VOL. XX. SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION PITTSBUa^^POsIiION SOCIETY. OPEN from SEPTEMBER 6 to OCTOBER 13, 1883. Artists. Invcntoii, Mechanics and Manufacturer* of America ate Cordially iuiiitd to participate 111 tills I op«i»r and successful Eihlhitioa —OF _A_IR/r nTDUSTBY. ADMISSION, 25 CENTS. SPECIAL. EXCIKSIOX TICKETS AT GREATLY REDUCED RATES —WILL RB ISSUED By All Railroads Centering in Pittsburg & Allegheny. For Prospectus and Entry Blanks, [Address, E. P. YOUNG, Gen'l Manager. J. C. PATTERSON, Sec'y. A. TKOUT MA N, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. TRIMMINGS. Carpets. Oil Cloths, Rugs, Mats, Druggets, Stair Rods, Etc, (.) FOR FALL. FOR FALL. New Black Silks. New Colored Silks. New Colored Cashmeres. New Black Cashmeres. New Black Silk Velvets. New Colored Silk Velvets. New Colored Silk I'lushes. >e\r Black Silk Plushes New Shades Ladies' Cloths. New I>ress Woods. 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GEhSnftdt FOR PAIIM. CURES Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache. Headache. Toothache. Norc Throat. Spraim. Iti-ulses, Ituriu. ScaliU. f'roit AMI A 1.1. OTIIEK IMIIiII.V I'AINS AM» AIHE3. BoH tl UruggMt »nrt Dealer* rj whtre. Kiftj Ccuti a bottle Directions in 11 l.anffua«e«- THE C'll AISLE* A. VOGKIi iM O. ieoea*..-* t» A- V CHiLLAIi * CO t Baltimore, S<l„ I. A. A. DYS ENTERY qi IM MER V«/ UI V I COMPLAINT There is no time to 1 lost win it those j v.e love .".re taken with th'.sc j terrible diseases. The beauty of Pc.RkY DAVIS'S I PAIN KILLER is that it acts S J promi*!)", surely aiul efficiently. Don't be without TAIN" Ln.i.ER ! Have it ready for instant U.J ! , Keep it with you at home or abroad! ALL THE DRUGGISTS SELL IT failsT>^ Opium Fatinsr, Rbeinnattein, Hpemiutor rlisr, or Seminal Weakness, und lifty oilier roaai»lalntH?" V\ e cUim it u specific* bini r i v, Ii •»-ansi! ttio Tiriißof all diseftficn arisen from the Mood. Its Nervine, Resolvent, Alterative und L.'i.ratlvc i»ro|#'Tti«-Hin«ctall the cowlitioua herein rc 1 erred to. Jt'a known u orld vide us (®SO It qnietA and compopon t!io patient—not by tho introduction of opuit»;sand drastic cathartics, but by the restoration of activity to the stomach and nervous system, whereby the brain is relieved of morbid fancies, which are created by the cantos above referred to. To Clergymen, Lawyers. Literary men. Mer chants, Hankers, Ladies and all those whose sed entary employment causes nervous prostration, irregularities of the blood, stomach, bowels or kidneys or who require a nerve tonic, appetizer or Ktfinulant, SAMARITAN* NKKVIKK is Invaluable. Thousands proclaim It the mo*t won«!erful invig orant tliat. ever sustained tin; sinking system. Sold by nil Drrggir-t*. The UU.H. A. ICICH MONI> MKI). CO., l'roprictor*. 5t..10»« pli, Mo. Chaa. IT. Crittoaton, Agent, row York City. (I) TUTT J S PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER IS THE BANE of the present generation. It 1b for the Cure of this disease and its attendants, BICK-HEADACHE. BILIOUSNESS. DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., thut TUTT'S PILLS have Rained a world-wide reputation. .No itemedy has ever been Hiacovered thnt nets HO gently on th» digestive ortcans, giving them vigor to mi similate food._ As n natural reault, the Nervoua System is Uraced, tho Muscles are Developed, and the Body Robust. drills and Povor. E. RIVAL, a plantor at Bayou Sara, La.. says: My plantation In In a malarial district. For several years I could not mako halt a crop on Account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged whon I began the use of TUTT'S PILLS. Tho result wan xnarvolourn my laborers soon became hearty and robust, &ud I ha"e had no further trouble. They relievelheenjoinedl.trer,rlean«« the lilood from polaonooa humors, nnd ranir the bowel* U» set ii*tiirnlly, with out whleh no one inn feel well. Try Hit* remedy falrlj, »n<l yon will iraln a healthy I»lRe»llon, Vigorous Hod v. Pure Hloml, Mtronir .Xeives, nnd a Mound l.tver. f» r lcr, 2.">< ents. OMlee, 35 Murray St., W. If. