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The result wao roarvolouiff my laborers soon became hearty and robust, 1 have had no further trouble. Thrr rfllnr the miorgMl U»w, rlcuue (hr Blood frona poisonous hamors, and caow (hp bowel* to arl naturally, with, out which no one ran reel well. Try this remedy fairly, and yon wlllraln m healthy ingestion. Vigorous ltody. Pure Blood, Mtronfr *erve«, and a No I Liver. Price. ilSCenu. Otllee, S3 Murruy St., ». Y. TUTT'S HA!R DYE. Ok* v Hai b or WirxsKKits chanced to a Ol.ossy II LACK by a «in((le application of this J)VK. It iuipnrts a natural color, and acts lnstautAneously. Bold bv Drugglsta, or sent by express on receli>t of One £)oiiar. Office, 33 Street, New York. (Or. TUTT'S MANUAL of I'«(uiiWe\ Information and Unrful Keeeiptm I mill 6a mailed l 'EEt on application.J Administrator's Sale. In the matter of the estate of John Conn, dee'd., application to sell real estate for the payment of debts, (>. C. No. 68, Dec. i\ 188' J. STATE OK PENNSYLVANIA, BLTLEU CO., SS. At an Orphan's Court held in llutler, in and for said county, on iitli day of Feb. ISB4, before Hon. K. McJuukin, President Judge, and A. MeCandless and A. I>. Wier, At..sociates. The said Onirt.did on the said iith day of Feb. A. 1) , 1884, make an order directing S. C. Hutch inson, administrator of s;iiil decedent's estate, to expose to public u ale, and did renew and continue said order of sale afterwards, to wit: on the Ifu'-i of April, 18*1, said sale to be on Monday 2d, J line, 1881, at lu o'cloek, M. of said day, on the premi-'-", the following de scril»ed real estate, Ui wit: All that certain piece or parcel of land situate in Washington township, Butler county, I'a., bounded and describeil :IH follows: Oon the norlli by lands of Annie Nilts, on the south by lands of K. ii. Kvans, on the east by lauds of Joseph Blakely ami on the west by lands of .101111 i'arder and C. Harris, containing lilty acres, about forty acres of which are cleared and under fence with a story and a half frame house, frame barn and ottt-huilding* thereon, also apple and peach orchard. Also that certain other tract of land situate in Washington township, ISntler county, I 'a., bounded and described as follows: <>ll the north by lands of K. I. Kvans, on the south by lands of Henry Wadswortb, on tiie by lands of Ueddiek and on the west by lands of T. H. Conn, containing thirty acres, more or less, being posture land well watered and under fence. Also that certain other uiemiagc or tract of laud situate 111 the village of Parsonvilie, Washington township, Uiitler county, I'a., bounded and described as follows: On the north by lands of Jacob Daubetr peck, on the south by lands of James Grant, on the east by State lload leading from North Washington to Kmlcnton and ou the west by containing about three-fourths (}) of an acre, with a story and a half frame house erected thereon. Public notice of time and place of sale to be given according to law. Said administrator to adjourn to a different time and place if no suf ficient bill shall be obtained, by giving public notice of time and place of adjournment. Terms of sale one-third in hand and tiie bal ance in two equal annual payments with inter est, to he secured by bond and mortgage on the premises sold, <Stc. S. C. HUTCHISON, Adui'r. of John Conn, dee'd. I in tho CITIZEN BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 21. 1884 The Inspiration of ihe ISible. A lecture by 11. 1.. H;. stings, before tic Massa chusetts Annual Convention ot th • v. M.C. AM cialions, at Spencer, October io, lssi. [CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK ] Suppose, for example, all the good people of this town should try the Bible, say for a single year. Suppose you start to-night, and say, "We hare heard about the book, aad now we will begin and practice its teachings just one year." What would be the result? There would be no lying, no stealing, no selling rum, no getting drunk, no tattling, no mischief-making, no gos siping, no vice nor debauchery. Every man would be a good man, every woman a good woman; every man would be a good husband, father or brother; every woman a good wife, mother or sister; every one in the com munity would be peaceable; there would be no brawls, no quarrels, no fights, no lawsuits; lawyers would almost starve to death; doctors would have light practice, and plenty of time to hoe in their gardens; courts would be useless, jails and lockups empty, almshouses cleared out of their inmates, except a few old stagers left over from the past generation; taxes would be reduced, hard times would trouble nobody,—all would be well dressed and well cared for; and presently the news would go abroad, and we should hear in Boston, "What wonderful times they are hav ing up there in old Spencer. The peo ple have all gone to living according to the Bible." The news would get into all the local papers'; the Springfield papers, the Boston papers, the New York papers ; the telegraph wires would be kept busy with the news; they would hear of it in Cleveland, in Cincinnati, in Chicago, in St. Louis, in New