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M_rri» CilT, tV»roh«, Parser, tic., *i 7.557 »■ . tort 3.5» «nd 7.25 i '«• I'nluP arrive *l Butler from the above named , olrt» <t 7. 7a. nri ir.d *.IV "•«' 7'5 fh» 2.15 train eonr.-• Ml" inut - c »&«* w *» Prnn rovl •hr->agi. l<< I'iUs^urcb. AN H lU-MHfM Kill R''*' l I rain* leave 11 • ' r ■ •. ,» linrrisvilh-, • lf - ' '•*' .n<s 225 n re. :t5 * M ati * 555 p w . it rk« i" «'i 'rout «'• roe*. «• 'nit- Fairvie*, Modoca:i(l I ..mill . coaist* lit UU- I.ii.J wl'.h •'1 rdrm on itiß > & A r-t-iG HAII.R I rain- lca*e Buite'. fuller or itu- v .nr»h T n.f.; tfarifi < ' ' V " Zi.eny, t •'!' . ' • p " r<-t« at Free - *' >"'< Ac.-..mn. St. at*-'O 3 M, e.lfej I".. < ..... .; •-«»•« - v M AS , I yf:, ■ ■■■-- °»' l . :! r. • -I • . = : .rrlvi*. .»• ' : ?•*" •rr - .«,! •• •t T\ W> ■' «-t * ..4 „ . .t' . "%'•» . r« fj ' 3Jrt V r«; f; ♦ -s »:• pi f .. f .a. i u rwiii K r. nl V■ » ft *V> ■.l Vn. |. |e . Bull" r lime The *mrt '•« » •••*. * '.«• '«&.!» >b< <S P»i♦.«■!" K. • \iatn I »n r «!•!- —!• ' !-:•••'' - H " •„V. jil:(l "< '• •' "* -5: t ' !1 t . 'jrilrlLi «. V' ' . ' ' rt a«.IT-JC • m -.wlSito.?.! aed ?••»» » HHltlmnre .' ~ui Ifc# «»«!-■ w*-.a» « »»«« i "; nr t ■ <*r. *nd -.t h|». f.n at: *« - ai-d > 1 "I I!""' 'H" r - 11ine «»1 [lsl.'in? < onri*. The several Comfy of the county of P.ntier commence on the fiirt Monday "f March, June. September and December, and continue two weekt, or ao loDg as necoeeary to dwpoee of the bntinea*. No caur«s are pnt down for trial or traverse jurors summoned for the first week of the several term. ATTORNEYS Al' LA SV BUTLER, PA. J. F. BRITTAIN\ Offloe with L Z Mitchell Diamond. A. M. CUNNINGHAM, Offloe in Brady's L»w Bnilding. Butler, Pa. "8. H. PiERSOL. Office on N. E. corner Diamond, Riddle build • tug __ JnovlJJ JOHN M. GREER. Office on N. E. corner Dia r . ond. novlil WM~H~LUBK, Office with W H. H lUddle. Esq. NEWTON BLACK Office ou Diamond, neai Court House, south • de. ~ " KTL BHU«H. Office In Kiddle's l.aw WulldiiiK )HSKK Office in Biddi •'* I>aw B iilding lm«« J B .Vr-.fI'XKJN. ■<)>e«al attention xIT" '- "> eolti-' ti »(>- o| |f If IVlil.td Ho i-- JOSKi'H H KUEUIN. • ithit: t i-otn-'i I Uiaui-' • ■ H. 11. GOUCIIKB, ■■ « «<i*! i < •» '**•,. •:(•.; . • .1 . ! >' ; T.' > ( e.ir I ;!)■"' '!.• . . • t, \ \ Oi.: ... l/fltce in )• • * '. ■ I ■ ft- - •.<• '« -V. ••; "it f.i* v V...U1 ;• Offiri- Vi tin ht-e- • 1 • . *. * >. 1;r. 1,i • Oiftv* M»i. site i t »»>HI!- itl VC iv V • i:-Iv. to*" Oftce a. ihn). street. «>pj>i s<;h %'•<. •!*< House. GEO li Wlli I'E, Office N IL «• rm:r <»1 i>tHiitt>;. KHANi I- s w T i<vi ANi y Oftioe with (»ef'. J. .V f'iirv>ji)i e. >f Jul south of Court U'iijf- J !> y,.M NKIN office In rtclui ...i'■ '•t|liM:i . - .v.t ■ ■ Main »Ue>i, 2:id .•hjh .r.- (t .rn ( (.tit 1 Sio i U | WAV * Office on Du.n>-lei mode it *.>> i.J ','irt/ offiee. T ( . (A IMUJ i. Office in Barg'» l.u'Mi'i/ do .. . side Main I't* l'.on -■■■. .' Horn*-. i: A. A si J. 1.1 \ \N raay7 Ofliw > VV. .-<»r </ ii BLACK A BKO Offiu on Mntti «tre<i <.r< l<>oi tc. Brttily Hlix k. Buil'-,r. pa : JOHN Vi iLl.Kiv A- BKll. Offioe in Brady's I.atr Bin 'lain aft ■ j south of Court Bon'«. Krnr.>r O. Miit." Notary Public THOMAS ROBINSON. bP'i'i.r r. i-A JOHN i» SE«.LK'» paruciiln uumh'it w intm .i>e< in real estate tbe ouunty OmattoM Dukoo. <k*» Onrr tl< n- Orru»-« *(TiLw«<* E. K ECKLBT, Kl£NHKn> MUHSH.'... (Late of Ohio.) ECKI.EY A A. ARM-fAM. Office In BrnilyV !.(»*■ IJiilldiui'. H. I . (T~HIUS"'( IE Attorney at /.aw. uuaines- carntul trsn«act(!d CoiliK'tionf made and proou>t!' rotnitted. Business er,rre«pond»:nei piomi''!' atu-ndod to and .tii-werc<l Office o|>posii<- Lowr. Iloum , Bullet, Pu ViaCF.KL\jlffiolJß McSVVKKX V k McSWEEN Y, • Hru.;lli, o.t 'lb: . ror.i i'a At N i.'r t« itir*. Vi. • BENE j*n6 tl IVt. i: Hut . » Pi!VhlC! JOHN E BYKKS, I'fIYiSICIAIN |( ir.yJl-1) j -1 i l.i k . A h D. VJB I Y. Ou vV AX.HRON. •< .unu- »i u. rlii. K ad' l(-. la I*«-«>r*»i < (>r« j.: r.. ■ lis to uo auythtiiu in the line at it • profession 1" a aatl'fMOtory manner Offit* on Main n/-eei, Butler, Unbm Block, up sulrs, apll Q O JJ iyr (S IS stops, Hsi t lteo>)s. 2 Knee aweli*. Htool, Book, only #s7.JO. h Htop Ori/an, rttool. Book, only r Piano-, Htool, B>«ik. t'On to s2Ctb. lllus tratod caialotruu fr-io Addrues apli-Sm w n WNNKI.I,, Usinlown. Pa Cni • *' t.x K »ly i tlay ar Lome «a ilyuiaJe fit fi*». AdOiws >*>, VOL. XVIII. CARPETS! OIL CLOTHS! MATS! RUGS' STAIR RODS = NEW STOCK! NEW STOCK! > ~ | HECK Sc PATTERSON'S } if CABPET ROOM ! M NOW OPEN! » One Door Sc«th of th&(r Clothing Ho«§e t r —i —^ n»fly's, ' link, sept 2o- tf Bntlrr. Pa. 2 U' r ;< I VIV iSH£>TOTIO iSJjMHVO f ! ■ n 'TABLE 3FWE3Y ilxtor-al Uoo; , T C:r *.! ".:h it is reccmmesdai I .. ■* • Y SAT £ln the of • -.;cr.c zi f-i.or.s, - f, r Crtccns, SOR£ instant relirf i a . r . TilAi ar.d Is tlie ; v I NiiIJKAJLGIA. WIDELY KNGWrJ Vlfi. ' v . . • !•_ S?i THE WORLD. : ' v *\ , - • j wcr.i'-rfnl sccecf?s a'! : s. , • . . ;vs v CiICLERA, I>IAKUB<EA, '■ V. , .i, .* wVt.'L CO.HPLAC)kTB« that U j >v r ' r' [i'j, ti.» J' r thtce dUinrts. HAS S7QO3 TtiZ TEST CF 40 YEARS'CONSTANT Si / -:v,5 %*s. USE lw All tuiJSTRIES AND CLIMATES. 1 I jl'jJ ""'/'V' !t V~ aby Physlcinns, JJlissionrj-ice, •ill £s!?3 \'iW "■ . J >la:n.'-n of Plantations, Work - Shops, ar.i ■ I Srs \. ' , I'iu'iorfr-. : -sPff-i In iioepitata—in diort, by Everybotiy fc. i - v-.o 't a triaL IrHi I# <v;i a rival AS A LINIMENT. i*tl!i r*Vv- ! ?