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SHBNANOO AND ALLEGHENY RAILROAD r Trains leave Hilliard's Mill, Butler county, for Harrisville, Greenville, etc., at 7.50 a. m and 2.35 p. m. ... Trains arrive at Hilliard's Mills at 1:45 A, m., and 5:55 p. *. Hacks to and from Petrolia, Martinsburc, Fairview, Modoc and Trontman, connect at Hll liard with all trains on the 8 & A road. PENNSYLVANIA BAILROAD. Trains leave Butler (Butler or Pittsburgh Time. Market at 5.0P a. m., goes through to Alle gheny, arriving at 9.01 a. m. This tram con nects at Free port with Frecport Accommoda tion, which arrives at Allegheny at 8.30 a. in., railroad time. . _ Express at -7.16 a. m„ connecting at Butler Junction, wlthoat change of cars, at 8.-0 with Express west, arriving In Allegheny at 9.5G a. m., and Express east arriving at Blairsville at 14.55 a. m. railroad time. Mail at 2.16 p. m., connecting at Butler Junc tlonwitbout change ol cars, with Express west, arriving Id Allegheny at 501 p.m., and Ex press east arriving at Blairsviile Intersection at 5.55 p. m. railroad time, which connects with Philadelphia Express east, when on time. The 7.16 a.m. train connects at Blairsville at 11.05 a. m. with the Mail the 2 36 p. m. trail at 6.5# with the Philadelphia Ex ' Trains arrive at Butler on West Penn R. R-'l 9.51 a. m„ 5.17 and 6.51 p. m., Butler time. The 9,51 and 3.17 trains connect with trains on the Butler A Parker E. Through trains leave Pittsburgh ior the Ea#« at 2.56 and 8.36 a. m. and 13.51, » nd 8 -°® P: m arriving at Philadelphia at 8.40 and 7.20 p. m. and 3.00, 7.00 and 7.40 a. m.; at Baltimore about the same time, at New York three hours later,- and at Washington about one and a hall hoars later. Time of Holding Court®. Tin Mveral Oonrta of tha oounty of Bailor oomiMDoe on the Ant Monday of Mmroh, June, September tod Deoembor, lad oontinue two «Nb, or to long u neceaaa«7 to diapoM of I tha limlini NOOHMI are pat down for trial or MTMM Jnrora nanwud for the first woak of the NTUtI terma. _ ATTORNEYS AT LAW. R. P. SCOTT, Attorney at Law, Butler, Pa. Office In Buff's hntldlng. Main street. JOHN K. KELLY, Office with E. G. Mlfler, Esq., in Brady Law Building. augHtil A. M. CORNELIUS, Office with W. V. Brandos, Berg Building, Main Street, Butter, Pa. * J. F. BRITTAIN, Office with L. Z- MitcheH, Diamond. A. M. CUNNINGHAM, in Brady's Law Building. Butler, Pa. S. H. PIERSOL. Offloe on N. E. oomer Diamond, Riddle build tog. n ~ JOHN M. GREER. Office on N. E. corner Diamond. noria ■ .'.i / - WM. H. LUSH, nffie. with W. H. H. Riddle. Eaq. - FEWTON BLACK, Office on Diamond, near Court Houae, south ride. ——- ~— E. I. BRUGH, Office In Riddle's Law Building. S. F. BOWSKK. Office in Riddle's Law Building. [nart"^ J. B. McJTJNKIN. Special attention given to collections Offlcr opposite Wkllard House. JOSEPH B. BREDIN, Office northeast comer of Diamond, Butler Pa. * — ' HTH. GOUCHER, Office in Schneldeman's building, np stabs. J, T. DONLY Office near Court House. 1 ~ w7D. BRANDON, ebl7-76 Office in Berg's building, CLARENCEWALKER, Offloe in Brady building- mar! 7 FERD REIBER, Office In Briber's building, Jefierson St. ap9lj " F. M. EASTAIAN, Offloe In Brady building. LEV, McQUISTION, Offloe Main street, 1 door south of Court House JOS. C. VANDERLIN, street, 1 door eouth of Court House. WM. A. FORQUER, v «T Office on Main rtreet opposite Vogeley GEO. R. WHITE, ~ Office N. E. corner of Diamond " JTD. MOJUNKIN, Office i*» Schneideman's building;, west ride Main street, Bnd sqww from Conrt House. " T C. CAMPBELL, Ofioo in Berg'* new building, 2d floor,, wri rfd. Main doom wuth — JTITS^LLIVAN, m*y7 Office S. W. cor. of Diamond. A. T. BLACK, Office on Main street, on * door 01 Brtdy Block, BnUer. Pa. fP- 2 > 1874 ' EUGENE G. MILLL^, OBN in Brady's Law Building, Main riwot. south of Conrt Honse. THOMAS ROBINSON, BUTLEB, PA. JOHN H. NEGLEY CVQltas particular attention tc i ana action* j B r eal estate throughout the ooun.y. Omci O* DIAXOHD, MEAB HOOTS, W Onißl WXJIXJDIKO . J6. B. KofcXBT, KINNKDT MA.MHA.LI> of Ohio.) ECKLEY A MARSHALL. OStoe in Brady'# Law Bulldlug. Bept.9,7* c. O. CHRISTIE, Attorney at Law. Legal business carefully transacted. Collections made and promptly remitted. Beifam correspondence promptly attended to ud awwered. Office opposite Lovry Honse, Butler. Pa. PHYSICIANS. j JOHN E. BYERS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, myal-ly, BUTLER, PA. Office on Jefferson street, opposite Klintfer's Flour Store. DENTISTS. DEKTISTR X. 0 1# WALDBON, Grsduate ot the Phil II adel phia Dental College,ls prepare'* • I* sto do anything in the line of hb profession in a satisfactory manner. Office on Main street, Butler, Union Block, «p stairs, H> u VOL. XIX. LEOAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Estate of Win. «. Shorts. 1 Letters of administration having been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Willliio G. Shorts, deceased, late ol Couuoqueneaslug twp., itutler connty, Pa., all persons knowing them selves indebud to said estate will please uiuke immediate payment, and any having claims against the same will present them duly authen ticated lor payment. T. t*. SHORTS, Ex'r. Connoquenetsing P. 0., Butler Co., Pa. lm Estate of Harriet Hays. (Late of Connoquknessixo twp., dee'd.) Letters testamentary ou 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 aud any having claims against said estate will present them duly au thenticated for payment. Robkrt S. Hays, 1 p T .