Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-11-26
BUTLER CITIZEN.
Local and General.

A GREAT many of our young men
are devoting their spare time to wondering II
they will be invited to dine out on Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
THERE are number of dogs in this
town whose tails could be amputated close be-
hind the ears, and the community suffer no
loss thereby.
WORKING and Dress Shirts of all
kinds, from 20 cents up, at Charles K. Grieb's.
A BALTIMORE girl ate chalk to make
her complexion white, and she succeeded.
People who looked into the casket said that her
face looked like marble.
CHRISTMAS presents are in course OF
construction The inevitable pair of slippers
worked in worsted, with yellow dogs, blue sun
flowers and green border is still the favorite.
IF you want good education go to
West Sunbury Academy.
Boil rice, shake it in a sieve or
colander until it is dry, end serve it with
strained tomatoes and grated cheese poured
over it while it is hot, SO that they Will melt.
THE Winter Term of the Wither-
spoon Institute will open Dec. lst, 1879. The
Institution is in fourishing conditioh. LA
cellent advantages are offered to students OF
both sexes.
If you wish to prevent weevll In
wheat garners, take three one-quart jugs, NIL
them full of whisky, put them in your wheat
garners, cover them up all but the tops, don't
touch them for three months.-Er
TALLow and Sheep Pelts wanted,
at highest market prices, at
RoEssING's TANNERY.
A SIDEWALK is needed at the corner
of Mexican street and the street to the Free
port" bridge There is vacant lot there,
which nobody seems to own, and around wn1ch
or over which a walk is needed badly.
AN exchange says, that the law ex-
tending the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace
Is pronounced unconstitutional, as it contains
more than one subject in violation OF Art. D,
Sec. 8, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
THE latest styles in Neckwear, at
Charles R. Grieb's.
QUINCY Argo: A Milwaukee girl,
suffering from lockiaw, was left alone with
mouse BY the shrewd physician, and she con.
triyed to open her mouth enough to give yell
that made the crockery in the china closet
rattle.
ONE of the largest stocks of Ameri-
can Movements and American Cases, both Gold
and Silver, ever offered in Butler, is to be seen
at 3. Griebs. which were all purchased before
the late rise in Watches, and will be sold at
the old rates.
WE have on our books considerable
amount due us for small advertisements, and,
as an editor cannot live without money. we
would ask all who know themselves indebted
to us as above to come and settle the same, and
save us the time and expense of sending bill.
WIN. MARLBORO is paying as high as
So and 81 for heavy Steer and Heifer Hides.
THE strange condition exists in
Pittsburgh of large number of streets, alleys
and avenues bearing the same name. The con-
fusion resulting from this condition OF things
has become so great that a special committee
of councils has been commissioned 10 remedy
the evil.
SOME of our contemporaries are
wicked enough to treat Thanksgiving as day
appointed for eating turkey and nothing else.
They say "get your turkey ready" instead OF
admonishing their readers to make. prepara-
ton of heart to thank God for his merces,
turkey included.
THE postofice department has given
notice that payment Of money orders or the
delivery Of registered letters addressed to
Freshman & Co., Premium Art Co., and ). Z.
Tyner Co., all purporting to be doing busi-
ness in Pittsburgh, will not be allowed. The
department says they are swindlers and frauds.
SpEcIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
PIG-KILLING time has come We
notice that some Of our citizens have already
had theirs butchered, and we have often won-
dered whether or no it is possible for good,
wholesome meat to come out of pens from
which, all summer, most obnoxious, sour
stencil has arisen. We are of the opinion that
great deal Of sickness comes from rotten pig
pens.
IF you wish to have the Best
Leather, made at old prices, and cheap Shoe
Findings go to RoEssING's TANNERY.
AN English physician is writing a
series of papers to prove that doctors might
serve their patrons in the kitchen as well as in
the sick chamber. The idea is eminently
sible, for the old saw about an ounce of pre-
vention being worth pound OF cure exactly
expresses the situation. People become sick
because they have violated some physical law,
and nine times out of ten it will be found that
the malady began at the stomach.
YOUNG persons bringing their pro-
visions with them from home, can attend tn
West Sunbury Academy, at the nominal ex-
pense of $12 or SIS per term.
CONGRESS will meet this year on the
first day of December, which happens to be the
first Monday, prescribed by law for the meeting
1t is easy to predict that no legislation of
political character, or involving issues between
the two great parties will be passed. The
questions which disturbed the extra session will
probably be dropped, as they ought to be after
the timidity exhibited by the Democratic
leaders, who went into the fight very hot and
came out of it very COOL
5000 Beef Hides of all descriptions
wanted, Steer, Cow, Heifer or Bull Hides,
trimmed or untrimmed, at VIM. Mardorf's
West Cunningham street, Butler, Pa
ACCURATE statistical information
with regard to the agriculture of this country
is of prime Importance not to our own farmers
and citizens alone, but to the world at large
Recognizing this fact, Congress by an Act,
approved March 3, 1879, provided that the next
census should be completed within the month
of June, 1880. By this provision 1t is expected
to avoid most of the errors in former agricul-
tural reports, due to the fact that many of the
products returned embraced those of two diff
ferent crops. As the next enumeration will be
completed between June LIST and the 30th inclu-
sive, nearly all of the crops harvested one year
can be pretty accurately ascertained Those
for the calendar year 1879 will include the
cereals, peas beans rice tobacco, cotton, pota-
tocc, Vi MINUS, CiONtr, grass Sceu,
hemp, fax, honey, sugar cane, sorghum and, in
short, everything harvested this fall The
crops of the calendar year 1850 will be few,
embracing maple sugar and molasses, and wool
clipped chiefly in spring, except in Southern
California, Texas and some of the other South
ern States where two clippings year are
obtained For certain agricultural products
there is no regular harvest, for they are gath
cred as they mature, week by week. and day by
day These comprise butter, cheese, milk
sold, value of animals slaughtered, yield of
market gardens. timber of all kinds, and home
manufacture. 1t is extremely desirable that
the returns all these topics should be full
and accurate, and this end can be best secured
by the hearty and intelligent cooperation of
our farmers. Accordingly Francis A. Walker,
Superintendent of the Census, strongly recon-
mends them to make notes, from time to time,
of the quantities and values of the several
crons gatherel of the number of acres nlanted