Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-05-25

bill making it obligatory upon school
directors to allow the teachers their
time while attending the annual
county institute, and 50 so day for
expenses.
In the matter Of the petition of the
School Directors of Centreville, for
viewers to assess damages for property
of G. Wilson, appropriated for school
purposes, tho Court appointed David
Mckee, S. H. Moore and David Mar
shall, viewers, and fixed Tuesday, June
7th, as the time for their meeting
1t is matter of congratulat;on
that Postmaster General James does
not feel called upon to resign his place
in the Cabinet because the President
does not agree with him as to the de-
STABILITY of a change in the New York
Collectorship. He has none of the
Miss Nancy skittishness of the New
York Senator'S
-Postmaster-Gener James, acting
under the advice of Attorney General
McVeagh, is about 10 enter upon
thorough effort to break up the whole
system of transmitting lottery circulars,
letters and money orders through the
mails. His purpose is to make clean
sweep of this whole business. All good
citizens will wish him success
-LEcTURE.-Rev j. A. Danks, who
was colonel of the Sixty-third Penn
sylvania Volunteers, will deliver lee
ture, entitled "War, its nature and
remedy, or nine days and nights on the
Gettysburg battle field" on Monday,
May Both. at s P. NJ, at the Court
House, Butler, Pa All are invited to
come and hear this able, instructive
and interesting lecture. Admission,
25 cents.
1t appears that the hangman at
the late execution of the Nihilists prim-
ed himself for his task with liquor-in
other words this functionary of the
gibbet presented himself for his official
duties. aud performed them, drunk He
was heavily fogged in payment for his
official services, but the castigation of
the buDgling executioner did not add
any impressiveness to the remembrance
of spectacle which raised the horror
Of those who witnessed it.
Judge Robertson was serenaded
at Albany last Wednesday evening,
and there was rejoicing over what was
believed to be the end 'of the "boss"
rule. The Conkling men at Albany
are by no meas confident of their abili-
ty to re-elect Messrs Conkling and
Platt. Members of the Legislature are
beginning to hear from their constitu-
ents, with the effect of changing their
course 1t is believed by Administra-
ton men that Mr.. Conkling's defeat is
assured.
The Lincoln Club" of this place
must indeed be a hightoned affair, if
among its members it numbers two
reporters or paid informers" of the
Mtllersto,on Herald. and they must
have paid the mi iation fee of one of
the editors of this paper, so that they
could boast of his membership, as we
did not, nor have we ever attended
meeting of this club. The club, judg-
ing from the actions of fthese two men,
bers, would seem to stand in need of a
character, and so long as it does, we
would suggest the propriety of drop
ping the name of Lincoln and adopting
one more appropriate, "The Sneak
Dog Club" for instance
SINGULAR EscAPE.-A young gen.
tleman ard four young ladies of this
place, when returning from drive in
a two-horsc carriage on Sunday evening
last, about o'clock, end while coming
down the plank road on the hill south
of town, the horses frightened and ran
away, throwing the whole company
against the fence of the lot of J. H.
Negley, overturning the carriage,
throwing them all out with great force,
and yet strange to say none were injur-
ed. The horses became detached from
the carriage and were caught near by.
The only damage done was to the car
riage. 1t is regarded as very singu-
lar and fortunate escape.
A shrewd observer in Washington
discloses new vista in the great resig-
nation comedy This is a plan that
Mr.. Conkling and Mr.. Platt shall swap
terms, "by and with the advice and
consent" of the Legislature. Mr.. P)att
would then take the short term ending
in 1885, and Mr.. Conkliug the long
one ending in 1887 Mr.. Platt's re-
election. or the election of Republican
successor. would then depend upon the
complexion of the Assembly to be cho-
sen in 1884, the Presidential year but
Mr.. Conkling's reelection would not.
He would be sure of seat in the Sen
ate from which he could make war up
on the present Administration until it
expired, and upon the new Administra-
tion until il was half way through its
term.
In an eastern journal we find the
following lucid sentences THE pol
ished culture of the metaphysician, the
artistic insight of the poet, perceives
the inner truth of things, which the
moralists and utilitarians fail to dis
cover. The mistake of sacrificing the es-
thetic atmosphere that should surround
every woman is a fatal mistake in life.
1t is social duty to please, and
woman whose unlovliness antagonizes
all with whom she comes in contact,
not only loses all she might herself win
and hold of life's sweetest and most
sacred happiness, but she Injuries all
womanhood in her disregard of it's fair
est requirements" All of which. if it
could be translated would he perfectly
correct and lovely ; but it SO happens
that no woman who writes for the
newspapers can cook Goldfish and
superintend the weeks washing with
out getting her ideas mixed.
Professor Balfour Stewart the