VOL. XX.
LEQAL
Admin I«t rac or V Wot Ice.
Whereas letters of admii istration have been
grAnted by the Register to the underiOKnpd
upon the estate of Charles Oswald. Hr, late of
Oakland twp. Butler county.ra. dec d Allpersons
•who know themselves iudelxel to said estate
will make immediate r«™nent, and thoee
having, claims against h fame will present
them properly autheni ■ft d for settlement
Either to myself or my A .<ney,
J B McJUNKIN, PHILIP OSWALD.
Att'v for Adiu'r Administrator
Oct 17, 1882 No 3710 Butler St Pitts Fa
Estate ol James Young Dee'd.
Letter* of Administration in the estate of
James Young, dee'd., late of Clay township,
Bailer county, Pennsylvania, having been
gritiicd to the undei signed, all pewon* koow
mg themselves indebted t«> . said es
tate* will please in ike immediate pa}-
xnent and any having claim* against iaid estate
will present them duly authenticated for settle
ment. ROBERT A. BROWN,
Administrator.
Coultersville P. 0., Butler county, Pa.
Orphans' Court Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the Orphans' Cour
of Butler county, to us directed, as well as by
the authority given us in the last will and tes
tament of Samuel G. Meals, dec'd, we will offer
for sale at public outcry on the premises in
Washington township, on
MONDAY, FEBUARY 5, 1883.
at 1 o'clock P. M., the following real estate
SO Acres and 75 Perches
more or lew, out of the northwest corner of the
fSurm lately occupied by the said Samuel G.
Meals, dec'd. About 75 acres cleared, balance
good timber. Good two-story frame house and
Sank barn recently erected thereon.
TKBMS—One-third of the purchase money
<m confirmation of sale by the Court, and the
remainder in two equal annual installments
with lawful interest from that date, to be secured
by b— land mortgage. G. W. MEALS.
4»et one 'he Executors.
DlMolntlon Ifotice.
Jvot're is hereby given that the partnership
ImiUofore existing between G. M. Zimmerman
and Josepn Wuller, under the firm name of
Zimmerman <fc Wuller, d..ing business in the
Kirnurh of Butler, BntJcr countv, Pa., has been
difrsolvtrd by mutual consent. Thebooksare in
.the possession of Joseph W uller, and those in
ntcbtwl to the late firm are requested to make
immediate settlement.
G. M. ZIMMERMAN,
JOSEPH WULLER.
Having sold out my interest in the drugstore
to Joseph Wuller, I can cheerfully recommend
ihira to the public as a careful, competent and
reliable druggist, and ask for him a continu
ance of the liberal patronage extended to the
late firm. „ _
G. M. ZIMMERMAN**!. D.
Dec 6 4t.
Election.
The annual election of twelve Directors of the
Bntler Co. Mutual Fire insurance Co., !to
aerve for the ensuing year, will be held a the
office of the Secretary in Butler, Pa., on the sec
and Tuesday of January next, being the 9th
inst., 1883, between the hours of 1 and 2 P. M.
H. C. HEINEMAN, Sec.
Butler, Pa., Dec, 1,1882.
Two Stray Steers.
Two stray steere came to the premises of the
Mi>ecriber, Conoord twp., Butler county, Pa.,
afaont the first of September last; both are red
ani white: one ordinary size, the other rather
amaJl, each supposed to be a year old last spring
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property pay charges and take them
"away, otherwise they will be disposed of ac
cording to law, EDWARD GRAHAM,
Oct. 30, 'B2. Concord twp., Butler Co., Pa.
$25 Reward.
Will be given on the return of the following
deer ribed note, which was lost while in posses
sion of Jchn M. Thompson, in or about the
Court House, Oct. 10, 1882 : The note was
dated March 16, 1878; of the sum t5,500.
payable to Ellen Dunlap and signed by James
Heron. The above reward will be freely paid
on presentation of the note at Banbury. Butler
<s ° antT ' ELLEN DUNLAP.
Two Farms for Bale.
Tfce heirs of Robert McKinney, dec'd, late of
twp.. Butler county, Pa. will sell at
private tale, and in lots, a farm of over
200 Acres,
situated one and a half miles from Templeton
Station, on the Pittsburgh A Western Railroad,
in said Adams twp. For particulars inquire of
A. J Fleming on the premises.
ALSO A FARM OF 123 ACRES
in Cherry twp., Butler Co., Pa., on the line of
the Bhenango A Allegheny Railroad, and mid
way between Boyard and Anandale Stations.
