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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
A California Story.

A San Francisco paper gets off the fol-
lowing good one:
Returning home late one night, a man
living on Mason street disrobed without
lighting the gas, and lay peacefully down
beside the partner of his joys. Sinking
back upon the pillow, he straightway raised
himself and remarked
81 say, wife, how's your pillow-warm?"
"Why, what foolish question:" return
ed she; "my pillow is all right"
"Is it real warm % he asked.
"Certainly it is I've had my head on it
for three hours"
Apparently satisfied, he laid down and
was silent for a time, when vigorous mud
ging in the side of his wife proved he had
another idea.
81 say, wife ?''
"For goodness sake, what do you
want ?" petulantly answered the sleepy
dame.
81 say, you don't use hair oil, do you?"
"Of course not you know that as well
as any body else. Do, for mercy sake, go
to sleep"
Another half hour passed in silence
broken by the solemn ticking of the clock
in the darkness, Then there was another
spasmodic nudging.
81 say, wife, you didn't put that cali
under the bed, did you?"
"Gracious me ~ returned the matron,
"what is the matter with you? OF course,
the calf is not under the bed Will you
never go to sleep?"
"Well," continued the lord, sliding his
legs sideways out of bed, "Im id il
there amt something live under here.'
There was the sound of scrambling round
a partial upheavel of the couch, the quick
CLEAN of white garment making for the
open window, through which it disappeared
thrashing sound in the rose bushes out
side, and all was still again.
The custody of the children has beer
awarded to the husband.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
The Difference,

When woman has hen to drive into
a coop she takes hold of her hoops with
both hands, shakes them quietly towards
the delinquent, and says, "Shew there"
The hen takes one look at the object to
convince herself it's woman, and then
stalks majestically into the coop, in per-
feet disgust of the sex. A man don't do
that way. He goes out doors and says,
sit is singular nobody in this house can
drive hen but myself" and picking up
stick of wood hurls it at the offending
biped, and observes, SECT in there, you
reason and dashes to the other end of the
yard. The man straightway dashes after
her. She comes back again with her head
down, her wings out, and followed by an
assortment of stove-wood, fruit-cans, and
coal-clinkers, with much-pufling and
very mad man in the rear. Then she
skins up on the stoop and under the barn,
and oyer fence or two and around the
house, and back again to the coop, all the
time talking as only an excited hen can
talk, and all the while followed by things
convenient for handling, and by man
whose coat is on the ground, and whose per-
spiration and profanity appear to have no
limit. BY this time the other hens have
come out 10 take hand in the debate and
help dodge the missiles--and then the man
says every hen on the place shall be sold
in the morning, and puts on his things and
goes down street, and the woman dons her
hoops and has every one of those hens
! housed and contented in two minutes.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
Gbe Grinres, New Bloom. 6elo, l)a.

taries of Pennsylvania, out of 459 convicts,
800 had been Incorporate
5. Out of 607 persons admitted to the
Lancaster poor-house, in one year, 450
were classified as Incorporate.
6. Lancaster county is taxed $105, 194.25
for the support of criminals and paupers,
caused by intemperance. Lancaster Co.
receives as revenue from license, $9,710.00,
and the liquor traffic makes her still
debtor to the amount of $95, 475.25.
Query-Does Lancaster County make or
lose by the liquor business?
7. We have cited this county because
we have statistics OF course the same pro-
portions can be applied to almost every
county. So just in that proportion will the
citizens of Perry County be obliged to pay
on account of this great evil Let us vote
it down.
8. Dauphin County receives $111.50 as
its share of the revenue from license,
whilst she pays $51, $3.50 for crime and pow
erty caused by intemperance. AS in Dau-
phin, SO in Perry. Taxpayers, vote to
your interest.
8. 1t is estimated that four hundred and
ninety million gallons of spurious liquors
were drank in the country in 1868, which,
if loaded upon thirty foot teams holding
ten barrels each, would reach nearly seven
thousand miles.
10. The annual cost Of the five hundred
thousand paupers caused by intemperance,
amounts to thirty-five millions of dollars ;
of the insanity resulting from it, twelve
million dollars; the expense to the country
of the crimes committed by it, is forty
million dollars.
II. The revenue paid to the State for
license is the price of blood. Large it may
be, yet not enough to bury the multitudes
who are the victims of the pernicious
traffic.
Destroy the practice of social drinking
and the victory over intemperance is easily
won.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
A Trapper's Encounter with Panther.


