VOL. XX. n.if.rmGH. «—arwMMM ~ A NEW FIRM.| DEY GOODS ■ NOTION HOUSE PRDGH 11 WBITZBL WILL, ON OK A BOLT .A. J? H I L 2n cl, 1883, Open Their New Stock of Diy Goods end Notions ! ' For Ihe examination of lite public, iu the room formerly occupied by Scott's Confectionary, UNION BLOCK, MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA- §T ERMS CAS HI JOHN BICKEL, WHO IS TIE Silt ISIIT FOR TIESE SHOES 111 GHTUR. And Who Takes Orders for the Custom Work of this Firm. ALSO 350 Pairs of Slippers, bought at Sheriff's Sale to be closed out cheap. ALSO SOO Pairs of Plow Shoes, all sizes, to be sold cheap. ' ALSO A large assortment of Mens' Fine Wear in all the Latest Styles, Low and High Cuts English Bals, Buttons, Dom Pedro, etc. ALSO All the Best New England, New York and Philadelphia m * kes of all kinds ol boots, shoes and slippers always on hands. ALSO All kinds of Leather and Findings, large stock of French Ca]f and Kips, American Calf and Kips, Moroccoes, Linings, Sheffield lted Sole and Baltimore Oak-Sole Leather. ALSO Our own Hand Work, which CANNOT be excelled in Butler either for Style, Work or Material. ALSO Farmers can have their repairing and mending done on the same day they bring it in. JOHN BICKEL, MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA. •NEW STORE. NEW STOCK A NEW AND COMPLETE STOCK OF " IIUIHIR IIP [Mines Jim HUM 11 OAK ANI) HKMI.OCK SOUS, FRENCH AND DOMESTIC KII'AND CAI.F, COM,AK, WEI.T, SKIRTING UPPER, BEI.TIXG, HARNESS AND LACE I.KATIIF.K ROA"N AUSTID ZPIHSTIK: zLizsriiN-a-s, ETC. ALSO SI ASi UK ACT 111 l KII OK AM. KINDS OF Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Collars, Etc,, Etc, And carry a foil Btock of Wliipa, Itoben, Blanket?, BriißhCH, ami all other Gooiln belonging to tlie ISiiHinoHH. All Kinds of Repairing will Receive Prompt Attention. teFTloaae call and examine our Ooodw and got Prices before yon ]>urclia»o elsewhere. Plastering Hair Always on Hand. CASH PAID FOR HIDES AND PELTS. C. ROESSING, Beiber's Block Jefferson Street, opponitc Lowry Houwe. Butler, Pa I A 4 *7.Ve«U»bleTn^Kl«we^K«e^Tilt«lo«n^tor B *O/ A IHHB wiUlic scnl Hkkk to ail who ipply. Customers of I # ®W® n nerd not wrirc for it. All seed sent from my I establishment warranted to t>e both fresh and true to name, ■ so far, that should it prove otherwise, I agree to reldl the ■ Vf Wl -Zrorder gratis. My collection of vegetable seed is one of Ak y, w*gWW- - most extensive to l»e found in any American catalogue, la part of it of my own growing. As th« original Ila t roil ucer of Karly Ohio and Burbunk I Potatoc*. Mftrblehcud Karly Corn, the llubbard Miirh.< h«-<»d ('abbaft, Fhlanr) , « Melon, and a smxn of other new invite the patron nue of the public. In thu gardens and on the farms I those who plant my seed will be found my beat a<Uertmr | mcnt. Jamea J. H« Qreg;Ory f Marblehcad. Mass. DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article* for Univc »al Family Uso. ■mm mm , ■ Typliohl FCVCTS, H Eraa:ca:es rawphtheria, sau § KALABIA. all Contagious Diseases. Person l ; waiting on the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread w here the Fluid was used Yellow Fever has been cured w ith it after black vomit had taken place. The worst cases of Diphtheria yield to it. Fevered and Sick f*er- SMAUL-POX sons refreshed and and I Bed Sores prevent- PITTING of Small ed by bathing with p ox PREVENTED Darbys FluiJ. A member of my fam -lin pure Air made .. WM taken y with harm - ss '^VSmall-pox. 1 used the For Sore Tl.roa uu> a .^ he ,i ent wa4 sure cu || e _ n ,t delirious, was not Contain destroyed ■ anJ was jhout *"£ * "'• tl.c h mse again in three Chilblains, Piles, rr) othcr , Chafing*. etc. had it. — J. W. PARK- Rheumatism cured. PH;ladelnhia Boft White Complex lons secured by its use. B Kliip Fever prevented, g to purify the Breath, g Diphtheria £ Cleanse the Teeth, c f u Catarrh relieved and U Prevent 3d. | Krvslpelas cured. r\si c— | Burns relieved instantly. The physicians hers i Scars prevented. , ISC Darbys Fluid very Dysentery cuved. successfully in the treat- Wounds healed rapidly. inent c f Diphtheria. Scurvy cured. \ STOLLIINWERCK, An Antidote for An: raal Greensboro, Ala. or Vegetable Poisons, Stings, etc. Je Iter dried up. 1 used the Fluid during Cholera prevented, cur present affliction with Ulcers purified and Scarlet Fever with de- healed, cided advantage. It is In cases of Death it indispensable to the sick- should be used about room. Wm. F. SAND-. corpse —it will FORD, Eyrie, Ala. j prevent any unpleas -31111 sni ell. The eminent Phjr ■ n , ■ sici.au, J. MAICION ■ Scarlet Fever I SIMS, M. D„ »W H 5 York, says: "I am fin fin VRA H convinced Prof. Darbys N ULUJIU 1 PR l OPH B > , LA D C - TI - C £ ,UID IS .. A Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 1 testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. As a disinfectant and determent it is both theoretically an l practically superior to any preparation with which I ain ac quainted.