VOL. XXI.
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the facsimile signature of Hiarox & Co. Is at the
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Ac. Also custom work done to order, such ar
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TO SCIIOOI, DIRECTORS,
By authority of the Executive Committee of
Butler County School Directors' \ssociation, 1
call a meeting of sanl Association to be held In
th* Court House in Butler, oil Tuesday, May oth.
at 10o'clock A. M. All the Directors in the coun
ty are earnestly invited to attend to perfect a full
and permanent organization. Teachers, candi
dates for Superintendent and all friends of popu
lar education are cordially invited to be present.
All questions relating to the duties and work of
School Directors will lie open for discussion. The
object ol the Association is to afford opportunity
for comparing Ideas and plans. The public dis
cussion of candidates for County Superintendent
will not be in order. Turn out lii force, come early
and let us have a good meeting In the interest of
education. BY ORDER OF COM.
FUANK M. EASTMAN, Chairman
I nprPi 'it
BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. 1884
The Inspiration of the Bible.
A lecture by 11. 1.. Hayings, before the Massa
cliusetts Annual Convention of the Y. M. C. Asso
clations, at Spencer. October 13. lwt.
The question as to the inspiration of
the Bible is not a question raised by
me. It is a question that is already
up for discussion through the length
and breadth of the land. What are
we to do with the Bible? How are
we to regard it? Is it the best book
in the world, or the ivorst? Is it a
true book, or is it a false book? Is it
God's book, or is it man's book?
We fiud men on all sides of the ques
tion. There is one person who tells us
this book is a good book — but then,
there are others just as good. The
Bible is inspired, and so was Plato in
spired, so was Socrates, and so is the
almanac inspired; in fact, everything
is inspired — The book of Mormon, the
Koran of Mahomet, the sacred books
of the Hindoos and Chinese; — they
have their Bibles, you have yours; all
are good, and one is about as good as
the ether. Shakespeare was inspired,
Milton was inspired, Thomas Paine
was inspired, and everything and
everybody is inspired.
It is not worth while to waste time
on false issues. When I open Shakes
peare's play I do not read at the com
mencement, "Thus saith the Lord
God of hosts;" when I turn to Plato's
writings I do not read, "Hear ye the
word of the Lord;" when I peruse the
almanac I do not read, "The word of
the Lord cometh unto me." Hence,
you 6ee that this book must be judged
by a standard different from all other
books. Over and over again this book
says, "Hear ye the word of the Lord."
Now, the message is the word of the
Lord, or it is a lie. It is the word of
the Lord, as it professes to be, or it is
a cheat, a swindle, a humbug, a fraud.
To illustrate: A man tells me that
Jesus of Nazareth was a good man;
but then, there were other men just as
good. He was a spiritual medium;
but there are other mediums equally
powerful in these days. To be sure,
I do not remember AAY spiritual medi
um giying a public dinner, for nothing,
to five thousand hungry people! You
may have heard ol such a "manifesta
tion," but it has not fallen under my
notice. I have not heard of a spiritual
medium hushing the winds or calming
the sea. I have heard of dancing
tables and similar operations. I pre
fer to have my tables stand still!
[Luughter and applause ]
But while you say, "Christ was
simply one of many remarkable men,"
He says, "I came forth from the
Father, and am come into the world;
again I leave the world and go to the
Father." He says, "O Father, glorify
thou me with thine own self, with the
glory which I had with thee before
the world was." Now do you say he
was a good man, and yet he told lies?
What is your idea of a good man? I
do not believe that a good man lies;
and I do not believe that a man who
lies is a good mau. Perhaps you do,
but if so, you were brought up in a
different way from that in which my
father brought me up. So Ido not
believe that a book packed with lies
from one end to the other is a good
book; and Ido not want any one to
come and tell me that Jesus Christ
was a good man, and the Bible is a
good book, but neither of them tell the
truth. I join issue there. This book
is what it professes to be or it is a
swindle; Jesus of Na/areth 'was what
he professed to be, or he was an im
poster.
Suppose a man comes to town and
represents himself the son of a British
nobleman. He is well dressed, has
plenty of money, turns the heads of
half the young ladies in the town, and
makes himself at home generally; but
after a while they Gnd out that he ia
the son of "old Jinkins, the black
smith," down in the next town. Now
I do not want you to tell me how pret
tily he behaves, what fine broadcloth
he wears, or what a perfect gentleman
be is in all his deportment. The fact
is, he is a liar, a fraud and a scamp,
he has come under false colors, and
palmed himself off on the community
under false pretenses; and the more
good things you say about him the
less I think of him, because, if he is
such a well-educated gentleman, he
knows better than to be going around
as a fraud, and deceiving the people.
