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VOL. XIX.
PUBLIC SALE .
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mint mil mm.
BY order of Court, the undersigned Receiver
of the First National Bank, of Butler, Pa., '
will offer at public sale, at the Court House, in
Butler, on
Thursday, March 16th, 1882, I
at I o'clock, p. m., the undivided three-eighths
{%) of the following described tract of land, of
said bank, to wit : Situate in Concord township.
Butler county, Pa., bounded on the north by
McClelland farm, east by Wick farm, south by
land of Byers and others, and west by Kepler
farm; one-story frame bouse, log house, log barn,
and orchard thereon, containing thirty-thrae
acres, more or less.
TEBMS— One-half cash on day of sale, and the
other half within six months thereafter, with in
terest, and with such security as shall be satis
factory to the Receiver, and no deed to be made
to the purchaser until the consideration shall
be fully paid.
JOHN N. PURVIANCE,
(4 times) Receiver.
Butler. Feb. 14, 1882.
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WM. CAMPBELL, TREASURER.
H. C. HEINEMAN, SECRETARY.
DIRECTORS:
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JAS. T3 M'JUNKIN, (Jen. A«'t
Union Woolen Mills.
, I would 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 Yarns,
and I can recommend them as being very dura
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county wool. They are beautiful in color, su
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prices. For samples and prices, address,
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REMOVAIT
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ness to his own building one square south of Court
House, Main Street, east side. opj>osite Donaldson
House, where he has a full stock of
Watches,
docks,
Jewelry,
Spectacles, etc.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, etc.,
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Justice of the Peace
Main street, opposite Postofliee,
IJ* ZKLIEHOPLK , PA.
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 15,1882.
POETRY.
THE FARMER'S SOXG.
I'm of the banihthat till the land,
And draw from earth her store;
Right happy indeed's the life we lead,
While onr days are passing o'er;
Many they are, in riches far
Surpassing the farmer's purse,
While other pursuits may yield more fruit
Yet often bring forth much worse.
We envy not the statesman's lot.
Still clamoring for his class ;
Nor his that tights for glory's rights,
At some rebounded pass.
No risk have we on boisterous sea
Nor fears lest tempest whelm
All we possess, without redress,
While laboring at the helm.
The fruitful field its bounties yields
A rich reward for toil;
Be ours the trade to ply the spade,
And deeply plough the soil,
We walk abroad o'er carpet sod,
And flow'rets kiss our feet,
Whose odors rise to catch the skies—
A tribute pure aud meet.
To all we give the means to live,
As brother shares with brother ;
And thus fulfill the holy will
That bills us "love each other."
Oh! life secure from guile, and pure,
To thee my soul cling ever
With all its might, in fond delight,
To change from thee, no never.
SELECT.
COURTING WITH A GUN.
Over in the wilds of New Jersey,
not far from the outskirts of one of its
most populous and prosperous cities, a
well-to-do farmer tills his acres, and
raises fine crops and a fine family. One
daughter, just verging on womanhood,
is the beauty of the farm, not to speak
of the handsome cattle, nor even the
lily and sunflower that adorn the
fields She is a comely maiden in the
eyes of the young farmers, who often
met her at the frolics and the feasts
which the country so highly enjoys.
Innocent, amusing, and very ancieat
are the pastimes that rural life has cul
tivated with the soil in all ages, as
history, sacred and profane, doth
record.
Not these only. Her beauty had
captivated a youth from a neighboring
city, who, in some evil hour, had cross
ed her path, and fell a victim to her
unconscious charms. More skilled in
the ways of the world than the less
cultured men who worshipped her at a
distance, he boldly marched to the
siege and demanded a quick surrender.
He pressed his suit with ardor, and
began to reckon himself already a con
queror. One day, while she was sit
ting and enjoying his fun and folly, he
seized a gun (hat was standing in the
corner, and pointed it directly toward
the breast of his intended bride He
did not know it was loaded. He did
not think of doing any harm. Proba
bly he thought to frighten her, and
then to have amusement over the idea
of a lover shooting the object of his af
fection. A very coarse kind of court
ing this, of course: but there is nothing
in life that is so silly as much that
goes by the name of fun. We have
all been there, and know how it is our
selves. But of all the ways and means
of pleasing a maiden, this courting
with a gun caps the climax of the
curious. The wise man in the Book
of Proverbs said, 2,500 years ago:
'There be three things which are too
wonderful for me, yea, four which I
know not: the way of an eagle in the
air, the way of a serpent upon a rock,
the way of a ship in the midst ot the
sea, and the way of a man with a maid.'
