Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-05-30
Our children were greatly pleased with
Prof Grimes, lecture.

| A lead mine. copper mine, mammoth cave
and paint mine have lately been discovered neal
Butler.
Mr. Frank Huselton has purchased that part
OF the Etzel property owned by the Building and
Loan Association. OF this town. for S2l00,
Jim Shanor had a salmon-trout the other
day, that weighed sixteen pounds. 1t was
purchased by Fielder of the Vogeley House.
Ira McJunkin Midshipman O. s. n, paid hi
folks here short visit last Saturday. He was ons
his way from San Francisco 10 Washington for
examination.
Mr. Lawell has withdrawn from the firm OF
Grohman Lowell, Carrageslniths, and the bus
iness will hereafter be carried on by Mr.. Groh-
mann alone. See.card
COW while passing through the cut, west OF
town, last Friday afternoon and was derailed.
The cut there is regular cow-trap.
The architect of the new Lutheran church
Zelienople. having been quite i'll for some time,
the plans &C., of the building cannot be furnished
by June 1st but may be expected in a short time
after that date.
After lifting the 9th dividend, now ready
for them, the creditors of the First National
Bank, of this town, will have received 20 per
cent of their money.
Mr.. Philip Sutton, of Penn township, who
was thrown from load of hay some weeks
ago and severely injured, We learn is fast recov'
ering and will soon be about.
We have been shown certificate from the
oard of Property, at Harrisburg, to the effect
that the caveats lately filed by the Forest Oil Co.
and Robert Dodds, against the Purviance heirs
claim at Baldridge, have been dismissed by the
said Board.
The Harrisburg Telegraph" says that while
our representative Donly, with Brown, of Erie.
and Morrison, OF Allegheny, were out rowing on
the Susquehanna, few days ago, Donly fell over
boa.d and came near being drowned.
The meeting Of the Butler County Teachers
Association. last week, was very pleasant one.
The following officers were elected for the ensu-
ing year: President, Prof j. Q. A. Irwin; Vice
President, Philip Schenck; Secretary, 5. Fl.
Huselton; Treasurer, Prof. j. II. Murtland.
Gen. Crooks command in Arizona, caught up
with the Apaches in Arizona, week before last and
defeated them Crook and the Mexican generals
they will succeed in extermnating these ire
claimably savage brutes.
Mr.. J. C Reddick, the druggist, now has
on hands supply of Royal Glue, in small
bottles with brushes. 1t mends anything and
everything solid as rock, is colorless and does
not evaporate.
-Messrs. L. McCampbell, s. ]. Glass, J. L.
n
Jas. B. Dodds and A. NJ. Barber represented
the Presbytery of Butler at the U. P. General
Assembly in Pittsburgh last week.
Some people feared that the wet weather
would rot what corn had been planted, but
where the seed was good, it is coming up
Considerable bad seed, caused by cutting or
topping the corn too soon last fall, has been
planted this spring, and of course did no good.
A New York doctor who has been figuring for
twenty years, has reached the conclusion that
very small feet on woman means temper
like cayenne pepper and tongue which will
lie about its best friend. This is noble ef-
fort to console women with big feet, but it
won't work.
Mr.. Alex Hunter, of this county, was
elected one of the Vice Presidents of the
Pennsylvania Wool Growers and Sheep
Breeders Association" organized in Pittsburgh
last Thursday, The object of the Association
is to promote the interests of the wool growers
and sheep breeders of the State.
The new cent and quarter pieces from
the Philadelphia mint is the latest gag,
Most people do not seem to be aware that such
pieces are coined, but when they are shown
new cent and a twenty-five cent piece they
recognize the new cent and a quarter" quite
readily.
The constables of the several boroughs and
townships of Westmoreland county, threaten
offer their designations to the court in a body.
The cause is the refusal of the county commits
sioners to reimburse them for fare paid for
prisoners in conveying them to Jail. The COM
missioners claim the law does not authorize
the payment Of these expenses.
The bill making: the minimum school
term in Pennsylvania six, instead of five
months, has become law. The law goes into
effect June 1st, and applies to all districts
which at the time of the passage of this act did
not have the maximum number of mills levied
for school purposes-that is thirteen for build
ing and thirteen for school,
Mr.. Peter Schenk has purchased the
Bauer planning mill property and intends TAX
ing down the mill and erecting two dwelling
houses, one on the south side Of the street, as
a residence for himself and another on the
north side for tenement house. The stack
connected with the mill is G2 feet high and
will be thrown down by digging at one side
and pulling it over with rope.
-"The air is full of farewells to the dying
and MORNINGS for the dead" 1t is hard to say
farewell, and look our last on the pale face of g
loved one. But there is an end to all things
earthly and the living lower the dead into the
grave there to remain till the morning of the
resurrection. "Then these ties, 80 suddenly
sundered, will be renewed, never more to break,
and hearts now burdened with sorrow un.
speakable will rejoice in the life immortal"
After seven years arduous labor, Theo
dore Rohrer, o German Matchmaker, of New
Castle, has built clock which for intricate
mechanism and marvellous automatic move
ments, is said to be the equal Of the celebrated
Strasburg clock. 1t is built in the form Of an
ancient castle, turrets of various heights being
attached 10 it, The golden eagle, with out
stretched wings, which surmounts the walnut
case, swings pendulum in its beak at a dis
tance Of eleven feet from the ground, that be-
ing the height Of the clock.
The late arrest of Bruce Smith and w. w
Derickson, both Every respectfully connected"
young men of Meadville, created sensation in
that town. Smith under the alias of Follis, had
made Pittsburgh his headquarters for sending
out circulars offering to furnish counterfeit
money at certain rates. Many Of these circu-
lars were addressed TO persons in the oil regions
and letters were captured from Smith, COM
promising several men who have hitherto
borne good character. The accused young
men had hearing and were held to bail
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