Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-03-16

secretly prepare and contribute a dish
on which she prided herself The ban
quet consisted of ty-eight pans OF
chocolate caramels.
Eight thousand acres of land in
Lackawaxen township. Pike county,
this State, were sold by the Sheriff a
few davs since for $13 900 When the
Erie Railway wasin course Of consiruc-
ton, the value of the same property
was e.timated at 5000 900.
The PENNSYLVANIA delegation in
Congress received a decided snub
They cannot complain, for they invited
rebuff in opposing the appointment of
MacVeagh to the Attorney General
ship after the position had been ten
derei to him and accepted by him.
William and Fillmore johnson
and Mat Hinchberger got Eve large
coons out of large hollow oak tree on
the Bredin farm in Summit township
a few days ago. This beats ''Devil'
John Kennedy who got three out Of
a stump week before last. Coon skins
are worth 80 cents apiece.
At the late meeting of the stock
holders of the Building & Loan As
sociation Of this place the old board of
dir. ctors were reelected, with the ex-
ception Of Frank Anderson, who IS in
| Colorado, and whose place was filled
by Joseph Kemper. The Association
has over So. 900 in its treasury.
Bishop Simpson, of the VI. E.
Church will be in Butler next Sunday
and preach in the morning in the NJ.
+. Church Of this place. A special
train for the services will be run on
the narrow gauge road, and as the
church will likely be crowded persons
who wish scat should attend early.
A clause in our State Constitu-
ton prohibits determinations bv rail
road and other corporations within the
State. and we understand that our
State Legislature has bill before it
this winter, fixing proper penalties
for disregardingit Thepenalties should
include Imprisonment as well as fines.
Ivory Chamberlin, one of the
leadi writers on the New \ ork.
Herald staff who died the other day,
was formerly on the World staff, and
in the absence of Manton Marble wrote
the editorial, during the campaign Of
1868, advising the withdrawal of Gen
eral Blair from the Democratic ticket.
During the wear 1880 the Perm
syIvania r. r. Co.'S receipts aggre-
gated over seventy millions Of dollars
or about 100000 per day, on which
their profits amounted to over twenty
eight millions Of dolaLs. The com
pany now controls about eight thou
sand miles of track, and employs about
fifty thousand persons.
A shipmen. of bulk grain was
made at st. Louis lately. consisting Of
2G3, 900 bushels of corn and $4,000
bushels of wheat, in barges, all towed
BY one steamer The grain is intended
for cxportation, and will be reshipped
at New Orleans. 1t is impossible for
the railroads to compete with transpor-
tation of this kind.
The bill to divert one-half Of the
revenue derived from the tax on the
capital stock Of corporations from the
Sinking Fund to the General Fund
will greatly relieve the State Treasury
If proper economy is observed in max
ing appropriations ii is possible that
no increase Of taxation from other
sources will be necessary in order to
carry on the State Government.
Another minister is in trouble about
the holy kiss Is it not about time for
religious people TO sec what the unre-
generate long have seen, that saluta-
tions with the lips are, TO say the
least, disturbing to the reputation that
churches desire to maintain If kls-
sing is really a sanctimonious method
of greeting why do not the pastors
who practice it ever bestow their
labial attentions upon men p Ec.
The happiest person in the coun-
try on the 4lh Of March, 1881, un-
dcubtedly was the venerable mother Of
James A. Garfield and she had the
highest right to be Left widow
with her small children, who, with
herself, we're quite dependent upon her
own excrtions for support, she kept
her little flock together, and demon
strated, as have many other women
also, hat woman can do"
Isaac Wright, prominent citizen
Of Westminster Md, has received in
formation Of the lyncbing Of his son,
Frank j. Wright, about thirty years
Of age, and Of cstimable character, in
Colorado. Some mules purchased by
young Wright had been stolen, fact
Of which he was unconscious, and
vigilance committee, while in search OF
the thief, overlook tie posessor Of the
property and hanged him and his scrv-
ant.
Every member Of the new Cabinet
is married, Secretary Hunt, of the
Navy, having bis fourth wife. WIN
dom il the only Ohio man Blaine,
| James and Hunt were Wings. Kirk
wood originally Democrat, aud VIA
dom and Lincoln consistent Rcpubi-
cans. Blaine is lifty-one years Of age
Window, tfty-four James, fifty Mac
Vcagh, forty-eight; Kirkwood, sixty
eight Z; Lincoln tn irty-seven Hunt,
iifty-two.
The principle Of the bill fayorably
reported lately in the Pennsylvania
Senate, allowing persons sustaining
damages on account any mob or riot
to recover compensation from the coun-
/ ty wherein snch mcb or riot occurred,
IL clearly right, and the sooner it il put
into the shape of the law the better
Every county in the Commonwealth
should be made responsible FIR the
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