3 xtew -stork: CONTINENTAL 1 "Thw ' Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK, STRICTLY MUTUAL I Assets, J(J,539,3a5.0S ! ISSUES all tho new forms ot Policies, and pre. gents as favorable terms as any company In the United States. Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit are. , No extra charges are madefor traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual pronrsof the Company, and have a voice In the elections and management of the Company. Mo policy or medical fee charged. L. W. FROST, President. M. B. Wynkoop, Vice Pres't. J.P.ROGEHS.Sec'y. j jf EATON, General Agont, No. 6 North Tliird Street, College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. THOS. H. MILLIGAN, 6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport. Perry County Bank! Sjponsler, J unltlu & Co. THE nnderslgn id, having formed a BanklngAs sociatlon 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 A.nr,A WAHiafmmtnntM for a nerlod of not over60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and New York. On time Deposits, live per cent forany time over four months ; and for four months four per cent. We are well provided with all and every facility iiritninm Ttanklnor Business: and knowinl. and aitv,A win fnniinir t.hA frreat Inconvenience un der which the people of this County labored forthe want of a Bank oi Discount ana Deposit, we nave ham iiatnrraiiiM) t.n niinnlv the want :andthls being the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we nope we will De sustained in our enui is, y uu wo business men, farmers and mechanics. This Banking Association is composed of thefol lowing named partners: W. A. SpONSLBB.Bloomlleld, Perry county. Pa. B. F. Jonkin, " " VVm. II. Miller, Carlisle, officeks: W. A. 8PON8LEK, President. William Willis, Cashier New Bloomnold.3 8 ly BALL SCALES! T B. M ARYAN EKTJI, D. W. DE11R and U, JAMES H. GKi.i(, known as ' The Ball Scale Company," have now on hand a large supplyof Buoy's Patent COUNTER SCALE, (lie Simplest, Cheap est and best uonnter scaiein me inaiKei. Mr For Scales, or Agencies 1n Pennsylvania, UIIIU, flow tfoincj. inmtnflin c . v J "'""i -dress "The Ball Scale Company," TottsvlUe, Schuylkill county, l a. For Scales or Asencles In this County, ap ply to the undersigned, where they can be seen ana examined any nine. . J LEIBY & BRQ., Newport, Perry co.. Pa. FRANK MORTIMER. 2'JtI New Bloomlleld,Perryco.,Pa. Xi E 3B -A. 3ST O 1ST Mutual Fire Insurance Company, OP J one town, Ponu'a. POLICIES PERPETUAL at Low Kates. No Steam risks taken. This Is one of the best conducted and most reliable Companies In the State, Country proiwrty Insured Perpetually at M 00 per thousand, and Town property at 15 00 per mousaua. LEWIS POTTER, , NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA., 4 IS Agent tor Perry County. LOOK OUT! I would respectively inform my friends that 1 In tend calling upon tliein with supply of good of my OWN MANUFACTURE. Consisting of CASSIMERS. OA8SINET8, FLANNELS, (Plain and uar'd) CAHPETS, Ate., xo exchange for wool or sell for cash. J. M. BIXLEU. CentheWooleh FACTOiir. 6,17,4m J. II. OIHVIM. T M. G1IIV1N SON, J. U, OIHVIM ConimlKwloD Merolianti, NO. i, SPEAR'S WHARF, , Baltimore. Md. m.Wi w in iinv itrlnt attention to the sale of all kinds o oouutry produce, aud rmit the amount ojrouiuuy. . HOW THE WOMAN DID IT. PETER PENNY WISE was In deep grief. All tbe hopes of a life-time were to be frustrated. The fond ambition bo bad so long nursed, bis pet scheme to make the name of Pemiywise the greatest In the land, was no more. Ilis only son, Launcelot, was to be married, and married to a plebeian to a girl who had wealth but no name, no family ancestry, or no coat-of-arms on the panel of her coach. Could human misery be greater? Could tbe Ossa of grief piled on the Pelion of dis appointment make a heavier load of sor row? No. The cup of Pennywise was full to the brim and he must drain it to the lees, however bitter the draught. Such was the tenor of old Ponnywise's musings as he paced the velvet carpeted floor of his library on the evening when our story opens. A conversation his son bad with him as they sat togotber sipping their wine after dinner, had beeu the cause of this tumult in the breast of Peter Penny wise. Launcelot was a weak-eyed and pink- skinned youth, with thin yellow hair, which he parted in the centre, and a little whisp of saffron whisker on each side of his face, the pulling of which with his nervous little hand constituted the principal