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BCTLEB. PA.
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!
GALL AT THE
Boot and Shoe Store
OF
John Bickel,
MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA.
The largest and most complete stock of Goods ever brought
to Butler is now being opened b}- me at my store. It comprises
Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
Misses' & Children's Shoes,
in great varietj'. All these Goods were purchased for CASH
in the Eastern markets, and therefore I can sell them at the
Old Prices, and
NO ADVANCE.
Lines of Philadelphia, New York and Boston Goods embrace
n 1( ) stcck, and customers can take their choice.
X Mean AVluit I ©ay:
ADVANCE ON OLD PRICES!*®#
All can call and see for themselves. The best of satisfaction
will be given for CASH*
THE MAKE, STYLE AND FINISH
of Goods in my store cannot be excelled by any other house in
the county, for proof of which a personal inspection is all that is
necessary.
Leather and Findings
at Pittsburgh prices. Shoemakers should come and purchase if
they wish to obtain material cheap.
TRAVELERS' GUIDE.
BUTLBK, KARNB CITT AND PARKBK BAILHOAD
(Butler Time.)
Trains leave Butler for m. Joe, Mllleretown, i
Kt.rns City. Petrolia, Parker, etc., at 7.25 a. in., i
and 2.05 and 7.V0 p. in. (See below tor con- J
nection- with A. V R R.J
Trains arrive at Butler from the above named ' <
points at 7. 5 a. ra.. and 1.55, and 6.55 p m.
The 1 55 train connects with train on the West '
Peuu road 'hrouirli to Pittsburgh.
SHENANOO AND ALI.EUHRNT RAILKOAD.
Traina leave Hlllinrd's Mill, Butler county, !
for HarrisvlHe, Greenville, etc., at 7.40 a. m. '
and 12.20 and 2.20 p. ra. <
Stages lea 1 e Petrolla ot 530 a. m. for 7.40 1
train, and at 10 00 a. ra. tor 12 20 train. '
Return stages leave Milliard on arrival of 1
trains at 1°,27 a. in. and 1.50 p. in.
Stage leaves M.utinsburg at 9.30 for 12.30
tnln.
p. a w. b. B. (Narow Gange.)
The morning train leaves Zelienople at C 11
Harmony 6.1« and Evausbnrg at 6.3 a, arriving
at Etna Station at 8.20. and Allegheny at 9 01.
Toe afternoon train leavea Zelieuop'e at 126,
Harmony 1.31, Evausburg 1.53, arriving at '
Etna Station at 4.11 and Allegheny at 4.46. '
By netting ,'il at Sbarpsbu>g station and
crossing the bridge to the A. V. R. R., passen
gers oil t!i« morning train can reach the Union
depot at 9 o'clock.
Trains connecting at Etna Station with this
road leave Allegheny at 7.11 and 9.31 a. m. and
3.41 p. m.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Trains leave Butler (Butler or Pittsburgh Time.)
Market at 5.0« i u. in., goes through to Alle
gheny, an ting ut 9.01 a. m. This train con
tects at Free port with Freeport Accommoda
tion. which arrives at Allegheny at 8.20 a. in.,
railroad time.
Exprets at 7.21 a. m„ connecting at Butler
Junction, without change of cars, at 8.20 with
Exp.e>-s west, arriving In Allegheny at 9.5s
a. m , and Express east arriving' at Blalrsville
at 11 00 a. ra. railroad time.
Mail at 2.36 p. m., connecting at Bntler Junc
tlonwithout change ol enrs, with Express west,
arriving In Allegheny at 626 p. m., and Ex
press cast arriving at Blntrsvtlie Intersection
at fl.'O p. m. railroad time, which connects w'tb
Philadelphia Kxpresa east, when on time.
The 7.21 a.m. train connects at Blairsville
at 11.05 a- m. with tbe Mail east, and the 2.36
p. m. train at 6.59 with the Philadelphia Ex
prei-* east.
Trains arrive at Bntler on West Penn R.R. at
ff.Bl a. m , 5 0* and 7.20 p. m., Butler time. The
s♦.sl and 5.06 trains connect with trains on
the Rutler it Parker R. R. Sun ay train arrives
nt Buile'at 11.11 a. m., connecting with train
tor Parker.
Main Line.
Through trains leave Pittsburgh tor the Eaf
ot 2.56 and 8.36 a. ra. and 12 51, 4.21 and 8.06 p.
in., arriving at Philadelphia at 3.40 and 7.20
p. in and 3.00, 7.0 and 7.40 a. ra.; at Baltimore
about tbe same time, at New York three hours
later, and at Washington about one and a halt
hours later.
PHYSICIANS.
JOHN E. BYERS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
mySl-ly] BUTLER, PA.
OENfISTS. 1
JD EJSTTISTI^"Y\
OS# W A LDRON, Graduate ot tbe Phil
■ adelpMa Denial Collegers prepared
■ Is •to do anything in the line of his
profession In a satisfactory manner.
Office on Main street, Bntler, Union Block,
an sulrs. apll
PENSIONS !
Procured for Soldiers disabled in the U. P
service from any cause, also for Heirs of de
cea»«d soldiers. All pensions date beck to day
of discharge, and to date of death of the sol
dier. Pensions increased. Address, with st amp
BTODDARDT * CO ,
*• " ~—l iWilir I f ~
VOL. xvn.
LAN [> FOR SALK.
FOR SALE.
A hantl-ome six-room frame house, located
on Bind street, northwestern part of Butler.
