VOL. XX. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS EfUate of James Young I>ec*d. Letters of Administration in the estate of James Young, dec'd., late of Clay township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, having been granted to the uuderfcigucd, all persons know ing themselves indebted to said es tate will please in&ke immediate pay ment and any having claims against laid estate will present them duly authenticated for settle ment: ROBERT A. BROWN, Administrator. Coulteraville P. 0., Butler county, Pa. Estate of W. P. Brown, LATE OF HABBISVILLK. Letters testamentary on the estate ofW. P. Brown, dec'd, late of Harrisville borough, Butler Co., Pa., have been granted to the un dersigned, all persons knowing themselves in debted to said estate will please make immedi ate payment and any having claims against •aid estate will present them duly authentica ted for settlement. R. L. BROWN, » EX>RS ROBKRT BLACK, J Harrisville, Butler County, Pa. Orphan s Court Sale. By virtue of a decree of the Orphans' Conr of Batler 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 less, out of the northwest corner of the farm lately occupied by the said Samuel G. Meal*, dec'd. About 75 acres cleared, balance | good tnb ier. Good two-story frame house and auk b.n u recently erected thereon. 'l'KiiMs -One-third of the purchase money on oui.iiriiiation of sale by the Court, and the remiMi ler in two equal annual installments wn;i ..iwrul interest from that date, to be secured by iwudand mortgage. G. W. MEALS. one of the Executors. ASSIGNEE'S SALE. Cite undersigned offers for sale 70 acres of laiMl, more or lesx, in Venango twp., Butler oonniy, P«.. bounded on the north by Kelly lieirs, east by Samuel Stalker, south by .Julia AIM clan peon and ou the west by Joseph tturrin and heirs of John Murt-in; 60 acres cleared, 10 of which are meadow, good orohard. all under laid with coal, good dwelling house, two stories 1 tgh, part log and part frame, with kitchen at tached, good frame stable and hay house, well watered; one mile and a half east of Murrins viUe. Sale on the premises on January 13th, 18S3, at one o'clock p. M„ with privilege to ad journ to the Court Houee in Butler, on the 15th uay of January, 1833, at 1% o'clock, p. x- Terms cash on delivery of deed. Dec. 18, 1882. MICHAEL MoBBIDE, Assignee of James Murrin. " ASSIGNEE'S SALE. The undersigned, Assignee of David Zeigler, Jr., will, in pursuance of an order from Court, offer for sale the following property on the premises, in the borough of Harmony, on Tuesday, January 30th, 1883. at one o'clock, p. M.: One Steam Flouring Mill, situate in the borough of Harmony, Butler county, Pa., with all the machinery Ac., necessary to run said mill, on a lot of ground in said Borough, bounded north by an alley, east by an alley, •oath by a lot and woolen factory of John Pearce, and west by a street, said lot being 60x80 feet, more or less. TEBMS: —One-third in hand on confirmation of sale, one-third in one year; and one-third in two years with interest, secured by bond and mortgage. F. A EDMONDS, Assignee ofD. Zeigler, Jr. NOTICE. The partership heretofore existing between D. A. Heck and J. N. Patterson, under the firm name of Heck & Patterson, expires by limita tion April Ist, 1883. Persons knowing them selves indebted to the above firm will please call and settle the same on or before the first of April, a* after that date all claims not paid will be left with an attorney for collection Any persons having claims against the firm will present same lor settlement. HECK A PATTERSJN. BYE WANTED. The highest market price will be paid by us for rye delivered at our wholesale liquor store in Butler. jlO 2m JACOB REIBER A BRO. ~ FBAAIS ARMOR, Justice of th.e Peace Main street, opposite Postoffice, ZCLIENOPLE. PA. FOR SALE; Twenty-five acres of land in the borough of Prospect. House and barn erected thereon, also go~d orchard of young trees, good spring and well thereon. For particulars, inquire of G. D. HARVEY, jlO, lmo. Butler, Pa. NOTICE. - • PITTSBURGH A WESTERN R. R., OFFICE OF GENERAL MANAGEB, PITTSBUEOH, PA. On and after January Ist, 1883, the Foxburg Division of the Pittiburgh and Western Rail road Co.. will be open for Freight and Passen ger Traffic. Agents are now prepared to name rates and receive freight for all points on line of the Pittsburgh and Western. E. K. HYNDMAN, • j«n,3 •3t. General Manager LOST. The subscriber lost from his farm in Wash ington, tp. Butler county, in October last, a dark red heifer, a little mixed with brindle, star on the forehead and wide in the horns, in very good order and about two years old. I purchased the heifer at the vendue of Mr. Sam uel Smith, Esq., of said Washington twp., and .she was stolen or broke from iny said farm shortly afterwards. I will give a liberal -.reward to any person giving me information of iher alive, or SSO for information of her if kill ed or stolen. The last I heard of her was at Hamilton's barn, formerly barn of said Samuel Bmith. ; HUGH YOUNG, rairview Borough, Butler Co., Pa. Dee. 30, 1882. 