Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-12-07

We are requested to state that the
Miss A. A. Eshenbaugh, mentioned ii
the CITIZEN, of last week, as suing
certain Hiram Crawford for breach o
promise, is not Miss A. d. Eshenbaugh
of Centre township, this county.
Late experience proves that the
greater portion of the profits of trunk
lines of railways is derived from local
traffic in passengers and freights. 1t
is not the through traffic which pays,
because on that there is competition
The advertisements of Harper's
Magazine, Weekly and Bazaar for 1882,
can be seen in another place in this
paper. We can club either or all these
publications and also Harper's Young
People, with the CITIZEN at reduced
rates.
During a few days hunt along the
Slipperyrock, between Hilliard's Mills
and North Hope, last week, Hans.
Derby and Chas. Book, of Bardford,
bagged l30 pheasants and other game,
weighing in all some four hundred
pounds.
Cutting a bank is dangerous busi-
ness out west The president and
cashier of bank in Sumner county,
Kansas, which closed its doors few
days ago, were taken in charge by a
mob of depositors and invited to settle
or die. They settled.
-Keifer, of Ohio, received therepub
lican cacus nomination for speaker of
the national House of Representatives,
last Saturday. He was nominated in
the 18th ballot, receiving SO of the l44
ballots cast. Mcpherson, ofthis State,
was nominated for clerk.
The members of the country debat-
ing society that decided last winter
that capital punishment should be
abolished, must feel greatly discouraged
when they reflect that nearly one hum
dred hangings have taken place in this
country since their decision.
-Postmaster-G General James in his
annual report strongly urges the es-
tablishment of Government savings
banks. The system has proved an ad
mirable success in England and per-
haps its best feature, aside from abso-
lutte security against failure or loss, is
its incitement to the laying by of small
amounts by vast number of people
all over the land.
The estimate of the Commissioner
of Pensions that an appropriation Of
$235, 000, 900, will be required during
the next two years to meet the de-
mands on the national treasury arising
under the pension arrears act of 1879, has
created a profound impression through
out the country. Congress, evidently,
did not know what it was doing when
it leagalized this plunder of the treas
ury.
Examination of the Tax-Ofice
books in Philadelphia shows that in
two Wards alone upwards of half a
million dollars were stolen from the
city and the State in single year. So
Philadelphia is enjoying a sensation,
which is not made less sensational or
more pleasant by the announcement
that this is but the beginning of what
Is expected from the investigation now
in progress.
The Pacific National Bank, of Bos-
ton, failed because the President loaned
million or more to o State street
speculator without any security, and
the speculator did not turn over secur-
tiles as he promised. No wonder peo-
pie are beginning to ask on what sys-
tem-not to say principles-banks are
run, when the president can loan and
the cashier make away at pleasure
with their funds.
The Supreme Court has recently
decided that "a promissory note which
bears the genuine signature of the obli-
gor, but which was, in fact, obtained
from him by fraud and under the i'm
preston that he was signing an entire
ly different instrument, is valid obli-
cation against him, and in the hands of
bona 6de purchaser or assignee, for
value, before maturity" Moral: Be
careful what you sign.
The tenth census shows that Penn
sylvania's area is A, 985, and not 49,
600, as usually given. The new coun-
ty of Lackawanna has 440 square miles
and Luzerne 91O. Centre is now the
biggest county in the State, with 1890
square miles; Lycoming follows close
with 1905; Bradford is third, with l.
100; Tioga, Somerset, Potter, West
moreland, Bedford, Crawford and Nc
Kean each have an area of 1000 or
more square miles.
That it NAV be misfortune to
have money left one is illustrated by
the case of Miss A. Conley, who had
seventy-fve shares of stock in the New
ark Mechanics Bank bequeathed her.
The assessment made by reason of
Baldwin's rascality and the banks ruin
not only calls for the entire value of
her shares, but money besides and un-
less the directors can be held response
BILE for not doing their duty, what was
intended to furnish Miss Conley fixed
income will prove to her positive loss.
Guiteau looks back with disgust
on the period Of his life when he was a
member of the Oneida Community.
He admits that he was badly cranked'
at that time, and denounces the Socie-
ty as miserable affair He ought to
have felt at home there, for that offen-
sive social experiment was carried on
by particularly bad lot OF cranks of
both sexes. They had the merit of in
dustrv, however, and it was probably
the necessity of working for his board
which made his life among them so
irksome to Guiteau.
Our Fish and Game Association
received four cans of black bass and