1STEW "5rOR.IC CONTINENTAL Life Insurance Company, OF KEW YORK, STRICTLY M UTUALt ISSUES all the new forms of Policies, and pre. sent as favorable terms asauy company iu tlie United States. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit ure. No extra charges are madcfor traveling permits. Policy-holders share in the annual prolltsof the Company, and have a voice In the elect Ions and mauagemeut of tlie Company. No policy or medical feecharRed. ,. W. FROST, PreMenl. M. B. Wvnkoop, Vice I'res't. J. P.KooEits, Scc'y. J. F. EATON, General Agent, No . 6 North Third Street, College Block, Ilarrlsburg, Pa. TIIOS. II. MII.I.KiAX. 6 lily Special Agent for Newport. Perry County Bank! NiohhU'i", .limit in V Co. rpHK undersign id, having formed a Banking As 1 soclatlon under the above name and style, are now ready to do a Ueneral Banking business at their new Banking House, on Centre Square, OPPOSITE THIS CO UK T HO USE. NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. We reoelve 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, live per cent forimy tlmeover four months ; and for four months four per cent. We are well provided with all aiid 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 Perry oounty, we - hope we will be sustained lu our efforts, by all the . business men, farmers and mechanics. , Tills Banking Association Is composed of the fol lowing named partners: W. A. Sponsi.sk, Moomfteld, Perry eounty, Pa. B. F. Junkin, " " " Wm. 11. Miller. Carlisle, OFFICERS : W. A. SPONSLElt, President. William Wiij.is, Oanltter New Bloomtleld, 3 5 ly BALL SCALES! LB. MAIIYANKHTII, I). W. DKlili and JAMES H. UHlEIi. known as " The Ball Scale Company," have now on hand a large supply of Buoy's Patent COUNT KH S C A 1. E , the Simplest, Cheap est and best Counter Scale I u the market. WFor Scales, or Agencies In Pennsylvania. Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, ad dress "The Kail Scale Company," Poltsville, Schuylkill county. Pa. . For Scales or Agenoles In this County, ap ply to the undersigned, where they can be neeu and examined any time. J I.E1BY & BKO., Newport, Perry Co., Pa. FRANK MOKTIMEII. New Bloumfleld, Perryco.,Pa. Ii9tf ' 3L. 33 13 J 1ST O 1ST Mutual Fire Insurance Company, or JoiioMtown, l'enn'u, POLICIES PEHFETUAL at Low Kates. No Steam risks taken. This U one of the best conducted and most reliable Companies in the State. Country property Insured Ferpetiinlly At (4 00 per thousand, and Town properly at 15 00 per thousand. LEWIS POTTER, .. NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., 4 16 Agent for Perry County. LOOK OUT! ' would respectively Inform my friends that I lu . leuu caning upun im-iii w un u supply ol good of my OWN. MANUFACTURE. Consisting of CA8SIMERS. CASaiNETS. FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd) CAltl'ETH, Set-., to exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. Ill XI, Kit. Centkk Woolen Factoht. 8.17,4m J. H. OIKVIS. i. u. oiyvm J. M.UIUVJX & SOX, CommlHMlon 3Iiro1iunt , , NO. , S I'll A ITS WUAUF, Haiti more. M d . W will oar strict attention to the sale of all kind of country produce, and remi t the amount fjiompuy. oo-ftiy THE EDITOR'S STRATEGY. T Charley White and his initiation into the " society" of Nugget City. He is dead now, and I would say, "May his sout rest in peace," if I believed it possible that there could ever be any rest for such a rest- loss spirit. When Charley accepted tho position of local editor of the Nugget City Timet he was strongly advised to have nothing to do with it, as the risk was altogether out of proportion to the pay. Since the close of the war the town bad received an un pleasant addition to its population, in tho persons of a large number of Texas roughs and desperadoes. Those wild, lawless and uncontrollable men, connecting them selves with some of the worst characters from the mountains and the plains, who were always to be found in Nugget City, had expressed and carried out an inten tion to "run the town" to suit themselves enforcing their ideas by a free use of tho slung-shot, the bowio-knife, aud the pis tol. Any conscientious newspaper man who endeavored to show up the misdeeds of these ruffians was Bine to fall under their displeasure, and to pay dearly for what they considered his impertinence. One local editor of the Timet had been cowhid ed and nearly beaten .to death, another had dodged a bail of pistol bullets as ho got out of town, a third had