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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-13

THE BRIBERY CASES.
The house committee to investigate the
charges of attempted bribery met in the repre-
sentative hall. II. r. White was summoned to
appear, but did not respond. He declined to re-
cogniZe the authority Of the committee. Swami
and Hartman reiterated the substance of their
affidavits and statements In the house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-13

CANVASS BACK DUCKS,
" RED HEAD DUCKS, -
GROUSE, PHEAsAMTs, WILD TUR-
KEY QUAIL, SQUADS, ETC;
SWEET BREADS, Country SAUSAGE,
DIAMOND BACK TERRAPIN,
FISH OF ALL KINDS.
SELECT OYSTERS,
FLORIDA ORANGES AND BANANAS 10.
FRANK ]. TIBBETS q CO.,
does PALACE MARKET, Cor. 18th and N. Y. 40.
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NOTES

New Orleans has seventeen Methodist
churches.
The American ltitlcmen were mucl. cheered
upon going up to receive the prizes at the
hands OF the Princess of Wales,
A long observation shows that of books the
bible is the first that goes TO the pawnshop,
and it is the last to be redeemed.
o must say ''boulevard,'' and not
sboulevart,' although lots of Frenchmen use
the latter form. Thus rules the French
Academy.
A Denver man whose horse was stolen Of
fered the following discriminating rewar.s:
"Fifiy dollars for the thief, 500 for the horse
an thief, and 5000 for the dead Body of the
thief
Mark Twain has NO new books in hand.
Charles I. Congdon's "Rcminisces of a
Journalist" which are appearing weekly in
the New York Tribune, will be issued IN the
fall III a volume to be published by Messrs.
Heughten. Mifiia Il Co,
A farmer in Cayuga county was imprisoned
for refusing to answer the question of a cen
sUs enumera5or.
The moving machine threatens TO prevent
the propagation of the migratory quail, by
killing it in the nests.
marriages 81 divorced persons are becoming
more frequent in England.
Bismarck does not like the Freemasons.
and the latter fear official measures ayaiust
them in Germany, since the chancellor said
that cit Is easier to negotiate with the Jesults.
who are sensible people, than with the Free
masons, who outwlt the cleverest."
An Indiana farmer says that labor has not
been so scarce and hish-priced in s. years,
and instances the employment in his harvest
fields of two women at s. per day in proof
thereof.
DR.. Edward Eggleston has improved his
health by climbing the Alps with his daugh-
tiers and Prot. NorLhrup, of Geneva, son oi
Mr.. &. e.. Northrup, secretary OF the Board
of Education of Connecticut.
A suit for $25 900 has been brought against
the city of Augusta, Ca, for injuries to Il
child that had been sored by a COW runniug
loose IN the streets.
Many persons of information think OF
France as a country with no actually barbar-
Gus thing left in it-a land of villas, of gar
dens. of fine civilization. Yet in France
there are at least 100000 wolves, who kill
about 1900 men every year.
Three years ago, during a revival of the
temperance cause in Georgetown,Ky. ,over 300
men and boys signed the pledge. OF there
only one, a negro. still adheres to it.
The English Wesleyan district returns, not
including South Wales and the Shetland
Islands, shows a net decrease of $50 member.
The decrease is ascribed to commercial
distress, which has operated severed,
especially in Cornwall, where the falling Oft
is greatest.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-03
A CnfLD's FIRsT LETTER.

