VOL. XXVIII Uobes and Blankets As cold weather approaches !.( ne owners v. "II save money by hijmg tl.< horse blauk ents, kniear Postoffice, Butler, Pa. Rare Bargains, Extraordinary Bargains are offer ed here in , UNDERWEAR. HOSIERY, (JLOVES, 11ANDKEF.CHIEF8, MUFFLERS, Everything in furnishings for ladies, children acd men. C< rr.pare our prices with what yon ba*e been paying and gee if yon cjm'l fruve uiODcy by dealing with us. John M. Arthurs. 33;j SOUTH ".MAIX STREET. 333 Big Overcoat Sale AT The Racket Store. OVERCOATS OF ALL GRADES, STYLES AND COLORS AT ROCK. BOTTOM PRICES FOR CA-RJI. REMEMBER THAT NO FIRM DOING A CREDIT BUSINESS CAN QUOTE THE LOW CASH PRICES YOU WILL FIND AT THE ONE PRICE RACKET STORE, 4 8 S. Mam St., | Hutler, Pa. L 8 McJUNXLN, Insurance >iml Ural Estate Ag't 17 I. \ST JEFFERSONJST. BUTLER, - PA. COUNTY •-) fire Insurance Co. 0 iC'".r, Main & Cunningham Bts. ■i. C. ROEKSING, Pbbsideht. LI C. iiMNEMAN, Skcrktart. DIRECTORS: «■<• ' . Henderson Oliver, J. I. :• -rv .SHIMPS SU-pht-n.wn, A ■■ • .in. Heineman, *) >' N. Weitzel. ■ " •I. V. i'i D.T. Norris. Ia ■' i .ill:?. Gen, Ag'I j3UTLER, -PA PROFESSIONAL CARDS. V. McALPINE, Dentist, Is now permanently located at 1» South Main Street - Butler. P»., In rooms formerly decoupled by Dr. Waldron. * ____ Dr. N. M. HOOVER, IST E. Wayne St., office nours, 10 to 12 M. and l to 3 P. M. 1 L. M. REINSEL, M. D, Phvsician and Sc KG ICON*. Offlce and residence at Graham Street, Butler, Pa. L. BLACK, PHYSICIAN AND SIBUKON. New Trout man Bonding, Butler, l'a. Dr. A. A. Kelty, Office at Kose Point, Lawrence county, Pa. E. N. LEAKK. M. D. J. E. MANN, M. D. Specialties: Specialties: Gynaecology and Sur- Eye, Ear. Nose and Kfery. Throat. DRS. LEAKE & MANN, Butler, Pa. G. M. ZIMMERMAN. PHYSICIAN AND gUKOKON, Office at No. to, s. Main Btreet, over Frank ft Co's Di ug Store. Butler. Fa, SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician and Surgeon. Wo. 22 East Jefferson St., Butler, Pa. W. R. TITZEL. I PHYSICIAN SURGEON. 8. W. Comer Main and North 818., Butler, Pa. J. J. DONALDSON, Dentist. Butler, Penn'a. Artificial Teeth inserted on the latest im proved plan. Gold Killing a specialty, office— over Scnaul's Clothing Store. . DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA. All work pertaining to the profession." execut ed in the neatest manner. Specialties:—Cold '.'illinpi, and Painless Ex traction of Teeth, Vitalized Air administered. OBet «■ Jefferson Street, one door East of Lowrj Home, Up Stairs. Office open daily, except Wednesdays an.l Thursdays. Communications by mall receive prompt attention, H. B.—The only Dentist In Butler atiigjtke beet makes of teeth. J. W. MILLER, Architect, C. E. and Surveyor. Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Maps, plans, specifications and esti mates; all kinds of architectural and en gineering work. No charge for drawing if I contract the work. Consult your best in terests; plan before you build. Informa tion cheerfully given. A share of public patronage is solicited. P. 0. Box 1007. Office S. W. of Court House, Butler, Pa. C. F. L. McQUiSTION, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, Orrici NJSAK Di amond, Bctlkb, Pa, J. M. PAINTER, Attorney-at-Law. Office—Between Postofflce and Diamond, But ler. Pa. A. T. SCOTT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office at No. 8, South Diamond, Butler. Pa. A. M. CHRISTLEY, ATI ORNEY AT LA . Office second floor, Anderson B1 k, Main St., near C'ouit House, Butler, Pa. J. w. HUTCHISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. r Office on second floor of the Huselton block, Diamond, Butler, Pa., Room No. 1. JAMES NT MOORE, Attobnbt-at-Law and Notakt Public. Office in Room No. l. second floor of Iluselton Block, entrance on Diamond. IRA McJUNKIN. Attorney at Law, Office at No. IT, East Jeffer son St., Butler, Pa^ W. C. FINDLEY, Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent. Of flee rear of I- Z. Mitchell's office on north aide of Diamond, Butler, Pa. H. H. GOUCHER. Attomey-at-law. Office on second floor "of Anderson building, near Court House. Butler, Pa. ■ C J. F. BRITTAIN. Att'y at Law—Office at S. E. Cor. Main St, and Diamond, Butler, Pa. NEWTON BLACK. Att'y at Law—Office on South side of Diamond Butler, Pa. A. E. GABLE, V" eterinary Surgeon. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Toronto, Canada. Dr, Gable treats all diseases of the domesticated animals, and makes ridgling, castration and horee den tistry a specialty. Castration per formed without clams, aDd all other surgical operations performed in the moat scientific manner. Calls to any part of the country promptly responded to. Office and Infirmary in Crawford's Livery, 132 West Jefferson Street, Bntler, Pa. SAW MILLS Patent Variable friction and Belt Feed. Steam Engines, Hay Presses, Shingle Mills, &c. Portable Grist Mills, Send lor Ulus. Threnhlnp Machines, Ac. Catalogue. A. B. FAKIjIHAH CO.. York, Pa. GEO. D. MITCHELL, Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor of Pensions and Patents. Box 253. Washington. 