IVBHCBIPTIOH BATES: Par year, in advance •£ #0 Otherwise 1 w Ko aobecriptioo will bs diaoon tinned until ili imirim are pud. Poetmaaten neglecting to notify xm whan sabaeciban do aot take o«t their papora wtD be bald liable for the anbecnptacn. Majaenban renotiu from one poeto®ce to another abonld gin u the nana of the former aa wall aa the preeent office. All eommonieattooa intended for pablicatka. n this paper mnat be accompanied by the real n.m of the writer, not for publication but aa * OUZL. Died by a reaponaible name. Addr *"*Tß« BVTI.KR CITIM*» BCTLEB. PA- TBAVBIi£BB* GUIDE. BUTLBS, UUI CITT AND NUU EULKII) Trmina leave Butler for Bt. Joe, MiUeratown Kama City. Petrolia, Parker, etc., at 7-27 a. m ""I 2Mb and 7-25 p. m. Train* arrive at Butler from the above named points at 7.17 a. m., and 2.15, and 7.15 p. m- The 2.15 train connect* with train on the West Penn road through to Pittsburgh. • HKXAS&O »D ALLEGHBXT RAILBOAD Tralna leave Hilliard'a Mill, Butler county, for Harrieville, Greenville, etc., at 7-50 a. m. and 2.25 p. m. _ Train* arrive at Hilliard'a Milla at 1:45 A. *., and 5:55 r. *. _ . Hack* to and from Petroila, MArtinabar Fairview, Modoc and Tiontman, connect at Hii liard with all traioa on the 8 * A road. T*VBBTLVAJIIA BAII-BOAD. Tralna leave Butler (Butler or Pittaburgh Time. Marktl at 5.W a. m., goee through to Alle gheny, arriving at #Ol a. m. Tbia train con necta at free port with Freeport Accommona tion, which arrivea at Allegheny at 8.20 a. m., ftilroad time. Bxprtt, at 7.18 a. m„ connecting at Bui l« Junction, without change of care, at 8.38 with Ezpreaa weat, arriving In Allegheny at VJjG a. m., and Xxpreaa eaat arriving at Blalraville at ItM a. m. railroad time. Mail at 2.18 p. m., connecUng at Butler Juuc tion without change ol care, with Ezpreaa weat, arriving in Allegheny at 501 p. m_ and Ez preaa eaat arriving at Blairaviile Intersection at 5-55 p. m. railroad time, which connect* with Philadelphia Ezpreaa eaat, when on time. The 7.18 a.m. train connecta at Blalraville at 11.06 a. m. with the Mail eaat, and the 2.38 p. m. train at 8.5® with the Philadelphia Ex pre** etti. _ Train* arrlTe at Bailer on Wc*t Peon R. B. »t •JSt a. m., 5.17 and 6JSI p. m., Butler time. The 9,51 and 5.17 train* connect with trains on the Butler A Parker B. R. Main Lina. Through train* leave Pittsburgh lor the *aa« at 2M and 8.38 a. a*, and 11*1,411 and M* p. Bi., arriving at Philadelphia at »M and 7.20 p. m. and 8.00, 7.00 and 7.40 a. m.j at Baltimore ibont the HIM tine. at Hew York three hour* later, and at Washington about owe and a half hour* later. ________ TIWB Of Htidllf CMTI*. The aeveral Courts of the ooontr of Boiler nnwunti on the list Monday of March, June, September and December, end ,ao«Unoe two weeks/or ao long ae to dtenooe of the buatneea. Ko eaoaea are jmi dewfor trial or traverse Jurora summoned fa* the tnt week of the several terma. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. R. P. BCQTT, Attorney at I-aw, Butler, Pa. Oflee in BuTa huMding, Main street. JOHN K. KELLY, Otlre with E. Q. Miller, Building. anglTOl A. M. CORNELIUS, Office with W. D. Braodoo, Berg Building, Kain Street, Butler, Pa. " J. F. BRITTAIN, Office with !>. %■ Mitchell, Diamond. A. M CUNNINGHAM, Office in Brady's Law Building. Bnilar, Pa. 8. H. PIBRBOL. Offioeon H.E.corner Diamond, BiddlebuUd JOHN 1L GREER Office on K. E. corner Diamond. novlJ WM. H. LUSK, Office with W. H. H. BlddU, Eeq. NEWTON BLACK, OBeeon Diamond, near Court BOOM, south - E. L BRUGH, Office In Riddle's Law BuUdlng. STF. BOWSER. Offioe to BiddWa Law Building. [mtrTlf J. B. MoJUNKIN. Special attention given to collections Offic* orpoeite Wlllard House. JOSEPH B. BREDIN, Office north rest corner of Diamond, Butler n. H. H. GOUCHER, Offioe to Behneidemsn's building, up stairs. J, 7. DONLY Office near Court Bouse. 1 - 74 D 7 BR AN DON, ebl7-7» Office to Berg s building CLARENCE WALKER, Offies to Brady building- marl 7 FERDREIBERT - Office In Reiber's building, Jefleraon St. ap«l> F^EASTMAN, Office to Brady building. LEV.IicQUISTIoNT" Office Main street, 1 door south of Court Bouse JOS. C. VANDERLIN, Offioe strast, 1 deor sooth of Court House. - - - FORQUER, mr Office on Msto street opposite Togeley BOOM. GEO. R. WHITE, Ofloe N. E. oor—r at Diamond M<JUNKIIf Office in Scboetdemaa's bolidtog, west side Main street, Sod square from Court House. " T. a CA M PBELU Office to Berg's new building, 3d floor, east side Msto st., a few doom south of Lo»7J UTTITT mart tf rTXsULLIVAN, m»y7 OffiotfS. W. oor. of Diamond. A. TI BLACK, Office on Main atreet, one door south o. Brady Block, Butler. Pa. (oep. 9,1874. M EUGENE G. MILLF*, Office to Urad/*a Law BuUdlng, Main atreet. eoeth of Court Bouae. Itocm THOMAS ROBINSON, BUTLER, PA. JOHN H. NEGLEY VCHves particular attention to ranaaotions In real aetata throughout the eouo OmoBOB DUMOBO, BEAB Hooas,« OmCBS MJtUIIBO %. R. Ecki.Br, Kaasßor MABSBALL (Late of Ohio.) XCKLEY A MARSHALL. Office to Brady's Law Bolldiug. 5ept.9,74 ~C. Q. CH KIBTIE, Attorney at Law. Legal business carefully transacted. Collections made and promptly remitted. Business correspondence promptly attended to and answered. Office opposite Lowry House, Butler. Pa. PHYSICIANS. JOHN B. BYERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, myai-lyl BUTLER. PA. Office on Jefferson street, opposite Kliogler'H Flour Store. DENTISTS. DBNIISTR X. o|# WTALDRON, Oraduats of the Phil K adelphia Dental College, ia preparoi' • Roto do anything in the line of hi* ■wfssslon to a satisfactory manner. Office on Mala street, Batter, Union Block, ap stain, VOL. XIX. