(tUBStKIPTIOIV BATES : Per year, in a/lvance Othemri.se 2 No subscription will !« discontinued nntil all arrearages are paid. notifv us when rubscntera do not take out tiiair tapers will be held liable for the «abecnptioo- Mbtcribelt removing from one po«toffice to ai.otl should jfivo us t!ie name of the former in -Brell ad the present office. All communications intended for publication in thin paper must be accompanied by the real name of tho writer, cot for publication, but M a guarantee of good faith. Marriage and death notices must be accompa nied by a responsible name. Address THK BOTI . BR CITIXKH, EUTLEB. PA. TRAVELERS' GUIDE. BI'TLKH, EARNS CITT AND PARKER RAILROAD (Untier Time.) Trains leave Butler for St. Joe, Millerstown, Karns City, Petrolta, Parker, etc., at 7.25 a. m., and 2.05 and 7.20 p. m. [See below lor con nection" willi A. V R K.| Trains arrive at Butler from the above named points at 7. sa. m.. r.nd t.55, and 6.- r >s r iu. The 1.55 train connects with train on the West Pcnn rou! '.[.roach to Pittsburgh. SHRNA.SOO AND ALI.EOHESV RA!J.KOAI>. Trains leave Billiard'* Ml*.l, Bulltr county, for Hnrrlsvllle, Greenville, etc., at 7.40 a. m. and 12.20 and 2.2'J p. ra. 4 Blazes lea' e Pelrolia at 5.30 a. m. for 7.40 train, and at 10.00 a. m. tor 12 'io train. Return <=ta?:'-s leave Hillinrd on arrival of trains at 10.27 a. iu. and 1.50 p. ui. State leaves Martiasburg at 0.«0 for 12.0u train. r. n. c.. * l. e. r. a. Tho morning train leaves Zclier.cple at Gil, Harmouv G.lfi and at 6.32, arriving at Etna Station at 3.20. and Allegheny at 9 01. Tho afternoon train leaves Zelienop'e rt 1.*5. Harmony 1.31. Evacsburg 1.C3 arriving st Etna fetation at 411 an and 7.11 p. m., Butler lime. The 9,51 ard 5.06 trains connect with trains on the Buller & Parker R. R. Sun 'ay train arrives at Butler at 11.11 a. m., connecting with train for Parker. Main Line. Through trains leave Pittsburgh lor the E 523. TUITION: Primary |4 00 Intermediate 0 01 ClasricM 8 00 Instrumental Music 7 00 For the benefit of those wish'ng to attend school shodo not. wish to buy new text books, we will furnish all text books needed by each pupil at the low rent of f 1 per session. Boarding from *2 to *3 )>cr week. Rooms for self boarding from 50c, to 75c. per month pe pupil. INSTRUCTORS: B. P. CuAWFonn, Principal and Instructor in Theory of Teaching and Greek. MRS. H. L. DICKSON, Instructor in Higher Engiirh and French. Miss Ai.WII.DA HARPER, Instructor in Instru mental Music. For further information address tho Principal at North Hope, Butler county, Pa. octs-3t WK«T NUXBUHY Normal Academy. The V,'inter Term will open Dec. 2,1879, and continue thirteen weeks. Dr. Eaton, of Franklin, Pa, will lecture be fore the students on the evening of Dec. 2nd. TLe design ol ! his Academy is to prepare teachers for doing good work in lh" school room, to lit studunti for entering college, and to nfl'ird to all a g ioJ business education. Students can commence the study of the Languages each term. TUITION PER TERM: Primary, including all the studies author ized by law to be taught in the common schools, ---------- - (5 00 JnlcrmHinte, 6 50 Higher English Classics, - -- -- -800 Rooms Jor ielf-boarders from 50 cuts to $1 per month. Board from $1.75 to ti per week. No pains will lie spared in making the school pleasant and profitable to all. For additional information address J. B. UILFILLAN, Principal. 0291t] Coultersviile P. 0., Butler Co., Pa. Exclusively devoted to the practical educa tion of young and middle-aged men, for active business life. School always in session. Stu dent! can enter at any time. for circular. J. C. SMITH, A. M., Principal, sept24-3m Pittsburgh, Pa. DENTISTS. " DE^TISTRYT 0 1/ WALDRON. Or? dnate ot the Phil ■ a.ltlphla Dental College,ls prepared ■ It ato do anjtiling in the line of his profession In a satisfactory manner. Office on Main street, Butler, Union Block, up stairs. npll ' BANKS. XHEBUTLER SAVINGS BANK HUTL.E It. PA. NEARLY OPPOSITE LOWBY HOUSE. CAPITAL STOCK 60,000. Wm. CAMmirr i.. JAS. D. Axnitnsos. President. \ ice President. W*. CAMPBELL, Jr., Cashier. DIRECTORS William Campbell, J. W. Irwin, Jae. D. Anderson, Oeorge Weber, Joseph L. Purvis. Does a General Banking h Exchange business. Interost pj.id on time deposits. Collections made and prompt returns at low rates of Exchange. Gold Exchange and Government Bonds