WMESSRS. J. WEAVER A CO., No. 116
Smithfield street, Pittsburgh, are our agents in
the two cities for the soliciting of advertise
ments for this paper.
Less tlian City Prices.
At 15c., best Hemp Carpet;
At 25c., best Cottage Carpet;
At 25c., good Ingrain Carpet;
At 25c., yard-wide Oil Cloth ;
New Brussels, new Three Plys;
Everything new in Carpets, Oil Cloth,
Mattings, Rugs, &c., at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
New Advertisements To-Day.
Strav Cow.
Duff's College. .
Administrator's Notice.^
Oysters— Rcineman 4 Son.
Flouring Mill- -Jacob Boos.
General Election Proclamation.
Clothing—Kaufmann, Pittsburgh.
Local and General.
CHEW Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Now is vour time to put up your
stove and get your fall soot.
MR. JOSEPH GRAHAM has been ap
pointed Postmaster at Whitestown.
. DRIED kangaroo tonguos is the latest
delicacy introduced into the city markets.
A GROUNDHOG weighing fourteen
pounds was shot in Berks county recently.
EASTERN farmers say that the fly
has already attacked the newly sown wheat.
THE Renno Bros, have some hand
some monuments in stock at their work shop.
KNIT Cloaks and Shawls, at
RITTEB & RALSTON'S.
SOME of the farmers are reveling in
fresh pork and buckwheat cakes; yum! yum!
y-u-m-m !
IT is estimated thatsloo,ooo changed
hands in Pennsylvania in bets on the late
walking match.
Puck avers that a man who finds a
pocket book with cash in it doesn't look in a
paper for three weeks.
THE season for making sauerkraut
draws nigh, and those who have a taste for
deeaved cabbage are happy.
Now is a good time to buy moss for
Christmas. It is cheap and plenty, and will
keep in good condition until used.
THE boy with the gold watch wants
to know what time it is twice as often as does
the boy with a silver chronometer.
AN exchange says, "a newspaper
editor that people don't talk about and some
times abuse is rather a poor concern."
ON Monday last, 6th inst., the
weather was as warm here as in July. The
thermometer reached 90° in the shade.
GUM camphor dissolved in petro
leum is now used as a remedy for diphtheria,
being applied as a gargle or with a swab.
THOMAS MARTIN, of this place, is
making quite an improvement on his property
by making the run go straight through his
meadow.
• OUR State Supreme Court holds
Allegheny county responsible for the value of
property destroyed by the mob in Pittsburgh
uuring the riot of 1877.
THE quickest way to expel foul air
from a well is to heat a bar of iron red hot, and
lower it down into the water; the sudden for
mation of steam is effectual.
AN exchange suggests that if Gen.
Grant really wants to know what fame is he
must enter the next international walking
match and carry off the belt.
Gus FALLER has been displaying
some good taste lately in the arrangement of
fine goods in Schneideman's clothing store
windows. Gus is a good clerk.
AT the Post Office is a card giving
the distance from the State Normal School
Edinboro. There should be one giving the
distance from a good education.
THE best reform in domestic life is
without doubt the introduction of Dr. Bull's
Baby Syrup. Where it is known no more
laudanum is given to the Babies.
AN Irish newspaper says: "In the
absence of both editors, the publishers have
succeeded in securing the services of a gentle
man to edit the paper this week."
A CARD sharper in the wake of a
cireus, swindled Mr. Baylis out of $lO, at Plain
City, Ohio. Mr. Bavlis drew a corn knife from
uucier his blouse and instantly killed the gam
bler.
THERE were dumped upon our
shores last Thursday the snug little sum of $3,-
290,200, all in shining ijold twenty-franc
pieces. The steamer Amerique brought them
from Havre.
MR. JACOB Boos has rented the
Walter & Boos flour mill, and is now running it
himself. He is making fine flour and is doing
a cash business. See his advertisement in
another place.
ANOTHER six days walking contest,
this time for the O'Leary belt, was commenced
in New York last Monday morning. There
were thirty-five starters, among them T. Spel
lacy, of Petrolia.
FUNCTIONAL disorganization of the
Liver is a most powerful and common cause
of melancholy. Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pills
Invariably give tone to the Liver and promote
its healthful action.
UP TO yesterday, no further authen
tic news had come from the Ute reservation,
which composes the greater part of Colorado
west of the mountains, but it is beiieved that
there has been another massacre.
DIVINE service will be held, and a
sermon preached by Rev. I). I. Edwards, with
the administration of the Holy Communion at
the Disciples' Church, Petrolia, on Sunday
evening next, 12th inst., at 71 o'clock. Seats
free.
A YOUNG lady at a certain place in
Wayne county asked the prayers of the congre
gation, because she could not set her eyes upon
a certain young man in her neighborhood
without feeling as though she must hug him to
death.
THE increase in net earnings of all
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
east of Pittsburgh, were 4>2lß,<jst> more for
eight months in 1879. than for the same period
of 1878. This will be good news to the stock
holders.
YOUNG man,- in picking out a girl
with whom to pass the coining winterevenings,
pick out one whose father has a stove in the
parlor and a barrel of apples in the cellar.
This makes things comfortable all around, we
have heard.
THE peace offering sent by King
Cetywavo to Lord Chelmsford consisted of an
elephant's tusk seven feet long and about eigh
teen inches in circumference. The elephant
that sported that little ornament must have
been a whopper.