Lot 50x176. All necessary outbuildings.
TERMS—Ore-Ihird cash and balance in four
equal amiaal payments. Inquire at this otlicc.
janUtf
For Hnle or Rent.
Three acres of ground, large house and store
room, with nutbuildii gs. pood water at the
door, and good young orcharl. la six miles
from Butler, and a good location for a country
store. If not sold before April Ist next, will be
for rent to a good tenant. Inquire of
JOHN H. N'EGLEY.
janlli-llt Butler, Pa.
Farm for Hale.
The undersigned will sell the firm of Jacob
Sh.uior, dee'd, situated in Outre township,
three miles from Butler It consists ot 175
acres, about a hundred cleared, the balance it»
pood timber, two orchards, frame, bank bam,
frame house, Irnine wash house and granary
II not sold in a body it can be divided without
iniury. Inquire of "
DANIEL RHANOR, 1 v .
J. G. Musrz,
janl4-2m Butler, Pa.
Valuable Farm for Sale.
The undersigned offers at private sale the
farm lately owned by Robert Giiieland, dee'd,
late of Middlesex township, containing
162 Acres.
more or leu, with a two-story brick honse and
bank barn, hay house wagon shed and other
outbuildings. Two good orchards thereon. 130
acres cleared, balance in good timber, easy of
access, bv about oi e-haif mile from Butler and
Pittsburgh plank road and IX miles from new
> narrow-gauge railroad, is well improved and in
good condition, and is well adapted for dairy
purposes. For terms apply to
JAMES WILSON. Agent.
decl7tf] Bakerstown, Allegheny Co., Pa.
For teale.
The well-improved farm of Rev. W. R. Hutch
ison, in the northeast corner of Middlesex town
ship, Butler county. Pa . is now offered for Bale,
low. Inquire of W. K. FRISBEE, on the prem- ;
ises. aplfitf ,
|A| JL A competent butineM man in each {
W#%n lEb fLM con uljr in tlic U. S. tu sell tbe |
M l;rlo|w4te of Thin?* W»rlli Kaowlny" by auuacnptiob.
To »uch men, with food references, we furnish tl.e «u(tll fW*, !
and fire terns fhat will l»*nrr a worker over |IWI * Monlb. !
Addre« I.ITtUNATIOML fl U. CO, Do* 24W, tit. Louis Mo.
BANKS?
TIIK BUTLER
SAVINGS BANK
BUTL.ER. PA.
NEARLY OPPOSITE LOWRY HOUSE.
CAPITAL STOCK - 60,000.
Wm. Campbell. Jab. D. Ahdf.rson,
President. Vice President.
Wv. CAMPBELL, Jr., Cashier.
DIRECTORS
William Campbell, J. W. Irwin,
• A*. D. Aodwrson, George Weber,
. * Joseph L. Purvis.
Does a General Banking & Exchange business.
Interest p±ld on time deposits. Collections made
and prompt returns at low rates or Exchange.
Gold Exchange and Government Bonds bought
and sold- Commercial paper, bonds, lodgment
LIYEKY.
JU n. I OUIRAX,
: Livery, Sale, Feed anil Exchange
STABLE,
Rear of Lowry House, - - BUTLER, PA.
june4-ly
Livery, Feed end Sale
STABLE,
Cunningham St., neir Heineman's Bookstore,
BI'TLEK, PA.
A 'arjre number of first-clags and wife
horse* always "t- hand, iiorses l<;d at reasona
ble rates Aorses bonght and sold.
DAVID CUPPS, PROPRIETOR.
iffif Persons desiring conveyance l>j the Buss
can leive their orders at this stable.
juhSO't
S2SOU A YfcAlf
agent-. Over Of" I a;«nt« cr» now n fr •-< Si
to 'J I 5 a (lav. Send statnp f<r par iru!»r«. Ailress
AO! Ni'.s' 1!K:: 11. Philadelphia. I'l
FREE mhlM
Address AGENTS" IIEBAL:-. BOS K i miaJc!;.:.! \
AGENTS! READ THIS!
V.'e will pay Agents n salary or allow a Inr®c co.-s- ,
mission to aell f i- now .i"<l wonderful 't;-
v ntinti". V. c mean n'lial lie K.IJ.
t_y f-ani| of-< e.
AG—N'i.s' HERALD. Boxß, Phllad.lphla,Pa.
111, 11, y' I r::!l that bcatand fa.xtont-aclli! ?jf
AULiIIO pictorial Selwr!ptlon Iloolin
W A and Itlb.cfl* no tii
W Ail 1 L J ittnifiid la ti np:j Imm* "*•>, and tir
rifory being rnpidly taken. Will oiitiril any
other book (. Tiie greatest onportnnify ever u Jer: il
to peraoiifi out of employment or w\o d •-
fire to add t > tl: ir income by ens in nn li n
oraitlc a;:d prolitablp b».«inei<s. Prices re
duc d from 13 io SO p< r tent. Aildrcs*
AGEX I 6' lIiiBALD, Box B. Philadelphia, P.i.
CfTT Ifli'TS Ware at Tlnn:n u-
JLlJtfe Hirers' Coat Prieon.
The utter worthlessnt ss of the staff advertised by
a number of firms in I ew York, Cincini uti and
Boston .oorr pel st he worUl--"nowned Trem< mt Spoon
Co.. of Phi.ad. ';>!iia. to ofi -r every one sample s<-ts
of their Ve y Bi'st War.*.3 at prices mi: eh lower than
any jeweler pavs for tncra at wholesale. We make
tlifs offer for a short time simply to introduce our
goods.
