BUTLER CITIZEN JOHN H. k W. C. NEGLEY, PROP'RS, Entered at the Postojffice at Butler as second-class* matter. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1883. Republican County Ticket. For District Attorney, SAMUEL B. SNYDER, of Butler. For County Snryejor, B. F. HILLIARD, of Washington twp. THE rumor relative to a change in the high joints of the P. & W. R. R., stated in our last issue has proven true." E. K. Hymlman, General Manager, and C. P. Ford, Gen'l Passenger Agent, and others step down and out. The change will, no doubt, be far better for the company. The recent manage ment has not been satisfactory to the trayeling public or shippers, while all the employes along the route are re joicing at the change. The last time card is entirely too fast for the road, consequently the trains have been be hind time six times to being on time once. The road bed and condition of the motive power is too poor for rapid riding and persons not compelled to travel via that route have patronized the Valley. The time card for passen ger trains has been faster than the Valley, notwithstanding its poor con dition. Result, broken down engines and general uneasiness both by trav elers and employes. The new manage ment will very soon rectify the mis takes of the old board.— Parker Phoenix. THE Harrisburg Telegraph of Fri day has the following in relation to the Republican caucus to arrange Con gressional and Senatorial apportion ment. It says: The Republican Sen ators held a conference last evening and discussed Congressional apportion ment. The object of this conference was to unify the Republicans of the Senate in the support of some particu lar bill. A proposition was discussed to divide the State into sixteen Repub lican and ten Democratic districts, leaving two doubtful. A second prop osition was to adopt the bill that Mr. McCracken—Republican—had offered to the conference committees of both Houses at the regular session, which divided the State into seventeen sure Republican and eleven Democratic dis tricts. The suggestion that receives * the most favorable consideration was that offered by Mr. Boggs—Cambria— to give the Republicans eighteen and the Democrats ten districts. This was discussed at some length, and it was decided to support the bill as follows, viz: A Congressional apportionment giving the Republicans seventeen dis tricts certain and the Democrats not to exceed eleven, Philadelphia being al lotted six Congressmen, one of which will be a Democrat. This is the Mc- Cracken Senate bill submitted by the conference committee of both Houses at the regular session. Senatorial ap portionment was fixed at thirty Repub licans and twenty Democrats, Philadel phia teinggiven eight Senators, one of which will be a Democrat. The caucus expressed a determination to make this the ultimatum, although no vote to that effect was taken.— Ex. ABOUT LOCUSTS. Those here not Real Locusts. The appearance among us of what is called the "seventeen year locust" has caused as to look up something about them. For this purpose we consulted Chambers' Encyclopedia. There we found, under the head of "Locusts," a figure that in almost all respects resem bles a large grasshopper. One of those now flying about here, making such a din having been caught and shown us we soon perceived that the figure given of the "locust" was not by any means like the one before us. On a further examination of the Encyclo pedia we found another figure, under the head of Cicada," that in all re spects resembles the so-called locust now here. The name commonly given it in the United States is "Harvest Fly," and the difference of tbe two in sects is about as follows : As we have said, the real locust looks like the grasshopper, differing only from the grasshopper in the greater size of its body and limbs. Its hind legs are large and rough and pos sess great power of leaping, like the grasshopper. The noise they make is done by the friction of their long, rough hind legs, with their wings or wing coyers. These wings are large and fold like a fan, and are of beautiful colors, red, pink, brown, green and blue. They eat leaves, green stalks and plants, and can consume almost any green thing. They abound in warm countries chiefly—never in cold countries. In Asia and Africa they appear in vast numbers and their rav ages are fearful and terrible. When advancing in dense clouds, as they do, they make a sound like that of many waters, or, as described by the Prophet Joel, "like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble," leaving behind them desolation. Rewards were offered in old times for their col. lection and that of their eggs. In some countries they were eaten, being roast ed or fried. They were also preserved in brine, or dried in the sun, and ap peared in the markets in Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Madagascar, etc., as articles of commerce for food and export. Whether they are the same spoken of that John the Baptist subsisted upon, with "wild honey," we cannot soy. Some species of them are as long as two and one-fourth inches. So much for the locust. And now briefly as to the cicada