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Traius arrive at Butler from the above named points at 7.17 a. m., and 2.15, and 7.15 p. ur The 2.15 train connects with train on the West Penn road through to Pittsburgh. SUENANQO AND ALLEGHENY RAILROAD. Trains leave Hiiliard's Mill, Butler county, for Harrisville, Greenville, etc., at 7.50 a. m. and 2.25 p. ra. Trains urri\e at Hiiliard's Mills at 1:45 A. M., and 5:."* P. M. Hacks to and from I'etrolia, Martinsburj, Fait view, Modoc aud Troutman, connect at Hii liard with ail trains on the S , HEAR 00-BT Hocsx, IS CITIZEN BUILDINO E. R. EcfcLßY, KENNEDY MARSHALL (Late of Ohio.), ECKLEY & MARSHALL. Office in Brady's Law Building. Sept.#,?* C O. CHRISTIE; Attorney at Law. Legal business carefully transacted Collections made and promptly remitted. Business correspondence promptly attended to and answered. Office opposite Lowry Honse, Butler, Pa. PHYSICIANS. TOHN E BYERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, iny2l-ly] BUTLEKi PA, Office on Jefferson street, opposite Klincfler's Flour Store. DENTISTS. DEHSTTISTIR, * . 0 1/ W'ALDRON, (Jn duftte of the Phil II adelpbia Dental Colleffe.is prepare** a |l •to do auything in the line of hh profession in a satisfactory manner. Office on Main street, Butler, Union Block, up stairs, • »P" CKi^ciu VOL. XIX. LEGAL ADVERTISE MEN TS. TRIAL IJMT. For a Special Court commencing Monday, May 22, 1882, to be presided over by Judge Mc- Dermitt, of Mercer county. Dotlds Mill Oil Co., vs. Gabriel Baruhart. Dr. S. Bredin vs. Kerr Mcßriile, et. al. M. X. GREER, Prothouotary. NOTICE OFINQUEST IN PARTITION In the Orphans' Court of Butler County. Pa., at Nc. 6 December Term 1881. In the matter of the Petition of Margaret ! T,emmon, (now Mellon) et al., children of John Lemmon. deceased, for partition of the real ea tate of Thomas Lemuion, deceased. To the heirs and legal representatives of Hugh Lemmon. Thomas Lemmon, Jr. and David Lemmon, deceased, William Lemmon and I Itobert l.emmon, or their heirs and legal repre : Mentations. Jane Lemmon, deceased, intermar ried with —Wilson, Uebacca 1.-mrnon ii terrnar ' ried with Hali-trad. Nancy Leinn.f n intermar ried witli—Speer, Ihe heirs and legal representa tions of John Lemmon. deceased, and of Thom as l.emmon, decease*!, and all others interested in said proceedings in Partition Notice is herebv given that, in pursuance of a w,it of Paitition .nwucd out of the Orphans Court of Butler county, Pa.. at No- 6 December Term. 1881, and to me directed I will hold an in quest of Pur. it ion on the real estate of Thomas Lemmon, deceased, on the | remises described in sud proceedings, situated in Butler township, Butler conntv. l'a , on the 26th day of May, I*B2, at tl.e hour of 10 o'clock. A. M., acc rding to the act of Aesembly in such case mule and provided, of which a'i parties aud persons in in terest will take notice. THOMAS DONAGHY, Sheriff. May 4th, 1882. mlo-3t. NOTICE IN DIVORCE. In the matter of the application of Joanna F. Dost man for divorce a vinculo matrimonii from her husband Charles Dostman, Common Pleas of Butler county, Pa., A. D. No. 8 Dec. Term 1881. To Charles Dostman respondent.—Whereas a subpoena and an alias subpujna in tlie above stated case have been returned N. E. I. Now this is to require you to be and ap]>ear in your proper person before said Court on the Ist Monday of June Term next A. D. 18h2, being the ">th day of said month, to answer to saia complaint, and to show cause if any you have why the prayer thereof should not be granted. THOMAS DONAGHY ap24-4t Sheriff. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that' Win. Barker and John T. Martin, Assignees ol M. N. Gn*r, have filed their final account In the office ol the Prothouotary, ol the Court of Common I'lca* of Butler County, at M. D. No. 10 March Term. 1880, and that the same will be presented to the said Court for confirmation and allowance on Wednesday the 7th day of June, A. I). 1882. M.N. GREEK, Prothonolary. Prothonotary's office, May Bth, 1832. NOTICE. Notice is hereby giveti that George 11. Gra ham, Committee of Elizabeth McCleary, a luna tic, ha* filed his final account in the office ol the Prothouotary ol the Court of Common Ple.;s ol Butler County, at C. P. No. 125, Jatt uary Term, 1873, aud the same will be present ed to the said Court, for confirmation and al. lowance on Wednesday the 7th day of June, 1882. M. N. GREER, Prothonotary. Prothonotary's Office, May Bth, 1882. Estate ot James McGill. [LATE OF CHER T TOWNSHIP, DEC D. Letters testamentary on tho estate of James McGill, dee'd, late of Cherry township, Butler county, fa., having been granted to the und r signed. all persona knonning themselves indebt ed to said estate will please make immediate payment and any having claims against said es'ste will present them duly authenticated for payment. J D. STEPHENSON, Ex'r. Slipperyrock I'. 