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Estate of WIN. (J*. Shorts. Letters of adroinUtrauon hsviug been granted to the undersigned on the estate ol William G. Short*, deceased, late of Connoqnenessing twp., Hutler connty, Pa., all per»on» knowing them selves indebted to *aid estate will please mtke immediate payment, and any having claims against the lame will present them duly nuthen ticnted for psyment. T. P. 8t»OKT8, Ex'r. Connequener sing P. O-, Butler < 0., Pa. lm Estate of Harriet Hays. (LATE OF CONXOQVESESSISG twp., dee'd.) Letters testamentary on the estate of Harri et Hays, dee'd, late of Connoquenessing twp., Butler County, Pa., having been granted to the undersigned, all persons knowing them selves indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment and any having claims against said estate will present them duly au thenticated for payment. KOBKKT S. HAYS, ) JAMK* H. HAYS,;*- I™- 1 ™- Whites town P. 0., Butler Co. Pa. Estate OR Adam Albert. Letters ol administration having been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Adam Al bert, deed., late of Franklin twp., Butler Co., Pa., all person*! knowing theiiwelve* indebted to said estate win please make payment and any having claims against the same will present them duly authenticated for payment. H. H. OALLAGHEB. Adm r. Bos 395, Butler, Pa. Auditors* JJtfotlee. Petition of James Morrison. Ex'r of Daniel Millison, tor appointment of Auditor. O. C., No.'SO. March Term, IW2. And now to wit: May 17th, 1882, J, M. Gal breath is appointed an Auditor as prayed for. BY THE COURT. Butler County, 88: Certify from the record this 31st day of May 1882. W.B.DODDS. Clerk O. C. Notice is hereby given, to all concerned, that the undersigned has been appointed Auditor, to make distribution in the matter of the estate of Daniel Millison, dee'd, and that he will at tend to the duties of said appointment at my office in Butler, on Thursday, the 2»th day of June, at the hour of 10 o'clock, A. M. june7-3t. J. M. GALUKKATII. | "NOTICE: IINDIVOBCK In th* matter of the application of Mary B. Elliott tor divores a vinculo matriironia from her husband, Harry A. Elliott. A dThTm, March Term, 1882, To Harry A. El hot t, respondent. _ Whereas a subpoena and an alias subpoena in the above stated case have been returned N E. L Now this is to require you to be and appear ia your proper person before said Court, on the first Monday of September Torn next, A v., 1882, being the 4th day of said mouth, to answer to said oomplaint, and to show causa, if any you havo. why the prayer thereof should not be arkctod. THO3. DONAGHY, Sheriff. And now, June Bth, 1882, having been appoint ed Commissioner by the Court to take testimony in above stated case and to report the same to Court, notice is hereby given that I will attend to the duties of said appointment at mv office, at Butler, on Friday, the 14th day cf July. A. V. 1882, at 10 o'clock, A. u. of said day, at which time and placo all persons interested may at- Junel4-6t. Petition of John Grossman. IK THI cotnrr or COMHOS rtrin or BCTT.ER COUBTY, «4jum wo. 1 SEPT, TKKII, 1882. In Be petition of John Grossman to have perpetual testimony relative to a deed from Jacob G. Grossman and wife to John N. Hoon, which deed ia now lost. And now, to wit • Dec- 3, 1881, petition pre sented and on due consideration thereof, snbp<e na is awarded to John N. Hoon aud Jacob O. Orosssam, and to any and all persons who may be interested ia tho said petition or bill to ap pear in the Court of Common Plets of said county, on the 4th day of Beptember, 1882, to make an oath or affirmation to said petition or bill, and in case no answer thereto is filed, and in case the said persons subpoenaed or any others do not attend on or before said day, George C- Pillow is hereby appointed a commis sioner to proceed on said 4th day of September, 1882. at 2 o'clock, f H„ of said day at the office of the Prothonotary said county to take the depositions of all witnesses who may be produc ed by said petitioners respecting the proof of the lacts alleged in said bill or petition, and to ascertain add sstaollah the same and to tusks return of said depositions unto said Court when such onler and decree in the premises will be made as to justice and equity appertain, and further it appearing from said petition that the residence of the ssid J no. N. Hoon and Jacob G. Grossman is unknown aud believed not to be within this commonwealth, it is orderod that notice of this subpoena and order of Court be given by publication thereof for three (8) suc cessive weeks in one of the weekly newspapers, published In Butler prior to ssid 4th dsy of Sept. 1&82. bv THE COUHT. Butler County 8. 8 : Certified from the re cord this 10th dsy of J tine, 1882 M. N. OUEEB, Prothonotary. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, county of Butler i To John N. Hoon and Jacob G. Gross man, Greeting: We command you, that all business and excuses beirg laid snide, you be and appear iu your proper persons before our Judges at Butler at our (J mnty Court of Com mon Pleas, there to be held for ilie county aforesaid on Monday, the 4th of Sept., 1882, to show cause, if a>iy you liavs, why the witnesses on behalf of John Grossman, on his petitiou to have jierpetual testimony relative to a deed from Jacob G. Grossman and wlfo to John N. Hoon, (deed now lost) should not be examined and other testimony reduced to writing, aud filed of record In our said Court in order to per petuate the same agreeably to the constitution of our Governmeut and the ast of Assembly in such esse made aud provided, on the part of petitioners snd bsrein fsii not, under tho penal ty of one hundred pounds. Witness Uie Honorable E- McJunklu, Presi dent of our said Court, at Butler, this 10th day of June, A. D , 1882. M. N. GBBEB, Junel4-3t. Prothonotary. ORPHANS'COURT SALE. Br virtue of an order of the Orphans Court of Butler County, the undersigned executors of the last will and testament of Conrad Ktulr., late of Summit twp , Butler County, will ex pose to sale by public vendue or outcry upon the premises on Thursday, .July 20, A. !