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CHAR A CT ERISTIC ISC IN
DENTS OF THE MICH
IGAN FIRES.
Fire had been burning in Sanilac,
Huron, Tuscola counties, but no oue
apprehended any danger. Farmers
had set fire to slashings to clear the
ground for fall wheat, but this happens
every fall, and the fact that not a drop
of water had fallen in from fifty to
seventy days was not considered by
who saw the smoke clouds and
replied that tbpre was no danger.
There »*as danger: Behind that pall
of smoke was a greater enemy than an
earthquake, and it had a tornado at its
back and two hundred miles of forest
in front. From noon UDtil two o'clock
a strange terror held the people in its
grip ; then all of a sudden the heavens
top); fjrp, Qr hq it seemed to hundreds
In some localities it came with the
sound of thunder. In others it was
preceded by a terrible roaring as if the
tidal wave were sweeping over the
country. Almost at the same minute
ffie flames appeared in every spot over
a district of country thirty njilps broad
by one hundred in length.
At Richmondville, ten miles above
Sanilac, one hundred and fifty people
had comfortable homes, stacks of hay
and grain, teams, COA-S, pigs, sheep,
and np fpar pf the fire which they
knew was burning a mile At
! 2 o'clock the flames rushed out of the
woods, leaped the fences, ran across
the bare fields, and swallowed every
house but two, and roasted alive a
pepplp. H is hardly forty rods
to the beach of tfcie lake, and yet mt*n/
people bad no time to reach tne water.
Others reached it with clothing on tire
and faces and hands blistered. The
aoußfig sid not burn singly, but one
billow of flames s£ise<j a<| flpep apd
reduced them to nothing in tefi pa'V
»te».
I saw many and many a »pot if here
the billows of fire jumped a clean half
mile out of the forest to clutch house
or barn. The TLornton family were
wiped out with the exception of a boy.
Tbprqtop fiat} hitched up his team to
drive the family to a plfcc? pf safety,
but when be saw that" they were all
surrounded by the flames he unhitched
the horses 'in despair. Before they
poyld be unharnessed they bolted in
different directions, &n<} J.be old man
become so confused that he ran directly
toward a big slashing, which was then
a perfect mass of flame, and dropped
and died with his head toward it
Meantime the mother and children
bad taken refuge in the Foot house.
This was a structure mostly sunk in
the ground and the roof well covered
with earth. Here they were all right
for a time, but when tbe father failed
to join jbem one of the sons went out
to see what caused tbe delay. Ho
was hardly out of the place before th*
door through which be bad passed was
in flames. In this emergency he raD
to a dry creek, and by lying on his
face and keeping his mouth to tbe
ground be lived through it.
I talked with a woman who lived
neighbor to the Thorntons and who
escaped by fleeing to a field of plowed
ground. This was only a few rods
from the root house, and she said it
was fully an hour before the screams
and shrieks and groans from the peo
ple inside grew quiet in death. One
by one they were suffocated by heat
and smoke, and their bodies presented
a most horrible appearance. To one
riding through tbe district it seems
miraculous that a single soul escaped
The fire swept through the green trees
as well as tbe dry. It ran through
fields of com at the late of twenty
miles au hour, and fields of clover
were swept as bare as tbe floor. I)ai k
and gloomy swamps filled with pools
of stagnant water, and the home for
years of wildcats, bears and snakes,
were struck and shriveled and burned
almost in a flash. Over tbe parched
meadows the flames ran faster than a
horse could gallop. Horses did gollop
before it, but were overtaken and left
roasting on the ground. It seems as
if every hope and avenue of escape
were cut off, and yet hundreds of lives
were spared. People spent ten to
twenty hours in ditches and ponds, or
in fields under wet blankets, having
their hair singed, tbeir limbs blistered,
and tbeir clothing burned off piece by
piece.
In dozens of cases the first flames
spared houses and barns, but after
seeming to have passed on for miles,
suddenly circled back and made a clean
sweep of everything. Uuless one
rides over tbe burnt district he cannot
believe *tbe eccentricities of a forest
fire. In the great swamp between
Sanilac and Sandusky, it burned every
thing to tbe roots fora mile in breadth.
