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Advertising Rates. One otpiare one Insertion $1 00; each enb- Sequent insertion 50 cents. Out column,one year One oolumu, Bit monthn BO WJ One column, three roottlis ««& 00 Half column, ene year J® JJJ Half column, nix mouth* .30 00 Half column, three month* 20 00 Quarter column, one year 30 oil Quarter column, ait months 20 00 Quarter column, three month* 12 00 Communication* ofn political character, ci art clex written in a lfoenev or defense of toe claim* of aspirants for olllce, 16 cents per Announcement »f Candidates $5 00. THE BUTLER HERALD. W. H. 1IENN9 & I*, c. SMITH, Editors and Publishers. NoB.oniprtoM rules $1.00. Pse Austin TUESDAY, FEBRTJAYH 5th 1878 LANIER HOUSE, a. DUB, Proprietor. MACON, — — — GF-A-. -O- TttlS HOUSE i« now provided with eery decrvciry convenience for the accommodation and comfort of its pitroiw. The location is desirable nud conveuieut to the business por tion of the city. The Tables XIstc the btst the market nflfd*. Omni bus to aud Iran depot free of charge, bag- gage handled tree of < har«p. The War is supplied wUh the best wines aud liquors. NATIONAL HOTEL, E. C. CORBETT, Pro. Kuuolv Opposite PawsrmiM Depot MACON, ClKOltOIA. ft to fa Per Day, Accordiny to Doom. G'iilD.>o'»iW, B e. gold ; g,.cnli,.LKs. \V« need > iwnsn Butler Herald. UUTLER, HEORQtA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 61b ls7S. WHOLE NUMIIEIt «g Wm. N. BSHK3 * P. 0. SWTH, ?r)jr!a‘.o» A NEWSPAPER WiAjrEBTO ISDUsnty INI' JTVILIZATION St.00 Year T SELEOTIONB. Berthilda’s Offer, BY MABY KYLE DALLAS. Mr. Flint had the reputation of being as hard as bis name. Cer tainly he was a crusty sort of an old gentleman,with a disagreeable habit of telling wha» he consider ed the plain truth to everyone. As everyone did not at once bow low'and say: “Mr. Flint you are perfectly right," this habit ol frankness had brought him into a good many quarrels with his friends and relatives, so tlmt at last the only one of his own blood w^th whom he was on speaking terms was his orphan neice, Ber- tliilda, who kept house for him; to whom he was unusually kind,and who believed him to be a modem Si lemon, 8he had never once contrdiacted him. When he told her that the Flins were generally good looking but that she took after her moth er’s family, who were all as plain as pike-staffs, she answered, 'Yes, Uncle, but that is not iny fault, you know/ When he saw that she need not mind about being good-looking, because, after all, she was a nice little thing and I it and prove it. I'll write and ask .= him, since you arc* so partickerler Berthildy; though bein’ of age, I car/t see why helms anything to say about it.’ To which Bcrtiiilda, sobbing, replied tlmt her uncle’s word war her law,aud was kissed at the gate as usual, this conversation having taken place on a Sunday evening on the way from church. On Monday morning old Mr. Flint, going, after breakfast, into the little room which he called his office, and where he transacted hi* bnsiuess as notary public, found lying on his peak two letters al ready left for him tliot morning, andopeniug them found that each asked him for something. One was from a neighbor named Perkin s, who desired to lorrow a horse of him. The other from Farmer Hoskins, asking for his ueice Berthildu's hand. Mr. Flint was not !u the habit of lingering long over any decis ion. He regarded the fact that Berthilda had had an offer us a sort of miracle not likely to occur again and he Imd on idea that women always liked to he nmiried. Hoskins was well to do and respectable. »Sh? should have him if she chose, tide had been a good gill to him, and he i cully felt an affection for he’*. ■arm at, lily pultlica- iiUe .wwflil. Any one can Income a ■ucc-ssiul audit. The most elegant work «f ari f'ivcti free tn hcribcrs. Tin* price i so low tlmt almost evi-rybotlv snUKcribcs. One scent report* (unking over $160 m a week. A laily act-ut report* taking over 400 subsgri- iVrsiu ten (lavs. All a no tngngi {fast. Yoi ulo it a only i bou. • tUUv light Full p.. ticulurs directions and aud rinenmve Outfit tree, it you want pro fitable work seud ns your address at once. It cos' uo ning 'o try the business. No one who engage* tail* to make great pav. Ad die.