>.» iwhjj. at one o'clock P. M., all that certain piece or parcel of Isnd. situate in the township of Kuril rait, county hi Butler, and State of Pennsylva nia, bounded and described as follows j On the north by lauds of Joseph Kiehenlaub, on the east br lands of George Knause and HtuU, south by lands of Johu Sheets and west by lands of Jcjseph Eichenlaub, containing fifty three acres more or less having thereon erected a log house and log barn, also a good orchard growing thereon. • VtUtMM OF HAL.KI One-third of purebwe money on confirmation of wile by the Court, and the balance in two equal annual inntallmentu with interest from confirmation, to be necured by IM.IKJ and mort gage, with cfauae waiving iiirjui«ition, wtay of esecution and with attorney'* communion of R> per cent.. In ca«e paymentjof *aid hai to be en forced by law. PFCTP.It HTt TZ, \ .. . AI-HBBTBMITH, J J. It. MrJIJNKIN Attorney. Jane 2H, IKS 2. n ■ - FOB NAlii:. The following described valuable piece# of property altaatod In the borough of Butler are ofTered for aale by the Herman National Dank of MUleretuwu, Pa., to-wit: One lot of ground on Falton atroet. between S-opertleeof Mm. Lotilea JlcClarearid H. 11. ooeher, Ka<|., containing one acre, more or leea, being one of the beet building aite* Hi the town. XI,HO._One lot of gronnd near the Witlier apoon Inelitnte. an 4 formerly owned by IJ. O. i;iiin. K«q , containing one aere, huh» OT If**, on which there 1a a good two-etory frame houat and at able. Tbia properly la nleaaantly located near the depot and commauda a magnificent vi# w. ALBO.— Lot on McKean atreet, formerly own ed b* H. J. Mitchell, S*q., ou which there ia a good two-etorjr frame hone# aud at able. Poeaeaeion given In daye after ptirebaae. gar Advertise iu the CiTMUir. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS ' will cure dyspepsia.heartburn, mala ria, kidney disease, liver complaint, and other wasting diseases. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS enriches the blood and purifies the tystem; eves weakness, lack of energy, etc. Try a Louie. BROWNS IRON BITTERS is the only Iron preparation that does not color the trcth, and will not cause headache or constipation, as other Iron preparations wiiL BROWN'S IRON BITTERS INDIES and all suflrrcrs from neu ralgia, hysteria, and kindred com plaints, will find it without an equaL WHENCE COMES THE UNBOUNDED POP ULARITY OF Allcock's Porous Plasters? Becanflc they have proved themselves the Best External Remedy ever in vented. They will cure asthma, colds, coughs, rheumatism, neuralgia, and any local pains. Applied to the small of the back they are infallible in Huck-Ache, Nervous Debility, and ail Kidney troubles; to the pit of the stomach they are a sure cure for Dyspepsia and Liver Com plaint. ALLCOCK'S POROUS PLASTERS are painless, fra grant, and quick to cure. Be ware of Imitations that blister and burn. Get ALLCOCK'S, the only Genuine Porous Plaster. Q ATA RRH Elys'Creamßalm Kffectuiilly cleaimeft the Hanoi pawiuj,-* of RkO" « Catarrhal vim*. <-atis lnK health v cretkmn, gCffltiftHrffl "■ in 1 Inflammation, M MtAD I profi-cta themrnibrann ■ IlK.'l bom additional cold*, '• ft ''"'"l'ltl'-ly h<*aln the r— <4.»l«»»*»mfl T 3f jM sori-n ntld rrMlorn* the lm* .<<?// «■"*« of tajdn and Wt* j,J,'""••H. Beneficial re- Wf / /f Hilt* arc realized by a ' <-w application*. A H "'" r <ni({li treatment will cure Catarrh, Hay Kever.&e. I'lie<|iialed lfor ratldN In the head. K-j AV— ii lUEH ply by the little fli>|(cr I ■ Into llie nontrlla. On receipt ol fioc. will mall a package. Sold by llutler druKKlntn. KLV'rt t 'HKAM liAI.M CO., Owego, N. V. $200,00 REWARD! Will be paid for the detection and con viction of any person selling or dealing, in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation HOP BITTERS, especially Bitters or preparations with the word Hop or Hrtps In their name or connection there with, that is intended to mislead and cheat the public, or for any preparation put in any form, pretending to be the same as HOP BITTERS. The genuine have cluster of OREEN HOES (notice this) printed on tho white label, and are the purest and best medicine on earth, especially for Kidney, Liver and Nervous Diseases. Mewareofafl others, and of all pretended formulas or recipes of IIOP BITTERS published in pajiers or for sale, as thoy are frauds and swludles. Wboeyer deals in any but the genuine will be prosecuted. HOP BITTERS MM. CO., Rochester, N. Y. c FOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF i s CONBTIPATION. j Ho other dlacaa* la»o pnrvalont In thla ooiin- M r- trjr mn CuoatlpaUoa. and no nmadjr haa mvmr _ e« ( uaU»d tha o»l<itrr*tod Kidney-Wort aa a c E num. Wbfctavcr tho oauae, how over OMUnata a a tho MM, tbia rema'ly win overcome It. k ** ml CO viae diatMMinc f e rlfctOi plaint la very apt to be - £ nomplloaled w|tho->n«tlp»tlnn, KMn<r/-Wort "* „ amitluiia tha parte »n<l «ulofcljr a a ournm al I bind, of PUoa even when phyalolan. £> ■ and medlolnea havo Iwf jro failed. " U- TWU you HAVO either of theeo trouhtaa X} < V»IO« SI. I USE I Drum*. Seltp Old Established Carriage Factory [ R*T A 111.1*11 BL< IKBM.J Spring Wagon a and Mugglea ill Block and in»D« UI order ol UII atylua and Ucicrlpllon. Our work la of the huat AND IAT«AT ctjrip, Well made and Hnclr llnUbcd. Wo give apeciul at. ten tion to repairing, painting and trimming. When in want ol anything In out line we aak you to call and examine our Block. LOUDKN <K PARK, Duqeeanc Way, between Hlxlh aud Seventh ulrcda, above BO*peiiaion Bridge, Plitaburgli, Pa. ap.'»,»Ul Adv<jrti*e i» the CITI?