VOL. XXV. .. sPKCIAL New York H;it that combines i. / \ all tin- go.*l point-of several act pfable v (ii.c. 1)' si,'i i*i suit all ruces.lt is I ** ~ ' 1' J? becoming: to everyone. ", j. K Comes In all the different Straws anil tbe cham.tngnew spring colors, Ka*re Green. tfotor <;<•T.!.•!! J each s«ems an improvement over tiiel.;st, Our «nt shows It trimmed Hi one of the many ways it coir.( effort; to care for th"*e whose pocket books are limited, This l> a mistake. »b«e belnrob!iye-l. bj having the custom of tl e fashionable women, to make special efforts to ir .vid«" f<«r tln ui yet we Ihink we can suit the 'uste and means oi anyone. However odd the taste, or I ■»>■< 4 tb« meaus. Jus* a word about • LEU A I'lTII." To tii.se who have used it wc say nothing. Their once wdng It trsores lis use always. To those who never tried it we say, "prollt by the experience of many an J try 1L" Miss M. H.Gilkey, New Building, No. 62 S. Main St. THE LEADING MILLINER Give us Your Attention Ye shr. wd farmer in v-»«v~ ofb-irndus. You are about to invest In some of He- A,T uimrnl |jr,p:--meii! You've found It's cheapest to buy the best. «;f ••our- i wl»s .>i,v v.' i" ;.i.« get tliat the clieajieht. < unless that u'ie -• a 'i ■; i d i son.t- dealers and did not like them. Read too much lite clri us b.lls. You ve heard f "- > 11 AM »'IOS Mowers, Reapers and Binders '• Then ye*i know they're «:.••» -» in Ibe world. We've g.-i them so cheap that you wont liesl'ab- ten oaltiiitrs if you Come around. You know the merits of tin tvrrv soring To-it ii Harrow and Die Imitations that are on the market. • W. havr ihi- genuine. .'Utf li you need a good harrow, Ave recommend it. suppo*'-vou didnt kt:i-« that we sell more Novelty ramps. Iron force, p.. IV li.. iliin ail the hardware llrms cf Butler put together. We do though. Came ar uii'l and look at onr stock. You'll learn something. We h.ivi- viUi--otlvT things too: De Haven Stoves and Kanges, Eagle Klastlo I'a.iit*. ready mixed. < reset* i Hardware, Wire Screens. Patent Chums, etc. Our stock Is not excelled In the county and we cannot be undersold. JACKSON a MITCHELL, JEsntlei% l 3 a. 1111111111 <;> 11111111 i I 1-A«~ICR. SII.KS. 11l BR' >N*. VKLYKTS TIV«K'I .".i.iw lil.A«'K DKKSS GOODS. MiKrlii'iii SBT o COLOKEI) Dliliss (ioons. vt, «jT ,» l * HRKSS GOODS KOit Till? MILLION, VSTVTR wftii V" ASI I IHI ICSS I AimiCS, INFANTS \\ r.AU. I'VI>KU\VI'\IJ JACKETS. IWKASOIJS, lItWIKHY WRAPS. SHA\> US. KIDGI.OYIiS. A. Troutman & Son. Leading Dry Goods aud Carpet Eouse. BUTLER - JP.HLNIsPA.. * VmJou SII APBS. { 'l'atogs r vei ' JAI'ANKSK !<( GS, v : i . FMK>K IJNKNS, s*'•**A l»i <«v I.INOf Kl\ls ,J OKXAN®TO. APKINS - OILCLOTHS, SPECIAL ATTENTION TO ORDERS BY MAIL % TIIIS SPACE IS RESERVED FOR E. GRIEB, The Jeweler, No. 19, North Main St., BUTLER, PA.. Whose advertiseine will appear next week. I BARGANS in WATCHES, Clocks, Jewelry And Silverware. Finest st SUKOKON, : Office a» No. r>. S. Main street, over Frank t Oo's Di us: Store. Butler, Pa. J. F. CRITTAIN. Att'y at Law—tiilicp at S. Main St, and ; i>iuiiio:t Stain. Office open daily, except Wednesdays and Thursdays. Communications by mail receive prompt attention, j S. B.— The only Dentist iu Butler using the best makes of teeth. JOHN E. BYEKS, PHYSICIAN ANl> SURGEON Office No. 65 South Main Street, BUTLER, - I* A. SAMUEL M. BIPPDS, Physician and Surgeon, No. 10 West Cunningham St., BUTLER, DPZEirTIbr'A DENTISTR Y . 0 1/ WAI.DHON. Graduate of tin; l'hila . dclphia Dental College. Is prepared to do anything In the line of his profession 111 a satisfactory manlier. Office on Main street, Butler, opposite the Vogeley House. J. S. LCSK, M.O , Has removed rrom Harmony to Butler and has Ills oHlec at No. 9, Main St., three doors below Lowry House. ap*-30-tf. " L. 8. MivIL'.XIKIX, Insurance and Ileal Estate Ag't. 17 EAST JEFFERSON ST. BUTLER, - PA. C.F. L. McftUISTION, E.MiINKKU AM) SURVEYOR, OFFICE ON DIAMOND, BCTLBK. PA. Stewart & Patterson. . A. M. STKWAKT and S. A. PATTERSON, Con tractors and Builders, are hotli inen of years of exiMTlence in fine house building and framing. All persons iiiinklng of building will do well to see llirm and 1 xik over their designs. Residence on Kalrvlew Ave., Sprlngdaie. I'ostolllce, Butler, Pa. James McHTees, Manufacturer and dealer In stone pumps and water pipe, wishes the public to remember that