BDTLER CITIZEN. LOCAL AND GENERAL. —The last victim of the Scioto disas ter was recovered last Wednesday afternoon. —Lace Curtains from cents a yard up at L. STEIN & SON'S. —The dog days began last Thurs day— a Sirius thing, by the way. —Zephjr Shawls from 75 cents up at L. STEIN & SON'S. —Major Storey has been elected Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Regiment. —Waring's Fertilizers and Peruvian Guano—for sale by J. NIGGLE A BRO. —We understand that the Harmony National Bank, which closed its doots some time ago has gone into liquidation. —Parasols, Parasols, Parasols, full line, at L. STEIN & SON'S. —Bev. Oiler of the Presbyterian church, of this town, baptized a round dozen of fat, hearty looking babies, last Saturday after- noon. —A lot of second-handed Watches cheap for cash at E. Grieb's —Anybody who wants to buy a New Iloinc or Victor sewing machine can hear something to their Advantage by calling at this office. —For bargains in Dry Goods of all kinds go to L. STEIN & SON'S. —Brick laying was commenced at the Glass Works yesterday. The stack will be 55 feet high, and it will take almost 100,000 bricks to ouild it and the oven. —For bargains in Dry Goods of all kinds go to L. STEIN & SON'S. —Constable Williamson gave a drunken man a free ride on a whecl-barrow, the other evening. lie found him lying in an alley and took him to the county cooler. —Just received another large stock of White Dress Goods at L. STEIN A SON'S Both the Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists anpear to be opposed to reunion with their Northern brcthern. Per haps they do not like the manner of the wooing. —Waring's Fertilizers and Peruvian Guano—foe sale by J. NIGGLE & BRO. -rßer. M. M. Gibson, D. D., of San Francisco will lecture in the U. P. Church, Tuesday evening, 18th inst., subject: Califor nia and the Chinese. —For bargains in Dry Goods of all kinds go to L ST filr & SON'S. —Beaver College and Musical Insti tute opens iti 28th year Sep. 12th, for girls and young ladies, send for new circular to the Pres ident, Rev. R. T. Taylor, Beaver, Pa, —Sewing Machine attachments and repairs of all kinds, at Grieh's Jewelry store. may3l-tf. —Every young teather should spend a term or more at the Normal School. It is just the place to learn how to teach well. Address for circulars, J. A. Cooper Edinboro, Pa. —Best assortment of Dress Goods, ( and lowest prices, at L. STEIN & SON'S. —Mr. John Burkhart, of Butler twp., has erected on his farm a fine new residence for himself. Mr. B. is one of the most prosperous farmers in this section. —Ladies' Linen Dusters, all sizes, qualities and prices, at L. STEIN & SON'S. —The Sheitemant'e well on the W«ber farm, Peon twp. is expected to reach the sand this week. It is located less than half a mile south or south a little east, of the Sim cox A Myers well. —Bargains in Russia Crash, Towels, Table Linens and Napkins, at L. STEIN & SON'S. . —We direct attention to the adver tisement, in another place, of a valuable house and lot in Butler borough, for sale or exchange The property is for sale or exchange at a great bargain, in can also be rented on reasonable terms. —Kentucky Jeans and Cottonades from 10 cents a yard up, at L. STEIN & SON'S. —About one hundred feet of the tunnel of the new railroad, on the place of Jacob Held in Forward twp., fell in from the surface last Wednesday evening. None of the workmen were hurt, as thev had just left the tunnel, and the night gang nad not yet arrived. —Fans, Fans, Fans, a large assort ment, at very low prices, at L. STEIN & SON'S. —The normal class of the Wither spoon Institute, of this place, will be examined by Superintendent Murtlsnu, on Saturday, fie 29th inst. The class will be large and outsiders will not be admitted. —Collars, Collars, Ties, Fishus, latest styles of Neckwear of all kinds in large stock, at L. STEIN & SON'S. —The Allegheny County Commis sioners on Thursd' y opened the bids submitted for tearing down the walls of the burned Court Bouse and excavatine to the depth of eight feet on the sit*. The bids ranged from SIO,OOO to $38,090. —New and large stock of Trimmings Laces and Embroideries to suit t* White Dress Goods at L. STEIN & SON'S —On a recent cool and rainy Sun • day, a Coney Island saloon-keeper was heard to ooraplain that he had only sold two hundred and ninety kegs of beer, and it looked as if Providence was against him. —Send or leave your order for a Sewing Machine, of any make, at Grieb's Jewelry store. may3l-tf —Prof. R. D. Crawford, of North Washington Academy, has organised a normal class. About twenty-five teachers and pros pective teachers are in attendance, and thej will be examined on the Bth of Angust next, for certificates by Superintendent Murtland. —Cheviott Shirtings from cents a yard up at L. STEIN & SON'S. —The Prohibition amendment which lowa put into her Constitution a few days ago was framed, engineered and carried almost entirely by the influence of women, and yet there are lunatics who still contend that woman can have no influence in politics until (be votes. —"What will the harvest be ?" All the accounts coming in say it will be a big one of wheat, with good prospects for corn and all other grains. Here and there the reports are less favorable, but, taken as a whole, the out- Jook is highly promising. .