4t. Two Farms for Sale. The heirs of Bob*rt McKinnay, dec'd, late of twp.. Butler eouuty, Pa. will sell at private sale, 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. Fiemirg on the premises. ALSO A FARM OF 123 ACRES in Cherry twp., Butler Co., Pa., on the line of the Bhenango & Allegheny Railroad, and mid way between Bovard and Anandale Stations. For particulars as to this farm, inquire of Mr. Alexander Porter, living on adjoining farm. A. J. FLEMING. Pinafore P. O. Butler Co., Pa. |D. L. CLSSLAND, " WATCHMAKER & JEWELER, South Main St., Butler, Pa, Keeps Constantly on Hand a Full Stock of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, -BPECTACLEH AND SILVERWARE, At the Lowest Cash Prices. Fine Watch Repairing a Spec ially. MA BBM «I s curtn.AITIOLIMI ■ ■■■ VVVVStAUTIF'A fIOML CMROMO Mot, LULL zzs u\sr wr. u i3n£ Union Woolen IVXill, BUTLER, PA. H. FCLLEKTOX, Prop'r. f Manufacturer of BLANKETS, FLANNELS, YAKNS, ' &c. Also custom work done to order, such as 1 carding Rolls, makine Blankets, Flannels, Knit ting and Weaving Yarns, <fcc., at very low prices. Wool worked on the sLares, il de ' sired. my7-ly pure raw /SCJ INDIA A JbAIJ From the Districts of ASSAM, CHI ITAGONG, CACHAR. KANGRA VALLEY, DAUJEEL -ING, DEHR V DOON, aud ctheis. Pure. Superior in Flavor. The Most Econom ical. Requires only half the usual quantity. Sold by nil Grocers. JOHN C. PHILLTP-> A CO , Agents of the Calcutta Tea Syndicate, 130 Water Bt., N. Y. Novß-ly. OLDCOUNTRY TEA HOUSE! ESXA BKHKSD PAT HO MOBE FREIGHT ON GROCERIES. The Largest and Most Complete RETAIL GROCERY IN THE UNITED STATES FREIGHT PBEPAID WITHIN 50 MILES OF OUB CITT Order of 125 and upwards, frciglit prepaid. _ Orders ol SSO and upwards. prepaid. Or if preferable, a discouut allowed ol 2% per cent. Orders of SIOO and upwards, freight prepiid. or a discount of 3 per cent. PASTIES LIVING OVEB 50 MILES FROM I'LTTSLJUBG Orders of $25 or upwards, a discount of 2 per ceut. Orders of SSO and upwards, a discoint of per cent. Orders of SIOO or upwards, a discount of 3 per cent. Single families not wishing to buy $25 worth or over can cluo together with aim.lt-r family which will place them in the same i osition a« larger buyers. No charge for boxing. iyy Please send for our MoutliU Price List (Housekeepers Guide,) a book ol -+ pages, giv ing all our prices and a complete description, to parties ordering living out of the city on railroads. Wm. Haslage & Son, 18 DIAMOND malo,ly PITTSBURGH, PA. Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Y"ard. 1. L. PURVIB. L. O. PURVIS, S.G. Purvis & Co., MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IH Rough and Planed Lumber OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH. 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J.eucorrhoea or Whites: Inflammation Ulceration of the Womb; irregtilari'ics, Flood ing, Amenorrhoea or lack of monthly visita tion, Weakness in the Hack and .Stomach. Kaint ness, Nervous l'roHration, Dyspepsia, Kidnev Complaint", liarrenncss, and as a tonic dm inp Pregnanev. at, regular poi iorts charge of life, and ( r tbe pprpral debility of women. It positively gives ijuick aiul ]>einiu>ui,t relit/. Crte Pir.t Ecttle Is Sufficient. Sold by Diuggkts. Price, SI.OO. Y^T* Advertise in the CIXIZEN BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24. 