chicago in which a young man pleaded the minor's act. The Judgo wouldn't take the young man's oath as to his nge, aud even whon he brought the family Bible the old follow scowled, and said he didn't believe the Bible nor anything iu it. " Ha," he said, you dinks pekaus dot pook says Mothusala vos a dousaud years olt dot I beliefs him !" "But, your honor," pleaded Lawyer Iloyne, " we have a man here who lived ou the same street and in the same house with my client, and be will swear that the young man is only nineteen years old. The witness remembers the very night he was born. He went for the doctor, your honor, and ho will swear that ho was born jurt nineteen years ago." "No, Mr. Hoyno; I gives my judgment against dot man. I can't take any man's evidence on a ding vot has happened nine teen years ago. Uf he sewar dat dot young mans vas porn las week den I be- liofs him r C3F" Highlanders have the habit, when talking their English, of interjecting the personal pronoun " he" when not required, such as "The King he has come," instead of " The King has come." Often, in con sequence, a sentence is rendered ludicrous. A gentleman says he had the pleasure of listening to tho Rev. Mr. , let bis locality be a secret, and recently be began bis discourse thus ; " My friends, you will find the subject of discourse this afternoon iu the first Epis tle general of the Apostle Peter, ohapte 5th and verse 8tb, in the words ' Tho Devil he goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.' Now, my friends with your leave, we will divide the sub ject of our text to-day into four heads. Firstly. We shall endeavor to ascertain 'Who the Devil be was?' Secondly. We shall inquire 'Where the Devil be was go- iuflr?' Thirdly. ' Who the AJevll ue was seeking?' Aud fourthly and lastly. 'What the Devil he was roaring about !" IW A popular clergyman of Buffalo re turned from an extended journey a few days since and just as he alighted from the cars, aud was receiving the congratulations of a crowd of delighted parishooers who had assembled to greet him, an inebriated individual followed in his wake, seized him by the hand and exclaimed : " Well, good by, old pard, I'm going further and shall keep up the same old drunk for awhile yet, but you are pretty well sobered up, and you'd better keep so, I 'spect, as driukin' rough on a feller 'round home. But you know how to go on a gullus spree aud(bave a rum time just as good as any pard I ever had, and you have my respect. Day-day, old buster." Before the astonished clorgy mun could gather his waudcring wits the bail fellow was off, leaving a terrible scan dal for the delectation of the gossips of Buffalo, and a prospective candidate ' for tho lunatic asylum. A literal minded youngster was pick ed up by a visitor of the family, who, dand ling him on his knee, said : " I wish I had this little boy ; I think there is money in hira." To which promptly responded the child : "I know there Is, for I swallowed a cent whon I was at grandma's the other day." An Eccentric Member. SOME thirty odd years ago, says "old stager," Illinois scut an uncouth, illiterate roan to Congress named Reynolds. He had a strong vein of common sense, much natural shrowdness, with some comic' humor. lie had been Governor of the State, and Fund Commissioner, and seomod to have been uncommonly popular with his people. At that time Illinois was frontier State, sparsely populated, defi cient in the means of education, without refinement or much culture of auy kind. Mr. Reynolds spoke frequently, always provoking merriment, in which he joined, without caring, apparently, whether the House was laughing with him or at him. His phraseology was tinged with the oddi ties and qtiaiutness of a backwoodsman. Everybody was his " worthy friend." In opposing nn appropriation for the navy he provoked the satire of Mr. Winthrop, of Boston, always one of the most eoitrteous of men. He spoke of the want of appre ciation of the usefulness and necessity of a respectable armed force for the water, so often betrayed by Western men. Mr. Reynolds rejoined : " My worthy friend from Boston does me wrong in saying I'm ngin the navy. On the contrary, I love and admire the navy. Didn't our gallant sai lors win unperishable honors in fighting our worthy friends, the British, in the last war? Didn't them dashing yoong fellows, Perry and Macdonough, drive a hostile flag from off the great lakes, and make the British lion put his tail betweon his legs?" Visiting Baltimore soon after he came to Congress, be was amazed at many things he saw. The size of the city bewildered bim, and the crowd of people in tb streets neorly drove hira wild. Passing down Pratt street early in the morning, he came to tho Patapsco at the time when the, tide was running strong flood, it being nearly high water. Some six hours afterward he took another look at the river, when it was almost low tide. This rather puzzled him, so toward night he made another visit to tho wharves, and found the tide coming in again. This was too much for bim. " Dang me," said he, " if this don't beat all my calculations two freshes in one day and nary a drop of rain !" Going to New York for the first time on business connected with the duties of his office as Fund Commissioner, he put up at the Astor Houso. Such things as gas and bell-ropes were far beyond his comprehen sion. Lying ou the bed, there beimr a brilliant light in tho room, he began play ing with the bell handle, and finding it to yield on pnlliug, he gave it a vigorous jerk. It was responded to iraaiediately. " What did you wish, sir f " Nothing at all. Come in. I'm glad to see you. Take a seat. I was getting to fee) sort of lonesome." The waiter, slightly aston ished, set down without a word. The Governor bod taken off bis boots, aud John Thomas took them out to be polished with out attracting the attention of the Fund Commissioner. After repeated efforts to blow out the gas, and finding it impossible, be went to bed. In the morning he missed his boots. Rushing into the hall, half undressed, be shouted and shrieked until be brought up one of the proprietors, and a boarder or two, and no end of waiters. " My boots is stole t my boots is stole I" Ho was asked what kind of boots he wore. "Number thirteen," ho screamed, "and pegged at that." tW About eleven o'clock one night a policeman met a negro oarrying a trunk along the street, and thinking he bad dis covered an item, he collared the negro and told him to drop that trunk and explain. "I kin do it, sah," replied the stranger, as he put the trunk down. " De family what was boarding me has been axing for money, and as dey was gwyne out to-night, I thought I'd git into some family whar dey respected de panic." He was allowed to go on. t57A man who can have his corns smashed without grumbling is undoubtedly possessed of a tolerably good disposition. One man, being once at a political meeting, said, in a pleasant manner, to a big burly follow who was standing upon his toe, " My dear Sir, are you a miller ?" " No Sir; why do you ask ?" " Why Sir, tho fact is, I thought you were a miller, and a very honest one too, because you have been grinding my corns this half hour without taking toll." tW The young ladles of Washington county, Tenn., announce that they are going to offer two special premiums to be contested for by the young gentlemen at tho next fair, but will not disclose upon what account they will be awarded until they are delivered to the young men found to be entitled to them. tW An old, rough clergyman once took for bis text that passage of the Psalms, " I said in my haste all men are liars." Looking up, apparently as if be saw the Psalmist standing before biro, he said : " You said it in your haste, David. If you had been here, you might have said It after mature deliberation." V8 Mrs. Partington says she gets up every morning at the shrill carrion of tht chandelier.
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