Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-09-24
Local and General.

CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
IT is unlawful to shoot larks, doves
and hiclzers.
If you want to vote, pay your taxes
by October 4.
THE autumn leaves are coloring like
toper's nose.
THE next thing ON the programme Is
house cleaning.
STORE potatoes in dark, cool place,
and in shallow bins.
A BETTER understanding is needed
between farmers and millers.
You can buy fine white shirt for
sixty-five cents, at Charles r. Grieb's.
The Prairie Farmer says that West
ern farmers have become crazy over wheat
LEAVE all winter pears on the tree
as long as there is no danger of severe frosts
A FARMER is liable to fine of fif-
teen dollars for every Canada thistle allowed
to grow on his farm.
If Barnum could collar King Cete-
wayo and a best citizen of kemper county, his
fortune would be made.
Strawberries set now, in rich soil
and covered well through the winter, will give
you a large crop next season.
UNDER the new tramp law any re-
sponsible citizen can arrest the tramp when he
finds it right and necessary to do so.
EAT all the fruit you want-peaches
nre remarkably plenty, and are selling very
low grapes are also plenty and cheap.
IF bunty Ben Butler can get nomf-
mated by a few more Massachusetts, conven'
tions he will have q boom on his hands.
Corn stalks and leaves are more
nutritious if cut green. Much is lost if the
shocks are permitted to remain until late in the
year.
Puck What the Democrats wish
to know before the next campaign opens is
whether Samuel J. 7. is single or double
barld.
STEUBENvILLE Herald: The diff
ference between woman and an umbrella is
that there are times when one can shut up an
umbrella.
SOME of the attorneys before the
Board of Pardons have the bad taste to address
Telegraph.
WE advise all persons to heed the
warning that the Commissioners have had
posted on what is known as the "Freeport
bridge at this place.
A SAN Francisco man was caught
lately altering the figures on his mothers tomb
stone, his object being to make the date suit his
purpose in a lawsuit.
WASHINGTON BoLE, of Freeport,
aged twenty-five, was crushed to death in coal
bank near that place on the 18th inst, by a
large amount of slate falling on him.
THE sin of ambition, by which the
angels fell, will never be marked down against
the young man whose sole effort IS TO carry
light cane and still lighter moustache.
THE surviving members of the l05th
Pa Vols. will hold their first annual reunion
at Brookville, Jefferson county, on Tuesday,
7th of October next. A general attendance is
desired.
AN exchange advises its readers to
clean out their cellars and coal bins and get
ready for cold weather. 1t strikes us that a
cleaned out coal bin and cellar is just what we
don't want for winter.
A CANADIAN girl carried twenty
foot ladder 100 yards, placed it against burn
ing house, climbed up and-well she did not
put out the fire. She fell backward on man
and nearly killed him.
PREVENTION is better than cure, and
Dr. Bulls Baltimore Pills are the best pre-
ventiye of disease known. They are used.
approved and recommended by myriads OF
people throughout the land.
THE Iron City College of Pitts
burgh, advertised in another column, is first
class institution and the only one in the United
States exclusively devoted to the practical edu-
cation Of young men for active business life.
NEWARK Call: The two cent re-
turn postal card has been issued. When a fell
low sends a proposal to his girl that way, and
asks for reply, the postoffice clerk will be
wiser than he would be with only the one cent
card.
A GREAT many remedies are adver-
tised to bring them before the public, who
decides whether the article is good or bad. The
good reputation which DIR. BULBS Baby Syrup
enjoys is standing guarantee of its merits.
Price 20 cents.
WE are now shipping nearly as
much wheat to Continental Europe as to Great
Britain. During the week before last we sent
2,S48090 bushels to the former against 2, ,S5G 900
bushels to the latter to say nothing of unusu-
ally heavy shipments of wheat flour.
COMMUNION services will be held in
the English lutheran Church of this place
next Sabbath morning preparatory services on
Saturday at IL A. NJ. Also in Presbyterian
Church, Sabbath after next, with preparatory
services on Friday evening and Saturday after
noon.
SINCE Monday last there has been
daily mail between this place and Harmony,
Zelienople, Evansburg and intermediate points.
The hack leaves Butler every morning, goes as
far as Evansburg and returns same day. Be-
tween Evansburg and Zelienople the mail is
carried by rail.
WHILE young man named Long
herd was feeding thrcsher on the jacob
Greenwalt farm in Sewickly township, West
moreland county, one day last week, his cloth
ing was caught by the teeth of the cylinder and
stripped completely from his body. The lad
escaped without injury.
HERE agriculture is putting the ma
tion out of the slough of despond and all its
financial difficulties; in England revival in
little and the country good deal. We are O
nation of farmers; England, nation of me
chanics and shop-keepers.
HOSE Oi our CillZcuS VINO use DarO
coal had better lay in store of coal to last fol
several years to come. Professor Schafer, oi
Pottsville, in lecture before the Society fol
the Advancement of Science, said that the an
thracite coal fields of Pennsylvania will bt
exhausted in the year 1856.
NEXT Friday the P. r. r. Co. will
sell excursion tickets to Allegheny and return
including pass into the Exposition, for S1.2
from Butler, 81 cents from Freeport, and cor
responding rates between the two points. II
be good for return trip the tickets must b.
stamped at the Exposition building.
ALISON says that the two following
lines by Campbell compose ''the most perfec
and unmixed metaphor in the English Ian
guage :"
otis the sunset of life gives me mystica
lore,
And copiing events cast their shadows be
FORE"
THE best stock of fine wooden cloth
in town can be seen at J. & G.. F. Kecks Mer