VOL. XX. i iii; J l JOHN BICKEL, WHO IS 111 SOU HUT FOR TO SHOES 111 llTltl, And Who Takes Orders for the Custom Work of ihis Firm. ALSO 350 Taiis of Slippers, bought at Sheriff's Sale to be closed out cheap. ALSO .100 Pairs of Plow Shoes, all sizes, to be sold cheap. ALSO A large assortment of Mens' Fine Wear in all the Latest Styles, liow and High Cuts English Bals, Buttons, Pom Pedro, etc. ALSO All the Best New England, New York and Philadelphia ma kes of all kinds of boots, shoes and slippers always on hands. ALSO All "kinds of Leather and Findings, large stock of French Calf and Kips American Calf and Kips, Moroccoes, Linings, Sheffield Ited 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*"nnd mending done on the same day they bring it in. JOHN BICKEL, MAIN STREET, BUTLER, PA. NEW STORE. NEW STOCK A NiSW AND COMPLETE BTOCK OF " liffllifiiOMS JUST bmplT OAK AND IIEML(K'K SOLE. FRENCH AND DOMESTIC KIPAND CALK, COLLA R, WEI.T, SKIBTING I'PPEII, BELTING, HARNESS AND LACK LEATHER A2TJD FINK ZLjIZnTXHNTG-S, ETC. ALHO H.\KVFACT('IIKROF Abb KINDS OF Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Collars, Etc., Etc. And carry a fall t-toel; of Wliipx, Robes, ElanlictP, Brushes, and all other Goods belonging to the Business. All Kinds of Repairing will Receive Prompt Attention. CaTPleaec call and examine our Goods anil get Price* before yon purchase elsewhere. Plastering Hair Always on Hand. CASH I 'A. 11 > FOR HIDES AXI > PELTS. C. ROESSING, Reibcr's Block Jefferson Street, opposite Lowry House. liuller, Pa WarMerehantslMilliners Wr Who contemplate purchasing Millinery, Strmv Goods, RIBBONS, LACES, * VELVETS, CORSETS, SILKS, PLUMES, BUSTLES, RUCHINGS, FLOWERS, ' VEILINGS, NETS, HOOP SKIRTS, Etc. We pay particular attention to cus tomers just starting ; and, when they can not come and make their own selection, we guarantee to select stock for* them that will give them satisfaction in the way of assortment and price. To assure their success will be our aim, thereby adding new customers and new business. Porter & Donaldson, A WHOLESALE ONLY, 260, 262 and 264 Liberty Pittsburgh, Pa. mmmnu And will completely clia»ice the til<mm| in th«- entire system in three months Anv i>rrs< n who will take ONE PILI J"; AC II NKMIT FROM ON ETO TWELVE \V EEF.'tt u.uv l,"rest.»il "tosoun.! h-»»»th. if such » thi»»r«« P«.**ible j. 1 «»r curing I- emale Complaints tli.-e H»IIm have no equal. rhy»irian<* u— them in their practice. Sold everywhere. "4 or «*ut *>y for <6 cents tu ataiupa. Scud lor pamphkt." L. S. JOHNSON CD.. BoHton. Maiu. I INN iitfep- DAKBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Univeiial Family Use. I I For Scarlet and SSZTISJ BfIBSEfiHEBQBIHH l' oX » easle®, and all Contagious Qiseascs. Person waiting on the Sick should use it freely Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread where the t luid was used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after black vomit liari taken |»la<-e. The won»t cases of I )iphthcria yield to it Fevered and Siek Per- SMALL-POX BOD* refreshed and and lied Sores prevent- PITTING* of Small ed by bathing with pox PREVENTED I mpSpr'Ai r ma.le .. A m n.b« ofmy fern harmless and purifir l. '> l> a . e For Sor<- Tliroat it is a 1 use , d the sure curt- Flu,d : l''-> P'tient was C taß ou destroyed. f «"■«. .«* For Frosted IV. t. V"" 1 - "h" Chilblain*, Piles, ll.e house a«.un m three Chaling, etc. a ". a Rheumatism cured. T>l M' , boft White Complex ion* secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented. I B *Clean*e I diphtheria R it can't be surpassed. H «% «• H Catarrh relieved and ■ a rGVGIItSCI- I cured. Erysipelas cured. Burn* relieved instantly. -The physician* hers Scars prevented use p ar b ys Fluid very Dysentery ctned. successfully 111 the treat- Wound s.hcaled rapidly. ment o f-j >;* p htheri.i. Scurvy cured A. ST.-ILENWERCK, An Antidote for Animal Greensboro, Ala. or V egetable Poisons, Stings, etc. Tetter dried up. 1 used the Fluid during Cholera prevented, our present affliction with Ulcers purified and Scarlet Fever with de- healed, cidcd advantage. It is In eases of Death it indispensable to the sick- should be used about room.