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. Okay Huh or Whukfiw chanced to a Drossy Hi.ack l»y ii single application of tills Dyi:. It Imparts a natural cotor.aml acts Install lam-oir.ly. Sold l>v Druggists, or .sent l<y express ou receipt of One Dollar. Office, 35 Murroy Street, New York. (Itr. Tf'TT'S SUAM At, af Information and lime fit I I u ui be inni(e<( ruEE on uvvHcatlotuf i|L |tfas mmm I Jt E SELtERS&CO. PROPMfTOfiS. Pittsburgh, PA. I*KK!VI A S EXT ST AtS FOR KENSINGTON, ARRASENE AND OUTLINE WORK DONE, Al o (i-ssonh In nunc given by ANNIE M. LOVVMAN, North ttrcct, Butler, Pa. jin-aoiy WM. KELLEM, Washington, Pa., l-rescnts to the public n CK MKNT! More durable than IUON for stoves, rallies lire place* and slenm mills. Also, set grates in workiuiui-lilte inanuer. This <'eniciit taki - the place of stove backs. All work L'liar antccd. july26-12t. "Advu titiH iu the Cn BUTLER. PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1883 Ex-Chief Justice Agnevv on the Death of Ex-Chief Justice Black At the meeting of the members ol the Pittsburgh Bar recently, Ex-Chief Justice Agnew jiaid the following touching and eloquent tribute to the memory of the late Ex-Chief Justice Black: MR. CHAIRMAN:—Iam glad your adjournment on Saturday has given me nn opportunity of meeting with you in the expression of sorrow all feel for the death of an eminent citizen, great lawyer and an upright judge. I heard of it too late last week to express my regret for his death and sympathy at his loss. My lirst personal knowledge of Jere miah S. Black began in 1852, wLen holding a special court at Greensburg. it was just at a time when the con troversy upon the statute of limitation leading to the overthrow of the opinions of Chit-f Justice Gibson in Wagonuer vs. Hastings and cognate cases, jostled under by the exalted administration of Judge Black, for the formerehief justice, and caused his strong nature to rtfbel in a spirit of boiling indignation, so marked afterward in his dissent in the second case of Hole ve Ilittenhonse. His effort then was to impress upon me the great injustice done to Judge Gibson. The profession, however, sustained C. J. Lewis. It was at the same court, he afterward told me with unction, I was about to commit him for contempt. Though myself not aware of the fact, as I was not introduced to him until evening, it seemed that com ing into the little courtroom at Greens burg, be was talking outside the bar in his usual genial but rather loud tone for a court room, and I ordered the tipstaff to silence that loud fellow outside. Few men have filled a larger space in the minds of Pennsylvanians than Judge Black. As a judge he left his impress upon the jurisprudence of the State in important respects. The great case of Sharpless vs. Philadelphia set the current of judicial exposition of the constitution, which sustained the grand railway system of Pennsylvania, by means of municipal subscriptions to their stock. Antagonized, as he was, upon that important question by Lewis and Woodward, themselves eminent judges, and supported by Lowrie and Knox, his opinion was a model of clear statement, strong argument, and lucid expression, and kept its place until a constitutional amendment superceded it. Later in life his opinion ran in a ehaunel favorable to a wholesome re striction of corporate power ; a doctrine adopted into the new constitution, nnd essential to the welfare of the State. In the affairs of the United States he left a record equally lustrous. Called into the cabinet of the President in 1857, in the transition period of the Union, and running into the closing hours of an administration fated to be torn by elementarv discord, sectional dis sension and treasonable secession, he bore himself so "clear in his oflicc," that after a score of years had passed, and bright robed peace had taken the place of war, he held a high and lumin ous place in the esteem of his country men. Yet this happy end was not reached except through years of pain ful silence, and a misconstruction which he bore with a virtue, addiug new lus tre to his character. Few men could have suffered so long, under the severity of adverse opinion, to protect the reputation of an early and much revered friend. Happily, vindication came before the end, to brighten the vows of an illustrious career, and in this respect, one regret is, he had not lived longer to dispense fully the merits enveloped during the hours of the na tion's trial, when his patriotism reared a wall of defense against the machina tions and assaults which threatened its life. Judge Black was a true type of a class of men called from the middle waiks of life, who, by the vigor of his intellect, varied acquirements and native, energy, force their way to the highest positions, and Command recog niton, notwithstanding the absence of early culture and of mere polish of urban training. Born on tbe 10th of Janurary, ISIO, of Scotch-Irish parent age, he partook of the rough, strong, manly, earnest and religious nature of that hardy race which peopled the western counties of Pennsylvania. He was a true representative in intel lect, form and feature. The east of his mind even surpassed tbe giant mould of his form, while his countenance por trayed the strong bold qualities of his brain. His imagination like tbe blows of a blacksmith's