been induced to leave at the point of a knife. Tho con sequence was that the position ' was fre quently vacant, and that it was not sought after by any who were aware of its respon sibilities, i . . But Charley White was offered a good salary, and was entirely unacquainted with fear, and he determined to go to Nnjgot City. Ho had seen life in some of its wild est aud roughest aspects, as a sailor before the mast on a voyage to Australia and the islands of Polynesia, as a hunter and ad- vouturer on the plains, aud as a jour-printer all over the AVest and Southwest. Ho was rather under the usual size, but wiry aud muscular, with sharp eyes, stoady nerves aiid a cool head. Cbarely's initiation began the second day after his arrival at Nugget City, He was standing in front of a hotel, looking at a caravan that was going to the West, when he was tapped on the shouldor by a tall, big-boned, rough-looking man, who asked him to step into the saloon. This man was Bill Eads, a notorious, desperate, bloodthirsty character, the leader of the roughs who had inaugurated a reign of terror in Nugget City- Charley complied with the request, and Eads, stepping up to the counter, asked him what he would take. "Much obliged to you, but I dou't drink." "Don't drink! Look a-lioro, stranger, that's played. I ain't easy to get mad, or I would think you wanted to insult mo. Wo have a way out hero of telling folks that they must either drink or fight." " I never drink under auy circumstan ces, and I don't fight if I can help, it." "Tol'able cool about it," said Eads, as be swallowed his " pison." I allow that you must be the new chap that's come to the Timet office." Charley admitted that ho was tho " chap." "What do you allow to do, if you don't drink or fight?" . ; ' " I expect to attend to my business and to do my duty as well as I can." " All right, as long as you don't attend to my business, or the business of, any of my boys. If you put any of us iu tho pa per, I give you fair warning that you will have to fight, or run, or git everlastingly chawed up." . " What is your style of' fighting gener ally?" Inquired Charley, smiling until he showed hi white teeth. "The pistol is our best holt." " I am a pretty fair pistol shot, though I don't fight. As you and I are to be friends, suppose we have a little match with revolvers, say at twenty stops, at ten dollars a shot." " I'm your man. When and where shall it be?" : "At three o'clock this afternoon and you must choose tho place, somewhere out of town." ' The place was fixed upon, and Charley was there promptly, accompanied by Joe Qoouegan, a compositor of the Timet, a young man who was fond of fun and en tirely devoid of fear. Joe carried in his pocket two potatoes, small and exactly similar iu size and appearance, one of which was whole and the other was per forated by a bullet from Charley's pistol. He also carried a pin, to which was fas tened a length of stout sewing silk. r.nus was on tne ground, witn a tew se lect of his friends, aud Charley requested him, as being the " oldest and best ac quainted" to take the first shot. The whole potato was placed on a stump, the distance was stepped off, and Joe squatted near the stump to watch the effects of the shots. " It's darned foolishness to shoot at such a mark as that," said Eads. " How many shots are we to have ?" " The first shot that hits the mark wins ten dollars," replied Charley. " It's just a wast of powder and load. I can't hit that tater at this distanco, and I don't believe any man can." " We can try." " That's so, and here goes for a straight miss." The bully seized his pistol, aimed care fully, and fired. " Didn't faze it !" exclaimed Joe, who ran to the etump to examine the potato. As he did so he stuck his pin in the po tato and again squatted on the grass, hold ing the silk in his fingers. Charley White stepped to the line and fired with a quick aim. At tho crack of the pistol the mark hopped off the stump, and Joe hastened to pick it up, daftly Substituting for it the perforated potato, which he had kept in his sleeve for that purpose, and which he triumphantly held up to the gaze of the spectators. " If I wanted to brag, I would say that I could do it every time," replied Charley. "Tho fact is I can just do it three times out of five. But I wouldn't have much use for a pistol if I was going tofiglit. It is too apt to miss fire, and you might bore a half-dozen holes iu a man without killing him. The