lie continues that business, at Hallstou station, on the p. s. ,v L. E. if. if. For particulars address, JAMES MONKES Pump. P. 0., Butler county Pa. orders can be left with J.' Niggle & I!ro., But ler, Pa FOll SALE A large frame boarding house, good location and doing Urge business. Terms easy. further particulars iiniuire of L. S. MeJINKIN, 17 K. Jefferson St.. '-29,tf- Butler, l'a. QA L E S M EAT WANTED I \ ' For the HOOKER NURSEKIRS, es- ' tabllshed ts.v>. Steady emvlojment, and good pay. Send for terms at once. 11. E. lIOOKKU CO., Rochester, N. V. CA GENTS WANTED! J. OS(T OF TJIE , JA RGKST, < LDEST ESTABLISH 'D, BEST KNOWN Nl It s. ,u the coun ry. Most liberal terms, t'lieipialeo Iu ...i. .... JENEVA NUKSERY. Es tablished ISI6. W. & T. SMITH. GENEVA, N. T. LOOK! READ! I have enlarged my store-room. In fact, made it almost twice as large as It was before, and i have also Increased my stock. I have, by far, the largest and best selected stock of Fine Drugs and Chemicals In Butler county, and am now In position to supply the wants of Ihe people of this county even better than In the past, You will do well to call on me when in the ncej of anything In the line of Fine Drugs and Medicines, My stock is very complete and TRICES VERY LOW In medicine quality Is of the first lmpor t. iuce. so we give particular attention to tilling Prescriptions. Our Dispensing Department is complete. We ilLsju-iise only Pure Drugs or the .Finest Quality, and our patrons may bring us their prescrip tion.-,. feeling certain that they will be carefully and accurately tilled. Thanking the public for the very generous patronage they nave accorded me In the past. I hope to lie able to serve them more acceptably In the future, at the old stand. No. 5, North Main St, BUTLER, PA. J. C. REDICK, Planing Mill —AND— Lumber Yard J. L. PURVIS. L. O. PUKVIH, S.G. Purvis & Co. MANITI ACTUIIKRS AND DEALERS IN Rough and Planed Lumber OF EV S.KY DESCRIPTION, SHINGLES & LATH PLANING MILL AND YARD \e»rl)lt»riiiiiit f'ailtnflc IJmrcb SURVEYING LAND, COAL BANKS, AND LEVELING. Particular attention given to the Retracing ol old lines. Address, It. P. li 3 3.8.11 !tl>, (o. Surveyor North Uope P. 0., Butler Co., Pa. 3,r.,84.1y GROVER'S SOLILOQUY. I'm Grover Cleveland front Buffalo, I lead the leaders, I boss the show; There's one of me, There's thousands of thent; They are the buds, Aud I atu the stem; I lop them off Or I let them stay, Just as I happeu To feel that clay! I'm Grover Cleveland from Buffalo, The one big Man in the party, you know. I'm Grover Cleveland front Buffalo, 1 work tny thinker, I never blow; I've got my grip, And I'll stay right there, While the leaders cuss And the leaders swear: I take it serenely; I know ray chance, I hold up the party By the seat of its pants, I'm Grover Cleveland from Buffalo, I'm the I nit of Value they can't let go. They'd knife me, of course; They've got the gail, , But they'd rather have me Than nothing at all; I'm Grover Cleveland from Bttffilo, If I get left, the party must go. Wanhiuqton Critic. THE RIVAL PICNICS. THURSDAY, JULY 4TU. GLORIOUS! ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPEN DABLE. • The Methodist Congregation of Middleburg will bold a First Class picnic at Clapp's hill. Braes band, ice creatn. poem Orration and fire works. meet at Mason's 2 P.M. Tick ets 75 cts ! Children price. "There!" said Ed. Tully, as he af fixed this notice to a post in Mason's store. "I bet that I'll fetch the hull village." Ed. was a muscular young wheelright of lively manners and so cial instincts. Reuben Applegate, the best car penter in Midcileburg,stepped back to survey the placard, and remarked, with the shy conceit of the true art ist: "It looks well, if I did do it." "It's splendid," said Ed, "good as print. But mum's the word, for if Holloway's folks know we're expect in' to make anything for our preacher, not one of 'cm will buy a ticket, while, as it is, the young fellers might find the picnic a good, cheap treat tor their girls. Hello, Mason!"