VOL. XX. NEW STORE. NEW STOCK A NEW AND COMPLETE HTOCK OF " IIIIIIM inn manna JUSI Mimm ]EiTHiK AUSTID FI2SJKI ZLIINIHSTG-S, iIC- ALSO M ITACTt'RKB OF ALL KINDS OF Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Collars, Etc,, Elc, And carrv a fall block of Whips, Robee, Blanket* Bruabeif ai.d all other Good* belonging to - the Business. All Kinds of Repairing will Receive Prompt Attention. er call and examine oar Good* and get Trice* before yoa purcl.aw.el*ewhere. Plastering Hair Always on Hand. C VS ] I PAID FOR HIDES A>l > PI3LTS. C. ROESSING, Beiber's Block Jefferson Street, opposite Lowiy House. Butler, Pa LEO AL A IH'ER TIS EM E N TS. NOfICE. Notice ifi hereby given tu»t Wm Barker. F-sq- Ar«uznee of Lewis lUzlett, 1>»» filed l>u» nimi »c count in the oftice of the Court of Common Plea# of Butler County, Ma. I>. N<>. J, I>ec. Term 880. and that th- fame will be pre»euted to Court for confirmation and allowance on W«lue-uy the 7th day of March. 1-*'-^ l'rot lie notary Prxjthoootury'B Offce. February 5, 188.1 kstati; ouamkn HAY. LATE OF CLINTON TWP., UEC'd. letter* with the will annexed . on the nut" of Jw. Hay, deo'd, late o» Clinton twp Butler countv. i'a , having been granted to the undersigned, ail personaknowmi; themselves indebted to kikl eMatc will plea.se make linme diate iiavment and any having claims Gainst .said estate will present ti*m duly authenti cated for settlement. TH' >M AS A. H A . Executor. Saxonburjr, Butler Co.. Pa. RYE WASTED. The highest market price will be paid by us for rye delivered at our wholesale liquor store '"juTlriu" JACOB REIBEB A BRO. WHITE in SSI i\ OATS. Pui* Italian oata for pale, seed pot of John »on * Stoker Phila. They are not the D. M. Ftrrr \ Co. oats, but rifx n an early as our com ni -n "oaU and yield nearly doubln Ten to twen tv «talkn grow from one crain. One and one haf tmatiel is plenty to Iho acre Wm tl 00 per b u-beL For i-ale by Alonzo McCai.dlets. ruwipl. Pi. And order* received and filled at Milior Bros., or A A H. Beiber's. Jau3l-6t. Butler B. & L. Associalion. Tlieannual meeting of tie Stockholder of ill" HuilcMi't' and Loan Associaiiou of Hiiilcr, m ill Ur lii ld in the /.rl itiaiion room ol the Court iioi.se, on B*lurd.ty evening, march 3d, Wi, at 7 o'dcck, c m , Bl IINIKK OF THE BoAltl) h 4. a.CAMPBELL, B«''r D. L CLggLAHD.i WATCHMAKER & JEWELEE. South Main St., Butler, Pa, • Keeps Constantly on Hand a Full Stock of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, -BFECTACLEH ANI) SILVERWARE, At the Ixiwest Cash Trices. Fine Wau-li H«*i>»lrii»R a Spec ially. Planing Mill —AND— \ ai*cl. J. L. PURVIB. L. O. PURVIU, S.G. Purvis & Co., MAVOraCTintrKS ANDDEAURSm Hough and Planed Lumber OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FRAMES. MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, FLOORING, SIDING, BATTENS, Brackets, Gauged Cornice Boards, SHINGLES & LATH: PLANING MILL AND YARD Sear tierman Calliollo Churcli MOST EXTKNSIVK PCRE BRKD LIVE STOCK I ,ESTABLISHMENT I V WOULD. 7\y. CLYDESDALES, I'l.lt i.KItON NORMANS, ENGLISH DRAFT HORSES.TROTTING BUKD KOADBTF.ISS, SHETLAND POMES, IIOLSTEI V and DE VON CATTLE. Our customers liave the advantage of our many v«-:ir>>' experience in breeding and ira i«..r.int. larpe collection*, opportunity of com paring <'i(tereiit br»eds, low price*, liecaoae of extent ol ItusiMas and lo.v rates of trsun-|>orta tion. Catalogues free. Corre*j»ondence solicit ed. rOWELL BROTHERS, ' pringboro, Crawford County, Pa. ja!7,3m BEST IN THE WORLD!! || | J1 1 Take no other. 1 1*1, j KfAI.KkS NEC Vfiy 1 ■ C. Sweaiinpen. y on Mond%y«. 1"7 Wood street, Pittsburgh. Pa. übttcribe for tho CITIZEN. j B«"s ™" LSAM nomical ha i r dres- ! mel everywhere its excellence and jcrior cleanliness. It Never Fails to Restore t!ie Vouihlul Color and lustre to gray or faded hair,i4 elegantly per fumed and is warranted to remove d-.ndruffand itching of the scalp, & prevent falling of the Hair. 1 50c. and 11 »l«w. Jwltri In drop. PARKER'S GINGERTONIC A Superlative Health and Strength Restorer. Tf you mechanic or farmer, worn out with overwork, cra mother run clown by family or house hold duties try Parker's Ginger lomc. If you are a lawyer, minister or business man ex hausted by mental strain or anxious cares, do not take intoxicating stimulants, but use Parker s Ginger 1 onic If you have Consumption, Dyspepsia, _ Rheuma tism, Kidney or Urinary Complaint*, or if you are troubled with any disorder of the lungs, stomach, bowels, blood or nerves, you can be cured by Park- Kit's Ginger Tonic. It ib the Greatest Blood Purifier And the Beit and Surest Cough Curs Ever