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THE BVTI.BR CITIX&S,
BCTLEB. PA..
LiHl »l Travrrsp Jiiron* drawn
for a special Term of C'ourl,
co2iiin•*>!(*ills -ml .lon
day <>f 4pril. 1 lili day.
Jacob Adder, Wiufield township.
11 >1 AulerwHi, fraakliu.
Michael Xtusxt. CI ■ triie.d.
Andrew Barr. Crui rrj .
James Enmn, Merc r.
lj..U rt Uovart, evj. '» enango.
John BooXJr. Wurth.
S W ladjter. Wurth.
H H CniciUow. Forward.
John Datef. Kalrvienr.
I'atr.'-k Don.hue, Clearaelo.
A IWckey. Worth.
VV V Eakin. Conaoquenesiing.
T S Fletcher. Parker
William C Fiemi:ig. Buifaio.
Hiram M Gill, Sli;.,*fryroek.
.Idiiii <irom in. Butler boronicr.
At** A Gou;d. Oakland township.
( irit John Win Held.
Abraru H-uli-a. •liilretown bor.
F.I K :I v. Buffalo township.
F *> K inc. Z-ii'-noi.k' bor.
SumKerr, H irrwviiie.
.! C Murtland, Bradv township.
J C Moore. Centre.
Austin M"» "lyiaonds. Muddycreek.
John r M n andies«. • I iy.
.1 B MCJubtion. Duller i*>r.
Seal M isn !<-. < :Daniel I township.
Its Mik- kev. Mi:; r >va bor.
K W M'ii-e. H irrisville.
John Mit -iieli. Butler.
A 1 Buff, Sutler.
J c Bay. Fairview twp.
Wesley ttoeswi?, Butter bor.
W W M. Clair. W irtb twp.
Fo.ter s *aton. Marlon.
Albert Starr, l'enn.
Frederic- Stark. SaKo:i?)urg nor.
John stnWe, Middlesex twp.
11 C Turk. Brady.
Arthur Turn -r, Jeilerson.
Ja-'-ob e Wise. Jack-son.
Henry Ziegler, Forward.
SP. 'ONX» WXF.K -T:ntti> MONDAY ItTH
Samuel Adams. F-iirview township.
William Adams. W v.nin^too.
Ar Uibald B.acx. 1> i.iegal.
Joli i Belf .jr. Ala us.
Charges Cranin-r. Clay.
It M fro s. Marion.
Joseph I urry, HllpperyToek-
John Cannon, Parker.
Allen Campbell, S.inimry bor.
John Doerr. Butler twp.
T K Dodd*. Franklin
Joseph Ewtng. Clinton.
W It Eiiiiuins'T. IS.i ;er bor.
0 P Oraliain. CraniM-rry.
Ii S 'lrani. Allegheny.
Wiiliam <Slbs'>n. I'etrolia bor.
John llamil. Summit twp.
Paul KeLsler. Sllppeorock.
Tdoini* Kennedy. Wlnfteld.
Hi moil Ke {< r. Lonraster.
James Kellev, wj. Sunbiiry bor.
John M 1/mien. < lav twp.
Alex l»wry. Butler iKir.
.1 W
J H Mantz. Centreville nor.
Tli'mi u Morrow, Clearfield.
Jamas 11 itlfoe. Pelmila bor
•lam-* Maho-xl jr. Washington twp.
William M K. > mi. Clinton.
Claud Mang -I. Winfleld.
H C McCoy. Cherry.
W A Purviance, Forward.
Daviil Pattern. Conconl.
William It -os-u-nb'-rry. Venango.
James I! Story Butler bor.
David I! S'.fw>,»«, Adams.
W H Sh .nor, I^aneasfer."
Philip Mlionp. Forward.
Henry Sandervm. Clay.
John I'pdi'cnitT. Worth.
Freeman Vandirvort. cranberry.
C A Wagner, Mtllerslown bor.
J W Young, Allegheny twp.
F Zihner. Jackson.
Tltrni» WKEK —F<>L'BTII MOJfDAV, 25TH
Solomon Alb -rl. Franklin township.
F M Brawiey. Parker.
A'ex Brown, M< reer.
J E Hard, Centreville bor.
James Barr esq. Ada-ns twp.
Kamuel r'rms. Worth.
JamesCoigan, All<rgheny.
Israel C'raiuncr. Clay.
John Cypher. Wlniield.
Crawford. Allegheny.
TlioraasChantler. Middlesex.
John Carrothers. Cl av.
John Cumberland, ''onfonl.
WiPiam Cruiksii taks. Winfleld.
B l)oii!?!ierl v. Pe r.lla lior.
C iari-*s l> -itriek. Mi Itllesex twp.
John K Divls, es i, cjiiit-m.
John Fenni-fi-.i. Mid llesex.
Benjamin Oarvin, Cn-ilx-rry.
A l> Ollie ■*'*'. vv' twp.
John <io"hrlnJackson west.
J W Oleiin. Men-er.
Ahsoloiii <»ra C<m'i'»|:ieTi"ssing north.
Miehael Higgins, Venango.
J M Hejiier. I'<;tr<»lia lior.
James KHdo<». Clay.
King Lawrence. Mnddyereek.
Thomas M ''Jafil-k, Hi|p;»eryrock.
J Rinseil Mfr";urlie .s. cherry.
A H Morse. es/|, liuffalo.
Ham lie! Meals, Veil -mgo.
A Miller. Fairvlew west.
Hugh M' Faddi-n, Donegal.
James Vihioek. ('onnorpieiiewlng s<>uth.
James Ndrris. Sumunt.
Her.ry Pillow, es/i, Butler t,or.
John Parks,of Win, Middlesex.
I>?«rls Reetlg, S'liiimU.
(i S Hhakely. Parker.
Atiraha 'i S" -kler, Ja' kson west.
Edward Sefton. Clinton.
Alex Wilson, Allegheny.
John Webb, Clay.
DC Wadswonli. Cl;iy.
I-l«« ol Trmprse Mnrnrn drawn
tor a ftppfinl T«-rwi ofCJonrt.
coinint'nc!iiK3rd Holiday
of Way. lftili day.
Itobt Anderson. Allegheny twp.
Jacob liyorly, Briffslo.
W V. Bio'n, Mercer
John Bock, Fairview.
Peter ll*mh»rt. F»lrview.
Koih Bowen, Arliin-. *
Oeorge Middlesex.
John Clark. Wisbiagton.
Charles Conoby. P«nn.
John B Caiitiiuglia'n, Clinton.