„ JAMES S. HAYS, J " Whitestown P. 0., Butler Co. Pa. Estate of Adam Albert. Letters ol administration having been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Adam Al bert, dee d., late of Franklin twp., Butler Co., Pa., all persons knowing themselves Indebted to said estate will please make nayment and any having claims against the same will present them duly authenticated for payment H. H. GALLAGHER, Adm'r. 80x.395, Butler, Pa. AUDITORS' NOTICE. In the matter of the assignment of Flick A Albert to J. R. Johnson for the benefit of oredi 0. P. OF BDTXJEB CO., MS. D.. WO. 18, SEPT. T., 1880 The undersigned having been appointed audi tor to pass upon exceptions if any, restate ac count if necessary and bake distribution of the fund paid into Court by the Assignee, among the creditors entitled thereto, hereby gives notice that be will attend to the duties of said appoint ment at his office in Butler on the 27th day of July 1882, at 10 o'clock, a. * , at which time and place all parties Interested can attend. p A. M. CORNELIUS, July la, 3t. Auditor. NOTICE INDIVOBCE. In the matter of th* application of Mary R. Elliott for divorce .a Vinculo matriironia from her husband, Marry A. Elliott. A. D., No. 55, March Term, 1883, To Harry A. Elliott, respondent. Whereas a aubpoetia and an alias Bubpoena in the above stated case have been returned N. E. 1. Now this ie to require you to be and appear in your proper person before said Court, on the first "Monday of September ltarm next, A. D., 1883, being the 4th day of said month, to answer to said complaint, and to show cause, if any you have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted. THOa DONAGHY, Sheriff. And now, June Bth, 1882, having been appoint ed Commissioner by the Court to take testimony in above staled case and to report the same to Court, notice is hereby given that I will atteud to the duties of said appointment, at my office, at Butler, on Friday, the 14th day of July, A. D. 1882, at 10 o'clock, A. K- of said day, at which time and place all pereons interested may at tend if they see proper. GEORGE C. PILLOW, Commissioner. junel4-6t. Petition of John Grossman. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLRAB OF BUTLEE COUNTY, EQUITY NO. 1 SEPT. TEEM, 1882. In Re petition of John Grossman to have perpetual testimony relative to a deed lrom Jacob G. Grossman and wife to John N. Hoon, which deed is now lost. And now, to wit i Dec- 8, 1881, petition pre sented and on due consideration thereof, Bubpo;- na is awarded to John N- Hoon and Jacob G. Grossman, and to any and all persons who may be interested in the said petition or bill to ap pear in the Court of Common Pleas of said county, on the 4th day of September, 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, XBB2, at 2 o'clock, p. M., of said day at the office of the Prothonotary of said county to take the depositions) of all witnesses wlio may be produc ed by said petitioners respecting the proof of the facts alleged in said bill or petition, and to ascertain and establish the same and to make return of said depositions unto said Court when such order 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 Baid Jno. H. Hoon and Jaoob G. Grossman is unknown and believed not to be within this commonwealth, it is ordered that notice of this subpoena and order of Court be given by publication thereof for three (3) suc cessive weeks in one of the weeklv newspapers, published in Butler prior to said 4th day of Sept. 1882. BY THE COUKT. Butler County 8. 8 : Certified from the re cord this 10th day of June, 1882. M. N. GREER, Prothonotary. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, county of Butler: To John N. Hoon and Jacob G. Gross man, Greeting: We command you, that all business and excuses being laid aside, you be and appear in your proper persons before our Judges at Butler, at our Countv Court of Com mon Pleas, there to be held for the county aforesaid on Monday, the 4tn of Sept., 1882, to ahow cause, if any you have, why the witnesses on behalf of John Grossman, on his petition to have perpetual testimony relative to a deed from Jacob G. Grossman and wife to John N. Hoon, (deed now lost) should not be examined and other testimony reduced to writing, and filed of record in our said Court in order to per petuate the same agreeably to the constitution of our Government and the act of Assembly in such case made and provided, on the part of petitioners and herein fail not, under the penal ty of one hundred pounds. Witness the Honorable E. McJunkin, Preai sent of our said Court, at Butler, this 10th day of June, A. D., 1882. M. N. GRREB, junel4-Bt. Prothonotary. ORPHANS' COURT SALE. By virtue of an order of the Orphans Court of Butler County, the undersigned executors of the last will and testament of Conrad Stutz, late of Summit twp., Butler County, will ex pose to sale by public vendue or outcry upon the premises on Thursday, July2o,A.D„ 1883. at one o'clock P. M., all that certain piece or parcel of land, situate in the township of Sum mit, county of Butler, and State of Pennsylva nia' bounded and described as follows ; On the north by lands of Joseph Eichenlaub, on the east by lands of George Kuause and Stutz, •outh by lands of John Sheetz and west by lands of Joseph Eichenlaub, containing fifty three teres more or less haviug thereon erected a log hoase and log barn, also a good orchard 80F HALK, One-third of purchase money on confirmation of sale by the Court, and the balance in two eaual annual installments with interest from Sufirmation, to be secured by bond and rnort- Mure with clause waiving inquisition, stay of execution and with attorney's commission of 5 per cent., in case pay mentjof said has to be en forced by law. - . PETEB STTTZ, ) E , ALBEBTSMITH, J J. B. McJUNKIN Attorney. June 28,1882. FOB HALE. I The following described valuable piecea of I propertv situated in the borough of Butler are offered for sale by the German National Bank of Millerstown. Pa., to-wit: .... One lot of ground on Fulton street, between properties of Mrs. Louisa McClure and H. H. Goucher, Esq., conUining one acre, more or leea, being one of the beet building sites m the '° ALSO. One lot of ground near the Wither apoon Institute, and formerly owned by L. G. Linn Lsq , containing one acre, more or less, on which there is a good two-story frame house and stable. This property is oleaeantly located near the depot and commands a magnifioent V 1 ALSO.