Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-03-01

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Ne,o Yo,k Observer Office il
now located at No. 81 Park Row, N. Y.
AT 10 cents, half wool Dress
Goods at L. STEIN & Sons.
Mr.. Biederman, the energetic fruit
tree agent, wants some canvassers. See notic'
in another place.
r. P. Scott, ESQ.,, has removed
his Office to Ruff's building, on Main street
second story.
AT 124 cents the best I wide, hall
wool Cashmere ever sold in Butler county at
L. STEIN & SONs.
Billy Mitchell set bis rat-trap in
the cellar Of the Jail, few nights since, and
caught full grown weasel.
AT $3.50 Fosters Patent 5-Hook
Lacing Kid Gloves, every pair warranted, at
L. STEIN & Sons.
Considerable good taste has lately
been displayed in the draping Of the show win.
dows Of L. Stein 4 Sons store.
We are selling the best side band
suitings in the market at 15 cents.
Mr.. Adam Schenck, the black
smith. has built large shop on Washington
street, opposite the old Mcbride residence.
MIR. and Mrs. Bright, living in the
western part of Crawford county, buried six
children in four weeks, all dying from dpithe-
ria.
Kentucky knows where her wealth
II T. 4ka A<lr,f
at Louisville, the first thought was to save the
distilleries.
All the choice new styles in COL
lars, ties, fschus at
Geo. McJ unkin, carpenter, has the
contract for enlarging and remodeling the Nc
Creary house, old Paul Troutman house, corner
Of Main and West Pearl streets.
Now is the time for our million
aires to send in their orders. A London pic
ture expert offers to make purchases "for no
blemen, gentlemen, and Americans"
Mr.. John M. Elrick, of Harrisville,
was elected Justice of the Peace at the late
election. Mr.. z. Is but % years Of age and is
likely the youngest J. P. in Pennsylvania.
Professor Proctor says the world
will come to an end in fifteen years. "A
chance for three more Presidential terms in
that time" sigh all the ambitious men in the
country.
There will be temperance meet
Ing in the Presbyterian church, Of this place,
ON Monday evening next, March 9th. All
friends Of this cause are cordially invited to be
present.
-Immense stock Of embr oideries
r;~ns lw 1ox at
L. STEIN Il Sons.
Mr.. Brown, OF the firm of Brown
4 Harvey, dealers In pianos, organs and music,
has retired from the firm and the business will
Be- continued by Mr.. Harvey, in the vogeley
House block.
-4-Button undressed kid gloves at
40 cents pair at L. STEIN & SoN's.
Persons who were elected Justices
of the Peace at the late election should file ac-
ceptances at Prothonotary's Office within 80
days from day of election, or commissions will
not be issued.
The "cranks" who sent smallpox
crust to Guiteau In letter ought TO feel repaid
for their labors. Two or three parties in the
Jail are suffering with the disease, but Guiteau
Il not among them.
Kerr McBride's well, which is
located about halfa mile southwest Of the
Bald Ridge wells, reached the sand last Tues
day, we are sorry to say, II dry. We hope
Kerr viii have better luck next time.
There will be no service in the
English Lutheran Church, Of this place, next
Lords day. The Pastor, Rev. Waters, will
preach in the Lutheran church at Saxonburg
on the forenoon Of that day, at IL O'Clock, and
In the afternoon at earversville at o'clock.
Mrs. Frederick, widow Of Henry
Frederick, deceased, formerly Of this town,
died in Allegheny city, Sew days ago. Her
corpse was brought to this town last Tuesday
and inferred in the south cemetery. She was
b5 years ofage.
"A Cumberland county farmer had
two hundred and fifty bushels Of oats stolen
from his barn, and he II offended. When II
gets 70 bad that farmer must have burglar.
proof safe to keep his oats and wheat in, the
prohts on farming will be small.
Lawrence county papers are ad-
vocsting an increase Of the tax on dogs to $40
each. Between two and three hundred dollars
IL being taken from the county treasury each
week to pay damages for sheep killing by the
mutton loving CANNES.
America is nation Of inventors,
but America seems to be unable TO invent
comfortable and convenient cattle car. The
American Humane Society has offered Q prize
Of IS 900 for m improved car, but Of the 100 in.
ventions 70 far submitted none have been ac-
cepted.
Some Of our neighboring counties
are removing their insane patients from Dix.
mont to the State Asylum 1t Warren, Ps., and
claim to be saving money by 70 doing. The
Clarion, Pa. Republican Gase4e says that that
county viii save $500 per aLnum on twenty
one patients.
When tramp tells you word is
spelled so.snd-so, don't dispute his assertion
4 young merchant out In Nebraska engaged in
. controversy with an itinerant painter over
the proper way TO spell "peddler," and was
shot down 10 cold blood because he insisted his
way was right.
Drilling was commenced at the
Mcconnell we'll, on the VIM. Miller farm,
miles west Of Batter, . few days ago. They
are now down about 200 feet. About eight
feet from the surface they came upon . hard
.oiid rock seventy.fve feet thick, which they
drilled through.
"A woman named Sarah Shaffer,
Of Adams township, this county, was burned to
death on the 10th February, ult. She was
standing By wood fire when her clothing
caught and before the fre could be extinguish-
Cd was 70 badly burned that she lived but q
few hours. She was about 90 years Of age.
We hear that the II. r.. Co. chat
II now building the road between Butler and
Evsnsburg, has given up the idea Of building
road entirely across the county, and that the
road now being built through this place and
down the Conaoquenessing will be part Of the
main line.
In their special report "a TO bridges
the late auditors for Armstrong county charge
two Of the Commissioners Of that county for
1881, Corbettl and Murphy, with $i2,437 81,
money paid for stone work on the Apollo, and
Mutton 4 Oscar bridges, which they (the audi
tors) find was not actually furnished to the
county.
"A contract has been made for ex-
csvating 6,O00 900 cubic metres on the Panama
canal, by an American firm, using American