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Jury Llit lor March Term.
Lint of grand Jnror« drawn for tbe March
irm, commencing the flrat Monday of March,
sing the Gth day, A. I).. 1802.
William Auderoon, Middlesex Twp., farmer.
W. D. Armstrong, Jefferson Twp. farmer,
John Bar g ley, Franklin Twp., farmer.
H. A. Bry»on, Butler Twp., farmer.
Joseph L. Bart ley, Penn Twp., farmer,
ffm. Baatlan, Zelleriople. merchant
Hamnel Gumings, Marion Twp., farmer.
O. J. Daniueltt, Allegheny twp., producer.
Bobt Eakin, ConDOqaenesslDg, north, farmer.
Solomon Pleeger, Millerstown, midertaker.
Peter Fennel. Clearfield twp.' farmer.
Hordicla Graham, Forward twp., farmer.
Bobt. JohnMton, Buffalo twp., farmer.
JoMpti Lane, Oakland twp., farmer.
T. P. Mifflin. Washington twp , merchant.
Samuel Miller, Bntler borough, laborer.
George McJunkiti, Bntler borough, carpenter.
Timothy Nolan, Fairview east, farmer.
Bailey lteaghart, Clearfield twp. farmor.
P. F. Bay. Washington twp., farmer.
P. A. Battigan, MiUenrtown, editor.
J. H. Tebay, Butler borongli,
Wm. Ttilelman, Adam* twp., farmer. «.
J. H. Wick, Allegheny twp., liveryman.
List of traverse Jurors drawn for the March
inn of court, commencing the second Monday
f March, being the 13th day, A. I)., 1802.
W. 8. Bingham. Centrevllle borough, foundry.
Wm. Bowao, Forward twp.. farmer.
Samuel Brown, Harriet ille borough mochanio.
Patrick Black, Donegal twp.. farmer.
Matthew Brown, Penn twp., farmer.
Daniel Conway, Oakland twp., farmer.
W. H. H. Campbell. Venango twp., farmer.
Adam Dumbaugh, Centre twp., farmer.
Francia Double, Worth twp., farmor.
Daoiel Denny, Winfield twp., farmer.
Martin Eisler, Butler borough, gardner.
Bobt Elliott, Jefferson townahip, farmer.
Lawrence Etzell. Summit twp., farmer.
John H. Flick, Clinton twp., farmer.
C. A. Gormley, Venango twp., farmer.
Oeo. 8. Gibson, Saxoriburg. carpenter.
Henry Grimm. Winfleld iwp., farmer.
Wm. Haginbotham, Jefferson twp., fanner.
Wm. Johnston. Mercer twp., fanner.
J. R. JohnMton, Franklin twp., farmer.
John Jamiaon, Allegheny twp., farmer.
John Kline, Adams twp. farmer.
Cornelius Kelly. Oakland twp., farmer.
August Krtimpe, Clinton twp., farmer.
John Mcliride. Venango twp , farmer,
Walter A Minks. Middlesex twp., farmer.
Robert Moore, Muddvcreek twp.. farmor.
Oeo. Morrow. Hlipperyrock twp., farmer.
Wm. MeCurmlck, Bntler twp., farmer.
H. W. McCoimel Hlijiperyrock twp. 'armer.
I D H McQniatlon, Butler borough.
Joseph Manny. Butler borough, laborer.
Tboa. H. Matter. Buffalo twp., fanner,
laaac Meala, Washington twp., farmer.
Alfred Miller, Clay twp . farmer.
J. P. Morrison. Centreville borough, farmer.
Joaepb O'Donnel, Donegal twp., carpenter.
J. C. Patteraon, Worth twp,, farmer.
W. M. Porterfleld, Allegheny twp., firmer.
Henry Stokey, Jackson twp,, hotel keeper.
R. D. Stephenson, Hummlt.twp . fanner,
f. M. Stephenson, Cherry twp., farmer.
