VOL. XX. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. £fi(ale of lames Young I>ee'd. Letter* of Administration in the estate of James Young, dee'd., late cf Clay township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, having been granted to the per.ous know ing thotnselves indebted to said es tate will please make immediate pay ment and any having claims against laid estate will present them dulv authenticated tor settle ment. ROBERT A. BROWN, Administrator. Coultersville P. 0., Butler county, Pa. filiate el W. P. Browii, LATK OF HAKRISVILLE. Letters testamentary on the estate ofW. P. Brown, dee'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 bSiid estate will present them duly authentica ted for settlement. R. L. BROWN, \ F . ROIIEKT BLACK, j llarrijTille, B ltler Couuty, Pa. 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, dee'd, we will offer lor 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: 8© Acres Perches more or less, out of the northwest corner of the farm lately occupied by the said Samuel G. Meal-, dee'd. About 75 acres cleared, balance good tinier. Good two-story frame house and bank i>fii recently erected thereon. i -One-third of the purchase money on aquation of sale by the Court, and the rem* r in two equal annual installments with vtu! interest from that date, to be secured bj .••uUaud niortgaga. G. \V. MEALS, dl.o j one of the Executors. NOTICE. \ - ie partcrehip hcretclore existing between P ; . Beck and J N. Patterson, under the firm i eif Heck A Patterson, expires by limita tion April lot. ISS3. Persons knowing them f.:i m a indented to tbe above tirm will please < il .iid ifelt.e ihe eaine <>n or before the first ol April. iw after that date .dl claims not paid will In- liii w"i:b un attorney lor collection Any I tre jus having claims against the firm will I res»-ut same for settlement. iI£CK harmless and does not interfere with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy f c';»lomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious uficr effects. A Governor's Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am fatisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. GILL SHORTER, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga., says: Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and v/L>h to give it a further trial. "The only Thing that never fails to Relieve."—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, IJvcr Affection and Debility, but never nave found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons I.ivcr Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only tiling that never fails to relieve. P. M. JANNEY, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. JgyfT Take on'y the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Ma: k and Signature cf J. H. ZEILIN & CO. FOR SALE DY ALL DRUGGISTS. STRONG FACT A great many people are askirg what particular troubles BROWN S IRON HI I TERS is good for. It will cure Heart Disease, Paral ysis, Drops) - , Kidney Disease, Con sumption, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and all similar diseases. Its wonderful curative power is s'mply because it purifies and en riches the blood, thus beginning at •he foundation, and by building up the system, drives out all disease. A Lady Cured of Rheumatism. Baltimore, Md., May 7, 188^. My health was much shattered by Rheumatism when 1 commerced taking Brown's Iron Bitters, and 1 scarcely had strength enough to at tend to rny daily household duties. 1 am now using the third bottle and I am regaining strength daily, and 1 cheerfully recommend it to all. I cannot say too much in praise of it. Mrs* MAKY E. BRASH HAK. 173 Prestmanst. Kidney Disease Cured. Christiansburg, Va., 1881. Suffering from kidney disease, from which I could get no relief, I tried Brown's Iron Bitters, which cured me completely. A child of mine, recovering from scarlet fever, had no appetite and did not seem to be able to eat at all. I gave him Iron Bitters with the happiest results. J. Kvut MONTAOUK. Heart Disease. Vine St.jHarrisburg, Pa. Dec. 2, ibßx. After trying different physicians and many remedies for palpitation *>f the heart without receiving any benefit, I was advised to try Brown's Iron Bitters. 1 have used two bot tles and never found anything that save me so much relief. m Mrs. JENNIB HESS. For the peculiar troubles to which ladies are subject, BROWN'S IRON BiTTERS is invaluable. Try it. Be sure and get the Genuine lifdi ■ M E ißsrmiTc BUFFALO ,N.Y. THE ONLY ASSOCIATION OF PROMINENT Lad y Phys i c i a n s IN THE WORLD. This institution was formed forlhc sole i.ir |H»se of treating the ilifea-es of women, if is compo-ed only of physicians »lin Ir.ve obtain-1\ a leading rank in the profession by tli li acknowledged ability and MICCCS.", and «!