Then it left patches from ten feet to
ten rods wide, leaving a half a mile of
fuel on cither side. In the timber it
seemed to strike the green trees harder
than the dry ones. It was like a great
serpant making its way across the
country. It would run within three
feet of a wheat stack, and then glide
away to lick up a house. It would
burn a stack and spare u burn ten feet
off.
People felt the heat while the fire
was yet miles away. It withered the
leaves of trees standing two miles from
the path of the fiery serpant. The
very earth took fire in hundreds of pla
ces, and blazed up as if tbe flames
were feasting on cordwood. The stout
est log buildingn stood up only a few
minutes. The fire seemed to catch
them at every corner at once, and af
ter a whirl and a roar nothing would
lie left. Seven miles off the beach, at
Forester, sailors found the heat un
comfortable. Where some houses and
barns were burned we could not find
even a blackened stick. Kvery
beam and was reduced to fine
ashes.
Seven miles back of Forester a far
mer gathered up fifteen JHTSOIIS in his
wagon and started for the beach. The
fire was close behind them as they
started—so close that the dresses f
some of tbe women and children were
on fire from the sparks. It was seven
miles of up hill and down, with cor
duroy, ruts, and roots, and the horses
needed no whip to urge them into a
i mad run. As the wagon started tbe
BUTLER, FA., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 9,1851
tire of a hind wheel rolled off. They
could not stop for it, and yet, even on
a good road tbe wheel would have
crushed <lown going twenty rods
: without it.
It is an actual fact that the horses
pushed over that seven miles of rough
road at a wild run, and the wheel stood
firm. A delay of five minutes ap any
point of tbe road would have given
fifteen more victims to flames
which followed on behind. I saw the
wagon at the lake, and I saw tbe tire
seven miles away on the roadside.
The people who sought the beach
bad still to endiire much of tbe heat and
all of tbe smoke. Wading up to their
shoulders, they were safe from tbe
flames, but sparks and cinders fell like
a snow storm and tbe smoke was suf
focating. The birds not caught in the
woods were carried out to sea and
dro>yned, and the waves have washed
thotfgttuds of them asbpre. jSquirrelg,
rabbits and such small animals stood
no show at all, but deer and bears
sought the beach and the company of
human beings. In one case a man
leaped from a bluff into the lake and
fo(ii}(} himself behind a large bear.
They remained in company under the
bank nearly all night, and the bear
seemed as humble as a dog. In anoth
er instance two of the animals came
out of the forest and stood close to a
well from which a farmer was drawing
watpr to dash oypr his Jiousp, and they
were with bim for two hours before
they deemed it prudent to jog along.
Deer came out and sought the com
panionship of cattle and horses, and
paid no attention to persons rushing
jiasf, tbem—lfetroet Pfe^i
CASTING A MONSTER GUN.
A Ball to be Thrown Twelce Miles.
Au imimmws gun at the
Scott Iron Works Qetobaf 2-J. The
claim is that it will work a revolution
in gunnery. It is twenty-five feet long
and warranted to throw a shot a dozen
miles. It is known as the Lyman-
Haskell accelerating or multicharge
gun. The casting was a success and
was witnessed by a of visitors
from other cities
The Scott Works, are under tie con
trol of the Reading Iron Company and
occupy nearly a block on North
Eighth street. During the rebellion
mauy of the bpawifi&l cannon qsed by
the Northern army were cast and fin
ished at these works and tested on the
proving grounds several miles below
Heading. The reputation of the works
becanic widpspread, and tbeif recent
construction of the m >st powerful cot
ton presses in the world has added
much to their fame. Superintendent
.John G. West, of the works, had di
rect charge of the ousting. At two
o'clock this iporning two reverberat
ing furnaces In the foundry were
charged with 58,000 pounds of iron.
This iron was co!d-blu9t charcoal ma
terial from four different, iron furnaces
in this section. The flask containing
the immense mould was placed up
right in one of the deep gun pits that
was used in casting cannon during war
times. The patterns and mould were
constructed here after drawings fur
nished by the inventors.
THE CASTING.
