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Patches, Freckles. Black IlesiU,
Skin, Catarrh. Liver Complaint, In
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free circulation throughout the system. It is called
D EFFIAThS?)
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For sale by druggists. H
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11 eu lion this paper.
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VOL. XVIII.
BiiMUI
FOR
RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia. Sciatica, Lumbago,
Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout,
Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and
Sprains, Burns and Scalds,
General Bodily Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet
and Ears, and all other Pains
and Aches.
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« srr/r, mire, sit.ipln pjid ehrap External Remedy.
A trial entails but the comparatively trifline outlay
■ f no Cents, and every one suffering wiUi pain
tan have cheap and positive proof of its claims.
Directions in Eleven Languages.
BOLD BY ALL DBUGGISTS AND DEALERS IS
MEDICINE.
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MRS. LYDIAL PIHKHAM, OF LYHH, MASS.
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEBBTABLE COMPOUND,
Is a Positive Cure
feral' tkoM Palnftil Complaint. a»J
iocommon to our best female population.
It will cure entirely tlie worst form of Femalo Com
plalnts, all ovaiian troul.lea, Inflammation and Ulcer*
tlon, Falling and Displacements, and the consequont
Spinal Weakness, and Is particularly adapted to ths
Change of Life.
It will dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus In
*n early stage of development. The tendency to can
perpug munors there Is checked very speedily by Its use.
It remove* ilatulency, destroys all craving
for stimulants, and relieves weakness pf the stomach.
It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration,
General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indi
gestion.
That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight
and backache, 1s always permanently cured by its use.
wil| ft all times and under all circumstances act In
harmony with the laws that govern the female system.
"Foi-the cure ol Kidney Complaint!) of either pealhla
Compound is unsurparscd.
LYIHA. E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COM
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LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, billonfn iSB (
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asr Sold by all Druggists, "it*
lM 1 "" ~ DIRECTIONS.
yVr-tiv.. , ■ i«a I ItV For Catarrh, hay fever
Imf LHFAM RMJiiW cold in the Head, &e.,
Insert with little finger
■LATARFCCOLDSUNTIL ? OF . FF E
fU viAV-p-., C4 r .' oH ,, n «t/\Uj into the nostrils ; draw
I strong breaths through
WTf!—-
»tALS i O9 , V absorbed, cleansing,
fNABALP^ 5 ro alul healing the dis
eased membrane,
For Deafqess,
u' ' >ly a particle into
ELY'S CREAM BALM
HAVING gained an enviable reputation, displac
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derful remedy wherever known. A fair trial will
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Catarrhal virus, causing healthy secretions, al
lays Inflammation and irritation, protects the
membrmial linings of the head from additional
colds, completely heals the sores apd restores the
sense of taste and smell. Beneficial results are
realized bv a few applications. A thorough
ment as directed will cure Catarrh. As a house
hold remedy for cold in the head is unequaled.
The Halm is easv to use and agreeable. Sold by
druggists art 5o cents. On receipt of r>o cents will
inail a package. Send for circular with full infor
mation.
ELY'S CREAM BALM CO., Owego, N. Y,
For sale in Butler by I). H. Wuller, J. C. Hedick,
Zimmerman & Wuller. Coulter & Linn.
ITHK SYMPTOMS OK LIV
KH COMPLAINT
are uneasiness and pain in
KTMMnWK the side— sometimes the
ixAvAi o p aln is j n t i, p shoulder,
and is mistaken for rheu
matism ; the stomach is
with loss of appe
ite and sickness ; bowels, in general, costive,
sometimes alternating with lax; the head is
troubled with pain and dull, heavy sensation, con
siderable loss of memory, accompanied with pain
ful sensation of having left undone something
w|iieli ought to have lit <-u done ; often complaln
of .weakness, debility
and low spirits. Some
times many of the above
T TT7PIJ symptoms attend the dls-
A J A * -C.lv ease and at other times
very few of them, but the
liver is generally the organ
most involved.
CURE THE LIVER with
Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator,
a preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to be
strictly vegetable, and can do no sort of injury to
anyone. It has been used by hundreds and known
for the last forty years as one of the most reliable,
and harmless
preparations ever offered
to the suffering. If taken
regolarly and persistently.
REGULATOR
Jaundice. Headache,
Sick Headache,
Etc.
Time and Doctor's Bills will hf. saved bv
ALWAYS KEEPING THE REGULATOR
in the House,
for whatever the ailment may be. a thoroughly
safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be
out of place. Persons living in unhealthy locali
ties may avoid all bilious attacks bv taking a dose
occasionally to keep the liver in healthy action.