THE petunia plant is said to be a
preventive of potato bugs. Iu vicinities where
the wild petunia grows the potato plants are
said to be free from the dreaded pestilence. It
does not at present appear in what way the
bugs are affected.
A FARMER attempted to cut into a
premium pumpkin at a fair at Council Grove,
Kansas, to get a few of the seeds, but found it
made of wood. It had takeu many prizes at
fairs for it* weight, 230 pounds, and its cir
cumference, 7 feet.
SNAKES are said to be more veno
mous now than at any other portion of the
year. This assertion may account for the fact
that nearly all parties who now go gunning
carry a flank of whisky along, in order to be
. ready for an emergency.
THE census enumerators next year
are to do their work in June, and the pay is
not to exceed -iilOO per month, or $4 per tfay.
Applicant* for the position of enumerator will
observe that they cannot afford to pay a very
high price for the position.
TERRONT, the champion bicycle rider
of France, covered the amazing distance of
1,390 miles in a six days' race of eighteen
hours' running time each day, a total of 101
hours; which is at the rate of about thirteen
and one-third miles per hour.
GEORGE KRUG drove another herd
of fine steers into town last Saturday evening.
They had been fattening at the Byerly and Barr
farms in the southern part of the conntv, and
are in the best condition possible. With such
enterprising butchers as the Messrs. Krug in
town, we are always Hure of having good meats.
> IN a northern township, a chimney
1 snake fell into a kettle of apple butter and
was not discovered until the last ladie full was
taken out. Of course, the butter was lost ex
cept what had been eaten for supper.
JAS. DEER and David Critchlow, of
Penn township, took from the wagon, threshed
with flails and cleaned up entire, in one day
last week, 73V bushels of buckwheat. If there
are any other two men in the county who can
beat this, we want to hear from them.
THE New York city dog pound was
closed latclv, the l«v«t installment of doomed
dogs, 200 in number, being drowned. The
whole number killed during the season was
5,400. The contractor is said to have realized
a tine profit 011 the dog skins which he sold to
glove makers.
IT costs about a hundred dollars to
go to the Mountains or to the Seashore, but if
you want to tone up the whole system, you can
do it just as surely by taking one or two pack
ages of Kidney-Wort, and so save your money.
It is a sure cure for Kidney complaints, Piles,
Constipation and all billions diseases.
PERSONS who voted last fall on age
cannot vote at the election in November next
unless they paid a State or county tax on or
before Saturday, October 4th. Those who
voted at the Spring election and will not have
reached the age of twenty-two before the 4th
of November can vote this year without paying
any tax.
HATS, Caps and Gents' Furnishing
Goods, at Charles R. Grieb's.
LET the next spelling reform con
vention be held in Maine, and adopt measures
to reform the spelling of the lakes ot that State.
Some of the lakes there only a quarter of a
mile in length have names half a mile long.
The reformers might wrestle with lake Mag
oguehunkittchogueinusquiiamackinogue to be
gin with.
Gov. IIOYT, of this State, and Gov.
Holliday, of Virginia, have agreed to invite the
Governors of the other original States to a
meeting at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, on
Saturday the 18th, to make arrangements for
the celebration of the centenary of the sur
render of Cornwallis at Yorktown, on the 19th
day of October, 1781.
"WHAT brought Grant home?"
mysteriouslv demsinds a Missouri contempo
rary. We didn't follow the game close, but he
might have got in on a hard hit to center field,
or a hot liner to third, badly muffed, or a daisy
cutter out to left field ; it's easy enough to get
home when you are on third and have a lively
hitter at the*bat.— Hau-keye.
IF you wish a good education attend
the State Normal School, Edinboro.
ACCORDING to Mr. Cyrus W. Field,
Tilden once, when in England, employed a
genealogy hunter to seek out his ancestry and
make a genealogical tree of the Tilden family
from its origin down to himself. The work,
when completed, greatly pleased him, but when
pay was demanded he demurred, and paid only
after a lawsuit and exposure were threatened.
SOME natural curiosities can be seen
in the offices of Wm. S. Boyd and Geo. \\ .
Shaffer, in the Vogeley House building. Geo.
S. has a piece of a petrified root about six
inches long and eight to ten in circumference,
which was found imbedded in a large rock
lately quarried on the farm of George Schaffner.
Mr. B. has a piece of an apple tree branch
about a foot long upon which are clustered
twelve apples.
You can buy a fine white shirt for
sixty-five cents, at Charles R. Grieb's.
BEFORE the officiating minister had
been out of the Feigel house five minutes last
Tuesday evening a iarge crowd of boys started
up a serenade and kept it up till midnight; the
next night the female friends of the bride came
with sleigh bells and tin horns, and the next
night some more small boys and the band.
George and his bride were well serenaded, and
it cost him several kegs of beer and several
bottles of wine.
COL. DICK, our Congressman, says
that while he and his party of four were trav
eling through Great Britain this summer, they
were asked questions concerning the producing
and manufacturing interests of this country
that indicated a degree of interest there which
has not heretofore existed. English gentlemen
would make a point of getting into the same
car compartment with them in order to liaye a
conversation with them.