So we must accept Jesus of Nazareth
and his claims entirely, or else we
must reject the whole gospel as an im
poster, and as the grandest, most stu
pendous fraud the world has ever
known.
Now, do not be fooled by this soft
talk about the Bible being "a good
book," and yet like many o'her good
books. There is not another like it in
the world. Let us look at some of its
peculiarities: —
Here is one. The Bible is a book
which has been refuted, demolished,
overthrown, and exploded, more times
than any other book you ever heard of.
Every little while somebody starts up
and upsets this book; and it is like up
setting a solid cube of granite. It is
just as big one way as the other; and
when you have upset it, it is right
side up, and when you overturn it
again it is right side up still. [Ap
plause.] Every little while somebody
blows up the Bible; but when it comes
down it always lights on its feet, and
runs faster than ever through the
world. They over threw the Bible a
century ago, in Voltaire's time—en
tirely demolished the whole thing. IN
less than a hundred years, said Vol
taire, Christianity will have been
swept from existence, and will have
passed into history. Infidelity ran
riot through France, red-handed and
I impious. A century has passed awav.
Voltaire has "passed into history,"
aud not very respectable history either;
but his old printing press, it is said,
has since been used to print the Word
of (Jod; and the very house where ho
lived is packed with Bibles, a depot for
the (jeueva Bible Society. Thomas
Paine demolished the Bible, and finish
ed it off finally; but after he had crawl
ed despairingly into a drunkard's grave
in 1809, — There lies before me A letter
written to me by Mrs. Mary Benjamin,
who at the age of eleveu years was an
eye-witness to the death-bed agonies of
Thomas Paine. She writes from Wil
liamsport, Pa . April 25, 187<>: "I
was invited bv a distant connection . .
to go and see T. Paine on his death
bed . . . The scene to me was appal
ling, &DD I wished to leave at once. I
remember him as he lay, his head near
and close to the door we entered, his
glaring, rolling eyes; uttering impre
cations, apparently in agony of body
and mind, his screams could be heard
at a great distance. As I shrank back
they said (there were many there) he
called on Jesus C hrist for mercy, and
next blasphemed." This independent
witness simply confirms the testimony
of other respectable persons; whose
veracity is only impeached by infidels
who were not present, and who know
nothing of the facts, but who with
characteristic candor expect us to be
lieve their testimony concerning events
which occurred years before they were
born! — the book took such a leap that
since that time more than twenty times
as many Bibles have been made and
scattered through the world A3 ever
were made before since the creation of
man. Up to the year 1800, from four
to six million copies of the Scriptures,
in some thirty different languages,
comprised all that had been produced
since the world began. Eighty years
later, 1880, the statistics of eighty dif
ferent Bible societies which are now
iu existence, with their unnumbered
and auxiliaries, report mor©
than 165,000,000 Bibles, Testaments,
and portions of Scripture, with '206
new translations, distributed by Bible
societies alone since 1804; to say
nothing of the unknown millions of
Bibles and Testaments which have
been issued and circulated by private
publishers throughout the world. For
a book that has been exploded so many
times, this book still shows signs of
considerable life.
I have heard of a man travelling
around the country exploding this
book, and showing up "the mistakes of
Moses," at about S2OO a night. It is
easy work to abuse Moses at S2OO a
night, especially as Moses is dead and
cannot talk back. It would be worth
something after hearing the infidel on
"the mistakes of Moses," to hear Moses
on "the mistakes of the infidel.'.' When
Moses could talk back he was rather a
difficult man to deal with. Pharaoh
tried it, and met with poor success.
Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
and it is found a grave in the Red Sea.
Korah, Dathan and Abiram tried it,
and went down so deep that they have
not vet got back. But now Moses is
dead, and it is easy to abuse him. It
does not take a very brave beast to
kick a dead lion. It woulu be interest
ing to hear a military leader and legis
lator, like "Moses the mau of God,"
who, after he was 80 years old, com
manded for 40 years an army of 600,-
000 men, emancipating, organizing, and
giving laws to a nation which has
maintained its existence for more than
thirty stormy centuries, give his can
did opinion concerning "the mistakes"
of a "Colonel" of cavalry, whose mili
tary career is said to have included one
single engagement, in which "he was
chased into a hog-yard, and surrender
ed to a boy of sixteen;" after which, as
soon as exchanged, he heroically resign
ed his commission in the face of the
enemy, subsequently turning his atten
tion to managing swindling whisky
rings, discussing theology, defending
scoundrels, blaspheming God, and criti
cising dead men who cannot answer
him.