The "Roue" »nd "OllFe" Brand*
Plated Ware i at following rati s : '1 a
f]>ons, SI.OO doz.; Tablespoons g.'.Prt; For!:',
f i.OO : Bitier Knives, sl.'3; S Suells, $1 To;
Pi ted Steel Knives, $2 '.5: Tipped Uernian
S'ilver Tableinonns, f-.Io: Teaspoon*. S1S0;
Plain U. !*• T..h'espooi.s, «!.r,O; Teaspoons,
sl. tO. Gods sent prepaid on receipt of mom yor
postage stnnpi.
TRBMONT SPOON CO.. P.o- B. Philadelphia. Ta
§ Simple by Jlall For 25 Oats.
Tlier »rp made J aat like any
pood Caster, go. il Pritannia
Metal, tood (.In ssand Boitles.
Every Ageut can easily sell
2,> gross of these perfeit
Toys, before Christmas. Just
theartlelefort'oanterSti rr<,
Airents and Streetmen. 1 do
ze u by Exprcxsgl.dO. 1 gruss
by Express $14.00. fli' »K»
hare a Collapsing Cop. w j.h
telescopes louetb'-r ui:d car
l>e carried in Ve.-t Pi/cVec.
Sample by Mall tic. 1 dozen
by Express 82.75. 6 do/, by
Expresss24.oo. Al 1 . tlieabove
poods are novel, attractive,
niichly polished r.nd *lll sell
rapid'". Adilress plainlv,
TUI:K» r SPO<»S co.,
B>x t!, I'Jiii.iJs:iii.i, Pa.
B. Roessing,
[Successor to A. C. Boessing A Bro.)
DEALEB IN
Groceries,
GRAIN, FLOUR, FEED, OIL,
—AND—
Anthracite Coal*
THE HIGHEST MABKET PBICE PAID IN
wCASH-W
FOB GBAIN OF ALL KINDS.
aep4tf
( F\>rmtrly 7)r. Crnirfn Kidney (Vre.>
A v« jjetable preparation anil tlie unl v rare
rrmrd,* in toe Wori'l tor BrittSit'-i Idst asi',
111 ibt'lem nn l ALI. Klilue), JLsser, aud
Urinary I>i»e «*«*s.
tS«>*Testliiipidals o;' th? highest order In proof
of, he-n Ki.iieni^iits.
Vu6' For Ih ■ I'll re of n'.ihelet, call for Wius.
nrr'% Slifr Utjtffrllsi < *.lI".
lit For the cure "■! Itnthi's He other
diseases, call for VI «nii r'» Suiv Kliltry
MIKI Uvert'uiv.
WARNER'S SAFE BITTERS.
It is the best Blr>oi Purillrr, and stimulalet
every function to im»iv healthful actiou» uud
i.s thus a benetlr la all dlneases.
It f-ures and oth»»r !tt Ernp
tion« and Diipnftes, iuelttiLOtf C'aurerm l i
reax and other Korea.
f>7ipr|iNiit, IW.ißtnrflrt oflhr Stonuirh,
i'i)liN|l|Mitlun. hi/iiiioHv iM-rAI IH*bil
it.i , etc.. ure cur»»d by the Istli«*r*. 11 U
unequaled an api>eUz» a r and regular ionic.
Bottles of two «\zv-i: price*. 50<-. u\\ \ fil.ou.
WARNER'S SAFE NERVINE
Quirkly ves Rr •tentl Sleep tothesulfprinir,
eur«'s He:i«liMbe ami prevents
a:plle|>tle flio, ..u ! relieves sfervou« I'IOV
tr.ition hroug.it on by exresMive <ir.uk, over
work, menial Bh<»<*ks, au'i other canoes.
Poworftzl PJ* it is to stop pain and si«»ihe dis
turbed Nerven, it n**ver Injures ill • sybleiu,
whether taken in small or done*.
Bottles of two sizes; prices, 50c*. an«l (»1.00.
WARNER'S SAFE PILLS
Ar» an Immediate and «cllv« utiinulns fir a
BUrcr.eu, Dr»Mpi!». LII
- BIUCIM K»r
rfc,j'i Mala, ia, T • v«r
I'ripr4'fcr».
TROTHS.
HOP BITTERS,
(A Medicine, not • Drink.)
CONTAINS
HOPS, BrCIIi:, JIASDBAKE,
DAMUliliIO\,
Aim TBF PluUfT AVI Bt«T MrWfAL Ql7Al.mW
or ALL OTUKII UltTEia.
TBCBV CUHB
All Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels,
Blood, Liver Kidneys antl Urinary Or
gans, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Female
Complaints and Drunkene**.
SIOOO IX COLD
Will be paid for a ease they will not cure
or help, or for anything impure or injurU
oua found in them.
Ask your druggist for Hop Bitters find
free books, and try the Bitters before
you sleep. T.ikc no other.
The Hop Cough Cure and Pain Relief it
0 the Cheapest, Surest and Best.
FOB BALM BY ALL PBIOCIBTB.
, HEIRT O. HALE,
; FINE MERCHANT TAILOR,
t I COB. PEJiN asp SIXTH STREETS,
f \ Pittobvryh, /*<*
BUTLER. PA., WEDNESDAY. FE RUARY 11, 1880.
NO H' A N/J THEX.