em ployment of tbe scion of the house of Pen nywise. "Fathor," said Launcelot, after gulping down two or three glasses of wine to give him courage. "Father." " Well, my son, what do you want ?" asked the pompous head of the house. " What do you think of marriage ?" " What do I think of what?" questioned the surprised Pennywise. "Marriage," replied Launcelot. "Mat rimony, you know. Two hearts with but a single thought, two souls that beat bb one and all that." I think that every man should marry, and I would be glad to hear that you had fixed your affeotions on some lady with the proper qualifications," said Penny- wiso. "What are the proper qualifications?" inquired Launcolot. "Family," replied his father, "family whatever else you do, be sure never to dis grace the name of Pennywise by a plebeian connection." " Why, is our family such a very great one?" demanded the young man. A great one !" echoed Pennywise ; " why, it's the greatest in the land. Study carefully the genealogical tree that hangs in the ball, which cost me five thousand to have properly traced and you will see that; the name of Pennywise was as well known as that of William at the time of the Norman conquest, and that the coat-of-arms is one of the most respectable and ancient that ever heraldry boasted of." " Well, of course that's all true, father ; but I've beard some of the fellows at the club say that grandfather was a pawn " "Your grandfather was a broker and banker as I myself am, and was fully aware of the responsibility of being worthy of his family," said Mr. Pennywise, inter rupting his son ; " therefore he began my education by impressing the value of a family name upon my young mind, and so, when I hod grown older, aud he intimated to me that I ought to many tbe highest respectable Miss Poundfoolish, I went to that lady, proposed, aud was accepted. Thus I consolidated tbe two great families of Pennywise and Poundfoolish, and you aud your two sisters are the result. But you asked my opinion of matrimony ; are you thinking of marrying ?" " Yo-es sir," gasped Launcelot. "And whom do you propose honoring with your name ?" "Miss a Miss Petersham," answered youthful Pennywise. "Petersham Petersham ; I never heard of & Petersham. Who is she ? demanded the gentleman, with a darkening brow. "She is very rich." And Launce faltered. " Riches are very well, but you do not need them. Your mother loft you all her fortune, and I shall leave you half of mine if you marry as I wish. Who is this this Petersham ? What does her father do?" . ' "lie keeps a largo clothing establish ment." "What!" roared Pennywise. "A tai lor? It shall not be. The arms of Penny wise shall never be marred with a needle or disfigured by great heaven a goose 1 It shall never be never never 1" " It must be 1" said Lauuoelot, going to the door, " cause I've ' popped' and she's accepted me." The old man mechanically arose and walked to his study, where be began pacing tbe floor, as we found him at the com mencement of our story, until there came a rap at the door. The visitor proved to be the governess of the two Misses Peunywise aged twelve and the other fourteen whose disorderly conduct and willful destruction of ward robe and text books occasioned many a visit to the library, after the dinner-hour, by the governess, ' She was a neat, pretty little body this governess, and bad often attracted the no tice of the young bloods who came to visit Launcelot, but she paid not the slightest attention either to their compliments or glances, attending quietly to her pupils, and seeming wholly wrapped in their charge. In fact Charlie OuBhington, who was falling in love with every girl he met, ouce observed of ber to Launcelot : ' Launce, that governess gal I what's her name? Amy Dorr? ain't got any heart. The only thing she could love would be more pupils or plenty of money." "Good evening, Miss Dorr," said Ponny- wise, when Amy bad entered the library. "What can I do for you this evening?" "Excubo me sir," said Amy, hesita tingly. "I wish to see you about my pu pils, but I can see you aro grieved and agitated, and as I fancy I know the cause of your agitation, I will not annoy you with my oommon-placo complaints." " You know the cause?" gasped Penny wise.' " Yes, sir ; I have no wish to intrude my opinions or my knowledge, but tho cause of your grief is, I imagine, of your son, and I think he is acting most foolishly." "You are right, Miss Dorr," asserted the old gentleman " you are right. He is acting most foolishly