New Advertisements To-Day. Flowers—Martin Eisler. Country Property for Rent Coni|>etent Business Man Wanted, t hureh J: Co 's Soda and Saleratus l'rospectii —New York Tribune, forest and "''statement of Worth Mutual Fire Insurance C "l'n' Bankruptcy—Notice to Creditors of W . L. Graham. _ , „ i Administrator's Notice—Estate of . amuel Leason, late of Mercer Township. Local and General. CUKW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobac -o. IT is expected that the next census of this country will show a population of 43,- 000,000. MARRIED ladies will find in "Dr. Lindsay's Blood Searcher" just what they net d. Try it.' • A PITTSBURGH firm is building a $15,000 lislit-house for the Mexican coasts near Tampico. A DISEASE resembling diptheria has made its appearance among horses in some parts of the State. .1 I'DOE Donns takes Judge Marshall's place as Director of the Butler Mutual Fire Insurance Company. SOUTHERN papers reports that the cotton crop show an increase over last year of from o i "00 to 300,000 hales. THE combined wealth of the mem ber:- of the Standard Oil Company is estimated at on; 1 hundred million dollars. ALL but three members of the Utah Legislature are, comparatively speaking, bach elors, having only one wife each. THE numljer of letters held for post age in country Postoflices show an amazing amount of iguoranee of postal laws. THE authorities at Washington hire an orijan grinder, two fiddlers and a harpist for the amusement of the Ute Indians. IT is the opinion of physicians in the northern part of the State that eating snow has much to do with the spread of diphtheria* THERE was a bill before the State Legislature last winter to make the offices of C ollectors elective, but it did not become a law. NOTHING makes a man, woman, or child feel meaner than a tickling sensation in the throat. Take "Dr. Sellers' Cough Syrup." 25 cents. AN English paper avers positively that onions, whether cooked or raw, give great relief in chronic rheumatism. A remedy cer tainly worth a trial. COLORADO has uncommonly big ava lanches this winter, and one of them covered a house with so much snow that the men inside were ten hours digging their way out. THE Mississippi Senatorial contest was a somewhat heated one, and the best citi zens interested became in a measure aroused, but there were no buckshot ballots cast. THE Bauer Bros, were the successful bidders for the building of the Grieb house. It is to be built on the vacant lot between the M. E. Church and Joseph Rockenstein's lot. TnE perfect stranger who, "for a consideration" offers you a splendid chance or certainty of large profits or a glorious bargain, is exceedingly likely to be a very imperfect man. FEW of the Presidential booms seem o have got beyond the period of soothing syrup and paregoric. When one appears to be particularly noisy it is pretty safe to call it colie. THE Commissioner of the Internal Revenue reports that the Government has 10-t SI 1,0011,000 revenue by the reduction of the tax on tobacco and the consumers have gained nothing. DURING the year 1879 over thirty million dollars worth of cold was dug in the United States. Besides this, we drew about seventy-five million dollars from European strong-boxes in the same time. JOHN SUTHERLAND, of Silver Cliff, Col., lost all his money at poker one night, committed some trifling offense, was locked up, and set fire to the jail, himself and another prisoner perishing in the ruins. WHILE Europe is starving in spots and pinched for lood nearly everywhere, our granaries are overcrowded and where to store our surplus cereals is getting to be a puzzling question in our collecting centres. WOOLS of all grades grown in Penn sylvania, Ohio and Virginia command several cents per pound more than the same grades grown in other States of the Union, while Texas wool is the lowest on the list. Tin: Pennsylvania State Temperance Union, of which the Hon. James Black is President, will hold its thirteenth annual meet in" at Williamsport, on January 29 aud 80. All temperance workers are invited. Now is the time to buy your Table Linens, Towaling, Sheeting, Pillow Casing, and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods, us they will positively cost you more in the spring. RITTKR A RALSTON. A BELIEF seems to prevail in some quarters that tax collectors are to be elected. This is erroneous. No change has lieen made in this matter by the Legislature, and tax col lectors arc still to be apjwinted as heretofore. THE Klingler Flour House of this town has already shipped over five hundred barrels of buckwheat flour to points outside the county this season, and have orders for all they can make. This is an enterprising House. To ascertain the length of a day aud night multiply the hour at which the sun rises by two ; the result will be the length of the night. Multiply the hour at which the sun sets by two, and the result will be the length of the day. AN Indiana man lately placed a brick in a pillow for the ostensible purpose of playing a joke on liis wife, and the next morn ing, in a playful mood, flung the affair at his mother-in-law and laid her out. He declared to the Coroner that he had forgotten all about that brick. A TERRIBLE combination of noise and language is abroad in the lam] under the name and style of "Around the World with General Grant: A Song." The guilty parties are a Colonel in the Army and one Thompson. The Colonel collected the language and Thomp son made the noise. SOME idea of the wonderful accuracy of astronomical observations and computations may be had from the fact that the contact of the moon's shadow with the sun at the begin ning of the total eclipse of the 11th instant took place within one and a half seconds of the time previously announced. THE request often made by publish ers that readers will mention their journals wheu answering advertisements, seems to u- a very reasonable one. Such mention is a help ful and friendly act to the journal mentioned and enables the advertiser to determine which jonrnals are the best advertising mediums. OURAY and the other Ute animals are having a sleek, well-fed, comfortable time of it in Washington. They are the guests of