Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-12-17

! EVERYBODY should at once pre-
pare for the coming holidays as they are
swiftly approaching and what is nicer or more
appropriate than n fancy piece OF Siiverware
or nice piece of Jewelry to give TO your
friends rs a present +. Grieb has flne seiec
ton of the above named articles, which VIII
be sold at very low prices, and will he en-
grayed free of charge, if purchased during the
Holidays.
Court commenced again on Mon
dav. Judge Bredin presiding and Associates
Storey and Dodds on the Bench. Civil eases are
being tried and at this writing tIuesday noon
| an eiectment suit is being heard, in which m
J. Graham. in right of his wife, Is plaintlff,
and Samuel Polhemus and others are defend
ants being for a part of the old Turk prop
erty in Centre township. Full proceedings
will be given next week
ASK for the SO So Hat, at
CHARLES Il. GRIEB's.
Our Canadian neighbors are at last
| beginning to have trouble with their Indians,
| who are said to he starving, and who resemble
our own redskins in obiecting strennousiy 10
! that form of extinction. Feed us or fght us,
| they say to the Canadian Government. Old
Crow, the Chief of the hungry Glackfeet,
| seems to be an aboriginal humorist. lie cap
tured one of the mounted policeman, ana kept
| him without food for four or five days, SIMPLY
to show him what the sensation was Ike.
ALL kinds of Gloves, at
| J. F. T. STEuLE's.
AT meeting held at Castlerea, in
| Ireland lately TO promote the agitation in
| favor of a radical change in the Irish land
| laws. one of the speakers said "that the rents
| which the landlords got for the past year or
| two did not come from the soil, but from Amer
| lea" As we understand this. the reference
was to money sent from this country by tue
| thrifty sons and daughters here of fanilies
resident in Ireland-money sent to help the old
| folks at home by dutiful children VINO nave
| prospered in the New World.
CRATE tile, fue rings and fire brick,
| at J. Niggle & Bros
In the matter of twisting the eagles
| tail until that proud bird Of freedom shrieks
| again. Senator Burnside is an expert. In his
| recent speech about the lsthmus Canal, the iat
Rhode Island Senator demonstrated 10 his own
| satisfaction that, if worse came to worst no
| foreign power can possibly land on our shores
| an army large enough for the purpose OF
serious invasion. and that by the aid Of torpe-
does and other like modern improvements the
harbors of our seaport cities can easll! pe
barred TO hostile fleets
SILK Handkerchiefs, cheap, at
J. F. T. STEHLE's.
A MAN named Toettel, who was
hanged lately, in Grayson county, Texas,
made the extraordinary request that his execu-
tion should take place in public, instead OF IN
the Jail yard, as designed by the Sheriff: The
motive for the request has not been explained.
Perhaps Toettel liked company perhaps, like
many criminals, he hankered for notoriety; or
again, he NAV have wished to be made an
awful example of. At any rate, 1t would have
been Just as we'll not to have gratifed him, Tor
experience has shown that public executions
have depraving and demoralizlng effect upon
those who witness them
Tue latest styles in Neckwear, at
Charles r. Greb's.
WHEN the young lady in Texas
refuses to dance with the young prominent
citizen of that State, the results are liable to
be of violent nature. The young lady at
Waco, for instance, who ventured to decline to
trip the light fantastic with spirited young
man, exposed her own, as well as the lives OF
all the other persons present. One gentleman
was, in fact killed outright and several seri-
ously wounded, while the young lady herself
had the exhlerating experience of having
revolver snapped twice in her face. This Is
not an agreeable social usage, yet il is on the
whole rather preferable to the custom of fight
prevails in the same State.
If you want good Winter Caps at
19c., go to J. +. T. Stehle's.
In some States hangings no longer
occur on Friday, the change being designed to
relieve the odium attaching to the sixth day o!
the week as "hangman's day" But no effec-
tual change has yet been made IN the mechan-
ism of public executions to render impossible
Il. txr
When the Sheriff cut the rope at Andrew
Tracy's hanging, the man dropped, but struck
on his fcet-then fell to the floor. The knot
had slipped. He was seized and passed up
through the hole to the scaifold and ten min
utes later, with another rope, hanged
again. Scenes like this occur not once or twice
every year, but dozens of times Can such an
execution of the law be termed anything but
barbarous?
THE largest Stock of Half Hose
ever offered in Butler, you can find at
CHARLES r. GRIEB's.
IT has seemed to us that the word
"catch." as applied to clover seed termination,
is unfortunate, because misleading, since 1T
iustifes the impression that good deal rests
upon chance 1t may be observed that if the
seed is good, and properly sown, there is no
chance about the ''catch' if the soil is in a
proper condition to insure it. If the soil is too
dry, it may germinate, but the young plants
| may dry up and die for want of moisture. If
| the soil is too poor, they may germnate all the
| same but starve to death. 1t may be safely
| acted upon that if the soil is mellow and rich
| clover sown either in full or spring will prove
| "a "good catch," the same as any other seeds,
! and that when it fails, the cause, except 1t may
be excessively dry weather, is within the con-
| troll of the farmer.
SLEIGH and Bob runners can be had
at the J. Niggle & Bros Hardware Store, JEFF
! ferson street.
A FAMILY living near Congruity,
| Westmoreland county, were suddenly taken
sick, and for some time they were at II loss as
| to the cause, but, it was noticed that when any
member of the family partook of the cider con.
tanned in barrel which they had purchased
| from a neighbOr and stored away for wine use,
| they invariably became very sick. The man
| from whom the cider had been purchased was
| finally sent for aud requested to give some ex-
PLANTATION Of the mystery and his method OF
manufacturing cider. He was unable to throw
any light on the subject, declared that it had
been manufactured in the usual way, and pro-
| ceeded to take hearty draught of it. In
| little while he, too, became very sick, and 1t
| was then determined to make thorough ex-
| animation of the barrel, which was done forth
with, and to their utterable horror and disgust,
a huge copperhead snake, in bad state of
decomposition was brought forth, which fully
| explained the mysterious sickness of that
family.
| MEN's and Boys Winter Caps from
17c up, at Charles X. Griebs.
Wheat! Wheat!
| The highest Pittsburgh market price
| Maid for Wheat at Walter & RooS'