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FOR
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THE PRESIDENTS TRAIN.
Wafied by prayer and pity,
Freighted with love and pain,
Silent and swift and steady,
Speedeth the President's train.
Forth from the noisy city.
With poison and pestilence rife,
The heart and the hope of the people,
Fleeth from death to life.
Hushed is the bustle of travel ;
Power and pleasure and gain,
Silent alike, are making
Room for the President's train.
While, with bowed head, the nation
Waits with suspended breath,
Tidings from him who fleeth
Forth from the shadow of death.
All other woes are as nothing,
All other griefs grow dim ;
Each his own sorrow forgetteth,
And grieveth only for him.
O, if our prayers can avail him—
If love and faith have sway,
The Angel of Life outnmneth
The Angel of Death to-day.
Silent and swift and steady,
Freighled with'love and pain,
Watted bv prayers and blessings,
Speedeth the President's train.
September 6, 1881. S. M. SpaLDIJTO.
THE DRESS - MAKER AT
ORE EN HARBOR.
[From Lippincott for this month.]
Mis' BabsoD, the dress-maker, is
the most important personage in the
village at Green Harbor, and there is
no place so much visited as her shop,
which is situated on the first floor of
her own little house at the corner.
When my acquaintance with the lady
first begau, I suppose that she was
single, judging not only from the fact
that she was called Mis' Babson, but
because there was something in the
twist of her natural ringlets, and in
the tone of her jew's-harp-like voice,
suggested single-blessedness. But I
soon discoyered my mistake. She is
not one who makes her griefs unbeara
ble by concealing them. She gives
each new customer the full particulars
of her several widowhoods, and talks
as if burying husbands were the chief
occupation of women. She is a tall,
rather plump women, of forty-five or
thereabouts. Her mouth has a pecu
liar expression, owing to the habit of
keeping it perpetually filled with pins
Her reddish-brown hair grows down
on one side of her polished brow, after
a fashion which is called by her neigh
bors a cowlick. Her pale complexion
is delicately tinted with green, and her
light-gray eyes have a glittering bright
ness. A look of mournfull liveliness
prevades her whole countenance.
She is not only the dress-maker of
the village, but fills various other im
portant positions with great credit.
She makes and trims all the bridal
bonnets in the region, though there is
anotherjoutraged milliner at the Land
ing who serves on ordinary occasions.
As a nurse she is quite famous, though,
unless the case be particularly attract
ive or extremely severe, she does not
feel justified in leaving her shop to the
tender mercies of Idelia Rosanna, the
flightiest niece that ever wise aunt was
afflicted with, to devote herfelf to the
care of the sick. As a doctress she is
also highly valued ; and, as there is no
regular physician within five miles;
her skill is often called into practice.
When, as she phrases it, any one is
"called away" in the town, her services
are always required for making the
shroud and preparing the body for
burial. Then, she is the very efficient
president of the Ladies' Sewing Socie
ty, tbe leading soprano in the church
choir, the agent for Bntterick's patterns,
the proprietress of a celebrated eye
wash, and a general adviser of both
old and young in tbe town, and several
neighboring towns as well. Of late
years the Harbor has been crowded
with summer visitors, and she has tak
en these on her hands also.
It is a facinating place, that little
shop of hers, and, whether you wish
to make a purchase or not, it is well
worth tbe while to visit it on a summer
morning. To be sure, your entrance
is likely to be attended with some diffi
culty, as the gate of the flower-filled
yard is front is fastened by a unique
sort of latch, —an invention of the
latest-lamented, who 'certainly must
have been a genius, and one which she
piously retains in memory of him,
though some of her customers prefer to
climb the fence rather than attempt to
make an entrance by solving its mys
teries. Then a small dog, belonging
to another lamented, objects considera
bly to strangers. Once inside, through
the politeness of Idelia Roauna or tbe
aid of an experienced neighbor, you
draw a long breath of relief and pre
pare yourself to enjoy tho situation.