the Interior Department, and stand toward society in the attitude of great men. Their greatness was not thrust upon them, either; they achieved it by the White River frolic. HERE is something for the poultry fanciers to work upon. Coinplaiuts are often heard of the disturbance caused by the crow in" of cocks in the early morning. In this educational age couldn't cocks be trained to crow the hours ? We should like much to take the credit of this wise suggestion. But it conies from Punch. A GENTLEMAN traveling through Volusia county, Florida, recently saw the fol lowing on a sign board on the outside of a I store: To trust is to bust, To bust is hell; No trust, no bust, No bust, no hell. SOMEHOW the names of the promi nc ■* actors in the spectacular melodrama now being enacted on the Maine boards are pre sented to thepublic in a preplexingly varie gated way. There is good Mr. Lamson, who about every other time he is mentioned has a "o" sMick in the middle of his patronymic, like Thompson with a p, in "Toodles." THE tobacco farmers of southwest ern Chester county and adjacent portions Lancaster county have generally finished strip ping and packing the "weed," and are resting on their oars awaiting the buyers. A number have already sold some choice lots, command- as twenty-four oenA per pound for j MR. A. NEIULEB, Taylor>villc, Fa., ! writes : My mother, an old la«ly of sixty years, suffered for thirty years with Rheumatism, to such an extent that she was at times entirely lame. We procured from Messrs. Ludwig Druggists, in Scran ton, Pa., a bottle of »>r. JACOBS OIL, used it according to directions, and saw our efforts crowned with perfect suc cess. Mother was relieved. TIIE latest styles in Neckwear, at Charles R. Grieb's. TnE Scotch parsons have got ahead of the engineers and discovered the real cause of the giving way of the Tav bridge. While the engineers are maundering and muddling in calculations of force and resistance —iron, wind, weight and such mere detail—the di vines go straight to the point, and say it is be cause the trains broke the Sabbath. Great discoveries like this show what churches are endowed for. GRATE tile, flue rings and fire brick, at .1. Niggle <fc Bro.'s Two Mexicans living in Texas re cently quarreled about a woman, and resolved to settle th°ir differences in a duel with lassoes. The affair was conducted decently and in order under the supervision of friends. Both were well mounted, and in the first tilt one of the duellists was lassoed about the neck and jerked from his saddle so violently as to almost dislocate his vertebrae. That ended the duel, and settled the ownership of the bone of con tention. LADIES' Solid Gold Watches at sls and upwards, at E. Grieb's. Now that an enterprising firm of brokers have added a Ticker to the furniture of the Capitol at Washington, and speculative members can improve the opportunity of a dull subject or speech to read off the latest quota tions from Wall street, the public business is in a fair way to be slighted more systematically than ever. The Springfield Republican learns that one well-known New York member, by close attention to the tape, has already this year made SIOO,OOO. WORKING and Dress Shirts of all kinds, from 20 cents up, at Charles R. Grieb's. AT the Mercer Poultry Fair there were five, instead of two as stated, of our citi zens who secured premiums. John Campbell was awarded the first premium on Plymouth Rock, and a special premium on a P. R. Cock erel. Wm. Aland took Ist premium for black breasted red ( James ; Wm. Mechling 3rd for Bluff Cochin Chicks; Harrv Klingler Ist for Black Cochin Chicks, and Cal. Christy 3rd for Brown Leghorn Chicks. ASK for the So So Hat, at CHARLES R. GKIEB'S. IT is to be regretted that the bubble of the "Star" postal service had not been punc tured a little sooner. The system appears to have proved a bonanza of wealth to numerous greedy mail contractors, who have swindled the Government ont of immense sums, and apparently with the privity of the Postoftice Department itself. The whole business is a wholesale fraud. In effect it confers upon the department an authority in relation to certain routes in the territories which ought only to be exercised by Congress. SPECIALTIES iu woolens at William Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not to be had elsewhere in the county. "ABOUT this time," as the almanacs used to say, "look out for" doleful forecasting* of a scarcity of ice during the ensuing summer. The prophecy has become so familiar that it is quite a matter of course that we are now told, for at least the dozenth time, of an impending ice famine. Judging the future by the past, however, after the fashion of a distinguished Revolutionary patriot, we may possess our souls in quietness. The ice-dealers will go about the streets as usual with their crystal blocks, and they will fix it somehow so that we may all enjoy our wonted natural refrigera tion. ALL kinds of Stove and Flue pipe to be had at the Hardware Store of J. NIGOI-E & BRO. WHAT is known as the Boyd bridge, a new iron one, over the creek on the road from the depot to Springdale, is up and is certainly a fine looking structure. In company with two of the County Commissioners and some other citizens, we passed over it on Friday last in the conveyance of Mr. George W. Campbell, the enterprising keeper of the Willard Hotel of this place. This was the first team aud wagon load to go over the bridge, and all about it seemed strong and well built. The bridge is a credit to the county and will be of great ser vice in traveling to and from the railroad depot to a large number of the citizens of the county. LATEST styles in Men's, Youths'and Children's Caps, at Charles R. Grieb's. IT is thought by many that ex-Con gressman Washburne, of Illinois, will be the strongest "dark horse" as a Presidential candi date before the Chicago Convention. He uever was popular in Congress, because he opposed every steal that came before the House, no mat ter it'it were proposed by his be»t friend. While in Paris during the German-Franco war he drew his individual check for $50,000 on Lon don, to relieve the distress of the German resi dents of the