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to rise until the mark of the famous
flood of 1882 is reached There is now
no doubt that that point will be reached,
and then the race will become interest
ing between 1884 4 1888. Singular as
it may seem there is not lacking a
sort of wish, for the sake of the spec
tacle, that 1884 may come cut ahead.
But this is not shared by those directly
effected by the food
CINCINNATI, o. Feb. 10 The flood
OF 1882 was surpassed at | O'Clock this
morning and the river has been rising
almost constantly all day. There Is
hardly a shadow of doubt that the
mark of last year will be reached and
passed in the next ten hours. At to-
night the prospects decidedly indicate
more rapid rise tonight than during
the day for, in addition to reports Of
continuous rise at points above, rain
has been falling since 4 O'Clock. 1t is
not heavy, but persistent enough to in
dicate an all-night rain. The same
condition exists at Ripley and Mays
vile, fifty and sixty miles north. The
rain, if it continues all night. will de-
sert desided influence on the stage Of
water here, as the side streams will be
pouring in additional floods.
The people here have lost confidence
in the prognostication of the Signal
Service. Twice the white flag has
been raised to denote a cold wave COM
ing. The first time the temperature
rose. The second time /. slight fall,
followed now by rain. TIE prediction
that the river would reach the maxium
here to-day is also false. The maxium
is not yet reached two hundred miles
above Cincinnati and n new flood il
pouring in from the Kanawha river.
The arrival of the highest water here
must now be postponed for several days
if the present rain continues.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

A FLOOD is no respector of persons.
1t visits all alike, high and low, rich
and poor. The elements are very IN
d discriminate and impartial in their
good and in their bad effects.
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BUTLER MARKETS.

Butter 25 10 80 cents.
Eggs % 10 % cents.
Potatoes 40 10 80 cents.
Wheat, No. /, 8i.lj.
Buck wheat, Gj TO 20 per bushel.
Buck wheat -four $50 TO $500 per cwt
Oats 80 10 40 cents.
Corn 90 30 20 cents.
Rye 62 cents.
Flour, high grade, per barrel s. to Ss,
Flour, No. J. per sack Si.7b.
Bran, per ton slS to $40.
Middings, per ton 81 10 S25.
Chickens, per pair 35 10 40 cents.
Onions, new, cents per pound.
Turnips, 80 cents.
Cabbagae. . to scents each.
Ham, per pound Is cents.
Sides, per pourd II cents.
Shoulders, per pound 10 cents.
Fish. MacEcral No. /. 10 cents.
Hay, s. 10 so per ton.
Pork, whole, o to cents.
Chickens, IL cents per pound.
Turkeys, 10 cents per ponnd.
Apples, - 10 SO cent? per bushel.
Apple butter, . cents per quart.
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LOCAL INSTITUTE
Prospect, Pa, Friday, Feb. 22,
1884.

10A VI.
PROGRAM.
Grammar, primary-A. +. Mckinney.
Declamation-W. II. Alexander.
Geography. G.. Mccullough.
Selection-Miss CookSon.
Dec: "Our Country"-T. /. Cunningham.
Useful Exercise-G p Wigle
Essay, Wasnington-Miss Jennie McClel-
land.
Primary Reading-MIss Lidie Webber.
The Quincy Method-Prof. f.. Mcdonald.
Selection--Miss Virginia Cookson
What is learned by teaching the first term
j. p. Wilson, +. NJ. Dindinger, L. McGown.
ArItbmetIc-Prof. Tins
Essay, FEB. 22) o. F. Kiester
The Teachers Influence--Prof Logan.
How the teacher can aid the Superintendent
Prof Murtland.
How should the teacher employ his time
during recess and noon--PrOf e. w. Russell
The above program will be interspersed with
music by the Cornet Band of Prospect, together
with other instrumental and vocal music.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

A NEW heating apparatus has been
applied to the engines on the Shenango
and Allegheny railroad, for heating
the cars.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

JUDGE Bredin held an Argument
Court in Mercer last week In cases III
which j udge Mehard had been interest
ed as counsel.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

TEE Womens Christian Temperance
Union of this place have q meeting to-
day, Wednesday, at 2 O'Clock, in the
u. p. Church, Rev. Ferguson's.
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Delegates to State Convention