Ik You lead a Sedentary Life, or are weak
ened by the strain of your duties, avoid stimulants
and take
THE REGULATOR!
If You have eaten Anything hard of Di
gestion, or feel heavy alter meals or sleepless at
night, take a dose of Regulator and yon will feel
relieved ard sleep pleasantly. It can be taken in
the place of Quinine or bitters of any kind ; the
dose is small and its virtues undoubted.
Prepared only by J. H. Zeilin & Co. [22juuely
PATENTS.
T. F. LEHMANN, Solicitor of Patents, cor
ner Sixth avenue and Smithfield St.. Pittsburgh
Pa. Branch office at Washington, D. C. No
patent, no pay. Send for Circulars. [Sjelm
THAN A TOP SIS.
BY WILLIAM CCLLEN BRYANT.
To him who in the love of nature holds
Commuuion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language ; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of biautv, and she glides
Into his iarker musings with a mild
And healing svmpathv that steals away
Their sharpness, 'ere he is aware. When tho'ts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over the spirit, and sad images
Of the stern agony and shroud and pall,
And breathless darkness and the narrow house
Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart;
Go forth, under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings, while from all around—
Earth and her waters and the depths of air—
Comes a still voice—Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding siin shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the oold ground.
Where thy pale form was laid with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall
claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human traoe, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix forever with the elements,
To be ft brother to th' insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy
mould.
Yet not to thine eternal resting place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magni Scent. Thou shalt lie down
"\Yith patriarchs of the infant world —with
Kings.
The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good.
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past.
All in one mighty sej>ulcher. The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun—the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between ;
The venerable woods ; rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured
round all
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,
Are but the solemn decorations
Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun,
The planets, all the infinite host of Heaven,
Are shining on the sad abodes of death
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom. Take the wings
Of morning, traverse Barca's desert sands
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound,
Save his own dashings—yet, the dead are there;
Aud millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight ot years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone,
So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw
In silence from the living, and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe
Will share thy destiny. The gay will )augl)
When thou art gone, the solemn brood or oare
Plod on j and each one as before will chase
His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments and shall
come
And* make their bed with thee. As the long
train
Of the ages glide away, the sons of men,
The youth in life's green spring, and he who
goes
In the full strength of years, matron and maid,
And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man ;
Shall one bv one be gathered to thy side,
By those, wno in their turn shall f6llow them.
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall
take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-alave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and
soothed
Ey an unfaltering tryst, approach thy grave
ike one who wraj>s the drapery of his couch
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.
THE FIRST MRS. PEPPERTON
How her Husband once came to Imag
ine he aaw her Spirit.
'Believe in ghosts ? I hope I am
not such a fool as that,' said Mr. Pep
perton, scornfully ; and he looked with
an air of supreme contempt, at his ques
tioner. When I can put my hand upon
a sensible sort of a fellow, who has
seen one in broad daylight, when be
was quite awake and quite sober, then
I'll give the matter my attention ; but
until then I shall keep to my opinion
that there never were such things, and
it's only asses who believe in anything
of the sort.'
'Thank you, Mr. Pepperton,' return
ed the young farmer, laughing. 'But
seeing is believing, and if I didn't see
my mother three days after she was
buried, my name isn't Timothy Lane !'
'Pshaw!' exclaimed Mr. Pepperton :
when people are nervous and out of
sorts, tney can fancy anything.'
'Only it's odd. I never imagined
anything of the sort before or since.'
'No, it isn't odd,' replied the other,
dogmatically. 'Those things depend
upon a person's state of mind, and
you were naturally excited and upset
at such a time. You had been think
ing of Mrs. Lane all day, and, there
lore, it was not surprising that you
saw her at night—'
'lt wasn't night at all; it was in the
afternoon. I was going down the path
in front of our house, when 1 saw her
standing at the gate Just as plain as I
see you now. As I near she
gave me one earnest look, and then
faded out, and though she has never
come since visibly, I often think she is
nearer than I know.'
Mr. Pepperton started and glanced
round the bar parlor of the George with
I an uneasy air.
I * 'I don't believe anything of the sort,'
he said, sharply; 'it's all a humbug !
Besides, it stands to reason it wouldn't
always be convenient for dead people
to come back to their old haunts. The
first Mrs. Pepperton, for instance,
wouldn't just care to see some oue else
in her place, and, of course, if she came
back, she would have to—'
'Unless she gave you notice of her
visits beforehand, and you hid the sec
ond Mrs. Pepperton in tbe cupboard,'
observed the landlord, laughing.
Mr. Pepperton laughed, too, but not
exactly as if he enjoyed the joke, but
as he wended his way through the
church yard he was not so hilarious.
