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Ferry County Bank !
Spongier, Junkln & Co.
rjlHE undersign having formed a Ranking An
X soclation 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 HO USB,
NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.
We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. We discount notes (or a period ot not
over60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
New York.
On time Deposits, Hve per cent forany tlmeover
(our months ; and (or (our months (our per cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
for doing a Banking Business i and knowing, and
(or some years, (eellng the great Inconvenience un
der which the people o( this County labored (orthe
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 county, we
hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all the
business men, (armors and mechanics. .
This Banking Association Is composed o( the fol
lowing named partners:
W. A. RpoNSLEn.Blonmtleld, Terry county, Pa.
B. F. .Iunkin, " " "
Wh. II. Miller, Carlisle,
officers:
W. A. 8FONSLER, President.
William Willis, Cashier
NewBIoomneld.Sfily
CONTINENT AL
Life Insurance Company,
OF NEW YOKE,
STRICTLY MUTUAL t
Assets, S,O5,S01.H5 !
ISSUES all the new forms ot Policies, and pre
sents as favorable terms as any company iu the
United States.
Thirty days' grace allowed on each payment, and
the policy held good during that time.
Policies Issued by this Company are nonforfeit
ure. No extra charges are madefor traveling permits.
Policy-holders share In the annual profits o( the
Company, and have a voice in the elections and
management of the Company.
No policy or medical (ee charged.
L. W. FROST, President.
M. B. WiNKOor, Vice Pres't. .
J. P.IloOEita, Sec'y.
J. F. EATON,
General Agent,
No . 6 North Third Street,
.429yl College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa.
LOOK OUT !
I would respectively Inform my friends that I In
tend calling upon them with a supply of goods
of my
OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of
CASSIMER8.
CASSINETS,
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
CARPETS, &.,
to exchange (or wool or tell (or cash. "
J. M. BIXLER.
Centre Woolen Factoet. 6,17,4m,
Bloomfield Academy!
Spring Session Begins Monday, April 7(i,"lHT3.
THIS school 1 designed to be a classical and
normal Institute of the first grade. Students
are prepared thoroughly (or any college In the
land. Those desiring to be teachers receive a thor.
ough normal drill on all studies taught in the pub
lic schools. All othors are carried forward In the
higher academic studies and on completion of
course receive certillcate of graduation.
Excellent boarding Is provided In the building
of the Institution and the school Is pleasantly lo
cated. - ;
The working force Is as follows:
Rev. JOHN EDOAR. A. M.. Principal,
Teacher of Classics and Advanced Studies.
A. M.MARKEL, M. H.,
Teacher ot English Studies.
Miss 8. LIFE,
Teacher of Music, Painting and Drawing. '
" Miss E. M. MORROW, '
Teacher of Preparatory Department.
. ; Prof. J. K, FLICKING Hit, , i. .
Teaciier of Peumaunhlp. .
W For further Information, address Principal,
or else wu qrier, proprietor, "
10t( , .,'NewBlooraneld, Perry co.. Pa.
CLARK'S VVUSi PEltSIAN
Inxoot Fowder,
For the destruction ol all kinds of
, ,. Insects, vizi , , .,. -
11 ' iinimrirB Titrn unno 1 MTU
JFLKAS, , MOTHS,. u, lu. Also,
Insect on Animals, Fowls, Plants,&1
. AVASK FOB- ..-. .
CLARK'S INSECT POWDER.
., :. '-. .. ' v
, Warranted Pure.
W Price 2& Cents' per Bottle. ' For sale by F
Mortimer, New BloomfteU, P. ' Itift
ri.ititv COUSTY
Meal Estate, Insurance,
AD
CLAIM AGENCY.
LEWIS POTTER & CO.,
Real Estate Brokers, Insurance, Claim Age n
New JJloomlieia, Ia.
WE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell
ers to the advantages we offer them In our-
chasing or disposing ot real estate through our of-
uue.
Wehave a vervlaree llstof deslrab Drooertv.
consisting of (arms, town property, mills, store
and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip
tion which we are prepared to oiler at great bar-
f:alns. We advertise our property very extenslve
y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to
effect a sale. We make no charges unless the
Sropertylssold while registered with us. We also
raw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa
pcrs at moderate rats.
some 01 me Desi, cneapesii, ana moss rename
fire, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the
United Htal.es are renresented at thin jurpnc.v.
Property insured either on the cash or mutual
plan, and perpetually at $4 and $5 per thousand.
