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TROUTMAN, DEALER IIV SILKS. SATINS, OASHM ERES, ALPACAS, BROCADES, PLAIDS, DELAINS, CALICOES, CHINTZES, GINGHAMS, MUSLINS, TICKINGS, FLAN NELS, BLANKETS, CASSIMERES, CLOTHS, SHAWLS, SKIRTS, SHIRTINGS, TABLE LINENS , WHITE GOODS, QUILTS, LACE CURTAINS, CAR PET CHAIN, YARNS. ZEPH\R, CORSETS, GLOVES, BUTTONS, FRINGES, LACES, RUCHING, COLLARS, CUFFS, TIES, &c,, &c., My Stock is large and prices low. I also keep an assortment of Queensware, Glassware and Choice Family Grroceries. TROUTMAN, Aug. 24. BUTLER, PA. CHRIS. STOCK, Manufacturer of Tin and Shoot Iron Ware and dealer in Stoves, Ranges, Pressed, Japanned and Enameled Ware, Granite Ware, Wooden Ware, Bird Cages, and general housekeeping goods. Rooting, Spouting and Repairing done on short notice and at lowest market rules. The only authorized agent for the sale of A. Bradley & Co.'s 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 metal, none gen uine but from the Agent, CHRIS. STOCK, june 8, 'Bl. Near Wick and Schreiber Houses, Main street, Butler, Pa. PITTSBURGH EMSITIII Owing to the death of the President, time of closing extend ed until Oct. 15th. GRAND- ■ SUCCESS. OZPEISr TDA.IT -AINIO ZETVE .tTHSTQ-. Fair Remain until the close of Exposition. GRAND DISPLAY OP MILLING MACHINERY IN Operation. Magnificent Display of Cut Flowers daily. Trials of Speed. Daily, until oloee of exhibition. Classes all tilled ; 292 Entries in Speed Classes; Music by the Great Western (18th Reg) Band, Morning, Afternoon and Evening. Building and Grounds Illumi nated by 64 Electric Lights. E. P. YOUNG, Gon. Manager, JNO. D. BAILEY, Asst. Manager & Cashr. J. W. BATCHLOR, Prest. J. C. PATTERSON, Secy. M. C. ROCKENSTEIN, DEALER IIV TREMONT COOK STOVES AND BA^CrKS, A{jSQ. AQENT FOR CRYST,\£ PALACiJ STOVES AND REPAIRS FOR SAME. Bird twites, 'f inware, Wood and Willow Ware, Enameled and Granite Ware, Sewer Pipe, Fire Clay Stove Pipe, Grate Tile, Fire Brick and t'lav. Roofing, Spouting and Heavy Sheet-iron work done at short notice below market prices for cash. I aiu also having manufactured to my order, nice clean and smooth odd Plates to fit Bradley's Stoves, which I sell at six cents per pound, and I will guarantee fhein lo last longer and gi've better satisfaction than the so-called original aud genuine plates sold by another party at ten cents per pound. Give me a call and be convinced. M. O. ROCKENSTEIW, junels Gryi Main Street, Butler, Pa. NOTICE TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS. [ School Directors of tbe county who intend re- ' furnishing their school rooms are respectfully requested to visit my establishment on Main Dtrcet, Butler, Pa., next door to Biehi's Tiu ware Store and ejiinifle thg pew FAULTLESS SCHOOL DESK, manufactured by the Chicago School Furniture Company. Call upon or address GEO. KETTERER, FURNITURE DEALER. nuglTSui BUTLER, FA. Union Woolen Mill, BUTLER, PA. H. FOLLERTO\, Prop'r. Manufacturer o( BI.ASKETS, FLANNELS, YAKNS, Ac. Also custom work done to order, such as cardiug Rolls, making Biapkeu, JTluunels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, &c., at very low prices. Wool worked on the shares, it de sired. mv7-ly A n I?XT f rc IWE WANT YOU ill every J\ \jr I Q I County, to sell our NK-.V All TOMATIC CAKPKT SWKKPKIC. You can make Irom s3.uo to S!>. OU iter day the year round, (iood profits aud rapid sales. Capital not necessary if you can furnish good references. Address at once PAGE CAKI-ET SWJCKPEH CO. Toledo, O. EMPLOYMENT FOR A 1.1. To Sell a Household Article. 'I'HE poor as veil ;\s |l,e vicii. ti.e old as well as I 'tile young, the'<vite, ivs w.'ll as the husband, the young man 1 en as well as the voung man. the girl as well ;is the boy, may just as well earn a few dollars in honest employment, as to sitaround the house and wait for othdrs to earn it for them. We can give you emplo>ment, all the time, or during your spare hours only ; traveling, or in your own neighborhood, among iour friends and acquaint ances. If you do not care for employment, we can impart valuable information to you free of cost. It will cost you only one cent "for a Postal card to write for our Prospectus, and it mav bp the means of making voti a rood pia„v itulliir*. Do not t.iu oppAtdhity You do not halve to Irtvest a large sum of money, aud run a great risk of losing it. You will readily