llwd. If you are wasting away from age, dissipation or any disease or weakness and require a stimulant take Gingrk Tonic at once; it will invigorate and build you up from the first dose but will never intoxicate. It has saved hundreds of lives; it may save yours. HTSCOX k CO., ICS William St., New York. 60c. and on« doliar tttct, at all 7.K. ~ 1 MAN _ STHO IS UNACQUAir«TCO VfITH THC CIOURAPwy Or tMIC COOK# By the central poaitlon of itn line, eonneeta the Fast 4iiit L'.e West by tlic shortcut routo.nmt car ries paaacufers. without change of cars, between Chicago an«l Eausaa City, Council Blufls, Leaven worth, Atchison, Wm::. snyljs and tit. Paul. It conucots in Union Ucp'»i with all tho principal lines of road between the Atl/unii? and the I'acino Oceans. Its equipment is unrivaled -.14 n»sgnirt eont, being eompossd of Moat Comfortable aud Beautiful Day Coaches, Magnificent, liorton Re clining Chair Cars. Tullmau's Prettiest Palaes Bleeping Carp, snd the Best Line of Dining Cars in ths World. Three Trains between Chicago and Missouri B * r **s. Agt. r-utPAr^ "WILSONIA" Magnetic Appliances llave enred. In 00 cnaes out of 100. Catarrh, Dvs nepsia, diseane of the Liver and Kidneys. J'Jles, Locomotor Atax'a, Paralysis, Bpinal Diseases, Tu mors, Sleeplessness, Nervous Debility and all dis eases of tho Nervooa By stem, Chrunic l>iarrhNI A." I»y tho peculiar construotlon of our Appliances, mild, continuous magnetic currents are conveyed to the blood, which. In every person out of health. Is deficient in magnetism. Thus the nerves reoHvo tone, tho muscles an* strength en<*d, and the whole system Is regenerated. TWO YEIRS* has proved the " VVILbONI A " methisl to l»o the most suc cessful ever empl<»yeplianci 3. Bewake or TIIE}»E IMITATIONS. They aro worth less, that " on eoeh Appliance. Our Celebrated Magnetic Insoi.es will keen the feet always comfortably warm. They are worth one hundred times their cost In preventing roi.D rEET. Prlee, f 100 jh r pair. Free by mall. In ordering, giro size 01 fhoe. Beware of a cheap and worthless imitation now being «)U'ered, which con tains no mognetlbm. We will give a writtkn otr arantp.r to each purohascr. NO CUKK. N«> j PAY. Reference, by permission: National Park I Bank, N. Y. in wilting, give symptoms In full. Wilsonia Magnetic Clothing Co., I & East 14th BL (near Broadway), New York. \ Affenta wanted In all cities where we are not I represente have an iucome to-day which is absolute i:-! EPEM)tMCK? Ho not fail to write us! We lia' - successfully etiablisl-ed a method of • LESSONS BY MAIL, . whereby the Art can bo learned in its entirety, in a very short time. The system is aclsiiowi eaged to poeeeßs advantages whicli Lave long i-l placed it in the foremost ilauka aou u atu. is 10-day with those who have so.vea tue uouderiui mysteries of the Art • W ITiIOUT COMPETITION, If you are eixuut and energetic and po*t?Cßß -of a reaeon&bie deyre* ui ui mental 4»ct*vity, you are jiir»t the uiio to mate \uur wa\ m h short time to the uout ranks ot ti.e Vcioatim Anuy. Write us lor ciicuiar expl«iuuig tth\ liis r-jcieia lo the iuobi leadny maateied the "oLui.est knovu to U.e * Sleuogr/iphic | world. Aaareas American Phoneiic Institute. Waverh I'lace, New York City .7-ttFeb, ARQMANNA. The Only Sure < lire lor I>jk pcpnla. AND ALL LIVER, KIDNEY, BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES. No other remedy ban bo many ami strung Home * testimonials as AROMA N N A. Call or Send J'or Putnph/rlt. No other ivmedy so fully and fuirlv challenges public*trial and Judgment as A R 0 M A N NY. It in Warranted Cure in fhcry f'mr. Price, 25 and 75 Cts. per Bottle. Sample Bottles only 10 Cents. I*ROF, l>: LU S swiss m, An Unequalled and Unfailin;' Temrdy for al! Diseases of the Throat and Lungs. A Sure and Speedy Cura fcr Asthma, Bronchitis, Colds, Con-jhs ai.dCrcup; also f«r CONSUMPTION in its Early Stages. Pric;, 25 and 75 Cts. par Bottle. Q. HOLDS I'EIN'. Proprietor \Y* < *1 Liuy, N. J. 62* So Id by Druggists and Dealers. Wholesale Depots: Bullock it Crenshaw, 628 Aicli St., Phila. Jonns'on. Holloway A Co. 602 Aich St., Phila .Tob. L. Wuller, Druggist, Butler, Pa. C ATARRH Elys'Creamßalm Effectually cleanses BBTTely's 73*| the nasal passages of WSWCffCAU DLX&m Catarrhal virus, caus- Sf> "oVt/;]?. in K healtliv secretions. FBCATAOLU cotPS'tVli I il 'hiys Inflammation, ■ ffiftfirif,, HEAD I protect* tin-membrane U | from additional col,ls, WiuSitom*'■ ©*" completely heals the y"«»*i.»Vk«»AS»sWii jM sores ami restores the tm* 2MU sense of taste and smell. Beneficial re |fg / suits are realize*) liy a JB few applications, A CS\<^ thorough treatment will cure Catarrh, Uay Fever. &<■. l>neipialea j for co!