s uanc AIPTIOM BATES S ?#t TPWj i3fciTMCB 3c No subscription will be discontinued until ill MT'-arages are paid. Postmaatere neglecting to notify uk when subscriber* do not take out their papers will be held liable for the subscription. S ibnoribers removing from one postoiSce to another should give us the name of the former as .veil ws the present o;Sce. All communications intended for publication in ihis paper must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, not for publication, bat as a c'laiantee of good faith. Marriage and death notices must be accompa nied by a responsible name. Address uKTI.ER CITIZKN, BUTLER. PA. TRAVELERS' GUIDE. BUTLEB, KABNB OITT AXD PARKKB BAILBOAD (Butler Time.) Trains leave Butler for St. Joe, Mlllerstown, Kr.rus City, Petrolin, Parker, etc., at 7.25 a. m., and 205 and 7.20 p m. [See below tor con nections- with A. V R R.J Tialue arrive at Butler from the above named points at 7. 5 a. m.. ana 1.55, and 6.55 p_m. The 155 train connects with train on the West Peun ro'td through to Hittsbunrh. SHENANGO AJH> ALLBGHBST KAILKOAD. Trains leave Hilliard's Mill, Butler roumy, for Harrisvllle, Greenville, etc., at 7.40 a. tn. and 12 20 and 2.20 p. ni. SlasTßd lea* e Ptitroliu at 5.30 &• in. for 7.40 train, and at 10.00 a. m. tor 12 20 tram. Return stages leave Hilliard on arrival of trains at 10,27 a. in. and 1.50 p. ra. Suae leaves Martinsburg at 9.30 for 12.30 train. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Trains leave BuUer (Butler or 1 ittobnrgb Time.) Market at 5.06 a. m., goes through to Alle gheny, arriving at 9.01 a. in. This train con i.eets at Freeport with Frecport Accommoda tion, which arrives at Allegheny at 8.20 a. in., railroad time. b.rjrre»» at 7.21 a. m., connecting at Butler Junction, without cdange of cars, at 8.20 with Exp.ess west, arriviug In Allegheny at 9.5S a. m , and Express east arriving at Blsirsviile at 11 00 a. m. railroad time. Mail at 2.36 p. m., connecting at Butler Junc tionwiibont change of cars, with Express west, arriviug in Allegheny at 520 p. tn., and Ex press east arriving at Blairsviile Intersection al 6.10 p. m. railroad time, which connects w'th Philadelphia Express east, when on time. The 7.21 a. m. train connects at Blairsviile at 11 05 a- m. with the Mail east, and the 2.36 p. m. train at 6.59 with the Philadelphia Ex press east. Trains arrive at Butler on West Peon K. K. at 0.51 a. m., 5 Of and 7.20 p. m., Butler time. The f1,51 mid 5.06 trains connect with trains on tbf Butler & Parker R. R. Sun ay train arrives at Butler at 11.11 a. m., connecting with train lor I'arkcr. Main Line. Through trains leave Pittsburgh for the Eap' at 2-56 and 8.2K a. m. 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. m.; at Baltimore about the same time, at New York three hours later, and at Washington about one and a halt homs later. PHYSICIANS.^ JOHN B. BYERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, inv2l-ly] BUTLER. PA. DENTISTS. D BOSrTXSTIL Y. 0 1# WALDRON. Grnduate ot the Phil ■ adel pbia Dental College, is prepared a II ■to do anything in the line of bis proles-lon in a satisfactory manner. Otlice on Main street, Butler, Union Block, up sinirs, apll LAN U KOH SALE. Sheriff's Sale. EDSo 178, March T. 1880. W AForqner, Atty. By virtue of a writ of Fi. Fa. iaaued oat of the Court of Common Pleas of Botler county, and to me directed, there will be exposed to pnbiic sale at the Court House, in the borough of Butler, on Friday, the fifth day of March, A. D. 1880, at 1 o'clock p m . the following described prop erty to wit: All the right, title, interest and claim of Adam BcL uer of. in and to a lot or parcel of ground situate in the borough of Butler. Bntler county, Pa . bounded and described as follows : Begin ning on Raee street at a line of lot No 6. tlience east along race street 64 feet 6 inches to line of lot No. 5: thence line of lot No. fi north 126 feet ami 6 inches to line of lot No 9; thence west aloi.g line of lots Nob. 9 and 8, 42 feet and eight inc' a. to lot No. 7; thence south along line of lot No. 7. 116 feet, to the place of beginning, and teing lot No. U ill plan of lots laid out by D. L. Hyrer aud Theodore Haseltou. Seized and taken in execution as the property of Adam Bclianer. at the snit of Adam Kirk, for use. WILI.IAM H. HOFFMAN. Short IT. Sheriff's office. Butler. Pa., Feb. 11. 