SPECIALTIES in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
CONSTABLE KENNEDY, of Butler,
drove to town yesterday with a young bear
chained to his buckboaru. He had purchased
the bear from a party in Fairview, and was on
his way to Butler with it when his horse,
through fear of the animal, became unmanage
able and undertook to run away while going
through town. Bruin was left in the care of
Lavison, the clothes cleaner, 011 Jamison street.
Petrolia Record, October 4.
A JURY of Inquiry, for the purpose
of ascertaining the amount of damages in case
of John W. Storv vs. John Williams, Thomas
Williams and John Fitzpatrick, was held last
Saturday before Sheriff Hoffman. The action
was a capias in trespass brought against defend
ants for miuing coal 011 land of plaintiff with
out right from him. The jury awarded plain
tiff the sum of $117.50 damage. Sheriff Hoff
man presided with dignity 011 the occasion.
BEFORE ordering your winter cloth
ing call at J. & G. F. Keck's Merchant Tailor
ing establishment.
UNTIL quite recently a complainant
who had been refused an injunction by a judge
of any Court of Common Pleas in this State
was, "under the then existing state of things,
prevented from carrying the case further. On
the 12th of June last, however, the Legislature
passed an act authorizing apj>eals to be taken
to the Supreme Court in equity cases where
special or preliminary injunctions have been
refused by Judges of Courts of Common Pleas.
THE finest line of hosiery, at lowest
prices, can be seen at Charles Grieb's, Butler.
A GENTLEMAN took breakfast at a
hotel in Middletown, N. Y., the other day, and
when he broke open a roll, a handsome gold
ring rolled out. For an instant he thought he
was at a church fair, but it was not long before
the cook, who was in great trouble over her
loss, claimed the ring. And he was lucau
enough to observe that if he had broken open
a roll and found a sixteen-dollar "switch" in
it, not a woman ia the house would have
claimed it.
THERE are wars, and rumors of
more. There's the Afghan war, and the South
American war, and the Russian expedition
into Central Asia. Then there's the difficulty
between Greece and Turkey, which will pro
bably be ended only in blood; China and
Japan are preparing to settle by the arbitra
ment of war the question of ownership of the
Loochoo Islands ; aud last, though not least,
at present, is the almost inevitable conflict be
tween Egypt and Abyssinia. Of a truth, the
war dogs ought to have a surfeit of bloodshed
just now.
IF you wish a good education attend
the State Normal School, Edinboro.
"DIDST ever feel, my love," said he—
The twain 'neath starbeams strolling—
"A thrill no tongue can e'er express,
And yet 'tis vain controlling,
A something that o'erwhelms the soul
Ami quite o'eroomes the senses,
A ceaseless throb that through each vein
Its influences dispenses?
Can'st tell what it is, my own ?"
Then fondly looked he at her ;
"In course you goose," she tartly said,
"It's corns, that's what's the matter."
Yonkers Gazelte.
THE Cleveland Herald stated that
there are only twenty-nine United States sol
diers in Georgia. Whereupon the Atlanta
Constitution in a retort courteous, iuforms it
that there are nearly that number in one regi
mental brass band alone which is now in op
ration iu that State. But what have brass
bands to do with it? It is not a question of
brass bands at the polls, is it ? We thought it
was bayonets. If you will clearly convince us
that it is a part of the Radical plot to intimi
date lawful voters by stationing brass bands at
the polls we will take back every word we
have said and join the Confederacy.
WHEN out buying Gents' Furnishing
Goods drop in at Cnarlos It. lirieb's.
THE Allegheny township Presby
terian Sunday School held their semi-annual
election of officers 011 Sunday, September 28th,
1870, aud elected the following for the coining
term: Superintendent, William T. Beebe;
Assistant Superintundm'tj Aranthus R. Carna
han ; Secretary, Treasurer and Librarian, R.
P. Black, the latter being re-elected and now
serving the fourth term in succession, one, at
least, ahead of Gen. Grant. The school tenters
011 the present term out of debt (J. I*. Milford,
having generously oancell<.-d that obligation),
and with a small balance in thu treasury. The
attendance also is good. They have a good
Circulating library, an excellent corps of teach
ers, belong to the Butler County Sunday School
Association, and keeps up with the times. They
use the International Lesson Holps.— Purker
Weekly.
f£tp* Puttie* Cilia»«: P**» #jctete«K S, tBTO.
ALL the Soldiers' Orphans' schools
! of the State are now in full operation, the
I winter terms having commenced on the Ist of
' September, during which month much reorgan
| ization, consolidation and other detail work
,' was done under the immediate direction of the
' Superintendent, so that the schools are now in
j as successful progress as they have ever been
! since there organization. Under the reduced
appropriation of the last Legislature, the Su
perintendent now is compelled to rut off all
applications for entries to these schools, the
estimates for this and the next years requiring
all the money for the pupils now on the rolls
of the schools.
J. & G. F. KECK'S stock of fine
woolen eloths cannot be beaten in Butler. Call
and see for yourself.
THE Co-operative Foundry, at Bea
ver Falls, is still very busy. During the last
few days tests have been made with the Sher
man process, by direction of the agent, Mr. D.
Larued, under the superintendence of Mr. L.