* • ■ »•■ - ' f-r Puin in tbe Back ond hide, i/\ Vt! :i M/; 'v aJcf 5... i.-.sr in all can* of Brazen, it' 'f> ' ' '' .V'- ' " -rnii braids, etc. s'. -t • "T V BE WITnorT IT. Itvria r, ' f-Tt In doctors' bilia, and lta price fflgmmt* "" •• •" . It U sold at 25c. 60c.aad «i.OO ■ 1* ■" • '. :j n'l drne^ists. PERRY /evidence, R. I. Proprietors. HOTELS GRAND BOULEVARI) HOTEL. Corner 59th SI. tt- Hroaduay, NEW \OV.K. On Hoth Americai: hu<! lliiropciin l'lan*. Fronting <•■!> Out rsi I ."irk. i? et.rand ■ il* vard. Broad wa\ ai d I'ifl; \ li S'. . iliis Hotel occu pies Uif entire s'|ii; i", .ml was luiH and fur liiUi'd a! ::n i'XT« i eof i. cr < !Mi.ii</0. It i* one <1 the most elcfranl :• > • i m Mi:g the finest lo cated in tl r div h • • inc r Kli i'fir and ail modem !in|ir<>'.' ~ • m-.. ami i- v. jtiili: on» miuare nf tin' ■: iii( ■ i f tiif Kixth and Avenue Klevatrr! ft. H. < . ;:tid "till wearer to the I'ni.'i'Kvi'i; , a 1 fl<Mrl all Mit of i' i' " i ;■ .. ii: ln,:ird. «2 per dm. Kpfffcl ■ ' -ii i, v ••!!•; i "nri- 1 ent gae'tx . K. HABKI 1.1. Pmptiftw. v fvii'D Ho f eJ, ( c,, r . ■ I" I T ' . I , ' nOT('HKI.< c 1 »'0\!) . . I'rop'^ r • ' V . ... • v-«r y ■ h • ■-1 F. I WI.JT.AS Prot)' , MAIN STREKT, BUTLER, I'A. H&vini/ txlrti i> mi <it t .!• «b-'V.' t"W« 111 ft r"\ *->' li> (.<• •.,/ firw«lK • in liio hurt of idyte for th" wv >in 'Uiiiio of ynoxtn the. public *re recpeet'ullv rivit"'l to j{':v<i roe n cull I !.;»ve ili>o i ii of *>!«> Inrn in rr-.-.r of hot'!, wt'ich furniihe* tNcullent bt*.ti'l"f;. r.c roiD'xU'ion f> ri> y jritr >i. • LIBER AL OFFFRS FOR IKHJ. Two fefs the Piles of One! i fIK I'Ff'' NT : OP THE BRITISH QUARTERLY f Evatuji'li al), LONDON' QUA RTERLY (Connerfatice), EDINBURGH ( Whiy), AND WETMINSTER ( Liberal), •13 K-. *. m * AND Blackwood's Ef'icLurgli Magazine, # r).» i-#>w fv • i • c-Jatu ft cH>nvr)u« .n* tr*d v. 1 'K' .ei'f" or alteration Tt m-- : : u r p . i.'clitdliig Poctige. It: i I . r »iiy i 1 <lO i«r I'ivrl.w in.l »r,rl niv '• l:»v.ew 7 00 annum I.IM: H'O.xl »ti.l two ItivinWM Jo 00 W«XHI ,i,it tlv• ' It VINVH MO') «i.y:*rr 70- * liy tl H I: IVt*VKiWH 10 'K) Tb» four i;«vi» ah 12 o'l BlK'kwOml U.d Hl« (.ill wii 16 00 Tbd-f ftrc ttliont I'Aif I'm pricflMolikrgod hv ttio Kill. Hull f'iihl|-!i« r-< <'lii")»i- (fiviji i. Coritprrt• of tl»e I'«»ri(v11- < *IH for th' •• -r lt»H aii'l many otlirr purticn -Imm mi y In.- Ii 1 oit &titiiic*i uui. PKEM I IMS : N< w HIII kch i r» u.nv Ii ive tlio rrioil/r-r* for Hfy' an !IMS I r.t 11. |; r ■ .1 oii(< year'o HutMcrip fion O'.lv. To Miv "uljfcii! i t rr.w or oM. wo will fur<aii<b tiiH p«-r. liculr. f .f Ih7 1 • h'lif |iric«. ii o"J, t- »i» V<i ri li t, t.-li'ji: I'ion ofllce 'o t'.i irui premium i|>|jlv promptly, : h t iRi r Piililishing Co., IS it ! I:- j St.. "Vi«w *Yoi l». : • JIR: i./tIONS. .; fur «.'nl:.rrli. IIMV P-vi'r > i-iiUI In tin- Ue.ul, V. , . iiiM-rt with lit tlv Imjjt'r n i iwti' !■• ui iin- i'.aliii f v , , ' Into. h • inihirll.t; draw • . * ' l iiiiigl ri'iitli.M Ilirouyh 7 . - " ''«VJ '• • in- i'. It wI! lie ■■'tlC-Li ' ;>• /. ./•! .i S .liiOll, (i.'UllHlng, yf i ■ "" :ir "' «u»- r "ri f D< ' afncßB ' v™. ~i,rt,ci " i,,t " ELY'S CREAM BALM HAVIN'C Kiliiu-i; mi rnvialili r pntMlliiii. i!U[>lac liifct all olln-r |iri-|iaralion i in tin' vlrlnltv i.f <ll i-.lV i*ry, Im. on Ith nii-ritH hli-iii*. ll* ju* a ivini ili rfui i< im-dy wiirri-M r Known. A fair trial wilt convince tin- Miiwt ski'pllcal of n>. nirailvc pow ers. It fltci'tually • li'.'ui'ii't the iiaxal pRSNaKin of catarrh al vim-, r MI-MUX )■•-; itt>> »,< in-lloii*. al lays itiflamni.-'tion and Irni tilon. proi"rtH tln> m«ml>raiml ill inv of ill" ln-a-1 from .-<!< 'HI<HI:II '•(■ Ills, enmp I'll ! !| ! till' Mill's ; ltd || -loi'-s lll<- I'tiM- of t; • t»- .'-.iid -iii' i l . I I'lii'lli i.i! riniilth an* '••all'.i'd l>> a f«'W aj'pi"-allons. A Uior<n.;;ii Iri at mrnt ax dlff'eU'd "ill "in' - < at: irli As a lunr-u •- Hold n-nieily for i utd mi tin lioail l« iiii< <|tial<srt. The ll'dm Is "• ii' - ami •stn-eah.e. Sold liv dnipflm.- at .'■o «."'i * < n ii l 'ljit of • <«t»tm wifi ma;! ;• p:K'k:':;i. fetid fnrelrrmar wUh lull Infnr ina' a ii I'i.V HI": 1 A V I!'. f.M CO., On . V. Uvi fain Ik tUfJHdd' T arm Ity Wli»/l«- Y«j trim rary. [WRSHJirSSAIE BY v itr,ft of a writ "f Vceditioi-i Kx|can nidi <i»e nf fi.p t'ircnit ' < mt nl i s Uni ted . ' 't< for tbe We.-ten. I' >ri»:i I Peniisvl VIMI r.inl to in" directed. I * i I exi'Orc ;it i ut>- l:e - ile at the I'. S. of '*lM 'TUESDAY, February Slli. 'Bl, 41 10 OVI«< k. A. \r the ui li' title, ir.tere. I n:.d claim of ihn iietei- I ant Hi" liutli rG - >n panv. of in and In -I! t '. c- lain pi«s« nf land. Hitnnlo in til" i • . -aali "f 'in r cnnty <.f But lor, Pennsvlva i i.:a 'iii t» I k I 'l' 'c:il • I »s followc : On the t t the We.t Penn'ft l.'aiJrond; ea-t by lot I i ■; ro'?tli b- t I'liorjiieni Hfim; creek, and v t r>< t'li ft r liuffv; containing one ■ i a.* I "i's i' li K.i. having erected t! ore ■ll hi irk (I limine, inrter. I oilftr. finritior*. hi' 1. :t- a ■ t-'.t !