SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Per year, in advanM W 80 a 00 No unbwriptioo will b« dtaoonUnnod ontil aL arrearage* we paid. neglecting to notify oa when enbecribera do not take oul their papers wili be held liable for the enbecripticn. tin Mori ben wawtof froea on* Wrtojto to another elionld give oa the name or the former m well aa the preeent offloe. All oommanioattons intended for pobbcatioD n this paper moat be Meoapaatod by the real name of the writer, sot for publication bat aa • guarantee of good faith. Marriage and death notices moat be aooompa Died by a responsible name. Address TBI BIITLKS OITIIHi BOTLEB. PA. ——OPENING FRESH FALL i WINTER STOCK " BOOTS MP SHIES:" AT B. C. HUSELTON'S. | liens', Boys' and Youths' Hand Made Kip Boots, CALF and VEAL, CALF BUTTON and LACE SHOES, BBOGANS AND PLOW SHOES, BUBBEB BOOTS, WOOL-LINED ABTICS, GRAIN BOOTS, BPECIALLY ADAPTED 808 TEAMBTEBB AND OIL MENS WEAB. Large Stock of all kindf of Toilet Slippen, Ladies', Hisses' and Cbildrens' Kid, Goat and Pebble Button and Polish Boots. Kip and Calf Shoes, Hand Made, Elegant Goods for Winter Wear. Old Ladles' Warm Shoes and Slippers a Specialty. Misses' and Cbildrens' Calf Button School, one pair will out wear two pairs of all Goat. Try them. UR6E STOCK Of LEATHER AHD FINDINGS. REPAIRING OP ALL KINDS DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Jar j JLlata tor Special October. Terms. List of Trmrene Jurors drawn for a Special Term of Court oommencing the second Monday •f Oct., being the 9th day, A. D., 1862. Brown A 6, Penn twp, former. Barr William, Venango twp, farmer. Black O F, Donegal twp. farmer. Beam Nicholas, Forward twp, former. Bark David, Venango twp, former. Cunningham Matt, Jefferson twp, former. Campbell K M. Worth twp, farmer. Doyle & P, Fairvew boro, harness maker. Emeriek John, Parker twp, teamster. Emerick John C. Buffalo twp, former. Fraxier James, Butler boro, blacksmith. Fredley Daniel, Clinton twp., farmer Greene Joseph, Connoquenessing, South, former. Hindman B S, Cherry twp, former. Hildebrant Andrew, Donegal twp, farmer. Hoffman Michael, Jackson West, farmer. Jack William. Marion twp, farmer. Kuhn Geo, Buffalo twp, cooper. Kubn A D, Concord twp, farmer. Kingham Sam. Middlesex twp, former. Kinkaid Eli, Prospect boro, farmer. Kemper Bernard, Butler boro, shoemaker. .{ Lawell Jacob, Butler boro, blacksmith. Murrin H F, Venango twp, farmer. McGeary Wm M, Jefferson twp, farmer. Morrow T M, Harrisville boro, merchant. McCandless J M, Centre twp, farmer. Miller J C, Prospect bore, snoemaker. McGowan James, Worth twp' famer. Miller John. Franklin twp, former. Patterson Al, Mercer twp., farmer. Patterson J L, Jefferson twp, farmer. Pierce David. Butler twp, farmer. Ru«sell H S, Cherry twp, farmer. Bhoup Anthony, Clearfield twp, farmer. Snodgrass John, Connoqnenessing, Sooth, former. Thompson Robt, Middlesex twp, former. Winter Albert, Zelienop'e boro, jeweler. Walter Frank, Clinton tVp, farmer. Weokbecker Henry, Jackson, West, moul der. Wilson G W, Jackson, East, farmer. Wilson B S, Slippery rock twp, farmer. List of Traverse Jurors drawn for a Special Term of Court commencing the fourth Monday of October, being the 23d day, A. D., 1882. Bright Henry, Franklin twp, former. Barrii William, Connoquenessing, North, former. Campbell Cyrus, Clay twp, farmer. Donaldson A H, Concord twp, farmer. Dougherty John, Allegheny twp, producer. Dobaon Thomas, Adams twp, foiiner. Fisher Frank, Centre twp, farmer. Ferney Henry, Butler twp, former. Fliek Robert, Clearfield twp, former. Gallaway Thomas, Copnoquenesslng, North, former. Goehring Albert, Forward twp, farmer. Glasa Joseph, Donegal twp, pumper. Gardner James 8, Cherry twp, farmer. Gilmore Perry, Allegheny twp, constable. Hay Henry, Muddy creek, former. Hyle Martin, Prospect boro, blacksmith. Hindman Robt, Fairview West, farmer. Hoch Martin, Millerstown, farmer. Harbison Joseph, Buffalo twp, farmer. Jelliaon W H, Petrolia boro, hotel keeper. Kelly M J, Venango twp, farmer. King W H, Petrolia, police. K jester J G, Slippery rock twp, fanner. Kline Nicholas, Forward twp, farmer. Morrow H A, Venango twp, former. Milleman Geo, Lancaster, Farmer. Murrin John, Marion twp, former. McKee Joaiah, Allegheny twp, fanner. Mc Bride J M, Franklin twp, farmer. McMichael F M, Fairview boro, carpenter. Niblock Harvey, Clinton twp, farmer. Neblle Barto, Summit twp, former. Puff Chas, Penn twp, farmer. Pisor Adam. Worth twp, farmer. Reiber Jacob, Middlesex twp { farmer. Riddle