MB. J. H. BATES, Newspaper Advertising
Agent. 41 Park Itow (Times Building), New
York, is authorized to contract for advertise
ments in the CITIZEN.
THIS P APER N.'w"paj*r
WAIV TE D!
10.000 Bushels Wheat.
10.000 ItaithcU Rye.
10.000 Bushels Oats,
For which we will pav the highest market
price in CASH. BERG A SON.
Aug. 3 3m Bmler, Pa.
New Advertisement*.
New School Desk" —Geo. Ketterer.
Pittsburgh State Fair ond Exposition.
Dissolution Notice—Thompson 4 Scott.
Attorney at Law—R. P. Scott, Reiber BlocK
Local Hud General.
A white snake was killed near
Holidavsburg lately.
Harvest Home at Nixon's Grove
Fri lay and Saturday, Aug. 19 and 20. 2t-10
The carpet mills of Philadelphia
turned out 34,037,000 yards of carpet
last year.
Unless we have rain soon we will
do without both corn and buckwheat
cakes this winter.
The snow bank in Tuckerman's
ravine, in the White Mountains, is
now ten feet deep.
Mr. Alfred Wick has made an ira
provement in front of his hotel which
will be of benefit to bis customers.
—The Fall Term of the Witherspoon
Institute will open Monday, Sept. 5. Send for
catalogue to P. S. BANCROFT, Butler, Pa.
A calf is said to have been bitten
bv a copperhead snake, near Ccntre
vllle, this county, and died from the
bite.
There is a dead-lock between the
English House of Lords and the
House of Commons on the Irish land
bill.
One reason why so many bass
fishers are unsuccessful is that they
carry too much antidote for snake
bites.
Clarion county has two brothers
named Near, the height of one of
whom is 6 feet 8£ inches, and the oth
er 6 feet 3 inches.
—Don't you forget to see the cele
brated Hagerstown Grain, Seed and
Fertilizing Drill, branded "The Best,"
at H. Biehl & Co.'a, Butler, Pa.
—What becomes of all the watches ?
The Waltham watch company employs
1,600 hands, who turn out 750 watches
a day, yet the demand exceeds the sup
ply.
—A farmer residing iu the vicinity
of Blairsville, Indiana county, Pa., has
stacked away aboat eighty tons of hay
as the yield of his meadow-land this
season.
—We direct the attention of School
Directors to the advertisement of the
Faultless School Desk. It is said to be
the best desk manufactured for use in
the school room.
—The Erie Railroad proposes to
employ two hundred Chinamen on its
extension in McKean county, and the
Bradford people anticipate trouble with
their local laborers.
—Rev. Turner returned home last
Saturday from a visit to his relations
in eastern Maryland. He is looking
well and says be has gained fifteen
pounds while away,
—Members of the Legislature who
have had their extra SSOO warrants
cashed, do not regret the "shave" of
SSO in the transaction. The "shavers"
for once find it a very "cold day."
—Don't you lorget to see the cele
brated Hagerstown Grain, Seed and
Fertilizing Drill, branded "The Best,"
at fl. Biehl & Co.'s, Butler, Pa.
—The people of the United States
pay more than $-25,000,000 —fifty cents
for every man, woman and child—per
year for newspapers, and this is the
cheapest and best education they get.
—A new oil field is anticipated in Elk
county, when the oil-bearing rock is
found in abundance. Fifty thousand
acres have been leased for oil purposes
and several wells will be drilled at
once.
—Five children of William Lloyd,
of Union township, Union county, Pa.,
ate apples which had fallen from the
tree among potato vines sprinkled with
Paris ♦rreen, to kill the bugs. Two of
them died.
—ln the Register's Notices of ac
counts to be presented at next Court,
that of the estate of Nancy Tate should
read "Middlesex" township instead of
"Adams" township, as her late place
of residence.
—The Qermania Orchestra of this
place will give an ice caeam festival at
the Opera House during the second
week of September Court. The Or
chestra will enliven the occasion with
music every evening.
—Six cows belonging to John Tra
cy, of Plymouth, Montgomery county,
were bitten by a mad dog a few days
since,and showed signs of hydrophobia
of the worst form. They were all
killed to end their misery.
—A Cincinnati wholesale merchant
says that the best quality of whisky is
ordered by Vermonters and the worst
by Boston dealers. The Maine whisky
is sent to Dover, N. H., which is al
most on a line between the two States.
—People who have orchards should
look well to their apple trees, as an
ugly yellow worm, not quite an inch
long, is stripping some varieties of their
leaves. The large green tomato worm
Is also making sad havoc among the
vines.
A lad starved to death in Pitts
burgh within a few days on accouDt of
throat disease. He lived four weeks
without eating or drinking. Suffering
terribly just betore he died, he asked
his mother if he would get any dinner
in Heaven.