— WM F. SAND- the corpse —it wili FORD. Eyrie, Ala. j prevent any unpleas _____________ j Phy- IScarlet Fever I «'& M D A , B &2 ■ B says: "I am ■ Cured I convinced Prof. Darby* I ~" fl Prophylactic Fluid is a ■ Vanderbilt University. Nashville, Trim. I testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof. D.irhys Prophylactic Fluid. As a disinfectant and determent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted.—N. T. Lt'PTON, Prof. Chemistry. Darbyg Fluid is Kceoinmended l>y Hon. ALEXANDER 11. STEPHENS, of Georgia; Rev. CHAS. I' UKF.MS, 1). D., Church of th« Strangers, N. Y.; Jos. LRCONTE, Columbia. I'r if, University. S.C. Rev. A. J. Pa TLE, I't if.. Mercer Uiiiversity; Rev. GEO. F. PIERCE, Bishop M. K. Church.' ISDISPENSABI.K TO EVERY HOME. I'erfectly harmless. Used internally or externally fur Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and wo have abundant evident e that it has done everything here claimed. F.ir fuller information get oi your Druggist a pamphlet or send to thr proprietors, J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHI I. A DELPHI A g.-' 1 . r iim»r-m—i—— Failing! That is what a great many people are doing. They don't know just what is the matter, but they have a combination of pains and aches, and each month they grow worse. The only sure remedy yet found is BROWN'S IRON Bitters, and this by rapid and thorough assimilation with the blood purifies and enriches it, and rich, strong blood flowing to every part of the system repairs the " wasted tissues, drives out • disease and gives health and strength. This is why BROWN'S IRON BITTERS will cure kidney and liver diseases, consumption, rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, mala ria, intermittent fevers, &c. 203 S. Paca St., Baltimore. Nov. 28, iS3i. I was a great sufferer from Dyspepsia, and for several weeks could cat nothing and was growing weaker every day. I tried Brown's Iron Bitters, and am happy to say I now have a good appetite, and am getting stronger. JUI. MCCAWLHY. BROWN'S IRON BITTERS is not a drink and does not contain whiskey. It is the only preparation of Iron that causes no injurious ef fects. Get the genuine. . Don't be imposed on with imitations. " butler coujnty Mutual Fire insurance Co. Office Cor, Main and Cunningham Sts. G. C. ROESSING, PRESIDENT. WM. CAMPBELL, TUEASEKKK 11. C. IIEINEMAN, SKOBETAKY DIRECTORS: r. L. Purvis, i E. A. Helmboldt, William Campbell, J. W. Burkhart, A, Troutmaa, Jacob Schoene, G. C. RocßSlng, John Oaldwell, Dr. VV. lrvin, J. J. Croll A. B. Rhodes, H. C. Heiueman. JAS. T» M'JUNKIN, Gen, Az't BUTLER JP-A.. __ .» ~ ni unilTH IWA WL BFLRITAJTIFI'L FLOHAL CHRQMO CARDS, |■| Et nUSy „| M . r, s ttll( i Ull illustrated Hi K ■ mm iiuou. to »u wh« «eud two ■ II ■■ I a ftc. Mtump» for poatttffe aad ■ Bail Ijb Bi»u<Hnir. Mention thin paptr. m ■•■■■ E. 0. RIDE9UT & CO.. NEW YORK. low .n t.rit r ; selling f-.st: nco«!cd every-wl ere; Liberal terms, llrailirji barrr(»un K» n UiN. l < urth bt., 1 mliuclpliia. TtIPIHQCWANTED SI 00. If HI flint St.'iilv Employment during I LDuIILIId BPKINtt /t'MMKK. A.l.lresi J L" McCl KDY SC Co.. PHILADELPHIA.!^. tf>*7r) \ WKKK. «lv! ;i 'lay ill home easily mailt' • iA'ukllv Oillftl llt'M. Address I 1:1 1 & Co. Augusta, Maine. iuar.i» ly. BUTLER, PA„ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. 1883 MY RIDE ON A STAR ROUTE I wish to go fourteen miles north ward. By cars I must go three sides of a square. The trip, and waiting at depots, would take from 11 o'clock A M. to 4:20 o'clock P. M. 'For the accommodation of two small post offices, a stage, a poor af fair, runs direct,' said mine host. The freshness of a summer morning, the changing views, the hilly road, the trees, wild flowers and singing birds were a delight, even in thought, and I said at once : 'The stage.' While breakfasting, tbe next .Hom ing, the clerk came in and said in a low voice : 'The stege is here, your 'runk is on, but finish your breakfast the driver will wait." I went out soon, but no stage was to be seen, and I asked if it had gone for other passengers. 'This is it,' said my more laughinsr than smiling host. 