0., Butler county, Pa. Estate of Conrad Wleli. Notice ia hereby given that letters of Admin istration. with the will annexe!, have been grant-d the undersigned on the estate of Con rad Wich. late of Connoqu' nessing township, Butler county. dei>tased. All persons therefore owing said estate will please make immediate pavmen'. and a'l having claims against the same will present them, properly authenticated, to the undersigned for settlement. LEONARD WICH. Administrator ButlerP. 0. Butler county, Pa, Estate of Wm. G. Shorts. Letters of aJminislration having been granted to the undersitrned on the estate of William G. Shorts, deceased, late of Conuoquenessing twp., itutler county, Pa., all persons knowing them selves indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment, and any having claims against the same will present thetn duly authen ticated for payment. T. P. SHORTS, Ex'r. Connoquenesslug P. 0., Butler Co., Pa. lui Estate or William Fleming. (LATB OF BCIFAT.O TOWNSHIP, DEC'D.) Letters ol administration having been grunted to the undersigned on the estate ol W in. If leur iug, deceased, late ol Bullalo township, Butler county, Pa., all persons knowing themselves Indebted to s.iid estate will please make pay ment, and those having claims analust I* e same will present them duly authenticated for settlement. EDWARD 8. FLEMING, > R. M. HARBISON \ Adm'rs. Sarversville P. O- Butler county, Pa. Estate ot Pliilip Melvln, [I. ATE OF MUDDVCUEEK TWl\, DEC'D.J Letters testamentary on the estate of (Phillip Melvin, dee'd., late of Muddvcreek twp., Butler county. Pa., having been granted to the undet signcd, all persons kuowing themtelves Indebt ed to said estate will please make immediate payment, and uuy having claims against said estate will present them duly authenticated for settlement. WM. VTEKS, ) J. W. SCOTT, ( EXROUTORB - P. O , Butler county, Pa. Estate or Susannah Sf illlson. (LITE (IF MUDDYCREEK TWP., DEC'D ) Letters testamentary on the estate of Susan nah MiUison. dec'd., la'e of Muddycreek twp. Butler county, Pa., having been granted to the undersigned, all persons known ing themselves indebted to said estate will please make immed iate payment and any having claims against the same will present them duly authenticated for pavmeut. JAMES MOURISON, Ex'r. Middle Lancaster, Butler county, Pa. Eatntc ol John K. llnys. (LATE OF FRAKKUN TWP., DEC'D.) Letters of administration on the estate of John K Hays, dec'd. late of Franklin twp.. But ler county, Pa., having been granted to the un dersigned, all persona knowing themaelves in debted to said estr.te will please make immediate pavmrLt and any having claims against the same will present them duly authenticated for pavment. J. PARK HAYS, Adm'r, Prospect, Butler county, Pa. Estate of Alice DOIIKHU. (LATE OF OAKJ.AND IWP., DEC'D. 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BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY IT. 1882. POETRY. LET TIIE Oi l) CAT UIK. Not long ago I wandered near A play-ground in the wood. And there heard words from youngster's lips That I never quite understood. "Now let the old cat die," he cried; I saw him give a push, Then gayly scampered away as he speied My face peep over the bush. "The little villaiu has stoned a cat, Or huug it upon a limb, And left it to die all alone," I said, "But I'll play the mischief with him." I forced my way between the boughs The poor old cat to seek, And what did I find but a swinging child With the bright hair brushing her cheek. Swinging and swaying back and forth, With the rose-light in her face, She seemed like a bird and a flower in one, And the forest her native place. "Steady 1 I'll send you up my child I" But she stopped me with the cry, "Go 'way, go 'way ! Don't touch me, please, I'm letting the old cat die "You're letting him die?" I cried aghast, "Why, where's the cat, ray dear?" And lo ! the laughter that filled the wood, Was a thing for birds to hear. "Why, dou't you know", said the little maid, The flitting, beautiful elf, "That we call it 'letting the old cat die' When the swing stops all of itself?" Then swinging and swinging and looking back, With the merriest look in her eye, She bade me "good-day," and I left her alone A-letting the old cat die. tyi£!]LjlsC-z r r • The Story