18-40. —3t Assignees' Sale. The cndersluned will oflcr at public sale, on Thursday, March 4, 1880, at 2 o'clock, P. M., on the premises, located in Bufltlo township, Bntler county, Fa., SIXTY ACRES OF LASD, moie or less, bounded and described as lollowg: On the north by lands ol the lieirs ol Jacob Hej'ler et al., on the cast by a public road, on the south by lands of tbc Wcsteimau heirs, and on the west by lands of Frank Sarver et al. Title clear of incumbrances will be given. WM. BARKER, JOHN T. MARTIN, fob!ltd Assignees of M. N. Greer. FOR SALE. A handsome ?ix-room frame bouse, located on Bluff street, northwestern part of Butler. Lot 50x176. All necessary outbuildings, TERMS—Ore-third cash and balance in four equal annual payments. Inquire at this office. juul4tl Farm fox* Hale. Tlic undersigned will sell the term of Jacob Sintior, dee'd, situated in Centre township, three miles from Butler. It consists ot 175 ai res, about a hundri d cleared, the balance In good timber, two orchards, frame bank barn, Iranie house, frame wash bouse and granary It not sold in a body it can be divided without injury. Inquire ®f DANIEL HHANOR, ? J. G. MUNIZ, jatiH-2m Butler, Fa. Valuable Farm for Sale. The nndemigTied offers at private Bale the f&rrn latelv owned by Robert Oilleiaud, dec'd, late of Middlesex townnbip. containing 162 Acres, moid or lews, with a two-atory brick honbe and bank barn, hay hnttee vragon nhed and other out juildiiigc. Two good orchard* thereon. 130 aciew cleared, balance in good timber, easy of acc -h, bv about oi.e-half mile from Butler and Pittsburgh plank road and i% miles from new nairow-gaufie railroad, is well improved and in good condition, and in well adapted for dairy purposes. For terms applr to JAMES WILSON. Agent, doclTJf] 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 sale, low Inquire of W. K. FHISBEE, on the prem ises. apl6tf FORSALE. 85 will buy a one-half interest in a good ba»- iu<**s In I'iushanrh. One who knows some thing about farnilnsr preferred. An honeat man with the above amount will do well to address bv letter. SMITH JOHNS, care 8. M. James, 0.1 l iberty stret, Pltuburrli, Pa |au27-ly Administrators' Notice. Notice is hereby elven that letters of adniln -I.atr.ition have been granted to the undcrsitrued on the estate of Margaret Wilson, dec'd, late wife of James L. Wilson, « !' Pike county, Ills. All persons, therefore, know ine themselves in del ted to said estate, will plea*e n like Immedi ate payment, iud any havintr claims atrnttm the same will present them, duly authenticated, to the undersiifned lor settlement. THOMAS WII.BON, )- d , WILLIAM IRVINE, $ Adm r8 ' JeMl-4t Breakneck P. (>., Butler Co., Pa. eMSHOTsSf rr—h, melt. Box Box Cmpm »»NO ADVANCE ON OLD PRICES !«gSO All can call and see for themselves. The best of satisfaction *vill be given for CA^H. 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 J^iiidiiig;sss at Pittsburgh prices Shoemakers should come and purchase if they wish to obtain material cheap. I WALTER & BOOS, Proprietors of the Weil-Known Splendid FLOURING MILL BUTLER, We wish to inform the public that we have remodeled our Mill with the latest improved Gradual Reduction System Machinery, which i 9 well known by Millers to be the beat in existence. We can say to Farmers and Producers of wheat that it will be profitable to them to give us a trial. We claim that we can make a BETTER ARTICLE OF FLOUR, AND MORE OF IT, out of the same number of bushels of wheat than any other Mill in the county, and equal to anv first-class Mill in the city, or Western Mills. The new Under-running Mill, used for Regrinding, bought of Munson & 15 rO., Utiea, N. Y.; the George T. Smith Middlings Purifier, bought at Jackson, Mich., together with Bolting Cloths, Reals, Conveyers, &c., suitable for the Machinery, cannot be Excelled in the United States or elsewhere. This may seem an exaggeration to some, but we wish the pub lic to know that we are able to perform all that we publish, as we have given our machinery a thorough test in the presence of several good Millers and Millwrights, and it has proven even better than it was guaranteed to do. We are also remodeling our Mill for Grinding Other Kinds o£ Crrain, which will be entirely satisfactory to our customers. Farmers wishing to have their grist home with them the same day, can do so on short notice. They will thereby save another trip. WE HAVE ALWAYS ON HAND THE BEST GRADES OF WHEAT FLOUR. GRAHAM FLOUR, RYE FLOUR. Buckwheat Flour, Bolted and Unbolted Corn Meal, different kinds of Chop, Bran and Mill Feed, all of the best quality and at the LOWEST PRICES. Parties in town purchasing from us will have their orders promptly atended to and articles delivered at their place of residence. l We Pay tlfo Htyhwt market Prtoe for at) Kinds of Grain. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1880. LETTER FROM COLORADO. NUMBER -2. It is not the purpose of your writer to give a treatise on the subject of geology or mineralogy, but to relate i facts as they exist. However, to aid j the general reader in comprehending j the theory, according to which moun j tains are formed and the mineral with in them, a few cursory statements in regard to the early condition of- the globe and the agencies that produced I the varied changes on its surface, will i prepare the mind for what is to follow. It is nil accepted theory that at a j time ail matter was in a gaseous con | dition ; that it began to take a tangi ; ble form or shape by a slow process of | cooling; that those forms or atomic | elements began to take their place in the economy of the universe in rela i tion to each other according to chemi cal or elective affinity, density and specific gravity, etc.; that the heavier combinations sought a position near the centre of the earth, while the lighter near the surface. The oceans began to form by condensation of the vaporous condition of the atmosphere or ethereal envelop; as the oceans grew larger the superimposed weight grew greater, and as the cooling pro grcssd there began a slow, gradual process of foldings and flexions of the crust of the earth near the shores of the continents, from lateral pressure, aided at times by volcanic agencies, together with the power of contraction of the cooling of the seething, boiling, molten condition of the interior por tions of the earth. These foldings, tiltings, or plications followed the line of least resistance; henee, mountains were thrown up in every conceivable shape, ami to a height far surpassing to any which now appear, being eroded and denuded during the successive ages which followed, exposing to view the rocks of the earliest formation, be longing to azoic and paleozlc ages, as well as amorphic volcanic matter. During subsequent and successive long periods there has been, owing to some one of the above mentioned agencies, or all combined, a breaking through, cracking or splitting of the mountains to an exceeding great depth. These are sometimes exposed for miles, while again vents or craters at inter vals denote their existence beneath. These fissures, the now mineral store houses of nature, were filled by pro cesses varying according to the char acter of the formation and mineral combinations which they contain. The splitting and the filling may have been simultaneous, or the iatter closely fol lowing the former, and continuing for a long period of time, by volcanic agency, not only occupying the space between wall rocks, but overflowing with tremendous force, pouring down the mountain sides and spreading over vast areas, often many feet in thick ness. Again, the fumes or volatile gases, evolving or emanating from the molten mass within the earth's crust, deposit or sublimate slowly their min eral on the sides of the rocky fissures. Again, from out these fissures, or cra ters leading downward to the same, great volumes of mineral waters have flowed, boiling, seething, hissing, roar ing and emitting-with great violence, like unto the geysers of the present day. The superficial fissures travers ing the surrounding country now be come reservoirs of mineral held in so lution, and by chemical action, evapo ration, decomposition, recomposition or crystallization, the mineral becomes a solid mass from wall rock to wall rock, or, if confined by natural boundaries, would in time become a vast deposit or mineral bed; and, as the forces within grow less active, the channel through which it flows becomes nar rowed, and, when extinct, one solid body of ore of dazzling brilliancy, ex tending far into tho bowels of the earth. These now veins or lodes dip at various angles of incline, seldom vertical, and often intersect each other; the latter ma}- be due to subsequent action. The richest have a trend usu ally from the northwest to the south east, and varying from a few lines in thickness to many feet in width, widen ing as depth is obtained, and likewise increasing in value, yet frequently narrowing down and growing lean, but it is only a question of depth till nature is made to unfold her hidden wealth. By the first mentioned process the Leadville carbonates were thrown to the surface, not as carbonates, but be came so by chemical agencies in vast deposits occupying different planes of elevation. The vein matter when found and depth attained, exhibits different mineral combinations, as sulphurets of lead and silver, ch orides of silver, tel lurides of gold and silver, also native or free gold, &c. The chloride belt, or formation at Silver Cliff, was thrown up in like manner and remained exposed, show ing a vast area of volcanic disturbance, while the formation at Leadville, being niucb the same, is covered in many instances hundreds of feet by the de trites from erosions and denudations going on for perhaps ages. The Leadville carbonates are asso ciated chiefly