—N. T. LUKTOS, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid is Kecomtnendcd by Hon ALF.XANDEK H. STF.PHHNS, of Georgia; Kev. CHAS. F. DEEMS, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. V.; Jos. LrCONTE,Columbia, Prof. t Universitv.S.C. Kev. A. J. Haitle, Prof., Mercer University; Kev. GEO. F. PIERCE, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABL.K TO KVEIIY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or H:a t. 'J he Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. Fir fuller informati on get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. 11. ZEILIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHII«AI>ELPHIA STRENGTH to vigorously push a business, strength to study a profession, strengtli to regulate a household, strength to do a day's labor with out physical pain. All this repre sents what is wanted, in the often heard expression, "Oh! I wish ! had the strength!" If you are broken down, have not energy, or feel as if life was hardly worth liv ing, you can be relieved and re stored to robust health and strength by taking BROWN'S IRON BIT TERS, which is a true tonic—a medicine universally recommended for all wasting diseases. got N. Fremont St., Baltimore During the war I was in jured in the stomach by a piece of a shell, and have suffered from it ever since. About four years ago it brought on paraly sis, which kept me in Led six months, and the best doctors in the city said i could not live. I suffered fearfully from indigestion, and for over two years could not eat solid food and for a large portion of the time was unable to retain even liquid nourishment. 1 tried lirown'h Iron Hitters and now after taking two bottles I am able to get up and.go around and am rapidlv improving. G. DECKER. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS is a complete and sure remedy for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Malaria, Weakness and all diseases requir ing a true, reliable, non-alcohoiic tonic. It enriches the blood, gives new li f e to the muscles and tone to the nerves. BUTLER COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Office Cor, Main and Cunningham Sts, G. C. ItOESSING, PRESIDENT. ' WM. CAMPBELL, TKRASCKKK H. C. 11 EI NEM AN, SECRETARY DIRECTORS: J. L. Pin vis, K. A. llelmboldt, William Campbell, J. W. Burkhart, A. Troutman, Jacob Sehoene, G. C. Roessinjf, John Caldwell, Dr. VV. Irvin, J. J. Croll A. B. Rhodes, I H. C. Hcinem&n. JAS, T» M'JUNKIN, Gen, As't BUTLER tTlir (i rent i si Invention of I In- :i(;< A IWTF\TI>OI IIU 1*1.4 ]\o STOOL, Whiell is single vvlirn Hosed :in< double when Ope n. Av, ;irtleil Ihi ili(;liest liie<l:ils of e\eeilenee MIK <li|>loin;i ;il its lir-t exhibition Siiiinlsitl the head of all. tmuoul ead.V iu use. I.;irnesl -lock o; double ami single stools any wliere'tn t lie market at wholi'sate and retail l th(: lowest. SUles Hie latest. Send foi eliuular. <;ood pay and Territory >;uen inori salehinen. Wil-o i I'alent I'iano Sto< I Co. uniee No. llot Walnut, I'lliln. JaJW.ly If If lit B? WANTED $ 100. >££*. I imm Wl'Kl.vi; Jnd' WSsm MF.i<l ri A.Vlr«s J c. McCI'KUY Si Co., l'tuUdrlphu.l'a. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1883 INITIATED IN MASONRY. The Bad Boy Gives His Father The Royal Bumper Degree. "Say, are you a Mason, or a Nodfel low, or anything?" asked the bad bov of the grocery-man as he went to : the cinnamon bag on the shelf and took out a long stick of cinnamon bark to chew. "Why, yes, of course I am; but what set you to thinking of that ?" | asked the grocery-man, as he went to the desk and charged the boy's father I with half a pound of cinnamon. "Well, do the goats buut when you ' nishiate a fresh candidate ?" "No, of course not. The goats are ! cheap ones that have life, and we muzzle them, and put pillows over their heads, so they cant hurt any body," says the grocery-man, as he : winked at a brother Odd Fellow who was seated on a sugar barrel, looking mysterious. "But why do you ask ( "O, nuthin, only 1 wish me aud my j chum