But if Solomon had lived in this our
day, in the State of New Jersey, he
would have seen a bigger fool of a man
than the maids of Judea or the Queen
of Sheba ever dreamed of. The way
of this gallant Jerseyman with the
maid of his affections, was to court her
with a gun, and make believe he was
going to shoot her through the heart.
If the men of Judea, with Jewish maid
ens, had ways of winning them that
were too wonderful for the wisdom of
Solomon, who knew all there is about
it worth knowing, from observation
and very considerable experience, what
would have been the wonder of this
much-married king had he taken a
Paterson newspaper of February, 1882,
and read the trial, conviction and sen
tence of this youth, who
sought to win his way into the heart
of a maid by pointing at her bosom a
loaded gun !
He did not know it was loaded! He
did not know it was not loaded, but it
was / More than this, he pulled the
trigger, and, horrible to relate, a tre
mendous charge of buckshot was driven
into her breast from the month of the
gun almost against her, and she sank
to the floor as one dead, the life-blood
pouring from the gaping, awful
wound !! Was ever wicked folly car
ried to such a frightful end ?
Surgical aid was summoned. The
shot were found to have touched no
vital part: some were extracted: the
girl's life was spared. She awoke at
last after long weeks of suspended life,
and it was soon apparent that the
young man had taken the wrong way
to reach the young lady's heart. She
did not cotton to the idea of being
courted with a eun. She had favored
his suit, but did not wish him to shoot.
His idiocy lowered him {-mew bat in
the eves of her understanding, and her
heart followed her judgment, as it does
in all sensible women. Her father
took an unfavorable view of the young
man's fitness to be the husband of his
daughter. The parties all live in New
Jersey : as good a State for good men
to live in as there' is : and the law took
this shooting-courtier by the collar, and
haled him into another court to answer
for this as a criminal offence. The in
dictment was in two counts : the first
charged him with intent to do bodily
barm, and the second simply charging
an assault. The prosecuting officer
laid no stress on the first, but insisted
righteously and vigorously that, point
ing a gun at another person, was an
assault, and punishable under the law.
So the court ruled, and so the jury
found, and the suitor and shooter
found himself liable to State's prison
and fine. He was brought from jail
last Monday morning, and placed at
the bar of the court to receive his sen
tence, which I shall give in the words
of the Judge :
"You have been convicted on the
second couut of the indictment against
you. The jury, in their verdict, call
your crime assault and battery, the
word atrocious being left out. It is
difficult for the court to reconcile the
terms of this verdict with the facts, it
being clearly laid down in the law
that any battery with a dangerous
weapon, or that causes blood to flow, is
iu its very nature atrocious. If this
was not a case of atrocious assault it is
difficult to tell what an atrocious as
sault is. The jury seem to have found
this verdict iu the fear that the court
would impose too severe a sentence if
they found in accordance with the
facts. You have been convicted of
assault and battery by taking up a
loaded gun in the presence of a human
being, as it appears, without any effort
to ascertain its condition, but with the
most criminal recklessness, and hand
ling the same in such a way that it
was discharged and the charge entered
the body of the young lady who was
the victim. You had no business to
meddle with the gun, passing your
hand over the hammers, the triggers,
etc., and are guilty of criminal negli
gence—that is the precise term. The
court assumes that your character has
been good, and although a sentence of
imprisonment for two years, or a fine
of SSOO, or both, might be imposed, in
consideration of your good character,
your youth, and the conviction that
there was no intention whatever to in
jure anyone, the court will spare you
the disgrace of a term in the State
prison and impose a fine of SSOO and
costs of the prosecution, and to be
held until payment is made."