with iron, carrying silver in all its combinations, whilst Silver Cliff's chloride or horn silver formation has for its mineral bearer the black oxide of manganese chiefly. By the third process the craters of the famous Hull-Domingo mine, ad joining the chloride belt, were filled with galena ores, simply inexhausti ble, and of almost unlimited extent. By the same process the wonderful Bassick mine, situated seven miles distant, tbe richest mine probably in the world, yielding some of the high est grade ores known, worth $50,000 per ton, was formed, but its mineral differing from that of the Bull-Domin go, being chiefly tellurides of gold and silver, zinc, blend, copper, etc. It is now apparent how placer or i free gold is deposited in gulches or in I tbe beds of streams flowing from the | mountains. The erosion, by means ■ of the atmosphere, has caused these mineral veins—carrying free gold once in molten condition, penetrating the adamantiuo formation—to beQpme £X • bttoU iu r<4ivf, wy cial action, together possibly with elec tric currents, have torn them asunder, crushed and ground them to pieces, 'liberating the nuggets, which have been carried down the gulches and de posited in recesses or amongst the gravel at bedrock. DR. J. M. THOMPSON. Silver Cliff, Feb. 18-, 1880. A FISH STORY. A Boston correspondent of the Fon 4 and Stream tells the following remarkable story. The scene is laid in Long Island, where, on the shore of a pond, the correspondent was watching the play of swallows as they skimmed just over the surface of the water shortly before suuset. "About a hundred yards out was a bed of lily pads ; and as the swallows skipped it, occasionally a good sized ripple could be seen, and sometimes a break from the edge indicating a fish there. This fastened my attention to the particular place. I had often seen cats play with swallows, swooping at thein, but the idea of fish doing the same was something new to me. Presently 1 saw a clear breach, and a fine large pickerel showed his whole size and got a swallow, too, as he disappeared beneath the water. This I saw re peated several times, and I called the attention of my companion to this novel sight. While we were watch ing we saw two large fish break at the same swallow, the fish coming from opposite directions, and each head on to each. Both missed the swallow, but, singular to relate, only one fish was seen to fall into the water, and ! neither was seen to pass the other. My companion and myself looked with wonder. There was a great com motion in the water with a continuous spattering, and a boat l»eing haudj r we jumped in and rowed to the spot, and pic ked up the largest pond pickerel I ever saw. When we had him in the boat the mystery was solved; the smaller of the fish had, in his eager ness for the swallow, jumped clear down the larger one's throat, and only the tail, to the extent of about an inch, showed. The large fish was com pletely rent asunder and killed by the catastrophe. Both together weighed 22 pounds." BOTHERING A JUDGE. [From the Detroit Xevrs.] Ever since he ascended the bench Judge Chambers has been much bothered by lawyers who want to whisper in his ear while cases are being argued. Perhaps some lawyer with a shocking bad breath has been too persistent in this direction. Be that as it may, the judge lost all pa tience yesterday afternoon, and de clared in open Court that he would not allow this privilege to be run iuto the ground any longer. He especially requested the members of the bar to let him alone, and deputy sheriffs were instructed to sit on either side of the clerk and prevent the obstreperous lawyers from climbing up the steps. This morning quite a number of young lawyers looked hurt when the deputies shoved them off the steps, and went away with faces bearing an expression of mingled astonishment and injured innocence. At length it became ne cessary for one of the deputies to leave the Court room on an errand, and while he was absent the judge held a sort of informal reception. Clerk Hosiner shoved the deputy's empty chair against the legs of the first young lawyer, who darted a fierce look at him, but shoved past all the same and began a whispered conver sation with the judge. Another young lawyer followed suit, and two more were addressing the Court from the proper place on the floor when the reporter came away. The upshot of the whole business will probably be a wire fence around the bench, with a big dog to guard the solitary opening. A SMART PARSON. —A preacher who had been preaching on trial in a country church in Northern Pennsyl vania was tackled by an older preacher and told that it would please the con gregation greatly if he would quote a little Latin, Greek and