bad muzzled our goat with a pillow. Pa would have enjoyed his becoming a member of our lodge bet- ' ter. You see, pa had been telling us | how much gocd the Masons and Old Fellers did, and said we ought to try and grow up good, so we could jine the lodges when we got big, aud I asked pa if it would do any hurt for us to have a plav lodge in my room and purtend to nishiate, and pa said it would not do any hurt. He said it would improve our minds and teach us to become men. So my chum aud me berried a goat that lives in a livery stable and carried him up to my room when pa aud ma was out riding, but the goat blatted so we had to tie a handkerchief around his nose, and his feet made such a noise on the floor that we put some baby's socks on his feet. Well, sir, my chum me practiced with that goat until he could bunt the pic ture of a goat every time. Wc borried a buck beer sign from a saloon man and hung it on the back of a chair, and the goat hit it every time. That night pa wanted to know what we were do ing up iu m} T room, aud I told him we were playing lodge, and improving our minds, and pa said that was right, and that there was nothing that did boys of our age half so much good as to imitate men, and store by youth ful knowledge. Then my chum asked pa if he didn't want to come up and take the grand bumper degree, and pa laughed and said he didn't care if he did, just to encourage the boys in in nocent pastime that was so improving to oui intellect. We had shut the goat j up in the closet in my room, and he bad got over his blatting, so we took off the handkerchief, and he was eat- 1 ing some of my paper collars and j skate straps. Wc went up stairs and told pa to 1 come up pretty soon and give three distinct raps, and when we asked him ' who comes there he must say 'a pil grim who wants to join your ancient order and ride the goat.' Ma wanted to come up, too, but we told her if she 1 came in it would break up the lodge, * 'cause a woman couldn't keep a secret,' and we didn't have any side saddle for the goat. Say, efyou never tried it, the next time you nishiate a man in 1 your Mason's lodge you sprinkle a little kyan pepper on the goats beard ' just before you turn him loose. You . can get three times as much fun to the ' square inch of goat. Well, we got all fixed and pa rapped, and we let him in aud told him he must be blindfolded, and he got on his kuees laughing, arid j I tied a towl around his eyes and then I turned him around and made bim j get on his hands also, and then his J l ack was right toward the closet door, J and I put the buck beer sign right 1 against pa's clothes. He was a lading all the time, and said we boys were full of fun as they made 'em, and we told him it was a solemn occasion, that we wouldn't permit no levity, and if he wouldn't stop laffing we couldn't give him the grand bumper degree. Then everything was ready, and my chum had his hand on the closet door and some kyan pepper in his other hand, 1 asked pa iu low bass tones if he felt as tlio 1 he wanted to turn back, or if he had nerve to go ahead and take the degree. I warned him that it was full of dangers, as the goat was loaded for beer, and told him he yet had time to retrace his steps if he wanted to. lie said he wanted the whole business, and we could go on with the manage rie. Then I said to pa that if he de cided to go ahead and not blame us for the consequences, to repeat after me the following: "Bring forth the Royal Bumper and let him bump !" Pa re peated the words, and my chum sprinkled the kyau pepper on the goat's moustache, and he sneezed once and looked sassy, and then he saw the lager beer goat rearing up, and he > started for it just like a cow-catcher snd blatted. Fa is real fat, but he knew he had got hit, apd he grunted and said: "Hell's fire! what are you boys doin'?" and then the goat gave } him another degree, and he pulled off j the towel and got up aud started for the stairs, aud so did the goat, and ma j was at the bottom of the stairs listen- ( ing, aud when I looked over the banis ters pa and ma and the goat were all i In a heap, and pa was yelling murder, j ,' and ma was screaming fire, and the ■ ' goat was Matting, and sneezing, and bunting, and the hired girl came into j the hall and the goat took after her, ! i and she crossed herself just as the goat j ; \ hit her, and said: "Howly mother pro- 1 r tect me !" and went down stairs the Way we boys slide down hill, with j [ both hands on herself, and the goat . rared up