James of Robert, Clinton twp, far mer. Steward Thos. F, Centre twp, farmer. Taggart Chas, Brady twp, farmer. Thorn O R, Clay twp, farmer. Simmers Geo, Buffalo, farmer. Wick J M, Concord twp, farmer. Mcßride Isaiah J, Butler boro, painter. Estate of Nancy E. McDonald. Letters of administration on the estate of Mr* Nancy E. McDonald, dee'd, late of Connoque nessing township, Butler county. Pa., having been granted to the undersigned, all persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment, and any hav ing claims against said estate will present them duly authenticated for settlement. ENOS. MCDONALD, Administrator, Mt. Chestnut P. 0., Butler county, Pa. Estate of Thomas Campbell. Letters testamentary on the estate of Thomas Campbell, dee'd., late of Concord twp., Butler county, Pa., having been granted to the under signed, all persons knowing themselves indebt ed to said estate will please iriake immediate payment and any having claims against said estate will present them duly authenticated for payment. HARVEY CAMPBELL, Hooker P. 0., Butler county, Pa Executor. Application for Charter. Notice ia berebv given that application will be made to the Governor of the State of Pennsyl vania. for a charter incorporating a company to mannfsolure Fire Brick. Tile aud Mineral Paint, at itmpieton, in Adams townahip, Butler 00., Fa., under the name, style and title of "The Tempieton Fire Brick, Tile and Mineral Paint Company of Butler county," with a capital of 9100,000, with the privilege of increasing the same to MOO,OOO. Bt OKSXB or BTOCKHOUJXM, Sept. 13th, 1883, VOL. XIX. Wood Wanted I At the Butler Glass Worse 500 or 600 cords of wood—maple, white oak and hickory. Inquire at the office of the works near the P. R. R. depot. 2 t. WANTED.— An Intelligent and honest man who thor oughly understands the manufacture of Black from natural Gas. Address with particulars as to former experience, references, Ac. Capitalists, augl6,2m P. O. Box, G72 NEW YOBK. WANTED— Tf LIFE INSURANCE AGENTS in Pennsyl vania. To those who have had experience and have been successful as solicitors, good con tracts will be given as General Agents for a number of counties. Inexperienced men will be aided and instructed bv Special Agents. Address, MANAGER, Box 3,005, N. 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Hartman's © pamphlet on "The Ills of Life, " gratis, © For files aiul l'elvlc Diseases, take C7OAWEEK. Siii a day at home easily made "Costly Outfit free. Address TKUE & Co. 1 Augusta, Maine mar2y,ly t^gr* Advertise in the CITIZEN. BUTLER, PA.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 18S2 SELECT. AWFUL UN AfiAßl THEiiKITISU HILL DOGS SWEEP HIS Alt 11Y AM I Y. lSulile at Tel-el-Kebir—Egyp tiau Army (touted. KASSASSIN, September 13.—A dis patch from the front oft he British head quarters here states that the attack on Tel-el-Kebir commenced at 4:30 this morning. The Arab works were car ried and forty guns and a large number of prisoners were captured. The de moralization of Arabi's army is com plete, his infrantry flyiDg toward the desert. The Egyptians opened fire when the British were within about one mile of Tel-el-Kebir. The place ap pears to have been taken by a rush. The enemy were surprised by the night march, and were soon in full re treat. The Indian calvary are hotly pressing the fugatives on the south and the British calvary on the north of the canal. The enemy's killed alone amounted to 2,000 The retreat of the enemy on the north is cut off. THE OFFICIAL REPORT. The following is the official dis patch of General Wolseley giving his report of the battle at Tel-el-Kebir : We struck camp at Kassassin lock last evening and bivouacked on the high ridge above camp until 1:30 this morning. We then advanced upon the very extensive and very strongly fortified position held by Arabi Pasha with twenty thousand regulars, of whom twenty-five hundred were cavalry, with seventy guns and six thousand Bedouins and irregulars. My force was about eleven thousand bayo netts, two thousand sabres and sixty guns. To have attacked so strong a posi tion by daylight with the troops I could place in the field would have entailed very great loss. I resolved, therefore, to attack before daybreak, marching the six miles that intervened between my camp and the enemy's position in the darkness. The cavalry and two batteries of horse artillery on the right had orders to sweep round the enemy at daybreak. The first division was the Second brigade, under