But, after all, this book seems to
stand abuse, and thrive upon refuta
tion, A few months ago some learned
men, after working for a number of
years on the revision of the New Tes
tament, finished their work. Having
inserted a few modern words instead
of others which had become obsolete,
made some slight corrections of errors
in translation, and rectified from ancient
manuscripts some littie errors that had
been made by copyists in transcribing
the New Testament, at last the book
was announced as ready to be issued
on a certain day. What was the re
sult? Why, men offered five hundred
dollars to get a copy of that book a lit
tle in advance of its publication ; and
the morning it was published, the
streets of New York were blockaded
with express wagons backed up and
waiting for copies of that book which
had been refuted, exploded, and dead
and buried for so many years. Millions
of copies of that book were sold as fast
as they could be delivered. They tele
graphed that book, from the first of
Matthew to the end of Romans, from
New York to Chicago, about 118,000
words — the longest message ever wir
ed—for the sake of getting it there
twenty-four hours sooner than steam
could carry it, to print iu the Sunday
newspapers
A dead book, is it? They would
not pay for telegraphing the greatest
infidel speech ever delivered in this
country,from here to Topbet. This old
book seems to show some signs of life
yet. It is like Aarou's rod that bud
ded and blossomed, and it is being scat
tered all over the world.
This book outlives its foes. If you
could gather all the books written
against it, you could build a pyramid
higher than the loftiest spire. Now
and then a man goes to work to refute
the Bible; aud every time it is done it
has to be done over again the next day
or the next year. And then, after its
enemies have done their worst, some of
its professed friends torture and twist
and mystify aud misrepresent it. Sure
ly it i« no fool of a book if it lives
through all that. Infidels have been
at work nearly eighteen hundred years,
firing away at it, and making about as
much impression on it as you would
shooting boiled peas at Gibraltar.
The fact is, this book has come into
the world, and it seems to have come
to stay. It is iu tie world, and Ido
not know how you are to get it out
One hundred years ago you might have
found that book in twenty or thirty
translations; but now you can find it
in between two and three hundred dif
ferent versions, most of which have
been made in this last progressive, in
tellectual nineteenth century. All over
the globe it goes; touch any shore and
you will find that book there before
you.
And it is a curious'fact that most of
our skeptical friends contrive to keep
very close to where its shadow falls.
It does not take a great while to get
out of sight of the Bible. You can go
in a very few days, where there are no
churches, Sunday schools, Young
Mens' Christian A ssociations.l'preach
ers, deacons, or anything else of the
kind — you can "go West." There is
little difficulty in getting beyond the
reach of the Bible. Your scalp might
not be very safe, but you can easily
get away from the reach of the Bible.
But the infidel, while finding fault with
the Bible, takes good care to stay where
the Bible is. Why is this ?
There was once a vessel wrecked on
one of the South Sea Islands. There
was on board a sailor who had beeu
there before, and who knew that the
people where cannibals. And when
the ship was wrecked, and they were
cast away on this shore, they knew
there was no hope for them, for they
saw no way to escape. The sailor,
however, climbed up on a hill-top to re
connoitre a little. Presently his ship
mates sawjhim swinging bis arms in
great excitement, and inquired what
was the matter. He had just seen over
the hill the steeple of a meeting-house!
[Applause ] That was what took all
the fear of trouble out of his soul. He
knew that church spire made his neck
safe on that cannibal island.
Now infidels know that fact just as
well as he did. Years ago, a young
infidel was traveling in the West with
his uncle, a banker, and they were not
a little anxious for their safety when
they were forced to stop for a night in
a rough wayside cabin. There were
two rooms in the house; and when
they retired for the night they agreed
that the young man should sit with his
pistols, and watch until midnight, and
then awaken his uncle, who should
watch until morning. Presently they
peeped through the crack, and saw
their host, a rough-looking man, in his
bear-skin suit, reach up and take down
a book —A Bible; and reading it awhile
he knelt and began to pray; and then
the young infidel began to pull off his
coat and get ready for bed. The uncle
said, "I thought you were going to sit
up and watch." But the young man
knew there was no need of sitting up,
pistol in hand, to watch all night long
in a cabin that was hallowed by the
word of God, and consecrated by the
voice of prayer. Would a pack of cards,
a rum-bottle, or a copy of the "Age of
Reason," have thus quieted this young
infidel's fears ?
