Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-12-17
BUTLER CITIZEN.
I.ooal and General.

cHrw Jsckson's Bes. Sweet Navy Tobacco.
FRANCE has penny saving banks for
school boys.
GEORGIA gold mines now yield ST.
100000 year.
Go TO j. F. T. Stehle's for the latest
styles Of Hats.
MINNESOTA has ITO Touring mills,
with 66e run of stone, in active operation.
A SOUTHERN Congressman says
vhite men raised three-ifths of this years cot
ton crop.
THE action of Kidney-Wort on the
kidneys. Bowels and Liver, gives it wonderful
power.
THE Democrats have majority OF
seven over all in the National House OF Rep
resentatives.
SHAFTS. finished and rough, at the
]. Niggle 4 Bros Hardware Store, Jefferson
street, Butler. Pa.
SHUT every door after you, ana
vithout slamming it, is good rule to observe
when you enter a house.
CHRISTMAS is coming and the
Youngsters are anxiously awaiting the time OF
Santa Claus annual visit
WILLIAM ALAND, Merchant Tailor,
has just opened the largest line OF woolens ior
men and Boys wear ever offered in Butler.
HAPPY homes and smiling faces are
invariably the result Of wise parents constantly
keeping "Sellers' Cough Syrup" on hand.
Price Csc.
WE only give what the Cincinnati
Saturday Night says: In Zuiuiand Ihe young
folks fight and get married IN TINS country
they get married and fight"
THE increased value of the South
crn cotton. tobacco and sugar crops tins year
over last il estimated at $50,OOO,O0 Ihis IN
creas is due to better prices, as well as 10 a
larger yield.
AN item is floating in many OF our
exchanges that the word "girl" occurs in the
Bible but oncc-Joel III, 3. A little girl
writes us that it can also be found IN Lacha-
riah VIII, 5.
A WOMAN of brains suggests that
o;r,s M matter how wealthy their families,
Should be brought up to some occupation
whereby they can earn an honest living IN 'he
hour of need.
TUESDAY, December End, was the
tventieth anniversary of the execution OF John
Brown. of Ossawattomie. The slave power
set its iron heel on the brave old mans BODY,
but his soul marched on till the noble cause
triumphed.
FIFTY wears ago only one citizen OF
New York City, John Jacob Astor, was worth
more than 81 ,0OO, 900. Now it is asserted that
there are over five hundred men IN the me-
tropolis whose wealth is estimated at Si,poo,-
600 and over.
AN old farmer in Oakland county,
Michigan, eighty-one years old, was turned out
of doors BY his son.; He hobbled round to the
barn and burned up. the whole establishment,
which represented the work OF a lifetime Ills
grit held out to the end.
POSTMASTER General Key is about
to issue an order prohibiting the placing OF
stamps upside down on letters. Several post,
masters have recently been seriously injured
while trying to stand on their heads to cancel
stamps placed in this manner.
A MINISTER relates his experience
thus: take pleasure in adding 70 our many
testimonials, that last Thursday Thanksgiving
Day.) not being able to preach on account of
Rheumatic pains in the shoulder, l bought
bottle of ST. JACOBS Oil, which, after using
several times, relieved me wonderfully.
DIR. B. PICK, Rochester, Nep York.
A CHICAGO man announces that he
has made machine by means of which, in the
twinkling Of an eye, he can convert Lake Mich
igsn water, or any other water, into light, heat
or steam, as his patrons may desire, besides
incidentally knocking the received laws of
natural philosophy into q cooked hat. Yet the
gas companies are examining meters and col
Iecting Bills as usual.
DR. LoRIMER, the Chicago clergy
man, who was charged with stealing matter
from the sermons Of others and palming it oft
Is original, has sent his defense to DIR. Parker,
of London The latter proposes fair test
He adviccs DIR. Lorimer to let some respectable
citizen Of Chicago select 10 or II OF his manu-
script sermons, to publish them at his own ex-
pense, and to defy the world to discover any
plagiarixing in them.
ILLINOIS is the largest wheat-pro-
ducing State in the Union, according to the re-
ports of the Department Of Agriculture for
1879. It is credited with 100000 bushels;
Iowa, 10000, 900; Minnesota, $500, 600; Kan
sas, $1,000, 600; Indiana. 81 ,0O0, 900 Nebraska,
81, 100000 Kansas, which was the first wheat
producing State in the Onion last year, is
fourth this year, because of the partial failure
of the wheat crop in some Of the counties of
the State, from drought.