—There is great excitement over the
discovery of carbonates ten miles from
Dead wood, Dakota. Thousands of
people are in the new city, which has
been named West Virginik. The ore
is very rich.
—WITHEESPOON INSTITUTE. The
fall term of this flourishing institution
will commence September 5 and close
Nov. 25. There were 150 students
in attendance during the past year.
Facilities are afforied for the study of
all the sciences and higher mathemat
ics. The languages are also taught,
including the German and French.
Arrangements are also made for les
sons in music and drawing. This
school is growing in importance and
numbers.
—The report published by a Chica
go paper that cremation has been
abandoned at the Le Moyne crematory
in this borough is without foundation.
Fourteen bodies have been reduced to
ashes in it—the last within a month.
Washington Reporter.
Woodcock have left the marshy
districts throughout the country and
have taken to the mountains, where
they will remain till after the moulting
season, siys a veteran sportsman.
Fewer have been shot since the open
ing of the season, July 1, than iu any
previous year.
—County Superintendent Murtland
has held 24 examinations since July
sth, and examined 402 applicants, in
cluding 35 from adjoining counties and
a number who do not intend teaching
during the coming year. Special pub
lic examinations are held at Butler the
last Saturday of each month, commenc
ing at 9 A. M.
—When H. 11. Goucher, Esq , of
this place, returned from the excursion
to Saltsburg last Saturday night he
found a telegram awaiting him stating
that his mother was dying. He imme
diately got a rig and with his wife and
child,"started at midnight to his home
in Venango county, and up to yester
day had not yet returned.
—People should avoid, as far as
possible, being run over by railroad
cars. An empty platform car weighs
18,000 pounds; an empty box car, 20,-
000 pounds; a passenger car, 36.000
pounds, and sometimes more, and an
average locomotive, 80,000. A single
pair of car wheels weigh 500 pounds.
—Mr. 11. Julius Klingler shipped a
car loadot flour iu barrels to Philadel
phia last Thursday, and a car load in
sacks to Johnstown the day before. He
runs his mill day and night and yet
cannot keep up with his orders. Messrs
S. G. Purvis & Co. have also beeQ
running at night lately, and they have
been shipping their manufactured goods
right into Pittsburgh.
—Mr. B. C. Huselton, our enterpris
ing shoe dealer, has returned home
from a two weeks visit to the eastern
fcboe markets, and his fall and winter
goods are already arriviug. While he
was gone his reliable clerk, Mr. Black
more, kept his store room and show
windows in good trim and attended to
his business promptly. It is a great
satisfaction to a business man to have
as reliable a clerk as Blackmore.
—The one-cent contribution fund of
the Cincinnati Commercial had reach
ed $350.17 ou Tuesday morning of last
week. Over 35,000 persons had ex
pressed in that way their satisfaction
that the man who said he hoped the
President would die had had his mouth
slapped. This is a great country, and
if it enjoys one thing more than auoth
er it is to see a mean follow get his de
serts.
—At the annual meeting of the
Philharmonic Society, of this place, the
old Board of Management was re-elect
ed, composed of the following members:
E. W. Vogeley, President and Mana
ger; E. H. Anderson, Secretary and
Treasurer; M. A Lowman, Librarian ;
J. C. Tinstman, A. M. Cornelius. At
the last regular meeting A. Murray
Cornelius was elected Musical Direc
tor for the ensuing year.
—lt is a heavy blow to Chicago
pride, but the fact cannot well bo dis
puted that Cincinnati makes more
whisky than the boastful metropolis of
the prairies. At all events, it pays
more revenue tax. The collection dis
trict comprising Cincinnati leads all
others, having paid during the year
ending June 30 the heavy total of $12,-
538,34(5. Next comes the Chicago dis
trict, with an aggregate of $11,425,-
131. These figures do not settle the
question, however, of which of the ri
val western cities consume the most
liquor.
—The telegraph relates the killing
of Spotted Tail, the well-known Indian
chief, by Crow Dog, who seema also
to have been a jealous dog. The Dog
felt hurt because he was not of such
commanding influence in the Sioux na
tion aB Spotted Tail, and because the
latter bad been summoned to Washing
ton to coufer with the Government.
Dogs are alike the world over, whether
it be a Crow Dog of an Indian, or a
low dog of an office hunter and general
dead beat at Washington.
—Mr. John Roach estimates that
the total amount paid annually to for
eign ship owners for carrying Ameri
can products abroad is $150,000,000.
The amount paid for passenger fares
added to that spent by Americans
traveling in Europe he thinks more
than equals the surplus of trade in our
favor. If Mr. Roach is correct, there
fore, we pay back to the foreigners, in
the shape of freights, passengers' fares
and money spent by our people in Eu
rope, many millions more than the ac
count they have to settle with us in
balancing the books of trade.