■ ■ ft' n tboiiHHtid feet ca ' * ! i'i.i will II ir.aiith. pipon, conntic • ii tlic pK'nerty fixture*. riijhlH. I *'ii| de'uaiulti of «aid On* i i . ■■i el .. iiiif or attached thereto. Hub ' • ' v< ,I>l mortal;<ri> of leu thonHand i ' 'h "a . "ii ii aim In a leat*e of tbe naid f-r | * ty f'ii l! « teitxi <.f three yearn from July )-t, /fl i.i,4 t lc« . in execntion at- the property i f tie I ntler (Jaa at the Muit of .John V Pniv ir Kec iver or the First National Bai'k of Uutle.r. Pa JOHN HALT., U. H Marshal. • .i.' halV Offi e January 11th, t%Hl. —3t Jurj I Isi for tliirch Term 1881 I'KAM) JCHOHS Kill WKKK COMMENCING MONDAY, MAKCII 7TII. ' Ailatna--John Jol.naion, George Kauffiuan. Aiie^'hcny—J. 1< H'ilaon. I'.utler Ueornc Heile. liuffulo—John >!. l i umpe. P.rady—John Wtein. Rutlcr borough—Latvia Keck. I 'uiicoril—lJi li. rl ixiiii-cr. ('oiiiir.f)iieri<'i'' is::; —S. P. l)«»f|d.s. < lii rrr—F I:. > u-ijr. I'miiifjerry < y ll.irper, William John il. Sr. I eiiiro - 1 'rinli .• h it. ( Icnrfit'M il : • l>. McCreii. I , .view !>., i.u M. Black. J.ickwn--Ad.-iiii I,'. i'itz Jeir. M ill -Jan . Arlliurs. K:iri!s City V." \i'llli:una. Mi-iti : Jame. II : .'iniiatl, ' ;.d i'.: Ihiiich Thornberry. —(}. >V. Meala. TltAVll:. i: Jl I <-i lIiIiWIKK COMMKNCINO M< MA' JV IU II 14, lg.Sl. Allegiicny A. ' . 'i.'illianiN. A'lunih—rainiii" !<iiir. I'ru ly Jumper < (.vert, lituler Aliani :i :. i.-'k, J. S. White. ( leaffield—W.J pr, K*<|., Ch'-rry -tieorff livUenbcrry, J. 11. Varner, l»niwr Hall, Tlinnii * ' liriaty. (.'lintoii- l'„ Mauiliofl', George M. Gibaon, Thomaa llay. C'liiijiMiuenehKii. ,' V/. 11. ISlakely. • lay Thouinx Mel 'i vite. D' lii^'al —Jame I iit-on, William Kminger, Isaiah Keep. franklin—W. J ii.irkley, Janiex Y. Kng liah. Forward—>l are i I'ihra. Kairview Dniiii 1 1/ num. Fuirview borm,. li \Vni. Pat ton. Jackaou- Win. J'uriean, Jr., Wm. Cooper. ] .lefler<*on— Pati i' 1 . "i'leilds t harle* liCtinner. I Lancanter (jc ■»r-»r» Ditidinger. Mtllenttown—Wi.i. liarnhart. j Mercer—A brain !.< w. j Middlesex—Win. .-v ler, John K. Logan. Marion—Jacob Killermmi, Michael Mc- I Lau.'lilin. Miiddvcreek i a iel Ilurnsides, Oinwiddie | MiCullongh. I <)nkland Ji'hr A iiilmire, Br., F. 11. Mon- II in, ">V. J. Itobl». I'iirker—J. W . sniiili. l'enn—lot.epli H. I'lewn. Saxoiihuric II.IMIMI Mudur. Huiilinit—llolieit 11 I'eland, I Veiitin.ro—l iiid y Kohlnioycr, John Mc (.'"l lough. Worth-—.!. \V. •! s trt. Zeli.in.pl'; Jl • Wallace. Union \V oolt-n IVlill, IT I.KH, I'A II I'l'P f.OtTO.\, Prnp'r. iptjl .' liner ■>! ' . \nki:'i -, Ki.an nki.k, VaHNb, <V' Al -o ( UMnlii .'.iU dune In order. Hue), it*. <l diii.■ Koll', in I i Ulniiki U, Fhititii ln Knli tli'if and Wi-avin- Yarim, Ate., at very low prices. Wool u <• i i n ihe M:uren, if de fcdanlaalMir«itrlx*ii Nutice la heieh. civen that I, Kate It. Itowo, haw taken ont l< :s i of ailrnhtlHtration on the ifta'e of I,i w, I lue of KarnH City, lint Ic r com ty. Pa . dee'd. all pemonn having clniina or demandn th« citato of mid decedent are reijm etid to preient the name to rue at once. KATE li BoWK, A 'n.'x of Lewi« liuweydec'd KittaniiiiiK, Pa. dr< S lit FOR SALE. A Fine Single Sleigh, inude in the latest style, swell bed. Also a line two hor»e sleigh can be bought cheap. Terms easy. Inquire nt Citizen office. Slock Speculation and Investment | Operations on Margin or by Privilege*. Kp»- cial hticiiieeh in Mm ng Stocka. Full particulars on application. J4UKS IJHOWN, D.alur in j titi nl.e te OJ Dronlway; Haw Yo»«. Bl TLER. PA., WBDNKSDaN Fi-BKI AKY % 18SI A COUNTRY TAVERN IN WIN TER. From Lippincott's Magazine for February. Two o'clock by trie kiicken-clock. At four at will be dark. The diui red sunset of fine days can hardly shi;4e through the December windows, and now a storm is blowing and it is in tensely cold The tavern stands knee deep in snow. Suow is piled high on window-ledges and sashes, and the rooms are muffled in a peculiar hush I caused by the woolly frost on the I panes, which thickened to bold alte re : lie cos when the kettles were boiling ; for dinner; you have to scratch a hole half an inch deep in order to see out. Nevertheless, 'flowers of all heavens' ! grow on the landlady's windows. A large, dark able woman, she sews be side her flowers, half remembering the brief dream of summer, so hot while the corn weather' lasted that the i English sparrows gasped with open mouths and lifted wings, half hoping for the first heavenly day of spring when the wind, blowing hundreds of miles from sea to the New York lulls will begin to melt the .snow under it' icy eru.-t. The remark common to woman, 'I can't have anything as 1 v\ant it,' is not one of hers. She has made a sitting-room of her ample old kitchen, has fiited it up with a rag earpet. a cherry bureau 'nlaid with birch, and a stand having gorgeous brass handles and a pair of green-glass caudlesticks, and has moved her kitch en, according to a fashion dear to country wives, back to a little pantry surrounded room in ihe rear. From her chair she can bear Ann Sin illhoof in the kitchen singing with the voice of a wild bird, —screech-owl, for in stance, — 1 wauls none of your rings nor money, Fal de ran^, De rang edang eday ; I'm for tlie man that calls me honey, Fal ile rang, De rang edang eday. And she can look across the yellow painted dining-room to a door of the bar-room, which opens occasionally with the announcement, 'Two travel lers for dinner!' Whenever this hap pens, the little pet standing full of peeled potatoes in cold water in the kitchen is clapped ou the fire, and twenty minutes later those potatoes, mashed, enter the diningrooui in the company of ham and eggs and hot coffee. There are long, level roads about Wet Falls and the Malleable Iron-Works where the railroads have killed the taverns, but among the hills a great deal of riding and driving still goes on, and this tavern, on a plateau