Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-12-14

At the lowest calculation posslple
there are ninety-nine pairs of slippers
being made in Butler, by young and
elderly ladies for their gentlemen
friends.
: BY the explosion of a boiler in the
works of the Keystone Rolling Mill
Co., in the fourteenth ward, Pittsburg,
last Friday, one man was killed and
twelve injured.
The new foot-rest for the coming
Christmas is adjustable. You may
lower it for the baby to sit on, or raise
it to mantelpiece height for manly
hoofs to recline upon.
A fine lot of fancy brackets, wall
pockets, towel racks, tables, carpet
rockers also, slipper pockets and paper
holder, backs for embroidered fronts,
suitable for Christmas presents, at VIM
F. Miller's. l4d2w
The case of the commonwealth vs.
Robert Davidson, for assault and bat
terry with intent to kill, Jonas Hartzell,
prosecutor, was the first taken up Mon
day and is still on trial.
| Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has done thousands of wo-
men more good than the medicines of
many doctors. 1t is positive cure for
all female complaints send to Mrs.
Lydia K. Pinkham.
| -Phila Ne,Us: A Philadelphia
man who owns q parrot informs US
that when his minister calls on him it
is very embarrassing to have the bird
eternally exclaiming I'll take sugar in
mine
If you wish to behold miscella-
neous assortment of fattencd noses,
you have only to enter any OF the But
Ter stores in whose windows holiday
goods are exposed to view, and watch
the countenances of the children after
school hours.
up to yesterday evening the grand
jury of last week had not yet adjourned.
They sent off hundred miles or so for
witnesses in the case of che young lady
of Cherry township, who is accused of
concealing the death of her child, and
after putting the county to that cost,
thought it their duty to remain in ses-
sion till the witnesses arrived.
AN editor in this state says: we
need 81 900 before the first of January
1t is a queer announcement for an edi-
tor to make but if he intends to make
his wife Christmas present he should
have the money. We suppose he
might give her a twenty-five dollar
patent medicine order, but editors
wives don't appreciate such presents
NorrlstoaUn Herald
A terrible accident, resulting in the
death of eleven men, occurred at Glib
son station, on the Ohio river, a few
miles below Pittsburg, early last Sat
urday morning: A two-story shanty,
in which forty-six persons were sleep
ing, was set on fire by the explosion of
a swinging lamp in the hall, and the
fire made such dense smoke that
many of the men were Immediately
overcome, and ten of them perished in
the flames
The Ohio dentists do not tolerate
murder For years the Goodyear Rub
ber Company has been waging war
against the dentists of the country, un-
der the patent laws, and one of the in
cidents of the struggle was the killing
of rubber company agent by a Cali
fornia dentist. A Columbus dentist
asked the State Association last week
to sympathize with the homicide by
resolutions but instead of doing that
they ruled him out, and then voted
him censure. He took it like man.
The man Haley, alias Phelan, who
swindled the Emlenton Bank, some
two years ago by means of forged
check, was tried at Franklin, lately,
convicted and sent to the peniten
tiary. Haley is an adroit scoundrel
with fascinating history. He made
overtures offering to make the bank
good and double their loss. The usual
way with metropolitan moneyed con-
Germs is to treat with such sharpers,
make terms that will save them, and
let the criminal loose once more upon
the world.
The goods which are now in dis
play in the shops may not include many
striking novelties, but every year the
articles offered for sale at the holiday
season grow more tasteful on the aver
age The improvement in this respect
has been wonderful within ten years,
within FIVE years, indeed Never be-
fore, too, was the variety of tasteful ar
ticles for holiday gifts attainable at a
small cost, so great as tits now. A tour
of inspection through the shops where
all these things, costly and cheap, are
now displayed, is therefore well worth
while.
NEWSPAPER sharks-that is that
class who take paper for a number of
years, and then skip without paying
for it-are reminded by contempora-
ry that the new postal law now makes
the taking of newspaper and the re-
fusal to pay for the same, theft, and
any person guilty of such an action is
liable to criminal proceedings, the
same as if he had stolen goods to the
amount of subscription A New
York paper has already commenced
suit against several subscribers for
such an offence. PhRniT.
After an existence of sixty-one
years Van Amburgh's show met the
inglorious fate of being knocked to
pieces by an auctioneers hammer few
days ago. Venerable men who re-
member munching gingerbread and
staring at the monkeys in the Great
Show fifty or sixty yearsago will prob
ably nod their gray heads and hum
softly what they used to howl vocifer-
ously when they were lads that