and blatted, and pa and ma | went into their room and shut the | door, and then my chum and me open ed the front door and drove the goat out. The minister, who comes to see ! nia three times a week, was just ring- 1 i ing the bell, and the goat thought he i wanted to be nishiated, too, aud gave him one for luck, and then went down ! the sidewalk blatting and sneezing, I and the minister came in the parlor and said he was stabbed, and then pa, came out of his room with his suspeu-1 c'ers hanging clown, and as he didn't know the minister was there, he said cuss words, and ma cried and told pi he would go to hell sure, and pa said he didn't care, he would kill the cus sed goat after he went, and I told pa the minister was in the parlor, and he and ma went down and said the weath er was propitious for a revival, and it seemed as though au outpouring of the spirit was about to be vouchsafed his people, and none of them sat down but ma, 'cause the goat didn't hit her, and while they was talking religion with their mouths, and cussiu' the goat in wardly, mv chum and me adjourned the lodge, and I went and stayed with him all the night, and I hain't been home since; but I don't believe pa will lick me, 'cause he said he would not hold us responsible for the consequen ces. He ordered the goat himself, and we filled the order, don't you see? Well, I guess I will go and sneak in the back way and find out from the hired girl how the land lays. She won't go back on me, 'cause the goat was not loaded for hired girls. She just happened to get in at the wrong time. Good-by, sir. Remember and give your goat kyau pepper iu your lodge." As the boy went away, and skip ped over the back fence, the grocery man said to his brother Odd Fellow, "If that boy don't beat the devil, then I never saw one that did. The old man ought to have him sent to the re form school."— Peck's Sun. j A MODEL CANDIDATE. Who Wants to he Elected Mayor of live City of Bradford. Ezra Crossman, Esq., a candidate for Mayor in the city of Bradford, Pa., comes out in the following card: "I am a candidate for the office of Mayor of the city of Bradford, and will be until the polls close on election day, unless the salary is reduced below $5.00 lam opposed to gambling houses. I think they are no benefit to au oil town, and I will use all the power vested iu a Mayor to close every house in the city, and 1 think th" Mayor has sufficient power {o do it. I am not in favor of fining prosti tutes a small sum—which amounts really to a license—and collecting it periodically from them at their houses. 1 will use all the power vested in a Mayor to banish these houses of pros titution from our midst, and I think ! the Mayor has sufficient authority to do I it, by arresting not only the keepers, J but the owners. I will not retain a policeman who cannot see a iiouse of prostitution or a gambling den or a violation of the liquor law. Blind men are not fit for policemen. I am not in favor of saddling a debt of $120,000 upon the public for water works. I do not believe it proper for the Mayor-to give a stack of city warrants iu blank to be filled out by the clerk, and 1 will not do it. I will not sign every warrant drawn by the poor masters. I will enquire first what they are givtn for, and if not proper will not sign them. 1 will attend to the duty of holding a morning court. I am not in favor of the liquor traffic in any shape, and will rigorously en force not only the ordinances but the law against all violations of the liquor laws, and will vote for better laws ; and when a man or woman is brought before me charged merely with being drunk, if he or she will tell me where he or she got his or her liquor, I will let him or her go and prosecute the liquor seller. There shall be no liquor selling ou Sunday through front or back doors. J believe the Mayor's salary should He reduced to sf>oo per year. I am not opposed to fireman's parades, but I will use the power vested in the Mayor to see that we are re lieved from firemen's annual drunks. - I believe that no other candidate has put himself upon record in print upon these questions. No man, woman or friend has asked me to be a candidate or suggested it, and I do not expect the nomination from either of tjie parties, so I am at liberty to say if any other man will de clare himself as 1 have done, whom I think otherwise qualified for the office of Mayor, I will withdraw in his favor, "l»y your works shall ye be justified, and by your works shall ye be con