hammer, drove bril liant sparks from the heated mass, crushed by the ponderous strength of his logic. He was a great lawyer, but not as great as some viewed him, but great iu knowledge of elementary principles, great in his conception of right, and grand iu his masterly operation of his convictions. It was the greatness of vigorous thought, varied acquirements, keen preception, forcible utterance and captivating style. Hut ho was not great as a mere lawyer. Mi ii far less able often surpassed him in research, and brought more logical connection and legal astuteness, to the argument of mere legal questions. His real merit was not as a lawyer only, was not seen HO much in his speeches as in his writings, where his concentrated thoughts and his combination of qual ities, stores of learning and gems of literature, shaped by his favorite read ing, (the Bible and Shakespeare) east themselves into moulds which genius alone can form. I shall not detain you longer, except to say that his life bore witness to the earnest convictions and strong elements of his nature. A prayer to (lod for dying strength and for the welfare of a wife he loved with the strong throb bings of his heart, closed a life of vir tue. Lancaster is proud in the posses sion of two big sunflowers, measuring respectively forty-eight and forty-nine inches in circumlerenco. The Annual Visit to the State Institutions. For the ' mzi.x. On August 13th the County Com missioners, accompanied by Clerk of Courts, W. B. Dodds, County Treasur er, J. 11. Miller and his estimable lady, left Butler on the 7:30 train on the West Penn railroad, to pay the annual visit to the State's prison and other in stitutions, wherein there are parties confined from this county for punish ment, correction and medical treat ment. Arrived in Allegheny in due time and sought our hotel, and after dinner visited the penitentiaries, both old and new, the new being styled the Riverside. It is built on the site or ground of the old House of Refuge, and when finished will be beyond doubt the best building of the kind in the State. We were shown all through the new building and was told, if 1 recollect right, that the part now finish ed will accommodate seven hundred persons. The prisoners from our coun ty all appear to be in good health with one or two exceptions. Billie White, as he is called, looks as if he fretted a good deal but says he has pi'etty good health. 1 see no change on any other of our men there except John Lefever; he is in good health but looks a year older than when we saw him before. The warden and his subordinate officers are very kind to him ; he is janitor of the room where they make brooms. The provisions furnished the prison ers were show to us and were of the best quality. All admit they are treated well but, at the same time, are longing for the day to come when they will be set at liberty. On Tuesday we boarded the Leetsdale Accommodation and visited Dixmont Hospital; arrived there about 10 A. M. and introduced ourselves as the representatives of But ler county. Dr. Keed being absent we were taken in charge by one of the as sistant surgeons and shown through the entire building. All our party were much pleased with the appearance of the building and the clean and tidy R>anner in which it is kept. While we were viewing the place all the persons from our county who are therein con lined were brought together—the ladies in one room and the men in the hall. We have, I believe, twenty-one or twenty-two patients in all. Their con dition is very much the same as last year. Mrs. Catharine Stang appeared to be more noisy than before and car ried on a loud conversation in Dutch all the time we were in, not one word of which we understood, although she spoke loud and long. We also noticed that Miss Cratty had failed or at least looked more careworn and paler than when we saw her last One or two others have failed very much and I don't think will survive many years. There are several men from this county that possibly would be as well at home ; they are out at work there and they could do the same at home. Mr. Douthett, of Adams township, wo think, could be released with safety ; also a man from Donegal township and one from the borough of Butler ; these are all anxious to get home. From everything we could see and learn we believe the patients to be well treated and well cared for, the investigation committee to the contrary notwith standing. On Wednesday we visited the Re form School at Morgan/a where we have four scholars, viz: Pearl and Lillian St. Clair, Mary Collins and We were welcomed by the warden, Mr. Quay, and shown over the entire building and its work shops are surely a credit to the State