The casting began at three o'clock
Both furnaces were tapped at the same
time. The molten iron from one was
conducted in an iron trough, lined with
'.•lay, to the mould, and that froiu the
other was tapped into a lanre iron
ladle attached to a crane and from
this poured into the mould. The met
al from one furnace ran down through
an opening between the fl isk and the
mould to the breech, while that from
the other furnace ran down in the
fame manner on the opposite side of
the mould. They mingled together at
the bottom and rose until the mould
was entirely filled. Six minutes were
consumed in the casting. The section
of the gun cast to-day measured fifteen
feet one and a half inches. The re
maining section will be cast later.
l)uring the casting Professor Hurt
well, of the Scientific Ameri an took
a photographic view of the scene, in
cluding the huge ladle, whi h has a
capacity of eleven tons of metal. Th"
inventor exhibited the drawings and a
large wooden model of the gun, and
explained the power oftbe penetration
of the accelerating cannon. The east
ing was satisfactory throughout and
the metal will have to remain in the
mould some time, probably two weeks,
before it is cool. It will then be taken
out to the machine shop and finished
up, to be taken to Sa idy Uook for an
ofli >ial trial
HOW THE OUN WII.L MB LOAOEI).
When finished the gun will be
twenty-five feet lon-r und have a bore
of fix inches in diameter. Along the
bore four pockets are located, in each
of which a charge of powder will be
placed, whjch will l>e discharged at
the proper periods, with a view of ac
celerating the speed of the ball after it I
has left the chamber in the gun and I
during its rapid progress through the I
bore. The charge of powder necessary
is reckoned at one hundred and thirty
pounds and the weight of the shot one
hundred and fifty pounds. It is con
fidently claimed bv the inventors that
the ball can be thrown a distance of
ten or twelve miles and that it can be
forced through a solid mass of wrought
iron two feet thick. The greatest di
ameter at the breech is twenty-six
Inches. The inventors are J. It. Mas-
I kell, of Passaic, N. J., aud of 115
; Broadway, New York' and A. S. Ly
j man, also of New York. Both men
are well-known inventors and have
made the subject of ordnance a study.
Mr. Haskell was present at the casting
j to-day. ' He says that the theory of
this invention is the gradual accumu
-1 lation of velocity or power by a suc
cession of charges of powder exploded
behind the projectile as it passes along
the bore of the gun. The inertia of
tho shot is first overcome by a moder
ate charge of coarse-grained, slow
burning powder and then repeated
charges of quick-burning powder are
applied in succession until u greatly
increased velocity is attained.
TilK ACCELERATING I'IMNCII'LE.
By the accelerating principle ten
times as much powder can be applied
and yet the maximum pressure in the
gun is not increased. Instead of plac
ing all the 9train upon about two feet
of the metal at tbe breech, by this pro
cess the strain is distributed along tbe
entire length of the gun. It is also
claimed tbat these accelerating guns
will have more than double the power
of any single-charge gun. The weight
of powder in pounds for a charge is as
follows for a six inch bore : At tbe
breech, 18 pounds; first pocket, 28
pounds; second pocket, 28 pounds;
third pocket, 28 pounds ; fourth pocket,
28 pounds; total, 130 pounds. Weight
of shot, i calibre long, 150 pounds.
John Fewton, colonel of engineers,
says that a twelve-inch accelerating
gun would be more powerful than the
one hundred ton Armstrong gun made
for the Italian Government. In his
opinion the loading of tbepockets can
be m a flp as psp c 4itiotys as that of the
breech. Haskell also claims as the
result of actual experiment that as the
pocket charges are ignited at the front
end and the hot gas from the breech
charge is driven entirely through them
none of the powder can pass out of the
tfUU cou)b H .tioD, All thopo*-
de* Is therefore utilized and a velocity
of three thousand feet per second is
attainable for a solid shot twelve inches
in,diameter and three feet long or even
a larger shot. Practically this would
}}e irresistible in warfare
THE LAND SLIP AT ELM,
SWITZERLAND.