'Such another nondescript vehicle may I never see. One poor, old white horse, au express wagon, tbe back seat of which had been taken out to make room for my trunk, and the packages of all forms and sizes, for the driver proved to lie an express messenger, and universal errand boy of the farm ers along the route. I hesitated, my trunk was on, and tbe morning air fragrant. So with help I climbed on the wheel aud pitched into the wagon, and took possession of the one seat, and planted my feet upon what seemed an empty bag, but which proved to have the honor of being the U. S. Mail, and to contain two packages (one of which, as I got cut to rest while the mail was changed, I saw contained exactly two postal cards and four newspapers.) 'Where is tbe driver?' I asked. 'When he found out he was to have a lady passenger he went in to empty aud rinse his mouth out,' was the ans wer. lie came, out at the elbows, patched at the knees, with vest and linen spot ted with tobacco juice. I turned my head away, us sitting down beside me he took up the reins and said: '(J'laug, g'lang, y'lang !' Tb» oft-repeated word alone broke our silence, until out of the village he stopped at a stone trough beneath some trees, to water his horse. On a bough a robin was swaying, and warbling his sweetest notes, ending in a long twitter. The driver, who was stand ing near his horse's head, took some crumbs from his pocket and held them out. The robin flew down and ate them from his hand. With a clear, smooth voice the driver quoted Word sworth's "Thou art the bird that man loves best, The pious bird with scarlet breast, The bird, who by some name or other, All men who know thee call thee brother." He scattered more crumbs on the stone, buckled the check rein, mounted the seat with: 'Good-bye, my little friend, be here to-morrow, g'lang, g'lang. The delicate act, the cultured voice, made me look at him. llis face was clean and clean shaven; his features regular and refined; his eyes large, clear and very deep blue; his hair a brown gray; his hands small and, had the nails lieen clean, would have I een handsome. 'Who can he be? I said to myself, to him I said: 'That bird seems to know you.' 'lie is always waiting for the wiaZe,' he said. 'And always gets something, I fancy.' 'Always. I rarely have a passen ger aud so talk to the birds aud squir rels, g'lang, g'lang. I regret I havn't a better horse—g'lang—as my con stant urging must annoy you, g'lang, if lung. 1 'You do not whip him.' 'Never. But 1 often think Panza's Rosinante, like the wandering Jew, is still on earth.' 'And this is he?' 'This is he without a doubt!' Just then we drove through a bit of woodland filled with music. He said : 'How truly Mary Howctt voices one's feelings in her poem: 'Come ye into the summer woods! But no mortal pen can Tell half the sights of beauty you may see.' 1 loved to hear him talk. His language was pure, his anecdotes re lined, his quotations from standard authors were frequent, but brief and to the point. ' Who ean he he!' I ask niysejf again and again. At farm houses he stopped to give packages, from a mend ed scythe snath to a gold bracelet. And whenever a good woman ran out and called, he took her wishes in a note book, with all the courtesy and bearing of a thoroughbred gentleman. I took the liberty to glance at the book. The writing and spelling show ed him to be a man of education. 'Will not so many stops prevent your making time?' 1 asked. 'Oh, no! lam not obliged to be at until 12 >1 , and I start two hours earlier than the old driver did.' 'ln order to oblige the farmers along the route ?' I at-ked. 'lt part: but Pope says, 'Self-love and social are the same.' I love the morning air, 1 love to speak a word to the good people, to break the dead monotony of their work day lives by a bit of stirring news. Tiuly, these hours on the road are the pleasantest of my life.' 'You are never lonely ?' 'Never. With God and nature can one be lonely ?' A gentleman, with a fine pair of blocd horses, passed us, and they ex change cordial greetings. The driver said : 'A woman, who had worked in the family of that gentleman's father for many years, be took care of the last ten. She had become helpless and nearly blind, so when she died, la>t mouih, she was passed mourning for. After she was made ready for burial and laid in the parlor a well-dressed stranger called to see her. He was told she was dead. He said he had not been East for thirty years, and would like to see her. He stood a few minutes looking upon her, and then bent down and kissed that cold, brown, wrinkled forehead, and left two great tear drops on it, and with a choking voice said : 'My mother 1 $ dearezt friend After a moment the driver turned to me and said : 'l>o you suppose those friends knew each other when they met ?' 