Qw W Campljoll, butler bor.
O W Dodds, Cotinoquensssing.
Nicholas Dnmbach, Cranberry.
John \V Kki». Saxonbnrg bor.
.I«mos Free-unri. Craubjrry tawnsliip.
Paul Oottl eb. Jeffurson twp.
Kama')! tlallagßer, M'l Hyereek.
A W Orf*»am»ii. Bra<ly.
Henry Oreeuawald, Jackson.
Jac-ib Ora' srn. Clearfield.
B F Hilliird, Waehiuston.
Jacob Hilgar. Hlioo»i vrock.
F»avid Henry. B iIT do.
Joseph l.ogsn, Jefferuon.
John I.ink Jr, Worth.
))>xter I.ogan, Fenu.
Petf-r Miller. I.sucutter.
Alonzo McC mdlose, I'riuikiin.
Patrick M iSam'i'i. Venango.
William Moore, Fairview.
Alex Morrman, I.sncaster,
XV T Mechling. Butler bor.
James llsy, l'enn tjwnship.
A M Reynolds, Venango.
Ilobt. ht. Clair. fV-ntre.
J K Htine'orf. Wsshifglon.
William Sheplurd, Middlesex.
Frank Hlator, Doii«i/al.
John Studebaker, Worth.
Chas Tinker, Cheiry.
John Veusil, Donegal.
W F Wick Clay.
C'liHst Walter, Jackson.
J C Ziegler, Jackwui.
HOTELS
GRAND BOULEVARDHOTEL
Corner 59 th fit. & Broadway,
NEW TORE.
On Both American and European Plans.
Fronting <>n Central Park, the (Iraud Boulevard,
Broadway and Kiftj-Ninth St.. this Hotel occu
pies t!|)' entire square, and was built and fur
nished at an nxjwnse of over BMSVXW. It Is one of
th" most elegant as v.ell as being the finest lo
cated In the < uy ; lias a passenger Elevator and
all mo'lern itufiroveuients, and is wlihln one
square of tiic- d'-tmls of the Sixth and Fighth
Avenue Klev::t«<l l(. It. cars and still nearer to the
Broadway ears convenient and accessible from
all parts of the city. Rooms with board.®'/ per
day. S|<ecial rates for familli-s and permanent
giK'Sts. K. HASKKLI,, Proprietor.
-pilK HBHBEIBEH HOUHE,
L. NICKLAS, Prop'.,
MAf.V STRKET, BUTLER, PA.
Having taken poMesKion of the above well
town Hotel, arid it being furnished in the
bext of stylo lor the accumulation of gnests, the
public are respectfully invited to give me a call
1 h»vo al"o posse«eion of the barn in retr of
botel, which ftiriiirhns excellent stabling, ac
comodations for my t>atroii*.
L. NICKLAH.
VIA-SANO
Tup fiRFAT A«mnfOTi4oftl»«iiMv#|)rlnelpffNi4f
| nt R Mtn<
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I# IMEI I \I *»'• *'»« Um«. Tbm
WL 111 111 m I * r * *" eontt*r\*4
IVIUIvIa I ' hat w, "° """ if th»v a)l
Jk .WD NMTOUMS rwtrt *>r li*«r4
| H|| fl th« f,r<- at *a Up •n4 of
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--r-r f'" "ra»»l. K«nl»l. »'l
'( * ■ J%l IL#. "i.io Vir .ful«j-«fl flfi'l tff'M
oi«l gr>f«« m.'l wli-irf. to t»k», 1 ritl
2* «rt». iwUUm, touts. AW <\rwtt •Unni'lnmintry
h.) 9 It. »r will *«" i.t l ot you. A\— \ r«t ar*4 in au(*r
yUJ#, an«J n.aiM fvf V* 't» ft Ui A ,Mt» Wi«na
nuns uzvlavt: n. Pi.
VOL. XVIII.
MBS. LYDIA £. PiMHAM.
' '"'r. '-r
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'B
VEGETABLE CCHPOUL'D.
TTiePojitiv^Cnre
For all Female Complaints.
Thi« prer*rat:oa. ai It* tame eigniften, consbita of
VejetaLk; Properties arv Lan&k&ii lo tat moot det
k-aro invalid. Upon orsc trial o»-w "on
poend will be reco-jnlxed, relief is ixcmediat« ; ftx*d
when Iti use is ccntir.u d, in nliv-ty-nine emmez in ft ban.
dml, ft permanent will to#
x.'y. Oa of iti proven merit?, it U to-day
axul prescribed by tbo best pb jtieiftnn is
tte eour.try.
It will ctirs entirely tbc* worst form of filling
of the uieru-T, L urorrbca, irregular and painral
Ilenstruati/in.allOvariiiiTrotiblee, In.lammation ar-d
Uleemlion, Florxlinffs, all placements and the ccn
•equer.t BpinxJ weakness, ar.d Ls especiftlly adapted to
the CLan~e of Life. It trill diw.olre and expert tumor* I
from the tz terns in an early of development. The ,
tendency to cancero*m humors thero La checked very I
speedily by it* tise.
In fart it has proved to be the great- ;
eit and beet remedy tlixit 1-aa ever been discover* i
e<L It pcrmeaU-s every portion of the system, and gives
new life an/1
stroys all craving for stimulants, and relieve 3 weakness j
of the stoma-h
It cures E!oatinj», Headaches, Kcrvous ProvtrmtUm.
General Debility, fJeepk-Bsnes.;, I*pre<aion ar.d Icli
grestion. That fotllznf of bearing down, causu.tr
weight and beekacbe, is altr-751 {/ rrr.anently cured by
iti HA' . It will at all tlrac3, and under rll ctrrumstan
een, act in harmony with the law that the
femalr • systernu
For Kidney of «ifcb«*r sez tkis Monpsaad
is unsurpsMKd.
Lydia E. Pinkliam's V?jetable Compound
Is prepared at 253 ftn'l CT> T7<-*tem A venae, Lynn,
Price t'. rx fiix bottk-s in r O*C3. Sat »y mail la ti.e
fans of pills, alio in tht* fonz of oa rec* 1.-t
ofpri'-e, tl.oo f per bor, for ci'her. IT.-r. IT*IIrL'. 11
fret Jy answers all ktt rsof S.nd for paa
pICeL ass-V-ve 2! ii on thU y *r.
2"i» txzZZy shocd-1 be v :t-o .t LVI>.'A T~ IT I. TLVII'
of the I .ver. c nt.. tier bo*
Q£o. K. KFXLY k €O.. General
Age-ts, Pittslargh. Pa.
