Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-09-06
Notes on Current Events.
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Remarkable figures come from Kan
sas. A corn crop of 200,000,00
worth $50, ,000,0 900 is the estimate fo
1882; besides the oat crop of 2l,00C
900 bushels, the heaviest ever known
1t promises to be big year for Kan
saS
A strange story comes from Tennes
see of a colored woman who was struc
dumb on the witness stand while ties
!, tifying to a falsehood This is abou
on par with the Richmond yarl
about youth who was similarity al
fictcd until the application of galvan
ic battery suddenly revived his powe
of speech.
A verdict of murder in the first de
gree brought against prisoner in Sal
Francisco has just been set aside by
the Supreme Court of California and {
new trial ordered on the ground o
misconduct on the part Of the jury
The alleged misconduct consisted IL
an indulgence in twenty gallons o
beer and several gallons of wine, be
sides whiskey and brandy in unknown
quantities, during the progress of the
trial, which lasted eight days.
The "Free Thinkers" held nation
al convention at Watkins Glen few
days ago, at which the usual amount
of profane and blasphemous nonsense
was uttered. The feature of the meet
ing was the proposal to found free
thinking University, where Atheism
and Infdelity in all their branches
should be taught. 1t strikes US this is
what may be termed work of super
erogation. Why should another free
thinking University be founded? Do
not Harvard and Cornell and other
like institutions fill the bill?
Iowa has a population nearly one
third of foreign birth. Yet about five
out of nine of it's voters cast their votes
for a prohibitory constitutional amend
ment. If all its foreign-born voters had
opposed the amendment, only about
one in six of its native voters, includ-
ing grown sons of foreign parents,
could have done So If, on the other
hand, the proportion of native voters
who opposed the amendment was lar
ger than about one-~in six, it follows
that an equal number of foreign-born
voters gave their votes in its favor.
These results are startling. They
open a new chapter in political history.
Io hot hn
hibitory amendment to the State Con-
stitution is lawful or not has already
arisen in Iowa. A storekeeper, who
has been sued for the price of beer by
the brewers who made it, defends the
action on the ground that at the time the
beverage was sold to him the amend
ment section of the Constitution had
taken effect, and he contends that no
recovery can be had on an account of a
sale which the fundamental law forbids.
In making the defence he assumes that
the amendment is directly operative of
itself, without the enactment of any
law under it by the Legislature.
1t is not always that married man
can be soothed in his dying moments
by the thought that his widow will
weep at his grave; how enviable, there
fore, was the fortune of the late lament
ed Thomas Smith, colored citizen of
New Orleans, on whose grave seven
of his widows recently wept in unison!
The late lamented Thomas had two
other wives who did not participate in
the watering operation, but to have
been loved to the extent of tearfulness
by seven women should have made
the deceased happy enough to sit up
in his coffin and exult in his superiori-
ty over the male bystanders, many OF
whom probably had wives who, if
their tears ever flowed while thinking
of husbands, wept because their liege
lords did not show any signs of dying
a. all.
Besides fighting Arabi's soldiers, the
British troops will find another enemy
to contend with in the endemic h9ma
turia. The name looks formidable,
and SO is the thing itself, it being a
disease caused by parasite that is
taken in from the water. According
to correspondent of the London
Times, about three-fourths of the fella-
heen population suffer from this trou-
BILE, and while often fatal, its effects in
any case are lasting-it "might deci-
mate the army with permanent inva-
lids after their return from Egypt"
This is not pleasant for those who
are ambitious to acquire military glory
in the region of the Nile; still, it is
well for them to know beforehand
what the price of this glory is likely to
be.
The jury In the Star Route cages are
sincerely to be pitied. They are in as
helpless condition as were the pris-
oners of certain African country who
were buried in the sand up to their
necks as o mode Of punishment, and
whom, in the impossibility Of their run
ming away, the would-be poets of that
country made their audience. The
jury have to listen day after day to
interminable talk. They were treated
TO some rare diversion last week, how
ever, in the remarkable speech of Mr.
McSweeny, who is said to rank as the
ablest criminal lawyer in Ohio. His
exhibit of himself in behalf of Mr..
Dorsey was something unique for Q
Washington courtroom. 1t was char
acteristic of a region that has been Gel
ebrated in song and story by Mr..
Bert Harte, and that is long way
west of Ohio.
State Fair and Exposition
COmbi0ed.
The combined exhibition of these two well
known societies commences September 7th and
continues two weeks, to September goth. From