see that it will be an easy matter to make from $lO to slou a week, and establish a lucrative, and independ ent business, honorable, straightforward and pro fitable. Attend to this matter NOW, for there is MONEY IN IT for all who engage with us. We will surprise you and you will wonder why you never wrote to us before. WE SEND FULL PAR TICULARS FREE. Address BUCKEYE M TU »'0„ (Name THIS ijaper.j [2Ueptim] MAIIION. OHIO. PENSIONS. Procured for all soldiers disabled in the U, S. ser i vice from an> cause, also for heirs of deceased sol i diers. Tile slightest disability entitles to peusion. ! PENSIONS INCUEASED, Bounty and new dis -1 charges procured. Those in doubt as to whether 1' entitled to anything, should send two 3 cent stamps for our "circular of information." Address, with stamps, STODDART & Co., Solicitors of Claims and Patents, Washington, I>. C. Lock box, 623. BFTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1881 m FOR Neuralgia. Sciatica, Lumbago, Backacha, Sorensss of ths Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sora "throat, Ssellings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equals ST. JACOB- OIL as a safe, simple and chcnp External Remedy. A trial entails but the comparatively triiiinjr outlay of 50 Con is, and every one Buffering with pain can have cheap and positive proof of its claims. Directions In Eleven Languages SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDICINE. A.VOGEJLER & CO., Saitirnore, Jkfd., U. JS. AM MRS. LYDIA L PINKHAM, OF LYNN, MASS.T V LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND, la n Positive Cnra for I (inns I'atnl'iil Complaint, and Wnlmmi •oronunou touurbevt female population. It will cure entirely tlie worst form of Ftnialn 0"m --plaints. all oTarlan troubles,lnflammation ami Ulcer* tlon, Falling »n<l ]>l*i>larementß, and the conbeijuent Spinal Weakness, and is particularly adapted to the Change of I-ife. It w ill dissolve and expel tnmors from the uterus In an early stage of development. The tendency to can cerous humors there is checked very Biieediiy by it* use. It removes faintness, fiatulency, destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach. It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indi gestion. That feeling of bcr.rinff down, causing pain, weight and backache, Is always i>ern;ancnt!y cured by its uso. It will at all times and under all circumstances act .u harmony with the laws that govern thu female syst. m. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either sex this Compound is unsurpassed. I.YMA E. rIXKHAM'S VEGETABLE COSI- I'OCN'Dis prepared at 233 anil 225 Western Avenue, I.ynn, Mass, Price 91. Six bottles for §5. Bent by nail in the form of pills, also in the form of lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mrs. Tinkham freely answers all letters cSisiquiry. Send for pamph let. Address as above. Mention this Paper. No family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness, and torpidity of the liver. 23 cents per box. TGF- Sold by all llrungisli. DIRECTIONS. » nt 1 For Calarrh, hay fever 05F LrhFAM RrtU<" \3 «<>l>l ill Ihe Head. &<•., SG/V*W/R/IVLY insert with little finger aUTARRH,COLDi,'& T /ni a icirtii lc of the HI (LAVF-, C'vnnaai He,ML I 3 lll »' nostrils ; .Ifow st touch) caUis through j£7 tfie nose. It will be y IEALS absorbed, cleansing, rNASALami healing the dis eased membrane, ■rSteSSjil tYie'ear* partiCle '" to ELY'S CREAM' BALM HAVIN'O gained an enviable reputation, displac ing all other preparations in the vicinity of discov ery, is, on its merits alone, recognized as a won derful remedy wherever known. A fair trial will convince the most skeptical of its curative (low ers. it effectually cleanses tlie nasal passages of Catarrhal virus, causing healthy secretions, al lays inflammation and irritation, protects the membranal linings of the head from additional colds, completely heals the sores and restores the sense of taste and smell. Beneficial results are realized bv a few applications. A thorough treat ment as directed will cure Catarrh. As a house hold remedy for coid ill the head is unequaled. The Balm Is easy to use and agreeable. Sold by druggists at 50 cents. On receipt of r.o cents will mail a package. Send for circular with full infor mation. ELY'S CRKAM BAI.M CO.. Owego, X. Y. For sale in Butler by 1). H. Wuller, J. C. ltedick, Zimmerman & W idler. Coulter & I.inn. Inifi SV.MI'TOMS OK LIV KK COMI-I.AIN'I - I\E uii(»*si|i< NR and pain In the side—sometimes the ii.ain is In the shoulder, (and is mistaken for rlieu (m itlsni ; the stomach is iMirected with loss of sippe lle and sickness ; lmu>\, in general, costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain and dun, heavy sensation, con siderable loss <1 memory, accompanied with pain ful sensation of liaviim j e n undone something wlt nil oii'-'h: i" li:r.'' 1 •■•■■n done ; often complain ing of weakness, debility land low sj;;riu. Some iis»its roHny ol the above T TS/t?T? Isyr.iptoms"attend the dis -L'-t V XJXV lease and at other times lyery few of them, but the River is generally the organ Involved. CURE THE LIVER with Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator, a preparation of roots and lierlis, warranted to be strictly vegetable, and can <!u in- of injury to auyonr. (>'!;,»tieeo used by lumdredsand known lor the' last foriy years as one of the most reliable, liefilcaeious and harmless prep;!rations ever offered to tlie suffering. If taken regolarly and persistently. KJSUULAIUK .-OOTIVKN K'ST .JAUNDICE, HEADACHE, SICK HEADACHE, Etc TIME >ND IHyvi'.-* itti.i.S WII.I. HE SAVED BV A'LWAYS KF.KI'INC, THE REGULATOR IN TIIE HOL'SE, for whatever the ailment may be. a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and "tonic can never tie out of place. Persons living in unhealthy locali ties may avoid all bilious attacks by taking a dose occasiohali> to keep tbe liver in healthy actios. IF Yor LEAD A SI:I«E.NTAI!\ LIKE, or are weak ened by the strain of your duties, avoid stimulants and take THE REGULATOR ! JE YOU HAVE RATION ANYTHING HARD OF DI GESTION, or feel heavy after meals or sleepless at night, take a dose of Regulator and you will feel relieved aril sleep pleasantly. It can be taken in the place of (juitiiue or bitt'ers of any kind; the dose is small and its virtues undoubted. Prepared only by J. 11. Zeilin & Co. [22Junely PATENTS. T. F. LEHMANN, Solicitor of Patents, cor ner Sixth avenue and Smithfield St.. Pittsburgh Pa. Branch office at Washington, D. C. No pateut, no pay. Seud for Circulars. [f-jelm MEETING OF BUTLER BAR. Proceedings had on the Death of President Garfield. The members of the legal profession of this place assembled in the Court House on Monday afternoon, Sept. 2<>, 1881, for the purpose of making an ex pression of their feelings on the death of our late lamented President, James A. Garfield, and placing them upon record It might be stated that a num ber of the members of our Bar were personally acquainted with President Garfield, and some of them had trans acted business of a legal nature with him. The meeting was called to order by Charles A. Sullivan, Esq, on whose motion the Hon. E. McJunkin was re quested to preside, and on motion of Lewis Z. Mitchell, Esq., the editors of the Butler press present were requested to act as secretaries. On motion of Gen. ,I.;X. Purviance, Gen. E. R. Eckley and L. Z. Mitchell, Esq., acted as Vice Presidents! On motion of Gen. Pur viance a committee of seven were ap pointed by the chair to draft resolu tions expressive of the sense of the meeting. The following oommittee was appointed: Gen. J. N. Purviance, C. A. Sullivan, Esq., Charles McCand less, Esq., Win. A. Forquer, Esq., E. G. Miller, Esq., G W. Flceger, Esq., and S. P. Irvin, Esq , who retired and after a short absence returned and re ported, through their chairman, Uen. Purviance, the following resolutions: Resolved, Ist. That a wide-spread an.l public sorrow, on the'announcement of the death of President Garfield, at test the profound sense of the loss which the whole country has sustain ed. His life was great and signally eventful, his patriotism and the exam ple of the marked characteristics of his life leave to his countrymen the richest of leyaqitsj. 2nd. The Nation mourns for the un timely death of one of its noblest sons. The death of this great and good man, \yho3e life was one of purity, and whose example is the model of the highest type of all that ennobles the character of the American citizen. As a soldier, he was true and brave; as a statesman, for fidelity to the Constitu tion, and wisdom in originating nation al legislation, and in support of the most beneficial Acts of Congress, and by an eloquence and force of argument never surpassed in the halls of Con gress, he was eminently distinguished. 