*lslnthe head. WlWl—g . I Agreeable to use. Ap- U AY- rIVFES r»ly by the little Hnger P!" 1 ■ C H. Mt.) the nostrils. On rev* i|it of! We.will mall a package. Sol*l by Butler druggists. KLY'a CKEAM BALM ("().. Oweco, N. Y. Valuable Farm For Sale. A farm, situated in Concord twp, Butler coun ty, Pa., midway between North Washington and Middletown, on the Hu'ler aud Kmlenton road, is for sale. The farm contains übotit H HI acres, HO cleared and in yood state of culti vation, aud the balance in good timber. The farm is well watered; is underlaid with eoal and liiu—stone; contains two tine orchards of graft ed fruit; a two-story frame house, containing 10 large rooms, bank barn, large frame lnillc hou e uud other buildings thereon. I-'or par ticulars, call on, or ud tress 'C. B. CONWAY, North Hope, B«)tler Co., Pa. Union Woolen Mills. I would deairo to call the attentiou of the public to tho Union Woolen Mill, Butler, Pa., where I have new and improved machinery for the manufacture of Barred and Gray Flannels, Knitting ard Weaving Yarns, and I can recomino.id them as being very dura ble, as they are manufactured of pure Butler county wool. Tlioy are beautiful in color, su perior in texture, and wiil be sold at vory low ori cis. For Bamples and pi ices, address. H. FULLEBTON, jr.!M,'7B-1 y) Butler. Pa RUPTUREiPSLES Cured on contract. Stifr anil certain niettunl. Utile or ;u> pain. 1 i'ilLout cuttint)or Iylnij. Rest ccroancl bean; for patients, s•'» to $S per week. I'or circulars ami other information acl dreus. Dr. 11. Siiil French Street, Erie, J'a. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1883 For Dyspepsia, All VI? I»l'|A Co!ltl Headache, r-0 r!ia;a, Jaundice, Impurity of tho Blood, Fever and 1 B Ague, Malaria. and all I)i*ca««** I ranpemcixt of Lirer, Bowel* and Kidneys. SYMPTOMS OF A DISF.ASFD LITER. Bad* Breath ; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism ; general loss of appetite; Rv.yels generally costive, metimes alternating with lax; thr head is trouble J with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensati* >n of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains of weariness and debility; nervous, easily start»eoctors* Bills will be saved by always keej/infc the Regulator in tlic House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly sa r e purgative, alterative and tonic can never be ut of place. The remedy is harmless and dot * «jct interfere with business or pleasure. IT I-; PURELY YEfiFTABLK, An I has ail the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor's Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been In use In my fa»7., v (or » rue time, and I am satisfied it is a v- uaUe addition to the medical science. J. (IT LL SHORTER, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga., > . I lav* diriveJ s me benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a L.rlher trial. "Thi! only Thing that never fails to II •IjeY*'."— I hr.ve used many r.mecits for Dys -1 Liver A (Section cud l/cluiity, but never i.avj t" -;r.d anything to benefit me to the extent ivmr ions Liv_r Regulator has. I sent from Min nes<.;a t > Georgia fur it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim jtarlyr* fleeted to give it a'trial as it seems the only tiling t:.at never fails to relieve. P. M. JAN: :I Y, Minneapolis, Minn. I>r. T. .W. Mason says: From actual ex pericnc* in the use of l ; imm r> Liver H .» rin ir.y prac:"?c 1 i.ave Lecz> and ;.m satisfied to use an j>rrscr.be it as a purgative medicine. { "'J k on! the Genuine, which ftlwavs h. <.. i J;.. Wr-i;;r . * fed Z TradeOli'.ik and Signature <>r J. H. ZEILIN & CO. FOR M.K nv ALL DRLGGISTS. The Secret •of the universal success of Brown's Iron Bitters is san ply this; 1c is the best Iron preparation ever made; is compounded on thoroughly scientific, chemical and . medicinal principles, and does just what is claimed i >r it—no more and no less. By thorough and rapid • assimilation with the blood, it reaches every part of the system, healing, purifying and strengthening. Com pienting at the foundation it builds up and restores lost health —in no other way can ladling benefit be obtained. j) Dearborn Ave., Chicago, Nov. 7. I have been a great sufferer fr »:fl a ve: y weak stomach, heartburn, aud dyspepsia in its worst form. Nearly IV -Milling I tc ff.iwc 1 •: d»>tress, end I could eat but little. I have tried everything recommended, have t i!.en t!ie pi cripti jns of a dozen physicians, but got no relief until 1 t;■ k Urown's Iron Hitters. I feel none of the old troubles, and am a r.ew man. 1 an* getting much stronger, and feel first-rate. lam a railroad engineer, and now ma e jny J rip*? regularly, I can not say too tnuc!i in praise of your wonder ful medicine. D. C, MACK. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS does hot contain whiskey or alcohol, and will not blacken the teeth, or cause headache and constipation. It will cure dyspepsia, indi gestion, heartburn, sleep lessness, dizziness, nervous debility, weakness, Ccc. Us. or' 7 Emwr.'s Tr-n Fitters made 1 y Jlrown Chemical Coy, Baltimore. Crowed fed lines and trade-mark ca wrapper. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor. Main and Cunningham Sts. J. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL, TREASUIIKB. H. C. lIEINEMAM, SKCRETAHY DIRECrOItS: J. L. Purvis, E. A. Hdaiboldt, William Campbell, J. W. Hurkhart, A. Trout man, Jacob Bcliocue, G. C. Rot'sning, John Caldwell, Dr. W. lrvin, J. J. Croll A. B. Rhodes, H. 0. Heineman. JAS, T. M'JUNKIK, GOll. Ae't .BUTLER I? A. tTlie Oreatt Invention of Hie age A 1* ATE XT 00l HI.E PI V\4> STOOL, Which is single when closed and ilciiilile u lii ii open. Awarded tile highest mod '!* < I exi'i ll'Mice and diploma at lis flrst exhibition. Stands ;n the head of all. ■*»«> jil where hi the market .1 wli' le alt; anil Mall. ; I*riecs the lowest. St>'"s the rati si. Send lur circular. Good pay and It iritory giv. ii more salesmen. Wilson l atent l'lano Stm 1 ('o. Ofllcp, No. Hot Walnut, i'liiia. Ja'-M-ly 11 ji B i j. TTlflltn? WANTED! 10Q.-2V I 1. HUilLllu BPKI.VU »n4 feet and 11 inches and rising slowly. It will certainly reach 05 feet before it 1 begins to fall. The weather is cloudy aud warm. The water works engines are idle, but there is water enough in the reservoir for six days. The police report no increase of crime in conse quence of the lack of gas last night. Much sickness is found among the im prisoned people in the tenement houses. Relief boats are busy visiting all such places, and ample means are at hand to prevent suffering. Common Council to-day voted to recommend an appropriation of 575-, 000 and to ask aid of the Legislature. A SHOCKING DISASTER is reported by telephone from the west ern part of the city. Both the freight and passenger depots of the Cincinnati Southern Bailroad were undermined and tell into the surrounding water, car rying with them a hundred or more peo ple. The depots were one-story frame structures, resting on the McLean avenue fill, which is almost covered by water. On both sides of the Gil the water is thirty to fifty feet and the earth has become so soaked as to melt. The catastrophe was further hastened by the breaking of a sewer, which sent the current along the bank. Crowds of people have been in that vicinity looking at the floods, and it is suppos ed these are the victims. The Southern Railroad depot is the only freight depot that went "down When Ryan's restaurant, a small building, went down, the crowd rush ed over on the platform of the depot to see what was the matter, when sud denly the whole depot collapsed and sunk in the water The track was at the same time depressed and the cars standing close ran into the depression, .covering the people who had gone down with the falling structure. Not one body had heeu recovered at 1 o'clock, nor could the bystanders give any intelligentaccount of how many es caped. The work of recovering the drowned will be exceedingly diflicult, as the place is isolated. The other part of the street is melting as this portion did. it is impossible, however, that the break in the great sewer in Mc- I Lean avenue caused the depot ts sink. SOME OF THE LOST. Later information makes it definitely certain that three boys, two freight handlers and four members of Coup's* circus are drowned. The bagtrage naster says that he heard a ru-iiing noise when Ryan's saloon wont down aud hurried around and saw the depot give away. He is sure that at ieast fifty people were thrown into the water. It now appears certain that the disaster was caused by the break ing of the great sewer. Twenty-five feet of one end of the freight depot and half of the passenger depot are gone, the latter beio£separated at the par tition between the waiting room and ticket office. Books, tickets, safe, etc., were gone in an instant. Till. '"|,iM.