BATES s Per yesr, in idriuce M 60 OtUorwiee 2 00 So eubecription will Us dmoontinaed nntil mil are paid. Po*t masters neglecting to not it t us when tnUcriber* do not take out their pa,wf» will be be!U liable lor the eubecnption. nabacribera removing from one poetoflice to another ehonld give u» the name of the former as well a» tlie present office. All commnmcatioue intended for publication n thin paper moot be accompanied by the real Dame of the writer, not for publication, bat M • euaiantee of good faith. Marriage and death notioee moat be accompa nied by a responsible name Atdreae nCTI.BB CITIZS.B. BOTLER. PA. TttAVEbERS' GUIDE. VTLEK, KAR N * CITT AND P4KKER RAILKOAD I rain- iejve Butler tor £t. Joe, Milleratown. « it). Petrolu, Parker, etc., at 7.27 a. m., «ud md y>. m. 'Trains arrive at Butler from the aliove Darned ,-oints at 7. 7 a. m. auU V.15, and 7.15 n m The 215 train et-nnepta altti tr:iiu on tne west pt-nn riMtt 'urouif!; U» PUu.Nunjtu -HESAMOo *!» D 4LLEOUESI rtait ROAD Train* Imve Hll.iardV Mill, Butler county. :,H H:ifr'w.ilie, Grcenrtlle. etc., at «JW «• tu. ;".V , Hi-"' •id'- Mi:!, et 1:45 A.M., o. 1 oi pe*ro! a Mrrtlnahunr. Fairvh », Vo. T • iituj.i . eoon-f t at Uil latd w i'b 'lri- •"> • A * r " aa l*KS>.rt V.VM* KAlt ttOAD. I min- b*«e I'll' er, Holier or Fitt*hiirgb Time.) Mar kit A S()rta • . tfo.- « trough t>. Ale /„e.,v. *• .il,. ■« ''' ™ 1 hi- t'3'U eon ~< t- t frit ' !'re-T >rl A< eimtii'xla- I-I'ti. M bleli .r. vv >' llbvhenT -'t S'JO a. til . -m r wd t.ni /-, , , , .. I. . or.neetintj at Btltier n ,' ... ~c- »t >ar.. at H.'Jft with V , . * - r:ivi »; in Il*rr' «"*»% M ; , r i -i-» iirivmif H! iir«ville ,1 n»i» m. r*»i .1 y,„y , . . ormeciinsr at Butler June-; iinn vi ■ iseol ru.-. Wit.. Exj.rw* weal, jrrl.'sn - .' :n V! ~jl. t,J »« SOI p m.. and Ex pr— i-n-i >rnvi!i- at Blair-visie lt,i.-r—cuon Jt 15*. p 1 J : tim., wlil-b o niiwu w«tb 1*1,: I •'.!«- ; ii • r.xpr wi, "ten .m tjnie Ihe"! Ml »■ hi tt-tin connect* at uiattevitie *1 11 (15 a n, willi the Mall «i»t, and the 2..i1i p. m. iraio al K. 5» witb the Philadelphia £i- arrive .t f!:illn • ii VVc»l Henn 11 R at «V a «:, 4 „.|.i 7. > | ii■ . H .tli r'lntt- The) i < erect * 'u rains «»" the Bu'.le, & l'arl.•-» I*. H. Mnttt I int. f (, , ietv<- t-IH.-li'irull l"> it" Eil-« ~V..V. H3tt« m. .ni1135i.4 Ha.dß'W p. a , urnr i.i: «l l'hi.adelpbi* at 3.40 an"! 7.-0 IU . tU( i a.flo. 7 0 md 7.4<> a m.; at Baltimore alioui llie wim»'t it'*-*- »' S'' w York thice bc n rs liter, ami H Wa-blntctou abouf "»e and u hour* later. Time of Holding Court** Tlie uwtl Conrtw of the conntv of Bn'.ler commence on the li ft Monday of March, June. Hoptember md December. and continue two wc«k-, or ho long a* t, reiu-anr to d;»p"«e of the • biuinew*. No can-<-« ire tint down for trial or , traverse : nror» Mimniot.ed for the liret week of ; the ae*eral tcrrn-. _ ATHMJAkYr- y *J " PA- j JTf BRITTAIN, Office with I. Z Mitchell I'ianiotid. A. m CUNNINGHAM; Office in HradyV l.i» Bmldit.tf. Butler, Pa. 8 n. PIERSOL. Offico on N. t comer U.ac omi. Uiddle build ing ,nutria JOHN M. QUEER. l4k»* IViildiiiK Lair"'>. .1 IS MeJI'NKIN. Hpeeiil attention to collection* < >tti o|>|xh>U** «111-ird Itoon* JtSEHTB UREDIN. < »ni'r of OinnMtid r»«»n j Pa. H. H. OOUCHER, )y, , He' ,!•) 1'"•! If >• ht)l|M •»!» .» j Ijl'M V . », It H. I.l I V jI. I\\ i»( ».N ei»»7-ift .'> '/•' i l AKI N« V M.KKH, Ottici* 'r ti'liliiw; niarll— • VI IM> UKJBKIt. oa- ••••••• %l ■ ■ ■ F • i; AST AN. ' Iffil*: hi Itre.lll. liilllfllurf r.i.V VirQIiSUON. onw- Mail; .tie » I ilooi n.iitl, . Court f • .|f» I V andkhi.lN, Oflxr M ii riri-'.t ; il.h,: «<,ulh i.t Court Hour U:. A. FOKQUER (iflice o HUH «lr»!"t. opprmlir Vo. HoniA. ~<7KO It WIIITK, Offii-f N. E. c« rucr ot Diamom "FHANriS S rUHVI ANCK, Olttce with (l*n. J. N Pnrvlance, Miiu »tr««i ■oath of Court .1 D Mi.MNKINV Office 111 Hl'bnHdciiiaiiV I'liildln.', WI-HI II Main Htic t, 2nd mju.ic Iroin Couri liottre. T (i W I MAMS. Office ou DUmond. two doom went of Cimo office. ap'i'i T "CTCA u rBELI>. Office in Herfc'ii new building, 'id floor, um ■i'le Main at., a few door* aouth of Lown j Houae. niarJl *j_ | r, A. A M. HIfLLIVAN, niay7 Office S. W. cor (A Diamond. "HLACK & imoT, Office ou Mall, ctrect one door aotitl, u Hrr.ily liim k, Bullcr. I'« (aen. 2. 1H74. ~ JOHN ,V 1 MII.I.KIC & l-UO. Office in Br*d/'ii I,aw I)iiiHinj{. Main Mtrnnl, aouth of Court Hour*. Rune.