To write to papa, tits an enterprise bold
For liz fsirs.liks maiden scarcely seven years
And seel what excitement the purpose hath
In eyes that when gravest seem playing at
The light little figure surprised into rest
The smiles that will csme so demurely de-
The long pausing hand on the paper that lies
The sweet puzzled look in the pretty blue eyes.
It's a beautiful picture of childhood in calm,
One cheek swelling soft DER the white dimpled
Sunk deep in its crimson, and just the clear tip
or an ivory tooth on the full under lip.
How the smooth forehead knits! with her arm
1t were easier far than on paper to speak,;
We must loop up those rinslets; their rich fall
Would Blot out the story as fast as twas told.
And she meant to have made it in bed, but 1t
Sleep melted too soon all her thoughts into
But hush by that sudden expansion of brow,
Some fairy familiar has whispered it now.
How she labors exactly each letter to sign,
And lays down the pen to clap hands with de-
light
At last the small fingers have crspt to an end:
No statesman his letter 'twixt nations hath
penned
With more sense of it's serious Importance, and
few
In q spirit SO loving, so earnest and true.
She smiles at a feat so unwonted and grand
Draws Il very long breath, rubs the cramped lit
tie hand;
May we read it? Oh, yes-my sweet maiden,
may b.
One day you will write what one only must see.
g But no one must change it, No, truly, it
ought
keep the fresh bloom on each natural
thought.
Who would shake Off the dew to the rose leaf
that clings?-
the delicate dust from the butterfly's wings"
Is it surely a letter? Sc bashfully lies
Uncertainty vet ia those beautiful eyes,
And the parted lips coral is deepening in glow,
And the eager flush mounts to the forehead of
IT'S informal and slightly discursive, we fear;
u line without love, but the love is sincere.
Unchanged, papa sad he would have it depart.
Like a bright leaf dropped out of her innOceal
heart.
Great news of her garden. her lamb, and her
Of mamma, and of baby's last wonderful word;
With an ardent assurance-they neither can
play,
learn, nor be happy, while he is away,
Will he like it? Ay, Will he! what letter could
seem,
an angel indited. so charming to him:
should never be read by more critical eyes!
would for poor Ihymsters such FAVOR could
be
AS waits, my fair child, on thy letter and thee!
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Crow Convention.

James Hillman, a respectable and well-to-
10 farmer, says the louisville Miners Journal,
living between Orwigsburg and L%andingvllle,
is the authority for the following remarkable
story! Mr.. Hlllman has Oh his farm fifteen
acres of timber, which is Joined by two other
pieces of wOodla d of abou: the same size.
One morning during the early part of last
week Mr.. Humans attention was arrested by
large fOcks of crows, which came from the
south, and, as il by cumMon consent, settled
in the woods mentioned above. During the
ensuing three days the crows in the woods
were reinforced by new arrivals until several
Thousand were present, and the noise they
made attracted the attention of Leople for
miles around. Sentinel crows were posted
on the fence around the woods, and through
them the approach of a man or boy was COM
nunicated to the body of crows. Ths crows
remained in the patch of woods until Monday
morning, when they all left about the same
time, taking their course of flight in a north
westerly direction. They left the woods in
hocks containing two or three hundred each,
at intervals of five or ten minutes, and the
departure of one of these flocks was the sig,
nal for long and prolonged cawing on the part
of those remaining behind. They all depart
ed in the same direction, and the last flock
took to wing about an hour after the first
started. Since then there has not been
crow seen in the neighborhood. Mr.. Hill.
man says that during their stay in his woods
the crews did not commit any depreciation:
on the neighboring cornfields, and but few o.
them even ventured beyond the confines o.
the timber.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-03
THE SLOPE.

Wages of Virginia City teachers have been
reduced. and the halliday system extended.
A shor distance from Wadsworth, New, is
Il China ranch, where may frequently be seen
twO Cinnamon hitcheu up to a plow, Juggling
nd pulling away like oxen.
I'll Oregonian say Salmon has been
running very freely fog sevaral days. We
have heard Of the catch being as high as l2O
in some boats.
The "oldest inhabltant - of Los Angeles
county is Jose a Lucero, a native Mexican.
He presents d certificate of baptism which
shows him to be III years old, and he has
resided in California 80 years.
On the Columbia and Snake rivers, from
Portlaud, Or. to Lewiston, L. T., the survey
orS are now engaged in running a line for a
larrow-gauge, railroad between Lebanon and
Brownsville, and the werk of grading will
soon follow.
One of the census enumeratols who visited
Roberts Island, Cal, reports that it is i'm
possible to tell the color of the horses, the
mosquitoes cover them so thickly. Mosquito
netting is fastened about the rims of mems
hats ard tied closely around the throat, to
keep the mosquitoes from covering the face
and filling the eyes, nose and ears. Gangs of
men strike and refuse TO work, finding rest
neither at night or day.
The heat of Yale, b. G., has been excess
sive. the mercury standing from So TO 100
degrees in the shade; it is trying on the men
working on the railroad works, particularly
graders, and yet no case of sunstroke has oc-
Cured.
The SHuer State is still strenuously advo-
eating the annexation Of Utah to Nevada.
The Piute population of Nevada is 1906.
A Gridley, Butte county, dispatch says !:
The heat is oppressive here. Hands are
scarce, and harvesting machines are laying up
for want of help.
The Woodland Democrat SAYS: We learn,
on good authority, that the CHAMBERS in the
most virulent form has appeared among
horses and mules on the road leading to Aer-
rift Station from the locality Immediately
east of Willow Slough.
A large settlement of Norwesians have
taken possession of Wild Horse Creek, in
Umltilla county, and are all steady, industri-
us people.
Q 1t is estimated that over 10000 persons
now find steady employment on railroads in
Mexico, nearly nine tenths Of whom are ma
tive Mexicars.
In the annual regatta which took place at
Portland July 18th, the Wide Awake look
first money and and the flag; the Oresonian
second money, Fleetwing third and the Water
Lily fourth.
The Carson Valley Ne,rs has ceased publ
cation. 1t will be succeeded by the Genoa
Courier, a new paper, edited and owned by
B.. Carlisle.
East of Occidental, Sonoma county, apples
are about o%ne-fourth of a crop; pears nearly
a total failure; plums are a light crop, except
cages.
The population of Oregon will foot up
about $4,000.
Reno srasshoppers have eaten up the veg
etables and grain in some ranches in that
region, and are now tackling the fruit crop
One'man In that vicinity has lost $1,000 from
their ravages.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-03

