Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-10-29

IT is a noteworthy fact that while
on the other side of the Atlantic veterinary
surgeons are almost as numerous, and we may
say, considered relatively as indispensable as
doctors of medicine. they are practically un-
known in the United States. The whole num-
Der of educated and skilled veterinarians in
this country at present, it has been asserted on
good authority, does not exceed three hundred,
at the most liberal estimate. 1t is only In the
largest cities where great numbers OF domestic
animals are congregated, such as car horses
and dairy cattle that there has been made any
skilled effort for the prevention and cure of
diseases from which these animals may suffer.
This almost total absence of veterinarians Is
not due to a lack of work for them, but rather
to a want of appreciation of what they might
accomplish in saving animal life.
PAINTS, Oils, Varnishes, &C., at low
Cash prices, at Zimmerman & Hawks.
DIpHTHERIA is as much of terror
to the household as scarlet fever, and anything
that will tend to mitigate its ravages or cure the
malady ITSELF will be hailed with satisfaction.
Mr.. J. F. Krause, OF Altoona, had iour-year- @
old daughter that was desperately ill of diph-
theria-so ILL., indeed, that the physicians said
she could not live half an hour. He deter
mined to try q remedy of his own, and took
about a half teacupful of crude petroleum, into
which he put three cents worth OF gum
camphor, heating the petroleum until the
camphor was dissolved. With this mixture he
swabbed her throat inside and bathed it on the
outside. Inside of two hours the child was
relieved. This was in the evening, and the
next morning the child was able to sit at the
table and eat her breakfast. The remedy is
simple enough, easily procured and is worth
further trial.
HATS, Caps and Gents Furnishing
Goods, at Charles z. Grieb's.
YELLOW fever, which attacked Men,
phis early in July, holds on stubbornly, and
half score of new cases are reported daily.
Hardly has the earth made revolution in all
these months during which burials have not
taken place. Those who have not fled have
remained, not to transact business, but to care
for the sick and to bury the dead. They have
been cut off from the outer world, and of ne
cessity have suffered prIvations. These latter
days have been the hardest ones, for the strain
is beginning to tell, and time lags while wait
ing for the welcome frost that is expected to
wipe out the infection. The disease is getting
a foothold, too, in Greenville and Forest City,
being at the latter place of so malignant type
that thirteen cases out of sixteen soon
proved fatal. Fortunately, this spread OF the
fever comes too late in the season to excite
fears OF widespread results.
IF you wish a good education attend
the State Normal School, Edinboro.
EVEN in the terrible annals of ma
rine tragedy it is rare to find such combina-
ton of horrors accompanied and followed
the burning of a steamer off the coast of Cuba,
a few days ago. Fire catching among boxes of
petroleum and running swiftly through the
vessel Just at dawn; hurried rush OF the
from their beds; the swanrping of
most Of the boats the floating of the survivors
all day long, and many of them through the
night and into the next morning, on planks, TO
which they clung with scorched hands, naked,
in the tropical sunshine, while the salt sea
washed their burns; and the appearance of
sharks, which devoured some of the unhappy
wretches before the eyes of their companions
these are part of the pictures IN the panorama.
The captain ofthe rescuing steamer appears to
have executed his duty of searching and saw
ing most faithfully, but he succeeded In pick
ing up only seventeen of the sixty passengers
and crew.
SMOKE Zimmerman and Hawks
choice Brands.
LAST Thursday the people of York
town, aided by the Governors, or their repre-
of the thirteen original States, by
the lads of the training ships lately at Hamp-
ton Roads, by the garrison Of Fort Monroe, by
the militia of Richmond, Hampton, Williams
burg, Portsmouth and Norfolk, by civic socle-
ties, and by the citizens of southeastern Vir-
ginia in general, commemOrated the ninety
eighth anniversary of the captulation of Lord
CORVALLIS to Gen. George Washington. The
national importance of the ceremony consisted
in its being the preparatory step for greater
ceremony two years hence. permanent or
ganization was formed to secure fit centennial
observance, though the cooperation OF the en-
tire Union, of the most memorable victory in
the War of the Revolution. With frank recog-
milton of the real character of this celebration,
even its date has been made one of convenience
rather than historical accuracy, since the sur
render took place not October 70, but October
10Th, 1881.
WHEN out buying Gents Furnishing
Goods drop in at Charles Z. Griebs.
In the Criminal Court of Allegheny
county, last Saturday, the Court charged the
Jury in the case of the Commonwealth VS.. Geo.
r. and James H. Riddle, President and Cashier
of the Allegheny Savings Bank, whose trial
was on an Indictment charging them with
and conspiracy to defraud. The
Court said that if overdrafts were allowed, the
use of firms with which they were connected,
which was the same thing, and the defendants
purposely concealed the fact of their allowance
from the Board of Directors, they were guilty.
1t was not question of negligence on their
part, or on the part or the Board of Directors.
1t was not question in the case whether the
Directors should have known of these over
drafts. The question was Did the defendants
purposely conceal the fact? The intent was to
be considered. Did they intend to defraud the
bank? And in the question of intent the testi-
mony as to the previous good character of
defendants was an important element. The
Jury retired about eleven o'clock, and remained
out until after one o'clock in the afternoon,
when they came in with verdict of guilty.
SpECIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
Few of the travellers in sleeping
cars are aware that the wheels which bear
them across rapid rivers and lofty trestle-works
are of paper. The question whether paper
wheels are superior to iron wheels was tried at
some length in the United States Circuit Court
at Philadelphia, lately. George w. Halloway
and wife sued the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany for the loss of their son, whose death was
caused by an accident to a Pullman car at
tachcd to the Niagara express train on the night
of Nov. /, 1876. One of the wheels under the
forward truck of the palace car Woodbine
broke and the result was that several persons
were killed and many wounded. The plain
tiffs contended that paper wheels were unht
for use, and that the use of such wheels was
gross negligence on the part Of the Pullman
Palace Car Company. number OF witnesses
took the same ground, and testified that only
wheels solidly cast were safe. On the other
hand, the defence claimed that the paper
wheels were more durable than the best iron,
and were practically indestructible. The
plaintiffs were nonsuited on the ground that
their testimony did not show any liability
whatever on the part Of the Pullman corpora
ton.
MEssRs J. & G.. F. KICK, Merchant
Tailors, have secured the services of one of the
best cutters in the country.
ONE of the ablest clergymen of
Philadelphia has lately delivered discourse
urging the carrying of religion into politics
as means Of resisting the prohigacy and cor
ruption of those who make q trade of politics
He thinks that demagogues ought to be hanged
but while he does not urge violent measures,
he would have Christian men use their efforts
to expose and resist their evil work. A chief