knife would be my wenpon." "The knife is a sure card in a close scrimmage " Yes, or at a long range, if a man knows how to uso it. Could you stand here and throw the point of your knife into that sapling yonder?" " Not by a darned sight. I've heard of Indians doing those tricks, but I reckon they need a power of practice" " Would yoii like mo to do it?" " Believe I am kinder cur'ous." Knife throning was a sport with which Charley White had ouco been so complete ly fascinated that he had practiced the art until- he became almost perfect in it, ex celling most of the Indians, and nearly equaling the Japanese knifo-throwers of the present day. He had practiced for tli is occasion, and knew that he hud not lost the knack. Ho stood at the place he had indicated, holding a heavy . bowie-knife in his right hand, with the blado under his wrist and pointing tiwr.rd his elbow. After meas uring the distance with his eye, he threw up his arrr, and then launched it out, and the knife 'jpod like a streak of lightning toward ','je mark, struck tho sapling, and hung q livering In the wood. Charley was obliged to make two more throws for the satisfaction of Eads and the other spectators, who were not backward in expressing their wonder and admiration at his skill. "I have another weapon," he said, " that suits me bettor than either the pis tol or knife, but I suppose you have never seen it. Here it is." Ho took from under his coat a crooked stick of hard wood, pointed at each end in fact, an Australian boomerang, a relic of his South Sea experience. "What do you call that thing?" asked Eads, whoso mouth expanded into a grin as he looked at the queer stick. "That," said Charley, "is a boomerang, a kangaroo killer, a weapon with which I oan hit a man around a corner as well as if he were in plain sight." "Git out!" " You shall see. I will throw it at Joe yonder, and it will turn without hitting him, and will come back here to me." Charley threw tho crooked stick . and it gyrated through the air, cutting all sorts of capers, until it was so near Joe that he dodged to avoid it. Then it suddenly turned whirled its way back, and fell to the ground at its owner's feet. 1 " Now I will throw it towards the west, and you will see It turn and hit that sap ling in which I stuck my knife." The boomerang did so, striking the young tree with some force, but not hard enough to fix Itself in the wood. ' Charley then throw it on the ground, and it leaped over tho prairie like a living thing, describing the most eccentric fig ures, until it turned, and came whirling back, bounding over his head, and stick ing itself upright Into the ground behind him. ' Eads and his campanions gathered around Charley as he picked up bis boomerang ud wiped it, and all looked at it curiously and wondcringly ; but nono dared to touch it. Some were of the opinion that it was alive, others "allowed, that it was a piece of witchcraft, and others declared that it could bo nothing loss than Satan himself. "Tell you what it is, young man," said Eads ; "you can shoot a plBtol to win on ; you cau fling a knife to boat any redskin on the perairy ; you can hit a feller as well with that wbangdoodle of yours where he aiut as where he is ; and I reckon you'll do. Alnt iu a hurry for them ten dollars you winued, are you?" " Not a bit of it." "Come around to George's to-night, aud we'll have a supper. Peralry chickon and antelope, aud builier hump and all the fix- ins. Shan't cost you a cent, and I'll show you to the boys. Bring that little' Irish man, too." ' Charley promised to do so, aud went to to the supper, aud was duly introduced to "the boys," and entered into a sort of a treaty with them, the principal conditions of which were, that he should write such reports for his paper as he chose to write, so long as he did nothing out of malice or personal spite. Thereafter the laws were better respected, and there was a marked improvement in the tone of "socioty" at Nugget City. Charley White pursued the even tenor of bis way, gaining friends on all sides, until, one unlucky day when he was taking notes of a street fight, he was hit and mortally wounded by a bullet intended for another man, and the position of local ed itor was again vacant. A Trying Affair. A correspondent of t lie Sussex, N. J. Jltgitter sends an account of an amusing event which occurred in Walpack town ship, near Flatbrook, not long since. The facts are said to lie as follows : A young