Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-05-18
We direct the attention to the ad

daily newspapers ID the united SlateS
to be about equal to the whole number
of newspapers of all kinds fifty years
ago-9G2. York State prints the most,
with Pennsylvania second and Illinois
third on the list The aggregate daily
circulation of the daily newspapers of
the country is estimated at $3.50, 000
Chang, the Chinese circus giant,
is the owner and reader of Bible--in
fact, of several Bibles. He saws he has
read the Bible in six different languages.
This is more than some other per-
sons have done. Chang thinks the
Bible reads best in the Chinese version,
although, as he remarks, the general
idea is the same. He regards the
Bible as intended to advance religion
"A Crawford county man was
blowing. lately, with the lines around
his body, when the clevis broke, free
ing the team, and he was pulled over
the plow upon his face, breaking his
cheek bone in three places The horses,
stopped by his weight, backed up,
stepping upon his arm and breast,
bruising him badly. He is doing as
well as could be expected.
OF the medals and diplomas award
ed by the international Fishery Exhi-
bition, at Berlin, the United States car
ried away the great prize valued at
81, 900, which goes to the Government
Fish Commission. There was also a
generous distribution of medals, diplo-
mas and honorable mention to various
other American contestants for prizes
The Eastern ports are not ship
ping all the grain bound for Europe
New Orleans received ,355 748 bush
els in one week recently. and about all
Of it is destined for the other side of the
Atlantic. Some of the East and West
trunk lines of railway may wake up
some day to find great share of the
Western harvests floating down the
Mississippi for shipment at New Or
leans.
The post Office at CentrevIlle, this
county, was broken into last Saturday
night and robbed of from $40, to $50
worth Of postage stamps and one reg
istered letter supposed to have contain
ed four or FIVE dollars. The thieves
got into the Office by breaking open the
door. That same night the cellar of old
Mr.. Young was robbed of a lot of bread,
butter and canned fruits.
Secretary Window has called oil
the coupon five per cent. bonds for con-
tinuance at 3 per cent, or for redemp-
tion, and has offered to continue $780,
0000, 900 of the registered five per
cents. The Senate, last Thursday, by
a majority Of one voted to confirm the
nomination of Stanley Matthews to be
an Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United
States has just closed it's annual term,
leaving on its docket 837 causes un-
touched. 1t will take about three
years to dispose of these causes. saying
nothing about those that will be dock
eted during this period. Plainly, Con.
gress ought to provide some remedy
against so long delay of justice.
When President Garfield was i'm
pertinently asked by Senate Harmo-
DiziDg Committee to withdraw the
nomination Of Mr.. Robertson in order
to placate Senator Conkling. be might
have answered as Henry j. Raymond
once did when he received letter in
viting him TO come South that the
writer might shoot him: i think /
will wait. The inducements are not
sufficient
-Sixty-fve hundred is a prodigious
number of immigrants to be landed at
single port in one day: yet more
than that number were received at
Castle Garden on one day of last week.
The movement now going on from
Europe to this country is almost like a
flight of communities; and it suggests
little there is for most people in the
sentiment Of patriotism or nationality,
when the sense of individual freedom
is not joined to it.
Thank goodness that business is
over at last Rudolph Francis Charles
Joseph of Austria, aged % has mar.
ried Stephanie- Clo:ilde- Louise Hermit
ne-Marie-Charlotte of Belgium, aged
It; the Cardinal YoI Schwarzennerg
and lot of other priests tied the knot
hard and fast, and the bridesmaids with
an average Of ten names apiece went
to sleep last Tuesday night, each with
a piece Of wedding cake under her pill
low and hoping to dream of a good
looking Crown Prince.
A bill has been introduced in the
York State Senate providing that
Judges, in charging juries, shall not
review the evidence furth her than may
be necessary to make proper state.
ment Of the law involved in the case.
This measure is based upon sound
principle. To the Judge belongs the
duty Of stating the law, but it is the
jury's province to decide upon the facts,
and in exercising that privilege it
ought not to be influenced in alv de-
gree by the opinio ls oftbe Judge
One Of the most interesting ard
promising recent inventions il ma
chine for purifying the middlings OF
wheat-flour by electricity. The work
is done by passing the coarsely ground
middlings under series of hard rubber
cylindrical rollers, which are kept in an
electric condition by the friction Of
sheep-skin pads with the wool down,
pressed upon them from above. The
electrical roller picks up the bran from
the middlings, leaving tho pure parts
to he ground over into -four of the
highest grade.
The Erie Priest Father Maloney,
who has been sensatonalized as work
ing miracles, turns out to be sharper
1t would seem he manufactured al
the evidence adduced of the alleged