—The information sent by Minister
Foster of a remarkably heavy yield of
wheat in Russia will not be good news
for American farmers. Prices of wheat
in this country will be of necessity con
siderably affected by a Russian crop
said to be the largest ever known in
some localities, and in others described
as the best in twenty years. Our far
mers are in a prosperous condition,
however, and need not mourn over thu
good luck of the Russian peasants,
whose sufferings from hard times are
now to be relieved by an abundant har
vest.
—A light cotton crop is indicated by
the information gathered by the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange. Dry weath
er is everywhere complained of as pre
venting the development of the bolls.
A scanty yield of this great staple to
gether with a grain crop considerably
below in total quantity what was an
ticipated, may produce a sensible effect
upon our foreign exchanges. At all
events it will be prudent not to couut
with too much confidence upon the
long continuance, without some check,
of the present epoch of booming pros
perity.
—The passage of the prohibitory law
law in Kansas has inventive genius to
work to devise a non-intoxicating beer.
A Denver chemist, I)r. Charles 11.
Frings, has devised a beverage made
from malt and hops, but unfermented,
which a Denver Tribune reporter,
who tried it, reports is pleasant to the
taste, looks like lager, has a fine froth,
and that a man can drink bis full capac
ity without exhilaration. A company
has been formed to start a brewery of
the new beer in Kansas, to be followed
by similar establishments in Maine,
lowa and other prohibitory States.
fElp* S3ttil*r <&itin*n: Pttil**, P*.» JXugttsst It, 1881*
—With the publication this week,
in one of our contemporaries, of the
Premium List for the Fourth Annual
Fair of the Butler County Agricultural
Association, to be held in the grounds
near Butler on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, Sept. 20, 21 and 22,
the list will have been published in
each paper in this town three times,
and we have no doubt but that every
man, woman and child in the county
who caj read has seen it. The outlook
for some of the late crops is at present
not very good, but still there is not a
fanner, gardener, stock-raiser or fruit
grower in the county but who will
have something on his place worth tak
ing to the fair. The county fair here
should be made a social gathering as it
is in other places. Write to your
friends that you will be at the fair on
a certain day, then go and take your
dinners with you and sptnd a day in
each others society. You will find
plenty of shade and water on the
grounds.
—One of the New York daily papers
says that the two elder sons of Presi
dent Garfield will not be obliged to
pass the regular entrance examination
at Williams College, but will be admit
ted on a certificate from their tutor.
For the pake of the boys it is to be
hoped that no such favoritism is con
templated. The children of the man
who acquires wealth or high position
in this country, instead of having an
advantage iu the battle of life, have
the odds heavily against them. They
are so coddled and flattered and spoiled
generally that they seldom come to
anything good. The young princes
and nobles of EuroDe are given a differ
ent training, and have to learn to en
dure harshness. To be born there with
a golden spoon in one's mouth does
not, as a rule, ensure a life of ease, but
rather the contrary. The result is that
the continuation of a noble career and
perpetuation of an honorable name is a
cotnmou thing in Europe, while in this
country it is pretty certain that if a
man is rich and honored his grandson
will be neither There are shining ex
ceptions to this rule, but they are only
exceptions.
—While Mr. R C. McAboy, of
this place, was sitting reading in his
room, last Wednesday evening, he
beard some one open bis front door,
and going into his hall, found there two
men, both considerably the worse for
liquor. Finding that they had entered
the wrong house, one of them invented
an excuse and they went out. They
then got something more to drink at
the Willard House a:;d went around
the corner to a notorious house of pros
titution on Wayne street, and demand
ed admittanc3. This was refused them
by Mrs. S. from an upstairs win
dow, unless they would give their
names. They refused to do this and
pounded on the door, when Mrs. S.
threatened to shoot them, and one of
them threatened to shoot her. Then
the interesting individuals sat down
on the door step and waited 9ome time
for Mrs. S. to come down and let
them in, but she didn't come and they
finally left. An hour or two after
wards, or about midnight, they, in
company with some other men or boys;
came back. Our informer is positive
that but one of the first two, Smith by
name, was with the second crowd, but
as there was somebody in the crowd
they called "Pete," he thinks that they
were both there. This second crowd
amußed themselves till after one
o'clock siuging indecent songs in front
of the house, to the great annoyance of
the neighboring people.
These incidents may possibly ex
plain the appearance iu the Millcrstown
Herald of last Saturday of the two fol
lowing items:
"R. C McAboy has one of the finest dwellings
in the town. We had the pleasure of inspect
ing it Wednesday night, through the courtesey
of Mr. McAboy. The parlors, halls, dining
room and library are models of elegance both
in furniture and adornment, and give evidence
of a cultivated and refined taste.
