Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-03-01
-Aecordinp to some statistical ia

| According to some StatlStlcal ia
bles which have been prepared in Vienna
Great Britain has more breweries and produces
more beer than any country in the world, Ger
many not excepted. The figures are Eng
land, 26, ,144 breweries, with an annual produc
ton of over one thousand million gallons Ger
many, q, $40 breweries, producing eight hun
dred million gallons. The United States are
credited with 1928 breweries and production
of three hundred million gallons, or six gallons
| year for every man, woman and child in the
| country. France has 3,100 establishments OF
this character; Belgium, $500; Austria Hun
gary, ,297 Holland, 560 Russia, 400; Norway
and Switzerland 400 each. Denmark and Swe-
den have each 240. This gives total of 81, ,544
| breweries in Europe and the United States.
These are disheartening figures for the the tenn.
perance and prohibition people, but they will
serve to show them how much reform work
there is to be accomplished in the world.
| Beaver is much excited over the
announcement that Ed. Beacon, former resi-
| dent of that place, has been sentenced to hang
| for murder in Texas. Beacon is thirty years of
| age and has a very interesting history. He
| graduated at West Point in ~ and was ap-
pointed Second Lieutenant to a colored regi-
ment in Texas. He was expelled for drunken
ness. Through the influence of Col. Quay,
| Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, he was
| appointed to a minor position in the New Or
leans postoffice remaining there short time
and, by the aid of Quay, was appointed an as
sistant United States Marshal in Southern
| Texas, and, at the same time, it is said, was
acting as leader of gang of outlaws assisting
to rob mail coaches and personally committing
several murders. About four years ago he was
| tried for murder and acquitted. Last Septem-
Der he was again arrested on the same charge,
found guilty, and sentenced to be hung. Bea-
cons father was well known Methodist min
lister, now dead.
AT the meeting of the Board Of
Directors of the Building & Loan Association
of this town, last Saturday evening, auditors
were appointed to make report for presenta-
ton at the meeting of the stockholders next
Saturday evening. We hope that the report
this year will be satisfactory. All reports that
have heretofore been made were utterly worth
less and we might as well have taken the state
ments of the auditors that everything was right,
according to their ideas, without any reports.
At the meeting of the Association next Satur-
day evening men should be elected directors
who thoroughly understand the workings of
B. & l.. Association organized under SO incom-
plete a law as that of 1874, and who will do the
best possible for the association under the cir
cumstances. The Association now has some
real estate on hands and during the year will
likely accumulate some more, which will have
TO be sold nd which should be sold at public
sale, at most seasonable time. Property in
this town will likely advance in price during
the next two years.
From the Auditor Generals Re-
port for last year, we learn that the receipts of
the State Treasury for 1881, amounted to ST.
Dol 7S2.43. The bulk of this sum comes from
the taxes on corporation stock, gross receipts,
collateral inheritances, tavern licenses per-
sonal property, bank stock, coal companies,
gross premiums. liens, foreign insurance COM
panies, retailers licences and Communication of
tonnage tax. The expenses of the State, or
summary of payments at the State Treasury for
the year amounted to So, ,926, 5000. The prin-
cipal items of expense, were the expenses of the
State government including judiciary, which
amounted to over one and a half millions COM
mon schools, 81 ,695, ,601.66; interest on loans,
81 ,13S 5l3.57 charitable institutions $3.50 .016.
35, and national guard, s2O9, 9,666.3S. The total
interest bearing debt of the State on the first Of
December last was s20,975. 10000. S421, ,S0l so
of the State debt was redeemed during the
year. The appropriation for the common
schools, of this county, was 500, ,S44.94 st. Paul's
Orphans Home, 81 ,95194, and six pensions in
Butler county, s471.00.
A fter working at it for about two
years Senator Logan, of Illinois, has finally
succeeded in getting his bill, pensioning Gen.
Grant, passed by the Senate. There is not one
single soldier who fought on the Federal side
during the late war, who is not more entitled
to receive honorable and competent retirement
than is General Grant. AS Senator Butler well
says, the retired list has been reserved for dis
abled officers, and not only did Grant emerge
from the war hale and hearty-not even wound
ed. much less disabled-but if any man in any
country Of the globe has ever been we'll paid
for services rendered, Grant is that man.
Twice he was made President of the United
States in recognition of the fact that he hap
pened TO be the ranking General of the army
when the war ended and on his account special
ly the salary of that Office, which had been con-
sidered a sufficient remuneration for Washing
ton Jefferson and all other Of his illustrious
predecessors, was increased one hundred per
cent. This, however, was but very insigni6-
cant portion Of the pecuniary benefits he has
received. From the close of the war to the
present time he has been the steady recipient
of presents Of all kinds and values, from houses,
lands and vast sums of money down to cigars
and bull pups. This variety of gifts surely
ought to have anticipated his every possible
wish, and placed him above the remotest
chance of want, but, besides all these, he has
been Travelled, feted, dined, wined, "received
receptions and loaded with all manner Of
honors, and 1t is but recently that another
large fortune has been subscribed for and in
vested for him. Assuredly if there can be too
much Of good thing in this world, General
Grant ought really to be surfeited with wealth
and gifts.