city. While in public life he allowed himself to be placed under obligations to no corporation whatever. He is said by those who know him to be a perfectly honest and independent man. WILLIAM ALAND, Merchant Tailor, has just opened the largest line of woolens for men and boys wear ever offered in Butler. CHICAGO is blocked with grain. The elevators of the city, which will hold 16,000,- 000 bushels, are nearly full, as well as were houses and any member of cars lying along the line of the various railroads. About 1,000,- 000 bushels are afloat iu the harbor, and the elevators outside of the city are filled. This is all caused by the grain syndicate, of which James R. Kcene is representative, who, by constant purchases, have forced the price up to a poiut where it is a dead loss to ship to New York at present prices. I'nless the price advances in Liverpool, or declines here, there will be no movement and the blockade will continue. In the meantime farmers tributary to Chicago have no market for wheat. MEN'S and Boys' Winter Caps from 17c. up, at Charles R. Grieb's. IF the National debt can be -e --funded in 4 per cent, bonds, why not just as readily in bonds bearing oi per cent, interest ? The complete safety of the security would in sure a very general investment iu time of trust aud other funds. Thousands of persons who subsist upon the sums derived from moneys placed at interest would prefer a smaller in come, in view of the absolute guarantee given by the faith of the Govern ment, to the pro mise of larger revenues with a continual risk of the loss of the principal itself. It would not lie necessary to employ a syndicate to put the loan upon the market. A large amount would be absorbed by popular subscriptions, and in the menacing aspect of European affairs much foreign capital would not unlikely seek the safety it would offer. SHAFTS, finished and rough, at the J. Niggle & Bro.'s Hardware Store, Jefferson street, Butler, Pa. OIL creek is the stream on which petroleum was first procured. The first well, drilled by Drake, in 1859, was near Titusville. All along the creek bottoms sink holes were found by the earliest settlers. They were wharled up with timber for the purpose of col lecting the oil that rose to the surface. The mode of gat hering it was to spread a woolen blanket on the surface of these pits, and when it became saturated with oil it was wrung out. This was a slow way, yet a jiersevering man could collect a barrel a day in this manner. Petroleum was first called Seneca oil, and was used by the Seneca Indiuns in small quantities to grease their bodies in order to keep off gnats and flies, In early days the mill owners bought it to keep up lights at night at the saw mills. The price paid was about four or five dollars per barrel. THE largest Stock of Half Hose ever offered in Butler, you can find at CHARLES It. GRIEIS'S. ACCOROINO to cable dispatches the opinion is prevalent in England that that coun try has been most cruelly and unjustly dis criminated against in the matter of saints. It seems that during the last three centuries not a single English saint has been added to the Roman calendar, and a petition has lieen sent to the Vatican asking that three very worthy gentlemen of the good old times shall be added to the list. Of course there can be no objec tion on the part of Rome, especially as iu re cent years a raft of saints has been taken from other countries. But suppose that for some inscrutable reason His Holiness and the Sacred College should object to this saintlv naturaliza tion business, what are the British people going to do about it? The present Premier, who has been so remarkable for his picturesque foreign policy, ought clearly to take the case in hand and create % new issue with Rome. A war on the Vatican in defence of this neg lected and long suffering British interest would be almost as wise and far more beneficial in its results than, for instance, the present cam paign in India. A spirited foreign policy bbould so in fur free trade in the manufacture Wntbev|i*., 3;mt*a»:iT *?T» THE Czar of all the Russia.- is rep resented to be in great mental trouble from bodily fear of being shot, or Mown up, assas sinated in some way. Indeed, the apprehen sion of a violent death is said so to prev upon him that fears are entertained lest it shall drive him mad and shorten his days. It ren ders his existence perfectly miserable. lor the relief and benefit of the Czar we kindly sug gest to him that there is a very simple method for him to escape from the dangers by which he is surrounded and the constant anxiety by which he is oppressed. Let him alslicate and come to this country. The ass.issins would then have no further occasion to tire at him or to blow up the train by which he travels. Among the stores in this town that are for sale and are enjoying a liberal run of custom, there is Tom. Sykes'. If the Czar would buy Tom's store and give strict |>er.>oual attention to the business, he could easily make an excellent living. His thoughts by day and his drea-ns by night would then no longer be disturbed '>y tears of some deadly attack. lie might then live to a great age, and die aa easy, natural death, and if he were honest and sociable, he would, after death, be spoken of as a good fellow, worth a dozen Emperors. UNDERWEAR of all kinds, from 25 cents up, at Charles It. Grieb's. TIIE numerous oases of breach of trust and embezzlement which have come to light within the last two or three ye are are a melancholy part of our current history. Many of these cases have excited astonishment be cause fraud was so little to have been expected from men of the good standing and supposed exemplary morals of the perpetrators. \ie suppose the commercial community will at length learn that distrust and not confidence is the only safe business rule, and that Till jtersnn* in a fiduciary position should be required to give bonds large enough to secure the owners of the propertv against loss. If there is a bright side to the recent gloomy pictures of embezzlement and misappropriation of funds it is to be found in the absence of such vaudals from the administration of the Federal Govern ment. The Government, besides collecting and disbursing an annual revenue of between two hundred and fifty and three hundred million dollars, has made gigantic transactions in loans, and during the last three years there has not been a conspicuous ca»e of defalcation or em bezzlement by any Federal olfieer. At a time when we have so many painful and startling disclosures of private demoralization we should not fail to recognize the remarkable integrity which prevails in the administration of the National Government. We have never had an Administration which deserves higher prai.