1). C. Clerk Sen ate Pension Committee for last 7 years. If you like PROMPTNESS write me. Clad to give advice. ~v, ;a i t-.iO PtRSISTMT Vtitii ' Ali> ' 111 1 • ' ias prove* ■ t.:i«-csstul. Ik-foro placin;rany ■i Advertising consult LC ID fx THOMAS, lIISO AGISTS, to-*wll|C.V (t <• «0 V.r.Wrt, S'rwi. CHICAGO Subscribe for the CITIZEN. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Regarding Fine Clothes. As a new comer requesting a share of the pat ronage of this town and vicinity in my line, it befits me to make a few statements. 1 make a specialty of the higher grades of work; I keep in stock the finest quality of goods; 1 recognize the fact that a good fitting suit from my house is it's best advertisement, while a misfit con demns the cutter and tailor. 1 shall endeavor to send out the best fitting clothes to be found. I do all my own cutting. o—o The prices will be as low as can be made com patible with the quality of goods I shall adhere to. A full line of the latest and most stylish goods in stock. Call and see me before placing any orders. GEO, HABERNIGG, SR. MERCHANT TAILOR, 202 S. Main St., New Troutman Building, Butler, Pa. Don't Read This Unless You Want, To! M mnaOOOOBWr We feel confident it will pay you. Now that the Holidays are over we are busy getting ready tor Spring trade. We want all persons to know where to buy goods at right prices. This is the place. We sell goods as cheap as any person in the United States, if not cheap er. We RETAIL FURNITURE AT WHOLE SALE PRICES. We give vou first-class goods; what more can we do. We also do just as we ad vertise. We will sell you a Good Oak Bed Room Suit for #l9 and a fine Pol ished Oak Bed Room Suit tor #25. You can't buy it elsewhere under #35. Any thing you want in the Furniture line you will find at our store at low prices. Come and see us whether you want to buy or not. We want to show you our goods. Campbell &. Templeton, OLD TROUTMAN STAND. BUTLER, PA. Have Yon Bought Your Cloak or Wrap for the winter yet. If you haven't don't put it off too long or all the best thing 3 will fc be picked out. It is a Fact That we have never shown as nice a line of Dry Goods and Caipeta as we are now showing in our new room. Why are Troutmans so busy? There must be a reason for it or people wouldn't do their shop ping there. , The Real Truth is They have the correct styles, the largest and best stock to se lect from and the lowest prices. -O—O * Visit our store from now until Christmas and see for yourself. TROUTMAN'S Leading Dry Goods and Carpet House. BUTLER,. - - PA. EVERT WATERPROOF -———-———l THAT CAN BE RELIED ON BE UP UNTot to SpUt! 3VOt tO DlSCOlOl?; J BEARS THIS MARK. <1 TRADE celluloid NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. giRT BREEDS VER^ ► '©fa.good house-wife.who uses SAPOUO. it- is well saad.-The mouse is muzzled in her house'.'Try ih&nd Keep your house cle&n+All grocers keep it- Cleanliness and neatness about a house are necessary to insure comfort. Man likes comfort, and if he can't find it at home, he will seek elsewhere for it Good housewives know that SAPOLIO makes a house clean and keeps it bright. Happiness always dwells in a comfortable home. Do you want cleanliness, comfort and happiness? Try SAPOLIO and you will be surprised at your success. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. BUTLER, PA.,FRII)AY, FEBRUARY 1 :J. 1801. A BA1) MAN FROM TEXAS. Walkus, Valvadere county, Tex., Jan. 19.—He was called a "bad man" out here in this Texas cattle country where such a reputation means something. I confess to a sinful curiosity in regart to him and his manner of badness, fed and stimulated by the continual and vague references to it. "What does he dot" I flippantly asked my hostess, a fair-haired young Scotch matron, the chatelaine of the McGregor ranche, if he "devours small children or 'stray' mutton or cattlef Or does he drink his whisky 'with a differencef" "Well," she said, "he is too violent in argument. He kills people who differ from him. by way of settling the question. He is an old timer, one ol the first men to cross the Pecos and settle in this country. That was years ago,when the country tu much wilder and rougher than it is now. "He killed a man, an old schoolmate and friend, and married his widow, a poor, weak creature, whom 1 suppose he killed, too,with his cruelty and violence; anyway, she is dead, and be drove bis daughter—or her daughter by the former