Pensions, bounties, and all kinds ot war claims
collected. There are thousands of soldiers and
heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
diers, if you were wounded, ruptured, orcontract
ed a disease in the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to a pension.
When widows of soldiers die ormarry.the minor
Children are entitled to the pension.
Parties having any business to transact In our
line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, as
we are comment, we can render satlsiactlon in any
branch of our business. ,
W No charge for information.
4 201y LEWIS POTTER & CO.
New Millinery Goods
At Newport, Xu.
I BEG to inform the public that I have Just re
turned from Philadelphia, with a lul assort
ment of the latest styles of
MILLINERY GOODS,
HATS AND BONNETS.
RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS
FEATHERS,
CHIGNONS,
LACE CAPES,
NOTIONS,
And all articles usually found In a first-class Mil.
liiiery Establishment. All orders promptly at
tended to. -We will sell all goods as Cheap as
can be got elsewhere .
DRESS-MAKING done to order and In the la.
test style, as 1 get the latest Fashions Irom New
York every month. Goffering done to order. In
all widths. I will warrant all my work to give Bat-
isiucLion. ah wora uone as low as possible.
ANNIE ICKES,
Cherry Street, near the Station,
5 18 13 Newport, Pa.
CARLISLE CARRIAGE FACTORY.
A. B. SIIEBK
has a lnrge lot of second-hand work on
hand, which he will sell cheap lu order
lu mane room lor new wora,
FOR TILE SPRING TRADE.
He has. also, the best lot of
NEW WORK ON HAND. .
You can always see different styles. The material
Is not In question any more, (or It Is the best used.
If you want satisfaction In style, quality and
price, go to this shop before purchasing elsewhere.
There Ts no firm that has a better Trade, or sells
more In Cumberland and Perry comities.
REPAIRING AND PAINTING
promptly attended to. Factory Corner of South
and Pitt Streets,
dp
CARLISLE, PA.
Farmers Take Notice.
rjHHE subscriber offers (or Sale -
THRESHING MACHINES. JACKS and HORSE
POWER, -
With Tumbling Shaft, and SIde-Oearing, Warrant
ed to give satisfaction in speedy-and perfect
threshing, light draft and durability, on reasona
bie terms. Also
PLOUG II H
Of Superior Make.
CORN SIIKLI.KRS,
KETTLES,
STOVES,
SCOOPS
AND ALL CASTINGS
made at a country Foundry. Also,
1 A GOOD MILL SCREW.
In excellent order, (or sale at a low rate.
I refer those wishing to buy to John Adams,
Samuel Shuman, John Boden, Ross Hench, at
Ickesburg. Jacob Shoemaker & Son, Elliotts
burgt Thomas Morrow, Loysvllle; John Flicking,
er, Jacob Fllokiuger, Centre. 620 13
, v .SAMUEL LIGGETT.
Ickesburg, May 14. 1871
.
TN 8 U RE IN THE
MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
op ,
NEW YORK.
F. 8. Winston, President.
The oldest and strongest Comnanv In the IlnltoH
States. Assets over M5,(AX,000 lu cash. -
. , 8. a. B1IULER. Agent.
6 44 X3t., , Liverpool. Pa.
fCf"i T K TtETHTEI) TO
ntfcjVJUU MUTUAL P0L10X HOLDERS.
The Pennsylvania Central Insurance Company
having had but little loss during the past year, the
annual assessment on Mutual Policy-holders will
not exoeed 40 per cent, on the usual one year cash
rates, which would be equal to a dividend of 40
per cent, as calculated in Stock Companies, or a
deduction of 2 per cent., on the notes below the
usual assessmcuti and as the Company has over
I'Jnu.UOO In premium notes, the whole amount cred
lud to mutual policy-holders, over cash rates, will
amount to 14,000. Had the same policy-holders In
sured In a Stock Company, at the usual rale, they
would have paid 14,000 more than It has cost them
In this Company. Yet some of our neighbor
agents are running about crying Fraud I Fraud I
and declare that a mutual company must fall.
But they don't say how many stock companies are
(ailing every year, or how many worthless stock
companies are represented in Perry County
today. , i
It Is a well-known (act that a Mutual Company
cauuot break,
.... , ' JAMES H. GRIER,
iStf Sec'y o( Peuu'a Central Insurance Co.
t. at. oiaviN.
1. H. 0IKVIH
J.
M. GIHVIX A BUN,
CoinmiwMlon Merchantw,
NO. I, SPEAR'S WHARF"
Ualtiiuor, Md.