A civil suit for damages has been
commenced against the young man,
and he begins to gpt a realizing sense
of the crime he has committed. I
have treated the subject too lightly
perhaps; but I wished to exhibit the
Bpirit in which the offence was perpe
trated, and to enforce the truth that
carelessness in the use of firearms is a
sin and a crime punishable by the
statute. You may not put other peo
ple in jeopardy, even in sport, without
guilt and peril. And almost every
newspaper you read mentions instances
of fatal or of fearfully sad examples of
this folly and wickedness. Thousands
of families are in mourning because of
death or dreadful wounds of loved
ones by what is called the accidental
discharge of firearms. Last week a
father was fined SSOO for leaving a
loaded gun where a child got hold of
it to his inquiry. Pistols are made in
to toys, and children slay one another
with them. Parents who permit their
children to have such playthings de
serve fine an imprisonment. Men car
ry concealed weapons which often kill
those for whom they are not intended.
The law very wisely forbids the prac
tice, but the law is rarely enforced.
Firearms have their lawful use. It is
becoming more and more necessary to
have their protection in our houses in
the city, and in some parts of the coun
try. There is no adequate protection
of life and property in New York by
the civil authorities; and, while gov
ernment is the slave of politics, there
will be none. Therefore, self-protec
tion requires a well-fortified castle, and
suitable weapons of defence. But
such is not the purpose of this letter.
I am writing to parents and to young
people to inculcate a deeper sense than
now prevails of the sacredness of hu
man life, and of the exceeding wicked
ness of trifling with it. How many ag
onizing instances of 3udden death have
we read, where a gun, supposed to be
not loaded, has been pointed at a friend
in play ; and, in an instant, a soul has
been hurled into eternity. We say,
'what a fool to trifle with a deadly
weapon !' But there are thousands of
such fools in and out of New Jersey.
If they were all sent to prison the
jails could notcontain them. But they
are worse than fools. They are great
criminals. This conviction of the
young man who went courting with a
gun is a triumph of law and ritrht, for
which the country is largely indebted
to a faithful public prosecutor, who de
manded that the law should be upheld,
and to tne judge, who maintained the
traditional honor of the New Jersey
bench by the firmness of his instruc
tions. I magnify the case, and repeat
it thus clearly, in the hope that its
lessons may not be in vain— N. Y.
Observer.
The Cost of European Uovern
iii en l h.
A recent British Parliamentary re
port gives a comparative statement of
the revenues of several European
States, from which it appears that
Austria (not including Hungary) has
direct taxes of £7,762,553; indirect
ones of £21,406,978, and miscellaneous
ones of £4,726,447, or a total tax of
£33,895,979 (about $166,129,500) for
a population of 22,132,684 souls, which
is more than $7 tor each man, woman,
or child. Hungarians are somewhat
better off, the total tax being £19,965,-
263 (about $99,826,000) and the popu
lation 15,608,623 —say $5.50 per per
son But the Austrians and Hun
garians are taxed much less heavily
than their neighbors in Prussia, where
the total is £56,421,875, and the popu
lation 27,251,067 —showing and aver
age of about $lO per person. The
French are still worse off. The totals
for them are £107,303,975 of taxes and
36,905,788 of population, or about sls
of tax per head. This the people of
Belgium, a neutral country, free from
wars and Nihilism, nearly equals,
their showing being, taxes £14,911,502,
and population 5,476,939. Better off
than any of these people are the Rus
sians—or apparently so, one should
say, for the burden of a tax lies not so
much in the amount of it as in the in
ability to pay it. The Russians pay
£60,362,731 in taxes, several millions
more, that is, than the Austria-Hun
gary people, or the Germans and Poles
of Prussia, but they outnumber their
neighbors by tens of millions—the
Prussians by 45,000,000, the Austria-
Hungary races by 34,000,000. For
these $300,000,000 of Russian taxes
there are 72,692,000 people among
whom to divide them. Thus every
European Russian pays a tax of $4,
while every Frenchman pays some sls,
and yet Russia is internally the most
disturbed great country in Europe, and
I France the most peaceful.
Coilrention of (he Schools of
Concord Township.