M. Armor, General Superintendent of the
works. The process was subjected to the
most severe tests that could be given it in the
way of running very thin plate with metal at
the last of the heat, when it had become slug
gish. One test was the running of the metal
from the cupola into a larce ladle, then incor
porating the process in this ladle and, after
holding it some time in check, pouring it into
smaller ladles that had not been heated and
finally, (after another holding in check,) pour
ing it into the mould, which contained a very
thin plate. Here is where the process showed
its great advantage, in holding the metal so
long in fluid state. So satisfactory was the
result of this test that the workmen agreed
that without the Sherman process, or its equiv
alent, no such castings could have been ob
tained. These castings when taken out of the
sand showed a much cleaner surface than any
made by the ordinary methods. Though not
knowing the composition of the materials which
the Sherman process incorporates with the
metal, the Superintendent is highly pleased
with tiic results obtained and pronounced the
tests satisfactory.— Courier.
MESSRS J. & G. F. KECK, Merchant
Tailors, have secured the services of one of the
best cutters in the country.
C. T. Bed and If. Pillow
Ticking ; also Blankets, Quilts, Haps,
Sheetings and Pillow Casings, in all
qualities and prices, at
RITTEB & RALSTON'S.
A Card.
To the Building Public:
The Building Committee of St. Mark's Evan
gelical Lutheran congregation of Butler, Pa.,
after inspection of the new church structure,
corner of Washington and Jefferson streets,
and a very agreeable settlement with Messrs.
Bauer & Bro., contractors and builders, with
hearty unanimity passed the following :
Resolved, That while we congratulate our
selves in having secured the services of Messrs.
Henry Bauer <fc Bro., of this place, in the
building of our Church, we deem it justly due
to the contractors to make public our satisfac
tion with them and their work ably and faith
fully done according to contract, and we, there
fore, herewith unhesitatingly and cordially
recommend the firm for fidelity to agreement,
competency of workmanship, honesty and dis
patch of execution, and gentlemanly business
courtesv in dealing and intercourse,
JOHN C. GROMAN, Pres't.
JACOB KKCK, Secretary.
11. J. KUNGLF.R, FKED'K IIEXNINGEE,
A. SCHEXCK, SK, WM. SIEBEKT,
JOIIX G. BIPPUS, MATTHIAS KECK.
Butler, Pa., Sept. 22, 1879.
Ladies', Misses', Children's
and Infants' fine Seamless Hose, at
HITTER & RALSTON'S.
WILLIAM ALAND, Merchant Tailor,
has just opened the largest line of wooleus for
men and boys wear ever offered in Butler.
Presbytery.
The Presbytery of Butler met in Ilarrisville,
September 30, and adjourned to meet at noon
next day. ,
A sermon was preaelied by Rev. 1 D. Decker,
Moderator.
A committee was appointed to organize a
church at New Hope, if the way be clear.
Rev. James T. Patterson was released from
the pastoral charge of Buffalo church, at his
own request and with the cJbnsent of the con
gregation.
Arrangements have been made to have the
books of the Board of Publication sold through
out the bounds of the Presbytery. The work
is to be done by Mr. J. W. Henderson, of Pine
Grove, and Mr. R. G. Porter, of Sunbtiry. The
latter will also introduce as far as possible our
denominational papers into families where they
are not already taken.
The spring meeting of Presbytery was ap
pointed at Butler.
J. R. COI'I.TER, Stated Clerk.
The SiiiHinesN Room
Continues at Ilitter & llalston's. Call
and secure bargains.
Wanted !
10,000 bushels of Oats.
M. REIBER, SR.
Immense Stock
Of Black and Colored Silks, Satins,
Velvets, Brocades, &c., at
BITTER & RALSTON'S.
For Sale.
The following farms and pieces of property
in this county are still offered by the owners at
the below prices:
100 acres in Middlesex township, well im
proved and good buildings, and possession
given immediately, for SS,OU<).
200 acres in Penn township, about 75 im
proved, for $4,000, or less if all paid in hand.
30 acres, part cleared, in Butler township,
for ss< x i.
CO acres in Conuoquenessing township, good
buildings, mostly improved and balance very
good timber, for $2,400.
85 acres, one of the best located and most
desirable farms in Clinton township and very
well improved, for $4,200.
t!(J acres in Adams and Cranberry townships,
nearly all improved, with buildings, etc., at a
low price.
(10 acres in Forward township, well improved
farm, at low price.
70 acres in Venango township, good new
buildings, good water, orchards, etc., $2,800.
17 acres within the limits of Butler borough,
for $2,040.
3 lots in Springdale, Butler borough, 125 feet
front on .;treet, for $175.
Further information as to any of the above
can be had on enquiry at the CITIZEN office,
Butler.
li You U'ant to See
The very latest styles in Millinery
call at Ritter & Ralston's. llats and
Bonnets made to order on short notice.
Drunken Stuff.
How many children and women are slowly
and surely dying, or rather being killed, by
excessive doctoring, or the daily use of some
drug or drunken stuff called medicine, that no
one knows what it is made of, who can easily
be cured and saved by Hop Hitters, made of
Hops, Buehu, Mandrake, Dandelion, <tc.,
which is so pure, simple anil harmless that the
most frail woman, weekest invalid or smallest
child can trust in them. Will you be saved by
them? See other column.
Jamestown Alpacas,
All prices, at HITTER & RALSTON'S.
"WORTH their weight in gold" is
what "Sellers' Liver Pills" are suid to lie. If
you don't believe it, try them.
At :tO Cents,
All-wool Country Flannel, at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
A Valuable Book,
Entitled "Plain Home Talk and Medical Com
mon Sense," by 10. B. FOOTE, M. D., can be
had at Heineman's, Butler, Pa. It treats of
the cause and prevention of all kinds of dis
ease, our social relations, etc.