1. W. Hhannon. Oonno<pieiieKKiug tp., farmer,
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Francis Rivers, Winfield twp., farmer.
Jliris. t'lil, Lancaster t'#p., shoemaker.
Jhris. Texter. Jackson twp., farmer.
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I]J ZEUENOPLE .PA.
Bf'TLER, PA., WEDNESDAY; MARCH 1,1882
THE CONSC IENC E AND THE
FUTURE JUDGMENT.
I sat alone with ray conscience
In a place where time had ceased,
And we talked of mv former living
In the land where the years increased.
And I felt I should have to answer
The question it put to me,
And face the answer and question
Throughout an eternity.
The ghosts of forgotten actions
Come floating before my sight,
And things that I thought'were dead things
"Were alive with a terrible might.
And the vision of my past life
Was an awful thing to face, —
Alone with my conscience sitting
In that solemnly silent place.
And I thought of a far-away warning,
Of a sorrow th?-t was to be mine,
In a land that then was the future,
But now is the present time.
And I tkought of my former thinking
Of a judgment dav to be.
But sitting alone with my conscience
Seemed judgment enough for me,
And I wonder if there were a future
To this land beyond the grave ;
But no one gave me an answer
And no one came to save.
Then I felt the future was present,
And the present would never go by,
For it was but the thought of my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then I woke from my timely dream,
And the vision passed away,
And I knew the far-away warning
Was a warning of yesteriay,
And I pray that I may not forget it,
In this land before the grave,
That I may not cry in the future,
And no one come to save.
And so I have learned a lesson
Which I ought to have known before,
And which, though I learned it dreaming,
I hope to forget no more.
So I sit alone with my conscience
In the place where the years increase,
And I try to remember the future
In the land where time will cea««.
And I know of the future judgment,
How dreadful soe'er it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience
Will be judgment enough for me.
OUR FOREST FIRES.
Joaquin Miller in New York Independent.
Perhaps the greatest forest-fire and
certainly the most terrible in some re
spects that has yet occurred in our
country was that of 18C8, on the Gold
Coast of Oregon. This mining region,
reaching from California to the mouth
of the Umpqaa Itiver, a distance of
several hundred miles, consisted main
ly of a strip of black sand, sown with
finest gold-dust. This strip of sand,
being only a few inches in thickness
and wide or narrow as the morning
tide fashioned it, was marrelously
rich, and when first discovered, in
1850, drew a host of adventurers to
this coast.
In a few years they subjugated the
Indian, shot, hung, or bad sent to the
reservations the last native 'keeper of
the forest,' and the mighty woods,
stretching the whole length of the
coast and back from the very edge of
the sea, was left untenanted. Those
majestic trees reached to the summit of
the Coast Itange, where the dense
black monarchs topj»ed above the
clouds and in one or two places touch
ed eternal pnow.
Pine, cedar, fir of many species,
yew. tamarack, and almost every kind
of evergreen, as well as a dense but
less ambitious undergrowth of decidu
ous trees shut out the sun from almost
every foot of these most fertile lands,
which sloped back and up from the sea
to the snow.
The fine timber attracted lumber
men, and mills were soon established
all up and down the coast. San Fran
cisco was built and re built from these
woods.
The best trees only were cut down,
and, of course, only the best part of
each tree was used. The remaining
part of each fallen monarch was left to
dry and make fuel for the destruction
of what trees the lumbermen left stand
ing.
In a few years the debris from fal
len trees was, of course, very great.
This, added to the annual increase of
leaves, moss, cones, and so on, made a
a strata of combustible material that
only waited a dry season to sweep the
whole land as clean as your palm.
Of course, mill-owners and the few
settlers dotted down here and there in
the dense wood were not entirely blind
to their peril ; but they certainfy had
little conception of how terrible the
fire would be when it came.
I spent *.ie summer of 1802 hero,
and well remember that mill-owners
kept men constantly patroling the nar
row roads in the deep, dark woods
reaching to and from their property
and watching for fires night and day.