'I am sure they did,' I said. It is a question I often ponder. My wife died when she had just passed into full aud beautiful womanhood. She had touched her thirtieth year, and I was but a little older, in the vigor of my manhood. She is now in the fresh ness of her womanhood with the eternal freshness of heaven. If, as Milton has it, 'From the lowest deep a lower deep still opens,' so, from the highest height a higher height must rise; and she, who was purity itself here, must be purer now. And we grow like those with whom we mingle, and she, so lovely here, has been for twenty-seven years the companion of angels ! How glori ous she must be ! VV'ill she— can nhe know me there !' Almost my first question on reaching my fiiend was: 'Who is that driver ?' 'I have not tbe honor of his acquaint ance !' she laughingly answered. 'lhave." I said. So soon as the post-wagon drove on, I started for the post-office. 'Will you please tell me who that driver is ?' The postmaster gave his name, and said he was once an editor of , naming one of the best papers in one of our largest cities. 'He is a man of elegant culture,' I said. 'Tie is that. I don't kuow of any body that can touch a match to him. He has been through college and- been to Europe, and has been acquainted with a good many distinguished men.' ' What has brought him to Ihis?' '1)11 INK.' Shall Gray Hang? One Silas Gray was arrested at the expiration of bis term of imprisonment in tbe Western Penitentiary of this State, and on the evidence of Dickon, a fellow prisoner, was convicted of mur der. Dickon swore that Gray had con fessed to him that he murdered a Mrs. McCready, on the Allegheny mountains. Gray is now under sentence of death, and the day for his execution has been fixed. Now comes to the front another ex-convict, Bowernaster, who makes affidavit that one Jack Pettis, who was in the penitentiary at the same time that be, Bowermaster, and Dickson and Gray were, confessed that he (Pettis) murdered Mrs. McCready. Pettis, just before tbe term he was serving had ex pired, committed suicide by hanging himself in bis cell Bowermaster says he believes Pettis hung himself because he feared he would be arrested for the murder of Mrs. McCready. Prison officials corroborate Bowermaster by saying that Pettis was repeatedly ask ing if they "could prosecute a man for a crime committed a long time ago." Convict Kilgore offers to swear that Pettis told him that Silas Gray was in nocent; that he (Pettis) had started across the mountain with Mrs. Mc- Cready, and no person ever saw her afterwards. Convict Brown is willing to make oath that Pettis acknowledged to him that he had killed a woman, presumably the widow McCready, carried the body to a high ledge and thrown it into the Kiskiminetas river. These last three stories do not agree with Dickson's statemeut at all. The skull fished out of the Kiskiminetas with the hatchet marks upon it, the dent made with the bluntend, the gash with the sharp end, fits exactly to Dickson's story and does not conflict with any of the others. And Convict Frank May executes another straddle, with his story that Pettis told him Siias Gra\ had hired a man to murder the woman, and gave him to under stand that he (Pettis) was this agent Against the strong circumstantial evi ! deuce which backed up Dickson's story j before the- Westmoreland couuty jury 1 that convicted Gray, stands two facts j in support of the other side. Jack Rgt -1 tis committed suicide within sixty-two 1 days of the expiration of his sentence, , without apparent reason, and yet ; another convict avers that be heard Hickson, who was a chum of Pettis, threaten to get even with Silas (Jray. Every effort will be made to sift the evidence before either sending Gray to J tbe gallows or pardoning him. A*Cu"re for Consumption. A correspondent writes as follows in relation to the sanitary power of a well known plant: I have discovered ' a remedy for pulmonary consumption. J It has cured a number of cases after ! they bad commenced bleeding at the j lungs and the hectic flush was already ' on the cheek. After trying this remedy i to my own satisfaction, I have thought I philanthropby required that I should | let it be known to the world. It is the common mullen, steeped strong and j sweetened with coffee sugar and drank freely. The herb should be gathered 1 before the lifth of July, if convenient. Young or old plants are good, d:ied in the shade and kept in clean paper bags. | The medicine must be continued from ' three to six months, according to the | nature of the disease. It is good for the blood vessels also. It strengthens 1 the system and builds up instead of ; taking away strength. It makes goou blood aud takes inllamation from the lungs. It is tbe wish of the writer : that every periodical in the I'iiited ] States, Canada and Europe, should j publish this recipe for the benefit of the ; human family. Lay this up and keep ! it in tbe house ready for u-<e. BUTLER, PA. 11. B. W. —A meteor weighing f.OO pounds is tbe subject of ala v suit before lowa ' courts between the man on whose land it fell and the man who dug it out. • For the CITIZEN? Let us Have the Truth. The assertions of a great man, such a one as Col. Ingersoll, on practical questions should be such as not to lead those less favored astray. But after reading the mild ravings of Col. Ingersoll, in his introductory remarks to a lecture on Lawyer Lincoln, one is forced to come to the conclusion that . great men's ideas are often at variauce ■ with experience as well as truth. What does the Col. intend us to under ! staud when he states that "Nearly all the characters of history are im possible monsters ?" A reliable his torian should not so clothe tbe deeds of those heroes he writes of as to make them so far above mortal's attainment that they are fabulous beings, nor should their achievements and virtues IK? embellished and coined l>v them merely for the sake of wordiness. Are our writers of history to be be lieved or not? Farther on the Col. tells us "That we have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education." This throws us into a maze and upsets all former theories as to the necessity of sys tematic drill of the mental forces un der competent directors. And again says the Col. "For the most part col leges are places were bricks are polish ed and diamonds spoiled." Now, the Col. with the rest of us, know s that an illustration or comparison does not prove but sometimes makes the sub ject under consideiation more easy of understanding or simplifies the matter. But the illustration should be true to itself. Haye any of us ever seen tbe brick that was capable of being polish ed ? Will a brick take polish? It is hard enough surely to compare the young men of our land to dull red bricks and the faculty of our colleges to such rough machinery that they would obliterate the lustre of the dia mond. What are aDxious and fond parents coming to indeed in this day of colleges? And who shall tell them which is the brick to be smoothed off or the diamond to be let alone ? Fur thermore says the Col. "If Shakes peare had graduated at Oxford he might have become a quibbling attorn ey or a hypocritical person." 1 his is news certainly. Oxford a mentrfl ghoul! We pause in sick amazement when we think of what the world lost through such as Oxford, ale, Harvard and other institutions of learning. Some writers maintain that Shakes peare received a clas-s cal education aud point to his works as conclusive evi dence. But how a course at Oxford turns a promising young genius into a hypocritical person must be a mystery to the common mind unless the Col. rises to explain. To us it is disgust ing cant, without even a show of sense to make it more palatable. We have here and there instances where men attain, and justly, fame and name without a prescribed course in college—what they might have reach ed with the help of such a course we know not. But that they should have worse than failed by means of au education is absurd. A. B. A Pointed Tale. Jack Pringle is a man who never wastes au opportunity, or puts oil for to-morrow the joke that can lie done to-day. Going down street last Wed nesday he was accosted by a little nervous man who had an impediment in his speech. Said the stranger: "C-an yon t-tell me where I can g-get s-some t-tin t-tacks ?' "With much pleasure, sir,' replied Jack, who realized the position at once, and having directed his inter locutor to the shop of a neighboring ironmonger, by a somewhat circuitous route hurried off to the spot by a short cut. Now, the ironmonger was hav ing his dinner iu a little back parlor; but when .lack entered the premises he came forward briskly, bowing and rubbing his hands together in that pe culiar servile manner that is character istic oftbc British shop keeper. 