TUCEMPfIOW KATEB s Per year, in idniM $1 BO Othenriee SO* No unbfcriptioD will be dieoontinued until til arrearage* ere paid. Poetmeetere neglecting to notify ne when eabeeribera do not take oat their paper* will t>e bold liable for the eubaoripttnn. suoeeribera removing from one poetoffioe to another ahould give on the name of the former aa well aa the present office. All oommonioattona intended for poblication i n thi« paper moat be aoeompanied by the real name of the writer, not for pablioation bat ae a guarantee of good faith. Marriage and death noticee moat be aooompa nied by a reeponeible name. Addreaa TBI BVTI.BR CITIZEN. BOTLER. PA. I CHARLES R, GRIEB, | DEALER IN V* HATS, CAPS, i asd |k | GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, g ® lIATN STREET, BUTLER, TA. | Vi 11' 1 f"i | MY FRIENDS: N, I am a rambling wreck of nudity, B. •Yogg, Esq., at your service, advertising gent for the best Jewelry boose this ection. I wish to inform the public bat a foil line of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, PLATED AND SILVER WARE,is now being offered at astonishing- x y low prices at the popular and reliable 1 / -tore of \ I U^'er ' JEWELRY, SC., Hote What an old and Sellable House can do Regarding Prises. T> A NI-KEI Clocks at SIOO I A Good Striking Clock, waluut case 300 -Nickel Watch at 300 « u ii with alarms 150 " " " " " 8 day 3 65| Nickel Watcli, Stem Winder 400 A flood Striking Clock. ..................... 200 I 2 0«. Silver Cue, with Amer'n movement 10 Go|i " " " closed in the back 450 - Bl " g Ladies Gold Watches at *l2 75 gy ,41] kinds of Sewing Machine Needles at 35 cents per dozen, and No. 1 Sperm Oil at 10 cents per bottle. The only place in Bntler where yon can find a fall and complete stock of KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS, Ac 1g47. Rogers Bros.— A I. —none genuine unless stamped ("1847. —Rogers Bros.—A 1.") I also carry a full line of Eye Qlasses and Spectacles, suitable for all eyes and mounted i» the post elegant and substantial manner, and am of fering very superior goods at the most reasonable rates. Repairing of Watches and Clocks receives our very strict at tention, and is done promptly and warranted. E. GRIEB, Main Street, Butler, Pa. Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Yard. J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PURVIS S.G. Purvis & Co., VAUOTACTTTBHU AUD DIiLISIU Rough and Planed Lumber Or EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMES. " MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Buckets, Ganged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH. PLANING MILL AND YARD Near Gernu Osthslle fhireh J*n?-80-ly FARM FOR SALE. jtfee Philip Daubenapeck farm, situated in Mnrtew township, Mutler county, Pa., con taining seventy-five seres, more or less, or can make it one hundred ir wanted, eight? acres cleared, balance in good timber; all under good fence; irame house, frame barn, frame wagon shed and wash house, and other out buildings ; a good young orchard and fruit of all kind, farm well watered and in a good state of cultivation and is underlaid with coal, limestone and other minerals. The new railroad now surveyed runs a few rods north of the larm. It is situated in a good neighborhood, on the public road lead ing from Millers town to Brady's Bend, and two miles from Kara* City, and • township school house about twenty rods from the farm. - Will be sold reasonable. For further particu lars, inquire, It the farm, ot PHILIP DAUBEN3PECJL ALSO—A frame dwelling bouse with ten rooms, a large lot and stable situated ID the bor odgh of Butler, in the town called Bprfngdtfe, on the Preej»ort rond. The new depot Is located within a tew fods of this property. This is geod property, well watered, aud will be sold reasonable. Any one wishing to buy this prop erty will please Inquire at the ClTlzaw Owes, or of Philip Daubenspeck, near Kama City, Pa. BUTLER.COUfITY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. J. 0. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL. TREASURER H. C. HEINRMAN, SKCRETABT. DIRECTORS: J. L. Purvis, E. A. Helm bold t, William Campbell, J. W. Burkhart, A. Troutman, Jacob Schoene, G: O. Roessing, John Caldwell, Dr. W. irvin, J. i. Croll. A. B. Rhodes, H. C. Hetueman, JAS. T. M'JUNKIN. Gen. Ae't • PA. ' FOB SALE, CMtdlan Bred Htalllona, 1 DARK BROWN. TROTS 2:41. I 3AY, TROTS 2:37. ■Good sijee «nd vqtght. Particulars from M. M. Preeoott, Bo* 967, PUtsbVfb- Pa. VOL. XIX. Jfotlce In Partition. In the Orphans' Court of Butler county, Pa.. No. 6, Dec. Term, 1881. Commonwealth of Penn'a, Butler county, u : WHEREAS, on the Bth day of December, A. D. 1881, Margaret Lemmon, intermarried with J. M. H. Mellon ; Harriet, intermarried with L. O. Frazier; Elizabeth, intermarried with Joehua Kissick and Sarah E., and Nancy Lem mon, daughters of John Lemmon, late of township, Allegheny county, deceased, and grand-daughters of Thomas Lemmon, late of Butler township (formerly Connoquenessing), Butler county, Pennsylvania, deooiued, Pre sented their petition to said Court setting forth inter-alia that the said Thomas Lemmon died on or about the day of A. D., 1851, intestate and seized in his demesne as of fee, of and in a messuage and tract of land situ ate in said township of Butler (formerly Conno quenessing), county o£ Butler, bounded latterly on the east by Peter Graver and John Husel ton; on the west by Ferdinand Reiber. Bsq., and Dufford's heirs; on the south by William Shorts, and on the north by John Huselton and John Alsheusea' heirs,and containing one hun dred and twenty-five (125 a) acres, and one hun dred and twenty-nine (129 p) perches, more or less, with the appurtenances j that tbgy are children of the said John Lemmon, deceased, to whom it belongs to hare the equal one-sev enth part of said real estate in fee, as the heirs and legal representatives of the Mid John Lem mon, deceased, who was a son of the said Thomas Lemmon, deceased, and that to each of them the said petitioners it belongs to have the equal one-ninth part of the undi vided one-seventh part of said real estate in fee: setting forth i aes and resldenoes of the heirs and legal representatives of the said Thomas Lemmon, deceased, so far as known: that no partition of the said real estate had been made, and praying the oourt to award an inquest to make partition of the same to and amongst the parties entitled thereto, aooording to their respective rights, Ac., which said peti tion was duly verified by the affidavit oi the said petitioners ; whereupon the Court, on the same day, made an order granting a rule to show cause on the parties named aud interested therein, to be served personally on all parties within the Co., and directed notice to be given to all others by publication according to rules of court, to appear at the next term of oo art, and show cause if any they had, whv partition of the premises should not be awarded and made as prayed for in said petition—returnable to next term. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said or der of court notice is hereby given to the heirs and legal representatives of Hugh Lemmon, deceased, the heirs and legal representatives of Thomas Lemon, Jr., deceased, the heirs and le gal representatives of David Leuimon, deceased, the heirs and legal representatives, if any, of William and Robert Lemon, deceased, the hein and legal representatives of Jane Lem mon, deceased, intermarried with —— Wilson, Rebecca Lemmon, intermarried with —— Hal stead; Nancy Lemmon, intermarried with Spear, and the heirs and legal representatives of John Lemmon, deceased, heirs and legal rep resentations of the said Thomas Lemmon. de ceased, as named in said petition, and all others interested therein of the said prooeedings in partition; and to this end we command you and each of you that laying aside all business and excuses whatsoever, you and each of you be and appear In your proper persons before the Honorable, the Judges of our said Court, at a Court to be held at Butler in said county of Butler, Penn'a., on Mouday the Oth day of March, A. D., 1882, then and there to show cause if any you have why an Inquest to make partition or valuation of the real estate of the said Thomas Lemmon, dec-wed, should not be awarded as prayed for ii. said petition, and herein fail not. Witness the Honorable E. McJunkin, Presi dent Judge of our said Court at Butler, this 23d day of December, A. D., 1881. •j SEAL }• W. H. HOFFMAN, Sheriff. H. H. GOUCHER, Attorney for Petitioners. Union Woolen Mills. I irtrald desire to call the attention of the public to the Union Woolen Mill, Butler, Pa., where I have new and improved machinery for the manufacture of Barred and Gray Flannels, Knitting and Weaving Tarns, and I oan reoommend them ae being very dura ble, as they are manufactured of pure Butler oounty wool. They are beautiful in color, su perior in texture, and will be sold at very low prices, tor samples and prices, address, H. PCLLEBTON. JuIHTO-Iy) Butler, £a < ATE. iGBK Chicago & North-Western a-*t Is the OLDEST ! BEST CONSTRUCTED ! 