—Lot on McKean street, formerly own ed by H. J. Mitchell, Esq., on which there is a good two-story frame house and stable. Poeeeaeion given in 30 days after purchase. Fo, art.. ■""""SA'gcE'wU.EEB. a r A- *nft iter day at home. Samples worth >9 lO tree. Address Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. mar29,iy SIS IT WILL POSITIVELY CURE BAD BItKATH. 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BLADDER AND KIDNEYS. Most of the diseases of the bladder originate from those of the kidneys ; restore the action of the liver fully, and both the kidneys and bladder will be restored. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. No Whiskey! BROWN'S IRON BITTERS is one of the very few tonic medicines that are not com posed mostly of alcohol or whiskey, thus becoming a fruitful source of intemper ance by promoting a desire for rum. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS is guaranteed to be a non intoxicating stimulant, and it will, in nearly every case, take the place of all liquor, and at the same time abso lutely kill the desire for whiskey and other intoxi cating beverages. Rev. G. W. RICE, editor of the American Christian Re view, says of Brown's Iron Bitters: Cin.,o.,Nov. i 6,1881. Gents:—The foolish wast ing of vital force in business, pleasure, and vicious indul gence of our people, makes your preparation a necessity; and if applied, will save hun dreds who resort to saloons for temporary recuperation. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS has been thoroughly tested for dyspepsia, indigestion, biliousness, weakness, debil ity, overwork, rheumatism, neuralgia, consumption, liver complaints, kidney troubles, &c., and it never fails to render speedy and permanent relieC Notice to Contractors. The Board of Bchool Directors of Penn twp,, Butler county, Pa., will receive uealel proposals up to two o'clock, P. M., of August 12, 1882, for the erection of anew frame school house, ou lot No. 5, Nixon school house. The Board re serves the right to reject any or all bids. A'l 'etters or communications must be addressed to J. B. DODDS, Brownsdale, Butler county, Pa., where plans and specifications can be seen. They will also tell 011 same day, the old brick school bouse on said lot, the seats and stone excepted, Br ORDER OF THE BOARD. J. W. KALTENBACH, July 12, 4t. Secretary. Notice to Contractors. Sealed proposals will be received until July the 29th, 1882 at, 1 o'clock, P. M., for the build ing of a Brick School House in Jefferson twp., Butler county, Pa. Separate bids will be re ceived for the stone and brickwork, and for the carpenter work, or tor the entire building complete. The Board reserves the right to re ject any or all bids. Plans and Specifications can be seen at the store of E. A. lielmbold in Saxouburu. BY ORDER OK THE BOARD, ROBERT ELLIOTT, Saxonburg, Butler county, Pa. Secretary. jdly'"l2 FOR SALE. -0-O-0-0 A large, new, seven room, frame honse. front ing on Jefferson st., Butler, Pa. The house oontains seven large rooms aud also has three small rooms in the attic. It has a large hall and good dry cellar under the whole house. The lot is 60 by 183 feet and has on it beside the main building, a good, small two-room house with cellar, a large wash-house with a bake oven and fire place, a large stable and ice house capable of holding 500 tons of ice. and a well ol No. 1 water. This property can be secured bj a cash purchaser at about half its origical cost: or will be exchanged for a farm. For particulars enquire at the CITIZEN OFFICE, BUTLEIi, PA. I*CC» week in your own town. Terms and $! free. Address 11. HALLETT & Co Portland, Maine. mar29,i j BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 19. 1882 POETRY. Mark Autonym Oration Over (ipsar. From R. ll'. Criswell's "New Shakespeare." Friend*, Romans, countrvmeu ! Lend me your ears; I will return them next Saturday. I come To bury Csesar, because the times are hard And his folks can'd affort to hire an undertaker. The evil that men do lives after them, In the shape of progeny, who reap The benefit of their life-insurance. So let it be with the deceased. Brutus hath told you C:e«tr was ambitious. What does Brutus' know about it ? It is none of his funeral. Would that it were ! Here under leave of you I come to .Make a speech of Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me ; He loaned me once wheu I was in a pinch, And signed my petition for a post-office. But Brutus says he was ambitious. Brutus should wipe oft'his chin. Cawar hath brought many captives home to Rome Who broke rocfc on the streets until their ransoms Did the general coffers fill. When that the poor hath cried, Cicsar hath wept, Because it didn't cost anything And made him solid with the masses. [ Cheers. Ambition should be made of sterner stuft. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious. Brutus is a liar, and I can prove it. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse, because it did not fit him quite. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he; was ambitious. Brutus is not only the biggest liar in the country, But he is a horse thief of the deepest dye. [Applause. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. [Applause. You all do know this ulster, I remember the first time ever Caisar put it on. It was on a summer's evening in his tent. With the thermometer registering 90° in the shade; But it was an ulster to be proud of, And it cost him $.3 at Marcaius Swartzmeyer's, Corner Broad and Ferry streets, sign of the red flag. Old Swartz wanted S4O for it, But finally came down to $3, because it was Cassar) Look! in this place ran Cassius' dagger through; Through this the son of a gun of a Brutus stab bed. And, when he plucked his cursed steel away, Good gracious ! how the blood of Ca;sar follow ed it! [Cheers, and cries of "Give vs something on the Chinese Dill !" "Ilit him again," etc. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no thief as Brutus is. Brutus has a monopoly in all that business, And if he had his deserts he would be In the penitentiary, and don't you forget it. Kind friends, sweet friends, I do not wish to stir you up To such a suddeu flood of mutiny, And, as it looks like rain. •The pall-bearers will please place the coffin in the hearse, And we will proceed to bury C»sar, Not to praise him. SELECT. SEWARirs ASSASSIN. Lewis Payne, formerly United States Attorney for Wyoming Territory, was pat to considerable trouble in bis youth because Booth's fellow - conspirator, who attempted to kill Mr. Seward, as sumed his name. Mr. Payne's inter est in the assassination has caused him to search closely into the history of that remarkable person, and the out come of the search is an important article in the current number of the Weekly Times. From that article the following paragraphs are taken : Powell is also one of the men who made the celebrated calico raid in the valley in the fall of 1864, when a train load of calico was captured and the calico strewn all over the country for miles around. In retaliation for shoot ing one of Gen. Hunter's men, a sol dier named Anderson and several others were captured and shot by the Federals at Fort Royal. The speed of Powell's mare was all that saved his neck from being stretched on that occasion. He escaped with seventeen bullet holes through his clothing. On one occasion the house in which Powell was stopping was surrounded bv the Federals, when Powell blacked his face with lamp-black and walked out of the house. One of the soldiers remarked: "That is a d—n tall nig ger," and let him pass on without mo lestation. I might give a great many incidents ot this kind in the career and adventures of Powell, but it is unneces sary. Such things occur In the lives of many soldiers. Powell had the reputation of having killed a great many men, and when any desperate matter was to be undertaken he was selected. On one occasion Powell captured a sutler near Orleans, with a wagon load of tin cups and ginger cakes. After the war the sutler, whose name was Tomasen, settled in Fauquier. In de scribing his experiences with Powell, the old man used to say that he made him drive through the woods and up into Cobbler Mountain, where a goat could hardly climb. There they stayed until the Union army moved away, when Powell distributed his goods and wares to the people in the neighbor hood. For some time afterwards every body was munching ginger cakes and every negro had a new tin cup, a luxury they had not enjoyed 'afore God, massa, since de wah ! : The old fellow never failed to wind up bis nar rative with 'Mein Got, mein Got! he was so clever mit my goods, he gives 'em every turn bit away.' Powell's favorite mare was a blood bay. This animal had a habit of foaming at the mouth and exposing the whites of her eyes. Mounted on this mate this strange man 'rode fast and far to share war's fiercest perils.' The people here in Virginia who remember Powell, as he appeared twenty years ago, with his pale face, slouch hat, and myste rious ways, mounted on that bay mare, dashing and splashing through the woods, across fields, over ditches and fences, by day, at night, and through all kinds of weather almost believe that he must have been a stray knight lrom the Black Forest. There is one incident in the strange and wayward life of Lewis Powell, which I had almost forgotten to relate. An old man named Elias Corder be came violently insane in Upper Fau quier. He is now in the asylum at Staunton, and will probably never know how he got there. Powell had been qp a raid, and returning late one stormy night stopped at an old vacant church near Cordor's house, spread down his blanket on the floor, and was soon fast asleep. All of a sudden he was awakened by a clash of thunder, and saw by the flickering lightning an object standing near him. He got up and triei to find the door, but was either too excited or too little acquaint ed with the place to find it in the dark The noise he made startled old Corder into singing and shrieking. Powell did not know what to do. Another flash and he saw the figure coming to wards him. He had lost his pistol in the darkness. There was no time to look for it. The maniac was advanc ing. Another flash of lightning and he found himself in a hand-to-hand en counter at midnight in a deserted church with a maniac. The noise j made by Powell and old Corder, who had wandered off in his night-clothes and was having his 'devotions' all to himself, aroused some of the neighbors, who, on going to the church, found that Powell had old Corder down and was sitting on him, and would oc casionally give the old man's head a bump on the floor to subdue him. Powell was badly scratched and bitten, but with the assistance of the neigh bors, Powell succeeded in tying the old man, and the next day he was de livered to the county authorities and placed in jail at Warrenton. During the cannonading of Jackson and Banks across