*I». BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12. 1882 SELECT. WORDS MISUSED- Some Ttaat Should Sever be iiHe<l and Oilier** That are Commonly Misplaced. In the category of words that should never be used come first misformed words as 'lit' for lighted; 'plead' as the past participle of the verb 'to plead,' instead of pleaded ; 'proven' for proved a form now obsolete except in the Scotch verdict of 'not proven.' These are what might be termed gram matical errors, but they are very com mon among those who pass for fair writers and educated men. Less venial faults are the use of such vulgar isms as 'on to' for on or upon, which is becoming increasingly frequent among careless writers; and whose blood has not run cold at reading advertisements in our religious papers of baptismal 'pants V— to be worn, we suppose, by those reverend 'gents' who minister weekly 'in our midst,' preach 'lengthy' sermons that 'enthuse' their hearers, aud are generally reputed to be 'relia ble' men whose acts will never 'jeop ardize' the good name of their flocks, albeit they sometimes have a 'help meet' or 'helpmate' or 'companion' or 'lady'— that is to say, a wife — whose words and acts need to be judged with great 'leniency.' There! 'at one fell swoop' we have reprobated all but three of the words and phrases, con | demned by Mr. Ayres, that we are now considering. No well-bred man will ever speak of such a garment as bis 'pants,' nor will he call his wife anything but his wife. 'Helpmeet' is a stupid word, as has often been point ed out, and owes its existence to a careless perversion of Genesis ii, 18, 'I will make him an helpmeet (i.e., suitable, fit) for him,' and 'helpmate' is a still stupider perversion of 'helpmeet.' If we are to say 'lengthy,' why not 'strengtby V and besides, our good old friend 'long' will answer every purpose. We say 'leniency,' wben lenity ex presses the same shade of meaning. Why add so clumsy a word as 'jeop ardize' to the language when 'jnopard' is already there for the same purpose ? Why use the ill-formed word 'reliable' (which should be rely-upon-able, to mean what is intended), when we have trustworthy and credible? 'Enthuse' is one of those horribly ill-informed words whose mere pronunciation is their condemnation, in the mind of one who has enough acquaintance with the history and genius of the language to be qualified to express any opinion on the subject, while 'in our midst' is a careless way of saying 'in the midst of us,' which is intell-gible English. The three other words that Mr. Ayres would proscribe are 'preventa tive,'A clumsy and useless substitute for preventive ; "graduate,' as an ac tive intransitive verb (a student does not 'graduate' from college ; the college graduates him —l. E., admits *him to its gradus; and the student therefore is graduated); and 'mistaken' in such sentences as 'You are mistaken' ( when what the speaker means is, 'You do not understand me') for 'You mistake.' To Mr. Ayres' list should TIE added, we think, such non-English words as anent, auditorium, bogus, nonce, taboo, tapis; such slangy words as 'disgruntled,' which is a favorite word in the politician's vocabulary, and 'resurrect,' <vhich is used as a verb in many a sermon ; such misformationu as gubernatorial' and 'post-graduate'— how can one graduated from a college and thus made 'a graduate' ever be come a 'post-graduate?' One should write, 'A graduate's course of study,' or a post-graduation course of study,' the former having the preference. Wo assume that no reader of tho Examiner needs to be warned against any such pedantic word as 'authoress' and 'poetess ;' such vulgarisms as 'crank,' which the Ouiteau trial has made so common ; or such a wrong-headed idiom as 'different to,' of which some English writers are so fond. If tbey do need any warning, we beg of them to eschew each and all of those words. And we are inclined to add to the list 'donate' and 'donation,' which nre at least un necessary while we have so many words as 'give,' 'grant,' 'bestow,' 'pre sent,' and their substantives, to ex press the some idea. Wordß used in wrong senses fall naturally into several classes, first among which are the words sometimes called 'reporters' English,' words mis used because they are thought to sound fine. Examples of this misuse of words are : 'Apprehend' when the writer means merely 'think ;' 'condign' in such a phrase as 'condign punish ment,' when the writer means severe punishment; 'casualty' for accident; 'predicate' for declare, and the like. Some writers never can begin any thing; they always 'inaugurate, or 'initiate,' or at tho very best 'com mence' it ; if a speaker or singer is well received by his audience, ho receives an 'ovation ;' if a man is kind-hearted he is called a 'humanitarian' (i. C., a believer only in the human nature of Christ), which is to attribute a grave heresy to a man under pretext of com plimenting him; and if one of this ilk goes to church, he always speaks of it as tho 'sanctuary.' Wo exhort all who read this nrtielo to eschew these ami all similiar errors. Whatever you may say in the freedom of conversation, when you take your pons use plain words to express plain meanings. If you mean granted, don't say 'accord ed ;' if a speaker has talked for