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OF THC HC«U1I« FRRRUTCLM, UTIMTMMTSSM ftINGWORM, rrCHINQ AMD l»tun,«* I Barbers' ewttr rcpom, IT « * ITCH, ttr *a*v A* R EDM EM OF |WH|/ TH« GSEAT CU«« • NOSE J 'OR ITCHINO PICES." I DR. SWATHE A Son, FW ItHIH A HMO " J"ustice of tlie Peace Main street, oppoeite Postoflice, ljj ZELIENOPLE , PA. BETH PIPER'S CONTRIV ANCE. It car>Bed a great deal of excitement in Pipersville for some time. Nobody knew what it waa. Some people said it was one thing, others thought it might be something else ; but every body agreed that it was rather start ling to behold on a dark night. A boy named Tom Jackson, who had been (>Ut out of staging-school one evening, or making a disturbance, was the first to discover it; and it was said that his hair "stood on end," when he rushed back into the Bchool house, and shouted for everybody to come out. A few moments later all Piperville stood out doors in the darkness &pd wind, looking at it—the bright image of a man in the sky, holding a long sword raised above its head in the right hand, and some thing that glimmered like a lantern in the left. First it appeared to be ascend ing straight up ; then it paused awhile, and afterward moved off across the river, where it remained stationary some minutes. Next it came down slowly and hesitatingly, until it seem ed almost to touoh the lop of one of the tall pines on the opposite side of the river. Then suddenly it went up higher and higher and vanished. Not even the schoolmaster attempted to explain what it was. Comets, fall ing stars, an eclipse or two, and sever al other celestial wonders had been predicted for the Tear in the almanac and newspapers; but nothing like this mysterious thing had been mentioned. It made everybody feel a trifle awed, if not really scared, and the next day hardly anything else was talked about. 'I believe it's one of those pesky thing? that there's always pictures of in the front of the almanac,' said a boy named Jake Pixley. 'lt's got loose somehow and flyin' round, I reckon.' 1 'Wal, I guess not, sonny,' replied a good natured old man, Uncle Simeon. 'But maybe now its the angel Gabriel a-huntin' for somebody. Jest as like as not that'B what tis.' They were among the crowd gather ed around the stove in the village gro cery store, and Seth Piper stood near at hand listening to all that was said. He was a round faced thick-set boy, who never talked much, but 'always kept up a good deal of thinking,' peo ple said. Any one watching bim close ly on the present occasion might have fancied he wanted to laugh when Un cle Simeon suggested that the strange phenomenon was the Angel Gabriel. His eyes twinkled and the corners of his mouth twitched a little; but be suppressed whatever rigiblp feeling he bad and continued to whittle quietly a stick he held in one hand. 'I don't believe anything like it has ever been seen in this 'ere part of the world before or anywhere else,' said the storekeeper. 'Nor I either,' agreed a bronzed old farmer, who was sitting on a barrel and resting his cowhide boots on the rim of the stove. According to my idea, it's one of those kind of things that don't turn up every day in the year.' 'I never heared tell of anything like it afore,' Uncle Simeon said. 'lf it was the angel Gabriel, perhaps he was after thieves,' Seth ventured to suggest, turning a trifle red and look ing around. 'Thieves!' said the storekeeper, a little surprised. 'Thieves! eh?' queried Uncle Sim eon. 'Why, sonny, what put that idee into your head ?' 'Oh! nothing much. I was only thinking that may be be might light on those fellows who've been shearing my sheep over on the island. Stealing the wool, you know.' Seth let the glance he cast at those about him rest just an instant longer, perhaps, on Jake Pixley and bis broth er Dave than on any of the others, and then went on whittling as before. The farmer said that it beat all how mean some people could be, and during a moment or two the conversation took a new turn. Seth was the Widow Piper's bov, for whom all bad much respect. The sheep were a flock he had raised from a few cossets, and everybody knew that the money he usually obtained in the spring for their wool helped him to pay for a term at the academy in the winter. Conse quently, those who had a kindly fellow feeling expressed their sentiments; but shortly the phenomenon was the chief topic again. Nobody could ever imag ine, of course, that its appearance real ly had anything to do with the wool thieves, or that Seth knew anything more about it than he did of the man in the moon; yet strangely enough, it turned out in the end that such was the fact. During the next two weeks while all j were on the watch every night for an other glimpse of the image, Seth was busy watching Jake and Dave, whom he suspected were the guilty ones. He had laid several traps to detect them ; but without success. One night be had concealed himself among the trees on the island and waited for them un til daylight; another time he patroled around the island in a boat; but tbey always seemed to be awaie of his movements and either escaped before he could come near or postponed their visit till he was out of the way. What he was waiting for now, however, vias a good blustering, dark night, with a breeze blowing across the river. Then, if they chanced to be on the island, he meant to try their courage. As it happened, Jake and Dave Pix ley also were waiting for about such a night, and finally it arrived Scarcely a star was visible and the wind blew just enough to ruffle the river in waves and make a lonesome, melancholy noise in the pine grove on the island. Both boys got into their boat and pushed off into the darkness very quietly. 