Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-04-05
% p Cochran Will teach a sum.

mer school for eight weeks Th
course will comprise all of the Englis
branches. Special attention will b
given TO Wiring and Bookkeeping
Session during the forenoon only
Tuition for term So See advertise
ment next week.
james NJ. Galbreatb, Esq has re
moved his law Office to the one former
ly occupied by Gen. Purvianee ant
son, Main street, South of Cour
House, and few doors South of Brady
building Mr.. Galbreath is young
man of good charac er and education
and gives promise of success in his pro
| fession.
-Emlenton Academy opens Apri
18th, Rev. j. B. Fox, Principal. Send
for circular. m227t
Mr.. Thos. Maher and wife, ol
Buffalo twp, have made an assignment
of all their property to Mr.. McRea,
the assignee of the Freeport Deposit
Bank, lately closed. The assignee is
now making out a schedule of the
assets and liabilities of the bank, which
will be presented to Court as soon as
completed A dispatch fromFreeport
states that from the data at hand the
liabilities will not exceed $4,000,
while the assets at marketable value
will cover that amount, and providing
due time is given to realize on the
real estate, every depositor will receive
his own. The assignee stated he had
not time or desire to answer all the
rumors, but that square and honora-
BILE settlement of the finances would be
made as soon as possible.
New Castle and Lawrence county
have something of sensation in the
charges made by S. B. Marshall, late
county detective, against District At
torney Irwin, charging Irwin with at
tempting to bribe or corrupt him from
pressing suits against certain liquor
sellers, whom he had evidence against
sufficient > convict. Marshall says
Irwin offered him $500, and was to re-
tain $500, if he would withdraw the
against these sellers.
Marshall says he declined to have any,
thing to do with the bribery, and that
then Irwin tried to accomplish his pur-
pose by scratching from the information
The name of the most material witness.
This is Marshall's story. Irwin has
not yet told his side. The feeling
between the two men has not been
very cordial for some time, as Irwin |
had the court some time since appoint
another man detective instead of
Many of our readers will, no doubt
remember II. Gold Rodgers, the large
heavily built man, who was in Butler
wo or three years ago soliciting
for lecture on Geology
which was never delivered He
lied in Lancaster few days ago.
fo studied law in Harrisburg
n 1884 and after his admission to the
,ar, settled in Pittsburg. At the
November election of 1886 he was
lected as Democrat to the reform
Constitutional Convention that met
q Harrisburg in May, 1887, and then
n Philadelphia, to which place the
adjourned. He was ma
i've of New York State, President
dartin Van Buren appointed him
;harge de Affairs at Sardinia, and
While there he became erratic aud was
ecallcd before the end of Van Buren's
He was highly edu-
ated and at that day gentleman
f the old school. He was the author
f several books, which he sold for a
livelihood He spent large fortune,
Inherited from his father, and became
oor Rum did the work for body
nd mind, and he died in a pauper's
sylum.
-Messrs Ely Bro, Druggists Owe
%, N. Y.-About year since gen.
leman from Orwell, Pa, called my
ttention to your Cream Balm as a
emedy for Catarrb, Hay Fever, &c.
lie was SO earnest in asserting it to be
positive cure, (himself having been
ured by it) that | was induced to pur-
base stock. / must say that the
'alm has met my best expections, hav-
1g already effected number of cures
n this locality. l am using it with
enefcial effects. Respectfully, p. f.
Iyatt, NJ D., Bordentown, n j. Oct.
6, 1880. Mressrs. White & Burdick,
druggists, Ithaca, N. WY daugh-
er and myself, great sufferers from
have been cured by Ely's
,ream Balm. My sense of smell re-
tored and health greatly improved
J. M. Stanley, dealer in boots and
hoes, Ithaca, N. Y. Price SO cents.
-Silas Gray, who is serving four
ears sentence in the Penitentiary for
tealing DR.. Perrington's horse, will be
ried for murder at the May Term of
be Westmoreland county Court The
Tribune says; In battered PASTE
oard box IN the county clerks Office
re skull and jaw-bones. These
hastily relics were once part of the
of Mary McCrady. The lat
er once lived in Bell township, this
ounty, and was widow. She lived
n an unpretentious cottage near the
anks of the Kiskimineta-. On the
list Of February, 1877, when her little
on, aged about IL, returned from
chool, be could not find his mother.
search was instituted, but no trace of
ler Could be found. Suspicion pointed
o Silas Gray as the one most likely
o know something about her myste-
ious departure, but, as there was no
Videpce of q crime having been COM
nitted, he was not arrested. About
rear afterward party of boys were
ishing in the river near where the wld-
Nv had lived, when one of the party
rot his fish line fast, and for time
hey could not loosen it, At last the
youths joined forces, and by united ef-
ort the line was dragged out, when it