Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-07-19
Lightning strsck the house O.

wall into the sitting room and out through th'
as kitchen. Three women were in the house a
the time, but none of them were injured.
a One of the prettiest new things in
home decoration is an old fashioned ottoman
covered with crown velvet, upon the sides AND
rs top of which embro der I'd nasturtium leaves
and flowers in profusion. 1t is too pretty to
sit upon and costs the price of an ordinary par.
no lor SET but who cares for comfort and money
when art may be enjoyed?
:, The bonn mbardment of Alexandria,
eu according 20 the dispatches began exactly at
A. NJ Tuesday. the news was cableds ON
London at 6 A. NJ, and received in the news
I'd paper offices of this country at lis A. NJ, the
o. same mourning. The telegraph had gained
five hours and for.y-fve minutes on time. Les
" than one hundred years ago that would have
ne been miracle. f-r-s- ~s-
Miss Lizzie M. Hunter, daUgb-
ii ter of Mr.. A. A. Hunter, of Oakland twp, and
but Is yeais OF age, started alone on the 11th
inst, fro IN this place to Florida. She has an
n uncle living in Leesburg, that State, who de-
of sired her 10 live with him and she concluded
p to take the journey, dis 'ance of about thous
aud miles, and to be travelled by laud and
water. For girl so young this was long
8 journey to go alone.
Il jay Gould is as fond Of flowers as
4 he s of railroads, and owns the largest private
r. conservatory in the United States. 1t is on the
| N. Y, is 400 feet long, with several wings of
, eighty feet each, and conta ms over 1000 vaf-
leues of plants most of which were brought
from Eurone this yea. The grounds are 500
acres in extent, and there are large flower and
vegetable gardens
= The "Four- law" has been |
indorsed by the conventions of both political !
parties in Ten1ess The "F our-mile law as |
it is called, simply mai-es it Illegal to sell |
into< lea, ng EqGo.s within radius of four
miles OF any scaoolhou,e, and the effect has /
been TO utte.ly wipe out dra J>hops id manv
countits of the State. The emperance people
of TeaneSste rejoice b1cadse taey have found
the happ est solution of the temperance prob
lem yet advanced.
| The old Summit twp, road case
that has been on the dockets since 1873, was
disposed of during Argument Court last week,
| in favor of the petitioners The case was de-
clded by the Associate Judges as both the law
JUDGES have been concerned in it. The decision |
| opens road from point at No. 5, School j
| House to point ON the old State road leading
| from Butler to Kittanning near the house OF
Adam Rettick. The de endants in the case [
talk of taking it to the Supreme Court. If
SO long ago as 1895, the bar in a
Pennsylvania resolved to erect a statue of I
Chief Justice Marshall, and raised three thou /
sand dollars towards its cost. Thel the effort
stopped but the fund bas increased by honest, b
gocd management to twenty thousand. Con- O
gress having passed an appropriation of twenty =
thousand dollars for tine same purpose, the
-Pen1sylvania lawyers propose to add their fund
to the appropriation and secure a fine statue 10
be made oy W. w. Story and erected in WASH
ington.
An eastern paper tells of a dentist =
who was visited by a loving couple about to u
part for year two, who were so devoted III
that they insisted upon exchanging physical O,
tokens of regard, the dentist drew one of the n
ladys largest back teeth ando of the gentle - -
mans transp anting each in the Jaw from which III
the other cane. But within half year the al
lady married another fellow, upon hearing 10
which her first lover had the faithless ones ="
tooth extracted from his mouth and threw it tu
into q spittoon. $50 ed
On Tuesday evening, St. Peters de
Episcopal Chapel, IN PetrOlia, wss consecrated
By Right Rey. Cortlandt Whitehead, Bishop 90
of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. assisted by the ="
Rev. Edmund Burke, o" Butler. The chapel, SC
which was beautifully and tasteiu'iy decorated, on
was crowded to its utmost capacity, and many
weie compelled to go away. The Bishop
preached a most eloquent sermon, both doctri- WI
nal and pract,c.l. The music for the occasion wi
was furnished by the Episcopal choir Lon m,
Butler, which was highly appreciated by the
Al
Some surprise has been expressed Ia ,oa
ut there being any Europeans lett IN Alexandria ioo
10 be massacred by the Arabs before their re- tht
reat, it was supposed all the Europeans had lig
aiken refuge on the fleet before the lombard tio
nent. All or nearly all of those having claims 0.o
IN the various governments represented by tue pre-
naval siip1 or who had money to pay their tio
say on Tie private steamers ,eit the CITY at len
v classed as Leyantine Christians renal ned ing
because they were citizens or subjects of no the
government in particular and were without no,
means TO take them away. As rule they are - -.
