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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-01
THE GREAT
RERLINGTON ROTTE,

BCRLINGTON ROUTE,
49, No other line runs Tnree Through Pas
niger Trains Daily between Chicago. Des
ms, CGuncil Bluffs, Omaha, Lincoln, st.
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w.. Colorado. Wyoming. Montana, Ne
" Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon and
Ei
gue Shortest. Speedicst and Most Comforta-
.s Route via Hannibal TO Fort Scott, Denison,
Fig las. Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Calves
and all points IL Texas
TIE unec;ualcd inducements offered by this
zinc to Travellers and Tourists, arc as follows:
rhe celebrated Pullman 0G-wheeD Palace
sleeping Cars. run only on this Line, g., H. q
}. Palace Drawing-Iloom Cars. with Horizons
Reclining Chains. No extra charge for Seats
i Reclinug Chairs. The famous C.. j. Q.
Palace Dining Cars. Gorgeous Smoking Cars
fitted with Elegant Hiph-Backed Rattan Re
volving Chairs for the exclusive use OF first
class plsSonaoEl,
Steel Track and Superior Equipment, COM
bined with their Great Through Car Arrange
ment makes this above all others, the favorite
Route to the South, Southwest, and the Far
West.
Try it. and you will find travelling luxury
instead of discomfort.
Through Tickets via this Celebrated Line
for sale at all Offices In the United states ana
Canada.
All information about Rates OF Fare. Sleep
ing Car ACCOMMODATIONS, Time Tables, & g.
will be cheerfuliy given, and will send IRE
any address an elegant County Mdp Of Tn
States, in cClors, by applying u
j. O. A. BEAN, Gems Eastern Age
sos Washington st. Boston =
and JlT broadway, New Ie
IT,. POTTER. Gen Manaper. hicaa
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General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-01
PHYSICIANS.
DENTISTS.
DBNTISTR Y +.
AN ONLY DAUGHTER CUR.
ED OF CONSUMPTION.

when death was nouriy. expected, all remedies
iug with the many herbs OF Calcutta, he accidcnt-
ally made II preparation which cured his oniv enid
OF CONSUMPTION. His child Is now in TINS coan-
try and cnloying the best OF health He has
proved TO the world that CONSUMPTION can DO
positively and permanently cured. The now gives
this Recipe free, only asking two tnree-cent
STAMPS 20 pay expenses. This Herb also cur0s
Night sweats, Nausea at the stomach, and WIN
break up o fresh cold IN twenty-iour nonnls a.
dress Craddock g. Co.. 1o32 Race street, fhuadel-
phia naming this paper.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-01
Time of Holding Courts.

The several Courts OF the county Of Butler
commence on the frst Monday Of March, June,
September and December, and continue two
weeks, or 30 long as necessary to dispose Of the
business. No causes are put down for trial or
traverse jurors summoned for the FIRST week Of
the several terms.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-01
An alarmin spread or Small
POx.

The most potent remedy to stop the
spread Of this great scourge is Darbys
Proph, Tactic Fluid, which is ready for
use ct I'll times. Persons are liable at
sny moment to catch the disease, and
should &c. the Fluid at once and use it
freely about, ss places cannot be infect
ed where the Fluid il used. Persons
attending the sick or in other ways ex-
posed to the disease will be protected
by its free use.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-01

A Michigan journal relatest the follow.
ing: Amos James, Esq. proprietor OF
the Huron House, Port Huron. Mich,
suffered SO badly with Rheumatism
that be was unable toraise bis arm for
three months. Five bottles OF st. Jacobs
Oil cured him entirely.
The present annual yield of flaxseed
in the United States is estimated at
$500. 900 bushels, and of the fibre at
sc. .OOO, 900 pounds. The Prairie Farm
err thinks the estimate of seed under
rather than over the actual yield, and
predicts that fax will be sown more
extensively next spring than ever before.
To the hositating Peruna gives cour-
age.
DR. Agncw says that under ordinary
circumstances he would have charged
from $3.50 to $1,000 visit while attend
ing President Garfield. That settles
it. When we get fatally sick we shall
be obliged to shuttle of this mortal coil
without the aid of DR.. Agnew. 1t
would be cheaper-Norristoacn Her.
aid
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-01
NOTICE TO FARMERS.