«• have made the health and e*tlmnni»ls from ladies who have been permanently cured. "LADIES' TONIC" Is the Favorite Prescription of the Woman's Mecilcal Institute for Prolapsus Uteri, or Kal'lng of the Womb, l-eiieorihooft or Whites; Inflammation anil Uleerali"n of the Womb; lrrctriil.n l ic«. Flood ing, Amcnorrhoea or lack of monthly tioii, Weakness in the Ilm-k and Moinnrh. Kaint nc6s, Nervous Prostration, Pyspci'sin, Kidney Complaint", Barrenness, and as a tonic during Prwnr.ncv, at regular periods through rhnnge of life, ai (1 for ihe cencinl IZ«M* THE LOST CIMBRIA. Captain Cuttill, of the Sultan, Tells a Straight Story. HAMBURG, January 24 —A1l the boats sent out to search for the sur vivors of the lost steamer Cimbria have returned here without making any discoveries. The incidents on board the Cimbria of the Indian who had to be disarmed of his tomahawk, of the surgeon who jumped iuto the sea, and the scenes amen * the passengers clingiug to the rigging, related by one YVegert, or \ i gert, a cabin passenger, who, on the advice of the chief officer, climbed into the rigg ng, say th?y saw a boat low ered from the steamer Sultan, probably to repair her own damage. Captain Cuttill, of the steamer Sul tan says: "I had 12 passengers on board, and my first duty was to look after the condition of my own ship An hour was occupied ia shoring up the collisions bulkhed and stopping the holes in the ship's bow with beds, &c. Then I set about looking for the other vessel. I burned blue lights and sounded the steam whistle for two hours after the accident. I remained in vicinity until eight o'clock in the morning, when, not seeing or hearing anything, and the fog being still dense, I left for Hamburg." In answer to an inquiry if he sent off boats iu search, he said the fog was so dense he deemed it imprudent to seud boats Respecting the events imme diately preceding ihe collision the Cap tain of the Sultan said: "About 1 o'clock, the fog increasing, the engines ran dead low, the course being east half south. At 11 o'clock English time, without hearing the sound of a whistle, I sighted a masthead and green lights two points on our starboard bow. Starboarded the helm until tlie ship's head was east-northeast, when the green light suddenly disappeared and a red light came in sight. Seeing a collision inevitable I telegraphed for the engineer to put fuii speed astern It was too late to avoid the crash. Everybody was at his proper post at tbe time and the lights were brightly burning. The captain and chief officer were on the bridge and two men at the wheel. The steam whistle was con stantly sounding. I saw the Cimbria's greeu lights when they were only two ship's lengths ahead." Captain Cuttill' drew a diagram showing the position of the two vessels. "Both were on the straight course," he said, "the Ciii Iria being two points on my starboard bow, so that my green j light was via ble to the Cimbria as I soon as the Cl.ubria's green light was visible to u;e." "How do you account for the ac cident ?" "The CimVi.i sh >u'd have kept on her course, seeing the Sultan's green light." "What is the ru!u of the road ?" Captain Cuttill brought out a log -containing official printei instructions, with verses entitlei 'Aiis to Memory." by Thomas Gray : No. 1, for tw ) meeting; When both si• It;ii4 !•„- v >it see ahead, Port your liehu a-i I >!i •■-. your red. "That is," remarked the Captain, "pass to the right." No. 2, for two steamship* passing; Gkiuu to jjrepn, or r»-.| to red, Perfectly safe—go ahea I. "You starboard ?" "Yes; and had the Cinib'ia kept on her course there would have been no collision, but she ported her helm and really ran across the Sultan's bows." A Farmer who Saved his Wheat Corn for Twenty Years. In IS4I John ELholtzemigrated from West Ilempfield township, Lancaster county, to the neighborhood of Urbana, Ohio. He had resided on the Marietta and Lancaster turnpike. Eicholtz died recently and a public sale of his effects was held at his iato residence near Fr bana. It drew together the largest crowd that ever congregated at a simi lar sale iu that county ; probably 2,000 people were there, drawn through curi osity, to see the vatious contrivances that he bad accumulated within the last forty years. The house in which he lived for the last half a century was never painted, and everything around it bore evidence of decay 10,000 bushels of barley were left on the .place, and thousands of bushels of corn, decay ed from age, some of it having arrived at an old age enough to vote. Eighteen car loads of grain of various kinds, from ten to twenty years old, have been shipped, and there still remain about twenty car loads. The old horse that did service at the pump for many years sold for ten dollars, and there were old horses that had never hid a halter or a piece of harness on their backs, description of agricultural