most foolishly." :" Cannot you prevent it?" asked t,he governess. "No; lam powerless powerless. He will wed the tailor's daughter, and disgrace the great, the aristocratic name of Penny wise." There was a smile playing around the corners of Miss Dorr's mouth, and a satiri cal twinkle in her eye, as Mr. Pennywise spoke of his aristocratic name. "Can you not- threaten to disinherit him ?" she asked. " No use no use," groaned the discon solate Pennywise ; " he has half a million left him by his mothor." " A half a million 1" cried Amy, and tho smilo and twinkle faded away leaving her face stern aud calculating looking. " Mr. Pennywise, this marriage would be scandalous. Listen ; I know Miss Peter sham very well, in fact she considers me her intimate friend " "My son's wife the iutimato friend of a governess," sighed Pennywise regardless of the feelings of the girl before him. "Yes," replied Amy, not heeding tbe insult; "but she is only a tailor's daugh ter." "Alas! alas! too true, too true," said tbe unfortunate Pennywise. "Mr. Pennywise," continued Amy, " you are rich, very rich, and I am poor, You regard this marriage as a disgrace to your family. I think I can prevent it. What will you give me if I do?" "My dear Miss Dorr," criod old Penny- wise, jumping up from his chair, "if you can prevent my son from marrying that tailor's daughter l win Destow upon you ten thousand dollars." "'Tis a bargain," said the governess, " Please write a little agreemeut to this effect : That as soon as I give you proof that Miss Petersham is married to some ono else than your son you will pay me the sum often thousand dollars." " Married to some one else than my son '." said Pennywise, as he was writing the agreement. " Yes," answered Amy, " that is my meaning, I will make her marry a young man I have in my mind now." "But my son will not permit it; he is fascinated by this tailor's daughter." "I will see that he permits it," the gov- ornoss said, taking the agreement Mr. Pennywise had drawn up and signed. "My duty is to prevent the marriage of Miss Petersham." "Yes," said the old man, "do that and I will bless you ;" and the interview ended. For the week immediately following the evening the foregoing conversation took place, Miss Amy, very much to their de light, absented herself entirely from her pupils ; and she might have been seen any afternoon walking arm in arm with the lovely Miss Petersham. During the walks, somehow, Mr. Charley Gushington inyariably met the two ladies and joiued them in their walk nor did he seem to regard tho meetings as at all un expected. The fact was that the wily gov. erness bad introduced Mr. Gushingtoh to Miss Petersham, and was unknown to them fanning the flame that tbey declared was consuming both their young hearts. Throe weeks hod passed Bince the night Miss Amy had agrocd to prevent the mar riage of young Pennywise with Miss Peter sham when ono morning the governess pre sented herself to the clerks in tho office of Mr. Pennywise, aud asked to see that gen tleman. She was ushered into a private office where she found the nrlstocratio' Pennywise very much surprised at his visitor. " To what good fortune am I indebted for this visit ?" he asked, wheeling around from his desk. "To the best fortune," answered the governess. " Please read this advertise ment that I am going to insert in to-mor row morning's papers," and she handed him a slip of paper on which he read the following : Ocshimotom Fktkusham. On the 17th last., at Grace church, by the Rev. Jeremiah Waller, D. D., 8. T. D.. Mr. Charles Gushing ton to Miss Enieline, eldest daughter of Jacob Petersham, .q., all of this city, no cards. " My dear Miss Dorr," said Pennywise, jumping up from bis chair, "you have Baved the family you have done wonders I owe you a debt of gratitude I can never pay. " Well, , hero is a debt you owe me you con pay," said Amy, producing the agree ment. " I will thank you for ton thou sand dollars in greenbacks. I don't want a check, I want the money." "My dear Miss Dorr," said tbe banker, if it took my last dollar I would not re pudiate your claim. And, drawing a check for the amount, he called a messenger, and bade him go to tbe bank and get ten thousand dollar notes. After the messenger had doparted on his errand, Pennywise turned to the governess and said : " How did my son bear the news that Miss Petersham was false to him ? Thank heaven, my family will not be disgraced." " VV hen he first discovered that Miss P., was recoiving attentions