Every one knows that where this
book has influence it makes things safe.
Why is this? If it were a bad book,
we should expect to find it in the hands
of the worst men. IN New York there
was once a kind of rogues' museum—
a place where they had all kinds of
skeleton-keys, and jimmies, and brass
knuckles, and dirks, and pistols, and
implements of mischief, which they
had taken away from roughs and crim
inals. I)o you suppose there was a
single New Testament in the whole
kit? Why not? If it were a bad
book you would expect a man to have
a revolver in one pocket, and a New
Testament tucked away in another.
There was a row the other night, and
a man broke his wife's head with A—
Bible? No! it was a bottle Where
the Bible bears sway, the rows and
quarrels do not come.
(Continued Next Week.)
How Gosh Originated.
A learned Bostonian writes: "Al
though the Indians did not know how
to swear when the white man came
they soon learned to swear, and bad
sufficient words in their language for
the purpose. Eliot, in the Indian
Bible, used the Indian word Osh (my
Father) for Creator, etc., and the early
missionaries, when addressing the In
dians, used Gosh (your Father ) The
Indians soon saw that that was the
necessary word for profanity and
adopted it. Gosh is in use to some
extent now, and perhaps some pious
people who say 'gosh' are not aware
that it is downright swearing in the
Indian language."
Glucose in Leather.
According to the Shoe and Leather
lie view, the falsification of the weight
of leather by adding glucose, or grape
sugar, appears to be carried on rather
extensively in Germany, and the shoe
trade societies are taking steps to pro
tect themselves from the imposition.
A simple test is recommended, which
consists in placing pieces of leather in
water for the space of twenty-four
hours, when the glucose will be dis
solved by the water, and the result
will be a thick sirupy liquid. When
two pieces of the leather are placed to
gether and left in that position for a
time, it will be found difficult to sepa
rate them, as the gummy exudations
will stick them together. It is stated
that some samples of samples of sole
leather were found to contain as high
as .'{o to 40 per cent of extra weight.
Another test recommended is to cut off
small pieces of the leather, and, wrap
ping them up in a damp cloth, lay them
away for a few days in a temperate
place. If the leather is adulterated,
the pieces will be found to be stuck to
gether, and surrounded by a sirupy
substance in proportion to the quantity
of the adulterant used; and the pecu
liarity about leather treated with grape
sugar is that, after wetting, it is diffi
cult to dry, and resembles gutta percha
or untanned leather more than the
genuine article.
NR you will be Happy. Make
your old things look like new by use
ing Diamond Dyes, and you will be
happy. Any of the fashionable colore
for 10E. at the druggists. Wells, Rich
ardson \ Co., Burlington, Vt.
The Burning of the Bauer and
Oesterling Mill.
From the Allegheny.Mail ol the 23rd inst ]
A destructive fire occurred in Mill
vale just outside of Allegheny, this
morning, by which the extensive plan
in? mill of Bauer Oesterling was to
tally destroyed. The mill was situated
a forth of a mile from Bennet's station,
West Penn railroad, in the valley
through which the historic Girty's
run flows. In a depression between
the stream and the Evergreen railroad
tracks stood the mill, a large two-story
frame building, sixty-two feet square.
Along side cf it it was a shed one hun
dred feet., and near by was a two story
building 16x20 formerly used as a sta
ble. All of the buildings,, the mill
included, were filled with finished
stock, and bill stuff, sash, doors, mould
ing, flooring and seasoned lumber. In
the mill yard were eight or ten piles of
lumber which had been seasoned for
the last year. In the mill and other
buildings and the yard there were at
least f.OO 000 feet of lumber, according
to Mr. Bauer,s estimate.