** O. Millcii Notary I'll.lie. uni4 It THOMAS ROBINSON, BUTCEK. PA. A WH' K 412 a day at home easily made • » (!• Ouiflt free Adiliw Ti tr 4 Co. An(n«i> M»o.» .1 M-A.IT JOHN H. NEG LEY. Of diver t.articalai attention to craonactiotu la real mtate throughout the county. Omca iiw thAMown. ikaf f>>cur Hod«r. r- Crmr * aim man B. K EcELr.r, Ke«*ei>t Mah>h*ll (Late or Ohio.) IfirKLKY 4 MARSHALL. Office in BrnnyV l.aw Hulldlu/. <• Ti V-IIKISTIK " Attorney «i /.i», tiuainei a inrefull) tr*n«actcd Colli'i'tlorn made and promptly rcitiltted. Bu-lne«» eorroapondoncv pn«nptly atlcnded to and iu M. T BENEHK'T. jiitui ii |*»«ir»ili!i Bn'l»/r i»> I', i PHYSICIANS. JOHN E BYERS, PHYSICIAN AM) S U Ii(, M> N, mv'Jl-l»| mi'l'i Kit I A 1 > k \ iisfs JD £LiJN JJXks'JO JXY. 0 1/ tVAI.IIRON. On duate of the I'hll- I iidclp'iia Deiilnl '"olleije.l* prepared • II •to do iiiyihliiK in It." linn ol i,'» prolr.-ion Ii .i «atl-l..i'lory tuatiner Office on V 1 ;i|t. 'reel. Bullet, Ul'l' ll hl.ifc, H|l atalra, .ipll 0 R A M ' a " 1 'i Knee r»«i llh Ml.tol Book, onlv >1 Mr on "C | HECK & PATTERSON'S p f BE? CARPET ROOM i x | NOW OPEN ! c g One Door- South of thefr Clothing House, - 51 iiutty'* - *ept2o-tf Rnfl«*r. Pa. tlvw isH.i.no ii'> 141 Fine Merchant Tailoring 141 A T OMMERT'S, u jl m M«., A • H«-St ■■«»- \I>;0 A COMPLETE AffcjOKTMEXT OF ZMZETN'S PCY'3 AN"D C.TH IIDjDR/EJN' 3 KK/.DY MAM. CLOTHING, AND CENTS FCKSISIIIXO GOODS, AC. Afi e wjlccti'.ii Fall »:nd Winter goods will be wade to order at reasonable price*, and sati-'aet'or. (rnaranteed. , , . , .L >- ••, Overoofcis a < iailv. A cordial invitation is extended to the people of the V leimty, to call and examine < ur T.tfk. vi-itorn i.s well as buyers will be welcome. oaiH£ - T - - 41 Dry Goods, KoSionf, Trmmings, Croceries, etc. LARGE STOCK OF TAIL AND WINTER GOODS AT A. TROUTMAN'S Corner Main and Mifflin Street, _ Dress Goods of all kinds, large assortment colored and black Cashmeres, large assortment Black Siiks, Momie cloths, fancy Brocades, I'laids, Cotton Dress Goods, Calicoes, Chintzes, etc. Irimmngs. 'jU *CIIS. bUttO''S ForClillilren, Ladles' and Gentlemen. A full line of Ores* and ( u.ak Buttons- A large Hosiery. Hosiery, Hosiery, assortment. . '., *" , • . r , A full line of Hlbbont, l.aces. Kmbroidery, Uce „ *£%<' abutment for Children Ladle* and Gen- TUn, Kuctiinis suid Lad it. sa*Necrkwear. lH m< "• Clcaks and Dclmans ! Clcaks ar.d Dclir.ans! SHAWLS ! SKIRTH ! Flannels barred and twilled, plain colors and best makes; Canton FUnnel; I tidies' Clotli. all colors; Ladies' Sacking; Black Beavers; ' ai-hrm res ; ..'cars; Tweeds; Ticking; Shirt ing ; Mucins; lah <* Linens; Toweling. Blankets, etc I also kee| n lull lire < j Groceries, Queenswnre, etc. All the alu \e g< ods sit lewe-t prices. (Vu l :t\ j.p di'ce and mail t I ci: in exd anjre lor goods. A. Ti'oi it man. ■iKir Cor. Main and Cunningham St., Butler, Pa. One Door Eoutli of JOHN BERG & CO.'S BANK. Having refitted the larjiu and commodious Store Room, situate in the al«/vc st;it< d location, formerly occupied Ly Martin lieiber Sr. we will in a 1< v d»\s < | c>n up » first-cbiss grocery, and will oil. r to the public at bottom prices, a fine selection of choice, T AS. COIFKI-S, SUGARS, SV I: CPS. Mo LA SSI S. PURK SPICES. . 11K E> K, FISII, SALT, &c r Fhe Hijrliest MARKET PRICE PAID IN CASH FOR ALL KINI» OF GRAIN AND PRODUCE Terry " qr~- VECETADLE ft PHI KILLER IA PURELY VECETAPLE REMEDY * SI For Intern&l and External lice. Is a CU"E C'JRL for all tl.c Olie&ic* f.r u'.ith It li recommended J&pKp- .p. ■ \*\ cvw the mcit Incxpcrlcnctd i'-ton». | It M 11 iv, rr r;;:d iiulrli rciiief'.y fir <()l'(,|lS MOHK f> 1. iu N 'm' ] TllltOAT, (lilt t. , anil similar tr !i nffonla imiant fU«t Y: A £«\l..r ~.«I - t IHPII'i - I 111 A, and to the beat p, > 8 y-1 Unown reran!} I' r UHlil'illATlH.M u >1 NKtHALiIW. v j THE QLHEST, CE3T, t.llQ MOSf WIDELY KNOWN tj I BfIECICINE IN 7F.E WORLD. K i'V Kltirjl It li- iI. til t.