Dave Mosher trapper and guide in the
N, nth Woods, had terrific encounter with
n n. orth Woods beast few weeks SINCE
Three miles from Sacondaga Lake there is
a wild, rugged pass, between the noun
tains. kn, 1wn as the Black Cat Valley. The
mountains on either side are very steep
and rocky, a. nd are covered with heavy
growth of bla, * balsam and spruce timber
AS the SHOWS d deepen and the weather be-
comes cold, many deer and animals take
shelter in that locality Among the
rest are the rock maj tin, having a valuable
dark-colored fur known among trappers in
those regions as Black Cat" They sell
dom move by day, keeping concealed in
trunks of trees or between the assures of
rocks. Owing to the uncertainty of find
ing one twice in a place, and their natural
shyness, it is quite difficult to trap them.
However, when they become pinched with
hunger, they will jump at the bait without
hesitation. A keen, strong steel trap is set
and covered with snow or leaves directly
under dropping branch that the animal
can reach by rearing upon this is secured
the bait, and in the effort to reach which it
is pretty apt to step in the trap. Then
comes a system of desperate maneuvers,
and the only way to hold them is by hav-
ing the trap chain attached to a small sap
pling that will spring and lift them off the
ground. This sleek, fine furred animal is
about the size of a red fox, and, as David
used to express it =" They're a sassy var
mint to get holt on.' AS Mosher was 60
ing the rounds of his traps, he saw through
the bushes ahead, terrible commotion un-
der large white birch where trap had
been set. AS he approached, a long, gaunt,
tawny- -colored, ferce-lool5ing animal, whose
wild scream upon the mountain side at
night will send a thrill of horror to those
who are safe in the cabin, sprang upon a
lower limb of the birch and bade defiance
with gazing eyes. 1t was driven to desper-
alton by hunger, lie raised his old rifle
and fired. In moment all the clothes he
had on him would not have made bib fol
a china doll. lie directly found himself
beside log partly scalped, with his lower
limbs looking as though they had been
through threshing machine, while at the
same moment, with spit and scream, q
panther disappeared up the mountain side
When he came up, the panther was engaged
in killing and devouring marten which
was caught in the trap, and his hunger
being Dartly aDpeaSed. was the means O
the trapper's crawling off with his life.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
A Lottery for a Wife.

A young lady who lives in the town of
Champaign has written to the editor of a
Chicago paper to announce that she desires
to be lotteried off. and to ask his advice on
the subject. Her letter is now before us,
and it must be admitted that the advanta-
ges to be derived from her intended pro-
ceeding are set forth by the lady with sin
gular grace and modesty. She has been
acknowledged, she says, in all the cities
where she has resided, to be the belle of
society" She is "young, handsome, tai
ented, and attractive" Her age is twenty
one, and she is n brunette. She has ''many,
many admirers" but none, as yet, whom
"she can appreciate" Consequently, be-
ing averse to the single state, and in'the
hope of pitching on some one she can like,
Miss X. proposes to put herself up as the
prize in a lottery. There are to be 100000
chances at dollar apiece. Satisfactory
proofs of her respectability, education, and
good faith are placed in the hands of the
Chicago editor. The drowning is to take
place at the earliest possible moment, and
the blushing bride is to be handed over to
the lucky fellow who happens to hold the
right ticket.
There are, however, some important
reservations. If the young lady does not
happen to like the man who draws her, or
he happens not to like her, the bargain is
to be put off, the gentleman receiving $500
by way of smart money. Whether Miss
K. is to keep the remaining 800, 800 does
not appear but we suppose the idea is to
have the drawing resumed until the fair
candidate for matrimony gets somebody to
suit her. In an army of 100000 bachelors,
one, surely, ought to be found eligible for
the smiles Of even so lovely creature as
Miss X. describes herself to be; and it
would, indeed,b pity, after devising and
setting in motion SO complicated and Or
iginal matrimonial machine, if the sole
object of its existence were to come to hui
initiating defeat.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
A Bold Exploit.

