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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
An insufficient atonement far

An insufficient atonement for q
singular maladministration of Justice
has been made bv the pardon of William
Pendegrast, of Buffalo. lie was accus-
ed of an attempt to pass . counterfeit
dollar, and IAN expert of twenty-five
years standing swore that the coin was
bad counterfeit" So poor Pender-
grast went to the Auburn penitentiary
for year. After he was imprisoned
it seems to have occurred to some one
that it would be well to ascertain
definitely in regard to the coin, and it
was sent to Chief Brooks, of the secret
service at Washington. who discovered
that the coin was genuine. So the
President has issued pardon for
Pendergrast on account of q crime Of
which he is innocent 1t il now in
order for Mr.. Pendergrast to reason for
briee space with "the expert of twenty
five years. standing" as well as to
secure damages for false Imprisonment.
A ludicrous incident recently took
place in Liverpool. There are two
brothers who parted many years ago
when boys, one of them going to
America to seek his fortune and the
other remaining in Liverpool to make
it. They have both been eminently
successful in this respect. and not long
ago the brother in America determined
to visit the brother in England. The
time of the visit was settled by corres-
pondence, and the American set sail.
The Englishman is notorious wag,
and arranged that an acquaintance
should meet the American as his bro
ther and conduct him to the hotel.
The American, who is also great
wag, on the trip decided to play exact
ly the same joke on his brother, asking
an acquaintance whom he had met on
the ship to personate him for few
hours. The acquaintance entered into
the spirit of the joke, and when the
vessel arrived at Liverpool was found
by the personater of the English broth
er and driven to the hotel. The real
American brother followed more leis-
urely, chuckling over bis joke. In the
meanwhile the English brother had
also gone to the hotel, bursting with
nerriment over bis joke. 1t happened
that the two real brothers met in the
lobby of the hotel, and, though they
had been parted so many years, they
knew each other. At first with blank
they greeted each other;
and then, as they rs they explained
their mutual jokes, laughed long and
heartily. But the climax was yet to
be reached An explanation in regard
TO the gentlemen who had personated
them, and who were now, as they i'm
agined, playing huge joke on each
other, showed that they also were
brothers who had been separated from
but who did not know each
other when they met. The first pair
Of brothers hurried up to their parlor,
and after the situation had been ex-
planned all around, the comedy Of
errors was ended by an old-fashioned
English dinner.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
A Pearl Divers Experience.

! 81 was once diver-not a wreckel
but pearl Overland hard business
it was" recently obse- red the Captain
of Spanish brig to the reporter of the
California Times" 1--WE worked of
the Mexican and Panama coasts, prip.
cipalIy on the Pacific side. Some,
times we worked alone, but generally
on shares, and sometimes for paw.
We went to the grounds in small sail
ing vessels; then we took to small
boats and covered as much ground as
as possible. Each man had basket,
a weight and a knife. For sharks
Yes; but it is poor defense, for it is
almost impossible to swing the arm
with any force under water. The best
weapon is short spear. " hen YOU
reach the ground you strip, put your
feet into big sinker, take basket that
has rope for hosting, drop over and
soon find yourself at the bottom Then
your business is to knock off as many
oysters as you can and pile them into
the basket before you lose your wind
1t is @ terrible strain, but | could
stand it in those days for six minutes,
and | have known some men wLo could
stay down ten; but it is sure death
in the long run. If the ground is well
stocked you can get twenty or more
shells, but it is all luck. When the
basket is full it is hauled up, and after
you come up for your winG down you
go again, the sink being hauled up
with small cord for that purpose. 1t
was on one of these occasions that |
ran afoul the animal that gave me
lasting fright You will smile when |
say it was only star-fsh, but that it
really was. | went down sixty feet
with rush, and, landing on the edge
of big branch of coral, swung off into
kind of basin. The basket went
ahead of me, and as | swung off to
reach the bottom, something seemed to
spring up all around me, and | was in
the arms of some kind of monster
that coiled about my body, arms and
legs. L tried to scream, forgetting
that was in the water, and lost my
wind. 1t was just as if the plant had
sprouted under me and then thrown
its vines and tendrils about me- There
were thousands of them, coiling and
writhing, and | thought had landed
in nest of sea snakes. I gave the
signal as soon as | could, and made a
break upward, part of the creature
clinging to me, while the rest, | could
see was dropping to pieces. They
hauled me into the boat as soon as |
reached the surface, and pulled the
main part of the animal from me. 1t
was oval, about three feet across, and
the five arms seemed to divide into
thousands of Others | probably land
ed on the top of that one, which at the
time was the largest | had ever seen.
[ afterward saw the body of one that
had been washed ashore on the 18th
mus that must have had a spread of
thirty-live feet. Their power of grasp
ing is considerable, but touch them in
a Ger ain way and they throw off
their arms in a regular shower and are
soon reduced to an oval body.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
NO. II

