Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-03-21


the writing is soon to go into general use.
1T would be interesting to know what they
| call murder in Fayelte county.
The Dixmont Investigating Committee
continues its work this week.
BE careful how you expose yourselfto the
| weather during the month of March. cold
might result in serious consequences.
The heirs of the McKinny estate, which is
located in Adams and Cherry twp. agreed to a
partition of the property, Monday.
The season is far enough advanced to hear
from the captains of the base ball clubs
What's to be the figure this season for throwing
a game?
Undertakes concur in the opinion that
cremation is not injurious to their business,
and they are Indifferent to the fate of the anti
Cremation bill introduced at Harrisburg.
See Jury Lists for April term in anot her
place. also trial list for April 16 The trial list
contains but nineteen cases and the Smith Case
will be the first taken up that week.
The Germana Orchestra of this place, as
sisted by Miss Wallace, of Pittsburgh, will
give concert in the Court Room on the even
ing of the 9th inst.
FIVE million dollars is to be invested in
erecting buildings on twenty acres of ground
at Beaver Falls, and the establishment of
barbed wire works.
Farmers should look out for the swindlers
who are travelling around buying cattle
They pay one-third in cash and the balance
in bogus checks.
A rumor has been current on the streets of
Pittsburgh, for some day, that Jay Gould has
designs upon the Pi.tshn =. & Western r.,
and that the stock is being deprecated in order
that he can obtain possession of 1t.
An exchange complains that too many
ministers tie matrimonial knot for youthful
runaways, and without q justifable excuse.
When clergyman's lar'ier is nearly empty
five or ten dollars may be considered "justi-
fable excuse"
A bill supplementary to the act abolish
ing Sealers of Weights and Measures, is now
pending, and will become a law by an almost
unanimous vote of both houses. 1t makes the
keeping of false weights and measures acrimin-
al offense.
We direct attention to the card of Mr.. J.
R. Grieb, who is now East purchasing stock
of jewelry, silverware, etc., with which to open
up in::the room now occupied by the telegraph
office, on or about the End of April.
Congress adjourned on the 4th of March,
and all the schemes for the alteration of the
patent laws, trespass upon inventors rights, ex-
tension of defunct patents. all failed. Inven-
tors may therefore breathe easy for year at
least, and go ahead with developments of new
and wonderful discoveries.
Another Butler editor has rejected Samivel
Weller Sr's advice regarding vidders-Mr.
Eli Robinson, one of the editors of the Eagle
and Mrs. Emily Rodgers, of Harrisburg, were
married last Thursday. We congratulate Eli
and his bride and wish them every happiness.
Senator Greer's bill to prohibit what is
called "treating" is a move in the right di-
rection, as the practice is productive Of much
drunkenness. Men who want to spend their
money on their fellow-men can, if they wish,
find something better than whisky to invest in.
It is said that while a party of friends were
making the rounds few days ago of establish
ments were creature comforts are kept in
bottles and sold by the glass, one man. whose
turn it was to Great" led the crowd into
furnishing store and asked them what they
would have. One ordered shirt collar, an
other took cuffs, third asked for scarf pin
which it is to be presumed he took Straight"
but it is nevertheless related of all the party
that they felt rather sheepish. 1t is hard to
understand why, unless they held to the old
fiction that good feeling which moyes a man to
spend money on his friends can be expressed
only by the purchase of liquor. Those who
consume strong drinks at bars or give them
to other men know very well that this fiction
is exploded thousands of times every day. AL.
though man can sometimes indicate hospita-
BILE feeling by inviting his friends to his house
or his hotel and giving them wine, he cannot
crafty the same sentiment by ranging the same
friends before bar and paying for any liquor
they may simultaneously pour down. 1t is far
more manly and considerate, if custom requires
spasmodic outlays of money on ones friends, to
treat to shirt collars and scarf pins for they are
just as cheap, they last longer and unlike
drinks, they do not usually compel the receiver
to secretly curse the giver.