of the valley, with woody sweeps ris ing far above it, and below it a cedar scented stream running in woody beds, lacks 110 company. Many a traveller breasts the storm miles and miles for the sake of the landlady's cookery. Snowy feet stamp ou the porch, and in stalks Squire Ford, of the Hills, caught in the storm on his homeward way. He seats himself hv the setting room fire ami tries to find some news that he has overlooked in yesterday's paper. There is a vein of melancholy and irritability about the Ford race ; he is not pleased to have to put up at a tavern. A Ford is never in a scrape. No Ford every catches cold, or lias his house burnt up, or is poor, or a drunk ard, or cheats. Whatever a Ford does is right and it success There is old Hill Birkbeck: stepped on his shoestring, fell and broke his hip, and is lamed for life. No Ford goes around with untied shoes. And old Dan Id let: dropped a stiek of wood on his foot, and is bedrid after. No Ford drops wood 011 his foot. The squire should have foreseen the storm. While he reads, the sitting-room re ceives another arrival that banishes his peevish looks,—tin; .Melvines of Melvine Farm, belated in the storm like himself. They are a line couple, the gentleman with a glow of amber in his white hair, the dame in a rich woolen dress of a beauteous pigeon blue and wearing blond lace 011 her silken gray hair. St If and rosy with cold, they doff wraps, and talk and congratulations commence, for there never were such friends as the Fords and Melvine*; their mere meeting is exhilarating. The founders of the two families come together long ago from Connecticut to New York's wheat fields, that they might no more need to eat 'rye and injin,' and their 'woods, underwoods, rivers, brooks and rivo lete' were enfeoffed to them from a sachem named Ousamurquin, king of Pocauorcket. Melvine's fourth great-grandfather was an officer in the French and In dian war, which is fine; but Ford's fifth great-grand lather was scalped in the Pequod war, which is still better. Melvine families have superior beauty of jihijrtKjur, educate their children well are fond of travel and society, are hard 1 at a bargain and smart at making! money. Tuey are an equable race, 1 having something genial their very anger, never specially enthusiastic about anything, nor bent on reforms which do not pay, nor distressed by the nakedness of the poor. < Mir great war did not disturb them. They give some hundreds a year to the Church and go about their business with minds disengaged from thoughts about the Infinite. They are satisfied wiili their old preacher, who fills his ser mons with cheerful and doleful anec dotes in equal parts, interspersed with such phrases as 'washings of regenera tion,' 'root and branch,' and 'pestilenc that walkcth at noonday,' and makes them emphatic by slinking his forefing er before his nose thirty seconds to gether, l»y lifting his fists high above liis bead and bringing them down with a whack, aud by hanging his hands over the front of the pulpit and letting them dangle there. The Fords are temperate, prudent, long-lived, and hearty ; not great read ers, but possessing such cool, perfect judgment that they are the ruling minds of their community and are de pended on to help in times of trouble. Vou can lean on their sound sense as if it were a post They watched the war in agonized su-pensc. I hey are of a philosophical turn of in.ll I, and when they ought to be thinkiug about hqgH waste Uit-ir time in r) cculaling about tbl) origin. of tb'o uaivurtfc. Mrs. Melvine is a primu donna us soluta of this nation. Talk about [ ability! She has reared a great, beau tiful. healthy family, has settled them creditably, has always kept house hand omely, with servants in subor dination and constant preparations for company, has read books and news papers, and has done all without be coming sickly and fretful and without talking about her work, and still looks refined and fresh. The spirit of the Revolution is still among the hill-folks. They read Wirt's "Patrick Henry' and Jefferson's 'Autobiography' and know about the battle of Camden. Squire Ford has a roll of thin brown Continental bills in his writing-desk. He can tell an even ing full of line anecdotes about the Revolutionary war, related to him when a child by his grandmother, and and he remembers how M. de la Fay ette on his last visit to America rode a richly-caparisoned canal-boat along the Erie Canal, bowing left and right to the crowd Mrs. .Melvine can sing parts of a ->ong eighty verses long about wearing the hair over a roll. They tlii k American things prefect and would con.-ider Mr. Henry dames a Tory As they converse about their old frieudsb ps, their grandparents, child ren, ami graudchildren, two engineers who have been looking into the Cedar Holler railroads join them in the sit ting-room. The house is filled with travellers, ami the landlady perceives that ;;n ample sup >er will be required She goes into tbe kitchen to see how the work is getting on. Ann Small hoof is performing a gforzandu passage on the cook-stove. The little maid that helps is digging tooth and nail in her cold corner like a dormouse bur rowing through a hill, in tbe hope that she may warm her chilly frame and doze over a ragged fairy-bo"k by the hearth for a little while before bed time. She stops, wildly holding a potato in one hand, when the landlady announces, 'There will be thirty people to supper.' Ann Smallhoof is old with the aux iety of that moment. 