BY the political news we give in an
other place, it will be seen that most of
the neighboring counties have had their
county committee meetings and fixed
the time of their primary elections to
elect their delegates to the coming
State Convention of April l6. In
this they are following the present rules
requiring those delegates to be elected
by popular vote of the Republican vo-
ters. In most all of them they advanced
the regular primary to an earlier date
than usual in order that the nomna-
tions for the county Offices could be
made at the same time that the dele
gates to the State Convention are cho-
sen. This we presume, is what will be
done in this county. The candidates,
so far as we have heard an expression
on the subject, generally favor an early
day for the primary this year, similar
to what is being done in other counties.
AS the grounding saw his shadow
on the End inst, hence, some argue, the
flo cd.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

T. n. LEAKE, NJ. D.,
G' Homeopathic Physician and Surgeon
Office in Union Block, and residence in
Ferrero no sc, Butler, Pa.
Oct o. 1882
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

The members Of the Republican
County Committee are hereby request
ed to meet in Butler on Tuesday,
March 4, 1884, at o'clock P. NJ, for
the purpose of fixing the dates for
holding the primary elections required
to be held in the county this year, and
for the transaction of such other busi-
ness as may properly come before the
Committee. BY order
JAMES BARR,
Chairman Co. Com.
Butler. Feb. 5, '84.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

ed as counsel
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13

SELTNsGRovE, Feb. 3.-The Repub-
lican Standing Committee of Snyder
county, at its meeting held at Middle
burg yesterday, fixed the date for hold
ing the primary election on March 20,
at which time delegate to the State
Convention will be elected. The pri-
mary election will be held about two
months earlier this year than hereto
fore, owing to the action Of the Com
mittee to-day, allowing the vote of the
people TO decide who shall be the dele
gate to the State Convention. On
former elections the delegate was elect
ed by the Standing Committee. The
acting of to-day's meeting seems to
give universal sSjsfsctiOn
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The Fight at Franklin.

To THE EDITOR: For the first time in my
life / am compelled to write in behalf of my
brigade. In THE TRIBUNE of Dec. IL | see an
account of the fight at Franklin. in which
COmrade j. ID. Remington, Co. /, I'D ILL.,, lays
claim to his brigade-First Division, Fourth
COrps-being rear-guard from Spring Hill,
Nov. 80, 1864, which l doubt very much. l
was member of the Second Brigade, Second
Division, Fourth Corps, and our brigade was
composed of the following regiments: 9th
Ohio, 57th and 10th Ind, 2Sth KY, Tooth H.,
and goth Ohio. Now, comrades, where were we
that day? Let us hear from you. Were we not
on picket all night at Spring Hill? Did we
not stay there until after daylight on the
morning of the 30th? Were there any soldiers
behind us that day but rebels? If there were |
failed to see them. Did we have any time to
eat on the road !? We're we ordered behind the
Carter house to get something to eat? No; we
did not get anything until we got to Nashville,
on Dec l. Our regiment fell in line right close
to that locust grove. There is where we did
our fighting on that memorable night of Nov.
80 1864. There an incident happened that
caused an impression on my memory that l
will never forget as long rs live. There was
a soldier lying beside me, wounded in his
left shoulder and he asked me for drink.
| gave him all had III my canteen. l asked
him what company he belonged to, and he
said Co. ID, 57th Ind. He was a Corporal. And
about the same time he was shot right above
the left eye and instantly killed, and his blood
wet my clothes. If this should meet anyone
that knew him would like to hear from them.
Now, Second Brigade let us hear from some
one that can give an account of that memorable
fight and the part we tOOk.-HENRY INFIELD,
Co. /, 9th Ohio, Dana. Greene Co., Iowa.
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Tho Cbonl.ins Of the I'd Pa. Reserves.

