Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-03-02

thirty -slA Cniiuicn'
A SOLID Silver Case and a Genuine
American Movement as low as $40, at
E. GRIEB's.
-"Let us go out tonight and pass
a river and harbor bill, +" the cracksman
said to his pal
Mrs. Paul Winkle, of Jefferson
township, has brought suit for divorce,
on the ground of desertion
SpEcIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
The spring term of the Wither-
spoon Institute of this place, will COM
mence on Monday, the 2lst.
There will be Temperance meet
ing in the Court House next Monday
evening commencing at s O'Clock.
The schools of this place will give
an entertainment in the hall of the
school building next Friday night.
The British have met with an
other reverse in South Africa, with
great loss of both officers and men.
cit pays 100 times as well as
Government Bonds" is what a student
says of money spent at the Normal
School.
Garfield is said to have had the
same kind of time with the place
hunters that the monkey had with the
parrot.
SEE woman in another column, near Speer's
VINEYARDS. with bunch of grapes from which
Speer's Port Grape wine is made, that is so
highly esteemed by the medical profession for
the use of invalids, weakly persons and the
aged-Sold by all Druggists. 2Sap1y
AT the request of some OF the can
didates we will commence the publ
cation of the announcement list next
week.
Some of the "navigable" streams
embraced in the river and Harbor bill
need irrigating to hold the dust from
flying on their beds in the dry season.
The catholic orphanage at Scran-
tor, this State, was burned last Sun
day night, and seventeen children, who
were sleeping in the third story, were
suffocated.
But four prisoners are in the
county Jail. The charge against one
of them is assault and battery, with in
tent to rape, and this is said to be his
third offense.
WILLIAM ALAND, Merchant Tailor,
has just opened the largest line of woolens for
men and boys wear ever offered in Butler.
Mr.. r. C. Dodds, A. B., will
open select school at Mt Chestnut,
this county, on Monday, the 4th day
of April, next. For particulars see ad-
vertisement in another place.
-Favoring new aid radical Indian
policy, member of the Colorado Leg
lature introduced and argued in favor
of bill Offering S25 premium for the
scalps of "skunks and Indians"
-Gossipping is one of the meanest
habits people can fall into 1t has got
to be such habit in this town that
man can't whip his own wife any more
but people will talk aboutit.
All the men in an entire county in
Minnesota turned out on a wolf hunt
the other day The result was thirty
six dog lights and the capture of a fel-
low who had run away from his wife.
"A brother of Parnell, the Irish
agitator, owns the largest peach or
chard in the world, containing 250
acres in Alabama 1t has within a
few years yielded $4,000 worth Of
fruit.
The first Monday in March, (Which
will be the seventh of the current monthly
is the day fixed by law for the Consta-
bles of the various boroughs and town
ships to file their bonds and be sworn
into office.
These are flush times for emigrants.
A few days ago tickets to the West
were cheaper than shoes for foot pas
sengers, and now the steamship COM
ponies are cutting rates most indus
triously.
"A four story frame building in
East Liverpool ]. Ohio, which was
lighted by natural gas from the wells
in the vicinity, was burned last We'd
nesday night and man, woman and
six children pershed in the flames.
The Western Nail Association
held meetingin in Pittsburglas Wednes-
day and advanced its card rate from
50 So to So. They did this after gen.
eral discussion, and hearing reports
from all districts. The nail trade usually
opens this month.
No less than eleven kinds of capi-
tai punishment were in vogue in Scrip
tural times, but in these degenerate
days two fill the bill-hangng and
decapitation-and there are many who
believe that solitary confinement bears
away the palm from both
Beware of chalk dust. The work
on blockboards should be erased as
little as possible while the school is in
session. The breathing of chalk dust
filling the room from the boards is said
to be most active excitant ofbronchial
and pulmonary diseases.
An era Of reform is about to ensue
in Indiana. Strong efforts are being
made to pass laws comforting upon
women the right to hold any Office
created by the school law, and peti-
tions are being extensively circulated
to have the death penalty abolished.
-Wherever the cables run the
world was informed last Friday that
Mr.. Gladstone passed comfortable
night after his backward fall. There
are few men whose immediate death
would have larger bearing on current
affairs.
If the success of dark horses,
which has been so notable in recent