** ‘Th* People's Journal,'’ Portland llaiue. »* not easily earned in theta g tiuies, but it Cali be make in either sex, in anv part of the country who i- willing to work steadily at tint employment uihb. $06 p Yo ci be nigtit. You can give jo work oi only your spar Sgeuts win. are making ^ bole tune to t oment*. Web* r $2» per »l"y. All ke money lusf ' „ .1 nothing to try the basin***. Terms aud $5 Outfit Ire. Address at once, H. Ham.kii A (Jo., Portland, Maine Ang.l4-ly. COSS UMP 1 iox C URL Do An old Physician retired from active prac tice, having bad plictd in bis bauds \»y Earn Indian in'ssir simple vegetal>1' the f' remedy for the speedy and .v.m...-.— >t Cousnumtion. Brnnohitiw, batarrii, Astina. atid all Throat and Lun alfeCtiotH, also a positive aud radical cure f. General EeblHty and alt nervous uomplii ftf.cr having thoroughly teste.1 it* tmderfid mils of sasos. feels ike it known to Ins suffering jucino will be sent fret ol . - "ftil who n»?sire it, with full dtreo- tiontTfor preparing and successfully using Address with stamp naming 1 thi* Jp*pe J. 0. Sti “ ‘ * delphia it his duty t fellow*. ■- charge, e, 44 North Ninth Street, Phila- Oct. 23-ly. remarkable success. The success of tae leading literary papi of the West. The Chicago Lew ‘SB. is tr» lv remarkable. S.nce hs tutrcrineliou to tl reading public, six years ago. Ihe Jammu. l u . utudi*v advacued in favor, and is turn ftckuowled. »'d second to no paper ol tht kind in the country, it* ciroulaton is national,and ban been obtained through the efforts of iL- nublisUiTS to produce a paper ot high moral nit I. meter and at the same time sell it at price cousisteut with the piesent t.ard linn That they have succeeded, mid avoIi, too. tl thousands of readers of The Leugeb scat- o£pm toFlorida U iill bear testimony. The ;» £S£K£ tab complete »ndconliun-d;in enchnninbei wtu-n bv Hie bint anthem of Ihe d..j. T erait Tar.-ty ot informutim. inlCTeating tu out). The subscription prioe of I Be f am.EK is only *1.60 per year,postage paid. court-in« ,er y pirtieolar tu othei mpiTH of the samf character which cell for Sl'ivcM. Tbrea co|ie» of «hU Talnoblr ’ -illlic lent to any one who eende 10 S3? Sid ** -ddriu, r«. Lnoom. Cfcteugn, IU. . . . . . , , ... . As fur l J eikui«. lie nhottlcl nut would be more Hitt to be K-tt lot. . , , , , lmye lna lioree. ilulinauverwutk- keett house lor him forever,she an- ... . , .. . .., . 1 . , ’ 1 ed the one he hud borrowed of linn neared to lie comforted. I, . , ... ... v .... , , | last liurvent-tiuie, and the poor She was mild aud meek, and . , , , ,. , . , ... . ’ . beuat had died m conoiuueiiee. her vanity had been qnito taken Uui , p er ‘ kill8 hiH iy J re cut ot her by her uncle 8 t rank-, ^ JJu WlJlll(1 ivu ‘ hI neb*. 8he wt\« really, by no mean* ho very plain; but *ho accepted Mr. Flint'a opiutou without a murmur. It was all genuine. She w is one of those little women vh» generally (low down bcfoie lit* male head of the family aud wor ship him.. Site had not even re flected that he might leave her his money, or some of it. It was too dreudiui to think ot Uucle Flint ever dying at all. As for marrying, it did not en ter Berthildu's mind, 8he Imd written herself down as spinster, as soon as she had heard Uncle Flint’s opinion on the sulject, which was oracularly given * lien she was about sixteen years of age; but now that she was very ncui ly thirty, she was astonished by the appearauce of a lover in the shape a stout farmer of lorty, a widower without children, and owner of us fine a piece of property as could be found in the state. It was a case ot love at first. sight on his part, and Berthilda finding yerself made love to, and being quite utiused to tho situa tion, felt that it was her duty to refuse him, since to marry would be tocoutradicb Uncle Flint's dis tinct assertion that she was born to be an old maid; yet she yielded to the advances of Mr. Hoskins, so far as to allow herself to be j seen home from 'meeting’ kissed | piece of his mind lor his impudence, and he would Settle that business before he attended to BeithitdaV offer. Ho be drew his blotter towriu! him, seized pen aud ink, and in dited the peppery epistle: ISltt—I dou t wonder you wrote, aud hadn’t the face to come uud ask me tor what'you wanted,like a man. Let you have her indeed. When everyone knows you killed the other one with overwork, uuu only sent her home to be buried. A pretty idea that, indeed. 