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April , H71. Dick's Horse Trade ICIIARD LONG, or "Long Dick," JL as be is better known, is a peculiar character that only the great western prniries could have produced. Brave to recklessness, shrewd and cunning, humor ous and witty, a good rider and faultless trailer, he was looked up to by his com rades and considered a kind of oracle in all matters portaining to prairie lore. But to those who knew him in life, words are needless ; and those who did not, could gain but a faint idea of his character and traits were an entire column spent in describing them. As to the in cident that follows, we can Touch for its bolng truthful in every particular. Long Dick was a passionate lover of horseflesh, and was never content unless be possessed the swiftest and best animal in the vicinity, and for some months he had been " cock of the walk," his latest acquisition a deep chestnut sorrel easily defeating ai) that had been pitted against him as yet. But one day Dick was taken down a peg or two, in the following manner : As he was putting his horse through its paces on the parade-ground, a new comer pressed through the crowd and began imitating him. This was a comely brave of the Pawnee tribe. He bestrode a large, clean-limbed, silver-grey stallion ; a specimen of equine beauty that caused the eyes of more than one present to sparkle covetously. And then its movements so smooth, like clock-work, and guided only by its rider's knees, as his body swayed to and fro. Long Dick looked and scowled. He saw that he had met a dangerous cus tomer. A move of his hand parted the crowd from before him, and a long stretch of level prairie, smooth and clear of obstruc tions, was revealed. The eyes of the Paw nee sparkled with gloe as he noted this action of Dick's, and then the rivals drew up alongside. With a wild yell Dick sank spurs rowel deep into the flanks of the chestnut, which sprang ahead like a dart. The Pawnee laughed aloud and checked his fretting horse, until Long Dick was fully a hundred yards ahead. Then with a shrill yell he dropped the reins, and gave bis steed free head. With wonder we saw the hitherto in vincible chestnut gained upon, then caught ; and before a half-mile had been traversed, the grey stallion fairly rode around his rival, uttering a shrill neigh as of triumph. It was a sad hour for Dick, and he slowly rode back to the crowd, crest-fallen, while the Indian put the grey through its paces. Dick resolved to possess that horse, if it cost him everything he was worth in the world. But be seemed doomed to disap pointment. His oilers were all rejected, until next day, as he was " showing off" his shooting powers at long range, using an English rifle belonging to Captain S . The Pawnee was standing by, deeply interested, and after a time signified a de sire to try the rifle. Dick consented, and a few shots set the redskin fairly wild for the gun. Finally be offered his grey stal lion for it. Dick's eyes flashed with joy, but then dulled, for he knew how highly the rifle was prized by Captain S , and that a score of horses could not buy it. However, he put the Indian off for a time, and presently sought the officer. " Boy, cap." he began, " how much will you take for the shooter?" "More than you can raise, Dick. I wouldn't sell it for a year's salary. It saved toy life once, when my hair had fairly started, and the man who held the rifle was nearly half-a-mjle away. I shall keep it as long as I live." " But then lend it to me. Tell you what I'll do. I'll give you twenty dollars if you lend me the gun for one week." ' " What do you want of It, Diok ?" " You know that grey boas ? J want to trade it for him," was the oool reply. " You get out ! the rifle's worth a dozen suoh I" " I know it but I'll bring it back Give you Long Dick's word." . The captain, curious, tried to ascertain what the scout was up to, but Dick kept dark. He would only promise that the rifle should be returned within one week. His word was a bond, and all who knew hint knew that.' He never promised moie than be could perform. So the matter ended for the time, by the captain's con senting to his plans, whatever they might be. There was great competition among the officers to secure the famous grey, and fabulous sums for that section, wheie good horses were cheap as sheep are in the States were offered, but iu vain. The Pawnee bad bis eyes upon the rifle, and would sell for nothing else. Dick stalked around with the coveted gun, and the Indian showed off his horse, each eyeing the other as if to note the im pression made. The eyes of the entire camp were upon them, anxious to know how the affair would end. Many were the wageis laid upon the result, but the back ers of Loog Diok were obliged to give odds. Finally oiattets came to a head t,he trade was effected, and both parties seem ed hugely gratified. Only those