3. Never has the people of this Na tion been more universally moved with profound sympathy and genuine sor row than on the present occasion. James A. Garfield was the beloved of all our people, and no one more worthy of love. His death has caused mourn ing and lamentation all over the civil ized world. 4 The assassination of President Garfield is a stain on our national his tory that can never be effaced ; that our Nation had one man so steeped in sin and crime as to take the life of the man who was first in war, first in peace, aud to-day first in the hearts of his countrymen. 5. We tender to the bereaved widow, the aged mother, and the children of the late President Garfield our most sincere sympathy and condolence in the sorrowful affliction which has be fallen them. 6. That these resolutions be publish ed in the county papers and recorded upon the minutes of the Court, and a copy be forwarded to the family of the late President. After the reading of the resolutions on motion of Walter L. Graham, Esq., they were unanimously adopted. Gen. Purviance then addressed the meeting in feeling and appropriate terms, in which he reviewed the character, pri vate and public of the lamented Presi dent, recounting his services to his country both in war and in peace. He referred to the services of Gen. Gar field in the counsels of the Nation, his studious habits while in Congress, his abstaining while there from all the oc casions and gatherings of pleasure so common at the Capitol of the Nation, his great iudustrv and the part he bore in shaping the laws of the coun try during a most eventful period in our history. Mr. Purviance was fol lowed by C. A. Sullivan, Esq., in the following eloquent tribute to the memory and character of our murdered Presi dent : REMARKS OF CHAS. A. SULLIVAN, ESQ. Mr. President and members oj the Bar: We have convened, at this Bar of human justice, to pay a tribute of re spect to the memory of the heroic suf ferer, who woke from a sleep, pressed his hand on his breast, and then passed away. His pulse bounds no more in pain and anguish or with the passions of heroic bravery. His lips are voice less. His ears caunot hear your words o f praise or a Nation's sobs of grief. Unheeded by him are nature's myriad voices of winds and waters, that sing to-day, in solemn tones, his requiem. Death possesses him alone. The grace ful verdure creeps apace over the brown earth. The seared foliage gayly flut ters on the branches, while to-night, overhead, the changeless stars will look down, silently, upon the grave of another American matyr-President. O ! sbaine ! shame ! to the American character. In the niidst oi our peace. Iu the uiidst of our joy—lu the uiidst of our national honor —In the midst of our commercial prosperity—ln the midst of plenty and happiness unprece dented ; aye, when the olive branch was tendered, on the 4th of last March, and accepted by Gen. Hancock, after the culmination of a tremendous polit ical struggle for ascendancy to the chief executive chair When the burn ing tjucstious of party enthusiasm had subsided and swooned into a pleasant peace and a softer happiness. When the torch of the weary campaign had been stacked, and the cap and the cape undonned. When the starry banner, the symbol of our Union and our strength, was furled to its Hag-staff. When the orator bad ceased harangu ing political assemblies in frenzied elo quence. When the miduight editor had laid aside the trenchant pen and 1 the burning stylus. When the wounds wore healed. WLea the scars of war were almost effaced. When the har vests on the 2d of July last were wav ing over the old fields of many a bloody battle. When trade with her many white-winged messengers had assumed its channels on the bosom of the glassy deeps. In the midst of all these munifi cent things, Mr. President, the twen tieth President of the United States, James Abram Garfield, was stricken down by the hand of a cruel assassin, by an ineffable coward, by a poor, grov elling, servile wretch. O.'temporal 0 ! mores. The realities in this scene are the dead and not the living. What are we among thcni? What is human life? What is it, when a man like Garfield, not of a necessity, but of his own free will, gave it for a conviction ? W T hat is life gone forth from its casket? Life, that