18S0 COMPARED WITH ITS HALF—CF.X
TCRV BROTHER, 1830.
[Correspondence of the Philadelphia Record.]
In the single department of travel
ling 1 facilities, what a vast change is
experienced! Then merchants de
pended upon the Conestoga wagon,
with its six Stout horses, eaeh with its
arch of bells, its feed box, tar pot and
ugly-looking dog that trotted by a |
chain between the hind wheels. All j
along Market >treet they would stand
to receive their freight, and when sup
plied would start out and over the
Market street bridge tor the West. On
the right shaft horse sat the teamster,
dressed in his brownish homespun, and
under a peculiar broad-briiu hat, and
wielding a whip of extensive lash,
which enabled him to communicate
with each member of his team without
dismounting. Out the old Lancaster
pike—up the Alleghenies—over and ;
down again on the western side, i
Week by week he would trudge along
making the roadside melodious with i
the jingle of bis bells.
Then we had a State Canal line, ■
with its snail-like motion—a slight ad- <
vance upon the Conestoga. The boats <
carried passengers as well as freight. I
A trip to Allegheny occupied about 1
four days. If you wished to extend I
your trip still further, you had to ap- :
ply to the Ohio river boats. This had >
no sruarantee as to time. Sometimes t
likely to stick now and then—and I
sometimes a stick cost you a day or 1
two more. If your ill fortune landed t
you suddenly on "Dead Man's Shoal," I
or on "Shallow l>ar," and no welcome «
steamer of lighter draft turned up to i
help you out. you might content your- i
self until Heaven, in its kindness, i
should send a fresh supply of fluid to 1
float you on your journey. In the <
meantime you might be called upon to >
help at the windlass. Your consola- i
tion would be. that the charge for the I
trip would be the same, if it took all i
summer. People were not in such a i
hurry then. Our last trip of this kind, i
from Pittsburgh to Wellsville, (>0 t
miles, took just two days and a half. I
To vary your trip, you could take a i
Delaware boat to Baltimore by the i
Delaware and Chesapeake canal, which |
took a day. Putting up there at a <
hotel for the night, you started in the :
morning by rail for Cumberland, i
From here you staged it over the great i
National road across the mountains, 1
and arrived at Pittsburgh at the end
of about three days or over. <
Then the Pennsylvania railroad i
ended at Lancaster. No New York i
and Erie; no Lake Shore and West- \
ern ; no Baltimore and Ohio, and none s
of that vast network of iron rails out <
to Chicago, to Minneapolis. New Or- i
leans, Texas and the Pacific Coast. 1
Chicago is scarcely so old as a half <
century, and Texas civilization was 1
scarcely thought of. California ran I
wild with savage Indians, and it was I
not known that gold lay hidden there.
No telegraphs, nor telephones, nor i
gas-light, nor street passenger cars. I
nor great city park—and still more,
there were no political rings in our <
city government. Our city was un- I
der Whig rnle. Our best merchants
sat in the Council chamber—William I
Morris, J. Price Wetherill, and more i
ol that stamp. The best evidence of
bis honesty was in one fact, that, af
ter serving half a lifetime in public i
position, he died worth a couple of
thousand dollars.
We have grown wonderfully in fifty
years; have learned much good and
bad. What a pitv some security has
not been discovered by which Govern
ment could be carried on with less
corruption and less taxation. Is the :
lesson yet to be learned ? Shall we
yet l>e able to perfect our system of 1
government by a just civil service as
to escape threatening dangers in the
future? _ _
DANGER 2,500,000,000,000 YEARS
AHEAD. —Our moon will tell us most
of the earth's future, unless we are
altogether astray in reading the evi- !
dence that seem to be ottered us.
Venus shows the possession of a
watery atmosphere, and is doubtless 1
fit for habitation under conditions
similar to those upon the earth. Mars
shows not only divisions into sea and
land in about equal proportions, but
accumulations of what seems to be ice ,
and snow at its poles, which decrease
aud increase apparently in the seasons '
of summer and winter. But the moon
has no water. She has no clouds and
can have no water. Her seas have
disappeared. Did she ever have
water? Did she ever pass through
such stages as our earth has gone
through Was this cold and dead
world ever warmed with life like our
earth ? We cannot doubt it when we
: see in her vast and numerous volcanic
I craters the evidences of the heat she
once possessed. She, too, must have
passed through her cooling stage.
Her clouds were condensed into the
oceans of which we see the traces still
in her depressions of surface. It is
believed that as a planet becomes old
its waters disappear from the surface,
are sucked in through crevices made in
the crust of the cooling orb until they
entirely disappear. That is a German
theory. Four times as much water as
is now upon the surface of our globe
can be, it is estimated, contained in
its interior. This, the lecturer said,
would be the probable fate of the
earth; this is what the earth might
be expected to be in 2,500,000,000,000
years.
—A physician of Creston, lowa, has
just relieved a man of a devil-fish in
his stomach. The thing taken out—
devil-fish or whatever you may call it :
—is about the size of a man's doubled
fists, of a sickly, whitish color. It had |
attached itself to the membrane of the
stomach by innumerable tendrils, arms
and suckers, like those of a miniature
octopus. The man was a sailor twenty
years ago, and remembers drinking
from a stream of water in Sweden,
since when he has Dever been well,
and of late has been a great sufferer.
( The parasite will be forwarded for ex-
I ami net ion at the next meeting of the
Society of I'hysiciaDS and SurgeoDS of
tfcw UuJU.*ti Swesj iy
THE RINGING HOCKS.