who had lost upon the event, and Captain 8 1 , were dissatisfied. "Don't fret, cap." said Diok, chuck ling, "you shell bev the rifle never fear!" ft But how ? It was a fair trade, and he'll not give it up peaceably. It woa't do to kick up a fuss with him ; the entire tribe would take it up, sure. How at e you go ing to manage it?" " You'll see. I know the imp. Ho's like all the rest of his tribe. I kin read him like a book. You shall bev the shoot er afore the week's out. You've got my word, and Long Dick don't go back on fAof nary time I" confidently replied the scout. With this Captain S , was forced to be content, but still he did not see into the matter. However, his eyes were soon opened, for on the very morning, Long T)ick rode into camp with a wild whoop of exultation, best riding the grey stallion and brandishing the rifle. " Thar cap that's your rifle, and there the hou my hoss, too !" and the reckless scout uttered a loud, long peal of laughter, as though hugely pleased. " How Is it, Dick ? Where is the In dian ?" suspiciously demanded the officer. "Come along 'th me, and I'll show ye," chuckled Dick, dismounting. He led the way out from the camp for over half a mile, to a spot where he- bad been camping by himself for some time, disliking tho crowded grounds above. Stepping beside a hollow gully he point ed significantly down to where the ground had been lately disturbed. " What is that, Dick?" " He's thar I ' planted' the imp this mornin' !" " What ! you did not kill him?" " Don't bet on that, cap, 'cause if you do, you'll lose, share 1" " Do you know what you've done ?" angrily began the ulcer, wlieu he was in terrupted by the scout.: "Calc'late I do 1 Don't fly off the han 'lo now, 'fore you're hurt ! Jest wait ontel I gin ye the facts o' the case," coolly said Dick, as he renewed his quid. " Last night that red man came down bore and got to talkin'. I saw then that I'd bev the shooter afore day, but didn't let on. "You see thet line o' grass tall weeds I mean ; wall, thar's good browBin' close to thet. So I sais on the red, sais I : Thar haint no hoss thieves around here, be thar?' He sais no, nory only one ; but I saw bis eyes snap like fun, and thet he war ready primed for to go off. So I takes the grey out yonder and ropes him out, and then laid down to sleep ; but it was 'th one eye open. "The red went off to'rds the camp, and then waited. You know the moon shined clear last night. Wall, 'long to'rds mid night I seed this pesky imp sneakin' up nigh here, nud saw be'd tuck the bait. He b'lived I war snoozin' sound, and then crawled off to'rds the hoss. "Up I gets and sneaks after him. Shure enough the critter war a'ter the animile, as I 'lowed be'd do. He thought too much o' it not to make a try for both. Then as he gits out thar in the open, and goes to out the laryit, I jest up and plugs the cuss. He dropped, in course, and so I had both hoss and gun. See 1" chuckled Dick, in conclusion, " But they may make a fuss about it. They' 11 swear you shot him just to get the rifle back again. " I knowed thet, and so I was fixed for it. I kin prove all I say. That ar feller Jim Croghara hid out to b'ar witness to it all." And such was the fact. Long Diok felt confident that the Pawnee would not aban don the stallion without an effort to regain him, and ho played his card according. First averting the redskin's suspicious ho bad laid bis trap, and the fellow had fallen Into it. Such was one of the many well known instances of Long Dick's strategy that have gained for him a name scarcely sec ond to that of "Buffalo Bill" among border men. The above we can vouch for as be ing truthful. US" " The jug is a most singular uten sil. , A pail, tumbler or decanter may be rinsed, and you may satisfy yourself by optical proof that it is oleao ; but the jug baa a little hole in the top, and the inte rior is all in darkness. No- eye penetrates it no hand moves over the surfaoe. You can clean it only by putting in water, shaking it, and pouring it out. If the wa ter comes out clean, you judge you have succeeded in cleaning the jug, and tic ttrui. Hence, the jug is like the human heart. No mortal eye can look into its re cesses, and you oan only judge of its purity by what comes out of it." " HT Day Vor Whlstlla.' The late Dr. Macadam used to tell of a tipay Sootchman making his way home upon a bright Sunday morning, when the good people were wejding'.their way to the kirk. A little dog pulled the ribbon from the band of a lady who was leading it, and as it ran away from her she appealed to the flint passer-by, asking him to whistle for her poodle. " Woman," be retorted, with a solemnity of visage which only a drunken man can assume, " woman, this is no a day for wblstlln' 1" John Wwiley's Wife Scandal Alnsfj a- TfUIE assault upon the name and faoio of X Henry Ward Beocher recalls the story of an attack upon' the apostolio and saintly