perfect blossom of the creation, whose presence the sweet-scented flow ers that deck his bosom, that encircle his shroud and bier to-day, are iust as impotent to typify, as the glow-worm the banished' glories of the meridian fcun. A strange faith conies with death that true life cannot die. Tennyson, in his "Remembrance of Lile," with equal force and beauty says : "Oh ! sweet and strange it seems to me, That 'ere the day is done, The voice that now is speaking, May be beyond the sun, Forever and forever, with those just souls and true; And what is life that \y?. should mourn ? Why make we su&h ado ?" Consider the creative power of death, the genius, the heroism, the pathos, the goodness it produces. Here among the mortal relics of those who proffered life, to secure to the living good gov ernment, freedom, liberty and social order, we look down upon the grand procession moving since time began, and sweeping to its assured destination like systems through the night of space, while gradually the conviction steals upon us that these are man's real surroundings and the noise, the bustle, the activity, the empty, price less honors of the world, are but phan toms aud delusions. Yet it is the dead who are the living, and only in the aggregate of humanity through all time is discovered the pur pose of the individual creation. Earth swallows up the poor remains. The very forces of nature waste and con sume them to produce these forms of beauty which are the types and illus trations of her deep mystery. But just here, on the threshold, are these forces arrested, and uature grasps no more than she gave. She cannot take the examples, in which our mart3*rs, Lin coln and Gar6eld are now immortal. She cannot take from its accorded place among the great actions of all time, the memorable struggles of these martyrs with that evil which we hope profoundly, has perished smiting them. The blue dome and the wide horizon are limitations which yield to the au dacity of thought. The veil falls be fore the enchanter's wand. It is not the Elysian fields of a twilight and a restricted existence we enter. We do not meet wandering and complaining shadows from whom death has shorn the better part of life, but happy, tran quil, yet silent, the name and the fame of James Abram Garfield will line the vista. In the language of England's greatest poet: "Like mountain ranges on whose top, Heaven's tent reposes, And whose massive sides Are the bulwarks of nations." The cause in which our late martyr- President died is his enduring memo rial. It is a "monumcntumaereperen nius." The student of history to-day tells us how few existing monuments on the earth's surface have preserved the names of their builders. No man to-day knows who caused the famous tombs of Thebes to be hewn from the solid rock. And there stand many mausolems reared 20 centuries since our graves now nameless and whose occupants they could not commemo rate. Mr. President, either wealth or despotism, may command labor, may build memorial structures which defy time. But, neither wealth, labor or despotism can command or purchase immortality. When the noble and heroic young Spartan Leonidas said : "a King must die that Sparta may be saved." The youth transfigured hu manity by the remnant of life which he surrendered, and gave him eternal fame. The world for ages has looked upon, and even will admire that strange picture in the pass of Ther mopyltt? depicting the careless Greeks combing their long hair, the javelin flights obscuring the sun, the sudden assault and the inevitable death ; thus art comes with her pen aud her pencil seizing the salient moments in human history and makes them im mortal. While in this solemn hour we pay his memory tribute, we must not over look his rare elements and brilliant abilities. To him his home was a sanctuary whence his thoughts never strayed. The mother who had borne and reared him, the wife of his bosom, the children of his loins, were the ap ple of his eye. Honors never estrang ed him from the charmed circle, the only enduring basis of civil liberty. His name is to-day linked to the sad ness of the immortal Lincoln. He was a tried, loyal American Statesman. He was the noblest exponent of true Americanism. His pathway was from the log cabin, in the midst of an Ohio clearing, to the White House, the chair of our long loved Washington. He unbarred