In the recent disaster at Elm—oth
erwise known as Unterthal- a great
fpass of earth atu} rocl{ ffom thti
ten berg or Tscblngler Alp, 1,5000 feet
wide, at least 2,000 feet high above
the valley, and, according to the en
gineers, from GO to 100 feet deep, fell
over upon the village, its farm*, gar
cjeqs, and meadows, covering several
thousand '|Pon3 pf vyerp
dashed entirely across the valley, and
now rest quietly 300 and 400 feet hijfh
upon the hillside. The uir pressure
was so great tbat houses were lifted
up from their foundations and carried
a distance of 1,000 feet. A barn built
of heavy jogs. an(J fil|ed with hay,
carried entirely across the valley and
overturned 200 feet high on the moun
tain opposite tbe Platte nberg. An
iron bridge which crossed the Sernf
was torn up, earriedscores of feet away
from its abutments, am} now rests oq
e p d more thau halt buried in mud and
loose stone. Tbe whole valley, us far
as it can be seen from the village inn,
which is still standing, very closely
resembles the bed of a glacier which
has receded.
The river Snerf has made for itself a
new channel through tbe debris, and
has flooded and ruined much of tbe j
land below, land which was not direct
ly harmed by the avalanche of stone.
So in one way or another the whole
valley has been injured beyond all
hope of repair. The loss in property
will reach not le9S than 2,000,000f, ;
at tbe lowest estimate 123 people have
lost their lives ; other estimates make
the number 150 or more. The state j
engineers, fearing further land slides,
have forbidden those who have escap
ed to return to the houses which re
main standing, and in consequence
more than 800 men, women and chil
dren, who but a few days before were
prosperous and wellrto-do, are now *l
- without a rool to Cover them.
The chief causo of the disaster, after
tbe heavy rains of the past summer, is
said to have been injudicious quarry
ing for slate, whereby the mountain
was in part undermined and so render
ed unsafe. Some three years ago omi
nous signs of danger were observed,
>tml the cantonal forest master, llerr
S eli, warned the proprietors of the
quarries that they were carrying on
their excavations beyond the bounds
o"safety. The work went on without
i iteiTuption until Thursday, Sept. 8,
when the premonitions of disaster be
came so alarming that all the men
were withdrawn from the quarries;
yet DO one seems to have thought the
village was in danger until Sunday
afternoon, when, as the people were
coming from church, a quantity of
stones, rolling from the Tschingler,
crushed several houses in Unterthal
nearest the foot of the Alp. Ten min
utes later came the great catastrophe ;
a thunderous noise rent the air, a black
duht-cloud overspread the valley, and
all was still. In those two or three
seconds Uuterthal had disappeared,
and with it were buried nearly every
one of the unfortunates, who a lew
minutes previously were worshiping
in tbe village church. Scarcely any,
in fact, who on the lirst alarm crossed
tbe Sernf. either out of curiosity or
fear, to lend a helping hand to those
whose houses had been struck, escap
ed, and they included nearly all the
manhood of the village Forty dwell
ings, the best in the village, were
buried.
This is not the first disaster of the
sort in Switzerland, nor anything like
the worst. On the 4tb of September,
|r !8, the rich though small town of
Plurs, in the Grisons (near the Knga
dinc valley), was entirely buried by a
land slip. Over 2,400 persons lost
their lives. The sight is now occupied
by a fine forest of chestnut trees. No
remains of the town have ever come to
light, with the exception of a bell
which belonged to the church, and
which turned up twenty years ago.
On the 2d of September, 180<>, the
Uossberg, a mountain some miles to
the north of the llighi, gave way on
its eastern side, and slid down into the
lake of Lowers, w hieh is half filled up,
converting tho once picturesque slope,
studded with chalets, pasturages, aud
beards of cattle, into a chaotic mass of
mud and rock. 11l houses and 4f>7
persons were overwhelmed and seen
no more.
The occurrence of all these catas
trophes in September points to a
common cause, the overcharging of
the steep mountain slopes with water
after periods of unusual rain.
Never be without a bottle of that
pure, mild, compound, Peruna; take it
with first symtoin.
Dr. Chapman said he could cure all
disease with lancet, calomel and opium
You cau with peruna.
THE NEWS FROM YORK
TOWN.
How the City Received It—Quaint
Newspaper Announcements
—Demjnxtrations of Joy.