BY the explosion of powder mill
near San Francisco recently, thirty
men, mostly Chinese, were killed.
The most valuable result of all edu-
tion is the ability to make yourself do
the thing you have to do when it ought
to be done, whether you like to do it
or not.
The explosions of coal oil lamps Gil.
ed with non'explosive ~ oil still goea
on, burning up women and children.
A coal oil lamp in a house is con-
stant danger.
A little girl in Arkansas, according
to dispatches, has been found with
three tongues. If that girl ever gets
married-but why dwell on such hor-
rible anticipations.
The Hartford Steam Company talk
of making gas for heating purposes,
and will not only use the gas for heat
ing their own boilers, but will let the
public have it for cooking purposes.
The ice factories at New Orleans
practice the fancy of freezing certain OBJ
jects in blocks of crystal ice. The red
snapper of the Gulf of Mexico, q bril-
liantly scarlet fish, is one of the iccly
imprisoned objects, and flowers, singly
or in bouquets. are another. The ef-,
feet is magnificent.
Having been troubled with a verv
bad cough for about two years and
having tried almost every cough mix
ture that was ever made. / have found
none that has given me such great re-
lief as DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and I
earnestly recommend it to all afflicted.
BENZ. T. DUGGAN, IA Park Pl., N. Y.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31

What a good natured people the
Americans are, to be sure. We enjoy
! fearful railroad accidents to such an ex-
tent that we may be said to have q
morbid appetite for them, and such is
the enterprise of our railroad officials
that the supply seems to be quite equal
to the demand. We sometimes change
the awful programme of death by a
hotel fire, and although we indulge in
a shudder or two of horror we don't
mean anything by it, and we do not in
tend to remedy the increasing evil.
The Milwaukee fire was terrible
disaster, but we shall forget all about
it in ten days, and nine out of ten of
us when travelling would just as lief
put up in that kind of lumber yard as
in the most iire-proof hotel. The idea
of danger does nor occur to us until we
hear the cry of "Fire !" and smell the
smoke on the story below. Cremation
is good thing, but it ought not to
begin too soon There are numbers of
buildings in this city which are posi-
lively aching to get afre, and which
will have their highest anticipations
satisfied whenever loose match shall
drop into the right corner but do our
officials exhibit any alarm? Oh, no
They take an impregnable position on
the fact that free born American citi-
zen can do as he pleases, and be pro-
tected in it by the law, provided he
can pay for the luxury. So we sleep at
night on a mattress of gunpowder and
live as long as we can under the cir
cumstances. Those who get killed or
burned cannot say anything about it,
and the rest Of us who did not happen
to get killed or burned that time are so
thankful for our escape that we have
nothing to say. So the pine wood still
burns and the tunnel is still unlighted.
AT Griebs. A handsome line of
Gold Spectacles for presents.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
THE LOST CIMBRIA.
Captain Cuttill, Of the Sultan,
Tells a Straight Story.