implements was sold. One old vehicle in the shape of a wagon had solid wheels cut from a log. His father died a miser, leaving John sl, iu 2 silver pieces, made the year John was born, lie kept these as pocket pieces until his death. His estate was worth over 3510,000. The cannon advertised so extensively proved to be an old pump mounted 011 wheels, which at tracted the attention of a representative of the Fifth battery, from Springfield, with a view of purchasing it. Eicholtz always made it a point to sell nothing, but save everything, and he took great delight in looking over the crops that he bad saved so many years. For five cents, Wells, Rich ardson & Co., Burlington, Yt., will send colored-samples of all colors of Diamond Dyes, with directions. —There is no doubt that wickeduess and infidelity are spreading, and if !)0 per cent, of all criminals are believers in Christianity the proof wick •eduess is that much more appalling But we have little confidence in that sort of belief that is not followed up by amendment. "Sain," said one robber of hen-roosts to another, "don't you believe we shall go to hell for stealing?" "Certainly, Jim," replied his comrade ; "hand me down another pullet." BUTLER, FA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ;*!. 1883 A KINDLY PHILOSOPHER. Peter Cooper on this Life and That to Come. At a meeting to forward a humani i tarian undertaking held in one of the lecture rooms of the Cooper Institute last week, the venerable Peter Cooper, ! who had lately passed his ninety ! second birthday, occupied a seat on tbe platform. When the business of the meeting was finished he made a few remarks in which he gave the audi eDce a glimpse of a very genial and charitable philosophy of this life and the life to come. He said he was sat isfied that the circumstances and sur roundings amid which a child grew up usually determined his career as a man. This belief led him to make great allowances for the sins and fail ures of human beings, and to think that he, too, might have been one of the many wrecks he encountered in the pathway of life if he had not enjoyed the advantages of a good home and good parental training. "Remember ing how powerfully we are controlled by circumstances beyond our control," continued Mr. Cooper, "when I see a poor, besotted, depraved wretch lying in the gutter, I am disposed to a3k our Heavenly Father whether he or I is the better entitled to happiness in the next world ;—he whose life in this world has been so miserable, or I who have enjoyed here so many blessings and comforts." In the goodness of his heart the kindly old philanthropist thinks that the poor creatures who are born and reared in the midst of dirt, druukeness and crime, and whose moral natures are saturated with im purities, have not had a fair chance in this world, and believes that they will find compensation for their sufferings in the future life. He has found this a good world to live in. Speaking from the experience of a life prolonged twenty years be yond the Psalmist's allotted span, be says existence is comfortable and en joyable. Others do not find it so. To many it is n dreary round of woi k, want and pain, darkened by a sense of degradation and hopelessness. To some it is a hideous carnival of drunkeness aud depravity, ending in disease and early death. Mow much the sinners aud sufferers are them selves to blame our good nonogenarian does uot stop to ask. The problem is a difficult one, and he feels \bat its safest solution is a charitable one which lifts as much of the load of re sponsility from their shoulders as pos sible. These poor creatures, he says, did not have an even start in the race, aud they have fallen into the mire ; no doubt th>*ir Heavenly Father will give them a better opportunity in the next world. Truly a sunny aud generous philos ophy ! If it were the philosophy of some young dreamer to whom life is all poetry and roses, it would not be worth a moment's thought; but it is the ripe fruit of the thought and ex perienco of a man whose actual and useful life has almost filled the meas ure of a century. It may not agree with tbe sour theologies which rile humanity, but we question whether any glowing themes concerning the future were ever seriously believed by old men whose lives have been busy aud successful, and whose age is serene and healthful. Are not such thiMiies the conceptions of men iu the midst of tbe storm aud strife of middle age, men old enough to have experienced the deceptions, disappointments and bitterness of life, but not old enough to realize its meaning or to gain a point of view where the lights and shadows of the picture harmonize and reveal the Devine purpose, and where they can look forward with vision not wholly obscured to the life of tbe soul beyoud the grave — NeM York; Tribune. Why he