Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-10-25

cheStnutS are very wormy.
The birds are preparing for thei
long journey south.
Paint applied in the fall, it is said
lasts the longest.
New Goods, New Goods, just re
ceived, call and examine our stock be
fore purchasing elsewhere.
l.. STEIN Il Son.
Monday, the 9Th day of Novem
Der, will be the last days for filing ac
counts with the Register Il Recorder
for presentation at December term OF
Court.
Mrs Sloan has gone to New Y ORR
for the purpose of purchasing large
stock of fashionable millinery goods
which she expects to receive in Butler
in few days. Oct 25 2t
Look to your chimneys and fues
and see that they are safe. A very
little work now may save the build
ing of new house next spring.
The "comet cough" is the latest
1t prevails among those who got up
early to see the comet and didn't wrap
up well.
The American gaslight associa-
ton met on Wednesday in Pittsburgh.
Representative of all the large gas COM
panies in the United States were in at
tendance
1t is stated that the Buffalo,
Pittsburgh & Western r. r. Co.,
propose building line of road from
Easterbrook, on the o. G. Il G. r.
r., near New Castle, to Centreville,
this county, distance of % miles.
"A dispatch from Millerstown to a
Pittsburgh paper states that Mrs.
Lockhart, of that town, was placed
under $500 bail by Justice Gaisford,
last Monday, on charge made by her
cook, of being common scold and
nuisance.
The lectures of Rey. j. B. Fox,
of Emlenton, in the English Lutheran
Chnrch, of this place, were pronounced
by all who heard them as being of the
greatest interest. His subject was,
1.-THE Great Pyramid" and he threw
an interest into that old and wonder
ful structure of Egypt that but few
could conceive of unless they heard
his lectures. He is forcible speaker
and we'll entertained his hearers
throughout his remarks.
The cashier of the Dime Savings
Bank at Lebanon, Pa, was attacked,
seriously wounded, and robbed on the
main street there lately. He had in
his hand satchel containing 100000,
which he had been to Philadelphia
to get. The robbers, who had evil
IDENTIFY followed him from Philadel-
phia, got safely away with their
booty. The point of this affair is that
a man should 60 about alone with
such an amount, when it was known
he was in the habit of going to the
city to get money for the working
mems payday. There is such a thing
as criminal carelessness, and such cases
certainly come very close to it.
The Butler Water Co. has brought
suit VS.. the borough of Butler for
water rent for three years ending
Dec. 1st, 1881, at $1,000 per year, with
interest to Oct. IA, 1882, which amounts
to $3336.4S. On the Goth of Sept.
1877, the town Council agreed that if
the Water Co. would construct works
for Butler, they would put in at least
twenty fire plugs and pay for same
for fire and other purposes at the rate
of $500 per annum, or at such rate as
was paid by other boroughs. After
the water works were built the Council
put in forty fire plugs, and the Water
Co., or rather the lessee of the w orks,
Mr.. Mccullough, wanted S400 per
year extra, or $1,000 in all for the use
of water. This the Council refused to
pay, and hence the litigation.
Notes on Current Events.
1t is only few years since the
interior of Africa stood for all that
was mysterious in geography. The
imagination alone could penetrate the
jungles of that unexplored continent,
and the question, Where does the
Nile take its rise ? could not be set
tied. Now travellers have marched
across Africa and cleared up many of
its mysteries, end railroads are begin
ing to penetrate it in various directions.
The latest undertaking of this kind is
that of the Frenchmen who are to be-
gin the construction of railroad be-
tween the Niger and Senegal rivers.
The light of civilization goes with
the locomotive, and in a few years,
probably there will be no longer any
mystery in Africa.
The Pension Bureau reports that
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1882, 40,930 original claims for pen
sions and 81, Jas claims for increase
of pensions were filed. There were
allowed during the year 1864 origi
nal applications, and 1921 for in
crease of pensions. The number of
claims rejected was 81, ,295. There are
now pending the enormous number
of 266, ,67S original applications, and
2l,288 for increase. The total number
of pensioners on the roll was 1885,
697, gain over the previous year of
16,S67. The total amount paid for
pensions during the year, including
the cost of disbursement, was S54,-
296, 2SO54, and the total amount paid
from 1861 to June 80, 1882, was
$3.50, GAL ,32475. What this charge
upon the treasury will be when all the
valid applications are granted remains
be seen-but it will be something
enormous.
Europeans generally are getting tt
the bottom facts as regards the Pana
ma Canal One is that little or moth
ing has been done towards it's con
struction. Another is that the ne
groes and Chinese, employed to clec
the ground and carry on the excava
tions are dying like sheep, of malariou
fevres. Yet another is that if tn