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