At 43 1-2 Cents,
All the new shades in heavy Dress
Goods, at RITTER <FC RALSTON'S.
"DR. LINDSEY'S Blood Searcher'
cured my son of erysipelas," Mrs. E. Smeltzer,
Larimer, P4.
All the Sew Slylcn
In Dress Goods, at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
At* 33 Cents,
Black and colored Cashmeres, at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
(■rain Wauled !
The following prices will l»o paid for
grain at Klingler's Mill, Mifflin street, j
| subject to market changes :
i Xo. 1 Wheat, per bush., $1.15
" Buckwheat, " f>o
" Rye, " 55
" Corn, " 50
" Oats, " 27 ,
Kurgisiiis!
Wc are now offering bargains in
everything in Dry Goods, Carpets, J
Millinery, <fce. Wc carry much the
largest stock, and buying from first
hands we are enabled to offer all
classes of goods at less than city
prices. Call and be convinced, at
HITTER «FC RAUSTON'SS.
[Communicated.]
Notica
Is hereby given to the citizens of But
ler county that having purchased of
Mr. T. B. all his right, title, interest
and claim to make, use and vend to
others the exclusive right to use the
slip (jap in the common rail fence, all
persons infringing on said patent will
soon be called upon by the collector,
accompanied by an attorney, for the
purpose of collecting all moneys due
for infringement on said patent. Every
person using said patent will be ex
pected to pay at the rate of live dollars
for every one hundred acres.
Please have the money ready when
we call, as we wish to "strike while
the iron is hot." We positively refuse
to take silver in sums over one dollar,
as we expect to collect quite a sum of
money and the weight would be bur
densome to our "old gray," whose bet
ter days are o'er, having passed her
one score years and ten. Now don't
get fussy and scold, and raise an ex
citement and refuse to pay, for we will
threaten you with the United States
Court. With those who will not scare
wc will compromise, provided they do
not call us hard names nor charge us
big board bills. Now don't try to
avoid paying by saying it is a swindle.
Is not this a free country ? Have I
not as good a right to swindle the
people of Butler county as any other
person ? I'm inclined to think that a
gap in a rail fence is often of more
benefit to the farmer than a slide gate.
P. S.—Having obtained letters pat
ent for a round hole drilled in the
ground, and as there are many of these
in the oil regions there is money in it.
Township and county rights for sale.
None need apply except persons of
good moral character.
Yours truly,
IIAR(D)T SIDER.
At SO CcnlN,
Good heavy Barred Flannels, at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
mt ■*» —«*-
Resolutions of Respect
Passed on the death of John W. Mar
tin, by Saxonia Lodge, I. O. O. F.,
No. 496.
WHEREAS, An all-wise, but inscru
table Providence, has seen fit to re
move our beloved brother, John W.
Martin, from the Lodge below to the
Grand Lodge above ; therefore
Resolved, That we, the members of
Saxonia Lodge, bear uuitcd testimony
to the unimpeachable character and
high moral standing of our departed
brother.
Resolved, That recognizing as we
did in Brother Martin a young man of
more than ordinary talents and attain
ments, we cannot but deplore the loss
which we, as a Lodge, and as fellow
citizens, have sustained in his early
demise.
Resolved, That in the sudden and
unexpected death of one so young,
"in the flower of 3'outh and strength,"
we have still another admonition that
we be also ready.
Resolved, That to his mourning
friends, but especially to his stricken
father and mother, do we tender our
most sincere and heartfelt sympathies
in this their great affliction.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
spread on the minutes of the Lodge,
that a copy be sent to the parents of
the deceased, and that they be pub
lished in our county papers.
E. STEUBGEN,
IT. LENSNER,
M. N. GREER,
Committee.
Ladies' Cloaks,
From §2.50 up, at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
County Institute.
The following questions will be pre
sented for discussion at the coming
County Institute, as occasion may
offer. The persons whose names are
appended to the questions respectively,
will be expected to open the discus
sion:
1. Are public or private schools to
be preferred ? J. B. Meehling.
2. Should not the study of History
be more encouraged than it is ? J. H.
Critchlow.
3. Should not all punishment be re
formatory ? G. K. Ralph.
4. Is the cheap literature of the age,
on the whole, beneficial to general
morality? J. 11. Murtland.
5. Should talking between pupils in
school be prohibited ? .Mrs. Louisa
McLure.
6. Are prizes to be approved as in
centives to stud}' ? J. C. Tinstman.
7. Should Algebra and Geometry be
taught in the common schools? J. Q.
A. Irvin.
8. Are young children kept in school i
too many hours? Ella M. Kurtz.
9. Should county school grounds be
fenced and ornamented ? Sadie L.
Cochran.
10. Educational attainments being
equal, should male or female teachers
be preferred? J. B. Matthews.
The following persons, in the order
named, are requested to second the
discussions, or to open them in case of
the absence of the principals: J. 1). i
Harbison, Annie M. Hazlett, J. 11.
Berger, M. L. Campbell, McCrea Love,
Enos McDonald, M. X. Crowe, Wm.
Kinser, W. W. Meehling, Kate Jami- 1
son.