from Mr. Gush ington, he threatened to commit suicide ; but I finally induced him to listen to rea son, and he attended the ceremony last night." " But how did you effect this alteration in him ? You are a witch or I should say a good fairy. How did you do it ?" " Will the boy be long at the bank ?" asked the governess. "No, he is here now. I see you want your money before you give your informa tion ; quite right. Well there it is," and be banded her tbe money. Miss Amy walked to the other end of the room and placed the money safely in her bosom. Then turniug to Mr. Pennywise she said : " Mr. Pennywise, you asked me how I obtained your son's consent to the mar riage between Mr. Gushington and Miss Petersham." "And saved my son from an alliance to a woman socially beneath him," interrupt ed Mr. Pennywise. " You marvel among women, will you toll me ?" "I will." "How did you do it?" " I married him myself. Good morning, OT Recently, near Germautown, a wo. man was scooped up by the cow-catcher of a locomotive. The train could not be stop ped until it had run half a mile. The woman was unhurt. When the story of her escape was told to her husband, he said sadly : " Well, I'll be darned if wimmen ain't hard to kill. Thore was my finest durbam. He got on the track and the locomotive struck him and there wasn't enough life left in him to supply animation to a fly. And my horse ran away with the gig, and the train came along, aud hit him and it, aud the horse was killed, and there wasn,t a piece of the gig loft big enough to make a plug for the spigget-hole of a barrel. Now that wife of mine is of no account, and she es capes. It's always the same. If you have two eggs in yon r hand, and one is bad and the other is good, and you let them drop, it's invariably the good one that breaks." And he looked sad, and turned his chaw of tobacco in his mouth, and cogitated on the strange inconsistencies of accidents. On Shares. A good story, and all the better in being true, is told of one of our citizens, who let a piece of ground to a man on shares. The man would hire the lot, but the owner, doubtful of getting any money from the tenant, proposed to let it upon the promise of receiving half the products. Occasional ly during tho summer be passod the spot, and was pleased with the cultivation it was receiving, and with its goodly show of veg etables. Harvest time came and 'passed, and he heard nothing of his tenant, till, in response to a hint, the latter sent to him one water melon and three shriveled cucum bers. Indignant at this shabby treatment, be called upon the man, and asked him what it meant. " Why, you see, 'squire," replied the tenant, " the pesky boys stole all your half, but the melon and cucum bers." tW The other day an aged couple drove into Indiana City just as an undertaking firm was moving into an old church, which bad been purchased for a shop. The old gentleman stood up in his wagon, his mouth and eyes distended, as the men silently car ried coffin after coffin into the church. At last he turned to his awe-stricken wife and gasped : "Sary, by golly it's the chol era I Let's git 1 jy A treasure trove was discovered in a singular manner at old Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, a short time Bince. ' A boy found a gold dollar on an ant hill in the old com. missary building. The following day three dollars were found In the same place. They bad evidently been brought up by the ants. Search was made, and a small wooden box, badly decayed, containing 180 gold dollars, was found about a foot below the surface CIT " I say, Sambo," said one Virginia darkey to another, "can you answer this oonunderfrum ; s'posin I gob you a bottle ob whiskey corked shut with a cork, how would you get the whiskey out without pulliu" de cork or breakln' de bottle?" gibs dat up." " Why, push de cork in." tW There is one town in Connecticut that is not afraid of the measles. It's Iladdam. The Dry One. Dickens tells the following story of an American sea captain : On his last voyage home the captain had on board a young lady of remarkable personal attractions a phrase I use as one boing entirely new, and one you never met with in the newspapers. This jouug lady was beloved intensely by five young gentlemen passengers, and in roturn she was in love with thorn all very ardently, but without any particular pref erence for either. Not knowing how to make up her determination in this dilemma she consulted my friend the captain. The captain being a man of