or harvest fly, which we have said is the insect, or fly rather, now among us. This is not near so large as the regular locust, be ing only about an inch in length. It resembles the fly in shape, and not the grasshopper. Has wings like a fly> large, brown and transparent. Make their music in a different manner—not by their legs and wings—but by a musical apparatus on the under side of their abdomen. -This apparatus is very complicated, consisting of a set of membranes or fibres, connected with powerful muscles." Hence the loud sounds they emit, sounds that can be likeDed to that of a razor-grinder at work, or some of the revolving saws in the saw mills. They have no power of leaping, but fly only. Dwells on trees generally and subsist by sucking the juices of same. They exist in nearly all counties. In South America are much larger than here and make sounds that can be heard a mile. Ihe ancients regarded these sounds as types of mnsic, but the shrill din they make is not here considered good music. Here they are generally called locusts, but from above stated and from all we can learn they are not the real locusts, but the cicada, or what is termed the harvest fly. They appear to come only about every 17 years. On each of its wings are what resembles the letter W, from which people associ ate the idea of war with their coming. It is said the English sparrow is their foe and is killing and eating them. From the number of wings found upon the roads or walks ii. is evident some thing is destroying them, but whether the sparrow, or the robin, or some other bird, should have the credit for this we cannot say. We were led to write the above from the fact of finding such a difference in the books between the locust and the fly now here, and if we have given any information on the subject we have accomplished our only object. APPORTION MENTS. How the Different Bills Stand as Regards Buller County. The Legislature Ye-assembled last week. Much of the first two or three days was spent in debating as to whether the members should draw pay for the time during their recess, some twelve days. This doubtless is an im portant question to some of the mem* bers, but the public opinion would be that that question might at least have been deferred until they had done the work for which they were convened. As far as we can learn the different Apportionment bills are in about the following condition, so far as they re late to our county, and we speak of them onlv with reference to our county. First, as to the Judiciary district, both the House and Senate bills con stitute Butler county a separate Judi. cial district; the only difference being that to which we referred last week. The House bill joins Lawrence and Beaver counties for a district hereafter, and the Senate bill makes each of those counties separate districts. The HouSe bill provides for the con tinuance of the Additional Law Judge in this and similar old districts,as elect ed in 1874, during their inexpirud terms and as at present existing. Second, as to the Congressional dis tricts, in which it is proposed to place our county. The original House bill joined us with Armstrong and Indiana counties for a district. Both Mr. Ziegler and Mr. Greer, as far as we can learn, were opposed to this arrange ment. A new bill is therefore now be fore the House which connects us with Armstrong, Clarion and Jefferson counties—this is, we presume, favored by Mr. Ziegler, and will be unfavor ably looked upon by Mr. Greer and Mr. Donly. The Democrats speak of it as a doubtful district, politically, but to our mind it is a pretty clearly Democratic district, judging from the past. True it might bo car ried by a strong and good Republican over a weak or bad Demo cratic candidate. In the Garfield-Har cock election of 1880, the only one that can afford us any satisfactory basis of calculation, the Hancock electors had 46-4 votes more than the Gar Geld elec tors. Clarion county gave Hancock a clean 1900 majority ; while Armstrong gave Garfield 730; Butler 591, and Jefferson 115, majorities for Garfield; making in all 1436, to Clarion's 1900, and thus leaving the above 464 differ ence. Previous elections have shown, however, that it is a district in which personal popularity has overcame party lines, at least in most of the counties that would compose this proposed dis trict, and as we have said, a Republi can might possibly be elected in it- But there is one other objection to it, and that is, the population of those four counties exceed by 15,435 the necessary population for a present dis trict. The present ratio of population for a district is a little less than 153,- 000. These four counties count up 168,435 of a populatiou, thus showing more than 15,000 of an excess, or more than required for a present district. The Senate Congressional bill, called the McCracken bill, joins our county by a strip of the western side of Allegh eny county, to Washington county, for a district. We have not been favored by any of our members with a copy of this bill, but from the papers learn that is the connection made for our county. It is a very unshapely and unnatural