The accumulation of rotting and
dry material had become so great that
spontaneous combustion, one of Na
ture's ways ol relieving herself of such
a load, was not infrequent in the dense
and somber forest.
In the autumn of 1858 the long
dreaded fire was fanned into uncontroll
able fury by a strong wind-from the
sea and this once most magnificent
forest in America was doomed.
I did not see this fire; but I think,
from what those few surviyors who
saw it hare told me, it was the most
fearful as well as the most magnificent
sight that has over been.
A young settler, with his wife and
two children, the youngest an infant
of only a few days old, told me only a
few weeks after the lire his snd exper
ience in this conflngration. and I know
of nothing more dreadful.
His eabin lav a mile from the sea by
the side of a lumber-road, and he hud
a little garden and some fruit trees
planted about the door-yard
The autumn was late and hot and
the whole woods were hazy and dim,
so that one could not see far, even
down the road toward the sea.
Suddenly, one afternoon, he saw a
California lion leap over his garden
fence and creep up the path toward
his door. The man took down his
gun ; but the lion had her young whelp
in her mouth and kept creeping closer
and closer to him, looking back over
her shoulder with her eyes large and
luminous, yet in such a pleading
human look that he did not shoot, but,
tfueHHiritf the anful truth, he went back
into the house, took up the baby and
another child, and. leaving his wife
asleep, rushed down the road for the
sea.
Before he reached the sea the bady
was dead, and the other child died
soon after from suffocation. His plan
of returning for the poor, helpless wife,
as soou as he had carried the children
out of danger, was, of course, now an
impossible one.
The coast was not so populous by a
great deal as it had been. Only a few
hundred people now remained and the
houses in the towns were not half in
habited. But the only escape for any
' one was the sea, and even here the
smoke soon fell so dense that men
could hardly see each other's faces and
children died from suffocation.
One woman, who had got separated
from her husband in trying to reach
the sea. had three children with her,
all of whom died, from one cause and
another, during the dark and dreadful
days that followed. She was found
wandering up and down the beach by
a Government ship, which touched
here soon after, and taken to San Fran
cisco, where she died in an asylum for
the insane.
Perhaps the most remarkable sight
here was the howling mass of wild
beasts driven down to the very narrow
beach by the flames. The young set
tler spoken of tells me he was crowded
and pushed about by bears and other
beasts more than once, as he groped
along the sands, with his dying chil
dren in his arms.
Another man, who was fortunate
enough to find a boat to escape in,
told me that rats, reptiles, squirrels,
rabbits, deer, elk, and, indeed, all kinds
of beasts or creatures that inhabit the
Oregon forests, crowded together as if
one family and did not attempt to harm
each other.
This man, with his friends in the
boat, fearing they should suffocate if
they remained or have their boat
swamped by the millions of crefc.'nres
that crowded into the sea, put out to
a little group of islands which lie a
few miles out from the shore; buteVen
there they found they had been preced
ed by bear, elk, deer, and other large
quadrupeds. He asserts that he sat
side by side with an enormous brown
bear that night, looking back at the
fire, which swept twenty miles up the
mountain from the sea and up and
down the coast one solid sheet of flame.
He says the beasts howled dolefully
for their lost young, and that even the
sea-cows came up out of the sea on the
little islands and, lifting up thiir large,
melancholy eyes toward the burning
forest, joined in the universal wail.
Remote from all communication,
this conflagration did not get to the
ears of the world and its story has
never been fully told. I think no one
ever knew how many people perished.
Perhaps not a great many, but that
forest perished utterly. And as you
sail up or down the Oregon coast, all
the way from Coos May to Gold River,
you only see standing the storm
whitened trunks of a few of the most
sturdy monarch?, which were not en
tirely consumed.
Born and brought up in the wilder
ness, I am familiar with a few facts
about these great forest-fires, the cause
and the remedy, which are not gener
ally known, and to these facts I beg to
call the attention of Congress and the
country.
