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Notice— KaUte of Bernard Roea
"ing.
Local and General.
How DOES your new home suit you ?
THE biggest thing on ice this sum
mer will be the price.
IN some parts of Nova Sootia cattle
are dying for want of food.
SYRACUSE Herald: Beaconsfield
knows what hit him. It was a Glad
stone.
THE Supreme Court has decided that
farmers have a right to work out their
road tax.
JOURDAN ETTH, of this place has
been licensed to sell ale and beer by
the bottle.
GRAND JCRIES in all parts of the
State are indicting township supervis
ors for neglect of duty.
EVERY one will find a general tonic
in "Lindsev's ImproveJ Blood Search
er." All druggists sell it.
THE Erie man who went crazy over
the fifteen puzzle has recovered his
reason, what there was of it.
MR. JAMES HAY, one of Centre
ville's oldest citizens, died suddenly
from a stroke of apoplexy, at his resi
dence, last Wednesday noon.
A MAIDEN lady of our acquaintance
has resolved to change her name to
"Conclusions," having heard that men
sometimes jumped that way.
CHICAGO hotels are preparing for
Convention, and one hotel clerk has
purchased a diamond of six-horse
power and ten inch focus.
ADAM ALBERT, of Franklin town
ship, was in town last week and called
and paid his subscription to the CITI
ZEN in advance, for the twelfth time.
IT seems odd to read that railroad
trains are blockaded by snow storms in
Texas. The weather "on the American
continent seems to have turned topsy
turvy.
NINE tons of wild pigeons were
shipped by the Union express company
one day last week, from Sheffield and
Kane, Cameron county, to the East
ern markets.
IMPORTANT TO YOUNG MEN—If you
want a Stylish Hat, send for Illustrated
Circular and Price List, free. J. G.
BENNETT'S HAT HOUSE, 119 Wood St.,
Pittsburgh, Pa„
MAJ. MOBLEY, of Parker, who was
last week so severely injured by an
elevator in that place, an account of
which will be seen elsewhere, is, we
are glad to learn recovering and out
of danger.
SICK headaches incessantly distract
many. Let such use "Sellers' Liver
Pills." 25c. a box.
A MAN by the name of Adams
claims to have discovered a process for
making iron direct from the ore, which
will, it is claimed, produce a revolu
tion in the manufacturing interests of
this State.
"THE grass is turning green," was
the observant remark of a young man
escorting a pretty damsel across the
field, and the saucy miss replied that
he had got ahead of the grass by a
number of days.
THE train on the A. T. & Santa
Fee, R. R., having on board those of
our former citizens who started last
Wednesday morning, was ditched at
a point near Pueblo, Col., but none of
our friends were hurt.
Nor content with irreverently cal
ling Hon. Mr. Tilden the "Trickster
of Cipher Alley" the scandalous Kelly
crew now jeeringly refer to him as
"Old Buchu." This is a very painful
instance of unregenerate impiety.
THE recent decision of the United
States Circuit Court holding that a
State may impose a tax on commer
cial travellers without violating the
federal constitution is one of no little
interest to the commercial world.
A TOMBSTONE in the graveyard of
the Great Valley Baptist Church, in
Chester county, bears the following
inscription :
"Some have children and some have none ;
Here lie* the mother of twenty-one."
THEY have the strong Government
idea in full operation in Burmah.
There is also prevalent in that favored
land the "continuity" which the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher thought it
would be advisable for our Govern
ment to have.
THE coin collecting craze has re
vived to a wonderful extent. Ama
teurs who think it is an easy matter
to gather a good collection of coin,
should inspect John Campbell's valua
ble lot and learn bow difficult it was
to get them together.
"MERIT will win," is illustrated by
the rapidly increasing demand for
DAYS KIDNEY PAD.
ADMINISTRATORS, executors, audi
tors and all others having accounts
unsettled, will greatly oblige us by a
prompt settlement of all their bills.
They will please bear in mind that if
these accounts are not settled before
the closing of the estates they will be
individually liable therefor.
THINGS are not evened up correctly.
Hundreds of tramps pass through But
ler every winter who bare walked
thousands of miles and never got a cent
for it, while one man in New York
carries off $17,000 for walking five hun
dred and sixty five miles.
WOULD-BE suicides continue in
their attempts in all parts of the State,
and the means they adopted to shuffle
off this mortal coil are very aingular.
A drunken man along the Lehigh
canal the other day attempted to end
his life by swallowing large numbers
of buttons, and he waa nearly success
ful.
A VERY large business ia done at
the Union depot, Pittsburgh. On the
Pennsylvania railroad there are about
56 accommodation and 90 through
trains arriving and departing daily.
There are also on the Pittsburgh, Cin
cinnati and St. Louis, 99; Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad,
5!5; Allegheny Valley railroad, 20;
Pittsburgh, Viooeoo®# &od Chicago
nttTNttr &
THE Venango Citizen jays that
Thomas Hunter, of Canal township,
last week, cut six and one-half corils of
stave bolts, thirty-five inches in length
from one oak tree. The tree was five
feet in diameter at the base, and sixty
feet to the first limb. The bolts were
worth $35.75
FARMERS, don't forget that the I>ia
mond Iron Plow is still to the front, and for
Sfllf Jjy JACKSON MIT( HKLL.