Preferred Poker. "No, I never invest in stocks," an swered the fat man as he blew his nose with a loud report and leaned back in his seat. "Perhaps you prefer deuliug iu grain ?" "No, sir, when I feel like speculating 1 go to a regular p >ker room, conduct ed in a first class manner, and lay down my money. It is far more sat isfactory to me." "How ?" "Why, I know just how long it will take me to lose SSOO anil get back to the office, and I dou't have to waste any time, put up margins, run to the ; broker's or lose any sleep." L'Enfant Terrible. Scene—Dinner table; several guests present. Bobbie—to spinster entertaining papa at other end of table—"Papa, | why is a little boy like a locomotive?" Papa—who has suffered—"Bobbie, little boys must be seen and not heard." Spinster—casting a languishing • look upon papa—"Oh, let the little! darling go on."—To Bob—"What is j the answer, Bobbie, dear?" Bobbie—"Give uui up?" Papa—who has suffered—"Hush, Bobbie." Spinster—"l give it up, darling; t now what's the answer?" Bobbie—triumphantly—"Coz he's got a tender behind." Exit Bobbie, accompanied by papa —who has suffered—and Bobbie tells Tommie Harris later on that be feels ; more like a locomotive than ever A Pittsburgh hotel clerk says that every traveller is nervous since the , Mil waukee fire and wants a room on j the first or second floor. That, he ! adds, is the invariable result of such a catastrophe, and it lasts for several weeks; but gradually anxiety dies out, and before long people take rooms on the upper floors without complaint, aud often congratulate themselves ou the better air and wider prospect thus obtained. The Bad Girl Goes Back on Him. "My girl has sho- k me." "Shoo! ycu don't say so ?" said the groceryman, as he threw a rotten pota to into a basket of good onts that were going to the orphan asylum. "Well, she showed h; r sense. You would have blown her up, or broken her neck, or something, liut don't feel bad, you'll soon find another girl that will discount her, aud you will forget all about this one." "Never!" said the boy. as he nibbled at a piece of codfish that be had picked off "I shall never allow my affections to become entwined about another piece of calico. It unmans :ne. Hence forth I am a hater of the whole girl race. From this out I shall harbor re venge in my heart; no girl can cross my path and live. I want to grow up aud become a he schojl ma'am, or a be milliner, or something where I can grind girls into dust, and make them sue for mercy. O, \ou don't know anything about the woe there is iu this world. You never loved many people, did you The groceryman admitted that he had never loved very hard, but he knew a little about it from an aunt of his, who got mashed on a Chicago drum mer. "But your father must be having a rest while your mind is occupied with your love affairs," said be. "Yes," said the boy, with a vacant look, "I take no interest in the pleasure of the chase any more, though I did have a little fun this morning at the breakfast table. You see pa is the con trariest man you ever saw. If I com plain that anything at the table don't taste good, pa says it is all right. This morning I took tbe syrup pitcher and emptied out the white syrup and put iu some cod liver oil that man is using for her cough. I put some on my pan-cakes and pretended to taste it. 1 told pa the syrup was sour and not fit to eat. Pa was mad in a second, and he pour ed out some on his pancakes and said 1 was getting too confounded particu : !ar. He said the syrup was good enough for him, and he sopped bis panes:ke in it and fired some down his neck. He is a great durned hypo crite, that's what he is. I could see by his face that the cod liver oil was near killing him, but he said that syr up was all right, and if I didn't eat mine he would Weak my neck and by gosh I had to cat it and pa said he guessed he hadu't much appetite and would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a doughnut. I like to di"d, and that, is one thing, I think, that makes this disappointment in love harder to I ear. But I felt sorry for ma. Ma ain't got a very strong stummick, and when she got some of that cod liver oil in her mouth she went right up stairs, a horse, and pa had to help her, and che had nooralgia all the morning. I ate pickles to take the taste out ol my mouth, and then I laid for the hired girls. They eat too much syrup, any way, and when they got on to that cod liver oil and swal lowed a lot of it, one of them, an Irish girl, got up from the table and put her baud on her corset and yelped, "Howly Jupers,', and went out into the kitchen as pale as ma when she has powder on her face, and the other girl who is Dutch, she swallowed a pancake and said, "Mine Cott ! what vas the matter from me," and sbe went ou a?id leaned on the coal bin. Then they talked Irish and