The wind whistled drearily in the
tree tops, and there was not so much
as a light in the rectory windows to
give a feeling of company. But he
could see his way perfectly now, and
he could also see the grave-stones
gleaming palely against the sombre
background of sky and view.
He made a few timid steps forward,
and then stopped short, shuddering.
It had suddenly occurred to him that
this was the anniversary of the first
Mrs. Pepperton's death, and he should
have to pass her grave presently.
If she were disposed to 'walk,' as it
was called in the village, what an op
portunity ! Now, he had a great re
gard for the first Mrs. Pepperton, and
from some points of view, he thought
her superior to the second, but under
the circumstances, he had no wish to
see her again, and devoutly hoped that
if it had occurred to her to 'walk,' she
would think better of it.
At this moment the clock struck
eleven, driving the blood to his heart
and making him shudder in hia shoes.
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER '26,1881
And then he remembered again that
this was the very hour the first Mrs.
Pepperton had left this sorrowful world
for a better, and his legs began to
knock together with fright.
'Come, Josiah Pepperton,' he said to
himself at last, in a disparaging tone,
'I never saw a man make such an ass
of himself as you are doing at this pres
ent moment. What are your princi
ples, I should like to know, and what
motive could the first Mrs. Pepperton
have for molesting you, considering
that you treated her well when she was
alive, aud buried her comfortably after
death ? Get along home with you for
a miserable coward, and don't let me
bear anything of this sort again in a
hurry, or—^or-^'
He was searching for a threat that
would impose on himself, when he
turned round the church and came full
in sight of his first wife's grave. He
had decided in his own mind that he
would pass on and not look that way,
but some magnetic attraction drew his
glance in that quarter, and there,
crouching down close to the headstone,
was a snow-white figure, with awful
eyes that turned on him with stony in
tentness, and seemed to defy him to
advance.
Mr. Pepperton stood like one stunned
tor a minute, and then he went down
on his knees, and murmured, hoarsely,
through his chattering teeth,—
'My dear Maria, 1 am sure you mean
this kindly, when you were always
such a good-hearted woman when you
were alive, But I can't bear it—l can't
bear it—l can't indeed. lam very
grieved if I have hurt your feelings by
giving you a successor, but, on my
honor as a man, I never cared for poor
Mary Anne as I cared for you, and you
know I planted some flowers on your
grave myself last summer, which shows
that you are always in my thoughts
But my poor nerves can't stand this
sort of thing, and if you are going to
take to walking, the sooner I lay be
side you the better—4or there will be
nothing to live for 1
A hollow groan answered him; and
poor Pepperton went on, frantically:
'Pray don't take my representations
in this spirit—l mean, don't take this
tone about them,' he substituted, quick
ly, feeling that any refereuce to the
spirits in such company might be con
sidered personal or rude. '{ don't
mean any harm, and of course I should
be delighted to see you again in any j
way if it weren't for my nerves being !
so upset. Is there anything I could do
to make you rest more quiet? Don't i
hesitate to speak. Even ii it took all j
my savings to make you lie comforta* i
ble, I wouldn't hesitate, Marie—l ;
wouldn't indeed.'
Another groan, a little fainter, but
still more harrowing, was the only re
sponse, aud poor Pepperton felt as if
nis brain were giving way. Seen from
that distance, the ghost was terrible
enough, aud quite as much as his rea
son could stand ; but when she began
to raise herself slowly from the ground,
still keeping her pale, dim eyes fixed
upon him, and showing a disposition
to advance, the horror of the situation
generally, and the fear lest she should
take him into her cold embrace and
claim him for her own, overcame him
utterly, and he fell on his face in a
dead swoon.
Wheu he returned to consciousness,
Timothy Lane and another young
man were leaning over him, and poor
Pepperton said, with a gasp, as he
pulled himself together:
'l've had a terrible experience—a
terrible experience, Timothy ; the first
Mrs. Pepperton has—eh, hulloa !' and
he showed a disposition to collapse
again, as he pointed toward the grave,
only that they held him fast and burst
out laughing in a most reassuring man
ner.
'That is what you took for a ghost,
is it?' said Timothy, wheu he could
command his voice. 'Why, it is
Barnaby's white cow; she is always
getting through the hedge and stray
ing over into the churchyard.'
Pepperton sat upright; and now that
he had companions, and found courage
to exrmiue the thing more carefully, it
certainly lost a good deal of its ghost
ly appearance.
But as he did not seem entirely con
vinced, and Timothy saw that his lit
tle joke—he had been the author of
the hollow groans, hidden behind a
tombstone—had gone far enough, he
told his younger companion, who hap
pened to be Barnaby's son, and, there
fore, in one sense, the owner of the
cow, to drive it away.
