Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-02-07

None of the county bridges were destroyed
or injured by Saturdays flood.
Mr. Grohman, brother of John Grohman
died at his brothers residence last Saturday.
See Registers Notices of final and partial
accounts for March Term, in another place.
A house and lot in the northeastern part
of town is for sale. See notice.
1t is understood that Senator Wallace will
push his two bills regarding arbitration and
the incorporating of trades unions.
Mrs Reed, wife of J. W. Reed, Esq, of this
place, died last Saturday. She was daughter
of Matthew Mccullough, of Muddycreek town.
ship.
old Carhart Walling, of Middlesex, died
at the residence of his son-in-law, J. B. Flick,
list Saturday evening. He was:about "a years
of age.
In the road ascount of the amounts Paid
on Unseated Lands table of the Auditors Re-
port, the first name, w. II. Shira should be
Geo. Bauer.
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fourth. in succession during which we have had
rainy weather, to the great disappointment of
youthful skaters.
The team of Henry Bdldauf of Summit
twp, ran away on Friday last and threw Mr..
Z. out of spring wagon, seriously injuring
him.
The will of Aroline Allen, of Clay twp.
wa probsted last week-John W. Allen Execu-
tor, 4 $50 will OF Elizabeth Steel, executors re-
fuse t. serve and admini.tlato will be appoint
ed
A DR.. SEWN, of Erie, who has lately been
been removed from Dixm INT an order Of
Judge Gdlb.ath of Erie county, has made some
very damaging statements regarding the man
agement of that Institution.
Two car loads of horses were shipped from
this place yesterday. Averaging these horses at
800 each, which IS likely less than paid
for them, the horse buyers left from three to
four thousand dollars in the county.
A Gordon packer was put in the Sullivan,
Slater & Co. well last Saturday, since which
time it las been d.ing from 30 to 90 barrels
per day. Since the above was in type one Of
the Slater boys has informed us that the we'll
pumped 10 barrels on Sunday.
The County Commissioners have given
David Cupps the job of filling in at each end of
the new bridge and the filling in will be done
Immediately. One of the piers ofthe Plank
road bridge was injured by the flood last Satur-
day, but the bridge is still considered safe.
During a debate in the House at Washing
ton, last Saturday Mr.. Wilson insinuated that
Mr. Cox was in the employ ofthe British free
Traders that every time Cox made free trade
speech it was waited across the water, and the
free tralers sang back
"Tic;le me, Coxey, tickle me, do
You tickle me and I'll tickle you"
One of our subscribers in New Zealand
sends us the following solution of the "mathe-
ma.ical problem" in last weeks paper--'tOn the
first day the boys sold apples at and cent
apiece, or 1-3 plus 1876 of a cent for two ap-
ples or 5-12-25-60 for one apple after going
into partnership they sold the apples at for
2 cents, or % of q cent =24-60 of cent apiece
and lost LEO of a cent on each apple or one
cent on the 60 apples." That is simple enough
but we would like to have one of our readers in
that or some other part of the world solve the
square and rectangle puzzle that went the
rounds of the papers some time ago. Why is
it, that you can cut rectangular piece Of pa
per, measuring say inches by l3 inches or 65
square inches, into four pieces, and put the
pieces together SO as to make a perfect square
Sxs inches, or "a square inches? What becomes
of the odd square inch?
The story of the capture of gang of train
robbers in Utah on Sunday and Monday, of
last week, reads like chapter from a dime
novel. The outlaws had a strongly fortified
retreat in the mountains, and but for the over
whelming force led by two sheriffs against
them they would doubtless have offered a stub
born resistance. Two of them were captured
outside thei stockade, after being seriously
wounded. 1t is said the attacking party had
giant powder bombs which they Intended to
throw into the robbers fort in case they could
not otherwise dislodge them. These Western
grant trains, and express wagons to rob, have
readily adapted themselves 10 the Introduction
of railroads and telegraphs. and apparently
they rather like the change, for one railroad
train often contains more booty than a dozen
old-fashoned caravans. 1t can hardly be re-
garded as surprising that in region where rob-
bers mnst be pursued and besieged like an enc
my's army lynch law often reigns instead of
the law of the land.