The following is from the diary of the
late Mr.. Adolphus the barrister and histo.
ran
"May Sth, 164O.-We had dinner
party, among them Mrs. Mathews and
Curran, who told an amusing story of an
agent to nobleman in Ireland. 1t was
known to some ruffians in the neighbor-
hood that he had collected large sum for
rents due to his employer. In the middle
of the night he heard thieves breaking into
his house. He jumped out of bed, and
arming himself with a carving-knife stood
one could enter at time, which one would
be shown in the moonlight while he re-
mained in the shade. Four of the thieves
entered and were despatched one after
another, those without not knowing what
happened. The fifth saw CLEAN of the
moonlight, seized the man, and tremen-
dous scuffle ensued. The agent struck
several blows with his weapon, but made
no impression. He was got down, and his
antagonist over him, when feeling the knife
he found the point was bent. He had the
presence of mind to press it strongly
against the floor, so as to turn it back,
stabbed his adversary dead, and as he was
alone in the house and could have no as
sistance till the morning, retired to bed.
He was knighted for the exploit. Some
one said to him, 81 wonder you could go
to bed while there were ON the floor the
corpses Of five persons whom you had
killed ?" His answer was, at did make
me very uneasy l could not get a wink of
sleep for nearly an hour ~
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
Where They Got Their Shells.

There is not much lime in the sea--proba-
bly, not more than there was in Falstaffs
" "sack'-but there is enough. And the use
it is put to is one Of the curiosities of natu-
raj history. " l tt
Every inhabitant Of the ocean which has
a shell derives the materials Of which that
hard covering is composed from the water.
Besides, the lime is secreted or rather sep
arated from its food, as birds do it for ma
king covering for their eggs; mollusks
take up the largest amount directly out of
the water they breathe. Every time an
oyster draws water through its gllls, some
of its lime, which is held in solution, is
taken possession Of by appropriate vessels
and goes directly to the living membrane
which deposits it, and thus the shell grows.
1t is assured that single drop Of sea water
contains only about the ten thousand six
hundreth part of a grain of lime. But the
incessant respiration of the dweller, in one
OF two years makes house weighing in
some cases many pounds. When the animal
dies most OF the shells gravitate and aggre-
gate to the bottom, where, becoming broken
and impacted into solid masses, mixed in
fine earthly deposits under immense hydro
static pressure and chemical forces, they
become marble All marble quarries are
supposed to have thus originated in the
abysses of primitive seas, and they were
afterward elevated to where they are now
] found, by upheaval
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
Tracking a Rich vandal.

Some time since little town in Ohio
was infested by incendiaries, and all other
means of detection having failed, two or
three persons clubbed together and pur-
chased a bloodhound, one of the kind used
by the ohivalry to hunt down runaway ne
groes in the pleasant days before the war.
In some manner the news Of this bit of en-
terprise became noised about and the fires
suddenly ceased, not an opportunity having
been offered since to put the animal on the
trail of an incendiary.
The day before Christmas, however, a
citizen discovered that beautiful ever
green tree in front of his residence had
been cut down and carried off the night be-
fore, and the long looked for chance was af-
forded for testing the new purchase. To
the astonishment of all, the four-legged de-
tectiye took a straight line to the house of
one of the wealthiest denizens of the town,
nearly three-quarters of mile distant, and
placing his fore paws on the window glared
through and bayed savagely at the owner,
who was engaged in decorating the tree for
the festivities of the morrow. The scene
that followed may, perhaps, be imagined,
and a considerable sum of money was
readily paid in order to hush the affair up.
gB- When persons are sea-sick what dc
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
Agents TAINTED
6S1 SIN pdI