Pennsylvania. Hundreds of small hoys from six years old upwards are all busy at work in some useful occu pation. Here as at the State prison the provisions were shown and most certainly was of the best quality. They raise all their own vegetables and have some to sell. The scholars from our .county all look well but Mary Collins, and she is undoubtedly failing; her friends,if she has any, ought to take her home, as 1 am sure her health isgiving way although she is kindly cared for where she is, and I have heard it said that she never ought to have been sent there. We were invited to dirmor along with some other visitors, by Mr. Quay and his lady, who is highly educated and a great talker, and entertained us with a description of how the institu tion was run, Mrs. Quay addressing herself more particularly to Mr. Dodda, who, at first, squirmed and wiggled a good deal under fire and appeared a good deal like a fish out of water, to the great amusement of his companions, but finally proved himself worthy of the occasion and came oil' with flying colors. lam as ever your fellow citi zen. G. W. H. Mnny a man's religion is very fair religion if measured by the standard of the old saw—'Tis a good knife ; it will cut butter when 'tis incited. —Mr. Marry lloche, Wrightsv'lle, Pa., says: "I was entirely cured of chills and fever by using Brown's Iron Bitters." —lt is pretty well decided by the moral people of this country that the sparrow must go. It is plausibly as serted that he pecks at the green corn and fills his crop with the seeds that the farmer plants ; but the real reason for his compulsory retirement is that he killed Cock Itobin, and confessed the murder. —At ijuito, the only city in the world on the line of the equator, the sua sets and rises at (> o'clock the year round. Your clocks may break down, your watches get cranky, but the sun never makes a mistake here. When it disappears from sight for the night it is C o'clock, and you can set your watch accordingly. In one part of the city it is the Summer season and in tho other part it is Winter. |C£</°No family dyes were ever so popular as the Diamond Dyes. They never fail. The black is far superior to logwood. The other colors are brilljaut. The Discovery of Luray. A correspondent of the .Atlanta C<»i stituhon tells its readers how the oave was discovered, and how the party makinsr the discoveries were deprived of their gain : A wandering photographer who chanced to he near Luray (then Lo raiue} was impressed with the belief thiit their was a cavernous formation in some of the hills that throng about the village. Why he thought so only those who know how thoroughly such a man must must study nature and ac quaint himself with woodcraft can un derstand. At any rate he persuaded his views to a local hunter named Campbell, and the two started out en a systematic and persistent search for a hole in the ground. For a long time they were unre warded. One morning, however, they came upon a bowl-like depression in the side of a mountain, from which they thought a vague current of air was issueing. They began picking through the loose stone and sand that made the bottom of the sink, and after going about ten feet, dropped through an open cayity of indeterminate di mensions. A rope was tied around Campbell's body, and he went far enough to discover that tho new found cavern was vast and measureless. The hole was then carefully covered over; and the discoverers, keeping their secret, sought the owner of the land. On a short bargain they bought the land for S4OO, and took the deeds. They disclosed their secret, secured help, and made a thorough exploration of the cave. The exploration opened up the weirdest, moat picturesque and marvelous range of underground scen ery, iu my opinion, in the world. Ido not see how anything can surpass it. For more than five miles winding pas sages lead through vaulted and fluted chambers large enough to quarter a regiment, past pools of crystal water caught in glistening basins, through corridors of enchanting beauty into vast and silent cathedrals and beyond archways, to pass under which a child must bow its head—all filled with sta lactities, knolls aud columns, fashioned through the patient and ceaseless work of centuries upon centuries into the most singular resemblances and simili tudes that are startling. Nowhere is there a of life, except that in one huge chamber a solitary bat flutters in uncertain circles amid the lofty tops of fluted columns. No other bat was seen there—and this one was so wiz ened and wrinkled that he might have been distilled from the darkness and dungeon-like vapors of the cavern— the one blind and pinched, and chilled evolutiofl of