As tbe morning of Monday, October
Q2, 1781, wore ou towards three
o'clock' the footfalls of a galloping
steed woke the echoes of the southern
section of the city as the express rider
from the Revolutionary camp bore to
Congress the first tidings of the glori
ous consummation of
gje for freedom. It was about one
o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th
when Major H-imilton marched into
Yorktowu and hoisted the American
flag, while the British troops, 'seem
ingly much in liquor,' marched out to
deliver up their standards. From that
hour tbp untiring copier aped
through town and village, between
scant patches of cultivated land and
great woody wilds, sometimes resort
ing to water transportation, to carry
the great pows to the Continental
Government. Short time he stopped
for rest and fot}s, ftns, qppcars, the
fourth day of his ride was very young
when he drew rein to ask a dozing
watchman where he should deliver his
dispatches. This worthy took him to
the house of Thomas Mt Kean, Presi
dent of tbe Continental ('ongress, ftfld
just wuuiug to hear tne new?,
started, as i 9 related, on his rouuds,
warming the hearts of such as were
awake to hear him with the snout:
'Basht diee o'clock, und Cornvallis
isht dakeq.'
BOMB OLB-.YIME aOI.RNAI.ISM
Now in these days the city did not
rejoice in a daily newspaper and the
nearest approach was the Pennsy ra
ti ia Packet or General Advertiser, tbe
'live paper of the day. It was j>ub
lisheij eyery
fe>atui:day. The curious in such mat
ters hrave searched in vain for a broad
sheet issued on Monday, but the Pack
et of the 23d, No 707, contains on the
third page the following announce
ment :
- PHII.A. OCT.
fciarly yesterday morning an Ex
press arrived in town with the agreea
ble and very important Intelligence of
Lord Cornwallis and his army having
surrendered on the 17th instant aqd
\ye ifnpatieqt|y \yait the Arrival of his
Hxceilencv (Jen. Washington's dis
patches, particularising this most in
teiesting Event.
In the next number appeared the
dispatches SQ for, Meanwhile
a weekly sheet, the Freeman'« Journal
or North American luJelligencer,
'Open to all parties, but influenced by
none,' as its motto says, appeared on
the 24th, and filling the upper half of
its front page was a 'display' an
nouncement, of which the following is
a reduced reproduction :
BE IT REMEMBERED.
That on the 17th day of Ooctober, j
1781, Lieut. G*?n. Charles Eurl Corn
wallis, with about 5000 British troops,
hir rendered themfehes prifoners of
war to his Excellency Gen. Gen. [
George Washington, commander in
chief of the allied forces of France aud
America.
LAUS DEO!
MAJOR TIUJHMAN'S DISPATCHES.
It is worth mentioning that this
patriotic sheet was 'printed by Francis ;
Bailey, in Market street, between
Third and Fourth streets,' aud like'
the Packet it sold at sixpence. It will
also be seen that these publications
date the surrender from the first pis
sages ol the llags of truce. Well, the ,
historic records of the city go on to
pay how tho Whigs rejoiced exceed
ingly, while the Tories were corres
pondingly glum, and 'kept to their
houses for the most part.' Still fear
ing there might yet be a disappoint
ment—in short, thinking tho news al
m >st too good to be true—the Execu
tive Council still refrained from order
ing any public demonstiation, but on
Wednesday (24ih) Major Tench Tilgb-]
min completed bis famous journey,]
and placed in the proper banus the dis- \
pitches from Washington, of whom he
wis an aide-de-camp. Major Tilgh
nian bad started a day later than the
express, and traveled slower, and yet j
his time, four days, was then cousid- j
ered remarkably fast It is supposed
that be crossed the Chesapeake at An
napolis, landing at Tolehester Beach.
The gallant Colonel may here be dis
mi-sed with mention of the fact that
on October 2'J, 1781, Congress present
ed him with a sword in recognition of
his services.
A DAY or JOY.
Tho dispatches were delivered at 11
A. M , and forthwith the Vice Presi
dent of the State and the members of
the Council waited on the President
of Congress and the Ministers of
France and congratulations on all
sides were the order of the day. The
standard of the State was hoisted over
the State House and in the yard there
of the artillery fired triumphal salvos.