Prof. E. Angell, late Principal of
Shippensburg State Normal School,
and Prof. J. 11. Young, of Indiana
State Normal School, will be present i
as Instructors. Col. A. Frank Seltzer, !
of Lebanon, Pa., and Dr. Wickers ham,
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
will lecture for the benefit of those at
tending. |
There will be a spelling contest, with <
a prize of Webster's Dictionary to best -
speller, and a year's subscription to an 1
educational Journal to each of the next 1
live on the list. I). F. MCKKK,
Co. Sup't, :
ItuUorick'M K'atleriis,
at RITTER & RALSTON'S. ,
General Election Proclamation.
j WHEREAS, In ami lv an Act rf tlie Gnneral
As-: •inl»lv of the Orm'.icuwtHth of Pennsylva
nia entitle:! "An act relating to the elections of
the Commonwealth." passed the iind (lay of
July. A. 1). IS'"9, :t is made the dr.! v of the
; Sheriff of every county within tl.is Common
wealth to gi vo pnblio notie? if tiie Genera! Elec
tion ami in I'ch notice to enumerate :
1. The officers to bo elected.
2. D;r: innate the places where tho election is
to bo he'd.
I. WM. H. HOFFMAN. High Sheriff of the
j county of Untlcr, ilo hereby make known and
| five this tublic notico to flie electors of the
county of J}:it Icr. that on Tuesday next follow
ing the iirst Monday of November, being
The 4th day of November, 1879,
a General Election will be held at the several
election districts established by law in said
county, at which time they will vote by ballot
for t'ie several office-I hereinafter named, viz :
Oue person for the office of Treasurer of the
Commonwealth of Peunsyleania.
Two persons for the o Slice of Jury Commis
sioner of tho county of Ritler. [No person can
voto for more than one.]
The said elections will be held throughout the
county as follows:
Tho electors of Adisms township at tho house
of .1. S. Doutlicit.
The electors of Allegheny township at tho
house of .Tohn P. Crawford. Six Pointa.
Tho electors of Buffalo township ut tho house
of iiobert Gregg, now Georcjo Truby, now Rob
ert iiartly.
The electors of Butler township at the Court
house iu IJnt'er.
'the e!ec'ors of Brady township at tho School
bouse at West Liberty.
The electors of CJearliold townalup at tho
bouse of John Green.
The electors of Clinton township at tho house
of John C. Kiddle, now John Anderson.
Tiio electors of Concord township at the
School house No. 4, iu Jtiddletown.
The electors of Clay township at Centre
School honsc in said township.
Tho electors of Centre township at tho house
of W. D. McGandless, occupied by Jesse Har
vey.
The electors of Cherry township at tho house
of William Lindsey.
The electors of Connoquenessing township,
Northern precinct, at School huiise No 7, in
Whiiestowu ; Southern precinct at tho house of
Peter Staff, iu Potersvilie.
Tho electors of Cranborry township at tho
house of Frecderick Hee ler.
Tho electors of Donegal township at tho
house of Adam Schreibor. in Millerstown.
The electors of Fairview township at the
house of J. Dickey in Fairvi3w borough.
Tho electors of Forward township at the
bouse of Robert 11. Brown.
The electors cf Franklin township at the
School house iu the borough of Prospect.
The electors of Jacl.son township, Western
precinct, at the houno of Jacob Ueil iu Har
mony : Eastern precinct at the house of John
P. Miller in Evacsbnrg.
Tho electors of Jefferson township at the
house of Morris Heighten
The electors of Lancaster township at the
Public School house No. 5.
The electors of Middlesex township at the
house of George Cooper.
The electors ot Marion township at James
Bailoy's.
Tho electors of Muddycreek township at tho
Town Hall in Portersviile.
The electors of Mercer township at the Town
Hall in Harrisville.
The electors of Oakland township at tho
house of William McClung.
Tho electors of Parker township at the house
of John Kelly in Martinsburg.
Tho electors of Penn township at tho house
of Richard Fisher.
The electors of Summit township at tho
house of Adam Frederick.
The electors of Slippervrock township at tho
School house, at the North end of the borough
of Centre viile.
Tho electors of Venango township at the
house of James Murrin.
The electors of Winfield township at School
house No. 5. hi eaid township.
Tho electors of Washington township at tho
Town Hall in North Washington.
Tho electors of Worth township at the house
of W. Humphreys.
The electors of the borough of Butler at tho
Court House in said borough.
The electors of the borough of Centreville at
tho School house in said borough.
The electors of the borough of Zclienoplo at
the Council house in s.xi 1 borough.
Tho electors of the borough of Prospect at
the in said borough.
The electors of the borough of Saxonburg at
the School house in said borough.
The electors of the borough of West Sunbury
at the Public School house in Sunbury.
The electors of tho borough of Millerstown
at tho house of Adam Sohreiber hi said bor
ough.
The electors of the borough of Petrolia at
the Town Hall in said borough.
The electors of tho borough of Fairview at
the School house in said borough.
The electors OF tho borough of Kama City at
the Town Hall in said borough.
And I. tho said Sheriff, do further give notico
to all election officers, citizens, and others, of
the following provisions of the constitut ion and
laws of this commonwealth, relating to elections
' Z OF THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS.
CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA —AKT. VIII.
SECTION 1. Every male citizen twenty-one
years of age. possessing the following qualifica
tions, shall bo entitled TO vote at all elections :
First.— Ho shall have been a citizen of tho
United States at least ono mouth.