demned." I mean every word I say. and I be lieve this announcement will defeat me, but I want to .see whether the people who want these things done will support one whom they know will do them. They are In a majority and can haye it all their own way." jK Sensitive Tree. An "angry tree," a species of acaeia, is growing on a farm in Virginia, Ne vada. It was brought from Australia, j and is now eight feet high and grow ing rapidly It shows all the charac teristics of the sensitive plant. When I the sun sets its leaves fold together and the ends of the tender twigs coil |up like a pigtail. if the twigs are handled the leaves move uneasily for j a minute or more. A singular thing | concerning the tree was its apparent resentment on being rcniovtd from a | pot, in which it had matured, iuto a ; much larger pot. To use the gardner's expression, it "made it very wad." ; Hardly had it been placed in its new j quarters before the leaves began to , stand out in all directions, like the j hair on the tail of an angry cat, and j soon the whole plant was in a quiver. At the same time it gave out an odor most pungent and sickening, resem ! bling the odor given o£j' by rattle snakes and other kinds of snakes when teased. This odor so filled the house that it was necessary to open the doors and windows. It was fully an hour before the plant calmed down and fold ed iis leaves iu peace. i —1 land-organs are ripening. AN INFIDEL'S OATH. Judge Briggs Defines What Belief is Necessary to Qual ify a Witness. From the Philadelphia Times. .Judge Briggs, iu a comprehensive opiuion, ruled that atheists and all others who do not believe iu a Divine Being and Divine rewards and punish ments are incompetent as witnesses. Tbe matter was brought up on a mo tion for a new trial, in t! uit of Lucas against Piper, the grouud for the motion being that Judge Briggs bad admitted the testimony of Robert Becker, who said that though he be lie veil in a Creator of the universe and in a Supreme Power which would pun ish Lim here for false swearing, be did not believe in God as commonly un derstood by the people, nor in a per soi.al (Jod, nor (iod as an entity. Tln-re was no other evidence in sup port ct the objection to the witness. In his opinion the Judge said: "With some doubt I admitted the witness. Was this proper in the light of tho law? SomethiDg more is requir ed to render one competent as a wit ness i han a belief in a Supreme Power, i simply as a power or principle which may be tlie restless, natural laws, as exhibited by the motion and operation of tLe elements, and to violate which will surely bring punishment to the transgressor. The belief required by t'U.- laws is a belief in the existence of an omniscient Supreme Being, who will impose divine punishment for per jury either iu this world or in the next. If the belief be short of this it lulls under the ban of legal condemna tion. Mr. Greenleaf 'On Evidence' thus expresses himself iu discussing the point under consideration: The third class of persons incompetent to testily as witnesses consists of those who are insensible to the obligation of au oath from defect of religious senti ment and belief. The very motive of an oath, it being a religious and most solemn appeal to God as the Judge of all men, presupposes that the witness believes iu the existence of au omniscient Supreme Being who is the re warder of truth and the avenger of lalsehood, and that by such a lortnal appeal the conscience of tbe witness is affected. Without this belief tbe per son cannot be subject to that sanction which the law deems an indispensable test of truth. It is not sullicieut that the witness believs himself bound to speak the truth from a regard to char acter or from fear of punishment which the law inflicts upon persons guilty of perjury.' WHAT IS REQUIRED OK A WITNESS. "Such motives have, indeed, their influence, but they are not considered as affording a suflicient safeguard for the strict observance of truth. Our law, in common with the laws of most civilized countries, requires the addi tional security afforded by the relig ious sanction implied in an oath, and as a necessary consequence rejects wit nesses who are incapable of giving that security. Atheists, therefore, and all iuiidels—that is, those who profess no religion that can bind their consciences to speak the truth—are rejected as in competent to testify as witnesses. In the Law Reporter this view is expressed: 'The law is sure in requir ing the highest attainable