Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-01-21
Mr.. 4. NE1GLER. TavlorsviIIe, Pa,

| lame. We procured from Messrs. Ludwig Bros.
| Druggists in Scranton, Pa, a bottle OF oI
JACOBS OIL, used it according to directions
and saw our efforts crowned with perfect sue
cess. Mother was relieved.
THE latest styles in Neekwear, al
Charles r. Greb's.
THE Scotch parsons have got ahead
of the engineers and discovered the real cause
of the giving way of the Tay bridge. WINE
the engineers are maundering and muddllne
in calculations of force and resistance-iron
wind, weight and such mere detail-the di
vines go straight to the point, anu say II Is be-
cause the trains broke the Sabbath. Great
discoveries like this show what churches are
endowed for.
CRATE tile, fue rings and fire brick,
at J. Niggle & Bros
Two Mexicans living in Texas re-
Gently quarreled about woman, and resolved
to settle their differences in duel with lassoes
The affair was conducted decently and in order
under the supervision of friends. Both were
well mouuted, and in the first tilt one OF the
duellists was lassoed about the neck and
jerked from his saddle so violently as to almost
dislocate his vertebrae. That ended the duel,
and settled the ownership of the bone OF con-
tentiOn.
LADIES' Solid Gold Watches at SIS
and upwards, at E. Grieb's.
Now that an enterprising firm OF
brokers have added Ticker to the furniture
of the Capitol at Washington, and speculative
members can improve the opportunity OF dull
subject or speech to read off the latest quota
tions from Wall street. the public business is
in a fair way TO be slighted more Systematically
than ever. The Springfield Republican learns
that one well-known New York member, by
close attention 10 the tape, has already this
year made S1O0, 600.
WORKING and Dress Shirts of all
kinds, from 20 cents up, at Charles r. Grieb's.
AT the Mercer Poultry Fair there
were five, instead of two as stated, of our citi-
zens who secured premiums. John Campbell
was awarded the first premium on Plymouth
Rock, and a special premium on Z. X. Cock
erel. Wm Aland took lst premium for black
breasted red Games VIM. Mechling 3rd for
Bluff Cochin Chicks; Harry Klingler 1st for
Black Cochin Chicks, and Cal. Christy 3rd for
Brown Leghorn Chicks.
ASK for the So So Hat, at
CHARLES r. GRIEB's.
IT is to be regretted that the bubble
of the 'Star" postal service had not been pune
tured little sooner. The system appears to
have proved bonanza of wealth to numerous
greedy mail contractors, who have swindled
the Government out of immense sums, and
apparently with the privity of the Postoffice
Department itself The whole business is a
wholesale fraud. In effect it confers upon the
department an authority in relation to certain
routes in the territories which ought only to be
exercised by Congress.
SPECIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
"ABoUT this time," as the almanacs
used to say. "look out for" doleful forecastings
of a scarcity of ice during the ensuing summer.
The prophecy has become so familiar that it is
quite matter of course that We are now told,
for at least the dozenth time, of an impending
ice famine. Judging the future by the past,
however, after the fashion of a distinguished
Revolutionary patriot, we may possess our
souls in duietness The ice-dealers will 60
about the streets as usual with their crystal
blocks, and they will fix it somehow so that
we may all enjoy our wonted natural refrigera-
tion.
ALL kinds of Stove and Flue pipe
to be had at the Hardware Store of
J. NIGGLE & Bro.
WHAT is known as the Boyd bridge,
a new iron one, over the creek on the road from
the depot TO Springdale is up and is certainly
a fine looking structure. In company with two
of the County Commissioners and some other
citizens, we passed over it on Friday last in
the conveyance of Mr. George w. Campbell,
the enterprising keeper of the Willard Hotel
of this place This was the first team and
wagon load to go over the bridge, and all about
it seemed strong and well built. The bridge is
a credit to the county and will be of great SER
vice in travelling to and from the railroad depot
to large number of the citizens of the county.
LATEST styles in Mems, Youths and
Children's Caps, at Charles r. Grieb's.
IT is thought by many that ex-Con-
gresham Washburne, of Illinois, VIII be the
clark horse" as q Presidential candi-
date before the Chicago Convention. He never
was popular in Congress, because he opposed
every steal that came before the House, no mat
ter If it were proposed by his best friend. While
in Paris during the German-Frsnco war he
drew his individual check for $4,000 on Lon
don, to relieve the distress of the German resi-
dents of the city. While in public life he
allowed himself to be placed under obligations
to no corporation whatever. He is said by
those who know him to be a perfectly honest
and independent man.
WILLIAM ALAND, Merchant Tailor,
has luSt Opcucu thC SCsb iiiC Va WoViSho ioi
men and boys wear ever offered in Butler.
CHICAGO is blocked with grain. The
elevators of the city, which will hold II, 6,000,-
600 bushels, are nearly full, as well as were
houses and any member Of cars lying along the
line of the various railroads. About | l,o00,-
900 bushels are afioat in the harbor, and the
elevators outside Of the city are filed. This
is all caused by the grain syndicate, of which
James r. Keene is representative, who, by
constant purchases, have forced the price up
to point where it is a dead loss to ship to
New York at present prices. Unless the price
advances in Liverpool, or declines here, there
will be no movement and the blockade will
continue. In the meantime farmers tributary
to Chicago have no market for wheat.
MEMS and Boys Winter Caps from
17c. up, at Charles 4. Grieb's.
If the National debt can be re-
funded in per cent. bonds, why not just as
readily in bonds bearing 81 per cent. interest
The complete safety of the security would in
sure a very general investment in time of trust
and other FUNDS. Thousands of persons who
subsist upon the sums derived from moneys
placed at interest would prefer smaller in
come, in view of the absolute guarantee given
by the faith of the Government TO the pro-
mise of larger revenues with continual risk
of the loss of the principal itself. 1t would not
be necessary to employ syndicate to put the
loan upon the market. A large amount would
be absorbed by popular subscriptions, and in
the menacing aspect of European affairs much
foreign capital would not unlikely seek the
safety it would offer.
SHAFTS, finished and rough, at the
J. Niggle & Bros Hardware Store, Jefferson
street, Butler, Pa.
OIL creek is the stream on which
petroleum was first procured. The first WELL
drilled by Drake, in 1859, was near Titusville.
All along the creek bottoms sink holes were
found by the earliest settlers. They were
wharied up with timber for the purpose of col
lecting the oil that rose to the surface The
mode of gathering it was to spread a woolen
blanket on the surface of these pits, and when
il became saturated with oil it was wrung out.
This was slow way, yet persevering man
could collect barrel a day in this manner.
Petroleum was first called Seneca oil, and was
used by the Seneca Indians in small quantities
to grease their bodies in order to keep off gnats
and flies, In early days the mill owners bought