-e in this respect than that ot' President Haves, and all honest men should feel a sincere pleas ure in paying it this just tribute. A SOLID Silver Case and a Genuine American Movement as low as £lO, at E. GKIEB'S. A TERM of Common Pleas Court commences next Monday and continues two weeks. The trial list for"the second week can be seen in another place. The following is a list of causes put down for first week : M. H. Davis vs. George Armer. Common wealth ex rel vs. Nancy Stewart. Annie A. Delamater vs. L. Glessenkamp & Co. Hannah Ilarvey vs. Jame.-> Harvev. Thos. Jamison for use vs. Win. Storey et al. Wm. J. Graham et al. vs. Keziah J. McC'aud less et al. S. R. Brown et al. vs. Perry and Green. Simon Peter Pingen vs Wm. M. Starr. W. D. McCandless vs. Thomas Richards. W. C. Adams vs. Poor District of Fairview borough. Mrs. Esther Cnrrie vs. John C. Wigden et al. W. J. Mecom vs. Catharine Brown. James. P. Christy vs. Thomas Wilson. J. W. Reames &'Co. vs Merwin Partridge. John Christie, for use, vs. J. L. Armstrong et al. Henry Dillaman vs. Joachim Snvder. Mary Porter and husband vs. Robert Sankey. Elizabeth Gilkey and husband vs. W. L. Gra ham. H. S. Daubenspeck vs. J. Daubenspcck et al. Joseph Mehan vs. Beekman & Harrington. J. A. Runibaugli vs. Oliver P. Truby. Benton Feidler vs. Frank Winter. M. M. Goodwin vs. S. Short. Woods and Markwell vs. Sarah Gilson et al. E. D. Bovard vs. School Directors of Karas City. SLEIGH and Bob runners can be had at the J. Niggle «fc Bro.'s Hardware Store, Jef ferson street. THE Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch is in a measure one of the necessaries of life in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia. THERE are indications at Wash ington that the present session of Congress will not be allowed to pass without the regular at tack upon the tariff. The lobby, we are told, is in full force at the Capitol, and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is believed to be exceedingly friendly to the scheme of a revision. Without disputing the fact that un der the law as it now stands certain articles of manufacture are undoubtedly over-protected, it is nevertheless true that the business of the country, as a whole, will, so far from being benefited, be seriously injured by an agitation of the subject at the present time. Millions of dollars are now seeking investment in the le gitimate channels of trade, and Congress should not by a mischievous agitation of the tariff interfere with the operations of capitalists and others who are looking around for enterprises in which to obtain a return for their money. The Presidential year is always more or less injurious to our business interests, and the party in power in Congress will make a serious blunder if it unnecessarily and wantonly enters upon a discussion that there i.i very little like lihood will l>e followed by any beneficial re suits. The policy which Congress ought to pursue is to pass the bill of Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, providing for a commission to con sider the whole question and submit a basis of action for both houses. If this is done the country will l>e gradually prepared for what ever changes may be made anu nobody wiil be injured. If the"Democracy is wise it will iet the tariff severely alone until at least the Pres idential election is over. IF you want Dress Gloves, if you want Street Gloves, if you want Driving Gloves or Mittens, if you want Working Gloves or Mittens, you can buy them at Charles R. Grieb's. THE latest proposition in Congress for the mental and moral improvement of all our citizens, without distinction of race, color or previous condition, emanates from the fecund ana philanthropic brain of a North Carolina statesman. Fresh from the pine woods and sand hills of his native State he has come to the conclusion that the onlv thing necessary to complete the happiness of liis own constituents and of the balance ot his fellow citizens is that they should be enabled to read daily that unique ami wonderful compilation of the wit and wis dom of Congress called the Coixjresiiotnl Record. With this laudable object in view he has introduced a bill providing that in future there shall bo sent a Irce copy of the Record to every citizen of the United States. We are heartily in favor of this proposition and hope that it may lie passed as soon as possible. There will be a little expense attending the scheme, to be sure, but in view of the great benefits to be obtained it is to by hoped that no cold-hearted and economically inclined Con gressmen will interpose an objection. In the lirst place, taking the vote for President in ls?U as the basis of calculation, it will be necessary to print and distribute each day 8,411,136 copies of this most precious of documents. The paper at ten cents per pound will cost about ten thousand dollars daily. Only abo-it two hun dred ami ten fast presses, costing on an average twenty thousand dollars apiece, or about four and one-quarter million dollars in all, will be required to work off the edition in time to catch the mails. A regiment of stereotypers, a brigade of folding clerks will have to lie called into requisition, while the railroad posfnl ser vice will be compelled to at least quadruple its capacity ami resources. All this, however, is a mere trifle and not to be so much taken into ensideration. ONE of the largest stocks of Ameri can Movements and American Cases, both Gold and Silver, ever offered in Butler, is to be seen at E. Grieb's, which were all purchased before the late rise in Watches, and will be sold at the old rates. "MANY opened their