Congress held a session wherein many
resolutions were adopted bearing on
the event, most of them merely of a
routine character, but one appointing
a committee to determine the best way
of testifying the nation's gratitude to
I)e Grasse, I)e Rochainbeau and Wash
ington. Then Congress, the civic dig
nitaries, the military officers in town,
and the French Minister and suite
gathered in the Dutch Lutheran
Church, and there thanksgiving servi
ces to the God of victories were con
ducted by Rev. Mr. Dullield, one of
the chaplains of Congress. The church
was crowded with the God-fearing
citizens. At six o'clock the city was
illuminated and the streets were full of
joyous throngs. The display, which
is most elaborately deserilied in old
piints, is that of a French citizen,
Alexmder (Juesnay de Glovay, who
sympathized in the general joy. lie
placed in front of his apartment on
Twelfth street, below Chestnut,- a de
sign I»earing thirteen stars, which
sto id at once for the triumphant States
and thirteen virtues. From each ol
these a rav proceeded to a central one,
whereon the name of Washington was
inscribed. The uames of De Grasse
| and De Rocbambeau also appeared,
; garlanded with fleur-de-lis nnd accom
panied with the motto 'Huzza!' It
' appears to l ave been a wet night, that
| 24th of October, for the fireworks were
postponed on that account. Thev
were given next evening and were
'new and excellent of their kind,' while
in the repeated illumination, tbe alle
gorical design exhibited by Mr. Peale,
at the corner of Third and Lombard
streets, took the palm. The festivities,
in one form or another, seem to have
lasted throqgh the month and their
climax ap)iears to have been reached
when, on November 3, the volunteer
cavalry marched out to meet the cap
tured standards and bear them to the
chamber where the fathers of the Re
public sat to receive the trophies of
success.— Phila Times, O t. 19.
THICK # Of THE TOBA C\
CO TRADE.
Many apocryphal stories are told of
the way plug tobacco is doctored and
adulterated, but, sifted down, the
truth is fqlly expressed In the words
of prominent manufcturer:
'Nothing ever goes into tobacco as
deleterious or injurious to the human
constitution as the tobacco itself.'
Nevertheless, skilled workmen com
mand extraordinary bigb salaries for
the dexterity with which they make a
cheap or damaged lot of tobacco and so
disguise it in a wrapper as to deceive
even an old tar.
An average plug tobacco manufac
turing establishment work* about £OO
hands. Tbe tobacco is sorted into four
grades, from which are produced as
many as 75 different brands, the pen
cil of the artist and the skill of the
photographer being liberally brought
into acquisition for ornamental designs
to catch the tootsies* old man as well
as pr&jociows by. While the
government requires every package to
bear the stencil mark of the manufac
turer,'lt would be supposed that none
but straight goods would be put up ;
but it is with tobacco as it is with
whisky—always a fair dcm(M\4 for the
stuff, be it pyey so vde. Licorice, oils,
glucose and other sweets are
liberally used by some manufacturers,
and while it is certainly a cheat, it is
as well a harmless one. For example ;
On August 29, Virginia plua was
(juote(| at 4(S)4i cents, government tax
added 16 cents; yet the manufactured
product was quoted as low as 17 cents.
Evidently the work-up of these plugs
had the tobacco chewer by the lug.
Hut in fine-cut tobacco and cigars is
where the greatest deception is prac
ticed. A western manufaturer says
that there is no end to the adulteration
of fine-cut goods. Machinery has
been so improved that, as he says, with
one pound of tobacco liquor, obtained
by b Jl.ing down stems and refuse leaf,
one pound of rag weed and one pound
of slippery elm bark, five dollars worth
of finc-cut chewing tobacco can be pro
duced. The suggestion of slippery elm
bark was a now oue and the inquiry
was pursued farther He said it was
nicely shaved and mixed with tobacco;
that it had a pleasant, sweet taste,
held the tobacco together, and made
tbe 'quid' last a long time. The bark
costs about four cents a pound, and
when a third of it is made to replace to
bacco that costs as high as 75 cents a
pound, one can easily see the enormous
profit resulting A gentleman who
knows says that nearly all the slippery
elm trees in Ohio, Indiania and Michi
gan have been denuded of their bark,
yet a leading wholesale druggist affirms
that 50,000 pounds of slippery elm
bark wjuld, for their legitimate drug
gist and medicinal trade, glut the entire
market of the United States.