For particulars as to this farm, inquire of Mr.
Alexander Porter, living on adjoiniift farm.
A* J. FLEMING,
Pinafore P. O. Butler Co., Pa.
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SELEC T.
THE MORGAN MYSTERY.
SOIjVRI* n'i THE I>Yl\<«
It EVE I. A 1 IOX OF TiilK-
I.OW WEE!).
An Affi lavit ii WhLh the Dead Politician
oec>a-es that Lap'ain William Mor
gan Was Murie pd by M&sons in
the Inttrest t,f Masonry.
From Philadelphia Press, Nov. 29.
It lacked only a few days of being
two months before his death,
when Thurlow Weed subscribed to a
long affidavit before Spencer C. Doty,
a New Yoik notary public, stripping
the mystery that has for many years
surround the disappearance and
death of Captain William Morgan,
who had written a book in which it
was declared that the secrets of Mason
ry were exposed to all who choose to
read. The New York Sun yesterday
printed the affidavit. Mr. Weed in the
document plunged directly into the
vexed question, He refers to the un
veiling of a monument to Captain
William Morgan, which he says "re
calls an event, of startling interest,
arousing deep popular feeling, first at
Batavia, Le Roy, Canandaigua and
Rochester, then prevading our own
and other States." The affidavit con
tinues thus:
After reading the proceedings of a
meeting at Batavia, with the Hon.
David E. Evans as presiding officer, I
wrote a six-bne paragraph for the
Rochester Telegraph, in which J stat
ed that a citizen of Batavia had been
spirited away from his home snd fami
ly, and that after a mysterious ab
scence of several days, a village meet
ing had been held aud a committee of
citizens appointed to investigate tbe
matter; adding that, as it was known
that Freemasons were poncerned in
this abduction, it behooved the fra
ternity whose good name was suffering
to take the laboring oar in restoring the
lost man to his liberty.
Mr. Weed explains that it was this
paragraph published in the Rochester
Telegraph that caused the greatest ex
citement among the Masons and that
induced bim to break his connection
with the pappr in order to save the fi
nancial standing of his partner, Robert
Martin, because the majority of the
subscribers withdrew their names from
the books of the concern. It was
claimed that Mr. Weed in the para
graph quoted "has been too busy in
getting up an excitement about Mor
gan." In the mean time the mystery
deepened, and public meetings were
held in several villages. In a meeting
at Rochester, a oommittee was appoint
ed consisting of seven persons, three
of whom were Masons, "It was soon
discovered," states Mr. Weed, "that
the three Masopp went from th 1 com
mittee to the lodge room. It was sub
sequently ascertained that two of these
gentlemen were concerned in the ab
duction, and that Morgan had been
committed tojuii in Canandaigua on a
false charge of larceny, apd that he
had been carried from thence secretly
by night to Fort Niagara. The sher
iffs who summoned the grand juries
were Freemasons." Then Mr. Weed's
affidavit says:
As the investigations proceeded the
evidence increased that Morgan had
been unlawfully confined in the Can
andaigua jail, and secretly conveyed to
Fort Niagara, where he was confined
in the magazine. There was every
reason to believe that he was taken
from the magazine and drowned in
Lake Ontario. This, however, was
ooldly and persistently denied—denials
accompanied by solemn assurances
that Morgan had been seen alive in
several places, divided public senti
ment.
THE ANTI-MASON PARTY.
The anti-Mason political party, that
for a short time overwhelmed the State
of New York, is then briefly reviewed
in the document. The finding of a
body of a man on the shore of Lake
Ontario that a coroner's jury pronounc
ed to be the remains of Morgan, but
who was alleged to have been Timothy
Monroe by the Mason faction, is fully
related. At a third inquest that was
held, the coroner's jury determined
that the body was that of Timothy Mon?
roe. Mr. Weed speaks of the charge
that was widely believed thai he had
mutilated tbe body in question for the
purpose of making it resemble that of
William Morgan.
Three men were placed on trial for
abducting Morgan. "The testimony
of Elisha Adams," Mr. Weed declared,
"was essential t<J complete the link.