A GEOLOGICAL CURIOSITY WITHIN AN
LLOL'R'S RIDE OF PHILADELPHIA.
[Reading Times and Dispatch.]
A few davs ago a representative of
the Time# and Dispatch paid a visit
to the geological wonder known as the
Hinging Rocks, in Montgomery
county. ltinginij Hill, as the people
there call the eminence on which the
celebrated rocks are found, is on the
farm of Abraham Mensch, in Potts
grove township, three miles northeast
of Pottstown. The ringing rocks
cover a space of about three-quarters
of an acre. In this tract boulders are
piled upon boulders of all shapes and
forms, and so promiscuously arranged
that considerable agility is required to
walk over them without falling. As
one steps from rock to rock, a ringiug
sound, produced by the nails in the
boot-heels,is plainly heard. On tap
ping the stoues with a hammer quite
remarkable acoustic properties are re
vealed. Some of them give forth a
rich, full tone which would probably
vie with the best bell metal if the
stones were fashioned into bells. One
of them in particular, from its depth
of tone, is known as the State House
bell. This was at onetime among the
largest of the rocks. It has been
broken off, however, but still has pre
served its strong, full tone. The
general sound produced by striking
the smaller stones resembles that of a
blacksmith's anvil, some having a
little clearer ring than others and no
two sounding just alike. In passing
from one to another of the larger rocks
one is reminded of tapping of car
wheels by the train inspectors. Thous
ands of people visit this natural phe
nomenon every summer. The rocks
themselves bear evidence of this, the
edges being battered off by hammer
strokes, and the sides cf many having
names carved upon them. Some par
ties, who were unwilling to take the
time or trouble to chisel their names
upon the rocks, have resorted to paint
and considerable daubing has been
done in various colors. The adver
tising fiend has not failed to put in an
appearance ; and we are made aware of
the merits of patent medicines, of the
place to buy carpet, and the like, upon
every hand. We have not heard any
satisfactory explanation of the cause
of the ringing or the bell-like sound of
these rocks. Some say it is owing to
there being a cavern under them
This, however, can have nothing to
do with it, as when the rocks are re
moved they still have the same sound.
One large and sonorous boulder was
taken to the Centennial and attracted
a great deal of attention there. An
other was sent to England a year or
two ago. There is probably a me
tallic substance in this group of bould
ers to which the ringing sound may
be attributed. We have not heard,
however, of any geological analysis
being made. Half a mile east of the
Ringing Rocks and in the same range
of hills, there is another group of
boulders which are much visited.
Here a lofty pile of rocks surmounts a
cavity of considerable depth, the whole
being known as the "Stone House."
Near by the stone house is a huge
boulder, some fifteen or twenty feet
high, which, from its peculiar contour,
is called the "Hay Stack." Besides
their acoustic qualities there is an
other singular circumstance about the
Ringing Rocks which visitors rarely
fail to notice. Many of them have
very strange marks or indentations.
At some points these resemble the
track of a horse's hoof. Others are
like the track of a wagon. Some of
the larger indentations an; said to re
semble an elephant's foot, and fac-sim
iles of the human foot are claimed to
be found among the smaller ones.
ONE week from next Sunday
will be the twenty-second of February.
One hundred and forty-eight years ago
—on the 22nd day of February, 1732
George Washington was born. He is
properly styled The Father of His
Country. It is truly said of him that
he was First in war, First in Peace,
and First in the hearts of his country
men. Of uninspired men, history has
produced no more sublime character.
Ever since the death of Gen. Wash
ington it has been customary to cele
brate the anniversary of his birth.
This is usually done by suppers, balls,
and other festivities in the evening of
that day. There is a particular reason
why the day should be generally and
universally observed this year. For
the first time in the history of the
country a man has made his appear
ance on the stage of public affairs so
craving, so greedy, so insatiable in his
ambition, that all the military honors
enjove.l by Washington,' with even
higher mil'tary rank, and two full
terms of the Presidency —the same as
held by Washington—do not appease
his hunger for place, but seem only
to have whetted his appetite for office
and power. He is now a candidate for
a third term, being the first man ever
in the White House who has presumed
audaciously and contemptuously to
turn his back upon the grand example
set by the Father of His Country.
There is nothing more lofty in human
conduct than the setting of the seal of
condemnation, by George Washington,
upon the doctrine of permanency in
office. Let all who properly appreciate
this great act, all who would do honor
to the name of Washington, all who
would preserve our free institutions in
their pristine purity and simplicity,
protected by the early traditions which
surround them, unite in celebrating In
appropriate festivities the approaching
Twenty-second Day of February.
Above the names of all Kings, of all
' Emperors, stands the simple, plain,
untitled name of George Washington.
Above their distinction rises his fame.
11c is more illustrious than they. They
have been for themselves; he was
always for bis country and mankind.
—The reception of Gen. Grant in
Cuba was Dovel in the extreme. In
stead of being greeted with the thun
ders of artillery he was treated to a
real first-class earthquake. This is the
'[latest aud most demonstrative manner
THE MYTHS OF MASONRY.
A MEMBER OF THE ORDER WHO BREAKS
ITS EMBLEMATIC TOOLS.
[New York Herald.]