of the Jeannette Artie Expedition. The messenger and correspondent sent out by the N. Y. Herald, met Lieut. Danenhower at Irkutsk, in Sibe ria, in the latter part of February, last, and from him got a full history of the expedition from the time the ship left San Francisco, on the Bth of July, 1879, to the time she was crushed by icebergs, on the 12th of June, 1881, and also the story of the retreat to Siberia, up to the time the three boats were separated in a gale ofFSemmoffsky Island, and of the adventures of his own boat's crew, from that time till they were met by natives iu the Lena river. The story is a very long and thrilling one, but we have room for but the following short synopsis of it: The ship had scarcely got into the Arctic before she was frozen fast; and from that time on, until at last she gave way before the terrible strain to which she had been so long subjected the Jeannette simply drifted with the ice. Lieutenant Danenhower gives this picture, which would hold good proba bly for almost any time during nearly two years: "Our position was not an enviable one. At any moment the vessel was liable to be crushed like an eggshell among this enormous mass of ice, the general thickness of which was from five to six feet, though some was over twenty where the floe pieces had overrun and cemented together and turned topsy-turvy. Pressures were constantly felt. We heard distant thundering of the heavy masses, which threw up high ridges of young ice that looked like immense pieces of crushed sugar. . . . The ship would groan from stem to stern ; the cabin doors were often jammed so that we could not get out in case of emergency. The deck planking would start from the beams, showing the unpainted wood for more thau half an inch. This, together with the sharp cracking of the ship's fastenings, like the report of a discharge of rifles, would wake us up at night. . . . We lived on canned goods, with bear and seal twice a week, pork and beans and salt beef once a week. The discipline of the ship was excellent, and during the whole twenty-onemonths iu the pack there was but one punishment given, and that was for profanity " So things went on until the ship sprang a leak, as was supposed— though in reality it was a much more serious thing than a leak—nndthen for eighteen months nearly the ship had to be pumped regularly and vigorously —the men often standing up to their knees in ice-water. That is a specimen of life in the Arctic that will not be likely to attract volunteers for future Expeditions. In September, 1880, the Jeannette being firmly as ever imbedded in the ice, orders were given to go into win ter quarters—orders that from the standpoint of this climate would seem decidedly superfluous. At that time says the Lieutenant, "we all consider ed that if our provisions held out long enough, if we were not attacked bv scurvy, and if the ship were not crush ed by the ice, we should eventually drift out after reaching the vicinity of Franz Josef Land, either north or south of it." Significant'ifs,' with the long night of the second winter closing in upon them. The following eight months were comparatively uneventful. The ship drifted with the ice, but resisted its pressure, and the life on shipboard was the same monotonous round of exer cise and moderate rations. The ship drifted in a sort of a groove, which was called Melville's Canal, the rate of movement varying from three to twelve miles per day. About the middle of May following land was sighted, the first se en in many months. No such land being laid down on the chart, a discovery was proclaimed, and the island—for such it evidently was received the name of Jeannette Island. Not long after a second island was seen, and was named Henrietta Island. A sledge party was sent out to explore it, and after a most difficult and dangerous trip reached the land and took possession of it in the name of the United States. Probably the right of possession will not be seriously dis puted The sledge party had hardly returned when the final and fatal day came for the Jeannette. After an im prisonment of twenty-one months, the ice suddenly broke away and the ship floated free" Free, that is, in a very small circle, which was limited by the moving ice. That was the new dan ger. The ship was just free enough to be caught in a crush of the mighty masses of ice and that was what happen ed On the 11th of June, the next day after the breaking loose, the frozen mountains came together with a re mendous force, and the ship was in the way. That settled the matter, and there was barely