an ovigiiml turn of mind, says to the young lady, " Jump overboard, and marry the man that jumps after you." The young lady, struck with the idea, and being naturally fond of bath ing, especially in warm weather, as it then was, took the advice of the captain, who had a boat manned in case of Occident. Accordingly, next morning, the five lovers being on dock, and looking devotedly at the young lady, Bhe plunged into the sea, head foremost. Four of the lovers imme diately jumped in after her. When the young lady and her four lovers were got out again, she says to the captain, " What am I to do with them now, tbey are so wet?" Says the captain, "Take the dry one !" And the young lady did, and she married him. Teaching Little Girls to Sew. Elinor Brooks says : There is no better way for children to learn to sew than for them to practice on dolls' clothes. When given free range in that line, tho variety of dresses and other garments that one little girl will invent and manufacture is really astonishing, and tho enjoyment she finds in her work is not among the least of the benefits she receives. Continuity, ideality, constructiveness, imitation, form, color, philoprogenitiveness, and what other or gans would not a phrenologist find de veloping in a small head at work over a doll. Many a mother of the present day owes hor deftness in cutting and fitting gar ments to the apprenticeship she served among hor rag babies. Most of their daughters, having had no such practice will, as later years with their caves and duties come to them, sadly miss the expe rience they would have gained in. the same manner. A Melancholy Statement. Taking this text the London Spectator, in a recent and very suggestive article, shows that the wages of generally educated men who have not added to their general education any special education men, in short, who know how to do what colleges teach them to do and nothing more are loss than the average of handicraftsmen, and are rapidly becoming less than the wages of bodcarriors, whose work requires no training at all but only brute strength and endurance. In this country, from the more general diffusion of education, the case is even stronger, and tends to become stronger with every fresh accession of raw recruits to the industrial army which each commencement brings. This is not a very cheering reflection for the commencement season, but it seems to us a very needful one and one particularly worth pondering by tbe instructors of youth. EST Bob Toombs' friendly call on the President a few weeks ago, is thus ex plained : Toombs at first said he wouldn't call on Grant at all, as he wasn't a citizen of this country, for Bob is the only known remaining citizen of the southern confeder acy besides Jeff Davis. Afterward, how ever, he remarked to his friend, as tbey were driving around Washington : "Perry, if I were to go to a foreign country I'd surely, if practicable, pay my respects to the potentate of that country." " Why not, then go to see your President?" They went in at a particularly busy time, but Grant said he'd see such a vistor at once. When tbey entered, Toombs frankly " allowed :" "I am not a citizen of this country, General Grant, but boing in town I have called to pay my respects to you as the ruler of this nation. "Oh never mind about that. General Toombs," answered Grant, " sit dawn. I am glad to see you at last, for I hunted very unsuccessfully after you during the war." The interview lasted nearly two hours, and was charac terized by the greatest jollity imaginable. The school in Brooklyn that lately presented its pastor on his birthday with a beautiful basket of flowers, and included among them that rare specimen known as a hundred dollar check, was doubtless as happy in giving it as he was surprised to receive it. Could this home-like little ceremony have taken place unless the sohool felt at home with its pastor ? It is not the gift, but tbe feeling that did or ought to have prompted it, that happens to men much here, and the incidont is re ferred to as showing what a power a cheer ful, active minister can become among the 1 1 .1 I r 1. . 1 .1 ..: - I ., i ... a i . UUUUIDU 11 1JD bttAISB 1.11 n 1 1 1UUJ1U1UI Ul I 1 . and goes into the Sunday-sohool . with them. It is not absolutely neoessary for scholars to express their affection for their pastor with valuable flowers, but perhaps it is necessary for the pastor to make him self worthy of that affection.
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