A convention of the schools of Con
cord township met at Concord Preaby-
I terian Church on Feb. 24th, 1882, and
| was called to order by J. S. Campbell,
I and opened with prayer by J. G. Chris
! tie. County Superintendent Murtland
was called to the chair and A. Q. Meals
chosen secretary. The Superintendent
on taking the chair made 6ome very
appropriate remarks on our common
school wages and the importance of
an education.
No. of scholars present, 175 ; teach
ers, 9; directors, 6; and a good at
tendance of citizens. Some of the
schools were fully represented but oth
ers not so fully on account of sickness.
Schools were taught by the follon*
ing teachers: No. 1, H. H. Elliott;
No. 2, Kate Hilliard ; No. 3, Isaac
Thompson; No 4, Maria Glenn ; No. 5,
S. W. McGarra; No. 6, Emma Arthur;
No. 7, Anise Rose; No. 8, Robert Em
ory; No. 9, Alice Caldwell.
Performances by scholars of the
schools were as follows :
DECLAMATIONS.
School No. 1, subject, "No excellence
without labor," by W. 11. Turner.
School No. 2, subject, "Why should
the spirit of mortal man be proud," by
Harry Meals.
School No. 3, subject, "Painter of
Saville," by Willie Campbell.
School No. 4, "Oration over the dead
body of Caesar," by J. H. Marshall.
School No. 5, "Fall of Hamilton,"
by Smila Graham. Music by school
No. 1.
School No. 6, subject, "Parting of
Marmioa and Douglass," Harry Blair.
School No. 7, performance same as
No. 1.
School No. 8, subject, "Love God,"
by John Crawford.
Music by school No. 2.
HEADING.
School No. 1, "What a teacher should
be," by Wilbur Campbell.
School No. 3, "Snow of age," by
Cora Murtland.
School No. 4, "Face against the
pane," by Fannie Starr.
School No. 5, "Your Mission," by
Miss Aggas.
Music by school No. 4, "Our old
black cat," which was applauded.
School No. 6, "Hate of the bowl," by
9 of a class.
School No. 7, "Our Country," Byers.
School No. 9, "Who is thy friend,"
Hattie Jamison.
RECITATIONS.
School No. 1, "Burial of President
Garfield," by Emma Campbell.
School No. 2, "If Eve knew," by
Lizzie Cumberland.
School No. 3, "Good reading the
greatest accomplishment," by Mary
Campbell.
School No. 4, "Barbara Fretchie, of
Fredericktown," by Clara McWilliams.
School No. 5, "John Brainard," bv
Tillie Graham.
Music by school No. 5.
School No. 6, "McClain's child," by
Emma Kamerer.
School No. 7, "Teacher," by Laura
Turner.
School No. 8, "Poor Lillie Moore,"
in concert, by Ida Parks and E. Dilion.
School No. 9, "Reaper of Death," by
Ada Young.
Music by school No. 6.
ESSAYS.
School No. 1, "An honest man is
the noblest work of God," by Lizzie
McKinnev.
School No. 2, "Effect of Idlenesss,"
by Delia Stoops.
School No. 4, "Our Influence," by
Ida Bell.
School No. 5, "Popularity," by E.
H. Campbell.
School No. 6, "Love," by Lew Barn
hardt.
School No. 7, not called.
School No. 8, read Caudle's umbrolla
lecture, Maggie Sailor.
Music by school No. 9.
All the performances of the schools
were well done without a single failure,
for which they deserve the highest
praise, which showed that our schools
were second to none.
The evening session was opened with
music by the choir
Declamation by H. 11. Elliott, teach
er of No. 1. Music by school No. 7.
QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.
"Should the common school system
be abolished." Opened by 11. N. Em
ory, teacher No. 8. lie took the ground
that our Nation would fall if our com
mon school system be taken away. He
was followed by Co. Supt. Murtland.
The question was ably discussed.
"Resolved, Do the citizens of Con
cord township take sufficient interest
in their schools." Opened by S. W.
McGarra, teacher No. 5. Ho spoke in
the affirmative, and compared our pres
ent schools to those of 50 years ago.
H. H. Elliott concurred in the above.
R. N. Emory in negative, that parents
should visit schools and see what is
going on in the school room, and see
that scholars were properly classed.