8he was just a rack ot bones when you got thiough w.til her,and, I judge half starvedas well as worked to death. You'll promise to take good care of her no doubt. You may it you git In r, but you'll only do that by stealing her, and as 1 suppose you're quite capable of lhat,l shall see to my h cks. This finished, he wrote more briefly to Mr. Hoski Hear 8ir—I can’t see anything in the way of your h iving what you ask. You can come over if you like and talk it over. Flint. Having done this, he put each in envelope and sent them off. Poor Berthilda scarcely dared to raise her eyes to her uncle's face that day; but his manner to hey was unusually Kind, and she htf^. allowed herself tu hope much fnW it, when, as she sat at her Kuit- in the evening. Peggy, the at the gate, and occasionally en oireleJ by . very large arm.wl.ich j “'{„ a^.^eBti/.bc-cKonerl tnj.ae.-mu.- afler a iqr.eeze or two,»l.e a lway*| t0 her „ 0I11 th(J(lw)t .. BnJ havi put away with a nkocketl little:^ b il( ,j in , 0 thu , J squcel ! finally Mr. Hoskins offered {u " aei " < ‘ r that Mr ' HusKiu9 w ““‘- hlmaelf, aud Birthilda, Itaviug «ee her at the gate. To the gate Berthilda went in a state of nervous agitation, which made the blue ribbon bow in her confessed to a partiality for him, eude-lby asserting that Uucle Flint must decide the matter, aud that she dared uot mention the subject to him. ‘Well, then, I will/ said Mr. Haskins, 'I ain’t afraid of no hair quiver liice a humming-bird, aud there she found Mr. Hosivin* so red in the face with rage that the man, and if your uncle has any-[color wasp^yeptible by moonlight thing against inc, he can out with And his greeting was this t ‘•Berthildy, if old Flint was any body’s unci* but yourn. I'd go in uud pummel the breath out ot him. I’ve a iiiiutcr do it now.** “Oil, dear!** sobbed Berthilda, “what is the matter !" 4 *//eN writ me a letter tlmt was jest chock full of insults from fust to Inst. >uid Mr. Hoskins. “Said I Writ cause I was a lea ml to ask him tor you ;said every one knew that 1 killed Abigail Arnminty with overwork, starved her to death, and sent her over lo her urn's to be bin led. Now Abigail Arimiuty died of the con sumption that was in the family, and I spent lots in doctor's slut); and if she was buried from her ilia’s tlmt was the old lady’s wish. And Ara- niintv she would go there to die. Aud I did all that mortal man could, and J d help, uinl I wasn’t hard on Ah- l Arimiuty; niul tour undo he'* a liar, and if lie'll sonic out here, I'll wring his neck. I’ve as much as kin do to keep from saying word* a hadn't orter say after lie's jiued the church. 1 never was so mad in my life. Ifni bursting with rage; and lie says I'm a thief, aud lie’s no detibi I’ll steal you it I can : ami so I will. It’s just this, Berthildy—you come along with me now, and get Parson Speer to marry us, or there's »n end of it. It’s all up between us. .You idioso betwixt old Flint and me, and cf you ehosn him, why I aiu't under no obligations.to you no longer, and i’ll make a jolly of him in three shakes •if a sheep's tail.” At these words Berthilda trem bled more than ever. The foun tains that were in her head over Unwed and ran out ol her eyes •idowii her checks. 4 * Oh. oh. oh!” she sobbed, "was ever a poor woman*in suih trouble? Oh. oh!’’ “Choose!” cried Hoskiu?: “and lamed if I ain’t, sc. mud I don’t Iceer much which way you choose. I’d rather like tu be at liberty to go tor old Flint, and mash him— by jingo, I liudl’’ “Why don’t I die!’’ sobbed Berthilda. “But, oh, Silas, 1 can’t leave Uncle Flint like that. It wouldu’t be descent.” “Then here go^s,” said Silas Hoskins taking off’ his cuffs. At this moment a Jong, lath like figure strode past them and began to hammer at the door. The servant opened it, and Pe ter Perkins voice inquired tor Mr. Flint. Mr Flint at once appeared in tne entry. “Well, what do you want here?” was his salutation. “vVall, Mr. Flint,” said Peter Perkins, “8etiu’ you was so ’bligin’ and neighborly about this