Through the open door 3 and windows,,
on the breath of a whole-souled breeze,
comes the pungent aroma of the sea,
which sparkles not far away. You
listen to its music and the sleepy rustle
of tbe wheat-field opposite while
awaiting the shop-mistress, who is in
variably detained by some household
duty and apologizes elaborately for the
untidiness of her personal appearance
when she finally enters tbe door in
solemn haste. Tbe sunshine dances
on the painted floor and peeps with
eyes as curious as your own into the
crowded «how-ca9e, from whose splen
did abundance Idelia Rosanna is be
decked as maiden was never bedecked
before. What does it not contain with
in its crystal clearness ? Gorgeous
flowers, the semblance of nothing which
grows in either field or garden ; amaz
ing articles, designed as ornaments for
the neck, heaped together in many
colored splendor; accordions, which
share the palm with melodeons in
Green Harbor ideas of melody ; cotton
laces in rich flowered patterns ; a daz
zling display of jewelry, ISeads, brace
lets, necklaces, with a great variety of
precious stones glittering from elabo
rate settings ; scissors, pocket-knife,
pink and white candy, spectacles, rat
tles, rainbow ribbons, crocheted edging,
cough-drops, collars, golden cement,
dolls, and fancy soaps, to suy nothing
of patent medicines and a small assort
ment of books, evidently chosen solely
for the elegance of their bindings The
well-to-do sea-captains are building
new houses at Greeu Harbor of late,
and no new parlor iB complete without
a few gorgeous books for tbe centre
table. Outside the show-case are also
many fascinating thiugs,—bonnets
dalutly covered with pink netting as
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2), 18S1
a protection from the flies: stamped
patterns for rugs, in rich and strange
variety; Britannia tea-pots, shining
like the sun over a shelf piled with new
prints, and in close proximity to these
an odd collection of boots and shoes.
The door which leads into the sit
ting-room is always open, and reveals
a cosey interior. The clean, yellow
painted floor is covered with tbe soft
est and brightest of home-made rugs.
The windows are pleasantly shadowed
with morning-glory Tines, and a great
many flowering plants perfume the at
mosphere. Mis' Babson takes the
same pride in her 'plarnts' which a
great many women do in their blankets
and table-linen, and exhibits them with
great complacency, especially her
'geranium blows.' A rest-inviting
chintz covered lounge is usually occu
pied by a splendid black cat, and a
great, plump-cushioned, sleepy-hollow
rocking-chair has always been sacred
to husbands. When not occupied by
one of these happy invalids, it is usual
ly tied up in black crape in memory of
one.
Here they sat one after another, as
you have been informed, through long
terms of comparatively comfortable
consumption. How could one ask for
a more peaceful ending to his days ?
Here they rocked tranquilly, read the
Falmouth County Herald, or dozed in
the dreamy light of tbe afternoon sun
shine. They could not have been
lonely, for there was the gossip of
July Ann's customers to distract the
mind and all the life of the household
sounding from the busy little kitchen
as well. If they coughed, there was
July Ann ready to rush in from the
shop with a bottle of tbe 'Magic Drop?.'
If they were afflicted with headache,
though she might have sometimes
been unable to spare time to apply the
'Electric Relief herself, she detailed
Idelia Rosanna to act in her stead.
And through the quiet evenings she
always sat by her husband's side,
busied either on a dress or a wedding
bonnet or a shroud, while the visitors
dropped in one after another with plen
ty of news and chat. There was al
ways a good stock of apple-pies in the
pantry, and all the hymn-singing the
most devout soul could possibly wish
for in the parlor of a Sunday night
To be sure, the graves of the departed
were in sight from tbe sunny windows
and rather mournfully suggestive ; but
still the scene must have been very
peaceful, with the grass rippl'ng and
tossing in the breeze, aud there were
no gravestones in the region more fine
and costly than those which July Ann
raised to the memory of her spouses.
It was now more than a year since
the last occupant of the chair had join
ed those sleepers, and that the fasci
nating widow did not marry again was
a circumstance which everybody won
dered at. It certainly could not be for
lack of opportunity, so tenderly did
she protect and cherish husbands, so
amply able was she to provide for them,
so popular was she with old and young
of both 3exes.
I noticed that Mr. Spurling, the rosy
and robust leader of the choir directed
decidedly tender glances toward the re
gion ol her crape veil over his hymn
book on Sundays, and that more than
one jolly captain made an errand to
the shop when the mackerel-schooners
were in during a "spell of weather."