'They're all up to the school house and we can have a clear show, I reck on,' said Jake, in a low tone. 'Go slow and keep quiet with your oar,' his brother whispered. When they reached the island, they drew the boat up carefully and partly hid it under some bushes. Then they crept here and there stealthily and ex amined the surroundings before finally venturing la the direction of the long shed where the sheep were huddled to gether. 'Somehow or other, I feel kind of sbakv,' Jake whispered. 'lt's mighty risky business.' I 'Come on and don't be a calf,' Dave growled. But before either bad gone a dozen steps further both crouched down sud | denly and listened. Just over among the gloom v trees at j their left a dry limb had snapped, and I they heard it. For a moment the i shadowy outline of a man in the same direction was in danger of being dis covered. But they did not see it and walked on. 'lt beats all,' the man whispered, i keeping his eye on them, 'bow mean some people can be I'll tackle 'em, though, in a minute, without leave or license from any one.' He sat down and pulled off his cow hide boots, and then began to crawl along on his bands and knees slowly and cautiously toward the shed. In the meanwhile, over in the village it had been noticed that the frightful image waa again hovering in the sky and every one was becoming excited. A sleigbt-of hand entertainment, which had been astonishing an audience at the school house, was just finished, and as the crowd came out all saw the thing at once. This time it was away up high over the river, and was maneu vering around at a great rate, brandish ing its sword, swinging its lantern, and now and then darting through the darkness as though fighting the wind. 'Sakes alive ! What on earth can it be ?' Uncle Simeon exclaimed, standing stock still, with his wife Polly clinging to his arm, 'lt's got a heap more gumption than I like to see,' said the storekeeper, ner vously, 'I wish it would clear out.' In "fact, most everybody felt a little relieved when it began to move toward the island, instead of coming nearer. The sleight-ofihand man, however, who was a stranger and a tall, myste rious kind of a person, with very long hair, said, coolly, that he guessed he could shoot the thing easily enough, if any one would get him a gun. There was some hesitation, for the idea of shooting at anything of the kind seemed rather preposterous at first; but finally, Tom Jackson ran home, and brought back a rifle that belonged to his father. The magician then loaded it with much deliberation, in the pres ence of the wondering crowd, gauged the sight carefully, and walked away a few yards, to calculate the di»tauce. 'lt is too far off,' he said at length, somewhat perplexed ; 'but, if there's a boat handy aud a couple of you will row me out within range of it, I'll show you a thing or two about shoot ing.' His bravado and confidence in his skill induced the schoolmaster and a stout lad, named Sawyer, to volunteer their services, and in the course of seven or eight minutes the crowd stood on the bank of the river, ghastly silent, listening to the dip of the oars and awaiting the turn in events. The image, phenomenon, or what ever it might be called was now direct ly over the island. Indeed the man prowling on his hands and knees in the shadow of the pines (who, it might as well be stated, was the bronzed old farmer,) bad discovered it also by this time, and was wishing that he might be anywhere else in the world just then. Springing to his feet and seizing a heavy stick he almost held breath while he watched it slowly doscend. If the thing really was a judgment on those thieving boys, he meant to stand aside and let it have its own way. It appeared, though, to be coming down on him, instead of them, and he didn't want any mistake made. In the confusion of the next few mo ments, he saw the young Pixleys run , out from the shed into an open space aad look up at the image, as if they were suddenly struck dumb. It was coming down faster, and be shouted at the top of his lungs: . 