Large number of Farms for sale OF exchange
It low prices and easy payments. Se"erni
mall farms from 81 To 80 acres wanted Also,
oans furnished to farmers having Improved
farms on long time and at low rates. Address
WI KfsKADDEN, Freeport, Pa,
Or call On Office days Every Monday at
'rceport. Every Tuesday at No. 40, Fourth
Avenue, Pittsburgh.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
One View of it.

Apropos of the fight now going on
among the Texas Republicans, the fol-
lowing extract from letter from Wash
iugton to the Dallas Times may prove
interesting reading to Austin readers
AS A. B. Norton is the Cerberus in
Texas, most opposed TO an Independ-
ent movement, and as the old man did
good service in the last presidential
canvass by his florid speeches in Indiana,
he must be thrown sop, and the COVER
norship of one of the territories remote
from Texas, will be rendered Unlikely
Utah, as Governor Murray, by his lack
of policy on the polYgamy ques-
tion, has weakened his usefulness,
or else Wyoming or Dakota. E. J.
Davis will be sent as minister to Mexico,
he having already secured that morceau
as soon as place can be made for Pit
kin, of Louisiana, who also wants 10
revel in the halls of the MonteZumas.
Stillwell H. Russell will be given place
in the postofice department at Washing
ton-one of the auditorships, in all
probability. Umbdenstock and Sinclair,
the revenue collectors, will have to go,
as they are considered Instructions to
the new reconstructions, and all Repub
licans in Texas other than the three
above named will have , content them
selves with minor positions until ''the
solid south" is broken.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
Republican Corruption and the
Party of the Future.

The Republican politicians must
give the people very little credit
for observation and reflection if
they suppose that the corruption
of the government under Repub-
llcan rule has escaped popular no.
tice and condemnation. From the
time of Grant and the whisky
ring-to go no farther back into
history-the Republican party has
begun at the top in tie white
house, and premeated every depart
ment of the government and every
section of the party. Fraud, which
poor Charles Francis Adams
declared to be first triumphant
in American history in the.case
of Hayes, is so firmly established in
the Republican party that the Re-
publican politicians consider it a
perfectly legitimate factor of sue
cess.
There was time in the politics of
this country when corruption, if it
existed in party, was exposed, de-
nounced, apOlogized for and re-
moved as quickly as possible. The
Republicans have adopted a different
system. They appear to be proud
of their corruption. They bring it
prominently forward in their con-
vcntions and nominate it for the
presidency. They display 1t openly
in congress and give 1t control OF
important committees. They toast
it at Delmonico dinners and laugh
at it as a good joke in campaign
speeches. The rascals condemned
under one administration are reap
pointed to Office under the next ad-
ministration. The Republicans
seem to argue that, because the
people have condoned their crimes
at the polls, therefore the same
crimes, or even worse ones, may be
repeated with impunity.
This is fatal mistake. The peo-
pie did not submit to the illegal
counting in of Hayes, and connive
at the election of Garfield, because
they knew that these men were as
corrupt as Grant, but because they
hoped for reform. Now it is evident
that there can be no real reform ac-
complished by the Republican
party. Things have gone on from
bad to worse; they now go on
from worse to worst. The patience
of the people is exhausted,
and yet, when they look to the
Democratic party for relief they see
that grand old organization in the
hands of the wreckers and plunder-
ers. What, then, is to be done The
government is in danger if another
term of corruption is to be per-
mitted. The Republicans must be
turned out of Office at the next cleo
tions. But by whom? By what re-
form party? Will the Democracy
rise to the occasion, unite upon
national issues and fulfill the will of
the people, or must new party be
created to accomplish the work of
reform? That is the question of the
hour, and, in all parts of the country,
it is being anxiously and eagerly de-
hntnd
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
CURRENT NOTES.