Sold by I). H. Wuller, - Butler Pa.
n.tTfrir TTH ■—SI
Q .t auti U t HcUir.ue e»«r Hiuie.
1 A c of iDuchu, Wlan-
EJ drt:'■ i.; >-r- ■ Dandeli«jn, w >'-h an u«.- I»«t 1
tj tar. ' '■* 'T*live ;.- t 4ritiH cl all cttwrr Bitter*.
[2 t 81000 Purifier, Li*er
Si Rj'iui\ator,a"'ll 'lti" "(altli
S A&at --K • art ""
B ,So.j|v«« \an »"*••* •-»'*<
B tur U!'>
H ope. <*!»' k
B ri»7£.n twuVssa&*&'.■>toisfca.
■6 loaOWx! UTwraUirl
d tJuU-M b • ; /,r\ un-M J orcaiM. or who r>-
■ I '-ran i /l-.p.u/'fV'" .' ! ''' --.-'I ---t.mulaat
I li withoutinto»-
■ S'j i r what 7 .;?!%' Knri or «Tn7-toni
9 ar*j w. . ; ( - ' r Hop Bli
■ tin IJ .:.'lwu.t 1... r:-.-.l,ut ,f },. u
I it. nif It ..y 1 '■ •! hundred*.
H $Z 00 w:U tic jail for n cij" « «j: I not
B noil r,<-«st 1 L;." Hop B
3 licnvml *r Pep li.Ucm 13 nJV. r; '*. druEjfci
I d;~jnl:* ni, '. jn. b.' t..n i':; :t
II UiMlt. .a> r. ; rut., ,|> rEICSB
11 and HO Pi" tr.l ft t'rsua or fa;n;:^a
■ ch-m! 1 iflS
I n 1,0 ■ fjCaß
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If ftn flii iilar ll.|. BHu*. Bf*. c.., / efllH
WILL IT CURE HE?
H:ii(l a man, who«w w wlx-K'me Coiint<Ti
ain-<- ;;ml lirokcn-ilovri cotislltutlon jilnin
ly t.liow«'<l lr:»-«-pi nf illx-an- a tuffi-rer »ith
Nervoiw lJy»ii< t«:r, In wli'mc storosuih th«
mint il-li'Ml<- iii'inn l lay like li*ml. It«'-
rri-nliiiiK slu ji.Mnl ijulet ii'-nren werestran
gfr* toiilm, and IK- dcKpaitcil of ever being
well. Wp advlftcd lilm to take
SIMMONS LIVER [REGULATOR,
ulii' li he dl'l. and In a short time wax not
only relieved lint cured.
):< ul< r. If yon arc tiill'-rliiK wltli X>y«iX'*"p
*la or l,lver Dl^'-aix-iii any form, wi not
wait until 111" dUMraM- ti;w taken a raft hold
iiiion you. but nw »li'- K'*tila or when Ihe
ivmplotri- show thcmwlveH. HIM
MO.VHI.IVKK KK<;i I. ATO K I. not anal
eoholi'- MUiinilaiit. but a I't'HKLY VEfSK
TABI.K HK.MKUV 'hat will when
•■vervthliiK ••iv fail*. It Is a faultless fam
ily medicine. liooi not dinarranije the
system. Is no vlolerl 'lraxlle imrire, but
nature'* own remedy. i"he friend of eve
rvrine, and will not dlsai>i>i>tut you. A
Nlngie trial will eonvinee you that it is the
cheapest, purest and l»-.<t Kiu.illy Medicine
In the world. /
AHK the n-eovereif dy*pepti«-», billions
mif!erer«. victims of fever and ague, the
mercurial <!t!>iased palimt how tixey re
covered th ii hc;t|t(i. ' hcerful spirits and
good apjx lll" they will tell you by taking
nimiuoiH Liver l;<Kulaior.
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR
liver Regulator!
Origin:!) and genuine prepared only by
J. 11. Zi:iM\ A CO., I'lliln.
apriW-iy
DIRECTIONS.
coiVin\ ; !H- l, iie a JiJ&c.'
" jrf.r*/}s*irtvgLY• "fV.f ![1 liwert Willi little linger
mbATARRH,COLO*.'^!ft' a particle Of III" lialni
El f>. Ly.jAowit n-Jf AU letolhe no-lril* ; draw
r I l rongiireal lis through
W V— 'he I' wl "
ffftl ab.»ort ed, cleansing.
i "" 1 healing the dlx-
, ' " r I,cafnefiH '
81'1'Iy a particle Into
Vfp&l'ej, the ear.
FLY'S CREAM BALM
HAViNfI gaiiwd an enviable r"put;ition. displac
ing all other preparation in the v Iclnlty of dlscov
eiv. I-, on Hi luerilH alone, as a won
derful remedy wherever icnown. A lair trial will
convince the skeptical of It < curntive pow
ers. It cflcciutUly cleaiei the nitsal passage* of
Catarrhal vims, causing healthy wcretloii.*, al
lays inflammation aiel Irritation, proieei.s tie
memhri'tial lin i nir 4 of the head from additional
coin .. completely heals the 1 Ojc■ ;md restores the
sen •<• of t;">ii and smell. lienel.elal result* arc
realized bv a few applications. A thorough treat
j menf. a.t directed v.lfl cure Catarrh. As a hotme-
I hold remedy for cold Hi t lie head Ii une<|iialed.
I The ll.'lm is'caiv lo u.e and agreeable. Sold by
druggists at Mi cell) fin n . i ll I of Ml cent" will
I mail a package. Hend for circular v. Ith full Infor
mation.
r.I.V'S CCI'A M r.AI.M C(» . Owcgo. N. Y.
For sale In i:.iller bv I>. II WuU-r. .1. I Itedlck,
Zluiiiieriuan & W ullcr. Coulter & I.lnn.
Union Wool«-n IMill,
huti.KK, PA.
IV. ITI I.KKTOX, I*ro|»'r.
Vl inut.M turer <il HI.ANKKT ", I i »>,>iu,», Y*k>».
iVc. Aid cu'toui work done to order, nueh » k
enrding Holla, m^ikin Ml-nikef*, Kl mrtcls Knit
tlng and Weivlng Y irtia, Ac., 't very low
prices. Wool work. l on the ai area, it de
.lred. -IH-7 1 V
Rheumatic Cure,
3DO>r IST EJ lil/9
RHEUMATIC COMPOUND
Ima cured rlieum»ti-m after the ireatrnent of
fourteen do< tora had failed and after ho li»d
ni.nl crutches for aitteen yeara.