fifteen minutes on a subject, don't say that he 'alluded' to it, which means merely to touch and pass by a toplfr; if you mean think, don't say 'consider,' which denotes tho careful weighing of a thing; don't say 'residence, for house, 'individual' for person, 'portion' for part, 'purchase 1 for buy, and bo chary of 'vicinity' for neighborhood. In short, don't BO stilled. Allied to this class of errors is that careless and slangy use of words which results from an effort to bo colloquial and easy In writing. It is not easy to be familiar without becoming vulgar, but the art can bo learned in writing as well as in social intercourse. Care ful writers will avoid all such phrases as the following; 'Balance' for remain der, 'bound' for determined, 'claim' for assert, 'indorse' for approve, 'loan' for lend, 'own' for confess. A very com mon kind of mistake is the misuse of small words through mere careless ness ; as, to say 'less' where fewer is meant, or to use 'such' for so. Th's list might be indefinitely increased. There is also a class of misused words, all too common, that are posi tively vulgar Under this head, of course, corpes all slang, of which no welliired man ought to be guilty under any circumstances. To slang may be added such words as these : 'and' ia phrases like 'try and do;' 'apt' used for likely; 'got' in combinations like 'he has got a fortune;' 'healthy' for whole some (lobsters are usually healthy, but they are considered unwholesome) ; 'companion' for wife; 'female' for women; 'lady' for woman or wife (these last three are the superlatives of vulgarity) ; 'party' for person; 'posted' for informed; 'retire' for go to bed; 'superior' as thus applied, 'she is a very superior person.' Probably these examples will suffice. Still another class of misused words are misemployed in such ways as to leave room for the charitable inference that the writer is ignorant of their real meaning. When one uses 'alternative,' the preposition 'between,' and the con junctions 'both-and,' or 'neither-nor,' to refer to more than two objects, it is evident that he is guilty of nothing worse than gross ignorance The same conclusion follows when one calls two objects a 'couple' when the two objects are not united by any sort of bond ; it is doubtful whether pair' should not also be restricted to two objects BO united. 'Distinguished' is often wrong ly used by those who are not accustom ed to discriminate between two words of similar meaning. — Examiner. Early-cat and Well-made Hay. I wonder bow many of the readers of your paper know the value of nicely cured, early-cut bay, raised on deep, rich, clean, thoroughly cultivated soil, where a regular rotation is practiced. I have cut my grass early for twelve years, and perhaps a little of my ex perience may waken up some who are yet doubting to see the value of this practice. Some years ago I took twelve dairy cows to winter, providing in the bar gain with the owner that I might "strip" them a few weeks, as I wished to make some butter for our own use. The cows were brought here Novem ber 17tb, and had not been fed any thing, getting only what tbey picked out of doors. The first night my man stripped faithfully, and got four quarts of milk. He laughed at me, and I presume the owner laughed in his sleeve to think how be had sold me. (I had alowed him a few dollars for the privilege of milking them a while.) Nothing daunted, I told my man to continue stripping twice a day and I would feed, and my turn to laugh would come by and by. The cows were fed early-cut timothy and clover bay, and now and then a feed of Hungarian (cut in blossom); lightly at first, but, after they got used to it, all they would eat clean. Ttey had warm shelter, and water not colder than 50°. They were fed nothing be sides what I have stated. In a very short time we were making six pounds of nice yellow butter a day and kept it up for frix weeks. About the first of last November I bought a pair of six-vear old horses. The man I bought them of was an ex cellent horseman and the horses were in extra fine condition ("fixed up to sell" some of the neighbors said;. They had baen accustomed to grain three times a day, summer and winter. I gradually diminished the amount of grain and increased the bay fed, until at the end of one month they were getting nothing but early-cut timothy and clover hay (all they would eat clean three times a dav) and- water, and thev have had nothing else since. They weighed the day I bought them 2,560 pounds. At tho end of two months, out of curiosity, I weighed them again and their weight then was 2,700 ponnds. At the end of another 30 days they weighed 2,810 pounds; after still another month, 2,880; and now, after nearly throe months, during which tim we have done our Spring work, the turn the scales at 2,715. They are in perfect health and very fat. An old farmer said, not long ago, that they were tho fatest team he ever saw. They pull the plow, run ning nine inches deep, as though it was a plaything. Their former owner was in my stable, not long since, and said to me: "It's almost a miracle, Ter ry; but your hay is as good as common hay and oats." This answers the question I AGREED to answer in my lust as to what I did for oats for my horses. 