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The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

Little Rock. Ark. April 25-A
cyclone did heavy damage in Faux
ner county yesterday. j cloudburst
occurred near Conway aa9 at other
places hail covered the ground to a
depth OF from three Inches to five
feet In drifts i church and cotton
gin were b'oFn lalf n nile. many
faim houses. bans and @ her build
ines wer- totally demolished aud
ctoek killed. Au entire dock OF sheep
"ere blown away Details are rot
fully in and it ia feared that human
lives have been lost.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
The Editors Aim Was Bad.

Nashville, Tenn, April 25.-Frank
Coleman, editor of the Huntsville,
Ala, Argus, was shot and badly
wounded by r E. Spraggins, in a
street duel between them in that
city this afternoon, growing out cf
a publication in the Argus which
Spraggins objected to. Trouble
has been brewing for some days,
and this afternoon the men met and
began firing. Coleman shot five
times. Spraggins four times. Then
Coleman announced he was wounded
and his pistol empty and Spraggins
ceased firing. Spraggins was not
hit.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

y book on kidney trouble and its
treatment viii be mailed free to anv-
one who will write for it. addressinr
the Buker Pill Co, Bangor Maine. or
patient may enclose 56 cents in Postal
Note or cash in registered letter:
and one box of Buker'S Pills will he
mailed together with the book. posr
paid 10 the address given.
Buker's Kidney Pills is a new and
marvellous remedy assisting nature 10
relieve clogged and diseased kidnevs
will also relieve bladder. diseases
urinary troubles. backache and little
aches and pains throughout the body.
Back-ache and kidney ache are yex
often the same and these pills will re-
move the kidney trouble cure rha
aching back, and purity the blood
Safe in allcases.
Being a new. discovery. Rukar,S
Kidney pills are not Vet on sale n ali
drug stores. In enQuirin-, be snra
You get Buker's price scots or ad.
dress Buker Pill Co., as above. and
mention this paper.
Southwestern trade stIppliad b-
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The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
ANOTHER PENSION BILL VETO.

Washington, d. c., April Is
The President to day sent to the
House a message veroing the bill
granting a pension of $50 to Francis
T.. Hoover. The President says he
does not understand that it is claim.
ed in any quarter that the present
helpless condition of this soldier is
at all attributable to his army SER
vice. Continuing. the President says:
He never applied for pension un-
til after the passage OF the law OF
1880, providing for pension for
those who had served Ia the army
and are unable to maintain them
selves by manual labor on accoun. of
disability not charg geable to army ser
vice. The committee of the house
OF Representatives in reporting this
bill, declared, the testimony does
not show the disease Of the soldier
to be Of service origin
The beneficiary Is now receiving
the largest pension permitted under
the law of 1890. His condition may
well excite our sympathy, but to
grant him a pension of $50 month
without the least suggestion that his
pltiable disability is related to his
army service, and in view Of the fact
that he is receiving the highest pen
sion allowed by a general law enact
ed to expressly meet such cases, it
seems to me would result in an IN
fair discrimination as against many
thousand worthy soldiers similarly
situated, and would invite applica-
tions which while difficult to refuse
in the face of such precedent, must
certainly lead TO the breaking down
of all the limitations and restrictions
provided by our laws regulating
pensions.
The value Of pension legislation
depends as much upon fairness and
justice in its administration as it
does upon its iberality and gener
osity.'
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
DIDN'T MIX WITH TROUBLE.
The Stranger Within the Gates Observ.
ed a Strict Neutrality.

