Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-01-21
Local and General.

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MARRIED ladies will find in "Dr.
Iindsey's Blood Searcher' just what they need.
Try it.
A PITTSBURGH firm is building q
$4,000 lighthouse for the Mexican coasts
near Tampico
A DISEASE resembling diptheria has
made its appearance among horses IN some
parts of the State.
JUDGE DoDDs takes Judge Marshall's
place as Director of the Butler Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
SOUTHERN papers reports that the
cotton crop show an increase over last year OF
from 200 900 to 900 bales.
THE combined wealth of the mem
bers of the Standard Oil Company is estimated
at one hundred million dollars.
ALL but three members of the Utah
Legislature are comparatively speaking, bach
elors, having only one wife each.
THE number of letters held for post
age in country Postofices show amazing
amount of ignorance of postal laws
THE authorities at Washington hire
an organ grinder, two fddlers and harpist
for the amusement of the Ute Indians.
IT is the opinion of physicians in
the northern part of the State that eating snow
has much TO do with the spread of diphtherias
THERE was bill before the State
Legislature last winter to make the offices of
Collectors elective, but it did not become law
NOTHING makes man, woman, or
child feel meaner than tickling sensation in
the throat Take CDR. Sellers Cough Syrup"
% cents.
AN English paper AYERS positively
that onions whether cooked or raw, give great
relief in chronic rheumatism. A remedy GER
tainly worth trial.
COLORADO has uncommonly big ava
lanches this winter, and one of them covered
house with so much snow that the men inside
were ten hours digging their way out
THE Mississippi Senatorial contest
was a somewhat heated one, and the best citi-
zens interested became in a measure aroused,
but there were no buckshot ballots cast.
THE Bauer Bros. were the successful
bidders for the building of the Grieb house.
1t is to be built on the vacant lot between the
VI. L. Church and Joseph Rockenstein's lot
THE perfect stranger who, 'for a
consideration offers you a splendid chance or
u
is exceedingly likely to be very imperfect
man.
Few of the Presidential booms seem
have got beyond the period of soothing
syrup and paregoric. When one appears to
be particularly noisy il is pretty safe to call it
coiie.
THE Commissioner of the Internal
Revenue reports that the Government has lost
n hv he n
tax on tobacco and the consumers have gained
nothing.
DURING the year 1879 over thirty
million dollars worth of gold was dug in the
United States. Besides this, we drew about
seventy Five million dollars from European
strong-boxes in the same time.
JOHN SUTHERLAND, of Silver Cliff,
COL lost all his money at poker one night,
committed some trifling offense, was locked up,
and set fire TO the Jail, himself and another
prisoner perishing in the ruins.
WHILE Europe is starving in spots
and pinched for food nearly everywhere, our
granaries are overcrowded> and where to store
our surplus cereals is getting to be puzzling
question in our collecting centres.
WooLs of all grades grown in Penn
sylyania, Ohio and Virginia command several
cents per pound more than the same grades
grown in other States of the Union, while
Texas wool is the lowest on the list
THE Pennsylvania State Temperance
Union, of which the Hon. James Black is
President will hold its thirteenth annual meet
ing, at Williamsport, on January 20 and 30.
All temperance workers are invited.
Now is the time to buy your Table
Linens, Towelng, Sheeting, Pillow Casing,
and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods as
they will positively cost you more in the
spring. RITTER & RALsToN.
A BELIEF seems to prevail in some
quarters that tax collectors are to be elected.
This is erroneous No change has been made
in this matter by the Legislature, and tax col
lectors are still to be appointed as heretofore
THE Klingler Flour House of this
town has already shipped over five hundred
barrels of buckwheat -four to points outside
the county this season, and have orders for all
they can make. This is an enterprising House.
To ascertain the length of day and
night multiply the hour at which the sun rises
by two the result will be the length of the
night. Multiply the hour at which the sun sets
by two, and the result will be the length of the
day.
AN Indiana man lately placed
brick in pillow for the ostensble purpose Of
playing Joke on his wife, and the next morn
ing, in playful mood, flung the affair at his
mother-in-law and laid her out. He declared
to the Coroner that he had forgotten all about
that brick.
A TERRIBLE combination of noise
and language is abroad in the land under the
name and style of "Around the World with
General Grant: A Song" The guilty parties
are Colonel in the Army and one Thompson
The Colonel collected the language and Thomp-
son made the noise.
SOME idea of the wonderful accuracy
of astronomical observations and computations
may be had from the fact that the contact of
the moons shadow with the sun at the begin
ming Of the total eclipse of the 11th instant
took place within one and a ha!f seconds of the
time previously announced.
THE request often made by publish
ers that readers will mention their journals
when answering advertisements, seems to us a
very reasonable one. Such mention is a help
full and friendly act to the journal mentioned
and enables the advertiser to determine which
journals are the best advertising mediums.
OURAY and the other Ute animals
are having sleek, well-fed, comfortable time
of it in Washington. They are the guests of
the Interior Department, and stand toward
society in the attitude of great men. Their
greatness was not thrust upon them, either
they achieved it by the White River frolic.
HERE is something for the poultry
fanciers 10 work upon. Complaints often
heard of the disturbance caused by the crow
ing of cocks in the early morning. In this
educational age couldn't cocks be trained to
crow the hours? We should like much to take
the credit of this wise suggestion. But it
comes from Punch.
A GENTLEMAN travelling through
volusia county, Florida, recently saw the fol-
lowing on q sign board on the outside of a
store:
To trust is to bust,
To bust is hell;
No trust, no bust,
No bust no hell.
SOMEHOW the names of the promi
nert actors in the spectacular melodrama nov
hnin.. anacted IN The Maine hoo ris Ire