Benford, and Pall Itiver, and Portland; and the reporters would start off to investigate. One would be inquiring, "Are there any houses to let in Spencer? any to sell? any build ing lots? any farms for sale?" Capi talists would come here; some man from Boston would say, "I am going to move to Spencer; lam sick of the noise aud hurry of the city, aud I want a place where I can bring up my chil dren, and not have them go to perdi tion;" there would be a general rush from all quarters to Spencer. It would raise the price of real estate twenty five per cent, in six months, taxes would comedown, property would go up, and good people from far and near would want to move into town, and then nobody who was worth having there would want to move out. Aud this would be the direct result of read and obeying this book. Mow, if a book will do that for a community, what kind of a book is it? Is such a book the Lord's book or the devil's book It seems to me that such a book which will do such work as that, must be the Book of God, inspired by the very breath of the Almighty. The book is its own witness. It bears its own fruits and tells its own story. The great trouble with us is, we do not read this book, we do not use it, we do uot understand it. It is a sorrowful fact that you can hardly go iuto a prayer-meeting but you are likely to hear a quotation from the Scripture that is not in the Bible and never was. You may hear, "In the midst of life we are in death," from the prayer-book; "He tempers tho wind to the shorn lamb," from an old romance; "God unchangeably ordains whatso ever comes to pass," from the Cate chism; accompanied by passages mis quoted, misunderstood aud misapplied, which show that the people do uot read their Bibles, aud do not under stand them: and the worst thing about it is, one-half the people who go to meeting do not know the difference. We need to read the Bible, to search it, study it, believe it, and obey it, and we shall find that it js filled with sanctifying power to our own souls, and that it is the word of salvation to the lost and perishing. But says one, "I do not understand the Bible. I read it but I cannot make anything of it. Somehow it is ob:-cure, and my mind does not take hold of it." How do you read your Bible? "Oh, 1 read a chapter now and then; I read it here and there." Suppose your boy comes home front school aud says, "1 can't make any thing ol this arithmetic; it is all dark to me." You say to him, "How did you study it?" "Oh, I read a little at the beginning, and then I turned to the middle and read a little here and there, aud skipped backward and for ward. But I don't understand it, I can't see into it." You say to him, "My son, that is not the way to understand arithmetic. You must begin at the beginning with the simplest elements, master every principle, learn every rule, solve every problem, and perform every example, and then the whole book will open to you as you go on." When you read a novel do you begin in the middle and read a page here and a line there, and skip about hither and thither, and say, "1 can't make any thing of this book?" No; you begin at the beginning where "A solitary horseman was seen one dark, tempes tuous night, riding along upon the margin of a swollen stream which wound about the base of a lofty moun tain, on which stood an ancient castle," etc., etc. There is where you begin; and you read every line and every page of the book until you get to tho end. Sometimes tbey print a column or two of a story in a paper, and go and scatter it through the town, and at the end of it you will read, "The re mainder of this thrilling story will be found iu the columes of the Weekly lilazimj Cornel] and then you start off down to the news room and buy the "Blazing Comet" to find out how the story ends! Why wiil you not take the Bible and read it in the same way? Why will you not give as much atten tion to tha faithful words of the living God as you will to a pack of lies spun out by some sinful man? Why will you not take the Bible aud read it from beginning to end, and see how it conies out? You will find it tho grandest and most thri!lin<r siory ihe world Las ever { known. Sometimes, whin you have I not time to read a novel through, you read the first chapter or two, to find out who the hero is, and then skim through the pages and read the closing chapters and find out who was murder ed, who was hung, and who was mar ried; aud then you can guess the rest, for there is usually about so much sawdust put in the middle for stuffing. Why will you not do as much lor the Bible? Begin at the beginning, and read until you find out who is the hero of the story. You will find that the presence of one Person prevades the whole book. If you go into a British navy yard, or on board a British ves sel, and pick up a piece of rope, you will find that there is one little red thread which runs through the whole of it—through every foot of cordage which belongs to the British govern ment—so, if a piece of rope is stolen, it may be cut into inch pieces, but every piece has the mark which tells where it belongs. It is so with