First, Adams was spirited away. Af
ter a year he was found by Mr. Weed,
but on the fitness stand Adams testi
fied that he was ignorant of the entire
affair. Adams afterward explained
the matter to Mr. Weed by declaring
that the lawyers told him that any
thing he would say would be a confes
sion that wonld send him to the State
prison, and the law did not compel a
witness to crimiflate himself, and to
avoid punishment he must deny the
whole story. A libel suit was com
menced against Mr. Weed in 1831 by
General Gould, of Rochester. 1 tie
libel charged General Gould with giv
ing monev he received from the Royal
Arch Grand Chapter to enable Burrage
Smith and John Whitney to es
cape from justice. Mr. Weed says in
the affidavit in connection with this
matter:
Judge Vanderpoel, in charging the
jury, dwelt at length upon the licen
tiousness of the press, and called upon
the jury to give exemplary damages to
injured and innocent plaintiff. The
jury, thus instructed, but with evident
reluctance, found a verdict of S4OO
against me. My offense consisted in
asserting a fact, the exact truth of
which would have been established if
the testimony had not been ruled out
by a monstrous perversion of justice.
A FULL CONFESSION.
On the evening that the verdict
was rendered Colonel Simeon B. Jew
ett, ofClarkson, Major Samuel Barton,
of Lewiston, and John Whitney visited
Mr. Weed in his house "In the course
of the eve Ding," continues the affida
vit, "the Morgan affiair being the prin
! ci|»al topic of conversation, Colonel
Jewett turned to Whitney with empha-
I sis and said John, what if you make a
eh an brea:t 0 i ?' Whitney looked in
quiringly at Barton, who added. "GJ
ahead " Mr Weed's affidavit contin
ues ut this point as follow-:
Whitney then related in detail the
history of Morgan's abduction and fate.
The idea of suppressing Morgan's in
tended exposure of the secrets of Ma
sonry was first suggested by a man
by the name of Johns. It was dis
cussed in Lodges at Batavia, Le Roy
and Rochester. Johns suggested that
Morgan should be separated from
Miller and placed on p farm in Canada
West. For this purpose he was ta
ken to Niagara and placed in the mag
azine of the fort until arrangements
for settling him in Canada were c >lll
- but the Canadian Masons dis
appointed them. After si vera! meet
ings of the lodge in Cauada, opposite
Fort Niagara, a refusal to have any
thing to do with Morgan left his ' kid-1
napers," greatly perplexed. Oppor
tunely a Koyal Arch chapter was in
stalled at Lewiston. The occasion
brought a great number of enthusias- 1
tic Masons togethrr. "After labor,''
ill Masonic language, they "retired to
refreshment." Under hecxh'laratiou <>f
champagne and other viands, the chap
lain (the llev K Cnmmings, of
Rochester) was c tiled <>n f»r a toast.!
He responded with peculiar emphasis
and in the language of their ritual: 1
''The enemies of our order—May they ,
find a grave six feat deep, six foot j
long, and six feet due east and west " I
Immediately after that toast, which
was received with great enthusiasm, I
Colonel William King, aud officer in
our war of 1812, and then a member
of Assembly from Niaga-a countv,
called Whitney, of Rochester, Howard,
of Buffalo, Chubbuck, of L 'wiston, and
Garside of Canada, out of the room
and into a carriage furnished by Vl«jor
Barton. They were driven to F..rt
Niagara, repaired to the magaa ne, aud
informed Morgan that the arrange
ments for seadiug him to Canada were
completed, and that his family would
soon follow him Morgan rcceiveJ the
information cheerfully, and walked
with supposed friends to the boat,
which was rowed to the mouth of the
river, where a rope was wound around
his body to each end of which a sinker
was attached. Morgan was then
thrown overboard. He grasped the
gunwale of the boat convulsively.
Garside, in forcing M >. - gin to relin
quish his hold, was severely bitten.
Whitney, in concluding his narra
tive, said he was now relieved from a
heavy load; that f>r four years he had
not heard the window rustle or any
other noise at night without think
ing tbe sheriff was after bim.
Colonel Jewett looking fjxedly at Whit
ney said: "Weed can hang you now."