To THE EDITOR: The Pennsylvania Reserves
were never a reserve in battle or behind in
anything military. They, too, had Chaplain
from the ranks. VIM. Il. Leake enlisted on or
about June 5, 1861, as private in Co. b, Sd Pa.
Reserves, and was promoted Chaplain while we
were in the defenses of Washington. Co. Il was
a Methodist company, !. e., the Captain and
Chaplain were besides, the Chaplain was q
very good euchre and whist player; and he
would also go occasionally to Washington on
business. He resigned at Langley, Va, in the
Spring of 1862, on account of poor health, and
fearful that leaden pills were not digestble.
When he was about to leave the boys stole his
stove. He preached them a farewell sermon
text the stolen stove. lie said the wicked ras-
Gals who stole it would all go TO perdition, or get
killed and 90 to the internal regions unless
they brought his stove back where he would
probably meet them and square the account
Chaplain Freer then joined us, but his health
was really very poor and Ire was obliged to re-
sign. Then j. j. Pomeroy was commissioned.
We had such unfavorable experience with
Chaplains that they were thought to be more
ornamental than useful, until the battle Of
Fredericksburg, Va, when Chaplain Pomeroy
showed that he was the Good Samaritan"
being at the front in the thickest of the fight,
speaking words of comfort to the dying, giving
them water from his canteen carrying off the
wounded, and doing everything in the power
of man to alleviate their sulferings His clothes
showed the blood stains of those he had helped,
his bravery and GOODNESS showed him to be q
man who only feared his God, and that he was
a man and Christian who lived up to the high
calling which he professed. After the fight
the most hardened and wicked soldier paid
him the homage and respect due to Il faithful,
brave and true Christian gentleman. His
memory will always be cherished by the men,
bers of the regiment-"PA. RESERVE" Natl
Homo, Milwaukee, Wis.
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being relieved of all picket duty and other
cares, and with the Johnnies standing guard
enjoyed the first nights Sleep for near a week
Monday, May 4, we were marched to Rome,
Ga, held in open camp for short time until
paroles could he made out and then removed
to Atlanta, Ga, where we were there held in
open camp for few days without overcoats or
blankets $50 much of the terms OF the surren-
der being violated), and with scarcely wood
enough to cook the very scanty supply Of raw
rations furnished, and the weather quite chilly
for even May weather in the North, much less
in the Sunny South.
After few days stay at Atlanta we were
loaded into old rickety box-cars and removed to
Richmond Va, going via Lynchburg. At
Richmond the commissioned officers were taken
to the famous Tor infamCus) Libby prison, there
to remain until almost the close of the war;
near two years, except lucky few who made
their escape through tunnel of their own con-
struction after about IS months imprisonment.
Thus it is seen that much of the terms of the
surrender We're violated. The non commis-
stoned officers and privates after a few days
earth known to and cursed by thousands of the
brave suffering, but unfortunate heroes, and
second only to Andersonville for misery star
walton and death.-were marched out via
Petersburg to City Point, on the James River
and Chesapeake Bay, and, after Is days of i'm
prisonment, once more looked upon the proud
floating flag of our country, and, despite the
efforts of the guards to prevent it, cheer after
cheer rang out for the flag of the Free the
emblem of liberty, and we marched on board
the Union transports and bid a taunting adieu
to the deSpicable Stars and Bars.-E. X. BARN
HILL, I'D Ind, Plymouth, Ind.
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Can Some Comrade Give the List.

To THE EDITOR: Enclosed please find petit
ton. got the names in less than an hour, and
am sorry l did not get the blanks sooner and
more of them. think if we had had the petition
here week sooner and room on the paper,
could have got about 1900 or more.
Just 90 years ago this morning my entire bri-
gade was marching under the Confederate flag
with now and then United States flag waving
over us. We marched into Nashville, Tenn.
with Is Confederate flags we had captured al
Franklin, Tenn, the night before. Can you
give the names and dates Of the battles partc-
ipated in by the First Brigade, Second Divis-
ion, Fourth Corps Army of the Cumberland?
was in them ALL bat they were so many and so
long ago / have forgotten them, and | want
them. If you can get them will you be so kind
as TO publish them in your most valuable paper
and obligc many of our comrades in the same
condition as myself. d. REMINGTON, Co. l.
I'D H., National Home for ID. V. s., near
DAYTON, o.
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The Tennessee.

