BUTLER CITIZEN . jajtll K. 4 X!. C. NESLEY, PROP'RS, Entered at the Poetoffice at Butler as tecond-classs matter. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For State Treasurer. GEN. SILAS M. BAILY, of Fayette county. AMoeiate Judge. A. D. WEIR, Buffalo township. Sheriff. FEBGUB M. BHLRA, Parker township. Prothonotnry. M. N. GREER, Buffalo township. Clerk •! Courts. W. B. DODDS, Muddy creek township. Betfater * Recorder. HENDERSON W. CHRISTIE, of Butler, Treasurer. J. HARVEY MILLER, of Butler. Caaiij Commissioners, CHARLES COCHRAN, of Concord township. GEORGE W. HAYS, of Middlesex township. Couuly Auditors, G. W. CROW, of Forward township. J. H. BHANNON, of Franklin township. Coroner, WILLIAM KENNEDY, of Penn township. No news—about proposed railroads. COMPLAINTS— with our delegates to the State Convention. ACQUITED for want of evidence— some prisoners this week. Ma. W. D. ROWAN, of Cranberry township, and for some time past con nected with the "Carry Institute," of Pittsburgh, Berved on the grand jury last week. SPECIAL COUR TS. The Court last week made an order for the holding of two weeks of special Courts in October for the trial of civil can see. The first week will commence on Monday, October 10th and the sec ond on Monday, October 24th- During (be week intervening between the above an argument court will be beld, commencing on Monday October 17th. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE. The Hon. Charles S. Wolf, of Union county, has announced himself as an independent candidate for the office of State Treasurer. He has published in detail his reasons for doing so and the following dispatch to the press will ex plain his motives in brief: To the Editor of The Preu, Philadelphia : LEWIS BUBO", Pa., September 9.—The black flag has been raised against the Independent Republicans of Pennsylvania. Please announce that on my own responsibility I am an Inde pendent Republican candidate for State Treas urer, in full sympathy with the Administration and against the rule of the bosses. I will •tamp the State and give my reasons for this action. CHARLES S. WOLFE. THE PRESIDENT. Although the reports for the past week from the President have been rather conflicting, still we continue to take the meat hopeful view of his case. We believe the change to the sea coast is benefiting him, and we base our hopes on bis final recovery a good deal upon this chango. It may be some time yet before he may be up and well, bat we have hope it is coming. We give the latest official bulletins as to iiis condition for the past few days. THE CANDIDA TE. In another place we have given our views of the manner in which the nom ination of the Republican candidate for State Treasurer was made at Harris burg last week. But notwithstanding the objection made, the nominee, Gen. Silas M. Bailey, of Fayette county, we believe to be a good and a worthy man, and we therefore place bis name at the head of our ticket. The simple story of the whole matter is, that a a good man was taken hold of and selected by some leaders to beat anoth er good man, Davies, who bad been a little too independent for them. But as between Davies and Baily, the latter was a western man and we think the western part of the State was entitled to this nomination. Besides, the plat form on which he is placed is all right. This the "bosses," as they are termed, had to submit to. MONEY A T INTERES T. Some time ago a question arose in this borough as to whether money at interest .was liable to taxation for sbhool purposes. The assessor of this piece had assessed Mr. C. Otto for school purposes with surplus money he had on interest. He denied the legal right to do so and a case was stated and submitted to Court for its opin ion. A 'decision was filed last week by Judge McJunkin sustaining the right and power of the assessor to assess such money for school purposes. The Judge carefully reviews all the statu teg bearing on the subject and con cludes, "that whatever is or may be made taxable for State or county pur poses, bacomes'at once, unless express ly otherwise provided, liable to taxation for school purposes." That the laws "exempt all mortgages, judgments and recognizances, and all money due on articles of agreement, for sale of real estate, from all taxation except for State Durposes." "Bat the case stated admits that the defendant's monev at interest is not purchase money