Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-03-24
Local and General.


Association.
Local and General.
LAKE Erie is full of floating ice.
LADIES will 6nd q cure in DAYS
KIDNEY PAD when everything else
fails.
IT is now fashionable for young
ladies to have the mumps, they are very
swell.
NEVER plant trees when the soil Is
wet or cloddy, but wait until it is IN
friabIe condition.
Mn. T. j. RUSSELL has been ap-
pointed postmaster for Holyoke post
Office, this county.
MARCH lst was the one hundredth
anniversary of the abolition Of slavery
in Pennsylvania.
The Economics of Beaver county
will build one hundred new dwelling
houses this summer.
HUGH MARTIN, highly respectable
citlZen Oh DedVct COuuty; "oo AON--N
dead in his bed lately.
SELLERS Liver Pills" never fail
to cure biliousness, indigestion, or
headache Sold by all druggists.
SAVE your rags and waste paper.
They are now in lively demand and
are selling for more than at any time
since the war.
THERE is but one county in Penn
sylyania that has not heard the shrek
OF the iron horse within her border,
and that is Fulton.
WE are glad to hear that Mr.. Cuth-
bert's son John is rapidly recovering
The loss of Samuel was very heavy
affliction to the family.
MANY a man will confess to chills
and fever who will not acknowledge
that his mother-in-law has arrived for
her annual six weeks visit.
On Monday of this week the County
Commissioners appointed Mr.. George
w. Ziegler as the janitor of the Court
House for the coming year.
"THEY cannot all lie," was the OBJ
sorvation of one while reading the
endless testimonials to "Dr Lindsey's
Blood Searcher" 1t is infallible.
THE Lefevre murder trial is said to
be the fourteenth case for murder tried
before our County Court, not includ-
ing trials for manslaughter or attempts
to murder.
THE mails to and from this place are
now taken to and from the depot in a
hand cart, the r. r Company finding
SIG month too large sum to pay
for service.
QUITE a number of our Methodist
friends will make an excursion to Mil
lerstown this "Wednesday evening,
to take part in the revival services
now being held there.
TIE County Commissioners have
fixed the tax for this year for county
purposes at mills on personal per-
sonal property and real estate, and
mills on money at interest.
Mr.. WIN. Scorr has brought suit, in
our Common Pleas Court, against
Thomas Fl Maher and James K. Dain,
for conspiracy to indict him and to
injure him in his reputation.
THOSE of our citizens who live con-
tiguous to public street crossings de-
serve the thanks Of our church-going
people for the admirable condition of
said crossings on the past two Sundays.
THE Court last week appointed
Reuben McElvain, Abraham McCand-
less, Sr, Alexander Storey and VIM.
r. Patterson, to serve as tipstaves of
the Court for the coming year, and
James Kearns, ST., to be Court Crier
CORONER CAMPBELL held post
mortem examination upon the body of
Mrs. Margaret Roach, who was found
dead at her residence in Millerstown,
on the 18th inst. The finding of the
jury was that she came to her death
from the effects of alcohol.
THE prospect for the spring session
was never so encouraging before.
Spring Session will begin Tuesday,
March 80, 1880. Send for Students
Journal and annual catalogue.
j. G. keller, Principal
NOTHING in modern history, except
Mark Twain weeping over the tomb of
Adam, has presented more elements of
pathos than the scene described by
Gen. Brisbin of that good little boy
Ulysses s. Grant threshing his Cana
dian cousin for speaking disrespect-
fully of George Washington.
The following is the inscription on
letter that passed through our post
Office day or two ago:
The dominion is CANADA, the province QUE
Bee,
And SHERBRooKE is the name of the town,
Where this letter wish to be safely conveyed,
Without a complaint or frown,
To HENRY BROOK, a blacksmith by trade,
And not given to frolic or tricks,
His box is well known, so make no mistake
No. FOUR HUNDRED NINETY AND SIX.
Nh. WILLIAM HOWE, brakeman on
the gravel train of the Branch road
and resident of Freeport, was thrown
violently from the train and over on
embankment, between Dilks station
and Great Belt, last Monday morning
He was severely cut about the head
and his life is despaired Of The accident
was result of the breaking of the brake
lever he was working.
The Anglo-American Cable Com.
pany is not discouraged by the open
ing of the new line. At all events i
proposes to lay another wire this sum
mer, and is now negotiating for thai
purpose. But what the world is watch
ing and waiting for at the presen
writing is the International Telephon'
Company. We must be on speakin,