the Bible. You may separate it into a thousand parts, and yet you will find one thought—one great thought run ning through the whole of it. You will find it constantly pointing aud re ferring to one great personage—"the Seed of the woman" that shall crush the serpent's head; "the Seed of Abra ham," in whom all the cations of the earth shall be blessed; "the Seed of David," who shall sit on David's throne and reign forevermore; the de spised and rejected Sufi'erer, the Man of Sorrows, the Christ of God, born in Bethlehem, crucified on Calvary, rising triumphant from Joseph's tomb, as cending to sit at God's right hand, and coming again to judge the world and reign as King and lord of all forever. Around this one mighty Personage this whole book revolves- "To him give all the prophets witness;" and this book, which predicts his in its earliest pages, which foreshadows his person and his ministry through all its observances, types and sacred prophe cies, reveals in its closing lines the eternal splendors which shall crown and consummate his mighty work. God's word declares the end from the beginning. It is not only the chart which guides each weary wan derer to his eternal rest, but it is the record of the great plan and purpose of the Almighty concerning the world which he has made, and the church which he ht.s redeemed. It unfolds God's everlasting purpose, as manifes ted in Jesus Christ; and if one will rend three chapters at the beginning of the Bible and three at the end, he will be struck with the correspondence which there exists. At the beginning of the Bible we find a new world: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth " At the end ot the Bible we find a new world: "I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away." At the beginning we find Satan entering to deceive and destroy; at the end, we find Satan cast out, "that he should deceive the nations no more." At the beginning, sin and pain and sorrow and sighing and death find entrance to the world; at the end, there shall be no more pain nor sorrow nor sighing, and no more death. At the beginning, tha earth, for man's transgression, is cursed with thorns and thistles; at the end, "there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and ot the lamb shall be iu it." At the beginning, we find tho tree of life iu paradise, from which the sinner is shut away by a flaming sword, lest he eat and live forever; at the end, we find the tree of life again "in the midst of the paradise of God," and the bless ed and the blood-washed ones have a right to the tree of life, and "enter in through the gates into the city." At the beginning, man was brought be neath the dominion of death and the grave; at the end, "the dead, small and great, stand before God," the sea gives up its dead, and death and hell are destroyed in the hike of fire. At the beginning, the first Adam lost his dominion over earth; and was driven out of the garden of Eden in shame and sorrow; at the end, we find the second Adam, victorious over sin and death and hell, enthroned as King and Lord of all, and reigning in triumph and glory forever. Now, when you get the plan of this book, you find that it is something more than a book of detached sen tences, good maxims aud comforting words. It is a book which unfolds the divine purpose, aud not only reveals the wiiy of salvation, but marks the pathway of the people of God through this wilderness, aud foreshows the destiny of tho world which he has made and the church which he has re deemed. When we look at these facts we see that this is no man's book. When Columbus saw tho river Orinoco, some one said he had discovered an Island. He replied: "No such river as that flows from an island. That mighty torrent must drain the waters of a continent." So the book comes, not from the empty hearts of imposters, liars, and deceivers; it springs from the eternal depths of divine wisdom, love, and grace. It is the transcript of the divine mind, the unfolding cf the divine purpose, the revelation of the divine will. God help us to re ceive it, to believe it, and be saved through Christ our Lord. [Aniens from audience.] THE END. |CgT"In the Diamond Dyes more coloring is given than in any known Dyes, and they give faster and more brilliant colors 10c. at druggists. Wells, Richardson k Co., Burlington Vt. Sample Card, .'52 colors, and book of directions for 2c stamp. —Gunners should wear neckties of shot silk. —Deep-arted spirits—defunct con jurers. —An obstinate man does not hold opinions—they hold him. COMMUNICATED. W. C. T. U. at Harrisville. MESSRS. EDITORS: —The W. C T. U. of Butler county, held its semi-an nual meeting at this place on the Bth inst The local Unions throughout the county were generally represented. The exercises were interesting and pro l fitable and the business was transacted |in a very orderly manner. Mrs. Dain, the President of the association, prcsi ! ded with dignity and ease and is cer ; tainly the right person it the right place, i and the same may be said in re_ r ard to i the other officers. Mrs. Reese gave an admirable lecture to a large and ap