Concluded by 11. A. Kinser in the af
firmative, that it was the teachers place
to class scholars and no others, and
that if a teacher did and could not have
his or her classes properly classed was
not fit to teach school, which many
think struck the key note, and that
parents should not visit schools much,
and as long as scholars said nothing
about school all was well.
Music by the choir.
"Should Concord township have a
central graded public school." Opened
by Isaac Thompson, in the affirmative,
and Oliver Thome and It. N. Emory.
R. A. Kinser in the negative, that it
would be too distant for scholars in the
distant parts of the township. Conclud
ed by Co. Supt. Murtland who thought
there was no law for it—others think
otherwise.
Calisthenics by school No. 2, which
was led by the organ, which was ap
plauded.
Music by school No. 2. Rehearsal
by teacher of No. 4, subject, "Famine."
Vote of thanks to the teachers for their
efficiency in the getting up of perform
ances. Closed bv singing doxologv.
J. H MURTLAND, Preset.
A O. MEALS, Sec'y.
Spring fevisr has laid its ttrong grip
on the cigarette young man.
.\alhan MHrnliall Kill* Ilim-
Ht-ll (o Avoid TcHtilyiiiK.
Rather than go on the witness stand
to testify against a life-long friend,
death was preferable, Is the charitable
explanation given for the suicide of
one of Camden's most estimable citi
zens yesterday morning. Nathan D.
Marshall, a well-known produce dealer,
doing business on Dock street, above
Front, in this city, ended bis life by
cutting his throat with a pocket knife
in the bath-room of his house, No. 403
Broadway, Camden.
Mr. Marshall was one of the earliest
victims of Horace Hammel, the former
secretary of the Newtown Building
Association, who defrauded numerous
persons out of sums of money aggre
gating $40,000, by means of forged
certificates of stock. The two men
had been brought up together from
boyhood, and their friendship had ever
been strong and unwavering. When
unmistakable evidence of Hammers
guilt was presented to Mr. Marshall,
bis love for the false friend was never
shaken, and he resolutely refused to
breathe a single syllable against him.
For a few days he hoped that in his
own case there might be some mistake,
some explanation that would account
for a treachery that he could not be
lieve. The unpleasant truth at last
forced itself upon his mind that he had
been betrayed by his long-trusted
friend, and he sought him out. The
sum out uf which Mr. Marshall had
been so cruelly victimized approximat
ed $3,000. He was not a wealthy
man, and could ill-afford to lose the
money. An interesting family of a
wife and three lovely children, to
whom he was devotedly attached,
claimed his constant labor, and when
he went to see Hammel his mind was
almost equally balanced between his
strong friendship for the base friend
and the love he bore bis wife and chil-
dren. To lose the sum be had imagin
ed to be safely invested would be to
beggar tbem. This he told to Ham
mel, and it was mutually agreed that
Mr. Marshall should obtain a judgment
against Hummel's property, which he
did through his counsel, Thomas B.
Earned.
HIS EFFORTS TO SAVE IIAMMEL.
The glaring frauds committed bv the
ex-secretary of the building association
continued to come to light, and with
every fresh discovery poor Marshall
seemed to feel the disgrace as keenly as
keenly ns though be had been called
upon to suffer himself. Hammers ar
rest followed soon after, and when the
victimized friend found that he would
be a principal witness for the prosecu
tion he became nervous and low spirit
ed. The trial was to have taken place
in February, but as the prisoner's
counsel was njt ready to proceed it
was postponed until yesterday. The
brief respite only seemed to add to the
unfortunate man's anguish. His claim
bad been almost satisfied, and all his
old friendship returned with double
force. On Wednesday night be was
very much worried, and told several
friends that the ordeal he would be
called upon to go through would be
more than he could bear, and he made
a strong effort to have his name
stricken off as a witness. In this he
failed, however, and was subpoenaed
to appear as a witness for the prosecu
tion. It <vas understood that Ham
mel would be tried only on one indict
ment, charging him with forgery in al
tering the name of William Callahan,
in which case it would not be necessary
for Mr. Marshall to take the stand.
Of this he was either not informed, or
else disbelieved altogether, for when he
got up yesterday morning his first re
mark was that be could not bear the
thought of appearing against his old
friend.