bought and sold. Commercial paper, bonds, judgment and oilier securities bought at fair ratcH. (a2o:ly IVotice. TKE.VBCEY DFRARTMKNT, 1 Ofjicr of Comptroller of the Currency, J WABHINGTOS, Aug. 5, 1870. Notice is hereby given to all pcroons who may have claims against the First National Bank of Butler, that the same must he pre sented to Henry B. Cullum, Receiver, at Butler, Pa., with the legal proof thereof, within three mouths from this date, or they will be dis allowed. J. 8. LANGWOKTHY, Acting Comptroller of the Currency •Ogl3-3mj VOL. XV I. I NEW BOOT • SHOE STORE, T >I < » BLOCK, Main Street, - - - - Butler, Pa. FALL AND WINTER W BOOTS & SHOES. As I have an unusually large and attractive stock of BOOTS & SHOES just opening, embracing all the newest styles, I invite"the attention and close scrutiny of buyers. Men's Kip and Calf Boots very cheap. Ladies', Misses' and Children's Button, Polish and Side Lace Boots in endless variety, and at bottom prices. Bevnolds Brothers' celebrated fine Shoes always in stock. Parties wanting BOOTS & SHOES made to order can do no better than by me, as I keep none but the best of workmen in my employ. I also keep a large stock of LEATHER and FINDINGS. 5^" All goods warranted as represented. AI». RUFF. DOM'T YOU BUY YOUR BOOTS & SHOES Until You Have First Examined the Styles, Stock and Prices -A- T B. C. HUSELTON'S. His entire Fall and Winter stock is just opening at very low figures. This stock is unusually large in Men's, Boys' and Youth's Kip and Calf Boots, Grain Napoleon Boots, Rubber Boots, Brogans and Plow Shoes, Women's' Misses' and Children's Calf and Kip (unlined) Shoes. His Stock In Finer Lines is always large, embracing all the Latest Novelties in Boots and Shoes Old Ladies' Warm Shoes a Specialty. A FULL ASSORTMENT OP LEATHER and FINDINGS. Jjgr*These goods are all made by the very best manufacturers, and I will guarantee them to give the best of satisfaction. Call and examine my stock and prices. B. C. HUSELTON. Wess Point Hoiler Works Eot&telisfc.eca. 1535. No. 13 Water Street, Pittsburgh, Pa, FIRST PREMIUM STEAM STILLS, TANKS and SHEET IRQ* WOHK Of all description* to orJcr on Shoit notice. Have on hand a largs vtoc'< of £Tew and Cood Second Hand Boilers I REPAIRING DONE PROMPTLY. 171 L. Successor OHF, DKAI.EIt IN lltdcM, feather, FlndingM, T:il- I u, Slic»«»p I'ollh, I'luHier Hair, Ac., Ac. iltszlicst prices paid In cash lor Hid js, Kip?, ftalfokins, Sheep pelts. Tallow, Ac. All kinds or Leather, and a!ro "latter Hair, always on hand, and sold at tLi(j lowest cash prices. Also, manufacturer of and dealer in Harness. Saddles, Bridies, Collars, Whfjis, A.C., which will be sold at bottom price-*. Ke pairing promptly attended to. Shop on Cnu (■lngham street, near creek, HHTI.KR. PA FOB SALE. •5 will liny a one-halt interest in a hu«- ineos 111 Pittsburgh. One who knows some thing about farming preferred. An honest man with the above amount «ill do well to address by letter, SMITH JOHNS, care 8. M. James, 9:1 Liberty street, Pittsburgh, Pa. |nu27-ly " NICK CRILEY. PHOTOGRAPHER, (Io old Sun Bykes Gallery,) decll-ly BUTLKB, PA. DECORATIATJ UPHOLSTERY A SPECIALTY AT HENRY HOLTZMAN'S, 74 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERER. Special Dosij;nh made to harmonize with sur roundings of every apartment of your home for Window D<* orations, the richest selections and latest doetgns in Raw Silks, Satins. Jutes. Crepets, esc. Lace Curtains, from the cheapest to tbe very tlnest of all s at very low prices ; I.ace Lambrequins made to order to fit anv sized window, iu the very latent designs; Cornices and Ccrnicn Poles. Dado Bottom Shades in various designs, Beddings, Comforts, Pillows, Mosquito Bare, etc. 0c22-3m Police. In the matter of tho Account of W. P. Braliam, Asiiignce of A. G. Steen. I hereby give notice to ail persons interested, that as Assignee of A G. Hteen I have filed my final account in the office of the Pro honotary of tbe Court of Common Pleas of Bntler coun ty. Pa., and that tho snmo will be presented to said Court for confirmation on tl.e 3rd day of December, IH7O. At the s&me time I will make application to said Court for leave to reconvey ; tho property in my hands to said Asaignor. I oct 22-31 W. P. BRA HAM. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1879. PHYSICIANS. JOHN* E BYKRS, PHYSICIAN AND SURG EON, ! my'Jl-ly] HUTLER, PA. INSURANCE. ~BUTL EK "COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. G. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM CAMPBELL, TREASURER H. C. IIEINEMAN, SKCRETART DIRECTORS: J. L. Purvis, E. A. Ilelmboldt, William Campbell, J. -W. Buikbart, A. Troatman, Jacob Schoene, G. C. Roessing, John Caldwell, Dr. \V. lrvln, Samuel Marshall, J. W.Chrl6ty • 11. C. Heineman. JAS. T* M'JUNKIN, Gen. A«'t- BTTTI-.ER FA LAND FOR SALE. Executors' Sale. The m-dergigned offer at private Bale tho farm of A. Troutman, Sr., situate in Penn town ship. Butler conntv, Pa., fonr miles south of the borough of Bntler. This farm contains S3 Acres, and is in a high state of cultivation, (rood buildings thereon ; orchard of ISO bearing fruit trees of the bet-t quality: well watered ; well timbered ; all under good fenco ; in fact one of the bet-t (arms in Penn township. Also con venient to churches, and schoolhouse within 2') rods. All tillable land. Terms veiv reasonable. Inquire of GEOItOE THOU I'M AN. or OEORGE WALTER, oct22-4t Executors. Butler, Pa. -j-/» T7 Want a FARM or HOME, with | I YOll independence and plenty in vour old age, THE BE3T THING IN THE WEST IS THE Atchison, Topekafc Santa Fe R. R. L At. PS I N KACS/S. Circulars with map. giving full information, FREE. Address A. S. Johnson, Land Com'r, Topeka, Kansas. octls-lm For teale. The well-improved fa-m of Rev. W. R. Hutch ison, in the northeast corner of Middlesex town ship, Butler coni.ty. Pa . is now offered for sale low. Inquire of W. K. FRISBEE, on the prem iisee. aplGtf 2.500,000 ACRRS LAND Situated in and near the UPPER ARKANSAS VALLEY, IN SOUTH WESTERN KANSAS, —ON THE- • Atchisoa, Topeka & Santa Fc R. R. 11 Years' Credit. 7 per cent. Interest. Tie first payment at d itc of purchase Is one tenth of the principal and seven percent, inter est on the remainder. At the end of the first and second year, only the Interest at seven per cent, is paid ; and the third year, and each year thereafter, one tenth ot the principal, with seven per cent. Interest on the balai.ee, Is paid annually until the whole is paid. Six years' credit, 20 per cent, discount. Two years' crcdil, 30 per cent, discount. Cash purchase, 33 l-S percent, discount. The valley of the Upper Aikan«-as is justly celebrated for its adaptability to WHEAT RAISING rnd the superior qu.ilitv of its train. As aSTOCK KAISINGand WOOL-GROWING country, it olieis advantages that cannot be ex celled. Good soil, abundance of pure water, a mild and remarkably healthy climate, with low prices and easy terms, make up a total of In ducements greater than isofleicd anywhere else on tbe continent of America. For lull particulars, Inquire of or address 0 A. SEYMOUR, General Eastern Passenger my2l-lyl 410 Broadway. N. Y. 199 Main St. Buffalo, N. Y. LIVERY. LIVERY'STABLE! rf... Having leased the Livery Stable \f~ formerly occupied by George f-j Walter, in the rear of tho Vo n Relty House, Butler, Pa., and removed ALL MY STOCK to it, including Horses, Carnages. Buggies, Ac., the public are solicited to give me a cah. All my stock is in first class order, and per nons wishing to hire will be accommodated on the mofct reasonable terms and at the shortest notice. [oc22-3ml GEORGE BAUER. TIIK OI.D STAXI) LIVERY STABLE. The public are respectfully informed that I have now taken the entire possession of the Old Stand LIVERY STABLE, formerly known &H Bickel A Co., 011 Went Cun ningham ntreet, Butler, Pa. llorftCN an«l Vehicles are all first-class and in good order. Punctual attendance given to customers and others at all hours. Tho books of the firm of Bickol A Bauer are witli me for settlement. oct22-2iii HENRY BICKEL. Livery, Feed and Sale STABLE, Cunningham St., near Helneman's Bookstore, BUTLER, PA. A large number of first-class riL r « and safe liorfcH a I WAV* "i: hand. Hones ted m reasona ble rates. Horses bought aud sold. DAVID CUPPS, PROPHIETOB. julySOtf IJ. M. COCIIR.4X, lively, Sale, Feed and Exchange STABLE, Ilear of Lowry House, • - BUTLER, PA. june4-ly ALL PARTIES GOI.NO WEST TO lowa, Missouri, Kansas,. Nebraska, Colorado or California, SHOULD GO VIA THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. CaTTickots can be had at all offices where Wostern tickets are sold. aplG-tf (Jood Homes in (antral Missouri Can be obtained on '.he 1 est terms, through the Callaway County Ii ■rni,.' ation ; ociety. For full partiCul&i f address tlie President, WM ' tt Wk LIWT OF .IUROBB Drawn for December Term, 1879, Com mencing First Monday and First Day. GRAND JURY. Adams —J. R. Orr. Brady—William Mayer. Centre—Asa Thompson. Cherry—Job Kcllv, Perry Wolford. Clay—Frank Markwell. Clinton—Robert Harvey. Connoqueneaaing—J. L. Wilson. Donegal—M. Angert, Adam Kemerer. Forward—Adam Rader, Sr. Jackson —11. 