'There they are ! There they are, Gabriel, over by the shed!' Instantly there followed a loud, sharp report, and the old man leaped into the air several feet, and then struck out for the shore, without hat or boots, wildly intent on reaching home, in spite of fire or water. The three in the boat, a short dis tance away from the island, saw him rush pellmell up and down the shore, and the boy Sawyer declared in some trepidation that be was the thing it self, with the brightness gone; but the magician said, impatiently. 'Bosh ! Nonsense !' and standing up, called out: 'Hello there! Who are you ?' 'Hellow !' the old man returned, as soon as he could get breath. 'l'm—l guess I'm Zeklel Tomkins. Who are you V In a moment or two the boat touch ed the shore and the magician and the schoolmaster sprang out. 'Did you see anything bright come down among the trees up yonder, a few minutes ago ?' the former asked, coolly. 'Yes, sir-ee. I reckon I did,' Mr. Tomkins answered puffing. 'Come along, then, and show us where it is.' 'Wal, I guess not, stranger. Not while I have got legs to run the other way. It's my opinion the tarnation thing is up there somewhere busted. You'd better keep clear of it. The man of magic laughed contempt uously and walked off to the grove. He believed he knew what it was, he said, and be meant to see if he hadn't put a hole through it. What be found hanging around the limbs of the pines perhaps the reader can easily guess; but the old farmer and most of the waiting crowd across the river were somewhat taken aback when they saw that the mysterious thing was a huge kite, having the rep resentation of a man drawn on it with damp phosphorus, that shed a bright, weird light. It was made of stout, coarse paper, colored black, so that no part could be visible except the phos phorescent figure. This had a common pasteboard mask sticked on for a lace, and the arms, sword, and lantern were also ingeniously fashioned of the same material. The magician's bullet had broken part of tbe main irame of the kite, Vvhith made it collapse. While the store-keeper, Uncle Sim eon, aud everybody else examined the coutrivance over and over and express ed themselves in more ways than one about it Seth Piper arrived from somewhere or other, a little out of breath, and looked on anxiously. Tbe thing was the pet invention of his ma ture years and he could hardly resist claiming it; but his bump of discretion kept bim from doing so. At any rate, be believed Lc had succeeded in giving tbose who stole his wool a good scare. And he had. Tbe next day Jake and Dave Pixley were missing, and their boat was fouud bottom side up in the river. A week later Uncle Simeon, wbo was tbe postmaster, received a crude letter scrawled on wrapping pa per, which he posted up where all could read it It ran as follows: "Uncle Sim, if the angell Gabrill ia still hanein round you kan let him no me and Dave has left and hain't no idear of cumin hack write of. in hast. JAKK PIXLBY. JAMAICA, N. Y. Our JBethetio Visitor. [Mr. Oscar Wilde, the young En glish poet, who is popularly believed to be the the original of Du Manner's Postlethwaite,' and is recognized in London as the leader of the esthetic movement, arrived in New York city a few wet-ks ago. Tbe following sketch of Mr. Wilde was prepared by an ardant 'aesthete,' whose enthusiasm has perhaps led him to somewhat over estimate tbe greatness of bis revered leader.] The master is among us, and al though the worshippers of the Beauti ful will hasten to lay their lilies at his grand and earnest feet there be tbose wbo know him not. To them it may be told that the Master is tbe son— speaking after the manner of wordlings —of Sir William Wilde, a well-known Lisb oculist, and of Lady Wilde, that sweet soft tbistle of poesy, in whose verses, signed 'Speranza,' are found tbe promise and {potency of tbe poetry of ber marvellous son. He is about twenty-eight 'years old, and gradu ated from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1878, when he won the Ncwdigate Prize for English verse, and be has since devoted himself of the cause of which he is the revered leader. He is tall, with broad shoulders, and yet witb a lily-like grace of from. His face is oval, with a chin of imperial splendor and an earnestly precious bose. H>B hair flows over his should era, aad, like tbe glorious dawn, he is beardless. Clothed with a white lily, and a few other less utterly divine garments, he is Beauty and Soul and Horticulture and Silent Music mingled together. It is as the incarnation of esthetic ism and the avatar of tbe unutterable that the Master is chiefly known in this county. Americans have gained some little knowledge of him from studying the solemn and beautifel ceremonies