There is a place near the Williard House,and
another ut the other end of town, that need the
attention of Council and Chief of police."
A SECOND LITERARY REV
OLUTION.
The Grst literary revolution consist
ed in the publication of standard books
in every department of literature at
from one-third to one-tenth of their for
mer cost.
The second literary revolution con
sists in a still further very great reduc
tion (conditional) even from the revo
lution prices, while, at the same time,
the average quality of the books will
continue to be materially improved.
HOW CAN THESE THINCJS BE '(
To attempt an impossibility could of
course result only in failure, and it
would be useless, in our own interest,
or in that of the many thousand cus
tomers who have shown us such earn
est favor, and have given us such great
patronage, to announce or promise
what could not be performed. We
have dealt frankly with our customers
in giving facts concerning costs and
profits in the past, and we do it now,
by giving facts and figures illustrating
how we can afford to still further re
duce prices.
t'ACTS AND FIOURES
Please note, at the start, our apolo
gy for not having done heretofore what
we now propose to do, and consider—
-Ist—We published our first book
only so long ago as January, 1879.
Previous to that time we were entirely
without experience in book publishing.
What knowledge we had of the busi
ness was gained in newspaper publish
ing, and in book-selling.
2d—We were also at that time al
most entirely without capital, and until
so late as February, we labored under
the difficulty of being without capital
even approximately adequate for the
magnitude of the enterprise we were
undertaking.
3d—Our entire scheme was in oppo
sition to all previous methods of pub
lishing and book-selling. And from
the beginning to the present, we have
had the combined bitter opposition of
almost the entire book-publishing and
book-selling classes of the United
States.
4tb—Starting thus, with a minimum
of knowledge, and loss capital, and with
such immense opposition, we thought
it best, in the interest of both the read
ing public and ourselves, that we un
dertake too little, rather than too much;
partial success would be better than to
tal failure.
sth—ln spite of our want of resourc
es and of experience, and iu spite of op
position, and with the necessity of or
ganizing and training our new forcer,
and necessarily trying many experi
ments, all of which no one could ex
pect would be uniformly successful, we
have from January 1, 1880, to June
30, 1881, manufactured and sold uear
ly 2,000,000 volumes of standard
books, for which we have received the
•onsiderable sum of $709,521.32.
6th—ln a circular issued in January
of the present year we made the follow
ing statement: "The public have so
long been taught to believe books to
be expensive luxuries and low prices
impossible, that incredulity has from
the first been the greatest obstacle to
the progress of the Literary Rev olu
tion. It was easier to make good
books cheap than it was to make peo
ple believe it could be done. We could
readily have made prices even lower
than they have been, but for the terri
ble tax we have been compelled to pay
to this incredulity."
We have during this period, from
January 1, 1880, to June 30, 1881,
paid for ai 1 vertising, the large sum of
$140,878 93. This immense item ne
cessarily has to come out of the profits
we made on the books.
7th—Although our scheme originally
embodied the principle of selling direct
ly to the consumer, and doing away
with the exorbitant cost of middlemen,
we have not undertaken to put aside
the book-seller and the book agent al
together, because a large portion of the
book-buyers of the country have got
into the habit of looking to them for
their supplies, and if we were to sup
ply the wants of such customers at all,
we were compelled to do it through
these ordinary channels. But we have
endeuvored to induce or compel these
middlemen to work, as we have been
doing, on a more reasonably small per
centage of profit (the immensely in
creased sales at the reduced prices even
with the smaller commissions really
give the book-seller a larger net profit
than he formerly had.) Accordingly,
we have duriug this period, from Jau
uary 1, 1880, to June 30, 1881, allow
ed to the book-sellers and book-agents
commissions averaging about 25 per
cent, of our total receipts. In other
words, in addition to the $709,521.32
we have received from the public for
our books, the public has also paid to
the middlemen the large sum of $177,
380.33 simply for handling these books,
making the total cost of the booka to
the consumer $386,901.65.
Bth—From these statements you can
readily see that if
From the total amount
which the public has
paid for our books $886,901.65
We deduct the amount
we have paid for adver
tising these books $140,878.93
And the amount paid to
middleman for hand
ling the books 177,380.33
We have a total deduction of. $318,259.26
And a remainder of. $568,642.39
Thus it is evident that if the public
bail bought these books directly from
us, unnecessary expense of advertising,
and of paying middlemen for handling
them, being avoided, the books would
have cost them only $568,642.39, being
almost 36 per cent, less than the $886,-
901.65 which they have paid for them,
and our net proceeds would have been
none the less.
A BETTER ILLUSTRATION
The above figures show clearly the
possibility of a great reduction from
our prices as heretofore given without
diminishing our net income, but they
do not necessarily show that it is pos
sible for us to manufacture and sell
books at such low prices without loss to
us. As we have never made pretense
of publishing books from charitable or
philanthropic motives, and do not wish
our friends to think we are doing bus
iness at a loss, we will give a conclu
sive and interesting illustration of how
we can afford these low prices.
LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE.
After a labor of nearly two years by
an able corps of American editors and
writers, for whose services we have
paid nearly $30,000, we have within
the brief period of less than ten months
made electrotype plates for the Library
of Universal Knowledge at a further
coet of nearly $30,000, making a total
investment on this work of about S6O,
000. This labor all being done and
paid for, the 15 large octavo volumes,
making the largest Cyclopsedia ever
published in this country, can be man
ufactured at a cost per set of 15 vol
umes of—
For pa|>er $2 52
For printing 96
For binding 2 48
Total $5 96
These electrotype plates which we
have manufactured will readily print
100,000 copies, and then by slight re
pairing will print from 50,000 to 100,-
000 additional copies, but to make our
estimate absolutely safe we will assume
that it will be necessary to manufac
ture a new set of electrotype plates af
ter 60,000 copies have been printed.
Thus we must add to the above cost of
the manufacture of one set of the books
($5.96), an additional $1 as the pro
portionate cost of the plates for each
set of 15 volumes. A further item
must also be added to cover expenses
of office, handling, shipping, etc., which
experience leads us to estimate below
50 cents per set, but as we must do at
least a safe business we will add, in
stead, for this item another sl, making
the total cost of manufacture and hand
ling the 15 octavo volumes of the Li
brary of Universal Knowledge $7.96.
Thus you see that if we sell a copy of
this great Encyclopaedia even at the
net price of $lO, we still have a net
profit of over $2. As we have already
sold about 15,000 sets in advance of
completion, we think it very sale to es
timate (and we have beard of neither
friend nor enemy who makes an esti
mate lower) that we shall sell, as fast
as we can manufacture them, at least
100,000 sets, and allowing our figures
above given to be correct, we have the
comfortable sum of $200,000 to cover
contingencies, and dividends to our
stockholders.
As some of our friends may question
whether our estimates above given are
perfectly safe, and as we have heard of
some instances where the accuracy of
figures previously given by us has been
disputed by our enemies, we will say
that the cost of the paper is put at 8
cents per pound, the cost of press work
at $1.20 per thousand impressions, and
cost of binding at cents per vol
ume.
THE PRACTICAL POINT.
We now come to the practical point
in which you are interested—how you
may get the books you want at the
lowest possible cost.
It is evident that it can only be done
by your doing away, so far as you are
concerned, with our immense expendi
ture for advertising, and with the com
missions which we or you are compell
ed to pay the middlemen, if you buy
through the middlemen.
Another extremely important point
, in enabling us to afford the lowest pos-
sible price is that we receive quick re
turns for the investments we have
made
You readily see that we have invest
ed about $60,000 cash, before we are
able to offer you a complete set of the
Library of Universal Knowledge at any
price. We must sell a great many
| thousand sets before we can even get
back the money which we have invest
ed, to say nothing of the reward which
we must have, in some measure, for
our labor and the capital of the stock
holders involved.
A large portion of the public still
j persist in getting their supplies of books
through the middlemen (who must be
paid for their services) instead of from
us direct; and as a large expenditure
for advertising will also continue to be
necessary, in finding out new custom
ers, we must continue to hold to our
present retail prices, in order that we
may be able to pay these enormous ex
penses for advertising and for commis
sions to middlemen.
But because we are thus compelled
to tax book buyers generally with these
heavy expenses, there is no occasion
why we should continue this heavy
tax upon you individually if you
choose to unite with us in avoiding it.
OLE PROPOSITION TO YOU.
We therefore make you this proposi
tion : If you will send your order for
the Library of Universal Knowledge
(either for yourself or for any number
of friends and acquaintances), so that
we shall receive the same on or before
the first day of September, 1881, we
will accept such orders at a discoantof
one-third from our published list pri
ces, making net prices to you as fol
lows :
LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
For the 15 vols., in cloth, net $lO 00
In half Russia, sprinkled edges 13 33
In half Russia, gilt top 15 00
In full library sheep, marbled edges... 16 66
Orders sent to us under this offer
will be accepted and filled by us under
the following term 3 and conditions: —
CONDITIONS.
Ist—We do not in this case, as has
commonly been our custom, require
that remittances shall accompany the
orders. Payments may be made at
any time that may suit the convenience
of the purchaser, on or before the de
livery of the books to him, and not
later than January 1, 1882.
2d—But in makimg deliveries of the
books we shall give precedence to or
ders which are acompanied by remit
tance in full payment, shipping first
those for which payment is first re
ceived.
3d—After filling all orders which
have been fully paid for at time of or
ders which are accompanied by a pay
ment of 10 per cent or more on account
of said order, the balance then to be
paid on or before delivery of the books.