Hebrew in his sermons, as if taking for granted that his hearers understood it, when in reality none of them knew anything about those languages. The preacher was puzzled. He didn't kuow any thing of either Hebrew, Greek or Latin himself, but he was a native of Wales and thought they wouldn't know the difference if he gave th'em a little Welsh every time. So he made a Scripture quotation in his first ser mon to them, and said : "This pass age, brethren, has been slightly al tered in the translation. It is only in the original Hebrew that you can grasp its full meaning. I will read it to you in Hebrew, so that you may comprehend it more exactly," and he gave them the passage in very good Welsh. They liked it first rate, and presently he gave them some Welsh as Greek, and then some more as Latin. Then he was going to give them the Chaldaic version in Welsh, when he saw a Welshman sitting by the door, almost bursting with sup pressed laughter. The preacher didn't let on, but instead of the Welsh quo tation he was going to give, said in Welsh, "for goodness' sake, my friend, don't say a word about this till 1 have a chance to talk with you." The Welshman never told on him, and the congregation, completely deceived, called him to be their pastor.— Ex. GREATER than faith, greater than hope, is charity. In this Lenten sea son it is well to remember that true religion consists largely in comforting the distressed. A YEAR ago a Newark, N. J., mau owned a house and a claim for §4O. He went to law to recover the latter. It cost him his bouse. Yesterday be cut his throat. OLD KINO COLE is outdone. A Pennsvlvanian, more than a hundred years old, uttered "Beer!" as bis last d ing word, ToiuportUKXJ uieu s&crul4 ftot ivuii t&V. SAYINGS, AND WHO FIRST SAID TIIEM. | Many of our common sayings, so trite and pithy, are used without the least idea from whose mouth or pen they first originated. Probably the words of Shakespeare furuish us with more of these familiar maxims than any other writer, for to him we owe : "All is not gold that glitters," "Make a virtue of necessity," "Screw your courage to a sticking-place" (not point.) "They laugh that win." "This is the long and sh >rt of it." "Compari sons are odious," "As merry as the day is long," "A Daniel came to judgment," "Frailty, thy name in Women," and hosts of others. Washington Irving gives us "The Almighty Dollar," Thomas Norton queried long ago "What will Mrs. Grundy say?" while Goldsmith ans wers, "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs." Charles C. Piekney "Millions for defence but not one cent for tribute." "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his fel low-citizens" (not countrymen,) ap peared in tiie resolutions presented to the House of Representatives in De cember, 1790, prepared by Gen. Ilenrv Lee. From the same we cull "Make as surance doubly sure," "Christmas comes but once a year," "Count their chickens ere they are hatched," and j "Look before you leap." Thomas Tasser, a writer of the six teenth century, gives us, "It's an ill wind turns no good," "Better late than never," "Look ere thou leap," and "The stone that is rolling can gather no moss." "All cry and no wool," is found in Butler's "Hubibras." Dryden says: "None but the brave deserve the fair," "Men are but chil dren of a larger growth," "Through thick and thin." "No pent-up Utica contracts our power," declared Jona than Sewell." "When Greeks join Greeks then was the tug of war." Nathaniel Lee, 1692. "Of two evils I have chosen the least," and "The end must justify the means," arc from Matthew Prior. We are indebted to Colley for the agreeable intelligence that "Richard is himself again." Johnson tells us of "A good hater," and Mackintosh, in 1791, the phrase often attributed to John Randolph, "Wise and masterly inactivity." "Variety's the very spice of life." and "Not much the worse for wear," Cowper. "Man proposes, but God disposes," Thomas A. Kempis. Christopher Marlowe gave forth the invitation so often repeated by his brothers in a less public way, "Love me little, love me long." Edward Cooke was of the opinion that "A man's house is his castle." To Milton we owe "The paradise of fools." "A wilderness of sweets," and "Moping melancholy and moonstruck m.;dness." Edward Young tells us "Death loves a shining maik," "A fool at forty is a fool indeed," but, alas, for his knowledge of human nature when he tells us "Man wants but little, nor that little long." From Bacon conies "Knowledge is power," "and Thomas Southerne re minds us that "Pity's akin to love." Dean Swift thought that "Bread is the staff of life." Campbell found that "Coining events cast their shadows before," and "That distance lends en chantment to the