4 -
-We will pay strict attention to the sale of all
klnps of country product, and remit lit amount
yruuipuy. 9 iHiy
ENIGMA DEPARTMENT.
Kw All contributions to this department must
be accompanied by the correct answer.
t3T Answer to Enigmas in last week's
Times i
Scriptural Enigma "She' hntli done what
he could." '
Enigma No. 3 " D. B. and L. R. U." '
AN ANXIOUS PASSENGER.
ORMERLY we could never tell why so
. many good tilings were related by
steamboat captains and clerks. We un
derstand in our early days, and can read
ily see how contact with all sorts of people
naturally bring awkward positions to those
frequently brought in contact with all man
ner of characters. Gradually the good
things are now falling to tho conductors ;
railroad travel having almost brought the
steamers to tho banks. And of the con
ductors of the Georgia railroads, it seems
that those on tho 8. W. R. R., whilo thoy
have possibly, the most pleasant general
run, sutler moro from outlandish folks,
traveling southward t,o see kin-folks, than
any class which I have noticed. Some
days since, just before the train ran from
the car-shed in Macon, I was disturbod
while reading a morning paper by the en
trance of an old lady, who was slightly
deaf and wondrously fussy, and fearfully
mado ; in fact, vory fearfully made for an
old lady. Chignon, pannier, flounces, and
all those indiscribable things which the
younger of Fashion's dovoteos so (patiently
bear, were hung around ber in profusion
rare. After the train moved out the con
ductor appeared at the door, and " Tick
ets" came reverberating down the aisle. I
took advantage of the occasion to find; out
fcV what point Mrs. Joiner was bound, and
saw the ticket she handed the conductor
was "from Macon to Americus," but she
requested the conductor to let her know
when the train arrived at Stewart's cross
ing which is about four miles above , Amer
icus. This he of course readily agreed
to do.
I engaged the old lady in conversation
and found that she had been married to
Mr. Joinor about two months, that sho
was his third wife and he her second hus
band. Furthermore, I found that she had
some relations in one of the lower counties,
and that a visit to thorn was the object of
her journey. She seemed anxious to make
as good impression on them as possible,
as she told me in the innocence of her
heart, because they were not as well pleas
ed as they should have been at his third
marriage, especially as he married rather
an old lady. We chatted pleasantly until
we reached Jackson about the third sta
tion from Macon, I think, when I loft the
old lady to her meditations. The next
station was Powersvillo, and when sho
reached that point sho called the conductor
to her and asked if that was Stewart's
Crossing. lie replcd that it was not, and
told her to give horself no trouble .that ho
would tell her when they reached Stowart'B
Crossing. In fact, that it was notjt regular
station, he would come to hor before they
got there and lot her got ready iu time.
could see, however, that she was nervous,
restless and excited. The train stopped at
Fort Valley when she grabbed her reticule,
and calling the conductor, wanted to know
if that was Stewart's Crossing. - His reply
was very brief, but to the point :
"It is not, madame." ' "
. Off went the train again, and as the
whistle Bounded for Marshalville the old
lady again grabbod the preoious reticule
and called the conductor.
"Mr. Conduotor, is this Stewart's Cross
ing?" " No ma'am, I will tell you when we get
there," was the amused conductors reply.
Away we sped, and Marshalville vanish
ed only to bring us,aomewhat behind time,
however, to Montezuma. The reticule was
grabbed again, and again ' the conductor
called. In became..
" Is this Stewart's Crossing, r Mr. Con
ductor?" . , -
" It ia not, if you ploase, madame, I will
certainly lot you know when we get there ;
so you need not ask me," said the irritated
conductor. , ,
Oglethorpe was passed without the au
tbyance, but when Andersonville was
soemded the old lady was iu the highest
pitch of excitement, and as the conductor
was assisting a lady with three babies
through the car she grasp bis sleeve with
one nervons hand and hor reticule with the
other, and asked with all the earnestness
of her excited nature : ,
"Mr. Conductor, ain't this Stewart's
crossing ?" . ,
The usually good-natured publie func
tionary was vexed ; you could see it all
over his smoothly shaved face, ,
" No, ma'am, this Is not Stewart's Cross
ing. . I have told you I would tell you when
we got there, to be quiet and give your
self no uneasiness."