-'"i! **.t!» mill v.. ni>rr.il unrrria 'n aH EL °3L I l ' BsArii t>"r. v/ hr u..rH i„ ( iiaiiph, CI:OL:.UA, ntAiutiKßA, B |9 A \ W'\ nvsKNTUtY, 11. t I.'l »:o\vi:i, ( O.t.'I'LAINTK, thai uit 1 il HAS STOOD THE TEST OF 40 YEARS'CONSTANT Lif/Si P1 \ 1 Ui£ IN &LL COUNTRIES AND CLIMATES. CPl' ni *J * .llir:later* .Hnaiicern of PlnnliUlaim, Work-Hbopn, aid K SH 2? C Jij'l l'n<:or<", ?.cr«'-.) In liHnU ti >li"rt. t>y Everybody H, *53 ( n /,jJ? W cvt rywbcPO v.?io 1ji«« nvor tfven It n trtr!. Hi |§ y] M. |f| 17 13 WITHOUT A RIVAL AS A LINIMEWT. Li' n5. ; , ®li) X 'K. Tt >•:« *1 »• :i \r I' n* II r Pr.ln f:i the Beeh nnd Fl ■■ f rip.l In I'I» t rs' aii'i lt« prlco U, '♦/ I. f■ . f.r af It Is miM at K4e. 50c.und &1.00 ' 'ulJL*' n ' •* • 'lcd and of tlio liki t material I k''iraiiN * enure mm infhCtiou w • trie, *• rl :in»iii»hi|> and Jirii-n. Oive me » (nil -)io|i mi >f► 'r«*»l font doon* Mri* sr* • ,h ' " n "™° a liiCW* i ITnion Woolen Mill, lit" I LKli, PA. 11. rVI.LIIKTOX. Prop'r. Muuullll'lllll'r ol bI.tMKKTh, FUIHXTU, YAHNK, <%<•. AIMI CIIMOUI »oik »L« »i»»* to ordi*r, nucli h> (■i.r.liui Koll«, timk hi - ItlsinkfU, Kl mini* K nil - tlnif mil! VVdivitic Y irns, Ac., it very low priciw Wool worhw'l "ti thn »!:iirm. It ilc • fiv7.| FOR SALE. A I' inc Single Sleigh, made in tbe litl»-ht Mtylc, swell bed. Alho U fin<* two home nlcigh ctiu In; bought clieuii. Tt+uiw V-nvy.' "ut OttizVu 'ufilw BI'TLER. PA., WKDNKSI.) \ Y DI CKMBKI.' 15. !8>(l. [From Harper's Monthly fh, for sympathy implied an expression of ber love for her husband —a hidden treasure she could not pro fane by speech, which found its only demonstration in deeds, and was the chief spring of her active and devoted life as wife and mother. Mrs. Gold had been a happy woman as she said, while her husband lived and had not yet ceased to reproach herself for mourning him so bitterly. The religion of New England at that time was of a stern tve ; it demanded a spiritual asceticism of its followers, and virtually forbade them to enjoy the blessings of this life by keeping them in horrid and continual dread of "the pains of bell forever," as their catechism expressed it. It was their put pose to work out their own salva tion with fear and trembling under curse of the law; the gospel was a pro found and awful mysterv, to he longed for afar off; no more dailv bread than the show-bread of the Temple. They lived, and worked, and suff'T ed and died, with few exceptions,in an awful sense of flying time brief proba tion, an angrv God. a certain hell, hut a very uncertain heaven. No wonder that they were nustere nnd hprd ; the wonder was that even natural temper ament and mental organization should ever resist this outside pressure, and give plnv to humor, or fanev, or pas sion of anv sort Yet in lhi<» faithless fnith lav elements of wonderful strength; the compelling f~ree of dntv made men nobly honest, rigidly up right. just as far as their narrow views allowed and true to the outward rela tions of this life, however they violated their inner principle and meanintr. Speeu'ation, defnlention. d'voree. were eritnes thev enlled hv other names than these, and abhorred, fan we say as much for ourselves? However we mav sheer at Puritanism, it. had its stronir virtues, and its outgrowth was honestv, decencv and -espeet for law A share of such virtue® would be worth much to us now. "Mrs. Gold was "a professor," and it behooved her to submit to the will of God when her husband died. He had been a stronir. generous. warm hearted man; and though undemon strative PS his race, his wife had been loved and cherished as the verv blos som of his life. She was a sweet, fair girl when Ethan Gold married her. clinging and dependent bv nature. ♦ hontrh education had made her a hard worker; but her fratrile beautv and soft temper had attraeted the strength and fervor of man, and their short life together had been exeeptionallv hap pv. Then fever struck him down in his full prime, and their onlv child, a girl of six, could hut just remember all her life that she onee had a father whose verv memorv was sacred. Fif teen years of nt on minor at first, deeply then "steadilv. at last habitually, and rather as a form thun a feeling, passed away, Ethan hail left his wife with "means," so that poverty did not vex her; and now Mindwell was 11 grown woman, and married to Samuel Pratt, a well-to-do yountr farmer of fole brook—a hearty, jovial voting fellow, whose fun ami animal spirits would huhble over in spite of reproving eves! ami tongues, and who came into Mind well's restrained and reserved life like a burst of sunshine. Are the wild blossoms grateful to the sun that draws them with powerful attraction from the cold sod. "Where thev together, All the colli wi-nther, Keeji home alone ?" Perhaps their odor and color are for "him who brings them to the light