marriage, I really don't know which—to such desper ation by his exactness and not allowing her to see anyone any more than a caged beast, that she would have run away from him if she hadn't feared for her life. And finally, when he killed the man she was in love with and expected to marry, she did run away, went to sone city in East Texas, and, I hear, has gone completely to the bad. They say he swears he's going back there to kill her before he dies. "The men says he isn't honest, claims cattle that are not his, and such things. Of course, he always declares they are, and with his reputation there are very few that care to dispute a little point like that with him. "He has been suspected of cutting fences, and he is perfectly furious about sheep men, twice having fired into flocks that were brought near his range, killing dozens of them. Then he's cruel to his horses, cruel to the Mexicans on his place, cruel to anything weak and helpless that falls into his power. You'll see him at the round-up to-morrow. He came riding down on us at a that, even in this land of hard riding, would attact attention, and one which I found afterward was habitual with him. A man over six feet Ull, vast of frame, powerful of muscle, with shoulders slightly stooped from a lifetime passed in the saddle, and with a breadth of chest that I have never seen equalled, he was marked, here wbero beardless faces are rather the rule, by an enormous beard, touched with gray, over which he could have buckled his pistol belt had eyes like a hawk and a nose to match; a strong,predatory, violent, aggressive visage, that might have fitted a Norse viking. As he came hurling toward us at that mad gallop, bis chin sunk on his breast, and the torrent of that mighty beard blow ing over his mighty chest, he aroused in the mind jumbled suggestions of Father Time, a mounted bersecker, and other colossal aud heroic images. I said I wanted him. If I had been born Czar of Russia, with absolute power, and had carried off half the things picturesque and peculiar that I have momentarily longed for, I should now have a collection that would be the bane of my life. When all the cutting out aud branding was done and we were preparing to leave for home, I turned and saw that the board ed giant was coming up to speak to me. Dismounted, he was a somewhat less im posing figure, having the slightly awkward gait which continual riding gives. He laid a broad, brown hand on my pony's mane, and spoke in a great voice that matched his great frame, tuned to a key of peculiar gentleness. "I have been trying to get Mr. McGregor to bring you over to my place,"' he said, fixing me with a kindly but embarrassing scrutiny. "I can show you a lot of Mexican homes, give you as fine riding as you could want, or a cat hunt, or I wish you'd corae and get pecans in my river pasture." He stood some time, evidently "making talk," and continuing to gaze directly at my face. "They tell me," he said, "that you just sail around and rustle for yourself. Well, that's right; I like that. The less a woman depends on some coyote of a man, the happier she'll live and the peacefuler she'll die." Had he been a young and susceptible cowboy I should have considered that I had made an impression. As it was, I was accused of having done so as soon as he had ridden off. '•I never saw old John Adam so civil to a man, woman or child in my life," said my host. "John Adam"—how the name fitted him with its simple archaic suggestions! The next week Mr. McGregor took me over to the K. 0. ranche, and went on to attend a roundup, sayitg that if he didn't call for ine '>y 5 o'clock, Mr. Adam might ride home with mo. My host put ine on a fiery pony and wc flew over his vast range. He introduced mo to all bis Mexicans, and filled my saddle pockets with the finest pecans; then when 5 o'clock came and no Mr. McGregor,he put my saddle back on my own pony and we rode homeward. Suddenly ho turned to me and said, "I want to ask you for your picture—some old one you don't care anything about —I would rather have an old one, taken when you wero about sixteen. I wanted you to come here and I wanted to see you be cause you put me so in mind of a little girl I used to go to school with; a little rosy cheeked girl; here's a picture of her." lie drew from his pocket a daguerrotype of a child seemingly twelve, round faced, largo eyed, with her curly hair demurely parted and tucked behind her ear.