Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-03-22

Last Friday was st Patrick
birthday. also Devil" John Kennedy:
who is now in his sixty-third year.
Gents fine white and colore
shirts, low prices, at Heck Il Patter
sons.
Three men were killed in a Goa
schultz near Pittsburg, last Wednesday
by a coal car breaking loose andplungint
down upon them while at work.
Gents Furnishing Goods, ful
stock and low prices, at Heck q Pat
terson's.
This is the season when the Flor
ida man, desiring to make trip north
puts two strawberries in his trunk anC
on arriving here sells them for enough
to pay all expenses.
-Emlenton Academy opens April
18th, Rev. j. B. Fox, Principal. Send
for circular. m22u
A bill has been introduced into
the Kentucky Legislature to fine every
one who tells lie, or who "bv word
cf mouth attempts to deceive his fel-
bowman" The bill has been denounc-
ed already as a "villainous attempt to
discourage native industry"
TO men desiring permanent en-
ployme we would refer them to ID.
III. Patty & Co. IS advertisement for men
to sell trees, which appears in another
column 1feb6
Two York boys were playing with
a rev Oliver, the other day, when one OF
them, thinking the weapon was not
loaded, snapped it at his companion
OF course it was loaded, and the ball
hit in the forehead, penetrating the
skull and inflicting fatal wound.
Onion Sets, onion seed and dwarf
peas, (American Wonder,) all of my
own raising. For sale by VIM. Mar
dorf, West Cunningham street, Butler,
Pa. ml5,2t
About this time of year straw
stacks in barn yards, after having their
foundations pretty well eaten away by
the cattle, topple over and occasionally
bury the farmers best COW. A Con-
neaut township, Erie county, farmer,
mourns the loss of a good cow from
this cause.
Spring session of the Pine Grove
Normal Academy will begin Tuesday,
March, 2Sth, 1882. For catalogues
and information address the Principal,
Isaac C. Keller, Wolf Greek, p. O.,
Pa. March Is, 3t.
"A dispatch from Oil City to
Pittsburg paper states that some OF the
members Of the Oil City Oil exchange
ost quite heavily by the failure Of the
Fairview bank, and that it is well-known
here that Mr.. Ralston, president of
he bank, speculated quite heavily.
He took money from the Fairview
bank in large sums, to use at bank in
Kittanning for margins. A steady de-
dining market proved too much for
him.
Iron City College.-This institu-
ton affords rare facilities to young
men desirous of obtaining thorough
practical business education There is
none better. Circulars giving full par
ticulars can be had by addressing the
Prof. j. G. Smith, Pitts
burgh, Pa. t.
The father of Lieutenant Danen-
hover, of the Jeanette expedition,
lately received letters from him in
which be So, the rescued boat crew
had to travel seven hundred miles over
the ice from the ship to the mouth of
the Lena then landed in shoal water,
and were compelled to wade two miles
to land. They were still q hundred
miles from shelter and succor, and en-
lured extreme sufierings, the Lieuten-
ant being up fve days and four nights
ut one time without rest. Out Of the
composing the Jeannette's
crew, but thirteen are known to be liy-
ing, and one is known to be dead. 1t
is sad ending Of the expedition at
best.
Carpets, oil cloths and mattings,
cheapest in Butler county, at Heck &
Patterson's.
The Simcox & Myers well reached
the sand last "Wednesday evening
when it commenced to throw oil and
salt water, at intervals Of about two
hours, as high as the top OF the derrick
The well was shut down, and tubing
and tanking sent for They commenc-
ed drilling again yesterday and we
will likely know by the end of the
week, what the well amounts to. The
owners are sure Of twenty barrel
well, at least. The sand is good, much
better than any yet found in that sec
tion The strike has created great
excitement in the neighborhood, and it
also had depressing effect, tempo
rarilly, on the oil market. We hear
that eight more wells are to be started
Immediately in that neighborhood.
w. Aland, Merchant Tailor, Ia
now prepared to take your order for
early spring garments, Offering forty
styles. New designs in fine suitings
at $25 for suits. These goods are
equal to the best French makes. Also,
fine French worsted in black, blue and
fancy styles at equally low prices.
Mr.. David Ziegler, Jr., Of Har
mony, made deed of assignment o
his property for the benefit Of his cred
itors, to Rev. Edmonds, Of Harmony,
last week Mr. Ziegler is the own
er Of large -four mill and other prop
erty, in and about Harmony. and may
if his creditors give him a tew year.
time, be able to pay dollar for dollar
His mill has lately been furnished will
new machinery and was held by hin
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