man, John Wesley. The charges -were similar and groundless beyond the shadow of a doubt. Tbey were occasioned' by tho senseless jealousy of Wesley's- ignorant wife, and were caught up by rival sectaries and even entertained by the public press. Wesley disdained to notice the slanders, notwithstanding the agitation and distress of his brpther Charles Wesley, and of othor members of the family, and of the digni taries of the church. We find our narra tive in the " Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley," by the Rev. L. Tyerman, published by Harper b Brothers in 1872, in three volumes, and reprint it for the purpose of showing that men of spotless lives and tho most exaulted character are liable to the same abuse ad slanders as have befallen the pastor of the Plymouth' Church. Sarah Ryan,, who is mentioned in the narrative, was housekocper in one of Wesley's denominational asylums. She had been married to three men successive ly, who in turn abused and deserted her. Her station in life was low, her education limited, and at times the obligations of duty lay loosely upon her. Undor the proaching of the Methodists she became a convert and won the gneat preacher's confidence. Wesley was undoubtedly Im prudent to confide bis domestio troubles to her as ho did, but there is not the least atom of evidence of any oilier indiscretion on his part. In February, 1750,. Wesley wrote to Sarah Ryan, as follows :: " Your last letter was seasonable indeed. I was growing faint in my mind. The be ing oontinually watched over for evil ; the having every word I spoke, every action I did, small and great, watched with no friendly eye ; the having a thousand little tart, unkind reflections, in return for the kindest words I could devise Like drops of eating water on the mnrlile, At length- have worn my sinking spirits down. "Yet I could not, 'Take thy plague away from me ;' but only, ' Let mo be puriiled, not consumed.' " In another letter to Sarah Ryau he writes as follows r. January 27, 1758. My Dear Sister i Last Friday, after many severe words, my wife left me, vowing she would see me no more. Wesley and bis wife, however, were again united, but were far from being hap py. So things proceeded till ' 1771. "On one occasion she seized his letters and other papers and put thorn into the hands of such as shejknew to be his etiemies, that they might be printed as presumptive proofs of illicit connections." She even interpolated letters which she bad inter cepted, so as to make them bear a bad construction, and then to read them, to different persons iu private for the purpose of defaming him. In one or two instances she published interpolated or forged letters in the public prints. She accused Charles Wesley of idleness, and declared that for years his dearest Sally had been John Wesley's mistress. Chnrles danced with rage at this imputation cast upon his wife ; but his Sally smiled and said, " Who will believe my sister now?" Frequently she would drive a hundred milos to see who was in the carriage with her husband on bis entering a town. Sometimes her pas sions hurried her into outrage and inde cency. More than once she laid violent bands upon bis person and tore bis hair. Nt Time for Swearing. " Catch me using a profane woid in the presence of ladies," said a talkative strip ling with a shade of down upon bis upper lip. " There's a time for all things." No, sir, there isn't a time fur all things. No law, human or divino, ever set apart a time for swearing. A profane expression is a sin and an abomination, utter it when and where you will. As for ladies, it is Well to be and act our best in their pres ence. We cannot be too trno, too pure, too honorable, if wo want to stand upright before a good woman, or a ' good girl yes, while I'm about it, I'll add, or before a lit tle mite of A girl-baby, with her soul fresh from heaven. I only know of one other beforo whom we ought to be just as particular if not more so. When He is not around, niy boys, you can safely do just about as you please. But when you're in his presence and to my thinking, we're all there, or thereabouts pretty much all the time have a caret Don't offend the deepest love, the whitest purity, the grandest honor of all.' . Ill Temper. A single person of sour, sullen temper what a dreadful thing it is to have such a one in a house! There is not myrrk and aloes aud chloride of lime enough in the word to disinfect a siugle home of such a nuisance as that ; no riches, no elegance of mien, no beauty of face can ever screen such persons from utter vulgarity. Ill temper is the most vulgar thing that the lowest born and lllest bred can ever Wing to bis home. It is one of tho worst forms of impiety. Peevishness in a home is not only a siu against the Holy Ghokt, but sin agaiust the Holy Ghost iu the very temple of love. Bnr that Bat. A old fanner Iliggins, the religious