HAMBURG, January 24.-All the
boats sent out to search for the sur
vivors of the lost steamer Cimbria
have returned here without making
any discoveries.
| The incidents on board the Cimbria
of the Indian who had to be disarmed
of his tomahawk, of the surgeon who
jumped into the sea, and the scenes
among the passengers clinging to the
rigging, related by one Wegert, or vi
CERT, cabin passenger, who, on the
advice of the chief officer, climbed into
the rigg NJ, say thay saw boat low
cred from the steamer Sultan, probably
to repair her own damage.
Captain Cuttill, of the steamer Sui
tan says: 81 had II passengers on
board, and my first duty was to look
after the condition of my own ship
An hour was occupied in snoring up
the collisions bulkhed and stopping the
holes in the ships bow with beds, &c.
Then | set about looking for the other
vessel | burned blue lights and
sounded the steam whistle for two
hours after the accident | remained
in vicinity until eight o'clock in the
morning, when, not seeing or hearing
anything, and the fog being still dense,
| left for Hamburg"
In answer to an inquiry if he sent off
boats iu search, he said the fog was so
dense he deemed it imprudent to send
boats Respecting the events imme-
diately preceding the collision the Cap
tain of the Sultan said: about |
O'Clock, the fog increasing, the engines
ran dead low, the course being east
half south AT III o'clock English
time, without hearing the sound of q
whistle, | sighted masthead and green
lights two points on our starboard bow.
Starboarded the helm until the ships
head was east-nortbeast, when the
green light suddenly disappeared and
red light came in sight. Seeing
collision inevitable | telegraphed for
the engineer to put full speed astern
1t was too late to avoid the crash.
Everybody was at his proper post at
the time and the lights were brightly
burning. The captain and chief officer
were on the bridge and two men at the
wheel The steam whistle was con-
stantly sounding. | saw the Cimbria's
green lights when they were only two
ships lengths aheadn
Captain Cuttill drew a diagram
showing the position of the two vessels
"Both were on the straight course" he !
said, "the Gin bria being two points
on my starboard bow, so that my green
light was visible to the Cimbria as
soon as the Ci.nbria's green light was
visible to me."
Glow do you account for the ac-
cident ?'
"The Gin )ria sL MD have kept on
her course, seeing the Satau's green
light"
"W hat is the rule of the road ?"
Captain CuttiIl brought out log |
containing official printcI instructions,
with verses entitled Aids to Memory"
by Thomas Gray:
No. /, for two steamships meeting;
When both sideii ,.its viu see ahead,
Port your helm an s!i ~ your red.
"That is" remarked the Captain,
'pass to the right"
No. 2 for two steamships passing;
Green to green, or red 20 red,
Perfectly safe-go aheai.
"You starboard ?'
"Yes; and had the Cimbria kept on
her course there would have been 10
but she ported her helm and
really ran across the Sultan's bows"
A Farmer who Saved his Wheat
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31

A Missouri bee raiser has just trans
ferred his one hundred and fifty hives
to Florida, that his bees may be kept
busy all the winter In the land of fiow-
ers; and on the Mississippi there are
bee boats that carry hives up and
down that river to keep pace with the
blooming of the flowers.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
jI0, I'm.
NOTICE.

PITTSBURGH & WESTERN r. R., OFFICE OF
GENERAL MANAGER, PITTSBURGH. Pa.
On and after January 1st, 1883, the Foxburg
Division of the Pittiburgh and Western Rail-
road Co., will be open for Freight and Passen-
ger Traffic. Agents are now prepared to name
rates and receive freight for all points on line
of the Pittsburgh and Western.
Z. X. HYNDMAN,
jan, ,3-3t. General Manager
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
LOST.