—The Pennsylvania State Fair and Pittst'Uf*h Exposition Society have determined to offer iberal premiums for the best drilled companies in the National Guard. The trial •will lie mh!e on October 2 and 3, during the lime the Grand Army of the Republic have their meeting io Pittsburgh. —The School Directors, of Harmony, intend building a new school house. They have engaged an architect to make plans of a two story brick, with two school rooms on the flrst floor and one large room on second floor, to be used as a public hall until needed for school purposes. —Quite a number of the citizens of Venango township were in town Monday, on business connected with one of the schools cf that township. Some of the people of the township want to change the location of one of the school houses, to which the directors will ■ot agree. Some depositions in the case were taken on Monday. —The will of the late Judge Wilson MeCandless was filed for probate at Pittsburgh on Friday. It is dated September 19, J872, and except the oil paintings, which are beqneathed to his sou and daughter, the entire estate is left to his "incomparable wife, Sarah, her heirs and assigns." 8. C. McCandless, son of the deceas ed, is sole executor. —Lightning struck the bouse of Mrs. Moyer, at tl.e foot of Cunningham street, during the storm last Friday. It struck the comb of the roof, went down the wail into the sitting room and oat through the kitchen. Three women were in the house at the time, but none of them were injured. —One of the prettiest new things in home decoration is an old fashioned ottoman, covered with crown velvet, upon the sides and top of which are einbro'derjd uasturtium leaves and flowers in profusion. It is too preitv to sit upon and costs the price of an ordinary "par lor set,' but who cares for comfort and money when art may be enjoyed'! —The bombardment of Alexandria, according U> the dispatches, began exactly at 7A. M. Tuesday. Tne news was cabled^?' - oni London at 6 A. M., and received in the news paper offices of this country at 1:15 A. M., the same mourning. The telegraph had gained five hours and foriy-five minutes on time. Le-s than one hundred years ago that would have been a miracle. —Miss Lizzie M. Hunter, a daugh ter of Mr. A. A. Hunter, of Oakland twp., and but 18 yeais of age, started alone on the 11th inst., iron this place to Florida. She has an uncle liv'ng i'i Leesburg, that State, who de sired her to live with l> : m and she concluded to take the journey, a dis'ance ofabjut a thous and miles, and to be traveled by laud and water. For a girl so voting this was a long journey to go alone. —Jay Gould is as fond of flowers as he s of railroads, and owns the largest private conservatory in the United States. It is on the g.ou-ids of his summer residence at Irvington, N. Y., is 400 feet long, with several uings of eighty feet each, and eontans over 4,000 var ieties of plants, most of which were brought from Europe this yea". The grounds are jOO acres in extent, and there are large flower and vegctab'e gardens. - -The "Four-mile law" has been indorsed by the conventions of both political parties in Tennessee. The "Four-mile law as it is called, simply rna'es it il'egal to sell intox'cai ng liquors wit Jin a radius of four miles of any scnoothousc, an 1 the eJfect has been to utterly wijie out dra .1 shops iu manv count'is of the State. The emperanee people of Te.ine*ste rejoice because t-.iey have found the happ'est solufion of the temperance prob lem yet auva ictd. —The old Summit twp., road case that has been on the dockets since 1573, was disposed of during Argument Court last week, in favor of the petitioners. The case was de cided by the Associate Judges as both the law Judjes have been concerneo in it. The decision opens a road from a point at No. 5, School House to a point on the old State road leading from Butler to near the hojse of Adam Rettick. Tne de endants in the case talk of taking it to the Supreme Court. —So long ago as 1835, the bar in Pennsylvania revived to erect a statue of Chief Justice Marshall, and raised three thou sand dollars towards its cost. The l the effort stopped, out the rand bas increased by honest, jocd management to twenty thousand. Con gress having passed an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for tne same purpose, the Pennsylvania lawyers propose to add their fund to the appropriation and secure a fine statue to je made oy W. W. Story and erected in Wash ington. —An eastern paper tells of a dentist »ho was visited by a loving couple about to jart for a year or two, who were ro .aevotcd hat they insisted upon exchanging physical ;okens of regard, so the demist drew one of the ady's largest back teeth and'one of the gentle nan's, transp'anting each in the jaw Jrom which he other ca.ne. Rut within haK a year the ady married another fellow, upon hear'ng vhich her first lover had the faithless one's ■ooth extracted from his mouth and threw it nto a spittoon. —Oa Tuesday evening, St. Peter's Episcopal Chapel, iu Pctrolia, was consecrated >/ Right Key. Cortlandt Whitehead, Bishop »f the Diocese of Pittsburgh, assisted by the ftev. Euiauud Burke, o" ISutler. the chapel, vhich was beautiiully and ta&tefa'ly decorated, »as crowded to its ut.nost capacity, and many ve;e compelled to go away. The Bishop ireached a most eloquent seimon, both doctri lal and practical. The music for the occasion vas furnished by the Episcopal choir iro.n Sutler, which was highly appreciated by the ludience.