Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-09-17
Local and General.

CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
THERE are only two unmarried min
listers in the Allegheny Lutheran Synod.
THE DANBURY NeaUs' mathematician
saws that Smith dies every fifteen minutes.
JAY GOULD again steps to the from
with another five thousand in his hand for al
ficted Memphis.
EXCURSION tickets to the State Fan
are issued on all railroads centering In Phlia
delphia at greatly reduced rates
FEED your hens on sunfiower seeds
and the meat will taste like prairie chicken
This is not intended for old hens.
DoN'T forget the acution at Rocken,
stein,s hardware store next Friday week
See advertisement in another place.
THE telegraph Office at this place is
- ba removed to Zimmerman & Hawks drug
store, Main street, opposite Lowry House.
AT the Pine Grove Mercer county,
school there are now abou. two hundred stu
dents. fifty of whom are from Butler county.
DoN'T sign your name to any paper
,rasanted bv a stranger: deal at home with
men who spend their money where they make
it.
ALL that have once used 1t pro-
nounce DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup the best medi-
cine known for the complaints OF early child
hood. % cents a bottle.
HANLAN, the Canadian oarsman,
ought to be rich He has won 1000 since
1875 in his races and his bar-room at Toronto
clears him $500 per week.
THE way these scandalous Tammany
neople talk about him you would actually
think Honest Old Mr.. Tilden was not an IN
genious and benevolent cherub.
THIS month you can plant raspber-
ries and blackberries, currants and sooseoerries,
strawberries and grapes. They Will cost you
little; they will help you much.
A YOUNG lady's hat blew off at the
Fair last Friday and was run over by wagon:
The ribbons were somewhat soiled, but the hat
is now the very latest fall shape.
CHOICE butter sold in Pittsburgh yes
tertav. from 15M16 cents eggs, 800 IA cents I;
early rose potatoes, 45 to 30 cents; spring
chickens, % to 30 cents prime loose hay, Sl4
to $16 per ton.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Com
panv will sell excursion tickets from this place
to Philadelphia and return, good only on
trains leaving town to-day, and good for return
trip until the 22nd inst, for $3.50.
THE Afghans, it is reported, have
exposed the dead bodies of the murdered Eng
lishmen on the walls of Cabul. This sort OF
thing is out of fashion in England now, but
not 50 long that the annals are forgotten.
PRESIDENT HAYES is cancelling some
of his engagements to make visits this fail, and
declines to make any new ones, on account OF
the pressure of public business. He expects to
devote the balance Of the year to preparation
to meet Congress.
Too much regard cannot be given
to the fact that Dr. Bulls Baltimore Pills have
no superior as a family medicine. For Head,
ache, Flatulency, Dyspepsia, Liver and Blood
diyeases, Nervousness, ETC., they stand unex-
celled. Price % cents.
FARMERS throughout the country
are rejoicing in the large yield of the crops
a a.ready harvested, and the fine prospect af-
fcrded by those in the ground. So mote It be.
"When the farmer is doing well everybody Is
doing well" is homely but true saying.
FERN-GATHERING parties arc now IN
order. ami the ladies in many places may al
reauN DC secI tdhiIS cioit "SAHS NV NON@
try and to the water-courses and wild spots
along. the hills, for the purpose OF making coy
homes still more attractive during the fall and
winter months.
THE Venango county Court was oc-
cupied an entire day recently with case IN,
yolvine seyenty-five cents. About hundred
witnesses were called to prove whether man
had borrowed that sum from neighbor, or
had paid it for an AK. The costs in the case
amounted to over a hundred dollars.
A YOUNG lady, who was one of the
most enthusiastic of the converts at camp
meeting at Urbana, Ohio, last month, fell into
n trance while praying. Her friends believed
that her condition was the result of a special
blessing, and would not permit physician to
do ANYTHING for her. She lay unconscious for
several days, and finally died, of spinal men
ingitis.
THE potato bug is indulging in a
little pedestrianism these days and can be seen
vending his way along the sidewalk with all
the intentness and oblivion of great mind
bent upon an important mission. Set your
foot gently but firmly upon him. In some
localities we notice he is attacking the ripe
tomatoes and seems to so at it with evident
relish.
A Mr.. SoULE, of Elgin, Illinois, is
in his third year of frog farming, and his first
crop is now being marketed. He has an acre
and a quarter devoted to the frog industry.
The kind grown is the "Goslin frog" much
larger than the common sort. Mr.. S.will, next
season, furnish st. Louis, Chicago and Cincin-
natl with frogs, and is confident Of success in
the business.
IT is stated that Professor Mayer,
of Boston, recently put soft-shelled potato
bug larva into carbolic acid for three days, and
then boxed it up and sent it to Europe for
geological specimen. Nothing daunted by the
Is days journey under such discouraging cir
when it reached the old country
the bug was found able to eat potato vines as
cheerfully as ever.
WHEN farmer picks up q home
paper and sees every reliable business firm
represented in its columns by good, healthy
advertisements, he says to himself at once,
"that is business place; the merchants are
energetic, wide-awake and up to the times !;
they are trying to build up their town and en-
hance the interest of the surrounding country.
They deserve little patronage and they shall
have mine"
REV. SAMUEL MCBRIDE, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church at McKeesport, is
angry He has been "docked' for absence from
his pulpit or rather for the amount paid to
other pastors to fill his pulpit. His salary was
81 600 with house rent and other privileges
worth $400 free. He was away five weeks, and
the amount of expenses of ministers who filled
his pulpit was deducted from his pay. He is
awful mad and threatens to resign.
AN enraged Washington county man
becoming angered at the trifing inficton of
humble bee stings, while going through his
meadow, thought to get even with the "pesky
things" by applying burning brand to their
nest, and was successful not only in obliterating
them from the face of the earth, but also in
burning over two acres of meadow, two stacks
of prime hay and forty sections of worm fence.
That is merely an example of what bad
temper may get one into sometimes, and goes
to show how slow to wrath one should proceed.
THE Democrats of New York found
no difficulty last Thursday in agreeing as to
their principles; but they could not agree as
to men Governor Robinson was the un.
doubted choice of the majority of the Conven.
ton, and he was finally nominated. The op.
position to him was not SO much personal to
himself as to the Old Man of Gramercy Park
mounted upon his shoulders. Robinson might
have been swallowed; but Tilden was dose
tno heavy for the stomach of Ta,nmany and