The origin of the fire was enveloped
in mystery, but after-discovered circum
stances surrounding gives an [almost
certain clue to the cause. At half
past five o'clock Gus Munz, the engin
eer, started the fires under the boilers;
also the stove in the office at the corner
of the mill. He left the office for a
short time to get some coal ashes, and
had not been gone more than five min
utes when he saw the flames bursting
out of the second story of the mill. An
alarm was given at once, but as it was
just the hour when very few men were
around, not being out of bed yet, noth
-1 ing could be done to check the progress
of the flames. There was a large tank
of water near the mill and a supply of
hose, but this to be almost
useless. The fire was raging fiercely
all the time, being fed by the dry mate
rial in the mill and a strong wind that
was blowing After considerable delay
the Millvale Fire Company with a large
Babcock extinguisher mounted on
wheels appeared on the scene. No at
tempt was made to save the mill as it
was futile, but every effort was direct
ed to saving a number of frame dwell
ings near by.
Some one saw that more assistance
was needed and ran across the Forty
third street bridge and called out en
gine companies Nos. fi and 7, of Pitts
burgh, which hurried to the place at
once. Great difficulty was found in
keeping up the supply of water, as
Girty run was the only place where it
could be obtained in sufficient quantity.
A temporary dam was constructed, and
from Ihis the engines obtained a fair
supply of water.
In less than one hour after the fire
started the mill and outbuildings were
iu ruins, nothing being left standing
but the engine and boilers. The heat
was so intense that the attempt to
save anything was given upshortly after
the fire started. All that was saved was a
small lot of finished Btuff, and a few
hundred feet of hemlock lumber. Mr.
Bauer states that he had no doubt the
fire started on the second flood from
shavings around the office stove pipe.
He had warned bis men over and over
again to clear the shavings away from
the pipe in the evening, but his warn
had not been heeded. A pattern maker
had been working beside the pipe yes
terday, he understood, and no doubt
he left the shavings scattered about
when he went home last night. Mr.
Bauer lives on the hillside above the
mill. When he arose this morning he
saw the smoke from the furnace stacks,
but noticed nothing wrong. He went
down stairs for a moment, and when he
returned the flames were bursting
from the second story windows. This
shows the great rapidity with which
it spread.
The loss will be very heavy, as the
mill and outbuildings were not a year
old, and all that was saved does not
amount to much. Mr. Bauer thought
his loss would not fall short of $25,000,
on which there is not one cent of in
surance. Said he: "I have been in the
business twenty-five years and never
expected anything of this kind, as I
thought the tank and hose sufficient
protection."
Two frame dwellings, two stories
each, near the mill were badly scorched
and great trouble was had in saving
them. The buildings are owned by
Mrs Kenells and are occupied by Fred
Braun. a shoemaker and Wm. Pflangle,
a roller in Bennet's mill. The houses
were damaged to the extent of about
£300; covered by insurance.
A rumor prevaled that a' man had
been burned to death, which was un
founded, but bad its origin as follows:
One of the men working the Babcock
was splashed all over by the chemical,
and some one made the remark that be
was burned. This was repeated until
it assumed the form of the rumor. A
man named Cornelius had his coat
burned and bis body slightly singed
while trying to save some property but
outside of these there were no acci
dents.
The Mahdi and the Nun.
When Mohammed Ahmed made his
triumphant entry into El Obeid he
culled on the Christians to change
their religion and acknowlege him as
the Messiah whose coming was fore
told in Holy Writ. One of the French
Sisters of Mercy, stepping forward, re
plied that it was said in the Hible that
the Messiah would make himself known
by his miracles, and he would remove
all doubt as to h-is indentity by kindly
performing one for the benefit of her
self and her colleagues. The Mahdi
answered that the request was perfectly
reasonable, but that the tin e for the
working of the miracles had not yet
come. Meanwhile, however.be would
take the missionaries under his protec
tion, with a view to preparing them for
conversion pending the day when be
would dazzle them all by his exploits.
The courageous nun, in all probability,
saved herself and her fellow Christians
by this clever reply, which placed Mo
hammed Ahmed iu au awkward dilem
ma.
MORNING
1 lay awake and listened, ere the l'ght
Began to whiten at the window pane ;
The world was all asleep ; earth was a fane
Emptied of worshipers ; its dome of night.
Suddenly from the tower the bell struck four .
Solemn and slow, how slow and solemn : oVr
Those death-like slumbers, each within IIH room
The last reverberation pulsed so long
It seemed no tone of earthly mould at all.
Hut the bell woke a thrash, and with a call
He roused his mate, then poured a tide of song :
"Morning is coming, fresh and clear and blue,"
Said that bright song, and then 1 thought of you.