of 'Patience, a 'mystery,' which the pro fane vainly regard as a trivial and amusing farce, and in which the Mas ter is held up to our admiration under tbe guise of Buntborne. has been rashly defined as tbe search for the Beautiful, but those wbo have studied tbe words of the Master, as written iu his volume of poems, know that this is but half the truth. Tbe esthete reveres Beauty, but be also reveres all that is unthinkable and in tensely unformed. He perceives the supernal beauty of ugliness, the near ness of tbe infinitely remote, and be is, as one of tbe minor esthetic poets has exquisitely sung, "As pure aa the perfame of parting, Aad subtle and saintly as sin." The Master has labored but in vain if be has not taught these great and bluisb-yellow truths. He has shown us bow blessed and compact are tbe hollowneßs and worthlessnees of life. He has led us with his beckoning lily into tbe enchanted land where all is beauty, and where by comparison even gas and gaiters would seem prosaic and earthly. He is come as the missionary of tbe aesthetic to tbe benighted mill ion? of America to whom a lily is noth ing but a lily, and wbo have never dreamed that it is music and religion and ancient and modern languages and tbe use of the globes and a perforated chest-protector. To doubt bis success would be to doubt the sanity both of the Master and of his disciples. While he is here the Master will not only lecture—as the eartbly-minded would doubtless characterize his price less utterances—but will produce on the stage a tragedy which be has writ ten. We wbo may live to see not only tbe beginning, but the second or even tbe third act of that tragedy, will have known joys sadder than any surprise party, and' more cooling and soothing than purgatorial flames.— Harper's Weekly. FOUR LIVES SAVED Dr. Bulk's Cough Syrup relieved four of my chil dren of a most alraming attack of Whooping Cough, from which tbeir throats and necks became so swollen as to prevent them from swallowing. Nothing would give them even tem porary relief, until this Syrup was tried. One bottle in one nigbt, saved their lives, I verily believe. Geo. W. Earhart, Captain of Police, Baltimore, Md. A New York school girl has died from eating molasses candy, thought to have contained metallic poison from the copper kettle In which it was cook ed. Lovers of taffy will please take warning. Peruna had a remarkably good effect on my daughter's Paralysis. W. E. Duncan, Sewickly. A druggist of Belton Falls, Va., has been sent to prison for sixty days, 'for selling liquor as a beverage.' Wonder what tbey would have done to him if he had sold it as a liver pad or as a wash for removing freckles. If you have scrofula, don't fail to upe 'Dr. Lindsey's Blood Searcher.' Sold by all druggists. It will cure you. A now swindler has appeared in Lancaster county. He professes to have messages to his victims from friends out West and Iben when given lodging be robs tbe house and decamps. APYEB ™WQ RATJBj, On* square, one ioMrtioa, SI j aaeh —>TI quent insertion,so cuti. *—'j- - J 'lfiMii li exceeding one-fonrth of a oohuu, $& par tztak I Figxm work donl 1* theae riw: additional ! , wk ™+ WMdyar monthly ehan«ee M nad*. Local adTe.-tieamenta 10 eaaU Mr KB* knd 6 par ham for aMk Addition*] imertion, Mirriifti ud itnftn ML. ttahed free of charge. Obituvy noticaa ahatve* »• and payable whs* haeda/to I Auditors Noticea, 94; Executors' and trators' Notices. 93 each; Eat ray, Cutioa u4 Diaaolotiou Notices, not exceeding tan I in— aach. * From the fact that the Cmio la >ha nlilaat established and moat sxtensirsly circulated Be-' publican newspaper in Batter oounty, (a Wmn\ beau county j it moat be apparent to badMai. men that ft ia the medium they «ae in' advertising their baainaaa. NO. 14 A F rojeot to Pipe Ou Two Hun dred and Fifty Mllec. A company of well kaown capital ists have organized tbe 'Gas Light Transportation Company,' to mine coal and manufacture gaa in Pnaffl vauia, and pipe the gaa to eastern cities. A director of the compepy re cently said that they propose to erect gas work* that will manufacture' 40,-* 000,000 feet of gaa per day. This would require 1,460,000 tons of coal annually. Tbe coal can be boHght it the mines for 55 cents per ton, bat" the gas companies pay $4.60 per ton fat it. They save something by the sals of coke, tar, and atnmoniacal liquor, so that their coal costs them $3.14 per, ton, or 32 cents a thousand cabie feat of gas manufactured. One great sariag expected by the new company is in the cost of coal and in the transportation. Another saving will come, thej think,, from the freshness of the coal, since coal newly mined produces mora and better gas than coal that baa been ex posed to tbe air and weather.. The cost of pumping the gas is offset by the value of tbe coke. Tbe deterioration of gas in the long pipe they expect to counterbalance by making tbe gaa extra rich at first. The pipe is to be of iron, six feet in diameter, laid in hydraulic cement. [Kansas City Times.] Mr. William Hadeler at the Mara thon Hotel, Wansau, after extreme suffering with rheumatism, without any benefit from physicians or Tarioiia preparations, was cured by St. Jaeoba Oil.