Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-04-14

their interest in securing good plants
of the latest varieties, which can d.
had by calling on J. W. Bortmass q
Co., west of town.
BLAINE has drawn first blood from
Sherman in Ohio. The Jefferson
County Convention, the first held II
the State, declared for Blaine. The
Sherman fences seem to be in bad re
pair out that way.
JOHN Fl. EAKIN, of Clinton town
ship, venango county, left lately fol
San Francisco, where he will take the
steamer, to enter upon his duties as
professor in the Nation College lately
established by the King of Siam.
In Indiana the State elections are
no longer to be held month in ad
vance of the last day of fighting over
the Presidency. This will be annoy.
ing to politicians, but great blessing
to an unofending but afflicted people
ON last Monday night week the
barn of Jacob Stoup, of Adams town
ship, this county, was destroyed by
FIRE with all the grain, harness, etc, in
it, and four good horses, one cow, two
buggies and other articles. No insur.
ance.
ACCORDING to Chinese notions OF
rank, masters must not occupy sleep
ing rooms below their servants. Con-
sequently the family of the Chinese
Professor in Cambridge, Mass, sleeps
in the attic, and the servants down
stairs.
THE law of 1878 forbids the catch
ing Of black, yellow and striped bass
in any of the waters in this State be-
tween the first day of January and the
first day of June, and then only with
hook and line and those over six inches
in length.
A MAN named George NJ. Hughes,
who emigranted from the northern
part of this county to Virginia year
or so ago, leaving a bad reputation
behind him, is said to have lately made
the acquaintance of Virginia whip
ping post.
THERE are about 5000 Justices of
the Peace in the State. 10 whom COM
missions must be issued dating from
the first Monday in May. The State
will realize, about $4,000 from the
officers in the shape of fees for their
commissions.
SPECIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
Mr.. RITTER, of the firm of Ritter Il
Ralston has returned from his second
trip east, this spring While there he
purchased heavy stock of silks and
the new combination suitings. All
the varieties in market can always be
found in his store.
WE return our thanks to numerous
subscribers who responded to request
for their arrears by the first of April.
There are still some who are farther in
arrear than should be and from whom
we hope to hear during one of the ap-
proaching Court weeks.
PUcK's suggestion that Oleomar-
garine be colored blue, red, green or
some other loud color with harmless
dyes, would severely test its value
and the sincerity of the asseverations
of the manufacturers that they desire
it should be sold upon its merits!
THE temperance society at Dublin,
Ohio, is called Ku-Klux, and seems to
deserve the name, for the members
have blown up two barrooms with
powder. On the last occasion the build
ing was totally demolished by the ex-
plosion of a keg of powder in the eel
lar.
A CONVENTION of school Superin-
tendents will he held at Harrisburg,
beginning April 81 and continuing
three days. Excursion tickets will be
furnished over nearly all the railroads
reaching the State Capital, and every
effort will be made to secure a large
attendance.
A SOLID Silver Case and Genuine
American Movement as low as $40, at
f. GRIEB's.
BURLINGTON Ha,0keye: care ami
mails color blind ?" asked a writer in a
scientific magazine. Now there is a
man who has never wandered through
a COW pasture with red flannel shirt
on. Come to think of it, we have
never wandered through that kind of a
cow pasture, either.
AT dinner given at Delmonico's,
New York, last Friday by Mr.. VIM.
Rensen, representing the oleomarga-
rine interests of that city to the Agri-
cultural Committee of Congress. 600
bottles of wine were drank 1900 cigars
were smoked, and a quarter of a
pound of oleomargarine ate.
In order to check importations oi
iron from England, the leading pro-
ducers of the United States have re-
solved to put the price of the native
commodity at such figure as will
force the foreign product out of our
markets. This will necessitate reduc-
tion Of about ten dollars per ton.
THE campaign labors of the English
Parliamentary candidates are over,
and they can now draw the backs OF
their hands across their massive brows
and wipe away the remains of the de-
cayed eggs their affectionate country.
men have bestowed upon them A
great thing, is politics, either on this
or the other side of the Atlantic
METAL Plow Points, of all kinds
for sale at the Hardware Store of
JACKSON & MITCHELL.
Few lives have left a deeper i'm
print on the moral and religious his
tory Of the American people than that
of William Ellery Claiming, whose
birth in Newport hundred years age
was commemorated with fitting cere
monies last Wednesday. As thinker