preciative audience in the evening. The people of Harrisville were es pecially well pleased with the entire proceedings, and more than pleased with the christian and lady like deport ment of the delegates. They were dis appointed only in one thing, and that was in the number of the delegates. The supply came far short of the de mand. Come again, Sisters, at as ear ly day as will suit your con venience.and come with increased numbers. Harrisville, Pa., May 10, 1884. K. EDS. CITIZEN :—A friend desires me to inform the public what action on on temperance was taken by Butler Presbytery at its late meeting. A per manent committee on this subject, con sisting of Kev. Samuel Williams, and elders J. 11. McJunkin and W. D. Brandon was appointed. A paper, signed by a large number of the con gregation of Martinsburg, asking Pres bvtery to comply with the directions of Synod in holding Temperance Conven tions, was read ana placed in the hands of the committee. The chairman of the committee inquired whether it will be in accordance with the wishes of Presbytery to hold Temperance Con ventions in connection with its next meeting, which will beat Martinsburg, on the fourth Tuesday of June. As no objections to this were made, it is ex pected that the committee will make arrangements for such a convention, j The matter is in their hands. J. li. COULTER. A Sad Story of Real Life. About thirty years ago there came to Holidaysburg, in company with some emigrants from Ireland, a beautiful girl who called herself Mary O'Neil. Being poor and having neither parents or friends with her, she was compelled to care for herself, and subsequently went out to service, finding employ ment at the Mountain House, in Pun causville, on the portage road. Her great beauty attracted universal atten tion, but she was as modest aud retired as the humble violet and shamrock of her native land, and was known to be as purs as she was beautiful. But one dreadful morning she was found in an out-of-the-way place in an insensible condition, aud it was further discover that she had been shockingly outraged. Medical attendance was immediately summoned and she was at length arroused from her stupor, only to show that her mind was gone, the shock and the poisonous drugs being too great for her to withstand, aud reason had flown forever. Nothing could ever be discovered as to her autecedents, and having no one to care for her, she win placed in the almshouse, where her life has been spent in blank uncon ciousness of her real condition. One phase of her mania was that she imag ined every man who. came to the alms house was her father, and once a well known citizen of llolidaysburtr, who was then a young man, went there on some occasion, and saw her staudiug in the hall like a beautiful spectre, pale aud wan, with her black hair hanging over her shoulders like the mist of darknesss that enshrouded her mind and history, and no sooner did she be hold him than giving a piercing scream, ,'() father! father!" she ran to him, threw her arms around his neck and sobbed most violeutly. Of late years she has become more violent aud un controllable, refusing to be clothed, and tearing to shreads anything put upon her, until at last her entire clothing con sisted of a long, straight bag, like a coffee sack, in which she wes confined to a cell. It has been deemed best to send her to an asylum, and last week, in company with a number of others, she was taken to Danville and placed in the asylum there ; and so practically to tho world ends the history of the once beautiful, but unfortunate. Mary O'Neil. The perpetrators of the das tardly deed were never arrested, al though suspicion pointed to a well known party ; but if it has not already, God's vengeance will surely fall upon the wretch iu a way most fearful and hard to be borne, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, aud I will repay, saith tho Lord of Hosts."— Altoona Suntlai / Morning. —A Colorado paper says: The worshipers of the Fairfield church went on Sunday night as usual to service, but found that the bats had takeu pos session of the house and were so thick and aggressive that the service was necessarily postponed. Tuesday tho deacons inaugurated a bat hunt and be hind one of the window castings found and killed 241 of them. liOrd Coleridge tells a very good story of Mr. Evarts, in connection with his own visit to this country Inst year. He was at Mount Vernon with Mr. Evarts and, talking about Washington, said: "I have heard that he was a very stong man physically, and that stand ing on the lawn here, he could throw a dollar right across the river on to the other bank." Mr. Evarts paused a moment to measure tho breadth of the river with his eye. It seemed rather a "tall" story, but it was not for him to belittle the father of the country in the eyes of a foreigner. "Don't you believe it?" asked Lord Coleridge. "Yes," Mr. Evarts replied, "I think its verv likely to be true. You know a dollar would go farther in those days than it does now." I THE YATHIVW, BINK To THE CITIZEN. The national banking law docs not protect against losses, except >o f<.r