Every member of the present leg
islature of Alabama is said to belong
TO the Democratic party.
Gen. D. I'll. Hill, the noted Confed-
crate leader, has resigned the presi-
dency of the Arkansas industrial
university.
The San Francisco papers advise
an extensive system of boycotting
as a means of driving the Chinese
already there out of the country.
The daughter of the late Commo-
dore Maury, who assisted him in the
compilation of his well-known geo.
graphical series, is school teacher
in Richmond.
There was more oleomargarine
than butter exported from the
United States in 1881, the figures
standing at 26,000,0O0 to q, 100000
of pounds respectively.
Two hundred and fifty-two cities
and towns i'll Massachusetts have
voted against license and seventy
three in its favor. In two the vote
was & tie. The total number of
votes against license was $4,000, in
favor $4,000.
Miss Jean Armour Burns, great
granddaughter of the Scotch poet,
is sixteen or seventeen years old,
and bears a striking resemblance to
her great ancestor. She and her
mother earn scanty living by dust
ing the pews of Dumfries church.
A consignment of ninety-four
bales of raw silk arrived in New
York OH Monday from Hong Kong,
but when opened were found to con-
tain nothing but sea-weed and
grass. The shippers were the noto-
rious Vogel Bros, who had been
paid $4,000, the value OF the raw
silk.
Victo Hugo often has letters ad-
dressed to him by poets who have
favored him with copies of their
works. His invariable form of ac-
acknowledgement ran as follows: MAN
of geniusl You are q far greater
poet than |. Persevere. Your Vic
tor Hugo embraces you without
envyw
Mrs. Debley Kimball, of Syracuse,
pretty middle-aged widow, on
Wednesday married a Hebrew
named Bennett Liebermann, and
embraced the Jewish faith. She
was formally received into the syn
agogue with solemn rites and GER
emonies, which was an unusual oc-
currence.
Each compartment of the trains
now running on the Eastern rail-
road, between Paris and Gretz,
France, is lighted by an electric
light, aud the whole train is pro-
vided with electric brakes, so con-
structed that the engineer can stop
the train instantly by simply touch
ing button.
London workmen were busy a
fortnight ago leveling one of the
last fragments of the Roman wall
that now remains in that city. The
mortar was found to be so hard and
stroag that the men with difficulty
broke it up. This wall was. built
long before the Norman conquest,
and its splendid strength after q
thousand years may well be cited
for the benefit of the master"
builders of the present time.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04

On motion of Senator Maxey. a
resolution was referred to the SEN
ate judiciary committee, on April
IA, instructing said committee to in
quire and report, by bill or other
wise, whether or not retired United
States army officer can lawfully hold
a. civil office under the government
of the United States. The report
was made on the eighteenth, and it
says:
There is nothing in the constitu-
ton touching the question embraced
by the resolution.
In the revised statutes (section
1929 any officer of the army on the
active list is prohibited from hold
ing any civil office, whether by elec-
ton or appointment, and by the
same law, if any army officer on the
active list accepts or exercises tie
functions of civil Office, he shall
thereby cease to be an army officer,
and his commission as such shall be
thereby vacated.
This is limited to the active, and
would clearly imply that an army of
ficer on the retired list could be q
civil officer.
The next section (1223) provides
expressly that any officer OF
the army, who accepts or
holds any appointment in the
diplomatic or consular service of the
government shall be considered as
having resigned his place in the
army, and it shall be filled as va
cancy. But this disqualification in
the diplomatic or consular service
was virtually repealed by the act of
March 8, 1875, as follows: "And
every such officer now borne on the
retired list shall be continued there
on, Notwithstanding the provisions
of section 2, chapter SO, act of March
8, 1868" and also, "And be it also
provided, that no retired officer
shall be affected by this act who has
been retired or may hereafter be re-
tired on the rank held by him at the
time of his retirement REV. STAT,
suppl, ch. 178, p. 1851
Comparing the different statutes
on the subject, the committee an
swer the question in The affirmative.
This report, it appears, bears di-
rectly ON the tenure of Colonel De
Gress as the Austin postmaster, as
well as settling a great many other
cases in which the issue has been
made.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04