-:. She wore a "low necked" dress, aud one bare, slim arm was laid out over the table beside which she stood, in such a way that the hand looked almost as large as her head. "She was my wife," he went on. "You've been told all about how I killed her husband and married her, but maybe I can give you a straighter story. "We all three grew up together back in Missouri, and when she married him I started West, and came as near hero as any white man had. After I'd been living here ten years 1 got a letter from her tell ing me she was coming out to me with her husband and why, and the next month they came. "He was a drunkard —the worst I ever saw; a dangerous, raving lunatic when he was drunk, a regular wild beast or a locoed steer, and the craziest man for bug juice I ever tried to handle. "She thought to get him ont on a ranche and keep it away from him—we had to keep turpentine and camphor out of his way when he was wild for the stuff, and once he nearly killed himself drinking kerosene. "They stayed at my place the best part of a year. I wait as faithful as I could be, and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do. Occasionally he'd get a supply from somewhere and we'd have the devil's time with him. "Finally I told the greasers that the next time he got whiskey I was going to start out and wallop every niau on the place and ask no questions. But a greaser'll do anything for money—except work—ami I suppose she gave him some money, or he stole it; for when I came home from the upper range one night I heard a yelling in the house; he was drunk, and she, like a woman, was making it worse by hanging around him. begging and imploring him to come and lie down. "As I run in he raised a chair to strike her. She never moved to get out of his way; just sort of bunched up and shivered. "I had my gun on him. and shot him." Ho turned to me fiercely, as if I had made a suggestion or an accusation. "I didn't aim for his arm to keep him from hittin'her with a chair, I aimed to kill him. and I did. I killed him, and I married her. His chin sank, after this outburst, into the great swell of bis voluminous beard, and his big voice. Jthat seemed to be made for bailing ships at sea or roaring siguals in a storm, sank to a husky murmur. "Poor soul, poor soul! She had nowhere else to go, and no one else to look to, and she married me when I begged her to; but she never knew another happy day. She pined for him. I planted him in a sightly spot, under a big live oak. and she used to go there and put flower things on him nnd cry. She went days when she thought I was away; but I knew of it, and many's the time I've wished it was me down there to be sorrowed over. "I expect about this time I wasn't a nice man to be about; I used to feel like killing something, mostly; and if I ever did anything to earn me the name of 'bad John Adam,' as I am known, it was then. I didn't care what I did. We never saw any pleasure together. I knew she pined fsr him, and kept his picture by her, but we lived together twelve years; then she took a fever in the spring, and died. "The day she died she talked to me a good deal about how kind I'd been, and bow she wished she could have made me happier. But in the evening she went to sleep and woke up a little flighty, and thought we was all boys and girls at school again. "All at once she sat up in bed and laughed, and her face looked like a little girl's, 'l'm going to him,' she said." He looked at me with a curious, ghastly, blankness. "I'm going to him," he re peated; and again in a husky whisper, "I'm a going to him." He threw out his bands in a gesture of intolerable anguish: "He robbed me living, and he robbed me dead. She never spoke again." Presently he looked up. "You've heard about the girlf You might have thought she'd bo a comfort to me. I did every thing for her a man could do. She had a saddle horse that could outrun anything in Texas, a saddle I had made for her in San Antonia—cost slso—a herd and a brand of her own. I didn't want anyone to wait on her nor look at her but me; and, seeing the time her mother'd bad, I didn't want her to marry. "Errything went lovely for a while, and I saw the most peace and pleasure I ever saw in my life—which ain't saying much— when she came to me and told me she was going to marry a low-down sneaking chump that I never thought enough of .to keep out of her way. "She wasn't like her mother. I couldn't do anything with her; when she said a thing she meant it; I tried drawing him off, and when I found him sneaking back to steal her I shot him. "They tried me for that; I never will forget the men that had it done. I'll even up the score with every one of them before I die. "She's gone back to Missouri to her mother's kin folks. She thinks I'm too wicked to live, and not fit to die, aud she writes to me trying to get me to repent — but I dont know whether I've got anything to repent of. I send her mouey. "But you'll send me the picture, sure, won't youf I'll take any amount of preach ing if you'll promise that. You see I al ways