THE Missouri and Kentucky Repub
lican Conventions instructed for Grant ,
last Monday. Missouri aud Kentucky
will count fifty-four votes toward
Grant's nomination at Chicago; but
they will count at least a hundred
thousand majority for the Democratic
candidate on election day. So the
third-term campaign goes on !
MILLIONS of dollars are now being
expended in the manufacture of glu
cose sugar. It is made of corn starch
and Bulphuric acid, a poison. We hope '
none of our grocers will be fooled by it .
or attempt to fool their customers with i
it. The manufacture of such stuff is a
proper subject for Congressional in
vestigation and interference.
WHITE COCHIN eggs for setting can
be had of Howard Reiber.
HERE'S an opportunity for strong
minded females : A rich old bachelor
residing in Erie. Pa., offers SI,OOO to
any woman in the United States, who
runs about attending to men's
or taking an active part in church,
temperance or political issues, who
can, when at home, prepare for her
husband a respectable meal.
THE millers ore to have a conven
tion at Cincinnati on May 30. Ihe
opening hymn will be "This wheat
buy and buy,"' and the exercises will
close v\ itb the ode "Oats wheat to be
remembered." Tilden's Cincinnati
Convention will have only one barrel
but the millers' will have a "grist" of
them.— Norristoicn Herald.
LADIES' Solid Gold Watches at sls
and upwards, at E. Grieb's.
WORTH LOOKING AFTER. —One of
the most finely illustrated papers pub
lished is offered free for one year by
the publisher to any agent or person
wishing light and lurcative employ
ment. provided his "Full Particulars
Free" do not amply compensate for
writing to S. S. Wood, 252 Broadway,
N. Y. City. Only the address on a
postal card is required.
TROUBLE is anticipated in Forest
countv, owing to the appearauce there
of men from Ohio and other States to
trap wild pigeons, which is against
the law of Pennsylvania, a penalty of
SSO being attached to such an act, un- ;
less the trapper has license from the
county. The Warren County Sports- i
men's Club has taken the matter in ,
hand.
WILLIAM AUAND, Merchant Tailor,
has just opened theiargest line of woolens for
men and boys wear ever offered in Butler.
A WAR vessel is now under orders
for Venezuela, and it is understood
that she is to begin carrying out Sec'y
Everts's recommend tion to "employ
coercion" in collecting' the Venezue
la claims. By keeping on we may
soon have plenty of war business to
transact with the Republics to the
south of us.
WE read in a New England journal
that the manufacture of hatchets is
verv lively, and at the same time we
read in an Illinois paper that very
many cherry trees are being planted
in the West. But the trouble is that
with so many politicians in the coun
try if the hatchets get at work on the
cherry trees nobody will ever know
who cut them down.
METAL Plow Points, of all kinds,
for sale at the Hardware Store of
JACKSON <FC MITCHELL.
THE Philadelphia Presa of a recent
date says that Somerset county is the
great horse-producing county of West
ern Pennsylvania; that it furnishes
more horses, and they demand better
prices, than any other county in the
State." The Press is mistaken. But
ler county shows a much better record,
in the horse line, than Somerset or any
other county in the State. This is an
admitted fact by all dealers.
LAST Thursday Messrs. Steinman
and Ilensel, the lawyer-editors of Lan
caster, who were recently disbarred
by Judge Patterson, filed with the
Prothonotary at Harrisburg a writ of
error to the Supreme Court. Appar
ently they do not intend to allow Pat
terson's most outrageous action to go
unreviewed by the Supreme Court
any longer than is possible.
A SOLID Silver Case and a Genuine
American Movement as low as *lO, at
E. GEIKB'S.
A HEARD of 23,800 cattle are being
driven from Oregon to Montana; 120
mounted men do the driving, and the
outfit includes provision wagons, arms
and ammunition, 800 horses und forty
dogs. The journey is rua«le slowly, a
day's travel not exceeding nine miles,
and the speed will be be lessened when
hot weather comes on, in order not to
get the beasts into bad condition.
Now is the time to destroy the ver
min that lurk in the loose bark of your
fruit trees. Give the trunks of the trees
and the larger limbs a good scrubbing
with strong lye, using a stiff' hickory
broom. It will remove the loose, shag
gv bark and destroy the larvae and
eggs of the various enemies of the
fruit, and act as a fertilizer and stimu
lant to the trees. You will find abund
ant reward later in the season in
thrifty trees and perfect fruit.
SPECIALTIES in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
THE new comet seems to be grow
ing very fast. When discovered a
week ago its tail was estimated to be
three minutes long. A few days
'ater Prof. Swift measured its tail and
found it five minutes long. At this
rate it should lie visible to the naked
eye in a few weeks. The fact of its
possessing a tail when so far from the
sun augurs well for its becoming a
splendid object when it reaches our
western sky.
THE Diamond Iron Plow will clean
in any kind of soil. For sale at the Hardware
Store of JACKSON* 4 MITCHELL.
KINO THEEBAW is dead. King
Theebaw is still alive. By King
Theebaw's orders seven hundred per
sons were burned alive as a propitia
tion to the evil spirits. The seven
hundred persons were not burned, but
buried alive under the city walls, bv
order of King Theebaw. No one has
either been burned or buried alive.
