Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-05-31

Morning services in the Englis
Lutheran Church, of this place, wi
commence at 1920 o'clock during th
summer months
Send or leave your order for
Sewing Machine, of any make, a
Grieb's Jewelry store. may3l-tf
Sewing Machine attachments ant
repairs of ali kinds, at Grieh's Jewelr,
store. may3l-u
Prof. Won Myerhoff will give {
farewell musical recital, in the neal
future, to which he will bring some o
the best musical talent of Pittsburgh
just received our second stock OF
White Dress Goods-the finest ever
shown in Butler, at
l.. STEIN & Sons.
The Pittsburgh iron mill proprie-
tors have refused to accede to the de-
mand of the Amalgamated Association
of iron workers for an advance in wages,
and it is expected that all the mills in
the city will shut down tomorrow.
If this happens about 10000 men Will
be out of employment
Hats, Caps and Gents furnishing
goods, cheap, at j. F. T. Stehle's.
Three General Assemblies of the
Presbyterian church of this country,
are now in session, the Northern at
Springfield, ILL.,, the Southern at Attain
ia, Ga, and the Cumberland at Hunts
vile, Ala. The Donaldson dancing
case has been referred to the Judicial
Committee of the Northern Assembly,
but the Committee has as yet made no
report upon it.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union ofthis place is now open
and in successful operation. A visit
to their fine and well furnished rooms
will afford pleasure to any one. The
free reading room will be supplied with
choice Christian literature. Lunch,
cheap and nice, with a cup of good cot
fee, if desired, will be furnished to
strangers when in town and all visitors,
on very reasonable terms. In this con-
nection we would correct statement
in one of our county papers, that the
lunch would also be free, that could
hardly be expected of any society how
ever benevolent. The reading room
is free, and the lunch is furnished on
very cheap terms.
We have just received another lot
of Towels and Crashes, Table Linens
and Napkins at our usual low prices,
l.. STEIN & Son.
The Grand Jury for March Term
presented that Geo. w. Campbell and
J. j. Fielder, hotel keepers, and Geo.
and Jacob Reiber wholesale liquor
of this town, had been gull
ty of selling liquor to VIM. Schmerker,
a man of alleged Incorporate habits,
and the Court in granting license to
these parties directed that information
to that effect should be made against
them, their license to revoked upon
A hearing in these cases
was had before Esq Walker last
Thursday, and as nobody could be
found who would swear that William
is a man of incorporate habits, the ac-
cused were discharged. William ac-
knowledged that he had gotten beer
from the Reibers, but said it was for
medical purposes, as DR.. Shaw OF
had told him to drink all
the beer he could get hold of.
Heck & Patterson are closing
oyercoats out, at less than cost to
The oil market has been interest
ing of late, even to persons not en-
gagged in the business. The great
strike in Warren county, sent the
price of crude down about ten cents on
the barrel This well opens up new
territory and when its owners found
that they had big we'll on their
hands, they shut it down, fenced it in,
swore their hands to secrecy, and then
with their friends went into the mar
ket and sold "short" or in other
words, sold oil to be delivered at
future time. They then opened their
we'll, the big strike was announced.
the market went down and they could
buy and deliver oil at several cents on
the barrel less than they sold it for
The crowd are said to have made
many thousands Of dollars by the oper-
alton. Oil last week was selling at
about sixty-fve cents a barrel. 1t
cannot be produced at that price, ex-
ceptlng by the large wells, and many
of the small wells have been abandon
ed. The production at present is
about $4,000 barrels per day, and
there are about 10000 pumping wells.
Gents fine white and colored
shirts, low prices, at Heck Il Patter-
sons.
Tie oak stave mill, located near
the depot, in this place. commenced
running on Monday of last week and
has since been turning out slaves, in
the rough, at the rate of about 5000
per day. These are piled up oD the
lot, in the open air, to be seasoned and
are then shipped to the barrel manu-
factories, at the oil relineries. Most
of the slaves made in this county are
sent to the barrel factories connected
with the refneries at Titusville, Pa,
and Olean, n Y. The mill consists
of a boiler, engine and saw, enclosed
in frame building. The saw Is the
principal object of interest. 1t is a
hollow cylinder of steel, about feet
long and two feet in diameter; on the
edge of one end is the saw and the
other end is firmly bolted to metal
wheel, which is connected with the
engine by smaller wheel and large
strap. The cylinder saw lies hori.
zontally and when in use revolves
LILO times per minute. The stave
bolts are placed in slide at cne side