as the note h»lder is concerned, but if the law is observed it is an extreme case when loss is visited upon depositors; the losses must be so heavy as to ab sorb the capital stock of the bank and its surplus. One section of the act provides that ! the loans to a single individual shall i not exceed one-tenth of the capital stock of the bank, unless the paper discount ed is actually owned by the one obtain ing the discouut, and signed vr made i by another. It will at once be seen that before a depositor can loose a dollar in a nation al bank on account of unpaid and un collected discounted paper, if the law is regarded, ten men at least must re fuse or be unable to meet their paper, and those ten men must have obtaiued discounts equal to the amount of the capital stock. If three men in Butler, CHARLES MCCANPLESS, THOMAS ROB INSON and JOHN M. GREEK had paid before, or at any time since the failure of the First National Bank of Butler, their liabilities to the bank on account of paper discounted, not inclu ding the liability of McCandless for as sessment on his stock, the bank with the assistance of its other assets, would not ouly have paid its depositors in full, but the stock of the bank would scarcely have been impaired, aud if John M. Greer alone had paid his lia bilities to the bank instead of paying the depositors seventy per centum it would have paid eighty-five to ninety I per centum. The writer has as much sympathy as anyone for an honest debtor who is unfortunate and becomes unable to pay his debts, but for a debtor who ' contracts a debt dishonestly aud in violation of law the mantle of his char ity has no protection. It is now pro posed to show that that Greer did contract illegal debts in the Butler bank. ' The capital stock of the bank was SIOO,OOO until 1877 it was reduced to $50,000. It faiicd in July, 1879 for upwards of SIOO,OOO. At the time the bank closed, some small discounts ranging from thirty to live hundred dollars or thereabouts and aggregating over nine hundred dollars, the liabilities of Greer to the bank are shown by the following: First National Hank ) Circuit Court of Butler, |of the United vs. )■ States, Western John M. Greer. j District, No. 62 j Nov. T. 1879. I'ebt $4,991.62 Interest from Jan. 29. 1879. First National Bank ) Circuit Court of Butler |of the I'nited vs. J- States, Western John M. Greer. | District No. 01 ! Nov. T. 1879. Debt SI,OOO. Interest from June 2, 1876. John M. Greer for] Common Pleas, use of 11. B. Cul- { Butler Co., No. lum, Receiver, vs 1 274, Dec. Term, Thomas Robinson J 1879. Debt $3,2Gf,.95. Interest from July 29, 1879. Chas. McCandless aiid ] Common P. John M. Greer tor use I Butler county of 11. B. Cullum, lie- j- No. 259 Dee. ceiver, vs. | Term, 1879. W. 11. Colbert. j Debt $4,423.40 Interest from Jan. 29, 1879. First National Hank] Circuit Court of Butler, | United States, vs. \- Westeru Dis't., L M. Cochrau. j No. (13, Nov. j Term, 1879. Debt $2,868.43. Interest from March 18, 1879. Greer was endorser upon the notes on which the judgments against Itob iusou, Colbert and Cochian were enter ed and on the Robinson note Kobiuson got the money, Upon the two notes made for Greer on which the two lirst judgments were entered and amount ing to $5,991,02 not one dollar has been paid. Robinson claims to be entitled to a credit upon his note of $3,220.90 for some political services rendered lor the bank in connection with the Har vey & Co. Distillery, although his modesty has heretofore prevented him from naming the amount,though press ed to do so. No credits are on the note. No credits except $50.00 are on the Colbert note of $4,423.40, although at one time there was 1000 barrels of of oil upas a collateral on it that was abstracted by some of the bank officers, and on the Cochran note Greer paid some $1,500 and the receiver took his note with that of W. 11. 11. Riddle and a mortgage for the balance, and releas ed Cochran. This note and mortgage has not been paid. No other pay ment has been made upon account of this large indebtedness. Neither Cochran nor Colbert ever got one dollar from the bank upon the notes signed by them. The money went into Greer's pocket. They were induced by Greer to the notes for him, Colbert being in his ollice ft stu dent and without property. Greer's own especial indridual indebtedness to the bank amounted when it dosed to $13,283.45. Uut it will be asked in what manner this indebtedness was in curred dishonestly. Hail he not the l ight to borrow the whole capital of the bank if the bank was foolish enough to lend it to him ? The officers of the bank dealing di rectly with Greer when he got these of money were nottheonly persons sums interested in the bonk. If so they got what they deserved, but they were not. Those in interest may be divided into two classes. To the lirst class belong those who know or can know and ouirht to know all about the bank bus iness, to-wit: the board of directors, and to the second class belong those who don't do the business but invest their money in the bank, to-wit: Stock holders oth-r than the directors, and the depositors. These men and