Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-03-23
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There will be temperance meet
ing in the Butler United Presbyterian
Church on Thursday evening, March
oath, at 1870 o'clock Rev ID. c. Bah,
cock, State Secretary of the Temper
ance Union will be present All are
very cordially invited to attend. Com,
mittee.
LYDIA f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound will at all times, and under
all circumstances, ac5 in harmony with
the laws that govern the female sys-
TEN. Address Mss Lydia Z. Pinkham,
2s3 Western Avenue Lynn, Mass, for
I-circulars.
4 A new steam cotton mill is to be
erected in Charleston, s c., at a cost
of $400, eco. This enterprise will more
than make up for the political loss
resulting from the detection OF Malone
in the Senate. If it can get cotton
mills the South can afford many politi-
cal defeats.
There is growing feeling in
New York that the crew of the Italian
bark Ajacc, recently wrecked off Coney
/ Island. did not meet their death, as
alleged bv their own hands, but were
murdered bv their fellows in some
mutinous uprising, or in an effort to
rob the vessel.
Uneasy lies the head that wears
a crown The death of the Car has
no doubt given much uneasiness to the
rulers of Germany, Italy and Spain,
where tie same influence OF despera-
ton prevails in regard to hatred of the
Government which destroyed an En-
peror in Russia.
William Story found guilty at
June ard September terms 1880. of
| forging Judgment note and embezzle
ment, was last Monday sentenced to
paw fines ia both cases amounting to
s635 costs of prosecution and to be
confined in Allegheny Co Workhouse
: for eighteen months
-Vennor's latest prognostications say
that spring will be fairly early. hot and
drv, and the midsummer cool and wet.
The autumn promises. to he open dry
and fine. There is likely to be a great
deal Of sickness during the year, hut the
weather-cxcept in few isolated sec
tions-wilI be favorable to agricultural
pursuits. -
"A Baltimore man is under arrest
charged with saturating his wife's cloth
ing with kerosene while she Law asleep
on a lounge and then setting her on
fire. The flames were extinguished
before the woman was fatally burned.
he brute intended to make it hot for
his wife. and she now proposes to make
it hot for him.
A sensation was created through
the oil country last Thursday by the
announcement that the Standard Oil
Company has bought the United Pipe
Lines. They have worked together in
the past. but sometimes the managers
of the Pipe Lines have made the Stand
ard Weld to them, and it was said that
the purchase was made to prevent this
in tie future.
The United States Government by
concerted movement one day last
week, secured the arrest of almost a
score of sn-caled land arents residents
Of Cleveland. Pittsburgh, New York
and S Louis. who are said to have
been for years past engaged in transac-
tions nv which the Government has
i r. ,I,.a1
thousand acres of land in Missouri.
! A voung German who was wit
Messing the shoeine of horse was
struck by a small particle iron, which
penetrated the pupil Of his eve burying
! itself deep in the body of the organ.
In an eve hospital at Wiesblden the
/ extraordinary operation Withdrawing
E'thc iron by means Of a magnet was
] recently performed with entire sue
cess.
! The cat show in New Y ork is call
/ ed Cat Congress- When the pro-
! icctor christened it he must hare been
laboring under the dclusipn that when
cats are Yelling Ma rrr-i aaa-a , in
seven langua ges, they are calling each
other liars and traitors and falsifers
and things. Thepurreeedingsin in Cat
Congress are more harmonious.-No,-
risfofrn Herald.
The Kentucky moonshiners who
loaded an old six FOUNDER TO the muzz'e
with rusty nails and broken pot metal,
the other day, and let fly at Dupaty
Henin and his ten revenue officers.
luckily overshot the mark. or there
would have been none of the revenue
army left to tell the tale, There is
plenty of material for an exciting ro-
/ nance in this moonshine guerrilla war
fare.
Butter is very scarce nowadays.
In regard to butter. there is nothing
tolerable short Of what is: thoroughly
good; ANYTHING less than that is an
insult to the bread it is put upon 1t is
a much easier matter to do without
butter than many people imagine, and
if those who cannot afford to use q
good article will do without anv, as
they dispense with other luxuries,
their stomachs will be greatly the gain
ers thereby.
England is now eating beef slaugh-
tered in Australia, and carried to Liver
pool in frozen condition. One of the
promptings of the English press tc
raise. the crv about pleuro pneumonia
! amonr the beef cattle of mPrica was
to drive it out of the English market
and thus make room for the Australian
article. 1t requires from ten to clever
days to make the voyage from New
York to Liverpool, while from Austria
liza it takes sixty.
In no interest of labor has th,
countrv advanced more steadily thai
in that of tanning hides, the leathe
buSirpcs of the TTnifpd States EaVin,