ed Il Strict Neutrality.
In answer to my "Hello! the
house" the mountaineer wife came
to the door and uttered 'Howdy?'
and as l asked for lodging for the
night, she looked for me over and
finally said:
Stranger, ar yo' much of hand
to mix in7"
"How do you means'
"Wall, kin yo. sot by and h'ar two
people jawin' without takin' Sides?
"Yss, I think SO"
wont take up fur peither one'
"No."
"Jest mind yo'r own bizness and
let 'em fout it out7
eyes"
"Wall, then, yo' kin git down and
stop fur the night. Put yer boss
in that shed and the old man will
take keer of him when he Gums
home"
II can't exactly make out what
you meant when you spoke about
quarreling," l said, after entering
the house and seeing that she was
all alone.
II kin explain in about mint, u
she promptly replied. I'VE hev two
sort of rsligun around here-Metho
dist and Baptist"
"Yes."
1.-The ole mans a Methodist, bat
I'm Baptist from top to bottom.
Sha'n't be nuthin' but Baptist if
live thousand y'srs."
Il see."
"Reckon by the looks of yo' that
yo' ar Presbyterian. After supper
the ole man he'll begin to praise the
Methodists and run down the Bap-
tist. That'll fire me up, and I'll be
gin to praise the Baptists and run
down the Methodists. Well Jest
make things hum arter we git to
goin'."
"Aud l don't come in?'
''Not if you've any sense in yo'r
head! If 20, should go fur to back
up one Of us t'other would pitch into
70, and if yo should go fur to de
clare that tn Presbyterian religun
beat all other sorts holler, then we'd
both riz up to down yo'. Dye see7"
II do, ma'am, and my policy will
be to stand neutral"
That's it-sorter between us,and
sayin' nothin-not if yo' wa2t to
stop yere all night"
We had scarcely got our pipes
lighted after supper when the old
man threw out hot shot and was
speedily answered back, and for half
an hour things were more than live
ly. l stuck to the neutral policy,
though it was the hardest kind of
work, and when the people had fin.
ally cooled down the husband said:
WALL bless the Methodists and
durn the Baptist, but let's entertain
this we're stranger the best we can
in both kind."-Detroit Free Press.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

The Warrensburg Journal. Demo-
crat first admitting that it has no
authority to use his name) is boom.
ing Senator F. NJ Cockrell for gov
ernor. There is certainly no doubt
OF Senator Cockrell's popularity in
this state and no doubt exists in the
minds of the people but what he
would make an ideal governor, as he
has senator. But on the other hand,
would the state gain or lose in taking
him out of the senate and putting
him in the governors chair.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

Are You Bilious, conszIpated or trou-
oled with jaundice, Sick Headache, bad
taste in the mouth, foul breath, coated
tongue, dyspepsia, Indigestion, hot dry
skin, pain in the back and between the
shoulders, chills and fever, &c. If you
have any OF these symptoms, your liver
is out OF order and your blood is slowly
being poisoned because your liver does
not act properly. Herbine will cure ali
disorder OF the liver, Stomach or bowels
It has no equal as liver medicine. Price
IS cents. Free trial oottle. at II. L.
fuckers drugst re. AS1y
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

Nevada, No, April PA negro
preacher named Emerson was arrest
ed here to-day on charge of steal
ing $40 from the residence of Major
j. E Miller, at whose residence
Emerson's mother in law was cock.
He was just about to take the train
to I'LL an appointment to preach at
Rich Hill when arrested In default
OF $500 bond be was committed to
jail.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
To Offer Reward of 100 Dollars.

tor case OF catarrh that cannot be cur
ed, creates the suspicion that the article
so advertised is a humbug. Do YOU
know OF any such reward being paid:
Ely Bros. do not promise rewards in or
der to sell their we'll known "Cream
Balm" They offer the most effective
medicants, prepared in convenient form
to use, and at the lowest possible price
so cents per bottle. An honest and ef-
tective remedy, which is absolutely free
from mercurials or other harmful drugs.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
Acquittai in the James Trial.

Warrensburg, Mo, April 24-The
James murder trial, which has been
occupying the time of the criminal
court for several days past, came to
an end this morning. Judge Lay,
of Warsaw, who presided. instructed
the jury to bring in a verdict of not
guilty. The court room was the
scene of a happy reunion when Mil
lard and Robert James were released
The crime for which the defendants
were on trial was the killing of Jim
Evans near Kingsville on the 2Sth
of last February.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
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The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

Jefferson City barracks near St
Louis was destroyed By FIRE last
week, The building vas 800 feet
long by 80 feet wide. Tie soldiers
lost most OF thair clothing and TO-.
700 cartridges were exploded. The
loss is estimated to be $50, 900.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