\X ''OMES —ALAItVISU SITUA TION. A gleam of hope came to-night when the reports showed the river had reached the highest point at 5 P. M., wheu the marks showed fio feet 1 £ inches, and though it reeeeded but half an inch during the next four hours the fact that the worst seemed over gave relief. The teusion has been so strong on the entire business portion of the city and the slightest raiii falling to night gives a sort of nervous apprehen sion of more disaster to come. The situation is alarming. It would re quire the publication of the greater portion of the directory to name the business men, especially in tobacco, produce, grain, commission, whisky and all kinds of manufacturing inter ests, whose business is wholly sus pended. Many of these also lose goods. Manufacturers also lose heavily iu damage to machinery and stock, aside from the loss of time. More than one thousand business firms and manufac tories are thus prostrated. Yet busi ness men are not disheartened nor self ish. These same men for two days have poured in contributions to the fund for the relief of the suffering among that much greater class, the poor, who are driven from home and deprived of work. It is estimated that thirty to forty thousand workmen are out of employment by the closing of manufactories. To them the loss of time and injury to household effects is the smallest loss. Dampness in the houses after the flood subsides must brintf sickness and suffering. LOUISVILLE. THIRTY-FIVE SQUARES OF THE CITY t'N DER WATER —WIDESPREAD RUIN. LOUISVILLE, February 13. —The greatest disaster that ever befell tho city of Louisville is now upon us. The flood crisis came about midnight, aud to-dav nearly a square mile of territory is under water. When the break came tl e cut-off dam, overcome by the terrific weight of water front above, gave way. Instantly, with a loud roar, the flood rushed over. It may be imagined with what force the waters came when they had a fall of from fifteen to eighteen feet to the low ground beneath. In less time than it takes to tell the yellow tide was sweeping in from all points, und the unfortunate people were sur prised in their houses. With a mighty rush the water swept from square to square, rapidly rising in the houses and swerving many from their founda tion. The roar of the waters could not drown the screams of the terrified ones, who were escaping from the doomed dwellings. Skiffs shot about from window to window. Men, women and children were washed through by the advancing waters, each with whatever household goods they could lay their hands on. Bonfires glimmered from | the higher ground, which the poor out casts had gained. Hundreds of people | shivered in wet clothing about smoky j fires. To an observer who stands to day at the foot of Jackson, Shelby or Clav streets, it is impossible to under stand why the loss of life was not larger. AN INDESCRIBABLE SCENE. The scone last night beggars de scription. The people who were bliss fully sleeping in foolish confidence that the embankment would shelter them were rudely awakened by the flood coming into their houses. Some were even surprised in bed wLen the stroke came. It was like lightning, lu the darkness and cold they Hod from their watery death half clothed carrying nothing with them except the children and the helpiess. No scene of a broken dyk? in Holland can be more terrible and thrilling. With an awful roar and shrieks of the terror stricken people, as without warning they hur ried to higher ground, leaving homes, furniture and all to the mercy of the water. A large part of this city has constituted itself into a relief commit tee, with the Mayor at its head, and all that can be done is being done to lend a helping hand. tTTFR DESOLATION. There are thirty-live squares nnder water. The situation may be briefly summed up All the points are under water and the country beyond the cut off, comprisirfg 150 houses known as Bowieville, is flooded. Half of Port land and all of Stiippingporl are in the waves. All day long a stream of peo ple passed up and down the Short Line track to look at the ruin wrought by the river. Tho outlook is appal ling. Houses are overturned, and some on their sides, some almost on their roofs. Other buildings are crushed to pieces. The most of the houses are small cottages of frail con struction, and perhaps a third of those in the flooded locality have been swept from their foundation. Doors, win dows, sashes and pieces of furniture, lumber, drift-wood und shingles are all floating about in confusion. In the lower hollow of the bottom lands the water is within a foot or two of the roofs of the houses. THK STFKERfNG PEOPLE. The entire is doinc all it can to succor the sufferers. There were cases of extreme individual suffer ing lust night, which the public may never know. Mothers hurried through rising waters with babies in their arms. In some