1883 A WINTER SONG. Ol), Summer has the roses And the laughing light south wind, And the merry meadows lined With dewy, dancing posies ; But winter has the sprites And the witching frosty nights. Oh, Summer has the splendor Of the corn-fields wide and deep, Where scarlet popies sleep And wary shadows wander ; But winter fields are rare With diamonds everywhere. Oh, Summer has the wild bees, And the ringing, singing note In the robin's tuneful throat, And the leaf-talk in the trees; But Winter has the chime Of the merry Christmas time. Oh, Summer has the luster Of the sunbeams wtrm and bright, Aud rains that fall at night Where reeds and lillies cluster; But deep in Winter's snow The fires of Christmas glow. REMARKABLECASES OF CIR CUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Cases exhibiting the precarious na ture of circumstantial evidence, inde pendently of the deep interest which generally attaches to them as mere narratives, are calculated to work so beneficial an effect on the public mind, that they cannot, it seems to us be too frequently or too prominently brought forward in pages adapted for popular reading. By no other means can man kind be so strongly impressed with a salutary conviction of the necessity of making the strictest and most minute investigations, ere the life of a fellow creature be arbitrarily shortened, or guilt of whatever kind be decisively laid to any one's charge. The follow ing cases of circumstantial evidence are collected from various sources. The first we find in the able notes to a Scotch edition of Bentham's Works, and the authority adduced is one of the collections of French criminal causes that have been published at various times. The case is given in the original French, oi which the following is a literal translation:— Previously to the rebuilding of that long range of houses which line the Place St. Michel, at Paris, in front of the Rue St. Hyacinth, an aged widow lived near that spot, being the occupant of a small shop, to which was attached a back-parlor where she slept. She was believed by the neighbors to have amassed a considerable amount of money. One young lad constituted, for a long time her entire household. He slept ou the fourth floor of the same building, but the staircase leading to his apartment h;;d no communication with the dwelling of his mistress. The lad was obliged to go round by the street, when he had to enter the shop, and when he left it to go to bed, he 6hut the outer door, and carried away the key, of which he was the sole de pository. One morning the shop door was noticed to te earlier open than usual, while at the same time no move ment Indicated that either the old shop keeper or assistant had arisen. This quietness alarmed some of the neigh bors. On entering, they perceived no marks of violence about the door, but they found a bloody knife lying in the middle of the shop, and ou her bed, in the back apartment, lay the shopmis tress, dead—stabbed, to all appearance, with the weapon mentioned. The corpse held in one hand a small hand ful of hair, and in the other a cravat or neckcloth. Near the bed was the money-box, which had been forced and pillaged. The young shop-assistant wa3 immediately seized, aud he admit ted that the bloody knife belonged to him. The cravat which the murdered woman held in her hand was his. They compared his air with that grasped in the other hand ; the two were the same, in color and in every other respect. Finally, the key of the shop was in his possession ; he alone had the power, by means of that key, of entering the shop without resorting to force. On the strength of this accumulation of evidence he was put to the torture; under its agonies, be admitted the fcrirne, and was broken on the wheel. Shortly afterwards, a tavern boy was taken up for some crime of a different nature. In the declaration emitted by him after conviction and condemnation, he confessed that he was the sole actor in the assassination of the old woman in the Place St. Michel. The tavern where he served adjoining her shop, and he was on familiar terms with her shop-boy. To the latter he acted as hair-dreeser, so far as regarded the periodical arrangement of the lad's hair en queue; and always when he used the comb, he carefully gathered those hairs which the instrument detatched. By little and little he had thus collect ed the handful which was found in the grasp of the murdered woman. The knife, and one of the cravats of the lad, he had procured without difficulty, and the terms of intimacy on which they were, enabled him with equal ease to take an impression in wax of the shop key, for the fabrication of a false one. By these means he entered and com mitted the deed, leaving things in the state which has been related. Such is the story as told by a French writer. Seldom has there been a piece of viliainy so coolly planned and so ruthlessly executed, at the foreseen and expected cost of existence to two un fortunate beings. The succeeding two cases are of a similar order, exhibiting the fall of innocence before premedi tated villainy, and are from the Causes Celebres, first series, volume third (Amsterdam