Address
d. s. EARLY,
81 SIN pdl Harrisburg "a
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11

VIII entitle member to q certificate OF ONE
THOUSAND DOLLARS, to be paid at his death
TO his legal heirs or assigns, whenever such death
may occur
4 member, or his heirs, may name successor; ;
but il notice of the death of u member to the Sec
retary is not accompanied with the name of a sue
cessor then the Society will put in successor and
nil the vacancy, according to the Constitution of
the Society.
Should the member die before his four pay
ments OF JiUe dollars are made the remaining un:
paid part will be deducted from the one Thousand
Dollars due his heirs; his successor will then pay
only tlco dollars annually during his lifetime, and
the mortality assessments.
py Male and Female from fifteen to sixty.hve
years of age, of good moral habits in good health
hale, and sound of mind, irrespective of creed, or
race may become members. For further lnIoma-
ton address l.. w. CRAUMER,
(Sec'y U. b. Mutual Aid Society
LEBANON, PA
Agents Wdnted
Address
ID. S. EARLY,
IIn .io Da
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
OPPOSITE THE COURT no USE,
NEW BLOOMFIELD. PA.

We receive money on deposit and pay back on
demand. We discount notes for period OF not
over60 days, and sell Drafts on Philadelphia and
New York.
On time Deposits, fve per cent forany time over
four months; and for four months four per cent.
We are well provided with all and every facility
for doing Banking Business; and knowing, and
for some years, feeling the great inconvenience In-
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 county, we
hope we will be sustained In efforts. by all the
business men. farmers and mechanics.
This Banking Association is composed OF the fol-
lowing named partners;
Y Va. 4 iS isroSsLER' Bloomfield Perry county, Ia.
WIN. II. MILLER, Carlisle, N4
OFFICERS;
W. A. sPONsLER, Precedent.
WILLIAM Willis, Cuslier
New Bloomfield. 5ly
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
The U. u. Mutual
Aid Society Of Pennsylvania,

Present the following plan for consideration to
uch persons who wish to become members;
The payment OF SIX DOLLARS on application
thereafter TWO DOLLARS annually during NE,
with pro.rata mortality assessment at the deatil
of each member, which for the FIRST GLASS Is as
follows:
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-03-11
Perry County Bank !
SpOnsiers JunIkin GE Co.

TIME undersign ID, having formed Banking AS.
Il sociation under the above name and Style are
now ready to do General Banking business at
their new Banking House, on Centre Square,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-23
New York Market.

NEW York, July 2.-Flour-Dull aud
lower; superfne western and State IS 25a
8 80; common 10 good SO 15a6 As; good
to choice 50 50a7 So; white wheat extra
81 25a9 so. Wheat-Lower; rejected
spring 81 IS; Iowa spring 81 Seal A;
No. spring Chicago 81 Goal SO; No. 9
Duluth 81 40; amber winter western
81 G3. Rye-Quiet; western 76a78c
Barley and Malt-Unchanged. Corn
Heavy and lower; steamer western mixed
54a50tc; rail 57a0Oic. Oats-Dull and
declining; new mixed western 42a43ci
white western 40a51c. Cofee-Srongi
Rio 1sa19Ic. sugar-strong and ad-
vanclDg; fair to good refining 7tastc
Molasses-Dull and unchanged. Rice
Strong at Sa0c.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-23