think of Mattie as a little girl. I leave out all the time out here, and think ol her as she was at your age and younger." The fine, fierce Bedonin-like face soften ed, the keen eyes turned up upon me the kindest, gentiest gaze. "Good bye," he said, "God bless you." opened the gate, closed it after me, and, with a sweeping wave of the hand, and with no further word, was off down the road at his usual thnndering gallop. I sent the picture, obedient to my promise. Recently a railroad was put through his ranche, be swearing, threatening and pro testing to the last that be wouldn't have his pastures cut up and his cattle all killed or scared to death. He was very loud and violent, and when a train was wrecked by obstructions being placed on tho track not a mile from his house, none of his neigh bors doubted his guilt. A great posse went with the sheriff to arrest him- They stood outside the closed door and called upon him to surrender. As he himself would have described it, he kicked open the door and turned loose both six shooters. He killed and wounded several men, was himself mortally wounded, and died within an hour, having savagely informed the men that he knew nothing about the wrecking of the train, but it iidn't make any difference; he was jnst as willing to accommodate them with a little pistol practice as not. And his spirit went out, savage and defiant, to seek, maybe, a place where the giving of a dog a bad name is not equiv alent to hanging him. ALICE MACGOWAN. —A. W. Strange, Esq., Lynchburg, Va. writes: "I use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup regularly for a tickling cough at night. It gives relief and puts me to sleep. It is much used here." Price 25 cents. Adam might have been tho "goodliest man of men since born," bnt it doesn't appear that he ever did any especial good for his family. What a blessing he might have left behind, if he could have made Salvation Oil and kill pain. —Between the ages of ten and twenty a girl will do more laughiug and break more dishes than during the remainder of her life. —Don't shake hands with the devil when you say good bye to him. —For every man in love thero are 999 men who think they are. —Dr. Fenner's Golden Belief is warrant ed to relieve toothache, headache, neural gia, or any other pain in 2 to 8 minutes. Also bruises, wounds, wire cuts, swellings, bites burns, summer complaints, colic, (also in horses), diarrha'a, dysentery and flux. If satisfaction not given money returned. A distinguished scientist says that "man, the highest order of animals, is re lated to the oyster or clam, which rep resents the lowest." Tho r<>lationsh p often crops out unmistakably. —ltch on hnman aud horses ana all ani mals cured in 30 minutes by Woolford'a Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by J C Redick, druggist, Butler. Recollections .of Butler; or Fifty Years Ago. (ContiHiirii.) CiILCHRIST-BBATTY SVI'ABK .Across Maiu Strict from last described Potts and DeWolf square is what wo will call the tfilchrist-Beatty square of 50 years ago. John Gilchrist owped two of its lots and the late Hon. William Beatty the other one. Mr. Gilchrist built and lived in what is now the greater part of the Vogeley House property. He built all of the large brick from and including the present Morrison bakery and grocery up to and within 25 or 30 feet of the npper cor ner. On this upper corner stood one of the first and o'.de.st pub Tic houses of Butler, a log-frame. which was removed, about 1863. by the late William Vogeley, and in its place erected the brick now attached to the mam brick erected by Mr Gilchrist, both together composing what is now the V ogeley House. The old log-frame on comer was said to have been erected by Mrs. Collins in her day here. Our first distinct recollection of it commences with the time the late Michael Zimmerman l>e gan keeping hotel there, about 1843. Mr. Zimmerman kept there as a renter until 1848, when he bought and removed to what is now the Willard House, heretofore spoken of. Mr. "William Vogeley succeed ed him shortly after, probably in 1848.1>uy ing from Mr. Gilchrist the old log-frame part and keeping hotel in it alone until he purchased the balance, or larger part. This larger part had been purchased of Mr. Gilchrist, about 1852, by the late William Hell, the contractor and builder of the old Court House that a few years ago was de stroyed by fire. Mr. Vogeley came to own this part through Mr. Bell. Previous to his sale to Mr. Bell Mr. Gilchrist had himself kept public house there and was followed in same, 1546 and 1847, by our present Mr. James Borland. Professor Borland was iollowed, 1848, by the late Mr. William B. Lemon, who afterwards removed to Beaver Falls and died there some few