district, making the principal objection to it the want of "compact and con tiguous territory, as near as may be,'' and as plainly demanded by the coustitu" tion. There is nothing but absolute necessity can justify the formation of such a district. Butler county's natu ral position is north of the Ohio river and not south of it. And it is known that it is not out of any consideration lor Butler county that it proposed to thus join us, but out of consideration and for the benefit alone of Washington county- This is asking too much from tbiscoun. Tv in the way of accommodation to others. This district would also have an excess of population of between 14,- 000, and If), 000. As to our next State Senate district, both bills, of both House and Senate, we believe connect this county with Lawrence county for a district. Thi3 seems to be satisfactory all around The two counties are favorably con nected in every way and will make a natural and convenient district. What may be the result, as to the passage of all or any of these bills, remains yet to be seen. If both parties but/o//ow> the constitution all the apportionments can be made. That they should be now made is the very general public opinion. We should add, that as regards the members of the Assembly, all the bills, before both Houses,give us our present number of Representatives, two, as at present. One Clergyman Slays Another for Seduction. NEW ORLEANS, June 10.—The little town of Mansfield, on the New Orleans and Pacific railroad, was the scene of a terrible tragedy this morning, when Rev. J. Lane Borden, President of the Mansfield Female College, was shot killed by Rev. Benjamin Jenkins, Jr. The cause of the shooting was a young lady, a relative of Jenkins, and and an inmate of the college, whom Borden, taking advantage of his posi tion as her teacher, bad seduced. The shooting occurred at an early hour in front of the store of Hon. B. G. Jenkins, the father of the Rev. Mr. Jenkins. Mr. Borden was passing when Rev. Mr. Jenkins and his "broth er, C. F. Jenkins, stepped from the store. The former advanced towards Mr. Borden, and when within a few feet of him, drew a revolver, and after addressing bim a few words, opened fire, discharging five or six barrels of the revolver. The first shot struck Borden in the leg and he staggered; the second struck him in the side, smashing his watch and entering his heart. Another shot struck him in the forehead just between the eyes. He fell mortally wounded, but surviv ed nearly two hours. He remained wholly insensible, and did not speak a word from the moment of the shooting. Both the Jenkins immediately surrend ered to the Sheriff. THE MINISTERIAL MURDERER. Rev. Ben. Jenkins, who did the shooting, is a young man, only twenty five years of age, and considered a promising young preacher. His fami ly is among the most respectable in North Louisiana. His father is one of the leading merchants of Mansfield and has served in several legislatures and constitutional conventions. Mr. Jenkins, Senior, is a prominent Metho dist, and was one of the trustees of the college over which Borden presided. Young Jenkins was ordained as a minister at the last session of the Methodist Conference and was assigned to the church at Robeline, from which place he came to Mansfield to do the shooting, when he heard of Borden's treatment of his relative. Rev. J. Lane Borden has been for the past half dozen years one of the most prominent ministers of the Meth odist Church in this State, and has held for some years the position of president of the Mansfield Female Col lege, which is under the control of the Methodists, and where most of the young ladies in De Soto and the neigh boring parishes are educated. The town of Mansfield has been wildly ex cited over the shooting, the sympathy being nearly unanimously with young Jenkins. Prohibition County Convention. The delegates to the Prohibition Convention met pursuant to call in the Arbitration room, in the Court House, Butler, on the 22d inst.,and was called to order by the Chairman, James W. Orr. Half an hour was spent in de votional exercises, after which a gen eral talk on the work throughout the county and reports of delegates were had, and adjourned to meet at half past one o : clock, at which time it reconven ed, and elected J. W. Brandon, Esq., of Connoquenessiog township, tempo rary Chairman, and P. W. Conway, of Clay township, Secretary. The report of the Chairman was called for and read, which was quite long and em bodied many good recommendations ; report accepted. Secretary's report was short and justified, Treasurer's report satisfactory, alljbills paid and a balance on hand. Permanent organization was then affected, J. W. Brandon, Esq., was elected Chairman of the County Executive Committee for the ensuing year ; Robert J. Thompson, of Con cord township, Secretary, and Shryock Harper, of Washington township, re elected Treasurer for the coming year. Twenty-five delegates from different townships were present. The nomina tion of candidates for county offices re sulted in the nomination of W. P. Brandon, Esq , of Butler, for District Attorney, and