To see Barnaby go willingly, ap
proach the apparition aud give it a
kick in the ribs, dispersed the last
remnant of Pepperton's fear, and he
said, in a nervously-apologetic way,
as he stumbled up on to his feet:
'You'd do me a kindness, Timothy,
and so would Barnaby, if you wouldn't
talk of this little affair to the other fel
lows. I should be jeered and joked
out of my life, and it is never pleasant
to be made a butt of.
'The fact is, I was a little out of
sorts, and my nerves weren't so strong
as usual; and then this being the an
niversary of the first Mrs. Pepperton's
death, and your story put together,
finished me off—although, as you
know, I've been through this church
yard night after night, and never had
aay fancies of the sort before.'
'We won't mention tbe matter, old
fellow,' answered Timothy, whose
conscience pricked him a little when
he saw how white and shaken
his friend looked.
'lt's lucky we happened to be here,
though ; for if you hadn't had some
body with you when you came to your
self, you would have dashed off home,
maybe, without knowing that was
Barnaby's cow yonder, and then you
would have believed you had seen the
first Mrs. Peppertou for the rest of
your life.'
Timothy had to turn away here, he
was seized with a strong inclination
to laugh, but as he did not want to
look unfeeling, and poor Peppertou
had really suffered, he suppressed the
impulse and offered, with proper gravi
ty, to see the farmer home—an offer
which was thankfully accepted.
But, somehow, Pepperton never
quite got over his adventure in Derby
churchyard, aud is often heard to say
that he thinks a man is best off at bis
own fireside, after all, on winter nights,
and that Mrs. Pepperton finds is rath
er lonely when he is out.
Nobody knows what brought him
into this becoming fortune of mind ex
cepting Timothy Lane and his friend
Barnaby.
They have kept their promise faith
fully, but when Timothy sees the white
cow, he gives Barnaby a sly poke in
the ribs, and savs :
'The first Mrs. Pepperton, eh, Tom ?'
And they have a good laugh all to
themselves, as young men will.
AN EXTRAORDINARY SWIN
DLE.
A correspondent of the New York
Sun writing from Frederick, Maryland,
says: Yesterday about 2,000 of the
suits instituted by Dr. Harrison War
ner, the professional litigant, against
citizens of this county, were settled,
the defendants being compelled to pay
various sums ranging from fifty dol
lars to seventy-ffv'e dollars in each
case. The operations of Wagner are
without a parallel in the United States.
About two years ago be was consid
ered to be harmlessly insane. His ac
tions were calculated to confirm this
theory, and his eccentricities were re
garded with indifference by every one
who knew him. In the fall of 1879
Wagner caused much amusement by
going before an obscure county magis
trate and entering several hundred
suits for damages against leading citi
zens chosen at random in all parts of
the county, who had never seen or had
any dealings with him. The amount
of damages sued for in each case was
between ninety and one hundred dol
lars, the limit for which suits can be
brought before magistrates in this
State. No attention was paid to the
supposed lunatic's suits, and the cases
were soon recalled to memory by no
tices of hundreds of other suits being
brqught by Wagner, who frequently
entered as high as one hundred claims
against one person
Early in 1880 Wagner disappeared
from public notice, but in the fall of
that year the entire community was
thrown into a furore of excitement
when it was learned that Wagner bad
commenced paoceedings to enforce
judgment ia I,BOQ of the. suits. It
was then learned for the first time that
the persons sued, having failed to ap
pear before the magistrate to answer,
judgement had been entered in each
case for the amouut named in the com
plaint. Wagner made no effort to col
lect the judgments until a year had ex
pired, when by law the power of ap
peal had passed. In November last,
therefore, he was possessed of 1800
judgmeuts, averaging $75 each, against
about 300 county residents and cor
porations. Each judgment was en
dorsed—'By default' and 'no appeal
taken,' and, of course, they amounted
to a lieu on any property owned by the
defendants.
During Wagner's absence several
persons against whom he had obtained
judgment died, and his first move was
to file the judgments in the orphans'
court as claims against the estate.
Martin Shank, one of the victims, had
died and left an estate valued at $8,500
to his wife and three small children.
Wagner filed judgment against the es
tate amounting to $6,200, and ibe Or
phans' Court was compelled to post
pone the hearing of the claims several
times in order to avoid the necessity
of admitting their validity. At length
several citizens employed counsel for
Mrs. Shank, who filed an application
for an arrest of judgment on the ground
of fraud. The same policy was pur
sued by all other victims, and since
that time the cises have been dragged
along into the courts, the indications
pointing to Wagner being eventually
successful in enforcing all of them.
