Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-01-28

horses mouth. The bit full of frost
coming in contact with the tongue and
lips, adheres to these soft tissues the
same as it would do when red hot
leaving the animal with a sore mouth
IF YOU do not believe it, place your
own tongue on frosted iron some
morning and be convinced
THE skunk skin trade is just now
Welding fair revenue to many farmers
| in Franklin county, who make a busl'
ness of hunting the strong-smelline
but very docile little animals. The
pelts find ready sale at good prices,
and a good skunker can realize more
than average days wages if he has
any kind of luck. The season has
not fairly opened in this county yet.
UNDERWEAR of all kinds, from %
cents up, at Charles r. Griebs-
THERE is an abundance of talk
among Congressman about an carly
adjournment coupled with plentiful
lack of that pushing of business that
will make the session short. With fair
work Congress might get away by the
middle of April. If there must be
President making and political spar
ring the session will in all probability
drag its slow length along to the dog
days.
THE idea of finding proof of mans
guilt in admissions of crime implied in
the incoherent calculations of dream
is, of course, preposterously foolish,
but the circumstance is proper one
to justify an investigation by detec-
tives as any other grounds for suspi-
cion would be- The mutterings of a
dreaming man in Chicago a week ago
have led to his arrest on charge Of
murder.
A SOLID Silver Case and Genuine
American Movement as low as $40, at
E. GRIEB's.
A NEW schedule went into operation
on the West Penn Railroad last Mon
day. The Sunday trains are taken off
the Branch, but still run up as far as
Freeport, leaving that town at $50 a.
m. and 525 p. M, and arriving at 2.55
and 1I2S p. m The Market train
leaves Butler at SOC a. M, five min
utes earlier than before. No other
changes.
CLOSE on tie heels of the news of
the great Toxic fire, in which scores
of persons lost their lives and thou
sands of families found themselves left
without roof to shelter them, comes
the announcement that San Salvador
has probably been levelled to the
ground, for the third time, by an earth
quake. Luckily the populace had
timely warning of the danger that
menaced them.
CRATE tile, Aue rings and fire brick,
at J. Niggle & Bros
THE pension law as amended last
year granted a pension of $I2 per
month to soldiers who lost both arms
or both legs or incurred total blindness
in the service. The Senate Committee
on Pensions has just recommended the
passage of a bill lately introduced ex-
tending the provisions of the law of
last year to all soldiers who were to-
tally disabled. The bill ought to pass
without opposition.-Er.
The Clarion Republican says that
about one-third of all the seven mil
lions of barrels of oil stocks is held by
four men-Dr. Hostetter, of Pittsburgh,
J. j. Vandergrilt, President of the
United Pipe Lines George III. Van
Wick, and Foster w. Mitchell, of
Franklin. The latter alone holds a
block of million barrels Russell
Sage, the New York broker, also holds
large amount of certificates.
LADIES' Solid Gold Watches at $l5
and upwards, at E. Grieb's.
SOME of our readers who are so for
tunate as to have money at interest
will be pleased to learn that it has
been decided that that class of prop
erty is only taxable for State pur-
poses, which is only four mills on the
dollar, and that for county, school or
other purposes it is exempt This de-
cision will Tighten the hearts of some
who have been taking considerable
trouble lest they be taxed into poverty.
NEITHER the Commonwealth nor
the defence seemed very anxious to pro-
cecd with the trial of the Riot Bribery
cases, and so they 20 over to next
March. The defendants will gain no
undue advantage by the postponement.
The matter is now in better shape
than before, as the accused have plead
ed to the indictments, which is an ad-
mission Of their technical sufficiency,
and puts them to answer upon the
merits.
SPEcIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere III the county.
A FEW days ago Mrs. JOS Cook, of
Wilkesbarre, left her three -year-old
child at the breakfast table. on which
lamp was burning, while she stepped
out for a few moments. When she
returned she found her child burned to
a crisp on the floor The child had
evidently drawn the lamp to it by the
table cloth, when it upset and ex-
ploded. This may serve as a warn
ing not to leave children and lamps
together.
NEGRO instructions, together with
vast wandering bands of desperate
banditti who threaten to capture and
sack entire towns, are among the
cheerful Accomplishments of the bloody
war that is raging in South America.
All that is wanting to complete the
peoples comfort is series of hilltop
pling earthquakes, and there are hints
that this want will at an early day be
supplied. Take one consideration with
another, life on the sunny Pacific slope
of the Andes has its drawbacks.
WORKING and Dress Shirts of all
kinds from 90 cents nm af Charles r Grieb's