edition of 1775 ) THE JEWS. In a hotel or lodging-house at Milan, a Frenchman and two Jews were resi dent at one and the same time. The Jews occupied a chamber adjoining that of the Frenchman, who formed an acquaintance with them Inconsequence, observed them to be very rich, as they often counted great bags of Spanish pistoles in his presence. This led him to the following guilty device. He cut or tore off a considerable portion of a night-wrapper or gown belonging to him, and contrived not only to leave it in the chamber of the Jews, but to watch the use they made of it. They employed it to wrap up a parcel of one hundred pistoles. On the morning after observing this, the Frenchman, as soon as he arose, alarmed the house with cries of "robbery!" Everybody ran to his chamber, and there heard him tell a melancholy tale of the loss of one hundred pistoles, which he had wrapped up in the front of his gown He asserted that some one must have entered while he slept, and cut away the part of the gown with the money. of justice were called in to examine the house. In the chamber of the Jews was found the portion of gown, and the Frenchman then called out "There is my money !" The Jews were timorous men, and were thrown into confusion. This strengthened the case against them, and the consequence was, that they were executed. At an after period, the guilty author of their death confessed the conspiracy by which he had implicated them. TIIE FLEMISH CLRATE. Another victim of u plot of this na ture was a Flemish curate, who lived near the commencement of the eigh teenth century. He was a man of re markable piety, and exhibited in his conversation and deportment, all the virtues which ought to adorn the character of him who assumes to be the teacher of others. In his parish resided a man of violent passions, who entertained a mortal enmity against another parishioner and neighbor, and resolved to assassinate him. Casting his eyes deliberately about him to dis cover a mode of doing this with safety, this wretch noticed a habit which the curate hud of throwing off his walking coat whenever be entered his own house, and of putting on a short cas sock in its stead, leaving the coat care lessly in the outer room or lobby, which was open to friend or stranger at almost any time. Observing this custom, the man alluded to resolved upon taking a diabolical advantage of it. He fixed upon a time when he knew the curate to be usually engaged in composing the sermon (or the follow ing Sunday's service, and entered the lobby, whence he carried off the coat, and a neckerchief, which be found also there. He knew that, immediately after this time, the person whose as sassination he meditated would pass by a retired spot near the village. The villain had planned his time well. The victim came up to the spot as expect ed, and perished onder the knife or dagger of his enemy, who afterwards returned, without delay, to the curate's house. Favored by the dusk, he placed the coat, neckerchief, and dag ger, in the lobby whence he had taken them, and then went off to the nearest magistrate, and denounced the curate as the murderer, declaring that he him self, from a little distance, had beheld the commission of the crime. The magistrate hurried to the reported scene of the deed, saw and recognized the body, and then proceeded to the house of the unfortunate and uncon scious clergyman Half hidden iu the lobby were found the coat, the ker chief, and the dagger, all of them more or less otiiiued with blood. The curate was arrested and thrown into prison. When the matter sustained a judicial examination the "bold, bad man" who ! had projected this double murder, ad-! hered to his story, and as nobody was with the curate at the time in his dwel ling, the accused had no exculpatory evidence to offer, excepting what was afforded by his simple protestation of innocence, and the sanctity of his former character. All his flock,, aud indeed all who knew him. believed him to be utterly incapable of such a crime; but the law, and the judges of the law, regarded the criminatory testimony as too strong to be doubted, and held it to be their duty to condemn the accused. The best of men, it was argued by the public prosecutors, have been known to be hurried by the violence of temporary passion into the commission of crime, and such was but too probably the case here. When the sentence was known, a great sensation was excited over the whole country. The whole community was in favor of the curate, but this could not