King Theebaw has issued no such
orders. A distracted people are anx
ioup for further news concerning King
Mill Wtf
Citxsstt: Hail®*?, pa., SVptnl '?!", t3slL
THE article on our first page en
titled "National Contrasts" is well
worth reading. It Is only by such
comparisons as that article contains,
ihat the full force of the issues ot our
late civil war are understood. Had
the late rebellion l>eeii successful, this
i great country would perhaps by this
time have l»een divided up, as Europe
is to-dav, into a dozen or more pitiable
bull-dog governments, each keeping
I up a military establishment that would
; impoverish its people.
THOUSANDS have been cured of
dumb ague, billious disorders, jaun
dice, dyspepsia and all diseases of the
i liver, blood and stomach, when all
| other remedies have failed, by using
Prof. Guilmette's French Liver Pad,
which is a quick and permanent cure
for those disorders. Ask your drug
gist for this great remedy, and take no
other, and if he does not keep it send
£1.50 in a letter to the French Pad
! Co., and receive one by mail post-paid.
j THE North Bend Chilled Plow, as
! good a chilled Plow, and a dollar and a half
cheaper than any other, is for sale by
JACKSON MITCHELL.
HENRY LEAR, Patriot, Ohio, writes :
"I was taken sick last Wednesday
with a very severe Rheumatic pain in
my left shoulder: I was so unwell
that I could not even turn myself
around in lied. Having heard of the
curative qualities of ST JACOBS OIL, I
concluded to try it. The first applica
tion brought relief, and on the subse
quent day I was able to go to work. I
therefore recommend this excellent
remedy to all sufferers with Rheuma
tism.
IT is said American capitalists now
control the world's supply of opium.
Not only dothey control nearly all of the
drug now in the market, but they
have contracted in advance for the pres
ent year's crop, which will be a very
small one. They hs-ve fifty millions of
dollars invested in the d-ug. Better a
corner in opium than one in breadstuff's,
though the former is hard on those
who must use the the drug medicinally,
as it is asserted the price of medicinal
opium will l>e put up TO thirty dollars
per pound.
OVER two hundred farmers in this
connty are using the Dia'.iond Iron Plow, and
will tell you that it has »•> equcl. For sale l>y
JACK. SO S k MITCHELL.
LAST Wednesday wilnessed quite an
exodu3 from this town tor Colorado.
Sixteen souls, in all, departed on the
train that morning, the family oi Mr.
J no. 11. Sutton, comprising nine of them.
The others were Eli. Miller, Herbert
Harper, Walter L. Graham, Esq.. Pat.
Rvan, Levi Walker, McElwee
aud Geo. A. Mcßride. The party ex
pect to reach Canon City, Colorado,
by Saturday, remain their over Sun
day, and go to Silver Cliff, which
seems to be Butler county headquar-
ters, by stage on Monday.
THE following epitaph is to be found
in the churchyard of Woodbridge, Suf
folk, England. The spelling would in
dicate that the stone must now be
crumbling and covered with the stains
and moss of many years, but the warn
ing is by no means antiquated :
Here Lieth the Body of
Benjamin Brinkley
Who Though Luslie and.
Strong, u-nt one
That hy misfortune, Shot
Himself Willi's (inn
In the 23rd year of his Age,
Ife Departed this Life
To the Grief of his Parents
Spectators anil Wife.
Wlicat J Wheal!
The highest Pittsburgh market price
paid for Wheat, at Walter & Boos'
Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER & Boos.
OUR LITTLE FOLKS is without ex
ception, the most Gnelv illustrated pa
per for very little people that we have
ever seen. Indeed, we fully concur
with the publishers in his belief that
the only way in which the people of
this continent can fully manifest the
appreciation which Our Little Folks
deserves, is to send him ten hundred
thousand subscribers for it within
sixty days. Published monthly at only
30 cents per year. Any one will re
ceive a sample copy free by sending
his address on a postal card to S. S.
Wood, Publisher, 252 Broadway, N.
Y. City.
CALL and see the New Styles, at
RITTF.R & RALSTON'S
IT looks as if there was something
wrong when a clergyman neglects his
calling for worldly vanities. But
when he connects himself with such
an institution as the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery,
so called, which was simply an organ
ization for the wholesale distribution
of bogus certificates to practise the
arts of druggery, there is no doubt
there being something wrong. That
was what the Rev. William B. Orvis
did, and the Philadelphia Association
of Congregational Ministers, in expel
ling him lately, merely discharged a
plain duty.
As THE time for gardening is coin
ing on even' person should look to
their interest in securing good plants
of the latest varieties, which can be
had by calling on J. W. Bortmass &
Co., west of town.
STALWART lowa, whose Republican
majorities arc on as big a scale as her
other crops, sends a solid Blaine dele
gation to Chicago. That is her answer
to the third termers and their twaddle
about a strong government. In Ken
tucky, on the other hand, where Re
publicans are as ra-e as whiskey is
plenty, a Republican State Convention
has been successfully packed for Grant.
But even there we find a vigorous mi
nority, apparently including considera
bly over one-third of all the delegates,
hissing Grant's name and showing a
strong disposition to kick out of the
traces.