'Do v-vou s-s-sell t-tin t-tacks ?' said .Tack assuming a stammer. 'Oh, ves, sir ; certainly, sir.' 'G-good long ones?' • 'Ves, sir; all sizes.' 'W-with s-sharp points?' •Yes. sir.' 'W-w-wcll, then, s-s-sitdown 011 'em and w-wait till 1 c-call again.' 'Having 'given his order,' Jack thought it prudent to retire at once, as there were several heavy articles within easy access of the proprietor's hands. • The old man bad hardly cooled down and returned to his meal, which had also cooled down, unpleasantly, when the 'real Simon pure' entered the shop, and again the ironmonger came forth washing his hands with invisa ble soap in imperceptable water." 'Do y-you s-scll t-tin t-tacks?' said the little man. Luckily the door was open, so the customer successfully avoided the seven-pound weight and the two llat irous hurled at him. The Way Rope is Made. At the ropewalk in Bath, Me., the spinners wind huge skeins of Manilla hemp around them, catch a thread or two of it upon the hook, and as the spindle whirls walk slowly backwards down the length, spinning as they go, and leaving before them a t.visted straud. Every twenty minutes they disappear from sight aud are seen as far as the eye can reach coming into view down the dimly lighted walk, nearly a mile away. Thirty or more trips a day make a wand and every wand is a half mile, and every day each spinuer walks fifteen miles and spins seven miles of strands. —There are from ten to fifteen fe<*t of snow in many of the back streets of Quebec, and there is no indication of any immediate diminution of the quanti ty. It is feared that when a thaw sets in the Hoods will cause great damage to property. MR. BLAINE'S RELIGION. "Perfect Freedon of Conscience the Birthright of Every Man/' From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] The fact that ex-Secretary Blaine's daughter was recently united in mar riage with a Catholic has been com mented upon in certain papers in an offensive manner. The old stories, so rife in the exciting campaign of 187fi, that Mr. Blaine was himself a Catholic, havebeen revived in a very uncharitable way by some so-called religious journals. As bearing on this point, a friend of .Mr. Blaine furnishes the fol lowing letter, written by the ex-Secre tarv seven years ago to the late I>r. King, of this city : WASHINGTON, March 10, 1870. Mv DF.AU FRIENI>: 1 agree with you that the charge of my being a Catholic is very provoking, considering the motive that inspires it, and very exasperating when I see it connived at, if not in fact originated, by men who sat with me in Presbyterian Bible class when I was a student and you a professor iu Washington College- This charge is part and parcel of the tactics of the Cameron gang to rob me of the Pennsylvania delegates, when, in fact, four-fifths of the Republicans of the State desire my nomination. My an cestors on my father's side were, as you know, always iudentified with the Presbyterian Church, and they were prominent and honored in the old colony of Pennsylvania several generations before the Camerons blessed Scotland by leaving it. But, while thanking you for what you have done to set my Pittsburgh friends right on this question, I will never consent to make any public decla ration upon the subject, and tor two reasons: First, because 1 abhor the introduction of anything that looks like a religious test or qualification for office in a republic where perfect free dom of conscience is the birthright of every citizen ; and Second, because my mother was, as you well know, a de voted Catholic. I would not for a thousand presidencies speak a disre spectful word of my.mother's religion, and no pressure will draw me into any avowal of hostility or unfriendliness to Catholics, though 1 have never receiv ed and do not expect any political sup port from them. You arc at