Col. Thomas Picton was appointed,
in 1803. Secretary General of the Ce
lestial Empire of the Masonic Order of
Memphis for America. He said that
the da}- f;;r secrecy in Masonry in
America is past. In a land in which
there was an established religion se
crecy was necessary, but iu America it
is a detriment to the order "Indeed, I
fancy that Masonry does not exist iu
America—that is to say. as it should
exist—for here it is a Wnevolent soci
ety, not a philosophic institution. In
stead of stimulating inquiry, Am ricans
who style themselves Masons thr \v a
veil over the truth. They beg-in with
myths and legends and add to them
with every successful degree, and the
higher they go the more lies they tell."
The Colonel threw in the parenthesis
that probably there are not in the
I nited States six Masons who are re
ally educated in the history of their or
der. Then he added : "The origin of
modern Masonry can be attributed to
Lord Bacon. In the new 'Atlantis'
there is a description of Solomon and
his house, and it is there said that the
King set apart different days for pros
ecuting the arts and sciences The new
'Atlantis* was excessively popular
among the learned men of Bacon's day,
and they tried to establish a society,
taking Solomon as an exponent of wis
dom. It was encouraged by the Court
of James I. and bis successor. Charles
1., until the revolution broke out.
Then the royalists, after the death of
Charles 1., reorganized their society
for religious and political motives-1
the religion for the re-establishment of
the church, the politics for the restora
tion of the monarchy. Next they in
vented what is called the legend of the
third degree. Hiram Abiff was the
murdered monarch. Hiram, the King
of Tyre, was the King of France. Sol
omon was the Church. Hiram's three
assassins were the three kingdoms,
England, Scotland and Ireland. The
Ma sons of that day,who were the con-1
spirators—the Jacobites—were neces
sarily a secret society. They called
themselves, as the Masons of the Eu
ropean Continent do to the present
day, the Sous of the Widow, inasmuch
as the King had been beheaded and
his son had not been recognized. After
the Restoration the leading men of the
movement formed the Royal Society,
which exists to the present day, and
they openly continued the work of the
house of Solomon. The Jacobites in
France continued their benevolent or
ganization. In England, immediately
after the Restoration, a number of
those who had been previously affili
ated conjoined with agiuid of so-called
operative Masons, a body of freemen of
London, meeting in Mason's lane.
They then became Free and Accepted
Masons. In 17W there appeared to be
four lodges in London. They met at the
Appletree Tavern, placed the oldest
Mason in the chair aud proceeded to
organize a grand lodge, electing Sir
Christopher Wren Grand Master.
From that body originate all the Ma
sonic lodges in this country.
"Of late years on the continent of
Kurope, and in France particularly,
earnest endeavors have been made to
divest Masony of all its fabulous le
gends and historical orrors " In con
clusion i 01. Picton said that the
square and compass were rejected by
all intelligent Masons long ago, the
All-Seeing Eye within the triangle be
ing the recognized emblem, and that,
whatever the symbols may prorve to
be that are on the stones that upheld
the obelisk in Alexandria, they will
not prove that Masonry as we know it
existed among the ancient Egyptians.
NOTWITHSTANDING tie fine crops
that during the past year blessed the
West as a whole with abundance and
returning prosperity, certain parts of
it, esjHiciallv along the frontier, are at
preseut sadly pinched. Early last
week Gov. St. John, of Kansas, tele
graphed Jay Gould that great destitu
tion prevailed among the farmers of
the frontier counties of that State,
especially those of Sheridan, Grove
and Wallace counties, owing to a fail
ure of en ps through drought last year.
Gould telegraphed a remittance of
00, for which a couple of car loads
of flour and meal as well as a large
supply of bacon were promptly for
warded as an immediate installment.
The present distress is by no means a
novel experience, however, as it has
frequently happened that that State
has had to save recent settlers from
starvation in frontier places, owing to
shortage or entire failure of crops
Experience seems to demonstrate that
the immigrant to the Far West, with a
family dependent upon him, should
have capital enough not only to build
some sort of a home and plant the first
season's crops, but also to bridge over
the second should the crops of the first
prove failures. In a thinly settled
country little help can be expected
from distant neighbors all equally
pinched, while work whose wages
might eke out a short harvest, is hard
to find and poorly paid.
A STORY is told of five children liv
ing in Colorado who give promise of
making energetic as. well as accom
plished members of society. There
were live of them in one family, their
ages varying from six to fifteen years.
They wanted an organ, anil promised
to earn the money for one if their
father would buy it The bargain
was made, and thirty-six chickens and
an acre of land given them as a capital.
The ground was planted with onions,
and yielded the remarkable crop of
three tons, for which $145 was re
ceived. The net receipts from the
chickens was $55, making the total re
ceipts S2OO The organ cost sllß,
leaving a balance of !>B2 still in the
children's treasury. Parents can not
educate their children better than to
devise similar plans for teaching them
, industry and the value of money.
—lt is just as easy to praise an old
woman as a young one, and it doea an
ofd «w'e Ovid* W BWolj
II 'A SUING TO A 7' S Ji IB LE.
SOME VERY INTERESTING STATEMENTS
CONCERN INO IT AND TIIF. CHVBCH.
f Corespondcnee Washington Post.]
Old Christ church, Alexandria, is in
possession of the family Bible of Gen.
Washington. His name is written
therein by himself: "George Washing
ton. Mount Vernon, 1794.'' On the
same fly-leaf appears, "Presented to
the Vestry of Christ Church. Fairfax
parish, by George Washington Parke
Custis. April <>, 1804." And then fol
lows, in Mr. Curtis'handwriting,''The
Family Bible of George Washington,
used at Mount Vernon.'' Application
was made to the vestry, on behalf of
the Mount Vornon assoeiatiou. to pur
chase this r>ible, to be kept at Mount
Vernon. The church being in debt, and
this valuable and interesting relic not
being very safe in the church building,
the vestry were disposed to listen to
the proposition. This led to some dis
cussion in the Alexandria Gazette. In
a communication in that paper of Dec.