Dutch and got clubs and started to look for me, and 1 thought 1 would come over here. The whole family is sick, but not from love Lke my illness, and they will get over it, while I shall fill aa early grav«; but not until I have made that j.'iil aad the telegraph mes senger wish they were dead. Pa aud I are going to Chicago next week and I'll bet we'll have some fun. Pa says I need a change of air arid 1 think be is going to lose me. It's a dark day when 1 get left anywhere that 1 can't find my way back. Well, good-bye, rotten potatoes." Dead; and Go a 3 to Oil City. A well known broker of this city, I savs the Pittsburgh Telegraph of Jan. 20, tells a story which is not bad. : Three oil dealers were intimate friends. Two of them lived near Foxburg and the other in Pittsburgh One of tbe i Fox burgers died and the other seut the : following message to the Pittsburgher: "George died last night aud body gone to oil City. Market lather dull and nothing doing." The telegraph operator dropped the word "body," and the Pittsburgher's copy of the message read : "George died last night ami gone to Oil City. Market rather dull aud ■ nothing doing " In a short time the Foxburg nnn re ceived this reply from Pittsburgh : "Your news is distressing. Go to priest at once and ask cost of getting George's soul out of Oil City and have lit sent to upper field. Will pay half i expenses. Market firm and prospect I of advance. John Denlinger, Lancaster, says: "Brown's Iron Bitters afford me »reat | relief wheu suffering from a weak and j broken down constitution." Even the tattler regards herself, we | cannot possibly say himself, as a kind i of self-sacrificing missionary scattering ; good news. She is a noble woman, unappreciated to be sure, who is trying | to make the world better by telling the , faults of each to every other. These I liues are a complete vindication of her j motives: No, Varus hates a thing that's base ; I own, indeed, he's got a knack Of fluttering people to their face, Itut scorns to do it behind their back. Fifty-eight million dollars is the es timated value of finger rings of this I country actually worn, and still there are people mean enough to go hacking and caughiug because they do not want to invest 25 cents for a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough | Syrup. A Pearl Divers Experience. "I was once a diver—not a wrecker but a pearl diver—and a hard business it was," recently tbe Captain of a Spanish brig to the reporter of the California Titties." "We worked off the Mexican and Panama coasts, prin cipally on the Pacific side. Some times we worked alone, but generally on shares, and sometimes fur pay. We went to the grouudsin small sail ing vessels; theu we took to small boats and covered as much ground as as possible. Each man had a basket, a weight and a knife. For sharks? Yes; but it is a poor defense, for it is almost impossible to swing the arm with any force under water. The best weapon is a short spear. \\ hen you reach the ground you strip, put your feet into a big sinker, take basket "that has a rope for hoisting, drop over and soon linil yourself at the bottom. Theu your business is to knock off as many ovstcrs as you can and pile them into the basket before you lose your wind. Il is a terrible straiu, but I eouid j staiid it in those days for six minutes, j and I have known some men wtooould 1 stay down ten ; but it is sure death in tbo long run. If the ground is well stocked you can get twenty or more shells, but it is all luck. When the | basket is full it is hauled up, and after you come up for your wind down you go again, the sink being hauled up with a small cord for that purpose. It .was on one of these occasions that I ran afoul tbe animal that gave me a lasting fright. You will smile when I say it was only a star fish, but that it really was. 1 went down sixty feet 1 with a rush, and, landing on the edge of a big branch of coral, swung off iuto a kind of basin. The basket went ahead of me, and as I swung off to reach the bottom, something seemed to spring up all around me, and I was in the arms of some kind of a monster that coiled about my body, arms and legs. I tried to scream, forgetting that I was in the water, and lost my wind. It was just as if the plant had sprouted under me and then thrown its vines and tendrils about me. There were thousands of them, coiling and writhing, and I thought 1 had landed in a nest of sea snakes. I gave the signal as soon as I could, and made a break upward, part of the creature clinging to me, while the rest, I could see was dropping to pieces. They hauled me into the boat as soon as I reached the surface, and pulled the main part of the animal from me. It was oval, about three feet across, and the five arms seemed to divide into thousands of others. I probably land ed on the top of that