'Why isn't she married ? she has so
many admirers? I ventured to inquire
myself, speaking my thoughts aloud
to Idelia Rosanna one day while wait
ing for this airy damsel to match a
pattern of crimson worsted.
'Lor', they're all too healthy. There
hain't no consumptive or rheumatic
men round just now, nor but one with
the skakin'palsy, that I know of, 'n'
he's merried. Aunt she don't care
much about healthy folks, male or fe
male. Diseases is fascinatin' to her,
though if she ever has as much as a
cold or a crick iu the neck herself she's
blue as a whetstone.'
This was two years ago. Last sum
mer the first news I heard after reach
ing the Harbor was that Mis' Babson
was about to be united in the holy
bonds of matrimony for tbe fourth
time 1 saw at once that the chamber
maid who came to attend to my room
had something on her mind. Usually
extremely parsimonious in the matter
of towels, she hung seven one after an
other in an absent-minded way on my
rack, and forgot to inform me that she
was a school-teacher in reality and had
only slipped from that loftier sphere of
usefulness for a short time to accom
modate Mis' White, the landlady.
'What is it, Mary Jane ?' I inquired at
length.
'You know Mis' Babson, the dress
maker?' I acknowledged my acquaint
ance with this lady, aud waited with
some curiosity to hear what she had
to say concerning her. 'Well, don't
you think, she's been and found an in
valid man and is goin' to get merried
next Sunday ! He's a-stoppin' at her
house now, with a cough tbet sounds
half as if he made it. He is rutber
poor 'n' peaked, though, but harnsome
as a peacock.'
'But where did she find the invalid?'
I asked. 'I thought the gentlemen of
Qreen Harbor were all hopelesly
healthy."
'So they be. Mr. Spurlin' he's done
everything to get hisself up a pale
look, he's eat slate-pencils 'n' pickles
by the ton, they say, 'n' kep' awake
nights,—thet's dretful wearin', you
know, —but it didn't do no good. He
b'longs to an awful shiftless race, 'n'
she's got a*good bit of property 'n' not
a chick nor a child in the world. Cap'n
Loud he actually made a cough till he
begun to hev one in reality, 'n' tbet
scart him so thet he left off courtin' her
'n' went off on a v'yage to the Banks
'n' hain't been seen in these parts
sence. This man come from IMumfield,
thirty or forty miles away. He beard
tell of ber over there, tliey say, 'n'
come over here a purpose to merry her,
though she's old enough to be his
mother. Idely she sticks to it thet he
hain't got no more lung trouble then
she hes; but there he sets in the rock
iu'-chair a-lookin' at his finger-nails, 'n'
she wait 3 upon him by inches, 'u'doses
him with enough of thet pizen 'relief
to kill a common man. She's a won
derful woman, Mis' Babson is, 'tendin'
to all the business she hes on her
hands 'n' sick husban's besides.'
The next morning I weut over to
the shop to make a congratulatory call.
There was no change around the house
The small dog awoke from his slum
bers and threatened niv ankles until I
trembled with fear. The gate, as us
ual, resisted all my efforts to open it,
and Idelia Rosanna, as usual, appear
ed to my relief
'I s'pose you've heard the news
about aunt's gittin' merried V said she.
'The hull county's a-talkin' about it,
'n' I declare I don't blame 'em. Walk
in 'n' take a seat.'
The little shop was as bright as ever
and everything just as it had been the
year before, but that tbe big chair,
which bad been decorated with black
crape in memory of the departed hus
; bauds, was now radiant with a new
| chintz covering and was occupied by a
decidedly rustic but rather handsome
young man with hectic cheeks I stole
a good look at him and he dropped his
eyes with a somewhat sheepish expres
sion. The window was open, and the
three white headstones of the three de
parted headstones of the three departed
husbands glittered brightly in the little
family burying-ground not far away. I
involuntarily glanced in that direction.
