Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-08-01

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All are invited.
Cal. Christie, Esq, has gone on visit to
Renova, and his Office will be closed for the
next few days.
Our country friends are cordially invited
to call at our office whenever in town, and re-
port any item of news coming under their OBJ
servation.
Two men named James Carlon and james
B. Rowe were killed by an explosion at the
Isabella limestone quarry, in Lawrence county,
| on Monday of last week.
A water spout between Parker and Fox
burg last Friday evening washed out the K. K.
bridge over Toms run and interfered with travel
and the carrying of mails.
Dear reader, DAYS Soap is Just elegant for
purifying and making white all linens, laces,
ETC., without the slightest degree OF injury.
| Try it on your skin, and try 1t on everything
needing soap, at our risk.
| The survivors of the Tenth Regiment,
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, have arranged
to hold reunion in Franklin, on Friday,
September 14th, the anniversary of the battle
of South Mountain.
-Messrs. z. NJ. Sipes and james B. Mates
| were admitted to practice at the bar OF the
! several courts of this county last Monday. Mr..
Alf. Bowser has also applied for admission but
has not yet been examined.
| The Minister of Spain to the United States,
shot and killed himself at hotel in New York
city last Saturday night. Fashionable life at
| Washington had financially stranded him and
| his troubles were more than he could stand up
| to.
"A sudden rise in the Allegheny river last
Sunday morning, flooded Herr's Island and the
banks of the river down to the Point, and car
ried off about 100000 worth of lumber. An
| unknown man was drowned at the first pier on
the Pittsburgh side of the Suspension bridge.
|. The post Office at Gomersa1, this county,
Cherry township, was opened for business on
Monday of last week. Mrs. NJ. +. Wolford Is
the postmistress. John Gillespie was appoint
| ed tor Flick, the new Office on the line OF
Clinton and Middlesex townships.
| A medical journal says that sneezing can
be stopped by plugging the nostrils with cotton
batting. Is man expected to take roll OF
cotton batting TO church with him? An easier
way than this is to press the finger upon the
upper lip. That will stop sneezng Immediately
| Two new wells were completed in the Bald
Ridge district last Saturday-one on the Smith
and one on the Reiber, Hoffman and Piersol
| farm. Both have water in them which has not
| th hQir mr. r.
ton is yet known.
The two years at the Normal School, Edin-
boro. regard of more value than four years at
| college. Allen ]. Maxwell, Jackson, Mich.
Now ready; q special circular, showing why
one year at school in Edinboro is better than
two years elsewhere. Address j. A. Cooper,
| Edinboro, Pa.
We have received from the publishers
Clarke Bros, of New York copy of their
new magazine entitled "Dio LeWis's Monthly"
This magazine is edited by the famous doctor
and auther whose name it bears, and will be
devoted to Sanitary and Social Science. 1t can
be had at Heineman's.
! A man named Shrump, a section man on
the Branch r. r., met with serious accident
near Sarvers Station last Friday evening. He
and another man were riding down grade on a
hand car, when he was by some means, thrown
backward off the car. He fell heavily upon his
back and injured his spine. Itwas thought, at
first that his injuries would prove fatal, but
we hear that he is recovering.
-The:frst female physician who has ever
practced in this county registered at the Pro-
thonotary's office few days ago, and produced
a diploma from the Starting Medical
College of Columbus, o., endorsed by the
Womans' Medical College, of this State. She
claims to be native of Sheboygan, Wis, and
with her husband has located at Bald Ridge.
in the stated case in ejectment, of c. s.
Passavant and others versus the School Dis
trict of the borough of Zelienople, Judge
Bredin filed an opinion on Monday, giving
Judgment for the School District. The appeal
of the overseers of Muddycreek township from
an order removing Adam Beighley, pauper
to said poor district from Connoquenessing
was dismissed at costs of appellant, and Adam
remains charge on Muddycreek.
For a home made disinfectant dissolve 8
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salt water slack barrel of lime, which should
be wet enough to form kind of paste. For 6
home made disinfectant this chloride of lime Is
nearly as good as that purchased at the shops
Use it freely about the sinks, cellars, gutter'
and out-houses, and in this way prevent sick
ness, suffering and expenses.
The match tax, now abolished, small as i
was apparently, being only one cent on box
constituted nearly two-thirds of the price fol
which matches were sold. The tax amounted
to 81 "A gross while the matches were solo
for 81. This instance of nearly all tax ant
but little property has had no match in ou
Internal Revenue system since whisky worti
fourteen cents gallon paid tax of 81
Matches now sell at eighty-fve cents gross
showing that the manufacturers have no
thrown off all the tax which they do not pay
1t is always the unexpected that happens.
An excursion under the auspices of the Noun
Royal Beneficial Society of the Catholic churcl
of Corpus Christi sailed on Monday of las
week, from Baltimore to North Point Tivoli
distance of ten miles. In the evening whei
the picnic party was about to return, th'
wharf on which the crowd stood waiting 70
the boat suddenly gave way and many person
were thrown into the water. The work of res
cuing the drowning persons was greatly I'm
peded by darkness, and many persons wer
knocked iusensible in the water by chairs an
other objects thrown to them. A coroner's in
quest was held and some of the witnesses ties
titled that the beams in the pier were rotter
Seventy five people were drowned.
s Quite number of our citizens "took in
s the dedication of the new Orphans Home nea
Hannahstown last Sunday, and report havin
g had a pleasant time. Some years ago Nj
Christian G. Oertel left farm near the tow
to the Missouri Synod of the German Luthera
Church. and on this the synod built a larg
three story frame building suitable for a