lima penitentiary for placing a large
stone in a cotton bale. Old cotton
shippers in New York testify that
the losses by the tricks have been
greatly reduced in the last twenty
five years. Cotton bales frequently
contain sand, but it is not packed
in them by the planter; it is blown
into the bolls in stormy weather or
il comes from contact with the soil
when the stalks are blown down.
There was an unusually large pro-
portion of sandy or inferior cotton
in the crop of 1880 81, which the
planters were compelled to sell at
the ruinously low price of three to
seven cents per pound, and which
was put on the market only for
what il was worth. 1t is very de-
sirable that cotton should be picked,
giuned and sent to market as free
from sand and dust as possible, and
it is to the interest of planters that
they should use the best methods
for putting it IN this condition but
the New York exchange repels the
intimation that cotton is fraudu-
lently packed by those who raise it
IN the south.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
Boston,s Electric Light swindIe.

BosToN.-The Herald will say in
the morning, as an instance of the
way stock is handled by some MEM
bers of the American Electric Light
company of Massachusetts,, that j.
NJ. Fox, named in the charter as one
of the corporators, "swapped" fif-
teen shares (par value $100) for a
hat-rack valued at 800. This is
told on authority Of the merchant
with whom the trade was made, and
who states that he sold stock for
$500. The same paper will print a
letter from Professor Thompson, of
New Britain, Connecticut, who has
been mentioned as the director OF
the new illuminating company
formed by E. III. Golf and others, in
which he states that he has no con-
nection whate or with the company.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04

Senator Cameron is said to have
an ambition to dictate who shall be
postmaster at Wilmington, Della
ware.
AT the session of the Ohio legisla-
ture just closed nearly 800 bills were
introduced and only about 100 gem
eral laws were enacted.
The contest Tor the Republican
nomination for governor of Massa
chusetts is becoming quite spirited.
The list of candidates comprises
Speaker Moves, Congressman Crapo
and Rice, ex-Mayor Pierce, Collector
Beard, Senate President Bishop and
DR.. Loring. Candidates on the
Democratic side appear TO be await
ing the pleasure of General Butler.
A Washington letter makes tine
rather improbable statement that
Senator Wade Hampton suggested
the writing OF Attorney-General
Brewster's letter urging the trial of
the election offenders in South Car
DINA, his object being to check the
Independent movement by incensing
the people.
General Buffers estimate of the
earnings of the Chinese in Califor-
mia runs counter to that of Edward
Cunningham, of California, who has
made a close study of the matter.
He estimates that the average China
man earns $50 = month gross, of
which he expends $15 for food and
clothing, while he does work worth
at least $40. AT this rate, if he
leaves at the end of three years, he
takes away $3.50, leaving 5000
which would never have existed
but for his presence.
Governor Foster in his speech be-
fore the conference of Ohio Repub-
licans, held in Columbus last week,
declared that the party need not
fear to meet the Democracy on the
issue of free whisky. He thought
that the Pond bill could be amend
ed profitably, but, said he, "if the
issue be made, and this liquor legis-
latiOn be attacked, as it is asserted
it will be, the result cannot be
doubtful. The people of Ohio are
liberty and order-loving people.
They will regard this legislation as
a step in the right direction, and L
predict that even a Democratic leg
islature will rot dare 10 repeal it"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
A New Musical instrument.

The London Times describes re-
cent trial of a new musical instru-
meut invented by Mr.. Bailie Hamil-
ton, which resembles in shape and
in the means of producing sound the
harmOnium or cabinet organ. There
is, however, one important differ
ence. Mr.. Hamilton employs what
is technically known as "free reeds," !"
but instead of acting upon them
singly, he divides them into groups
of three connected by a bridge,
which so modifies their individual
sounds as to emit single note of
great sonorous beauty and power.
10 each group of reeds belongs a
which the air passes much as the
breath in singing passes through
the throat, the intention being to
produce a quality of tone re-
sembling the human voice. In
this attempt Mr.. Hamilton has been
remarkably successful by means en-
tirely different from those employed
in the "vox humana" stops of Or
dinary organs. The timbre of the
new invention varies somewhat be-
tween the voice and the softer wind
instruments, such as French horn,
clarionet, ETC.. partaking OF the quail
tiles of both, the beauty of the sus-
tanned notes being, indeed, remark
able. The chief defect of the In
strument is its slowness of speech,
which makes the execution of rapid
DassaUeS a matter of extreme diff
Guilty, if not impossibility. This
drawback, however, does not appear
to be structural, and may, no doubt,
be remedied in subsequent speci-
mems,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04