In cigars, cheroots, cigarettes and
smoking tobacco is where the public
gets robbed the worst. The cunning
devices are so many that even good
judges are imposed npon. It used to
be a boast among gentlemen that thoy
could always select a fine brand of
cigars, ami of course they smoked no
other. The other day an old smoker,
whose devotion to the weed, cost him
$5 every week, admitted tliut he
couldn't tell Havanna filled from Con
necticut filled. The di.»honest article,
how< vor, is the product of the big
mauufucturies, for the small country
uianufacturtr cannot afford the machi
nery nor conceal the lotions and decoc
tions that are brought-into requisition
by his wealthier competitor. It is
quite safe to assume thut about the
purest—no, not purest, for if there is
one thing impure, it is tobacco—the
honestest cigar is tho hand-made cigar
of the local manufacturer— Honton
Her.i Id.
TUP: LAW UK LATINO TO
CO UN T 1 INS 77 TUTES.
The following is the text of the law
relating to County Institutes:
SECTION 1, That from and after the
passage of this act, it shall be the du
ty of school directors of the several
school districts of this Commonwealth,
and they are hereby required to allow
the teachers employed in the said
school districts, who are actually en
gaged in teaching school therein, their
time and wuges while ultendiug and
participating in the exercises of the
annual county institutes for tho im
provement of teachers
SKC. 2 Thut ut tho close of the an
nual sessions of said institutes it shall
be the duty of the several county citv
and borough superintendents to make
a report to each board of school direc
tors in (heir respective jurisdictions,
setting forth the number of days that
each teacher shall have attended and
participated in the exercises of the said
annual teachers' institute, which said
report shall be the wages; provided
that the provisions of this act shall not
extend to the First School District of
Pennsylvania, nor to tho counties
wherein special laws regulating and
relating to county institutes are in
force.
Approved tho 7th day of June, 18# I.
When a lecturer has worked tho la
dies of his audience so near .to the
weeping point that they have gotten
out their handkerchiefs, and then sud
denly changes his tone and speaks of
the merits of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup,
he is houud to rouse a feeling of indig
nation.
advertising RATES.
On# square, one insertion. *1; each anba*
•pent insertion, 60 cents. Yearly advertisemen
| exceeding one-fourth of a column, f 6 pet inc
, Figure worn dotiLlo these rates; addition
charge* where weekly or monthly changes ar
made. Local advertisements 10 cents «er lin
Tor Brut insertion, and 5 cents per line fcr each
additional insertion. Marriages and deaths put.
lishcd free of charge. Obituw notices charged
as advertisements, and payable when handed in
I Auditors Notices. H ; Executors' and Adminia
IT.*' 0 ™ Notic e"- *3 each; Estray, Caution and
Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lice*
i each. '
From the fact that the Ciraui is the oldei*
established and most extensively circulated It«-
publican newspaper in Botler oountv. (a Repub
lican countyj it must be apparent" to business
men that it is the medium they slftmld use in
advertising their business.
NO. 50
A SOLEMN
At last the great question is settled.
Dancing is a sin. Not only the wick
etl waltz, tbe seductive tchottiche, and
the giddy galop, but also the staid and
sober square dances are sinful perform
ances, the slightest participation in
which bars the offender from Christian
communion and thrusts him forth an
outcast from the church. The Presby
terian Synod of Erie has so pronounc
ed by decisive vote, and all good Pres
byterians are bound to take notice and
govern themselves accordingly.
Our special dispatches from Erie
have given full accounts from day to
day of the progress of the memorable
trial which ended with this important
decision. Heber Donaldson, au active
lay member of a Presbyterian church
at Emlenton, was at a social gathering
in a private house, where some of the
folks proposed a quiet dance. The
call was made to 'Form on for a quad
rille,' and when several minutes bad
been spent in shuffling about, the
master of the ceremonies announced
there was 'one more couple wanted.'
After repeated urging Mr. Donaldson
consented to 'make up the set' by
walking through the figures under the
direction of bis partner, he being whol
ly innocent of any knowledge of the
art Terpslchorcan. When he had
blundered through the changes, 'put
out' all tbc other couples, and laughed
h>mself and been the occasion of much
laughter to others, Mr. Donaldson
took his seat, supposing that was tbe
end of the matter.