years ago. Mr. Bell removed from the county and is also deceased. He was the father-in-law of our present L. P. Walker, Esq. A front room of this larger part, on street, and where is now the par lor of present hotel, was used for years as an office, one of its present windows being then a door. Doctors Agnew and Me- Junkin hud their office there, about 1840; and the late General Purviance had his law office there, 1856, and for a number of years. Mr. James A. Negley, Mr. M. Schneidemau, and others, bad stores in the room where now is the bar room of present Vogeley House, bvtween 1800 and 1870. Mr. Vogeley removed tho old log hotel part, 1863, down to Washington Street where and in which his widow now resides. Tho whole of tho Hotel Vogeley is now the property of his widow and heirs. He died in Oct. 1873, aged 50 years. Where present Campbell hardware store is was part of the Gilchrist lots and pur chased of him by the Messrs. Campbell, about 1838, which is still carried on by members of that family in the name of J. G. s. This was during the administration o! President Martin Van Buren and when, as now. there were exciting and important questions belore Congress. Nothing will illustrate better the character of Mr. Beatty for courage than his declaration in Congress when a certain bill was up that created much debate and opposition, j When others were timid as to their votes. : and doubting as to the propriety of the measure, he arose and said that he was not afraid -'to take the bull by the horns,'' and voted accordingly. This expression, while not the mojt elegant, yet gained him a very wide reputation for courage. He was as unyielding in his views as he was biare a- d hone t in the express'oa of them. Aud while for years a leader of bis party iu this coanty he never practiced, indeed did not know of any of the tricks of modern politicians. Mr. Beatty's strength with the people came from an inate force of character, and this, added to his honesty of purpose iu all things, gave him the great influence he had over his fellow-men. He was upright as well as stern, and men went to him because they relied upon and trusted him. He was a man of strong aud good common sense and while austere in look and brief in speech be was as kind and tender hearted as a child. No one failed to excite his sympathy when appeal ing for aid, and this as much as anything else kept him in constant financial trouble. He was public spirited, lending a hand to every enterprise and improvement for the benefit of the town. Personally he was a very fine looking man, a little above ordinary height and well built. His ap pearance aud manner wherever be went would attract attention and be was gener ally chosen to preside at meetings and con ventions. While rigid in his political views yet men of all parties respected him. Had ho been an educated man he would undoubtedly have risen to still greater dis, tinction. Not a son or daughter remains behind him here, and scarce a blood rela tive in the county that we know of. Wm. McXair, Esq.. a prominent lawyer of Oil City, is a grandson, as is Mr. John B. Mc- Xair, late of this county, and C. C. Mc- Carnes, Esq., late of this place, is a great grandson. Mr. Beatty died in April, 1851, being suddenly seized with sickness on the road when going from town to his farm home spoken of. He was in the 6tth yea* of his age. The late Hon. John Duffy and present Hon. E. McJunkin were his ex ecutors. The farm that he had spent so much labor and expense in improving was sold after his death to Capt. James O'Donnell, of Pittsburg, a steamboat or river man, who had been raised or had relatires in this county. After Capt. O'Donnoll's death his widow married Mr. John Groutt, of Pittsburg, and after his death Mrs. Groutt removed to Butler and lived npon this farm until hor death. The farm is now the property of Mr. Charles Duffy. It embraced what is now that growing part of our town called Duffyville, and which, by the energy and liberality of Mr. Duffy, has perhaps a hundred houses, recently erected, upon one of its hills lac ing the old town. COLL—BTBYVABT SQCAEK. Crossing Cunningham Street and con tinuing ou down Main on same side we come to what we will call the Coil-Stewart square of fifty years ago. There were, per haps, other old occupants on it who are as much or more entitled to the old name, but they wero on or about the middle of the square, and so far we have been desig nating the squares by the names of the old owners at the ends of them. The late Daniel Coll lived at the one end of this square and the late Hon. William Stewart at the other. Mr. Coll was at upper cor ner. He was a merchant and kept a store in a frame where present Berg brick is, now occupied by Messrs. Graham