— £ecord. —Some surprise has been expressed it there being any Europeans lelt in Alexandria 0 be massacred by the Arabs befo'e their re reat, as it was supposed all the Europeans had aken refuge on the fleet before the bom bard - nent. All or nearly all of those having claims >n the various governments represented by the laval ship ), or who had money to pay the'r fay on tne private steameis, lelt the city at hat time, but a considerable number, general y classed as Levantine Christians, remai led >ecause they were citizens or subjects of no jovernment in particular and were witlioat neans to take them away. As a rule they are 1 low class and of mixed race, the Greek ele nent prevailing. —Mr. Alfred Wick, proprietor of the Wick Hou e, has, for some time, been mak'ng ixtensive improvements on IPS hotel builcing. !Ie has had the exterior of the buMdingre'iaint hl, the wood work of the iute.ior peiuteu and jrained, and the walls repapered. Besides this, le is putting new carpets and furniture in his parlor and ladies sitting room, and also in mcavofhis bed rooms, of which, since the tmilding of the addition to his house, he has some thirty. When Mr. Wick has comple.eu the improvements he is making, he will have as neat, as co-nfortable and as ha- dsome a hotel as there is in the county. Mr. Wick is doing a good s.eady business. Although pait of h's house is all torn up at present, he, on Monday, furnished dinner to over sixty persons, besides his regular boarders. —Mrs. Scoville's belief, expressed on the day before the hanging of Guiteau, that there would be no execution, is apparently ac counted for bv a discoyery made since. The boquet which she presented to the assassin at the>r last meeting, upon<being subjected (o a chemical analysis, was found to contain enough arsenic to have killed several men. It seems likely that Mrs. Scoville poisoned the boquet and then found hersel * unable to acqua'-it the assassin with this fact. She gave him a hint of the truth, but he failed to take it, and so lost his only opport jnity to cheat the gallows. Had he been more qu'ck-w'.tted to catch his sister's meaning and courageous enough to have followed out her idea, there would, likely enough, have been no execution ; but then we should have been spared the disgraceful fea tures of that performance. —The ironclads mentioned as doing the work of bombarding Alexandria on one side »re the inflexible, Superb, Temera'rc, Alexan- Ira and Sultan. The first inamed is a turret ihip of the first class, having two turrets and carrying four eighty-one ton guns, each throw in? a shot of 1,600 pounds, with 300 poum's of sowder. The second carries four twenty-five :on guns. The third has four twenty-five ton uid four eighteen-ton guns. The fourth has ;wo twenty-five ton and ten eighteen-ton guns, rhe fifth has eight eighteen-ton and four twelve ion guns. Three ironclads baite-ed the fortifi :ations from the other side, these being (he Monarch, with four twenty-five ton and two six ind a half-ton gnns; the Invincible and the Penelope, each with ten twelve-ton guns. The tambardment was carried on with sixty-six weighing 1,371 tons, supposing all the juns were brought into action. —The Pittsburgh physicians are ;arnestly werning against the t'se of "soothing wruos" and otaer Exjierieiiced factors aver that a large nu nber of the chil- Jren supposed to die of bowel complaints are in fact "drugged «o death." Oae who has given much attention to the mctter savs that these remedies are not t'sed by educated parent •. but nurses will resort to them to soothe troublesome children, or when they want to iake ' their eve liug out." Anoil'er" physician knows twenty cases, within h's owu knowledge, where death has been tracea'de to some s:>rt of 'soothing syrup," 'T am sure," he says, "that i great many mental and physical defects sup f>osed to be hereditary are really due to opiu.u >oison<ng." Taylor, the greatest English luthority oa toxicology and medical jur/snrn lence, says that "ininats and young persons ire lia : »le to be killed by very small doses of ip'urn." One somewhat well-known repre sentative of the ' syrups" appear? lo be a com pound resembling syup of poppies. Its effects ire those of a narcotic. The Pharmaceu.ica Society's Journal records the death, in 1872, of i child, aged fifteen months, with the usu.l symptoms of narcotic poisoning, from two do es »f tais preparation. And the same journal states that an analysis of the syrup showed Lhat "one ounce contained nearly a grain of morphia, with other opium alkaloids." All these sorts of preparations are as strongly con lemned by the great German as by the English and American; but unprincipled nurses, and poor women wearied and exhausted t>y work and heat, and led astray by the fine words with which these insidions medicines are recommended, resort to them to allay the rest less and fractious condition of their babies, more especially jij hot weather. — The American. I ii H ii rn nee. Geo. W. Shaffer, — office with K- Marshall Esq., Brady Block, Butler Pa. paayl7-tf Wk* WntttK Cltineu: $Da., 19, ISS?. THE WAR IN EGYPT. Early on Tuesday morning of last week, the English ileet in the harbor , of Alexandria, Egypt, opened fire upon ! the fortifications surrounding the city. I The fire was returned by the forts and i the ships were s ruck seyeral times, I but by night, ali the forts were silenc ed. The to the English during the day wr five killed and some twen !ty wounded; the Egyptian loss was not learned, but is believed to have been htavy. Next day, Wednesday, some of the forts that had been repair ed during the night were bombarded, but did not answer, and at night flames were issuing from various quarters of the city. On Thursday it was discov ered that Arabi Bey with his army and a majority of the people of the city had evacuated it, leaving the city to the mercy of a rabble, who butchered what Europeans they could find and L t the European pan of the city on fire. On Friday the city wai still burning, aDd fire increasing, men were seen running about with torches completing the work of destruction. Admiral Seymour telegraphed: "I have occupied Ras-el-Tin palace with marines, and spiked the guns in six batteries opposite. The city is still burning,- but I am clearing the streets. The Khedive is safe in the palace, which is gairisoned by 700 marines." The number of persons massacred by the mob is estimated at 2 000 The Admiral had determined to land a foice, but the refugees informed him that 9,000 Egyptians occupied a posi tion outside the city ready for an at tack, while Admiral Seymour could only land 300 men. He therefore in stead of landing men ordered shots to be fired over the city in order to >right en the rioters. Twenty armed Europeans wJo escaped the massacre were told on their way through the town, by a Pasha, that the Egyptian killed numbered over fioo. The English and French Consulates have been burned to the ground. Some field pieces were landed with marines at Kas-El-Tin Fort. The Khedive's Raß-E!