gray mare, I kinder reckoned I’d jest step in and lead her over to night. You see 1 git in my bay to-morrer, and there’s a rain a-comin’ up along the eend of the week, or I uin't no prophet.” “So you do mean to steal her? v said old Flint. “I’ve seen impu dence before, but this cups all,” “Kinder gue.is you've forgot who I am," said Peter Perkins. ‘•Don’t you rememner a writin' to me this moruiu’? Pm Mr. Perkins, Mr. Flint.” “I know you well enough/' said Flint. “D’ye think Piue in my dotage? You're the man that killed my brown horse lust sum mer, and ask for my gray mare to do the same by this, aud I told you what I thought of you in my note. You must have been drinking, Mr, Perkins! You must be drunk, sir, to ask me for my gray mare alter what 1 wrote you ibis morning.' ‘I drinking? I never touch any thing but tea. I’m a 8oti of Tern prance, sir l’ shouted Mr LegalAdvertis^ment* Will lMiuiMrte-1 at th. following fatal Sheriff Woo, [>eriv]‘mre ,3 6# Sheriff*. murtgHir* wUen 6 0# . Appliiatioo fur letter, of admin trtra Son 4 0# Appiicatlon fur luitrm of guardif iwhip. .4 00 DiHiuiHaluo froujndiuiui'tnitiua 600 l-UHniltMlou fn.li ,-iuldlaliaiiip...6#0 For luuvu tu .all luud Ily Apulicatinn tor hotT'Klmd 47V Notice to .lublori) uud creditor. 4 0# nitle of root emote by ndminiatratotn. nm* t ra and puarilinnK, pet eqnar. 3U0 Stile of iieriidiulile properly, ten dayt. ...6 0# Eittriiy notict., 30 dn'-. Ufl, All btlie fur advciliitiiiR in fhia paper or. te un the find appearance ol the advertiao* cut will be pruMUtcd when th. money U aided. Perkins, so tlmt Ins voice reached tile ears of tho oohappy couple ah the gate. ‘I drunk!' ‘Then if you are sober .you can'l reai)! 1 said Mr. Flint ‘Yotl wrote me a uote telling me to coine over, saying there m nothing in the way of my having the gray mare,' said Mr. Perkius. ‘That's untrue/ said Mr, Flint. ‘You're a lying, sir!' said Mr. Perkins. ‘Hanged if I'll atanfl it!' And now Miss Berthildy saw her uncle menaced ity a bony flat, And Hew up the path, with Hos kins alter her. ‘You abominable rascal!' cried Mr. Flint. ‘Telia me Pin drunk at|d a liar, sir,’ ci led Pei kina to Hoskins. ‘Asked him neighbor-like to lend me his gray mare, and he wrote he would, and now calls me all the names he can lay his tongue ti.’ ‘I don’t doubt it, sir!' said Mr. Hoskins. ‘He's insulted me, sir. Told me I worked my poor, late Abigal Arminty to death, and starved her, aud was afeard ot him. Writ that to me, sir! hang hi nil' ‘That's false!' said old Flint. ‘Now, 1 am a liar, am 1 ?' cried Haskins. ■You are both insane I' said Flint. ‘You never writ that to msV, cried Hoskins. ■Xo doubt it’s true, but 1 didn't,’ cried Flint. ‘He is crazy,' said Hoskins. ‘Mad us a March hare.* said Perkins. •You are a couple of lunatics. I'll bo protected against you. Help! help! Some one go for the constable!’ ‘A lunatic!' said Mr. Perkins, ‘Why, there’s the letter you writ me. If you were a younger man I’d not stop (o argy; but you're old enough to be my father—' ‘That's another lie,' said Flint. ‘You're fifty years old.' ‘Well, that's the letter you writ me, anaway,' said Perkins, hold ing out a crumpled sheet of pa per. Flint took it in his hand, glanced at it, mid said: ‘It isn't/ hut his face altered. ‘Contradicts anything,' said Perkius- ‘I suppose you'll deny you wrote me tlm!?' said Hoskins, offering another letter to the old man. Again Mr. Flint glanced at the page. ‘Yes, I do,' ho said; hut this time he grinned. ‘Perhaps a secret enemy,' mur mured Ucrthilda. Uncle Flint looked at her,, her nose was red with weeping. ‘You're a good girl, berthilda, if you are an ugly one, said Un cle Flint. ‘For your mko, I'll ex plain matters. 1 wrote both those letters, but I sent them to tho wrong men. That's yours Hos kins. Perkins, thol is yours, and 1 meant every wo.*d of it/ And ho liandcJ the letters to their proper ownsru. ‘I'll see if thisaiu't a case of li- bei/said Perkins, as he waited off. Hut HosKirs advanced and held out liis'lar^h hand. ‘Lethv-goms be by-goiie«,’hes»iil, ‘May I have Eertliildo, Mr. Flint,’ ‘You can ast her,’ sa’tl Flint. And thougi Hertlillda only said ‘Oh, dear,’ aid rried again, //oakins was rontumid,and the w oding c «tu otYia tluo. liu*.