Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-01-24

I This is hard winter on the grain an(
fruit.
Petitions regarding the Butler Post ofic'
are in circulation.
Temperance song books have been intro
duced into the Harrsville and Mercer town
ship schools.
The mercury yesterday morning stood al
zero, but the wind made it seem colder than it
really was.
The handsomest calendar that we have yet
seen this year is the Parlor Calendar, sent out
by the clothing firm of ] Kaufman & Bros of
| Pittsburgh.
A family named -- living a few
miles south of town consists of the parents and
nine children, and the father and all the chill
dren are said to be down with diphtheria.
The new bridge over the creek here, is so
far completed that foot passengers can safely
go over it, but some filing in will have to be
done at each end before teams can pass over
| it.
1888 starts off badly as far as appalling &C
cidents are concerned. The first three weeks
of the new year have been remarkable for de-
structive fires, floods, wrecks, explosions, etc.
! BY reference to the Court Notes it will be
! seen that Friday of the first week Of the com.
| ing March term has been fixed for the hear
| ing of petitions for and remonstrances against
the granting of licenses in this county.
The second lecture of the Summit Sabbath
School course will be delivered in the Summit
Presbyterian Church next Friday evening by
the Rev. s. F. Scovel, of Pittsburgh, and his
subject will be Burns saying "a mans a man
for a that"
The P. O. Department, is said to have
arranged for daily mail service by messenger,
from Prospect to Harmony and from Ogle to
Harmony, there to connect with the morning
mail in the p & w. R. r.
John White, of Lawrence county, who
was sentenced by Judge Bredin, to the Work
house and taken out of that institution on a
writ of habeas corpus from Judge White, OF
Pittsburgh, has been resentenced by Judge
Bredin to serve out his unexpred term.
Less than year ago Mr.. C. Stock and Miss
Elizabeth Rockenstein, of this place, were mar
ried. Last Monday Mrs. Stock died, and as
both her mother and his are dead, Chris. is left
alone with his week old baby. 1t is a very sad
case, and he has, in his afliction, the sympathy
of the entire community.
A few doses of the pestilence that walketh in
the darkness judiciously distributed among the
dogs of Pymatuming township, Mercer county.
would be blessing to the taxpayers of that
county. During two weeks of this month
claims to the amount of $500 have been paid to
residents of that township for sheep slain by
cut-throat ours.
Mr.. H. C. Heineman returned TO town last
Saturday, from trip to Baltimore and Wash
ington. He attended the meeting of the Mu-
tual Benefit Association of the Officers of the
Express Co., at Baltimore, and the Association
went in special car to Washington, where they
saw the sights and shook hands with President
Arthur.
The Town Council have ordained against
coastng on the streets and alleys of this town
under pena lty of $5 for first offense and $40
for each subsequent otfense. They have also
esolved that no child who has had diphtheria
or is member of family in which that dis
ease has been, shall attend school, until two
weeks have elapsed, after all the family have
been from under the physicians care.
About a dozen passengers for points in
this county were on the ". R. R., train
that arrived at Parker, from the North, about
halfpast four last Saturday after
noon. They expected to catch tie train on
the P & W., that leaves Parker at 4:40, but as
their train on the A. V R. Z. was ten minutes
late they misseI it and those of them who had
to be at their homes that night, hired rigs and
came through, though the weather was both
wet and cold One of the persons mentioned
in forms us that the A. V r. R., train was in
sight when the P. & w. tain pulled out of the
Parker station, and that they all felt consider
ably provoked about it.
A letter, dated Jan. 6, 1888, from the Rev.
A. V. Stout, pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
at Edga.ton, Kanses, to Robert Stewart and
wife, of Brownsda.e, this county, conveyed to
them the sad intelligence that their son, G. w.
Stewart, had been almost instantly killed the pre-
vions day. He was assisting neighbor to cut
down some large shade trees, and was trying by
the use of props to throw tree in the opposite di-
rection from which it leaned, when it suddenly
fell and struck him ON the head, rendering
him unconscious and causing death few hours
afterwards. He was an excellent young man,
and his sudden death was a severe stroke to
his family and friends, and also to the commu
nifty.
While the jail-hill was coated with ice
last week tie boys enjoyed coasting down it.
The hill is very Steep and starting on their sleds
near theCourt House they would get enough mo-
meniun going down it, to send them across the
bridge and quite distance over on the fiat.
There is no sport more dear to the heart of the
boy than coasting. Even skating gives place
to 1t in his regard. The exhilarating charm
of ride down the flank of hill, smoothly
coated with snow or ice, at express-train speed,
is enough to make almost any schoolboy be-
come truant. 1t is, however, attended in
some cases with great danger to life and. limb,
especially when the coasting gound is very
steep. Every winter we have to record the
death or manning Of careless coasters, and, in
some cases, of persons who have unluckily
got in the way of the flying sleds.
Says the Franklin Press: "Our exchanges
are giving publicity to an item which says,
This year will be peculiar one in some re-
spects For instance the girl born this year
will probably not be married before the year
A. D. 5000" If this be true it is sad news
for the girl born this year. Think of waiting
IL, years for husband, with a probability
that. as usual with her sex, she will get poor