sanction for the truth of testimony given ; and is consistent in rejecting all witnesses in capable of feeling this sanction or of receiving this test, whether this inca pacity arises (roiu the inability of the understanding or its perversity. It does not impute guilt or blame to eith er. If the witness is evidently intoxi cated he is not allowed to be sworn because, for the time being, he is in capable of feeling the force and obliga tion of an oath. The non-comp. and the infant of tender age are rejected for the same reason, but without blame. The atheist is also rejected, because he, too, is incapable of realizing the obligation of an oath, in consequence of his un belief. The law looks only to the fact of incapacity, not the cause or the man ner of avowal. Whether it be calmly insinuated with the elegance of Gibbon or worded forth with tho disgusting blasphemies of Paino, still it is athe ism, and to request the mere formality of an oath from one who avowedly despises or is incapable of feeling its peculiar sanction would be but a mock ery of justice. REUUIOUS RELIEF NECESSARY. Mr. Starkie says: 'lt seems that the witness ought to be admitted if ho be lieves in the existence of a God who will reward or punish him in this world although he does not believe in a future state. But it is not sufficient that he believes himself bound to speak in truth, merely from a regard to char acter or the interest of society or of fear of punishment by the temporal law.' It is useless to multiply authorities, for those already referred to exhibit the law as recognized by all civilized countries, except in those States where it has been modified by express legisla tion. It hence follows that the faith of a witness should be a religious belief of some kind iu the existence of an om niscient being who will reward and punish, either horo or hereafter, for goad and evil deeds. A belief in a power, as exhibited in the forces of na ture, and call it supreme, and yet ig nore that that power is the handiwork of the omniscient and omnipotent God, is totally insufficient to meet the law's requirements. Nor is any advance gained by asserting that he who vio lates tho law of nature will be punish ed, for admittedly such punishment will follow with unorring certainty. If one jump over board in mid-ocean or thrust his hand in a raging fire, or vi olate any law of his natural existence, he would be immediately punished just in the proportion that he violated these natural laws. It is in this sense that Shelly, with his charming grace and eloquence of style and sublime poetic conception, wrote his 'Queen Mab.'j lie assumes that "All-sufficing nature can chastise I Those who transgress her laws. She only I knows ' How to proportion to the fault ] The punishment it merits." AN INSUFFICIENT RELIEF. The sentiment running through this master-piece of the poet, and which has been said to be 'his honor as a poet and disgrace as a man,' totally ignores the existence of a God, aud yet he maintains the doctrine of punishment —that happiness and misery and re wards and punishments are alone the sequents of human action without Di vine interposition and that death is au endless sleep. A belief in such a pun ishment is not a belief in Divine pun ishment and is clearly insufficient to i render one entertaining it competent to testify under our law. While the witness Becker said he | believed in a supreme power that would punish him here for false swear ing he would not say he believed that power divine, and he totally denied the personality of God and of God as gener ally understood by the people. With such a belief how can he be said to be in fear of Divine punishment for testi < fying falsely? His belief being cefec | tive in this respect it falls short of one I of the legal requirements which is in : dispensable to exist to entitle him to be examined as a witness in the courts of this State. It follows that I erred in receiving his testimony and that a new trial should be ordered." Information for Pensioners. WASHINGTON, March s. —The follow ing circular has been issued by the Commissioner of Pensions and approv ed by the Secretary of the Interior: The following regulations are pre scribed for the purpose of carrying into effect as speedily as possible the pro visions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1883, increasing to §3O per month the pensions of those who lost a leg at or above the knee, or an arm at or above the elbow, and of those who have been so