1 am not writing this to brag up my horses or hay — neither one is for sale; hut to cull the attention of those who still let their grass stand too long to the greater value it would havo if cut curly, particularly on clean, tborougly cultivated and highly manured land. IN regard to tho value of such hay for feeding lieef cattle, I will give tho ex perience of an old ami successful farm er, who has kept steers every winter for thirty yearn. He said tome: "I can put as many pounds of flesh on a certain number of steers in the winter, in a warm barn, with early-cut hay from a ten-acre lot, as those steers had put on hud they run in tho lot and oaten the grass as it grew," Now, brother farmer do not pass these by as big stories. They are "tho truth; tho whole truth and nothing but the truth." "We sjieak that we do know." What ever else you may do, make up your minds to cut a part of your hay, at least, early this year, and cure it nicely : watch the relish with which your bo AOH and other cattle will eat it next winter ami the effect it will havo on them ; and you will nuvt r go back to the old way, any more than you would exchange your mowing machine for a scythe or the self-binder for the cradle. Our pratico has been to cut twice— once about the middle of June and again about tho last of July — and then feed off the third crop or plow for wheat. This year we intent! to mow three times anil not have any stock on the meadows. A fair crop would B« about two and one-half, one and one half, and three-quarter tons for the three cuttings. Considerably more than two and one- half tons has been raised in this vicinity for a first crop but the quality of the hay was not good. When a crop will make 2itons per acre, if the weather is good, cut it, and let the rest of the strength go into the next crop. I mow after 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the weather promises to be fair for some days, and rake the next day, between 2 and 5 ; the following day, about 10 o'clock, turn over the windrows, and after dinner cock up. If the weather is bright and warm all the time, it goes in the next day, without opening the cocks. I keep plenty of help at work in the potato field about the time of haying, and at the least sign of rain we rake and cock up, in wl:ich case it may be necessary to open the cocks j more or less before drawing in But unless rain does THREATEN, we never cock up merely wilted grass or clover The great point in haying is to have the nerve to cut largely just at the be ginning of fair weathor. How many times I have known farmers, after three or four days, to say : "Well, I guess we are going to have some good weat her and I will cut some bay." And th y cut it, to get wet, just when they should have been drawing their hay into the barn. They had not learned "in time of peace to prepare for war." At thebegiuning of fair weather it is usually cool, and grass cut after 2 o'clock will not cure enough to be injured by the dew that night, and the next night, being left in large windrows, the injury I 3 very slight. I used to tura by hand a heavy crop of grass when it was cut with a side-cut machine. Inquiry is often made in the Country Gentleman about hay caps. Tbey are nice things and sometimes will save their cost in a single stotm; but the farmer should be a good weather prophet, and, if he is, he will very rarely need to use them We have a lot of tbem, but I do not remember that we have used one in three years. If you wish to use them, put the hay up in cocks of 200 to 300 pounds each, and make caps about six feet square of heavy sheeting. Fasten a string, with a loop in it, to each corner of the cap. Use pinß made of strips of shingle about H inches wide, with a notch in the thick end and the other end sha-p --ened. Pin the caps down tight, and they will protect the hay through a storm that will blow down rail-fences. A mau will sleep better with his clover hay covered, unless perchance (as hap pened to a friend .of mine) some stranger wakes him up to tell B>m "there are a lot of white cows" in his meadow. — Country Gentleman. Where Coal Conic* From. The coal fire in the grate sparkled aud crackeled and sent its sharp-poiot ed flames up through the dark mass, giving even the smoke a lurid hue. We all sat gazing into the fire, mak ing fancies and thinking our own thoughts, whe'l Uncle John interrupt ed tlio silence by saying: "And so, at last, this coal fulfills its mission." "What do you mean, uncle?" inter rupted Julia, who sat on her low stool, leaning her face on Undo John's knee, and smoothing the tabby cat's pretty fur. "Why, I mean that after so many long years, this coal has at last become an agent for tho use and comfort of man. Perhaps you do not know how coal is formed ?" We all drew our chairs noaror, as Julia exclaimed, "do tell us ?" "Well," began Uncle John, stroking his long white beard, "many thousand years ago, in fact, more years than any of you can count oven in a whole lifo time, there grow a vast forest. There were no North AND South American continents, nor EMI an Eastern or Western World. An exceedingly small portion of tho globe was land, the rest was a wide sea. In many places the ocean was shallow, and as years went by the sand and drift mat ter filled up the shallow places, until thoy BECAME groat swamps. In these swamps grow great forests. The great amount of carbonic acid gas that mingled with the air, and tho high degree of warmth, along with tho constant moisture, caused those forests to grow very rapidly. The pine tree grew to immense size; ferns grew as high as trees; and a sort of cltib moss, that in our forests never grows over three feet high, in those forests grow eighty and ninety feet high. Along tho damp warm valley of tho Amazon, in South America and the tropics, grow our richest and most pro fuse vegetation, but oven that is noth ing compared to tho ancient forests that grew from the swamp*. I n these forests the trees and vegeta tion grew so rapidly thai they crowded upon each other. Hoing too much crowded, too much of T!.