one, which at the time was the largest I had ever seen. I afterward saw the body of one that had been washed ashore on the Isth mus that must have had a spread of thirty-five leet. Their power of grasp ing is considerable, but touch them in a cer'ain way and they throw off their arms in a regular shower and are soon reduced to an oval body. A Mathematical Nut to Crack. The following mathematical problem which is going the rounds is commend ed to the students of this county who are fond of mathematical nuts to crack. Two boys make sale of thirty apples each. No. 1 sells throe for one cent v ..10 No. 2 sells two for oneeent 15 Which, ofcourse, would be 25 Next time they concluded to go into partnership with the same number of apples, and sell five for two cents, which would amount to twenty-four cents. Now, as they sell tbe same number of apples each day forthe same , of cents, we would like to know what has become of the twenty-fifth , cent which is lost iu the partnership , arrangement. How a Woman's Life Was Saved After she had tested the skill of all the best doctors in Western Pennsyl vania and New York, aud- bad paid over SI,OOO without receiving any per manent good, the limbs became affect ed with even tenfold greater virulence, not only eating away the flesh, but at tacking the bones beneath. It also affected her head and face, making her almost blind aud deaf, reduced to a mere skeleton, weighing but 80 pounds, the doctors pronounced her at death's door. Pcruua was then given to her, as stated, and with the result given on page 24 in Dr. Hartman's "Ills of Life." She took no other medicine and is perfectly will. The Ohio Legislature is consider ing the adulteration of foods and med icines. It is informed bj r a Cincinuat ti chemist that liver and kidney com plaints, so common and so destructive to human life, are largely due to use of sulphuric acid in the manufacture of sugar aud syrup. He also declares that quinine pilis are extensively adul terated, and that many other medi cines are not to be relied upon. There is hardly r.n adult person liv ing but is sometimes troubled with kidney difficulty, which is tbe most prolific aud dangerous cause of all dis ease. There is 110 sort of need to have any form of kidney or urinary trouble if Hop Bitters is taken occasionly. Oue of tbe persons who were not swindled during the graveyard-insur ance craze was Mrs. Francis George, more familiarly known as "Granny Smith," of Harrisburg, Pa., who died lust Thursday at the age of eighty. The old lady was a capital subject for speculation, and it is said that her life was insured at the time for an aggre gate of $50,000 by a dozen different operators. She never refused an ap plication and never omitted to inti mate that the people who were going to make so much money by her death could well afford to contribute to the comfort of her last days by small pres ents in the shape of money or provis ions. Thus she contrived to get on snugly for a considerable time, and lived to verify her prediction that the swindling companies would be dead before she was. j Laws Interesting to Landholders, r | But few persons understand the na -5 ture of their rights and privileges in re -1 gard to fencing and the adjacent public s I roads, and frequently impositions and f i losses are practiced upon them by own - j ers of cattle and hogs trespassing upon - their c :,,-losures, sometimes destroying - growing crops and inflicting other in . juries ami atrioy utict-s t » « e-iusiderab.: exient, and frequently causing tm I pleasant feelin.-s between neighbor*. i In addition to these troubles, which arc , of long standing, a new evil ba.s been ' : produced of late in the multiplicity ol s telegraph lines, which are being erected i throughout the country, the companies ;I or their contractors for the ereetiou of i the poles for the laying of the wires, ■ not only occupying the public roads f« r the purposes of their corporations, but I absolutely cutting the tree" on these highways and the adjacent propertv without any authority s) to do from i the owners thereof. This has been done recently in Baltimore county, and suits have been instituted fur damages by owners of the laud, and we find that similar suits have been instituted in llurford county under similar circum stances. We hope that the laws ol Maryland or the common law mav reach these intruders on the property "of the j legitimate owners of the soil, and that not ouly pecuniary damage may be in flicted, but that the trespassers may be puuished for their audacity by suitable tines and imprisonment We have before given sjiue extracts from the laws on such subjects from Judge Bennett's work, and the follow ing adiiitioual item upon the "Rights of the Road" cannot but be of interest,at the present time, and every landholder should preserve the extracts