time to get tie provisions and tents and sledges and boats out on one of the largest ice-floes, when the Jeannette, again loosed from the ice clutch, went to the bottom of the Arctic sea, a crushed and broken thing. The position of the party at this time was anything but cheerful. In the midst of rapidly breaking ice-fields, live hundred miles from Siberia and help, with a third of the crew sick from tin poisoning produced by the tomato-cans, and all exhausted by the labor of getting out of the ship, the outlook on the morning of June 14 was dark indeed. But preparations for the long journey were made at ouce, and not a man showed despond ency, if he felt it. The provisions con sisted of some 3,500 pounds of pemmi can, or thin-sliced, sun-dried meat, 1,500 pounds of hard bread, and a large quantity of Leibig's extract. There were five sleds, and three slea-mouat ed boats making a total weight of 15,400 pounds to be dragged by twen three men—the rest being invalids— over the tough and almost impassa able surface. The travelling was to be by night, ♦o prevent snow-blindness, the sleep ing by uay. The order of march was this: all hands except a special detail of four men were to advance the first cutter to the first black flag established by Pilot Dunbar, who went' ahead to select the best road; then the second cutter and thewhaleboat and provision sleds to be brought up to the first sta tion as rapidly as possible; and while this was going on, the special detail of four was to advance the extra pro visions, and the sick, with the hospital sled, were also moved to the front. After a week of such toil and hardship as this, the captain found from bis reckonings that the drift had more than neutralized the way covered by the painful advance, that they were in fact twenty-seven miles further from succor than when they started. Had that distressing fact been told the men, it may be doubted whether their cour age would have held out as it did. So the days and journey went on. The direction of the drift most fortun ately changed, and carried the party toward instead of away from the Siberian coast, and at times they were ab'e to make as much as twenty miles a day, the number of the sledges de creasing as the food was devoured, and wider spaces of water to be sailed over making passage much easier. In July land was sighted and made, and Ben nett Island became a point for future maps. Millious of birds were seen, but no seal or walrus. Nearly a week was spent there, resting for a new start. Then came what was to be the final voyage, and a long and eventful one. The boats were now used altogether, aid passing safely through great quanti ties of ice the three heavilv-loaded boats worked their way southward. They reached Thaddeoffsky and the New Siberia Islands, and after a suc cession of perils and many days of half starvation made a landing on Semmoff skv Island and succeeded in shooting a deer, which they devoured then and there, as an antidote for utter exhaus tion. September 12 the three boats left the island, in a few hours saw the last piece of ice, and in but a few hours more saw the last of each other. All were caught in a terrible gale, through which Lieutenants Danenhower's boat lived as if by miracle. It is more than probably that the smaller boat com manded by Lieutenant Chipp went down in that heavy sea. The escape from it of Lieutenant Danenhower's boat makes a thrilling chapter. At last, after four days of exposure to the storm, a landing was effected on the banks of the Lena, and September 18, a Sunday, was the first day of real rest the eleven had known in many a month. Soon they came across a coup le of natives, and then their trials were nearly over. It is a fitting/i'/iafc of the story that these natives, shy and fearful of the strangers at first, were made friends and fellow-helpers by the sight of a religious emblem which a friend had given Lieutenant Danen hower as a talisman. When he saw the natives cross themselves for pro tection, he at once produced it as a sure way to their confidence, and says in closing his remarkable story: "It was the only article in the possession of the party, which indicated to the natives that we were Christians. You can imagine our feelings at meeting these people, for they were the first strangers whom we had seen for more than two years, and I never before felt so thank ful to missionaries as 1 did that day at finding that we were among Christian natives." The sad fate of Lieut. DeLong and all his party, with the exception of two of them, has already been publish ed. Their boat reached