-Tin palace was looted shortly before the mariners arrived. A whole battallion of Aiubs was blown up in one of the forts during the bombard ment. WHAT ALL THE ROW IS ABOUT. Now that the peace of the world has been disturbed by the thunder of British guus in the hurbor of Alexan dria and all the European governments in possesion of a navy n-e rapidly fitiag out their ironclads for active service, not knowing what may be required of them,there is an anxiety to know what all the trouble is about, and why Eng land which was looked upon as as vir tually the protector of Egypt, is engag ad single-handed in battering down its defenses The Egyptian question is as compli cated as that famous one of the Schleswig-llolstein duchies, which jnly two men professed to comprehend —and both of them arc dead—but which has changed the face of Europe without being nearer a final settle ment than it was when the Prusso- Austarian forces entered as allies and rnme out fighting each other. A few leading points will, however, make the present situation reasonably intel igible. Passing over the complica tions proceeding the accession of the present Khedive, following the deposi tion of his father in 1876, it is suffic eut to say that Egypt is self-govern ing but subject the sovereign rights of the Sultan of Turkey, who holds the power of deposing the Khedive and jxercised it in the case of Ismail, the Father of the present ruler. Owing tp the personal extravagance and ill-judged jnterprise of the late Khedive the Egyptian Government was heavily in debt to English and French capitalists, and one of the conditions on which the present Khedive was placed on the throne was the surrender of the control of the finances to a Board of Control made up equally of represen tatives of England and France. The receipts are divided by the Board, a certain sum being appropriated to the payment of the interest on the debt, another stipulated sum to the main tenance of the Khedive and his family, and the remainder to the general pur poses of the Government. It will be seen that as the holder of the purse strings is master of the situation, the Anglo-French Board of Control vir tually formed the Government ol Egypt, the Khedive being their sub missive servant. It should also be premised that from the time when Egypt wa3 but a Turkish province all the principal officials, civil and military, have been Turks or Circassians, the native Egyptians being but the hewers of wood and the drawers of wat«r in civil life and the "mere food for powder" in the army. The disturbing element is Arabi Bey, a native Egyptian who won his way in the army to a major's commis sion by his ability and daring and was made by the late Khedive a Colonel, in defiance of precedent. Having thus passed the bitherto insurmountable barrier, Arabi intrigued until two other Arab officers were promoted to the same grade. The three continued their intrigues until Ihey had won nearly the whole army to f heir views and had by a succession of steps developed a scheme for the nationalization of Egypt and its emancipation from foreign dic tation. By insurrectionary demonstra tions the Khedive was coerced into dismissing the Mioisiers objectionable to Arabi and appointing a new set; in disregard of the protests of the Anglo- French representatives. A constitu tion was granted by the Khedive, one feature of which was the complete con trol of Egyptian finances by the native Legislature. Although pledges were volunteered that the rights of the bond holders would be religiously respected, it was well understood that the foreign claims would be regarded last in the distribution of the revenues, instead of first, as at prerent. It was at this point that the Anglo-French alliance intervened with an emphatic re.usal to permit the programme to be carried any farther It was ordered that Arabi Bey must go, aad affairs be restored to their old position. But how was this to be done ? The Khedive was now ruler only in name. Ar»bi Bey, with the army at his back, was dictator. The allies could not de cide upon any decisive step because their interests, aside from the Egyp tion bonds, were not alike. England wished to invoke the power of Turkey, bijt France, fearing the effect of such invocation in Algeria and Tunis, ob jected. The Sultan in the meantime intrigued with both the Khedive and Arabi Bey for bis own advantage. Then came tbe outbreak at Alexandria in which both foreigners and natives were massac.ed with great ferocity, and responsibility for the origin of which remains in dispute. No one of the governments who e subjects were murdered i'u that affair took immediate action, for each shrauk .rom being the first to provok; whit might become a great international quarrel. At last all the powers concerned by general treaty in the fate of Turkey and its de pendencies consented to consider the pacification of Egypt on the lines laid down for their deliberations by