Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-01-07
Local and General.

Local and General.
CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
THE Conference Nelos rejoices in
the fact that "the new year finds our entire
force ON the way to heaven"
THE great mass of the American
people would prefer to see the one term instead
Of the third term idea prevail
THE thrilling information is flashed
across the cable that the Emperor William
skinned his shin and that it got well again.
OUR ice men should be on the look
out to secure their ice at the first favorable
opportunity. An open winter is predicted.
THE peanut business is to receive a
new impe:us Two hundred and eighty noble
men from sunny Italy left their native land a
few days ago for America.
Nh. d. II. WULLER, druggist, now
hasa very handsome sign hanging in front of
his storeroon Dan, himself, was the designer
Of it and Will McCanlless did the work.
THE store of Mr.. J. w. Hendrickson,
at Glade Mills this county, was broken into on
the night Of the 26th of December, and robbed
Of SD in money, revolver and other articles.
IF you want Dress Gloves, if you
want Street Gloves, if you want Driving Gloves
or Mittens, if You want Working Gloves or
Mittens, you can buy them at Charles X.
Grieb's.
4 COMMON vagrant and drunkard,
row in the chain gang Mt Leadville under the
assumed name of Stormont, is said TO have been
formerly United States Senator from an East
erB State.
ONE Of William Aland's Plymouth
Rock hens became what il called crop-bound
the other day, and was dying. Will opened
the crop, cmptied i: and scwed it up, and the
hen is well again.
A WOMAN at Ulysses, Neb., wrap
ped her baby in sheet and left it in the warm
ashes by the fire place while she went to visit
neighbor, and when she returned the infant
was burned to a crisp.
A BALL, banquet, and bull fight
were the attractions offered by Panama to
". De I.esscps, who Is by this time doubtless
at AspinwalI. Blu. none of those amusemcnts
will help dig the canal.
The "negro exodus" is reviving.
Recently about four hundred colored people
passed through st. Louis in q single week, on
their way to Kansas. Five hundred Arkansas
negroes on their way North
KALLocH has got rid of the bullet
which DE Young presented him, and is now as
good as new. The ball was extracted only a
few days ago from where it had lodged under
the reverend Mayors left armpit.
PITTsBURGH's iron workers are
happy over the discovery that every iron mill
In that region is in full blast. The condition
Of their business is all they can desire. Has
the prosperity come to stay? is their new ques-
ton.
The pearl fisheries of the Miami
river, Ohio, are getting reputation. A gen.
tleman of WayncsviIle has collection Of over
thousand Miami pearls, some Of them of rare
form and quality. These pearls are found in
Dlussels.
A LITTLE son of Tyrone Landrum,
well-known coIored citizen of New Castle,
Pa, was instantly killed on the 3rd inst, by
being thrown under the wheels Of railroad
train. Mr.. Tyrone Landrum formerly lived
near Butler.
One Of the largest stocks of Ameri-
can Movements and American Cases, both Gold
aad Silver, ever offered in Butler is TO be seen
at r. Grieb's which were all purchased before
the late rise in Watches, and will be sold at
the old rates.
TENNYsoN's lines on the death of
the old year, commencing:
Full knec-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are weariy signing:
were not appropriate for last Wednesday, az it
rained all day.
WHEN the days begin to lengthen
the cold begins to strengthen, says the old
proycrb but it don't seem to be coming true
this year. 1t wants to read this year that, as
the days begin to lengthcn the language Of the
ice men begins to strengthen.
AFTER the middle Of 1880 Win.
ncck's comet will make its appearance in the
heavens after an absence Of five years and
seven months. We shall be glad to welcome
the old boy home again, but we can't promise
him receptions equal TO Grants.
M0DDYcREEK township first and
Cranberry close after. Mr.. Wm. s. Moore,
Collector Of Muddycreek township, paid off his
duplicate for the year 1879 on New Years day,
and James b. Collins, Collector Of Cranberry
paid off his next day. Who next?
IN making excavations in Kittan-
ming the remains of an Indian were found sup
posed to have been buried 200 years ago, as
tree had been growing Immediately over the
spot calculated to be that old. "A pipe, curl
ougly wrought, and other relics were alst
found.
A NEW and good strike was made
WI eHc W 1ittuliDugii, Tss1., IhTIH III
Fairview township, on the 22nd Of Dec, 1879
The well flowed at the rate of about fifteer
barrels Of oil per day. II is situated neal
kaylor City and is enhancing property in tha
section.
THE iron horse speeds over $500
more miles of railroad than it did a year ago
IN Kanses more new track was laid than II
any other State-4gS miles; Minnesota, Iowa
and Dakota are next. That the construction Il
largly greater than in any year since 1872 is
sign of the times.
Mr.. GEORGE w. CURTIS, editor o
UdJpc,'s H'eekly thinks it remarkable tina
Grant seems Ito have recovered 70 much Of tn
purely patriotic prestige which surrounde,
him at the close u tIe war, and that publ
opinion had tacitly gone back behind his civi
to rest upon his military career"
ONE of the Louisiana Congressmel
has q bill in the House to give eight parishe
of his State 100000 acres of public land Il
reluital of the services of the people of thes
parishes Sin acquiring the territory from Spa
in 1910" There is no occasion for artificial ic
machines where that Congressman lives.
THE Burlington HaUkeye editor ha
shovel full of Goals of FIRE upon his massiv
head. After abusing Hayes up hill and dow
Tor years the magnanimous President Of tn
Republic turns around and gives the wild-eye
staiwart Postoffice. The Hawkeys edito
ought to feel pretty badly cut up about it.