General Graham, supported by the Foot Guards under the Duke of Connaught, and seven batteries of artillery, number ing forty-two guns, with a supporting brigade; then the second division, the Higland Brigade leading the Indian contingent; these on the south side of the canal, with the naval brigade on the railway, had in the interval ad vanced. Great emulation was evinced by the regiments to be first in the enemy's works. All went at them straight, the Royal Irish particularly distinguished itself by its dash and the manner in which it closed with the enemy. All the enemy's works and camps are now in our possession. I do not yet know exactly the number of guns captured, but it is considera ble; several trains witb immense quan tities of supplies were captured. The enemy ran away in thonsands, throw ing away their arms when overtaken by our cavalry. Their loss was very great. General Willis was very slightly and Colonel Richardson severely wounded. Majors Colv'lie, Underwood and Somerville, of the Highland Light Infantry, were killed Of the Black Watch, Lieutenant Mac- Niel was killed. Captains Fox and Cumberland were wounded. Gener al Allison's Aide-de-camp, Captain Hutton, was wounded. Col. Sterling and the surgeon of the Coldstream Guards were wounded. Col- Balfour, of the Grenadier Guards, was wound ed in the leg, and the color sergeant killed. The cavalry is now on its march to Belbees and the Indian con tingent on its way to Zagazig, to be followed this evening by the Highland brigade. Three lieutenants of the Cameron Highlanders were wounded. The canal is cut in some places, but the railway is intact. It has been dis covered that Racheb Pasha and Ali Fehmi Pasha were wounded in the en gagement last Saturday. ADDITIONAL DETAILS. Long continued cheers went up when the enemy's works were seized. The 3ight below was a gastly one, hundreds of dying Egyptians, camels and horses lying mingled on the ground. The English dead and wounded were mixed with those of the enemy. The English troops were splendidly handled and marched over ramparts, leaving be hind them traces in blood of the work which thsy had accomplished. The Egyptians were taken by surprise in almost every direction. The negro troops and Arab artillery fought well. General Wolseley watched the fight in the thickest of danger, and the Duke of Connaught exhibited extreme calmness General Wolseley ordered his soldiers to march with unloaded rifles, and, if possible, storm the enemy's entrench ments without firing a shot. The Highland Brigade on the left carried the first line of entrenchments at the point of the bayonet. The guards fol lowed, behaving splendidly. Half of the Egyptians opposed to us in the attack were rebels. We will push on to Cairo without delay. Arabi Pasha's troops are evidently delighted at the prospect of an end. Immense stores of ammunition and 12,000 tents were captured. There is no doubt Arabi Pasha was completely surprised. The disposition of the English forces during the darkness of the night is really be vond praise. Colonel Harrison with great difficulty saved llagheb Bey's life, as the English soldiers were ex cited aud in uo mood to give quarter. Detachments of troops from Kafr-el- Dwar are reported fleeing towards Cairo. Another dispatch says: The enemy's earth-works were quite insufficient to check the advance of our good troops. The works were certainly of immense extent, and surrounded by a ditch four feet deep and four feet wide. The parapet was about four feet and eight inches. But the works put out so abruptly into the plateau surrounding that almost at any poiut it was possible tu enfilade the enemy. As soon us the English troops reached the enemy's entrenchments Arabi Pasha got oil j bard a train and ordered it to -'.team off the scene. ANOTHER EYE WITNESS. Gives the following account of the buttle of Tel-el-Kebir: Never did a body of lourteen thousand men get uDder arms more quietly. The very orders appeared to be given in lowered tones. The silence was broken only by an occasional clash of steel. There w€re frequent halts to enable regiments to maintain the touch. When the troops arrived within a thousand yards of the enemy's line they halted to al low the fighting line to be formed. | The Egyptians fled in a confused rab ble. Two traius filled with fugitives | managed to get away before the En glish came up. The engine of another train just about starting was blown up !by one of our shells. Lieutenant j Gordon Cary, who had been wounded, killed with his claymore three Egyp tian officers who set upon him. ZAGAZIG TAKEN. Major General McPherson telegraphs from Zagazig that he made a forced march after the capture of Tel-el-Kebir and occupied Zagazig at 4:14 this afternoon. He seized five trains with their engines. The Governor came in and surrendered to the British. The people are submissive. THE NEWS AT ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, September 13.