"But he won't," was Whitney's prompt
reply Of course a secret thus con
fided to me was inviolably kept, and
2iJ years afterward, vyhilo attouding a
National Hepublican Convention at
Chicago, John Whitney who then
6ided there, Galled to say that he
wanted me to write out what he once
told me about Morgan's fate, to be
signed by him in tho presence of wit
nesses, to be sealed up and published
after his death. I promised to do so
before leaving Chicago, Thero was
no leisure, however, duriag tbe sit
ting of that convention, and even be
fore the final adjournment, forgetting
what I had told Whitney, I hurried to
lowa, returning by way of Springfield
to visit Mr. Lincoln. In the excite
ment of the cauvass that followed,
aud the secession of the Southern
States upon Mr. Lincoln's election, I
neglected the important duty of se
curing the confessiou Mr. Whitney
was so anxious to make. In 18151 1
went to Europe, and while in Lon
don wrote a letter to Whitney asking
him to get Alex B Willi ims, then a
resident of Chicago, to do what I had
so unpardonably neglected That let
ter reached Chicago one week after
Whitney's death, closing the last only
chance for the revelation of that im
portant event.
Whitney was a mason by trade,
honest, industrious, sober, but excita
ble. In all the early stages of the
Morgan affair he belived he was doing
his duty. The final crime was com
mitted under the circumstances I have
related.
llow tbe World Hays "How 'D
You Do!"
Most of us say "Howdedo ?" and
think we have said, "llow do you do?"
"llow are you?" is more elegant, per
haps; and "Hope I see you well ?" is
the habit of some people. Then we
shake hands, and women sometimes
kiss.
In old times Euglish speaking peo
ple said, "Save you, sir," or "madam,"
and "God save you;" and long ago
men as well as women, "kissed for
courtesy." English and American
men now consider such a salutation as
absurd between persons of their own
sex.
Frenchmen, however, are not asham
ed to kiss, as they ask, "How do you
carry yourself?" and Germans crush
each other, bear fasbiou, as they cry,
"How do you find yourself?"
The Italian gives both airy clasp
end kiss, after he has flourished his
fingers in tbe air and cried, ' llow do
you stand ?" But the Dutchman's
"How do you fare?" is generally ouly
followed by a clap on tbe shoulder.
When two Swedes tall into each
others arms and look over each others
shoulders, they ask, "How can you?"
And the Polander, who has lived in a
land of sadness, inquires, "Are you
gay ?"
In Turkey, people cross their arms,
bow wow and say, "I will request of
Allah that thy prosperity be increas
ed ?" And tbe Quaker of our land re
gards bis approaching friends without
smile or nod, and quietly remarks,
"How is thee V
BLTLER'SCHAMPIOX.
How Anna IHckinsou Stood by
lliiu.
HONESDALE, PA, November 28.
Since her withdrawal from the stage
Anna Dickinson has been living here
with her mother, a venerable Quaker
lady of eighty-seven, and her sister
j Susan, a brilliant little blue stocking,
whose nimble pen is constantly at work
on special articles for tbe newspapers
and magazines of Gotham. The family
has spent a charming summer in this
secluded place, away from the noise of
the city, the glare of fashion, the sting
|of criticisms, and almost under the
j shadow of a sharp mountain c»g call
j ed Irviug's Cliff, in honor of Washing
! ton Irving, who visited Honesdale
many years ago in company with
Philip Hone, after whom the town is
j named, and other New York capitalists.
The Irving party on the occasion of its
visit enjoyed lunch on the plateau be
yond the cliff, which commands a de
lightful view of a pleasing pastoral
scene, and duriug the post-prandial
oratory it was proposed and unani
mously agreed that the place hitherto
unnamed be thenceforth known as
li ving's Cliff. It stands across the
river from the little town, which has
r< ceutly become a popular resort for
brain-workers and others. Although
the ch.'rm of summer has long since
(1 d from the scene the Dickinson fami
l\ is still here, poor but proud as ever.
Anna has been importuned by her
friends to return to the rostrum, but
she will n <t listen to anything of the
kind, although she has received several
tempting offers. The temperance peo
ple are especially anxious to enlist her
services in an attaik on the rum traffic,
but thus far without success, notwith
standing that she is in need of money.
Her disastrous theatrical venture took
her last dollar. 1 saw her on the street
to-day. She looks careworn aud some
what sad. Iler large expressive eyes j
are as eloquent as ever, but it is im
possible not to feel, after a glance at
her face, that disappointment his em
bittered her life. She had ujunted |
much on the success of her "Hamlet,"' |
and studied hard to make it such, but |
the fierce criticism by which she us i
met at the very start made failure iaev-1
itable Others less courageous woul 1 j
have been crushed long since, but she |
strove hard and worked desperately f»r |
weeks to live down her critics, and j
finally retired from the field broken ill
health and financially ruined. 0 h*t |
she will do next is a mystery.