Agrarian and agrarianism are terms contln-
uaily used in books as well as newspapers to
express the most radical democracy or COM
munism and are particularly associated with
the abolition OF property in land, or, at least,
q new distribution of it. The agrarian laws
passed by the ancient Romans were popularity
supposed-and the same notion was enter
tanned by many scholastic embody this idea
until within the last so or 90 years. The
French convention passed (1793) a law max
ing it a capital offence for any one to propose
any agrarian measure, meaning by it an equal
division OF the soil among all citizens. 1t
would have been singular, indeed, if the
Romans, by whom private property was
greatly respected, should nave favored any
such law. Heyne, Savigny, Niebuhr and
other German scholars first explained the real
nature of the agrarian laws, which haa no
reference to private, but only to public or
state lands. Is the extent and power of
Rome increased, more or less conquered ter
tiritory was gained by the state through con-
hscation, and all laws bearing upon its distri-
button were named agrarian. These laws
were various, and the reason why they were
so long regarded as an interference with private
rights, and why they so excited so much OPP
position at the time, was the use made of the
public domain while unappropriated. It was
the Roman practice to allow individuals to
occupy the public lands, and enjoy all benefits
sh. refrom, on condition of payingto the state
. 1.-THE of the produce as evidence of the pro-
~prietorship of the state ; and from this occu-
paney arose interminable complications and
trouble.
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Miss Nelson spent the Fourth of July at a
California retreat with a friend, and ordered a
fine lunch. The only walters on hand were
Cinnamon, whom the landlord did not wish
to force upon his guests. A young lady visi
tor at the hotel volunteered as waitress with
cut being known to Miss Nelson, who gave
her a fee Of a dollar and thanked her. She
was the daughter of the wsalthiest publisher
in California, and liked the fun.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-03
THE rEIax. Of TIME.
ny ALBERT pIKE.I

The spring has less of brightness
Every year:
And the snow a ghastlier whitenesS
Every year;
Nor do summer flowers quicken,
Nor autumn fruitage 1hioken,
As once they did, for they sicken
Every year.
1t is growing darker, colder,
Every year;
As the heart and soul grow older,
Every year;
care not for dancing,
Or for eyes with passion slancing,
Love is less and less enhancing,
Every year.
OF the loves and sorrows blended,
Every rear;
OF the charms Of friendship ended,
Every year;
OF the ties that still might bind me.
Until Time to Death resign me,
Ny infirmities remind me,
Every year.
All! how sad to look before us,
Every year;
While the cloud grows darker o'er us,
Every year.
When the blossoms are faded,
That to bloom we might have aided.
Aifo q = al lttllttS
Every year..
To the past go more dead faces,
Every year;
AS the loved leave vacant places,
Every year;
Every where the sad eyes meet us.
In the coming dusk they greet us.
And 10 come to them entreat us.
Every year.
You are growing old" they tell US
Every year;
:" Y o are aiOne," they tell us
Every year;
"You al win no new affection,
You nave only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and detection,
Every year"
Yes! the shores of life are shifting
Every year;
And we are seward drifting
Every year,
Old places changing fret us,
The living more forget us,
There are fewer to regret us
Every year.
But the truer life draws higher
Every year;
And its morning star climbs higher
Every year;
Earth'S hold on us grows slightcr.
And the heavy burden lighter,
And the dawn immortal brighter
Every year.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-03

At Walla Walla, W. T., whole field. of
standing grain are being sold for from So to
So per acre. Some OF it has recently been
attacked by g~rasshoppers, and some fell a
prey to the scorching heat, but such gram, II
cut in time, will make excellent hay.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
THE ENGLISH LANG UAGE.

