Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-02-21

| district commenced pumping last " "euhesua'
and is putting 20 bbls day in its tanks.
| Teachers may double their teaching power
| bv study at Normal School. Spring term
opens March 81. Address j. A. Cooper, Edin-
| boro, Pa.
See list of applicants for license to sell
liquor, in another place, also Widows APP
praisements for March term, and Trial List for
March 19.
! I'm Grieb's show window can now be seen a
FIVE pound winter radish which was grown on
Christ Henchberger's place in Jefferson town.
| ship.
The County Commissioners of Lawrence
county, after an investigation, estimate the
damage done by the late flood t. bridges in
that county at between $4,000 and $1,000
| The loss to individuals from the same source
will probably reach $4,000.
| One of our exchanges thinks that "the
compensation clause in the prohibitory amend
ment, proposed by the Legislature, authorizing
the State to pay for the property it destroys
the use of in distileries, and etc., would XIII 1t
| as dead as Julius Caesar.
| New Castle has bastardy case in which
| the prosecutrix is fourteen years old and the
accused fifteen. After the hearing, in which
the latter was bound over in the sum OF
$1,000, the father of the youth took him home
and gave him severe whipping.
| The G. of B. NJ. Lecture Association of the
public schools, of this town, have engaged Col.
| Copeland to lecture in the Court room on
Thursday evening, March 1st. His subject will
be "The Future of the Republic" Admission
| 25 cents reserved seats 3J cents.
| The lecture of Dr. Carroll, on the "Young
Man in Chains" was great success. His COM
parsons were beautiful The Court room was
crowded to hear him. The next lecture of the
course will be given on the Sth of March, by
! Col. Sanford, noted humorist.
County Superintendent Murtland has
ceived a number of copies of the school laws
and the same can be had by school directors by
addressing him and enclosing postaSe-about
| five cents He also has some State School
Reports for 1882. which he will give to those
who call for them.
-Messrs David Potts and George Weber
| formerly of this place, are now the owners of
| the patents and manufacturers of the Bender
| forge bower and tire bender. They
paid s25, 900 for the patents and the foundry at
Lancaster and are said to be making money
out of the two machines.
The new fye cent piece will likely be re-
called, as the complaint that il can be easily
transformed into spurious FIVE dollar gold
piece has not proved groundless. A fair
specimen of the latter has reached Treasurer
Gilfllan, and an enterprising firm of platers
modestly wants to know if it can turn out a lot
of gilded pieces as "curiosities."
Probably the Oldest woman in Pennsylva-
MIA, if not in the United States, is Mrs. Isabel
la Swan, formerly of IL is county, but who now
lives with her daughter Mv. Murta, at Van
port Beaver county. She enjoys good health,
her eye sight and hearing are bothsgood, and
on the 9TH of next month she will have attain
ed the remarkable age of 107 years.
The most terrible mine disaster that has
happened in this country for years, occurred at
The Diamond coal mine, near the town of Braid
wood. Grundy county, ILL.,, last Friday. The
floods and recent thaw loosened the earth
around tie mouth of one OF the shafts, e land
slide took place, the mine was flooded and
sixty eight men and six boys were drowned
In several in stances all the male members of
family persisted.
The most humorous book of the day is that
| just published, for gratutous distribution, by
the Chas. A. Vogeler Co., of Baltimore. Its
pages contain original sketches by several of
the most noted wits of the public press and ita
;llustrations arc by celebrated artists. 1t is
named 1.-The St Jacobs Oil Family Calender for
1854 and Book of Health and Humor for the
Million" The Company will print ten mil
lion copies of it and anybody can secure one by
writing for it and enclosing thrss cent stamp.
1t is worth sending for.
Mr. George w. Lowry, son of Col. Lowry, Of
this place, was on a visit to his old home last
week George is now the proprietor of a pros
perous drug business in Milwaukee, and pre-
vious to the burning of the Newhall House,
boarded there and had a room on the fifth
story next to the courtyard. Ol the night Of
the fire, his clerk was away and he slept in
his store-something he had not done before
for several months, and was thus saved from
the flames. All the boarjers in the house,
who occupied rooms near his, perished.
Senator Greer read b II in place, a few
days az which, if passed, will give to juries
the control of costs in cases now classed as
felonies, but he says that it meets with strong
opposition. We cannot see why such bill
with yph
When, during the trial of any criminal charge,
it becomes apparent that the prosecution is
malicious one, or that the evidence for the pros
ecution is perjured and the prosecutor could
not help knowing that it was, or both, the costs,
we think, should promptly be saddled upon the
prosecutor.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati last Monday
had risen above the highest water mark ever
before known, and large parts of that city,
Louisville and Newport were under water,
while Lawrenceburg, In1., was entirely inun-
dated. Business in these places was almost en-
tirely suspended, thousands of people were
either driven from their homes or TO the upper
stories of their houses, and boats were plying
over the streets. The destruction of property
was, of course, great ana several lives were
lost \ funeral on the water one of the
incidents of the day, and as the gas became ex-
hau,tel the people had to provide themselves
with lamps and candles.
MIR. Adam Forgaugh, the circus-man has
brought suit against a Philadelphia lawyer tor
slanderng him while addressing a jury, and
speaking of the suit the Times remarks: The
| plain truth, is that when any member OF the
bar slanders party to a suit in Court 1t is
the fault of the Judge quite as much as the
fault of the lawyer. and the Judge should be
joined as co-defendant in any such actionable
offence. The lawyer who transcends the evi-
dence in any case in the vilification of a party
| t. a suit does 20 in violation of the plain rules
of Court and of law, and the judges who per-
mits it makes the bench party to tho degra-
dat;on of justice in her own sanctuary" We
think an attorney is often justified in speaking