Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-08-01

Captain Webb has "gone to meet Sam
Patch. His body was found on Saturday.
Several of the great shoe factories of the
country suspended business last Monday, with
liabilities amounting to over three millions.
Mr. Eitenmiller's new house at the north
end of Main street, is almost completed, and
Mr. Philip Schenck's new house on Jefferson
street is under roof,
Now that the American Rapid Telegraph
Company, which is one of the large companies
of the country, has compromised with the
striking operators the latter bid fair to win all
around.
Dispatches from Naples dated on Monday,
put the number Of persons who perlshed by
the earthquake On the island OF lsehla, last
Saturday night, at 1000. Three towns, one OF
which contained 1000 inhabitants were destroy
ed. The island was summer resort for the
wealthy people of Rome and Naples, and there
were at the time some 1000 visitors on it
mapy of whom perished. The ground opened
in many places and hundreds of houses contain
ing people were engulfed. Two thousand sol
diers digging in the ruins saved 1000 lives up
to midday Sunday and exhumed "a persons
alive Oh Monday, This is the horror OF the
many horrors of the year.
Two Allegheny City saloon keepers, NAM
ed Rummel engaged Id an enterprise IN TINS
county last Sunday, that came to grief. Know
ing that there would be and immense crowd at
the dedication of the Orphans Home, near
Hannah stown, on that day, they had shanty
built in the woods, about half a mile from the
grounds of the Home, and on Saturday shipped
a large lot of beer, 40 or 80 kegs, together with
sarsaparilla and other stuff, to 1t. Sheriff
Donaghy heard of it and went down Sunday
morning Arriving there he found four men
handing out beer as fast as they could and
crowd of perhaps 500 men and boys around the
shanty drinking and waiting to be served
The Sheriff ordered them to desist, but wa
met with a fiat refusal, whereupon he arrested
them, and the crowd jumped over the counters
and captured the beer. Arumpus ensued and
the beer slinglers escaped, but they lost all
their stock in trade,
We clip the following from an exchange
which is now desolating Damietra and other
Egyptian towns, appears to have had its origin
in the filthy condition of the streets, the houses
and the people. And this has almost always
been the case. The scourge of our own country
typhoid fever, originates in much the same
way. Impure water, foul sewers, offensive
odors. these are the breeders Of disease which
sweep annually into the grave its thousands.
The one lesson is, and it has been urged in
these columns again and again, that regard for
the safety of human life requires the mos'
strenuous exertons to keep the streets and
alleys, the homes of the people themselves as
free from filth as possible. Providence only
protects those communities and those persons
that render Providence all the assistance in
their power.
Correspondent "W.'' in last weeks Her
aid saws: "The merchant or mechanic who ad-
vertises his goods in the papers does well, but
the man who brings his goods before the eye
does better Many would buy an article they
see who would not if read about" And after
reading this, the merchant or mechanic, may
wonder what easier or cheaper method~there is
for bringing his goods "before the eye" than
by advertising them in the papers and thereby
inducing people to come to his store or shop,
where they can have the goods "before the eye"
to their hearts content and compare qualities,
styles and prices at their leisure. Does wv
want the merchant to make travelling cara
van of his store and cart his goods all over the
country, or does he want him to stretch rope
across the street and hang them on that. Any
thorough going business man will inform 'W u
that newspaper advertising is the best of all
advertising, where you have the stock to back
up your advertisements.
That terrible disease se-diphtheria- has
already appeared in some of our neighboring
towns, and if Butler escapes another epidemic
from this or some similar disease this Fall it
will not be because it has not been invited by
an almost total neglect of sanitary measures in
many quarters 1t is the duty of everyone
to see that his own premises are at once put
into the best possible sanitary condition and to
insist that his neighbor's shall be also. These
diseases are the direct and inevitable result of
neglect of these matters. There are many
town that need immediate looking after. The
stencil that arises from some of them is terri.
BILE and undoubtedly disease producing. By
the laws of this State boroughs have the power
to prohibit and remove any nuisance or offen-
sive matter, either ON public or private grounds
or to require the removal of the same by the
owners, and to prohibit the keepiBg of hogs
within the borough or within such limits a.
the council may prescribe and it is made the
duty of the Burgess or chief officer to remove
such nuisances. If any information is made
| against a person maintaining nuisance, ano
the person be convicted, he or she can be fined
or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of tht
Court, and the Court can direct either the de
fendant or the sheriff at the expense of the de
fendant, to remove the nuisance.