cases sick people bad to be taken through windows and carried in skiffs to places of safety. Several were rescued from trees into which they had climbed. Along tho wharf the river Is still rising at the rate of an ! inch an hour, with a few inches over .30 feet in tho canal, 30 feet 8 inches in the chute on the fulls, and 34 feet 2 inches over the rocks. Business is entirely suspended on the wharf from First street around to Portland avenue. The river last year reached its highest mark at 37 feet 10 inches in the canal, but this year it has reached 38 feet, with an additional inch or two. The houses along the wharf arc in a miser cblo condition, as the water is in the second stories at Fourth street, and the people are moving higher to escape the water. SITUATION AT NIUIITFALL. The river continued to rise slowly i all day. It is now about sixty-six and a half feet at the mouth of the canal aud forty-one feet at the head. The weather is warmer, a light rain falling, with indications of increase during the njgbt. The rise is now an iuch above the flood of 1547 and eight inches be low that of 1832 On the point where the disaster occurred last night the flood extends over a space of over a quarter of a mile wide and more than a mile in length. SOME SINGULAR INCIDENTS. To-day Mayor Jacob chartered the steamer Mattie Hays and with a corps of men traversed the submerged dis trict, taking off a number of persons, and by means of boats supplying food to those who remained in houses above water. Many were in this way suc cored, as not all the houses were en tirely submerged, the upper stories of some still being habitable and the owners remaining. Singular incidents occurred during this trip. One man was found clinging to a tree. As the men approached him he cried aut, "Go over to that house; there is a woman and several children over there. I will hold here until you save them " The house was forty yards away. The men started, but before thep reached it the house was turned over and carried away in the rush of waters. No noise was heard and nothing is known whether the people were rescued or not. The information was that the family was still in the house. The man who was clinging to the tree was afterwards rescued and declared that a woman and several children were in the house when It turned over. The man did not know the names. A family named Watkins, living in the hollow near Adams street, had been importuned to move out of the 'house but the mother was sick and they did not believe that the water would come over. When the break came in the cut-off fill the water rush ed down upon them filling tho lower j floors of the bouse and rendering es-1 cape except by skiff impossible. The house was frame, moved from its i foundation and rocked to and fro in the water. At the moment when the danger came the woman was in pains of parturition In this condition the bed was taken up, put in a skiff and the worn in removed. The excitement at tending removal was such ns to throw her into spasms. Her recovery is doubtful. An old colored man named John Adams, living alone, ill with rheumatism, probably lost. LATER REPORTS OF DISTRESS. The Ohio river is still rising at Mad ison at the rate of one inch an hour Hundreds'of families have been com pelled to leave their homes. The city ■ is in total darkness, the gas works be- ' > ing submerged. Milton, Ky., opposite ' Madison, is entirely covered by water. Several buildings Boated off this morn • iDg, including- the warehouse belonging ■ to Hen Morris, Cassidy's wagon factory and other buildings. At Jeffersonville | a portion of the city is inundated,*aud i hundreds of families are homeless and ! destiiute. The gas works are flooded ! and lights gone out at New Albany. The river is still rising half au inch an hour. Raining at all points south of Madison to Kvansvilfe. Driftwood. SQI Kl.flMNii SUNSET COX. The only time Sam Cox was ever squelched, not counting (he "shoo fly" ot lieu liutler, was when Owen Love joy, of Illinois, did it in ISIJ2. Mr. | Cox had been making a long and ex- j | haustive speech in the House on the turiti". The members were all tired. In the middle of the speech the solemn , ; form of Mr. Lovejoy arose, got the eye j i of the Speaker, and said : "Mr. Speaker!" "The gentleman from Illinois!" said ' the Speaker. "I arise, Mr. Speaker," said Mr. Lovejoy, "to a question of privilege." I "Does the gentleman from New York yield the flojr?" asked the Speak er, addressing Mr. Cox. "1 will yield for a question of infor mation and not otherwise," said Mr.