The subscriber lost from his farm in Wash
ingten, tp. Butler county, in October last, a
dark red heifer, little mixed with brindle,
star on the forehead and wide in the horns, in
very good order end about two years old. l
purchased the heifer at the vendue of Mr.. Sam
uel Smith, Esq, of said Washington twp, and
she was stolen or broke from my said
farm shortly afterwards. l will give liberal
reward to any person giving me information of
her alive, or $50 for information of her if kill
ed or stolen. The last l heard of her was at
Hamilton's barn, formerly barn of said Samuel
Smith. HUGH YOUNG,
Fairview Borough, Butler Co., Pa.
Dec. 80, 1882. 4t.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
NOTICE.

re partnership heretofore existing between
n Eeck and N. Patterson, under the firm
he of Heck Patterson, expires by limita-
tioh April let, 1888. Persons knowing them
..ivcs Indebted to the above firm will please
II aud selt.e The same on or before the first oil
ApriI, as after that date all claims not paid will
sr l,it with I'm attorney for collection Any
lersous having claims against the firm will
resent same for settlement
HECK e. PATTERSON.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
Mothers Should Know II.

Fretful babies cannot help disturb
ing everybody, and mothers should
know how soothing Parker's Ginger
Tonic is. 1t stops babies pains, makes
them healthy, relieves their own anxi-
ETY. and is safe to use.-Journal.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
Be tier than Foreign Port

Speer's Port Grape Wine is better
than Imported Port, and, since the
adulteration OF the latter, it must take
its place 1t is pure and really excel
lent and healtl-giving.- Troy Times
Members of the Board of Health, OF
New York, and other prominent phys
icians, use this wine for their patients
and in their own families, much on
account of the iron contained in it from
the soil on which Speer's vineyards
are situated. For sale by ID. H. WUL-
LER.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31

New, quick, complete cure 4 days,
urinary affections, smarting, frequent
or difficult urination, kidney disease.
81. at druggists Prepaid by express.
$l.25, 6 for $5. K. s. Wells, Jersey
City, N. J.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
so Acres andz75 Perches

more or less, out of the northwest corner of the
farm lately occupied by the said Samuel 6.
Meals, decd. About75 acres cleared, balance
good tisuber Good two-story frame house and
bank bsru recently erected thereon.
TDEMs -One-third of the purchase money
on conformation of sale by the Court, and the
rema j r in two equal annual installments
with /. yfui interest from that date, to be secured
b, 4. lad and mortgage. G. w. MEALS.
d.,.i one of the Executors.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31

The Ohio Legislature is consider
ing the adulteration of foods and med
icines. 1t is informed by Cincinnati
ii chemist that liver and kidney COM
plants, so common and so destructive
to human life, are largely due to use
of sulphuric acid in the manufacture of
sugar and syrup. He also declares
that quinine pills are extensively adul-
terated, and that many other medi-
cines are not to be relied upon.
There is hardly an adult person liv-
ing but is sometimes troubled with
kidney difficulty, which is the most
prolific and dangerous cause of all dis
case. There is no sort of need to have
any form of kidney or urinary trouble
if Hop Bitters is taken occasionly.
One of the persons who were not
swindled during the graveyard-insur-
ance craze was Mrs. Francis George,
more familiarly known as Granny
Smith" " of Harrisburg, Pa, who died
last Thursday at the age of eighty.
The old lady was a capital subject for
speculation, and it is said that her life
was insured at the time for an aggre-
gate of $4,000 by a dozen different
operators. She never refused an ap.
plication and never omitted to init
mate that the people who were going
to make so much money by her death
could well afford to contribute to the
comfort Of her last days by small pres
ents in the shape of money or provs-
ions. Thus she contrived to get on
snugly for a considerable time, and
lived to verify her prediction that the
swindiing companies would be dead
before she was
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
Dead, and Gone to Oil City.