church. member, was reading the Bible to his family one night, a very large bat came into-the room) 'and ns Mrs. Iliggins had ti horror of these little animals,' she was nat urally, very nervous, at last she could not stand' ib any longer. " Lor Sakes I Mr. Iliggins, do-put that nasty thing out doors, it comes flipping so near me that it makes me feel' soscaroy tluit I can't sew at all." Mr. Iliggins then called his son John, to " help him- ejectt.be little creature. Mr. H. grasped' a broom and , mounted a chair. John procured one of father's boots ; and every one was i readiness to kill the bat. It came stuliug diieotly toward Mr. H., who made a terrific blow nt it with the broom, but the bat escaped, and the blow descended on the head of Mrs. II., who foil to the floor in hysterias. It so shocked that lady that her false teeth were found in one comer and her hair in the other. John said his father was a crazy old fool for not being able to kill a bat, so he determined to kill it him selfi After making frantic endeavors to reaoli it with bis boot, he becamo so enrag ed' that he threw it at the bat. But alas t thntbat was not destined to be hit ; but the nose of Mr. II., was, and it came in contact with the flying boot, and it floored that worthy gentleman and laid him low in the ' dust. Betsy, the dairy maid hearing the raokat carue rushing into the room with a large tray of sausage meat, to see what was the matter. The bat blinded by the light and anxious to get into more congenial at mosphere, flew into the face of Betsy, and so thoroughly frightened her that she upset John, who was already mounted on a high stool making desperate plunges at it with the tongs, be came tumbling down and iu his fall knocked tho tray from her hands, and the contents were emptied in his eyes andimoutK hi last order was restored ; aud they scrutinized each other carefully, and came to the conclusion that they got the worst of the tight. Mr. H's nose was very sore, an'di he used language unbecoming a. cliurch member. Mrs. H. soon recovered from her fit, but John who had red pepper in his eyes was in no pleasant mootf, that night he was heard to murmur in his sleep, i tender, child-like tones," darn that bai." Resisting the Evil One. At a camp-meeting, not long ago, a man clad in a thin linen suit, seated himself on one of the ricketty benches beside a fat man, who occupied fully one-third of. the concern. When the services were ended the fat man arose, and the gentlemau in thin linen suddenly began twisting about in a surprising manner, while his cotintsnance was significant of mortal anguish. His actions attracted the attention of some of the brethren, and one of them, a solcmn-visagcd individual, who looked im though he had just swallowed cpill, ap proached the writhing body, and. laid his band on the man's shoulder and sr.id : "Brother, if you are resisting, the cruel promptings of the Evil Ono, stcive man fully, and you will triumph at last. Re member, Jacob wrestled with She angel, and" "Idunno but he did," interrupted the agonized man, " but if Jacob had the seat of bis trousers and a little of his hide caught in a consnined crack, he wouldn't feel like raslin' with an nngelr or any other critter!" Studying fur the Ktahtry. A Louisiana negro, Bomewhat advanoed in years, was accosted a few days since by a former employer, with the question as to how be was getting aloag. " Well, sir," said he, " I'se quit wank now, and am studiu' for the ministry." The gentleman, upon asking to see what bis sable attend ant of former times had under bis arm, was handed, with a gneat show of import ance, an old copy of Webster's elementary spelling book, which, tke old darkey decla-. ed that the colored preacher np at the school-house had toUl him contained all the "Iarniu" dat wus woif picking up afore, gwiue In de pulpit. Arter you gets dsre," coutinued the old would-be-divine, "you'se got to pound away on de Bible and sarok de ScViptures." Took him at hit Word. A pensive young man in Wisconsin, while singing "Come, love, come," be. neath his duloinea's window the other night, had love, music, wind and everything elhe knocked out of him by a something iu a long white garment that fall-out of a chamber window. It proved tu be nobody but his girl, who In her anxiaty to know who was serenading her leaned too far. over the window sill ; hence the result. He says when be sings " Come, love, oome," again, be will keep away from usdar the window, as his system can't stand many such shocks tW "Papa, do you tsUdt Beech " Hush, Johnny." " But, Papa, don't you tuiuk Uoeoh ' " Didn't you hear rue tell vou to ston your noise, sir ? I won't have you talking about suoh thing. Qu in ami gat your faoe washed And Jobnnr with tears in his eves wants to kuow why papa wou't toll him - whether beech nut are ripe. L ' ' ir,lirr.,. ;,. . j,
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