disabled as to be in capacitated for performing any manual labor, but not so much as to require regular personal aid or attendance, aud who are now receiving a pension at the rate of §24 per month, and to §24 per month the pensions of those who have lost one hand, or one foot, or been totally or permanently disabled in same, or otherwise so disabled as to render their incapacity to perform manual labor equivalent to loss of a hand or foot, and now receiving $lB per month. Inasmuch as said act has immediate effect upon such admitted cases as have been adjudicated at the rates of §24 and §lB per month re spectively, no formal application by the beneficiary is necessary to bo made other than to forward to the Commis sioner of Pensions the pension certifi cate, accompanied by a letter stating in the handwriting of the psusioner his present postoffiee address. As soon as possible after receipt of the pension certificate aforesaid, the Commissioner will re-issue to him a new certificate for the new rate, and will forward the same to the proper pension office to in scribe the name of such pensioner on the roll at the increased rate and to make to pensioner proper payment. In case of amputation the certificate will be re-issued without any further medi cal examination. The intervention of agent or attorney in such admitted cases as are affected by this act being unnecessary, will not be recognized. Protecting His Character. Entering the shop of bis tailor the other day, he said: "Sir, I owe you sixty dollars." "Yes, sir, you do." "And I have owed it for a year." •"You have." "And this is the fifth postal card you have sent me regarding the debt?" "I think it is the fifth." "Now, sir, while I cannot pay the debt for perhaps another year, I pro pose to protect my character as far as possible.—Here are twelve two-cent stamps. You cau use them in sending me twelve monthly statements of ac count, and can thus save your postal cards and my feelings at the same time." It is said that the tailor has credited the twenty-lour cents on account, and feels that he has secured more of the debt than he had any reason to hope for. An Egg Problem. There is an egg problem which is said to be very afflicting to the small mathematicians. Here it is: Two men entered a grocery with 30 eggs each. The groceryman agrees to pay one at the rate of 1 cent for 2 eggs, and the other 1 cent for 3 eggs, which is 2 cents for ev#ry 5 eggs. It is clear that he paid one man 15 cents for his eggs and the other 10 cents for bis eggs. A third man comes in lor eggs, and the grocerymcn si^'s: "I will soil those eggs at the same rate I bonglit them, that is, 5 eggs for 2 cents." They were sold; and it is plain that they only brought 24 cents. The groceryman lost just one cent in the transaction. How did this occur? A Hidden Treasure Found I'' ARMEITS vi I.LE, 0., February 13. The luckiest man in all this county is one Simon Shrimplin, a farmer living a few miles west of here. He had oc casion to cut down a very old apple tree in his dooryard and, when splitting it, he found imbedded in the trunk a small tin can which, on opening, he found contained 48 bright §2O gold pieces, making in all §OOO. How it ever got there is a complete mystery, as the can was imbedded to the depth of eight inches in the wood. —"ls the lady of the house in?" asked a tramp of the servant who rang the door-bell of one of the stateliest mansions "De ludy ob de house dou't come to de door to talk wid de like ob you." "Then said the tramp, elevat ing the remnant of a hat, with a grace Chesterfield might have envied, "tell the lady of the boose a gentleman wish es to speak to her iu the parlor." Gleamings. —There are fifty two rolling mills iu Pittsburgh and two more building. —lf every person would bo half as good as he expects his neighbor to be what a heaven this world would be. —Two million white fish were placed in the lake at Cleveland for the purpose of stocking it with this species. —Smallpox has broken out iu Moravia, below New Castle. One death has occurred, and live or six other cases are reported. —"\\ hat is meant by the pomps and vanities of this world ?" asked a Sun day school teacher. "Them flowers on your hat, mum," replied a quick-witted scholar. Some of our exchanges are dis cussing the "snow flea." They can't imagine how the snow flea is made ; but a warm rain will make the snow flee about as quick as anything. —A country parson sent in a mar" riage notice for publication with the following