the gates of the morning dawn of resumption, to let in the sun light of prosperity, dispelling the gloom of adversity, and with genial rays leading our Nation to the flood-tide of meridian glory. A principle was never sacrificed by him, Mr. President, he was always firm as the rock of truth and with personal motives—pure and serene as the placid waters of a silvery lake. He also possessed a far-seeing devotion to the Union and the cause of our National welfare. He has giv en opinions, sentiments and character that are known to-day in the remotest west, in the farthest south, in the most distant north and the widest east, and with a record prouder than a monarch's star. And all these tokens of great ness and all these honors clustered about the brow of a man not yet 50 years of age. In the language of Sbakspeare, ''he was a goodly King ; be was a man, take him for all aud all I we shall not look upon his like again." Oh ! good and great ! Oh ! self ' poised and true ! thou who hast fallen [ untimely 'ere the fruits of thy ripe fame had been gathered. Thy actions awaken creative genius. Thy actions summon forth the seroner study of play ful times—the fulness of thy pathos, the greatness of thy heroism, and the sadness oftby poetry. Mr. President.the Ciesars, the Alexanders, the Ciceros, the Haunibals, the Napoleons, the Wellingtons and Burkes, may be for gotten, yet the name of the Garfields, will shine on canvass and marble ; aye, upon the sacred pages of history, in the tender light of the poet's homage, and forever be enshrined in the hearts of the American people. And when the curtain falls to ages yet unborn, will the future historian look down through the "glimmering square" upon the grand succession of American Presidents and with tender and reverent homage will chisel tab lets of pore white marble in letters of gold, the noble actions, the salient mo ment} of our Garfield and cause his blooming in immortality forever and forever. May God accept him. May Jesus receive him. On motion of Charles McCandless, Esq., the meeting then adjourned. J. H. NEGLEY, Sec'y. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT PETROL I A. Resolutions adopted at the meeting held at the Opera Ilouse in Petrolia, September 26, 1881 : MR. CnAiRMAN: —Your committee appointed to draft resolutions expres sive of the sense of this meeting conse quent upon the demise of our lamented President, bis excellency, James A. Garfield, beg live most respectfully to submit the following preamble and resolutions: WHEREAS, We have learned with profound grief and sadness of the death of the President of the United States, and WHEREAS, We deem it suitable and proper to express our heart-felt senti ments of grief for the loss and fall of one of America's most noble and dis tinguished citizens ; therefore, be it Resolved, That our Nation has lost a chief Executive Magistrate whose brief administration bas demonstrated to the world an unparalleled record for loyalty to every principle that consti tutes a Republican system of Govern ment. Resolved, That in the loss of our be loved President, James A. Garfield, our country losses a fearless advocate of Justice and right, the social world a distinguished luminary, the legal forum a brilliant advocate and the re ligious world an exemplary Christian. Resolved, That we can recognize in this National calamity, the legitimate results, and disastrous effects of the principles represented by that class of politicians who are self glorified in the adoption of the name of "stalwart," the truth of which was demonstrated by the declarations of the assassin at the moment of the fatal tragedy, when he exclaimed, "I am a stalwart of the stalwarts." Devils blush and Angels weep over such and exhibition of po litical prejudices, and human depravity. The baleful influence and effects of so called stalwartism, is now felt in all the walks of life, in the political arena, in the pale of the church and in the domestic circle. The Statesman, the jurist, the advocate, the pulpit orator, the industrious mechanic, the honest farmer, the day laborer, the humble peasant ; yea, the child in the nur sery, all, all now solemnly and mourn fully realize the pernicious effects of modern political stalwartism, and while we bow in meek submission to the ruler of the universe, we deplore the diabolical act of the assassin and