Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-01-14
Local and General


CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
MAINE and Mexico may now poe
their issues.
LUMBERING in the pineries is Ian
gushing for the want of snow.
IT is hard to say at what age small
BOYS in town begin to use tobacco.
A PAIR of S00.pcund hogs wer
stolen from the Pittsburgh stock yards lately
SOME of I telephones are so nat
ural that they have been laid up with diphthe
ria.
SOUTHERN railroad towns have
lately been enjoying their annual cotton book
ade.
THE Free Press knows several De
troiters who are Christians on the European
plan.
Is a big heart always light !-Er
Give it up, bu, we know OF some big head
that are.
IT is said that an extra session o.
the Legislature, lasting thirty days, would COS
sy0o,00D.
If YOU are almost worn out dom
give up, but take kidney-Wort and II Sili giy'
YOU new life.
Mr.. WILLIAM WATSON has been ap
pointed postmaster for Mt. Chestnut, and j. L
Robinson for Glenora.
Mr.. r. S. MCCLURE writes to New
Castle paper, from Martinsburg, that the frog
there are still chirping.
Mr.. DANIEL S. RICHMOND, of Mead
vile, Crawford county, has been appointee
Supervisor for this Census District.
"NIP your cough in the bud" saio
Horace Greeley, by taking ''Dr Sellers Cough
Syrup" Lose no time in getting bottle.
The iron for the new bridge over
the Connoquenessing, near the depot is here
and the bridge will be ready for use next week
"SAY, Susan, have you lost your
appetite? Are you weak and nervous If SO
'Dr. Lindsey's Blood Searcher' is what you
want"
A HOG raised in Ephrata, Lancaster
county, is now in Reading and weighs over g
thousand pounds. 1t will be slaughtered on
the 22nd Of February.
IF wisdom's way we wisely seek,
Five things observe with care;
OF whom You speak, to whom yOu speak,
How, when and where.
YoUSG man, q diamond pin looks
real nice and giistens brightly, but when - q
week supports man and pm both, one or the
other il not genuine.-EJ.
THREE boys in Bradford county
went cunning recently and came home in the
evening With a very large peacock il, their bag
which they mistook for wild turkey.
Our townsmen, Messrs. VIM. Aland
and John s. Campbell took second premiums
a. the Mercer County Poultry Fair; Aland for
Games and Campbell for Plymouth Rocks.
OVER 1900 persons are employed
in chair making IN the town of Gardner, Mass
welding over &, 10000 worth Of stock annu.
ally. They required sixty-fiye new houses last
year.
THE tax collector of Fairview town
ship, Mr. Mclaughlin, arrested a tax payer OF
his township, last week, aud brought him to
town, when he saw fit 10 pay both tax and
eDsts.
TIE annual reports Of the great
railroads of the country that have been coming
in fer a few weeks past confirm in most POSI-
tive manner the belief Of returning business
prosperity.
THE second highest bridge in the
country is about being built across the Missis-
sppi st Minneapolis. 1t will be 800 feet long
with two spans Of 325 feet each, the whole to
cost S30G, 900.
THE Philadelphia Times thinks a
new race of soldiers orpans must have arisen
in this State, in view Of. the fact that l4l new
pupils have Just been admitted to the soldiers
orphans schools.
In Colorado when highwaymen
want man to put his hands up" 50 that he
may not touch weapon while the men are
going through his pockets, he is politely told
TO point toward heaven"
THE report of the Government Di.
rcctors of the Union Pacific Railroad shows
that the gross earnings for the year win be
about 1890, 900 and the operating expenses
about 42 per cent. of this amount.
TWENTY kegs of gold were received
in Chicago from New York few days ago
Each weighed about 800 pounds, and contained
$4,000, making 81 ,500,000 in ALL This money
was sent by Jim Keene in payment for wheat
GEORGE KRUG is always on the
lookout for good beef. The other day he
bought an OK from Mr.. Samuel Wright, of Con.
noqucnessing township, that weighed 2 ,15l
pounds. The OK was six year old and was
raised by Mr. Wright.
The proposition to make the Com.
missioner of Agriculture member of the Cab
met, together with the widespread complaint
as to the inefiiciency of the Agricultural Bu
reau, led Congress last week TO start an inycsti
CATION of the whole subject
AT the rate at which Mr.. Parnell il
raising money down East he will soon match
the f0w Of gold from Europe TO this country
by counter current from this country to Ire
land The warm hearted, generous Irish are
showering money into his willing Golfers.
OVER 10000 men in the Lebigh
Valley are employed at The furnaces, Of which
there are 81. with an annual capacity of ga,
the pig iron made in the United States ant
consume ], 100000 tons of iron ore annually.
READING employs over 1900 per
sons in hat making, who turn out 700 dozer
hats daily. To procure these hats over 1000,
900 pounds of secured wool are required, mos
of which is grown in Texas and California
All the manufactures are running on full time
THE case of Sheriff Williams, o
Armstrong county, for alleged misuse O
money to procure an election, and which wa
decided against him by Quarter Sessions Cour
of Armstrong has been reached among other
by the State Supreme Court and the decision
reversed.
THE United States is making more
than one-third of all the paper in the world
The product is about 800 tons daily, or G10,
800 tons a year. There are 927 mills, repre-
senting capital of Sl0O,000,000, employing
22,000 persons, who receive in salaries abou
s9,500,000.
BRYANT is dead. Emerson is 10
Longfcllow, Whittier and Holmes are 20. Low
ell is 90. Where are the American poets t
take their places P Warren MaH Here WI
have one Of them. The Sweet Singer of tn
Connoquenessing can juggle rhyme with an,
you mention.
LAST Thursday, the eighth of Jan
uary, ST. Hickory's day, does not seem to hav
been honored n. any point in the country. Ap
parently the anniversary of the battle OF Ne,
Orleans is to share the fate of several othe
much celebrated an nj yersaries of notable event