Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-04-11
How do you like your new house? ?

How do you like your new house,
Some of our citizens took in the "howling
chorus" while in Pittsburgh last week.
DIR. Will Purvis of Etna, Allegheny Co.,
has again gcae South for his health.
The leading spring bonnet is the gable
roof poke.
A baby was born in the Pittsburg lookup
the other day.
Mr. Peter P. Hilliard has some lots at Hill
lizards for sale. See card.
Just opened our stock of Spring and Sum-
mer Goods the finest ever shown in Butler Co.,
at l.. STEIN & Sons.
VOLTS foundry at Beaver Falls was de-
stroyed by fire last Monday night.
The Subject for Theodore Tilton's lecture,
fixed for Wednesday evening the 25th inst, is
''The Worlds Tomorrow"
A guaranteed salary in a permanent bust.
ness is offered in the advertisement "MEN
WANTED" which appears elsewhere.
The town is still using manufactured gas.
The pipe from the we'll to the works has been
laid but the new tank is not yet in place.
The P. R. R. Co., is again buying ties at
80 cents each for 81 foot ties, and cents foot
for switch ties which run from to 16 feet in
length.
See our line of Summer Silks, all the new
-'''0- L. STEIN & Sons.
Call and examine our Black Gros Grain
Silk at 81 per yard, guaranteed the best In the
L. STEIN & Sons.
Says the N. Y. Tribune, cabbages continue
to arrive from Germany, although duty of ten
per cent is collected, and turnips are brought
from Russia.
Now is the time for teachers to prepare for
Summer work. A term at the State Normal
School, Indiana Pa will do them good. Sum-
mer term opens April sth. Address,
L. H. DURLING, Principal.
1t cost the town of Butler about two thou
sand dollars to maintain and relieve its poor,
pay funeral and medical expenses, lodge and
send off tramps, etc., last year.
-Ex-County Sup't. of Common Schools Nc
Kee is now travelling for the Tea House of ].
NJ. Montgomery & Co., 255 Liberty st., Pitts
burgh, and says he is doing we'll.
Mr.. Henry Miller, of Clay twp, was in
town last Friday, and when he went home, he
found that his smoke-house and all that was in
il, large lot of meat, cider-mill, and other ar
ticles had been destroyed by fire.
~ Millions of packages of Diamond Dyes
have been sold without a single complaint
Everywhere they are the favorite dyes.
We call attention to the card of John N.
Patterson, dealer in Clothing and Gents fur
nishing goods. He will have but one price for
his goods-the lowest, and his goods will all
be marked in plain figures.
Photographs taken by Mr.. Dabbs, the cele-
brated Pittsburgh Photographer, can be found
in all quarters of the civilized world, and his
ability to give q characteristic likeness is won
derful.
The handsomest lot of summer silks that
we have ever seen in Butler, were shown us
yesterday by the firm of L. Stein & Son. They
also have a black silk at 50 yard that
cannot be beat.
John C. Boyle, a resident of Oakland twp,
was adjudged to be insane by committee ap.
pointed by the Court to inquire into his case,
and was taken to Dixmont Hospital on Monday,
and rule was granted on the overseers of Oak
land township, to show cause, etc.
Attention is called to the card of Messrs.
Grohman & laval, two enterprising young
men who have purchased the blacksmith and
wagon shops, at the corner of Main and Clay
streets, opposite the Wick House. They are
both good workmen and will guarantee all
their work. They have some handsome buck
boards for sale at their shops.
Israel Jones, Mt. Carmel, Pa, says
Browns Iron Bitters relieved my of sick
headache and weakness in the stomach"
The Phillips Bros. we'll on the Wallace
farm in Penn twp, about one mile east of Rem
frew reached the stray sand last Saturday when
the hole partially filled with oil. The well
will not be completed, however, for day or
two, on account of there being a hard shale-
rock between the two sands, same as in the
Sheitemantle well. A good well is expected.
The Guckenheimer brothers, proprietors
of the mammoth distillery at Freeport, are
making arrangements to shut down for an in
definite period supposed to be for not less than
three years. This firm has 65, 900 barrels of
whisky in bond, and have no. sold any since
starting up q year ago. As seon as the cattle
they have on hand now are fattened, the works
will be shut down.
There are no further developments, as yet,
in the supposed Probst murder case. Some
parties from Butler went to the house, between
this and Harmony, where the drover said
Probst was murdered, few days ago, but the
people there say that he went from there
or started from there with the intention of
going 10 Jacob Roenigk's house, in Slippery
ing up the case.
Mr.. Joseph Mangel, of Glade Mills, this
county, received a dispatch from Rev. A. H.
Waters on Sunday last stating that his son
Charles, who was at the Soldiers Orphans
School at Dunbar Camp, Fayette county, Pa,
died on Saturday night, 7th inst. Mr.. Waters
is Superintendent of that school. Charles was
in the 1lth year of his age. Mr.. Mangel left
here on Monday to take charge of the remain 8
Of his son.
Washington county claims that during the
census year 1880, there were owned in that
county 46l,120 head of sheep, exclusive of
spring lambs, and that they yielded 2,4l6, ,S65
pounds of wool. These figures are fla ahead of
any other county Of the United States and con.
stitutes one-fourth of the sheep and wool return
ed for the whole State of Pennsylvania This
county also has more sheep and produces more
wool than any one of the twenty-four States
and Territories of the Union.
The Pittsburgh Gazette says that pair of
pants, vest and pat. oil literally dau bed
with paint, were found on one of the Sixth
street bridge piers last Sunday morning. A
slip of paper was found pinned to the vest.
ments hearing a namo and tho adJraes of a