Orchard and Fruit Garden
TREES that have been heeled-in may
be retarded by shading 1 them. Plant
ing should be finished as soon as possi
ble. If the trees have started, great
care will be needed in handling them.
Such trees should not be trimmed at
plauting. Grafting for the renewal of
old trees may continue, taking great
care in cutting away the branches to
make no bad wounds, as the bark now
peels readily.
GRAFTING- WAX. Four parts of
rosin and one part each, bees-wax and
tallow, make a good preparation. If
too bard, add more tallow, or if too
soft, take less. The best way of using
it is upon cloth. Take an old sheet or
the skirt of a well-worn dress; tear it
into strips two inches wide, make the
strips into rolls, and let them remain in
the melted wax until thoroughly soak
ed through ; remove and let them drain
aDd cool. This waxed cloth may be
torn off in pieces of convenient size to
cover the wounds, and can be applied
to make a complete covering. Squashes
are a good crcp for a young orchard.
Potatoes, mangels, turnips, or other
roots may be grown between the rows
of fruit trees.
TENT-CATERPILLARS.— If any eggs
escaped, their "tents" or webs will soon
appear in the trees. Remove them
while small. Curculios attack the
young plums soon after the blossoms
fall, and the thorough jarring of the
trees'should begin early.
MULCHING is far better than water
ing to save newly planted trees. Cover
the ground over the roots with bog
hay, old straw, or litter of any kind.
STRAWBERRIES. Beds that were
covered last fall should have the straw
left on them until after the fruit is
picked. The straw should be pulled
away just over the plants. Pull up
such coarse weeds as appear through
the mulch of the bed.
Watch for the first appearance of
holes in the leaves of Currants and
Gooseberries, and use White Hellebore
dusted on, or better mixed with water,
a large tablespoonful of the powder in
a pailful of water, and apply with a
syringe or pump. Repeat a few days
later, to destroy those which escaped
or have hatched since the first applica
tion.
Young grape vines set this spriner,
should be allowed to push but a single
shoot. If two or more buds were left,
to guard against accidents, rub off all
but the strongest, ana keep the shoot
from this tied up to a stake. Rose
bugs destroy the flowers of ttie grape,
shake off these pests in early morning,
catching them in a pan in which tbero
is a thin film of kerosene floatingon a
little water.
A Hybrid Tree.
A few days ago I)r. Halderman, of
Franklin, was examining the timber on
bis tract of land in Forest county,
which adjoins the Warren county line,
and discovered a tree that is a curiosity
and puzzle to naturalists, in the shape
of a pine and hemlock tree growing
from one stump. The stump or base of
the tree is about five feet through or
fifteen feet in circumference, aud the
forks of the tree are about six feet from
the ground. The line of demarkation
between the two trees springing from
the same stump can only be traced
with the eye by the difference in the
wood, one-half of the stump being
hemlock and the other pine. Each of
the tree is fully two feet in diameter,
equal in size and about eighty feet
high. The joint tree stands on the
top of a hill just below the Warren
county liue, above Donaldson's Mill,
a short distance below the mouth of
Queen Creek, where it joins Hickory.
In a thickly settled country this tree
will be a great curiosity.
They are not Laboring Men.
Judge Pershing, of I'ottsville, has
decided that base ball playing was not
business under the meaning of the
wages act of 1872, and that the players'
salaries are not to be placed on the
same footing as the wages of ordinary
working people. The question came
up on a case stated in which the play
ers of the late Anthracite Inter-State
base ball club claimed priority to the
funds in the hands of the sheriff from
the recent sale of Anthracite Park.
—Several Hungarians are employed
at Locust Gap, Columbia county, at
10 cents a day and board.
—The fat boy, Warner Williams,
who died at Anita, lowa, weighed 200
pounds, although only fi years old.
—Forty-two Cuban insurgents un
der Duran, who intended to join
Aguero, were attacked by troops and
38 men killed.
—Connecticut is being flooded with
pauper immigrants forced out of Cas
tle Garden, N. V., by the steamship
agents.
—A Western man with SI,OOO cap
ital is hunting for some town which
will give him a site for a nail works
and put in $40,000 in cash.
—All the crimes on the earth do not
destroy so many of the human race
nor alienate so much property as
drunkenness.
Every woman has an undoubted
right to a house, a husband and a hulf
dozen babies—if she can get them.
This is leap year, and if she don't make
a vigorous jump after her rights she de
perves to get left.
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