SENATOR MCPHERSON, of New
Jersey, has introduced bill in the
senate providing for the construc-
ton of new railroad from New
Jersey, which, commercially speak
ing, means New York, to the Pacific
coast. The company which asks
this act of incorporation does not
petition for subsidy or a land
grant. 1t simply requests the right
of way, alleging that it has Ameri-
can and foreign capital amounting
to one hundred and fifty million dol
lars behind 1t. Mr.. Mcpherson ac-
companied the introduction of the
bill with au explanation. in which
he sought to relieve himself of all
responsibility, legislative or other
wise, on the subject.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
REPLIES.

To the Editors Of the STATESMAN
The educational committee of the
Press association, in their report,
published in the Galveston NeIoS of
the Goth instant, seem to have ar
rived at the conclusion that the
school interests of the state would
be better subserved by vesting the
management and direction of the
affairs of public education in a state
superintendent than in the. board of
education.
L do not object to this conclusion,
for, as is well known, l have long
entertained this opinion.
do object, however, TO the gra-
tuitous insult offered to the Office
which have the honor to hold.
Said committee, in arguing the
propriety of change, state
that his excellency the COVER
nor and the honorable comptroller
are so much engaged with the
arduous duties of their respective
offices that they cannot give the
time aud thought to the educa-
tional interests which their impor-
tance demands.
They also very UNNECESSARILY
state that the secretary of state is
mere clerk to the governor. This
statement is as false as it was un-
called Tor. Again they say that the
secretary of the board is rather a
clerk of the governor than of the
board. The inference is clear that
they would have the people believe
that the governor is the board, and
that because the secretary of state
is an appointed officer, there
fore he belongs body and soul
to the governor and dare
not exercise in an honest, manly
way the franchise which the law
gives him on said board.
This is as unjnst to the governor
as it it is insulting to myself.
Governor Roberts has never
sought, directly or indirectly, to con-
troll my vote OH any question COM
ing before that board, and the re-
cord will bear me out in the state
ment that my honest convictions
have always been openly expressed.
In conclusion, will say that the
board of education has worked
honestly and faithfully to make the
free school system a success. If
they have failed, the fault is in the
constitution and the law and not in
the board. T. III. BOWMAN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04
Judge Lynch i'm Minnesota.

Boston, MASS, April ga
special to the Herald from st. Paul,
Mimi, reports the lynching by a
mob, at Minneapolis, at O'clock
this morning, of man who gave the
name of Frank McManus, and who
was in Jail on the charge of rape
upon the four-year-old daughter of
j. p. Spear, a prominent citizen of
Minneapolis. At o'clock the mob,
numbering about fifty, battered
down the Jail door, seized the sheriff,
and took out the man who was
supposed to be the one wanted and
marched him to Spears house,
where he was fully identified. He
was then hanged to an old oak tree
and left there. He showed no signs
of fear, and said his right name was
Frank Crowley and his home Bos-
ton. He confessed his crime, and
said he was drunk.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-04

THE st. Louis Republican, calls at
tention to the fact that last Sunday
was the first day for the enforce
ment of the new saloon law in
Ohio, and the most instructive COM
mentary on it is the statement that
in Cincinnati "about one-half the
drinking places were open all day
and did big business" In some
instances saloons had the appear
ance of being closed, but "the doors
were not locked and those who
entered were served to whatever
they wanted" Several hundred
Offenders have been informed
against and will be brought to trial.
The policy of the defence will be to
make the trials as tedious and
troublesome as possible, and to this
end they will demand a jury in each
case, and if the virdict is against
them, will appeal the case to a
higher court. Its opponents predict
that after one or two unsatisfactory
attempts to enforce the measure. it
will be allowed to fall into disuse,
and open and undisturbed liquor
selling become again the order of
uzhe dav.