—The taking of Tel-el-Kebir causes great joy here, and an extensive demonstration is> organizing for to-night. Italians and Greeks have taken no action, but persons of all nations will participate. General Wood has received a dispatch from General Wolseley stating that Tel-el-Kebir was captured after twenty minutes' assault. Three thousand prisoners were taken. The enemy is flying and the cavalry pursuing them. The cut, letting the sea into Mareatis, has been completed and the water is spreading rapidly. The cut connecting the sea with Lake Mareatis is not considered quite successful, but the sea has entered the fosse to the height of three and one half feet. The excitement and en thusiasm here over the English victory at Tel-el-Kebir to-day culminated in a grand demonstration to-night. A pro cession headed by a band and bearing devices 'Bravo Wolseley,' 'Tel-el- Keber,' and 'Angleterre' paraded the town. The Khedive's band marched to the different tribunals, before which they stopped and played English and Egyptian anthems, amid the applause of the Europeans A few Arabs ap peared on the streets. The demonstration ia celebration of the British victory at Tel-el-Kebir will not readily be forgotten. Englishmen were treated as heroes by residents here of other nationalities, while the very popular officers of the United States steamer Nipsic expressed their pride in the Anglo-Saxon race. The Outbreak in Allegheny. From Philadelphia P'-ess of Sept. 7. It is very evident from the proceed ings of the Conventions in Allegheny that there is a great deal of restive ness and resolution in that staunch old Republican county. The machine Ins usually been well-oiled, easily handled and smoothly run. It has seldom failed to grind out just such grist as the managers wanted. But at last the people seem to have taken matters into their own hauds, and the signs are such as portend a revolution. The overwhelming triumph of Mr: Bayue was itself significant. He was the avowed and uncompromising op ponent of Mr. Cameron; he had de fiantly, almost recklessly, made a di rect and unequivocal assault on the ad ministration ; all the bosses, big and little, had marked him for destruction ; he had even declined to pronounce for the candidate for Governor, under the ordinary couditious in an ordinary time it would be supposed that the machine could completely crush him. Yet he swept the district high and dry, and the feeble resist ance of the impotent managers snap ped before the popular tidal wave as a house of cards tumbles in the storm. It was plain that the people were deeply stirred, and their demonstra tion was unmistakable. The issue was distinct because Mr. Bayne had been so emphatic, and because the lines were so sharply drawn that everybody could understand it ; the expression was clear and decisive. The same question entered into the Senatorial nominations. In the Forty fourth district the Independent candi date went through on the first ballot. In the Forty-second the contest was close and doubtful, and it is charged that Mr. McNeill succeeded by fraud. His competitor, Mr. Shafer, declared that sufficient delegates had been cho sen in his interest to nominate him, but that they had been counted out, and on this ground he withdrew. At this distance it is difficult to see why he abandoned the contest. Irrespect ive of this question, Mr. McNeill had little warrant for pressing his claims, and the party little reason for nomina ting him. Four years ago he barely squeezed in by the beggarly majority of 165 in a district where a Repub lican candidate ought to have nearly or quite two thousand. Such an evi dence of weakness in himself or in his associations should have been a con clusive argument against trying an other experiment with him. The election of this year, both as to the State ticket and the Legislature, is too important to run any needless risks. All in all the Convention in Alle gheny proved that the people are moved this year by some deep and prevading feeling. Hitherto that county, even with its great Republi can majority, has been one of the most reliable machine dependencies. But it is plain now that the machine has lost its grip, and such a manifestation can not be safely disregarded. Don't Die in tiie limine. Ask druggists for "Rough on Rats." It clears out rats, mice, bedbugs, roaches yerruin, flies, ants, insects. 