A pretty deer is dear to me
A hare with downy hair
/ love hart with all my heart,
But barely bear a bear.
IT'S plain that no one takes plane
To have pair of pairs;
A rake, though, often takes rake
To :ear away the tares.
All rays raise thyme, time RACES all;
And, through the whole, hole wears.
A writ, in writing Fright" may write
1t wright" and still be wrong
For "write" and "rite" are neither Fright, :"
And don't to write belong.
Beer often brings bier to man,
Coughing coffin brings,
And too much ale will make us all,
As well as other things.
The person lies who says he lies
When he is but reclining;
And, when consumptive folks decline,
They all decline declining.
A quail don't quail before storm
A bough will bow before it
We cannot rein the rain at all
No earthly powers reign Ger it.
The dyer dyes awhile, then dies;
To dye he's always trying,
Until upon his dying-bed
He thinks no more of dyeing.
A son of Mars mars many sun;
All deys must have their days,
And every knight should pray each night
To Him who weighs his ways.
IT'S meet that man should mete out meat
To feed misfortune's son;
The fair should fare on love alone,
Else one cannot be won.
A lass, alas is something false;
OF faults maid is made;
Her waist is but barren waste
Though stayed, she is not staid. [shoots
The springs spring forth in spring, and
Shoot forward one and all
Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves
The leaves to fall in fall
I would story here commence,
But you might find it stale;
So let's suppose that we have reached
The tail end of our tale.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
HANCOCKS RECORD.

We have watched our Democratic
exchanges and carefully searched for
the principles that General Hancock
carries in his saddle valise The re-
suit of our search can be summoned up
as follows:
On the subject of the currency, he is
a magnificent looking fellow.
On the subject of the tariff he is a
splendid soldier.
On the subject of free trade he wears
brilliant uniform.
On the subject of river and harbor
improvements, he makes grand ap-
pearance on horseback.
On State rights he appears well in
his epaulets and brass buttons.
On civil service reform he has a fine
military bearing.
On the so-called reform in the admin
istration of the government he is a
modern Murat.
On the Indian question, he is the
finest-looking Indian fighter the coun-
try ever produced, Notwithstanding
that for every Indian he killed it cost
the government 81 100000.
On the subject of hanging Mrs. Sur
ratt he hung Ter in soldier-like man.
ner, but he would rather nothing be
said about it.
On the Southern question he behav-
ed like a gallant soldier, and made him.
self popular with every Ku-Klux,
White-liner, bulldozer and ballot-box
stuffer.
On the subject of our foreign rela-
tions he wears splendid mustache.
On the school question he is is hand
some looking man.
On all other questions of public poll
cy he has martial bearing
In some respects he resembles JEFF
Davis, the only difference being that
he wears a corset, while jeff wore
petticoat.
The Butler coal company made an
unsuccessful effort to purchase large
amounts of carloads at Carbondale last
week owing to defective titles.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