view." "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" is from Keats. Franklin said, "God helps them who help themselves," and Lawrence Sterne comforts us with the thought, "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." Even some of the "slang" phrases of the day have a legitimate origin. "Putting your foot in it" is certainly not a very elegant mode of expression, but, according to the Asiatic re searches," it is quite a point of law; when the title to land is disputed in Hindostan, two holes are dug in the ground and used to incase a limb of each lawyer (?,) and the one who cried first lost his client's case. Fancy, if you can, some of our famous "limbs of the law" pleading in such a man ner ! It is generally the client who "puts his foot in it." When things are in disorder they are often said to l>e turned topsy turvy ; this expression is derived from the way in which turf used for fuel is placed to dry, the turf being turned downward, and the expression then means top-side turfway. Plutarch, in his life of Argesileus, King of Sparta, gives us the origin of a quite familiar expression. On a certain occasion an ambassador from Epirus, on a diplomatic mission, was shown by the king over his capi tal. The ambassador knew of the monarch's fame—knew that though only nominally King of Sparta, lie was yet ruler of Greece—and he had looked to see massive walls rearing aloft their embattled towers for the de fence of the town ; but he found noth ing of the kind. He marvelled much at this, and spoke of it to the king. "Sire," said he, "I have visited most of the principal towns, and 1 find no walls reared for defence. Why is this ?" "Indeed, Sir Ambassador," replied Argesileus, "thou canst not have looked carefully. Come with me to morrow morning, and 1 will show you the walls of Sparta." Accordingly on the following morn ing the King led his guest out upon the plains where his army was drawn up in full battle array, and pointing proudly to the seried hosts, he said : "There, thou beholdest the walls of Sparta—ten thousand men, and every man a brick!"' Ano IT four years ago Congress passed an act giving any railroad com pany a right of way through the pub lic lands to the exteut of a hundred feet on each bide of its road, with some other privileges, but excepting military, Indian, and public park reservations. A bill has now been introduced into the Senate to remove Indian reserva tions from this exception. —The earliest meution of neckwear of o*oVd CJdfej^TtcW. LEAP YEAIi IN VIRGINIA. Leap Tear is observed down in Vir ginia with a good deal of spirit and with a conscientious regard for detail which is not common in other parts of the country. In fact, there has just oc curred in the little village of Onancock, in the Old Dominion, a Leap Year ep isode which decidedly eclipses any thing that has yet been developed else where, and which is likely to have very melancholy results. There lived, it seems, in Onancock, a beautiful and accomplished voung man by the name of Brown—Benjamin Brown. Mr. Brown having, besides personal charms of a high order, the ad vantage of being of excellent family and irreproachable character, his soci ety has naturally enough been much sought during the gay season just passed, and there was hardly a night that he was not in attendance upon ball, party, or social gathering of some kind. Among those who were most as siduous in their attentions upon Mr. Brown were two spirited young persons named Louisa Wise and Margaret Dowling. Either one or the other bore the fair and blushing Benjamin off in triumph to every entertainment which occurred, and it soon became apparent, and a matter of general comment in the village, that Miss Wise and Mis Dow ling were ardent rival suitors for the fir=t place in Mr. Brown's affections. In fact, so sharp did the rivalry become that no one or two occasions the hot headed young fellows, were with diffi culty restrained from falling upon each other in public places and settlingtheir differences according to the rules of the prize ring. It may ho well imagined that this state of affairs was mortifying in the extreme to Mr. Brown. With all those little tricks and arts for which his sex is noted he endeavored to appease the anger of the by this time thoroughly infuriated rivals. Indeed, his conduct under the very delicate circumstances was commendable throughout, and, so far as can lie learned, entirely free from coquettishness or flippancy. He scru pulously avoided giving Wise more en couragement than Dowling, or Dow ling mere than Wise. If either of the two had really succeeded in awakening in his bosom emotions of a tender na ture he carefully concealed the fact; doubtless fearing to precipitate a crisis which