for real estate sold, and therefore the provisions and exemptions of the acts do not apply." Judgment was entered for the plaintiff for $35. Erie Besieged by Fire. ERIE, PA.. September 7— The tre mendous fires raging in Erie county are endangering the city, having rapid ly approached to the city limits. Hun dreds of men have been fighting the flames for days, but the work is of no avail. The city is full of smoke aud trains are stopped by the flames. [ CONVENTION OR CAUCUSi What was suppoFcd would be a Re publican State Convention assembled at Harrisburg last Thursday, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for State Treasurer. But it seems when the delegates got there they became, by some process or other, members, not of a convention but of a caucus. Two of these caucuses, it seems, were organized in the interests of the two leading candidates for the Treasury nomination. There was a "Baily cau cus" aud a "Davies caucus." Wo are told that it was in that form the notices were posted up. Mr. Campbell, of this county, was the only other candidate for nomination besides the above two, Bailey and Davies. The first inquiry that naturally arises is, what became of a "Campbell caucus ?" Why was there no ' caucus" for him. Our dele gates, Messrs. Purviance and Williams, it would seem forgot our candidate and his interest. By some mistake or other they wandered into the "Bailey cau cus." Mr. Campbell states that there were 37 delegates to the convention that were ready to vote for him in con vention. But the caucus system took away all his votes before they got into a convention. Our delegates, Purvi ance and Williams, not only failed to have a caucus for him, but decided which of the other two caucuses they would go into, and went into the strongest one, on the same principle, we suppose, that the bat decided be tween the beasts and the birds. Now, most seriously do we thiuk, that if ever there was a time—if ever there was a State Convention, at which all "caucuses" should have been laid aside-repudiated-it was at the one that assembled for this State last week. With the shadow of death still hovering over the head of the Nation itself, under cir cumstances of peculiar sadness a ad sor row, this was a most fitting time for the representatives of the Republican party, sent as delegates to a "conven tion," to have gone into a convention, pure and simple, and there voted for their choice uatil they fouud the right man. Had this been done Mr. Camp bell, of this county, would have got at least the votes that were instructed for him, and might Dossibly have been nominated. Messrs. Purviance and Williams were instructed by the Re publicans of this county to vote for him, yet they never did so. Why ? Why simplj because they went into a "caucus" called for aud bearing the name of another candidate, Mr. Baily. By so doing they shut out entirely any hope or chance tor their candidate. It may be that he had but little chance for the nomination, but that could only have been ascertained for certain by the voting in the convention itself. And, in all respect, we are compelled to say, that when Messrs. Purviance and Williams got to Harrisburg and found two caucvses in progress for two other candidates, then there was a good reason for them not to go into cither of them, and they lost an oppor tunity to promote the interests of the candidate for whom they were instruct ed by so going. Had they and other del egates done this they could possibly have overthrown "king caucus" and forced the nomination of a man not identified with either faction or with any caucus. And what we mean to denounce and expose is this "caucus" tyranny. It prevents delegates from carrying out their home instructions, which we have always beld was wrong. It is an invention of receut, origin, and it was thought after the experience of last winter it would be dropped in this State forever. We know that the great mass of the party were not ex pecting a caucus rule at the preseut time. For, as we have said, now waj a time, of all others, in which it should have been set aside. The people sup posed they were sending delegates to a convention, the majority of which rule. For the delegates to the late convention to start out with not only one, bnt with two caucuses, and those in the interests of the two leading can didates, thus cutting off all the chances for equally meritorious, if not so active candidates, was a proceeding not look ed for and one that should lie exposed. We take no exception to the man nom inated, but to tie manner of his nom ination. He is nominated by a faction, or by the "bosses" as it is generally termed, and thus eudangers success. If he were not a worthy man—as we be lieve be is —there is nothing would prevent the better elements of the party this year from showing their disap proval of this caucus system and the manner in which he was put in nomin ation. Fearful Forest Fires iu Mich igan. DETROIT, September 7.