An EnglishmAn, who is visiting this
country on pleasure and in quest of in
formation, writes to the New York Sun
that he knows he has been very inquisi-
tive, but that he always found "thO
Americans very polite in general. must
except, however, your government OH
cials, The other day sauntered into
one OF the city branch postoffices In Astor
place. After posting my letter l sought
information from the clerk about the ar
rival and departure Of the foreign mails,
so, and finding him, as l supposed,
nice, agreeable young man, and the office
quito deserted, ventured few more In,
terTogations on domestic subjects, such
as his mode Of living, amount Of salary,
number Of children, and other little harm
less topics, when he suddenly pulled out
his portmOnnaie and handed me o little
card, which presumed 10 be an invita-
ton TO Join his domestic circle, when to
my establishment 1 discovered thereon
the figure Of corpse lying on q coffin
with these words inscribed, This man
was talked to DEATH Ineed nottell you
that I vacated the premises Immediately
and having since learned that the course
pursued has been authorized by the Post
master General, / have deemed 1t neces'
sary to ask the Intervention Of my min
lister, and while Sir Edward Thornton Is
conducting the diplomatic correspondence
attending the insult, deem It my duty
70 Law the facts before the public, In order
that they may see for themselves what
sort Of people are employed by the use o
money Wr1ng from their pockets through
unjust taxation and incivllity,"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and strong.

STATE B0NDS-Dull ana sLeauy.
SrocKs-The operations at the Stock
Exchange were restricted this afternoon,
and the apparent termination Of the cor
ner in Erie caused an unsettled feeling,
which was reflected In lower prices
throughout the list. Prices were steady
at the decline, except for Pacific Mail,
which was heavy and especially depressed
on account OF another meeting by the
Board of Directors, at which the question
of a general mortgage was again discussed
but as before, the advice Of
counsel was invoked before taking
any final steps. The extreme decline
Of the day was in Erie, which dropped
from Gls regular 10 50 seller 3, and 029
to COZ cash. The greatest difference in
favor Of cash stock o.dsy was It per cent,
but toward the close stock was loaned at
tat for use until tomorrow. Alarge por.
ton of the short interest has undoubtedly
been closed up Pacific Mail fell from
3Ot to SGs, and finally rallied to
ST.. There was o lnrge business
in Northwest Common, which declined
from 70t to 0OI, closing at COZ. Union
Pacific declined from got to EST, under
rcalizations, and afterwards recovered to
2St. Panama fell of from iii to 116,
and Wabash from 72i to 70. The de-
cline In the balance Of the list was COM
paratively slight. Vanderbilt shares
throughout the day were the strongest on
the list. The market closed steady,
though in some cases at an advance from
the lowest point of the day.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-23

The indianapolis Statiasl says; Geo.
Van Kouten brought suit in the Cas-
court, 10 this State, against the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati & 81 Louis railroad to recover
5000 damages. Van Couten had enter.
Cd q car OF the cOmpAny'H and refused %
deliver up his ticket until the conductor
furnished him with q seat The cars were
crowded and no scat was TO be obtained,
so the conductor lust stopped the train
and put Van Kouten oil. Nothing daunt.
q, he caught on'the last car and was put
OF q second time, and his baggage flung
of with him. The case was entered 10
cas- county, and under change Of venue
taken TO Carroll county, and the plaintiff
was awarded $4,000 BY the Jury as COM
pensation for the broken contract
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-23
Midsummer Malaria.

At thIA season tho heat Of tho sun liboTatoS
from tho foil, the water and nth Of cities i'm.
mense quantities OF uuwholeaomo. gases which
tho strongest can scarcely inhAl0 with impunlty,
and which develop tho most distre9Glng diseases
10 the weak and feeble. tie, therefore, Of par.
amount Importance 10 inYiROrAto tho body In
hot weather. VitAllEe and strengthen the Btom.
Ach and tho nervous system with 81 least two
doses per day Of HostetteT's Stomach Blttcrs,
and you will DO guFo TO escape the dts OF indl.
RoBtlOn, AttAekB OF bilious collie. sick headaches,
dArIheGs and dySentcTies which are 80 common
at this season. Re prudent. A little eaVO and
forecast exercised now, may prevent your being
pFoStFated BY remIGtenl or Intermittent fever, OF
chronic bowel or liver complaint throughout the
IRll, When vigor ls OoZlng ont Of every pore
undoF the rays OF an almost vertical sun, this
Genial vegetable tonic supplies to the nervous
system GlIment which enables It TO withstand
ia dTaIn dAW