It waa discovered by K Ilonnell, in the treat
ment of hiruaelf B<d l l.y
I». 11. WULLF.R.
IIOV'24 : Wrn HIJTLKH. PA.
for the CITIZEN.
EXTEMPORE PREACH ISO.
BY GEORGE H. HEPWORTH, D. D.
I have approached the details of my
experience with funeral step, in accord
ance with the eternal fitness of things,
and because one ought to hesitate when
he is about to tell the whole truth
about himself. I will delay no longer;
but take the fatal plunge into the win
trv bath of the confessionil. I chose
my subject during the week preceding
my crucial and excruciating Sunday
morning, with great care, and divided
it into three parts, so clear and distinct
that apparently no amount of embar
rassment could dispossess me of my train
of thonght. I made several pages of
notes, enough, indeed, to furnish me
with four or sve sermons at the pre
sent time. They were written on fools
cap, in a large, boyish hand, to obvi
ate the necessity of using my glasses,
and the main heads were heavily un
derscored, so that at a glance I could
see all the silent points. I felt reason
ably sure of myself, and so little oread
of the future, whose events very kindly
refrained from casting their shadows
before, that I even enjoyed a trium
phant feeling, which, however, was
not destined of permanency. Three
times I went to the seashore a few
miles distant, and deliverel the sermon
to the tide with considerable force and
success, and the only wonder iu my
mind at the remembrance is that the
waves did not recede with unusual
haste. They were certainly either
overpartial in their judgment or else
supremely indifferent, or it would
have been low tide in an incredibly
short time, and I should have been
left on the shore alone, the ocean hav
ing shrunk from me as far as possible.
Even when I was walking up the
broad aisle of the church, through vbe
midst of a large congregation, such a
thinir as a disaster took merely the
shajie of a vague improbability. My
rather serene state of mind at that
time is ample proof of the kindness of
Providence toward those who are
walking on the edge of a precipice, by
blinding their eyes until ihe inevitable
calamity befalls them.
Once fairly in the pulpit, however,
matters assumed a very different and
much more serious aspect. I sudden
ly became despondent arid even hope
less. I looked at my notes ; but they
did not present the perspicuous con
tinuity which I had expected. My
brain was soon in a whirl of excite
ment and seemed to throb like a large
pulse; and the probability that I was
on the brink of irretrievable ruin, which
had heretofore been only a momentary
arid ghastly vision, began very rapidly
to assume the shape of a certainity.
If I could only get back to my study,
I thought, and clutch the poorest
among my many discarded manuscripts
I should lie th*.- happiest man on the
earth. A man must be in a forlorn
condition, indeed, when the poorest
sermon lie ever wrote seems a price
less boon, far beyond bis reach. I
now think 1 mu-t have looked about
anxiously for j.t crack in the floor,
through which to disappear; and I am
sure that 1 should have felt supremely
grateful if some base-born but Heaven
sent wretch Ia i suddenly appeared
and cried 'Fin !' in order to disperse
the people.
How rondly I c'urigto the hymn bet
fore the sc moi.! I read it with sepul
chral voice, am! w .shed there had been
fourteen ver« , instead of four. 1
never be fire fe t!i • singular propriety
of saying Airien it the end of this part
of the service. As the choir sang the
last, I was pr- iiipted to ask them to
re|H-at the who - hymn, with a differ
ent tune. Noer nuiil that moment
did I sufficient')' n;.predate the value
of church musi , a'.d never until that
moment did 1 w s!i that the quartette
sing fc r> ver. I»ut theret is an
end to all thing and 1 devoutly hoped
that that supn •:*«* moment might not
in: long delayed.
When I roK< in my place, I
read my text v lib significant delibera
tion, for i knev. that so long as 1 clung
to the words o' Scripture I was safe ;
but what migli happen after the con
gregation had ' een made sufficiently
acquainted with the text I dared not
think, it seeim dlome a mistake that
I had not chosen for the text the lon
gest chapter in the Bible. In order to
make sure of mething, I read the
verse a second time, ami then, in un
utterable despr r, I read it a third time.
I wanted to nr. I it a fourth time; but.
knowing thai, if I did, 1 should be
relegated to a Yuntil* asylum, I closed
! the Bible and ve myself up to un
j utterablc mi* y If you know how a
vessel feels \\ I. n on a lee shore and
within a few hundred yards of the
rocks, its c,ibl •• ted and the howling
tempest using the shrouds ami ropes
as strings of an a:olian harp, with
which to piny a I'irge ; if you know
how a meteor <• r■ < k f« els when it (lies
off in a wild t I, <nt from the parent
mass and is iii.nlesaly burled through
space, beconii::. red h«it with atmos
pheric frii lifd y ii have some slight
conception id mv state of mind. I
may truly se i'lit on that occasion
| horror did on I ■ IT r's head accumulate
| and that co NFI< <MI became worse con
! founded. F< i . single awful moment
! suicide seen v'. ,ben <t simply a priv
ilege, but m imperative duty. 1
! gazed on my n< !< :<; but they were so
I blurred by v r. milling optic nerve
' that the wordr ccmed to have run to
gether. In n voice which could IK;
| distinctly hea d for half a mile, and un
der the inipre.- ion that, if I cou'd on
ly speak loud i ough the people would
catch my idea I read these notes one
after the other, disconnected as they
were, to tin- amazed congregation.
Four pages of catch-works, without a
comment, did I inflict on those long
suffering pewle Iders. It was peifectly
evident from 11 eir wondering eyes that
I had not spok n loud enough for them
to catch rtiy idea, or else, dreadful al
ternative, that there was no idea to
! catch. 1 have since observed that,
j when speakers have nothing to say,
they always pay it in stentorian tones.
Great beads .if |>erspiration were on
my brow, wh lu 1 shook from head to
foot with nerv .us terror, and was com
pelled to hold >n to Ihe pulpit with
both hands for support. When my
notes were exhausted, I lunged for
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6. 1881.
sudden death. While they lasted, I
breathed very thin air, indeed; bufc
when they were gone I began to suffo
cate, and felt as lonely and homesick
as a man who has been transported to
the eternal and airless cold of inter
sidereal space. Raising my voice to a
still higher pitch, as though the 1 ulk
of my congregation were in Siberia,
where I honestly wished they really
were, I rapidly told the people evtry
thing 1 had ever thought or dreamed
of, everything, relevant and irrelevant,
I ever expected to tb'tik or dream of,
if my life should lie spared for several
centuries to come, and then reached
the grand climax of vocalization with
an Amen so loud and resonant, and
withal so t ntirely soul-satisfying, that
I have not yet recovered from the
effects of it. No man ihat ever lived
has enjoyed the intensity of mingled
happiness and misery which filled my
heart to bursting when that comfort
ing Amen was on my lips.