—Reports are beginning to arrive from northern and northeastern portions of the State showning a terrible condition of affairs. The long-continued drought has burn ed everything as dry as tinder. Sana lac and Huron counties, lying on the shore of Lake Huron, between Port Huron and Sagiuaw Bay, are the scenes of the greatest destruction, which is growing positively appalling in character. Hundreds of farms have already been reduced to blackened ashes. Stock, crops, form buildings and fences all have been 6wept away. Men, women and children have been overtaken by the flames and several lives are known to have been lost It is feared when full accounts are received that the loss of life will prove terrible. The little ham'ets, Anderson, Rich mondville, Charleston, in Sanilac coun ty are all reported to have been wiped out, while Port Hope, Verona Mills and Bad Axe, Huron county, are re ported wholly or partly burned up. The people are Hocking to the shore of Lake Huron •from the interior of these counties as the only refuse fruin the de vouring flames. Some were overtaken QPfc* by the spreading fire. Not less than twenty deaths are alresdv reported, ' but it is hoped that these statements may prove incorrect ELEVKXTH WEEK lIEGIX. The Condition of President Garfield. LONG BRANCH, September 12—The official bulletin of last Sunday even ing was as follows: 'The President has passed a quiet day, although the temperature has been somewhat higher and his pulse more frequent during the past twenty-four hours. At the even ing dressing quite aslough of connective tissue was removed from the parotid. He continues to take a sufficient amount of nourishment and enjoys it. At the noon examination the tempera ture was 100, the pulse 110 aud respi ration 20. At the evening dressing his temperature was 100.6, pulse 110, respiration 20.' When this bulletin was posted in the hotels and cottages, people read it over many times before finally accepting it as an official de scription of the President's condition at the beginning of theeleventh week of his illness—all uuofficial reports during the day bad been so favorable and they were so sure of a favorable bulletin last evening l . Not more than twenty min utes before the official bulletin was given out, some of the immediate at tendants upon the President publicly said there was every reason to be lieve the exarnnation then going on would result in the most favorable bul letin issued for days. Following is the official bulletin of Monday morning: ELBEBON, September 12—8:30 A. M. The President passed an unusual ly good night, his sleep being uninter rupted except occasionally to enable him to take nourishment. Suppura tion from the parotid has almost en tirely ceased The opening from which the pus discharged is rapidly healing. The cough is less and expectoration materially dimin ished. Temperaturo 98 4-10, pulse 100, respiration 18, D. Haves Agnew, D. W. Bliss. Declaration of Principles. The following are the Resolutions passed at the Republican State Con vention. They are sound and appro* priate as to President Garfield and his Administration. The third one is a condemnation of "stalwartism." It denounces the infamous assault upon the President for "a conscientious ex ercise of a proper executive power." It matters but little who is the candidate while he stands upon a platform so explicit on the ruling question of the hour: Resolved, First—That the republican party of Pennsylvania is in most hearty accord with the administration of President Garfield, and while uniting in the prayers of all good people for hi* speedy recovery, pledges continued fralty and the' ?»08t active eupport in the prompt and courageous (.owejifio'l of all govern mental ainjses. An republicans ve ai'g ifi fovor of any proper and well-considered reform, either in the government