CUT THIS OCT. —If you have slight
or severe pains in the loins, frequent
desire to urinate and difficulty to do
so;dark, high colored urine, and varia
ble or morbid appetite you may be
sure you have some form of kidney
disease. These maladies are the most
stealthy of all in their attacks, and not
a moment should be lost in curing
them. There is nothing so good as
Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney Pad,
which immediately relietes inflama
tion, gives strength and tone to the
kidneys, thus enabling them to per
form their accustomed duties. We
speak from actual knowledge of its
virtues.
Every Soldier
should read the advertisement of W.
C. Beringer Co: they are one of the
oldest and best Claim Agencies in the
United States— Bead their aduvrtUe-
WHEN Governor Hoyt was in Scran
ton lately, and reviewing the parade
from a stand erected for that purpose,
a man and his wife were overheard
talking in this wise: Wife—"See
here, John, that's the Guvnor of this
State; ain't he a smart looking man,
though? Look at hi? head! Ain't
he got a fine head?" John—"That's
' so, Mary, he's the smartest lookin'
man I ever did see; I'll bet he can
j talk Dutch." Wife—"Of course he
I can ! Why, he's the Guvnor of this 'ere
! hull State!"
j FROM statements in the Pacific
1 fiirol Presf it appears that large
| qnanties of "bone-meal and flesh fer
j tilizer" are exported from San Fran
cisco to New Zealand, the home de
j mand being small, though increasing,
j Another curious fact is that the Chi
! nese are in the habit of exporting from
| California some sf>oo,ooo worth of
shrimps, shrimp shells, small fish dried
and their bones, for fertilizing the tea
gardens of China. The shells and
bones are thought to supply the in
gredients of which the plants exhaust
the soil, and are sometimes carried a
thousand miles into the interior. One
year the exportation of this material
amounted to the value of $90.>,000.
IV iicat 1 Wheat!
The highest Pittsburgh market price
paid for Wheat, at Walter & Boos'
Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER & Boos.
Di\ C. H. LEE,
If omu>o|»utlii<' I* liy Kiel an.
Office and residence pear the Wick Honse,
North Main Rtreet, Butler, l'a. jan7
THE Republican State of lowa in
structs for Blaine, and the hopelessly
Democratic States of Missouri and
Kentucky instruct for Grant on the
same day. Another peculiar feature
of the contrary political winds is ex
hibited iu the fact that the Republicans
on the sunset side of the Father of
Waters declare for the far down-East
statesman one day, aud Republican
Massachusetts, the near neighbor of
Maine and Blaine, has a Convention
the next day that is without a Blaine
following. Illinois, the Republican
home of Grant, is quivering in the
Grant balance, while Democratic A ir
ginia, the home of Lee and Appomat
tox, yells lustily for him. "Things is
mixed !"— Times.
IT must be annoying to the Stal
wart supporters of Gen. Grant to fiml
their candidate making sueh speeches
as he delivered lately at Little Rock
and Cairo. They are picturing—wit
ness -Boutweli and Banks at Wor
cester—the South as still in rebellion
and urging the re-election of Grant as
the only means of assuring a united
country for another four years. Their
candidate, on the contrary, in his re
marks at Cairo, bore testimony to the
fact that sectionalism is passing away
from the South. "The stars and
stripes," said he, ' arc floating every
where, and the men who wore the
gray show bv their speeches their pres
ent devotion to the flag for which we
fought." Now, which is right—the ex-
President or the Massachusetts politi
cians ?
At tio Cent*
And up, Carpets, at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
Wheal! Wheal!
The highest Pittsburgh market price
paid for Wheat, at Walter & Boos'
Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER k Boos.
THERE is such a tendency just now
to "booms," in business as well as in
politics, that no surprise need bo felt at
what may lie called the "cheap-books
boom." It began nearly two years ago.
when the "Seaside Library" issued its
first pamphlet-editions of standard
books, chiefly fiction, for a nominal
price. The result was immediate and
remarkable. People ceased to buy ex
pensive editions of books of that class,
and did buy these cheap pamphlets
largely. People who were accustomed j
to reading good books were not the
only ones who did this; but a great
transformation was wrought in the
reading of the poorer classes. Girls and
boys, who previously devoured dime
novels or sensational weeklies are now
seen with the books of Dickens,
Thackeray, Dumas and Trollopc, which
they read eagerly and incessantly.
THE decision recently rendered by
the United States Circuit Court for
the Ninth Judical Circuit is of suffi
cient general interest to deserve atten
tion even at this distance from the
Pacific cost. It will be accepted as
law unless an appeal should be taken
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, which is improbable. The
purport of this decision is that the
anti-Chinese provisions of the new
California constitution are null and ;
void, because iu conflict with the con- j
stitution of the United States. The!
case arose under an act of the Cali- j
fornia Legislature, passed February
13, 1880, amending the penal code of
that State, in pursuance of a provision
of the State constitution adopted in
1879, forbidding any corporation crea
ted in the State to employ Chinese la
borers.
Wheal! Wheat!
The highest Pittsburgh market price
paid for Wheat, at Walter & Boos'
Mill, Butler, Pa. WALTER Boos.
.41 lO CnilH
And upward, Dress Silks, at
RITTER & RALSTON'S.
