Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-05-02

! To prevent swearing in the Fall-number
the joints of stove-pipes as you take them down
The man who "knows it all" generally
gets left We have several of that kind In this
place.
A full line of Straw Hats-latest styles, at
| Chas. r Gr.eb's.
All the leases taken near the Bald Ridge dis
trict a. present are on a due east and west line
See synopsis of the S. & A. Z. K. time
table in another place.
The celebrated Johnston Reaper-wro ght
| iron frame and folder.
]. Nigel BRO, Agents.
Beer" says NJ. Ferd Reiber in his new book
on that subject, sis the only liquor which one
can drink and enjoy while smoking"
| Mr.. William Ayers was committed to jail
last Saturday, on charges of adultery and r. q
B.. preferred by girl named Davidson, of Penn
township.
| The suit pending between the Butler
Water Co. and the Borough OF Butler is not
vet definitely settled as stated in one OF our
exchanges.
We call the attention of any of our readers
| who are in want of a salaried situation, ana
who can fill the bill, to the advertisement IN
| another column of r. G. Chase d Co., headed
"Salesmen Wanted" Write to them for par
| ticulars. APf-''
Mr.. Robert A. Brown, administrator oi
James Young decd, sold the farm in Clay twL'
a few days ago, to Mrs. Frazer, of Mercer
county, for $40 per acre.
This is the season when hens run mad and
will not be comforted, unless they can hioe
away somewhere and sit day and night on
wooden nest-egg or an old door-knob.
Full line of Summer Underwear, at Chas.
r. Grieb's.
R. b. Ivory, Esq, of Kittanning, VINO
read law with H. II. Goucher, Esq, formerly
of this place, was married on Tuesday OF last
week to Miss NJ. f. Galbreath, sister OF
James Galbreath, Esq, of Butler.
We direct attention to Mr.. Jas. 5. Hayes
advertisement of his two fine stations. Mr..
Hayes horses are considered by many to be the
finest in the county, and their appearance IN
dicates that to be the case.
"A week of court for jury trials has been
fixed for the week commencing Monda June
18th. venires to issue from both Quarter Ses-
sions and Common Pleas. This week follows
Immediately after the regular June Term.
Lucinda Rosenberg petitioned court for
writ de lunatico .inquirendo as to Amanda e.
Rosenberg, and the Court appointed A. I.
Wilson, ESQ.,, a commissioner to hold inquest,
etc.
MIR. Jacob Loutzenhizer, of Mercer county,
who was working at one of the Conventry saw
mills near Sunbury, this county, had one OF his
hands yearly sawed off on Monday week last
23d of April, by the saw of the mill.
The Pittsburgh papers of last Saturday
stated that NJ P. Lynch formerly of this county,
was fined ten dollars and costs, by Mayor Peter
son, for assaulting Frank Hulmes, West
Penn railroad employe.
The house of Mrs. Margaret Murtland,
mother of County Superintendent j. ID. Murt-
land, in Concord township, was destroyed by
fire on Monday morning of this week. There
was some insurance on the house.
The authorities of many cities and towns
have taken time by the forelock and given no.
tice of the prohibition of the use of ire-crackers
and fireworks On the coming Fourth OF July.
Dealers are thus warned in time to prevent
their purchasing the goods.
-Tornadoes, destructive frosts, and forest
fires, not having proved ruinous to all parts o.
the South and West, Caldwell county, North
Carolina, was visited on Wednesday of last
week by water-spout that made great ravages
The county is in the northwestern part OF the
State.
The Jurors for the May session of the L. 5
Courts in Pittsburgh have received notice not
to attend, as there will be no Court held, on
account of lack of funds, the appropriation
having run out. Messrs. w. II. McIlwain and
Peter Kramer of this county were on the jury
lists.
The Forest Oil Co.'s well on the Dodd's
farm and one of the Bald Ridge Co.'s wells on
the Reiher Hoffman and Piersol farm ex-
pected in this week. Wallace farm well No. 2
S-Sald 10 DE DOING llU DDlS anu liic OHOWdltSr
Bros well at Carbon Centre l25 bbls.
The third meeting of the County Teachers
Association will be held at Butler May "a and
%. good lecturer will be engaged and
program arranged and published in the mean
time. The Association has made good
record. Teachers and all who are preparing to
teach should he in attendance
-Qnite large sum of money that old Mrs.
Mellon, who lives near Portersville, kept con-
cealed in fruit can in an clubhouse, disap.
peared some days ago, and Mrs. M. suspected
young man who kept company with her
hired-grl ofstealing it, and had his home search
ed but did not find the money.
According to to the table of levels of the re-
port of the Second Geological survey of Penn
sylvania, the elevation of the town OF Butler
| above the level Of the Atlantic is zoos feet
Somerset is the most elevated county seat in the
| State, being 2, LOG feet above ocean level and
Philadelphia the lowest being but 80 feet at
| the highest point on Market st.
The President of the Butler Oil Exchange
has handed US the following: -
BUTLER OIL EXCHANGE,
April 25th, 1888.
| The thanks of the Lambs are hereby tender
| ed Mr.. Negley for his wholesome advice, and
hereafter will take pork and beans with oil.
The Exchange already has corner in pork
all they want is the beans.
Mr.. Chas. r. Grieb has removed his large
stock hats, caps and gents furnishing goods
10 the room in the Union Block, which was
lately fitted up for Prugh & Weitzel. Charley
keeps the latest styles of all goods handled by
him, and gentlemen who wish to keep up
with the fashions of the day should never fail
TO examine Charly's stock before purchasing.
Natural gas is lighter than the manufacture
ed article, fact which has, since its introduce