'We're working on the clean jump, but we can't get it ready,' says she ; which is a frightful thought in a bouse where the meals are always 'spat on the minute.' The landlady is equal to the emer gency. 'Co,' says she calmly, 'for oue of the neighbor women. Co to wunst' The Neighbor Woman soon comes, with a shawl over her head, and plants herself by the lire. By ami by she wipes her nose on the corner of her shawl. She; then takes a pin from her mouth. Now she removes her shawl. There is a 'wudjuk' of tousled hair at the back of her head, from which pro trudes an old 'rat' of rusty cambric burst open and showing its cotton stuffing. Her mind is partially soft ened by the vat of boiling gossip in which she lives. 'I knowed we was going to have a bad night; but we ban to bear it. I must take somethiu' against night,' she observes. Six; steps into the pantry, puts a loaf of bre. d against her greasy breast, cuts off a slice, butters it, overlays the lint tcr with a piece of rich fruit-cake, spreads bi's of cheese on the cake, eats tlie combination off her hand, and chin ksthc crusts under the s ove. She then proceeds to peel a pan of apples 'Our folks have seven orchards, but we don't waste apples like- that,' s ys Ann Smallhoof. The apples despatched, the Neigh bor Woman attacks wiih violent ener gy thi- accumulation of dishes in the sink, dashing glass, dirty plates, knives and forks together in a pan and clashing them about like liedhitn let loose. 'L uk a mercer on me! It kills me up to see dishes washed s.',' ejaculates Ann Smallhoof. 'Don't talk to me no more, you sassy thing! I sot up housekeepin' when I was eighteen, I had two child ren when I was twenty, and ten when I was forty, and two married, and I guess 1 know how to wash dishes,' answers tbe Neighbor Woman,' being of the sort that talks back. 'I Work for the toppiu'est people 'round, and they allers crack me up to the highest notch,' she adds. 'Hah! I know who you be and what you do, so you've strained yourself for nothin'. You're grubbin' aloug just the meanest kind among a mess of poor folks,' says Ann in a rage. 'What's out of kilter?" inquires the landlady, appearing in her cooking apron 'Me and her is bavin' a little spat ; we don't quite fadge, that's all. I'll have these done in a jiffy ; I'm no put terer,' replies tin; Neighbor Woman. 'lf you're mean enough to sneak out of it that way, all right,' says Miss Smallhoof. 'I never see the beat!' exclaims the Neighbor Woman. 'lt's a tedious job to try to work with you, Ann Small hoof; you're terribly out all the time hiir _..ni|i —" The rest of the sen tence tails oil' into grunts and groans, uihl ends with a look of perfectly pul verizing scorn. 'Now, what nonsense!' says the landlady tranquilly.—'Ann, I'll be obleegetl to you if you'll be a little bit folksey ; I'm used to likely folks iu my kitchen.' Any forcible remark that pricks the conscience is scolding; and this quiet scolding of the landlady's is a power in her house. She retires, and her servants drift into an agreeable con versation about freezing and stulling sau.Migcs and drying pound sours. The landlady is a woman who does not worry about her rights, which are to run that tavern properly She does not furnish matches with the cigars and tobacco; it has become a custom with the habitue* of tin; bar-room to save up bits of paper, which they lend to each other and blow out to use again ami lay up half burnt on a 1 it tie ledges about the bur-room, which is hot and b ijihtiy lighted up and smells puiigently of whisky, lemons, and cigars. The loi king-glass ami the bottles behind the t jar shine brilliantly, ami a vast cireus ;»oster depicting Mile. Toiirenaira iu ilesh-colored tights, riding live ereaui e ilorcd horst'M together, maked the WaTl gny. Ford's bo_v loun<res in one of the worn ".ooden arm-chairs in a luxtirv of warmth and anticipation of supper Th:s is better than his usual evening work of sorting seed-peas one iiv oue at home. Being in a barroom he con siders next to going to a raising, and that is next to going to town. He likes goinj; to any kind of a 'doings' except to church ; the mere sight of n steeple skives him a dismal sensation ; but the talk about bulls' peits, about 'rasslers' that know tbe hip-lock, and about a show where a man dances with two other men hanging to the hair of his head, enchants him. The landlady's husband, a little, lea:, lazy, watery-eyed man, has a taste for trading. To hear his wife talk, you would suppose he wastes a fortuin that way : he did once buy a white p i iiV that turned out deaf. He is dick ering for a pipe with a man bav'ng a species 'it whortleberry nose,—one of those strange beings who get a livi.mr by fitting iu a bar-room without ever having any "money in their clothes." At 'the sticking point of the bargain' tli«' landlr-rrl happen.- to remember his wifi ::n I stops with, 'tain't wuth it, come to think.' The travellers, in their fur caps, coat and shoes, look like water ani mals as they leisurely remove their furs, on which the snow tnel's in the hot bar-room air. They are pleased to exchange dangerous cold, darkness and stonu lor comfortable rooms, company, and a good supper. 'lt's well I have toughed it through; I I ke to have died of the cooking at Cedarfalls,' says one. 'I would come far to this house for bread and butter and water-cresses in summer,' says another. 