save him from the s la/ce, to which he was doomed. He died with , a degree of culm resignation, which j drew tears of admiring pity from all who saw him. Four years after his execution, the villain who had caused bis end involv ed himself in another murder, aud on this occasion the crime was brought home to him. He was condemned to be broken ou the wheel a death too horrible for even such a criminal as he was. Before he died, he confessed the whole facts of the curate's case. The memory of the latter was thenceforth honored like that of the saints. THE BARBER'S APPRENTICE. "September 14, 1772, came on, at the sessions at the Old Bailey, the trial of one Male, a barber's apprentice, for robbing Mrs. Ryan, of Portland Street, on the highway, on the 17th of June last. The wituesses swore posi tively to the identity of the lad, and the whole court imagined him guilty. He said nothing in his defence, but that he was innocent, and hisevidences would prove it. His evidences were the books of the court, to which refer ence being made, it appeared that on the day and hour when the robbery was sworn to be committed, the lad was on his trial at the bar where he then stood, for another robbery, iu which he was likewise unfortunate enough to be mistaken for the person who committed it; on which he was honorably acquitted " Don't tell your wife that you love her well euough to go to the eud of the earth to please her, lest she begin to pack your trunk with great alacrity. Father and son, they were both cheats, and a gentleman who had been victimized said that the sou's propensi ty was probably the only thing he pos sessed that he came hooestlv by. The Well of St. Keyne. The legend of the well of St. Keyne, as told in verse by Soutbey, has ob tained a widespread celebrity. The well is situated in the parish of St Keyne, about two or three miles from the town of Liskeard, in Cornwall, i Southey's ballad opens with the follow ing verse : A well there is in the West countrie, And a clearer one never was seen ; And there's not a wife in the West countrie But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. I A traveller, thirsty and hot, arrives ; one summer's day at the Well, and i takes a deep draught of the cool, re ; freshing water ; and whilst he is rest ing a peasant comes up to fill his pail, and earnestly regarding the stranger, , at once bluntly asks hiui the following, apparently unaccountable questions; "Is he a married man? Because, if so, the draught he has just imbibed is surely the happiest he has ever drunk iu his life. Or, has he a wife ? And if so, has she ever been in Cornwall?" Adding, with much energy, this posi tive but curious assertion : For if she has I'll wager my life I _ She has drunk of the well of St. Keyne. ' 0 The traveler, naturally surprised and puzzled at the odd questions, re plies that he has been married many j ears, but that his wife has certainly never been iu those parts; and then desires to know what constitutes the special benefit said to be conferred up on him by drinking the water. The peasant then tells hiui the legend in he following pretty verses: "St. Keyne," the Cornishman said in reply, "Oft drank of this crystal well, And before the angel summoned her, She laid on its waters a spell; "If the husband at this gifted Well Shall drink before the wife, A happy man henceforth is he, For he shall be master for life. "But if the wife shall drink it first— Lord help the husband then !" And the traveller stooped to the \VellofSt. Keyne, And drank deep of its waters again ! The last two lines exhibit an amount of prudence and forethought highly to be commended ou the part of the as tute and cautious traveller, who, it will be observed, although he had al ready drank copiously of ihe crystal spring, resolves to place himself en tirely upon the safe side, and make double sure, by drinking "deep of its waters again !" The traveller then plavfully rallies the peasant, by supposing—as a mere matter of course —that he had taken care to get a drink of tins in good time after marriage; but was rather surprised to find that The other replied as the stranger spoke, And sheepishly shook his head : "I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er And I left my poor bride in the porch : But, alas! good sir, she'd been wiser than I, l-'ur she took a bottle to church ! Here, then, was a specimen of sagaci ous forethought and ready wit, quite worthy of that dainty sex, Whom man was bora to please. But although this exhibits a brilliant