The old lady was twitching all over with
excitemeut as we steamod away and left
Andersonville vanishing behind. The con
ductor came and took a seat by me and
while discoursing on tho comparative mer
it of broad guage and nanow-guage rail
roads, forgot everything else. . At length
be looked put of the window, and immedi
ately grabbed the bell-Hue, exclaimed :
" Bless rny life, we've passed Stewart's
at least a mile." '
Stopping tho train, however, he had the
motion reversed, and we ran over a mile
back to Stewart's Crossing, when he went
to the old lady :
' Stewart's Crossing ma'am."
" Are we there ?" she asked.
" Yes, ma'am, hurry up and got off as
soon as possible ; we are behind time, and
had to run back near two miles for you.
The old lady seemed wonderfully calmed
and said with the greatest simplicity :
" I don't want to get off here, I want to
go to Americus."
V Don't want to get off here ?" thunder
ed the conductor ;" what in the thunder
did you want us to stop here for ?" ;
"I didn't want you to stop here," she re
plied meekly.
" What did you want to know when we
got here for then ?"
" Because," simply said tho old girl, "my
old man told me when I got to Stewart's
Crossing that it would be time to put in my
teeth."
If you never heard a roar you ought to
have been on that train. Amid the fuss
the boll-cord had the most violent pulls
that it experienced in sometime. The old
lady reached Americus, and was met by
some kin, who took her off the conductor's
hands. 'lie, however, poudered over it
well, and I hoard him tell the conductor of
the train when they mot that he never
would treat a toothless woman with that
veneration which they deserved again,
especially if sho bad a reticule and wanted
to know when be passed a way station.
A Mystery Solved.
Our readers will remember the fact that
a roan named Charles Goodrich' was found
murdered last winter in his house at Brook
lyn, and that up to last week, the murder
er bod not been discovered. It now seems
that the murder was committed by a wom
an named Kate Stoddart, who was kept by
Goodrich, and who has been arrested. She
makes the following statement :
" She had been living with ' Charlie,' as
she called the deceased, and was greatly at
tached to him. He wanted to cast her off,
but she loved him so much that she could
not leave him. She entreated on her knees
that he would allow her to remain, but he
was firm, and, in fact, brutal in his treat
ment of her, and the Thursday before the
Friday on which the body was found, was
fixed for her to loave him, he threatening
her with all sorts of things if she dared to
trouble him further. . She had remained in
the house in Degraw street all the previous
evening, and in the morning, when Good
rich got up, she again besought him not to
cast her off. Ho was very angry and re
fused her request, or to hear her at all.
Ho then went into the basement at the
front of the house, and proceeded to light
the heater which was located there. She
loved the man so much that she could not
leave him, and that when she saw him de
termined to discard her she worked herself
up to murder him. She had one of his re
volvers in her pocket (not the one whioh
the detectives fyund lying at the house be
side the corpse), and while Goodrich was
stooping down on one hand and knee in the
act of lighting the heater, she drew the
pistol, and extending her band toward him,
shouted, ' Charlie 1 He looked up and sho
shot him three times. These wore the fatal
wounds which tho post-mortem examina
tion disclosed. After she committed the
murder on Thursday morning, she waited
all that day and night iu the house, watch
ing it. ' Friday morning she had occasion
to go to ' New York, and early on that
morning she washed the blood from the
face of the murdered man with a towel,
which she afterwards wrung out, ami which
was also found damp by the police. She
fixed tho corpse as it was discovered, and
when she had done this she went over to
New York for something or other, and was
about to return to the house that Friday
evening. She come over Fulton Ferry, and
ere she had fairly put her foot on the street
she heard the newsboys crying out, ." ex
tra, murder of Charles Goodrich I"
In regard to the efforts of the detectives,
Commissioner Jourdan made the following
statement :
Eversinoe the murdor of Mr. Charles
Goodrich, the police have been making cer
tain efforts to obtain a clew to the guilty
parties, and they have at all times done the
best they could. Up to the present date
they have never relaxed for one moment
their search for the person who was believ
ed to have committed the crime. Brook
lyn has been scoured, as well as Philadel
phia, Boston and other cities, and every
clew which could be obtained has been
worked up from the very start. They felt
compelled, from the nature of the case, to
leave nothing undone. We employed se
cret agents of both sexes, which ia some
times necessary in cases of this kind." I
have hod a photograph of Kate Stoddard
in my possession, and if you should see this
woman you would eoe how difficult it would
be to recognize her from that picture.