liberty to show this to the gentleman who urged you to write me. Many thanks for your kind invita tions, but I can hardly promise myself the pleasure of a visit to Western Pennsylvania this Spring. You know, however, that a large part of my heart is always in the Monongahela valley. Always sincerely your friend, J. (J. BLAINE. Pit. JAMES KINO, Pittsburgh. Tracing Contagion. A number of cases in the same herd, owned by a farmer at Salem, N. J., having died very suddenly, the vet erinary surgeon submitted a specimen of the blood from the last victim to Prof. Leidy for microscopic examina tion. The animal was apparently well one evening and was milked as usual; it died the next morning. The cause" was not clear, was supposed to be the result of anthrax or splenic fever. A post-mortem examination was made the following day; and the abdominal viscera were found much congested, es pecially the spleen which was gorged with blood. The specimen of the blood from the speen was examined and found to be teeming with bncteria of the form known as Bacillus anthrax, which is now viewed by most compe tent authorites as the cause of anthrax. The bacilli were actually more numer ous than the blood corpuscles, which appeared unchanged. This case shows that milk is for warded to market drawn from cows which are within a few hours of their death by splenic fever. Such milk can hardly be wholesome, and doubtless contains the bacilli capable of giving contagion. Let us hope that the fat from the carcasses of such animals is not sent to the nearest oleomargarine manufactory, as this substance is rendered only at a temperature under 120 # bv the patent which is now supreme. YVe need not state that the thermal death poiut of the bacilli is far above such a tempera ture, and we leave our readers to draw their own conclusions respecting the results when such uncooked ani mal produce is use as an article of diet. —Medical Recorder. Valuable Document Destroyed "I hope, sor, you will assist u poor man, whose house and all th:it was in it, including me family, sor, was burn ed up two months ago last Tuesday, sor." The merchant to whom this appeal was addressed, while very phil anthropic, is also very cautious, so he be asked: "Have you auy papers or certificate to show that you lost any thin" l>y the lire ?" "I did have a cer tificate, sor, signed before a notary public to that effect, but it was burned up, sor, in the house with me family and the rest of me effects." The tears ran out of the merchants eyes for laughing as he handed over a quarter A Peril to he Avoided Lancaster Kxaniiner.] Our attention has been called by pa rents ani others to a very dangerous sweetmeat sold by nearly all our gro cerymeu and confectioners, called "Hock and Rye." Just what this candy contains in full no one can tell ; but one thing is certain, it has enough had irhisL i/ in it to make it dangerous. On every hand temptation in its grossor form surrounds children, and auv oue who gilds evil and makes it palatable so that it can be swallowed without scandal is doing an injury to society. To feed children with candy composed of whisky—and without doubt the vilest of whisky at that—is a danger which parents cannot lie too prompt to guard against or the public voice too quick to condemn FOR TIIE CITIZEN. MY MOTHER. BY J. A. KIRKPATRK K My mother, dearest, thou art gone, l or thee there falls the streaming tear, Though thou canst not to me return I claim thee present with me here, I can not tell how long, how well, I loved thee, O, my mother dear. I kuow thou'st gone to angel land Ami that thou ever lovest mi- Thine only child upon this land, The rest, they are in heaven. For mother, thou art happy now, And I thy happiness may see. But weary days or tedious years May vail from me thy paradise, et 1 can look through sorrow'- tears To glorious things beyond the sk ics ; My soul goes there on wings of pruver. Then skyward toe my hopes arise. Then wherefore should my soul IK: stirred? "I hey shall find rest that learn of me." I'll take thee, Savior, at Thy woril And humbly pray that I limy In- Prepared by grace to see thy face And find eternal rest in Thee. DI TLKR, PA., April 3, 1533. Are Railways Above the Law? It is a popular belief that railways, like individuals, are not above the law : but