Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-10-08
Local and General.

FIGURING Mlll--JacOD DOOS
General Election Proclamation.
Observation-Disclosures Pittsburgh.
Local and General.
CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
Now is your time to put up you
stove and get your fall SCOT.
Mr.. JOSEPH GRAHAM has been ap
pointed Postmaster at Whitestown.
DRIED kangaroo tongues is the latest
delicacy introduced into the city markets.
A GRoUNDHcG weighing fourteen
pounds was shot in Berks county recently.
EASTERN farmers say that the fy
has already attacked the newly sown wheat.
THE Renno Bros. have some hand
some monuments in stock at their work shop
KNIT Cloaks and Shawls, at
RITTER & HALsToN's.
SOME of the farmers are reveling IN
fresh pork and buckwheat cakes; yum! yum
y-u-m-m
Iris estimated that$1O0, 900 changed
hands in Pennsylvania in bets on the late
walking match.
Puck AYERS that man who finds
pocket book with cash in it doesn't look IN
paper for three weeks.
THE season for making sauerkraut
draws nigh, and those who have taste Tor
decayed cabbage are happy.
Now is a good time to buy moss for
Christmas 1t is cheap and plenty, and Will
keep in good condition until used
THE boy with the gold watch wants
to know what time it is twice as often as does
the boy with silver chronometer.
AN exchange says, "a newspaper
editor that people don't talk about and some
times abuse is rather q poor concern"
On Monday last, 9Th inst, the
weather was as warm here as in July. The
thermometer reached 900 in the shade.
GUM camphor dissolved in petro-
leum is now used rs remedy for diphtheria,
being applied as gargle or with swab
THOMAS MARTIN, of this place, is
making quite an improvement on his property
by making the run go straight through his
meadow.
Our State Supreme Court holds
Allegheny county responsible for the value OF
property destroyed by the mob in Pittsburgh
during the riot OF 1877.
The quickest way to expel foul air
from well is to heat bar of iron red hot, and
lower it down into the water; the sudden for
nation of steam is effectual.
AN exchange suggests that it Gen.
Grant really wants to know what fame is he
fba iutaruatjOnal walking
match and carry off the belt.
Gus FALLER has been displaying
some good taste lately in the arrangement OF
fine goods in Schneideman's clothing store
windows. Gus is good clerk.
AT the Post Office is card giving
the distance from the State Normal School
Edinboro. There should be one giving the
distance from a good education.
The best reform in domestic life is
without doubt the introduction of DIR. Bulls
Baby Syrup. Where it is known no more
laudanum is given to the Babies.
AN Irish newspaper says: "In the
absence of both editors, the publishers have
succeeded in securing the services OF gentle
man to edit the paper this week."
A CARD sharper in the wake of a
circus, swindled Mr.. Baylis out of $40, at Plain
City, Ohio. Mr.. Baylis drew a corn knife from
under his blouse and instantly killed the gam
bier.
THERE were dumped upon our
shores last Thursday the snug little sum of SO, )
29G, 200, all in shining gold twenty-franc
pieces. The steamer Amerique brought them
from Havre.
Mr.. JACOB Boos has rented the
Walter & Boos flour mill, and is now running it
himself. He is making fine -four and is doing
a cash business. See his advertisement in
another place.
ANOTHER six days walking contest,
this time for the O'Leary belt, was commenced
in New York last Monday morning. There
were thirty-ivc starters, among them 7. Spell
lacy, of Petrolia.
FUNCTIONAL disorganiZation of the
Liver is most powerful and common cause
of melancholy. DIR. Bulls Baltimore Pills
invariably give tone to the Liver and promote
its healthful action.
Up TO yesterday, no further authen-
tic news had come from the Ute reservation,
which composes the greater part of Colorado
west of the mountains, but it is believed that
there has been another massacre.
DIVINE service will be held, and a
sermon preached by Rev. d. I. Edwards, with
the Disciples Church, Petrolia, on Sunday
evening next, 18th inst, at n o'clock. Seats
free.
A YOUNG lady at certain place in
Wayne county asked the prayers of the congre-
CATION, because she could not set her eyes upon
q certain young man in her neighborhood
without feeling as though she must hug him to
death.
THE increase in net earnings of all
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
east of Pittsburgh, We're S21S,656 more for
eight months in 1879. than for the same period
of 1878. This will be good news to the stock
holders.
YoUNG man, in picking out girl
with whom to pass the coming winter evenings,
pick out one whose father has stove in the
parlor and barrel of apples in the cellar.
This makes things comfortable all around, we
have heard.
THE peace offering sent by King
Cetywayo to Lord Chelmsford consisted of an
elephants tusk seven feet long and about eigh-
teen inches in circumference. The elephant
that sported that little ornament must have
been whopper.
THE petunia plant is said to be a
preventive of potato bugs In vicinities where
the wild petunia grows the potato plants are
said to be free from the dreaded pestilence. 1t
does not at present appear in what way the
bugs are affected.
A FARMER attempted to cut into a
premium pumpkin at fair at Council Grove,
Kansas, to get few of the seeds, but found it
made of wood. 1t had taken many prizes at
fairs for its weight, 23O pounds. and its cir
conference, 7 feet.
SNAKES are said to be more veno-
nous now than at any other portion of the
year. Tfis assertion may account for the fact
that nearly all parties who now go cunning
carry flask Of whisky along, in order to be
ready for an emergency.
THE census enumerators next year
are to do their work in June, and the pay is
not to exceed 800 per month, or $4 per day.
Applicants for the position of enumerator will
observe that they cannot afford to pay very
high price for the position.
TERRoNT, the champion bicycle rider