eyes," writes Mr. Proctor from Rochester, N. V., "when I indicated 500,000,000 years as by no means an exaggerated estimate of the interval which had elapsed since the earth first bail separate exis tence in the solar system. But few geologists would nowadays accept such an estimate as that which I provisionally adopted in deduc ing the above named interval —taking for the length of the third great era of the earth's his tory (that during which processes of denuda tion have been at work) only l(>0,0<x>,000 years. The latest estimate of this era assigns to it a duration far exceeding even that which I as signed to the whole history of the earth. Mr. Reade, the English geologist, considers that about one huudred tons of rocky matter are dissolved each year by rain for each English square mile. This contains about fifty tons of carbonate of lime and twenty tons of sulphate of lime. Now if,'' he proceeds, "as is generally supposed, the sea contains only what is washed into it from the land, and we can estimate its numerical contents in tons, we at once get a minimum measure of the age of the earth." Now, it is estimated that the ocean contains about 2,.300,000 tons of water, and the mean of UC. FRTAKWSJI'S ANALYSES 48 9 WAS DF . carbonate of liiue and in _'iie.-ia. and 1,0!" t"iis of sulphate of lini<" and magnesia in 100,000 tons. It follows that it would take years to accumulate the quanty of snlphate of lime aud magnesia contained in -<' a water, but only 400,000 years to accumulate the carbon ite of lime aud magnesia, the discrepancy being caused bv the appropriation of the earlwnate of lime by nioHnsca. The amount of visible sedi ment broinrht down mechanically by rivers | has been calculated for the whole world from the results of Humphreys anil Ablxit lor the Mississippi, and the estimate gives six times the amount of the soluble matters. This pro duces over the whole world an amount of de nudable matter equal to 600 tons a square mile per year. Going back in all time at this rate, and allowing for coast erosion, crlaeier.-, <fcc., ilie ten miles of sedimentary -trata ma I have occupied 52(i,000,000 years in accumulation. THE value of being fully acquainted with all the important news of the day is as ap parent to every thinking man as the entertain ment afforded at the the family fireside. This can be secured in such full degree by snbscr.lv ing to our paper and receiving the Pittsburgh ll 'tikly Dispatch for the full year, and all should take advantage of the off.r. Hamburg Edgings At 2c.. 3c., 4c., 5c.. Sc., 10c., 12£ c., Inc., 20c., 25c., 30c., 3"JC., 40C., 45C., 50C., COc., 70c. and 85c. per yard, at HITTER A: RALSTON'S A M agiiiileent Family Bible. The National Publishing Company of Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta are doing a good work in this community by circulating among our people one of the most superb edi tions we have ever seen. The binding is elegant, tasteful and substantial. The press work is done in the best j style, and the paper is of the finest quality. Being determined that their Bibles shall not be surpassed by any other edition in print, the publishers have added to it an abridgement of Dr. Wil liam Smith's irreat Dictionary of the Bible. This is a complete book in itself, and would make an octavo volume of over six hundred pages. Its reputation as the be*t Bible Dic tionary is world-wide, and each sub scriber to this Bible thus obtains it free. Another prominent feature is a His tory of All the Religious Denomina tions of the World. These accounts are clear and comprehensive, and are full of valuable information. The additional matter which ac companies the books of the Bible cov ers a wide range of subjects and is ex ceedingly valuable. An accurate and detailed description of the Holy Land is given, followed by an interesting description of Jerusalem and its sa cred places. The Life of the Saviour and the Lives of the Apostles are also given at considerable length, and in such a manner as to be of great service to every reader of the Bible. The Wanderings of the Israelites in the Wilderness are related, and the Taber nacle and Temple are described with great minuteness. Another feature to which we would call particular atten tion is a series of Scripture illustra tions, remarkable for its completeness. It embraces a series of comprehensive descriptions of the Manners and Cus toms of the Nations of the Ancient World, of Biblical Antiquities, fcjeen ery, Natural History, etc., etc. Then follow a large number of chronological and other valuable tables designed to promote and facilitate the study of the Sacred Scriptures. These tables are so numerous that we have not space even to give their names. 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These magnificet Family Bibles are superior to all others that we have seen, in the following respects: They contain the largest and finest engravings. They have the richest and most durable bindings. They contain the finest paper and the best printing. They are the cheapest and most complete, and they sell faster than any other Family Bibles. The National Publishing Company's Bibles weigh from one to three pounds more than any other Family Bibles published in the United States. This is proof positive that they are more so id and substantial than any other , Bibles. It proves that they are j printed on heavier paper, and bound j with heavier and more durable ma terial. They arc published in German also. We cordially commend this Bible to our readers, and hope it may find a place in every family. It is one of the best Family Bibles ever published, and no home should be without it. The price is astonishingly low, and ! within the reach of all. It is sold by ' subscription only, aud Mr. David Wil helm, of .Jefferson township, who is the authorized agent for this section, is now canvassing for it. Grant'** Tour Around the World. Mr. Wilhelm is also agent for the National Publishing Co.'s edition of General Grant's Tour Around the World, written by the celebrated writer, .lames McCabe. The work con tains over 300 pages, is handsomely illustrated and is considered the best account of the journey that has been written. Mr. W. will call at your home or place of business. fit Heavy Bed Comforts For $1.25, at HITTER k RALSTON'S. Feed ! Feed ! Feed ! 