I suppose no one can be found in all
our broad land who has not contribut
ed something toward the aid of the
Michigan sufferers, even though that
something was only honest pity and a
prayer; but the truth is, this and like
calamities are not to be encompassed
or overcome by the contribution of
either money, pity or prayers. These
fires will be repeated. Men at the
head of the nation must look at this
matter, study it, take it in hand, and
come to understand it. Millions of
property lias been destroyed ; hundreds
of lives lost. A thousaudsquare miles
of the country is in blackness and deso
lation, as if in deepest mourning.
Why ? Is not one to blame '( Must
the land lie still and be consumed ?
Must the hard-fisted farmer, whose face
is to the earth, and whose eyes are
blinded by dust, and whose intellect is
dulled by toil, be burned out whenever
and wherever tbe winds happen to
blow or lires to lav hold of a dry and
combustible forest ?
Not at all. The remedy or preven
tion is simple and certain, and it rests
with the Government to make practi
cal application of it; or, should the
Government fail to move in the mat
ter, the farmers and settlers themselves
may do much to prevent these fires,
if they will only follow the practice
and precautions used by the Indians
when they had command of the forests,
as I shall presently describe.
We all know how the country be
comes dulled and indifferent to a great
calamity as soon as the dead are buried
out of sight; and we know how men
shut their ears, with a slam in your
face, as it were, after the excitement
is over. A very good man may give
five or fifty dollars to aid the sufferers,
as in a case like this, and then button
up his pocket, and, thinking he has
done a very generous thing and nil that
can possibly be asked, turn his back on
the whole affair and dismiss it from
his mind.
Hut this is an affair not to be forgot
ten. Nature will not allow it. If not
attended to, it will be repeated and re
peated, as it has been repeated, till
some day the calamity will be so ter
rible that neither contributions of mon
ey, nor prayers, nor pity can persuade
forgetfuliH-ss.
I have waited in vnirj for some sug
gestion from the thinkers of the land
and those in authority, by which these
forests, property and human life might
not be so foolishly sacrificed ; but the
press and the people are quietly
to sleep over the question, as they did
over the terrible calamities in these
same Michigan forests now more than
ten years aj{o.
And right here I stop and wonder
how many will remember the fearful
fires in the Michigan forests a decade
sinbe. The bodies of a whole family
found in a well here; the heaps of
charred bodies found in the woods,
fields, and even by the water's edge,
where the miserable people crouched,
to escape the fury of the flumes which
were fed by the accmulated debris of
many years.
The fires of ten years since were, in
fact, very much like those «>f this past
year, which have just now had the ears
of the world ; only they were overlap
ped by the conflagration in Chicago
ami forgotten almost at once.
The remedy or, rather, the means of
preventing these is natural, simple,
and easy. We have only to follow the
thoughtful example of the Indians each
year, and our forests and those making
their homes there are safe enough.
The remedy is to have fires regularly
every year, instead of every tenth
year or as chance compels t l iem. In
this single line lies the whole secret.
GHASTLY HORROR*.
It was the night before Christmas—
18G3. Our brigade had been in camp
on the Rapidan for a fortnight, and
everybody thought the campaign had
closed. Winter quarters had been
erected, cold weather had come, and
those who had marched and fought
the long summer through, congratula
ted themselves on a season of quiet
and rest.
The picket lines were about half a
mile apart, and the Confederates be
yond the river were also settling down
in winter quarters. It was Stonewall
Jackson's old brigade in front of us,
backed by that of Walker and flanked
by other Confederate troops. For a
week there had been no filing by the
pickets. War's cold-blood( ! Hi murders
had been replaced by a spirit of peace,
and the men who had felt the tiger's
tbirst for blood now asked no more
than to rest undisturbed.