HARD times, bad business, bad
crops, famines, pests, political perse
cutions, governmental tyrannies, and
recruiting sergeants are combining to
swell the tide of European emigration
to America beyond precedent. A few
years asro the arrivals at Castle Gar
den had dropped far below 100,000 an
nually ; but there was again of 20,-
000 year before last, and a gain of (.0,-
000 more last year, when the total
reached 175,589. Now, with the re
vival of business on this side of the
ocean, the flow of immigration has be
gun to be enormous. During the first
quarter of the present year, the arri
vals at the Battery numbered 34,855
—a number unprecedented in the
winter season. As the 'corresponding
quarter of the past year yielded but
11,052, though that was a great in
crease over years preceeding, it may
be conjectured what the summer will
bring forth. It is further noticeable
that a considerable portion of the gain
achieved during the past three months
has been in immigrations from Ger
[ many and Austro-Hungary. A good
1 many of this year's arrivals will be in
i tv tfwVU WUiiity W»SUB. j
' SINCE Tuesday m >rning of lost
week, woodland fires have been ra
ging in different parts of New Jersey,
chiefly in the cedar and piue forests of
the southwestern portion of the State.
A large amount of this property has
; been destroyed, but fortunately no
lives have be<« 10.-t. Several valuable
mills, farm buildings and private resi
dences, however, have also been swept
away ; and if the inhabitants of the
threatened districts Lad not vigorous!}*
fought the conflagration it is not im
| probable that at least half a dozen vil
! liages and smaller settlements would
have been reduced to ashes. Pennsyl
vania and Virginia have been visited
i with similar disasters. In tlie vicinity
| of Reading, square miles of forests are
I in flames, and the los= to the farmers
j will, it is feared, be very great. Nor
| folk, Ya , last Thursday was darkened
' and the air filled with cinders arising
; from large fires in the famous Dismal
Swamp.
THERE has been a great deficiency
in the supply of American hemp,
which has forced the manufacturers to
import largely from Russia and Italy.
There is a consequent demand for
Kentucky hemp, and it is stated that
the farmers of Kentucky are going
wild over hemp cultivation. Large
contracts have been made for the crop
of 1880 at £5 for 112 pounds; seed is
being purchased at S3 per bushel, with
a prospect of its rising to *5, and land
rented at *lO to'si2 per acre. This is
all very well if it is not ' run into the
ground" completely and the "fever"
docs not spread throughout other
hemp-growing States. It is one of the
unpleasant phases of fiber production
in this country, tending to produce an
irregular supply and in a measure to
demoralize legitimate industry, that
when the price is high, there is little
fiber upon the market, and everybody
goes into its production pell-mell. In
the mean time the manufacturers "load
up to the eyes" with the foreign pro
duct, making contracts ahead. The
new crop comes on; good, bad and
indifferent are pushed upon the mar
ket, and—"There's no money in hemp,
sir—l've tried it.''
C'oiirlaulil Crapes,
From 75c. per yard up Also fuli
line Mourning Dres«s Goods, Shawls,
Veils, Bonets, Hats, tfce., at
HITTER A* R ALSTON'S.
THE Indiana lawyer who told a
Congressional committee a day or two
a?o that rather than l>e ruled by the
democrats he was for the ox-President
for king is a type of that class of fine
fellows, known in every n«re and coun
tro, who would rather fly to any evil
that they know not of than to endure
an imaginary one that may seem im
minent. There were a lot of high
spirted patriots of the same order
among the ancient Israelites; they
looked distrustingly upon the impend
ing blood of judges, or rulers, who, in
deed, were intent upon looking out for
themselves and their party. The dis
satisfied faction, however, instead of
canvassing their own friends for a bet
ter breed of judges, shouted "Make us
a king!" and they were equally em
phatic in their demand for a strong
government. They got what they asked
for; with an application of satire that
is quite unusual in Holy Writ, but en
tirely excusable in the case in question
or any other like it. We read that the
person selected as king was a man who
had gone out in search of asses. They
got the strong government, too, and as
a natural consequence they had wars
and glory and taxes, just like their
greatest neighbors, as long as their
men and money lasted; then, as a na
tion, they disappeared.— Ex.
The Physical Paradox.
It has been said that "the blood is
the source of life." It is as truely ihn
source of disease and death. No life,
that is to say, no healthy tissue can be
generated from impure blood, no organ
of the body can normally perform its
functions when supplied with impure
blood. The fluid that should carry
life and health to every part, carries
only weakness and disease. Blood is
the source of life, only when it is pure.
If it has become diseased, it must be
cleansed by proper medication, else
every pulsation of the human system.
To cleanse the blood of all impurities,
use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets,
the most effectual alterative, tonic,
aud cathartic remedies vet discovered.
They are especially efficient in scrof
ulous diseases.
THERE would be a "boom" just now
in wool if there were enough of the do
mestic product in the market to sup
ply the demand. There is, perhaps
no branch of agricultural industry that
is likely to pay so well for at least the
next decade as wool growing. For
the coming season high prices are
assured. All over the country manu
facturers are contracting for the next j
clip at very high figures, while wool
growers are in many places in no
hurry to close bargains, preferring to
wait for still better prices later on.