« vegetation died as rapidly as it hid grown. Thus year after year, the old forest died down, and about it grew tho new, un til one forest was piled upon another. After thousands of years, gradually, tho whole surface of the land began to sink, until tho sea once more flowed over tho places where forests had grown. A nil again, after more thousands of years, tho drift mutter and sand filled up tho shallow places, ami other forests grow in new swamps. Asyoars went by, they too, were submerged in tho sea. This continued for numberless years. Between each layer of decayed forests, there was a layer of sand aud mud, and shells ami drift matter that finally hardened into rock, forming tho lime stone or sandstone that is found in our coal mines. Miners can tell just how many times the coal-beds have been submerged by the number of layers of sandstone or of limestone. Most of tho trees of that ancient forest were pine trees. I'ine contains tar and pitch and a great deal of rcsinouft matter. Coal also contains tar aud pitch and rosin, which is received from the decayed Coal is pure carbon, and is black i because carbon is black. All plants I contuin a frreat deal of carbouic acid. ! When plants breathe or decay they 'give off large quantities of carbonic acid gas. hence this carbon became a port of the coal. The constant pressure above, and the water, caused this decaying vegeta tion to tuke first the form of peat. Peat is a soft, spongy sort of coal aud is much used by the poor yeo many of England and Ireland (or their fires. After the peat has lain many thou sand years under great pressure and deeply buried in the dark bosom of tho earth, it gradually and slowly hardens into the coal we use in our grate. Sometimes, in splitting open a block of coal you can plainly see the impress of !>eautifui and perfectly formed leaves; branches, twigs aud vines. Our coal is really, then, nothing but a decayed forest. It has only been within the last few years that coal has come into extensive use in Europe and the United States Not until the forests were fast disappearing did coal come iuto de mand, and yet it has been stored away in measureless abundance generations before we were born." We were all gazing ini,o the blazing fire that burned so brighly as to pain the eyes. Julia said it sceuied to be trying to make as much light as possi ble, in order to make up for having been so long in the dark.— N. Y. Tri bune. A Couple. A couple left the train at the Union depot and walked up Jefferson avenue yesterday She had long curls and a pink dress and a yellow sash, and ho had a standing collar sawing his ears off, a buttonhole boquet and a pair of new boots freshly greased and ono size too small. They hadn't walked two blocks when they came to a man sitting on a box in front of a store, and as he caught sight of them a grin crept over his face like molasses spreading out on a shingle. 'Griuoing at us I 'epose ?' queried [ tbe young man, as be came to a halt. 'Yes,' frankly replied the sitter. 'Tickles you most to death to see us take hold of hands, don't it?' 'lt does.' 'And you imagine you can see us feeding each other caramels, can't you?' 'I can.' 'And you shako all over at the way we gawk around and keep our mouths open ?' 'That's me.' 'Well, this i« me! I'm not purty, and I haven't been cultivated between th • rows, nor billed up nor fertilized. I an't what you call stall-fed, and tbe old man looks twenty per cent worse than I do but it won't take me over a minute to jam you seven feet into tbo ground I I told Lucy I was going to Login on the first man who looked cross-eyed at us, and you are the chap. Prepare to be pulverized I' 'Beg pardon, but I didn't mean- -!' 'Yes, you did ! Lucy, hold my hat while I mop htm V 'Say —hold on !' He took up the middle of the street lik: a runaway horse, and the young man took after him, but it was no use. A fter a race of a block tbo man who grinned gained so fast that tbe other stopped short and went back to his girl and his hat. Stretching forth his hand to the innocent maiden, he re marked. 'Lucy, clasp on to that, and if you let go for tbe next two hours, even to wipe your nose, I'll never call you by the sacred name of wife !'— Detroit Free Ptess. Ntniiilurd Time, Representative Belmont, to whom was rt ferred the joint resolution recent ly introduced by Mr. Flower, of New York, authorizing the President to call an international conference to fix a common prime meridian for the regu lation of time throughout the worlo, submitted a report to the full commit tee, in which be says that there is at present no common and accepted standard for the computation of timo for other than astronomical purposes; that in the absence of such an agree ment serions embarrassment is felt in tho ordinary aflairs of modern com merce, especially Bince the wide-spread extension of tolograpic communication and railway transportation: that navi gators, geographers, and all who have occasion to use charts or maps are put to tho groatest inconvenience; that an international agreement on the subject is demanded more imperatively every day, both by science and trade ; that tho United States Government haß adopted the Greenwich meridian for nautical purposes by tbe establishment of tbe Metooro'ogical Bureau; that a signal service system, with postal and otner stations, extending over nearly four years of solar time in North America, has alreudy compelled the adoption of the standard timo of 7.35 A. M. at Washington as tho moment for making telegraphic r©i>orts from all stations, and that tho observations on our naval vessels are made at the same hour of Washington timo. The same report concludes as fol lows; "The propositions embodied in the resolution have been discussed In this country and in Europe by various commercial and scientific societies, ond the necessity for an international con vention generally conceded. At the recent meetings in Bologne and Venice the idea of holding such a convention in Washington was very much favored. It is obvious that the United States, having the greatest extent of continu ous longitudinal area of any couutry traversed by railway, postul and tele graph lines, should take the initiative in a movement so important to science and the world's commerce." The report wus unanimously adopt ed by the committee, and Mr. Belmont was directed to submit it to the House at the first opportunity. 