Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-01-11
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weekly. We call attention to it's pros
pectus elsewhere printed, and especially
to its subscription price, which is but
$3 year.
w. FL. Miller, a well-known poll
tician, temperance reformer, of Mercer
county, celebrated the advent of the
new year by going home on Monday
evening and beating his wife-no
doubt overjoyed at the failure OF Moth
er Shipton's prophecy.
Every week brings new stock for
Heck & Patterson's. See their prices
before buying.
In condensing the minutes of the
Institute proceedings last week we ac-
cidentlv omitted the part referring to
the displays of penmanship by Messrs.
o. p. Cochran and r. o. Waldron,
both of whom displayed much skill in
handling the subject and who are both
excellent pensmen.
Highest cash price paid for corn,
oats and all kinds OF produce at the
store of Jacob Boos, nearly opposite
the Willard Hotel, Main street, But
ler, Pa. nl6u
How to keep the boy at home is
q question which agitates parents all
over the land. The solution of this
depends good deal on the boy. One
of our contemporaries says that the es-
| tablishment of beer saloon in the
basement will do the business where
some of them are concerned.
flo to J p. Orr's photograph
gallery and set for one of those fine
cabinet pictures he is now turning out.
-Guiteau was not at all shocked at
the proposition made by doctor to
pay 1000 in advance for his body
and take the chances of getting it in a
| month or of waiting for years When
Mr. ScoyilIe told him of the offer be
suggested that perhaps some other fel.
low would give $4,000.
w hen you want anything in the
line of Watches Clocks, Jewelry. Sill
verware, spectacles, &c. do not fail to
call in at Il. Griebs and examine the
stock no trouble to show goods.
The publisher of the golden
Days" the best paper for young folks
published in America. now issues the |
weekly in monthly parts, with hand
someiy co'ored cover. for those who de- |
sire to purchase il ~ that shape. In |
this shape it mskes very acceptable |
monthly magazine Tor children.
We invite the attention of our |
readers to the advertisement of the
Buckeye Mfg Co., Marion, Ohio, in
another column. They offer rare in
ducements to earn an honest living.
Sept. 2l, 6-m.
The first lecture for the benefit of
the U. P, Sabbath school building fund,
will be delivered on Thursday evening,
January 18th, Tomorrow EVENING" at
s o'clock p. M, in the Court room.
The lecture will be by Rev. r. B.
Ewing, d d., of East End, Pittsburgh,
and the subject will be Courage and
its Counterfeits.
j. P. Orr has recently fitted up
new and elegant reception rooms, bas
added new accessions, ETC., his operat-
ing room has the largest sky and side
lights of any gallery in the county.
Mrs. Richard White, Of Indiana
Pa, received some days since apension
from the Government, on account of the
death of her husband Col Richard
White, the sum of six thousand and
eighty odd dollars, which is supposed
to be the largest amount of money ever
paid out by the Government at one
time on pension.
Comets will have an easy time of
it this year. No patent medicine man
has offered two hundred and fifty dol
lars for each one bagged, and in the
everyday markets comets are not
worth fifty cents a bunch. Astrono-
mers will be obliged to join Patience
troupes or something to make living
Herald.
The County Superintendents, of
the western part of the State, met in
in Allegheny city yesterday
and will continue in session for three
days. The convention will discuss the
methods Of conducting institutes, of
electing County Superintendents and
issuing certificates to teachers, and
will also examine the school laws of
the State.
Connecticut still leads the country
in patents, her Yankee genius having
produced last year one new invention
for every one thousand and twenty of
her population. Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island come next in the order,
and in spite of Mr. Edison's prodigious
ent-productiveness, New England
may vet boast of containing the in
ventive geniuses of the country by
large majority
"A protracted religious argument on
the omnipotence Of the Holy Ghost, be-
tween William Ross and his wife, of
Erie. Pa, eliminated in the insanity
of both, and but for police interference
it would have ended iu a deadly solu-
tion of the problem. The question
was argued with words first and after
ward with axes. The couple were ar
rested and are now confined in the asy-
lum.
1t has been the custom in this
and adjoining counties for Sheriffs
to pay money made in Nrits to Pro
thonotaries without first asking leave
of the courts Our State Supreme
Court says this is not legal, and rem
dered decision in case mentioned
elsewhere, few days ago, making ex-
Sheriff Walters responsible for some
four hundred dollars, that he paid
over to the Prothonotary of Venango
county.
-Pennsylv ania taxation and reve-