the Shenandoah river a shell entered the gable end of a house on the Valley pike, exploded, struck a burean at which a young lady was dressing her hair in au upper room, chipped of a large wedge-shaped piece of the bureau and drove it into her back under the right shoulder blade. The same day a young Confederate soldier was brought to the house by some of his companions, shot through the lungs. The name ot the girl was Lily Bowie; the name of the soldier was Lewis Powell. Miss Bov.w was the daughter of a gentleman from Ala bama, who had married a Virginia lady. Under these singular circum stances these two young Southern peo ple met in Virginia, wounded almost unto death, and formed an attachment for each other which only ended when the one breathed out the last of life upon the scaffold in Washington, and the other returned a broken hearted woman to her far away home in the South. When Powell had recovered from his wound he went to Richmond as a guard to some prisoners. While in Richmond he attended the theatre for the first time in his life. John Wilkes Booth, who was in Richmond at that time, appeared in the cast. Powell was so delighted with Booth's acting that he sought bis acquaintance and gained it. At that time Booth was engaged in his plan to abduct the Pres ident of the United States and his Cabinet He BB" 7 in Powell material to be used in his plot. As Burr wound himself into the open heart of the un fortunate Blennerhassett by the ele gance of his manners, the beauty of his conversation, and the power of his eloquence, so Booth infused the venom of his own ambition into the credulous heart of his gawky and impressible country boy and found him an easy conquest. Suavity of pretended friends over flowing bowls, jellies, ices, and champagnes have turned older heads than Powell's, and if he had no strength to resist the blandishments of John Wilkes Booth he at least paid for his weakness with his life. Powell was a brave man, and it is a pity he was not brave enough to resist the wiles of his evil genius. But he was not; on the contrary, from the hour he first met Booth he was his, to do as he pleased with. Leaving Richmond, Powell re turned to the Piedmont section a chang ed man. Powell soon began to sell off his horses and dispose of his effects, say ing ho would be gone for several months on his Maryland expedition. Among those who were to accompany him were William Showers, John H. Coxe, and others, of Norfolk, but when the time came to depart all of them backed down except Powell. Whether these men knew anything as to the nature of the expedition I will not pretend to say. I do know they were intimates with Powell, and that I saw and overheard them talking about their "Maryland expedition" just before Powell left the Piedmont section. Powell left Fauquier some time in January, 1865. Miss Lily Bowie quite naturally gives a feeling description of her parting with Powell, who promised to return in a few months. She never saw him again. The first intimation Miss Bowie had that Powell was one of the Lincoln conspirators was seeing his picture in the illustrated report of the trial. When we were told a man named Payne had stabbed Seward, it nearly frightened us to death. We all ex pected to be hanged. Miss Bowie went to Washington during the trial, but did not aucceed in obtaining an in terview with Powell. She wrote to him but does not believe her letters were ever delivered, as she received no response to her letters. She ap plied to Secretary Stanton, but he re fused her permission to visit the jail, and as the military commission by which he was tried sat with closed doors all efforts to see her lover were in vain. After leaving Fauquier, Powell went to Nokesville, on the Virginia Midland Railroad, where he leit his horse and exchanged his uniform for a suit of citizen's ciothes. He then pro ceeded to walk down the railroad to ward Alexandria. Near Alexandria be met some Federal pickets, and rep resenting himself as a refugee was conveyed to Alexandria, where he took the oath of allegiance the United States Government as Lewis Payne, of Fauquier county Virginia, "and was allowed to pass through the lines. His reasons for assuming the name of Payne can only be acconnted for upon the two-fold hypothesis—first, that he wanted to hail from a section of the 1 country with the people and geogra -1 phy of which he was familiar, and to select a name identified with that sec -1 tion of the country ; second, he prob ! ably desired to take a name easily re membered, and one with the connec ' tion and relationship of which he was familiar. Precisely at that hour when these terrible scenes were being enacted in Fords' Theatre on Tenth street, in Washington, when Booth had sent his fatal ball crushing throngh the brain of Abraham Lincoln, aud had leaped from the box to the stage brandishing a dagger and crying: "Sic semper tyrannis!" and the whole audience was shocked, amazed and stunned, and the wounded Presi | dent clutched and gasped for life, Lewis Powell presented himself at the residence of Secretary Seward, who had been thrown from his buggy a few da3'S before and was cjnfined to j his bed, and asked to the Secretary 's room. He was met at the door by William H. Bell, a colored butler, j who told Powell that he could not' see the Secretary. Powell had a small vic.l of medicine in his left hand, with his right hand in his coat front. He wore a dark gray coat, and a slouch felt hat bent down over his eyes. He spoke in a firm, but low ! tone of voice, and said he had been J sent by Dr. Verdi with the medicine, I and with instructions how it should be taken. After some hesitation he was admitted by the butler, and when he had ascended