'Our tavern knocks the spots off any tavern round.' says Whortleberry-nose. 'Who put this poor, punky log on the lire ?' asks one poor traveller, who is so cold he can hardly become warm. 'lt's hotter than Tunket here now; there isn't a hole iu this bar-roor.i that yuu could drive a flaxseed through with a beetle,' asserts Steve, the hostler, who attends to the fires. • '1 say this log is as rotten as Sam Hill. Put some more wood on,' insists the poor traveller. 'You're froze up tight as Boze out side and in, niggin' along without any greatcoat this weather,' mutters Steve. 'You'll be chipper after supper; you won't be tewin' about the lire then.' 'How much longer must we mosey 'rouiui here before supper is ready?' inquires the poor traveller. 'lt begins to fogue up in the kitchen now, though they are scant of hands then!,' replies Steve. 'lt will get a quick currying when it its ready,'avers the poor traveller, who thinks the rest are as hungry as him self. 'We are all on the quee V for sup per,' says a man in the corner. 'lt will take the rag off. the bush when it is done,' says he from Cedar falls. 'There won't be a hooter of it left when I'm done with it,' reaffirms the poor traveller, growing hungrier every second. The poor traveller has brought a piece of news 'You know that gang of Irish at Hanger Kiel I's Centre?' says he. 'The nonstable went to take one of th.'iii chaps last week, and he went to his house, and he went up stairs, and he caught him in bed ; ami be got up and tackled him, and they li . and lie fell down between the par tition behind the stairs; and t'other he jumped out of window and run like a heater 'round the house, and he out ami artel- him. ar:d he shot at him, and he hain't been heerd on sence.' 'Who hain't?'—'What's that?' 'What is't ?'conies from hII parts of the room, and who d sappe rrd ?' asks the Cedarfalls mail. ' 11«■ did,' answers the poor traveller • Wt'll, that Htory is a booster!' up speaks Steve, deri-ivoly grinning. 'Drv up !' says the poor traveller in a lovv, terrible tone. 'Sieve, von lav low there ; vou're too darned uppish,' savs the landlord. Stt ve has much to depress and make him grouty. Besides pulling HO many horses out in the cold, his fingers are half gnawed oil' by the sharp little teeth of the landlady's Grade Durham calf, w' ich lie is teaching to drink milk and which disgusts him by existing at till at the wrong season ; and then the landlord continually puts him down They are beginning to despair of any supper in this world, when, 'fel lows! what do I hear?' eries the poor traveller. It is Ann Smallhoof ring ing the cracked supper-bell on the porch in the storm. The landlord carves at a side-table and Miss Smallhoof serves the guests deftly and silently. The landlady siis and pours tin* tea, and the little maid carries round the cups. The landlady gives the seat opposite herself to one of the engineers, a man of the grand, homely type, immensely large and fine ly proportioned and very bald, with a fringe of neatly cut dark hair about his head, lie has round, bulging eyes, a l>unose, a round chin, and a look of haughty pride and cap city II is com rade is IH side him, and on either side of them are the Mel vines, Ford and his bov, and the boarders ami travel lers to left and right. Ann Smallhoof is in her element. She has an impu denthcauty,—brows black, straight and meeting, lips composed in assurance, und a complexion that snows cannot blowze nor suns scorch nor rains wash Her hair is banged up and banged down and puffed and convoluted as if she had turned her head inside out, and sin; is dressed in her liest bib and tucker in honor of the Fords and Mcl vines. Ann is a 'tol'blo smart girl.' She takes a magazine, and has a scrap book full < f poetry cut from the coun try paper about 'The Sobbing Winds,' and containing adjurations like— Toll! toll! yc bellst Knoll! knoll! knell* ! For supper there arc roast turkey and chicken-pie (perhaps you never tried this mixture), turnips winter squash, and potatoes mashed by the lady's own quick, strong hands, and stiil hot and finely aerated With them are a catchup that biteth like a serpent and stin "et h 'ike an addi r. anil currant jVfty, und hirt Wacuitv, tfml t'e'd ra^lfer- ry-jam, and damson plums, and dough nuts, aud cheese, and mince-pies, and cream from a Durham which is fed, not on dry hay lying about li*e a poor housekeeper's stale bread, but on hay cut from the close, fragrant mow with a hay-knife. 'Our Hawk Hill potatoes beat your mixed-up foreign dishes all to pieces,' -ays a hop-dealer near Melviue. ' That is true. I don't like puffed-up cooking,' answers a dealer in fancy produce opposite. 'More people are killed by baking powder than by gunpowder,' remarks the second engineer. 'Meblie they be,' ventures the poor traveller. 'I would as soon eat a plum-bob as a plum-pudding, myself,' declares Mel vine. 'You would uot fear one made by our hostess,' says Mrs. Mvlvine. 'When she's in luck,' says .Mrl vine. 'No luck about it; it's all skill.' avers the Cedarfalls man. Being in the hab it of pounding his opinion iuto others as if it were a wedge aud he a mall, he continues: 'Good judgment mikes op portunity luck. Whatever you leave to luck is sure to go wrong. Those who put in the wheat will have the money.' 'Wheat is a good crop when it hits. 1 have some, but it's a pooty lean year with me, too. I hain't done a lick of work this year to any profit. If it hadn't been for the bean harvest, my cake w< uld be in the fire,' saysja man from down Fenn Woods way. 