a cycle of gloom aud si lence. There is one oilier sign of life —the skeleton of a human being half embedded in the bottom of a gorge. Ages ago this man, of perhaps a race the memory of which does not survive, was doubtless lost in the cavern. Falling into this chasm, struggling against its clammy sides in the utter darkness, and filling the awful still ness with his dying cries, he died alone. And now holiday crowds of a race as strange to him as the phantoms with which his last terrors peopled the blackness of the cave pause with laugh ing speculation over his bones,and the feet of children run trippingly over the ways where lie perished so helplessly. As soon as railroad people became satisfied of the extent and beauty of the newly discovered cave, they organized a company with a capital of SIOO,OOO, and bought the cave from Mr. Camp bell and the photographer. The price given was $40,000; but before it was paid over the former owner of the land, who in his ignorance of the cave bail sold it for SIOO, moved to set his sale aside on the ground of fraud. lie con tended that he. had sold simply the top of the ground, and not what was under. The courts decided he was right, and ordered the $ 10,000 paid to him instead of the discoverers. These latter got nothing, and Campbell-is now a guide for the company on a salary. After paying SIO,OOO for the cave, the com pany built the Luray Inn, a perfect model of a Swiss hotel, at a cost of $50,000. A charge of §1 i« made for entrance to the cave, and last year 2"),000 persons paid this fee. Kxcur sions are run twice a week, and brings from .JOO to <>oo people on a train. The Virtues of Watermelon. "The gay and festive watermelon," said a State Street physician, "is a powerful diuretic, and aperient, and the pulp has a delicious refrigerating taste. Hut I think people should partake of it in moderation; and it should lie eaten with condiments sprinkled upon it. It should also lie cool when eaten, but not too cool, so as to produce congestion. When partaken of in immoderate quan tities it is likely to result in colic, pains, cramps; and if fermentation should set in congestion and dysentery will follow. Let a man drink much beer after gormandizing on watermelon, and a process of fermentation will be gin which will fill him with gas aud distend his stomach like a drum. Then cholera morbus is almost certain to fol low. Moreover, a melon should be per fectly ripe and sweet when eaten, and if sprinkled with pepper or nutmeg the stomach will !>o stimulated and the di gestion promoted. When pulled green an acid soon forms In the pulp, which is harmful. A good watermelon may lie preserved for ten days or two weeks in an ordinary Ice-box. A good circu lation of air should be around it It is about !»."> per cent, water, the other constituent parts are sugar, starch, and a mere presence of some of the minor salts."— C'/ii<-a</<> New H. —When the man has so far master ed himself that he can live within his income he has made a long stride to ward the kingdom of heaven. To make a show with money you have not yet earned is to live in a house built on a acre of purgatory. It is a homely proverb, but a true one, "The devil wipes his tail with the poor man's grille." The National Park. The London Times, of the 16th inst., gives more than three columns to the subject of the Yellowstone Park, fully half of which is devoted to the rather arduous ta&k of telling how to get there. Having informed its readers that the Park is as large as the counties of Devon and Dorset combined, and situated in the Northwest corner of Wyoming Territory, it confesses to an embarrassment as to how it shall con vey to them an idea of the exact locali ty of this hitherto unheard of country. Having told them that Wyoming Ter ritory was South of Montana and East of Idaho, it gives over the effort to locate the Park by reference to its equally unfamiliar surroundings, and patiently describes each step necessary to be taken by English tourists in order to reach the Park by way of Liverpool, (Quebec, the (ireat Lakes and Duluth. The wonders of the Yellowstone have heretofore had much greater at traction for Englishmen than fo.' Amer icans. It is said that until this Sum mer 90 per cent of the visitors to the Park have been English gentlemen Now, howeyer, that railroads have made the Park more accessible, Presi dent Arthur has made it fashionable, and Uncle Rufus Hatch's Hotel ami Improvement Company are about to make it comfortable for visitors, the number of Americans who will do the National Park each Summer will be be multiplied many fold. Probably in a few years the trip to the Yellowstouo wiil be as familiar an American expe rience as the