But it was not tbe end. Tbe news
that Heber Donaldson had danced was
next day the gossip of Emlenton. Tbe
current versions of tbe tale differed
widely. Jn some quarters it was as
serted he had not only 'quadrilled' but
had also waltzed around the room with
his arm around a woman's waist, and
in sewing circlep, Iroin which men
were rigidly excluded, the story ran
that he bad actually danced the coo
can—whatever that might be, though
it was certainly something abominable,
and hugged au impudent minx who
ought to be ashamed of herself. From
the sewing circle to tbe church social
and then to the church session was a
naturai progression, swiftly made. The
Presbyterian church of Emlenton found
Mr Donaldson guilty of dancing, and
excommunicated him. The condemn
ed appeal to tbe Clarion Presbytery,
which confirmed the decision of the
Emlenton Church Session. Appeal
was then taken to the Synod of Erie,
and by a vote of seventy-three to twen
ty the appealed was rejected and the de
cision of the Presbytery confirmed.
Mr. Donaldson is plucky, and proposes
to carry the case to the Qeneral As
sembly, meeting in Springfield, 111./
but in the meantime he is cut off from
church fellowship, and is an outcast
from the fold, because he attempted to
walk through the figures of a plain
quadrille, and, probably, made a mud
dle of it. He did this knowing tbe
position of the church and tbe senti
ment of his Emlenton brethren, and
therefore invited the punishment he
has received.
The grounds on which the condem
nation was asked and upon which the
Synod based its decision was that 'if
promiscuous dancing is wrong, all
dancing is wrong, for a lino cannot be
drawn between promiscuous dancing
and social dancing The game com
pany that would constitute a social
dance in a private parlor would be
come a promiscuous dance in a public
hall.' It was further settled by this
decision that if it is a sin to waltz
around the room it is equally a sin to
walk through Iho figures of a quadrille,
because the first step to music involves
all the possible wickedness of tho
dance. 'Dancing,' it was solemnly an
nounced, 'naturally leads to idleness
and dissipation, and from the social
party in tho private house the course
is steadily down, down, down, to the
deepest depths of vice.' Thus if four
couples walk soberly across the floor
of a Prospect street parlor, to the
drumming of a piano played by the
daughter of tho bouse, they will never
cease their march until they aro fling
ing their toes recklessly towards tho
ceiling in a Commercial streetdive. Wo
dare not venture to dispute this. The
only true safety therefore seems to lie
in not walking at all, or at least not
keeping step to music.
The Krie Synod should not stop at
dancing, but apply the principle it has
laid down t» other kinds of recreation
and ~leisur,.leisure —driving, for instance. A
recent melancholy case in Connecticut,
to which we have before alluded,
shoWt» tho necessity of some action. If
walking to music Is sinful, both be
cause of the bad influence it may have
upon weak souls and the inevitable
moral and spiritual ruin it brings upon
the original offender, then sitting be
hind a horse and holding tho reins is
equally vicious. For ho who ridea be
hind the sorriest plug acquires a tasto
that leads him to get a faster horse if
possible. Driving on week days leads
to driving on Sundays, involving tho
sin of Sabbath breaking, as Dr. Bacon's
case painfully demonstrates. No man
holding the reins over, the back of
even a rack of horse bones but has at
some time attempted to pass another
driver or keep ahead of him. That is
tho first step towards horse racing.
Therefore, he who first essays to
drive a nag will probably go on in his
wild career until he is speeding a horse
around a race track and buying pools
on the event.
Tho Krie decision comes in good
time at the opening of the dancing sea
son, and will undoubtedly have an
important influence in saving the wear
and tear of Cleveland carpets. For it
is a regretable fact that a large num
ber of I'resbyterians in Cleveland do
indulge in 'plain quadrilles' at social
gatherings, and the ease of lleber
Donaldson will be to them a solemn
and much needed warning.— Cleve
land Herald.
(Orunil K>I|>IIJN iilllea'J
A ItiillUcr'rt TV»ti moiiy.
Chas. S.Strickland, Esq., of 9 Boyls
town Place, Boston, Mass. after relate
iug his surprising recovery from rheu
matism by St. Jacobs Oil, says: I
cannot find words to convey my praise
and gratitude to the discoverer of this
liniment.