depreciate the evil resulting from such political dogmatism. Resolvrd, That the venerable moth er, the esteemed wife and the orphan children of the honored dead, have our most heart-felt sympathy in this their hour of calamitous and grievous afflic tion. M C. BENEDICT, Chairman. PETEOLIA, PA., Sept. 26. A. D, LBBI. An Excellent Medicine* 'I certify that my wife and myself were in bad health for some fifteen years. I chanced to be looking over one of Simmons Liver Regulator Al manacs and saw A. H. Stephens' and Bishop Pierce's names to testimonials. I then obtained some of the Regulator, and can heartily recommend Simons Liver Regulator to my friends as an excellent medicine. Z. E. Harrison, M. 1)., (Jordonsville, Va.' Supervisor Coates, a wealthy and substantial citizen of Cransten, New Jersey, dropped dead on reading the head lines of the morning paper announcing the death of President Garfield. Take no quack nostrums. Put yor trust in Peruna. Burlington Haw key e: A young lady of an inquiring turn of mind, writes to ask who are 'the boys' with whom her brother and cousins go up to Oshkosb to have some fun? Why, don't you know. Laura? Apple John, Tom and Jerry,'liob?' Bill Yards and James Jacobs. (South Bend Evening Register.) When certain powers are claimed for an article, and everybody testifies that it does more than is claimed for it, to gainsay its worth is useless. This is the substance of the St. Jacobs Oil record. To sick, colicky, crying babies give Peruna—never any other medicine whatsoever. Lying helpless on his bed of pain, the stricken President sent his heart on a long pilgrimage! and it went straight to Ohio and touched again the dear, sweet memories of his Mentor home. Again and again with a longing that would not be still, be asked those about him if the time was not near when he could be carried away to that spot in a State which his love had once caused him to name 'God's own country' AUVKRTIBINM ItATKH. One sqnaro, ono insertion, f 1 ; each subs* qaont insertion, 60 cents. Yearly |adYertieemont exceeding one-fourth of 4 column, f5 per inch Figure wofk double these rates; addition* climrgea wlier* Weekly or moiitlriy changes are made. Local advertisements 10 cents per line tut &r»i iiiHe«ii»u, and 4 per Une tor sach additional insertion. Marriages and d cat Jig j-üb liahed free of ciiaigo. Obituin, notices charged M advertisements, and parable' when handed in Auditors Xotlcee. $1; Executors' and Admini* trators' .Notices. fS each; Est ray, Caution ano KuUcct, not t&ii liA££ each. - From the fact tlfMlhb Otncen fe tfce oldee' established and nuiat extensivt ly circulated Re publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub lican county) *t most b* busineet. ®en that it is the medium they uhouid net in advertising their business. NO. 45 A WALL STREET "fagßffgß." 'Did you hear about the 'corner' in Hannibal and St. Jo?' 'Yes; pretty sharp turn on the 'bears,' wasn't it ?' 'They say the 'pool' squeezed the 'shorts' to the tuue of from three to four millions.' 'Yes, but I'm glad the squeeze was not on the 'lambs' this time ' So much for a talk in Wall street vo cabulary overheard on the caes What does it mean ? Let us see if get a lesson out of it. .The 'corner' in Ilannibal and St. Joseph railroad stock referred to, which formed the most not able event in the on 'Change last week] was m plain Eng lish this: I)uriug some months past a number of speculators began to buy up the Hannibal and St. Joseph stock, which <vas purchasable at about 60 or lower. Tbev bought until they owned between ihem 90,000 of the 100,000 shares. Still the stock was offered in the market, and as they had so nearly all of it,, it was evident that'shoVt'sßles of it were being made, that is, specula tors who actually had no shares were selling and becoming responsible just as if they had them, trusting tQ chance to buy when demanded, at less than they had sold. This is what is calle'd 'selling short.' In this instance, the buyers took all that was offered, until they had bought 50,000 more shares thanwerc in existence. Then they had what is known as a 'corner,' and had in it the 'bears' who bad been Selling whai they possessed only in name, not in fact. To 'squeeze' these, 'short-sel ling' and short-sighted speculators it was now only necessary to bid up the price of the stock—which the buyers could do by united