England, which looked simply to the re-estab lishment of the order of things existing before the appearance of Arabi Bey as a disturbing force. Meaawhile Arabi Bey bad thrown off the mask. He re fused to obey the counsels or com mands of the Sultan, paid no heed whatever to the Khedive, raised the cry of "Egypt for the Egyptians," de fied foreign interference and especially by the English, and not only hastened to place Alexandria in a condition of defense, but made threatening demon strations against the Suez Canal. In inviting a general European con ference the English Government dis tinctly announced that the Suez Canal question would not be subnrtted for consideration, it being one exclusively for the English under the present con dition of affairs. England also reserv ed the light of independent action at any moment. It was soon apparent the conference could reach no i>ractical solution of the difficulty, so England availed itself of its reserved right bv sending an ultimatum to Arabi Bey and following it up with a bombard ment of the Alexandria fortifications and the seizure of tne Suez Canal, no ships other lhan the British war fleet being allowed to pass through it. COURT SEWS. Mr. Peter Pfife.- petitioned Court for the appointment of viewers to view and assess damages against, the P. <fc W. R. R. Co. Court appointed Enos McDonald, Abner Shaner, Thos. Garvey, W. W. Dodds, Woi. Dick, John Martin and Matthew Shannon, and fixed Thursday, Aug. 3, ae time of meeting. George 11. Ilerdman has brought suit for damages against Nicholas Sailer for cutting him with an axe on the sth inst., and claims damages in $25,000. Mr. James N. Moore, and Mr. Frank Kohler, students at law, have applied for admission to the bar. Messrs. Marshall, Thompson and Lyon have been examined and admit ted. Tbe Overseers of the Poor of Jeffer son twp., have petitioned Court to ap po:nt a trustee to take charge of the estate of Sarah Ann Derimore. Rule granted. Special terms of Court for the trial af cases have been fixed for the Third Monday of September, Second Mon day of October and Fourth Monday of October. Venires to issue for forty- Lwo Jurors for each week, irom Com mon Pleas and Quarter Session Courts. W. A. Nolan has brought suit vs. W. T. Wylie, for debt; balance claim s4ss. Tbe argument in the case of the Al lan estate vs. W. S. Boyd was com menced on Monday a.ternoou of last iveek and was not finished until noon Friday. Closed fts Doors. The Parker Savings Bank, at Parker, Pa., closed its doors last Weduesday evening. The Parker Chcenix says that the cause of the dosing "is not of recent date, but a matter that transpired several years »go and one that has been held over Trom time to time. Tne recent de velopment at Garfield caused many 3perators to draw their reserves .rom the bank, which proved too much for the institution. The managers and directors of the bank are men who have had the unbounded confidence of the people and the majority to-day be lieve that all is not lost. Mr. J. P. Parker, President of the bank, states that every dollar will be paid." The following judgments have been entered here against Mr. Jaire3 P. Parker, President of the bank: Parker Savings Bank, $12,284.77; Samuel Craig, Trustee, $6,250.00; John B, Leonard, $18,000.00; Mr. Ball and wife, $1,200.00; E. Robinson, $7,- 350.50; John B. Leonard, $5,000.00. The failure of the bank, will, it is said, also cripple the glass manufactory there. A Wealthy Wliitc Woman Weds a Colored Man at Washing ton. PH. "Little" Washington is greatly ex cited over a case of miscegenation which involves one of the most prom inent families. The contracting par ties are John Miller a hotel portei — black as they make them—and Miss Venie Clokey, an attractive lady, 35 years old, who controls considerable wealth in her own right and belongs to one of the most respectable and wealthy families in the county. For the past two years she had been se cretly receiving visits from her dusky admirer, and openly admitted to some iriends that she loved and intended to marry him some day. She kept her word, and at midnight of Wednesday the two were joiaed by the Rev. Mr. Ross, a colored exhorter. Some years ago, the friends of the eccentric girl a3sert, she received a sp ; nal injery which affected her brain. Her mind became so unsettled that she was con fined for a short time in Dixmont asylum, being released two months since. When Miss Clokey returned to her friends she told them that she felt convinced she would make a fatal mistake by marrying Miller, but it is believed she made this assertion roere to allay their suspicions. Immediate step will be taken by her friends to sunder the knot which the colored preacher tied. End ol the Roberts' Suit. Five weeks ago, P. C. Boyle, editor of theOi'/ Echo, published at Richburg, N. Y., made information against Sena tor Roberts of Titusville, charging him with having procured his election by corrupt means, and with having com mitted perjury in taking the oath as a member of the Legislature. A hear ing was had before Alderman Kinnard, of Harrisburg. Two witnesses whom Boyle had subpmnaed testified that Roberts had made no corrupt propositions to them. They had knowu him well, but he had placed no money in their hands, or under their control to be used to assist his election. Xo evidence having been produced to substantiate the charge made by Boyle the caso was dismissed. JjjgT'Advertise in the CITIZEN. TILI, TAPPIXCJ I:\TK.IOU UI.