I>EAD BY HIS OWN HAND.
The family sat down to breakfast,
and after the meal had been finished,
Mrs. Marshall began making prepara
tions to out for the day. Her husband
came up stairs a few moments later
and the wife noticed a peculiar expres
sion about his eyes. She asked him if
he was ill, and receiving an evasive
reply, went down stairs. Mr. Mar
shall then went into the bath-room and
locked the door after him. Not ap
pearing after the lapse of a half hour,
Mrs. Marshall went up stairs to call
him, and receiving no response, she
got upon a chair and looked through
the transom. Her husband lay on the
floor. Strong with fear, the frightened
woman put her shoulder to the door
and forced it open. In another mo
ment her shreiks were ringing through
the house, and when a servant ran
np stairs to learn the cause of the
alarm, she found Mrs. Marshall hold
ing her husband's body in her arms,
with his life blood running in a crim
son stream over her dress. He had at
tempted to cut both jugular veins, bat
only severed one of the great arteries,
and from that his life was ebbing out.
He was still alive and conscious, aud
managed to ga?p out the words: "I
couldn't appear against Pete," using
the old familiar cognomen with which
be used to address his friend Hammel.
Dr. Tullis, a homu-pathic physician,
and Prs. Suitzer and Schenck, two allo
pathic doctors, were summoned with
all possible speed. Their skill availed
nothing, however. Stimulants were
administered, but the unfortunate man
was too far gone from loss of blood.
Within an hour after be had been dis
covered he was a corpse.
IIAMMEL FOUND GUILTY.
The trial of Hammel was then In
progress at the Court House, and when
the news became known there was a
decided sensation. The defendant saw
the stir, bat made no comment, and
when he had been taken back to bis
cell after the morning adjournment of
the court he was told of bis faithful
friend's tragic end. He said little and
exhibited no emotion. When spoken
to an hour later by a Prens reporter,
Hammel said a cruel thing about the
man whoso friendship be had betrayed.
'He was afraid be' would implicate him
self,' said he, 'because he got half the
mcfney.'
Hammers trial was concluded at 4
o'clock in the afternoon. He was found
guilty as charged in the indictment.
The only witnesses called were Herman
A. Helmbold, president of the New
town Building Association; Watson
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additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pub
lished free of charge. Obituary notices charged
as advertisement*, and pay able* when handed in
Auditors' Notices. 94; ExucutulV and Admiuis
trators' Notices. #3 each; Estrav, Cantion ai>4
Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines,
each.
From the fact that the CITIZEN is 'he oldest
established and most extensively circulated Ke-
Eublican newspaper in Butler county, (a ltepub-
CAD county; it mtu«t be ipparent to business
th\t it is ;he medium they bbould QN in
advertising their business.
NO. 17
Oupuy, cashier of the First National
I Bank of Camden ; Edmund K. Iteed,
, one of the directors of the bank, and
William Calluhan, whoso name had
been forged on a fraudulent transfer of
stock to Ilaiumel. The cvi fence prov
ed conclusively that Hammel bad ne
gotiated a loan of SI,BOO on his indi
vidual note, and gave the bogus stock
calling for 12,000 as collateral. There
was no testimony offered by the defense.
A ten minu*.es'deliberation by the jury
resulted in a verdict of guilty. The
name of poor Marshall was not on the
list of witnesses, and the perfidious
friend was convicted, while the widow
and children were weeping over their
dead.— Ph ila. Press, March 3.
llj drophobln—lt* Successful
Treatment.
Mr. Ruxton, a surgeon in the East
Indies, reports a very remarkable case,
which seems worthy of being classed
with the smali number of cures that
are now on record.
A boy, between five and six years of
age, was bitten in 1874, by a bull-bitch
that was subsequently killed. The
bites were deep and severe, but were
freely cauterized with fuming nitric ac
id, causing considerable loss of tissue.
Carbolized oil was subsequently em
ployed as a dressing. A month later
he became unconscious, refused to
drink, and was exceedingly nervous.