action, since they owned it all—to such point as satisfied their greed, and then call upori those who had sola to deliver or settle. As the latter could not deliver without buying at the 'pool's' price, they were wholly at the mercy of the stock own ers, and bad to settle on a basis of 200 a share, the price having been run up from to 200 iu two days. The re sult is said to be as above, that the 'shorts' were 'squeezed' out of from three to four millions of dollars, which the several members of the 'pool'divide and put in their pockets. That is what the 'comer' in Hanni bal and St. Joseph stands for, but that is not all. It represents an iniquitous system that is not legitimate business, not legitimate dealing in actual values, but gambling pure aud simple. The basis of this system is to turn nothing into gold by sharp practice. The first evil it discloses is the false operation of selling a fictitious thing. The spec ulator who sells 'short' does exactly in kind what a man would do who'should sell you a farm, present you the deed in regular form, and when you asked for possession according to agreement, confess that be owned no farm. Sell ing 'sh<>rt' is false to the core, and one of the greatest curses of Wall street transactions. In this instance those who tried the trick got caught, and have had to pay roundly for it. as they deserved to; but the evil remains, and is only made more conspicuous. It is something that is done every day, and is a part of the speculative system. But it is rank dishonesty all the same, and ought to be done away with by enactment strict enough to meet the case as one of fraud. Then, too, the action of the men who bought: the stock and entered into the combination or 'pool'—how is that to be considered ? They have made millions out of nothing, that is, where no real value was represented in the transaction. Have they earned that money in any legitimate wav? Have they earned it any more square ly and honestly than does the man who sits down at the faro table with an investment of $5, and rises up with a sum of SIOO,OOO won at* gamin?? Worse even than that, what moral distinction is there between such a 'squeezing' of money out of a man and stopping him on the highway and tak ing it from him by violence ? The 'corner' as a transaction is foul and rotten all the way through. It is well to inquire what the effect of such operations must be upon the more legitimate business of the Stock Exchange. It cannot fail to react in juriously upon all stocks. It may not make so much difference to the people at large whether of Hannibal and St Joseph go«>8~ up or down, or that of some otber railroad or silver mine ; but it comes home to every man when the same system of gambling is carried into the dealings in grain and pork—into the sale of those staples i whose dearness or cheapness are of so vital consequence to millions. The prosperity of the country is touched then. And tbe presence of such a commercial leprosy, recognized and tolerated in the community, is some thing whose baneful effects be felt far and wide in business. Snch opera tions as those involved in a Wall street 'comer' ought not to be possible for a man who hopes to maintain a reputa tion for commercial honor and integri- ty. _ _ The Prairie Farmer says: Weeds on gravel walks may be destroyed and prevented from growing again by a copious dressing of the cheapest salt. This is a better method than pulling, which disturbs the gravel and renders constant raking and rolling necessary. One application early in the season, and others as may be needed, while the weeds are small, will keep the walks clean and bright.' The Chicago papers had very full reports of the trial for heresy of the Rev. Dr. Thomas, which ended lately. The Rev. Dr. Thomas, one of the foremost clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago, was held guilty, adjudged a heretic, and sus pended from the ministry by the eccle siastical court before which he was tried; but his case is to be again brought up at the Annual Conference, when the final judgement will be delivered. The heresy of the Rev. Dr. Thomas related to three of the fundamental doc trines of Protestant orthodoxy that are maintained by the Methodist Epis copal Chuch—the doctrines of Scriptu ral inspiration, the atonement, and an eternal hell.
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