Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-12-21
Eev Adyert1sen0n1s,
Local and General.


Mr.. Joseph Hays, of Adams twp
is agent for this county for DR.. Chase'f
valuaLle recipe book:
The widow of Casper Slentz hs.
received a draft for $4,000 from the
Knights of Honor. of which society
Mr.. Slentz was member.
Human charity has never resclfd
such high standard that it will<efSse
to smile at the man who steps into
mud puddle or slips on the ice. y
Hats with rims measuring lover
twenty inches in diameter are the lat.
est agony for the ladies. There's nc
accounting for the freaks OF folly fash
ion dictates.
One little Butler boy is 60 fond Of
toys and candy that he has procured
an empty -four barrel to place by the
freside in lieu of usual stocking. and
expects Santa Claus to fill itup.
All the newly elected county Off
GERS have had their bonds recorded in the
county Recorders Office. These bonds
are placed on file at Harrisburg. The
commissions have not yet arrived.
Christmas is the season when the
lean. and lank woman stands on an
equality with her well developed sister.
1t isn't always the woman with the
biggest stockings gets the best presents.
The man Hamile convicted of adultery
and larceny ia our county court last
week, was not sentenced, but was al
lowed to give hail in $1,000. for bis
appearance for sentence on the second
of January Dext.
AT the meeting Of the Butler Pres
bytery, held Dec Is. at f'airview, Rev.
Wylie was released from the pastoral
charge of the church of Butler, at bis
own request, and with the consent OF
the congregation.
Among tho death notices this
week will be seen those of the two
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stalker,
Of Venango township. who died on the
20th and 9th Of November Of scarlet
fever. These were tho parents only
children.
"A New York paper says: People
havelong been swearing at the elevated
roads they may soon have m oppor-
tunity to swear at IN underground ri
VAL They will simply be called upon
90 Oh. ruo tha;- to.rv, of avrpocaiou frnvv,
oh, Heavens 7 to oh, -
Mr.. Bernard vosbrink, Of this
place, was lately passenger on train
of the Missouri Pacific r. X which
csme very near being thrown over q
high bank and into the Missouri river,
on account Of section Of the track
having been washed away by food.
Since the Legislature has passed
On act compelling school boards to pay
teachers for the time spent ~ county
institutes, no teacher should for mo-
ment think of absenting himself
from it. The counties 10 which teach
ers take the most interest in county in
stitutes have the best schools.
The retiring county officials will
give banquet to their successors, on
the evening of the first Monday in
January. In returning to private life,
the present officers take with them the
good will of all those with whom they
came in official contact. They have
all made obliging and efficient officers,
and we wish them all success in the
future.
old Mr.. Katz, of Winfield town.
ship, was found dead in bed last Satur-
day He had been dead for some days
when found and his body was badly
decomposed. Mr. X. came from Bra
dy's Bend to this county about two
years ago. His wife was sent to Dix
mont last September, and be has since
been living by himself. He had about
forty dollars on his person when found.
Mercer county's late sensation,
the Silvernail Westerman trial, ended
last Thursday, by the jury bringing in
q verdict of one dollar and costs, in
favor Of the plaintiff Westermsn is
one Of the wealthiest citizens of Shar-
on, and Silvernail is Q reformed gam
bier, " ho claimed that Westerman had
slienated the affections of bis wife and
who wanted $25, 900 plaster on bis
broken bank account.
Franklin. Pa, was lately the
scene of IN alleged miracle. The sswife
Of Rev. Bloyd, who had been sick in
bed for some weeks and whose disease
WAS pronounced by her physicians to
be cancer, and incurable, suddenly
arose from her bed and went to the
church where they were praying for
her, and led in the prayer meeting. II
was pronounced to be one Of those
wonderful cases Of cure by prayer tha,
have been reported from different parts
Of the country. but DIR. Snowden, one
Of her physicians, who was interview.
cd regarding the matter thinks "it ID
sll bosh."- He says he was called tc
see Mrs. Bloyd some time ago, and
after thorough examination Of hel
ailments, said that she could not b,
cured, that she was afflicted with one
OF those peculiarly distressing cancers
that are incurable and that patients
suffering from one Of these cancers
usually live from eighteen months t.
two years, and that during that tim,
they will have many weak spells ant
again they will revive till they appeal
In almost their usual health. Mrs
Bloyd is woman of a peculiar nervod
and bysterical dispoation, and there
was nothing In her case that woult
prevent her, under some extraordinary
excitement, be it religious Or any 9th
or kind, from getting up out of bed
dressing herself and walking mile O.
80. There is nothing surprising or su
pernatural to me about it, for it is tn,
natural course of the disease. A