lndy of that vicinity had become enamored with a young man of Pennsylvania birth, but who has been living in Stillwater twp., for some time. Desiring to get " spliced," they ofl'ored a certain local preacher, living near by, $3 to do the job. He iu formed them, with many regrets, that he was un authorized to perform tho ceremony. They then dispatched a messenger to a oorpulent 'Squire, residing in tho Flat brook valley, who agreed to come and marry them. Shortly after he arrived, the mother of the would-be bride, who had been absent from home, returned and dis covered the situation. Seizing a piece of board three or four foet loug and six incites wide, she proceeded to belabor all parties concerned. She drove her daughter to the garret, and the would-be-son-in-law out of doors. The 'Squire began to expostulate with the excited woman, when she sprang toward him, and told him to "git." He obeyed the command, but when he reach ed the middle of the road, he told the sor rowing parties to come to him and he would make them one. This still further enraged the mother, and she charged on the 'Squire and forced him to ilee home ward. Later in the day the disappointed brido and groom wore soon weeping nud bewailing the state of affairs. The result of this conference was that early the next morning they presented themselves before the 'Squire iu his barnyard. He asked them to go to the hou.se, but having learn ed wisdom from experience, they declined, stating that they desired to be marred on the spot, before the bride's mother should be on tho war-path. Without further do lay the twain were made one ; the only living witnesses being tho cattle which Burrounded them, who stood by chewing their cuds in mute astonishment at tho novel proceeding. An I'uplcnsaui tlx. Quite an amusing incident happened to the wife of a prominent manufacturer of our city. While walking up Pearl street, near Hudson aveuue, her shoe caught in a crack between the flags and she suddenly found herself unable to "move on." She was arrested, in her movements. She pull ed and wriggled her foot in vain, but she was " tight," or at least her shoe was. Finally, Kov, Mr. D. happened along, and noticing that one of his parishioners had au inclination to stay in one spot, he said, " Wherefore?" She replied, " There, that four," pointing to her right shoe. He im mediately descended to his knees aud at tempted to extricate it, but his efforts were also in vain. Of course the uuusual spectacle of a gentleman kneoling to a lady in the publio Btreets soon drew together a crowd, all offering suggestions. One Ill- mannered boy was heard to sing " Shoe fly," but it didn't holp matters much ex cept to inspire the reverend to fresh ex ertion to hide his audible smile. As it was getting to be rather embarrassing to the lady, she good-naturedly requested to be excused, and unbuttoning her shoe step ped out of it and lntoan adjoining store. By the united efforts of four of the strong est men in the crowd the Bboe was finally extricated and returned to the owner rather the worse for the wrenching it had. The minister, his massive form reeking with perspiration, took his way home ward to change his collar and brush his unmentionablos, while tho victim of the unfortunate episode continued her course toward State street, not forgetting, how ever, to thank the gentlemen for their kindness. " Albany Journal." A Biblical Reputation. Mr. Lord, who is now residing in Illinois, was a short time since, riding from Jack sonville to Peoria, in that State, and as he was passing a hut by the road-side, he noticed a shaggy-headed boy of about eight yeai-B of age, with large eyes and no hat, dressed in a worn out pair of his father's trousers, trying to balance himself on the splintered top of a hickory stump. More for the purpose of breaking the monotony of liding all day without speak ing, than to gain information, Mr. Lord reined his horse up to the fence and ex claimed : " My little boy, can you toll me how far it is to Sangamon Bottom ?" The boy poised himself on one leg, opeued bis large eyes to their largest ex tent, and replied : " 'Bout six miles I reokon." " Do you live iu that house?" inquired Mr. Lord. " I reckon," yvas the reply. " Do you enjoy yourself out here in the woodsr?" "A heap." . " What ails your pants ?" " Tore 'em," was the laconic aiiBwer. Finding that he bad hold of a genius that could not be pumped, Mr. Lord turn ed his head to depart, but In