and delight of life Mindwell's great fear was that she made an idol of her hus bapd; vet he certainly had not an idea that she did. If the good soul bail stopped to an alyze the relation between them, his consciousness would have been found when formulated, to be that his wife bore with him as saints do with rather amusing sinners, while he worshiped her as even the most humorous of sin ners do sometimes secretly worship saints. Hut what, the wife did not ac knowledge or the husband perceive be came in a few venrs painfully percep tible to the mother's feminine and ma ternal instinct. Mindwell treated her with all possible respect and kindness, hut she was no longer her first object. There is a strange hunger in the aver age female heart to be the one and on ly love of some other heart,, which Hes at. the root of fearful tragedies and long j agogics of unspokyn pain—u God-giv p«i tntflitM; W 'cWuth, id isbVt* TOd monopoly of marriaere dear and des:ra ble, but, like ail other instincts, fatal if it be not fulfilled or followed. Utterly wanting' in who prasp the plu ralities of passion as well as of offloe, this instict niches itself deepest in th" gent lest of women and was the ruling yet unrecognized motive in the widow Gold's character. If Mind well had not had children perhaps her mother would have been more necessary to her ,ind more dear, but tw babies had follow d on her marriage within three years and her mother-love was a true passion. This the grandmother perceived with a tender jealously fast growing acute. She loved the little girls, as irrand mothers do, with unreasoning and lav ish fondness If there had been a maiden aunt in the family—that un considered maid-o r -all work whose love is felt to be intrusive, while yet the demanes on it are insatiable—the will ow Gold would have had at least one sympathetic breast to appeal to ; but as it was, she became more and more uneasy and unhappy, nnd began to make herself wretched with all the commonplaces she could think of— about her "room being better than her company," "love runs down, not up," and the like—till she was really pin injr, when just at thw moment an ad mirer came upon the scene, and made known the reason of his appearance in a business like wav "Deacon Flint's iu the, keepin'-room mother, wishful to see you." said Mindwell one day, about five years af ter her marriage. Deacon Flint was an old acquaintance, known to Mrs. Gold ever since she was a girl it. lias sett. When she married and moved to Denslow the acquaintance hud been partly dropped, though only nine miles lay between them; but she had then her family cares, and Ethan Gold and Amasa Flint were as unlikely o be friends as a Newfoundland dog and a weasel. Since she had come to Cole brook to live with her daughter, she was a little further still from her Bas setts friends, ami therefore it was a long time since she had seen the dea con. M canwhile he had lost his wile —a silent and sickly woman, who crept about and worried through her daily duties for years, spent and fainting when the last supper dish was washed and aching at early dawn when she had to get up to milk. She did not complain; ber duty lay there, in her home, and she did it as long as she could ; then she died. This is a com mon record among our barren hills, which count by thousands their "Martyrs by the |.: na without the palm ', It was a year after her death when Deacon F"lint made his first visit to Widow Gold. He was tired of paying Aunt Pollv Morse seventy-five cents a week to do housework, though she spun anil wove, and made and mend ed, as his wife had done, confiding only to one trusty ear her opinion of her employer. "He's a professor, ye know, Isr'cl, nnd I make no doubt. I»ut wh t he's n good man. but. he is dreadful near— seems as if he rcelly bcirrutchcd me m v vittles sometimes; and there isn't h crain o' salt in that house spilt without bis findin' of it out. Now I don't calc'late to spill no salt, nor nothin' else, to wnute it; l»ut, land's sakes ! I can't see like a flv, HO'S t<- scare up everv mite of a suirnr that's left onto the edges of the paper he fetches i* bom in. I wish to gracious he'd »ct somebodv else. IM rulher do chores for Mirandv than for the deacon " Old larnel's wrinkled face, puckered mouth, and deep set eyes twitched with a furtive Inutrh. He was the vil lage fool yet shrewder than any man who stopped to jest with him. and a fool onlv in the satiric sense of jester ; for though he had nothintr of his own but a tinv brown house and pitr-pen. and made his living, such n» it was. bv doing odd jobs, nnd peddling yeast from the distilleries at Sinisburry, he was the most independent man : n Bas net!, being regardless of public opinion and not at all afraid of Parson Rob erts. "Well. Aunt. Pollv." he answered "vou ntav hv n 1 ; the deacon w.iri't want ye too loner. lie's (rot a shnrp eve, now I tell vfi, and he's forehanded an fnrv. Flint you'll know. Minn Flint. 