\4KV. Stealing *2,000 Willi a 81 ring, a Lead Plate, and a bit ol Shoemaker'* Wax- A unique method of theft was acci dentally exposed in the State National Hank in Elizabeth, X. J., on Mondav last, and the janitor, George Washing ton Acke-man, alias Bennett, who was arrested, admitted that he had stolen more than $2,000 in the past two | years. Edward Sherwood, the former pay ing teller, a strictly honest young man, | could not make his accounts balance. On July 16, 1881, he was short S2OO ; on Sent. 19 he was short $340; on Nov. 27 he misted $320, and on Jan. 9 of this year he was short SIBO. He could not afford to lose the money, for which he was personally responsible, aud he asked the bank people to relievo him. Joseph McGuire, the book-keep er, a brother of the cashier, also offered to resign. He and Sherwood had stood at the same desk, and the cash had been taken during business hours only from the drawer under Sherwood's desk. Chief of Police Keron was sat isfied that the thief was employed in the bank, but he could not fasten the crime upon any one. Sherwood and young McGuire were, by their own re quest, relieved from the position of paying teller and book-keeper, and Charles Halsey, a member of the Com mon Council, was made paying teller, Fiank Newcombe taking McGuire's place. On Jan. 16 last, just one week after Sherwood's last loss, Ilalsey was unable to balance his accounts within S4BO, the largest loss of all. On June 10 he missed $350, and he and the bank officers, as well as ex-Chief Keron and William D. Jenkins, the present Chief of Police, were puzzled. On Monday morning last Frank Newcombe heard a light 'tap-tap' in the drawer under the desk, and at first he thought that a boy who was lean ing on the counter had rapped with his fingers. On hearing the noise a second time he saw something move in the drawer, which he quickly shut and thinking that a mouse was in the drawer he decided to remove the bank bills. Then he discovered that his sudden shutting of the drawer had broken a finely woven fish line and in the drawer was a bit of lead weighing 2 ounces and shaped like the flat seal used by custom officers. On the lower suiface of the lead was a piece of shoemaker's wax, and fastened to the wax was a S2O bill No less than S2OO, had been taken «rom the SSO and S2O pockets of the drawer since the money had been counted, half an hour before. Jauitor Ackerman, who was k lown in Elizabeth a j George W. Ben nett, confessed his guilt when he was arrested. He was a soldier during the late war. Ackerman's method of abstracting the money was novel and ingenious. In the floor under the cash drawer is an o'd gas pipe hole, though which Ackerman had passed the fish line from the cellar to the drawer. Into the bottom of the counter, directly over the center of the diawer, he had fastened a screw ring or 'dead eye,' and another turned into the face of the counter so that a cord running through both would work at right angles to itself and without sound. The thin piece of lead was fastened to the end of the sti ing that passed through the dead eyes into the drawer, and the contrivance was so arranged that by pulling on another string the lead could be lowered on the bills aud then pulled through the slit between the drawer and the counter. Once outoide of the drawer it was easy to draw the lead and bill down to the cellar through the old gas-pipe hole in the floor. There was nothing in sight, and nothing could be seen by anybody in the bauk. The trap was arranged on Sundavs or evenings, when, as jan itor, he had access to the bank. Dur ing business hours he went to the cel lar, aud guided by bis ears, pulled the string that let the lead drop on the bills in the diawer, and then pulled the string which drew the lead and bill out. He could hear when the paying teller quilted the desk, and therefore he could work the drawea with l'tlle fear of detection. Bennett restored $332 which he had placed on the top of a wall in the cel lar. Bennett's real name is G. W. Ackerman, and under this name he served in the navy. He had been jan itor of the bank for over five years, and had a good reputation. He received pay, but was given the rent of a small bouse in the rear of the bank. He was believed to make his living by working at his trade of paintiog. In vestigation shows that he did very little work the past year, but spent a good deal of money. He bought a piano, a yacht, and a gun, and lost money in start'ng a fish mat ket at Elizabethport. When bis wife asked him where got so much money, she received abuse in return. He was taken to Newaik yesterday and bi ought before United States Commis sioner Wlritehead, who held him in $2,500 bail to answer before the United States Grand Jury next Sep jmber. He was confined in the Eliza beth jail. A Remarkable Feat. Marcus Bibbero, a swimming teach er recently performed the remarkable feat of swimming across the East ltiv cr from Brooklyn to New York, with his hands and feet securely tied. Be fore starting the swimmer's hands were tied, being crossed behind hiai and se cured at the w: ists by two flat knots. His legs were then tied at the ankles with a slip knot and he was dropped into the river. Bibbero stared off freely, swimming on his right side aud headed directly for the opposite shore, following the boat which was to fur nish relief in case of need. The tide was at flood, but it was not running strong. In twenty minutes u*om the time of leaving Brooklyn he reached Joiner slip. Here he was taken in«,o the boa*, where his feet were first un tied and then his hands. He did not seem at all distressed by the effort. He received SSOO for the feat. Farmer* ! Look to Your Inler enlN. The best is always tbe cheapest. Buy the Farmer's Favorite Drill. The only drill that has double distribution, double reversible steel points and solid steel axle. It has force feed grass seeder, either behind or in front, is