4th—Thereafter shipments will be
made to those who have sent no pay
ment with the order, precedence being
given to those whose orders are first
received by us, payment of course
being required on or before delivery of
the goods.
sth—We shall not consider orders
unaccompanied by any remittance as
binding upon the person making it, if
from any cause he is unable to take
the books, or shall not then desire to
do so; but in case payment is not
made promptly when such person is
notified that his books are ready for
delivery, he will first forfeit his posi
tion on our delivery list, his name be
ing transfered to the end, and in case
payment is not made promptly when
his name is again reached and he is
notified, he will then forfeit the privi
lcgs of purchasing at less than our full
list prices, and no order will thereafter
be accepted from him under any similar
special offer which we may in the fu
ture make on other of our publications,
unless the same is accompanied by
payment.
ABOUT OUR OTHER PUBLICATIONS.
As the present stock of our miscella
neous publications is now comparative
ly limited, and as our entire manufac
turing resources will in all probability
be for months to come taxed to the ut
most by the manufactnre of the Libra
ry of Universal Knowledge alone, we
cannot undertake to make an offer sim
ilar to the above upon the books cover
ed by our miscellaneous list, except to
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eral leader it is undoubtedly the best
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Broadway, New York. JOHN B AL
DEN, Manager.
MILL IUHKS FOB SALE
CHEAP!
A thirty-inch under runner corn and
chopping mill set on a wooden frame,
all complete and ready to attach belt.
Also, a three-foot top running chop and
corn stone of genuine old stock, with
the best improved driving irons, and
complete iu every particular ; capacity,
forty bushel per hour. This pair of
buhrs are still in operation and can bo
seen at any tuue.
As we are adding additional Roller
Mills, and will gire our whole atten
tion to advanced Roller Process of
milliug, we are compelled to do away
with our chopping buhrs, and therefore
offer them at a sacrifice for cash. Call
at or address
KLINGLER'S MILLS,
10-3t Mifflin Street, Butler, Pa.
Carpels. Clothing and tieuls'
Furnishing Goods.
Fine all wool two ply Carpets at
50 cents, at Heck & Patterson's.
The best stock of Gents' Fine Cloth
ing at Heck & Patterson's.
New styles in China Mattings, cheap
at Heck & Patterson's.
The best and cheapeststock of Gents'
Furnishing Goods at Heck & Patter
son's
Good Rag Carpet at, 30 cts., at Heck
& Patterson's.
Trunks and Satchels, cheap at Heck
& Patterson's.
The finest and cheapest stock of
Carpets in Butler at Heck & Patter
son's.
Children's Clothing, large stock and
low prices at Heck & Patterson's.
The best Brussels Carpets at 62 and
65 cts., at Heck & Patterson's.
Fine Straw Hats for Men, Boys and
Children's wear, less than cost at Heck
& Patterson's.
Good two ply Carpets for 30 cts., at
Heck & Patterson's.
The cheapest place to buy Dusters
white vests &c., is at Heck & Patter
son's.
Good wear floor Oil Cloths at 25 cts.,
at Heck & Pattersons.
—On the 26th of August, 1880, there
was a trial of plows on the (arm ol E. A. Uelin
bold near Saxonburg, 'bis county, with the fol
lowing result.
Uncle Btm, with wheel: Average depth 8
inches; width 13% Inches ; draft 599 pounds ;
to turn 110 square inches. Without wheel:
Average depth inches; width 14 inches;
dralt 608 pounds ; to turn 1(*8 tquare Inches.
Oliver Chilled. Average depth inches,
width 11 inches ; draft 94tS pounds ; to turn 93
rquarc inches.
Ohio Cbilled, Average depth inches;
width 1 inches ; draft 6(50 pounds ; to turn
108 equare inches,
Diamond Iron. Average ('eplh 7%; width
1 dr.ilt £65 pound*; to turn 99square inches.
Red Jacket. Averge depth inches; width
11 V; dralt 775 pounds; to turn 72square inches.
The ground was a very slit! sod, not having
beeu plowed for thirteen years. The judges
closed their report as follows : We report the
"llucle fain to have done the best work in this
sod and done it with the lightest dralt on the
team.
JOHN HESSKLOKHSBR, GEO. LOVE,
JOHN MOCAFFEHTV, FT'*. DENNY.
E. HBCKMAN.
Uncle Bam and Ohio (.'hilled plows for sale
by J. Niggel iV Bro., Jefferson street, Butler,
Pa. Agents wanted in every towuship. Apr'y
to the above tlrio. augStl
4 Hcneflcieiit Action.
The worn look and miserable feel
ings of those closely confined in mills,
or at desks, or work tables, are caused
by weak Stomach, Kidneys or bowels,
and show the necessity for some mild
tonic to build them up. No one need
suffer thus who will use Parker's Gin
ger Tonic; for without intoxicating it
has such a beneficient action on these
sluggish organs and so cleanses the
poisenous matters from the system, that
rosy cheeks and good health und spirits
are soon brought back again.— Express.
