Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-03-09

VIII pTOuuCt uiputbcita SoO'S' si''A"
any other nuisance about house.
A SOLID Silver Case and Genuine
American Movement as low as $40, at
f. GRIEBs.
The Washington hotel men are
preparing an amendment to the Con-
stituticn, providing for an Inauguration
every year.
SpEcIALTIEs in woolens at William
Aland's Merchant Tailoring establishment not
to be had elsewhere in the county.
Our local military company got
home last Monday morning. They re-
port having had a good time and being
well provided for while in Washington,
WILLIAM ALAND. Merchant Tailor,
has just opened the largest line OF woolens for
men and bows wear offered in Butler-
The best place to learn to teach is
at the Normal School, The next term
opens March 29th New circulars
now ready. Address, j A. Cooper,
Edinboro, Pa.
SEE woman in another column, near Sreer's
VINEYARDS with bunch OF grapes from which
Speer's Port Grape wine is made, that Is 50
highly esteemed by the medical profession tor
the use of invalids, weakly persons and the
ayed.-Sold by all Druggists 2saply
We regret to learn that Mrs. Zeig-
Ter, wife of the editor of the He@"ld. of
this place, is laying very i'll. Her
hush nd and family, however, have
hopes of her recovery.
"A few nights since flock of wild
geese roasted on the roof of Cambria
county farmers house and kept up such
a noise as to cause the inmates to
think they were to be carried off.
Since New Years Day about
$500 persons have died in New York.
and the city has shown a death iate
for the season which puts it among the
unhealthiest capitals of the world.
The State Normal School offers
teachers the best and cheapest oppor-
tunities for study. 1t will pay every
young teacher to spend at least one
term in the chool. For information
address J. A. Cooper, Edinboro, Pa.
The devout editor of the Norris
town Herald remarks: 1.-The revised
edition of the New Testament has one
disagreeable feature. Newspaper men
will be obliged to read the work
through again in order to correctly
quote it hereafter.
Let the poor sufferers from female
complaints take courage and rejoice
that painless remedy has been fl und.
We refer to Lydia Z Pinkbam's Vege-
table Compound. 1t is prepared at
233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass,
Send to Mrs. Pinkham for pamphlets.
Capt Eads's and all other 18th
mus i,ter-oceanic bills and resolutions
had their heads knocked together last
Wednesday when Senator Eaton ask
ed to have the Committee on Foreign
Relations relieved from considering
them further, and the request was COM
piled with.
The examination of classes at the
close of the Winter Term of Wither-
spoon Institute will take place on Thurs
dav ard Friday of this week. Patrons
Of the school, and other friends of edu-
cation, are invited to attend. The
Spring Term will open on Monday,
March 21st inst.
Our shoe dealer Mr. Benz. Husel-
ton, has returned from his usual visit,
made ut this season, to the centres of
the boot and shoe trade. While there
he purchased large stock of spring
and summer goods. which have already
commenced to arrive His advertis-
ment will appear shortly
"A brown shawl with yellow and
white cross-bars, was lost last
Saturday week, on the Freeport road
between Springdale and the Saxonburg
road. The finder will either leave it
at this Office, or at the Herald Office,
in this town. 1t belongs to a poor
woman who is unable to pay reward.
is Spitzkop the real name ofthe hill
from which the Beers lately drove the
British? The fight recalls one that oc-
Cured over hundred years ago under
similar circumstances. The British
won it; but their victory got named
after the wrong bill, and to this day
figures under name to which it has
no title.
Years ago a superstition existed
and stiIl exists among goodly num-
Der Of old-time people that if New
Years Day was calm the fruit crop
would be exceedingly light for that
year. New Years Day being very
calm, many people believing in the old
adage will await with interest the re-
suit.
SEND IN Your PETITIONS We
have been requested to call the atten ion
of those who are circulating petitions
for the adoption of an amendment to the
Constitution, prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale Of alcoholic liqnors except
for mechanical and medicinal purposes,
to the Importance Of sending them in
as soon as possible.
=The footiags as furnished Us by
the Census Department for the State
OF Pennsylvania are as follows: Males,
2,136.6 .635; females, 2l46, Isl native,
$685. .253; foreign, 587. 533; white,
4,l97, I06; colored (including in the
State, 16O Chinese, japanese, les
Indians and half-breeds, and two East
Indians) S5,6sO. Total, 4, 282, 1856.
One of the huge jokes over which
Was hington has lately been laughing
was the condition in which the late
furry ip stocks placed some Congress-
men. Desiring TO improve their for
tunes, these statesmen plunged in ond
came out peni.iless, being left utterly
unable to pay their board bills and get
their baggage for the mournful journey
homaward