I heard a good story to day coawn
ing herself and Ben. Butler, the new
Governor of Massachusetts. Whpo
Bu.ler placed New Orleans under th'J
rigor, of military rule in 1802, and is
sued his famous order against the
women of that city who showed their
contempt for his officers by spitting in
their faces, there was a howl raised
North and South, and he was describ
ed by such pet names as "Beast But
ler," "Spoons Butler," etc. At that
time Anna Dickinson was the star of
the Ivceuiu, speaking nightly in the
principal cities of the Union, and hav->
ing made herself familiar with the cir
cumstances of the New Orleans allair,
she boldly championed the cause of
Butler, claimed that by his splendid ad
ministration be had preserved New
Orleans from pestilence and disturb
ance, and that his order simply meant
that women who misbehaved on the
streets by insulting his officers should
be placed under arrest. Nothing but
Southern venom and Northern cow
ardice could, she said, accuse him of
anything else ; and she boldly declared
from a public platform in Boston, in
the presence of an audience that hated
Butler, that instead of being attacked
and maligned, he should be honored as
a brave soldier who had done his duty
fearlessly. In those days it was worth
something to be championed by Anna
Dickinson, and to receive praise from
her lips, that were so accustomed to
criticise, would have touched the heart
of one less capable of appreciation th ;n
General Butler. Of course, he was de
lighted. Miss Dickinson defended him
nightly, an 1, by her fervid eloquence,
made him heroic in.-tead of hated-
General Butler took occasion to ac
knowledge this debt of gratitude, and
told her friends that when others were
too cowardly to say a word in his be
half, Anna Dickinson had the courage
to the truth aud take the conse
quences.
A CHANCE FOB SHOWING GRATITUDE
Now General Butler is rich and hon- ;
ored, the Governor of tbe State that '
then tossed his name about with scorn, j
while the plucky woman who braved
public opinion to defend bis good name
when it was an unpopular thing to
speak kindly ot him, walks the obscure
streets of Honesdale almost penniless.
It was rumored some years a~o that 1
General Butler a>ked her to become his
wife. I have no means of ascertaining i
the truth of this statement, but if she
refused the suit of But!<;r it mint also
be remembered that she "declined with
thanks," the offe.* of one of New York's
greatest editors, and this should be
some consdation tor woun led pride. I
am told that she took a great interest
iu General Butler's canvass, and was
vcrv much pleased when the news of
bis e'ection came. She is not a parti
san any 1 mger. Her intense admira
tion for tbe Republican party died with
\ Sumner and Greeley. General Butler s
I succ-ss aud tbe mention of bis name,
whether seriously or otherwise for the
Presidency, recalls the zeal with which
she llew to his defense ia those d<irk
days when none named him but to
blame. I learn tint, she was very iu
dignaut the other day when somebody
sneered at the suggestion of Ben. But
ier's name for the Presidency, and she
said the Democrats would be honoring
themselves in the selection of such a
standard bearer. ' Genernl Butler has
the ability, tie experience, the firm
ness and the proper degree of inde
pendence to make such a President as
tbe country needs," she added, "and
his prospects for being President of the
United States look much better than
bis prospects for being Governor of
1 Massachusetts looked a few years ago."
COROXERS' POWERS.
A Recent Supreme C ourt I>e
ci»lon—Where Inquests are
Proper aud Where
Improper,
Jndge Mercur, of the Supreme Court,
has rendered a decision relative to the
power of coroner's in a case concerning
a coroners fee, which says: "In hold
in# an inquest the coroner acts in a
judicial capacity. If he has jurisdic
tion in a particular case, and mnkes a
sufficient record of the inquest, the reg
ularity of the finding cannot be im
peached in a collateral proceeding. It
is the duty of a coroner to hold an in
quest super visum corporis, where he
has cause to suspect that the decedent
was feloniously destroyed, or when his
death was caused by violence. When
ever he holds one the presumption is
that he acted in good faith and on suf
ficient cause. The question now pre
sented is, whether in a suit by him for
his services that presumption is con
clusive against the city or maybe over
thrown by evidence ? The duty of a
coroner to hold an inquest rests ou
sound reason, on that reason which is
the life of the law. It is not a power
to be exercised capriciously or arbitrari
ly against all reason.
The object of an inquest is to seek
information and secure evidence in case
ot death by violence or other means.
If there is reasonable ground to sus
pect that death was so caused, it be
comes the duty of the coroner to do it.