Second NC shall have resided i:I the State
one year, (or if having previously been a qual
ified elector or native born citizens of tho Ststo
lie shall have removed from and returned, then
six months) immediately preceding the elec
tion.
Third.—NO cliall have resided in the election
district where he sdiall offer his vote at least two
months immediately preeoding the elootion.
Fourth.— lf twenty-two yoars or upwaris. he
shall have paid within two yoars a State or
county tax, which shall have been assessed at
least two months and paid at least one month
before the election.
SECTION s. —Electors shall in all cases except
treason, felony and broach or surety of tho
peace be privileged from arrest during their at- •
tendance oil elections and in going to and re
turning therefrom.
SECTION <!. —Whenever any of the qualified
e'ectors o? this Commonwealth shall be in
actual military service under a requisition from
the President of tho United States, or by tho
authority of this Commonwealth, such electors
may oxercise the right of suffrage in all elec
tions by the citizens, under suoh regulations as
are or shall be prescribed by law, as fully as if
they were present at their usual places of elec
tion.
SECTION 7 All laws regulating tho holding
of elections by the citizens or for the registra
tion of electors shall be uniformed throughout
the State, but no elector shall bo deprived of
the privilege by reason of his name not being
registered.
SECTION 13.—For fhe purpose of voting, no
parson shall bo deemed to have gained a resi
dence by reason of his presence or lost it by rea
son of his absence, while employed in the ser
vice. either civil or military, of this Stato. or of
the United States, nor whiie engaged in tho
navigation of tho waters of this State or of the
United States, or on tho high seas, nor while a
student in aDy institute of learning, nor whilo.
kept in any poor house or other asylum at pub
lic expense, nor while confined iu a public
prison.
Election officers will TAKE notice that tho Act
entitled "A Further Supplement to the Election
Laws of the Commonwealth." disqualifying de
sorters from the army of the United States from
voting has recently "boon declared unconstitu
tional by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
is now null ai.d void, and that all persons for
merly disqualified thereunder are now lawful
voters, if otherwise qualified.
OF ELECTION OFFICERS.
CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA. —AKT. VIII;
SEC. 14—District election boards shall con
sist of a judge and two inspectors, who shall
he chosen annually by the citizens. Each elec
tor shall have the right to vote for the judge
and one inspector, and each inspector shall
appoint oue clerk. Election oflieerg shall ho
privileged from arrest upon days of election
and while engaged in making up and transmit
ting returns, except upon warrant of a court
of record or Judge thereof, for an election
fraud, for felony, or for wanton breach of the
peace.
No person shall be qualified to serve as an
election oflicer who shall hold, or shall within
two months have, held any office, appointment
or employment in or under the government of
the Uuitcd States or ot this State, or of any
city, or county, or of any municipal board,
commission or trust iu any city, save only
justices of the peace, and alderman, notaries
public and persous in militia services of the
State; nor shall any election officer he eligi
ble to any civil office to he filled by an election
at which he shall serve, save only to such sub
ordinate municipal or local offices as shall he
designated by general law.
ACTJ ANCARY 30, 1874.
SEC. 7. —Whenever there shall he a vacancy
in an election board on the morning of an elec
tion, it shall he tilled in conformity with exist
ing laws.
ACT .UN.Y 2,1539,
SB«J. 10. —In case the person wiio shall have
received the second highest number of votes
lor inspector shall not attend on the day of any
election, then the person who shall have re
ceived the second highest number of votes for
judge at the next preceding election shall act
as inspector in his place. And it', case the per
son who shall have received thphighest number
of votes tor inspector shall not attend, the
person elected judge shall appoint an inspector
iu his place; and in case the person elected
judge shall not attend, then the inspector who
received the highest number of voles sliull
appoint a judge in his place; and it any
vacancy shall continue in the board lor the
space of oue hour alter the time fixed by law
for the opening of the election, the qualified
voters of the township, ward or district for
which such officer shall have been < leeted,
present at t'ie place of election, shall select one
of their number to fill such vacancy.
ACT JANUATTY 30, 1574.
SEC. 9. In addition to the oath now pre
scribed by law to be taken and subscribed by
election officers, they shall severally be sworn
or alfirmed not to disclose how any elector
shall have voted unless required to do so as
witnesses in a judicial proceeding. All judges,
inspectors, clerks and overseers of any election
held under this act, shall !cfoie eutcriusr upon
their duties, he duly sworn or affirmed in the
piescnce <>l each other. The judge shall be
t-worn by the minority inspector, il there shall
lie such minority inspector, and in case there
be no minority inspector, then by a justice of
the pence or aiderman, and the inspectors, over
seers and clerks shall b<- sworn by the judire,
certificate of such swearing or affirming shall
be duly made out and signed by the officers so
sworn, and atusted by the officer who adminis
tered the oath.
ACT JANUARY 30, ISII.
SEC. S.—At the opening of the polls at the
elections i* shall be the duty of the judg.s ot
election lor their respective districts to desig
nate one of the inspectors, whose duty it shall
be to have ia custody the registry of voter.-,and
to make the entries therein required by ! iw :
and it shall lie tin duty of the other of said in
spectors to receive and number the ballots pre
sented at said election.
MODE OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS.
ACT JANUARY 30, 1874.