and Hafele as a store. The old fiame is said to have been erected by the late John Sul livan, Esq., and sold by him to Mr. Coll. About 1849 this corner became the property o r the late John Berg, Sr., and his brother, present Herman J. Berg, who carried on a hardware store there for many years since. This corner lot is still the property of the heirs ot the late John Berg. The Berg banking house was first established in one of the rooms of this building in 1870, and continued there until Mr. John Berg, Jr., bought, a lew years ago, the old National Bank building, to where be removed and is still carrying on the banking business. Tho "Racket Store" now occupies the room where original Berg bank was. John Berg, Sr., died in June, 1884. Mr. Daniel Coll in his day was one ol Sutler's very best citizens. He was proverbial for hid honesty, hid name, in deed. being but another for honesty itself. All spoke of him as a man of the utmost integrity aad correct principles in all his transactions. In addition to keeping store he followed droving cattle, in which it was said he met with lrequent losses, lie was elected County Treasurer, about 1840, and was appointed postmaster of the town in 1853. lie had five sons who were regarded as very talented and scholarly. Francis, the oldest, was a member of the Butler Bar and his early death was much regretted by all who knew his worth and learning. James also died when a young man, mnch also regretted. Of Cornelias we have elsewhere spoken. John and Samuel, younger bovs, became the pro prietors of the Democratic Herald of this place in July, 1858, and continued to pub lish the same until 1887, when it was sold by them to tho late lion. Jacob Ziegler, who removed it to part of the old Beatty building, spoken of, and continued it there to his death uear three years ago. The next building to this Berg property, and where now 's the bakery and confec tionery store of Mr. John A. Richey, was another frame one, until the present brick was erected by the late John Sweeny, then owner. The first recollection we have of thidold frame is whon occupied by the late Anthony Faller, Esq.. and family. Mr. Faller and family came here from Germany about 1830. They were an inter esting family, having brought with them from Germany various mnsical instruments, among them two large musical clocks, which they exhibited to the citizens and caused to play for their amusement These clocks were a wonder to the large crowds who called to see and hear them. When set to music, soldiers and other personages or figures would appear and disappear on their lace part, in regular order and with great precision. The clocks wore perhaps eight feet high and were something never seen here before the advent of Mr. Faller and family. They kept also a bakery there, about the same as Mr. Richey keeps now. Shortly after coming here they bought from the late John Negley, Esq., a piece of land south of the creek, about ten acres, on which they built two buildings, one the cluster of frames across the creek on plaak road and near the residence of present Mrs. MunU. Here Mr. Anthony XO. 15 Filler kept a hotel for muj years. Ttie other building ww stone and further up the bill there, aud stood near where U now the residence of the family of the late Mr. Samuel McClymonds. Here tbey established • brewery and bakery aud carried on same for a number of year*. This old stoue building became the property of th« writer of this and was torn away within the put twenty year*. The other, frame hotel stands yet aud is the property of Mr* Filler's heirs, among whom are our present Jacob and Angust Faller, his son*. Mr. i aller became a prominent man in this community; was active in political affairs and had great influence with his German fellow citizens. He was a Justice of the Peace for his township, then Sooth i Butler Twp , for many years. He was an intelligent man and one of very decided opinions. He died abont 1850. His widow, the late Mrs. Faller, will be remembered by many of our citizens as a woman of great worth and usefulness. She died in 1880. When Mr. Faller bonght this land Mr. Negley took one of the clocks spoken of in part payment for the same. Feb. G, 1891. j. h. N. (To be continued.) Farmers' Institute. Program of the Farmers' Institute to be held under the auspices of tho Pennsylva nia State Board of Agriculture, at Renfrew in the Opera House, on Wednesday, Feb ruary 25, 1891. WEDKBBDAT KOBNIKG. Call to order at 10 o'clock a. m.; Ist, or ganization; 3d, address o! welcome, by D. I>. Dodds; 3d, response by J. M. Donthett; 4th music by Prof. Rowan and class; sth, silo and ensilage, by J. D. McGee, Valen cia, Pa; Oth, insurance on farm buildings and live stock, James Martiu, Maharg. Questions