15c. per box. ! The fVlialctiiid ili<i Eiicuiic^. , San Francisco Call.] We were swinging idly at anchor off j Mahnkona, Island of Hawaii. Swing , | ing idly at anchor in the South Sea oti ' a summer's day is emiueutly poetical, but one may get too much of poetry. Suddenly there were wild exclamations I of delight and excitement by some na tive passengers, who pointed a little , way off, whore at Grst we could sic only occasional foamy spurts of water. The Captain, who had just come on deck, looked with increasing interest at ; the commotion in the water, and finally j said, decidedly : 'lt's a thrasher an 1 1 sword-fish attacking a whale, and if they only conre this way you'll sec some fuu that laud lubbers seldom see —meaning no disrespect for the ladies.' It was seldom that our Captain dis played as much interest as hi did then, j so we all the more eagerly watched the nearing fight. lie gave no further explanation then. For some time longer we saw no bodies, but the disturbance in the water steadily grew pi liner as it came nearer. The water would be upheaved and then lashed into foam ; there would be flurry, and then the water would subside into a bubbling wake. Finally, so near to us to be almost startling, the ponderous body of the whale plunged through the water al most beneath us, and with a swiftness that in so huge a thinjf was frightful, rose to the surface, dashing the waves with its great blunt head afar on either side. Almost before the sparkling showers had fallen the steam-like breath of the monster shot up in a jet, but only for an instaut. A great ugly fish, flat like a floundt r, but larger than a shark, darted through the water and almost leaped upon the whale, cover ing with its great flat body the whale's blow hole. The jet was as completely and instantly cut off by this astonish ing operation as is a faucet stream of water by a reversed spigot. The great clumsy monster struggled as if for life. Its tail dashed the smooth summer sea into a fury of foam, and the whole great length of its body seemed shaken by a tempest of rage and agony. The whale sank slowly, and as the troubled water became clear we saw it dart off again, but pursued and attacked by a sword-fish that with lightning like strokes would plunge its weapon into the whale's body, draw back for a fresh start, and shoot ahead again, inflicting wound after wound upon the tortured monster. Stabbed from below, deprived of its breath from above, the whale wildly plunged ahead silently, followed closely by the thrash er, waiting for its turn to attack. Soon they came again ; not quite so close to us as before. Again the vast body up haaved the waters; again the thrasher cut off the persecuted whale's desper ate struggle for air; again the great thiug lunged and lurched about in awful, frantic efforts to free itself of the merciless enemy ; again it slowly sank to be attacked from below. This most Strang battle raged about us for fuliy half an hour, the intervals between the surface attacks becoming shorter as the whale's increasing exhaustion prompt ed it to rise more frequently. The attacks of both its enemies gave the impression of utmost* ferocity. The perfect silence ofthe terrific warfare, too, added to its terrible aspect. I have spoken of it as a battle ; such it was, although the small, savage attackers were, of course, never injured in the tremendous plunges the mad dened whale would sometimes direct toward them. Gradually the scene of action drifted further from us, and sud denly ceased, the whale sinking out of sight. Then we turned to the Captain and asked that worthy individual for an explanation. Of course he had one ready, and it was this: There was another fish highly interested in the battle, that we had not seen. This was the fish that came in at the death. 