See adv.
For a Strictly Pure Article
of Whisky, Wine, Brandy, &c., go to
E. Bauck, 34 Federal Street, Alleghe
ny city. This gentleman makes a spe
cialty to keep nothing l>ut of first qual
ity- *
Important to Travelers.
Special inducements are offered you
by the Burlington Route. It will pay
vou to read their advertisement to be
found elsewhere in this issue. (may2stf
—"Who grasps much holds little."
The proprietors of Ely's Cream Balm
do not claim it to be a cure-all, but a
sure remedy for Catarrh and Catarrhal
Deafness, Colds in the head and Hay
Fever.
Cream Balm effectually cleanses the
nasal passages of catarrhal virus, caus
ing healthy secretions, allays inflam
mation and irritation, protects the
membranal linings of the head from
additional colds, completely heals the
sores and restores the sense 01 taste
and smell. Beueficial results are real
ized by a few applications. A thor
ough treatment as directed will cure
catarrh. The Balm is easy to use and
agreeable. Sold by druggists at 5o
cents. On receipt of 50 cents will
mail a package. Send for circular with
full information. Ely's Cream Balm
Co., Owego, N. Y. For sale by J. C.
ltedick, I). H. Wuller, Zimmerman A
Wuller, Coulter & Linu.
13T Advertise in the CITIZEN.
STATE FAIR & EXPOSITION
AT
pITTsB u R G H
-28th Exhibition of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society,
A N D
Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Pittsburgh Exposition Society Combined.
Livestock Exhibition September sth to 17th. Industrial and Mechanical Exhibition with
Trials of Speed will continue until October Bth. Open day evening.
$41,500 IN PREMIUMS-
Excursion Tickets at Greatly Reduced Rates !
Will be infilled by all Railroads centering at Pittsbnrgb.
ENTRY BOOKS CLOSE AUGUST 30tJi.
Officers Penn'a State Agricultural Society.
WM. S. ISISSELL, President.
D. W. SELLER, Recording Secretary.
ELBIUDUE MCCONKEY,
Corresponding Secretary.
CHRL r r OC K,
Manufacturer of Tin and Sheet Iron Ware and dealer in Stoves, Ranges, Pressed, Japanned
and Enameled Ware, Granite Ware, Wooden Ware, Bird Cages, and general housekeeping
eoods. Rooting, Spouting and Repairing done on short notice and at lowest market rates. The
only authorized agent for the sale of A. Bradley & Ca.'a well known Stoves and Ranges and the
only place to get the original and genuine odd plates for their stoves, made expressly by them
for him. Beware of sham plates being sold in Butler, made of old and inferior metw, none gen
uine but from the Agent, CHRIS. STOCK,
june 8 'Bl Near Wick and Sclireiber Houses, Main street, Butler, Pa.
ML C. ROCKENSTEIH,
DEALER ITV
HIT CM STOVES
AND RANGES.
ALSO, AGENT FOR CRYSTAL PALACE STOVES AND REPAIRS FOR SAME.
Bird Cages, Tinware, Wood and Willow Ware, Enameled and Granite Ware, Sewer Pipe, Firo
Clay Stove Pipe, Grate Tile, Fire Brick and Clay.
Roofing, Spouting and Heavy Sheet-irou work done at short notice below market prices for
Ca i'am also having manufactured to my order, nice clean and smooth odd Plates to fit Bradley'*
Stoves which I sell at six cents per jwiund, and I will guarantee fhem to last longer and give
better satisfaction than the So-called original and genuine plates sold by another party at tea
cents tier pound. Give ine a call and be convinced.
>l. C. ROCKENSTEIN,
june)s:3m Muin Street ' Butler . Pa -
R. P. SCOTT,
Attorney at Law. Office, Room No. 3, Uel- |
ber Building, Jefferson street, Butler, Pa |ag'Sl
Disunolutioii -\oiicc.
Notice is hereby given that the Law Partner
ship heretofore existing between the undersign
ed, practicing attornev s iu the several courts of
Butler county, was dissolved by u.utu >1 consent I
on the 6th day of August, A. D. 1881.
JOHN M. THOMPSON, |
aug 17-31] R. P. SCOTT.
NOTICE TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS,
School Directors of the county who Intend re- I
furnishing their school rooms are respectfully
requested to visit my establishment ou Main '■
street, Butler, Pa., next door to Uiehl's Tiu- J
ware Store and eximiue the new
FAULTLJSNS
SCHOOL DESK,
manufactured by the Chicago School Furniture ,
Company. Call upon or address
GEO. KETTERER,
FURNITURE DEALER,
augl72m BUTLEK, PA.