Mr. R. finding him with saliva issuing
from the mouth, suspected the worst,
but ordered as a temporary measure,
the tepid sheet, and a diaphoretic mix
ture. Tranquil sleep and diaphoresis
followed, but about one in the morning
the patient awoke screaming, had fre
quent convulsions, refused liquids, and
foamed at the mouth. Thinking that
as a palliative, cannabis indica might
he usefully employed, Gve MINIMS of
the tincture were given, and a short
sleep followed. This dose wss repeat
ed after an interval marked by scream
ing fits and saliva spit from between
the teeth. Deep sleep, lasting ten
hours, now ensued. On awaking he
recognized bis mother—the first time
for twenty-seven hours. His pupils
were now intensely contracted. A
third dose of five minims was given on
the evening of the second day of medi
cal attendance, and sleep ensued for
eighteen hours. Pulse and respiration
remained good all the time. From
th is point the progress toward recov
ery was steady and continuous.
Dr. Ewart, formerly deputy Furgeon
general in the Bengal army, in the
same number of the British Medical
Journae (November 19, 1881), states
that little confidence can be placed in
drugs after the symptoms have develop
ed. He advocates cauterization as a
prophylactic and as practiced success
fully by Youatt in four hundred cases ;
and he quotes Sir William Gull, who
states: "If I had to choose for myself,
I would inhale ether and have the
whole track of the wound destroyed by
strong nitric acid or nitrate of silver."
But Ewart places himself on the side
of Sir Joseph Fahrer, who says : "If 1
were bitten by a dog or other animal,
even suspected of rabies, I would suck
the wound, put in a ligature, inhale
ether .... and have the bitten
part thoroughly cut out, and then
cauterized with nitric acid or nitrate of
silver, so as completely to disorganize
any virus there might remain. Ex
cision, he remarked, may be practiced
successfully after the wounds are
thoroughly cicatrized."
The retention of any waste matter
in the system produces injury. The
collection of "phlegm" or diseased
mucus in time of cold or throat affec
tion should be removed. Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup does it more qickly and
effectually than any other cough syrup
made.
The Philadelphia Sunday Item offers
a five dollar gold piece to the gentle
man who writes the best proposal of
marriage, and a five dollar gold piece
to the lady who writes the best ac
ceptance of the same.
Chronic Rheumatism «nd Catarrh.
Took Peruna. Am well. Mrs. Oling
honsen, Brownsville, Pa.
Between the ages of fifteen and fifty,
woman has one more 'inspiration' per
minute than a man. So say the scien
tific sharps, and we have no reason to
disbelieve them. Xo man ever had
an 'inspiration' to buy fourteen yards
of Hamburg edging just because it
was "cheap,'and that's just the 'inspi
ration' that possesses a woman's soul
every minute she is in a dry goods
store.
Some New Hampshire people who
are bewailing the loss of money loaned to
a man who has fraudulently failed as a
banker at Manhattan, Kansas, appear
to have actually trusted the fellow be
cause he had represented them in the
Legislature.
For nervousness and Chronic Ca
tarrh take Peruna. I tried it. L. K.
Mysler, Allegheny City, Pa.
The State of Texas has contracted
to give an Illinois firm a tract of land,
for building the new State capital at
Austin. The territory sold is larger
than the State of Connecticut, and five
times larger than Rhode Island. It is
the northwest corner of the State. The
survey extends south a distance of 197
miles, with an average width of twenty
seven miles. This is probably the lar
gest land- sale ever made to private
individuals
[Rochester Sentinel.]
When a young husband had gone
from home, and with fond solicitude
telegraphed his little wife, —"What
have you for breakfast, and how's tho
baby ?"—he recieved the brief, suggest
ive reply,— "Buckwheat Cakes and the
Measles." We have the report of a
case in our midst, not where Measles
was in the bill of fare, but where Sci
atic Rheumatism confined Mr. J. Daw
son, the well-knowu druggist, to his
room for a long period. It was stated
to our reporter in the following words:
The senior of this firm was attacked
with Sciatic Rheumatism December
last, and for four weeks could scarcly
leave his room. He used St. Jacobs
Oil, and is now able to be at bis place
i of business, feeling no worse for his re-
I cent affliction. The inference is con-
I vincing.