- Cox. "I do desire to ask a question for in formation," said Mr. Lovejoy. "Very well, Mr. Speaker," said Mr. Cox, "I yield to the gentleman from Illinois." "The gentleman from Illinois now has the floor," said the Speaker. Mr. Lovejoy now arose slowly and majestically. "Mr. Speaker," he said slowly, I arise for iu-for-ma-tion. I wish to ask the gentleman from New York a ques tion." Mr Cox—"Let him ask it." "I wish," said Mr. Lovejoy,'•to-ask the-gentleinanfrom- New -.York - if - he- j has-got-most-through ?" [Loud ter all over the House, when Mr. Cox moved an adjournment.]— Chicago Tribune. AN HONEST OPINION. ! A commercial traveler finished his " supper at a hotel in the western part of the State the other night, and drew up 1 to the stove alongside of a stranger anil said: 1 "Are you acquainted in the town ?" • "Yes, somewhat." •"Is this the best hotel?" "They say so." "Theu I wish I. had bought some 1 crackers and cheese and crawled into a 1 hay stack. Did you see how dirty the table cloth was ?" 1 "1 didn't notice in particular." "And such biscuit and slop, and ' such napkins! I can imagine what the beds are ?" "Yes" 1 "The paper on the wall will be > mouldy, the washstaud on three legs, ! the pitcher without a handle and the " bed full of bugs. It is a shaine and a disgrace to call such a place a hotel." ' There was a moment of silence for the traveler to light his pipe, and then he continued : "Yea, it's a shame. I'd like to run ; a hotel like this lor a year." "Well, I'll sell out to you." "You! What have you got to do! with it?" "Oh, I'm the owner and the land-. lord!" was the calm reply. The traveler didn't try to smooth it over or laugh it off. He knew that anything he could say would be adding insult to injury. k I THE EDUCATED COOK. It is Mrs. Cobb'scandid opinion that, in some cases, education is not of much benefit to the human race. Mrs. Cobb has a colored cook who says she graduated at a female ceme tery, who can read, and who gives up much of her time to perusing the cook book. A few mornings ago the cook, whose name is Mandy, was told to make some cake. A short time after wards she appeared at the parlor with the cook book in her hand and said : "1 wants yer to send right off to de store and get some latter to put in de cake." •Some what?" "Some latter." "Latter?" "Yes, latter. Is'e douc tole yer four times." i "In the name of common-sense, [ what is latter ?" "1 dunno what hit am, I didn't write dis heah book. Hit reads dat a 1 ' cup full ob de latter should be put in J de cake to make hit good." Mrs. Cobb jerked the book out of the ' cook's hand, and, at the place indicated, j read : "Mix up the dough with a cup of J water, or of sweet milk, but the latter I is the best." ABOUT TWINS. "So you have got twins at your j t bou.-e," said Mrs. Bezumbe to little , Tommy Samuelson. "Yes, mum, two of "em." "What ar« you poing to call them ?" "Thunder and Lightning." •'Why, those are strange names to , call children." "Well, that's what pa called them as soon as he heard they were iu the house.— Terns Si f lings. didn't like tiie source. A little city jrirl recently went to ■ visit her grandfather iu the country, a She is fond of milk, but firmly refused • to drink any while there, without | c giving any reason. When she return- , f ed she was asked, "You had nice milk 1 t to drink while there, hadn't you?" "I } gues» I didn't drink any ot that milk," f she indignantly replied. "I>j you c know where grandfather got it ? I saw e him squeeze it out of an old cow !" 1 Doi/lt'dtown Intelligencer. c A Apele for Are to the Sextant. [ < • Sextant of the meetinouse which sweejw : Anld which don't cw»i iiuihia; W'u I. mi re than a ty thing except the Sole of Man! I wean juwer Are, Sextant, I m an pewer A»e! 0 it is plenty oat o dores, so pleti'y it doant no Ys ha; or. airth to do with itself, l.ut flizcalmut Souerin leave and bloin off men'* bata : In short its jest as free as Are out dores; But «» Sextant [ in our church its scarcea« pietv. Scarce a> l.ankbils when ajui-.t* bee for m'sh n ns. Which sum say is party often, taiut notbin to me. What I give aiut uuthin to n..U>dy : But O Sextant! You ahet 00 men women anil children Speshily the latter, ut> in a tite place. Sum has bad breths, noue of ein aint too sweet, Sam is fevery, sum is scroti us, sum his ba«l Wetb • And sum aint none, and sum aiut over clean: But every one of em brethes in and out and oat and in Say 50 times a minuet, or 1 million and a half breths an hour : Now how long will a cherch full of are last at that rate? 1 ask you: say fifteen minuets and theu what's to be did ? \\ by then they must brethe it all iverajin, Aud