Such was the situation, when just as
the gloom of the night before Christ
mas settled down over friend aud foe,
my company was ordered out undor
arms. It afterward appeared that in
formation had been received to the ef
fect that Gens Lee and Johnston were
at a farmhouse just within the Confed
erate lines, and our mission was to cap
ture them. Therefore in the gloom of
the winter evening, with dark banks of
clouds racing across the heavens, and
snow squalls skurrving down upon us
at intervals, we mounted and set off on
a trot for a ford seven or eight miles
above camp. The lower one we knew
to be heavily guarded ; the upj>er one
we hoped would be open. And so it
was. The cold, swift river, already
covered with floating ice, was guarded
enough, the Confederates thought.
The water was breast high to the poor
horses, and most of them shivered like
a man with the ague as they reached
the opposite shore. It was only mer
cy to them to let them indulge in an
hour's gallop
A fur off wo saw the light of a farm
house— not one light, but every win
dow toward us was illuminated, prov
ing that even in the shadow of war's
ghastly horrors some one was remem
bering that Christinas would come
the morrow. That house was our ob
jective point. The highway led straight
past the door, and a sudden dash must
surprise all who had gathered there. I
knew what our men were thinking of
as they formed in column a quarter of
a mile away for the charge. Every
father's thoughts went back homo to
wife and children and Sauta Claus and
little stockings hanging up for presents,
and I believe that every man truly
hoped that we might not fire a gun or
shed a drop of blood on this night,
which belonged to peace instead of war.
As the word was given to sweep
forth at a canter, in three minutes we
had encircled the house. 1 was one of
the dozen troopers ordered to dismount
and dash in to secure the prisoners,
aud I was the second insido. This was
the sight we saw as we poured into
the big room. A gray-headed grand
father and grandmother, a soldier with
his arm in a sling, a wife and mother,
a half-grown daughter and three or
four men and women who must have
been neighbors. There was an open
Bible on the grandfather's lap, three
little stockings hung beside the chim
ney, and in the room beyoud was the
table at which all were about to sit
down as we entered. It seemed a
whole minute before any one moved.
We had surprised them, and in turn
had been surprised. Our information
had been false, and we had made a ride
of a dozen miles to burst in on a scene
of peace. We were still standing there,
"speechless with surprise, when there
came a sudden pop ! pop! pop! of mus
ketry, followed by shouts, orders, and
the clash of steel. I had no sooner
mounted my horse than I saw we were
surrounded by infantry. We charged
straight at the mass in the road before
us, but were driven back. Then wo
charged up the road and run upon a
battery of three pieces. As wo were
forced back the whirled round
and round the farm house. There were
a dozen to one, and though w? charg
ed again and again, ten minutes put
an end to the Of the eighty-five
men who had left camp ten had broken
through, fourteen were prisoners and
the remainder lay dead on the trampled
snow, along with a score of Confeder
ates.
The Htnrk corpses of men—the agon
ized groans of wounded horses—the
snow molting with the warm streums
of Mood—thut wus war's chances.
I looked into the house through a
shattered window. The grandfather
lay stark and stiff on the lloor, his
blood staining the Bible as it poured
out. The grandmother was lying at
his feet, her snow white hair matted
with blood, and her eyes closed in
death as I looked upon her. The sol
dier ami his wife were unhurt, but they
had better been dead. The three little
stockings hung as before, but one by
one they brought out the three curly
h< ads who had brought them there,
and they were three corpses ! Bullets
meant for enemies had sought out these
little innocents as they slept and dream
ed of Heaven, and men who had gazed
upon i thousand dead unmoved, shed
tears as the little bodies were laid on
the floor just under the stoekiritfs Santa
Claus was to lill ami bring joy to their
hearts. It was midnight now. Christ
mas had dawned upon white hairs
.ntained with blood—childish hearts
stilled l>y murder—men groaning in
anguish—women with breaking hearts
—God's mantle of purity blotched and
dabbled and crimsoned, until the win
ter moon cropt behind the darker clouds
to hide the spot with shadows.—M.
Quad.
