Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-22


Trial List for week commencing Monday
March 20.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr.. Ihmsen, the glass works man
Is to be bere this week to commence work.
Charley Grieb has just received
another large lot of those beautiful neck scarf
for which his store is becoming famous.
The yard of the public school oi
this town. is terribly muddy for q childrens
play ground. We suggest that it be covered
with ashes.
Mr.. D. L. Cleeland has removed
his watch, clock and jewelry store to the soutf
end Of Main street, opposite Donaldson House
See notice.
II. H. Goucher, ESQ.,, was sud
denly taken sick in the Court room on Tues
day Of last week and was confined TO his bed fol
several days.
Another death is reported of q
lady who had taken an excess of "anti-fat
medicine. The nostrum is supposed to act as q
slow blood poison.
"A correspondent of the London
iStatia shows that pound of tea, sold in China
for less than four cents, costs the consumer in
london fifty cents.
The West Penn railroad tracks
between BlaiHville and Allegheny, are being
Strengthened to such an extent that the distance
will be shortened thirteen miles.
Mr.. johnson Bowers, the superin-
tendent of the water works, of this place, had q
severe bilious attack, few days ago, which
gave rise to a report that he had gone crazy.
"A dispatch received here on Mon
day stated that the Supreme Court had revers-
ed the Court below, Judge Henderson, of Dau-
phin county, on:the Legislature salary question.
"A German sentinel who was an
noyed by some boys shot two of them, was
tried and acquitted. A steady tide of emigra-
tion from Germany to America continues, and
facts like the above are behind it.
The Ladies' Temperance Society,
of Butler, will have a meeting in the U. p.
Church, Wednesday, February 22d, 1882, at 8
O'Clock, p. NJ. All ladies interested in the
temperance cause are invited to be present
To-day "wednesday is the l50th
birthday of Washington. The Literary Socie-
ty, of the Witherspoon Institute, will celebrate
the event by appropriate exercises in the
school hall, odd Fellows building. this evening.
Mr.. Frederick Berry, aged about
sixty years, dropped dead at his residence in the
northwestern part of this town, last Friday
evening, He had been in town doing some
shopping, that afternoon and was then in his
usual health.
"A petit jury has fixed the value of
an eye at $l0,500. The case was one where q
passenger in horse-car had his eye put out
by q collision. He claimed $4,000, but the
jury evidently thought that too Ugh by about
five times.
Mr.. Adam Troutman has had the
frame building, at the corner of Washington
and Mifflin streets, formerly used by II. Fred
rick as q carriage and wagon shop, removed to
another place, and intends building himself q
brick residence on the corner lot.
The young man named Schwed-
ering that was killed on the West Penn rail-
road, few days ago. was son Of old Mr..
Schwedering. who lived in Butler about fifteen
years ago. The young man was q brakeman
and intended quitting railroading the day he
was killed.
The Norristown Herald says
that Barnum gave the keeper Of his elephant
81 900 when he learned that mother and child
were doing we'll" As the keeper is not obliged
to get out of bed at midnight to dose the baby
with paregoric, to keep 1t quiet, his position
will be enyied by fathers whose income is less
than five hundred dollars year.
The relation between postmasters
and burglars is not obvious, and yet there
seems to be some reason why thieves try to
plunder postofices oftener than other buildings
More booty could generally be obtained from
any one Of half dozen stores in country
village than from the postmaster's safe yet II
II astonishing how frequently this safe Is the
object of burglarious attack.
Only nine votes were given in
the House at Washington last Thursday In
favor Of the new method ofapportionment. The
members evidently prefer the old and simple
method, which is easily understood. to the new,
which is apparently more exact and equitable,
but somewhat complex. The doctrine of an.
Proclamation is perhaps little abstruse to the
average Congressional mind.
The astronomers have lately an.
nounced some interesting news from Jupiter,
the planet that Is 1900 times as large as the
earth. The news ID that they have discovered
several red and black spots on its face, each
several thousand miles in diameter. And after
much consultation, due consideration, etc.,
they have come TO the conclusion that Jupiter
has the smallpox. This is the latest news
from Jupiter.
AT this season foul chimneys
often take FIRE and burn out. When such an
event causes danger, an effectual remedy is in
reach of every prudent housewife. Though it
is familiar to many, it needs repeating. Sprin.
kle common salt on the fire, IN the stove, in
such manner as to burn the salt. If done
wisely, large amount Of chlorine gas will be
generated, filing the pipe and chimney, ex.
pelling the air and extinguishing the FIRE. A
diligent use of this will avoid al1 alarm and re.
move all danger from this cause.
During leisure time this month
make simple hot-bed, even if IL is no larger
than large dry. goods box from which the
bottom and top have been removed. This, il
sawed in diagonal direction, will make two
frames one foot In height ON the front side and
twenty-four inches on the rear side when placed
at the south side of q building or high plank
fence. If no old sash are at hand, cotton cloth,
saturated with boiled linseed oil, will answer
very good purpose. No manure will be needed
within the frames, but the fresh stable manure
should extend one foot beyond the frames on
each side.
The Democracy, of this town, at
their meeting Saturday evening, nominated 8.
p Irwin, Esq, for Justice of the Peace Joseph
L. Purvis and Philip Wesner, School Directors
J. Z. Pringle and Matthias Buechle, Overseers
of the Poor; Chas. Grouse, Assessor John Groh-
nasl ono 0o1CPn sAsi86ICy h5oi5tnut ASocbSOrS
William Williamson, High Constable A. N.
McCandless and Champ Dewolf, Constables;
Geo. w. Ziegler, Burgess Harry Kearns, AS
sistant Burgess, and Amos Kearns, Auditor.
For Town Council they nominated AL. Reiber,
8 years George Walters, 8 years, and Jacob
Ziegler, year. Reiber refused to serve and
jacob Keck was put on in his place.
Delegate Post, of Wyoming Ter
ritery, has introduced bill in Congress which
it is to be hoped will aot be passed. It is call.
ed 20 bill to reduce the internal revenue tax
on cigarettes" but more appropriate title
would be "a bill to make lunatics and idiots
and for other purposes'-the "other purposes"
being to fill up the cemeteries and make mil
lionaires of the undertakers. Mr.. Post must
be an enemy of the human race. He could not
II he tried hit upon more certain method of
killing of large portion Of the rising genera.
tion and of making idiots Of the one that is to
follow it. The cigarette annually kills thous-
ands and thousands Of children and Young men