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Address r||K BCT ,. KR CITIZKS.
BfTLER. PA.
THAVBL.EKS' GUIDlfi
, rLIK. KIUNc UlTf A*»l> CAKktK Ba.U.HOa.I
rain* le. \e tfuuet tor -ft. »'«•. «Ulw»K«ii.
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,
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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 '•« » •••*. * '.«• '«&.!»
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. '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
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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#
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