the northern mouth of the Lena on the 17th of September, last, but were prevented from entering the river by a bar. They abandoned the boat and waded to the shore. Here they found a reindeer or two, and after resting started south-ward, but were unfortu nate us to their course, and got into a desert where they perished from star vation. The Lieutenant and ten of his men were found dead, on the bank of the Lena, where they were left on a morning early in October by the two strongest men of the party, Noros and N'nlerman, the commander having chosen them to push forward in search of food or natives. At that time the food supply was utterly exhausted, the only sustenance for some time had been a small quantity of brandy per day, and the frostbitten, suffering wanderers were too worn to go further. The captain held divine service, the little company being seated on the river bank, and then the men tearfully said good-by to their departing com rades, who were to see them no more alive. Death from starvation could not have been long delayed. The two made their way south. They shot one grouse and caught an eel, and that was all the food they had for days. They made a tea from the - bark of the Arctic willow, chewed aiid i ate portions of their skin breeches and the leather soles of their moccasins, I and were about to give up in despair when they met a native. Thus thev w ere rescued, but they either could not make the natives understand that other n en were perishing iu the delta, or the natives would not go on the search. Had the course taken bv the party varied but a few miles a settle ment wou'd hive been reached by all but Eriekson in safety; and once the starving travellers passed within a mile of a hut in which hung the carcasses of fifteen deer—au ample food supply till rescue could have come. These thiugs only render the fate of so many human beings seem the more pitiful. Dr. Ambler, the surgeon, and Mr. Collins, the meteor ologist and correspondent, were l.ke the commander, brave, capable meu, who could have beeu better spared iu a better cause. That Lieutenant Chipp and his party will be found alive there is no hope. Surely this sad ending, if it shall not put a stop to private Arctic ex peditions, will put a stop to them so far as our Government is concerned To allow its officers and seamen to en gage in Jsuch work is equivalent to sanctioning their suicide. To send them would be official murder. The Tubercle Parasite. Professor Tyndall's letter on the na ture of tubercular disease, is an impor tant contribution to medical science. It embodies the results not of his own but of Dr. Koch's masterly investiga tions which have been conducted in Berlin in relation to the deadliest of modern diseases. This German investigator, having successfully traced a parasite through all its stages of development iu splenic fever, has applied the same method of study to the great class of tubercular disease, lie finds that consuptiea of the lungs and cognate diseases of tlia liver, kidney and intestines are caused by the presence in Ihe blood of a living parasite analogous to that which is developed in intermittent and other fevers. In the centre of the tubercle cell is the microscopic organism which has created it. The tubs rele is in fact infested with rod-shaped parasites which do not depend upon any virus imbedded in the diseased organ. Dr. Koch, having discovered these organ isms, cultivated them artificially, and after developing several generations of them without the intervention of dis ease, introduced them into the blood of healthy guinea-pigs, cats, rabbits and other animals. The result in every case was the reproduction of the para site and the rapid development of tu bercular disease. This was a prac tical demonstration of his theory that tubercular disease is due to the pres ence and reproduction of the bacillus, and that the parasite does not depend on a diseased condition of the organ. While Dr. Koch has not been the first investigator to identify pulmonary consumption with ordinary eruptive fevers, or even to attribute the infec tive property of tubercular disease to the of microscopic organisms, be has made a tenable theory out of what was at best an ingenious sur mise. He has found the disease-produc ing bacillus and cultivated it, not only from diseased lungs but even from matter expectorated by consumptive patients, and has proved that tubercle can be communicated by inoculation Professor Tyndall confines his atten tion to the scientific results of the German's investigations, and makes no attempt to anticipate