Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-11-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The sr,lry, last Saturday morning, stood
at s. above eco.
On and after tomorrow the S & A. r. r.
VIII be a mail route
-Parkdale is the name of new postofsce in
tn n hern part of this county with III omas
j. Campbell postmaster.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machii e
Jos Niggle & Brc. Agents, Butler, Pa.
Mr.. J. A. Clark. of Prospect, has some
pu e bred stock for sale See card in another
place.
Our buyers and butchers are paying 4
cents for live and cents for dressed pork, 4
ceats for beef aud g. cents for mutton.
The Gas Company OF this town now makes
use of all the gas their well produces
The residence of Dentist Hines, in Millers-
town, was destroyed by fire On Monday OF last
week.
DIR. Linenbrink, of Zelienople, attempted
suicide by shooting himself at Beaver few
days since, while On a visit TO that town with
his family.
1t is now believed by some Of the officers
of the Pittsburgh Exposition Society that the
building was first robbed and then set on hre.
Go to II. Biehl & Co., for Phosphate,
Grain Drills, Flows, Fruit Evaporators, DC.
The narrow guage cars on the 2. &. W. Z.
r. now run only TO Gallery, and all passengers
change cars at that point.
Judge NeaIe, of Kittanning, was in Butler
last week 10 hear the arguments in the equity
suit of Mrs Elizabeth Hogg of Slipperyroek
twp. Uersus Milton Henry and heirs OF John
Bigham.
Mr.. J. O. Fullerton has opened store for
the sale of blankets 1annels and yarns OF their
own manufacture, from Butler county wool,
on Jefferson street, west of Bergs Bank.
Don't forget where to buy your Plush
robes, Blankets, Bells-Roessing on
Jefferson St. sells them the cheapest.
C. Ch Roenigk, of this county mad
hearing before Alderman Kennedy, of Pitts
burgh last Thursday on charge of perjury,
and was committed for trial.
On and after Monday next the time of
the Court House clock will be changed to
that Of the 18th meridian, now called eastern
standard time, and used by all the railroads
in the county.
The iron mills Of the Refs Bros. Of New
C lstle passed into the hands Of the Sheriff Of
L,wrence county last Thursday The mort
gage debt of the mills is $102,0 900, besides
which there is floating debt.
-Messrs. J. B. Kohlmyer & Co., of Butler,
druggists, have on hands supply Of 'Conti-
mental Hoof Ointment" which cures cracked
hoofs, sprains, scratches and sores in horses.
cattle and sheep.
There is is considerable depression in the
lumber markets Of the country, and the great
lumber firm of Kellogg, Sawyer d Co., OF
NJ Michigan, has made an assignment.
Sc wing Machine attachments and repairs
OF all kinds, at +. Greb's Jewelry store.
The scholars Of the Witherspoon Institute
will give literary and musical entertainment
In the Court House tomorrow, Thursday,
evening. Proceeds to be applied to the pur-
chase Of desks for the Institute. Let there
be full house.
George Walter has made great reduction
in his standard brands of -four, and has on
hands fresh ground buckwheat and rye -four,
also corn meal, bran, chops and all kinds of
mill feed. See advertisement
Mr.. Henry Stokey, the hotel keeper of
Zelienople dropped dead while assisting at the
threshing on his farm near Evansburg, last
Saturday. He at Mr. Arnors funeral the
previous day and was apparently in the best Of
health.
The Bald Ridge Co.'s well on the Huselton
farm was completed on Monday, and is not
very good one. Schm ick' . we'll on the Webber,
Scheidemantle's on the Wallace and the For
est Oil Co.'S on the Renfrew, will be completed
this week.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine, of any make, at 4. Griebs Jewe!ry store
Health, happiness and economy are the
three great essential merits Of Days Soap.
One bar of it will go farther than two Of any
other make, and will do the washing and
cleaning in more satisfactory manner.
An s. g. A. brakeman named Kane caught
his foot in frog while coupling cars at the
West Penn depot here last Saturday The en-
gineer moved the train and wheel ran over
one foot, crushing it badly. The brakeman
put in the caboose and taken to his home
in Greenyille.
The West Penn depat at this place, has
been entirely rearranged. There is now
ladies' waiting room and gents waiting room
at the front or east end Of the building, with
ticket windows for both rooms, and back of the
ticket Office, between it and the freight ROOM is
'.~'N'p
The $50 train (7:30 local time) from But.
Ter. on the West Penn road, no. stops at Great
Belt and Saxon stations only, and passengers
from Butler for other stations along the branch
will have to take some other train. This train
runs from Butler TO the Junction in a. minutes,
the fastest time yet made on the Branch.
Buffalo robes-indian tan-cheap-
er than ever before sold in Butler, at
RoessiDg's on Jefferson St.
The terrible statements lately made by a
girl named Mary Thrope, while under arrest in
New Castle, regarding her father, Vim. Thrope,
of Claystownship, this county, are said to be
entirely false. and TO have worked upon the
old mans feelings as to make him attempt
suicide.
I'm introducing Prof Houck to the audience
at the Institute lecture last Wednesday evening
Col. Thompson said he did not know him, and
then astonished the Prof, who travels all over
the State attending institutes, by comparing
him to an Individual, the mention Of whose
name is considered supplementary.
Mrs Murray, 80 Ninth St, Pittsburgh, is an
artist in Dressmaking, as our fashionable ladies
know Bridal outfits a specially. Mrs. Muir.
ray has learned the cleaning and repairing of
fine laces in New York, and ladies will do well
TO bring lace TO her. Laces are cleaned and
returned in two weeks. nv7.4t
The latest rumor regarding the p. g. w
X. r., is 10 the effect that Thomas NJ. King,
of the Baltimore * Ohio and Junction railroad,
is to be made General Manager. "Tbis would
seem to Indicate" said gentleman, "that it is
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad Company that
is trying to effect lease Of the line and not
the Jewett syndicate"
We direct attention 10 the card Of Mr. Jas
Adams, who is the agent for the West Chester,
Pa. nursery, of Grover & Kinne. Mr. Adams
delivered large lot of trees and shrubbery to
citizens of thiz torn and con TO thia falI which