of the isution, the state, municipality or county; and we court suggestions to any or all these ends, and only ask that in their advocacy well-established safeguards shall not be hastily supplanted by experiments. The administration of President GariU'Jtj lift* set the right example in this di rection, and wJ)iie.fir;iily julliering to the princi ples and better practices of the grpat party which called it into cxifctanee, it yet insists upon faithfulness aud honesty in every branch of the public service. The bullet of ftu assas sin should not interrupt this work. It should be pursued while its author lives, and beyond his life, if, through increasing misfortune, it should be taken away. Second— The republican party has ever been and reformatory, and while realix ing that nothing i,i govftnnents is wholey right, we desire it to be always bttwp poonjip {© seek every avenue of approach to the riant, to tne end that all our people many enjoy the ever-in creasing blessings of good goverment. Third—That to President James A. Garfield, this tender and loving, this struggling and suf fering, this pure and brave man, now become the beloved of this people and the admired of all peoples, we tender for otjrsjilye.s and our constituents assurances of doep and heartfelt sympathy ; and keenly appreciating the value of such a life to his country we expres the prayerful hope that he may soon be restored to the discharge of the important duties for which he is remarkably qualified, and from which by a peculiarly infamous crime and an unde served assault for a conscientious exercise of proper executive power, he lias been tempora lly withdrawn. Fourth—That in fcUJe, as hi pation, the re publican party is committed to the pojirse of economical and honest administration. We demand the use of ail necessary means and the enforcement of all laws intended to prevent fraud and waste, and we require a close and watchful guardianship over all of the multifa rious interests committed to the care of our or ganization. Fifth—That in any revision of our tariff legislation which may be made, care shall be taken to discriminate in favor of our industries aud thereby to promote the causes which are rapidly makiug America a controlling uo*er in finances as it already is an established leader in political thought. Sixth—That the administration of Governor floyt merits our warmest approval. We re gard with satisfaction the results of a purely re publican administration under his leadership, in which all departments have been faithfully conducted, the credit of the state raised to the highest point, and its finances placed upon a proper basis without increasing the burdens of the jMJople. _ The Platform Redeems I lie W bole. The trained leaders of the machine can beat the people every time In the tactics of organization. They never sleep nor rest upon their arms, and they are never more active than in an 'off year,' when the issues of a cam paign do not involve any issue of po litical importance. They showed im mense shrewdness this time in select ing General Bailey as their rallying point, for, personally, he is an unex ceptionable man, and has a good record as a soldier a:;d is popular as a citizen where he is best known. The engi neers of the Pardon Mill had a power ful motive in concealing the odor of their past record with the cosmetics of a good name and a patriotic record for their candidate. Hence they took a stronger man thau could be found in any one of their own number It was a smart dodge, and, as such, deserved success. Thanks to the clear-headed ness and perseverance of McPherson, the convention builded better than the majority knew. The third resolution is a self-condemnation of 'Stalwartism.' It declares that President Garfield has been temporarily withdrawn from the discharge of important duties, for which he is remarkably qualified, "by a pecu liarly infamous crime and in undeserved assault for a conscientious exercise of a PROPER EXECUTIVE POWKFT." This is an explicit condemnation of the Sena, torial bosses and unqualified indorse ment of the course of the President in resisting their dictatorial attempt to j over-ride his Administration. We j would rather have these blazing words' in the platform than our choice of can didate on the ticket. They fully atone for any other mistakes made, and will do more to strengthen the party in the approaching campaign than could accomplished by the personal or political strength of any candidate. In fact, on such a platform almost any ' candidate, except a member of the odi ous Partlon Mill, would be assured of j ian easy victory.