for their guidance in the maintenance of their rights. Judge Bennett says: "If a farm deed is bounded by, on or upon a road, it usually extends to the middle of the roadway. The farmer owns the soil of half the road, and may use the grass, trees, stone, gravel, sand, or anything of value to him, either on the Und or beneath the surface, subject only to the superior rights of the'public to travel over the road, and that of the highway surveyor to use such material for the repair of the road and these materials he may cart away and use elsewhere on the road. No other man has a right to feed his cat tle there, or cut the grass or trees, much less deposit his wood, old carts, or wagons thereon. The owner of a drove of cattle that stops to feed in front of your land, or of a drove ol pigs that root up the soil, is respon sible at law as much as if they did the same things iuside the fence. Xo private person has a right to cut or lop off the limbs of your trees in order to move his old barn or oth er buildings along the highway, and no traveller can hitch his horse to your trees on the sidewalk without being liable, if he gnaws the bark or otherwise injures them. If your well stands partly on your laud aud partly outside the fence, no neighbor can use it excepi by your permission Nay, more, no mm has a right to stand in front of your land and insult you with abusive language without being liable to you for trespassing on your land lie has a right to pass and repass in an orderly and becoming manner; a right to use the road, but not to abuse it. But notwithstanding tic faraiei owns the soil of the rocd, even he can not use it for any purpose which inter feres with the uso of it by the public for travel, lie cannot put his pig pen wagons, wood or other things there i the highway surveyor orders then] away as obstructing public travel I he leaves such things outside his fence and within the limit of the highway a; actually, laid, though some distance from the traveled path, and a travelei runs in to them at night and is injured the owner is not only liable to him foi private damages but may also be in dieted aud fined for obstructing a pub lie highway. And if le has a fenc« or wall along a public highway h< must place it all on his own land, auc not half on the road as in case of divis ion fences between neighbors. But as ho owns the soil, if the road is discon tiuued or located elsewhere, the lane reverts to him, and he may inclose it tr the center and use it as a part of hif farm.'' —What a good natured people th( Americans are, to be sure. We enjoj fearful railroad accidents to such an ex tent that we may be said to have f morbid appetite for them, and such if the enterprise of our railroad officiah that the supply seems to be quite equa to the demand. We sometimes changt the awful programme of death by c hotel fire, and although we indulge in i a shudder or two of horror we don't mean anything by it, and we do not in tend to remedy the increasing evil. The Milwaukee fire was a terrible disaster, but we shall forget all about it in ten days, and nine out of ten of us when travelling would just as lief put up in that kind of a lumberyard as in the most lire-proof hotel. The idea of danger does nor occur to us until we bear the cry of "Fire !" and smell the smoke on the story below. Cremation is a good thing, but it ought not to begin too soon There are numbers of buildings in this city which are posi tively aching to get afire, and which will have their highest anticipations satisfied whenever a loose match shall drop into the corner ; but do our officials exhibit any alarm? Oh, no! They take an impregnable position on the fact that a free born American citi zen can do as he pleases, and be pro tected in it by the law, provided he can pay for the luxury. So we sleep at on a mattress of gunpowder and live as long as we can under the cir cumstances. Those who get killed or burned cannot say anything about it, and the rest of us who did not happen to get killed or burued that time are so thankful for our escape that we have nothing to say. So the pine wood still burns aud the tunnel is still unlighted. —At Griebs. A handsome line of Gold Spectacles for preseuts. 