To THE EDITOR: In reading the account of
the land and naval forces at Mobile Bay by
Comrade Martin, / discovered few errors
which 1 Will correct, in regard to the fleet as
was one of the crew of the L. S. monitor Win
nebaco 1t was on the morning of the 5th day
OF August that the battle began mot the It'll
The four monitors advanced as follows: Te-
cunseh, WinnebagO, Manhattan and Chicka-
saw, 10 engage the water batteries at Fort
Morgan. These were followed by the Is wooden
ships dashed in pairs. The monitor Tecumseh
with the gallant Craven commanding was struck
by a torpedo and Immediately sunk, only some
u or ID men being saved out of a crew of some
20 souls. The monitors dropped their anchors
under the fort as near TO the water batteries as
possible, and opened terrific bombardment to
enable the wooden fleet to run by the fort,
which it did brayely. We followed and came
to anchor in line of battle out Of the range of
the fort, the monitors covering the wooden fleet
and piped TO breakfast. Our meal pennant had
not long been hoisted when black smoke was
seen coming from the smokestack of the ram
Tennessee, which was preparing to come toward
Us from the fort; steam launch was seen at
about the same time coming from the wooden
feet, and Admiral Farragut was espied on board.
lie soon rouuded-to under our stern, and gave to
our Commander Thos II. Stevens (or Fighting
Tommy, as we boys used to call him, his orders
that he wished the ironclads to do all in their
power to prevent the ram from getting up
amongst the wooden feet saying that if she
did terrible havoc would be done. Soon
general quarters was sounded as by this
time the Tennessee was steaming up quite
close; she stored directly for the monitors
without shot being fired, and came quite
close 70 US, and hauled down her flag, which
was only ruse, so that she could get around
Us and make for the wooden feet which she
did, running her flag up again as she passed
Us then the three monitors Joined in the chase.
When We got to the wooden fleet she was re-
ceiying some terrific broadsides from the Hart
ford, Brooklyn, Lackawanna and others. She
was doing considerable raInming, and it was a
great wonder that some of the vessels were not
sunk. The three monitors soon surrounded
her. Her smokestack was hanging over her
side, her wheel rope shot away, and her port
shutters damned, when she surrendered; and /
Shall never forget what sight l beheld when
/ saw her right alongside Of us. She died
game. l believe it was two days after that we
got the ram with crew on her mot the same
day as Martin says, and had her engaged bonn
harding Fort Morgan. Anyway, she got
aground, but was got off again. The monitor
Roanoke was not with US, as the comradc says.
An excursion party came down from Mobile
city 10 witness the ram Tennessee sink the
Yankee feet, but they were disappointed and
got back quicker then they came as the Meta
comet steamed after and captured tho gGnboat
Selma that was making for the city. and these
excursion boats expected they would be cap
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THE SECOND BRIGADE.

To THE EDITOR: Allow me in a friendly
way to correct f. B. Round, Winfield, n. Y,
in his statement that the 5th Wis. belonged to
the Second Brigade of the First Division, Sixth
Corps, at the battle OF Rappannock Station.
The Second Brigade was composed of the 9Th
Me-, 12lst n. Y, 95th and 96th Pa. l cannot
understand why Carleton" in his description
of the battle of Rappahannock Station, does
lot mention the olds Second Brigade at all.
believe we did our share, if not most of the
fighting in that battle, charging the rebel
earthworks and capturing several colorS and
more prisoners than we had men. One little
incident will show what stuff our gallant Colo
mel of the 9th lie. was made Of In the ex-
element of the charge he became separated
from his men and entirely surrounded by the
rebels, but his courage rose TO the occasion,
and drawing his sword and swinging it over
his head, called ont in his stentoriau voice ::
Forward, 5th Me! Charge bayonets." In
the darkness and confusion, down went the
rebel guns, and before they could recover from
their fright and seize their guns again, his gal
liant boys came to his rescue, capturing the en-
tire regiment. I. ABBOTT 9th lie.
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The Rebel Ram Arkansas.

To THE EDITOR: noticed an article in THI
TRIBUNE of Nov. 13 by Henry j. LYDIA, cor
recting Carleton as to the date of the ex-
plosion Of the rebel ram Arkansas at Baton
Rouge. The battle of Baton Rouge was fought
on Aug ), 1862; the Arkansas blew up Aug 6.
i was standing on the bank of the river at Ba-
ton Rouge, heard the explosions, and saw the
smoke. The Arkansas was to have been on
hand the 9th. but (the rebs told u.s. key
worked loose and injured her machinery and
delayed her till the 9th. was sober at the
time; was a member of the 21st Ind, after
wards 1st Ind. III. A. Carleton" is correct,
Mr.. LYDIA is mistallen.-R. III. CRIsT, Whining
ton Ill.
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The S1th Ind. Heard From.