— Lancaster Neic j I Era, Rep. A Sergeant of llie Unaril At-; tempt* to li.il! taiiiieau. WASHINGTON, September 11.—Ser geant Mason, of Battery B, Second Artillery, when relieving the guard at the jail here this afternoon, shot at Guiteau through the window of his cell and came near killing him. The ball grazed his head and was embedded in ! the cell wall. Mason was promptly j arrested, taken to the arsenal and in- i carcerated. .4 Tornado of Fire. CHICAGO, September i).—The Rev. Z. Grenell, Jr., pastor of the First Bap tist Curch of Detroit, has arrived in that city from Sand Branch by the Nar row-gauge and Grand Trunk, passing through most of the burned region in Sanilac County. He gave a reporter a graphic and fearful description of the calamity as he saw it and heard of it from eye-witnesses. On his way to Port Huron by the Narrow-gauge Railroad it was noticed that in some places the track had proved an effectu al barrier to the flames, which did not find fuel in the gravel of the road-bed. In other places, however, it burned the ties and twisted and destroyed the rails, which Jhad to be replaced, In other places it had leaped clear over ♦he road aud taken a new start on the other side. For the most part, it got across in some way, and the spots of uuburnt country were small, few and far between. From the car-windows, all the way, it presented to the view • the aspect of a burned desert of ashes and smouldering embers, without a sign of animal or vegetable life, a country abandoned by God aud man, and to'which it was impossible to im agine any one returning. The tele graph poles had all burned and the wires had been reset upon any stick that could be found, and for long dis tances were merely laid along the ties beside the rails. DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE. The scenes of horror in the woods vyerp too frightful for any pen to por tray. The dead W?r« found every where, very rarely recognizable, and in most cases undistinguishable as human beings. Many were mere masses of burnt flesh, which fell apart when touched, and in very few could sex or age be distinguished. From one body the head fell >bf-'U it lifted up; from another, that of a young woipau, the k'g separated and bung suspendeq by the tendon*. In sopie places fam ilies were fouud reduced and blackened llocks of flesh where they fell together, overwhelmed by the rushing (lames. The manifold horrors of the calamity were multiplied by fearful tornadoes, which t'Mt retreat in every direction. The awful heat of the atmospherp raised the smoke a little from the ground, and it hung above the earth in an im penetrable mass, shutting out every ray of light, aud leaving the poor below, helpless and blind, until the lire caught thefu and closed their agony in death. Now aud then flames shot up in tremendous masses, which would be seized by a tornado and carried bodily a quarter of a mile away, and then pushed down again to start the flames in a new quarter. In this helpless fugitives flying for life were penned iu 'by Spas of flame and roasted like rats iu a r-age, Killing ol Lieut. Smith. The following additional particulars of tie killing by the Indians of Lieut. George W. Smith, Jr., raised Here, Jiave been furnished us by Mrs. Walk er of this rpother of Lieutenant Leverett Walker, uow in cooioiafid Fort Bayard, New Mexico, to which place, Lieut. Walker writes to his mother, the retnaius of Lieut. Smith were taken and interred, and money j-aispd f or his family, a wife and two children, also there. Th e accppnt of the battle, as found in the Army and Navy Journal of the 3rd ipst. among other things gives the following ; "The following dispatch from Col. Hatch, giving a report of the fight with the Indians in which Lieutenant Smith was killed, has been received by the War Department: "This piornipg, Aug. 2U, JSSI, Jiieqt. Smith, whom 1 i:u< 1 pushed out oj Cuminmgs to head off the hostiles, struck the baml 15 miles west. A severe fight followed. Our long: Lieut. Smith and lour meu killed and seven men wounded. George Daily, with a party of citi zens, joined Smith when in pursuit of the Indians. Daily was kilied. Lieut. Taylor, yth