'You want to sell wheat right spang on the minute harvest is done,' says the hop d« aler. 'l'm clear provoked I didn't sell ourn then; they'd 'a gin me some money for it then,' says he from Fenn Woods. 'They say prices are picking up,' says the second engineer. 'Mebbe they be,' says the poor trav eller. 'You can't believe the putrid and rotten lips of rumor,' says a young fel low who has been to hear Bob Inger soll. 'I can't if I hain't a mind to,' re sponds the poor traveller, thinking himself appealed to The second engineer, having a joy ous nature, aud feeling gladdened by the fine aroma of the landlady's coffee, now rolls a laughing eye on his taci turn and rather sad companion, who answers with, 'You never had any trouble.' 'Weil, no; I never had any trouble. My father died when I left college, and I thought that was hard, but after a while 1 got over it. Then I failed in business, and i thought that hard, but I got over it. Then my son died, -all the child I had,—aud I thought that hard, but I got over it.' 'Sir, you have taught me a lesson,' returns the other. 'I remember an ex quisite romance of my youth ; the re mainder of life is dull enough, and I am always remembering that.' When supper is ended, the poor trav eler's head, which at the beginning re sembled he planet .Jupiter with its thin streaks of hair, has become both remarkably bald and astonishingly frowsy. He says he feels pretty chirk, aud, as he is thoroughly warmed, falls, in the bar-room, into the delicious drowse enjoyed only by hard-working people in their moments of rest. He is walking under the shell like crab-ap ple blo.-soms, under the small white (lowers and small green leaves of the mountain-ash, under the unfolding hanging leaves of horse chestnuts and the ragged tufts and floating tassels of butter tints, in a vision of spring, until a luil in the talk occurs which arouses him, when he exclaims, 'what! are you all asleep here? Then I'm off to bed 1' The others play cards One sings an in.-pii ing campaign song beginning— We'll vote Cur Tinker and Tiggs, For Bulger anil l»r Wright ; \V« II ea-t votes for Timothy ll.g,'s: We'll beat liini out of sight. The Ford*, the Mel vines, and the en gin ers spend the evening in the sitting room, where the second engineer looks' at the landlady's photograph-album, wondering how it is that relations are invariably such dreadful-looking in dividuals. Quaint old furniture and pictured washbowls mid pitchers are in the bed rooms. The landlady is rich in queer, ancient crockery and glassware of odd, fine shapes. She keeps bundles of gin ger, slippery enn, anise ami caraway -eeds in squat, antique cream pots. lea pots, and BUirar-bowls Some of these are richly flowered in dark, melting •>lue», some nr- sprigged in cherry color, some bronzed and gilt-rimmed, and some bear liitl" landscapes and village scenes now changed and forgotten. Perfect sleep comes with the profound stillness and darkness of the tavern's night. No yelping curs disturb the dark : the stock hereabout is to valua ble to permit them. The travellers Bleep well notwithstanding that Ann Smallhoof forgets to lock the doors Robbers are iinknwii here, though there is a legend among these Presbyterians l hut a Baptist oti.-c stole a sheep Iroin one o| them. I he kitcben-cloek strikes ten in dead silence. •<io by. says Jerotiimy; go to thy cold bed and warm thee." MARY I>E.VN. TO SA VE JUS WIFE. About, five weeks ago Mrs. Wilson, who resides with her husband, Solo mon Wilson, at No. South street, was dungeroiisly burned. She was standing with her back to the fire, talking to another woman, when the latter exclaimed, "Vou are on lire!'' and ran out of the room, leaving the door open. The draft fanned the flume, and although Mrs. Wilson ran to the hydrant in tin- back yard, she could get. no water because tin; pipes were frozen. She; sped through the back street, enveloped in flame, when fortunately a courageous neighbor saw her, threw open her door and wrap ed her in seme loose carpet. A scene of Buflcrirg ensued, "II the fleshy parls of Mrs. Wilson's bark nnd limbs being almost roasted. Dr. McLean, whose services were called in, exerted him self to t lie utmost, applying the most up roved remedies, biti. so great wIN the agonv h endured tint bet jVtiWu aril ht* nfb ADVERTISING KATES, One square, one insertion, tl; each anbss quent insertion. 50 cents. Yearly advertisement • xcecding one-fourth of a column, #6 per inch ' Figure wor» double these tate*: additions charges where weekly or monthly chaises ire made Local advertisements 10 cents per line for tiret insertion, and 5 cents per line for each additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pub lit lied free of charge. Obituary notices chaiged as advertisements. and payable when handed In Auditors' Notices, #4 ; Executors' and Adminia trators' Notices. #3 each; Est ray, Cantion aue Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. From the fact that the Cmit* is the oldea' established and most extensively circulated Re publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Bepub licaii county > it must be apparent to business men that it is the medium they should nee in a.lvertiHitifr their business. NO. 11 was despaired of. Mrs Wilson is the mother of fire little children, all of whom were re moved to the residence of her brother, Mr. Jauser, while her husband and friends gathered