the practical benefits which may be derived from the development of this new thoory of tubercular disease. Dr. Koch has not succeeded so far in producing by cul tivation a mild form of the disease. Although he has bred artificially as mauy as eightgenerations of the parasite the effects of purification were not ap parent. In the eighth generation, as in the first, decided and iu most cases virulent tubercular disease was the re sult of inoculation. Nevertheless it is a well-established fact that parasites which produce analogous disease in in animals and in the human system can be modified by cultivation until they finally produce a mild form of those diseases, and in this way protec tion may be afforded against virulent conditions. The analogies of diseases imply that it may be possible to pro cure from guinea-pigs or rabbits a:i ef fetive inoculant against consumption, precisely as smallpox germs are cul tivated in the cow or splenic fever germs in a sheep. It is the possibil ity of converting the occupant of a tubercle cell into a prophylactic or preventative agent that lends impor tance to these interesting experiments. This possibility is not outlined in Professor Tyndall's letter, but it nta\ readily be inferred from the vigorous rebuke which he administers to the anti-vivisectionists iu his closing para graph. The gold and silver mines of the United States produced last year about seventy-seven millions of dollars of the precious metal According to the an nual statement of Mr. John J. Valen tine, the General Superintendent of Wells, Fargo & Co., the yield of gold was $31,8G9,G86, aud of silver $45,077,- 829. The supply of gold from Cali fornia, as compared with 1880, was less by toward six hundred thousand dollars, but there was an increase of over three hundred thousand dollars in silver. The total tailing off in Nevada was over three millions, due to the greatly diminished production of the Comstock mines. Colorado, however, showed an increase of nearly seventeen hundred thousand dollars, and Arizona of more than three millions and three quarters. During 1881, however, the stocks o our gold, silver and copper mining companies invariably declined : n market value, and in some cases the deprecia tion was very great. They sold for less at the end of the year than at the beginning, the falling off occurring both in the stocks of the mines which paid dividends and iu those which did not, and which had never returned any profit. For headache, sick headache, take Peruna. 1 I ETIKII FKOM KA.\'SIS. The Prohibition QIICHIIWII Tliere. M E.-SRS. KIUTOKS: —Vour reader* are doubtless interested in the suhjeel of Prohibition, and a word from a State which is uow applying that method of dealing with the liquor bu.-im.ss, may interest t H>-IU Alcoholic liquors as used fur medical or mechani cal purposes need no special attention from the civil government anv more than wheat or corn ; but the fact that its use as a beverage leads to vice, crime end wide spread evils, calls for legislative action for its control. But two methods have been proposed, viz., license and prohibition. The former has !>ecn tried in every civUized coun try in this world. As a method of lessening the evils of the business, it has been a ghastly failure. The licensed saloon Itecomcs the school of vice and fills the land with drunkards just as certaiuly a.- if liquors were sold as freely as sroceries. Prohibition has been tried in Maine and Kansas The law weut into effect here Mav 1, lssl How does it work ? The friends of temperance, sobriety and good morals, the men who worked and voted for it, are well satisfied with the result. The whisky men, bummers and cheap poli ticians, publish far and wide that it is a failure. We scarcely expected to frame a law that would please the latter parties, and are disappointed at their marked displeasure. In fact, their curses are many and orthodox In a few of the larger cities tLe saloon element elected officers to not enforce the law, and in these places nothing has been done except as compelled by the efforts of private citizens. In places where nflitvrs have made nn honest effort to do their duty, the law has bi en enforced as easily end suc cessfully us t 1 e lav.