idea as brilliantly and cleverly carried out by the quick-witted bride, we are inclined to think that the circum stances about to be related is quite equal to it, if not superior in some points. The story goes that, about thirty years ago, a worthy couple haying de termined to enter the holy state, aud each having the usual desire to obtain the "whip-hand" of the other for the rest of their natural lives, secretly re solved—of course unknown to the other—to follow fn the footsteps of Southey's clever heroine, and like her, each to "take a bottle to church." The happy day arrived, the wed ding service duly said, and the bene diction duly pronounced. "Now," thought the cunning bridegroom, "now's my time," and was about to pull out his bottle of magic water and drink it then and there ; but being a man of some religious feeling, he thought it would be hardly decent to be seen drinking out of a bottle in church; and, besides this, the friends present might think that his heart at last failed him at the thought of the magnitude of the deed he bad just com mitted, and that he had to fortify him self with a little "Dutch courage ;" and therefore he very properly waited till the wedding party reached the ves try, when he instantly swallowed the contents of the llask, and triumphantly exhibiting the upturned bottle to his loving bride, exclaimed with a broad grin: "First drink, lass, first drink; now I be maister!" But what was the surprise of himself and the assem bled company at seeing the fair bride quietly aud demurely produce from the bosom of her dress a little bottle with a long straw inserted through the cork, which she immediately inverted to show that the bottle was perfectly empty, and said with a knowing, self-satisfied smile: "Nay, nay, Itobin; first drink, first drink. It's 1 be maister, not thee The king's well-known exclamation to Hamlet— But see, amazement on thy mother sets, would well have applied to the whole company assembled in the vestry at that moment. If the bride had really emptied her bottle, how and when did she do it ? for nobody saw her, or had the smallest conception of her move ments. Every one seemed to look for an explanation ; and after a few mo ments of awkward silence, the bride, evidently not a little pleas ed with her own ready wit, proceeded to inform the company that, taking ad vantage of the huge poke-bonnets and full veils worn on that day, she, whilst kneeling at the end of the service, with her head bowed forward, contriv ed by the help of the straw, to drink the contents of the bottle without re moving it from its biding place in the bosom of her dress, or attracting the smallest notice of anyone. This feat she had managed to accomplish im mediately after on the close of the benediction; thereby getting first drink after the marriage service had been actually finished; and thus securing— according to this most fanciful legend —that position of authority so eagerly sought for by the ladies when they have entered on the married estate. To the Point. There is a story of a single chapter which we find in an exchange that plainly illustrates each one's r* s[K>iisi bility iu il eti iiqn.rui.cd cau-e A wealthy man iu St. Louis was asked to uM in s. s»ries of ten perance meiting, but he scornfully refused. After being further pressed, he said : "Gentleman, it is not my business." A few days after, his wife and two daughters were coming home in the lightning express. In his grand car riage, with two liverred attendants, he rode to the depot, thinking of his splendid business and planning for the morrow. Hark! Did some one sav "Accident ?" There are many railroads centering iu St. Louis. If there has been an accident it is not likely it hap pened on the and Mississippi rail road. Yet it troubles him. "It is his business" now. The iurses are stop ped on the instant, and upon inquiry he finds it has occurred twenty-five miles distant, on the Mississippi. He telegraphs to the superintendent : "1 will give you live hundred/lollars for an extra engine." The answered flashed back. "No." "I will give you one thousand dollars for an engine." "A train with surgeons and nurses has already gone forward, and we have no other." With white face and anxious brow, the man paced the station to and fro. It is his busiuess now. In half an hour, perhaps, which seemed to him half a century, the train arrived. He hurried toward it, and in the tender found the mangled and lifeless remains of his wife and one of his daughters. In the car following lay the