With the constantly increasing de
mand for wool in the country aud the
present great inadequacy of the home
production, all enterprising men can
engage in wool raising without any
fear of overstocking the market for the
next ten or twelve years. If in the
meanwhile wool goes down, it will be
because other products do ;o likewise,
not because the supply will exceed the
demand. Foot-rot has destroyed a
large proportion of the sheep in Eng
land, brought has done the same for
thousands, aye, millions, of those in
Australia and Buenos Avres; while
Russia also has lost heavily from dis
ease, so that with an increasing de
mand for wool, the supply for some
time is likely to be smaller.
Millinery.
Hats, Bonnets, Plumes, Tips Feath
ers, Ornaments, Light Silks, Brocade
Ribbons, Persian Ribbons, everything
new in Millinery, at
RI TTEit & RALSTON'S.
FejS of Doctors-
The fee of doctors is an item that
very many persons are interested it
just at present. We believe the sched
ule for visits is $3.00, which would
tax a man confined to his bed for a
year, and in need of a daily visit, over*
SI,OOO a year for medical attendance
alone! And one single bottle of Hop
Bitters takes in time would save the
SI,OOO and all the year's sicknes.—
Pout.
An immense Stock, at
Caps.
I hive "u*t received from the Ea<t a large .*tock of
HITS,MPS: CENTS' FIMSHII GOODS.
I offer to the public ihu COMii r Sli 'II 1\ the b.?st I. nlaundriod White Shirt ioi the market for
#l. ONE DOLLAR. sl.
Also, a large stock of V» IT ITK sud COLOi'ED SHIRTS, for Men and Boys, always on band.
Underwear, Half Hess, alov:3, m th! • - Hats, Caps and Neckwear,
Introdoiced as M 11 as they appear in the East, to be had at
MAI.\ SriJEi:T. IJUTLEII, PA.
KBRS For *ls> chins;.
Gold Penciled Huni'iur^s; White
and iiuff Cochins. All I'uro lired
Fowls. HOWARD UEIBER.
Butler, Pa.
.\<'w I.ight Suc<)iiein^s
Just received, at
RITTER «FC IIALSTOS'S.
WHAT uro called kitchen srarden
schools ari> heintr established in I'itts
burjfh, such schools having 1 ] ■ roved
decidedly >iuv« -sful in several of the
Eastern fitio. These schools are
u.-ualiv conducted mi !. >r Ihe auspices
of an association composed of ladies,
and are designed to give vaiitaMe in
struction to such a.- have no other
means of acquiring a k:*>\vledire of
household duties. Particular efTort is
made to interest th -<e who are appar
ently goin.u to waste on the street and
who can, by a little thoughtful teaching
untler this system, be put in a wav to
earn an honorable living and become
useful wire-. The method is the .-ante
as that introduced in New V-»rk and a
few other cities some time ALTO, and is
well calculated to excite the interest
and attention 01 the pupil. In fact, it
is a new way of playing as much as
is anything. The thing is rather
neatly explained in a which the
children sing as a part of the services
attending their work:
Win 'i f was very little i Med to sit and think
How hard my in her In, I to work, uutil mv
heart would <ink.
I tried to help as I could, bat always did it
wronjf,
That always made the matter \vor~e and her
own woi k so lons,'.
So then I went to school,
So then I went to sehr .1,
And there we 1 esll;i<_•« 1 exactly ri Ltht,
For we were taught l>_v rule.
Everything is done by rule and in
time. Mcompraied by piano music. In
preparing a breakfast table, for instance,
toy dishes and such article- are used,
and as they are handle ! by the little
pupils the name and purpose of each
article is stated, a- well as how it
should be prepared. This is thecoflee
pot," they say in eonc Tt; "it should
be scalded bei'ire tl; - eofl'i e is j»u in."
and that is more than a great many
housekeepers have yet found out.
They go on to say: "This is the >u<»ar
bowl; it should be filled when taken
from the table. These are the break
fast plates; they should always be
warm," and thus with a gri at deal of
important information that it mig-ht be
good to have in any home. If the
tables of the future can be set accord
ing to the instruction given in the
kitchen garden schools there will be,
much more serenity in the average
household. i
ihau C':tlieo.
We have just opened 150 styles of
fine wide Percals at 12V cents per yard,
at RITTER A RALSTON'S-.
Sweenimr Away the Derricks.
BRADFORD, April H*>.—A heavy
storm prevailed this evening about G
o'clock. A number of derricks
were destroyed in different parts of the
oil region, twenty-four being raised at
one point. Two men are said to be
fatally injured by btjing thrown to the
ground with a falling derrick on which
they were at work.
1,-u-e SSuutiii&s,
All the Xew Shades, at
RITTER <FC RALSTON'S. I
WHEN well bred, like the Percheron,
Norman, Clydesdale and Shin* horses,
an increa- -d size is no objection to a
horse's activity on the farm or road, es
pecially in the walk, which is extra
fast when properly trained, and is the
most important -ait for the use of the
farmer. The advantage of usinjr an ex
tra-large, powerful horse is that he
will do the work of an ordinary pair,
and a pair of them equal four of the
common sort. This saves something
in stable room, grooming, feed, har
ness, shoeing and general care and at
tention. It is also much more conve
nient often to use one horse than two.