'II come home, and you'll go home." "Minn Flint !" ncrennied Aunt Foil v. "Whv, Inr'el Tucker, you (rive me nucha turn! Poor cretur. she's safe under the mulleins t' is venr hack. I (riienn f nhnll po when she comes. hut 'twon't I*' till the dnv o' indirment " "Then the dnv o' iitdtrmenf'n near hv, Aunt Pollv; and 1 reckon it in for one poor cretur But vou don't Home how neem to tnke it in. I tell ye the deacon's crone n eourtin'." "Conrtin'? Wei! von he n-foolin' of me now. certain sure ?" "Not n mite on't I nee him n-'ilin' un hin old harness vesterdn v. and a ruhhin' down the mnre. nnd I mintrii«t ed he wns up to mithin ; nnd Rattle he niet h'"m iilmo-t t<> Polehrook thin mornin'—l heerd hint nnv no 1 put thin 'n' thnt together, nnd drnwed mv own influences, nnd I fisrarered out thnt he'n (rone to Polehrook to see if Widder Gold won' hcv him. A wife'n n lot cheeper th.n hired help, nnd thin one'n (rot mennn." "F»r merev'n nnke vou don't "iir>- pone that Snrepty Gold would look at him. do ve ?" "I never t-ee the woman • vet that wouldn't look at a mnn when he nxed her to," want' edrv nnnwer Hut Aunt Polly wan too stunned with her new ideitn to retort She went ori nn if the nneer lit her nex had not reached her ear "Whv. nhe ha'n't no need to marrv him. She's (rot a (rood home to Sum Prntt'n ; nnd there's thnt fnrm here that Hi Smith runn on nharen, and money in Hartford hank, thev do nav. She \yon't have him : don't ye tell me so." "Women are mortal queer," replied old Inrael. "If thev wa'n't.. there wouldn't no men eet married," snapped Aunt Pol. lv who wan contented old maid and never suspected that she wan "queer" hcr-elf. ' Tbivt'n no, Au'if I'IJ'.W Mtihhe it'* wtfut IVtWu Aft** tion, and I guess it i.-. I t-ay for't a woman must be extry queer to m irry Aminasy Flint, ef she's gut a chaute at Btfssett poor-Lou^e," Yet V.MS ri_h r in his prophe cy At ihat very n.om :it Deacon Flint was sitting boll-upright in a high-back- d chirr iu Sa Trait's keep ing room, discoursing with the widow Gold. Two people more opposite in aspect could h ir.ily be found. Mrs. Gold was not yet fifty, and retained much of her sott lovliiiess. Her cheek was still round and lair, her pule browu hair but lined With gray, nnd the mild light of her eyes shown ten derly yet, th null her figure was a lit tle bent, ami her hands knotted with work. She looked fair and young in com parison with the grizzled, stern, hard favored man before her. A far- ft' Scotch ancestv had In qiiealh.il to h m the high ehct khoucs and deep se'. eyes that gave him so severe an aspect, and to these an aquiline nose, a cruel, pinched mouth, a !'- p< se ve know, a year ago come Sep tember the 10th. She was a good woman, Miss Flint was, savin' and reasonable as ever was " "1 always heard her well spoke of," modestly rejoined the widow. "Yes, her children praise her in the gates, or they would iiev if she'd had any. I feel her loss. And Scripter says, "It is not good for man to be alone.' Scripture is right. Y«>u are a woman that's seen affliction to •, Mrs Gold; you've passed under the rod. Well, folks must be resigned ; profes sors like you and me have got to set example. We can't fault the Lord when He takes our companions awav, and say. 'Why do ye so?" as though 'twas a man that done it. We've got this treasure in earthen vessels. Well to come to the p'int, I conic over to day to see if you wan'n't willin' to consider the subject of uniting your self to me in the bonds <>f marriage." "Oh!" said the astonish'-d widow. "1 don't want to hurry ye no te," he went on ; "take time on't. I should like to get my answer right off. but I can make allowance for bein' onexpeel ed. I'll come again next week—say this day week I hope you'll make it a subject of prayer, and 1 expect you'll get light on your iluiv bv that time. I've got a good house, and a good fa.