What I had been talking about
neither I nor any one else had the
slightest conception. This sorrowful
vugueness was, however, well covered
up by the unspeakable relief I felt at
having arrived at a terminus. I looked
it the e!ock, and found that I bad
been talking or, rather, screaming just
twelve minutes. I never knew before
the exact time required to pour one's
self entirely out, leaving not a
nor a vestige of a drop behind. To
say that I was empty is to say nothing.
1 was fearfully, dolefully, Euper-natur
ally empty. And this, I said to my
self, as I wiped my brow, is what you
call extempore speakiug. Heaven save
the mark! In about four Sundays, I
continued, in soliloquy, that kind of ex
tern pore speech would enable your di
minished number of friends to follow
you to the graveyard. They would
do so with a serene sense of relief;
and, when casting -bout for a succes
sor, the first question would be : 'Do
you write your sermons?' If be an
swered in the negative, they would
take him to my resting-place, point to
my tombstone, and remark: 'Our ex
perience with extempore sermons has
not been ail that could be deeired. The
effort to pr< ach without a manuscript
killed a promising young man and
came very near killing us. This
church is not inclined to encourage a
repetition of the experiment, and you
had better go so .lie where else to die.'
Thus consolingly did I commune with
myself. I had been t«!d that extem
pore preaching is as stimulating as
gymnastic exercise ; but I found that
it was somewhat overstimulating to a
man of my temperament, and as an ex
ercise I discovered that is was rather
violent than healthful.
The worst criticism that was made
ou my effort was my poor father's
silence. I think the o!d gentleman
never suffered so much in so short a
time. At the Sunday dinner it was
bis delight to discuss the morning ser
mon, and to indicate in a very encour
aging and flattering way the portions
of it which struck him as peculiarly
effective. On this particular Sunday
not the most distant allusion was
made to anything that had occurred
in the church. Indeed, it was pain
fully evident that everybody was mak
ing the greatest possible effort not to
allude to it, and was at the same time
afraid that something which was said
on another subject might be construed
as an allusion to it. Conversation un
der such embarrassing limitations is
not only difficult, but impossible. To
talk while standing on the edge of a
volcano, and with the consciousness
that some trivial expression may pos
sibly have, without your knowing it,
a diabolical double meaniig, which
may Hart the volcano into vehement
activity, is not the most enlivening
task in the world. I was positively
burning to talk the matter over, in
order to relieve myself, and everybody
else was burning to express for my po
sition a profound pity; but it would
never do. I was both overwhelmingly
crushed and tremendously defiant; but
my father and mother took ra'her a
sad view of the matter, and would not
for worlds express their real opinions,
even if they had had a sufficient com
mand of the English language to do it
justice, which they evidently did not
have. So I sipped my soup and spoke
of the appalling condition of tho
heathen in Central Africa, and then
expressed a very decided opinion that,
if the coming winter should prove a
very cold one, we should certainly have
both snow and ice, and continued by
remarking that, if we all lived till
spring and summer, vhe temperature
woald probably ri*e and the snow and
ice would possibly melt; to all of
which propositions my loving parents
gave their quick and cordial assent.
In his own original remarks my father
expressed great sympathy for sick peo
ple, and, without seeing any parallel
ism, said that bis heart always went
out with peculiar tenderness toward a
family one of whose members had been
suddenly stricken with incurable in
sanity. The dinner season was, on
the whole, far from convivial, and the
food eaten, if I may judge fr .m the
indigestion of the afternoon, was not
especially nourishing.
When, at last, I got into rny study,
I locked the door, and gave way to
mingled emotions, in which positive
agony had its place. Sue!, a Sunday
afternoon seldom falls to the lot of mor
tals. I prayed earnestly for the afflict
ed congregation, that the cause of reli
gion might not suffer on account of my
peculiar performance; and for myself,
that my aberration, if it was that,
might Ik; merely temporary. I looked
over a volume of sermons which were
said to l>e extempore; but did not find
any that in the remotest degree resem
bled the one I had just delivered. I
took a wretched and cynical satisfac
tion in the fact that no one would ac
cuse me of cribbing that particular ser
mon from any celebrated author, be
cause such productions are never print
ed. I took an equal satisfaction iu the
fact that, if my own sermon were to be
published, there was no one in the wide
world who would think it worth while
to steal it. It was too original, too
unique for that. It would always stand
alone, the only one of the kind ever
preached, perhaps tile ouly one of the
j kind that ever ought to be preached. I
' turned over the leaves of the dictionary
, and caught sight of several abjurgatory
adjectives which seemed to have a di
rect personal application. I laughed
at the ridiculousness of the situation in
a hysterical sort of way, and ended by
crying over it as a terrible tragedy.
It is needless to say that in the even
ing I preached with a manuscript. At
the end of the service, an old lady
shook hands with me very sympathet
ically, and expressed the hope that I
felt better than I did in the morning. I
casually remarked that in the morning
I had some difficulty with my head, to
which she naively responded that she
had suspected it. One of my good dea-!
cons also pressed my hand very warm
ly, and said, in a guarded way, that j
be feared I bad used too much vocal
energy in the morning service. I sim-!
ply answered that I had been some- ;
what uuweli; but hoped to recover dur- j
ing the week. And so the day passed.
The recollection of it is burned into my
memory as with a hot irou. I can
never forget it, and I may add that
there are other people in the world who
will never forget it either. I think I
suffered as much as Marie Antoinette
did when durinir a siugle night her
hair turned white.
I afterward looked the matter over
verv calmly, «nd determined not to
yield the main I had made a
rush on the enemy, and been repulsed ;
thereafter I would conduct the battle
by slow approaches. Cost what it
might, I would yet speak without
notes. I determined with a certain
fierceness of will to learn to think on
my feet. I was sure that I had some
thing to say to the people, for I thought
earnestly and prayerfully on all religi
gious subjects; and I was equally sure
that That I wanted to say it was neces
sary for them to hear, because it bad to
do with their spiritual welfare. Ideas
as they lay in my mind were perfectly
clear; but the very minute I began to
express them I became embarrassed.