5. j —Bj the explosion of a powder mill j near San Francisco recently, thirty i- men, mostly Chinese, were killed. ~~ The most valuable result of all edu j ! tion is the ability to make yourself do j the thing you have to do when it ought * | to be done, whether you like to do it i or not. PT i- The explosions of coal oil lamps 611- : rd with non explosive (?) oil still goo j i- on, burning up women and childri-n. s A coal oil lamp in a house is a con e atant danger. u | A little girl in Arkansas, according ' to dispatches, has been found with three tongues. If that girl ever g.?t« s married—but why dwell on such hor ' rible anticipations. r The Hartford Steam Company talk t of making gas for heating purposes, e and will not only use the gas for heat t ing their own boilers, but will let the i public have it for cooking purposes. ] The ice factories at New Orleans 5 practice the fancy of freezing certain ob t jects in blocks of crystal ice The red , snapper of the Gulf of Mexico, a bril . liantly scarlet fish, is one of the icely f imprisoued objects, and flowers, singly , or in bouquets, are another. The ef } feet is magnificent. t Having been troubled with a very bad cough for about two years and » having tried almost every cough mfx > ture that was ever made. I have found none that has given me such great re ' lief a3 Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and I ' earuestly recommend it to all afflicted. Benj. F. Dugoan, 14 Park PL, N. Y. i » Mother* Should Know It. Fretful babies cannot help disturb ing everybody, and mothers should know how soothing Parker's Qinger Tonic is. It stops babies pains, makes them healthy, relieves their own ami ! ety and is safe to use.— Journal. A Missouri bee raiser has just trans ferred his one hundred and fifty hives to Florida, that his bees may be kept busy all the winter In the land of flow ers ; and on the Mississippi there are bee boats that carry hives op and down that river to keep pace with the blooming of the flowers. "Buehupalba." Xew, quick, complete cure 4 days, urinary affections, smarting, frequent or difficult urination, kidney disease. sl. at druggists Prepaid by express, $1.25, 6 for $5. E. S. Wells, Jersey ' City, N.J. —An insufficient atonement for a singular maladministration of justice has been made bv the pardon of William Pendegrast, of Buffalo, ne was accus ed of an attempt to pass a counterfeit dollar, and "an expert of twenty-five years' standing swore that the coin was a bad counterfeit." So poor Pender grast went to the Auburn penitentiary for a year. After he was imprisoned it seems to have occurred to some one that it would be well to ascertain definitely in regard to the coin, and it was sent to Chief Brooks, of the secret service at Washington, who discovered that the coin was genuine. So the President has issued a pardon for I'endenjrast on account of a crime of which he is innocent. It is now ia order for Mr. Pendergrast to reason for a brie r ßpace with "the expert of twenty five years' standing," as well as to secure damages for false imprisonment. A ludicrous incident recently took place in Liverpool. There are two brothers who parted many years ago when boys, one of them going to America to seek his fortune and the other remaining in Liverpool to make it. They have both been eminently successful in this respect, and not long ago the brother in America determined to visit the brother in England. The time of the visit was settled by corres pondence, and the American set sail. The Englishman is a notorious wag, and arranged that an acquaintance should meet the American as his bro ther and conduct him to the hotel. Tbe American, who is also a great wag, on tbe trip decided to play exact ly the same joke on bis brother, asking an acquaintance whom he had met on the ship to personate him for a few hours. The acquaintance entered into the spirit of tbe joke, and when tbe vessel arrived at Liverpool was found by the personater of the Euglish broth er and driven to the hotel. Tbe real American brother followed more leis urely, chuckling over his joke. In the meanwhile tbe English brother had also gone to the hotel, bursting with nerriment over bis joke. It happened that the two real brothers met in the lobby of the hotel, and, though they had been parted so many years, they knew each otber. At first with blank amazement they greeted each otber; and then, as they as tbev explained their mutual jokes, laughed long and heartily. But tbe climax was yet to be reached. An explanation in regard to the gentlemen who had personated them, and who were now, as they im agined, playing a huge joke on each otber, showed tb it they also were brothers who had been separated from boyhood, but who did not know each other when they met. The first pair of brothera hurried up to their parlor, and after the situation had been ex plained all around, the comedy of errors was ended by an old-fashioned English dinner. Be tter than Foreign Port. Speer's Port Grape Wine is better than Imported Port, and, since tbe adulteration of the latter, it must take its place. It is pure and reilly excel lent and bealt, )-giviug.— Troy Times Members of the Board of Health, of Xew York, and other prominent phys icians, use this wine for J,beir patients aud in their own families, much on account of the iron contained in it from the soil on which Speer's vineyards are situated. For sale by D. H. Wci«« LEU. kjT" Advertise m Ou CI rial*. NO. II