around her bed. For long weeks 6he lingered, without intermission of agony or apparent im provement. Last Wednesday Dr. McLean informed Mr. Wilson that it would be absolutely necessary to trans plant live flesh to the parts where tissues had < een destroyed, and Pro fessor Levis was called in, who de cided in favor of the operation. Al though her mind was wandering Mrs. Wilson appeared to have some idea that a painful Experiment was impend ing and screamed to the doctor to take away the lancet, although he had not displayed, or indeed at that time spoken in her hearing of any instru ment, but her nervous exhaustion was so great that it was considered unsafe to tut the flesh required from her own person! Dr. Levis asked Mr. Wilson if he was willing to submit to the painful process of furnishing the flesh from his arm. "Certainly," said Mr. Wil son, "it it takes my whole right arm, cut it off from the shoulder, to save my wife." Mr Wilson bared and ex tended his right arm while Dr. Levis, with his assistant and Dr. McLean, cut ten pieces of skin, a quarter of an iuch square, from its upper sulfate and transplanted them into the back of Mrs. Wilsou. During the whole operation Mr. Wilson never moved a muscle no* - showed sign ol the pain that be suffered, while it required the strength of six women to hold Mrs. Wilson as the delicate transfer was niHde. After the operation was fin ished the patient seemed more comfort able, the brain trouble gradually sub sided and she is now in a fair way to recover. The self sacrificing fortitude of Mr. Wilson is the more remarkable because of the fact that for two yeara past his health has been failing.— Ph iladelph ia Ti vies. THE LAW 0 FT'ARTNE R S HIP. The following may be of interest to many of our readers, it is probably not generally knowu what the law concer ning visitors to bar-rooms and drinking saloons really is : A case was decided at Philadelphia lately by which one of a party of four persons, who bad spent the evening at a public house, was compelled to pay the whole, his companions havingneg lect to "pony up" their proportions of the expenses. The defendent held, tliut as he had not drunk the whole, nor ate the whplethat was ordered, but only fourth part thereof, he was re sponsible for payment only in that ra tio. The judge was of a different opinion. A company assembled at a public bouse can be considered by the landlord only as ouc person, they have joined them selves together, and he has no right to put them asunder. He cannot say to oue, as he enters, "you may drink," aud to another, "you shall not," nor ask auy one whether he has money to pay for his reckoning. One may treat another for what he knows, or he may treat the whole. It is a partnership for that night, aud what hrht has the land lord to inquire who finds the capital ! They are equally accountable to him for the whole debt. It is not enough that one pays his part, he must take care that the whole is paid; that Is hia concern, not the landlord's. When the partnership dissolves, whether it be mid-day or midnight, every partner is responsible for the debts contracted in the partnership. It one man breaks a glass, it is nothing to the landlord who broke it; he can charge it to the company, as well as its contents, aud they must settle the mat ter with the individual. Onemanwi'h mouey might bring a dozen without, WHO, being strangers, the landlord ia deprived of hia property and his reme dy- He can take any of the company, aud ho whom he takes may demand their shares from the rest. The defendant declared that he had never heard so much law and good sense in his lile ; and that the decision and opinion put together, was worth the money it cost him ; he would pay tht! bill with costs, aud remember it for his luture government. PENNSYLVANIA LANDS. A few weeks ago in a business trans action between two citizens one of them deeded the other 300 acres of land in Pennsylvania and the other day the buyer entered the seller's offlco. "I have just returned from a trip to Pennsylvania to see the land I got from you." "Ah ! As I never saw it myself I have some curiosity about it." "It is a swindle, sir—a barefaced swiudle !" exclaimed the other. "Is that possible! Didn't you Gnd the land ?" "Ye Hit-; but it is nothing but a hill?" "A hill ? I.» it a real solid hill ?" "It is as solid a hill as can be made of rock and dirt." "Any chance for any part of it to slide o»er on another man's land ?" "No, sir." "Seems to be solid on its pins, does it?" "Y«'S, sir." "Then let me congratulate you on your bargain. I've bought and sold any amount of Pennsylvania land, and the great drawback has l>cen to buy and sell a l»i<r hill which would stay in one spot lor a week. The last oue I sold slid a mile and a half while the buyer was going from here to Pitts burg. You have made a great invest ment, sir, and I sincerely and honestly congratulate yifti." A farmer told us the other day that lie would not be without Dr Bull's Cough Syrup if it costs lire dollars a bottle. It must In- a wonderful remedy. The price is 011I3' 2") cents a bottle. An affidavit is generally pretty dry reading, aud if there is anything ludi. crous in it it must be by accident. Tha following, however is suggestive of the ' possibility of humor even in a law docu ment :—"The prisoner set upon me, calling pic an ass, a scarecrow and a# * ldrdt:, all of wb/cli I bc'rtJfy t\J &
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