The search for appropriate words and
the necessity of keeping up a steady
flow of language befogged and troubled
me. Every day of the week succeed
ing my failure presented a new and
poigna' t misery. I walked the room
for hours at a time, talking aloud, that
I might become accustomed to the
sound my voice. I delivered short ora
tions to my study-table ; I apostrophiz
ed my inkstand ; I related all the prom
inent incidents in my life to a bust of
Socrates and entered into an argument
with a picture of Plato. In a word, I
talked myself completely hoarse.
Then I prepared to throw myself into
the breach once more, taking care, how
ever, that the breach should not be a
particularly dangerous one. I wrote
mv sermon with great care, leaving the
"improvement" to extempore utterance.
I knew that, under a stress of circum
stances, I could omit 'improvement' al
together—that my sermon would lie
quite long enough without it; and this
fact gave me such comfort and assur
ance that I succeeded passably well.
At the end of each sentence I could say
amen, and this fact helped me to the
succeeding sentence. When a speaker
can stop at any time, he feels quite
ready to go on ; but when be must go
on, the direful necessity renders it im
possible to do so. In the evening I
left out my written illustrations, and
substituted extemporization, without
any very grievous errors. Indeed, the
second Sunday was so agreeable that I
thanked God and took courage.
It is not necessary to speak in detail
of the following months of mingled dis
may and encouragement. I read of the
experiences of the most successful pub
lic speakers, and their early failures
gave me great comfort. The life of Fox
particularly iutercsted me. When he
first rose in his place in the House of
Commons, he blundered, stammered,
and at last sat down in discomfiture. I
felt that there was a very tender tie be
tween him and myself. In order to
overcome his embarrassment, he re
solved to speak at least onco on every
question that was discussed, and missed
doing so di ring one sitting only. In
this way he acquired that fluency of
speech and that intellectual poise while
on his feet which made him famous.
Humbly following so great an example,
I offered my services on every occasion
which presented itself; ami, though
the committees were sometimes sorry
that they had accepted my offer so
readily, they were the unconscious
means of my gradual improvement. 1
look bock to those days with horror
and self-abasement. The motive which
urged me was undoubtedly good ; but
the recollection of the misery arid con
sternation which I have caused in pop
ular assemblies is extremely painful. I
sought lecture engagements all over
the country, the pecuniary inducement
with which I bribed my way into many
ait ill-fated village being the offer to
lecture if my actual expenses were cov-
I ered. The fact that I very seldom
I went to the same place twice is posui
j bly a sufficient comment ou iviy suc
j cess. Even my low terms seemed ri
! diculously extortionate, and no New
! England town felt justified in taking
! the risk more than once. I freely but
sadly gave my sympathy to those who
gathered to hear me; but could not be
persuaded to desist. I frequently learn*
i ed from laudatory advertisements of my
j advent, which spoke in glowing terms
j of my eloquence and of other attractive
: qualities, that it would pay any one to
| drive through mud and over a rough
I country road, in the rain and dark, to
' hear me speak on the theme of the
evening; and I knew only too well tho
' disappointment in store for the audi
. ence They came cheerfully; but I have
reason to think that they went away in
a very different frame of mind. They
frequently appeared relieved when the
lecture was over; but their sense of re
lief was nothing in comparison with
my own.
If one must suffer all these torments
before his time, does the doubtful vic
tory gained pay for the struggle ?
1 Years of heart-ache just to get rid of a
manuscript; unfathomable misery for
the sake of lookin.,' on audience iu the
face! I can honestly answer that it has
doubly paid me: first, it baH made me
very humble in my estimate of myself,
a lesson which ought to Ik; learned at
, any pri*); but chiefly because tbvrc are
moments of indescribable bliss, of un
utterable ecstaev in extempore speak
ing. They come when you are borne
along by the swelling tide of religious
emotion which sometimes rushe9
through the hearts of the congregation.
It is then that you speak more effective
ly than lies within the possibility of,
pen and ink. They are moments never
to be forgotten, when the heavens open
and the angels seem to use your poor
lips for the utterance of divine truth ;
when no one is quite so much surprised
at what you have accomplished as you
are yourself; when you and your peo
ple are fused by a holy enthusiasm;
and when your pulse beats with a hap
py throb, that throws new life into
every vein and artery. I have never
been so near to Heaven as when in the
successful exposition of some great text
of Scripture, and when, hand in band,
my people and I have stood looking at
the cross. These experiences may be
rare; but they are worth a lifetime of
toil and trouble. While I have not a
word to say against the manuscript,
and feel that it has many and very pro
nounced advantages, I dare to offer this
plea for extempore preaching, because
I believe it affords to many the largest
freedom for the exercise of spiritual in
fluence. Ido it all the more urgently
because I am convinced that no man
who reads this chapter from my biog
raphy can suffer the wretchedness and
misery which seem to have been reserv
ed for me alone.— The Independent.
A HIDEOUS HERITAGE.
Two imperial mandates have fallen
to the sons of men withiu the month.
Oa March 4, by the will of the majori
ty of the people of this nation of 50,000,-
000, James A bran) Garfield assumes tho
executive fuctions of this government.
Yesterday, irrespective of the will of
85,000,000 ot people, Alexander Ro
manoff made known to these millions
thnt, by the "will of God," he is hence
forth the autocrat, heaven-born, sacred
ly-annointed and divinely-appoi;.ted
ruler, pontiff and lawmaker. His fath
er, lying mangled and cold in the
sumptuous woe of the Winter Palace
yonder, came in with tho same assump
tion of divinity. The bulletins of Sun
day made known that by God's will he
had been removed from his sacred mis
sion. In the long line of the Romanoff
autocrats the will of God has been
worked with violence. Pew have died
natural deaths. None have reigned in
tranquillity. So far as the cuds th'iture
held good and wholesome in the forms
of government go, the divine system is
the least satisfactory in this day, as it
was in the days that to punish Israel
God sent that people a king.
Prone as mankind is t<J covet power
and reckless as most men are in grasp
ing it, the most aspiring spirit in Chris
tendom might hesitate before undertak
ing the task that lies before tho untried
youth who assumes this bloody and
troublous heritage. His ancestors have
ruled through forms that time has
shown impotent. Any million of men
are greater than any one man. Eighty
five millions of men groveling in ignor
ance—in many cases men only because
they bear the forms of their Maker—
must prove greater than this one ruan
who so rashly announces himself their
God-given master.