trip to Europe. The National Park is not only as large as two English counties, it is as large, or even larger, than two Ameri can States, viz : Rhode Island and Delaware, and it lacks but little of be ing just half the size of the State of New .Jersey. It is <>ooo feet above the level of the sea at its lowest eleyation, and its mountain peaks ascend to 10,- 000 and 12,000 feet. The President's Party even now find frost greeting them every morning, with the thermometer soinetim:" uncomfortably near to zero. The August sun shining through the rare atmosphere soon dissipates the frost where it can get at it, and it is not unusual IU this month for the ther mometer to register ninety degrees at midday, but even this temperature in this dry atmosphere brings with it no sensation of more than ordinary warmth. The hot springs and the great canyons of the Yellowstone have been made familiar to the public through re peated descriptions and magazine illus trations. A writer in the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette found there, in addition to the other peculiar features, an epitome of all American scenery. "It has," he says, "the bold, snow, streaked peaks of the Rockies, the rounded and wooded ranges of the Al letrhenys, bluffs like those of Wisconsin palisades like those of the Hudson, savannahs such as can be found iu the Southern States, prairies resembling those of Illinois, meadows and uplands such as may be seen in New England." It is difficult to picture all these in con junction, coupled, too, with spouting geysers, the alkaiine soil of the Ameri can desert aud the countless natural curiosities which have made the Yel lowstone region famous on both sidee of the Atlantic. Not the least satisfying feature about this Park is that it is a National Park, set apart for the use and enjoyment of the American people fur all time. It was a happy thought to dedicate this region to the public, and one which, while the country is yet young, can well bear to be many times repeated.— J'/i il/i <le I I'll ia Press. How to Draw A Congregation. Several years ago we were a resi dent of Northwestern Louisiana, near the confines of Texas. The people were, as a general thing, not much given to religion. An itinerant preach er happened to go along in the neigh borhood during the dearth of religion, and set about repairing the walls of Zion in good earnest. But his success was poor. Not over half a dozen could be got together at his Sunday meet ings. Determined, however, to create an interest before leaving the neighbor hood, he procured printed hand-bills, and had them posted up in every con spicious* place in the district, which read to the following effect: "lleligious Notice. Rev Mr. Rauey will preach next Sunday, in Dempsey's (irove, at ten o'clock A. M., and at four i\ M., Providence permitting. Between the services the preacher will run his sorrel mare, Julia, against any nag that can Imj trotted out in this region, for a purse of $:">00." This had the desired effect. People flocked from all quarters, anil the de sire to see the singular preacher was even greater than the excitement fol lowing the challenge. He preached an eloquent sermon in the morning, and after dinner he brought out his mare for the race. The purse was made up by five or six of the planters, and an opposing nag produced. The preacher rode his little sorrel and won the day, amid the deafening shouts, screams and yells of the delighted people. The congregation all remained to the after noon 'service, and at its close more than 20(1 joined the church; some from motives of sincerity, some for the novelty of the thing, anil some because the preacher was a good fellow. The finah; of the affair was as flourishing a society as could be found in the whole region thereabouts. —Russians drink their tea from glass cups. They love to see as well as to feel the amber liquid. —A peason may have just skill enough in horseflesh to buy a goose to ride on, said a wise man three hundred years ago. . A persistent fly, who is determin ed to rest awhile on a person's nose' will do as much to ruflle his temper as a hot theological controversy, and tempt him to use language which no uar.-on is supposed to know. Judge Blark on 1884. NEW YORK., Aug. 22.