women, however, had reason to feel easy about the matter, for was there not an ofticer, called a hank examiner, who was appointed to protect their interests, and was it not his duty to call upon the hank and exainiue Ks books and see that every thing was conducted in a proper man ner and that no mac, not even Mr. Greer, would pull out of the bank's vaults more than one-tenth of the cap ital stock? Yes, but there was a way to deceive the examiner aud it seems to have been easily learned by Greer and his associates. They knew tl at if the examiner found out from the books that Greer was borrowing more than the "limit allowed by law he would be compelled to pay enough to reduce his loans to that limit or the bank would be closed. So he gets ac commodation makers to sign notes that amounted to about $7,200 payable to ( Continued on second paye.) Siam's Floating Capital. In many points Bankok is more Venetian than Venice itself, writes a traveler. In the queen of the Adria tic—despite these "bright streamlet veins" about which modern poets make such a stir—one can walk through fully two-thirds of the town without being indebted to the tradi tional gondola at all. In the Siamese Venice it is far otherwise. The main street is the river, and there are no side streets at all. Your opposite neighbor lives upon the other bank, and before calling on him you have to call a boat. The native children play in the water as they would play on land elsewhere, and many of the houses, moored to posts by short cables of rattan, rise and fall with the tide like anchored vessels. Indeed, with the exception of one long strag gling road running parallel with the river along its left bank, the laud might just as well not be there at all. The approach to this singular place is as picturesque as itself. Far out at sea you descry along the eastern hori zon a dim procession of purple shadows, which, as you near them, resolve themselves into bold rocky islets, with green clumps of wooding scattered broadcast over the dark red sternness of their gloomy cliffs and craggy ridge. One by one they are left behind, and now there begins to rise out of the smooth sea, far out in front of us, something that looks at first sight like an endless line of soldiers in battle array. These are the trees of the Siamese coast. Soon the waters all around us turn thick and soup-like, wearing a deep dye of yellowish brown, which announces more plainly than words that we are approaching the mouth of the ''beautiful, the pea-soup colored river" that Hows by the town of Bankok A Startling Snake Story. "Do you want a snake item ?" asked a man from £lk Neck at the sanctum door of an Elkton newspaper. "Yes," said the editor, "come right in and tell us all about it." "Well, I killed it to-day down on the North East road. It was nineteen feet from head to tail. I took my rule and measured it." "How many driuks of pear cider have you taken to day ?" aekeu the ed itor. "Only two," said the man from Elk neck. "What has that got to do with the snake item ?" "Ob, a great deal," answered the editor. "We always de duct nine feet from the snake for each drink of pear cider taken by the man who brings in the snake item. Mik ing the usual deduction for Cecil coun ty pear cider your snake was 12 inches long. A very good snake for the sea son. Come in again when you haye a snake item." And the editor held the sanctum door for the man from Elk Neck to pass out Middletoion Transcript. —The barkward spring weather still coutiuues very forward. —Verily, hypocrites sink into a lower abyss than any other siuner. —Never loau your roller skates. That makes them a wheel borrow. —Don't talk back to a woman who handles a lire shovel with grace ajd dexterity. —Don't go near a draft, if a draft comes toward you run away. A light draft is the most dangerous. —Don't blow in the gun you grand father carried in the war of 1812. It is more daugerous now thau it was then. —ln life as at the great competitions there are some people who obtain hon orable mention without ever having a first prize. —A Vermont man 1 roke his leg while returning from his bridal trip. When misfortunes once strike a man they come thick and fast. A Cedar llapids editor wants any young lady who "jumps at conclusions." to consider him a ' conclusion." An orphan is preferred. —Chicago and St. Louis girls are congratulating each other upon the fact vouched for by an eminent physician that small feet signify a quick temper and an evil tongue. —A novel reason for asking a new trial was recently advanced in a Wash ington court. The counsel ol a convict ed murderer based his plea on tbe ground that "Win. M. Frank, one of the jurors, who Is of the Hebrew faith, was not sworn as a juryman with hat on and with his hand on the live books of Moses, which is the custom of ad ministering oaths in Jews, and which manner of taking an oath they regard as most binding upon their conscience, but was as a believer in the Christian religion is sworn." —Go to Kelly's on Jetl'erson street, Butler, I'a., (or G. A. R. Suits, buttons and caps. 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