Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-08-30

Tie County Commissioners ad
v1rtse fer bids for the building of the ne
bridge over the Connoquenessing here.
If YOU want TO buy or sell any
thing LET your wants be known in the column
of the CITIZEN, as ii is the medium throug
which YOU can reach the largest number {
people.
T--When persons are bitten by dogs
'nak,s or insects. they should apply pouluc
of nouneied raw onions, which VII soon dra'
ali the poiscn from the wound. This is an oil
and standard remedy
When persons are bitten by Digs
snakes or insects, they should apply pouit!c
of rounded raw onions, which Will soon draN
All II g poison from the wound This Is an OH
and standard remedy.
There is no sealer Of weights ant
measures for this county. The law authorize
the Governor to appoint one for each county
but either no one has applied for the position
or else an outfit costs too much.
-Schmick's we'll on the Weber farm
41 rods Southwest of the Schidemantle well, |
expected to reach the sand to-day. Schmidt
intends TO complete his well, pipe line or NJ
nine line. and has erected tankage for 1,OO'
barrels.
The fund now in Court to the
credit of the creditors of the Freeport banl
will nav them about twenty five cents on th'
dollar and what Mr. Maher's assignee expects
ia realize rom the sale of his coal lands VII
nav them about as much more. The creditors
of the bank can therefore expect 10 receive
about Fl " per cent. of their claims.
If a society for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals were in operation some o.
the hoi ses IN this town, which are relned up sc
cruelly. would be made much happier than
thew now are. Imagine a mans neck twisted
into an unnatural position by an lmmovaDie
rein. for hours and then think how much the
poor animals haye to endure. Such cruelty Is
-The registration of medical practi-
TONERS in Pennsylvania shows that In round
nnmLers there are sisty-five hundred registered
nh jcians and five hundred who have not reg
lstered. OF those registered five hundred are
graduates of colleges of the bogus KIND, and
eight hundred and thirty are not gradu-
ates of any institution. but are permitted to
register because they have been IN practice
since 1871.
A gentleman Of this town who
owns some houses in Pitisburg, went there
the other day TO collect some rent. Enter
iny one OF the houses, occupied by pud-
dler. he found him and his family making a
meal on bread and black coffee, and nothing
else. The pudder said they had hardly enough
TO eat, let alone thinking of paying any rent.
This is the result OF the strike of the Amalga-
m. ted Association which, it is hoped will soon
come to an end.
1t will take nearly one hundred
bricks, in all, to build the Glass
Works. These we're furnished by Mr.. Stamm.
Dali. Harvey had the contract for the brick
work of the works, which is now completed,
with the exception OF the floor of the building,
and although it was the first work OF the Kind
he has ever done, his work is entirely satls-
factory to Mr.. Ihmsen and the man who super
intended the building.
The Fall term of Witherspoon In
stitute will open on Monday, Sept, 4. Mr. Z:
r. Galiaher, gentleman highly recommended
and whose teaching capacity has been proved
by successful experience, Will he ADDED 10 the
present corps of teachers. Additional facilities
for instruction have been provided, and the
school is prepared to give thorough training to
Students of all grades, from those just entering
npon the study of the English branches, to
those in the Classics, Sciences and Higher
The new pipe line to the Bald
Ridge district was laid as far as Sunset station
asst Thursday afternoon, but the Foreman OF
the Branch road went out on hand car IRON
Butler with two men, and prevented the pipe
inc men from laying the pipe across the road.
The pipe line men then measured across the
rae and went ahead with their work on the
,ther side. There is a free pipe line Jaw for
his county and the line will, no doubt, be laid
across the railroad but some red tape business
may cause slight delay.
Mr.. John w. Fleming, who was
badly cut with knife, by Swede, on the
night of Friday the 4th inst, died at his resi-
Hence in this town early yesterday morning.
His family, on Monday, thought he was much
better and was getting well. He was man of
about sixty wears of age The Swede who cut
him gave his name as J. w. johnson, and the
Two men who were with him gave theirs as
John Johnson and Charles johnson. }. W.
Johnson is in jail, aud the other two are under
bail to appear as witnesses.
Mr.. James II. Kibbee, alias DR..
Huntington, the lightning rod man, brought
suit before Esq. Walker, Of this place, on the
18th inst, against John Miller, the hotel keeper
Of Evansburg, for selling liquor on Sunday and
neclecting to have posted in his office and bed
~
last Wednesday, when Mr.. Miller appeared,
but the prosecutor failing to appear he was dis,
charged. Kibbee and the woman who lived
with him at the hotel, and who passed for his
wife. have disappeared. Miller suspected them
ofbaying stolen his money, and from what we
have heard, they are likely the parties who got
It, The woman is said to not be his wife. she
had free run of the hotel and followed the
painters around from room to room, while they
were at work there.
The Pittsburgh aud Western
Railroad Company, narrow gauge, which pur
chased the Parker, Karns City and Butler Rall
road snpae months since, on Friday last pur-
chased controlling interest in the Pittsburgh
Bradford and Buffalo Railroad, running from
Foxburg, Clarion county, to Kane, with
branch to Clarion borough. The latter roat
was owned principally by c. w. Mackey, join
" Welsh and j. NJ. Dickey, of Frank lin
James Bennett and J. w. Rowland, Of Emlen
ton. All of those named except Capt Mackey
disposed of their entire interests on terms no
made public, and Capt. Mackey sold part o
his interest. but will remain in the position o
President and solicitor of the company. Ih'
line to connect the r., b. and b. Railroad viii
the Parker and Karns City Road is graded from
Parker up the vest side.of the river 10 oxpurg
where it will cross 10 connect with the former
The link between Butler and Harmony, t
connect the Pittsburgh and Western with th
Parker, Karns City and Butler railroad, vii
soon be completed. The p, B. b. road vii
be graded to Kane in a few weeks, and VIII
then connect with the narrow gauge system o
the Bradford oil field and thence to Buffalo
making a through narrow gauge line iror
Pittsburgh to the lake. The route IRON Pitts
burgh to Bradford by this line will be ninet
miles shorter than by the present railway line'
The Pittsburgh and Western is also BEN
rapidly constructed west of Youngstown, an
will be connected with the narrow gaug
system in Ohio reaching to Toledo. The Goa
lumber and oil regions ofButier, Clarion, Fore
and McRea counties which are traversed b
the consolidated lipes Of railways named, WI
furnish large carrying trade.-Pitso"rg
Rditeeay Reporter.
The Glass Works here are so nea
comp elton that a note of its parts may pro,
| Interesting to our readers. The stack is II
most conspicuous and most important part
the works 1t is 124 feet in diameter at Il
bottom, 6 feet at the top and 6i feet high.
the bottom of the stack the furnace, where Il
glass Is melted, is located, and there are eigi
! openings in the stack, in each of which mel
| ing-pot is set. These pots are each made
three different kinds Of clay. The stack stan
on the centre of a stout building, 9 feet ing
6, feet wide and 81 feet long, called the Gave
| An arched passage runs through the cave,