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Prom the fact that the Orrarn is <he oldest established and lsutt extensively circulated Ke publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub lican county) it must be apparent to bnaineM men that it is the medium they should use in advertising their business. NO. i Worse limn mowing Out the On*. Did you hear the story of the man '■ in the hotel who, meddling with the 1 old style of bell rope in bedrooms to see what it was, rung it unknowingly and a servant appeared ? 'Why, how do you do?' he said, ex tending hi 3 hand to the astonished servant whom he thought a visitor; 'sit down ; what can I do for you ?' 'Did you ring ?' said the servant. 'Ring? Why, no. Ring what? There ain't no bell here.' Then the servant explained the bell ropo and left After he had gone the man thought he would try the bell rope for fun. He gave it a terrific pull, and just then the gong rang for dinner, and, thinking he had created an awful catas trophe down stairs, he was greatly alarmed, locked and bolted his door, and sat up all night expecting the ar rival of the police. woman really practices econ omy unless she uses the Diamond Dves. Many dollars can be saved every year. Ask the Druggist, A candidate out West calls bis opponent a 'slumgullion.' This is new aud novel. Personal, —'John, come tack; all is forgiven. Pa kicked the wrong man. He did not know it was you. Sally.' For trem u lousness, wakefulness, dizziness, and lack of energy, a most valuable remedy is Brown's Iron Bitters. A French newspaper adrertisement reads : 'Wanted, a distinguished healthy looking man to be a 'cured patient* in a doctor's office.' Every one will find a general tonic in 'Lindsey's Improved Blood Search er." Druggists sell it. It's what you want. In the new arithmetic one readsj: 'ln one lot there are four calves and iu another two young men with their hair banged. How many calves in all?' To sweeten rhubarb pies—put in as much sugar as your conscience will allow, then close your eyes and add another haudful. At the masquerade: Was it the loud beating of my heart, my darling, that told you I was near ?" murmered "no. 'Oh, no,' she replied, 'I recogniz ed your crooked legs.' A. M. Doyle, of Columbus, Qa., says that from experience he knows "Sellers' Liver Pills" to be the best in use There are great possibilities in the life of a news boy. Mike Mykens, of Denver, Col., who has been in the bus iness twenty-five years, is said to be worth at least $50,000. A Liverpool shopkeeper advertises that he is able sell cheeper than his married competitors, who have to support a wife and children. A French Chemist is reported to have discovered a method of trans forming the wool on sheep skins into velvet, and it is likely to become an important articlo of manufacture. A woman in Laurenceville, Que bock, seventy years old, recently gave birth to a child who bids fair to live to comfort its parents in their 'declin ing years.' The postage Btamp is small, but the largest men always go behind its back to lick it. What 1b hypocrisy ? Why, it is when one says he loves bis neighbor . as himself and straightway sanas the sugar. 'What is this man charged with?, askod the judge. 'With whisky, yer Honor,' replod the sententious police ma:>. 'Yes,' said the farmer, 'barbed-wire fence is expensive, but the hired man does not stop to rest lire minutes on the top o( it ovcry time he has to climb over it.' 'Why does a donkey eat thistles?' asked a teacher of one of the largest boys in the class. 'Becauso be is a donkey, I reckon," was the prompt reply. 'What is your Income?' was once asked a noted Parisian Bohemian* 'lt is bard to tell,' was the reply, 'but in good years I can borrow at least 10,000 francos.' 'Confound it, you've shot the dog f I thought you told me you could bold a gun.' Pat—'Sure, aud so i can, vor honor. It's tbo shot sorr, I couldn't howid.' 'Too much absorbod in his own bus iness,' was the comment of a Western newspaper on the death of a brewer who was drowned in a tank of his own boor. A boy who was playing truant the other day, when asked if he wouldn't get a whipping when he got home, re plied: 'What is five minutes' licking to five hours' of fun?' A Yonkors man says that his wife works like lightniug. By this we pre sume ho wishes to convoy the idea that she uever strikes twice in tbo same Hpot. In Sweden they are now manofke turing thread for crochet and sowing purposes from pine timber. The pro cess is socrot and vory profitable, and the thread is already in good demand for export. Ilou't I>le In tho lloitee. Ask druggists for "Rough on Rats." It clears out rats, mice, bedbugs, roaches vermin, flies, ants, insects. 15c. i»or box. —Bargains in Russia Crash, Towels; Table Linens and Napkins, at L. STEIN & SON'S. Advertise in the CITIZEN.
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