— Wis. Exchange. Tbe plan of making vaccination com pulsory, the same as in England, is be* ing agitated in many of the citiee where small-pox has been raging. My daughter's defective vision was much improved by peruna. James Cook, Bakerstown, Pa. Few people realize tbe value of • kind word or smile of friendly recogni tion. It has often revived a despondent spirit snd infused hope, when the per son bestowing it hardly gave the act ft moment's consideration. Never refuse such a simple offering. 'Father and mother being afifeted witb asthma, two bottles of' Sellers' Cough Syrup' has given them a new lease of life.' When a fond father presents his son with a new band sled, nothing pleases him so much as to find it at tbe foot of[ the kitchen steps when be goes after coal, and have it rear up and throw' bim in a corner with his bead in the coal scuttle and his mind in a condition no one can describe. Fifteen perrons, including an entire family, have been poisoned in Mianeeo taJrom eating raw ham. It would seem as though there had been enough trichina poisoning in this eountry of late years to keep people from so slight a gratification of the appetite as the eating of raw pork. Death by rate bane is deeidedly preferable. A lecturer on 'Manhood' says 'the average American boy of to day is in ferior to tbe average boy of a quarter of a century ago.' Inferior f Why, the boy of to day can smoke more rig* arettes than an average man of twenty five-years ago could consume; and he can utter more slang in one hour than tbe quarter of a century boy could sling in two weeks. An ineident is related in connection witb the small-pox when it appeared several years ago in a western town. The bedding on which a patient having small-pox died was burned, and a light wind prevaling at the time carried the smoke slowly in a certain direction, in the line of which tbe small pox appeared in a few days, causing the death of a large number of people. During tbe war Eugene Mergendabl, a hotel keeper of Kingston, N. Y. did an act of kiudness for a poor wounded soldier named Decker, wbo appealed to him for aid. Mergendabl cared for him until berrecovt red and told Decker not to worry about bis bill. Tbe sol dier departed and tbe landlord never saw bim again. The other day he WM notified by an Albany law firm that Decker bad died leaving bim bis entire fortune, amounting to $35,000. Tbe important part that may be played in any department of human activity by the men who do tbe very best in that department is brought to mind signally by the death last week of Siro Delmonico, tbe last surviving of tbe four brothers wbo made their name world-famous as tbe foremost caterers of the American continent This death, following so soon that of Lorenzo Delmonico, leaves but one of the Delmonicos connected with the ex tensive establishments built up simply by providing tbe best The proportion between males and females in tbe cities of the United States exhibited in the recent Qensoa bulletins differ so greatly from the pro* portion between tbem in the whole country that tbe figures are remarkable. In tbe whole country there is an excess of nearly a million males. Tbe precise figures are: —Males, 25,518,830: fe males, 24,636,965. But in almoat all the cities this proportion w reversed. There are forty-five cities of mere than forty thousand inhabitants, and in all but nine the females outnumber the males. To Refresh a Sick Penea Add about twenty drops of Darbyl Prophylactic Fluid to a quart of water, in bathing. It will give the skin ft soft, pleasant and refreshing feeling and dispel the odor that fever and pers piratiou leaves on the body. A small quantity of tbe Fluid sprinkled over anything, place or vessel where there is putrescence destroys .at once the germ of all animal or vegetable poison. A new vaccine farm has been started at Cbambersburg. —Tbe literal size of the 'straw bond' cases in Washington may be inferred from the fact that two bushels of bids made by one member of tbe Star Route ring at a single contractletting were brought into Court as evidence. These were 30,000 bids, and no wonder the Judges refused tbe defence's demand that each and every one of them to be i read.
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