With the former one can plow nearer
to trees and fences and work more rap
idly with a one-horse tip cart, than
with a two-horse wngou. It is sur
prising that one-horse carts are not in
more use among our farmers. In many
parts of Europe they are used exclu
sively. Loads of all kinds are tipped
up in part or entirely, as desired, in a
second or .so, while front a wagon it
takes a considerable time to unload. A
cart can be used in a narrower farm
road than a wagon, and be turned in
one-third to one-half the space re
quired for the latter.
- • c*"
4( lO (Wit: E'er tr 1,
New Lawns, at
RITTF.R «T RALSTON'S.
11 12 1-2 (Vms
All the new dirk colors in Dress
Goods, at RITTER & RAI.STON'S
A < isr I.
To nil wlio nre from the errors and
indiscretions iu youth, : <vv->■!•> u *'!• . '>y
decay, lo<« <>i msnhtxtd, •' I fftH - d •
recipe ttint will -lire v<v:i. f''tl'd*. <M I'll ■i' l *!'.
Till • remedy w - •!• -co •d 1 am - i;i
ary in South W'ricn. Send n self-:id«lre«<ed
envelope to the lIKV. Jo'-T'l II InMAN', V,' lll < n
D, Sew }"</•/[• ' 'n if. ,
I
New Laws. T!i i .1 - ' d. Every so!-
dier oven sVarUt'v disabled. liv wonnde. Hww
or i ce dent, eutitiod to peoiion dating Tutek to
day of I' M'tarp Eve:. t: » !•*••• ot ; 1 " r
too entitles to pensioi \in>. s i v d w» and
dependent parent*. mid n no -, ent:t.erl. Time
limited. Applyato.ee Many i-ensi-ners now
entitled to
*r.dx. I «nd • -tl- '• Pi' f "P find for
inventors. IV< • >" i«". . !w. htJimp
for new laws. 1 i i.;E u ! HI- to K. it.
OEO.STON «* CO. 1 : n.ui K: ut At tor.
ueyv, ls.K% WAdBWUTW. L>. V. (."»7-leu
iilstabiisliecl in 1830.
Bats, Caps & Straw Goods.
iaiKVi:v COLBERT
; -V *■" -
•v.. -5 v - TAKES PT.EASt RE IN AN'NOt NCINO TO HIS FRIENDS AND PA
rS- V •' •• ''
LIT < > ? IKONS THAT IIE I> NOW OPENING
' " 'THE FINEST '.ND HOST COMPLETE STOCK
SILK, FI R, WOOL, AXD (LOTH
HATS .VXD CAPS
TOR MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS AND CHILDREN,
AND WILT. PF. SOLD AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES
| EVERY NOVELTY OF THE SEASON WILL HE INTRODUCED
AS SOON AS TIIEY APPEAR IN THE EAST.
WE ALSO KEEP A FILL STOCK OF
Gients* Cxoods.
PATRONAGE OF THE PUBLIC SOLICITED._#rI
REMEMBER THE PLACE:
8 Doors l\Tns?*h of Berg & Co/s Bank.
GRAND OPENING!
During this week wo \\vili opi'ii tho largest nnd unquestionably best selected
stock of Spring Dry Goods ever exhibited west of the Allegheny
Mountains. Now arrivals of Novelties in Dress Goods
constantly receiving at
Hit Tiro St, Urn
Ilia I lie 0E Di UB
ICO & 102 FEDERAL STREET, ALLEGHENY,
l. V- •< i,h'l! all epccitl s;;. ...ton tn an extra ; Depurtment in Hoawebaeping Good*
l>aiii. ii. 1> -r • v,l.i 'li wo are veiling ;.t li»:> n<*ver Iwen so complete heretofore.
M : cents. J.inen Table Cloth, 2<). "25. 30c.
Jii » - iiu r. v ii P.>;KI I). .we o;Ter a Jc- j Liiien Table Damask. 50, 00, 75c.
ci<l<»«l !•, • in :;:i£ it a . T irkey Rc.l Table Cloth. 85, 50, 76c.
At ' \v i, r a full li:.. >!' colurM in Rro- J• I Quilts, a.-HOrtment in the city.
c» •'! I decidedly tifoi styles. , IMdngt. at 10. UK, 15.20 c.
la I ! I- 1). ;, * , oi t r the foi: Mil- : Ti :kiufrs. b >«t quality, only 25c.
p. • \V 'tis ( '!•' 11*. ! • i».litr, •• ••. G« uth" I'nlauncried Shirts, »t 50, 76c, #l.
C. • •. I .••• • '... \• - v iiu. . 4,' c Gents' Underwear, 25, US, 50c.
Ca- I. i. i La.liea" Uuderirear, extra value, 50c.
C; ' .(i)l. e:.;ra '.-a; W. 75c. W. Cli«»viot Sliirtinff. 8, 10. 125(c.
C- • it*. ; ' V: p. J i < n >tton Flannel, 8. 10. 12J-j'c.
Oar : r | In i- more e : ;.;ete ttuui | Newety'eOWaiwi, 10, lij^t,
.r. • ' 1 ■ . -or.-i at »; -u lo. 1 . prices a: Towclinß, 5.
will*'- i i v- r. Plaid Flannels,
Ben i:ii i s v : ;5. •!•». 7."> c. 91. Plain Flannels, 10, 12. l j, 150.