Mrs. Babson made her appearance
before very long, with her usual mourn
fully beaming countenance and the
usual apologies for her negligee appear
ance. 'You always do ketch me lookin'
jest so, Mis' Smith; but I hev so many
things to 'tend to that I hev to hurry
through my house-work the best way I
kin 'n' not stop to fix up much. I've
been makin' apple-pies this P'ornin", 'n'
it always breaks me down to make ap
ple-pies; for there was my fust bus
ban', there warn't no trouble in the
world to him if he could only hev plen
ty of apple-pies to eat. Many a time
in his last sickness I've got up in the
night to git him a piece of apple-pie.
Not even a hymn was so consolin' to
him. Cap'n Higgins he sot his life by
'em, too: only be must have 'em flavor
ed with cinnamog ; 'n' Mr Babson, —
Lor', I reckon he felt as bad about dy
in' 'n' leavin' apple-pies as he did about
leavin' his friends! How he did cling
to life when I was a-bakin' 1'
'And how is it with the future hus
band ?' I asked in a low tone.
'So you've heard so soon ! I declare,
how news does travel in these parts!
Well, the fust day he got here I found
he loved 'em dearly. Why, I couldn't
make up my mind to merry a man no
how that didn't love apple-pie 'n' hev
a cough. 'Twould seem'unnatural. It's
dretful sickly round here this summer,'
she added, with a pleased smile.
'Shouldn't wonder if all you city folks
bed fevers.'
They were married the next week
with a great deal of solemn festivity.
But I have heard since that the new
husband was recovering his health in
the most disenchanting manner, and
that his devoted wife was so low-spir
ited in consequence that she could not
even enjoy the typhoid fever, which
was making its annual autumn visit
to the town.
SUSAN HARTLEY SMITH.
THE B IjSINESS OF SHEEP
HUSBANDRY.
The principal industry carried on in
Washington county is that of grazing,
and the herds of fat cattle and flocks
of fiue sbeep cover nearly every hill
side throughout its borders. The
quality and quantity of the wool pro
duction distinguished the county long
ago, and that reputation is still amply
sustained. Merino rams were import
ed from Spain by Col. Humphrey as
early as 1810 or 'l2. One of the first
to engage in the business of fine wool
growing was General Thomas Patter
son, who in 1813 purchased from the
Economites while on their way to
Butler county to found the town of
Harmony, a merino ram for $100; and
in 1816 he bought a ram and seven
ewes. From this begiuning many of
the most successful Washington county
wool growers started their flocks,
among whom were Samuel Patterson,
Major McFarland, Joseph Brownlee,
Samuel Cunningham, Hugh Lee, Wil
liam and Samuel Cowan and Colonel
James Lee. From the beginning made
by Gen. Patterson the leading wool
growers have vied with each other in
improving their stock Formerly the
rivalry in sheep husbandry was in the
direction of fine texture, and Washing
ington county wool has been sold at
as high as a dollar a pound. James
G. Strain took the first premium at the
London Worlds Fair in 1851 for fine
wool, and was styled by Samuel Law
rence, a leading buyer from Lowell,
Mass., the Napoleon of wool-growers.
His flock still holds its place as the fin
est in the county. In those days the
average weight of the fleeces produced
throughout Washington county was
between two and three pounds. Since
1850, when Dickinson and Wells, of
Steuben ville, Ohio, supplied the farmers
with a number of fine Spanish rams,
the object sought has been heavy
fleeces, and the average weight of the
fleece has been doubled. Robert Van
voorhis has a lot of Spanish bucks
averageiug over thirty pounds to the
fleece and ewes producing twenty and
twenty-five pounds. The total wool
clip for Washington county this season
will probably reach 3,000,000 pounds.
Fine blooded rams are constantly being
brought to the county, one of which,
procuredfrom Vermont by a firm of
sheep breeders this season, cost SO,OOO.
Texas and other States and Territories
of the South and West where immense
tracts of land are devoted to grazing,
are largely furnished from the improv
ed stock of Washington county, and
the supply is unequal to the demand
from these sections The best flocks
of sheep in Washington county are
owned by J. G Strain, John G. Clark,
John McDowell and William Davis,
and these men always command a pre
mium on their wool. Cattle raising is
beginning to come into prominence,
and John McDowell, John McDonald,
John Hall, Julius Lemoyneand others
own as fine blooded auimals as are to
be found in this section, some of their
bulls being valued at a thousaud dol
lars.—Pittsburgh. Telegraph.