Isaiah N. Meals, of Washington township, for County Surveyor. R. J. Thompson, J. W. Orr and Levi Porter were appointed a commit tee on resolutions and reported the fol lowing : Hesolved, That as a political party in tho county of Butler we hereby re affirm the declarations of principles as enuueiated in the National and State platforms of our party and do declare the liquor traffic to be a great national crime that should be prohibited by the general Government. liesolved, That we regard the parties that consent to license, regulate, con trol and protect the liquor traffic, as our political enemies, against whom we contend and whose overthrow we must secure in order to preserve the civil in stitutions and religious liberties of our Government, and to that end we take pleasure in presenting to the people of this county the name of W. D. Bran don, Esq., as a suitable person for the office of District Attorney, and the name of I. N. Meals as a competent and worthy person for the office of County Surveyor, and do hereby pie !ge ourselves to the support of the State ticket and also that of the party in the county. In the evening Mr. Daniel Swoger, of Allegheny city, addressed an audience from the Court House steps —not large but attentive and intelli gent. P. W. CONWAY, Sec'y. The Governor's Vetoes. The following are specimens of Gov. Fattison's vetoes of some of the bills passed by the present Legislature. It seems strange that bills of the character to which the following vetoes relate could be passed by any Legislature. And it shows the watchful care a Governor has to exercise in the matter. There are but few citizens of any party who will not strongly approve of the Governor's reasons given for the below vetoes: POVERTY NO CRIME. IIARRISBURU, June 20—Governor Pattison has fded the following vetoes in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, { OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, HARRISBURO, June 20, 1883. J I herewith file, with my objections, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, House bill No. 383, entitled "An act for the Government of Cities of the Fifth Class." This is a very long bill, containing many pro visions. Indeed, to such minute par ticulars does it descend that if it should become a law the cities thereby affect ed would have little discretion left as to the government of their own affairs. As to the wisdom of many of the de tails of the bill the executive has grave doubts, but one of its provisions is so highly objectionable that he contents himself with resting his disapproval upon that alone. The first clause of Section 4 provides that a treasurer of a city of the fifth class may appoint col lectors of unpaid taxes, to whom be shall deliver his warrant authorizing the collectors to levy and sell the per sonal property of the debtor for the payment of the taxes due. The bill then further provides that "said warrant shall also empower the collector, on failure of personal proper ty beinff found sufficient to pay the taxes assessed against any person or persons, and twenty days' notic? having been given to such person or persons to pay said taxes, to take the body of such delinquent, if found in said coun ty, and convey him to the jail of the proper county, there to remain until the amount of such debt, together with the costs, shall be paid, or secured to be paid, or until he shall be otherwise discharged by the course of law," I will never give my approval to any law to re-establish imprisonment for debt in this Commonwealth. Such a step backwards, out of the humane civilization of to-day to the repellant harshness of the laws of a century ago, would be a blot and reproach upon the fame of the State. It is difficult to imagine how a bill containing such a provision as the one cited ever passed a Pennsylvania Legislature of to-day. The insolvent delinquent taxpayer may be unfortunate, but I will not consent to the barbarism of making his poverty and misfortune a criminal act. ROBERT E. PATTISON. THE SURVEYOR'S ACT DEAD. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, I OFFICE OF TEIE GOVERNOR, HARRISBURO, June 20, 1883. j I herewith file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth House bill No. 220, entitled "An act relative to surveyors." This bill is an attempt to regulate the business of surveying. It requires surveyors, before proceeding to take the bearing and distances of boundary lines of surveys, to obtain at station No. I, the bearing to certain visible and permanent objects, and, as they proceed, to correct doubtful marks in the corners of surveys by taking bearings to similar permanent objects. Aside from the question whether the Legislature has the right thus to direct surveyors how they shall perform their work, the bill itself, even if a wise and legitimate exercise of legislative author ity, would be absolutely impotent as an enactment. It directs certain things to lie done by surveyors, but imposes no penalty of any kind for their failure to obey the injunctions. It amounts to little more than a mere request, which may or may not be obeyed, ac cording to the pleasure of