Snc. 5.- A 1! the 1 ions hereafter held uu
der the laws of this Commonwealth, the polls
shall be opened at 7 o'clock, A. M , and closed
at 7 o'clock, p. M.
CONSTITUTION OF PEXXSVI.VAM A— AI>T. VIII.
SEC. I.—All E'ections by the citizens shall be
by ballot. Evc y ballot voted shall be num
bered iu the oidir iu which it was received, aud
the number recorded by the election officers on
the list cl voters, opposite the name ot the
elector who presents the ballot. Any elector
may write his name upon his ticket, or cause
the same to be written thereon and attested by
a citizen of the district.
ACT MAUCU 30, 1863.
S3C. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the fame. That the qualified voters of tiie
several counties of this Commonwealth at ail
general, township, borough aod special elec
tions are hereby hereafter authorized and re
quired to vote by tickets, printed or written, or
partly printed and partly written, severally
classified as follows :
One ticket shall contain the names of ail per
sons voted for (or the Electors of President
and Vice P.esident of the Uuitcd States, and
shall be labelled on the outride with the word
"Electors."
Oue ticket shall contain the names of all per
sons voted for for Member of Congress ot the
United States, all persons voted for for Member
of the State Senate of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, ail persons voted for lor Member
of the llousc of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, and all persons
voted for for county offices of said county ot
Builer, and to be labelled on the outside with
the word "County."
One ticket shall contain the names of all per
sons voted for for Judge of any of the courts
of said county of this Commonwealth, and
be labelled on the outside with the word ''Judi
ciary."
One ticket shall contain the names of ail per
sons votc.l for for officers of tho Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, other than Judges of
the Supreme Court of said CommmoDWcallh,
and be labelled on the outside with the word
"State."
OF THE ELECTION RETURNS.
ACT JANUARY 30, 1874.
SEC. 13.—As soon as the polls shall close, the
officers of the election shall proceed to count
all the votes cast for each candidate voted for,
and make a full return of the same in triplicate,
with a return sheet in addition, in all of which
the votes received by each candidate shall be
given after Lis name, first in words and again
in figures, and shall be signed by all the said
officers and by overseers, if auy, or if not so
ccrtifle'. tLj overseers aud any officer refusing
to sign .rtily, or cither ot them, shall write
upon each of the returns his or their reason for
not signing or certifying them. The vote, as
soou as counted, shall also be publicly and fully
deflated from the window to the citizens pres
ent, and a brief statement showing the votes
received by each candidate shall be made and
signed by the election officers as soon as the
votes arc counted ; and the same shall be im
mediately posted upon the door of the election
house for information of the public. The trip
licate returns shall be enclosed iu envelopes
ana be sealed iu the presence of the officers,
and one envelope, with the unsealed return
sheet given to the judge, which shall contain
one list of voters, tally papers, aud oath of
officers, and another of said envelopes shall be
given to tiie minority inspector. All judges
living within twelve miles of the prothonotary's
office, or within twenty-four miles, if their resi
dence be in a town, city or village upon the line
of a railroad leading to the county seat, shall
before two o'clock past meridian of the day
alt r the election, deliver said return, together
with return sheet, to the ( rothonotary of the
court of common pleas of the county, which
said return shall be filed, aud the day aud the
liaur of filing marked thereon, and shall be pre
served by the prothonotary for public inspec
tion. At twelve o'clock on the second day fol
lowing 4 any election, the prothonotary of the
court ot common pleas shall present the said
returns to the said court. In counties where
there is no resident president judge,the associate
judge shall perform the duties imposed upon
the court of common pleas, which shall con
vene lor said purpose ; the return presented by
the prothonotary shall be opened by said court
and computed by such of its officers and such
sworn assistants as the court shall appoint; in
the presence of the judge or judges of said
court, the returns emitted and certificates of
eleetiou issued under the seal of the court as is
now required to be done by return judges ; and
the voto as so computed aud certified shall be
made a matter of record in said court. The
sessions ot said court shall be opened to the
public. And in case the returns of an eleetiou
district shall be missing when tlt2 returns are
presented, or in auy case of oomplaiut of a
i qualified elector undoc oath, charging palpable
fraud or mistake, and particularly specifying
the alleged fraud or mistake, or where fraud or
mistake is apparent on the return, tho court
shall examine the return and if, in the judg
ment of the court, it shall be necessary to a just
return, said court shall issue summary process
against the election officers and overseers, iu
any of the election districts complained of, to
bring tkeui forthwith into court,with all election
papers iu their possession; and it palpable
mistake or fraud shall be discovered, it shall,
upon Lueft hearing as may be deemed neces
sary to enlighten the court, be corrected by the
couit and so certified; but all allegations ot
palpable fraud or mistake shall be decided by
the said court within three days alter the day
the returns are brought into court lor compata
tation ; and the s. id inquiry shall be directed
only to palpable fraud or mistake, and shall
not be deemed a judicial adjudication to con
clude any co-test now o.- hereafter to be pro
vided by liw , and the other of said triplicate
returns shall be placed in a box and sealed up
with Hie ballots, ft any of the said judges
shall himself be a candidate for any office at
any election, he t-hill not sit with the court, or
act in counting the returns of such election,
and iu fuch cases th'J judges, If any, shall act.
Given tudor my hand at Butler, tnis Btli day
of October, 187'.), and in the 104tu year of the
Independence of the United States.
WM. H. HOFFMAN, SherifJ.
20tli Year.
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