—as the store keeper looked out through a lit tle window and under the legend l > ostollice-"don't let on to Ilollowav'a folks that we're raisin' money for Mr. Dodd. Then the young men went down the village street. Presently old Mrs. Crawford and her pretty niece Abby dropped into the store. "Any letters for us, Mr. Mason? No? Why it seems as though some body had ought to write* Got any dark blue paper muslin? Why, sakes aliye, AHby," (us she spied the plac ard), "if Dodd's folk's folks ain't go ing to give a picnic!" The store keeper's gossipy soul un derwent a moment's struggle; then he compounded with conscience by saying, "Well, Miss Crawford, I'll tell you, as a secret, we're raisin' mo ney to buy Mr. Dodd a horse and buggy." M iss Crawford, who was a mas sively built and conscientious old lady, became at once very thoughtful, and in walking home she remarked: "When we need an organ so bad, it don't seem right to help Dodd's to get a horse and buggy. Don't you go to that picnic, Abbv." "But. aunt," said Abby, "the pic nic's no harm." "Abby," Miss Crawford, turning upon her niece a large, solid counten ance that seemed to open up the whole subject of architecture, "ever since a certain person has come to Middleburg I've.noticed you don't take serious views of things." Abby flung her little head away, and indulged in that pain and privil ege of youth called blushiug. The girl, having soft dark eyes, rich gold brown hair, and dainty skin, blushed uncommonly well, the pale rose on her cheek just deepening to a lovely carnation. "Oh, aunt!" she stammer ed, "you know I refused Dr. Worth, although I did love"—the aunt turn ed that study in masonry upon her again—"l did love his little daughter Mabel dearly." „ "Abby, said the good woman, pas sionately dashing a tear from her hon est eyes, "I'd ratner see you dead and buried than married to a heathen, or, what's worse, an—an Armenian Miss Crawford's stranere use of this last word was owing to a slight mis understanding of Mr. Ilolloway, her pastor, when, in reference to the Me thodist Church, he remarked mildly: "Mr. Dodd is rather too Arminian for mc; rather—too—Arminian." Some of the congregation, not vest ed in thelogical terms, heard this with awe and horror, and easily changing a vowel, the word "Armenian" had become a terrible cabalistic synonym for all heresy and schism. Middle burg possessed but two churches, and the villagers were pretty eveuly divi ded between Mr. Ilolloway, Presby terian, and Mr. Dodd, Methodist. The two gentlemen entertaiued res pect for each othor, and although Mr. Ilolloway being dignified and scholar ly and Mr. Dodd being free-spoken and familiar, there was no intimacy between them, neither suspected that their congregations were nourishing a bitter rivalry. Miss Crawford, on recovering from her outburst against heterdoxy, chan ced to meet the Sparks girls, and she told them the news. "Picnic!" cried Mary Sparks, with proper spirit "Horse and buggy for Mr. Dodd? Gueas not. Lets have a picnic ourselves." "A grand idea," said Miss Craw ford; "but the horn is engaged, so is the drum. Why, what's left for us?" "I'll call my brothers," said Mary Sparks. She did so promptly, and the whole party proceeded to the school house to consult Mr. Godfrey, the teacher, a rather weak-eyed and weak kneed young man, but one who had undoubted erudition. "We'll turn oat with ng side by side, scarcely a furrow's width between them. Little .Mabel Worth, carrying u blue silk bauuer, headed the Holiowaj party. Sbe wad dressed iu a white frock, and although the wreath iu her hair was designed by the village mil liner, so stubbornly lovely is child hood that the SIUJ.II creature, wide eyed and serious with the importance of the occasion, looked lika some holy martyr child stepped out from an old picture. Even the Doddites remark ed her beauty, aud Ei. Tully, iu pure jealousy, directed the horn-blovver: "Toot up now, first class." But the Ilolloway merry-makers had a surprise in reserve. A dozen gaily-dressed goods, and a young fellows with knots of ribbon in their hats, struck up the "lied, White, and Blue " Schoolmaster Godfrey whipped out a flute, a boy wielded an accordion powerfully, aad a stalwart youth beat a large tin ket tle with superb effect. Dave Brown, of the opposition, turned purple with rage, and yelled down the line of his command: "Sing, yer fools ! why don't yer sing ?" But as this had not been laid dowu iu the program, people only looked at each other sheepishly, and nobody liked to begin. The whole Ilolloway line was now one great choir. Everybody sang at the top of his lungs. Godfrey mounted astride the barrel of root beer which was made fast upon