Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-06-20

This is show day and the boys are anxious
regarding the weather.
There is some talk of celebrating the
Fourth here.
| All the latest novelties in Clothing, Hats,
Shirts and Ties at ID. A. Heck's.
| Lew. Stein has given his show windows
circus dress. What do you think of them?
| Miss Annie Lowman will do permanent
stamping and give lessons in Kensington and
Arrasene work. See cards.
| The commencement exercises at Thiel
College, Greenville, Pa, come off on to-mor-
row, 21st inst
People go to watering place, take bath
and feel better. At home it never occurs to
them to benefit themselves in that way.
A silk parasol was left in d. A. Heck's
clothing and carpet store, Duffy Block, and the
owner can have it by calling for and describing
| it.
Mr.. C. Roessing has just received large
lot of whips in latest styles, also new invoice
of handsome busters.
But half an average crop of wheat is pre-
dicted for this county. Our farmers, however,
will likely make up the deficiency by increas-
ed crops of the other varieties of grain.
The sale of the Etzel property to Mr..
Frank Huselton, by the B. q l.. Association
| fell through and the property was purchased
by Mr.. o. K Waldron the dentist.
There will be communion services in the
English Lutheran Church, OF this place, on
next Sunday. Preparatory services on Satur-
day previous at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The Brooklyn bridge disaster was outdoDe
at Sunderland, England, last Saturday, where
17S children were crushed to death during
panic in a theatre.
Mr.. John E. Snowden, a son-in-law of Mr..
w. NJ. Hutchinson, of Greece City, this coun-
| ty, who died in Waterloo, Iowa, on the 18th
| inst, was brought to and buried in Allegheny
city to-day.
Trunks and Valises, also the Marshall
Folding Valise, at d. A. Heck's.
This is commencement week at the Pine
Grove Normal Academy. Mr.. Willis s. Nc
Nees, of West Liberty, this county, and Sam
uel T. Shields and J. Madison Shields, of
Jacksville, are down on the program for ora
tions.
Young Pfaf plead guilty to the charge of
horse stealing and implicated Brown, who he
said had hired him to take the horse and sell
it. This story, however, did not hold water,
Brown was tried as being accessory before the
fact of horse stealing and was acquitted.
The model juryman of all this broad Com
monwsalth lives in Forest county. He was in
Tionesta at the recent term of court and when
called on q case could not tell the name of the
township in which he lived. Twelve such
"good men and true" would constitute a palla-
dium of any peoples liberties.
A cyclone passed over the panhandle part
of West Virginia, and the northern part Of
Washington county, this State, last Monday
evening. Over 500 head of cattle and sheep
are reported killed, but no person fatally in
jured. Orchards, houses. barns and everything
were upset, and hailstones weighing six ounces
are said to have fallen.
When young man goes to prayer meeting
he expects to be called up to pray, but when
young man who never goes to prayer meeting
but does 90 to see his girl, is called upon for
prayer by the head of the family, he is, for the
time being, struck dumb with astonishment.
This happened to one of our young attornies
| few evenings since.
Jubilee services, commemorative oil the
| 400 anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther,
L l.. l. - Al II: II T,,xkn hnr
of Butler, on next Monday, 25th inst; and in
the English Lutheran, Church, at Prospect
on the following Sunday, July 1st. num-
Der of the ministers of the church are expected
present at each place.
| "A Pittsburgh jury gave verdict against a
railroad company for the amount Of money
stolen from a passenger in a sleeping car.
"Since the defendant" said the Judge, "sold
a ticket for two dollars in addition to the reg
ular rates of passage, and offered the facilities
for sleeping as an inducement to pay the extra
money, it bound itself to protect its patrons
while they were asleep and for the time being
helpless"
| AT the Democratic Convention in the school
house, last Monday, Joseph C. vanderlin, ESQ.,,
was nominated for District Attorney on first
ballot; w. E. Taylor, of Worth township, was
nominated for County Surveyor on first ballot,
and Messrs. Mcbride, Brown, Book and Bard
were elected as delegates to the Democratic
State Convention. Mr.. Samuel Bard, Of Cen
treville, presided and d. NJ. Ward and Frank
Kohler, Esq, were the secretaries. j. ID.
Marshall, Esq, was elected Chairman of the
Democratic County Committee.
We are in receipt of the Summer Excur-
sion Route book for 1888, issued by the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Company, and find it 10 be
| the most handsome and complete of the many
excursion books issued by this company. II
contains about 800 different routes, has illus.
trations Of all the famous summer resorts of the
country besides a large colored map which
will be of great service to anyone contemplat-
ing taking pleasure trip. Copies can be Sc
cured Of the p. X. r. agents, or by enclosing
twelve cents for postage. to Thomas Z. Watt.
No. 10 Fifth avenue, Pittsburgh.
| According TO the accounts telegraphed
from Chillicothe, Missouri, Of storm that Wis
tied that city last Tuesday, one family whose
house was torn to pieces, was carried 800 feet
through the air. The frightful power of the
wind was shown when it demolished brick
church and tore up thousands of trees by the
roots, destroying three.fourths of the apple
crop in the regions which ii visited. 1t is be-
coming more and more evident that some gen.
eral cause is at work in the production of such
storms, and that its manifestations vary in diff
ferent years. Its activity seemed to have reach
en- a maximum last year, but the record Of the
tornadoes SO far this year indicates that the
maximum may not even yet have been attain
ed, and the tornado that visited part Of Long
Island last Wednerday shows that these storms