11. Weiss, Freeman Weise. Jefferson —John McGucken. Gotlieb Zimmer man. Lancaster—Charles Warner. Marion—Michael McAnallan. Mercer—Andrew Dunlap. Middlesex —Samuel B. Harbison. Oakland—George Shopp. Parker—J. D. Daubenspeck. Penn—John Walters. Slipperyroek —Henry Sanderson. Centreville —A. G. Taggart. TRAVERSE jrRY— IST WEEK—IST DAY. Allegheny—James Blane, Johij Grant. Brady—Daniel Keefer, Conrad Snyder, Sr. Buffalo—Jacob Shuster. Butler—Peter Kiess. Centre —W. A. Christy, Christian Fleeger, Christian Graham. Cherry—George Christy. Clay—Robert Gould, Albert Miller. Clinton —Albert Flick. Concord—A. C. Darragh. Connoquenessing—Hiram Graham, M. N. Stevenson. Donegal—John Gegan, Henry Sheffield. Fairview—Lawrence McLaughlin. Forward —Zeno Mark ell. Jackson—David Barto, Samuel Cooper. Jefferson —James Johnston. Lancaster—AVilliam. J. Scott. Mercer —W. E. Reed. Middlesex —Philip Stiner. Muddycreek—Wm. Heberling, Wm. Payne. Oakland—J. F. Moser. Parker—Lemuel Davis. Penn—Wilson Garvin. Slipperyroek—H. L. Rhodes, Henry Wolford. Summit—Jame3 Skihnan. Washington—John Fithian, Ezekiel Lewis, W. D. Thompson. Wiruield —George Rcighart. Worth—John Payne, W. 11. Walters. Butler borough—B. F. Crow, George Reno, A. C. Roessing. Fairview—R. W. McKee, J. A. Wilson. Karns City—G. Woodring, Robert Graham. Sunbury—C. P. Temple. 2ND WEEK— BTH DAY. Allegheny—P. P. Porterfield. Adams—Detmer Doutliett, Joseph Miller. Brady—James Alexander. Buffalo—John Beattv. Butler—Joseph Addleman, Frank Cf.ok, Henry Kalb, John Ralston. Centre—James Rose. Clay—Ambrose Patterson. Clinton—John Wiley, Robert Hemphill. Concord —W. W. Christy, H. J. Miller, J. S. Mortland, T. J. McCandless. Connoquenessing—John Burris, A. G. Stew art, Conrad Nicholas. Cranberry—Frank Confer, Fred. I.nntrharst. Donegal —James Gillespie, Owen Shirkcy. Fairview —11. 11. Seibert. Franklin—William Wadsworth. Jefferson —Martin Gephart, Wm. J. Redick. Lancaster —Leonard Moritz. Middlesex—Wm. Cranner, David McCaslin, Richard Almstead. Muddycreek—James Mcßirney. Oakland—John Leightner, Peter Whitmire. Parker —T. P. Mechling. Penn —William V. Seaman. 81ipperyrock—R. McCoy, Wm. Recti. Washington—John Emery. Winfield —William Gallagher, Wm. Leasure, John Rivers. Worth—Peter Neeley. Karns City—F. Wagoner. Petrolia —11. S. Hawkins, A. N. Rice. Don't You Do It! DON'T BE SO FOOLISH A 8 TO BUY AN OLD STYLE Sewing Machine, No matter how great its name, or how loud Its pretensions, when for less money yon can get The Best Invented as well as The Latest Improved, THE SELF THREADING Dauntless! The only Machine made which has Shuttle, Take-Up and Tensions Entirehj Self-Th readintj. The DAUNTLESS also makes the most perfect Lock-Stitch, has the most Ing- nioiis sepa rate Bobbin-Winder, largest Arm Space and Wide Feed, Hi i plest Mechan ism, most stylish Furniture, and Handsomest Plating and Ornamentation in the Market. It Sews Anything ! It BeaH Everything! 1 it Pleases Everybody!! 1 ijjgpSewing Machine Dealers everywhere will ttml it to iheir Interest to order ttie Dauntless, and get Factory Prices. For terms, territory, (Sc., apply to The Daautless Manufacturing ' Compun\, Norwalk, 'Jhlo, or to • L. 11. SLAGLE, jylll-fim East Brady, CI u ion Co , Pa. '2oth. Y ear. ESTABLISHED 1853. H. McCALLUM, 77 Fifth Ave., Above Wood St., PITTMBITIIUII, FA. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &c., &c. The beet quality that is raado of tho different kinds of CARPETING ocl-aml AT LOWEST THICKS. made in 87 d&vn. 70 page catalogue Sf M II I free. BUCKEYE NOVELTY CO., |WW [ns-3m| CIWHIMCATI, OHIO. .4 BRAVE GIRL. MISS MEEKER'S STORY OE HER CAPTURE [Alamosa (Col.) Dispatch toN. Y. Herald.] Mr?. Meeker, her daughter, Joseph ine, and Mrs. Price and her two child ren have been detained here two days on account of Mrs. Meeker's illness, caused by nervous reaction, after a ter rible journey of five hundred miles on stages and Indian ponies, bareback and with poor saddles, over mountains and alkali deserts. During