It 1 had any nkin or blood disease,
like tetter, itch, scold head, pimples,
sore eyes, scrofula, etc., I would take
Blood Searcher,' sure.
The Curious Document Left bj
u €jiret a ii% ille IMij Niciun.
The will of David Edgar, the eccen
tric physician of Greenville, recently
deceased, was admitted to probate by
Register of Wills R. G. Madge on
Saturday last. The authenticity of
the paper was proved by the affidavit
of W. J. McCrea, W. R. Fessler, E. F.
Curtis, D. W. Grimm and E. P. Gil
lespie, and the proof of death was
made by James M. Broun. All the
gentlemen are of Greenville, and were
well acquainted with Dr Edgar. The
old gentleman had very peculiar relitri
ous views, and his will is a curious
document. Following is a verbatim
copy :
"I, David Ktlpir, of Greenville, Mercer coun
ty, Pa., do make this my last Will and Testa
ment, as fjllows, to wit: First, that all my
debts and funeral expenses be paid, and that
five hundred dollars be given to my Sister
Kliza Hamilton and five nundred dollars to
Mrs. Lucy Grim; then the balance of my
property, monies, real estate and mixt leave, in
trust to*E. F. Curtis and Albert Harriott aud
David W. Grim to be disposed of. as I shall
hereafter direct.
"First, I want all my affairs to remain as
they are for one year after my dem ite —then if
1 can't direct them through a spirit medium
how to dispose of mv etj'tcts 1 wisli them to con
vert my storeroom on Main Street iuto a Hall
or Church that it may not be taxed like other
churches, 1 want this to be used for free speech
and the propagation of Spiritualism but all
shall be excluded who preaches priest craft —in
July 9 | 80 D. EDGAR."
The will is written on a single sheet
of paper, in a cramped hand and in
ink. Below the signature is scrawled
in blue pencil :
"I Wish Win. Fessler, Albert Herriott and
David Grim to be my Trustees."
Letters of administration have been
granted to James C. Brown, the heirs
mentioned in the will having empow
ered him to take charge of the proper
ty. The estate is valued at from $lO,-
000 to §15,000, the greater part beiug
in real estate. The property on Main
street, where the directs the hall to bo
erected, consists of a two story brick
building, used as a store.
Dr. Edgar's funeral took place in
Greenyille on Wednesday afternoon
last, and was largely attended. No
minister officiated, but au old friend
and co-religionist of the deceased, pro
nounced an oration over the remains
It was iu the Ingersollian vein, and
signified nothing of the future, though
the good qualities of the deceased were
very eloquently brought out. The
speaker said the doctor had been pos
sessed of many Christian qualities,
though he would not want them called
by that name. Dr. Edgar had rnauy
friends among all classes of people.
One of the gentlemen named in his
will as trustee is an orthodox church
member. It is too soon to say how
the provisions of the will may bo car
ried out; but it is not likely that the
trustees or the administrator will re
ceive any further directions from the
deceased. The wording of the will
BIIOWS that while he was a thorough
spiritualist, he had grave doubts about
bis ability after death to communicate
with his friends on earth.— Mercer He
publican, Feb. 2.
[Chicago 1 nter-Ocean.]
I'erilM ot llie Deep.
The world-renowned swimmer, Capt.
Paul Bojton, in an interview with a
newspaper correspondent at the sea
shore, related the following incidents
in his experience:
"Reporter.—Captain Boyton, you
must have seen a large part of the
world ?"
Capt. Boyton.—"Yes sir, by the aid
of my Rubber Life Saving Dress, I
have traveled over 10,000 miles on the
rivers of America and Europe ; have
also been presented to the crowned
heads of England, Franco, Germany,
Austria, Belgium, Italy, Holland,
Spain and Portugal, and have in my
possesion forty-two medals and decco
rations ; I have three times received
knighthood, and been elected honorary
member of committees, clubs, orders
and societies."
Reporter.—"Were your various trips
accompanied by much danger ?"