return was now bailed by the boy, who, iu a comical, half-reluctant tone, exclaimed : " What tnout your name be?" " Lord," was the reply. The boy here vgrinned all, over, even to the wrinkles in his father's trousers, and seemed hardly able to suppress a broad snicker. "You seemed pleased," said Lord; "perhaps you never heard the name be fore?" " Yes, I have," replied the youngster, " I've heard pap read about you ?" Lord put spurs to his horse, and says that even the thoughts to which the inci dent gave rise, were not sufficient to keep him from snickering throughout the rest of the journey. New York Pawnbrokers. ONE of our New York letter-writers is responsible for the following in regard to the pawnbrokers : They are a queor sot, and do a queer bus ncss. The pawnbroker is a man who lends money on a short time on collateral secu rity. Aro you a widow,' aud is your boy sick? You take a shawl to Moses, and he advances you about one-fourth its value at a tromciidous rate of interest 25 per cent, per annum. This supply gone, your best dress, your extra pair of shoes, your wed ding ring, your Bible, and finally your bed. lie takes them all, for they are all saleable. You get a ticket for each article, and if you come within a year and redeem them, all right ; if not, at the end of the year they are sold. Inside of one of these shops you will find a satin dress hanging ticketed beside a calico skirt, shoes, Bible, revol vers, musical instruments, tools clocks, ket tles, skates, every species of portable property undor heaven, side by side. But in the big safe in the back room you would, if you could get n peep therein, see other kinds of property. You would see dia monds, costly jewelry, and silver plate. For the poor are not Shylock's only custo mers. ' Madame, on Fifth Avenue, has spent more for dress than her pressed hus band can afford, and she docs not ask him for money. The obsequious dressmaker shows her that her diamonds cau be easily removed from their settings, and bogus stones that an export could hardly tell from the genuine, put in at a trifling cost. Then Moses or Simon would bo glad to ad vance her what money she needs on the genuiue stones. This she does, paying a ruinouB interest, and trying to save money enough out of her allowance to redeem them. Aud then ruined men find these shops a convenient place to get temporary aid on jewels with which tltey do not wish to part. For this class of customers there is a private side entrance. Speaking of removing the genuine dia monds and supplying their place with paste reminds me of a little incidont that excited the risibles of the fashionables only two weeks ago. A lady on Fifth Aveuue had got into trouble. Sho had purchased thousand dollar dresses, and thousand dol lar furs, and thousand dollar things, gen erally till her bill footed up to a sum total that was frightful. Her husband had lost heavily in stocks. She dared not ask him for the money, and what was she to do ? She had diamonds to the value of 115,000. She took these rings and bracelets and things and hied hor to a jeweler's, who re set them with imitation stones that looked just as well as the genuine, and on the gen uine stones she raised money to relieve her wants. In tho meantime tho husband had lost money at gambling, and had "debts of honor which roust be paid." How was he to get it ? His wife's diamonds t Capital idea t One morning he slipped them into his pocket and went to a jeweler's. "Can you take stones out of jewelry and replace thorn with imitation ?" " Certainly." " What would these be worth or rather , what would you advance upon themt" said he, pulling out the sparklers. The jeweller looked at them and looked up. "About $150." "One hundred and fifty dollars! Why, they cost $15,000 !" " The originals doubtless did. We have the originals in our safe. We took them out two weeks ago aud put in these paste ones." The gentleman gave a prolonged whistle, and put them in bis pocket aud walked out. There was doubtloss a scene at his house. Doubtless he demauded why madam his wife, had pawned ber jewelry,aud doubt less she wauted to know how he came to know it. How it was settled never will be known. 13S" A German Jew was eating a pork chop in a thunderstorm. On heariig au unusually loud clap, he laid down his knife and fork aud observed : " Veil, did any poty efer hear such a fuss apout a little, biece of bork V"
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