the citizens. The measure, therefore, being futile to compel any good, and having doubts as to its lawfulness, I decline to en cumber the statute books with its provisions. ROBERT E. PATTISON. Mormon Baptismal Rites. RUTHERFORD, JX. C., June 15 Great indignation and talk of lynching were the results here to-night of the fir9t public service held at Duncan's Creek, by the Mormon women mis sionaries who have been gathering re cruits in this section for the past weeks. The four missionaries have been holding prayer meetings and pre senting flattering inducements to con verts. This evening seven women and three men who had professed the faith were baptised in Duncan's Creek. Several hundred people, about half the number being woiueo, gathered on the banks to witness the ceremony. The place was lit up by pine knot torches. The converts and missionaries arrived about 7 o'clock and went into a small house adjacent, and when night fell the entire party of converts, male and fe male, accompanied by the four mission aries, left the building, all of them be ing entirely naked. As thry marched to the water there was a murmur of surprise among the crowd, soon fol lowed by hisses, but they did nqt in terfere with the party. The rite was performed in the mid dle of the creek where the water was scarcely waist deep, two of the mis sionaries carrying pine knots in their hands. After the ceremony a commit tee of citizens waited upon the Mor mons, and gave them notice io quit the county at once on pain of summary justice. Several of the women in the party are quite pretty, and have borne good The Mormons are demoralized and gave assurance that they would leave to-morrow for Utah. A Request, To each Sabbath School in the couuty, you are requested to send me the name and address of your Superin tendent, with number of scholars in your school and any other matters, to assist me in making up the annual re port for the Convention to be held at North Washington, September Gth and 7th, 1883. Address, 11. S. DAUBENSPECK, Sec'y Sunday School Association, Bruin, Butler County, l'a. Advertiso in the CITIZEN ACTS APPROVED. A Furlher List of Bills Signed by the Executive. II AURISBURU, June 20.—The Gov ernor has approved the following bills : House—An act to empower any Judge of any Court of Common Pleas, of any county of this Commonwealth, to fix the place of election in certain cases. House—An act to require a brand upon all goods made by convict labor. House—An act to make accepted orders and certificates for petroleum negotiable. Senate—An act providing for the registration of practitioners of dentistry, and penalties for violations of the same. Senate—A supplement to the act of May 21, 1874, in reference to entail ments. House—An act to enable city, coun ty, township and borough tax col lectors to collect taxes for the payment of which they have become personally liable without having collected the same, but by expiration of the author ity of their respective warrants, and to extend the time for collection of the same for a .period of one year from the passage of this act. Senate—An act to facilitate the proof and record of the title of real es tate vested in the heirs of certain intes tates. House—An act to provide for the disposal of the property of unincorpor ated associations organized for benevo lent, charitable or beneficial purposes, upop the dissolution of the same. Senate—An act amending the act es tablishing the insurance department. Senate—An act to regulate the com putation of time under statutes, rules, orders and decrees of court, and under charters and by-laws of corporations, public and private. Senate—An act to authorize the cer tificate of the recording of deeds, mort gages and other instruments in certain cases, where the proper officer has not done so. House—An act to provide for the publication of the Pennsylvania arch ives. Senate —An act authorizing the Courts of Common Pleas to decree the satisfaction of mortgages upon pay ment being made into said courts of the amount of principal, interest and all other money found to be due upon such mortgages, in cases where the legal holder or holders thereof shall re side without the jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, or shall have remov ed therefrom without leaving a known, duly-authorized attorney to enter satis faction on full payment of such mort gage money being made. Luther's 400 th Birthday. The 400 th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, which falls in the present year, is au event which appeals with peculiar interest to the whole Christian Church world The Lutheran Church in the meetings of its ministers and elsewhere, retraces with peculiar pride and loving interest the life of the great reformer whose name the Church bears. But Luther's life and work belong to all churches, and all people have reaped benefit from the labors of the aggressive founder of a new church who dared to defy the thunder of the Pope and the instru ments of the Roman Catholic Church. There were reformers contemporary with Luther,as sincere, as self-denying, as learned as he was. The sufferings of some of them in