Si.i, . . , i .1 . .'..V. -Vo received a new ami very large stock of
J Shawls ~f entirely now design, offering at
Silks, Sn: <i . Kiinjres. n 1 i-ven! t •. tirooli.' Shawls, at W. IS, fl2.
at prices tt> t'.tit purchasers. lilack Thibet d'.iawls, ii.so, 53. 94, i 5.
The movements in the E ist point to mueh higher prices, and we would ad
vi<e our friends and patrons generally to save money by laying
in their supplies as early as possible.
M. FIRE & Bro.
100 *V 102 Federal Street, Allegheny.
To the Ladies & Gentlemen:
Prof. Ouilmette's
FRENCH KIDNEY PAD
A POSITIVE AND PERMANENT CURE GUARANTEED
lis ail R—i or Omvi i„ DIAB- IM:. !•,.. v. BRKsii's DKBAHR OP THE KTDKCN. IXOORTCTXHOB AM»
ItfTr.NT I v.- 11 I'fclS! IsriAMVArioS ,lr Tit" KIDNKVS. CATABRH OF rilK "UtiDSB. HUH COUIIIO
I" :,. j v ir. I! v'K .. i;] '' ■..• i.v ■'n i\k N i. - and in in i al! dii* orders of tho
p. ... , ■ iiv (' tan . : i :•r c< : trait, il bv priv.ito diseaees or otherwise. This gTeat
n-vi I - - ii IIH" 1 wil or nt ai v ten wars iti France, with the most wonderful onra
ti,,» . I nrcs li*.* —•}>• »«• ii:i-^eoi:s'internal medicines being required. We have
buudi of ti stiusiiii: .!m of c.: Sbv tins l '.d when all else bad failed.
T, \ . s I VD'I art •>n!T-riii}{ HI Female We ik.i s. or diseases peculiar to re
in >. i 'act anv ili»'- •"•s :'ic Kid'...vs. ll i liiir or Urinary Organs ask your druggiet for
I-. ,, ji," i'.ITE'H FRENOit KIDNEY PAD, AMI TAKR so OTIIEH. If ho has not got it tend
?2 and vou will rccehe the Pad by return luail Addrt-si U. 8. Branch,
FRENCH PAD CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Prof. Gnilmettc's French Liver Pad
\Yi i ...... .'v cure Fevei ■ M<l Attne, Dumb A?ti«. Aftne Cake. Billions Fever, Jaundice, Dyspeii
t'a M, ; - or' tl> vi- Nt-1 -n h a-id ll'ood. Tne pa-1 eitres by alworption, and is per
mi,. V tn: i.i- -. id ni: . tno other. If he does not keen it sond «1.60 to
the 1 v.:. -:i I'.UJ < 'vi . 11", s. Bran. IOI.EDO. OHIO, and receive it by return wail
J. S3KVDKRNOW A' BRO.,
ma r 3-fim Wholesale Pittsburgh, Oeneral Agente.
W3CHOLS SHEPARD & CO.BattleCrectMicti.
" OniCINAL AND ONLY CENUINt
■ *i ' ij
I■ lllaßß IIW
ft) "■'' ' • » Threshing Machinery and Portahls
I "* " -•(( • and Traction Engine*.
4»" -a r H \Tliar.M f-r r.r«lnS»<lti.. Tlim--S»rlnj, Ptrloot
i |M »Y1 IMKWII.fr: ' 'y ■ M-—rUI. S-4M)M
C'' s of r.ri<. lh -«ih Workiu«o»liip, Slegmnt >lbUli,
'-\S •' Wf \ lien ■ / .-f M ... I. '
- \ J MAKVKI-OCS for r lupertorwor* In aft kind* of
IS#- • - V \JT <>- u,f email* kiM-w Tbre»h«C
a rnvuniM lV ltT'»\RT r l» . ins !• ih*B ow Imlf tin mri Mi! bllti.
i>oMTVKI7 TK V i rU\ V Vl U\\\ -II KMXU hTEAM-KX«IXEK*ltfc future.of Power,
F»»f 1 \»I-U I \v liu t. \ > n ju p?ht . r nijkfll> hieam-ro.trr Outfit- »«-! Steam-Power
j . wl ityk • linprored Novated Horte-Fowcr*.
NICHOLS^SHEPA2D & CO., Battle Creek, Mich.
JACKSON MITCHELL, Agents, Butler, Pa.
HT3 ft H 18 '■ to i e ' 3 Bet - Kl "'" !
UftUAliW S>V,l!:v St )t. IiCK>U. mill I
♦'•7.. W. k'• 'op Orjran. Rti •»!, B"o!t, only 8*3.75. I
Piano . s to- . Cover, Bu >k. - I) 1 to r-itii. Xllua- |
tra'fl free. Addreos f
w. to Lwicwu, r» I
A 7-) A WEEK. §l2 » d»y at home euily mad*.
Q' £ Cowtlv Oatflt free. Addrniw TKUI A Oou,
Cv J A P® r d*y at Lome Hample* worth
10 s'" *5 frw». Addreub Sinmtw & 0..
I'uiiUuu, jiiuuo. ifrtHf