note, wh»n he requested the editor to publish in connection with it: "No fees for the officiating minister. Blank envelope dodge." —\\ hen yon fall on the ice don't sit there and look around for help. That attracts attention aud somebody gets the laugh on you. Get up quickly, move off briskly and act as if you were used to taking that drop every day. —A Franklin minister discoursed last Sunday on the question: "What is Man, the Apex of Nature, or the Central Fact of Creation, in whom two kinds of Nature are united?" It is said that, in their bewilderment, most of his congregation "took to the woods." —John B. Gough is sensible in more ways than one. He lectured in Balti more recently, and was disgusted to find the printed bill referred to the event as his "last appearance." Mr. Gough declared his detestation of such clap-trap and dishonest advertising. He said : "1 have been working forty-one years, delivering over 8,000 speeches, and I am not worn out yet." —When he had called the meeting to order Brother Gardner arose and said: "Gem'len it it wasn't for de wheels on a wagon the wagon wouldn't move When de wheels is on, den what?" "Grease!" solemnly exclaim ed an old man. "Kerrect!" whispered the President; softly rubbing his hands tocrether. "We lie/, de wagon an' de wheels. We will now pase de hat aroun' for de grease." —lt is reported that the young gen tlemen will be given by the tailors oval shoulders, sloping as graceful as the mountain side, from the apex to the base at the arms. This will be ac complished by building the collar high up tbe neck and eliminating from the shoulders the stuffing that heretofore created the false impression, in very innocent minds, that young men of fashion are athletes as to their upper works. A Pittsburgh telegram says that for the past four weeks a committee of the Amalgamated Association has been preparing a scale of wages lor all the mills in the United States for the en suing year from June 1. A prominent member stated that no increase will be demanded, and that if the manufacturers do not ask for a reduction there will lie no strike. Several manufacturers who were seen stated that unless Congress reducos the tariff on iron more than they expect, no reduction will be asked by them. —Abraham Myers, of York county, a young man who, several years ago, lost both hands by the premature ex plosion of a blast, is quite a successful sportsman. His gun is a breachloader, aud ho loads it with his mouth. He goes out with his gun strapped to the stumps of his arms, aims at the game, pulls tho trigger with his mouth, and generally brings down the game. Thus far he has shot this season eighteen squirrels and five wild pigeons. He also writes readily and legibly, holding the pen between tbe stumps of his arms. —Closely following the extraordin ary series of floods wtiich have caused so much loss of life and property on land has come exceedingly rough weather at sea. All incoming vessels report that they have had remarkably tempestuous voyages. Ordinarily, the sailor cares little for a storm if he can keep at a safe distance from laud, and have plenty of sea room; but uo seamanship is of much avail in the face of such a tempest as that which overwhelmed the steamer Glamorgan the other day. This is the season when storms at sea must be expected; but, like the other meteorological phe nomena which have made tho present winter remarkable, the storms of the last two weeks appear to have been un usually fierce and destructive. Receipts of the State Treasury. IIARUISHURO, Feb. 20.—The re ceipts at tbe Slate Treasury havo bem very heavy the past two months. During January they aggregated sl,- 452,200,59. Of this amount $893,- 433,04 was derived from tax on capi tal stock; $137,573.90 from tar on col lateral inheritance; §171,321.77 from licenses; §53,728.44 from tax on for eign insuranco companies; §10,509 33 lrom taxes on writs; §28,205.04 from tax on loans; §23,514.60 from tax on net incomes; §15,5f>8.24 from tax on personal property, and $19,015.77 from tax on gross receipts. Of the collater al inheritance tax Philadelphia paid $09,215.53 and Allegheny county §24,021.67. March. Ah, passing few arc they who speak, Willi, stormy month! in praise of thee. Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou to northern lands again _ The glad and glorious sun doth brim-. And thou hast joined the gentli- train And weur'st the gentle name of Si.ritg. —BRYANT. NO. 17
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