Capt. Boyton. —"That depends upon
what you call dangerous. During my
trip down the river Tagus in Spain, I
had to "shoot" one hundred and two
watorfalls, the highest being about
eighty-five feet, and innumerable rap
ids. Crossing the Straits of Messina,
I had three ribs broken in a fight with
sharks ; and coming down the Somane,
a river in France, 1 received a charge
of shot from an excited aud startled
huntsman. Although all this was not
very pleasant, and miirht IN; termed
dangerous, I fear nothing more on my
trip than intense cold ; for, as long as
my limbs are free and easy, and not
cramped or benumbed, I am all right.
Of late I carry stock of St. Jacobs Oil
in my little boat, —(the Captain calls it
"Baby Mine," and has stored therein
signal rockets, thermometer, compass,
provisions, etc.) —and I have had but
little trouble. Before starting out I
rub myself thoroughly with the article,
and its action on the muscles is wonder
ful. From constant exposure I am
somewhat subject to rheumatic pains,
and nothing would ever benfit me, un
til I got hold of this Great German
Remedy. Why, on my travels I have
met people who had been suffering
with Rheumatism for year*; by my
advice they tried the Oil, and it cured
them. I would sooner do without
food for days than be without this rem
edy for one hour. In fact I would
Lot attempt a trip without it."
The Captain became very enthusias
tic on the subject of St. Jacobs Oil,
aud we left him citing instances of the
curative qualities of the Great Ger
man Remedy to a party around him.
The Ni. Lnwrnice Tunnel.
The railway tunnel under the St.
Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is to
have the following dimensions : En
tire length, about '21,700 feet; open
cuttings on Hochelaga side, 2,f>00 feet,
and on the Longucull side, 4,220 feet;
actual length of tunnel proper, 11,980
feet. it. is to be 20 feet wide inside
and 2.1 feet high. It will be lined with
brick masonry throughout, except the
fronts, which will have facades of stone.
The arch will vary from 20 to .'lO inchos
in thickness, according to the charac
ter of the ground to IHJ supported.
For nervousness and Chronic Ca
tarrh take I'eruna. I tried it. L. K.
Vlyslcr, Allegheny City, Pa.
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From the fact that the OITUBK is 'he oldest
established and most extensively circulated Re
publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub
lican county> it must be apparent to business
men that it is the medium they should use in
advertising their business.
NO. 15
Mrs. Vanderbtlt'M Love Letters.
A New York letter to the Detroit
Post says: 'Commodore Vauderbilt's
widow came originally from Mobile,
and bad a great influence over the
Commodore She has lived % very
quiet life since the Commodore's death,
spending most of her leisure in opening
love letters and prosecuting the chari
ties which he undertook. She frequent
ly sits up with her secretary till mid
night answering letters—not love let
ters. The number of proposals she
has received for her well-endowed hand
since the Commodore was taken from
her is estimated, by those who are
nearest to her, to be between five hun
dred and tvo thousand. Many of
them arc accompanied by photographs
which wildly and vainly endeavor to
set forth the charms of the writers.
These missives furnish no end of
amusement to the family, at No. 10
Washington Place. But Mrs. Vander
bilt, though barely thirty-six, and a
prepossessing woman, declares lhat
she will marry no more, and she smiles
upon no suitor. Gossip—many-eyed
and many-tongued—is not even busy
with her name. A tar-heel from the
Western Carolinas is among the most
recent who have sought her hand. He
naively and innocently assured her
that he had knocked togethor a little
cabin of bis own, and if she would
only be his he 'would support her as
long as she lived.'
A Two Nile Walk Under Lake
Michlicnii.
About the middle of January the
old tunnel under Lake Michigau, for
the water sup'v of Chicago, was pump
ed out for an examination of the ma
sonry. On the 24th of January, May
or Harrison, with the city engineer
auil several reporters, walked through
the tunnel to the crib, a distance of
two miles, on a tour of inspection.