To THE EDITOR: In answer to w. w. lib
belts, Co. b, S7th Ind, in your issue of Oct. so
/ will say that he is correct in saying that the
S7th Ind. was in the Third Brigade, Third Di-
vision, Fourteenth Corps ut the battle of Chick
amauga. He wishes to know the fate of the
regiment. The S7th went into that battle with
% officers and $40 men. OF this number eight
officers and 81 enlisted men were killed on the
field, four officers and 138 enlisted men wound
ed, and eight missing-in ali 100. The regi-
ment was at Chattanooga during the siege of
that place The army was reorganized, and
the S7th formed part of the Second Brigade,
Third Division, Fourteenth Corps. 1t was at
the storming of Mission Ridge, losing in killed
and wounded Is men. 1t followed the enemy
to RinggoId. Ca engaged in the expedition
against Dalton and BuZzard Roost, and then
went into camp at Ringgold and remained
there until May 7, 1864. In the great cam
paign against Atlanta, under Gen. Sherman, it
was constantly at the front, skirmishing every
day, and participating in the battles of Resaca,
Cassville, Dallas, kenesaw Mountain, Peach
Tree Creek and before Atlanta. 1t charged
and carried the outer works at Utoy Creek in
front of Atlanta, losing IN killed and wounded
II men, 1t was also engaged in the battle of
Jonesboro, Sept. 1. During the Atlanta cam
paign the regiment was under fire for 100 days,
and n good part of that time the men were in
gopher holes frequently for several hours at a
time, the exposure being so great that 1t was
impossible to send a relief
We left Atlanta the Sd of October, 1864, fol-
lowed Hood down into Alabama, and gave his
army good send towards Nashville. Then
we turned back to Atlanta by way of Rome.
We left Atlanta on the 10Th of November, and
marched with Sherman to the sea, reaching
the defences of Savannah Dec. 10. We entered
Savannah the 23d of December l think and
fattened up on fresh oysters for about month.
Then we made the campaign through the Car
olinas, resting awhile at Goldsboro We then
proceeded to Smithfield. where we made our
last charge, fired our last shot, and heard the
scream of the last rebel bullet. Then we passed
through Raleigh, and went into camp near
Holly Springs, where We remained until after
the surrender of Johnston's army. We then
bent our steps homcward by way of Richmond,
Va, thence to the city OF Washington, where
we participated in the grand review of Sher-
mans army. The regiment was mustered out
on the 10th Of June 1865, and proceeded to
indianapolis, where we were welcomed home
on the 22d of that month by Gov. Morton.
That was a proud day for the remaining few
of the S7th Ind.
Comrades, wake up, and let's hear from you.
If we can't meet each other, let's have a jolly
good time talking with each other through
The TRIBUNE, the best soldiers paper in the
world.-ED. SHORT, Co. +, S1th Ind, Clifton,
Kan
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CONDENSED LETTERS.

A. W. Saint, Co. d, Both Ind, Knightstown
Ind, cOrroborates the statement made by G. c.
Bowen in The TRIBUNE of Nov. 6, in regard
to Crosses Brigade, as he Saint was member
of said brigade, and recollects distinctly some
of the incidents related by Bowen.
John T. Duprce, Co. G., Cd Ind Cav, Edin-
burg. Ind, says VIM. w. Watkins. in writing
of Fitzpatrick s raid, in THE TRIBUNE of Dec. A.
is incorrect in saying the 9TH Iowa was sent
about 20 miles further south TO cut the rail-
road, when the fact is that it was a detail of
four companies of the Sd Ind. Cav. which was
sent on that errand.
Henry GOnser, Co. A, 3Sth Ohio New Bed
ford, Ohio wonders why there is never any
thing heard from his old brigade.
l.. 4. Johnson, 105th Ohio. Parkman, o.,
writes that j. B. Shaw, in giving the number
OF regiments constituting the Fourteenth Corps
az Chickamauga, omitted the 10oth Ohio and
101st Ind.
H. K Gould, Co. 3, 18th Conn North Brook
field, Mass. writes that o. w. Knott is mis-
taken when he says he was mustered in the
18th Conn. in Oct, 1861, at Hartford, Conn,
that company being mustered into service at
Norwich, Conn, Aug. Il, 1862.
Patrick Gavin, Co. b, Both Ind, National
Military Home, o. says Carleton should
have mentioned his regiment in the account of
the battle of Stones River recently published
in THE TRIBUNE, as it was in the same line
with the 55th Ohio and the Sth KY, and the
other regiments that he mentioned.
c. Ii. Head, Northampton, Mass, writes that
his regiment I'D Mass left Atlanta three or
four days after the Third Brigade, Second Di-
vision, Fourteenth Corps. notwithstanding a
comrades statement in the issue of Dec. 4, to
the contrary.
Albert A. Acker, Valley Falls, N. Y, thinks
that Carleton" is mistaken in saying the Jer-
sey Brigade captured seven battle-fags at
Chancellorsvile-the credit of that exploit be-
longing to the I'd n. Y.
Fl. Butts, Poplar Creek Agency, Mont, is
heartily in favor of the insurance scheme
proposed by Comrade Yogi, of Junction City,
Kan.
Weare indebted to Jacob Grain, Kansas City,
Mo-. for newspaper slip dated April a, 1862,
containing a copy of Gen. Shieldss official re-
port of the battle of Winchester.