CI r\ D 11"\ A ul)d GEORGIA.—For
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these States read the SAVANNAH MOKNINO I
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year ; Dally 110 a year. The best papers In the I
South Sample copies 5 cents. Address,
augl7-2t J. 11. ESTILL, Savanuah, Ga.
A'S ONLY DAUGHTER CIB
EI> OF COSfSIIMPTIOS.
When death was hourly expected, all remedies
having (ailed, and l»r. 11. James w;ut ex|>crtmeiit
mg with the many herbs of Calcutta, he accident
ally made a preparation which cured his only chid
of CONHCMITION. His child Is now In this coun
try, and enjoying the best of health. lie has
proved to the world that CONSUMPTION can be
|M>sltively and permanently cured. The now gives
this lleclpe free, only asking two three-cent
stamps to pay expenses. Tills Herb also cures
Night Sweats, Nausea at the Stomach, and will
break up a fresh cold In twenty-four hours. Ad
dress Cradiloek & Co.. lUIJ Kacc Street, Philadel
phia. iiaininK (his paper.
PENSIONS.
Procured for all soldiers disabled In the IT, S. ser
vlce from any cause, also for heirs of di-eeased sol
diers. The slighte>( disability entitles to |M>usion.
PENSIONS INCHKASEI), Bounty and new dis
charges procured. Those 111 doubt its to whether
entitled to anything, should semi two :t cent
stani|>s for our "circular of information." Address,
with stamps, STOOP A KT & Co.. Solicitors of Claims
and Patents, Washington, I>. C. Lock box, (ii'l.
(70A WKKK. sl2 a day at home easily made
9* "Costly Out (it tree. Address Titer. & Co.,
Augusta, Maine. Juiurty
Officers Pittsburgh Exposition Society.
J. W. BATCHKLOR, President.
E. P. YOUNG, General Manager.
J NO. 1). BAILEY, Ass't Manager & Cashier.
J. C. PATTERSON, Secretary.
Notice (o Supervisors and all
Interested.
The following roail petitions will be present
ed for confirmation on Wednesday, the 7th day
of September, 1881 :
No. 1, March, 1881. Road in Fairview town
ship. Beginning ut a poiut on the road lead
ing from Kairview to Millerstown. at or near
the furm of Thomas Hanks, to a point on the
public road leading from llaysville to Trout
man, a? or near the Big Medicine oil well on
said llaysville and Troutman road.
No. 13, October, 1871. Hoatl in Buffalo town
ship; to vacate, change or widen a public road.
Beginning at a point at or near where the said
road crosses the liue of Allegheny and Butler
counties, to a point in the said road where the
same crosses the line of Armstrong and Butler
counties. Same being a State road laid out bv
John Magill, H. W. Grant and E. Maurhoff,
Commissioners, authorized by act of Assembly;
approved May 15th, 1871.
Now, therefore, all jM-rsons interested will
take notice that the above report of viewer*
will be presented to the Cout of Quarter Ses
sions at Butler on the day above written, aud
if no exceptions are filed will be confirmed ab
solutely. W. A. WRIGHT,
Clerk Quarter Sessions.
EXECUTORS' SALS! I
The undersigned executors of the last will
and testament of Captain Robert Thompson,
late of Clinton township, Butler Co , Pa ; dee'd,
by virtue of the power conferred on them by
tlie will of said decedent, will ofler for sale at
public vendue, on the premises, on
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th,
A. !>., 1881, the following described real estate,
to wit: A la;in of 100 ACRES of land, about
SO of same cleared, and the balance in (food
limber, frame and log bouse combined, good
spring ol water, first rate orchard of good bear
ing frul», spring house, coal house, wagon shed
and other outbuildings thereon.
This farm is situated on the 3 degree road, 4
miles south ol Saxouburg, and is convenient to
churches, schools, mills, coal banks, etc., and U
in a good state of cultivation.
TERMS OK SALE— One third of purchase
money oil confirmation of sale, aud the balance
in two equal annual payments, with Interest,
and secured by bond and mortgaire.
AB«OLOM MONKS, I
J. W. MONKS. ( M "*
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
The Board of School Directors of Winfield
township, Butler county, Pa., will receive seal
ed pro|»>sals up to 2 o'clock, P. M., of Saturday,
August 20th, 1881, for the erection of three new
school houses I frame i; also, for necessary out
buildings the bids will be received on said 20th
day of August at the Centre school house and
examined aud contract let. Plans and specifi
cations i-an l»e seen at the house of John P.
Bricker, Winfield township. The Directors re
serve the ri>.ht to reiect any or all bids. By
order of Board. JOHS P. IJbickkb, Sec'y.