Deficits in the Treasury are good
thing for persistent silence on the
part of the Republicans. In the last
year of the Mckinley act the deficit
was S70,OO0,000. In the next year
the Wilson act was in operation only
nine months, but it reduced the de.
felt to S40.000,000. In the pres
ent year the deficit will only be
S25, 100000. And next year there
will be surplus. In spite of the pan
ic. which burst upon the country in
1893 under the Mckinley act, the
Wilson act is producing more reve-
nue. than the Mckinley act produced.
City Times.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
Ht>sourl Mars!ais and A.tarnsys

Washington D. c., April 25.-By
the legislative and judicial bill agree
Ement to day, the United States At.
toEoeys for both districts in Mis-
sour[eceive S4.500,and the marsha,s
81, ,000each. with provision that
field deputies shall receive fees.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

When fevers and other epidemics
are around, safety lies in fortifying
the system with Ayers Sarsaparilla.
A person having thin and impure
blood, Ia in the most favorable con
ditlon to ''catch whatever disease
may be floating IN the air. Be wise
in time.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

About colds and coughs in the sum
mer time. Iol may have a tickliur
cough or little sold or baby NAV have
the Group and when it comes YOU ough
TO know that Parks cough SyruY is the
best cure for 1t. Sold By H. L.Tucker.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

There is 'po excuse for any man to
appear in society with a grizzly
beard since the introduction Of
Buckingham's Dye, which colors
natural brown or black.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
A Strong Fertilization.

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The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

W. n. White and wife of Jer,co,
Cedar county, have remarkable
curiosity in the family in the person
of their daughter Vera, who is now
between Is and 16 years of age and
weighs but SO pounds. She stopped
growing when about 3 or years of
age and in every thing except the
expression of her face and length of
her hair is a baby. She has never
shed her baby teeth, but retains
them in fairly good coalition. She
has good memory aud converses
with intelligence. Her father and
mother are average size and her two
sisters Is and II are large of their
age. The family or doctors cannot
explain why she stopped growing.
The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07
THE SITUATION IN KENTUCKY.
BANDS Cohorts Will Find the Sound
Money Men DlsOrganiZed.


Money Men DlsOrganized.
Louisville, KY, April 25.-An ir.
ruptlon OF free silver speakers in
Kentucky will find the gold standard
men off their guard. IL can be stated
as an absolute fact that as yet they
have made no effort whatever at Or
ganization, though they have done a
deal of loud talking. The "sound
money members of the Legislature
were to have met in Louisville and
make an address to the people, but
they did not do SO. The whole fac
tion were to meet in Louisville and
decide upon plan, but they did not,
and even Mr.. Carlisle has refused to
come here and do any work. The re
port that Senator Vest would stump
the State has caused much suppress
ed excitement in Frankfort and Lou
isville, and Senator Lindsay has
positively informed his friends that
if MIR. Vest does come he Lindsay
will quit Washington and meet him.
Judge Lindsay is the only orator
who has been heard to say he will
stump the State, though ex Governor
Buckner, Jno. Hoger, j. NJ. Atherton,
ex Minister Winchester and others
have been expected to contribute
their services. However, if Mr..
Blands friends come, there will be
an effort to import speakers to meet
them. Free silver sentiment was
never so strong as now, as is shown
by the defeat of Senator Walton at
the special election the other day by
Mr.. Bale, free silver advocate. Mr..
Bale and DR., Walton ran in Cover.
nor Buckner's own county, Hart, and
Bale got majority of $50 though
last fall Walton carried it bv 400.
This decisive victory has greatly en-
couraged the free silver men all over
the city. The Louisville Free Coin
age Committee has already begun a
house to house canvass and expect
to make things lively here very soon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16
BRIGHT Prospects Ahead.

If as SO many expect the election OF
Mckinley will be the beginning OF an
era OF prosperity the rapid rise in the
price of cereals and cotton will be no
small factor in our prospective
wealth. Should this years wheat
crop net only 10 cents bushel more
than last year and cotton sell at only
two more cents pound it would
mean an extra so million dollars for
the farmer and about an extra 100
million for the cotton planter. This
great sum distributed over half the
United States would cause demand
for manufactured goods that would
mean much to the eastern and mid
die west factories. And event. Bryan
is elected the price of wheat and cot
ton would not drop, as the recent
advance in price is based entirely on
the short crops both here and
abroad.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16
Some Cl1eap Talk.