- against stealing This is true even :11 counties that gave a majority against the Prohibitory Amendment. The last distiller in the State has closed business and left for Missouri. lie went for!h bearing his irods with him, (1,000 barrels of whis ky for which he found no market here.) and swearing volubly that prohibition is a failure. All the published reports of the failure of the law come from a like source. At present we are con tending against the entire liquor inter est of the country. Success here means success in iowa next June, then in Ohio, PenLsylvanit. aQd the remaining States of the Republic. The manu facturers and wholesale dealerd under stand this and contribute freely to help break down the law. The question of Prohibition conuot long be kept out of the national politics The party which adjusts itself to this vital issue will live and prosper. Let the liues be drawn in the graud Keystone State, as they are being drawn in Ohio and in other States. Set the battle iu array, and do not fear. "Ever the truth comes uppermost, And ever is justice doue." Truly Yours, It. E. MCBRIDE, Seneca, Kansas, May 2, 1832. Appleet Every Year. For an orchard of fifty trees we want but few of the summer kinds, unless they are of a very choice varie ty that would be of ready sale. For early summer Red Astrakhan, Early Xowell, Townsend anil Summer Por ter, 2 of each ; 4 Maiden Blush, 2 Jeffer is, 2 Fall llambo, 4 Smokehouse, 2 Winter Cornell's Fancy, 4 Gravestein, 4 York Imperial, 4 Roxbury Russett, 4 lted Romauite, 6 Winter Blush and 2 Fol-du-wall. The latter is generally called Fallawater, but the former is the proper name (found in the forest). King of Tompkins county rot beforo hey are ripe, like the Baldwin. Smith's Cider are good bearers and *ood keepers, but void of Havor. The Smokehouse is one of the richest flavor id and have a yellow flesh, hard and ;olid, and will keep until Spring. It locs best if planted in low or meadow and, it matters not if their roots run nto a stream of water. Any one javing a piece of ground of this kind vould do well to plant a goodly num >er, as there is no trouble in selling hem. A pples are like every thing else, requiring soil to suit their nature, and to get a crop you must take care of them. Manure this fall and salt the next ; a half peck thrown on the ground, spreading it from the trunk as far as the limbs extend is not too much for a bearing tree from eight v» ars upwards. S>*lt has a ten dency to make the bark smooth as well as promote a rapid growth. Manure and salt is the object, if you want a crop of sound and good keeping apples. 1 have seen apple trees treat ed in ihi* wise that the bark was so smooth that there was scarcely a crevice deep enough for an insect to deposit its eggs therein 1 1 is very common to see an apple orchurd in full bearing this year, and next year almost void of frnit. As oue remarks, ' llow scarce of apples your orchard iswe get the answer, "This is not its bearing year." I will j h:re state how easy it is to make every year its bearing year, with but little labor, although it would bo less labor to commence when the trees are young, with their first bearing. This is to allow but one half of each kind to give fruit at one season ; this is done by picking off the blossoms: it can be done any Spring regardless of the age or size of the tree, and when once doue it is permanent. Oue half rests this year while the other half is fruited; and the next year the other half takes its turn. By this means, with the assistance of manure and salt, we compel our orchard 1 every year to bear plenty of fruit.— Oxford Press. I At Sunday School one of the teach ers endeavored to point a moral-by g ving his scholars a description of the compass as emblematical of the Bible. 'Now, what way does the compass point?' he asked. 'North,' 'South,' 'East,' 'West,' shouted the scholars. 'No, children,' said the teacher; 'it points to the north. Always to the north. Now what way does the Bible always point ?' 'Always to the north !' was the thundering response.' J KATtCH. One mfaMrp. one insertion. (1 : each snhac* | Tueuf inncrljon. 50 cm.ln. Yeirly advert iecnjei t» one-foarl u of a cjlumn, f 5 ]er inch, r-ort duul !o these tale*; additional charge* where woe .IT or monthly change* are made. Local adve.-ti*emeute 10 cents per line , for Hi>t insertion, «.nd i cents i«r line for each additional insertion. Maiiiages and deaths pub lished free of cfcarge. Obituary notices charged •» advertisements. and naval le when handed in Audi', urs'Notices. >M ; Fxecrtors' and Adminis trators' Notices. tS each; Estray. Canticn an 4 Dissolution Nonets, not exceeding ten lines, »ach. Prom the fact the Gmiu is 'he oldest established and nujit extensively circniated Ks puMicau newspaper in Butler county, (a Btpufc f:c»n county) it must be apparent to bnainera men that it is the medium tht y should nee in vlvertising their business. NO. 26 Habjr'n Legacy. One