a buck board wagon, led off the tunes with his shrill flute, while the colors ol freedom streamed from his hat, and his heart rose high in triumph and pride. On went the rival armies, exactly abreast until, just before reaching Clapp's River, that white mare took a notion to show her mettle. So the Dodd procession was delayed, and fully a dozen yards ahead of its van little Mabel put ber foot upon the first plauk of Clapp's Bridge. Over this bridge was the only way of reachiug Clapp's Hill, and the structure was hardly wide enough to take in the rival columns abreast. Finding his party so far in advance, Godfrey, from his perch on the beer barrel, yelled: "We've got the right of way. Hurrah 1" "No, yer haint," answered Dave Brown, urging his frieud forward. "Say !" shouted Godfrey, as the excited enemy neared him, "keep back, won't you ? I don't believe in this bridge much." "Yah!" howled Brown in a fury. "Yah! No you dou't! and encour aged his army with: "Don't let Hol loway's folks beat us." "Don't give in, boys," and other battle-cries. "Keep back !" cried Godfrey again. "The old bridgo is rotten." "Think we're green, don't yer?" Dave flung the defiant answer, and with a spurt the lagging company came alongside. The white mare kicked aud trampled bravely, the horn blared, the young meu of the opposing factions elbowed each other, the girls exchanged, "Oil you horrid thing!" aud such feminine small shot. The buck-hoard and the barrel had reached the centre of the bridge; the ice-cream cart struggled along to the same point, and desperately tried to pass; the wheels of the two vehi cles became locked. Godfrey shout ed, Brown jeered, the people pressed madly forward, and suddenly—hark! a strange, cracking sound, then a sickening, swaying motion, a crash, aud—Clappe's Bridge with its burden of humanity has given way. There are wild crie3, vain strug gles, selfish graspiugs that dragged those at the edges into the pit which had opened; another and another support fell in, until both gallant companies lay in the shallow river bed. Except in the channel, which had a swift current, but was at this season only a few feet wide, the wa ter was hardly kaee-deep. Theu the bridge was luckily a very low oue; so, though bedraggled, scarred and bruised, the people soon stood up in great unmbers, and begau runnning about aud calling for their friends aud relations. The cheery answers, "Here we are!" and "All right 1" came faster aud faster, and no one was so efficient in helping as big Dave Brown, who had done most toward causing the disaster. At last he climbed out of the water with Abby, and her first cry was : "Mabel! —where's Mabel?" Somebody had seen the child go down in the crash, carrying with her the banner; but though men and boys did wauder among the timbers, and though every one else was ac counted for, there was no trace of lit tle Mabel.* The distracted father came ru3hing to the spot, aud plunged into the narrow chaunel. He risked his life madly; he raised every fallen beam in the search; and after hours of vaiu labor he crawled up the bank, so white, so despairingly, that peo ple, in very awe of such grief fell back. Abby alone came to him, say ing, between bitter sobs: "You trusted her to me, Oh! can you ever forgive me ?" "My poor Abby !" said the doctor, tender and kind eveu iu all his great sorrow. And as the mournful train moved away from the fatai spot, Ab by clung to his arm. The two ministers coming to meet their congregatious, Mr Diidd wruug Mr. Holloway's hand aud said, "My poor people have not understood me; I uever dreamed of this wicked rivalry." Mr. Holloway returned, earnestly, "Over this iunocent child's body: when that cruel river gives it up, we must join hands, and teach plainly that brotherly iove stands as the first article in our belief." But, oh! what was to heal the father's broken heart? W T ith a poor weeping girl clinging to him, the stricken man bent his steps toward the desolate home. With vacant, unseeing eyes he slowly passed by each familiar landmark—the mill, the brook, the apple orchard, the wicker gate that leads to Browus farm-house, then— But just here a cry was heard of "Doctor! doctor!" Mrs. Brown came tearing down the garden walk, and dragged him with her to the house, aud iato the dark ened best parlor. From the sofa c.nne a faint voice: "Father!" and