To the hesitating Peruua give 9 cour
age.
WEDDINGS IN THE EARLY
DA YS.
The following is a detailed descrip
tion of the marriage ceremony as per
formed in the latter part of the last cen
tury in Washington county and the re
gion round about, written by the Rev.
Mr. Doddridge, which serves well to
illustrate the manners of our ancestors:
"For a long time after the first settle
ment of this country the inhabitants in
general married young. There was no
distinction of rank, and very little of
fortuue. Of these accounts the first
impression of love resulted in marriage,
and a family establishment cost but lit
tle labor aud nothing else. A descrip
tion of a wedding, from the beginning
to tbe end, will serve to show the man
ners of our forefathers, and mark the
grade of civilization which has succeed
ed to their rude state of society in the
course of a few years. At an early
period, the practice of celebrating the
marriage at the house of the bride be
gan, and it would seem, with great pro
priety. She also bad the choice of the
priest to perform the ceremony. A wed
ding engaged the attention of a whole
neighborhood ; and the frolic was antic
ipated by old and young with eager
expectation. This is not to be won
dered at, when it is told that a wed
ding was almost the only gathering
which was not accompanied by the
labor of reaping, log-rolling, building a
cabin, or planning sonm scout or cam
paign In the morning of the wedding
day the groom and his attendants as
sembled at the house of bis father for
the purpose of reaching the mansion of
his bride by noon, which was the usual
time for celebrating the nuptials, which
for certain must take place before din
ner. Let the reader imagine an assem
blage of people, without a store tailor
or mantua-maker, within a hundred
miles; and an assemblage of horses,
without a blacksmith or saddler within
an equal distance. The gentlemen
dressed in shoe packs, moccasins, leath
er breeches, leggins, linsey hunting
shirts, and all home-made. The ladies
dressed in linsey petticoats and linsey
or linen bed-gowns, coarse shoes, stock
ings, handkerchiefs and buckskin
gloves, if any. If there were buckles,
rings, buttons or ruffles, they were the
relics of old times, family pieces from
parents or grand parents. The horses
were caparisoned with old saddles, old
bridles or halters or pack-saddles, with
a bag or blanket thrown over them ; a
rope or string as often constituted the
girth as a piece of leather. The march
in double file was often interrupted by
the narrowness and obstructions of our
horse-paths, as they were called, for
we had no roads; and these difficulties
were often increased, sometimes by the
good and sometimes by the ill-will of
neighbors, by falling trees, and tying
grape vines across tbe way. Some
times an ambuscade was formed by the
wayside, aud an unexpected discharge
of several guns took place, so as to
cover the wedding party with smoke.
Let the reader imagine the scene which
followed this discharge; the suddeu
spring of the horses, the shriek of the
girls, and the chivalric bustle of their
partners to save them from falling.
Sometimes in spite of all that could be
done to prevent it some were thrown
to the ground. If a wrist, elbow or
ankle happened to be sprained it was
tied with a handkerchief, aud little
more was thought of it or said about it.
Another ceremony commonly took
place before the party reached the
house of tbe bride, after the practice of
making whisky began, which was at
an early period. When the party were
about a mile from the place of their
destination, two young men would sin
gle out to run for the bottle ; the worse
the path, the more logs, brush aoddeep
hollows, the better, as these obstacles
afforded an opportunity for tbe greater
display of intrepidity and horseman
ship. Tbe English fox chase, in point
of danger to the riders and their horses,
is nothing to this race for the bottle.
