Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-03-10
Local and General.


THIS is an alleged winter.
THE iron ore business is booming.
HUsELToN's cheap goods will wear
WESTERN merchants complain of
lull in trade.
A HEAVY clap of thunder startled
the early risers last Thursday morning.
Do NOT despise the spring poet. H'
was once human being like the rest OF us.
SEND a stamp to j. c. Redick ant
you win learn something to your advantage.
Mrs. HARRISON, wife of Hon. w
c. Harrison, died at New Castle, on the lttf
of February.
MUD enough to cure the bee stings
of the unborn children Of Africa lined the hign
ways last week.
A PAPER bag factory, on the Bush
kill river, Monroe county, is making forty
thousand bags day.
BEECHER saws when church is free
of debt it begins to die. If this is true some
churches will outliye Methuselah.
SpECIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment moi
to be had elsewhere in the county.
THE firm of Davies & Evans, mer-
chant tailors, of this town, intend starting a
branch establishment at Akron, Ohio.
THE intermediate schools of this
town will give an exhibition in the School
House Hall next Friday afternoon at O'Clock.
Pie Spring session of the Pine
Grove Normal Academy will commence Tues
day, March 30th, 1880. J. c. Keller, Principal.
JUST received from the East, some
Of the latest patterns in White and Colored
Shirts. at CHARLES r. GRIEB's.
THE number of candidates for the
Legislature is remarkably small, thus far.
Forward township alone being well repre-
sented.
THUS exclaimed an old gentleman
recovering from a severe attack Of the bron-
chal tubes, Sellers Cough Syrup cured me" !"
Price 2Jc.
AN attempt is already being made
to restore the duty on quinine, and the ques-
ton of duties on sugars is to come up again IN
Congress.
In the stomach of cow recently
killed by Jabez Thompson, Chester county,
were found seventeen wrought iron nails OF
good size.
THOUSANDS upon thousands OF
shares of what Mr.. Rufus Hatch calls "undis-
covered railroads" are going of daily like hot
cakes in Wall street.
THE astrologers, as well as the old
adage, predict turbulent ending for March
this wear, and also much cold weather and
snow through the month.
A NEW story has been started about
n child jumping a rope several hundred times
and diving from over-exertion. We remember
10 have seen that fable abodt-well, q number
of years ago.
A HINT to municipal authorities
Harry ingalls,, resident of Franklin, recoy-
erei s73s damages against the city before the
Court last week, on account of personal injuries
sed by defective sidewalks.
De LEssEps is coming West, but he
is not likely to pay Butler visit. He is going
to Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and San
Francisco, and in each Of these cities he pro-
poses to talk canal.
QUINCY Modern ArGo: The postal
card is pushing the three-cent stamp aside.
The timidity of parties who write love letters,
is about the only thing that keeps up the sale
of three-cent stamps.
WHEN the Riot Bribery cases came
MP for trial at Harrisburg last Monday, Messrs.
Salter, Kemble, Crawford and Rumberger en-
tered pleas of guilty. The others plead mot
guilty." and will stand trial.
WE publish this week the jury lists
for April terms, commencing on 1st and 3rd
Mondays of the month. The first week is for
the trial of civil cases alone, the second for
either civil or criminal cases.
A VERY large and very curious
specimen Of masculine humanity, named
Rodgers, from Elk county, was to be seen on
our streets last Monday. In appearance, he
somewhat resembles Davy Dougal.
Mrs. ScHwEINTZ came from Ger
many several years ago, leaving Kaethchen be-
hind but Kaethchen recently arrived, and the
meeting at Pittsburgh railroad station was
deeply affecting. Kaethchen is a cat
THE st. Gothard tunnel is nine and
a quarter miles long, cost nine millions OF dol
lars and took seven years to complete. Par
ties began the work on opposite sides Of the
mountain, and met exactly in the middIe-an-
other triumph of engineering skill.
THE first days of spring almost re-
alize Ndsjts quaint description
sThe fields breathe sweet the daisies kiss feet,
Young lovers meet, old wives Assuming SIT,
In every street these tunes our ears do greet,
Cuckoo, iug-jug, pee-we, to-wftta-woO!' -
The other day we received cir
cular from the State Board Of Agriculture,
saying something about seeds. II was written
by one of the humbug copying arrangements
IL all Il
1t is about on a par with other emanations
from the Board.
THE market garden of Messrs. j.
w. Bortmas & Co., on the fiat, west of town,
is now well worth seeing. They have thous-
ands of cabbage, celery and other plants grow
ing and now have rhubarb, lettuce and rad
ishes ready for use. These they are selling at
a reasonable price.
THE Standard Oil Company is still
further flanked by another competitor in ad
dition to the Tidewater Pipe Line now dis
charging at WilliamsPort. The success. of the
complete right of way from that city to the
Bradford district is good thing for the pro-
ducers.
OLEoMARGARINE in Brooklyn shows
a disposition to rest its defence against attack
on disputing the validity of the law under
which arrests are made. Meanwhile oleomar-
garine in Iowa gets another hard blow in the
shape of q severe statute Just directed against
its manufacture and sale, with heavy fines and
imprisonments.
THE retirement of the Ute Indians
from their reservation in Colorado to lands as
signed to them in Utah and New Mexico,
which seems to be agreed upon between their
chiefs and Secretary Schurz, is perhaps the
best solution of the difficulty for both the In
dians and the pioneers who are eager to enter
and occupy their territory.
J. r. DONALDSON, an old and re-
spected citizen of Salem, Mercer county, was
run over by train on the J. & +. Railroad on
Tuesday week last and instantly killed. He
started to walk across the track and observing
some freight cars coming rapidly toward him,
seemed to lose his presence of mind and in an
instant was crushed to death.
AMERICAS contribution to hungry
ireland already amounts to over six hundred
thousand d0llars-more than twice that of
England, whose greediness and injustice oc.
casioned the necessity for aid. And yet, to
hear some blatant John Bull below, one would
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