25,000 pounds of Chop, Bran and Mill Feed for sale at Walter & Boos' Mill. This is a rare chance to pur chase feed, as we are selling it cheap. Mourning Goods, In Dress Goods, Shawls, Crapes, Crape Veils, Bonnets, Hats, Gloves, Iluch ings, <Scc., at RITTER k RALSTON'S. Rye! Rye! 10,000 bushels of Rye wanted at Walter k. Boos' Mill, to be ground into flour. 75 cents paid per bushel. WALTER & Boot*. I LEADING CASH GROCERY. Retail House With Wholesale Prices 11 ! sr<;.\KS AND COFFERS. 11 pounds best vellow Stu'nr 1 00 1" " white "A'* coffee " 100 !» " granulated " 1 00 •• " Ko«>d loose roasted CofTee 1 5 " choice " " " 1 00 DRIED VXD CANNED FRI'ITS. 10 cans Tomatoes, ijood 1 00 S " ;tlh. " best 1 00 ti " Table Peaches 1 00 " " -'lb. Green Corn 1 00 pounds choice Turkey Prunes 1 0o 1- " " dried Peaches 100 1- " " English Currants 100 1- " " dried Sweet Corn 100 FLOI'R. Attain we repeat, aud without fear of contra diction, that the "Magnolia" has no e<]ual for the money in the United States. Our "lied Ball" brand is just as good as most flour sold for patent process, while our "Riverside" is fully as good as any brand sold for choice Fam ily Flour. Red Rsll, per sack $2 00 Riverside, " 1 85 (lood Family, " 160 Common, " 1 35 Salt, in new packages. $1.60. New crop N. O. Molasses, 50@0«V. p 1 gallou. Good bright Navy Tobacco,.Vic. lb. S* We pay Cash for Butter and Eggs. WILSON .MILLER & BRO. 125 Barrel* Indianapolis Pride Flour to arrive this week. Will be sold at $1.50 per 50 pound sack or, $6 per barrel in barrels. This flour can not fail to please at the price. Sold only by the Klingler Flour House. Argument Court La9t Week. Itoessing vs. Hazlett, rule to show cause why certain credits should not be allowed. The Court, after hearing, allowed some small credits and permitted plaintiff to proceed to collect the balance of the judgment. Morrison vs. Reed, exceptions to Master's Itejiort. Argued. Stayton vs. Graham, rule to show cause. Argued, and rule discharged. Knox vs. Brown, legal question in equity. Argued. Kidiilc vs. Greer, motion for new trial. Argued. Final account of Eastman and Vrnderlin, Assignees of Charles Logne, exceptions to Auditor's report. Argued. Hood, Bonbright <fc Co. vs. Storey <& Eastman, rule to show cause. Argued. Great Cloning Sale of Dolmans, Cloaks, Blankets, Flan nels, &c., at RITTFR & RALSTON'S. .1• New .Spring Carpet*. An immense stock just received, at RITTER & RALSTON'S. Great Merit. All the fairs give the first premiums and special awards of great merit to llop Bitters as the purest and best family medicine, and we most heartily approve of the awards for we know they deserve it. They are now on exhi bition at the State Fairs, and we advise all to test them. See another column. Spring St-wing. Now is the time to do your sewing, and now is the time to buy muslins, embroideries, &c., at RITTER & RALSTON'S Dr."c. H. LEE, llomccopatliie Physieian. Office and residence iieur the Wick House. Nortli Main street, Butler. l'a. j*n7 Hide Market. S. Sehamberg, butcher, pays the best price for Beef Hides, Skins and Pelts in Bullor. < « - Whcnt! Wheat! The highest Pittsburgh market price paid for Wheat, at Walter & Boos' Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER & Boos. THE Pittsburgh Weekly Dispatch is iu all respects one of the best papers in the country, full r.f the freshest and most reliable new- procured by the most liberal expendi ture. Always a first-class paper aud a welcome visitor to the I'ainiU fireside, the Weekly Dis patch will be better even than heretofore in every Department for 1880. Its general and special news features have long been we)' known, aud as for finance, trade and market reports they will be among the fullest, most accurate and valuable published. Terms, SI.OO per annum; or in clubs of ten $lO. Address, BOOK O'NEILL k. CO., Publishers, Dispatch Iron Building, Pittsburgh. Feed ! Feed ! I' eed ! 25,000 pounds of Chop, Bran and Mill Feed for sale at Walter & Boos' Mill. This is a rare chance to pur chase feed, as we are selling it cheap. Untierlek's Patterns. Send for catalogue to RITTER & RALSTON'S. Rye! Rye! 10,000 bushels of Rye wanted at Walter k Boos' Mill, to be ground into flour. 75 cents paid per bushel. WALTER k Boos. New Grain Market. Will pay the highest market prices for Rye and Oats. MtCREA A GOLDINGER, South of Depot, liutler, Pa. IVheat! Wheal! The highest Pittsburgh market price paid for Wheat, at Walter k Boos' Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER k Boos At lO Cents and Up, Ladies' Felt Hats, at RITTER & RALSTON'S. For Sale Cheap, 50 Pure Bred Fowls, of five varieties. J. S. CAMPBELL, Butler, Pa. Wheat! Wheat! The highest Pittsburgh market price paid for Wheat, at Walter k Boos' Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER k Boos. Grain Wanted. 1 will pay the highest market price for wheat, rye and buckwheat, at my mill, south end of town, Butler, Pa. JACOB Boos. At !5 Cents and Fp, All-Linen Shirt Fronts, at RITTER & RALSTON'S. Feed ! Feed! Feed ! 25,000 lbs. of Chop, Bran and Mill Feed for sale at Walter k Boos' Mill. This is a rare chance to purchase feed, as we are selling it cheap. Kye! Rye! 10,000 bushels of Rye wanted at Walter k Boos' .Mill, to be ground into flour. 75 cents paid per bushel. WALTER k Boos. At ft 1-i Cents and Fp, Bleached Muslin, at RITTER k RALSTON'S. Wheat ! Wheat! The highest Pittsburgh market price paid for Wheat, at Walter k Boos' Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER k Boos. Rye! Rye! 10,000 bushels of Rye wanted at Walter k Boos' Mill, to be ground into flour. 75 cents paid per bushel. WALTER & Boos. TRIAL LIST FOB NPW IAI, (Ol KT—JIO.VDiV. I KKItl illY 2, IHBO, So., Term ,111' i Year. I'luintifl's Attorney Plaint *. Deft* Itrfcntlant's Attornry C. r. 430, June, 1 - s 7» McCaudless and Crosby <i W Knee et ux Allegheny Town«!iip Wl> liraudon 44 44", " 187<> .same Annie Boyle same sane 44 4, March, 187 s Sullivan Brothers II llarri> Connelly Bros Thompson A Scott " 1 1, June, I s 7!'L McQnistion 1 George Schleppy James Anderson et al KI'IN 1' M L-astmmi A. r>. 