The platform of the democracy of
Massachusetts contains the follow
ing "The halving OF prices by the
use of the gold standard forces our
country to pay Europe twice as
many commodities, bushels of wheat,
bales Of cotton and so on, as our
debts justly demand"
To this kind Of democracy all
things seem possible; and vet to the
average Vermont voter the stubborn
conviction will remain dominant,
that no amount of frenzied declama-
ton by the Massachusetts democracy
can force the European consumer to
pay the American producer a double
value for his products. In the mar.
kets of Europe the buyer will COZ.
tinue as heretofore, to buy as suits
him best, and to pay price estab
lished on the gold basis.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16
The Result of a Moose Call.

The battle which snecessary in captur-
ing bull Moose is an experience of the
liveliest and most exciting kind, and a
trip to the wilds of Maine and Canada is
trip looked forward to with great JOY by
the sportsman.
The following from Outing" of recent
date relates the experience of two sports
men who were seeking adventures with
His Majesty, King Moose:
We were fortunate in securing for this
trip a we'll known guide, and who as a
caller of Moose had no equal.
After several attempts, one beautiful,
still, frosty morning, we padded across
the lake to the western shore and
climbed to a point on the mountain
which offered favorable site tor calling
up Moose.
The guide gave the Moose call with all
his usual artistic variations, There was
a low, deep, muffled sound, which might
have risen from the ground at our feet,
but which, on the whole, seemed to
emerge from the thick belt of barren frs
that lined the opposite shore of the lake
then quick succession of basso- protundo
grunts, followed by terrific crashing Of
horn against the trunks and limbs o.
trees. We dashed down the bank in
order to connect with the bull moose
express. We got there in time to boar6
the train. The cowcatcher and head
lights doomed up, pushing their way
through the alders across the lake about
100 yards away. 1t was the king of the
valley aud no mistake. His ears were
thrown forward, his horns shown like {
crown of glory in the pallid October sun
and every hair on his big black man'
stood up as straight as the sentinel tir'
from which he had emerged.
Give it to him !" The bullet struck thu
moose near the right shoulder, for as h'
turned and charged through the hard
hacks we could see that his right tore-lel
was powerless. Still, he was making
regular schedule time, and though w
kept heaving chunks of sudden deatl
across the pond at lively rate, it really
seemed, when the moose disappeared il
the woods, as though this was not on
moose after all. We went tearing
through the scrub and came suddenl,
upon huge, black animal, with his hal
turned the wrong way sick unto death
but kingly still in his mien, facing us no
20 feet away. A crash from the rifle
and then came the war-dance and tn
| shouting.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16

The opposition have abandoned the
East.
A conservative estimate places
McKlnley's majority in the electoral
college around so, though it may be
less and 1t may he so more. We must
not let the majorities in Vermont
and Maine lead us astray into the
belief that the middle western states
will do likewise. II they do follow
suit and give Mckinley unheard OF
majoritlcs we shall he the first to
rejoice, but the chances are that some
OF them Will be carried by Bryan and
that is why we cannot tell who is
elected until the votes are counted.
Hardly Vermont democrat that we
have met expects that Bryan will be
elected, but the campaign OF 1896
has been tuIl OF surprises from the
start and it is just possible that
Bryan's strength may have been
underestimate by the republicans
in the East. Bryan's election is pos
sible but not probable.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16

No trace has been found Of L. d.
Blackwell the Montpelier man who dis.
appeared in Boston Sept. 0.
Rooms at the Soldiers Home at Ben
nington have been furnished recently by
the Grand Army posts Of Morrisville and
Bellows Falls and by Mrs. Eva d. Green
wood of Putney The new addition to
the home has been completed, so that the
men who have been sleeping in the chapel
the last three months will return to
their old quarters this week. There are
enough applications waiting for admis-
sion to make the membership 100 Nine
teen of the 26 beds in the hospital are
occupied. This is the smallest number
that has been cared for in the hospital
for over a year. The new addition will
add 80 more beds and there will be a
larger dining room, reading room and
smoking room,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16
The Silver Conspiracy.