He has no ground for suspecting that
the death was not a natural one, it is a
perversion of the whole spirit of the
law to compel the county to pay him
for such services. In this case the iu
quest found that the decedent came to
his death from a paralytic stroke. If
under tho facts offered iu evidence a
coroner may hold an inquest, he may
in his discretion, at the expence of the
county, order a post mortem examina
tion vvhereby those bound to the de
cedent by the nearest and most tender
ties may have their feelings lacerated
in every oase of natural death. The
idea is preposterous and abhorrent to
all the liner emotions of bumau nature.
It was error to reject the evidence if
be had sufficient cause to justify his
action ; he may still show it. If he
had not there is no good reason why
the county should pay for unnecessary
and m-ddlesome services. The county
was no p rty to the inquest, and this is
the fli>t opportunity it has had of be-
heard."
.4 Siory ol' a Song.
Fr.ni t Jje Southern Worlil.]
•I bn Howard Payne, author of
• II iiiie, Sweet ri'ime." was a warm
|«rsonal friend of John Iloss, who will
be remembered as the celebrated chief
of the Cherokees. At the
Chcnk es were removed from their
honvs in (Jeorgia to there present
posse-si ns west of the Mississippi
river, I'ayue was spending a few weeks
in Georgia with lloss, who was oc
cupying a miserable cabin, bavin# been
forcibly ejected from his former home.
A number of the prominent Cherokees
were in prison, and that portion of
(Jeorgia in which the tribe was located
was scoured by armed squads of the
Georgia militia, who had orders to ar
rest all who refused to leave the conn
try. While Ross and Payne were
seated before the fire in the hut, the
door was suddenly burst open and six
or eight militiameu sprang i .to the
room. The soldiers lost n•; Ime in
taking their prisoners nw y. Ross
was permitted to ride his own horse,
while Payne was mounted on one led
by a soldier. As the little party left
the hovel rain began falling a.ni con
tinued until every man was drenched
thoroughly. The journey lasted all
night. Toward midnight Payne's
escort, in order to keep himself awake,
began humming: "Homo, home,
sweet, sweet home," when Payue re
marked ;
'"Little did I expect to hear that song
under such circumstances and at such
a time. Do you know the author ?"
"No," said the soldier. "Do you ?"
"Yes," answered Payne. "I com
posed it."
"The devil you did. You can tell
lhat to some fellows, hut not to me.
Look here. You made that song, you
say. If you did—and I know you
didn't—you can say it all without stop
ping. It has something in it about
pleasures and palaces. Now pitch in
and reel it off and if you can't I'll
bounce you from your horse aud lead
you Instead of it."
The threat was answered by Payne,
who repeated the song in a slow, sub
dued tone, and then sang it. making
the old woods ring with the tender
melody and pathos of the words. It
touched the heart of the rough soldier,
who was not oulv captivated but con
vinced, and who said that the composer
of such a sonjj should never go to pris
on if he could help it. And when the
party reached .Vlilledgevil'e they were,
after a preliminary examination, dis
charged, much to their surprise. Payne
insisted it was because the leader of
the squad had been under the magnetic
influence of lioss' conversation, and
Ross insisted that they had been saved
from insult and imprisonment by the
power of ' Home, Sweet Home," sung
as only those who feel can sinar it. The
friendship existing between lioss and
Pavne endured until tne grave closed
over the mortal remains of tho hitter
A poor man is too be avoided —he
lacks principal.
Alas! that so many people use re
ligion rimply as a fire escape.
Eve was the lady who set the fash
ion of gathering autumu leaves.
The ffrccn grocer is the one who
trusts the new family in the next block
There is a man in California who al
ways has three feet iu his boots. Kach
boot is 18 inches Ion?.
The price of Circassian beauties has
lately fallen to s2n() each, and now is
the time for a Constantinopolitan to
lay in a dozen or two if he is ever
going to.
I'aragrnphM of sill Sort*,
The former is locked up simpß for
writing a wrong.
When tLe button conies off the buck
of a man's shirt, his cboler begins to
rise.
The biggest 'haop in politics is n ado
of coarse, for the man with the biggest
bar'l.
Cats are musical because their in
sides are composed mostly of fidd'e
strings.
Mr. Edison's patents now numl«r
39(>; more than were ever granted to
one man before.
There is a man in England who
gained over 50 pounds in one week,
lie bet on the winning horse.
The Thanksgiving noveltv was the
turkey that could be cut without re
sorting to a pick-ax or a cross-cut saw.