the stairs he was met|by Frederick Seward, who demanded to know his business, when Powell felled him to the floor, cutting him twice in the head with a knife held with the blade down below his hand; he then turned upon Bull and disabled him severely. He then proceeded to the room of tho Secretary and was met at the door by Augustus Seward, whom he stabbed nigh unto death, cutting him five or six times. Pushing his way into the sick room he was attacked by George F. Robinson, the nurse, and by E. W- Hansell. The former was wounded in the face and forehead with his knife, and the latter he stab bed over the sixth rib to a depth of six or seven inches. Forcing his way past the other attendants in the room he went to the bedside of Mr. Seward and stabbed him three times, inflicting ghastly wounds in his jaw, neck and breast. In the struggle the Secretary rolled out of bed, and was lying on the floor in his blood when his physicians arrived, Lis attendants being utterly dazed by the sudden and terrible on slaught of this ferocious man. The only words uttered by the as sassin during all this terrible conflict were, "I am mad I" and these were uttered in a strangely intense, but not 6trong voice, as described by the wit nesses at the trial. As Powell left the dwelling of the Secretary and mount ed his horse he slashed at the colored man who bad held bis horse, cutting him about the face severely. He then then threw the knife on the ground, and, riding out Vermont avenue slow ly for a few squares, put spurs to his horse aud rode out into the darkness, and was seen no more until he was arrested in disguise at the house of Mrs. Surrat, No. 541 H street N. W., Washington. When arrested Powell had one of his trousers legs rolled up, a skull cap on his head, and pickaxe on his shoulder. He said he had come to dig a ditch for Mrs. Surrat, but she denied any knowledge of him. He was sent to the headquarters of Gen- , eral Augur, and upon examination of the boots he wore one of them was found to contain the name of Jghu Wilkes Booth— Philadelphia Press. Couldn't Swear to It. I happened into court the other day just as Sam Dunlap was called to the witness stand, Sam's testimony had to do with events which had transpired years before, and when the counsel for the other side took up the cross questions his evident aim was to show that the witness, at the period in ques tion, must have been too young to bear a reliable memory of the events therein occurring. Jarvis was the lawyer,—a stout, pompous, loud-voiced man, whose favorite pastime was the brow-beating and hectoring of witnesses. With a tierce look and and with an admonish ing motion of his right forefinger, he opened his batterj : 'Mr. Witness you swear positively to those events which occurred two and twenty years ago V 'I do, sir,' replied Dunlap, with a meekness untouched and untroubled by the bluster. 'Remember, sir," thundered Jarvis with awful emphasis,—"you are un der oath. You know the penalty of perjury. You had better not offer here testimony which is not of your o>,a personal knowledge. Now ans wer me, sir; how old are you ?' 'Somewhere about thirty-three,' replied Sam, after a moment's reflec tion. 'What do you mean by that, sir ? Don't you know your exact age ?' The witness shook his head in mild, meek silence. 'What, sir,' cried Jarvis, with a withering look upon the witness, and a triumph*) ut glance toward the Jury—'don't you know your own age ? Dont you know the date of your birth ?' With a nod and a smile, and with a mildness which was like gentle falling of the sunlight. Dunlap answered:— 'Not of my own personal knowledge, sir. The only light in my possession upon that matter I have gained from others. I was doubtedly present at the date of which jou speak; but my extreme—l might say, my infin itesimal —youth, at that particular period of time, found me so devoid of mental power that I dare not, in your presence, sir swear that of my own knowledge 1 know any thing about it. I am free to confess, sir, that I have no remembrance thereof whatever.' The genial corrugation of the face of the Court was a sign that a gener al smile would be tolerated, and sev eral of the Jury smiled audibly. Sam's testimony was not shaken. I>on*t Die In the llonse. Ask druggists for "Rough on Rats." It clears out rats, mice, bedbugs, roaches yermin, flies, ants, insects. 15c. per box. Composed of the best known tonics, iron and cinchona, with well known aromatics, is Brown's Iron Bitters. It cures indigestion, and all kindred trou bles. | The Party AnseMiueiii Scandal. Fifth. That we condemn compulsory 1 assessments for political purposes, and proscription for failure to respond either to such assessments or to re quests for roiuDtarr contributions [Harrisburg Platform. Whatever may or may not be the case in other States, says the Philadel phia Press, in Pennsylvania this is Re publican party law. Even if it had j not been adopted by a Convention rep resenting the less liberal element of the party and endorsed by a gathering j which stood for its independent wing, the principle would still be right, to be followed in practice and enforced by agitation in its favor and protests against its infraction, fivery fair man knows that the Government has as little right to interfere with the politi cal opinions of its employees as any other employer. It pays for their time and their labor; by as much as they are American citizens it has no right to pay for more. To levy assessments or extort politi cal contributions is still worse. It is an evil which began under Democratic administrations and has continued uu der Republican management. It is practiced by every local boss, nowhere to a worse extent than in cities