Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-10-25
"A Milwaukee brewer sold 500, 900


barrels of beer last year.
Part of the school yard has beer
covered with tan-bark.
-"Crushed cabbage" is now tn
name for sauer kraut.
The hy doesn't seem to under
stand that he is out of season.
Kentucky Jeans and tweeds from
l2a cents yard up, at
l.. STEIN & Sons.
| Good ounces are worth fifty cents
dozen. 1t would pay our farmers to
raise more of them.
Don't smoke boys" yells an ex
change. Some boys are altogether toe
fresh. but we don't think they would
be improved by smoking.
The date of the Assignee's sale of
the property of David Zegler, Jr., is
Thursday, Nov 9th, as per advertise
ment on second page.
A shower of the "queer" has been
getting in his work in Mercer recently,
but not to very great extent Sew
eral of the business men there, are pos
SCISSORS of bogus dollar pieces.
Full line of Yarns, Zephyrs, Can
vas and all materials for fancy work, at
l.. STEIN & Sons.
The concert given in the Court
room, last Friday evening under the
direction of Prof Leason, was voted an
immense success by all who were
present. The Professor is now ar
ranging for another concert which
will be given in the near future
The house Josiah Covert, of Jackson
twp, with all its contents, was burned
early Monday morning, of last week.
The family was awakened by the
barking of q dog in down stairs
room, and escaped through a second
story window iu their night clothes,
not even having time to dress them
selves.
The last spike in the new part of
the P. & W. Il. R., was driven at one
| minute before six, last Sunday evening,
and twas Johnny Ritchie that did it.
The rails met short distance below
Renfrew. Through trains to Pitts
burgh, however, will not be put on
until the road is thoroughly ballasted,
work that will occupy at least two
weeks.
in North-Beaver township, Law
renee count y, there is a spring, the
water of which petrifies every vegeta-
BILE substance that it touches. A rock
in hollow below the spring has, in
few years, grown from the size of
patent bucket to an enormous mass,
weighing, perhaps fifty tons. by reason
of the water, which falls upon it, petri-
fying the successive layers of moss
that grows upon it.
Some of our citizens organiz-
ed an Oil Exchange last week with w.
L. Graham as President, and Il. I'll.
Gallagher as Treasurer. They started
off with twenty-four members and soon
had forty. They have rented and
fitted up room in the back end of
Pape's store building, and cut door
into the Telegraph Office. Here they
can sit and warm their shins during
the winter, read the Oil City reports
as they come in, and bull or bear the
market as they see fit
-Wm. Aland, merchant tailor, But
Ter, Pa, has just received from first
hands all the leading novelties in
French and Domestic fine woolens for
men and boys wear, and solicits the
patronage of all lovers of fine and well
| fitting garments. octll-3m.
We ask you to read the advertisement of
| Darby's Prophylactc Fluid, which appears in
| our issue of to-day. 1t is wonderful healing
remedy a most powerful disinfectant, and a
| positive germ destroyer, and is perfectly safe
| to use even in the hands of the most inexperi-
enced. 1t is highly recommended by eminent
physicians and chemists, and endorsed by hun
| dreds of others who have used it and know its
valuable properties.
A representative of Harper Bros,
is engaged in establishing local circu-
latlng libraries in the towns of West
ern Pennsylvania, the books to be plac-
ed in the hands of responsible parties.
Any person can become a member by
paying $1.OO, which entities him to
a membership for two years. 1t is an
excellent thing and should be well pat
ronized. There is no trashy literature
in this library; everything is Of the
highest order.
Among the relics which the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania has in
its museum, and which will be the OBJ
ject of much patriotic contemplation
during the Bi-CeDtennial celebration, is
wampum belt of historical renown.
1t was one of the considerations IN the
contract which gave to Penn the land
| which now forms the keystone State
This relic was in the hands of the
Penn family until 1856, when Granville
John Penn great-great-grandson of the
founder of Pennsylvania, presented il
to the Historical Society.
The latest swindle on farmers
which generally succeeds on those who
take no papers, it outlined in an ex
change as follows: Two rogues watch
the papers for estray notices, and wher
one is published one of them goes tc
look at the animal. Of course on ap
plication the unsuspecting farmer shows
the beast, and the fellow decides tha
it is not his, and then returns to his
: partner and describes the anima
minutely. No. 2 goes to the farmer
and after proving by thorough
description that he is the owner of th'
t animal, says he can't take it away
r offers to sell it at bargain. Th
r farmer buys, and in day or two tn
t rightful owLer comes and claims tn
8 animal, and of course the farmer is ou
just SO much.
!, The old English form of verdic
7 of Coroners Jury in cases of suicide
| of;ll in moo in .his State ia very crua