Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-08-04

secretary ENdTtS IL Liz
| law practice is estimated at from SSOooo 10
| $3.50 600 per year. His fees the largest OF
any lawyer in the country, $25, ,OOO and soo,oUo
| not being an unusual amount for him to receive
| in a single case.
The dog and cat census OF this
| town reaches respectable figures. Esq Ander-
| sou made no note of the dogs and cats OF the
| town. excepting those who walk on two legs or
less. bat there Is no doubt but that there are too
many dogs and cats in Butler.
During the fall and winter terms
of the North Washington Academy the students
will have the privilege of listening to lectures
by able speakers every two or three weeks.
Rev. Thomas Graham will deliver the first OF
this course on Friday evening, Aug. looo.la4-''
England has new pest, the tipu-
Ia grub, which ultimately blossoms into daddy
long-legs. 1t goes to the root OF every green
thing with amazing appetite, and SO serious are
its ravages that the Royal Agricultural Society
has issued an elaborate description OF its ways
The catalogue of the Witherspoon
Institute, OF this place, just out. shows sum
mary OF l37 students. Their course OF instrue-
tion is good, rates of tuition low, and as beard
ing can be obtained In this town very cheap, we
see no reason why the institution should not
flourish.
One of our town millers says that
Red Winter wheat makes better -four than any
other that can be raised in this county. AS
there are undoubtedly many kinds of wheat
raised in the county, we should like to hear
from some of our farmer friends in the different
parts of the county on the subject.
The Court House officials in the
several counties of this State have arranged for
a grand reunion to come off at Bedford Springs
on September 4th. The idea of bringing about
this gathering was first suggested by the Fro
thonotary of Clarion county, and 1t Is aitogeth-
er probable that the affair will prove success.
The Purvis Brothers, of this place,
are doing large business in the manufacture OF
doors, sash, and door and window frames. They
have orders ahead for all they can make, are
employing about fifteen hands, and are shipping
largely to points outside the county, notably to
Beaver Falls. town that is rapidly building up
The greatest pigeon flying on rec
ord in this country was done last week, New
Jersey bird having made the dist ance between |
Colum bus, OHIO, and Jersey City Heights in
less than five hours, the distance being five hun
dred miles. The best railway engineer on the |
same rout must acknowledge himself beaten,
A swindler has been selling to
residents OF the lower counties boxes CT what |
he called electric light. They contained simply |
colored borax, which he declared was extract Of |
electricity and would last hundred years. The |
secret Of how to use it was to be impaired when
ten purchasers, at go each had been obtained |
In the town.
We hope that the two cheese fac
tories in this county will have full display of
their goods at the coming fair. TO be held here |
next month. We would also suggest to those |
of our farmers who produce good winter apples |
TO any extent, that they be on hand with an ex-
hibit and stand right there and take orders tor |
thei- goods.
We understand that Mr.. Butcher,
OF the Globe Mills, Massachusetts, reports buy
ing 100000 pounds of wool In Brooke county, |
w. Va, OF Col. G. Fl. Beall and others. The re- |
ported price is forty cents, but we cannot think |
that the advanced wool-groweIs of that region |
would give away their feeees In that fashion,
Pittsburgh Stockman.
The Troy Times says that flies
can be ef1ectuaIy disposed of without the use |
of poison. Take hall. teaspoonful OF black
pepper in powder, one teaspoonful of brown |
sugar and one teaspoonful of cream. Mix them
well together and place them in room on |
plate where the flies are troublesome and the |
pests will very soon disappear.
"Got any kids Y" the census man said
To the woman from over the Rhine
She bit him belt on the side of the head
and excitedly answered: "Du hoeliscbcs, un-
vcrschaemfes ausgcrdortes muster zines frechen |
narren, verlass meiD hans, oder ich mache boil
ogniscber wurst aus dehem leeren korf init |
elnen tein You tink vas goat?"
Among the productions of this
county, ono of the largest is that of wool, and
we see no reason why large woolep mill, one |
that would employ three or four hundred hands
would not pay here. A paper mill also would,
we think, be a profitable investment, but there |
does not seem to be enough capital in town for |
anyone to engage in either enterprise.
Still another instance of the vio-
lent and unlawful search of an American mer- |
chant vessel is reported in the case of the |
schooner George Washington, which cleared in |
ballast from Baltimore for a Jamaica port for |
cargo Of fruits, and on July was stopped and
searched on her outward voyage by Spanish |
war steamer some fifteen miles from the coast |
of Cuba.
The shadows of coming events
continue to creep across the face of English pol |
itics. The announcement that committee has
been formed within the Liberal party TO carry |
on propaganda of agitation, and that chief
point in its programme is the abolition of the
hereditary pesrsgs and the substitution of an
elective Senate for the present House of Lords,
is full of significance.
The census takers have found
locality In New Jersey where women seem to
forget to die. Some girls eighty or n hundred
years old have been met returning from jolly
dinner with their mother. This must be the
neighbofhocd where q mischcyous youth OF
three score and ten sat on the fence and cried 40
II his little heart would break because his father
had boxed his ears for throwing stones at his
grandfather.
1t is said that the average con-
sumption of wheat per year for each human
being in this country is FIVE bushels. The So
900 Inhabitants of this county would at this es'
innate consume 25O, 900 bushels per year. Sure
ly Butler county, which has about 800, 900 acres
Of land and an agricultural people, should
bread itself, though we suppose that more mon
ey has, Of late years, gone out OF the county for
-four than for any other article.
"A useful hint to cooks was given
at recent sanitary convention Ia Grand Rap
ids, Michigan. 1t was pointed out that by add
ing sugar TO sour fruits during the cooking pro-
cess, the greater part Of the cane sugar was
converted by the aid Of the acid into grape su-
gar, which does not possess half the sweetening
lower. BY cooking the fruit first, and then ad-
ding the sugar 10 an agreeable sweetness, very
great deal Of sugar might be saved.
An Ohio man informs local pa
per that the rainfall from July st, 1879, to De-
cember 31st 1879 was 23.47 inches, and from
January ist, 1850, to June goth, 1850, 2S II In
chcs, making total tor the year OF 52 ~ INCHES,
We presume the above 10 be considerably larger
than the average annual rainfall OF the locality,
though we have no data TO show what the aver
age ~. The general range in the northern
States is stated to be from 81 to 45 inches.
William Painter, prominent oil
producer and wealthy citizen OF Franklin, was
killed ON Wednesday. He assisting to draw
. set of heavy tools from his drilling well. when
the tug band that controls the bull.wheel broke
and Mr.. Painter. in attempting to use the brake
became entaDgled in the ropes and was drawn
several times around the wheel and thrown thr-
ty feet into the derrick. He alighted on tho
floor terribly bruised and died in a few moments