Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-06-13


One ofou exchanges notes dandelion
stalk that measures 3S inches in circumfer-
ence.
A Festival will be given by the Reform
Church in Reiber's New Block, on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday evenings of this week.
Admission 10 cents As this is the first time
| this church has ever asked anything of the
public we hope it will respond cheerfully.
The papers are declaring that it does not
follow that Noah brewed beer because the
kangaroo went into the ark with hops.
There is q rainbow in the domestic sky. A
society paper says that next year it will be
fashionable for young ladies' to make their own
dresses.
| The Donaldson House has received a new
coat of paint, which greatly improves its ap-
pearance.
| The plans of the new Lutheran Church, of
Zelienople are now promised by the 10th, inst
See new advertisement in another place.
| The interior of the Reformed church, of
this town, has lately peen repainted, papered,
calsomined and carpeted.
The Lee well, in Cranberry township,
venango county, was torpeded few days ago.
and responded with tremendous flow, putting
| 900 barrels in the tank in the first II hours.
Our merchants are paying 90 cents for
potatoes, 15 cents for eggs, aud 12t cents for
butter.
Mr.. J. F. PETER, student Of X. Marshall,
ESQ.,, was admitted to practice at the bar of the
| several courts of Butler county, on Monday of
| last week.
-Messrs. J. B. Kohlmeyer & Co. now have
their new drug store in running order. See
| card in another place. DIR. Zimmerman has
his office on second floor OF same building
Morrison is knocking the spots off all com
petition in the ice cream business. His ice
cream is made ofpure, sweet cream and is very
wholesome.
There is now man in Butler on visit
only, it is hoped, who has not been here before
for twenty years, and who, when he lived here
years ago, had the reputation of being the most
expert thief in the town.
AS will be seen by their advertisement in
another place, Mr.. o. J. Boyd, advertising
agent for O'Brien's Circus and Menagarie, has
paid us a visit lately. He is very cleyer
gentleman.
Mrs. r. j. Randolf has applied for di- |
vorce from her husband, William Randolf,
who, according to her petition, deserted her
over nineteen years ago. Mrs. Mark Pelton
Loc I.nlc co~ Co nf
ton, also Josiah NJ. Hepler for same reason.
The Rev. Robert A. Edwards, formerly of
this place, and DOW OF Philadelphia, is to he
married on the 9th, inst, / n New Berne, North |
Carolina, to Miss Alice NJ. Lehman, of that
place. We send Rev. E. our advance congratu- |
lations
The commencement exercises of the Green's |
burg Female Seminary will be held June Goth, |
at P. NJ. Miss Mary E. StauAer, of Butler, is |
q member of the graduating class and takes one
of the honors. The Baccalaureate sermon will
be preached by Rev. 7. F. Stauffer, on Sunday, |
June IL, at 7:30 P. NJ, in the Second Reformed
Church, Greensburg, Pa.
Mails for the narrow-gauge railroad now
leave the Butler Office as follows: Going south |
or to Allegheny city at $50 A. NJ, but one mail
each day. Going north at 9:55 A. NJ. and 5:45
Pm. Mails arrive on the narrow-gauge from
the north at A. NJ. and 6:15 P. NJ, and from
| the south at 10 A. NJ.
| The members of st. PauPs English Catholic
Church, of this place, have had the ceiling and
walls of the church room beautifully frescoed,
the wood work repainted, the alter newly deco
rated and carpeted, and now have of the
handsomest church rooms in town. The ex-
pense of reftting the room reached nearly two
| thousand dollars.
The Ladies' Presbyterial Missionary Socie-
| ty, of Butler Presbytery will meet at Prospect
Tuesday, the 10th of June, at II A. NJ. Two
delegates from each Congregational Society or
church, are expected to be present, to take part
in the programme that will be published.
Presbytery, of Butler, meets at the same time.
Mr.. Chas. II. Roessing, of this town, and
Mrs. Susan c. Slentz, were married ON the 9TH
inst. Mrs. Slentz is the widow of Casper Slentz,
late of Butler, and daughter of John Fry,
Esq, of Connoquenessing, and Charley is
one of the most estimable and industrious of
| our young business men.
| Eugene Burns, convicted at April term of
the yenango county Quarter Sessions, of en-
| bezzelling county funds while collector of
taxes in Cranberry township, was sentenced by |
Judge Taylor to pay fine of $3,089.74, and
| to imprisonment of one year in the Western |
Penitentiary-the lightest sentence that the |
| law permits.
The four bridesmaids at a recent English |
wedding wore dresses of white soie-dechine and |
lace, with bonnets to match. Their shoes and |
stockings we're Of bronze, and at their throats |
they wore horseshoe pins Of pc arl and coral, the
| gift of the bridegroom. In their hands they |
carried large boquets of daffodils.
Friday the 22d inst. is the date fixed by the |
Executive Committee, of the Prohibition party, |
and the Court House the place for holding their |
| convention. All Prohbitionists, without re-
gard to sex, are invited to attend and w. c. t.
| U. organizations in the county are entitled TO
representation. See card of James w. Orr,
Chairman, in another place.
A wreck occurred on the Pittsburgh and
Western railroad at Elfnwild station, 9 miles
out from the city, at six o'clock last Thursday
| morning VIII ich resulted in an engine and four
loaded freight cars jumping the track. The
| train was moving along at good speed which
was suddenly checked By turned up rail.
The track was blocked until one o'clock in
the afternoon. No one was injured seriously.
"A Crawford county two-year-old boy met
with cad accident few days ago. The little
fellow in playing about the yard got into an ash
box, getting the ashes ON his hands and face
and into his eyes. His right eye became greatly
infamed and the home physicians pronounced
the sight in great danger. The child waq taken
to DR.. Sadisr, the oculist, at Pittsburgh, who
informed the parents that the sight Of the right
| eye would be entirely destroyed, and that in case