Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-12-06
State Capitol Notes.
Harrisburg Telegraph

Harrisburg Telegraph.
Auditor General Gregg and State Treas
urer jackson closed their books last Friday
night and struck balances for the fiscal
year ending November 30th. Ths totals
show that for the last two years the re-
CENTS have not been keeping pace with
the expenditures and only the big balances
which have been carried along from
former years, have enabled the States ac-
counting officers to avoid an apparent de-
fieiercv. As it is, the balance in the gen.
eral and sinking funds combined is 80,
OSI, ,325 IL. This is a gratifying showing
in view of the fact that 81, 500, 600 have been
given to the schools, nearly 500, 900 to the
erection of the Executive building and re-
modelling of the old buildings. and about
81. .250, coo to the redemption of State
bonds, thus wiping out a large part of the
State debt. A glauce at the totals is in
teresting. For the year ending November
30th, 1898, the total receipts were $l3 252. :
727 SO, and total payments sl3, 423, 064 a..
Starting with tie balance of a, $40, $40 10
in the general fuud year ago, the re-
ceipts in this fund for the fiscal year clos
ing yesterday were s1l, 1914 495 AZ, and the
payments for the same period sll, $50, 49,
IS, leaving balance in the general fund
at this date of s., OLA, 942 Is In the sink
ing fund, November 30th, 1893, there was
a balance of $3.50, ,731 IS, and during the
year ending Friday the receipts in this
fund have been 1919, ,29l 75 making total
of 81 500, 023.03, but the payments in re-
demption of bonds have been heavy, aggre-
eating 81, ,S02, $50 so, leaving a sinking fund
balance of S66. 3s3. So. OF the balance OF
s5, Ola, 942 IS in the general fund about
81. .O0O, 900 belongs to various counties, be-
ing a return of three-fourths of the per
sonal property tax paid in by the different
counties.
On Friday last there was received at the
Csditol one of the most marvellous speci-
mems of dexterous hand weaving ever seen
in this country. 1t is an immense rug,
forty one feet long by thirty feet wide
and il will garce the Governors reception
room in the new building.
In all the vast expanse not seam i;
visible, each individual nest of softness
having been tufted in the fashion made
familiar by oriental weavers. In shape
the rug is like a giant square, having
straight sides and widely curving ends.
| In color it is a rich, warm, glowing red,
covered with an intricate tracery of sprays
in the same hue. The border, Of cream
tint, merges into the red through the
medium of a narrow band of dali blue
| Festoons in neutral tones are used in the
border, and again line of misty blue
edges and accentuates the pattern before
six inch supplemental piece Of red finishes
it all around. With all tSis variation o
tone, the keenest eye could not detect q
joining. The price of this marvel is ST.
| 000
Contractor Z. B. Black, the Market
street artist, has successfully removed
Rothermels celebrated painting of the
Battle of Gettysburg from Memorial Hail.
philadelphia, to the handsome museum II
the new Executive building ON Capitol
Hill. And this in rain, too. The big
painting, 1896 feet in size, with the touI
other ana smaller paintings, making 8
total weight of 4, 600 pounds, were placed
on big fiat car at o'clock Friday evening
and brought here via Peipher line over the
Reading, reaching Harrisburg at 6 O'Clock
IN the morning. Rain boxes encased the
valuable. works>of art. A ig truck was
secured, and by 0 o'clock the paintings
we're deposited in their future home, not
having sustained single scra ch or dam
age of any kind. The big painting, weigh
ing little oyer ton, will be suspended
along the entire north wall of the build
ing: The work will be completed in few
weeks.
The handsome columns supporting the
electric light globes at the West State
sIreeJ eHLrauce 10 the pdIh Hdfo Do0h mum
admired.
Governor Pattison is at work on his part
ing message to to the Legislature. II
will contain some important recommends
tions.
THE State Department at Washin gtor
recently received report from our Con
sui. General at ct. Petersburg concerning