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BUBHCBIFTIOR BATES : Par fear, to adrmaoe 91 SO Otherwiae 3 00 Ho snbecriptioo will be di soon tinned until all srrmiuh are paid. Poatmaatera neglecting to notify na when aobecriben do not take oat their papers will be held liable for the aubecripucn. saDaeribara removing from on* poetoffioe to another abonld gir* nt the nana of the former aa well aa the preaant office. All —imlnatlniia intended for publication n this paper moat ha accompanied by the real nama of the writer, not for publication bat aa a guarantee of good faith. Mirriage and death notices moat be accompa nied by a responsible name. Addraaa TBI BVTLEH CITIZKH, BCTLEB. PA. in I CHARLES R, GRIEB, I DEALER IN ? HATS, CAPS, P A* D & | GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, f MAT* STKECT, BL'TLEK, PA. ® JEWILRY, 81 1 T*l 11' i "fi I MY FRIENDS: \ I am a rambling wreck of nudity, B. Frogg, Esq., at your service, advertising vgent for the best Jewelry Louse this section. 1 wish to inform the public vVARE.is now being offered at astonishing- k y low prices at tbe popular and reliable V / tore of \ I Butler, Note What an old and Reliable House can do Regarding Prices. Round Nickel Clock* at $ 1 00 I A Good Striking Clock, walnut ca5e...... 3 00 Nickel Watch at 3 00 ft n ** with alarms 1 50 " " 8 day .* 0> .Nickel Watch, Stem Winder 4 »KJ A Ow»d Striking Clock 200 I 2 O*. SiWerCane, with Amer'n movement 10 00„ " " " closed in the back 4>o Ladies Gold Watche* at sl2 75 Iwr AH kinds of Sewing Machine Needles at 35 cents per dozen, and No. 1 Sperm Oil at 10 cents per bottle, .jgifl The only place in Butler where you can find a full and complete stock of KNIVES, FOIIKS, SI'OONS, &c 1841. Rogers Bros.—A I.—none genuine unless stamped ("1847— Rogers Bros —A 1.") I also carry a full line of Eye Glasses and Spectacles, suitable for all eyes and mounted in tbe most elegant and substantial manner, and am of teaaiar¥ mniTinr u " rates. Repairing of Watches and Clocks receives our very strict at- GRIEB, Main VOL. XIX. 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, lenry hhakelv, Parker twp., firmer. Francis Rivers, Winfield twp., farmer. Jliris. t'lil, Lancaster t'#p., shoemaker. Jhris. Texter. Jackson twp., farmer. Lbrarn Ziegler, Jackson twp., farmer. Biii in 1 MBBsaßarnsr^TTS If you wish to i GARDENING M crow vegetable* for r■ Kiilc, read iI'O I. I RO !• IT. H If VUU wish to | PRAf'TIf'A r jeeome afomiiicrclal 1... , , I'lorixt, read j I I/)RIC(JLTURP/, f you winh to Card i'ii i ARDENING of Amusement or for i lome (Jim only, read J KJll f'LKAHURE. All by Peter lienderaon< I'rlce 91.n0 each, postpaid by mall. Kir Combined Catalogue of SISKIJfS* I'IiAAFH Kor IH*2, wnt free on application. »ETER HENDERSON Ac CO 35 Cortlandt St., New York. he»B¥ a. Blue; I MERCHANT TAILOR, COR, PENN ANDtBIXTH STREETS, Pittnburyh, Pa gPAdrortifle in tbe Grim*. I AT Ifißl'S. Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Yard. J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PURVIS, S.Gr. Purvis & Co., If ANUrACTIIHBKS AND lIKALSKS 111 Rough and Planed Lumber OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, BASII, DOORS. FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH. PLANING MILL AND YARD W«»r (Jermaii Catholic CJhurcb Jan7-W-ly BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. Gf. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL. TKKASUKKR. H. C. HEINEMAN, SKCRETAKT. DIRECTORS: J. L. Purvis, I E. A. Helmboldt, William Campbell, IJ. W. Hurkhart, A. Troutiuan, . Jacob Schoene, O. C. Roesslng, j John Caldwell, Dr. W. Irvln, I J. J, Croll. A. B. Rhode*, I H. C. Hcliicman. JAS. T. M'JUNKIN, Gen. A«'t- J3TTTILSR/ PA. Union Woolen Mills. I would deairo to call the attention of the public to tbe Union Woolen Mill, liutler, Pa., where I have new and improved machinery for tho manufacture of Barrod and Gray PlannolH, Knitting and WoavinK Yarns, and I can recommend them an being very dura ble, a« they are manufactured of pure liutler oonnty wool. They are beautiful in color, im perii >r in texture, and will !>• acid at very low price*. Kor aamplea and price*. address, 11. FOLLERTON. Jnm.TA-ly) Hntler. i'% REMOVAL! The undersigned has removed hi* place of busi ness to IiIH OWII liiitliling one <H|iiitreHoutji of ('cmrt House, Main Hlri i'l, eiwt ulile, opptmlle I loiiiililtun Hollar, where he liuh u full stock of WttleilCN, t'lorka, Jewelry, Npeetaolew, ele. Wjiteiie*. Clocks, Jewelry. Spectacles, etc., promptly repaired hikl «ati»factlon guaranteed. P JU CIBEMBD. FKIIHIH ARMOR, Juwtio© of the Peace Maiu street, opposite I'ooLolllce, 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. ADVERTISING KATES, One squire, one insertion, 91; each subse quent insertion, 60 cents. Yearly advertisemeL ta exceeding one-fourtli of a column, 96 per inah Pignre work doa> le these rates; additional charges where weeily or monthly changes ar« made. Local advertisements 10 cents per Una for firut insertion, and 5 cents per line for eaeb additional Insertion. Marriages and deaths pub lished free of oharge. Obituary notices charged as advertisements, and payable when handed in Anditors' Notices. #4 ; Executors' and Adminia trators' Notices. #3 each; Estray, Caution an 4 Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. 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.