cursed by Democratic rule. It escaped notice after the war in the presence of issues that challenged the life of the Nation ; but it has now roused public attention and concentrated popular opposition. Any party which practices it does it at the grave risk of estraaging the in telligent independent voters of the land. It is very probable that the Democratic party can afford to do this; the Repub lican party cannot. Any committee at Washington or elsewhere which scat ters stand-and-deliver circulars and im poses assessments under guise of voluu tary contributions, does the party grave injury and assumes the responsibility of arrayiug against the party a senti ment daily growing stronger. The Pre its is enlisted in the support of the Republican party because it believes its success will secure good govern ment, and these assessments work the double wrong of imperilling Republican success and making success of doubtful value if it is secured by them. Nothing is gained by calling these assessments Contributions.' The pub lic knows better. If they are, why name the amount? Why send circu lars at all ? Above all why is this blunt confession made in the circular sent out from Washington: 'The Committee is authorized to state that such voluntary contributions from such persons employed in the service of the United States will not be objected to in any official quarter ? These words turn the contribution into an assess ment levied by and with the advice, consent and command of the superiors of the employee to whom it is address ed. Such assessments are forbidden by law, both in payment and collection, to every Federal employee, and we trust that no employee in this State will risk indictment by honoring the demand made from Washington, unless the same man receiving the same salary for the same duties under a private employer would feel called up on to contribute a like sum toward Re publican success. A Fish Breakfast—Tahiti. Breakfast was prepared for us in a native house, which was decorated in most original style with large patch work quilts, in lieu of flags, and reliev ed with graceful fronds of tree-fern. Here, as at most other feasts, there was a considerable consumption of raw fish, which is considered a very great deli cacy, and one for which many foreign ers acquire a strong liking. There is no accounting for tastes. King Arrii aue, who took great care of me at meals, tried hard to teach me this en joyment, and on my objecting declared it to be mere prejudice, as, of course, I ate oysters raw—be might say almost say alive. To this I could answer nothing, well remembering the savage delight with which I have often knock ed oysters off rocks and branches and swallowed them on the instant But, then, they are so small, and some of these fish are so very large. Perhaps one's instinctive objection is to their size. Those most in favor are of a most exquisite green color. . . . Fish of all sorts and kinds, cooked and raw to suit all tastes, excellent lobsters and crabs, huge fresh-water prawns, deli cate little oysters which grow on the roots and branches of the mangrove, which fringes some muddy parts of the shore. But most excellent of all is another product of the briny mud, al together now to me, a hideous, but truly delicious, white crayfish, called varo or wurrali. We all registered a solemn vow never to lose a chance of a varo feast. The tables were decorated in a manner quite in character, having pillars of the banana root stem, white as alabaster, with a fringe of large prawns at the top and a frieze of small lobsters below—a very effective study in scarlet and white.— Contemporary Review. ____ Farm aud Garden. THE STRAWBERRY BED.—Strawber ries are now done bearing. As soon as the ground is dry enough to work, let the ground between the rows be well worked with plow and cultivator, so as to make it perfectly clean. Clean between the hills with the hoe, and pick out every weed or spear of grass or white clover. After a thorough cleaning and weeding, a dressing of well rotted compost will pay a handsome return. Mulching should not be done until the ground freezes. This should be put on thick enough to prevent thaw ing and freezing, and to keep the ground moist and of as uniform condi tion as possible until the fruit has matured. Straw, yard grass, leaves and tan bark are used, but tho best and clean est mulch we have found yet is made by passing corn fodder through the cutting box. It is absolutely free from grass or weed seeds. It will not pack so as to smother the plants. It is easily placed in under the leaves and keeps the fruit clean and the roots protected. It will not mat or be moved by the winds. It is cheap, and neat, and complete. ADVERTISING BATES On* square, on* insertion, *1 ; each subse quent insertion, 60 cents. Yearly sdTertisemei la exceeding one-fourth of a column, $6 per incfa, i Figure wort double these tat**; additional [ charge* where weekly or monthly change* ar* made. Local advertiaement* 10 c*nt* per line for first iusei tion. Mid [> cents per La* (or sack additional Inserts n. Marriages and death* pub lished free of charge. Obituary notice* charged as adrort:s*menta, and payable when handed is. Auditors'Xoticea, #4 ; Executors' and AdminU tnton' Notices. $3 each; Estray, Caution Dissolution Notices, not oxceeding ten Una* each. From the fact that the CITIZEK U 'he oldeat established and most extensively circulated Re publican newspaper in Butler county, (a Repub lican county) it must be apparent to business men that it is the medium they should use in advertising their business. NO. U The new strawberry bed, and every year there is a new one to be set out, must be well cultivated. We like to plant in the spring and