Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-04-25

Two victims to the deadly cigar
cite are reported from Fort Worth,
Texas. They were about years old,
and they crawled into a straw-filled
dry goods box to smoke.
How the hearts of crowd throb
with pitiless hatred against the man
who coughs during the performance at
a theatre, when they know he is too
stingy to invest twenty-five cents in
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The glucose industry is moving
westward for the same reason that the
cotton spinning is moving South. The
manufacturers are getting nearer to
their raw material The glucose works
in Buffalo have been partly abandoned.
az Every color of the Diamond
Dyes is perfect See the samples of
the colored cloth at the druggists.
unequalled for brilliancy.
The man who claims to be the
greatest opium-eater in America lives
at manchester, N. III. He began in
l845 with minute doses, but slowly
increased them until now he consumes
pound a month. He swallows
enough every day to kill score of or
binary men. Unlike most slaves to
the drug, he is very fat, and has not
become mentally wreck.
ANSWER THIs.-Is there a person
living who ever saw case of ague,
billiousness, nervousness, or neuralgia,
or any disease of the stomach, liver,
or kidney that Hop Bitters will not
cure.
A frightened farmer at Corydon,
Ind, buried $4,000 at the time OF tho
rebel Morgan's raid. The treasure
was in gold and Treasury notes, and
was placed in an iron kettle. The
owner dug down to it repeatedly to
see if it was safe, but until quite re-
Gently could not muster courage to
take it out and deposit it in bank.
He had lost seventeen years interest
by his caution
The new nickels are showing up
in the disguise of five dollar gold
pieces to an extent which makes it
equally uncomfortable to the people
who take them, and to those who de-
signed the coin, and perpetratei its
circulation upon the long suffering pub
lie. You cannot be too careful in
handling five dollar gold pieces to
avoid being bitten, though we have
heard of none of the bogus coin being
offered here.
-Twenty-seyen years ago Samuel
Ulum, of ST. Joseph county, Mich,
was sentenced to prison for life, -hav-
ing been convicted of aiding in the
murder of Vermonter named Esta-
brook. Ulum's two associates died in
prison, and Governor Begole recently
pardoned him, because testimony has
been produced that proved his inno-
cence beyond doubt. Ulum is now
prematurely broken-down man of SO
years.
"A check was received at the treas
ury department recently that has been
filed away as curiosity. 1t was sent
to On attache of the survey service at
one Of the distant frontier posts. There
it was cashed by the post trader and
by him endorsed to other parties. In
the course of time it arrived in Wash
ington where, for the first time, it was
discovered that it had not been signed
by the disbursng officer, yet had passed
current through the hands of some of
the best and most extensive business
men of the west
A stampede was occasioned in the
San Francisco postofiice the other day
by the discovery in mail pouch OF
mysterious looking OK nailed together
with BRASS headed spikes 1t was re-
garded by all as an Internal machine.
BY the aid of poles and sticks the thing
was showed out on the back steps and
the wrappers removed. Inside could
be seen cog wheels, green wire and
brass points, which was proof positive
of the devilsh nature of the thing. a
fire engine was sent for, the chief OF
police called and o manufacturer Of
burglar proof safes summoned. While
they were holding consultation at
safe distance from the wicked looking
box, one Of the clerks brought letter
which stated that it was sample
electric motor which had been sent
through the mails to determine wheth-
er it was built strong enough to stand
transportation in that way.