Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-03-31

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fremen to distinguish the colors of the
signal lights, and the companies pro-
pose to examine all employees as to
their eyesight. Such course will
undoubtedly save much loss of life and
property. If the companies would ex-
anime all the employees who complain
of weak backs, weak kidneys and poor
blood and present each one with Prof
Guilmette's French Kidney Pad, their
trains would be run better, and their
men be able to perform more work
with less fatigue.
THE largest Stock of Half Hose
ever offered in Butler, you can find at
CHARLES r. GRIEBs.
TIE fact that Williamson, the person
who has been tormenting the Reverend
Doctor Dix, of New York, was en-
gagged in the blackmailing industry In
London. and that he was once upon
time. tried, convicted, and sent for a
year to Newgate for that crime, would
rather go to show that it was in the
exercise of his profession that he de-
voted his attentions to DR.. Dix. At
all events there is probably enough
evidence in that direction to make a
case against him, and he is likely to
see the inside of an American prison as
well as of an English. An unfortunate
feature of the matter is that his enter
prises will probably find iniitators who,
in a spirit of mischief, will infict no
little annoyance upon helpless victims
Mr.. Williamson has demonstrated that
in the hands of the truly great the
postal card is mightier than most
people suppose it was.
THE Diamond Iron Plow will clean
in any Kind of soil. For sale AT the Hardware
Store Of JACKSON q MITCHELL
Ex-SpEAKER Galusha A. Grows
friends in various parts of the State
are pressing his claims for the United
States Senatorsbip with commendable
zeal. There is perhaps no man In
Pennsylvania better qualified, in point
of ability and experience, to fill the
high office of Senator with honor to the
Commonwealth, than Mr.. Grow. He
is one of very small class of Penn
sylvanians who may be said to have
attained a national reputation as states
men. His distinguished services in
the National legislative halls, the prom
inence he gained by intimate connec-
ton with great National legislative
measures, the distinguished abilities
demonstrated by him on the floor, as
well as in the Speakers chair of the
House of Representatives, made the
name of Galusha A. Grow familiar
and honored throughout the length
and breadth of the Republic.-Arma-
strong Republic.
LADIES' Solid Gold Watches at SIS
and upwards, at E. Grieb's.
If the New York newspapers are to
be trusted-there seems to be need OF
the "if'' whenever they announce
startling bit of news concerning the
wizard of MenIo Parkr-Edison has
done something practical, and got the
money for it. Whilst experimenting
with the electric light, the telephone,
and few other matters OF that kind,
he chanced upon the principle of the
electromagnetic, an invention for
electrically producing mechanical move
ments at distance. There had been
but one method for accomplishing this
in existence, that known as the Page
patent, which is in the possession OF
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany- Edison's plan is said to be
wholly different. The Western Union
negotiated for its purchase, but
thought his terms, 500, 900, too high.
Hearing that the American Union
was also after the invention, the Wes-
tern Union suddenly closed with Edi-
son, who is now $l00,u0O better off
than he was.
WILLIAM ALAND, Merchant Tailor,
has Just opened the largest line of woolens for
men and boys wear ever offered in Butler.
QUESTIONS of tariffs and customs
duties probably seem very dry and
tedious to the general reader, but the
general reader is the very one who is
most interested in cheap literature, and
it is his interest, therefore, that all ma
terials for the manufacture of paper
should be free. He is especially con-
cerned in the present debate upon
wood pulp, and the repeal of the duty
upon it. Such repeal would give
the paper maker cheap material, and
the cheapness would be favorably felt
in the purse of the general reader,
while it certainly would not harm the
paper maker or the publisher. The
| duty at present maintains q monopoly
| which, by increasing the price fpaper,
necessarily raises the price of school
and other books and newspapers, while
the duty practically produces no reve-
nue. at ALL The largest amount ever
realized from it was in 1870, when it
produced 1858. From 1871 to 1879
it produced nothing, and in 1879 the
revenue duty from wouldpulp amounted
to forty eight cents.
METAL Plow Points, of all kinds,
| for sale at the Hardware Store of
| JACKSON 4 MITCHELL.
THE wool industry is great ma
tional interest. In sheep husbandry
and the production of woolen fabrics
| American agriculture and manufactures
are intimately blended and their wei
fare becomes identical. The encour-
agement of this joint industry is q
matter of especial Importance to the
farmers of this section where the pro-
duction of wool has attained immense
proportions. The passage in the House
at Washington of the bill prepared by
Mr.. Shallenberger on behalf of the
Pennsylvania State Agricultural So
ciety, relating to the proposed Inter
national Sheep and Wool Show, will
occasion very general qualification.
The bill admits free of duty all articles
designed for exhibition, and directs a
| full official report under the supervision
of the Commissioner of the Agricul-