now and then we are furnished with startling lessons of the assump tion of railway managements, that they are a law unto themselves. If the public belief in the subject is a de lusion, it is high time that the people were instructed that the railways are above the law; if it is not a delusion, it is time that the railways were in structed to obey the laws like other people. One of our large railway corpora tions of this city recently built a bridge three hundred feet long on Second street, north of Venango. Whether the corporation had a right so to build the bridge we neither know nor care in discussing the vital point at issue; but we do know that the proper way to stop it was by au injunction from the Court, and the proper way to remove it after it, was constructed was by an appeal to the law. Another railway management., however, decided that ,the bridge has no right there, and a carefully organ ized and equipped band of men swoop down upon it in the midnight boor and tear it down. The Pennsylvania and the Heading railroad corporations bare been given certain frights over particular streets for public uses, but beyond the specific rights they possess as common carriers, they have no more control of the streets than any private citizen. They own no land in our highways and they have no more authority to determine their disputed rights by mob violence than have private citizens to try a man for murder by a town meeting. It is simply lawlessness and it is utterly in excusable, however clear the rights of the corporation that destroyed the bridge may be, in a city where the courts are open every secular day of the year.— Philadelphia Timea. How to Get Married Marriage in Pennsylvania is the promise of a man and a woman to take each other to be husband and wile in the presence of witnesses. It does not require the intervention of a min ister, magistrate or anybody. If the parties themselves promise to take each other to be husband and wife, in the presence of witnesses, they are mar ried. The saying over of any cere mony by an}' person is unnecessary. —The change of sheep farms into ostrich farms in the Cape Colony has, in less than a year, reduced the price of feathers 50 per cent. —.John B. Marston, clerk in the of fice of the Equitable Trust Co., New York, has embezzled SBO,OOO and is a fugative. The directors did not arrest him after his confession because he said he thought he could pay back" his stealings. —Two iuternal revenue collector ships in Pennsylvania are to be abol ished. Edward Scull's olßce at Som erset, will be tranferred to Allegheny under the care of Col. Jackson, and the Greenville, Mercer Co , office will lie transferred to Erie. —The attorney who has been try ing to get Sergeant Mason (who shot at Guiteau) out of prison, is now try ing to collect a fee of s3,f>oo out of the ' Hetty and the Baby" fund. The fund was raised to support Mrs. Ma son and her child while her husband was in prison. "No. Aunt," said young Folke stone, "I don't tret on well at all with Clara. And, by the way there H one thing I don't" like. I'm afraid she puts chalk on her face." 'Oh! that's nothing," replied Aunt (joodwiu, laughing. "A nice soldier you would make, now wouldn't you ? If you can't face powder, George, how can you expect ever to get into au engage ment. —The Treasury Department esti mates that the new tariff law will re sult in a loss to the revenue of $4.'5,f'27,- 782, the principal item of which will be a loss of nearly thirteen millions on snuff, smoking and chewing tobacco. Cigars come next, with more than nine millions, while the stamp tax on bank checks, drafts, matches, perfumery and medicinal preparations will reach seven and a-halfmillions. Of all the breeds of white swine there are none we esteem more high ly than the Cheshire. They are un doubtedly descended mainly from the Yorkshire, and in ail their points re semble the modern Berkshire very closely in ever respect, except in color. They are a pure white, with a skin that has a beautiful pinkish tint that gives them an exceedingly attractive appearance when dressed. They ma ture early, fatten readily, and grow to a good size. They are vtry hardy dud withstand great extreme-! of cold - lireeders' Gazette. NO. 21
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