The bottom of the tunnel at the land
end is sixty-eight feet below tho sur
face of the earth, and the party were
let down into the great bole at 2:15 P.
M. With lighted miners lamps they
started on the journey, which was found
to be laborious as well as uncomfortable,
the water being ankle deep and tho
tunnel not quite high enough to per
mit a man to walk erect. The mason
ry was found to be perfect, and in com
memoration of the trip, which took
one hour and thirty-fire minutes, the
Mayo* screwed a brass plate to the
wall of the tunnel 3,000 leet from shore,
bearing the inscription:' Water let in
March 24, 18<>7. Tumped out Janua
ry 18, 1882. Found in excellent con
dition.' A climb of a series of ladders,
seventy-two feet long, brought the par
ty, well nigh exhausted, to daylight at
the crib.
Tront Breeding*
Any person in possession of a spring
producing a supply through the year
of from one to one huudred square
inches of pure water may grow, with
right appurtenances and requisite
knowledge and care, from fi,ooo to (50,-
000 trout in one year, worth, at pres
ent prices for stocking ponds and
streams, SIOO per 1,000, or 500 to 50,-
000, to weigh a pound each, worth $1
per pound. The first thing necessary
in trout culture is the construction of a
pond, which must be fed by pure spring
water, and miißt be kept clear and
fresh. It is essential to tho preserva
tion of the trout that the temperature
of the water be preserved at from 40°
to 50°. The success attendant upon
the culture of trout is instanced in the
establishments of Seth Green, Livings
ton Stone, and other rioted fish cultur
ists, who realize large profits from this
source.— Sea World.
'What Is heaven's best gift to man ?'
she asked, sweetly smiling on him,
'Dr. Bull, b Cough Syrup,' he replied
with prudence. He had just been cur
ed by it of a bad cold.
'There!' triuphantly exclaimed a
Dead wood editor, as a bullet came
through the window aud shattered the
inkstand. 'I knew that new 'Per
sonal' column would be a success.'
I had great trouble with my lungs
until I used Poruna. Am well. Mrs.
A. Briske, Pittsburg, Pa.
A correspondent who doesn't give
his name states that he objects to vac
cination and says: You that are af
fraid of ketchin' the small Pox or any
Fever; 1 would advise you to eat a
piece of raw Onion and salt, once or
twice per week ; and I will guarantee,
you will never be troubled with any
contages disease; onions are holesomo
food, and I prefer them anytime, to
vaccination ; better spend that Dollar
for Onioue.,
Happy homes and smiling faces are
invariably the result of wise parentft
constantly keeping 'Sellers' Cough
Syrup' on haud. Prico 2f>c.
The story of the drowsy Hungarian,
John Gyumber, who fell asleep in a
Pennsylvania baroom, and continued
to slumlier for days, weeks, and
months, cannot wholly have boon for*
gotten. Me is wide awake now and a
steady worker in an Allentown rolling
mill, whether ho regrets not having
dozed on until he had rivaled Rip Yan
Winkle is not stated But though he
did not l>egin his nap with the purpose
of acquiring celebrity, he is content to
have waked up and found himself fa
mous, Even the Seven Sleepers of
Ephesus can hardly have enjoyed the
interest they aroused so long as they
were still sluml>cring. Though John
Gyuml»er has passed to the routine life
of a mill hand, generations honco his
case will doubtless from time to time be
quoted with a revival of the wondor
which has for the present changed
either into familiarity or forgetfulness.
Mr. O. B. Potter, who owned the
World building in New York, is real
izingthat to beja landlord implies some
thing besides collecting rents which
yield a large profit on the capital in
vested. In addition to his presence
before a coroner's jury, be has now to
stand a suit for damages brought by
one of his tenants, with the cortauity
that if"thin test suit goes against hiin
lie will have a goodly number of others
immediately ou his hands. To lie a
landlord involves responsibilities as
. well as profits, and the lesson caunot
I be too strongly impressed.