Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01

OF Heck q PATTERSON. Trey always
keep the finest line of goods at lowest
prices Call at their store and com
pare their goods and prices with those
of the other carpet firm in Butler
The heathen Chnee is getting
along. The announcement that two
thousand Of him who had been employ
ed on a western railroad have struck
for higher wages shows that he is learn
ing to understand the WAYS and appre-
ciate the blessings Of Caucasian civil
zation.
1t is stated that only eleven and
half per cent Of the good land of this
country is under cultivation, and yet
lots of young men had rather brace up
against the side of brick block and
decorate the pavement with tobacco
juice than to seize the plow and go
shares with it.
The sleeping Hungarian, who has
been astonishing the people md pro-
fessional men Of Allentown and vicini-
ty by the steadiness Of his slumbers,
opened his eyes lately, but is in an un-
conscious condition. As an abscess is
forming on the top of his head, his
death is oily question of time.
"A farmer living in Canada.
twenty miles from Toronto, has dis
covered a pit on his farm containing
| FIVE hundred skulls and five times as
many leg and arm bones. DR.. Wilson
of the University is of the opinion that
| it is an Indian ossuarv.
They expect to be able to COM
mence swinging the drill at Bald
Ridge No. 2, to-day. The unusual
depth of tie third sand in this territory,
leads practical oil-men to believe, that
should more open or coarser sand be
found. it will be better producing ter
ritory than any that has yet been de-
veloped in this county.
Bullets and other relics of the
great battle continue to be picked up
on the field of Gettysburg Last week
gentleman picked up mashed bullet,
which had brass button partially i'm
. bedded in it-probably a fly button,
which was struck by the bullet and
carried with it through the body of the
unfortunate victim.
According to report they were to
have commenced grading at this end of
the new narrow guage route Monday,
but they did not do So A corps Of en-
gineers were in town over Sunday and
are now along the route. We under
stand that the middle route surveyed
through town, or the one along tie
north side of the creek, and crossing
it near Walter & Boos' mill, is the one
decided upon, and that there will be a
depot at or near the Pittsburgh bridge.
The total gold circulation Of this
country is now $4,000. 900, of which
1856, 600. 0C0 is in actual circulation.
Since July |, 1879, the gain of gold
coin and bullion has been 1924, 900, 90.
and the total amount of gold in the
United States compares favorably with
the chief countries of Europe; England
and Fratce alone having larger
amount. The showing speaks volumes
for the sound and satisfactory condi-
tion Of our finances. There is nothing
that makes national prosperity prosper
like a sound currency and clean credi,.
During the storm of Thursday last
the lightning played some queer freaks
out about Mount Chestnut The saw
mill Of Mr. John Ralston, on the New
Castle road, this side of Mt. Chestnut.
was struck in one of its corners and
considerably torn; the barn Of James
j. Stevenson in Mt. Chestnut. was
struck at one of its corners and rafters
and posts, etc, torn out, and the barn
Of Hugh Bryson was struck in one Of
its corners and its rafters aid posts
etc, torn out, all happening about the
same time and in about same places of
the different buildings.
Chicago proposes to get even
! with st Louis by connecting the Miss
issippi and Lake Michigan by canal
This canal as proposed will cut through
sixty miles of country and thus con-
meet the Mississippi River with the
Illinois, and cargnes of grain entering
the canal from the Mississippi River
will by the canal and the Illinois Riv.
er be hoatcd to Chicago, and there fall
into the already established grain
route to the Atlantic. This enterprise
is proposed to prevent the drain of the
great grain country by way Of the Miss
issippi and New Orleans 1t is there
fore conflict Of great moment.
The members Of the Legislature
from the oil producing counties should
be alive to the importance of the Pilot
age bill as affecting their own immedi-
ate interests. Two-thirds Of the petro-
leum produced in Pennsylvania is sold
to foreign consumers and exported.
Every cent added to the cost Of trans
portatlon is an indirect tax upon pro-
ducers for the reason that they are
over-producers and have to take what
they can ge. for their product Pilot
age is part Of the cost Of transporta-
tion which comes out Of the price of
oil, grain, cotton and every other pro-
duct which we have to sell and which
foreigners buy from us.-Phila. Rec
ord.
A room in a Missouri basement
was stored with barrels of Daniorth's
burning fluid A man went into an
adjoining room and struck match. In
stantly there was an explosion, the
building waf in ruins and the ruins on
fire, and number of men hurled into
eternity. There was an establishment
IN Cleveland some years ago, on the
northeast corner OF Ontario street and
the Public Square, for the sale Of Dan
forth burning fluid. Numerous acci-
dents resulted from the explosion OF
this fluid. and finally its sale within
the city limits was forbidden by law.