Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-10-01
Local and General.

Local and General.
CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
THE beauty Of flower gardens !;
gradually waning.
THE Hanlan-Courtney race has been
postponed until October 10th.
IP YOU wish a good education attend
the State Normal School, Edinboro.
THERE are $4,000 postoffices in thi;
country-among them half dozen Buffers
TRUNKS retail at wholesale prices
at ScHSEIDEMASs.
THERE will be another excursion to
Pittsburgh next Friday, at same rates as las
one.
JOHNNY STEHLE returned from Dis
wedding trip last Friday evening. and the boys
serena1ed at the wrong house that night.
IF your Baby is restless while teeth
iog. get DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup; dose OF i
will relieve the little sufferer at once. Only =
cents bottle.
THE house of Mr. Joseph Kerr, Of
Marion township, this county, was destroyed
Lv fire ON the 10Th inst. Most of its contents
were saved No insurance.
A GENTLEMAN who was asked for
his marriage certificate quietly took his hat Oh
and pointed to a bald spot. The evidence ~a'
conclusive His wife uses corncob.
MATHEW McCLEARY's house at
sharpsbnrg. Allegheny county, was robbed
last Monday week night Of small sum ol
money. Mr. McCleary formerly lived IN tins
county.
IT is stated as a remarkable fact IN
the history Of the Pennsylvania Railroad that
for some weeks past the amount Of freight ton
maze transported westward exceeds the amount
conveyed east.
A yEaITABLE tarantula was cap,
tured in a bunch Of bananas at Cory the other
tay. The insect was an inch and a half long
half an inch broad with legs fully two and a
half inches long.
A FELLOW purporting to be an agent
for New York fashion and ladies' magazine
succeeded in victinzing about fifteen ladies' oi
Neadville, to the amount Of 81 each, and left
He may come this way.
AT the start Of the pedestrian race
in New York city last Monday at A. ~,
Rowell ran for tneaty-t,co honys without stop
ping Tor any lengtH OF LHe anu di hiiohi6"'
that night had Travelled III miles.
REV. DIR. WHITE, Of this place, has
been appointed and assumed the duties Of his
appointnent. To the two mission charges Of ST
Michael's and st. Mary's Churches, in Wayne
and Madison townships, Armstrong county.
Mr.. DAWSON WADswoETH, Of Slip
peryrock township, this county, had stolen
from his pocket book last week some $40 OF
public money, he being tax collector for the
township. He offers a reward Of go for the
money.
SECRETARY SCHURZ, the widower OF
the Cabinet, has placed himself outside the pale
of. ladies' consideration by informing Spotted
Tail, who asked for paint, that the men might
decorate themselves, that among the whites
only the women painted themselves.
PART Of the pavement on Jefferson
street between Main and Mexican needs re-
pairing badly. An accident there would cos
the borough something. Mr. III. J. Klingler
has put splendid pavement in front OF his
Flour House, and the rest should follow suit.
THE committee, Mcssrs. Jas. NJ
Denny. Abraham Meyer and James II. Storey
appointed by our Court 10 view the old road il
Penn tos, nship regarding which there has beer
10 much litigation Of late, performed that duty
last Saturday, and decided that the road should
not be vacated.
The valuation Of California has
fallen $37 ,000, 900, being s547 900 900 agains
1854 ,0oO, 900 last year. The new Constitution
Kearneyism, etc., are believed 10 have contrib
uted most to the shrinkage. The tax rate i
62l cents on each 800 worth Of property
against 50 cents last year.
JUDGE DEAN recently rendered {
deeision in the Courts Of Blair county that il
of considerable importance. The point decidet
5s that the signatures Of the makers Of n not
executed in pencil and afterward linked over b,
third party to preserve the signatures ar
material alterations" and therefore void.
In the Court news Of last week tht
type are made to say that our friend II. II
Gouchcr, Esq, was the bail on forfeited re
cognizance Of J. III. Bowman, Esq. The bal
traz Geo. III. Graham, ESD, and the mstak
perhaps arose from some Of the initial letter
being the same in both names. Mr.. GOuche
was not connected with the case.
The list Of "big guns" who re
ceved Gen. Grant on his tour round the worl'
contained twenty-one soyereigns beginning
with Queen Victoria and ending with the Nj
kadO Of Japan-bcsides Prince Bismarck am
w. Gambctta, who are the powers behind tb
thrones OF the TWO Olu-tine antagonists d
Europe, Germany and France.
Mn. SAMUEL w. CRAWFORD, Of JET
ferson township, had a number Of very fin
Durham cattle at the Harmony Fair last week
for which he received number Of first pre-
,nums. Mr. Crawford came from Washington
county TO this some years ago and purchases
the James Welsh farm, not far from Saxonbore
He Is one Of our most entcrprising farmers.
A BLUsHING maiden about to b,
married sought the advice Of Lieut.. Governo
Stone the other day. in the latter's law office
at Warren, in the matter Of compelling he
father to come down with dowry when sh
should get married. She was told that no lega
action could be taken in the cause, and that tn
old man would have 10 be worked through lov
and affection.
In Clarion county, Saturday nigh
week, an old farmer named George AIsbach
while lying in his orchard armed, on the look
out for fruit thieves, rid1ed one Of his grand
Sons with rhot who, with companion. wa
passing through the orchard on their way t
visit him. The doctor probed and took seven
teen shot from the lads leg and several NOR
are thought TO be still imbedded in the flesh.
The new passenger cars on the Penn
sylvania railroad haye some new features this
IeHdcf Tnucn more convenient thaH an
yet built by other companies. They each hay
4 small retiring room In which IL q sofa, sti
tionary washstand, etc, which enables a tra'
eIer, who has not the means or inclination
travel In Pullman coach, 10 make his toll
before leaving the train, which is often gre,
convenience.
BEN BUTLER was q soldier bold,
And used 10 wars alarms;
But cannon ball shot Off his hair,
And swept away his charms.
And as they bore him Off the field,
Said he "Let others shoot,
For shall yet be Governor
or ancient Massachutt"
". Y. Commercini IdpcTtiser.
AT recent meeting Of the Amer
can Academy Of Medicine in Baltimore son
interesting statistics bearing upon the medic
profession were exhibited. Among them was
table showing that we have one doctor to evcl
one hundred families In the United States, NJ
this statement Is made upon the basis Of ~
understanding that "a majority Of them q
ignorant and unfit for their business" Ar
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