the cause of the true faith were even greater than his. By precept and example they carried the departure from the false doctrines of the Church of Rome even farther than Luther did. They were persist ent unto the end of their lives, wander ing about with a price upon their heads to teach their disciples, and dying at last upon the stake or as fugitives from the fury of their persecutors. But the Reformation needed a leader different from these. They were persistent and courageous, but to organize the forces that had long recognized the evils of the Romish Church, and to call a halt upon their practice that would be heard and heeded even at Rome itself, there was needed a leader, aggressive, com bative, of forceful personal character, who could compel a following and thunder back in reply to the bulls of the Pope. The man was furnished for the hour in the person of Martin Lutber. When he arose the threaten ed turning back of the hands upon the dial cf the century was not carried out. That was nearly 400 years ago. The 400 th anniversary of his birth falls at a time when man, striving to pierce the future, is prone to conclude that the world's work is about concluded. Ex cepting the birth of Christ nearly all the important events whose influence are distinctly felt at the present day have occurred within these 400 yea-s. The Reformation itself,the discovery of America, the fall of feudalism, the growth of thought, the uprising of the common people and the startling dis coveries in science and triumphs in in vention that have been crowded into the last of these four centuries,seem to leave no unexplored fields for man to tread. Our lines have fallen into quiet places, when leisure is allotted for con sideration of the great deeds that have been done, and for study of the lives of the great actors, such as Luther, in these events. The permanency of the peace and its security is probably but fancied. The end of the rope is not yet reached. The world at times mast pause to breathe, that the race may be renewed with redoubled speed. Feudalism is dead, but we know that is traditions are not dead. The common people, but half aware of their power, still blindly grope in the search for relief from the inherited conditions of their lot. Perhaps after the Reformation of Luther the next great event of the world may be the bloodless reforma tion ending in the downfall of the tot tering thrones of the kings. Even now the crimes in Ireland and Russia indicate that this reformation is going on in those countries,as it is peacefully under way in England and Germany. Everywhere the people are reclaiming the power which was originally of them, and one lesson of Luther's con test with the Church of Rome is that no authority, however firm, powerful and wide-reaching, can endure when the people choose to claim their own. Never again will their be a corporation, potentate, political boss or ring, that can wield as wide an authority as the Pope did before Luther was done with him, and the lesson of the Reformation is that the remedy follows surely the seizure of the rights of the people.— Phila Press. County Taxation. EDITORS CITIZEN : The question is often asked by the tax payers of our county, why is our couuty tax so high, and" why did the present board of Commissioners levy seven mills the present year. Now 1 propose to answer this question, and to do so truthfully as I understand it. And first when the present board of Commissioners came into office on the Ist of January, 1882, they found the financial affairs of the county about as follows, which all can see who examine the Auditors' report of that date. It shows that the retiring board of Commissioners levied on the then ad justed valuation, tour and one-half mills, for county purposes, which raised on said levy about $46,000. And by examining the said report you will see that the necessary expenditure of the county was at least $58,000 and the following debts unpaid at the first of the year, 1882, viz : Dixmont Hospital, about $4,000; Penitentiarv, $700; Workhouse, $751 ; the Reform School, $185; the Pittsburgh Bridge Company, for Etna bridge and masonery of abut ments $3,450, and SO,OOO of borrowed money and numerous other small debts amounting in all to about $10,036. And the same Auditors' report shows that the outgoing Treasurer, Craig, turned over to Treasurer J. H. Miller $4,600 in cash, and about $14,500 of uncollected tax that all the collectors percentage, all the exonerations and all the lost tax would be deducted, reduc ing the real amount realized by the county according to Treasurer Miller's report to about $7,000, making the neat amount of cash in the treasury on the Ist of January, 1882, about sll,- 600, not enough to pay the debt of the county by several hundred dollars and the necessary expense of our Court to be met from that date until the follow ing October before the present board could possibly realize one dollar on the levy made by them. Such being the condition of the county funds the pres ent board of Commissioners were forced to borrow a large sum of money to meet the demand, and it is evident that the expenses