American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-08-14
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State now stands. Judge Cole dissents
from this opinion.
The Swiss hold their elections ON
Sunday for the purpose of securing the
sanctity of the ballot box, and impress
ing the voters with due sense of the
solemnity and Importance of the work
they are engaged in.
-Prussiau finances are in a very ia.
vorabie condition notwithstanding the
recent war. 1t is reported that the
forthcoming financial budget of Minis,
ter Won der Heydt will show surplus
of revenue over expenditures.
Tho Hudson Bay Company pos
sesses a territory of two aud a half mil
lions of square miles which is thirty
eight times as large as the State of New
York. Vanconver's Island is as big as
England, and British Columbis as big
as Spain. So says Townsend, who has
been taking notes among the Brittishers.
Since the close of the testimony in
the Surratt case, man has arrived who
rode with Surratt on the 18th, on the
special tram from Elmira to Harrisbrg,
and third party from the interior
gives the information that he met Sur
ratt in Washington on the 14th, and
shook hands and onve,sed with him.
There was meeting in Bedford
on the 30th ult. of Temperance and
Church organizations over which, on mo-
tion of Hon. John Cessna, Rev. A. w.
Decker presided. Steps were taken to
effect thorough organization and for
public meetings, to be held quarterly on
the last Wednesday of October, JAN
uary, April and July.
- Dispatches from an area of coun-
try embracing the principal part of the
grain producing regions of the West aud
Northwest, received within the last few
days, are uniform in their tone. The
wheat crop is very great, aud safe. AS
to corn, though somewhat backward,
the tone is very hopeful while as to 9th.
er grains the promise and reality are
all that could be desired
= Somebody in Paris has constructed
an apparatus which not only marks on a
dial the distance travelled by cab, by
ton of the wheels, but which also indi-
Gates the distance it would have Iun at
| five miles an hour during any time it
may have been kept standing after the
hiring has commenced. When the re>
form comes into operation, all fares arc
to be charged by the distance.
- Workmen in coal shaft at Bloom
ington, Illinois, last week, at the depth
of l1S feet, struck the remains of tree
some six inches n diameter, and several
pieces were taken out. One pieco which
is about foot long and two inchss in
diameter, is in a very good state of prcs>
preservation. 1t was drmly embedded
in the hard pau-so much so that pick
had to be used to get it out, and though
not petrifed, the wood is pretty thor,
oughly permeated with the substance
of the strata in which it had lain so
long.
- 1t is said the Indians on the Plains
have an ingenious way Of setting fire
to houses with their arrows They
wrap with II rag some powder on the
heads of their arrows, and on the tip of
their arrowhead place percussion cap.
When the arrow strikes the object to be
fred, the cap is exploded and the pow
der and rag ignited. The rag burns
long enough to set any conbustible
with which it may come in contact on
fire.
The average an1ual fall of rain for
thirty years, from 1886 to 1866, was
44,62 inches. During the first seven
months OF this year the fall amounted to
$3.50 inches. If, during tho succeed
ing five months, only an average amount
Of rain should fall, the total would be
about 81 or So inches.
Among the mombers of the Legis-
lature of Tennessee elected on Thurs day
of last week is Col. VIM. f. Prosser, who
resides on farm in the immediate vicin-
ity of Nashville. Col. Prosser is ma
tive of Johnstown, Cambria county, who
went to California, overland, nearly fif-
| teen years ago, ,returnod after many years
residence there and went through the
war for the Union, closing his honored
services as Colonel of Tennessee rcgi-
ment. He became Tennessee farmer
after the war, and now is honorcd by his
neighbors by being chosen their repre-
sentative in the Legislature.
-Anothev gold mine has been discov-
cred in Madoc, Canada, which is repre-
sented to be equally as rich as the Rich
ardson mine. There is very little news
from other sections Of the gold regions,
but the prospects are reported as highly
promising
Gen. Sheridan continues to DISCHARGE
his duty. He has removed Judge Dough-
erty of the 18th Judicial District of
Texas for refusing to obey the laws, and
the Chief of the New Orleans Police at
the request of Mayor Heath We have
hopes that under Sheridan's rule there
will soon be no civil officer in Louisiana
or Texas who dares to defy the laws and
denounce the Government. That he will
interfere unnecessarily with the civil au,
thorities we have no fear, for thus far he.
has had good cause for each of his re-
| mova.s.
The French claim to be the politest ma
tion in thu world hut thou saan, 40 hav~