The courts ruled that the failure of the
victims to contest the suit was in law
a virtual acknowledgment of the jus
tice of the claims, while the further
failure to take an appeal from the mag
istrate within the period prescribed by
law placed them beyond remedy.
After he had begun to enforce the
judgments Wagner lound the country
too hot to hold him, and went to New
York city, where he now is. The pro
ceedings against his victims have been
carried on by counsel here and his set
tlement made in nearly all the cases a
few days ago, it is thought will net him
nearly SIO,OOO. He does not pretend
that he ever had any legal claim for
damages in any of the cases, but he has
succeeded in obtaining considerable por
tions of the estates of several deceased
iesideuts of the county, besides mulct
ing hundreds of farmers of hard earned
money.
An KiFeolive Sermon.
Last Saturday night some sinner
stole chickens from the coop of Rev.
Aminadab Bledso, of the Galveston
Blue light Tabernacle, and the next
day the Keverend gentleman preached
a powerful sermon against the sin of
stealing chickens, and promised ever
lasting punishment to the man who
stole his two chickens.
Early Monday morning Jim Web
ster called at the parson's door with
scared face and some poultry. He
said :
'Parson Bledso, dat ar sermon most
scared me to death. I couldn't sleep a
wink, so I fotched your chickens back.'
'I don't keer for the fowls, Jeems,
but in pleases me mightly to know dat
I am an humble instrument in de hands
of de Almighty to bring sinners to re
pentance and to cause dem to lead a
new life. But, look here Jeems, dese
chickens aint do same ones yer stole
from me.'
'I knows it. Your chickens am
done eat up ; but your sermon opened
my eyes to der sinfulness ob stealing
your chickens, and I felt so bad about
it dat the fust thing I did when church
was out was to climb ober into Colonel
Jones's yard and stole two ob his fat
test pullets to replace the chickens you
missed.'
Anybody can catch a cold now.
The trouble is to let go, like the man
who caught the bear. We advise our
readers to keep a bottle of Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup handy.
Employ no more quack doctors and
quack medicines; rely wholyon Peruna
UNIQUE JIREACH OF PROM
ISE CASE.
A recent publication gives us the
opinion of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania in a breach of promise case
which presents some interesting facts
and decides some novel points of law.
The plaintiff was a domestic servant
and the defendant a well to do farmer,
worth from ten to twelve thousand
dollars. After courting ber assidu
ously and loving for nearly three
years, with all tho bucolic accessories
of church pic-nics, country parties and
other rural entertainments, which in
good time fructified iu a matrimonial
engagement, he suddenly discontinued
his visits in consequence of an inevita
ble lovers' quarrel and as suddenly
transferred his atTections to a hateful
rival. But, worse than this, the hard
hearted man and bis newly found
mate indulged in open demonstrations
in church and elsewhere which were
only too plainly intended to cast ridi
cule and insult upon the unhappy and
discarded one. This was more than
the latter or human nature roulu bear.
Having before written in vain a for
giving and suppliant note to her faith
less suitor she now denounced him in
the most unsparing terms in a long
letter which became a leading feature
of the evidence and the law in the case.
Still addressing him by the once en
dearing appellation 'Jim,' she thinks
'it id a sin and a disgrace,'reminds him
that if he imagines he has 'got a rich
one now' he is very much mistakeu, as
'every one knows how rich they are,'
and adds, triumphantly, 'Well, if I am
poor, I don't wear the one hat for Gve
or six years, like she does, and turn it
hind part before like she does.' Hav
ing enjoyed this fling at her odious
rival she frankly confesses that she
'did wrong at first,' but 'now I don't
want you and am going to use you as
bad as the law will allow me to do it.
If you were poor I would not do any
thing with you ; so rich, so grasping,
so deceitful, so fun making, underhand
ed and sneaking, I just pray night
and day for every hair in you head to
come out.'
Having relieved her feelings by giv
ing the cruel wretch this piece of her
mind she sought further consolation in
an action for Jbrcach of promise. The
defendant pleaded—First, that he nev
er promised to marry her ; second, that
he did not refuse to marry her ; and,
third, that she released him from his
promise to marry her. The fair plain
tiff won the case and got two thous
and dollars damages. The appeal
taken raised among others the legal
questions whether the action could be
maintained, in view of the fact that
the defendaut had not formally refused
to uiarry the plaintiff or raised a legal
bar to such marriage by his nuptials
with another, and whether the plain
tiff had not released the defendant from
the engagement by the letter from
which we have quoted. In overruling
the exceptions taken by the defendant
and confirming the judgment against
him the Supreme Court tersely sums
up the law on the first point in these
words:—'lt was not necessary that he
should say to her in express words, 'I
will not marry you,' nor that she
should run after him and say, 'I en
treat you to marry me.' Marriage is
a civil contract.. A refusal to fulfil it
may be as unmistakably manifested by
conduct as by words. The true ques
tion was whether the acts and conduct
of the defendant evinced an intention
to be no longer bound by the contract.'