and answers. WBDXBSDAT AFTKBHOOIt. Call to order at 1:30 o'clock. Ist, Under draining, W. M. Glenn, West Saubury, Pa; 2d, song, by Win. Criswell, Butler, Pa; 3d,' farmers' rights and duties, Hon. Josiah M. Thompson; 4th, recitation, Joseph White, Renfrew; sth economy on the farm, Hon! Wm. S. Waldron, Brans City; 6th, song. Prof. Cyrus Harper, Harmony; 7th, recita tion, Wui. Garver, Renfrew. WBDKBSDAV BVBMKG. Ist, Music, Prof. Rowan and class; 2d, paper, nature's indices, W. H. H. Riddle, Butler; 3d, recitation, Miss Patrick; 4th' increasing and maintaining the fertility of the soil, J. B. Phelps, Conneautville, Pa; sth. recitation, Miss Carrie Hutchison, Renfrew; 6th, the tax question, Simeon Nixon, Butler. A premium of $5 is offered by Simeon Nixon for the best declamation by boy or girl under 16 years. Competition open to all. Judges to bo selected by the parties. The Institute will be held in the Renfrew Opera House and will be promptly called to order at 10 a.m., on Wednesday. Do not mif-8 any of the first sessions. This program will be adhered to as nearly as possible, but may be varied if circumstan ces require. The State Legislature has appropriated a small fund for aiding in holding these Far ers'lnstitutes and it is the desire of the State Board of Agriculture that the farmers of the various counties in which they are held should by a general attendance and interest manifest their appreciation of this endeavor on the part of the Legislature to advance farm interests. All the sessions ol the Institute are ftee, and everybody is cordially invited. Ladies are especially welcome. Come and bring the family and the neigfcbors. Fill the question box with questions and take part in the discussions. Special arrangements have been mads At the D. Stewart Hotel as headquarters dar ing the sessions of the Institute. Good ac commodations will be furnished at 25 cents a meal or $1 per day. For information in reference to Farmers' Institutes address T. J. Edge, Harrisburg, All Granges, Alliances, Leagues and Farmers' Clubs and Bimilar organizations, are cordially invited to elect and send del egates. For programs address. D. B. DorTHrrr, Browusdale, Pa. One Farmer Robs Another. A well-known farmer of Buckingham, Bucks county, owns several farms. One of them has been untenanted forsome time. The ownor of the property, who also own ed the farm implements, left them there until a new tenant should take possession. His own home was several miles away,and ho only visited the farm occasionally. Re oently at each visit he missed some farm ing implement, and at his last, visit be dis covered that everything movable had been taken away, even to hen-coops, corn-cribs and small out houses, only the house, barn and land remained. By inquiring of the neighbors the owner learned that a farmer living nearby had frequently been seen on the premises late ly. With a dark lantern the plundered farmer one night visited the suspected man's place, and found there his Bhed, crios, sleighs, blows, harrows, hoes, rakes, axps—in fact, every implement and utensil formerly on his own farm. The robber ad mitted his guilt, and the owner magnani mously told him if ho would move every thing back the matter would be dropped. Farmers passing the next day and seeing wagonloads of farm implements moving into the farm-yard thought a new tenant had taken possession. He Worked the Company. "Look here, young man," said the lately resigned conductor to the railroad editor, "I've always treated you white, haven't IT" "You have." "And when I resigned the other day didn't I tell you I'd worked for the compa* ny 20 yearst" "I believe no." "And yet this is the kind of send-off you give me." And he laid the last issue of the paper on the table and pointed to the notioe of his retirement, which stated that "he had worked the company for 20 years. When to Sell Poultry. It shonld be a rule never to sell a fowl until it is made very fat. A hen weigh ing six pounds should be made to weigh seven. The one ponnd extra is not much, but it adds two cents a pound to the price of the whole carcass. A six pound hen which would sell at ten cent* a pound, making 60 cents, if fatted and weighing seven pounds would bring 12 centa a pound, or 84 cents for the fowl. Here we see by making a fowl fat there ii a clear addition of 24 cents to the total sum and 10 cents for the extra pound, equivalent to 40 per cent, gain by fattening the fowl.— Poultry Keeper. —The man who prays out in church to loud that bfe can be beard across the street generally holds his communications with the devil in a low whisper which cannot be heard beyond the "limits of his own hypocritical brain. —lt's easier to let the cat out of thabag than to get the cat into the bag.