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

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Justices Of the Peace.
The following is a list of the Justices of the
Peace elected in those boroughs and townships
in which vacancies existed at the late election
Adams twp, A. ]. Fleming Allegheny twp,
Clay twp, j. Kelly; Concord twp, Peter
Kamerer Centre twp, VIM. Allison Cranberry
twp, Fleming West; Donegal twp, Solomon
Pontious Forward twp, N. Kramer; Fairview
twp. G. Ell. Gibson Franklin twp, w. B.
Curry Jackson twp J. B. Knox Mercer.twp.,
Joseph Brown; Muddycreek twp, James Nc
twp, John Kelly, A. p. Stewart Summit twp,
Robert GiIliland; Slipperyrock twp, FL. H.
Vincent; Winfield twp, N. NJ. Kirkland /; But
Ter boro., s. P. Irwin; Millerstown boro., J. C.
Gaisford Karns City bore, w. III. McGafie
Petrolia boro r. j; Bottner; Prospect boro,
8. Riddle, John Hyle; Centreville boro., c. o..
Kingsbury Portersville boro., Robert Badger !;
Zelienople boro., E. v. Randolph; Harrisville
boro., John NJ. Elrick.
"A large audience greeted the men,
bers of the w. l. Literary Society on the even
ing of their celebration of Washington's birth
day. The entertainment was a success in every
particular, especially the musical part of it.
The members, who had original performances,
are to be congratulated on the excellence of
their respective parts.
| A horse dealer living near New
fered mare for sale, and said she was nine
years Old "But," said the buyer, "do you
| know her to be good animal ?" "Yes,' said
| he, 81 have known her for over twelve years.
| and" A smile that was loud and prolong-
ed drowned the rest of the sentence.-Merccr
Dispatch.
-Gen. Grants pastor, the Rev. DR..
| Newman, suggested in his last Sundays dis
| course that "the generally accepted fact that
women are more pious than men may possibly
be attributed to the afternoon visits of the
pastors" There is certainly no lack of cleri-
cal assurance in this claim. Perhaps it makes
| some difference who the pastors andthe women
are, whether these afternoon visits are provoc-
alive of piety.
With a view of relieving mer-
chants and others Of faccumulations of mutilat-
ed silver coin, Superintendent Snowden. of the
Philadelphia mint, has obtained authority from
the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase such
coins when presented in sums of S. and up-
wards. This action will enable holders of said
coins to dispose of them at the current value of
silver bullion, which heretofore they have not
been able to do.
The bills presented to the Govern
ment for articles furnished, services rendered,
&C., during President Garfeld's illness, aggre-
gate 100000. Every person who furnished
anything appears TO put in q claim. The cool
ing apparatus men ask to be paid the actual ex-
penses incurred. and for the time in putting the
apparatus up. Some Of the members Of Con-
gress presented bills for expenses incurred in
attending the funeral. The railroad companies
alone refused 10 send in bills.
A fond father of this town missed
some money from his pockets few days ago,
and soon after discovered that one of his sons,
aged about eleven, had taken it and had bought
himself a revolver. The child being questioned
as to his reasons for buying a revolver said that
one OF his playmates had a revolver and that
when they Quarreled, he (the playmate1 always
drew it out and dared the crowd He also said
that several Of the school boys had revolvers
This Is interesting to parents of school boys,
and the parents should make il interesting to
the persons who sold the revolvers to the boys.
AT the late annual meeting of the
Northeastern Bee-keepers' Association, the
charge that bees injure grapes was discussed
with some feeling. Two bills have been intro
duced in the California Legislature to forbid
the keeping of bees because of the damage they
are said to do 10 the ripening grapes. The
northeastern bee-keepers were unanimous in
the opinion that honey bees never puncture the
skin of the grape, though they frequent the
"a. VINE: 70 suck juices Of grapes already injured
has been demonstrated by careful tests Black
ants are the chief mischief makers.
The suit of Edward VoQeley VS..
Prof Won Meyerhoff for debt was commenced
before Esq. L. P. Walker, of this place, last
saturday morning, and the evidence was all
gotten in by Monday night The hearing of
arguments by the attorneys employed was post
poned till next Saturday evening. A large
crowd OF men and boys was assembled in and
nfpata 1tx~s.
the;suit, which they seemed to look upon an some
sort OF q circus or minstrel performance. To ac-
commodate this large crowd the Squire should
have adjourned the suit TO the Court room; or,
at least, to Wise's Hall or the Opera. House.
AS remarkable winter is near it's
close, the curious are beginning to inquire of
the weather'wise what the sumner is going TO
be like. The inquiry is made the more urgent
In that the astrologists say that the relative
positions of the planets will be such during the
summer as TO affect the earth's atmosphere the
theory being that heat will be so reflected in
these planets as to eyaporate the moisture and
proven rain. But signal service man SCOTS
ut this and maintains that there will be plenty
OF rain next summer, because the last was a
dry. one. Experience goes 10 show that it is
seldom that one dry summer follows another.
MIR. Lewis Anderson, of Butler
township, aged 80 years, died suddenly, on
Monday morning Of last week. He had been
troubled with hemorrhage for some years, caus.
ed by working in the shovel works, 1T Beaver
Falls. where he inhaled small particles of
steel. and on the morning he died had severe
attack in bed ut about five o'clock He Jump
I'd out Of bed and went 10 the door 10 get air.
and almost Immediately dropped dead, his blood
gushing out of his mouth and nose. He was
son-in-law of Gideon Slagle, lately deceased,
and was one of the administrators Of his estate.
AT the borough eIect,vh, last
Tuesday, e. P. Irwin was elected Justice of the
Peace Geo. Walters and Geo. Shaffner, Town
Councilmen for years, and Jacob Zieger for
year Geo. VogIey, Overseer of the Poor for
years, and Matthias Buchele for year Chas
Grouse. Assessor John Grohman and Joseph
Niggle, Assistant Assessors VIM. Williamson,
High Constable A. N. McCandIess and John
kennedy. Constables Amos Kearns, Auditor
Alex. Russell, Judge Of Election for I'd ward,
and John McQ. Smith for lst ward ; Samuel
Miller and Alex. Mitchell, Inspectors for End
ward, and Joseph Nanny and David Cupps for
LIST ward Geo. w. Ziegler was elected Burgess
and Harry Kearns Assistant Burgess.
The latest suggestion regarding
Polar exploration Is that a telegraph cable be
dropped rs the vessel proceeds north ward. BY
means Of this cable. says writer in the New
York Herald, kilograms could be sent for days
ut o time without disturbing the instruments
and should destruction come TO their ship as
sistance could be sent them and they could be
advised what to do, stating their positions
Whoever conceived this idea ought to know, If
he Is not one Of the great army Of cranks, that
laying the cable would be as much AZ the ship
could attend to without searching for the pole
and when she reached the ice fields there are
ninety nine chances in hundred that cable
laying would come TO an end. And then, the
expense Of such an undertaking would out
weigh the value Of the whole unexplored top
end Of the earth
The treatment which the Fisk
Jubilee Singers lately received from the hotels
at Washington, upon their first arrival there,
was simply abominable. They wandered about
until midnight in search of shelter, not because
there were no accommodations in at least some
Of these hotels, but because they were colored
people. Had they been white people, they
would not have suffered this indgnity. The