BUTLER, KARNs CITY AND PARKER RAILROAD
(Butler Time)
Trains leave Butler for st. Joe, Millerstown,
Karns City, Petroia, Parker, ETC., at z - a. In =,
and 2.05 and 7.20 p. m. See below Tor con
nections with A. v X. X.
Trains arrive at Butler from the above named
points Mt 7l5 a. m, and .55 and 6s55 p: m
The l55 train connects wish train on the west
Penn road through to Pittsburgh
sHEEANGo AND ALLEGHENY RAILROAD.
Trains leave billiards. Mill, Butter county,
for uarrisylle, Grcenville, etc., at 7.+O a. m.
and 2.20 and 2.20 p. m.
Stages leare Petrolia at $50 a. m for 7.4o
train. and at loco a. m for 1920 train.
, Return stages leave Hilliard on arrival OF
trains at 1927 a. IN. and l.50 p. m.
Stage leaves Martinsburg at $50 for l2.3O
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Trains leave Butler (Butler or Pittsburgh Time.)
Market at sos a. M, goes through TO Al!e-
ghcny, arriving at 9.01 o. m. This train con-
Iects at Freeport with Frecport Accommoda-
ton, which arrives at Allegheny at $50 a. H.,
railroad time.
Express at 72l a. m, connecting at Butler
Junction, without change of cars, at SO win
Exp.ess west, arriving in Allegheny at 9.5S
A. IN and Express east arriving at Bialrsyiile
at / 90 a. m. railroad time.
Mail at 2.36 p. M, connecting at Butler juno
tionwithout change of cars, with Express wesi,
arriving in Allegheny at $50 p m, and Ex-
press east arriving at Blairsviile Intersection
at Gl0 p. IN. railroad time, which connects with
Philadelphia express cast, when on tine.
The q 81 Il. m train connects at BlalrsvIlie
at L .05 a. IN. with the Mail east and the $50
II. m. train at Csc with the Philadelphia Ex-
press east.
Trains arrive at Butler on West Penn X. X. at
g5l a. M, S 06 and 7.20 p M, Butler lime The
95l aud SOC trains connect with trains on
the Butler & Parker X. r. Sun 'ay train arrives
at BulIe- at ILL a. m, connecting with train
for Parker.
Main Line.
Through trains leave Pittsburgh for the East
at 2.56 and S26 a. IN. and l2 81, 4.21 and SOC p.
H. arriving at Philadelphia at $40 and 7.2O
T.. IN aud 300, TO- and 7.40 a. M; at Baltimore
about the same tsme at New York three hours
later. ard at Washington about one and half
hours later
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
WINKING PHOTOGRAPHS.

Winking photographs are said to
be produced in the following manner !:
One negative is taken with the sitter's
eyes open; another without change of
position, with the eyes shut The
two negatives are printed on opposite
sides of the paper, registering, ex-
actly. Held before Pickering lamp,
or other variable source of light, the
combined photographs show rapid al
formations of closed and open eyes, the
effect being that of rapid winging.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
Forty Dollars Reward.
HORSE STOLEN.

On Tuesday night, April 9th, there was
stolen from the premises of the subscriber,
living in Penn township, Butler county, Pa, a
dark bay horse, six years old, weighs between
300 and 400 pounds, small star on the fore
head, shoulders somewhat sore from the wear
of the collar. A reward of $40 will be paid for
information that will lead to the recovery of
the horse. Harry OSBORN,
my5-3t. Glade Mills, p. o. Butler Co. Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
CONGRESSIONAL CONFERENCE.

Proceedings Of the Republican Con-
ference for the 26h Pennsylvania
Congressional District, held
at Mercer, Pa, July 6 and
I, aoih a statement Of the
causes aUhich led to
ats organization.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
JULIA. .'78-1y)

HDdNMO IS stops, set Reeds, 2 Knee
UAQANO swells, Stool Book, only
$3.50. Stop Organ. Stool, Book, only S59.75
Pianos, Stool, Cover, Book, $3.50 to 1856. Illus
trated catalogue free. Address
ap14-3m W. G. BUNNELL, Lewistown, Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
lydia E. Pinkham,s Vegetable Compound
Notice TO Tax Collectors.

The Commissioners hereby give notice that
taxes of 1879 must be paid in Immediately, as
the books for 1880 have been put in the hands
of the collectors. The County needs the money
and it must be paid. je16:3w
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21
Stock Speculation and Investment.

Operations on Margin or by Privileges. Spe-
cial busint ss in Mining Stocks. Full particulars
on application. JAMES BROWN, Dealer in
Stocks and Bonds, Ga G6 Broadway, New York.
marl7-9m
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-21

One square, one insertion, IL each su5se-
quent insertion, so cents. Yearly advertisement 9
exceeding one-fourth of column, s5 per inch.
Figure work double these rates. additional
charges where weekly or monthly changes are
made. Local advertisements 10 centA Per line
for firFt insertion, aud cents per line for each
additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pub
lshod free Of charge. Obituary notices charged
as advertsements, and payable when handed in
Auditors Notices "A Executors and Admins
traitors Notices. 80 each; Estray, Canton anc
Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines,
each.
From the fact that the CITIZEN is the oldest
established and most extensively circulated Re
publican newspaper in Butler county Ca RepuE
lcan county) it must be apparent to business
men that it is the medium they should use in
advertising their business.