lying there, pale but safe aad warm, was the small Mabel. Abby, with one great outburst of joy, clapped the child, and the perse vering little maid asked at once: "Won't you come aud live at our house, Abby?" "Dave saved her," Mrs. Browu explained voluably. "He spied a bit of the blue silk banner floatfi;' a'utost out of sight away down the river channel. He made for it, got a holt of the child, just cut across lots aud brought here in here. Dear sus! she oniv just come to. I couldn't leave her alone to come and tell you, an 1 Dave he wouldn't show himself uo how, and ' Where is Dave?" interrupted tiie doctor. ' Dear sus! he's in the barn a-cry in', be leels himself such a villua, said the es ited mother. With great rejoicing the company went to hunt up the hero of the hour, lie lay ii an empty stall, fac3 down, upon a pile of bay, and could just manage to jerk out, "I won't —never put—the fellers up to no more mischief, if—if—tbem as hurt —can forgive me." Then the vil lage bully shed tears copiously on the barn floor, and bellowed nloud, until by main force ha was picked up and comforted; SJ there hare baeo known to history villians of much deeper dve than Dave Brown. Though thore were several broken bones p.nd a great mmy bruises, on the whole the experience of tue rival picnics was worth a library of ser mons, and it led to a famous wed ding, at which little Mabel went about proclaiming, "Abby's coming to live at our h )uso.'"— Fanny Foster C'lar/.-, in Hvrper'a Bazar. How He Fixed the Divorce. A well known lawyer told me a few days ago the following story of a late experience: I've had a funny case, and I was counsel for the lady. I never heard two people abuse each other so. I uever knew two people to make such a bitter, hard fight as those two. The property was considerable, aud I had it tied up with an injunction. All efforts to compromise were no good. At last 1 thought the man was try ing to cheat the woman, so 1 stopped negotiations for a compromise and prepured to put the into court. The lady came to see me. "It'.4*uo use, madam. I'm going to put the case straight through the court." "I wish you would; iVs what 1 want. I never will compromise with that man—fiover, never, never !" "All right. You will call hero at 10 o'clock tomorrow, and we will see about the witnesses " Next morning at 10 o'clock she was there. She was nattily dressed in great style, and sho sat down with a pleased assurance. "Well, rnadatriplet us proceed " "I want the case dismissed." "Dismissed ! How is that ?" "Well, we'ye fixod it." "You have ?" "Yes. It's all settled." "May I ask how you settled it !" "Well, last night he came up to my room. The door was locked, and when he knocked I said: 'Who's that?' 'lt's me.' 'You cant come ia ' He kept knocking. I told him he couldn't co:uo iu, and he knocked harder, and 1 to!J him louder he couldn't come in, and he kicked the door down and catno in, aad we sat down aatl fixed it all up." Cases of Absent-Mindedness. At this very moment a gentleman looking over my shoulder tells rue that a few days ago he came to towu for the particular purpose of mailing a letter. He did not like to run the risk of having it lie for a day in the post-office ia the suburban borough where he resides. He came to Pitts burgh, about fifteen miles, went straight to the post-office, bought six two-cent st tnip3 which ho remember ed he was in need of. and returned to his home with the important letter resting securely in his breast pocket. A story used to be told many years ago of a merchant who was peculiar ly subject to fits of absent-minded ness. One day he was writing a let ter and thought, absent-mindedly, that he had forgotten his correspond ent's first name Turning to one of his clerks he said, "What is John Jackson's first name?" The clerk, accustomed to his em ployer's peculiarity, replied, John, sir:" The merchant wrote his letter, put it in an envelope, and was again at a loss, To the same clerk he said : "Excuse me, Charles; I've forgotten John Jackson's last name." But a better story than the above is told of a gentlemen ia this city who was met by a friend one morn ing recently, hurrying back from the depot towards his home. "What's the matter?" the friend asked. "Oh, I've left my watch under my pillow, aad 1 am going to get it." "You'll miss your train." "Oh, no," was tbe absent-minded man's reply. "See, I've got four minutes yet," and he pulled out his watch to enforce the statement. Aud he did not realize for several seconds what it was that made his friend laugh so heartily.