this ordeal she was only half clad in a calico dress and a single shawl, without blankets, and had only tbe bare ground to sleep on in tbe Indian camps. The party leaves for Denver in a day or two, going thence to their home in Greeley. Miss Josephine Meeker was threatened with death, aud her escape was a nar row one. She is a blonde, with blue eves aud light hair, and is tall in stat ure, and vivacious in manner and con versation. She was a teacher at the agency and a great favorite among the Indians. She taught the boy of Chief Douglass, aud had half a dozen offers of marriage from the Ute braves. Iler quick wit and knowledge of the lan guage undoubtedly saved her life. HOW THE MASSACRE BEGAN. Miss Meeker says : "I was in the kitchen with my mother washing the dishes. It was afternoon I looked out of the window and saw the Utes shooting the boys who were working on the new building. Mrs. Price was at the door washing clothes. She rushed in and took Johnny, the baby, to fly. Just then Frank Dresser, an employe, staggered in, shot through the leg. I said, 'Here, Frank, is Mr. Price's gun.' It lay on tbe bed. He took it, and just as we were fleeing out by the door the windows were smashed in and half a dozen shots were fired into the room. Frank Dresser fired and killed Johnson's brother. We ran into the milk room, which had only oDe small window, and locked the door and hid under a shelf. Firing went on for several hours at intervals. There was no shouting, no noise, but frequent firing. While waiting in this horrid suspense Dresser said he had gone to the em ployes' rooms, where all guns were stored, but found them stolen. In the intervals of shooting Dresser would exclaim : 'There goes one of the gov ernment guns.' Their sound was quite different from those of the In dians. We stayed in the milk room until it began to fill with smoke. The sun was half an hour high. A DASH FOR LIFE. I took May Price, three years old, and we all ran to father's room. It was not disturbed. The papers and books were just as he left them. 'Pepy's Diary' lay open on the table. We knew the building would be burned and ran across Douglass ave nue for a field of sage brush beyond the ploughed ground. The Utes were so busy stealing the annuity goods that they did not see us at first. About thirty of them, loaded with blankets, were carrying them toward Douglass' camp, near the river. Wc had gone one hundred yards when the Utes saw us. They threw down the blankets and came running towards us firing as they came. Bullets whizzed as thick as grasshoppers around us. I do not think they intended to kill us— only to frighten us—but they tried to shoot Frank Dresser, who had almost reached the sage brush. Mother was hit by a bullet, which went through her underclothing and made a flesh wound three inches long. As the Indians came nearer they shouted: 'We no shoot! Come to us!' I had the little girl, and the Indian named Pursune said for me to go with him. He and another Ute seized me by the arms and started to ward the river. An Uncompahgre Indian took Mrs. Price and her baby and mother was taken to the head quarters of Douglass. We came to a wide irrigating canal which father had the Indians build. I said I could not cross it. Tbe Indians answered by pushing me through the water: I had on only moccasins, and the water and mud were deep. The baby waded, too, and both of us came out wet to the skin. A QUARREL TO POSSESS HER. As we were walking in Chief Joseph came and pushed away Pursune and, in great anger, told him to give me up. I understood some of tbe language. Pursune refused to surrender me. Hot words ensued aud I feared the men would fight for a moment. I thought I would ask Douglass to take me, but as both were drunk I kept silent and afterwards was glad I did not go. Douglass finally went away and wo walked on toward the river. Before reaching tbe stream, not more than [ two hundred yards away, both my conductors pulled out bottles and drank twice. No whisky was sold at the agency. Their bottles were not agency bottles. The Indian, Pursune, took me to where his ponies were standing by the river and seated me on a pile of blankets while he went for more. The Indians were now on all sides. I could uot escape. Pursune packed his effects, all stolen from the agency, on a government mule which was taller than a tall man. . He had two