35, Mar. 188 1 same John Summers Danghertv A Devlin John M Greer K. D. 258, June, 187!> Thompson A Scott 1. Heulriek William T.ift I. McQuistion A. I>. 77, Dec., IS7: L Z Mitchell \Villia;n Leckev Calvin Jones <lrwr and Brandon C. P. 4<JO, Mar., IS7- McCandless A Greer Samuel G W Brown John Vannn=dale Thotnjwon A Seott 44 727, June, IS7« Greer and Walker John Smith Samuel Smith Mitchell anil J'leeger " 12S1, Oct. 1873 Wl> Brandon Jacob Weiland II II Barr Thompson A Scott " ."79, " 1875 John M Greer l amp A Randall II I, Taylor ACo McJuukin A Campbell " 325, " 187t> L Z Mitchell J O R Wilson (ieoree Walter, Sheriff, et al F M Kastman " 040, June, 1877 Crosby and Greer J P Gordon Thomas Jennings M N Miles " 4."?7, Oct., IS" L 7. Mitchell J Morrison Roller Co Mutual Fire Itii Co VfeCan.He**, T.V S '• s5, Jan'y lt>7? MeCaudles*. TA S \llen Wii on V fi.:t tl al livan* ar..l Mil. hell " 341, " l«r- G S Crosby e: al Naomi \l Ward et al ». SBu .4*ll it al K. Marshall el al " 132, June ls7B G A A A T Black Old Fellows' Hall A<i.- iallon J Fredley et al John M Greer " 174, " 1878 G S Crosby el nl 11 11 Say Hugh Spr«>u! I' Walker '• G4fi, 44 1878 Mitchell and Snllivans S Addleman et ux 'Borough of I'etrolin (? H Benin* 44 142, Dec., 187® same Frederick Trauible et us Herman Leaner 1. Mcijuistion " 02.", Mifr. 187(1 W I> Brandon II P MoF.lwee et al I, Wilt C Walker " 0, June, Ix 7!* Brandon and Eastman II D Thompson Harmony Savings Bank L Mctyuistion 44 1i" 1871! W D Brandon J H Jack Theodore Huselton A G Williams " 597, " 1879 JXA F S Furviance William A Duffy '.fames K Keid C Walker " 185, Sept. 1-7" J N" Pnninn F F A Wlbon 'Ftirriew Deposit Bank W H II Riddle A. RUSSELJ., I'rothonotary. DECORATIAT, TTPHOLSTSRY A SPECIALTY AT HENRY HOLTZMAN'S, 74 Wood Street, Pittsburgh. Pa. PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERER Special Denifjns msde to harmonize with sur roundings of every apart meut of your homo for Window Decorations, the richest selections and latent designs in Raw SilKc. bit ins. .lutes, Crepet '. esc. Lace Curtains, from the cheapest to the very finest of all graces at very low prices : Lace Lambrequins made to order to fit an* sized window, in tl.e verv intent designs; Comicee tr.d Cornice Poles, Dado Bottom Hl.ades in vanons designs, Bedding \ Comlorts, Pillows. Mosquito Bars, etc. ©c22-3m NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. The circulation of this popular newspaper ha- more than treble! during the past year. It contains all the le.uling news conUiued in the DAILY HEBAI.D. and IS arranged in handy de partments. The FOREIGN NEWS embraces special dispatches from all quarters of the globe. Under the head cf AMERICAN NEWS are given the Telegraphic Dispatches of the week from all parts of the Union. This fea ture alone makes THE WEEKLY HERALD the most valuable chronicle in the world, as it is the cheapest. Every week is givon a faithful report of POLITICAL NEWS, embracing complete auJ comprehensive dis patches from Washington, including full re ports of the speeches of eminent politicians on the questions of the honr. THE FARM DEPARTMENT of the WEEKLY HERALD gives the lite.-1 as well as th« mjst prac'ical suggestions and discover ies relating to the duties of the farmer, hints for raising CATTLE POULTRY, GRAINS. TREES, VEOETABI.ES, .to., Ac., with suggestions for keeping buildings a.id farming utcnuls in re pair. This is supplemented by a well-edited department, widelv copied, nnder the head of THE HOME, giving recipes for practical dishes, hints for making clothing and for keeping up with the latest fashions at the lowest price. Every item of cooking or economy suggested in ttiis de partment is pra tically tested by experts before publication. Letters from our Pari* and Lon don correspondents on the very latest f ishions. "he Home Department, of the WKIULY lIEK*LD will save the housewife more than one hundred times the price «f the paper. The interests of SKILLED LABOR are looked after, and everything relating to me chanics and labor saving is caicfuilv lßCorded. TEere is a page devoted to all the latest phases of the business markets. Crops, Merchandise, Ac.. Ac. A valuable feature is found in the specially reported prices and conditions of ' THE PRODUCE MARKET. SPOBTIXO NEWS at home and abroad, together with a STORY every week, a SERMON by some eminent divine. LITERARY, MUSICAL, DRAMATIC. PERSONAL and SEA NOTES. Tbera is no pajier in the world which contains so much j.ews matter every week AS the WUEKLY HERALD, which is genu postage free, for One Dollar. You can subscribe at any tiue. THE NEW YORK HERALD, in a weeklv form, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Adnrets, NEW YORK HRRALD. dec24-6m] Broadway A Ann St.. Now York. Union Woolen Mills. I would desiro to call the attention of the public to the Union Woolen Mill, Butler, Pa., where I have new and improved machinery for the manufacture of Barred and Gray Flannels, Knitting and Weaving Yarns, and I can recommend them as being very dura ble, as they are manufactured of pure Butler county wool. They ire beautiful in color, su perior in texture, and will be sold at very low prices. For samples and prices, address. H. FULLER ''ON. jnl24.'7S -ly) Butler. Pa For mending Tin. Brass, Copper, Lead r or Iron without acid or soldi ring iron. |Y; Anv lady or child can mend with it. M M Wiil send one sample Plate by mail - (with directions) that wiil cut 192.'