of the county will increase as the population increases, and as long as men will go to law as they have done dnring the last year the amount of expenses will still in crease. I don't believe for one moment that the tax payers of the county know what every suit that is brought into court and tried costs them. To illus trate just what I mean I will give some facts. Sometime last January there was a suit tried in the court here as follows : A sued B for maintaining a nuisance in the shape of a hog pen in cloae proximity to A's house. The smell was so offensive that A could not eat at the table with any comfort, so he sued B for maintaining a nuisance so close to his house. The trial com menced on Friday morning, and lasted until the following Tuesday. The jury held and was paid for the Sabbath day, or about twenty-eight hours. Now I am informed that it costs the county about thirty dollars per hour to run the court, hence the above trial cost the county $864. So you may see just what it costs the tax payers to tell whether a hog pen at your door is a nuisance. Now we don't want to be understood as casting any reflections on the judicial bench of our county, but I do want to be understood as reflect ing on the litigating parties who are so keen to law at the public expense, when nine times out of ten there is no cause for action. Again there is another class of lawsuits in which the county suffers in her financial affairs and that is in all Commonwealth cases, and forty-nine out of fifty of these have their origin in the use and abuse of alcoholic drinks. The records of your own court will show just what I say, and yet there is to be found in every township and borough in the county good men, who will sign the petition of the applicant for license for those who wish to engage in retailing this dangerous drug the sale and use of which is the direct cause of four-fifths of your tax burthen. Now I believe it is logical to reason from cause to effect and from effect to cause, and if this be true it does not require the wisdom of Solomon to tell that it is wrong to grant license to any men to engage in any business, the effects of which are so pernicious and cause so much trouble and expense. Nearly every offense in the catalogue of crime is committed under the influence of strong drink. This is a fact that is self-evident and needs no proof. Then if this be true the licensing of all these houses for the sale of strong drink is wrong and the cause of all our trouble. Again, in the last triennial assessment the aggregate value of the whole county falls about one and a half million dollars below the assessment of 1879, and the necessary amount of money to meet the current expenses of the county could not be raised by less millage. The expendit ure from January, 1882, to January, 1883, was about $55,000 and the pres ent year shows an increase. Again there is some fault to be found with Justices of the Peace all over our county, who are too ready to give law to whoever may ask for such a remedy. They will suffer some party to make information against some other party and cause the arrest of the party com plained of, and either commit him to jail or hold him under bail for his ap pearance at court, and when the case is called and tried the bottom falls out of the case and the county is ordered to pay the cost. At one term of our court five Commonwealth cases were called and only one of them held water, the other four having no foundation In fact all these were from the return of justices of the peace and if they would only be a little more careful and give law only those who need redress, the county would be called on for less costs. If all our citizens would study this mat ter over and refrain themselves and ad vise their neighbors to less going to law about trifles, your taxes would be reduced and the grass would spring up around your temple of justice. 11. W. G. A N alienator from Florida, two feet long, was received at the express office here, on Monday. It was sent to the Orphans' Home and came in a box THE theatrical entertainment in the Court House on Monday evening, by the Union Square Theatre Company, was well attended and every body pleased with the performances. The Company will hold forth this, Tues day, evening, and every evening this week. A. TROUT MA N, I'EALEB IN DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. TRIMMINGS. Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs, Mats, Stair Rods, Etc. DRESS GOODS AND SILKS At lowest prices of black and Colored Silks. New tthudes in C sinner*. A tine and large as sortment of Nuns' Veiling, Buntings and Uiiu Summer Dress Goods. WHITE DRESS GOODS, Largest assortment, lowest prices. Infants' White Dress Cloaks. White Dresses lor chil dren 1, 2, and :! years old. Large Stock of Laces in White and Black Ruchings, Embroideries, Insert ings, Irish Trimmings, Collars for Children and Ladies, Cuffs, Sash Ribbons, Fishues, Lace Tics, Handkerchiefs in Silk, Linen and Cotton. Black Crape and Crape Veils. HOSIERY! HOSIERY! HOSIERY Fancy Hosiery for children in great variety. Fancy Ilosieiy for ladies, all qualities and prices. Men and boys' Socks. Stock the largest; prices the lowest. Summer Underwear For children, ladies and men. Umbrellas and Parasols in fancy Satin, Silk Alapacas, Ginghams, Serge, &c. CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS Large and fine selected stock, all absolutely new styles. Brussels, Ingrains Cottage Hemp, Rag, Mattings, Rugs, <fec. Please call and examine stock and prices. A. TROUTMAN. BUTLEB, PA iSOIt EXTREMELY LOW PRICE TO ONE PRICE THE TIME lias come and we are ready to ONE PRICE show the people of this county the Largest, ONE PRICE Cheapest and best stock of ONE PRICE ONE PRICE Mens', Youths', Boys' & Childrens' Clothing, ONE rRIt;E ONE PRICE ALSO A FINK LINE OF ! ONE PRICE ONEEE.CE JIA TS, CAPS ONE FKICE ONE PRICE _AJNI> ONE PRICE QSHTS' FURNISHING QOODS, ONE PRICE ' ONE PRhIK Marked in Plain Figures at One Extremely Low Price. ONE TRICE M j ONE PRICK ONE I'EIqE 0116 OS]!pK , CB Popular Character all the World over, will Play UK Leading Part at ' XEP,,UE , J. N. PATTERSON'S, "I ONE PRICE " ONE PRhIE OXE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE, ONE PRICE g OUTH corner DUFFY'S BLOCK, BUTLER, PEFN'A, ° NE PRICE = ONE EXTREMELY LOW"PRICE TO ALL IT. D. A. HECK, CARPETS, CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. JUSTICE TO AIJL. ONE PR ICE ONLY. TERMS CASH. DUFFITS BLOCK, MAIN ST., BUTLER, PA. The W. C. T. Union. Our citizens have enjoyed recently many excellent literary and musical entertainments, all of which it has given us pleasure to commend. But that given by the Womens' Christian Temperance Union in the Court House on Tuesday evening, 19th inst., is is worthv of especial mention and praise. All the exercises wer- choice and select in character, and the young ladies and gentlemen went through their parts with great credit. One new feature was the appearance of some new performers, who added variety and interest to the occasion. We allude to Mrs. Greib and her two younger sisters, Misses Lina and Mamie Pape, who, with Mr. Thomas Stehle, Jr., their uncle, favored the audience with music, both vocal and instrumental, that was highly appreciated. We think they deserve special mention as it was their first appearance in the Court House, we believe, on such occasions. To the Womens' Christian Temperance Union great credit is due for their efforts in the cause in which they are engaged. Considering the inclemency of the weather the entertainment they gave was a success and much enjoyed by all present. Church Exercises. In the English Lutheran Church of this place on Sunday last there were held very interesting services, in addi tion to the regular services of the day. The occasion was the commemoration of the reading of the Augsburg Con fession (June 25, 1530.) before the Emperor Charles V, then the principal ruling power in Europe and hostile to the Reformers led by Luther and Me lancthon. In the forenoon an able ser mon was preached by the He v. \ . B. Christy, of Zelienople; in the afternoon one by the Rev. Peter RifTer, of Mid dle Lancaster, and in the evening one by the Rev. G. W. Critchlow, of Pros pect, in which the trials of the Reform eis, in connection with the promulga tion of the Augsburg Confession, were vividly and ably presented. Similar services will be held in the English Lutheran Church at Prospect, this county, on next Sunday, July Ist, at 10:30 A. M., and 3 P. M., to which the public are cordially invited. McCi'RDY * Co.. FhiU<klpiu»,r». TABLE LINEN in Bleached and Unbleached, Turkey Keds, German at.d In'cy; Towels and Toweling, Nap kins, Wbite quilts in great variety; L»ce Bed Sets, Lace Lambrequins, Lace Curtains. DOMESTICS. Best makes of Ginghams, Muslins, Zephyr Cloth, Seresncker, Law us, .Shirtings, Sheetiugs, Cassimers, Jeans, Tweeds, Ac. GLOVES! GLOVES! Kid Gloves in all qualities and prices; Si!k Glo>es, Berliu Gloves, Lisle Thread Gloves, You will lind inv Gloves stccK complete, Mitt, black and colored, BANNER POWDER Always the Best. STRAWBERRY CAKE. To tlio yolks of tliree eggs beateu add ona cup white sugar, one-lialf cup butter, oue-lialf cup sweet milk, two cups flour having in it one measure "BANNER" Baking Powder, the whitea of three eggs beaten stiff; bake in jelly-cake pans; when cold, and iust before eating, plaoe in layers, covering each one with strawberriea which liavo previously been sugared. Strawberry Nliorl Cake. Take one pound of flour; mix well through it one aud a half measures "BANNER" Baking Powder; add two tea-spoonfuls Bait ; then rub in one-half pound shottening; add with a spoon one-half pint sweet milk; bake in jelly-cake pane; when cold, and just before eating, place in layors, covering each one with strawbeiriea which have previously been sugared. SUMMER NORMAL" AND ELOC UTION, AT North Washington Academy, OPENS JULY 24. 1883. Byron W. King, of Cuny Institute, Pitts burgh, Pa., will have charge of Elocution, 4c. Specialties made of BOOK-KEEPING, PENMANSHIP, METHODS AND E 3V: 73. Send for circular to R. D. CRAWFORD North Hope, Butler County, Fa. "J" # 1 198 LIBERTY ST. ■ PITTBBUKQK. 3" A. Subscribe for the CITIZEN-
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