As to her letter, the Court ruled that
her expressed determination to use
him 'as bad as the law will allow,' and
other references to legal proceedings,
amounted to an expressed notice that
she would hold him responsible for
bis breach of contract.— N. Y. Herald.
A Ghastly Wedding.
A very extraordinary and somewhat
repulsive marriage ceremony took place
not long ago at Portsmouth, England,
conceruiug which the English papers
are having a pood deal to say. It seems
that a Miss Mainwaring, the daughter
of an army officer, was about to be mar
ried, and, after her wedding trousseau
had been prepared and all arrangements
made for the ceremony, she was taken
sick and in the course o f a few days
died. Heretofore it has been consider
ed that the death of one of the parties
to a proposed wedding effectually put
an end to the matter, but the family of
Miss Mainwaring and the gentleman
to whom she was engaged evidently
did not view the matter in that light,
since they 'decided to go through with
the marriage ceremony as far as pos
sible before interment,' as an English
paper puts it- In order to do this the
coffin containing the body of the young
lady was taken to the church, the
friends of the deceased accompanying
it iu wedding costume, and a wreath
of orange blossoms being placed on tho
brow of the dead girl. Several clergy
men were present, and after the mar
riage service Lad been read and the
proper responses had been made by the
groom, that for funerals was proceed
ed with. The company then proceed
ed to Portsmouth Cemetery where the
interment took place. Anything more
ghastly than this cannot be imagined,
and it is to be hoped that the fashion
of marrying a live person to a dead
one will not become general.
[New York Union.]
I>id lit itt Good.
Mr. Charles 11. Bauer, editor of the
above paper and Notary Public, in a
late issue mentions the following:
Patrick Kennv, Esq., some time ago,
suffered much from rheumatism and
tried almost every means to rid him
self of this paiuful evil, but in vain.
He was advised to use St. Jacobs Oil,
which lie did so successfully, that all
pain has left him and he is as healthy
and strong as ever before. Mr- Kenny
is as enthusiastic advocate of St. Ja
cobs Oil, and it has done him good.
A celebrated English breeder says
that he did not find over oue in 300 of
his rams that he was willing to breed
from. By being so particular in his
choice, he got the very best, aud con
sequently improved his flocks much
more rapidly than those breeders who
were less careful than himself in mak
ing their selections.
WHERE THE PRESIDENTS
ARE BURIED.
The body of George Washington is
resting io a brick vault at Mount Ver
non, Va-, in a marble coffin.
John Adams was buried in a vault
beneath the Unitarian Church at
Quincy, Mass. The tomb is walled
in with blocks of rough-faced grauite.
John Quincy Adams lies in the
same vault by the side of his father. In
the church above, on either side of the
pulpit, are tablets of clouded marble,
each surmounted by a bust and in
scribed with the familiar epitaphs of
the only father and son ever held
the highest the gift of the
American people.
Thomas Jefferson lies in a small,
unpretentious private cemetery of one
hundred feet square, near Monticello,
Va.
James Madison's remains rest in a
beautiful spot on the old Madison es
tate, near Orange, Va.
James Monroe's body reposes in
Hollywood's Cemetery, Va., on an em
inence commanding a beautiful view of
Richmond and the James river. Above
the body is a huge block of polished
Virginia marble, supporting a coffin
shaped block of granite on which are
brass plates, suitably inscribed. The
whole is surrounded by a sort of
Go*,hie temple—four pillows support
ing a peaked roof, to which something
of the appearance of a bird cage is im
parted by filling in the interstices with
iron gratings.
Andrew Jackson was buried in the
corner of the garden of the Hermitage,
eleven miles from Nashville, Tenn.
The tomb is eighteen feet in diameter,
surrounded by fluted columns and sur
mounted by an urn. The tomb is sur
rounded by magnolia trees.
Martin Van Buren was buried at
Kinderhook, N. Y. The monument
is a plain granite shaft, fifteen feet
high.
William Henry Harrison was buried
at North Bend, fifteen miles from Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
John Tyler's body rests within ten
yards of that of James Monroe in Hol
lywood Cemetery, Richmond. It is
marked by no monument, but it is sur
rounded by magnolias and flowers.