mules stolen from the agency. It was now sundown. Pack ing was finished at dark, and we started for tbe wilderness of the south. I rode a horse with a saddle, but no bridle. The baiter-strap was so short that it dropped continually. Tbe child was lashed behind me. Pursune and his assistant rode each side of me, driving the pack mules ahead. About twenty other Indians were in the party. MRS. MEEKER'S SAD PLIGHT. Mother came later, riding bareback behind Douglass, both on one horse. She was sixty-four years old, feeble iti health, wounded and not recovered from a broken thigh, caused by a fall two years ago. Chief Douglass gave her neither horse, saddle nor blankets. We followed the river, and on the other side Pursune brought me a hat ful of water to drink. We trotted along until nine o'clock, when wo halted for half an hour. All the In- dians dismounted and blankets were spread on the ground and I laid down to rest, with mother lying not far from me. Chief Douglass was considerably excited, and made a speech to me with many gestures and great emphasis, lie recited his grievances and ex plained why the massacre began. He said Thornburgh told the Indians that he was going to arrest the head chiefs, take them to Fort Steele and put them in the calaboose—perhaps hang them. He said my father had written all the letters to the Denver papers, and circulated wild reports about what the Indians would do, as set forth bv tho Western press, and that he was re sponsible for all the hostility against the Indians among the whites in the West. A STRANGE PICTURE STORY. He said pictures of the agent and all his family, women and children, had been found on Thornburgh's body just before the attack on the agency, and the pictures were covered with blood and showed marks of knives on different parts of the bodies. The throats were cut. The one of the agent had a bullet-hole in his head. He said I was represented in one of the pictures as shot through the breast. Douglass said my father had made these pictures, representing the pros pective fate of his family, and sent them to Washington to lie used to in fluence the soldiers and hurry troops forward to fight the Indians. This remarkable statement, strange as it may seem, was afterward told me by a dozen different Indians, and the recital aud the particulars were always the same. While Douglass was telling this he stood in front of me with his gun, and his anger was dreadful. Then he shouldered his gun and walked up and down before me in the moonlight and imitated the employes who had kept guard at the agency for three nights before the massacre. He mocked them and sneered and laughed at them and said he was 'a heap big Indian.' Then he sang English songs which he had heard the boys sing in their rooms at the agency. He sang the negro mel ody, 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and asked me if I understood. I told him I did, because he had the words and tune perfectly committed. He said father had always been writing to Washington. He always saw him writing when lie came to the agency. It was write, write, write all day, he said. Then he swore a fear ful oath in English, and said if the soldiers had not come and threatened the Indians with Fort Steele and the calaboose and threatened to kill the other Indians at White River, the agent wouldn't have been massacred. Then the brave Chief Douglass, who had eaten at our table that very day, walked off a few feet, returned and placed his loaded gun to my forehead three times and asked me if I was going to runaway? I told him I was not afraid of him nor of death, and should not run away. When he found his repeated threats could not frighten me all the other In dians turned on him and laughed at him, and made so much fun of him that he sneaked off and went over to frighten my mother. I heard her cry 'Oh 1' and I supposed that she thought some terrible fate had befallen me. I shouted to her that I was not hurt; that she need not lie afraid ; that they were only trying to scare her. The night was still, but 1 heard no re sponse. The Indians looked at each other. GALLANT PURSUNE. All hands took a drink around my bed ; then they saddled their horses, and Pursune led my horse to me and knelt down on has hands and knees for me to mount my horse from his back. He always did this, and when he was absent his wife did it. I -saw