If adversity lie the school of merit
tho third Alexander, who reaches out
so confidently to grasp tho heavy scep
tre stained with the blood of his sire,
should bring something else than the
stolid self-will of his autocratic ances
tors to tbe business of government. It
is a lesson old as history that wrong is
only maintained by wrong. The mur
der of a prince like Alexander is not the
outcome of mad passion ; not the grati
fication of personal hatred; not tho
triumph of lawlessness nor the realiza
tion of anarchy. For a quarter of a
century the sluggish thought of a great
people has been slowly formulating it
self into expression ; for a quarter of a
century a great people have been arous
ing themselves to the responsibilities of
that high law which recognizes the
right that every man hasin himself. It
was not because Alexander 11. was not
au amiable man, a generous nrince and
as kings go, a clement ruler of his peo
ple that his subjects warned him that
the strife between manhood and slavery
was a battle to the death.
It was liecause he refused to admit
that the Russian millions of to-day were
made of the same manhood as the na
tions surrounding upon each hamlet,
ruling with a rod of iron, with rights
over person and property without limi
tation. To the exactions of the govern
ment were added the ungovernable
rapacities of a horde of satraps, against
whom there was no appeal. No laws
protected the people, no civic system
took the commonality into tho contem
plation of its workings. Tho forms of
justice were the arbitrary will of tbe lo
cal slave-driver.
The minion of the Court was sent to
every hamlet, clothed with the power
of life and death, wreaked his lu.- t of au
thority or greed for gain on gentle and
simple alike. The millions of money
needed to maintain the State were
ground out of tho poverty-striken peas
ant on no system but the ine-e will of
the local tyrant. Complaint was met
by wholesale confieation ; refusal was
met by the knout, applied alike to the
bare back of the aged and infirm as
well as children and women. When,
with every hope Hod the lacerated peas
ant appealed to the last resource of the
miserable, death, his kinsmen to the re
motest generation were made to pay the
jienalty. Finally driven to that last
resort of the down-trodden, revolution,
whole communities were slaughtered
by court-martial, and wl.en the numbers
became too great for even this summary
method thousands of communities wen;
chained in couples and driven north
ward to the perpetual winter of Siberia
to drag out miserable years iu the gov
ernment mines. If in the march death
overtook the victim, his corpse was
forced upon his comrade, to keep the
number complete until the list could In
receipted at the end of the uolorous
journey. Every road in Russia has
been stained by the blood and bathed
by the tears of men, women and chil
dren who keep up this hideous caval
cade year ill ami year out.
So it cauiv to pat>g that tbo living
came to believe anything p rc f cra blc to
such existence, and thev said We will
destroy all and begin anew. This doc
trine is called Nihilism. Autocracy
met the agitation with redoubled rig
ors. The chief towns as well as the
j country districts ran with blood. The
ominous volley of the death platoon
never ceased from one end of the em
pire to the other. But the Nihilist had
reached the ears of the 85,000,000, and
the power of autocracy became impotent.
Its chief butchers were secretly at first
but later boldly massacred in the very
panoply of their baieful power. The
nation, tied hand and foot, was lighting
(or life. The Autocrat said : I will
root you out and seed the ground with
salt. Nihilism answered: lie it so.
You shall murder us man by man, but
the last man will rid the earth of you,
and those who come after will be free.
This is a bald but very brief state
ment of the existing condition of things
in Russia. The late Alexander knew
what the conditions were upon which
he held power. He had but to concede
the people what all people sooner or
later achieve to have fixed himself in
the hearts of his people as firmly as his
obstinacy fixed him in their bate.
Alexander 111. takes power on the
same conditions. If he will it so, he
may be the happy sovereign of a great
people. If he will it otherwise, sooner
or later he will come to tho same fate
as his father ; nor can he complain if a
people bound hand and foot make us of
the only weapon left them—tyranni
cide.—Philadelphia Times.
NO 00D NO ANYTHING.
The Doctrines of the Nihilist—No
Half Measures.
The principles of the Nihilists, un
der which the Czar was assassinated,
may be gathered from the follow
ing: "This gospel admits of no half
measures and hesitations. Tho old
world must be destroyed and replaced
by a uew one. The lie must be stamp
ed out, and give way to truth. It is
our mission to destroy the lie, and to
effect this we must begin at the very
commencement. Now the beginning
of all those lies which have ground
down this poor world in slave is God.
Tear out of your hearts that belief in
the existence of God, for as long as atom
of that silly sup.-rstition remains in
your minds you will never know what
freedom is. When you have got rid of
the belief in this priest be-gotten God,
and when, moreover, you are convinced
that your existence and that of the sur
rounding world is due to the conglom
eration of atoms in accordance with
the laws of gr vity and attraction, then
and then only you will have accomplish
ed the first step toward liberty, and
you will experience less difficulty in
ridding your minds of that second lie
which tyrrany has invented. The first
lie is God, the second lie is Might.
Might invented the fiction of right in or
der to insure and strengthen her reign.
Might,my frieuds,formsthe sole ground
work of society. Might makes and
unmakes laws, and that might should
be in the hands of the majority. Ouce
penetrated with a clear conviction of
your own might you will be a le to de
stroy this mere notion of right And
when you have freed your minds from
the fear of God, from that childish re
spect for the fiction of right, then all
the remaining chains which bind you
and which are called science, civiliza
tion, pronerty, marriage, mortality and
justice, will snap us under like threads.
Let your own happiness be your only
law. Hut in order to get this law re
organized and to bring about the prop
er relations which should exist between
the majority and minority of mankind,
you must .destroy evcrthing which ex
ists in the shape of state or social or
ganization. Our first work must be
destruction and annihilation of every
thing as it now exists. You must ac
custom yourselves to destroy every
thing—the good with the bad. For, if
an atom of this old world remains the
new will never lie created. Take heed
that no ark be allowed to rescuo any
atom of this old world, which wo con
secrate destruction.
HOYS, TAKK HEED.—I was sitting
in the office of a merchant not long
since, when a lad about 16 years enter
ed with a cigar in his mouth. He said
to the gentleman,
'I would like to get a situatian in
your shop to learn a trade, sir.'
'I might give you a place' but you
carry a bad recommendation in your
mouth,' said the gentleman.
'I don't think it any harm to
smoke, sir, almost everybody smokes
now-'
'I am sorry to say, my young friend,
I can't employ you. If you have mon
ey enough to buy cigars, you will bo
ab >ve working as an apprentice ; and if
you have not money en ough, your love
for cigars might niiike you steal. No
boy who siuok'-scigars can getemploy
ment in my shop.'