30, over the rector's signature, he
says: ' In their financial needs, caused
by the repair of the building, which
even now is suffering through the lack
of funds, the proposition to buy the Bi
ble lor the Mount Vernon Association
was presented to the vestry bv request.
Necessity, and no desire to remove an
ancient landmark, caused the favorable
consideration of the proposition." The
facts are, that during the past five
years the small, and by no means
wealthy congregation of the church,
has expended in necessary improve
ments and repairs a sum amounting to
nearly *IO,OOO, all of which lias
been paid, excepting the present debt
of about SI,OOO. After such a heavy
exj>enditure, the payment of this debt
bears heavily upon the congregation,
and they are very anxious it should
be diseharged, and speedily. The
church has been already taxed to the
extent of their ability. The current
revenues are barely sufficient for cur
rent expenses. Christ church is consid- 1
erably over a century old ; it is the
church in which Washington and his
family worshiped—in which as a ves
tryman he'oceasionally read the service
to the congregation, and in which his
pew still remains of the same size and
form as when occupied by him. It is
unlike any other church in the State or
country, and is, to speak, the property
of the whole country, and should be
sustained by all as a link more nearly
binding the past and present than any
other building in the country, and it
should be kept in repair and good pre
servation. The above facts present an
appeal for aid in paying off the debt of
the church which we think irresistible,
and we trust will be liberally re
sponded to. As regards the Bible of
Washington, we believe the vestry are
willing to loan and deposit it at Mount
Vernon, in charge of the Ladies' asso
ciation, where it will be safe and acces
sible to all. Contributions may be sent
to the rector, the Rev. Henry Suter ;
or to the treasurer, Mr. Jackson Ent
wisle, Alexandria, Va.
THE deep interest excited in Wash
ington by the mission of M. de Lesseps
to the Isthmus and his resolute initia
tion of his gigantic project is proper
enough, for the enterprise is one to
which the American government and
people cannot be indifferent. But we
see no occasion for a great display of
undignified bluster. The intimations
of the possibility of an early war to
resist French pretensions, however
warmly or unanimously approved in
Washington, strike us as inconsiderate,
not to say bumptious. A war with
Frauce in relation to the Istmus
would necessarily be a naval war, and
our navv consists of a wretched set of
dilapidated, useless hulks. Nothing
is so feeble and foolish as for a govern
ment to go into hysterics and put forth
threats which it is no condition to ex
ecute. We can of course, create an
efficient navy; but that requires a
little time, ami until we have one the
less idle bravado the better. Besides,
it is ridiculous to think that we need
to threaten Frauce with war as a
means of frustrating the Lesseps en
terprise. M. de Lesseps cannot tro far
without capital, which is yet to be
subscribed, and capitalists have too
keen a sense of their interests to hagard
their money in this undertaking with
out an American guarantee. With
out a pledge of protection from the
United States there would be no se
curity <>r their property beyond the
period required for the completion of
the canal.
Cor.. QUAY has purchased the bat
tle flag carried by the first regiment,
Pennsylvania Militia, mustered into I
the Continental army for service dur
ing the revolution, and proposes add
ding it to the collection of battle flags
in the Capitol at Harrisburg. It is
thus described : It is of silk that
evidently once possessed an orange
hue, but has faded into a yellow
brown. It is five feet long and about
the same in width. In the center is a
piece of red silk two feet square, on
which is painted and worketl the figure
of a soldier standing with poised
spear above a crouching lion. Be
neath this is the inscription, "Domaui
Voto ." (I will not be subdlied.) On
the back of the flair is pasted a copy
of the Boston Christian Rer/Mrr,
dated March 2nd, 18:).'!. On this is
written, by the father of W. S. Robin
son, the following: "This is my
father's Revolutionary flag, who was
Colonel of the First Pennsylvania
Regiment, under General Wavne. He
served in the war seven year* and
four months; was wounded in the
arm, leg, and had part of his heel shot
off; had three horses shot from under
' him." The flag is very dilapidated, j
and the greatest care is necessary in
handling it to preveut it from falling
to pieces.
—A college professor once tried to
, convince Horace Greeley of the inesti
i raable value of classic language. The
professor said: "These lauguages are
the conduits of the literary treasures
of antiquity." Mr. Greeley replied :
I "I like Croton water very well, but it
L doesn't follow that 1 should eat a yard
i twb trip**"
APfEBTISISG BATES,
One square, on* insertion, 91: each robe**
quern insertion. 60 cents. Yearly adTertisetnents
exceeding one-foiirth of a column, #5 per inch.
Figure work double these later; MillHofttl
charges where weekly or monthly change* are
made. Local ath erf foment a 10 cents per line
for flrrt insertion, anil 5 cent* per line for each
additional insertion. Marriage* and deaths pub
lished free of charge. Obituary notices charged
a * advertisements. and payable' when handed in
Auditors' Notices. W; Executors' and Admini*
trstir*' Notices. $3 e«oh; Estray, Caution and
Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten line*,
each.
From the fact that the GITIZKS is tli* oldea*
established and most extensively circulated Re
Eublican newspaper in But!er county, (a Repot
can oouiuyj it must be apparent 'to buaiuee*
men that it is the medium they should use is
advertising their business.
