Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-01-30
An exchange rushes wildly into fin


The way to get your money out of lazy hen
is to wiring her neck for market The way to
get your money out of lazy man-well, we
give it up. You can't get blood out OF turnip
and lazy mans blood never turns up to any
account.
The schools of Guernsey county, Ohio, have
been closed on account of a peculiar and very
fatal disease that has appeared among the
children, said to have been brought from the
West The disease makes Its appearance very
suddenly and the symptoms are from the hrst
very alarming. The victims throat begins
swelling and fills up with mucus, and the face
assumes dark purplish hue. A high fever at
once results, and the eyes of the victim contract
as terrible vomiting spells set in. The vomlt-
ing continues, giving the little sufferer great
distress, and kills it inside of two days unless 1t
can be checked.
M. I. j. ROcholl
will gladly interview all who wish to buy
Pianos and Organs.
Several coal mines in the Mahoning Valley
have been engaged for some time in issuing
script to their miners which was exchanged at
certain stores for goods and other commodities,
which the holder of it desired. The fact was
reported to Washington, ID. c., and special
agent of the Treasury Department has been
through the Mahoning Valley investigating the
cases reported to him. 1t is claimed by the
Treasury Department that the issuing OF the
scrip for the purpose of a circulating medium
is in violation of the Federal Statutes. What
steps will be taken by the government in the
matter is not known.
There are already 496. POI persons who are
drawing pensions for injuries received in the
late war Many of these have been fraudulent
Iy obtained There are bills pending in Congress
that would add over 100000 persons to the
number of pensioners, and make charge on
the Treasury estimated at 81 ,295, ,725,000-a
sum that would nearly double the national
debt. OF course there is no danger that all
these bills will be passed, but there will be
desperate effort made by the pension lobby to
push some of them through. The handsome
surplus In the Treasury is a constant tempta'
ton to harpIes of this kind, who look ON 1t as
their legitimate prey.
While Perry Wally, son of Thos. Wally,
who lives near Queenstown, Armstrong county,
was examining cheap revolver last Friday
morning, it was accidently discharged and the
bullet struck his little six-year-old sister in
head above the right ear and passing through
the brain lodged in the skull back of the left
ear, DIR. Wallace, of East Brady, located the
ball. but did not think it safe to attempt re-
moving it until the child recovered from her
shock Up to Sunday noon she was yet living.
The family, at the time of the accident were
sitting around the nre, ana tne SiTl lS INC
only girl of family of seven children.
There is always much discussion over
the question as to whether the wind has any
effect upon the mercury. To settle the matter,
careful experiments were made last month at
the u 8. Signal Service Station at Cleveland.
One thermometer was placed on the north
side of the station, completely exposed to the
wind, while another was equally exposed to
the cold but was shielded from the wind. Dur
ing the month of December, observations were
taken several times daily, and the final sum.
ming up shows that the exposed thermometer
varied but two.tenths of degree from the
sheltered one. The instruments used were
those furnished by the Government, and are
the most perfect made.
A special term of the court has been called
in Forest county to try great ejectment case
and decide the ownership of valuable tract of
oil territory in Howe township, containing 600
acres. There are on the property at least ten
first-class producing oil wells, and the oil al
ready produced in the hands of a receiver Is
estimated at 100000 barrels. The present liti-
CATION dates back to 1887, when the property
was of little value and sold to pay the taxes.
The claimants are o. E. Clark and Leroy Judd
of Leadville, COL, and the defendant in the
eiectment proceeding is the Balltown Oil
Company. The value of the property in dis
pute is half million. Since the above was put
in type the case has been settled, and by the
terms Of settlement the defendant company re-
tains possession of the 100000 barrels of oil
produced and the plaintiffs enter upon posses
sion of the property.
II may be little early in the season for a
first class fish story, but this will do for star
ter: A fish dealer down in Salineville, o., says
that he received box of frozen fish from Cleve-
land during the recent blizzard. They were so
sA.I- Al Al L,I - H. ll4I
with care to keep them from breaking IN pieces
He sold one to an old lady, who took it home
and pnt it in bucket of cold water to let it
thaw out gradually. During the night she
heare something splashing and Topping around
in the kitchen. Supposing it was the cat trying
to get the fish, she jumped out of bed, seized
| the broom and broke for the scene. There was
no cat visible, but the fish was making the
water fly in all directions Asnear as could be
| learned these fish had lain out in the cold two
nights before being packed in boxes, and had
been out of the water more than two weeks.
Mr.. Mckinley, who lives on Pearl street,
this town, and who Is IS years of age, says that
the deepest Snow of which he has any recollec-
ton was that of 1882, when snow fell on the
| level to depth of four feet, and drifted so
badly as to make the roads impossible, and in
| some cases made it difficult for farmers to get
out of their houses and procure fre-wood and
| water. He, at that time, lived in Donegal
township, and the body of a neighbor who
died that winter, had to be kept in the house
several days before it was possible for his
friends and neigbors to bury him. They final
fastened two long poles to horses back, PIN
ned them together and placing the coffin on
this dragged it to the Sugar Grove cemetery.
1t to, k them the best part of day to travel
eight miles, and the "poor man" was dumped
off into every drift they came to.
D., Al
France and the noise to be made here over the
American hog in his commercial and sanitary
aspects there is no reason to apprehend that
that interesting animal will not receive all the
attention he deserves. He is great animal,
equal alone to the labor of paying two or three
| national debts, and glance at the financial
side of his history is fitted to inspire respect
for him even on the part of those cold hearted
creatures who could never sympathize with the
man who burned d. W his house to have roast
pig. Congress has him on its mind to an enor-
mously great extent in the form of tons of doc
uments, and Germany and France are wrest-
ling with the problems of his destiny-espe-
cially at this particular moment France, in
| which country he has been surveyed through
| the scientific spectacles of Mr.. Paul Bert,
which are very m uch like the spectacles that
Mr.. Jules Verne puts ON when he is about to
write a romance remotely involving some scien-
tifc theory.
Census reports show that jover $4,000 per-
sons in this country are sightless. Out of
every thousand of our population may be
counted one whose eyebslls are curtained by
eternal night These unfortunates we have
with us always, perpetual appeal to the
tears of sympathy and the strong and hearty
hand of benefcence. The blind need condol.
ence and pity less, however, than they require
those resources and employments and dstrac-
tions that diversity life and make it a joyous
and beautiful thing. Among these must be
| reckoned conspicuously the access to and use
of good literature such as ever schoolboy or
learned pundit with eyes to see may easily en-
joy. Jealous efforts have long been made to
supply this need of 'he blind, among them
none more earnest than the work carried on by
Mr.. n. b. Kneass Jr., at No. 1926 Market
street, Philadelphia. Mr.. Kneass, himself
sightless, publishes monthly magazine in
raised letters for the blind, which it is pleas
ure to commend as containing much good read.
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