then ngin and so on, tiii each has took it dowa At least ten times and then left it up agin, ami what's more, The same individual doant liev the privilge Ofhrethin his own are aud no ones else. Kaeh one must take wotever comes to him. O Sextant! doant you kuowour lungs is bel -1 usses. I To bio the tier of life and keep it from | Going out; and how can bellusses bio without wind ? . And aint wind are? I put it to votir konshena, Are is the -auie to us as milk to babies, | Or water is to fish, or |»endlums to clox, Or roots und airbs unto an Injun doctor. Or litle pills onto an omepath, *>r Boze to curls. Are is for us to brethe. What signifies who preaehe* ef I cant brethe? Wliats l'ol Wlists Pollus to sinner* who are ded ? l>ed for want of brelh Why Sextant when we dye Its only cause we cant breths no more—thats all And now < > Sextant! let me beg of yon To let a leetle are into our cherch (Pewer are is sertin proper for the. pews) And dew it on wek days and Sund tys tew It aint much trubble—only make a hoal, And then the are will come in of itnelf (It loves to come in where it can git warm . And o how It will rouze the people ap And spirrit up the preecher, ami stop gaps And yorns and fijjits as etTectool As %vind on the dry boans the Profit tet» < )('. - Tin th nihil. W ' rkhl Clothes Pins. Probably very few realize the extent of the manufacture of clothes pins, and the amount of capital employed in the business. Their manufacture is mostly confined to Xew Kngland, and the State of Maine produces its share of the commodity. According to the Rangor Industrial Journal, one of the most complete and extensive clothes pin factories is locat ed at Yanceboro, Me. From the same source the process of manufacturing the pins, as carried on at the Yance boro Wooden Ware factory, is given. The wood used is mainly white birch and beech. The Injjs are cot and hauled to the shores of the lake or the streams emptying into it, whence 1 they are floated down to th * mill A* fast as required they are haaled into the mill by a windlass and chain work -led by steam power, and cawed into | lengths of Hi or 22 inches—the former to lie made into pins, and the latter into boards for the boxes required in packing. The 111-inch lengths are next sawed into boards of the requisite* thickness by a shingle machine, then into strips of the proper size by a gang of 12 circular saws, and finally into 5-inch lengths by a gang of :t saws. The logs have now been cut up into blocks about five inches long aud three fourths of an inch square. Falling, as they leave the saws, on an elevator belt, they are carried into an upper story, and returning to the first floor are deposited in troughs, whence they are fed to the turning lathes, of which there are several—each being capable of turning 80 pins per minute. They are then passed to the slotting machine*, in which a peculiar arrangement of knives inserted in a circular saw gives the slot the proper flam»e, after which tbey are automatically carried b 7 elevator belts to the drying bins on the second floor, where they are subjected to a high temperature, generated by steam pipes, until thoroughly seasoned. There are several of these bins, the largest of which has a capacity of 100 boxes, 7:2,000 pais, and the smaller oues 50. The pins are now ready for polishing and packing. The polishing is accom plished by means of perforated cylinders or drums, each capable of holdinir forty bushels, in which the pins are placed aud kept constantly revolving until they become as smooth as if polished by hand wfch the finest saud paper. A few minutes before this process is com pleted, a small amount of tallow is thrown in the drums with the pins, after which a few more revolutions gives them a l>eaiitiful glossy appear ance. These polished drums are sus pended directly over the packing counter on the first floor of the mill, and bring thus immediately beneath the eeiliog of the fl.*»r above, are read ily filled through scuttles from the dry iug bins on the second floor, and as easily emptied upon the roaster below, wii'-re thev are sorted into first and second grades, and parked in Imxes of five gross each. Tbe sorting and (Nick ing arc done by pirls Two hundred and fifty boxes are parked prr day The market for clothes piu is not confined to any special locality, bat is found nearly all over the w<>rUl. Tea thousand boxes have tree hip?**d to Melbourne, Australia, with tbu pa«t four months. Ten firms n I. ndoi carry a stock of ten thou sand b««x« * each, and two firms in Rost >n carry a like amount. One thousand hoiti constitute a load. NO. 14