David A. Wells can scent an econo-
mic heresy about as quickly as any
one in our time. He has now
trained his guns on "rascally con-
spiracy OF silver mining magnates of
the West and certain politicians
whose aspiration are conferred on
the attainment of office and spoils. {"
When Mr.. Wells goes after game, the
people may reckon he will use no
blank cartridges. The silver barons
may as well say now as at some
future time, with Crockett's coou,
that they will give up and come in.
If they don't-and no one expects
they will-the people will have a
reckoning with them on the Sd of
November. And it is quite time, for
their little game has already cost the
country hundreds if not thousands
of millions of dollars.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16
ADVERTISING RITES.

These advertising rates have been adopted
by the CALIFORNIAN and will be used until
further notice.
Per inch per week, 81. Per month, $50.
For three months, SO. For SIX months, SO.
One year. SIS.
DIscouNTs.-To all advertisers using rcgu-
larry three inches or more, 20 per cent dis
count from the above rates Advertisers
using five inches or more regularly, 20 per
cent discount.
Local notices, wants for sale, ETC., cents
per word first insertion. Crhese will be set
In reading matter type and given the best
position in the paperJ Legal mott es 10
cents a line, three insertions Probate notices
S. so each for three insertions. Dissolution,
liberation and similar notices $3.50 each for
three insertions. Card OF thanks, 70 cents.
Obituary poetry, o cents line.
solid eectrotypcs only will be taken. We
cannot use cuts with wood bases.
{. NJ. STONE * co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16
Literary News.

he Symposium the lfSC NUMBER o.
George W. Cables new magazine has
made its appearance, and the October
number promises much for the new lit
erary venture. Mr. Gable writes as fol-
lows in one OF the editorials: The
Symposium is for all the rehnements and
engagements, artistic, scientific, literary,
social or religious, on their inexpensive
side. Ii is for making them inexpensive.
And especially it is for them as they
broaden and strengthen the spirit OF
ncighborship in the kindest, widest big
gest sense of the term Furthermore,
wherever readers are seeking, either sol
itarily in family groups orin social clubs,
by reading Systematically in standard
and classic books as well as in the litera-
ture Of the day and hour, to makes read
ing for entertainment as profitable, and
reading for profit as entertaining, as
they may. The Symposium proposes to
make itself feast OF reason, guide to
ordered thought"
The Northern Pacific railroad has is
sued book descriptive Of the country,
cities, resorts and game to be had along
its lines. 1t is entitled Wonderland
&C. by Olin D, Wheeler. 1t commences
with description of the transcontinental
train as it stands in the union station at
st. Paul ready to start on its rs hours
journey to the Pacific coast. Many sta
tistics are given of speed number Of
miles, character of country, ETC., together
with maps and illustrations. The his
tory of the country passed through with
the various places of special interest to
travellers is told briefly and interestingly,
while the stories of the game aud expert
ences of some hunters would make any
true sportsman want to seize his rifle
and start at once i'll pursuit.
By sending six cents in stamps to Chas.
S. Fee, general passenger and ticket
agent, st. Paul, Mimi, the book will be
forwarded to any address, and is well
worth the money even if one has no pres
emit expectation of taking the journey.
The Ladies Home Journal for October
contains its usual number of interesting
articles, and some very reasonable sug-
gestions for fall and winter outfits. But
the article that will undoubtedly attract
the most attention is written by John
Gilner Speed, and is entitled THE Most
Luxurious City in the World" 1t is a
description of the Incomes of the different
wage-earners in Ma York, the cost %
dinners and social affairs, the amount:
spent in flowers, gems, and luxuries o
various kinds, and the cost of living o
the seven different classes in the city
Ian Maclaren has story, "The Minister
of st. Bede's," the conclusion OF which
will be given in the November number
For the friends of music there is a Min
uet Moderne" composed by Paderewski
Ex-President Harrison continues his ar
ticles, the Navy and Interior being tn,
subjects especially considered.