could not fail to in a certain de gree compromise his. But it was all in vain. The blood of Wise and the blood of Dowling were thoroughly up and the explosion came. It was at a ball. The blushing Brown was swinging in the mazv dance with the dashing Wise, when suddenly Dowling, with a livid face and eyes flashing fire, confronted them. Then there followed a scene. Wise and Dowling glared at each other and clinched. Mr. Brown screamed. Confu sion and uproar followed, and it was only after a sharp tussle that the en raged rivals were separated. Miss Wise, somewhat mussed but not seri ously hurt, bore the shrinking, trem bling Brown to his home, and Dowling disappeared. But it was evident the matter was not to rest there. And it did not. Early the next morning- Miss Wise received a note from Miss Dowling asking her to call at Miss Bowling's house. Miss Wise did as requested. Miss Dowling, the moment Miss Wise appeared, seized a murderous-looking club she had in readiness and made a blow at the head of her rival which must unquestionably have ended the dispute then and there had it taken ef fect. Miss Wise fled to the garden pur sued by the bloodthirsty Dowling, and, finding a pitchfork in her way, picked it up and turned upon her assailant. Then followed one of the most appal ling duels on record. The club of Dow ling fell like a sledge hammer upon the head of Wise. The cruel prongs of Wise's pitchfork pierced the breast of Dowling. Both the combatants drop ped to the earth, only to rise and go at it with renewed fury. Time after time was Wise felled by Rowling's club, and time after time was Dowling gashed and torn by Wise's pitchfork. The battle raged with unrelenting fury until each combatant dropped in her tracks, fainting from loss of blood. When they were picked up by their horrified friends it was found that the head of Miss Wise was beaten to a jelly, and that the face, hands, arms, and breast of Miss Dowling were pierced through and through by the murderous pitchfork. Both the unfor tunate young ladies are now in a criti cal condition, and the innocent cause of their trouble, Mr Benjamin Brown, has fled from the scene. And that is the way they attend to Leap Year duties down in Old Virginia. HISTORICAL FACTS. Cards were invented in France in 1300. France abolished the slave trade, so far as in her power, in 1815. Windmills were first known in France, Spain and Germany, in 1200. Crucifixion, as a criminal punish ment, was very common four or five hundred years B. C. The first building of the Egyptian pyramids is supposed to have been about 1500 years B. C. Excess in dress was restrained bv law in England under Edward IV., 1485, and again in the reign of Eliza bet li in 1574. No wine was produced in France in the time of the Roman occupancy. The art of making wine was procured from India. Alabama was originaly a portion of Georgia. It was admitted into the Union in 1830, with a population of 128,000. Sir John Chardin, in his "Travels in Persia," says that the Persians smoked tobacco long before the discov ery of America. The habeas corpus —the people's writ of right, passed for the security of individual right—was made a law Mav 29th, 1679. Wheat sufficient for the food of one hundred men fur one day, was worth but one ahiiliuy in the year 1130, mid is ctyet tfot IVurpetHe. - | AUVKKTIMSW BATES, t C-?% era Ci, es-Jirir**- qn«i» ir. rri. n JruijUTczllMacj.rs exceeding one-fourth of * column, per inch. Figure work double these ratee; additional charges where weekly or monthly changes are uia.!e. Local advertisements 10 cents per line for insertion, and 5 cents per line ror each additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pr.b lished free of charge. Obituary notices charged i a« advertisL-raeuts, and payable when handed ill Auditors' Notices. 44 ; Executors' and Admin is trators' Notices. fS each; Estray, Caution an# Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. From the fact that the CITIZKN is the oldes' established and most extensively circulated Be publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub licat' county) it must be apparent to businees men that it is the medium they should use io advertising their business. NO. 15. DRIFT. —Clerical errors—Long sermons. —The moon is not an infinite but a fine night thing. —A water course—A series of tem perance lectures. —The general appearance of a tipsy man is dizzy-pated. —There is something high toned about church belles. —There were sounds of revelry by night. It was the cat. —What kind of wood comes nearest to making a fire ? Fir. —Walking matches ought to be pro hibited during leap year. —The baggage-man is not usually regarded as a chest protector. —Sensible men with gray heads