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Mow TO DKOI* MONKV AT OUUAOII.—
A facetious exchange giveH the follow
ing rules for dropping money into the
contribution-box at church: First, if
you feel particularly moan and have
only a penny to bettlow, you must keep
it well covered in your hand, and when
the box is under vour nose you must,
with a quick, nervous motion, let your
mite fall so that it shall escape obser
vation ; second, if you have a quarter
or any other silver coin of a considera
ble size to give, you may hold it in
plain sight between your thumb and
forefinger, and when you deposit it you
must let it drop from a comparatively
lofty elevation, so that it may make a
musical jingle when it reaches its des
tination ; thirdly, if you contemplate of
fering a bill,you must not take the mon
ey out of your vest pocket until the
huopy time comes when your neighbors
can best see your unparalleled generos
ity. The moment the collector appears
at the | lew door is the one when you
must tumble for your money, and then
having methodically unfolded the hill
and put on your eye-glasses to ascertain
its denomination, you may slowly put
it on the top of the box. These three
rules, we believe, will bo sufficient for
all ordinary purposes. N. B—A but
ton sh' tild always be placed in a blank
CaVcloiie.
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I Figure work double these rate*; additiona
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Auditors' Notices. H ; Executor*' and Admrnis
rratorw' Notices. t3 *«ch; Est ray, Caution aus
Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines,
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From the fact that the CITIZEN is the oldea'
established and most extensively circulated He
ubiican newspaper In Butler county, (a lieput
iican county; it mu»t be apparent to business
men that it is the medium they should use ib
advertising their business.
NO. 20
A S UPR EME CO UR T DE CIS ION
OF INTEREST TO SHER
IFFS AND A TTORNEYS.
An opinion was filed during the late
session of the Supreme Court in Phila
delphia, which will profe interesting to
attorneys who have dealings with the
Sheriff.as well to all Sheriffs through
out our State. The opinion was in the
case of H. Duryea against ex-Sheriff
Leeds, of Philadelphia.
This was a suit brought by Duryea
against Leeds to recover damages al
•eged to have been sustained through
the negligence of the deputy of the
Sheriff. The facts were that upon a
judgment obtained by Duryea agaiast
a debtor of his, the Sheriff took into ex
ecution a large quantity of the debtor's
goods. Subsequently, while the goods
were still in the hands of the Sheriff's
officers the writ of execution was stay
ed until the further order of the Court.
Proceedings were bad under the rule
to stay the writ, to open the judgment,
and two years after the original levy,
the judgment which had been opened
by the Court was confirmed, and the
sale of the goods levied upon ordered.
When this sale was had it was found
that a large part of the goods original
ly levied upon were musing, and the
amount realize by tbe sale wag much
less tnan rtlr. Duryea's claim. The lat
ter thereupon brought suit against the
Sheriff, as above stated, alleging negli
gence on the part of the Sheriff's offi
cers in allowing the goods to be re
moved. the trial the judge re
fused to charge that the plaintiff coulck
not recover, because he and his coun
sel had been largely instrumental in
causing the delay in obtaining a trial
after a rule to open judgment bad been
obtained. It also admitted in evidence
against the defendant's objection the
notes of testimony given on a former
trial by a witness who had been sub
poenaed at the present trial, but who
had been called out of the State to see
a dying mother. The jury found a ver
dict against Leeds for the full amount
of the claim, and he, assigning these
rulings as error, brought the case to
the Supreme Court, which in deciding
it says :
"We think the notes of the evidence
of the witness on the former trial, when
he was beyond the jurisdiction, though
only temporarily so, were admissible
according to the settled practice in this
State. The other questions in the case
were questions of fact, justly submitted
to the jury und< r proper instructions.
We cannot see that the negligence of
the plaintiff's attorney in expediting
the case can in any way relieve the
Sheriff from the responsibility for the
goods seized. When the judgment
was opened the levy was to remain,
which left the goods in bis custody.
The assignments of error are not sus
tained. Judgment affirmed.
HE SPOKE TRULY.
It was at a table d'hote in Europe
where Englishmen, Scotchmen and
Americans from the Northen States
were present, that a gentleman from
the South repeatedly set forth the ty
ranny which the Southern States were
suffering, and especially denounced the
administration of General Grant. At
last a bluff old Scotchman, grown
weary of bis vjporings, thus addressed
him :
'You are from the Southern States
ot A merica ?'
'Yes.'
'And ye had a civil war there ?'
'Yes'
'And ye wero an officer in the South
ern army ?'
'Yes, 1 was Colonel of a regiment.'
'And ye got licked?'
'Well, yes.'
'Was anybody shot ?'
'No.'
'Was anybody transported?'
'No.'
'Weel then, what the de'il are ye
grumbling about? If wo had ye in
England we would have hanged a
thousand of ye betore ye could have
appealed to the civil law and wo would
have transported other thousands ol ye
to Australia, where ye owt to be now
picking up stones.'
There was a moment's silence, and
then the whole company burst into a
roar of laughter and applause. The
Colonel was squelched, and nothing
further was heard from him.
A RAILWAY STATION IN THK GOTH
ARI) TUNNEL.— The daily journals of
Switzerland and Germany contain long
articles in regard to an underground
station in the Gothard Tunnel, below
the village of Anderinatt, which has
about 800 inhabitants, is situated about
5,000 feet from the sea, and directly
over the tunnel. The Gothard Pass
and the well-known Furka I'ass, lead
ing into tho valley of the Ithone, crosa
here, and it seemed desirable to con
nect the railroad with the Furka Pass.
The design is to cut n slanting tunnel
from Andermatt down to the Gothard
Tunnel and convey tho passengers up
and down by means of a wire cable
road. A i tho connections of the two
tunnels, restaurants, depots, etc., are
to In cot out of the rock. The inhabi
tants of A nder matt expect to do a very
great business, as all the passengers
will prefer to leave the train at this
novel station and bo carried into the
beautiful Urserenthal, in which Anber
naatt is located, by tho rope railway.
The freight traffle"would cortaioly be
increased, but all this will probably
not pay the cost of the additional tun
nel, which would have to bo about 11
miles long. Tho idea is a very novel
one, and is no doubt deserving of some
consideration, but at present it will
probably remain idea only.
L. d. V D. E. V.
An Indiana farmer recently lost
eleven horses and mules from eating
corn-stalks, which being eutup formed
indigestible balls in their stomachs,
producing death in a short lime.
The keeping quality and taste of
butter depend largely on the quality of
salt used in making it. Salt that con
tains lime and magnesia, the two prin
cipal impurities, is unfit to use. But
as the difierence in price between the
best salt and inferior grades is slight,
I while that between good and bad but
tor is very large, it pays to get fbe best
always for daily purpose*.