— Pittsburg Dispatch. A Bothered Barber. The drummers bring ia a good sto ry occasionally. Mr. Alexander Subers was in Grilfia a few days ago, and while there vveut into a barber shop to be shaved. Tne barber wore a worried look, aad whea ha h id Mr. Subers lathered he became loqua cious. "Boss, I see ia the papers about a deadmau's body beiug takeu up, aad he was clean shaved when he w.;s buried, bat whea they took bini up he had a full beard. Is there any truth iu it?" "Oh, yes," replied the drummer "1 read the account myself." "Cleau shaved whea he died?" "Clean as a baby." "And when they took him up had a full beosd on his face?" "Certaiuiy." "Must be so; that other gentleman what I shaved just now said so, too; but it worries me mightily." "Why should it worry you?" "Well, they t«U me he was a good man, and the only way I can make it out is that he went to heaven, aud there ain't no barbers there. I'm go ing to get out of this business aud go into something that I'll stand some chance of getting to heaveu iu. Next!" Seventeen hundred bales of buf falo robes arrived ia X :«v York last Thursday from the West. These are said to be the last robes that will ever be seut East, such being tbe scarcity of the buffalo at present. At one time skins were sold at $1 a piece. Now they bring few be ing obtainable eveu at that price, The man who lisps has no faith in girls, lie calls every Miss a nijr th. BENJAMIN HARRISON. A Sketch oftlie Life >fthe?Jooi inee—His Record in the Army and the Senate. General Harrison c fr -m a his toric family. M. or G'-ut r..: 11 son. an English ancestor, bore -rn:s wiiu Oiiwr Cronisveil, and r « .. ith liiiii to prominence in tl.» revolution. It fell to his lot to sign the deatb warrani of Charles 1, aad after res t >ratioa be paid tba penalty for bis act. being hang d October 14, 18 : Bei.jamln Harrison, the Scat deaeead* ant of Cromwell's Ger.er >1 woo ap pears in Arneri an h'story, was a member of the Virginia ii as-of b ir gesses, later a delegate to the Colonial Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, tare • times elected Govern rof Virgini-i. and a member of th? convention tha - . ratified the constitution. Hij s»a was (ieneral William Henry 11 irri son, whose h< n >rable career as a sol dier and statesman culminated in iiis election to tbe presidency in 181 », to be followed by his death i.n the White House one month at':., - iiis io-i/iira tion. John Scott Harrison, tb» soa of President Harrison, was the father of tbe subject of this sketch. Benjamin Harrison was born at North Bend, Ohio, in bis graod father's house, August 20, l-vi>. Physically and mentally vigorous, he early manifested a desire to begin an active and independent on re-. At sixteen he entered Miama Uni7" joine 1 tho Republican party; and wiui suprior oratorical ability ho soon became known ns qui- yt the best and most fearless lit publican speakers In 1860 ho was candidate for reporter of the Supreme Court aid in the Lincoln campaign of that year he was elected. The outbreak o! the Rebellion soon dragged him from the life of a citizen to that of a soldier. Governor Mor ton in July, 1802, asked him to assist in recruiting a regiment under the President's call for 300,000 three year troop.}. He received the com mission lor the Seveuth regiment, and as second lieutenant inspired such enthusiasm wherever he wont that he soon raised company A, and was made captain, helped to fill up the other companies of the regiment, aud ia Kss than a* month had com pleted it and was at its head as col onel, ready to go to the front. Gov ernor Morton signified a willingness to accept his resignation if he chose to remain at home and hold his civil cilice.