—A short time before his death, Judge Plack was questioned in regard to his opinion of the outlook for 1884. He said he hop ed the old ticket would not be nomin ated unless it were reversed, Hendricks and Tilden. He believed that Tilden might fill the office of Yice President creditably and Hendricks would make an admir able President; but his choice was Hancock; he was for Hancock inside and out, right and left, and under all circumstances. •'lf nominated again, would Uan cock run better than in 1880 ?" was asked, and the reply was, "He would have to run better to be elected." In alluding to the issue of 1880, Judge Black was very severe on the newspaper correspondent who gave publicity to a statement respecting the tariff, alleged to have been made by Hancock, but which the Judge charac terized k as a lie cut from the whole cloth. He was even more pungent in his remarks respecting Senator Ran dolph, of New Jersey, in advising Gen. Hancock to make a written statement concerning that alleged interview on the tariff. "Randolph is a high tariff man, and that ought to have disquali6ed him from giving advice to a Democratic candidate for President," said the Judge, taking another dainty chew of "fine-cut," made from the choicest of Lancaster county tobacco, and ending the sentence with the remark: "No man can be a good Democrat who be lieves in a tariff for protection, and be has no right to advise a Democratic candidate for President." "Will the Republicans nominate General Arthur ?" The Judge hesitated a full minute, then replied with an emphatic "No. If Arthur should be nominated he would not stand the remotest chance of an election." Continuing his conversation, Judge Black said he considered Blaine the strongest man on the Republican side, and if he were a candidate, and his friends concluded to support him for the nomination, he would sweep them all down—Arthur, Sherman, Edmunds, Logan, and the rest—like chaff before a cyclone. Judge Black did not consider Blaine a great statesman—as no man could be who possessed the loose notions enter tained by Republicans in relation to the rights of the States and the Con stitution—but Blaine is by all odds the best politician in either party at the present time. He was the only man Judge Black could call to mind who had anything like a following. Said he, "Blaine has a distinctive, aggres sive and decidedly able following in al most every State, but he is not a can didate. He has assured me of this himself, and iu such a way that I can not doubt the sincerity of his state ment." "Will not this positive refusal of Blaine to be a candidate help, rather than hinder, his nomination?" asked the correspondent, and Judge Black responded: "I do not think that is a part of his programme, hut whether it is or not, if Blaine's friends start to nominate him in 1884, I can see noth ing that will prevent their being suc cessful." —The contented tramp is the true exponent of the summer school of phi losophy. When will callow writers learn that the "valuable paper" dodge is played out? —There is a tied in the affairs of wedlock that too often leads on to the Divorce Court. —A Columbia jeweler has a clock which, with but one winding, will run a year and thirty-five days. The pen dulum moves in a circle. -—An obituary in an exchange pictures the departed on the other shore "anxiously watching for the coming of her loved ones from earth." Are the blessed in a state of "auxietv ?" —Buttermilk has become quite a fashionable drink and is on sale in all the large saloons in the cities. Its ef ficacy on election days have never been tested, the politicians are somewhat skeptical as to its good qualities as a beverage. —Fifty thousand topics of Mr. Blaine's "Twenty Years in Congress" have already been, sold and the pub lishers expect total sales to reach one million. Applications for agencies have been received from every coun try in Kurope, and also from India. —A young man named Hogan, re siding in Scranton, has entered suit against several persons for conspiracy and necromancy, lie claims he was introduced to a wizard who cast a spell over him, making him believe that ho was president judge of Lackawanna county. While in this condition he was induced to sign certain papers transferring his property to a woman who was once bis wife. Now that ho has recovered his senses he wants the court to interfere and restore him his property. Henry (Jroff, a butcher from Chal fant, Pa., met with a singular accident one day last week. He was riding iu the roar of a market wagon, and, in hurriedly alighting, a gold ring worn on his little finger caught on a hook. The weight cif his body in jumping caused the sharp edge of the ring to server the* finger from his hand. The pain so bunuralied his hand that Mr. (Jroff did not know the extent of his injury till the driver of the wagon pick ed up the severed member from the floor. Useless Fright. To worry about any liver, kidney or urinnry trouble, especially Bright's disease or diabetes, as Hop Bitters never fails of a cure where a cure ia possible. We kcow this. NO. 42
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