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All bis Groceries are fresh, no old goods what
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Will pay for all kinds ol produce and
Kjajn, and will do a strictly cash busiuess. Lie
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VOL. XVIII.
A. 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
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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
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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
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card to write for our Prospectus, and it mav bp
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(Name THIS ijaper.j [2Ueptim] MAIIION. OHIO.
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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
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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
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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'
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made. Local advertisements 10 cents per line
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Auditors Xotlcee. $1; Executors' and Admini*
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- 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.