Cavalry detachment aud scouts, came up atyer the Indians were driven otf" last night aud will take Hp t(ie pursuit. The ludians were going toward Mini tires, J ordered troops yes terday from Uayard aud Cummings to watch the country between Cummings aud Bayard. HATCH, Colonel." A correspondent of the Journal un der date of Aug. 21, 1881, writes as follows: "In reference to the Indian fight, it seems the troops were allowed to enter a canon, and from a hill running obliquely to it, the Indians formed and poured in a volley upon them. Lieut. Smith, 9th Cavalry, commanding, was shot through the breast, falling at once from h ; s horse, exclaiming: "I have got it uow, dismount!" The men dis mounted, firing and retreating in sue cessive lines, occupied a hill, from which the Indians tried to dislodge them. The fight coutinued from 10 A. M. till 3 P. M-, when the Indians with drew. The bodies of the dead weie re covered. Smith's body lay on its face, the back and arm burnt, and from his face his nose had been cut, also his moustache, which was hung on a bush. The Republican's Santa Fe special says Nana's bands of Apache, after a bard fiirht (I 'd before the soldiers and succeeded in crossing the Sonora line. The soldiers were but live hours be hind. Since the campaign began the troops have engaged the Indians in fifteen fights. The latest accounts say the body of Lieut. Smith, who was killed near Nutt Station, fell into the hands of the Indians and was horribly mutilated. A squaw cut of his uose and lips, slashed his face, and severed other members from his body. Experience the llent Cinlde. The constant practice most women have in caring for the sick, makes them often more skillful than physicians in selecting medicines. The reason why women are everywhere using and rec ommending Parker's Ginger Tonic is, because they have learned by that best of guides—experience—that this excellent family medicine speedily overcomes despondency, periodical headache, indigestion, liver complaints, pain or weakness in the back and k'd nevs, and other troubles peculiar to the sex.— Home Journal. See adv. 1 BEING cut—the corn. IN session—the Court. A CHANGE—in the weather. EXPOSITION s BOILER, PI OK BOOTS & SHOES. Fresh New Fall and Winter Stock at Exceedingly Low Prices AT The Reliable and Popular BOOT AND SHOE HOUSE OF B. C. HUSELTON. EVERY DAY ADDS STILL CHOICER STYLES AND LOWER PRICES UNTIL HIS HOUSE IS FULL OF EVERY KIND AND STYLE OF Boots & Shoes. LADIES', MISSES' AND CHILDRENS' Kip, Calf, Grain, Pebble, Goat, Kid& St. Goat in Ib'ish, Button and Side Lace. Old Ladies Waim Shoes, Slippers, Rubbers g.nd Arties, MEN'S BOYS' AND YOUTHS' Brogans Plow Shoe*, Calf Shoes, Kip and CaJj Boots. The larg est ttock of Men's Hand-made Kip Boots in Butler, , ami loicer prices. Men 1 s Boots as low as " ' - - $l5O Women's Heavy Shoes at 90 Customers are all treated alike ; DO misrepresentations made as to quafity of stock and wear; prices same to all. We don't sell to one custom er at half price and next one charge double to make it up. This is tfie Largest Stock of Boots & Shoes in Butler County—best styles and loicett prices, and murk the larg est steel:; bought for CASH direct from the manufacturers. An inspect ion of this stock will at once convince . you that ice do not advertise u small, cheap, shoddy stock r what we say. LARGE STOCK OF LEATHER AND FINDINGS. l-WRepairing of All Kinds Neathj and Promptly Bone. CAIL AN-O EXAMINE BEFORE YQUB UY. B. C. HUSELTOIVT. A.IROUTMAN, DEALER IIV SILKS, SATINS, ERES, ALPACAS, BROCADES, PLAIDS, DELAINS, CALICOES, CHINTZES, GINGHAMS, MUSLINS, TICKINGS, FLAN NELS, BLANKETS, CAhSLUERES, CLOTHS, SHAWLS, SKIRTS, SHIRTINGS, TABLE LINENS, WHITE GOODS, QUILTS, LACE CURTAINS, CAR PET CHAIN, YARNS. ZEPHYR, CORSETS, GLOVES, BUTTONS, FRINGES. LACES, RUCHING, COLLARS, CUFFS, TIES. &c,, &c., My Stock is largo and prices low. I also keep an assortment of Queensware, Glassware and Choice Family Groceries. A. TROUTMAN. A U g. 24. BUTLER, PA. Trouble Between the Weal Penn A F. A W. K. R*H. The Pittsburg and Western Railroad came to the front yesterday in another tussel with the Pennsylvania company, or that portion of the big corporation kuown as the West Penn Railroad, in connection with the iron firm of Graff Bennett & Co. It seems that early yesterday the employes of the West Peun Railroad, together with a num ber of workmen from Graff, Bennett