James K. Polk lies in the private
garden of the family residence in
Nashville, Tenn. It is marked by a
limestone monument, with Doric col
umns.
Zachary Taylor was buried in Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville. The body
was subsequently to be removed to
Frankfort, where a suitable monument
was to be erected, commemorative of
his distinquished services.
Millard Fillmore's remains lie in
the beautiful Forest Lawn Cemetery
of Buffalo, and bis grave is surmount
ed by a lofty shaft of Scotch granite.
Franklin Pierce was buried in the
Concord, N. 11., Cemetery, and his
grave is marked by a marble monu
ment.
James Buchanan's remains lie in
the Woodward Hill Cemetery at Lan
caster, Pa, in a vault of masonry.
The monument is composed of a simple
block of Italian marble.
Abraham Lincoln rests in Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, 111.,
enclosed in a sarcophagus of white
marble. The monument is a great
piece of marble, granite and bronze.
Andrew Johnson's grave is on a
cone-shaped eminence, half a mile from
Greenville, Tenn. The monument is
of marble, beautifully ornamented.
The body of James A. Garfield has
been placed in a tomb at Cleveland.
DEA TH OF A HALF-MILLION
AIRE MISER.
Theodore Stockman, for peculiar
reasons one of the most widely known
citizens of Toledo, has died amid the
surroundings which were a pleasure to
his penurious soul in life—a miser's
cabin and the abode of filth and dirt.
Last week "Uncle Theodore " as he
was commonly called, was missed
from his accustomed haunts, and it
was soon learned that he was down
sick with bilious fever in his rude
house on the river bank in lower town.
On October the 9th he sent hurriedly
for an attorney and made his will, be
queathing his large property probably
to his one or two children who sur
vive him. Very little is kuown of
Mr. Stockman, although no one was
known better. He was one of the
earliest settlers in the Mauniee Valley,
and by his frugal, almost stingy,
habits, coupled with a miser's greed,
he accumulated a large fortune, vari
ously estimated at from $200,000 to
$250,000. Many st ries are afloat
about him—how for years he chiefly
subsisted on the refuse from the fruit
house and hotels; how during the
terrible cholera siege he made a for
tune in burying the victims, often
waiting in front of a bouse until a
patient died; how he succeeded in
getting one piece of property after
another until he was really rich, al
though outwardly he was the dirtiest
and worst looking pauper in the city.
Verily, his life would form a topic for
the historian, the novelist, and the
scavenger. He died at the age of
sixty-eight, in the midst of almost ab
solute want, yet bis check was good
for thousands.
It Wont Pay
after so much labor and capital has
been expended to build up this medi
cine, to allow it to deteriorate. You
can take Simmons Liver Regulator
with perfect faith, as it is made by no
adventurers who pick up the business
of concocting medicines, but by educat
ed, practical druggists who have made
the study of medicine and its com
pounds the labor of a lifetime. The
care, precision, neatness and perfection
exhibited by the very appearance of
the Regulator proves it to be the best
prepared medicine in the market, and
J. 11. Zeilin & Co. fully carry out their
motto: 'Purissima et Optima (purest
and best).
No room was ever made large
enough to hold both a fat man and a
mosquito.
There is hardly a disease considered
incurabb, that could not be cured with
Peruna.
AOVEBTISIHre RATES,
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q.ient insertion, 50 cents. Yearly advertisement
exceeding oiie-fouith of a column, (5 per iwh
Figaro wor* double these ratee; addition a
charges whore weekly or monthly changes are
made. Local advertisements 10 cento par line
for first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each
additional insertion. Main ages and deaths pub
lished free of chargo. Obituirj notices charged
as advertisements, and pavable when handed in
Aaditors' Notices, #4 ; Executors' and Adminjs
I rat or*' Notices. 93 each; Eetray, Caution au4
Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines
each.
From the fact that the Omnw is the oidea*
established and most extensively circulated Be
nublican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub
lican county; it most b« apparent to basinet*
men that it is the medium they should use in
advertising thotr business.
NO. 48
"IF I WAS PRESIDENT."
"Now, if I was President," began
Mr. Butterby the other morning, as be
passed bis cup over for a second cup
of coffee; "if I was President of the
United States—"
"Which you aren't, you know,"
broke in Mrs. 8., in an argumental
and confidential tone.
"And not likely to be," added Mrs.
B.'s mother with a contemptuous toss
of her head.