- One j chosen he devoted him self to that career with all his ability, lie served through Kentucky and Tennessee up to January, 18(14. when his regiment was assigned to the First Brigade of the the Third divis ion of the Twentieth Army Corps. His services had been highly honor able to him up to this tim •, but ho had uot yet reached hi' highest hon ors. Ho was ordered to lead the as sault at It jsaca on May 15, 18G4. The ducy was gallantly performed, his command rushing irresi stably over the enemy's terrible lines and captur ing both liues and guns. At t'each tree creek, while commanding his brigade, his soldierly qualities drew from his commanding oificer, General "Joe" Hooker, the most enthusiastic praise. ():i the battlefield he declared that he would make Colorv-l Harri-j son brigadier-general for his part in the fii»ht. In 187(1 ho was made the candidate for Governor, after hi! h i 1 declined to run, and after another candidate had been nominated and had declined. He accepted the nomi nation as a public duty. After he had accepted it he devoted himself to work of the campaign with en ergy. But there was great activity in both the Republican and Demo cratic parties in 1876 General Har rison was defeated, but ii canid out of the fight with extended acquaint ances with th.! people of the State, and with increased national popular ity. He was a popular speaker in the campaign of ISBO in the east and west. His friends ia Indiana had little difficulty in electing him to the pi ice ia the Senate oi the United States, about to he vacated by Joseph E. McDonald, aud he took his seat in that body on March 4, 1881. Senator Harrison took his seat in the senate on the day up >n which General Garfield was inaugurated. The session was au extra one for ex ecutive business only, and he simply attended and voted when occasion required. When the senate reassem bled ia the following December, at toe beginning of the forty-seventh congress, and opportunity offered, he assumed his share of the duties oi' the body. He did not force himself af terward as a speaker. Wheu he did speak he com man led attention. He was the warm friend of the soldier, and he spoke cordially ia his behalf Upon Chinese immigration he argued for a faithful regard of treaty obligat ions iu enforcing exclusion. Service on the Mississippi river commission pre pared him to discuss familiarly all propositions brought forward for the improvement of navigation on that stream. After tin' inauguration of President Clevelaui, and wtrm th • li -public'ins of the senate took issui with the exe cutive about appointment*. S'u Ltor Harrison was ht-aril 011 «ev< ral occa sions in spe ches of a critical ciiarae tor. lie wis hoard very frequently during the closing m inths o his term. In 1887 an effort was made !jy the Republic.ius of Indiana to con trol the legislature} in order th»t be might be cho-ti-n to succeed himself. Senator ll..rri'o:j was confident that the state and legislature could b t car ried. The Republicans won the state, but th 3 Democrats carried the legislature by a sm:t 1 uiajoiity, elect ing David Torpie us senutor. (Jen. Harrison resumed the practice of his 1 profession a' ludi napo'is. • Personally, <« n rai Ha-r'ssn is ! somewhat u-vkr th • uyer. go height, ! but Lis straight,»trong fizurp.soldierly | bearin* aad easy dignity of manner m .kc bini a not,.- •aV • j> -*>n xmoDK men. His hair u very fair, and bid fi(* is clothed with a blond»» beard is j wuich there are no streaks of irray. Oae t'Tiu o f -••rvif*e in the Senate did nut er.crust biin wiib the veneering of senatorial reserve. He wa» and is one of the in >st approachable of men, ready t» talk upon all public suhjecta, , freely, aad having s>methia.? to «iy 'oa most . adjects th it it is worth while to h ar. As an orator bs was ■me of th* best f the senate,sp>akiag .rif. wit'. >at fitigue, aad with no in rely perfunctory zal. with a .-OH o pi very re.-onaaco aa k greit j 5 'aetratioa. THE VICE I'ilEsl I»EN T, I. vi Parsons Moron, nominated for Vice President, id a native of Vermont. He was born in the to vu !of Sh«rehaiu. Mar !♦>, 1824 la : e.iriy life be became a clerk in a j country Ftce, and the aptitude for li s-int-s which be developed caused ; him to rise rapidly in busiuess la be a mem'ier of the mercantile firm of Beeb«», Morton 3 he f>und ed the banking house of Morton, i Bliss & Co , of New York, and that of Morton, li me & Co., ia I. >a>lon. The iatter acted as the fiscal agents of the United States Government from 1 S7-i to ISB4. The two firms were active in the syndicates that negotiated United States bonds and in the payment of toe Geneva award of $15,500,U00 r.nd tbe Halifax fish «ry award of #5,500,001). In 187S Mr. Morton was appointed honorary Commissioner to the I'aria Exposition. The