Pursune do the same gallant act once for his squaw, but it was only once, and none of the other Indians did it at all. We urged our horses forward and journeyed in the moonlight through to the Grand Mountain with the In dians talking in low tones among themselves. The little three-year old May Price, who was fastened behind me, cried a few times, for she was cold and had had no supper, and her mother was away in Jack's camp, but the child was generally quiet. It was after midnight when we made the second halt in a.deep and sombre can yon, with tremendous mountains towering «n every side. Mother was not allowed to come up. Douglass kept her with him half a mile further down the ravine. Pursune had plenty of blankets, which were stolen from the agency. He spread some for my lied and rolled up some for my pillow, and told me to retire. MOCKED BY THE SQUAWS. Then the squaws came and laughed, and grinned and gibbered in their own grim way. We had reached the camp Douglass had chosen for the Indian women who had been sent to the can yon previous to the massacre. Jack's camp, where Mrs. Price was kept, was live or six miles away in another can yon. When 1 had lain down on tho blankets two squaws, one old and one young, caine to the bed and sang and danced fantastically and joyously at my feet. The other Indians stood around, and when the women reached a certain part of their recitative they all broke into laughter. Toward the end of their song my captor, Pursune, gave each of them a newly stolen Gov ernment blanket, which they took and then went away. The strangeness and wild novelty of my position kept me awake until toward morning, when I fell, into a doze, and did not awake until the sun was shining over tho mountains. Next day Pursune went to fight the soldiers, and he placed me in charge of his wife with her three children. That same day mother come up to see me, in company with a little In dian girl. On Wednesday, the next day, Johnson went over to Jack's camp and brought back Mrs. Prico and her baby to live in his camp. Ho said he had made it all right with tho other Utes. We did not do anything but bo around the various camps and listen to ADVERTIBISU BATES, One square, on« insertion, f1; each subse quent Insertion, SO cents. Yearly advertisements exceeding ouc-foiirtli of a colnmn, <5 per inch. Figure work doulile these rates; Additional charge* where weekly or monthly changes are made. Local advertisements 10 cculs per lino for flrrt insertion, awl 5 cent* pc-r line for each ad iition&l insertion. and deaths pub lished free of charge. Obituary notice* charged as adrert:««'mcrits. anJ payable when handed ill Auditor*' Notices, e4 ; Executors' and Adminis (ratein' Notices. #3 each; Estray. Caution and Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten linee, 13 each. From the fact that the CITIZEN is the oldest established aud moist extensively circulated Re 1 nblican newsj.aper in Butler county, (a Repub lican county) it must be apparent to business cif u that it is the medium they should use in advertising their business. NO. 50. the talk of the squaws whose hus bands were away fighting the soldiers. "ONE TOUCH OF NATURE." On Wednesday and on the other days one of Supanzisquait's three squaws put her hand on my shoulder and said: "Poor little girl, I feel so sorry. You have no father and you are away oft' with the Utes so far from home." She cried at the time and said her own little child had just died and her heart was sore. When Mrs. Prico came into camp another squaw took her baby, Johnny, into her arms and wept over him and said, in Ute, that she felt very sorry for the captives. I asked the Indians before Brady came where the soldiers were. They replied that the}* were "still in that cellar," and the Indians were kill ing their ponies when they went for water in the night. They said : "In dians stay on mountains and see white soldier ; soldiers no see Indians. White soldier not knew how to fight. PERILS OF FALSE TEETH. Fame and fortune await the man who has genius to write the history of false teeth and illustrate the danger which invariably attends them. Were some one to rise who should apply to this subject the patient toil which the elder Disraeli did to the oddities and eccentricities of literary life and study, he would confer an imperishable favor upon civilization. His work would be not