*in. and I'll do well by ve. And moreover and besides you know Mr. Pratt's folks are pressed some for room I expect. I utiess they won't stand iu the way of your goin' to Basnet!. Good day—good-day." And the widow received a calm tip and dowii hand-shake, with which dec orous cures.-(?) i lie deacon—for we can not call him lo er,departed,leaving Mrs. <«o|il iu a slate of pit used amazement, partly becau c she was it woman and a widow, partly because il wa Deacon Flint who had asked her to niarrv him; lor the deacon was a pMlar in Ibt-seft church, owned a large farm and a goodly square house, and was a power in the State, having twice been sent to Ihe General Assembly. She could not be gratified by the pre ference. aiulas she pondered on the matter it g>vw more feasible. Her girl was hers no longer, but a wife and mother herself, and she who h i I been all iu all to Mindwell was now little more than "grandma" iu the house—a sort of suffered and neces sary burden on Samuel'* hinds; but here a home of her own was offered her, a place of dignity among other women -n place where she sotild a-k her children to come to her, uml give rather than receive. There is nothing so attractive lo a woman »vho is no longer young as the idea of a home. The shadow of age and its infirmities affrights her. Lone liness is a terror in the future, and the prospect of drifting about here ami tb.Tc, a dependent, poor, proud, un welcome, when flesh and heart fail, and the ability to labor is gone, makes anv permanent shelter a blessed pros pect, and draws many a woman int.. a far more dreadful fate than the work house mercies or the colder charily of relatives. Thin (error was strong in Mr* ({old's fcrl>le lienrt. She Wis one '>l' I tie thousands 111 women W 110 (Mill II 'I trust vvhut lliey • l<» not nee, and -lie in i-j lit I _ r t*(l lier daughter eruellv .VI:11'I v\'■■ 11 Cell t h:i t today a* Iter inotli er avowed to her Deacon Flint's otter and her own perplexities. When Mrs. (Jold asserted that her dan/hlcr could never understand what it was t<» lose a hiisWand Mindwell li lt a sure hut unspoken COIIVM I ion that the terror ol such a bereavement wliieii confronted her whenever her heart leaped up to meet Sumuel, was experience enough lor her to interpret thereby the l U-rU Mkti m hr mother's tu ck and wept, and Im-j*- gil her to stay, with repeated kisse* a I warm embraces, Mrs. Gold never would have become Mrs. Flint; but she could not appreciate Mindwell's eel in if. she took her conscientious self eciitrol ami caudor for indifference, and her eldery lover loomed through this mist in irranier proportions than n'ir -he res >lvd then and there that it was her duty to accept him. Mindvveil had gone down stairs to find her hush: ad. who sat by the fire flttiiijr a r:w close to the lire piace where a heap of chips was lighted to bof. the kettle for tea. Mindwell stole up :o him, and i.iid one hand on his hand- line he :d. He I > k d up astonished at the slight iart..-s, and saw his wife's eves were full of tears. "Willi's the matter, darling he said in his cheery voice It was like a kiss to her to have him sav "darling" for sweet words were rare among their cl.-j-s; tiiiil this wad the only one he iw r «>ed ; and t his was the only one he ever used ; kept sacredly, too, for Mind well. "Oh, Sum," si.;- answered, with a qui'- er in her delicate Voije, "don't you think, I Vacua Flint wants to many mother!" "Thunder au'guns ! you don't mean it, wile? I law !ha w ! haw ! It's as (food as u irencral trainin'. Of all things '! \\ hat does she say to't ?" "Well, I'm nio.-t afraid she favors him a little, lie's giving her a week's time to consider of it; hut somewhy I can't hear to have it thought of." "Don't pester your head about it. Miss Pratt. You can't make nor meddle in such things; hut I'm free to own that 1 never was more beat in all my days. Why, Amusy Flint is town talk for nearness and meanness, lie pretends to be as pious as a basket o' chips, hu», I hain't no vital faitti in that kind o' pious; 1 h'lieve in my soul he's a darned old hypocrite." "Ob, Sam ! Sam ! you hadn't ought to judge folks.'" "I suppose, I hadn't welly; but you know what Scripter says some where or 'nother that some folk's sins are open, an' go to judgment before hand, and I tfU"ss his'n do. 1 should hate to have mother take up with hint " "What can we do, Sam!" "Nothin', strenuously. I don't know what 'ti- ah ut women folks in such mutters; they wont bear no more meddlin' with than a pa'tridge's nesl ; you'll spile the brood if you put in a linger. I'd say jest as much as I could all 'lit her hein' always welcome here; I'll do mv pact <.f that set piece o' ruu.