cultivate all summer; we then can get stocky plants and have the rows clean and free from grass and clover. No fruit should be allowed to form on the new bed the first season. If runners are valued more than the fruit, let runners form in the row so as to occupy the ground. Do not, however, expect a good crop of fruit and runners. If fruit is the object, cultivate and trim for fruit; keep off the runners. Cultivation can be con tinued later in the season for fruit, and the land kept clean between the rows nnd plants and the runners cut off. This may be done with the hoe or rolling cutter, or if the bed is small, and one wishes each strawberry plant to be a thing of beauty and profit, clip the runners all around it with the scissors. A strawberry bed handsome, ly kept is a thiug of beauty. It is as handsome as a bed of flowers, but it must be kept like a flower bed, if for amusemeut. In h>>eiuz the new strawberry bed for the first time after the planting great care is needed to prevent loosen ing their hold to the soil. Crack the crust and stir often—there is no bet ter implement for the first one or two workings thau a good steel garden rake. If the horse is brought Into the garden the Grst and second work ings can be best done with a one horse harrow or cultivator, which does not throw dirt to or from the plants. Strawberry plants, like onions, mast not have dirt drawn to them. Level culture suits bests. Everybody loves strawberries, yet it is a shame that ao few of our farmers cultivate tbem. It is ao less a shame th*t so many profes sional men and mechanics do not Im prove their garden spots with well kept strawberry beds. The time and labor needed to cultivate a strawberry bed may be made a delight and a bene fit to body and mind. The Almighty first planted the garden, and when man began to decline and become loose in morals, he neglected bis gar den. Bacon says that 'men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening the great est perfection.' L. N. B. Barn Raisins In Pens Twp. MESSRS. EDITORS . —Allow me space in your valuable paper to state that Mr. Erastus Logan, of Penn township, is building a large barn, 40x66 feet Elliott & Bro. are doing the carpenter work and are good workmen. The masonry, by Winter & Bro. is a fine piece of masonry,J substantial in every respect. Tuesday, June 27th, 1882, was the day set apart for the raising. Delegations arrived from Penn, Jeffer son and Middlesex townships At eleven o'clock dinner was announced ond 48 men took up the line of march and were seated at a table which was spread in a beautiful grove in front of Mr. Logan's dwelling house. After those 48 were served 35 more followed and were also served. This being over, the company withdrew, leaving the provisions still masters of the field. The dinner was all that human appe tites could desire, gotten up in the best style. Five o'clock the announcement was made that supper was ready. Those hearing the order given com menced to march right and left When the table was once again filled and all once more served, with plenty of that whieh satisfies the inward man. Mr. Logan's barn is a fine building, with a good basement under the whole build iog. When finished it will be a com plete improvement in every particular, with two threshing floors, windows and all other modern attachments necessary for comfort, convenience and appearance. Mr. Logan had his barn raised in good time and condition, not a single accident occurred. M. C. The Datch have not only taken Holland but they have arranged to take up and dispense with their Zuy der Zee; in other words, they are going to drain it, turn its bed into farm lands and sell them to pay the expense. It is a huge undertaking, the greatest of its kind in the history of the world. The Zuyder Zee is some eight hundred square miles in ex tent, and in many parts it is from fif teen to eighteen feet deep, though it contains some half submerged islands and morasses. The project of draining it has been entertained for a long time, and doubtless received a great impe tus from the success of a similar plan with Haerlem Lake. It required four years of steady pumping to drain the latter, but it now forms the garden of Holland. This effort of the Dutch to gain possession of this submerged land is not a new one. It began many hundred years ago, when the nation was comparatively inexperienced in such'matters, though it would be diffi cult to name the period when the Dutch were not fighting the water. In 1219 the dikes then in use for the protection of this now salt water ter ritory were partially broken down by a storm, and much damage resulted. In 1282, just six hundred years ago, another storm of unparalleled duration and magnitude swept most of the dikes away, and created a flood which de stroyed seventy-two villages and drowned one hundred thousand peo ple. The sea has remained in posses sion from that time to this ; but now, reinforced by modern engineering ap pliances and cheered by other successes on a smaller scale, the Dutch propose to take up and accomplish this enter prise. If any people in creation can do it the Dutch are the ones. They are a sort of amphibious people, any how, and mud, water and storms have few terrors for them. One part of the job to be undertaken is to build a dike twenty-five miles long strong enough to stand up against any sea. When that is done immense steam pumps, and many of them, will be set to work to send tho water into the North Sea. The estimated cost of the enterprise ia $46,000,000, and the time required to complete it from seven to ten years. —Just received another larg* stock of White Dress Goods at L. STUN & SON'S
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