Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-09-01
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used Ii restores not only the color, but gloss
and luxuriance to faded and gray hair.
A New York stone-cutter received
the following epitaph from German, to be cut
ut.on the tombstone of his wife: Mine wlfe
Susan is dead: if she had lived TIL mex Friday
she'd been dead shust two weeks. As tree
| falls so must II stan.
Many an unhappy sufferer from
nervous debility has wished himself anywhere
but on this beautiful earth. No one need now
hs We any such feelings all that they require IS 10
| 90 and purchase one box of Gray's Speclhc ana
| they will realize change as if by magic Scid
| by ]. c. Redick.
Two colored women have been ap-
| pointed as census clerks at Washington, when
| has caused some commotion among the other
clerks, there being a strong feeling isIeI asa,hIs.
| working in the same room with them. II color
is the only objection, it is to be hoped that
| measures will be taken to put down TINS un-
worthy prejudice.
Women that have been given up
| bv their dearest friends as beyond help, have
| been permanently cured by the use of LYDIA
| e. PiNKHAM's VEGETABLE CNMPoUND: 1t
| il a postiye cure for all female complaints.
Send to Mrs. Lydia r. Pinkham, Western
Avenue, Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets a25
The introduction of the study OF
Spanish into the city schools of San francisco
is being discussed, the necessity OF 1t arising
from the increasing trade between the Pacihc
coast cf the United States Mexico and central
and South America. The study of the German
language could be introduced 10 advantage IN
the common schools here.
Mr.. George p. Norris, of whose
death on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at kittan-
ming Point we made a note last week, was the
q ~. CF( Intn NJ
ship. this county. He was in the 23d year of
his age, was an estimable young man, and Mr.
Norris and his family have the sympathy OF
the whole community in their bereavement.
of late years many members of
both houses of Congress have used stamps for
franking upon which were cut fac-similes of
their signatures. By this device clerk could
frank thousand documents at very little ex-
peuse either of time or labor Now the Post
moster- General has decided that no matter can
be franked unless it bears genuine signature
On Wednesday last John Hol-
linger living in Lebanon county, was making
cider using mill driven by horsepower. He
was standing on the power to drive the horse,
and got off to drive away cow. and on getting
on again he slipped, one of his feet was caught
in the cogs. drawn in and terribly mashed and
mangled, stopping the machine. The leg was
amputated next day, but he died.
"A fire broke out in Greenville
Tuesday morning, of last week, and at one time
threatened the destruction of the town. Steam
ers were sent from Sharon and Meadville.
These aiding the home fire department soon
had the flames under control. A wooden mill, |
Mather's flour mill, the Packard House and
stables, with three dwelling houses make up
the extent of the loss. The damages will reach |
nearly one hundred thousand dollars.
Some of the cigarettes which are
smoked to so large an extent are said to be dan
gerous articles. One of them, being analyzed |
was found to be strongly impregnated with |
opium, while the so-called rice-paper in which |
it was wrapped was ordinary paper whitened |
with arsenic. These poisons create In the smo- |
ker the habit of using opium without being |
aware of it, and its cravings can only be satis-
fed by an incessant use OF cigarettes.
Mr.. Benz. Mccullough, brother
in-law of Recorder Gallagher, met with a seri |
GUS accident few days ago. He was running |
a saw mill at the time and the belt or strap |
connecting the engine with the saw. broke and |
one end struck Mr.. Mccullough in the face |
with such force as to break his jaw bone in |
two places. He was picked up insensible, but
at last accounts had recovered consciousness
and was doing as well as could be expected.
The greatest hail-storm ever known
recently prevailed at Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Uail-stones from six to ten inches large fell, !
and covered the ground from four to eight I
inches deep, killing thousands of sheep and
other animals, and turkeys, geese, and prairie
chickens Three of the hail-stones were found
to weigh one pound. Several farms had all the
wheat, corn and hay destroyed The loss will !
not fall short of $4,000.
The Public Health Department of
Germany sanctions the use of certain non-poi-
sonous substances for coloring confectionery;
Flour and starch for white; cochineal, oarmine
madder red, and the juice of carrots and cher
ries for red /; saffron, saffiower, and turmeric
for yellow indigo and litmus for blue the
Juice of spinach and mixtures of the ready
mentioned blues and yellows for green burn
ed sugar and Spanish juice for brown; and In
dian ink for black.
The official figures show that dur
ing the year ending June 80, 1880, no fewer
than 457 ,243 immigrants arrived in the United
States. The previous year the arrivals had num-
bered only III ,826, thus manifesting an aston
ishing increase When 1880 is ended, its record
that of any other year in the history of the
country.
Vigorous efforts are still being
made to recover the bodies of the twenty labor
ers lost in the Hudson River Tunnel All the
failed, and now casson is being sunk for
that purpose which it is confidently hoped
will be successful 1t is to the credit of the
company that they still pay the regular weekly
wages of those who have died to their bereaved
families, and it is said they will continue to do
this during the completion of the tunnel.
The Democratic Congressional
Conference of this district met at the Lowry
House in this place last Friday evening. Mr..
II IL.
Stranahan that of Mercer county and Mr.. Cald-
well of Crawford county. For five ballots each
nominee had 3 votes, but on the 9th Butler
county threw two votes to Crawford and one
to Mercer, making the vote for Caldwell and
for Stranahan 4. Caldwells nomination was
then made unanimous and the convention ad-
journed.
The Benders are now believed to
have been lynched at the time of the dis
covery of their last murder in 1873. One who
witnessed the lynching says that the notorious
Bender family, four in number, were captured
soon after the discovery of the murder of Col.
York's brother. He says the four were stood
up in row, facing nine rihemen, and were
told their fate, that Kate was pluck to the last,
and called upon her captors to "shoot and be
id" and that the four bodies were buried at
the corner of the counties of Labette, Wilson,
Neosho and Montgomery.
The wealth, debt and taxation di-
vision of the tenth census have begun an nves-
tigation to ascertain the ownership of the regis
tered bonds of the United States, which aggre-
gate nearly 81, 1,175000,oO0. This work is done
by force of census clerks in a room in the
Treasury Department. The Secretary of the
Treasury has placed the latest schedules of
quarterly dividends of interest at the disposal
of the Superintendent of the Census and the
examination in progress, when completed, will
show where the Indebtedness of the country Is
owned.
Before life is imperilled, deal judi
ciously with the symptoms Remember that
the slight disorder of to-day may become an OBJ
stinate, incurable disease tomorrow. AS pre-
ventive medicine take Simmons Liver Regula-
tor which, by its mild and beneficial action on
the liver, stomach and spleen, is eminently cal |
culated to assist nature in her efforts to re-es