-ic ; and that's all >c can do; ll she's set on havin' him, sfie will, and von nor me can't stop it, Miss Pratt;" with which sound advice Sain rose from the milking stool with his recon structed rake, took down a coarse comb from the clock case, ran ii through his hair by w>v of toilet, and sat down to supper at the table with the three other haymakers. Mind well a id her mother out t-> tea so thev did not sii|t with the men After thev came home Sam express ed himself in a succinct but forcible manner to Mrs Gold <>n the subject ol her murrain*, and Mind well attempted a fauit remonstrance aifain. but hei morbid fear of selfishness shut the heart-throbs she lonjred to express to her mother back into their habitua 1 silence. She and Sam both, trying to do their best. actually helped rather than hindered this unpropitious mar riasre. Mrs. Gold in her heart I<»nir<*«l t" Kttiv with her children, hut feared and disliked mo heartily t<> he 11 burden on their hands that, she was unjust to her self and too. A little less self inspec tion and a little more simple honestv of speech would 111 v«• settled this mat ter in fnvor of Mindwell and fJolc ltrook; as it was, Deacon Flint car ried the day. On tin- Friday follow inhe arrived for his inswer, bis nt she's seen the last on't hlh-'s seen the last on't. (Set up, Jew (titer !" N'oth'n r daunted hv anv tnvstie or mairnetie sense of this vatie,nation hv the hiirhwav. Deacon Flint whipped up his ponv steed st'll more, and to such tyood purpose that lie arrived in Colehronk het'ore the w'd >W hid Ink en down the hi-it pinned np curl on her forehead, or deeded which of her two worked collars «he would pill on und whether it would he inconirruoil |u wenr n hrooeh of blue eiiatnel with a white centre on ■. h'eh W'i" denie'ed (in -i line In-own tint produced hv trr'ndiiw im in oil a lock of tin.' deceas ed Ft ha n Hold's hair) a weepinir wil- I i\v hend'n'jr over a tomh, with an urn and a date on the urn I his did serin a I ttle personal on -u- h an occasion. M l -he p' '< ned Oil II h|l|e llllW instead, and went down to receive the expect- In if deacon "I hope I see you well, mar'um,'' f iid Mr. Flint. "Conifortahlv well, I'm oblce;ed to V'Hi," was the prim answer. Hut the deacon was wot to he daunt • d at this crisis; lie plunircd valianllv nto the middle of thinir* at once, "I n 10v "i've ' • 'nt i f »m*' i o-ation the matter in hand. Miss Gold ?" The widow ereas dhr handkerchief between lie tiu/" 1 ' 'llU"' 11 I rftmuutl tu be' WtJWll üb'JUt tllU Ik.u^ AlDUt't iSIM; lIATEft, Oi e mjiure. out insertion, 41: each mU< qitent mxotrion, fi> cents. Yculy Khtnitemenl p vending one-fourth of a column, f 5 r>tr inch Kiir ire a-.ie!e when hauded Id A:i lit-irs" Notices, -il; Executors' and Adnnnis tn.ton-' \otietf. i 3 each; Eftray, Caution an# Dls-tolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. From the fact tliat the CITIZFK is the oldee* t ntal> uht d an ) nu.st extensively circulated R« I üblican newspaper iu Xiut.'er oounty. (a Kepub ncai c'xinty; it must be apparent to business men that it u< the medium they should use ii> f.lvertisinj; their bneine^s. N< >. 5 ming of it; but she pretty scon said, softlvf "Yes, I cant st>y but what I have thought on't a good deal. I've counselled n.v u'.li tbe children,too. "Well, I h jpe vci're fit end prepar ed to mlc rowledge the leadin'a of Providence to thi.j eon, and air about ready to be my companion through the vaiiy of this world up to theft fields beyond the sweliin' flood stands dressed in livin" green. Anion." TO BK CONTINUED. A MILLIONAIRE'S WILL. The fiequevt.