Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-07-25
A single stroke of lightning killed sixteen
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sheep, in Greene county, one day last week.
Wheat advanced two cents bushel in
Pittsburgh last week.
These are the hot, sultry "dog days." when
some of the laws of nature seem to be reversed
"A day session of the House at Harrisburg
the other day, lasted eight minutes.
Our merchants are paying 12l cents fol
butter, Is for eggs and so cents for new potatoes
Miss Alice Wick is recovering slowly. This
is her 18th day in bed.
The big Indian chief preached in Sunbury
last Sunday evening, and it is said that over
600 people assembled to hear him.
A Young son of Robert G. Wilson, of EN-
lenton, was drowned in spring in the yard
a few evenings since.
The State Normal School, at Indiana, Pa,
offers advantages to those wishing to teach,
unexcelled by any other Normal School.
Address L. H. DURLING.
Mr.. w. w. Blackmore requests us to say
that he has connected himself with the well
known boot and shoe house of John Bickel.
Monday August 9th will be the last day
for filing accounts with the County Register
for presentation at next September term.
The Mercer Mining and Manufacturing
Company has notified the striking miners to
leave the company's houses.
est. Joe" well No. 2, on the Kerrick farm,
Oakland township, completed few days since
is doing from 10 to 20 barrels,
This seems to be bad year for worms. A
large green worm, similar in appearance to the
tomato worm, has appeared upon the grape
and Virginia-creeper vines.
The old McQuistion home in this town
was on fire again the other day. 1t caught
from terra Gotta kitchen fue, which are dan
gerous, after being Clipped by frost.
Mr. George Shaffner has rendered his res
ignation as overseer of work at Davis Island
Dam, in the Ohio river, below Pittsburgh, and
is now at home here.
Two Butler county girls, Miss Annie Glenn,
of Coultersville, and Miss Cora Daugherty, OF
Petrolia took part in the Musical Institute at
Kittanning, last week.
Farmers, be very careful in handling
phosphates, if you have any cuts or bruises
upon your hands or face. 1t produces virulent
d-poisoning.
WHY is the State Normal School, Edin-
boro, the best school for those who intend to
teach? Because every influence there stlmu-
lates teaching power. Send for its hand Dook.
Address ]. A. Cooper, Edinboro. Pa,
Things will be different when the tele.
graph business is made part of the postal ser.
vice. Government employees never strike.
They wait till Congress meets and then ask for
a raise.
up in Oil City they tax man $S for
him and S. for her.dog, and if the mau who
owns the dog dosn't whack up within fifteen
DAYS after the year begins, "a suitable person"
is empowered to lombard the beast and draw
81 for his trouble.
Quite number of our citizens went up to
Mr.. Riddles residence last Tuesday evening to
see his Night-blooming Cereus bloom, and
we're rewarded by seeing four flowers open.
This Cereus is a species of cactus, which blooms
but once year, and then at night
The rhymer of one of the city dailies, re-
ferring to the oil market states the following
well-known facts:
when it is up it is up my boys,
And when it is down it is down,
But when it is in the middle, my boys,
1t is neither up nor down."
A big bear and part of man who said he
was Turk, paraded our streets the other day.
The bear danced at five cents dance, and the
Turk collected the money for him. A bare
headed and bare-footed woman with child in
bag sIung over her shoulder, and begging of
all she met, followed the couple.
Rev. DIR. w II. Hornblower, Professor Of
Theology and Homiletics of the Western Theo-
logical Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, +,
died on Tuesday evening of last week, at his
residence in Allegheny City. He was 63 years
old and held many high positions in the Church
Two months ago he was striken with paralysis
while preaching.
ALI watches over the value of $40 are
taxed SOC. 75c. or 81 per year, according to
value, and according to the Annual Statement
there are none such in Butler, Clinton, Clay,
Centre, Clearfeld, Franklin, Lancaster,
Marion, Mercer, Washington and Worth town.
ships, nor in Saxonburg borough. The owner
of a watch puts his own value on it.
An important question is now before the
Franklin county court for decision. Some
years ago viewers were appointed to view a
site for bridge over one of the county streams.
They reported in favor of the bridge and the
grand jury concurred, but the county commits
sioners refused to build it. The parties inter-
ested in its construction have petitioned the
court to issue a mandamus to compel the COM
missioners to do the work.
Mark Twain's latest book is entitled ''Life
on the Mississippi" The book reviewer of the
New York Tribune thinks that his sketches
are highly over-drawn and, as for repetition,
compares Mark to the penitent in the old Irish
song, who said:
"I went to confess me to Father O'Flannigan,
Tould him me tale, made an end, and began
agin."
The Tribune man does nothing but ridicule
the work, and yet we notice that an agent for
it in neighboring county embodies part of
this review in his advertisement Of the book.
A number of the merchants of Oil City
were taken in and done for by an advertising
man of Sells Brothers circus. He told them
he had a contract with the Derrick for print
ing 10000 programmes to be distributed on
circus day. He was a moral cuss and would
not advertise soloons or hotels, and the mer-
chants who gave their orders paid their money
in advance. When circus day come around
neither the programmes nor man were to be
seen. Hereafter those merchants will advertise
in newspapers.
"A mathematical gentleman of Franklin,
Pa, calls attention to the alarming waste that
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