only a source of amusement for the reading world, but a perpetual warning of the perils which besot all who must depend upon the dentist in stead of upon nature for the means wherewith to grind their daily bread. In proof of which the following is a case in point: In Wayland, Xew York, there lives a dentist, Preston by name. Likewise lives their a man to the world unknown, save that he was the promised husband of a lady whom we shall call Miss Smith, resident of Klmira. Prom the dentist mentioned she had purchased a set of false teeth —on credit. The credit lasted longer than his patience, and when she vis ited Wavland, presumably to see her lover, the dentist called upon her and inquired how the teeth served her. She mentioned a defect, and took them out that he might investigate it. Sticking them in his pocket he made answer to her : "You can have them when you pay me for them," and walked away. Troubles never come singly. For while she sat in solitude gnashing her gums at the heartless dentist, her lover rapped at the door. She made sign thut she could not see him then. lie was astonished, and firmly demanded an explanation. But Miss Smith could not give him one—certainly not one which he could understand. The dentist carried off not only her teeth, but her power to articulate. But an explanation he was bound to have. He received it from the lady friends of Miss Smith, who put the case in its very best light. They knew not when they might be forced to beg a like kindness for themselves. Women's teeth, like their temper, are uncertain things. The case was not a pleasant one in any light, and he took occasion to tell Miss Smith so in a letter next day. In fact heplumply declared that he would not marry a woman who, through all the tender confidence of their wooing, had concealed from him the fact that her sweet words were spoken by tho aid of store teeth. A woman who would deceive him in one thing might in another. How could he know but that the silken tresses which had flowed over his shoulder on various blissful occasions caine not from the hand of nature, but from that of the wig maker? He was in dis tressing doubt as to how much real and how much artificial woman he had been courting. He resolved to settle the doubt by withdrawing his engagement. The matter has ended in the court of love and now goes up (or perhaps it should be down) to the Court of law. Miss Smith will enter suit against the dentist to recover $5,000 damage as the result of losing a husband through the dentist's act of running away with her teeth and leaving her unable to make an explanation at the most criti cal point of her life. She will also bring suit against her love for breach of promise. His defence, of course, will be that Le was deceived, and it is against a maxim of law that either woman or man shall benefit by his or her own wrong. He had contracted in good faith for a woman made by nature, and an attempt was made, he believes, to palm off ou him one partly the handiwork of dentist and wig maker.— Pittsburgh Telegraph. As artisan of Altoona, Pa., has been working for seventeen years on a "wonderful clock," which is to bo ready for exhibition next New Years. It parades sixty-five automatic figures —a beer garden with men drawing beer and passing it out; a linseed oil mill in running order, with a dozen workmen engaged in different parts of the business; a blacksmith shop with men hammering iron and others shoe ing horses ; women bringing refresh ments ; a summer house, fountains and games in progress; a quarry with men hewing stone; a saw-mill turning out mineature boards; a shoe factory, with men and women working at different parts of shoes; a grist mill, with a man bringing grain to a hopper, and others carrying the bags away, whilo buckets go up and down and mill stones buzz; residences where visitors call and servants are about their work, etc., etc., etc. The mills are driven by water which falls from the top and is drawn up again. The whole compli cated contrivance is run by a weight of ninrty pounds. IN Belgrade cases of suicide are so unknown that recently, when a rich merchant killed himself in a fit of in sanity, the whole population turned out and was intensely excited. Insanity is very raro in Servin. IT is estimated that over 2,500,000 people have taken up homes in the West and South in the past five years. „