'l'm sorry,' the Captain said, that the whale was not finished near enough for you to see, for then you would have been astonished. Now what do you suppose that thrasher, and like wise that sword fish, was giving that kind of battle to that whale for? Now, none of you know, yet some people think they do. That sword fish sticks the whale from below to make it rise, and the thrasher calks up his spout-hole to make it open its mouth. Why don't he open his mouth the first time the thrasher covers his spout-hole ? Be cause it knows by instinct that the mo ment its mouth is opened its tongue is bit out. I spoke of a little fish that you didn't see. Well, he follows close along, and whenever the whale becomes so used up for want of breath that it must open its mouth then this little fish darts in, bites off the big fellow's tongue, and is away with it in a jifly. The little fish, the sword fish and the thrasher divide the tongue, and it's that morsel the battle is for.' Since the Captain told us the story I have heard the same thing asserted by land author ity. The common mistake in sowing wheat is in putting in the seed too deeply. If the ground has been tilled so as to make a mellow seed bed, there is danger of burying the seed too deep ly if a drill is used, unless the roller precedes the drill, and the drill-teeth are set back so as not to dig too deeply. Rolling after drilling or sowing is a mistake. The compactness of the soil needed for wheat is beneath, and not on the surface. Wheat is usually sown more thickly than is advantage ous or profitable. Much depends on the richness of the soil, the more fertile requiring not exceeding one bushel to five pecks per acre. The time of sow ing is much less important than the condition of the soil as to compactuess and fertility. It may sometimes be good policy to sow land of only moder ate fertility early, in order to secure a good fail growth ; but it is much better to manure more heavily and sow later. On the very dryest and richest soils very late sowing is the best for secur ing heavy yields of wheat. So—in substance—says 'W. F. J.' in The American Cultivator. A good medicinal tonic, with real merit, is Brown's Iron Bitters, so all ggists bay. * ill.!«> .>1 illionulrea. Boitoa Herald. With the preseut high prices ol beef, and the cow literally jumping over the moon, Wyoming cattle men are reaping a rich harvest, and many of them will almost make inde pendent fortunes this summer. The rise has been so rapid, and trans fers are made so easily, that large transactions are made every dny in which the buyer docs uot see a hoof of his purchase, and very likely does not use more than one half the pur chase money in the trade before he has sold and made auormous margin in the deal. A year ago a Laramie plains cattle dealer was offered a large Utah herd and a ranch for §70,000, which offer was accepted at the moment, but later rejected. Since that the Utah man sold S4(i,COO woith <>f the herd, then sold the ranch lor $4,500, after ward and last week sold it for $140,000. In other words the Ut.;h man is to day ahead over SIIO,OOO because his last year's offer <vas uot accepted. Several years ago one ol the most prominent cattle men in Wyomiug who can to-day easily command $1,000,000 for a cattle trade without impairing his business, came to Bos ton to negotiate a lone with Massachu setts capitalists. He met an old man who knew more about per cent, thau he did about Wyoming and Colorado cattle, and began to talk business. He said he was making large profits on his present investmeLts, and, therefore, he wanted to put more capi tal iuto the business, very naturally to increase his income. Mr. Moneybag asked what security would be given. "I would secure the loan by a mort gage on my herd, sir." ' Where are your cattle ?" "Some in Wyoming, some in Ne braska nad some iu Colorado." "How much land have you under fence ?" "Noue."' "How much land do you own "Not a foot." "Whose land does your stock graze on ?" "Government land." "How often do you see your cattle?" "Once a year." "Do you have a herder with them ?" "No, sir." "Well, young man, I would as soon loan you money on the herring in Boston harbor." A Cheyenne man who don't pretend to know a maverick from a mandamus, has made a neat little margin of $15,- 000 this summer in small transactions and hasn't seen a cow yet that he has bought or sold. Cheyenne is wild over the market, and Sixteenth street is a young Wall street. Millions are talked of as lightly as nickels, and all kinds of people in all professions are dabbling in steers. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has recently succumbed to the contagious excite ment and gone to purchase a $40,000 herd. Everywhere the excitement is as bad as it ever was in mining stocks in the old palmy days at (Jom stock. How long this thing will con tinue is a matter of pure speculation. Whether the laboring classes of the "States" will eat porter house steaks when they taste like a government bond, or quit all at once and knock the bottom out of the Chicago market, no man knows to a dead moral cer tainty. AII l T npul»llNlied Page. The Burlington Hawkeye is respon sible for the following unpublished page from th 3 history of George Washington. The scene is laid on the Potomac, and it is the merry summer time. To him the mother of the father of his country said : "George, dear, where have jou beea since school was dismissed ?" "Hain't been nowhere, ma." "Did you come straight home from school, George ?" "Yes, ma'am!'' "But school is dismissed at 3 o'clock, and it is now half past 6. How does that come ?" "Got kep' in." "What for ?" "Missed m'joggrafy less'n." "But your teacher was here only an hour ago, and said you hadn't been at school all day." "Got kept in yestidday, then." "George, why were you not at school to-day ?" "Forgot. Thought all the time it was Saturday." "Don't stand on the one side of your foot in that manner. Come here to me. George, you have been swim ming." "No'me." "Yes, you have, George. Haven't you ?" "No a p." "Tell your mother, George ?" "N u c k." "Then what makes your hair so wet, my son ?" "Sweat. I run so fast comin' from school." "But your shirt is wrong side out." ' Put it on that way when I got up this morning for luck. Always win when you play for keeps if your shirt's on wrong side out." "And yon havn't the right sleeve of your shirt ou your arm at all, George, and there is a hard knot tied in it. How did that come there?" "Bill Fairfax tied it when I wasn't lookiu'." "But what were you doing with your shirt off?" "Didn't haye it off. He jes took'n tied that knot there when it was on me." "George!" "That's honest truth, he did." About that time the noble Bushrod came along with a skate strap, and we draw a veil over the dreadful scene, merely remarking that boys do not seem to change as much as men. A Huntingdon couuty young widow who wanted to join her husband in "the beautiful world on high," took a dose of red precipitate in order to pre cipitate her departure, but the timely and effective application of a stomach pump obliged her to postpone the ex cursion. ADVERTISING HATEM One square, one insertion, tl ; each anbse qaent insertion, 60 cents. Ye«rly advertisemei t eiceoding one-fourth of a column, #5 per inch. Figure work doub'e there later; additional charges where weekly or monthly cbangea are made. Local adv« rt:sements 10 cents per line for flirt insertion, tun! & cents per line for each additional insertion. Manages and deaths | nb lished free of cnaige. Obituiry notices chaiged as advertisements, and payable when handed in. Auditors' Notices, f-4 ; Executors' and Auminit trators' Notices. |3 each; Estray, Cantion and Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten line*, each. From the fact that the CmiKH is 'he oldest established and most extensively circulated Re- Eublican newspaper in Bntler county, fa iUpub can county; it most be apparont to business men that it is the medium they should nee in advertising their business. NO. 43 Curious Habits ot Ants. Sir John Lubbock's extraordinary [ book on 'Ants, Bees and Wasps' will amaze readers. Fancy auts baring slaves! Fancy these proverbial ex amples to the sluggard keeping certain j insects as we keep cows, and building i sheds over tbem, and keeping others as pets! The aristocracy of ants seem to haye all the vices which brought antique monarchies to destruction. Sir.John writes soberly, as a philoso pher should, and weighs bis words no doubt, which mukes his conclusions the more astonishing. The author quotes some of Ifuber's experiments, the value of which he has himself tested. The bloated ant aristocrats, it is said, 'have lost the greater part of their instincts; their art, that is, the power of building; their domestic habits, for they show no care for their 3-oung, all this teisg done by Ihe :■ laves; their iudustry, for they taki no p,.rtia prov : din>fthe daily supplies; ii the colony changes the situation of us ite.-r, the masters are all carried by the slaves on their backs to the new one; nay, they have even lost the Imhit of feeding. Huber placed thirty oft hem with some larvae and pupa? and a supply of honej in a box. 