* *■ n inch sqnare patches on receipt of :'5 W cents, 8 for 61, 100 for sit). (.Postage k stamps received as cash.) AGEXIS A WANTED. Can cairy one day's Stock r in vonr pocket. Sales will yield ?3 to t!lsperdHy. Our Ct pago Illustrated Catalogue of Chrouio-i. Jewelry, Nov- pBJ [ j elties. Stationery, Ac., FREE. V Address r> CITY NOVELTY CO.. Lgj I J 110 South Bth St.. Philadelphia. Pa. Mention 'his paper. k. i 13. Roe^sing, [Successor to A. C. Roessing A Bro.] DEVLER IN Groceries, GRAIH, FLOUR, PEED, OIL, —AND— Anthracite Coal. THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID IN FOR GRAIN OF ALL KINDS. sep4tf RYCKP/iAN, DAY & CO., UK SfiDSi VIHIWRDS, BROCTON, N. Y., MANUFACTCREUB OF Par© Native Wiaes, Still and Sparkling Wine. AND Brandies from Native Grapes Our wines arc put up in choice packages, nnd are guaranteed to be strndard goods and give satisfaction. «. ETZEL, Agenl, ap2-ly BUTI.ER, P/ Manhood : How Lost, How Restored. jUUtK lust published, a new ediMon ol CULVER WELL'S I'ELEBRA- I'KI) ESSAY on the nuiical cure (without mi'dieiue' ol Si'miM iTuK IJ-AFC I I-IT lor Seminal Weakness, Invol untary seminal Losses, IMPOTENCT, Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc : : lso, CONSUMPTION, EPILEPSY and FITS, induced by tell-indulgencc or sexual ext> iv.v gancc, A \ The celebrated author, in this admirable Es say, clearly demonstrates, from a thirly years' successful praerce, that the al.irmina conse queiices of -elf-abuse may be radically cured without the dmgerous usi of internal medicine or the application ol the knile , pointing out a mode ot cure t once simple, certain and effec tual. by means of which every sufferer, no mat ter what his condition mar be, may cure him self cheaply, privately, and radical///. Lecture should be lu the hands of tverv youth and every man in the land. Rent under seal. In a plain envelope, to any address, postpaid , on receipt of six cents or two postage stam s. Addres.-, the Fu' lichen. The Culveawrll Medical Co., 4; AWN ST., Ntw YOKE, P. O. to* 4586. npUM-y CARPKTS! OIL CLOTHS! MATS! RUGS! STAIR RODS ! ————— 5 = MEW STOCK! ISTEOT STOCK! > l| HECK & PATTERSON S 1 I NEW CARPET ROOM ! /j isrow oipeist i _ g One Door South of there CJothmg fCouse, o i Dnfly's Rlork, «ept2o-tf Butler, Pa, A I MIVXS iSf);l>l SSXVIV 1 iSHXO r I3 r irO isigjavo NSW BOOT! SHOE STORE, UNIOIV BLOCK, Main Street, - Butler, Pa. u.l, j. a." lla? received his entire stock of Fall and Winter BOOTS and SHOES. As I have an unusually large and attractive stock of BOOTS k 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 Boot- in endless variety, and at bottom prices. Reynolds Brothers' celebrated fine Shoes always in stock. Parties wanting BOOTS & SIIOKS made to order can do no better than by ine, as I keep none but the best of workmen in my employ. I also keep a large stock of LEATHER and FINDINGS. .eroods warranted as represented. AL. BUFF, J. & G. F. KECK, MERCHANT TAILORS, 1U«IW H'CKK BCB.-, -E- 11l 'IM.KU, fgh Have Just Received and Keep Constantly on Hand all the LATEST STYLES OF II Foreign Doiues&iic i V \:1 Which they are making up to order in the latest styles and 'M |'3 best workmanlike manner, at the most reasonable prices. All P® Ir4 '4 work guaranteed to give satisfaction. |l ! "I j pgf"Rememljer the place. J. A ii. F. KKCH, Main St., Butler, P», Time lias Come When Every One in Need of Dry Goods Goes Direct to 100 & 102 FEDERAL Having Made Very Large Purchases in the Eastern Cities Before the Late Advance in Prices Took Place, We are Able to Offer Our Goods as Low as Ever. A ven- large aiul full line of Cashmeres at Don't l»e Hlarme<l al>ont the late advance iu 12{e., I.lc. ami Domestic Dry UixiJs, we are selling everything Cashmeres, very wide, fine quality, we offer as low as heretofore . in nil colors and -hades, at 2.'*. Beautiful Dark I'rints, at 5 and CJc. ",r Bleached and I nbleached Muilins at sc..Cie. We offer an .Vll-wool ( ashmere, £joo<l unality, an ,| at 4ec., 4.1 c. and 50e. (iray Twilleil Flannel at 10,15, and Vk. At 60c., 72c. and Ssc., we arc selling an All- i All-wool Country Flannel, ouly 28c. wool French Cashmere, superior in quality to | Canton Flannel t!{, 84, 10 and 121-c. any offered elsewhere, at even higher prices. , Good Crash o, til, 8 nud 10c. " „ , , _ . , ', ~ , Table Damask 18,20 and 25c. Extra fine All-wool !• rench Cashmere, which ! Turkev Bed Table Damask, fast colors, onlv we are selling at sl, is generally acknowledged .-,0 coats." to be equal to any offered elsewhere at $1,35. We have an extra bargain in White Bed Black and Colored Silks, 55, (m, 7:>c. and >1 guilts, which we arc selling at 50, 75c. and sl. .... , ~ , , • ■„ Blankets, Colored and white, sl, $2 and #3. .. 0 J iV.'*. i v'i Vi -i, '", i s-> '' V ' All-wool country Blankets cheaper thancver. iiaiii . i v ' a • ' . " •"' . Our st«ck in Ladies'and Oents'Underwear Ls Our stock in Cloaks and Shawls is larger morc coln|) i ete tha n ever, and will be sold at than ever and embraces everything imaginable. ices wh { ch wi) , llMtoniß ' h the r , lrc h« wr . We Cloaks from $2.50 to S2O. have also very decided bargains in Cloves and Shall* from $1 to >lO. Hosiery. jjggTWe would call special attention to our very large stock of Plaids and low-priced Dress Goods, which we are selling at They are of a very beautiful design, aud some of these goods would be cheap at twice their cost. 100 & 103 IVderal Street, Allegheny. Dissolution Notice, Notice is hereby clven llint on I lie 24t!i day or November, 1 870. the linn of Miller Bros , ensrajjed in the Furniture business In the bor- OUL'II ol Butler, wns di«Rolvcd by rantual con sent, J, 11. Miller ieiiriu2. The business will hereafter be carried on under the Ilriu name ol Miller Hros. A Co.. with whom the books ol the late linn have been left for settlement. .1. MILLER, J. 11. MII.I.ER, I'. MILLER, dcclO-flt 1 N. ftULLKR. PENSIONS ! Procnred for Soldiers dimblnd in the I'. S, Bemce from any canse, also for Heir." of de ceased soldiers. All pensions date back to day of discharge, and to date of death of the sol dier. reunions increased. Address, with stamp. BTODDARDT & CO., }U)7-lral 518 E. Bt. y, W., Wafbtrffrton, D. 0. Union Mill, BI'TLER, PA. If. FlI-LERTOX, Prop'r. Manufacturer ol BI.VNKFTS, TAR«, »fcc. Alto custom work done to order, such n» carding Kolls, uiakinfr Blanket*, Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, «fcc., at very low prices. Wool worked on the t-Lares, il 4>- sired. my7-ly Kxeeutor*" Xotloc. Litters testamentary ou the estate ol VVm. W. McDonald, doe'd, laie <«1 Connoqncueaelng tp., Butler county, Pa., bavin# lo the understjrued, all pcrsous kuowlujj themselves indebted to said estate w ill please make pay inent, nni any having claims against the smn« will priscnt them duly nullicnticalcd lor settle uient. ENOS MCUONALD. THOS. 1. DODDW, Jan'-lt Prospect, Butler Co., P#,
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