A little fellow, who had mver eaten
frosted cake, asked at the table for a
piece of that ' cake with plastering on
it."
One New York milkman has been
fined eleven times for adulterating his
goods, and yet his cry is for "more
water."
I Jen Frankiin said that soft words
butter no parsnips, yet thiv have help
ed elect many a man to offi -e for all
that.
A caustic wit, in speaking of an im
pecunious friend, said: "He settles
his debts just like clock-woik—tick,
tick, tick."
"Patrick, were you a miner when
you landed iu America ?" as the natur
alization officer. "No,- your honor ; I
was a bricklayer.
Only about one out of every ten ne
gro cabins in the South has windows.
When the occupants wan't any day
light they walk out of doors.
A French physician says that raw
oysters and chicken soup will nourish
any girl through at least six disap
pointments in love.
Sandusky, 0., has ajcitizen who can
cure a balkv horse in eight minutes.
He must be slow to take that time to
break a horse's neck.
Philadelphia citizens are very well
liked at home, judging from the re
wards offered for their return when
they leave the city.
"What becomes of old pianos?" asks
the Yonkers Gazette. Then you have
never traveled on a steamboat or visit
ed an orphan asylum, eh?
"The proper study of mankind is
Man." Pope knew lietter than to say
"woman." Woman is too deep a
study for anybody to undertake.
A Cincinnati dairyman is charged
with biting off the tips of his horses'
cars. This is something unusual in
the way of showing love for horseflesh.
Three thousand dollars had been
spent to educate her in music, Latin,
French and drawing, and yet she wrote:
"Fend six yards of played goods by
ihe bearer."
Yeu never know how much water an
umbrella is capable of containing until
you neeideutly stand it against the
wall and on the the pearl colored car
pet that costs $5 a yard.
A book called "Button on partner
ship" is advertised. It would requre
more than one button to hold some
partnerships together. A padlock on
'em woldu't do it
"How have the mighty fallen?"
Well, some slip on a banana skin,
some use the money of the bank for
speculation, and fail in connection,
aud others iall iu coal shutes after
dark. •
The yield of in Louisiana this
year, as estimated by the Sugar Plan
ters' Association, is 200,000 bogheads.
This is but a'small p.irt of the sugar
consumed in the country ; but the
whole people are taxed some forty
millions a year to support the industry t
The Minneapolis Tr,bune says that
foats are the best land-cleaners known.
It mentions that a herd of 1,000 er
tirely cleared a pieea of brush land,
consisting of about 500 acres, in time
years. So complete was the wo k
that not a vestige of undergrowth was
left.
A grade Jersey seven-year-old cow
which yields twen -one quarts of milk
per day on gra-*s alone is an animal to
brag of. An account of her says that
"an even ten (piarts of her milk set
two days and then stirred just t<vo
minutes yielded, plump weight, a
pound and a half of butter."
Nebraska was the lirst State that made
a legal holiday for the purpose of
planting trees." Since the work of
tree-planting began there, a grand
total of 555,000,000 trees, according to
trustworthy statistics, have been set
out, and these are now shading 100,-
000, acres of her prairie soil, to the
«jrcat benefit of agriculture and the en
richment of the State.
For Farm Uoyslo Learn.
From a,western paper wc extract
the fallowing practical remarks ; they
will be very useful to everyone on a
farm: How many of the boys who
read this could "lay off" aa acre of
ground exactly, providing one of the
dimensions was given them Now.
"Hoe Handle" likes to be useful, and
he has taken some pains to make out a
table, and I would like that every one
of the farm boys learn it. There are
160 square rods in an acre, and there are
30| square yards in one rod. Thi9
gives 4,840 square yards in one acre.
5 yards wide by 1)63 yards long 1 acre.
10 yards wide by 454 yards loug 1 aere.
20 yards wide by yards lon^ f 1 aere.
40 yards wide by 122 yards long 1 aere.
,s) yards wide by t!o} yard* long 1 aere.
70 vards wide by yards 11 >ii'_r 1 aere.
liO yards wide by BJ3 yards long 1 aere,
Again, allowing nine square feet to
the vard, 272£ square feet to the rod,
43,5(10 square feet to the acre, and we
have another table :
110 feet by 39t» feet 1 acre.
120 feet l>y .'W3 feet 1 aere.
220 feet by 11)8 feet I acre.
247 feet by 1811 feet 1 aere.
NO. 5