A well known broker of this city,
says the Pittsburgh Telegraph of
Jan. 30, tells a story W which is not bad
Three oil dealers were intimate friends
Two of them lived near Foxburg and
the other in Pittsburgh One of the
FoXburgers died and the other sent the
following message to the Plttsburgher:
George died last night and body
gone to oil City. Market rather dull
aud nothing doing"
The telegraph operator dropped the
word body" and the Pittsburgher's
copy of the message read
George died last night and gone to
Oil City. Market rather dull and
nothing doing"
In short time the Foxburg man re-
ceived this reply from Pittsburgh:
"Your news is distressing. Go to
priest at once and ask cost of getting
Georges soul out of Oil City and have
it sent to upper field. Will pay half
expenses. Market firm and prospect
Of advance.
John Denlinger, Lancaster, says:
Browns Iron Bitters afford me great
relief when suffering from a weak and
broken down constitution"
Even the tattler regards herself, we
cannot possibly say himself, as a kind
of selfsacrifcing missionary scattering
good news. She is noble woman,
upappTeciated to be sure, who is trying
to make the world better by telling the
faults of each to every other These
lines are complete vindication Of her
motives -
No, Narus hates a thing that's base
| own, indeed, he's got knaek
OF fatterDg people to their face,
But scorns to do it behind their back.
Fifty-eight million dollars is the es-
timated value of finger rings of this
country actually worn, and still there
are people mean enough to go hacking
and caughing because they do
not want to invest % cents
for q bottle of Dr.. Bulls Cough
Syrup.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
RYE WANTED.

The highest market price will be paid by us
for rye delivered at our wholesale liquor store
In Butler.
ito 2m JACOB REIBER BRO.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
A Farmer who Saved his Wheat
Corn for Twenty Years.


In lS4l John FL -holtz emigrated from
West Hempfield township, Lancaster
county, to the neighborhood of Urbana,
Ohio. He had resided on the Marietta
and Lancaster turnpike. Eicholtz died
recently and public sale of bis effects
was held at bis late residence near Ur-
bana. 1t drew together the largest
crowd that ever congregated at SINH
lar sale in that county probably 1000
people were there, drawn through curl
osity, to see the various contrivances
that he had accumulated within the
last forty years The house in which
he lived for the last half century was
never painted, and everything around
it bore evidence of decay 10000
bushels of barley were left on the place,
and thousands of bushels of corn, decay.
ed from age, some of it having arrived
at an old age enough to vote. Eighteen
car loads of grain of various kinds,
from ten to twenty years old, have
been shipped, and there still remain
about twenty car loads The old horse
that did service at the pump for many
years sold for ten dollars, and there
were old horses that had never had
halter or piece of harness on their
backs. Every description of agricultural
implements was sold One old vehicle
in the shape of wagon had solid
wheels cut from log. His father
died miser, leaving John 81, in ,
silver pieces, made the year John was
born. lie kept these as pocket pieces
until his death His estate was worth
over $4,000. The cannon advertised
so extensively proved to be an old
prmp mounted on wheels, which at
tracted the attention of representative
of the Fifth battery, from Springfield,
with view of purchasing it. Eicholtz
always made it point to sell nothing,
but save everything, and he took great
delight in looking over the crops that
he had saved SO many years.
W For five cents, Wells, Rich
ardson & Co., Burlington, Vt, will
send colored. samples of all colors of
Diamond Dyes, with directions.
There is no doubt that wickedness
and infdelity are spreading, and if 80
per cent of all criminals are believers
in Christianity the proof ofIheir wick
edness is that much more appalling
But we have little confidence in that
sort of belief that is not followed up by
amendment. Sam" said one robber
of hen-roosts to another, don't you
believe We shall go to hell for stealing?"
Certainly, JIM" replied his comrade /;
"hand me down another pullet."
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-31
How Woman's Life Was Saved

After she had tested the skill of all
the best doctors in Western Pennsyl-
vania and New York, and. had paid
over $1,000 without receiving any per-
manent good, the limbs became affect
ed with even tenfold greater virulence,
not only eating away the flesh, but at
tacking the bones beneath. 1t also
affected her head and face, making her
almost blind and deaf, reduced to a
mere skeleton weighing but so pounds,
the doctors pronounced her at deaths
door. Peruna was then given to her,
as stated, and with the result given on
page "a in Dr. Hartman's "Ills of
Life" She took no other medicine
and is perfectly will.