"No," assented Mr. B. pleasantly,
"but I was just supposing the case-l"
"Then suppose something in rea
son," retorted Mrs. 8., snappishly
"You might as well suppose you was
the man in the moon, or the man in
the Iron Mask, or—"
"So I might, my dear," resented
Mr. B. still pleasantly smiling, "but
that has nothing to do with it. I was
merely going to say if I was President
of the United States I'd—"
"My" burst in Miss Gertrude, aged
eighteen, "wouldn't it be splendid if
you was, pa ? Just to think how these
Wheedletop girls would change their
tune when I met them, instead of
throwing out their insinuations about
people who consider it Christian like
to turn their last season's silk dress
that they may have more to give to
charity. But they might turn green
with envy before I'd ever—"
"Yes, and wouldn't I warm Sammy
Dugan," chirped in Master Thomas,
aged twelve, I'd go up to him an'
smack him ou the nose with a brick
'fore he knowed where he was, an' I'd
slide ou the sidewalk an' shy snow
balls at the p'leeceman, an' sass Miss
Ferule, an' play hookey every day
when it didn't rain, an' I'd—"
"Yes," chimed in Mrs. 8., catching
the infection of her enthusiastic pro
geny, and I'd be the first lady in the
land, let the next be who she would,
and the governors' wives would beg
to be introduced to me, and I'd have
balls twice a week and a banquot every
day and—"
"And I'd have management of the
White House and run things," re
marked Mrs. B.'s mother, hor eyes
sparkling with the prospect.
"Not much you wouldn't," from
Miss Gertrude; "not much, if I keep
my health and known myself, you
wouldn't not as long as I am the
President's daughter, and—"
"Yah!" ejaculated Master Tom.
"I guess the President's son would be
the biggest plum in the dish.
Wouldn't I be the Prince of Wales
then say ? What 'ud you know 'bout
"Shut up—all of you !" commanded
Mrs. B. "I reckon the President's
wife is the highest authority in the
land! Anyhow, there'd be a dusty
old time if anybody questioned it, and
I bet when the exercise was finished,
the surgeon would not ask for au
electoral commission to decide it over
again ! My ; I'd like to see anybody
—but, by the way, Mr. Butterby,
what was it you was going to say you
would do if you was the President of
the United States?"
"Resign as soon as the Lord would
let me!" said Mr. Butterby. calmly
but determindly. And then a medita
tive silence fell upon the family and
remained there until the meeting arose.
HOW SHE HELPED HER
MOTHER.
"I don't see how I'd get along with
out Mary, nohow," Mrs. Blucher ob
served, pausing to wipe the perspira
tion from her aged features and put
another ladle of soft soap into the
steaming suds, while her daughter's
voice at the piano could be distinctly
recognized, floating out from the ad
joining parlor. "I don't see how I'd
get along without that gal, nohow.
Al'ays on these days, when I have the
tiringest work, she just picks out her
nicest pieces, like 'Sweet rest by-and
by,' 'Mother's growing old,' and sings
'em fur me afore she goes out on the
lawn with the other young folks.
'Taint every gal as ud be so thoughtr
ful, I kin tell you. Now, most of 'em
ud jest bang away with 'Jordon is a
hard road to travel,' or 'Whoop 'em
up, Eliza Jaue,' but she ain't none o'
that sort. She's a pile o' comfort to
me—a pile o' comfort." And Mrs.
Blucher fanned herself vigorously with
her soiled apron, preparatory to run
ning the clothes through the second
water.
WHAT "WIFE" ME A NS.
Says ltuskin : 'What do you think
the beautiful word 'wife' comes from?
It is the great word in which the En
glish and Latin languages conquered
the French and Greek. I hope the
French will some day get a word for
it instead of femme. But what do
you think it comes from ? The great
value of the Saxon words is that they
mean something. Wife means 'weav
er?' You must either be house wives
or house moths, remember that. In
the deep sense, you must either weave
men's fortunes and embroider them, or
feed upon and bring them to decay.
Wherever a true wife comes, home is
always arouud her. The stars may
be over her head, the glow-worm in
the night's cold grass may be the fire
at her feet, but home is where she is,
and for a noble woman it stretches far
around her, better than bouses ceiled
with cedar or painted with vermillioa
—shedding its quiet light for those
who else are homeless. This, I believe,
is the woman's true place and power.'
When a member of the German Par
liament is delivered of a joke it goes as
unfinished business. They laugh at it
next day.
A mean man down in Kentucky
had a girl arrested for appropriating
the tail feathers of his red rooster to
trim her bat. It will be safest in the
future in such cases to pull the feath
ers and let the rooster live. The dead
rooster was a bad witness.
A man rolled out of bed the other
night and was killed; G. A. Rogers fell
150 feet in a collapsed balloon, with 'in
conceivable velocity,' last Wednesday
afternoon, struck upon his nose on the
beach at Lynn, Mass., and is still alivo
to describe his sensation during the
descent.