adapted to plant any variety of seed from the finest to the coarsest, from flax seed to corn and pumpkin seed. On hand all the time and sold by Wm. Crookshanks, Sar versville, Butler county, Pa. j1.19 I IMMENSE: DISPLAY $ OF 1^ i| STRAW GOODS, HATS, CAPS | |J AND ff J Gents' Furnishing Goods S f AT BARGAIN PRICES. [| | SUMMER UNDERWEAR. I v.' In this Department I offer a New Stock, nt IMMENSE BARGAINS. PLEASE EX £ AMINE them and you will save money. || CHARLES R. GRIEB, f# g MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA. MW 4 SiJWW "" ' ' ■ 1 . MY FRIENDST" NJ I am a rambling wreck of nudity, R rogg, Esq., advertisin gent the best Jewc'rv bouse in I wish to iufurni the a of WATCHES, CLOCKS. JEWELRY, PLATED AND SILVER VA RE,is now being offered at ustonitfhing A y low prices at the j ovular and reliable ■ t Vv \ I ■ E. GRIEB, A\ \ I ■ \ ImM JEWELRY, SC., NowS What an eld and Reliable House can do Regarding Prices. Bound Nick ' >ks at.... $1 00 A Good Striking Clock, walnut case 300 Nickel Watch at 300 w >th alarms 1 50 " " " " " 8 day 365 Nickel Watch, Stem Winder 400 A. Good Striking Clock 200 2 Ox. SilverCasc, with Amer'n movement 10 o(>,, " " " closed im the hack 450 Ladies Gold Watches at sl2 75 tw* All kinds of Sewing Machine Needles at 35 cents per dozen, aud No. 1 Sperm Cil at 10 cents per bottle. The only place in Butler where yon can find a full and complete stock of KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS, &c 1847.—Rogcis Bios—A I.—none genuine unless stamped ("184:.—Rogers Bros.—A 1.") I also carry a full line of Eye Glasses and Spectacles, suitable for all eyes and mounted in the most elegant and substantial manner, and am of fering very superior goods at the most reasonable rates. Repairing of Watches and Clocks leceives our Fery strict at tention, and is done promptly and warranted. E. GRIEB, Main Street, Butler, Pa. $103,000,000 A pproprla(ed for KVUMIOIIM for the Next FISCAL Year. WASHINGTON, July 16.—A very imporcaat section was ruled out of the Pension Appropriation bill yesterday on a point of order. It provided that the Sec-etarv of the Intjrior should annually transmit to Congress, at the begiuuing of each regular session, a I list of persons bo. ne on the pension rolls classified according to their post-1 office addiess by States and counties, the amount paid annually to each, and also a statement each year of those dropped from the rolls and those added to the rolls. One object of this ; clause was to prevent the adjudication I of fraudu'ent claims. Substantially the same provision has '> L-U agreed upon by the Senate Committee on Pensions. It will be reported to the Senate some time this week, and wi'l p. ooably pass as a separate proposition. MAY PREVENT FRAUD. It is conceded by the Commissioner of Pensions that under .the present system a large number of claims are allowed on audi'leot nflfida/its, which it is necessai ily impossible to detect at the time. The purpose of requiring this report to be made to Congress is that by publ : cation of the names of claimants and pejsioners the cover of secrecy will be removed, and there will be fewer fraudulent affidavits in the future. The enormous expenditure? made on account of the Pension Bureau renders it important that the large pe-centa&e of fradi'lent pen ions should be reduced. In the year 1881 there was paid f or pensions $32,- <104,000, in the original aporopration, and for deficiencies $18,305,031, making n total of $50,700,031. For the fiscal vea-just passed, 1882, the pension approp r iatiou bill was $50,- 000,000 and the deficiency $16,000,000, making a totil of $66,000,000. AN ENORMOUS SUM. The appropriation for the present fiscal year is $103,000,000. Representa tive Morris. <n averages the yearly amount required for pensions for the next ten years at about $73,000,000, and intima'i =< that it will cost to pay off the present pensions two thousand million of dollars, several hundred of millions more than the total National debt. It is estimated that over 180,000 pen sion claims have been allowed since the passage of the Arrears of Pension act. If Nearly Dead. after taking some highly puffed up stuff', with long testimonials, turn to Hop Bitters, and have no fear of any Kidney or Urinary troubles, Bright's Disease, Diabetes or Liver Complaint. These diseases cannot resist the cura tive power of Hop Bitters; besides it is the best family medicine on earth. Three Men killed About a Dog. ST. LOUIS, July 14.—A Post-Dis patchjspecialfrom Shrcveport, La., says news from Orange county, Texas, says John Godwyn killed W. Wind ham's dog. W'ndham followed God wyn and his brother-in-law Moian, with a shotgun. He shot and killed both, but was himself wounded and died in an hour. Good House and I.ot lor Kale. Any person wanting to buy a first class house of seven rooms, well fin ished, good cellar, excellent well of water, with pump, splendid stable, large grapery, brick walks, all necessa ry outbuildings, etc., located in Butler, can hear of sams by inquiring at this office. mar22,3m ' —The State tax on liquor, mercan tile aid patent medicine licenses issued to citizens of this county, amounted this year to $5,300. This tax was due aud payable on the first day of June, and each yendor of these articles was so notified by a printed slip left with him or her by the Mercantile Apprais er. As usual, there have been some delinquents this year, persons who neglected to pay their State tax, and County Treasurer Miller left their ac counts with a Justice of the Peace for collection, as, by law, he is required to do with all accounts not settled by the 9th of July. For doing so he has re i ceived several abusive letters from parties