The sturt was announced by an Indian
yell; logs, brush, muddy nollows, hill
and glen were speedily passed by tbe
rival ponies. The bottle was always
filled for the occasion, so that there was
no use for judges ; for the first who
reached the door was presented with
the prize with which he returned in
triumph to the company. On approach
ing them he announced his victory over
his rival by a shrill whoop. At the
head of the troops he gave the bottle
first to the groom and his attendants,
and then to each pair in succession to
the rear of the line, giving each a dram
and then putting the bottle to the bo
som of his hunting shirt, took his sta
tion in the company. The ceremony
of the marriage preceded the dinner,
which was a substantial backwoods
feast of beef, pork, fowls and sometimes
venison and bear meat, roasted and
boiled with plenty of potatoes, cabbage
and other vegetables. During the din
ner the greatest hilarity always pre
vailed, although the table might be a
large slab of timber, hewed out with a
broad-axe, supported by four sticks set
in augur boles, and the furniture some
old pewter dishes and plates; the rest
wooden bowls and trenchers, a few
pewter spoons much battered about the
edges, were to be seen at some tables.
The rest were made of horns. If knives
were scarce, the deficiency was made
up by the scalping knives which were
carried in sheaths suspended to the
belt of tbe hunting shirt. After dinner
the dancing commenced and generally
lasted till the next morning. The
figures of the dances were three and
four handed reels or square sets and
jigs The commencement was always
a square four which was followed by
what was called jigging it off; that is
two of the four would single out for a
jig, aud were followed by the remain
ing couple. The jigs were often accom
panied with what was called cutting
out; that is, when either of the parties
became tired of the dance, on intima
tion the place a'os supplied by some
one of the company without any inter
ruption of the dance. In this way a
dance was often continued till tne mu
siciau was heartily tired of his situa
tion. Towards the latter part of the
night if any of tbe company, through
weariness, attempted to conceal them
selves, for the purpose of sleeping, they
were hunted up, paraded on the floor,
and the fiddler ordered to play "Hang
out till to-morrow morning." About
nine or ten o'clock a deputation of
young ladies stole off the bride and put
her to bed. In doing this it frequently
happened that they had to ascend a
j ladder instead of a pair of stairs, lead
from the dressing and ball room to the
loft, the floor of which was made of
; clap-boards lying loose and without
\ nails. As the foot of the ladder was
I commonly behind the door, which was
purposely opened for the occasion, and
its rounds at the inner ends were well
; hung with hunting shirts, the exit of
I the bride was noticed by but few. This
, done, a delegation of young men in
| like manner stole off the groom, and
, placed him snugly by the side of his
. bride. The dance still continued ; and
if seats happened to be scarce, which
| was often the caee, every young man,
when not engaged in the dance, was
obliged to offer his lap as a seat for one
of the girls; and the offer was sure to
be accepted. In the midst of this hi
larity the bride and groom were not
forgotten. Pretty late in the night,
some one would remind the company
that the new couple must stand in need
of some refreshment; Black Betty,
which was the name of the bottle, was
called for, and sent up the ladder; but
sometimes Black Betty did not go
alone. I have many times seen as
much bread, beef, pork aud cabbage
sent along with her as would afford a
good meal for half a dozen hungry
men. The young couple were com
pelled to eat and drink, more or less,
of whatever was offered them. It often
happened that some neighbors or rela
tives, not being asked to the wedding,
took offence ; and the. mode of revenge
adopted by them, on such occasions,
was the cutting off the manes, foretops
and tails of the horses of the wedding
party. On returning to the infare, the
order of procession and the race for
Black Betty was the same as before.
The feasting and dancing often lasted
for several days, at the end of which
the whole company were so exhausted
with loss of sleep that several days'
rest were requisite to fit them to re
turn to their ordinary labors.
STORY OF THE WHISKY IN
SURRECTION.