'At first,' he 'tbey appeared to pay some little attention to the larvae; the} earru d them here and there, but presently replaced them. More than one-hnlf of the A mazons died of hunger in less than two days. They bad not even traced out a dwelling; and the few anM still in existence were languid and wiibdut strength. I commiserated their couditiou, and gave them one of their black companions. This indi vidual, unassisted, established order, formed a chamber in the earth, gather ed together 1 he IN rva?, extricated several }oung ants thht were ready to quit the rendition of pupte, and preserved the life of the remaining Amazons.' This observation has IN en fully confirmed by our naturalists. However small the prison, however large the quantity of food, these stupid creatures will starve in the midst of plenty rather than feed themselves. . . . I have, however, kept isolated specimens for three months by giving them a slave for an hour or two a day to clean and feed them ; under these circumstances they remained in perfect health, while, but for the slaves, they would have perished in two or three days.' England's "Bight" lu Egypt. From the Buffalo Express. There is but au indistinct under standing as to what those rights of England in Egypt are, by virtue of which she undertakes to prevent Arabi from overturning the Khedive's Government and making himself master of the country. The London People essays the task of defining the English right. It is analogaous to the legal "easement," under which, if A pos sesses property to which access is only possible over the property of B, B is bound to grant to A a right of way across bis land adequate to allow A the enjoyment and benefit of his prop erty. Mo doubt it is possible for England to reach her property which lies beyond Egypt by other, although far more circuitous routes. "But the fact remains," says the People, "that as long as India and Australasia con tinue to be integral portions of the British Empire, so long the British Empire must continue to possess the right of way to them through Egypt, if the route through Egvpt is the one which best enables the Empire to reap the advantages of those portions of it which lie beyond. It is no answer to say that we can reach India by the Cape. The route by the Cape is some five thousand miles longer than by the Suez canal, and the delay of a journey five thou sand miles might oniy too readily mean at a critical moment a loss to the Empire which no international law compels us to risk. It is a danger, in fact, of sufficient importance to give us before any competent tribunal of international law a distinct right of easement to pass over Egypt by the shorter route." The Rag-Pickers* Harvest. As many as 2,000 rag-pickers find * employment about the streets of New York. They are almost exclusively Italians, who have displaced the Irish and Germans who used to do the work. Their gatherings of rags are valued at $750,000 a year. The hand-enrt dealers do a business of $3,000,000 a year. The aggregate rag trade of the city amounts to $30,000,000 a year. A prominent dealer estimates the number of rag dealers in the city at 800, about a fifth of them doing a large business. The general trade is controlled by a few extensive dealers. Last year the cotton rag importations reached $lO,- 000,000 in value, the home gatherings being worth $12,000,000; the paper mills taking the whole supply. The cotton rags are worth from to 6 cents a pound ; the woolen rags from 3to 35 cents a pound. The latter are used in making shoddy goods. The rags are sorted by women, who earn $5 a week, and packed by men, whose wages range from sl2 to sl4 a week. Some of the large dealers have accumu lated large fortunes. KALAMAZOO, MICH., Feb. 2. 1383. I know Hop Bitters will bear re commendation honestly. All who use them confer upon them the highest eucomiums, and give them credit for making cures—all the proprietors claim for them. I haye kept them since they were first offered to the pub lic. They took high rank from the first, and maintained it, and are more called for than nil others combined. So long as they keep up their hiSh reputation for purity and usefulness, I shall continue to recommend them— something I have never before done with any other patent medicine. J. J. BABCOCK, M. D. In Great Britain there is a sheep on evorv acre and one-third of cultiva ted land. In this country there is au average of but one sheep on thirty four acres. Diamond Dyes for family use have no equals. All popular col ors easily dyed, fast and beautiful. 10 cents a package.
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