who neglected to pay their tax. £^~N T o family Dyes were ever so popular as the Diamond Dyes. They never fail. The Black is far superior to logwood. The other colors are brilliant. —The prospect increases that this session of Congress will last through the whole month. It has not indeed been a barren session, as sessions go. But for many years past no Congress has been able to keep up with the growth of public business; and, for the i'uture, each in its turn will have to sacrifice its convenience to the public necessities. As it is, it compares very favorably with the current session of the British Parliament. Of the long list of measures promised in the Queen's speech, all have been abandoned except the bill for the punishment of corrupt practices in elections. The budget, which lumps all appropriations into a single measure, has been voted as usual. Celery Plants. The undersigned has for sale 10,000 celery plants of all varieties, which he will sell at the lowest market prices. MARTIN EISLER, Butler, Pa. —The Al'egheny Mail says that "a number of missionaries from this vicinity are engaged at certain points in Egypt. When the massacre began in Alexandria, a cablegram was re ceived stating that the missionaries bad left Egypt. Some went to Eng land. Drs. Ewing and Watson remain ed to protect property and subsequent ly went on board of a United States man-of-war. All the mission aries in Egypt were called in and are now believed to be in places of safety. Regarding Fev. Dr. Hogg, stationed at Asyoot, 150 miles up the Nile from Cario, however, there is some doubt. Dr. S. C. Ewing is a native of West moreland county, a graduate ef Jeffer son College and Allegheny Theo logical Seminary. He has been in Egypt since 1860. Dr. Andrew Watson is also a graduate of the Alle gheny Seminary and has be«n in Egypt since 1861. Dr. Hogg is a Scotchman and has been laboring in Egypt for twenty years. Farmer* Look Here, The undersigned is now taking or ders for fruit trees for fall planting He represents one of the most reliable nurseries in Rochester, N. Y. Please send your orders in immediately. nl6tf JOHN BIEDKRMAN. Farmer* Look fo Your Inlerettt. By using Bradley's Sea Fowl Peru vian Guano and also Bradley's Alka line Dissolved Bone, you will increase your crop J from 75 to 100 per cent. It ran lie had at all times at Sarver's Sta tion, and also at the Niggle Bros., in Butler. Send in your orders early. WM. CROOK SHANK, Agent for Butler Co. Sarver's Station, Butler Branch R. R. junc2l 2m. l i''' $200,00 REWARD! Will be paid for the detection and con viction of any person gelling or dealing in any bogus, counterfeit or imilation HOP BITTERS, especially Bitters or preparations with the word HOP or HOPS 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 1 to be the same as HOP BITTERS. The genuine have cluster of GREEN HOPS (notice this) priated on the white label, and are the purest and best medicine on earth, especially for Kidoev, Liver and Nervous Diseases. Beware of all others, and of all pretended formulas or recipes of HOP BITTERS published in papers or for sale, as they are frauds and swindles. Whoeyer deals in any but the genuine will be prosecuted. HOP BITTERS MPO. Co., Rochester, N. Y. EARS FOR THE MILLION T Foo Ohoo's Balsam of Shark's Oil Positively Hi-stores the H'aring, and is the only Absolute Cure for Deajness Known. This Oil 18 abstracted iron peculiar specie of small WHITE BUARK, cauzht In the Yellow s'- 1, known as Carcharodon Rondelelh. Every Chi nese fisherman knows it. Ita virtues as a re storative of bearing were discovered by • Budd hist Priest about the year 1410. Its cures were so numerous and many so seein<nglv miracu lous, that the remedy was officially proclaimed over the entire Empire. Its use became so uni versal that for over 300 years no deafne«B bas exlslted among the Chinese people. Sent, charges prepaid, to any address at fI.CO per bottle. Hear What The Deaf Say! It has performed a miracle In my case. 1 have no unearthly noises In my bead and bear much better. I have been greatly benefited. My deafness helped a great deal—think another bottle will enro me. "Its virtues are unquestionable and Its ours tlve character absolute, as the writer can oer sonally testily, both Irom experience and o ser vation. Write at once to Hnylock & Jenncy, 7 Dey Btrecl, New York, enclosing #I.OO and you will receive by return a remedy that will enable you to hear like anybody else, and whbea curative effects will be permanent. You will never regret do!n? so."—EDITOR or MERCAN TILE REVIEW. fgr To avoid loss in the Mails, please send money by Registered letter. 'Only imported by HAYLOCK L JENNEY, (Late HAYLOCK & Co.) SOLE AOENTS POR AMERICA. 7 Dey St,, N. Y. jnnc7-ly. Mrn. II ay ward's and Nlm Parked Hoarding and Day School for Young JLadlen and Children. 46 STOCKTON AVE., ALLEGHENY CITY, PA. In addition to a thorough collegiatecourse in English and Latin, French and German ar« taught by natives. Mr. Carl Itetter has c'iarge of the musical department. Send for pr -pec tus. julyt.M m. WOTIC'E- ~ Notice is hereby given that the final ae connt of John Bauder, Jr., assignee of Peter Schneidemantle, hps !> en filed in the office of the Prothonotary of the Common Pleas o " But- * ler county, State of Pennsylvania,. at J".. I>., No. 16, June term, 1880, and that tee same will he presented to said court for confirmation and allowance, on Wednesday the 6th day of Sep tember, 1882. M. N. GRfcKR, Prot'.ionot ;ry. Prothonotary's office July 19, 1882. CP 5 week in your own town. Terms and •> »l*«outflt fr.'e. Address 11. HALLMT & Co. Portland, Malno. mar29,l jr I JIT L BRUSH'S.
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