Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-01-05

/ QOWu Win IT,
According to De Lesseps' esti-
mates the cost of the Panama canal
will be 1884, 100000 1t is estimated
a canal over the Nicaragua route
would cost but s75,O00,000.
Will Lee, formerly of this place
but now of New Castle, has accepted
the position of violinist, cornet and
flute player in the choir of the first NJ.
Z. Church of that place.
RING LosT-In the borough of
Butler on thanksgiving day, a large sized gold
| ring with cameo stone, representing the bust OF
| knight wearing a helmet the same having
mask, ,-and the stone apparently having two
| faces. The finder will be literally rewarded
be returning the same to Grieb's Jeweiry Store,
Butler Pa. tt
/ The green Christmas that makes
a fat churchyard was not upon US this
year If there has been a December
less discouraging to green things than
the one just passed no one cares to set
| himself to shiveriDg by recalling It,
Some days ago Sheriff Hoffman
received fine large deer as a present
from a friend in Clearfeld county.
This be had sliced up, and with the
generosity for which be is noted, dis
tributed it among the people OF the
| town.
| If the Young man who went up
Main Street the other night singing
"Oh. dear III never get drunk any
more !" will put that resolution in
writing and stand by it for about year
he will have more money III bis pocket
a the end OF this year.
The subscription price of The
Philadelphia Record. daily, is but
three dollars per year, or thirty cents
month mailed to any address free OF
postage. 1t is one Of the best and is,
we believe, the cheapest, iirst-class dali
ly newspaper published in the United
States
Allegheny county has within its
limits three poor-houses, one for Ale |
gbeDy City at Claremount station, on |
the West Penn r T. one for Pitts
burgh, on the Perrysville road, and one
for the county, outside of the two |
cities, on the other side of the Monon
gahela.
Thousands of lad have found sud
den relief from all their woes by the
use of LYDIA L. PINKHAM's VEGETA-
BILE COMPOUND, the great remedy for
diseases peculiar to females Send to
Mr.. Lydia f. Pinkham, 233 Western
Avenue, Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
The sales of holiday goods in But
Ter week before last exceeded those Of
any previous holiday season. The in
terchange of gifts on Christmas Day,
however trifling they may be in value,
is beautiful custom, handed down to
US from remote age, and should new
er be neglected.
In carrying out their laudabe and
highly promising efforts to introduce
silk production as domestic industry
in this country, .he WomeD's Silk Cul-
tu-e Association of the United States
has discovered the need of suitable
hand reel for home use, and appeal to
the inventors of the country.
School No III, of this place, Joseph
Mechling, Esq, teacher, was awarded
the prize globe, offered by Mr.. III. G.
Heineman, for the best specimen of map
drawing from memory, exhibited at the
Institute, and Miss Maggie Gallagher
of Donegal township secured the prize
for best spelling, offered by the firm of
j q a. WIN Campbell.
A strange feature about the re-
cent blizzard" was the fact that the
lowest range of temperature was not
in the extreme Northern States.
Canada did not suffer SO severely as
States, and in Butler the lowest tenn
perature was Ia degrees, but III Peters
burg, Va, l6 degrees was registered
At Oxbridge, Massachusetts,, late
ly, prominent groceryman on open
ing a hogsbead Of molasses found in it
the body of negro in fair state
of preservation. The negro is sup
posed to have been murdered and |
placed in the cask to conceal the crime.
Be that as it may, the sale OF molasses
in Oxbridge is not az lively as it was.
Horse sense from an exchange :
"A man who clips bis horse at this
season of the year should be compelled
to 20 without clothes until brought to
bis senses. Putting an iron bride bit
into a horses mouth before warming
it these frosty days is equally inhu-
man. Let those who think it don't
burt try putting their tongues on
piece Of cold iron"
During this week and next twenty
Senators in Congress will be elected
by the Legislatures OF as many differ
ent States. These elections will ma
terially change the politics Of that i'm
portant branch Of the Government. The
Senate il divided into three classes,
having regard to the expiration OF the
terms of the several members. These
classes are numbered respectively one,
two, and three.
Some one designated the position
of the mercury during the cold wealth
or of last week as being two yards be-
low freezo.n The cold weather seems
to have extended to the Gulf At
Jacksonville, Florida, where they sell
dom have frost. the mercury stood at
but l9o above zero; the oranges on
the trees were frozen and it is feared
the trees were injured. Only about
one-third OF the crop bad been gather
ed.
/ -Messrs. Walter Il Boos are now
making an excellent article Of straight
grade -four which they are selling at
$3.50 per sack. BY straight grade"
il meant o -four that contains the whole
Of the meats Of the grain, the better
| ,ar,, M. be np ta.pn ont for q fancy or