low class and of mixed race the Greek ele exc
nent prevailing fat
Mr.. Alfred Wick, proprietor of the the
Wick Hou e. has for some time been maxine ent
Extensive improvements on his hotel builong E0
I ie hss mao e exte lor OF the dng repalnt, del
rained, and the walls repaoesed BESIDES this an(
e is putting new pets and furniture IN his the
arlor and ladies sitting room and also in tho
nanv OF his bed rooms, of which, since the 80 80
nildng of the addition to ais house, he has COZ
ome thirty. When Mr.. Wick has comple.eu Co
he Improvements he is making, he will have fat
$ neat, as comfortable and as ha' dsome hotel 80 -
8 there is in the county. Mr.. Wick is doing rec
ood steady business. Although part of h.s GER
ouse is al torn up at present, he, on Monday ma,
urnished dinler to over sixty persons, besides r..
is regular boarders. ane
Mrs. Scoville's belief, expressed on ON ON
here would be no execution. is apparently ac. pos
ounted for by. discovery made SINCE see
n1 wnca sne presented to the assassin stri
hemical analysis, was found to contain enough Al
rsenic 10 have killed several men. 1t seems tua
nd xey ih saf & MRS, Scovle poisoned the boq9et Egg
ssassin with This fact She oava bin, a. " h;nt mis-
the truth, but he failed to take it, aud so lost pre-
Isd rs Iny Oh oppori unity to cheat the gallows Egg
sters meaning and conraaeors 70 " ca,oI nus the
ave followed out her idea, there would likely hav
nough, have been no execution but then we nat
nould have been spared the disgraceful fea. &c !,
lres OF that performance. vi
The ironclads mentioned as doing 49,
lie work of bombarding Alexandria on one side r
re the inf 'xible, SUPERB, Temeraire, Alexan- i
70 70; and ne !, Sultan The first named is turret Bey
arrying four eighty-one ton guns, each throw va.
lg shot of 1850 pounds, with 500 pounds of sior
owder. The second carries four twenty five mat
m guns. The third has four twenty-five ton da6
nd four eighteen-ton guns. The fourth has uon
70 twenty-five ton and ten eighteen-ton guns pas
he fifth has eight eighteen-ton and four twelve barr
IN guns. Three ironclads bate ed the fortii- Arc
atoms from the other side, these being the Ai'
[onareh, with four twenty-five ton and two six SAN
nd half-ton glns; the Invncible and the intr
enelope, each with ten twelve-ton guas. The tho
omoardment was carried on with sxty-six
nns, weighing 1871 tons. supposing all the py
lns were brought into action. sch,
The Pittsburgh physicians are and
lrnesty warning against the use of Soothing tail
yruDs" aud otLer 3osts'ums. Experienced tiop
sSnnosed Spn az de a nuoer OF se chill disr
fact "drugged 70 DEATH" Oae who has givea to
uch attention to the matter saws that these disr
,medies are not knowingly rsed by educated Fro
oubIesome children. or when thew want to ton
Ike their eve ling out" Another phy,icisn feat
nows twenty cases, within h own knowledge troll
here death has been tiacea Die to some sort of ~
soothing syrup" II am sure" he says that Leg
orr many mental M, dafeote sun- vol