are like kind words—they never dye. —A Utah paragraph speaks of a man who "narrowly escaped being cartridgized." —Don't play the devil when you're young lest you have to work for him when yon are old. —There are too few men following the plow in this country, and too many following the women. —"There is no place like Chicago," savs a journal of that city. That's so, and a lucky thing it is. —Au editor says that he never dot ted an i but once, and that was in a fight with it contemporary. —A watch is a modest little piece of mechanism, or why would it always keep its hands before its face ? —lllinois churches hold "tramp so ciables," in which tha rivalry is to see who can wear the worst clothes. —The beauty of a man's parting his hair in the middle appears to be that it gives both ears an equal chance to flap. —Don't judge a man by his family connections, for Cain belonged to a very good family—the best there was. —The man who accidentally sat down in some warm glue thinks there are more ways than one of getting stuck. —A little, girl being asked on the first day of school, how she liked her teacher, replied: "I don't like her; she is just as saucy to me as my mother." —The little State of Rhode Island wants to stop bribery at elections. The astonishing statement is made that 8125,000 was paid for three offices. —Bob Ingersoll, in his sarcastic way, says he has noticed that people who have the smallest souls make the greatest fuss about getting them saved. —"You promised to pay that bill yesterday," said an angry creditor to a debtor. "Yes," calmly replied the other, "but to err is human, to forget is divine, and I forgot it." —A little boy refusing to take a pill, his mother placed it in a piece of pre served pear, and gave it to him. In a few minutes she said, "Tonmy, have you eaten the pear ?" "Yes. mother, all but the pip." —"What is your busiuess here ?" asked an irate beauty of an Irish hotel servant whom she found at her door. "To answer the belles, marm," said the ready Hibernian, which won him a smile, a kiss and a shilling. —The Burlington Hawkeye says that a man never feels more forcibly how true it is that "kind words never die" than when his love letters are read out, to the absorbing interest of all present, in a breach of promise suit. —We know that "the Lord loveth a cheerful giver," but there's no use chucking a copper cent into a contribu tion box loud enough to make the folks on the back seat think the com munion service has tumbled off the altar. —When a woman is so very tired that she "can hardly hold her head up" she goes out shopping and walks about ten miles, and when a man is very, very tired he plays billiards, say eight or ten games, and walks about fifteen miles. —"Well, girls," said the mother, •'you are big enough to lie of some use. It may make you mad to tell yon of it. I am going to discharge the washerwo man. "Wring out sweet belles!' is to be the motto in this house." And visions of parboiled hands running the scale on the washboard instead of a piano flitted before the minds of those sad daughters. —A country boy, coming to school in the city for the first time, was asked by the teacher where South America was situated. He scratched his head and said: "Down in father's tater field." The teacher thereupon corrected him by telling him where it was. He looked up with a broad grin and ex claimed : "What ver asked me for ef ycr know verself?" —lt was proposed to erect a monu ment in the village square to the father of his country, and old Squire Higgins was called upon for a liberal donation. "I can't give anything this time," he said, "but you may know I always carry 'Washington in my heart." "Well," answered the man with the subscription paper, "all I can say is that you've got the father of his country in a very tight spot." —The preacher was talking to the Sunday school about the power of re ligion and the devotion of the zealous to the cause and their attendance upon the services. Finally he asked if there was anything to which people would go twice every Sunday and through the week as they did to church, when a small boy with a twisted tongue on the front seat spoke out, "Yetli, thir, a thirctis would ketch 'em every pop if they could get in free, like they do to church." —A minister wbo liad btvu roprov iug one of bis eldera for over indul gence, observed a cow going dowu to a btreaui, to take a drink, and then turn away. "There," said be, to bis offending eldor, "ie an example for you. The cow has quenched its thirst and has retired." "Yes," replied tbe elder "that is very true; but suppose another cow had corno to the other side of tbe stream and bad said, Here's to you,' there's 90 spying fcoV ftafc ti'eV amto Mw.gtoifc Ofi"