same year be was elected to Congress, ami in 1880 be was re-elected. In the latter year he declined the nomination fx Yics President, President Harfield offered to make him either Secretary of tbe Navy or Minister to Frauce. Mr. Mortoa accepted the appointment to tbe latter position, which he filled from ISSI to 1885. Ho was instru mental in securing the removal of tbe restrictions upon the importation of American pork aad American cor porations st-carred a legal status in France through his intercessions. He was American Commissioner General to the Klectrical Kxposition hold in Paris, represented the Uuited States at tb.j Submarine Cable Con vention, aad in tbe name of tbe Unit ed States publicly received tbe statue of Liberty Enlightening the World from tie representatives of the French Government. His home is at Ellerslie, at llbiaebeck on tbe Hudson, where be has resided sioco 1*»87. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth Col lege i a 1881, aad Middlebury Col lege awarded hits a similar hoaor in 18*2 He was »i candidate for Unit ed States Senator from New York State in 1887, but was not elected. To Guess the Speod of Trains. There is not one person in 100 of tho millions who travel on railroads in tho course of a year who has any idea of tho speed of a train. A large per cent ot even the regular trainmen of the country cannot toll with any degree of accuracy how fast a train ia running - Frequently engineers aro dispatched on a trip over a line of railroad with instructions to run at a speed ot a certain number of miles an hour. The engineers do not carry a speed indicator, but have learned by various methods to gauge their eng ines so as to make oulv tho slightest variation from their orders. Tbe majority of engineers use their driving wheel as a guage. They know its circumference, and by count in tf its revolutions within a certain 110 very accurately tho s.i. (Ml at which they are running. Another method is to time the run but ween mile posts phased in a certain tinr*. These pules, in a level country, and where four or five wires ere used, a-e spaced so tint tliey are thiity t J tho mile. If only a single wire is used tiioy aro spaced from twenty-five to to t vventy-cight to the mile. Tho most accurate method, and the one most in use by experienced rail road men, is to count the number of rail j >iats the train passes over in twenty seconds. Tho rails ia nearly nil cases ire thirty feet in length, and the number passed over in twenty seconds is the spcod per hour train is running. For instance, if a passenger sitting in a sleeper can count thirty clicks ol the wheels on a rail joint in twenty seconds the train is running at the speed of thirty miles an hour.— Kansas City Times. The Red Bandanna Flirtation. From tho Oil City Blizzard.] Folding the handkerchief; lend me a quarter, Tving a loose knot in it; come over and have something. Drawing it through the right hand; Nothing new from Indiana. Waving it to a friend on the next corner; got an extra toby in your pocket/ Wrapping it arouud the wrist; what did your wife say when you got home last night. Drawing it slowly through tbe left baud; will meet you arouud the cor ner in live minutes. Giving it a quick, jerky snap with the right band; can you lot me have a "V" till Saturday? Missing the pocket and letting it tail unnoticed on the ground; no,(hie) tLanks. no more to day. R• n iving it hurriedly from the pocket and mopping ii. across tho brow in the presence of two Iriends; three beers. Letting it dangle from a coat tail pocket; we are watched—the police are onto us. Tell the boys to come up the other street. Letting it drop upon the sidewalk, falling upon it and lying in that po sition until pi eked up and carried home; favorable reports from doubt ful districts/' People who have relatives to be executed after January next should send them to New York to have tho operation performed. It will ba much pleasanter for those remaining »o speak of the culprit as having been struck by lightning than to say that he was hanged. The New York Mail says that the women of New York appear to bo stronger than the men. "Appear," is a good way t<> pat it. If tho edi it >r could hear tbeir groans and sighs at home and visit about a hundred households as a doctor be would win der if there wis a singl r healthy woman in New York. NO. r»