(The Commissioner then exhibited the ori
ginal picture, which was taken on glass,
and from which be had photograph cards
taken.) . This does not look at all Jiko the
woman now., This picture Indicates the
woman ia a fleshy condition and she now is
almost a skeleton, and that makes a mark
ed difference in her appearance. , I think
the papers have boon very unfair in regard
to the police. There was, of course, no
human eye that witnessed this murder but
that of the person who committed it, and
she was comparatively unknown f the only
person who knew hor by sight was sick in
bed for six weeks after the murder was
committed. But to go down to the details :
This woman was met by Odr agent (Mary
Handley) iu tho street last Tuesday after
noon, in the neighborhood of Fulton Ferry.
She met hor by accident, and as soon as
she saw hor was convinced, notwithstand
ing hor,, altered oppearnnco, that she Was
Kato Stoddard. .
She followed her and gave hor Into the
custody of an officer of the Second pre
cinct, who, on being told who she was,
took her to the station-house. . It was our
intention to have her brought directly here
when she was arrested. It then became
important to know where she lived, but she
refused to give any information concerning
horself. We wished' to know where her
effects were. By a device hit upon by us
that of seiidinj policemen to each house
and inquiring if a woman wou missing
the discovery of her late residence was
made in High street, between Bridge and
Jay, where she has been living since the
middle" of April last. . The lady of the
houso was requested to go to the station
house and see if she could recognize her.
Before this lady saw her face, she recog
nized her by her voice. She said, "That's
enough ; that's the woman." She then saw
her through the crack of the door, and
said, "Yes, that is she." The police then
wont to the house, searched , her trunks,
and thore discovered the property of Chas.
Goodrich. There were tho rings, the seals,
the pocket-book and the money, which is
no doubt tho samo as he had in his posses
sion at the time he was murdered ; the pis
tol, with three chambers empty, and which
it is understood she used to commit tho
murder, was also found in her trunk. There
were two trunks, besides other articles
which have been taken possession of by
the police.
Our Homes..
There exists a very beautiful ideal of
what home should be, but somehow men
and women have fallen into the habit of
showing the world their best side ; of ex
erting themselves to be amiable and agree
able to pooplo who care the least for them ;
while to those to whom their interest,
honor and happiness are of vital concern,
they display all of their most uuholy aud
disagreeable traits.
Some men use their homes as escape
valves for all the ill-humor generated by
friction with the world. It will not do to
storm and fume at that, but at home ah,
there one has a right to do as he has a
mind to ! It is his home, aud he is bound
to have his own way there, which he un
doubtedly could only there happens to be
one or more others there intent upon the
same thing. And, by the way, this " hav
ing ono's own way" is a very difficult thing
in a world like this, where every life is so
linked with every other life. '
There are women, too, set down in the
calendar of this world as patterns of amia
bility, whose home temper is a sad com
mentary upon the wisdom of the world's
judgment! There are softly modulated
and lady-like voices, the charm of the so
cial oircle, which in the privacy of their
houses break out in irritating taunts and
angry retorts. These are " very nice wo
men" who destroy all tho sweetness and
blessedness of their household by loud and
continual scolding, frettings, and fault
findings. There are brothers who are chiv
alrous and devoted toother people's sisters,
but who at home tease and trouble their
own. There are charming young ladies,
fancied by soino infatuated young men to
be angels, who are stubborn, self-willed
and iudolent at home, where they should
be most agreeable. The true meaning of
home is not a place to go only when you
feel hungry and cross ; where you can wear
your wortit coat and your worst temper.
The home is undervalued, and its Bweet
ness and sanctity highly ' desecrated : It
Bhould correspond with tho beautiful Ideal
one, which we all venerate,' whore all baser
passions are subdued' and controlled by
sweet affection, tenderness and 'patience.
It is where the wife prefers to stay above
all other places ; a plaoe that is never lone
ly to her, for the Innumerable blessings
that hover around it ; where the shadow of
solitude is lightened by the halo of quiet
love ; where the hearth ia always bright,
and the rooms tidy and cheerful, and where
the wife spends her " afternoons," and the
husband his "evenings." These are the
shrines to which the absent and weary will
turn with longing for rest and peace. '
tlfln Union county, about a mile and
half from Lewisbnrg, is a log building
ereoted in 1715. The house was made very
strong so as to afford protection from the
Indian. , On it logs can be seen hundreds
of marks made from Indian darts and ar
rows, received during the numerous en
gagements which the early settlers of this
country had with the savage. f '
' tW When a man wauU money or asaliit
ance, the world, as a rule, Is very obliging
and indulgent, and let him want it.