The most notable event in the early
history of Washington county was the
Whisky Insurrection continuing from
1791 to 1794 inclusive, winch was
simply a moonshiner'srebellion against
the authority of the Government to im
pose and collect a revenue tax upon
whisky, similar to the one now exact
ed. The excise tax was first a Mate
enactment, but afterwards, at the sug
gestion of General Alexander Hamil
ton, then Secretary of the Treasury,
March 3d, 1791, Congress passed a
law placing a duty of four pence upon
every gallon of distilled spirits. There
were at that time 272 stills in opera
tion in Washington county. The peo
ple of Western Pennsylvania claimed
that the only way they could pack the rye
and other cereal products of their farms
across the mountains on horseback and
exchauge them for salt, iron and other
necessities was by first manufacturing
the grain into whisky and contended
that the Government tax was unjust
and burdensome. A hot headed lawyer
named David Bradford residing at the
town of Washington headed the insur
rection and a certain person known as
"Tom the Tinker," who is supposed to
have been John Holcraft, issued the
orders to and directed the movements of
the insurgents, while the Pittsburgh
Gazette was their official organ. The
purpose of these rebels, like that of the
Southern traitors in our own time, was
to withdraw from the Union and set
a sovereignty of their own, or even to
place themselves under British author
ity. A more nefarious plot of rebellion
never was conceived in the mind of
man, and it finally required all the
force and power of the Government to
defeat its purpose. The insurgents
outraged every provision of law and
principle of decency in their attempts
to thwart the collectors in purfuance of
their duty. They erected liberty poles
surmounted by flags bearing the de
vice, "Liberty ; No Excise; Dea h to
Traitorsassembled in arms, tarred
and feathered the officers of the law,
shot down the agents of the govern
ment like dogs, and committed indig
nities and outrages that would ntterly
disgrace any semi-civilized condition
of society. It is not within the prov
ince of this sketch to detail the wicked
schemes of these conspirators, but
among their designs was the destruc
tion of Pittsburgh. Washington, who
was then President, of the United
States issued several proclamations
calling the insurrectionists to their
duty and finally sent the army, com
prising 15,000 men under command of
General Daniel Morgan, across the
Alleghenies to quell the spirit of seces
sion and rebellion. At a public meet
ing held at Parkinson's Ferry, now
Monongahela City, on the 14th of
August, 1794, in which 11. H. Brack
enridge, the historian of the troubles,
the celebrated Albert Gallatin and Da
vid Bradford were the principal actors,
it was finally agreed to return to the
allegiance of the Federal Government.
David Bradford, who was mainly in
strumental in stirring up strife, fled to
Bayou Sara, in what is now the State
of Louisiana, and which was then part
of the Spanish possessions in North
America, and Albert Gallatin and
Brackenridgc both satisfied the Gov
ernment that they were acting in its
interest throughout the heated strug
gle that decided the issue between
loyalty and rebellion.
[Springfield, (Mass.) Republican.]
Edgar T. Page, Esq., Druggist,
writes us from Chicopee Falls ; that
Mr. Albert Guenther, under Wilds
Hotel has used that remarkable reme
dy, St. Jacobs Oil, for a severe case of
rheumatism and it cured him, as if by
magic. He also used it with great
success among his horses, in cases of
sprains, sores etc. and cures every
time.
It is now generally believed that
apples keep better in moist or damp
cellars than in dry ones.
It is true other remedies can be
praised, but Peruna has the unequalled
proof.
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made. Local advertisements 10 cents per line
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additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pub
lished free of charge. Obituary notices charged
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Auditors' Notices, #4 ; Executors' and Adminis
trators' Notices, (3 each; Eetray, Cantion and
Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines,
each.
From the fact that the Crnux Is the oldes*
established and most extensively circulated lie
publican newspaper in Butler countr, (a Repub
lican county; it must be apparent" to businesb
men that it is the medium they should nee it>
advertising their business.
NO. 43
GROTON HEIGHTS.
The patriotic people of New-London
and the neighboring Connecticut coun
try celebrated Tuesday the 6th, inst..
the centennial of the burning of New-
Loudou and the battle of Orotou
Heights. The battle, or massacre,
gains additional interest at this time
by reason of its relation to the great
event at Yorktown which is to be fit
ingly commemorated next month. If
it had any place as part of a military
plan, which is doubtful, it was an at
tempt on the part of Clinton to check
Washington in his strategic march to
the Delaware by raising his fears for
the safety of the territory he had left.
Otherwise it was a mere wanton at
tack, without definite aim or Durposc ;
and the last, it was also one oi the
least justifiable, of the British offen
sive operations. It was the more
fitting, therefore, that it was led by
the traitor Arnold, whose zeal in the
cause of his new master was not less
than in that of the old, and who very
probably inspired the futile movement.
When the New-Londoners were hur
ridly awakened on the morning of the
6th of September, 1781, it was to find
a hostile fleet at anchor in the harbor.