other daughter, with her dainty ribs crushed in and her precious life oozing slowly away. A quart of whisky, which was drank fifty miles away by a railroad employe, was the cause of the catastrophe. Who dares say of this tremendous question, "It is not my business?" Speed of Rai4vvay Trains. The speed of a railway train is one of the thiugs that people almost uni formly over estimate, just as the seat ing capacity of a building is generally put at too high a figure. This obser vation is suggested by a recent rail way achievement in the Old World. A special train chartered t6 convey a party of capitalists and journalists from Paris to Vienna recently performed that journey in 23 hours. As the dis tai'c-i is a little less thau 900 miles this constitutes an average speed of about 32 miles an hour, which is con sidered in that country a remarkably good record. Of course this does not compare with the speed which has been attained in this country for less distances, and is insignificant when contrasted with Kuglish rates of speed for shorter distances. But for through, continuous travel in an uneven coun try it is accounted a memorial achieve ment. The Railroad Guide for the present month indicates that the fast est express train between New York and Chicago consumes just 29 hours in accomplishing the trip a distance of 075 miles. This is found to repre sent an average speed of 33§ miles an hour. It thus appears that we are not much ahead of European countries generally in this respect, and the dif ferences may be readily accounted for on the ground of greater physical diftl culties in the district referred to. Dramatic Court Scene. CINCINNATI, January 15.—A scene occurred in the Criminal Court room this morning that rivalled in ramanee and iu interest the best denouements of the mimic stage. Judge .Johnston was engaged last week in hearing the divorce case of Josephine Meyer against Peter Meyer. The wife ap plied for a decree on wilful absence for three years and gross neglect. The evidence showed that the parties were married in this city, lived together 1 for some ten months, and that in 1875 the vouug man, hardly a year in his i majority, left his pretty wife and eu- | listed it the United States army. The ! case was called before Jndge Avery ; last summer and went over, the attor neys for the absent husband (ightiug vigorously for the right of their client to be heard. When the case was heard last week j they resisted, and said the soldier | would be here pretty soon to speak in j his own defense, as his term of service j was about up. The matter how ever, was heard, and Judge John- | ston was right, in the midst ! of his decision this morning, when ; Mr. Meyer's counsel interrupted the j Court tn inform him that Meyer had just arrived from Texas aud had at that moment come into the court room. A handsome voting man with bronzed | cheeks stepped forward, inviting all j eyes toward him. The Judge stop-! ped his decision, and only remarked j that he would wait for further proceed ure, and in the meantime gives the j young man. who had been fighting the j Apaches, aud his young wife, who • had been waiting for him, a chance to ! make up and live together again. —On a bill of fare iu a restaurant of llio Janeiro is a dish called "Aristu." It is intended for Irish stew. A Glermau, who only left the old country about a year ago, but has pe couie very much Americanized, speak ing nothing but bad Knglisb, recently remarked as he bought some school books, that ail his boys' names began with S: hence, that all their books and clothes were marked with that one letter. "I suppose your boys' names are Sam, Simon, Solomon, or some such names." "No; my poys' names allbegin mit an S—Shon, Shim, Shake and Sherry.'' i | HOME. T 1 . , j Oh ? what is home? that 9weet companionship, <>f life the better part; j The happy smile of welcome on th€ lip I'pspringing from the heart. | It is the ea?er cl-isp of kindly hands. The long remembered tone, t The ready sympathy which understands AM fe.'ling by its owii. s The rosy cheek of little children pressed 3 To r.urs in loving glee; . Tiie presence of our dearest, and onr best, X<> nutter where we be. J And, failing this, a prince may homeless live, palace walls are nisrh ; ' Au«l, haviiiL' it, a desert shore may give The joy wealth cannot buy. ? Kar-reachiug as the earth's remotest span, ! | Widespread as ocean foam, One tlsouj: i,t is sacred in the heart of man— ; It is the thought of home. That little word his human fate shall bind