-i of the Laic James £ Hroun, of Killunning. On Saturday the will of the late James E. Brown, of Kittanning, was made puMc. The amount of property involved will reach $2,r>00,000. The will was made in 1871, and owing to the death of Mrs. Jane B. Finley, to whom the bulk of the property was devised, and the birth of James E. Brown, Jr., that part of the will has lieen rendered null and void. The fol lowing is the will: 1 set apart and give fifteen per cent, of my personal estate remaining after pay mi lit of the above gifts, all debts a id charges against it and dower iu my personal e-:ate and excluding the residue of my goods and chattels, but including working interests in oil wells, and direct the said fifteen per cent, to be paid and distributed as follows: One thousand dollars thereof to be invested in United States bonds at interest, and with their interest to be used in giving twenty-live dollars thereof to'each wife in Kittanning who shall hereafter be come a widow, having one or mora children, in straitened circumstances, payable immediately alter the death of her husband. This gift to be made to and also include those who shall here, after become wives. Auother one thou sand dollars thereof to be paid to the ses sions of the First Presbyterian church of Kittanning, to be by it invested iu a United States bonds, and the inter est thereof appropriated annually to the use of the Sabbath school of said church, (jf the residue of the said 15 per cent, there shall be paid to the following hoards of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United Slates of America (ol which Church I am a member,) as follows: To the Trustees of the Board of Domestic Mis sions of the Presbyterian Church ofthe United States, 20"per cent, thereof; to the Trustees of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church of the Uni ted Slates of America, 10 per cent, thereof; to the Board of Foreign Mis sions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States oi America, 20 per cent, thereof; to the Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, 5 per cent, thereof; to the 1 rustees of i he church erecting fund ofthe General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church the United Slates of America, 10 per cent, thereof; to the trustees of ihe General Assembly of the Presby terian Church of the United States of America, in trust for the iue of the fund for disabled ministers and their iatallies, u per cent, thereof, and for the General Assembly Committee on Pivcdmen, 5 percent, thereof; to the Presbyterian B.bie Society, 20 per ceut. thereof; to the American and Foreign Christian Uuiou, formed iu New York hi IS4D, to be applied to charitable uses and purposes of said society and under its directions, ;> per cent, there of lie gives several sma 1 sums, from 00, to various nephews and nieces, and to his sister, Mrs. Hue. Kelly, $401) annuity. All the remainder, real, personal and mixed, goes to bis laughter, Mrs. Jane B. Finley, and his j rand-daughter, Elveua Finley, share Hid share alike, for their solo and sepa rate use; and which shall not be con trolled encumbered or changed by, or iable, or subject iu any way to debts, contracts or engagements of the pres ent or luiure husbands of my said lies without issue, and my daughter survives her, then my daughter shall he entitled fo and inherit this devise mil bequest, to my grand-daughter at die death of my daughter, and if my /rand-laughter survives her she shall be entitled to and inherit this devise aml bequest to my daughter, and if my grand-daughter survives my daugh ter, and afterwards die without issuo, iheu whatever may remain of the de vise and quest shall descend and go to my legal heirs. "Yes," said a young lady, who was p assessed of a fine voice, "I am often ■ sked to appear in public, but—""Hut ■,vhat?" observed a friend. "Well," ,he replied, "I should never be able to Mjstain tilv party. lam so easily de composed." Mr. A. W. Camphfll, editor of tbo vVheeling liilelluje.ncer, is spoken of i.t likely to be a favorite with the Gar lic! 1 administration. Mr. Campbell vas one of the two or three delegates io the Chicago Convention who declin ed to vote for Senator Conklitlg's reso itiion pledging each delegate in ad- to vote for the nominee, whoever he mi-cht be, and it was General Gar icld who turned the tide and prevented hep issf-'e of the subsequent resolu tion ol Mr. Conkliug to expel all the lelegates who would not pledge them selves lie is a nephew of Alexander 'aiiipbell. founder ofthe sect to which leueral Garfield belongs. When vou think your child has Ihe diphtheria, the best thing you can Io is to send lor a good, If ,lie can not be had you ,i jirlit trv the following which a cor respondent asserts is a specific f —' Stir i teaspooiilul of Hour or rfnl|>towMn a wine iflass of water awl tfiv-e il >V