The town was wholly without ade
quate means of defence. The garrison
at Fort Trumbull consisted of but a
score or so of men, and that in Fort
Grisworld, on the heights across the
river, did not count above seven times
as many. So Arnold had it pretty
much all his own way on the New-
London side, when he marched his
900 men against the few citizens Trho
were left to defend their homes, and
the village was soon in flames. On
the other side it was not so easy,
though it was pretty sure what would
be the result when Colonel Eyre and
his 800 regulars scaled the hights and
stormed the fort in which were Colonel
Ledyard and his little squad of per
hapse 150 militiamen. There was a
desperate but vain resistance, in which
two British officers bit the dust, and
then came surrender. But, as history
has it, when Commander Ledyard
handed over his sword to the officer of
the advancing detachment of the ene
my, that miserable soldier ran him
through the body with it, and in like
violation of all rules of war fire was
opened on the surrendered garrison,
so that some 60 or more of them were
massacred. The total loss of the
Americans was 85 killed and 60 wound
ed. Then, "as if satisfied with the
shameful record they had made to fill
a page in history, the enemy went
back to their ships and sailed away,
making no effort to ravage the country
inland or establish themselves in the
harbor.
Last week's celebration was made
interesting and realistic by a sham
battle intended to be a copy, as far as
possible, of the real event of a hundred
years before. There was a marked
difference, however, in the presence
of then thousand spectators. Had
nothing like the same number of men
been on hand in 1781, the battle
had not terminated as it did
The military manoevering is.
reported to have been excellent
winning the approbation of General
Sherman, who was among the guests.
There was a fleet in the harbor, sure
enough, and the fort was stormed and
taken with loud resounding volleys,
but no loss of life. The troons in part
were appropriately dressed in Revo
lutionary uniform. If New London
was not burned, the sun made it hot
enough without that. Then in the af
ternoon there were public exercises, in
cluding an oration by Senator Hawley,
a poem, prayer by Rev. Dr. Leonard
Bacon for the President's recovery, and
brief remarks by General Sherman.
Wednesday the celebration was con
tinued in honor to the memory of Na
than Hale, the martyr spy, who taught
school in New London oefore joining
the army and bravely doing the duty
that led to his early and lamented
death. Edward Everett Hale, his
grand-nephew, eulogized him eloquent
ly, pointing the moral of his life with
his last words, spoken on the scaffold,
'I only regret that I have but one life
to give to my country.' The spirit of
one such life counts for many, and its
influence perishes not with the century.
It is good to recall such lives and
events, and too much attention cannot
be given to them and their meaning
by young America of to-day. The
circle of military centennial remember
ances will be completed with the cele
bration at Yorktown, the preparations
for which are on a scale befitting the
occasion. ______
A Millionaire.
'All the health j enjoy, and even
my life, I may say, is in consequence
of Simmons Liver Regulator. I would
not take $1,000,000 for my interest in
that medicine. W. H. WILSON,
Lecturer Fla. State Grange.'
Millions of us are bilious. We aro
a bilious race. Half of us are born
bilious, with a predisposition to dys
pepsia. The best known remedy for
billiousness and indigestion is Stru
mous Liver Regulator. It has stood
the test of time.
The first wife of Marvin, alias Mor
ton, etc., the polygaraist and forger,
thinks he must have been crazy.
Probably he was; no wholly sane man
would marry fourteen women. It has
been proposed to try him by a jury of
women, as a means of giving justice,
but the Providence Prexs suggests
that he would probably many the
whole jury and be unanimously acquit
ted.
We have, says the Cincinnati Ga~
zette, a raspberry bed which the past
season demonstrated the advantages ot
mulching. In the fall dead leaves
were raked up and strewn amoDg the
canes, and during last winter tho coal
ashes released from grates and cooking
stoves were thrown systematically oa
and along their roots, and early in the
spring a thorough cleansing of the bed
and vines was instituted. The ground
was well stirred, and then the deposit
ing of ashes recommenced. Whether
the last operation was beneficial or not,
except in checking the growth of the
weeds, the whole routine certainly
worked well in the production of a
i fine crop of berries.