NO. I*2.
A QUESTION OF DENOMINATION. —
It was at the postoffice in Ithica, N.
V. The demoiselle was buxom, bash
ful. aged is, and hailed from Berry
town. She wanted a dollar's worth of
stamps. "One dollar's worth," re
peated the smiling assistant; "ofwhat
denomination ?" The damsel showed
symptoms of embarrassment and hesi
tated to reply. She twirled her shawl
fringe nervously, cast her eyes about
to see if any on<j was near, moved a
little closer to the window, and finally
asked in atiimorous voice: "Do you
hef to write it down ?" "By no
means," answered the courteous as
sistant ; "that is not necessarV; but I
presume you have some preference as
to the denomination?" "Ah-well-yes,"
replied the stranger, her face turning
scarlet, "I hev some. I generally go
to the 'Piscopal Methodist myself, but
the fellow I'm buying the stamps for,
he's a Universal Orthodox."
How TO CATCH CROWS, SKUNKS
AND FOXES. —Here is a bit of evolu
tion study. Our friend, Mr. A. W.
Hubbard, of Magog, P. Q., is in a
muddle. We do not wonder at his
soul's perplexity. Mr. Hubbard set
his traps for foxes. He found them
full of skunks. Urged on by the mar
ket quotations of skunk pelts he ac
cepted the situation, removed the un
savory prey, and set the traps for
more. Then came a new surprise.
Set for foxes, the traps caught skunks;
now set for skunks they caught only
crows. The baffled trapper could not
eat crow ; so, accepting the belief that
the traps were bewitched, he set them
for the birds, and—of course caught
foxes.
—The best way to pass counterfeit
money is to pass by it, and let some
other fellow shove it without knowing
what it is.
—A girl at Leslie, Neb., married a
dentist, got twenty-one bad teeth fixed
up in good shape, and then coolly left
him and began looking for a man she
could love.
—Two ladies are discussing a third,
who is, of course, absent. "She is
really charming," says one, "and above
all, she has such an air of intelligence."
"Yes," answers the other, "but there
are no words to that air."
—The papers are always ridiculing
the man who parts his hair in the mid
dle. Yet that class of men never read
the papers at all, but glean all their
information from the wrappers around
packages of cough candy.
—Henry Clay is postmaster at
Jamestown, Va., the oldest postoffice
in the old thirteen States. "Letters
have been delivered there in some
form or other for 28 » years, and yet
the salary is only ssl per annum.
—No one knows who invented the
fashion in society of turning down the
corner of a visiting card; but the fash
ion of turning down the corner of a
street was first thought of by the man
who owed a small bill to the trades
man ho saw coming.
—The London Times pays five
guineas a leader and three guineas for
other matter, but these are only its
regular business rates; for an article
of special merit or happy suggestive
ness or the like is rewarded with a
check for ten, twenty, or even fifty
guineas. Of course it has its special
staff, one of whom receives £2,500
and another £2,000 a year.
—The New York Express thinks it
must be a little discouraging to good
people to see men and women, who
haxe tried a dozen different professions
and failed in all, reform and give tem
perance lectures or start out as evan
gelists. But this is a wicked thought,
for, if there is joy among the angels
over repentant sinners, why should
good men decline to join in it ?
—One of the meanest things on
earth is a toadv. The bluntest, rough
est, creature that independence ever
made is preferable to a fawning, cring
ing toady, who, for the sake of money
or favor, praises what he detests, flat
ters without admiring, ehanges his
opiuions at a nod, and would lick the
dust from the shoe of one in power
could he further his own ends thereby.
—A man and woman of Phoenix,
N. Y., decidedly on the down-hill of
life—he was sixty and she was sixty
live—could wait no longer to be mar
ried, and started for the clergyman's
house in a sleigh. On the road they
met another clergyman, and, with a
rare and beautiful enthusiasm, re
quested him to perform the ceremony
on the spot. They stood up in their
sleigh, the minister stood up in hiß,
they were pronounced to be man and
wife, and a pair of frisky horses with
their sleigh-bells furnished the wed
ding music.
—The conductor of a train on the
Union Pacific Railroad charges that a ,
fly having alighted on one of the
glasses of the engineer's spectacles,
the engineer thought it was a buffalo
on the track ahead, and turned on the
air brakes to avert a disaster. The
engineer retorts that one night the
conductor saw what he thought was
the headlight of an approaching loco
motive. He kept his own train wait
ing a while, and then somewhat con
fusedly, started her. "He is the safest
man i ever ran with," says tho engi
neer. "Venus is millions of miles
away, and he waited twelve minutes
on a side tuack to allow her to pass."
—V Frenchman, who has recently
written a book on the city of Berlin,
says that at least 100,000 of its popu
lation are socialists; that it has no
sewers or drainage, and is a breeding
bed of malaria; that owing to dust
and the excessive use of tobacco every
secoud person is spectacled; that its
lower orders are of the most depraved
and its theatres corrupt and licentious;
that its press is venal; that the people
are polite theoretically, but the reverse
practical'y ; that the women are dow
dyish in dress, big-footed, and 90 much
addicted to beer drinking (bat tlwjr
soon becomo as stout ae the men. 0e
says much more in same strain,
but as he is possessed of all a French*
I man's prejudice for bis conqueror, bin
utterances roust be taken with a large
pinch of salt. He admires but two
I things ; n Berlin—its zoological collec
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