With destinies above, For there the home of his immortal mind Is in God's wider love. —y. Y. Observer. Hon. Hiram Price, and the Tem perance Question. The following are portions of a recent speech delivered in Philadelphia 1 by tha Hon. Hiram Price of the Indian Department as reported by the Phila delphia Inquirer : "The whisky men are more consist ent than we are. When you strike a liquor man they all rise. Throw a stone into a hornet's nest, and expect they won't come out! In Kansas they rallied to the polls and beat us. I wish the churches would rise in their might I wish men would vote as they pray. Then the whisky men would have to take a back seat, and a seat very far back, at that. I tell you we are going to have a new party. As the Republican party was formed out of the best men of the Democratic and Whig parties, and they will make temperance a direct issue. The whisky men have challenged us and we have got to submit or else to make a new party in which men will vote as they pray. No man who votes as he prays can support a whisky shop. ' Thy kingdom come." The kingdom may not come by obser vation, but neither can it ever come in a whisky shop. We are responsible for not exercising the powers given us, and we have the power to end this great evil, and if we don't do it, then when God says "Where is. thy brother ?" we shall have nothing to say. Look at the foreigners among us! Look at our goodly heritage! Shall we not be held responsible for the good we might have done ? We tuust leave this country better than we found it. Our cause must prosper if we live up to our privileges. . . . There is a great evil in the land, and we have the power to remove it. If we have not the power we shall not be held responsible ; but we have the power, and we shall surely bo called to account. ' Why, the women ought to settle this tbiDg. They have more power than the men. I can prove it out of the Bible. Elijah met four hundred men, prophets ot Baal, and vanquished them . after a hard day's contest. He alone faced the whole four hundred on Mount Carmel. But, when he come down, he heard that Jezebel was after him—one woman—and he got up and fled. He stood up baldly to four hundred men and ran away from one woman. (Laughter.) Sumptuary law! A law forbidding men to sell poison is not a sumptuary law. Do you allow dis eased meat and tainted fish to be sold in your markets? Not you. Your clerk of the market confiscates it and destroys it. And shall you not exer cise the right—fulfill the duty of pre venting men from sending disease and pain and death into hundreds of homes ? —The principal astronomical event of next year is a total eclipse of the s'un, which takes places on the 6th of May. At some points on the central line the ; totality will last nearly six minutes, but so forgetful is the eclipse of the : convenience of astronomers that this line, the whole of which is included in ! the South Pacific Ocean, only touches : on a small island situated north .of the ; Society and west of the Marquesas group. No man knows what a ministering angel his wife is until he comes home ; oue day, suffering with a dreadful 1 cold and* she happens to have £> bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. —An opera house on wheels is the latest dramatic novelty, and a company ! with headquarters at Kansas City has been organized to build and manage it. It is to consist of eight railway cars, which can be expanded by ingenious mechanism iuto a capacious structure, with auditorium and stage complete, and is designed for the benefit of com munities which does not possess facili ties for the production of plays. It will run from place to place on the rail road, and carry a portable track upon which it can be switched off and trans formed into a theatre. A Most Remarkable Case. Dying—yet living. Dr. Miller of 129 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa., says: "I am personally acquainted with a middle-aged lady in Philadel phia, who had been given up to dio by a consultation of many physicians. She was confined to her bed for months, and was momentarily expected to die. In this condition she took Manalinand, to the surptise and disappoiment of all, she recovered her health perfectly. Her case is reported in Dr. llartman's book on the "Ills of Life," 31st paee. Ask pour Druggists for one, or address Dr. Hartinan, Osborn, O. —Largest stock of Dress Goods in Butler county and lowest prices at. L. STEIN JT SON'S. MO. 10
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