Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-12-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

-Muntz & Geible reduced the price OF Goa
Monday from and to and cents.
Sewing Machine attachments and repair
of all kinds, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store.
The Borough paid the County $50 for tn
old Freeport bridge and is having 1t put up
foot of Jai. street.
Secure your tickets at Heineman's Tn
Tennesseeans will have splendid house mex
Tuesday evening.
A buggy was found in the woods near 81!
Points last Saturday, supposed to be the on
lately stolen at Sligo.
The Public schools of this town Will glv'
an entertainment next Friday evening IL
School Hall.
Mr.. Henry Wagner is building new
house on Clay street, having solo ms preseh
residence to MIR. Shannon.
Go to III. Biehl & Co., for Phosphate
Grain Drills, Plows, Fruit Evaporators, &c.
Water was turned into the Court House
and iail pipes, by order of Court, last Tuesday
afternoon, and the question Of compensation
therefor is to be determined In the future.
The Butler County Mutual Fire Insurance
COMPANY will hold its annual election on the
Sth of January next. See notice.
In the showcase in front of Johnny Grieb's
store can be seen the elegant silver water
nitcher which he intends as premium to pur-
chasers from him. See his card IN another
place for particulars
e. Grieb has on exhibition at the store a
beautiful fifteen day clock, intended Tor a
premium for purchasers from them. A tlcket
will he piyen to al customers.
The Methodist church and Central hotel,
of Freeport were damaged by the burning OF
livery stable last Sunday night.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machines
Jos Niggle & Bro. Agents, Butler, Pa. tt
All the Murraysville rioters were allowed
to give bail for court with the exception OF
Alb. Bowser, who was held on a charge of Muir
der in the first degree.
DO not become prejudiced before trying
the qualities of Days Soap, even It you are
disposed 10 adhere to the old way of washing,
and which you emphatcally assert is the best
method For once overcome old ways.
The Butler Agricultural Society held their
annual meeting for the election Of officers last
Tuesday The old board, with one exception,
were retained, and Smith remains President,
Roessing, Secretary; and Campbell, Treasurer.
Register a. Recorder Christie returned
home last week. He Is looking well and will
be able TO be i'll his Office in few days. His
fall ON the ice at Bradford resulted more seri-
Ously than he expected.
This is the season of the year when horses
hoofs crack legs get sore from mud fever,
scratches etc. Continental Hoof- Ointment
will cure it. For sale at Kohlmeyer & Co.'s
drug store, Main street, opposite Vogeley
House, Butler, Pa.
"A good story is told of Munkttrisk's meet
ing with Col. Sanford at the Butler Junction.
Munki. told Sanford that the people here SEEM
ed to appreciate him, but he couldn't under
stand why they kept going out and coming in
during the leeture "Oh," said Sanford, "thats
characteristic of the Butler people, they go out
to have good laugh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schoene, of ST. Joe, an old
couple, were buried in the Summit Church
yard last week. Mrs. Schoene died suddenly
on Saturday morning She had been up all
night with her husband who was sick, and
complaining of feeling cold laid down for a
short rest while a neighbor woman watched at
the bedside Of her husband, and when the
neighbor woman went to call her an hour or
so afterwards, she found her dead. Mr..
Schoenc died on Wednesday. He had been
sick for some time.
If the present Congress wants to do some
thing that will be appreciated By the whole
Nation, with the exception of few Louisiana
planters, it will take the tariff off raw sugar
and not bother the Internal Revenue unless it
be to abolish it. That the Nation should be
taxed some forty millions of dollars annually,
10 protect an industry that does not grow and
cannot grow on account of our climate and the
production of which is but q minute fraction of
the consumption, seems to us to be an impo-
stion. The last Congress reduced the tariff
slightly, but the reduction seems to have no
effect on the retail price r the article.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine, of any make, at f. Grieb's Jewery store
Court met yesterday afternoon In the base.
ment of the NJ. E. Church and continued with
the case taken up the previous day. The
County Commissioners, however, will probably
rent the old Witherspoon Institute building on
Main street, opposite Wick's hotel, and now
used by the English Lutheran congregation for
both church and parsonage, as there are
enough rooms there for all the Offices besides
the church room, which is large enough for
court room. Rev Waters is willing to move
out Immediately. Sheriff Donaghy has remov-
ed his Office temporarily to the jail building;
Treasurer Miller, his to the furniture store;
Register Christie to the Brady building; Pro-
thonotary Greer to Williams & MitchelPs of
fee.
An effort is being made to break the Will
of Jerry Ma!oney, of Cearfeld township, who
died last Spring, and who, shortly before his
death, signed a will leaving his wife all his
property, with the exception of Sl500,-$500
each to two nieces and one nephew, who lived
with them. The parties who seek to break the
will are his relatives whose homes are in Iowa,
and the question as to whether or no the Court
should direct an issue in the was argued
last Wednesday afternoon. We know nothing
OF the merits of the case but were amused at
Thompson's description of the reasons given
for directing an issue as being as logical as the
defense of the Irishman who when ten men
swore to seeing him steal certain pig, brought
in fifty men to swear that they never saw him
steal anything, negative testimony that proved
nothing.
We made note in last Issue of the proceed
ings in the case of the Commonwealth u.s. John
Smith, Esq, up to the departure of the Sheriff
and Smiths bondsmen from Butler, for the
purpose of bringing the Esq, to Butler.
They arrived at his home that night about ten
o'clock, got him up and dressed him and took
him over to Kesters, where they stayed over
night, and to the train next morning for
Butler. The parting scene between Smith and
his family is said to have been very affecting,
and next morning the family were at the sta
tion and came to Butler with him. At Butler
the trains Of the 8. & A. and West Penn road
stanu ior u Iew minutes along slde ea2h 0lher,
and the Sheriff quietly got the Esq, from
one train to the other and had the car doors
locked which prevented another family scene.
This was the first he knew of the intention to
take him directly to Allegheny. He talked
nationally all the way down, and with assistance
walked up to the old penitentiary in the Park,
where he was assigned to the
hospital department. On Tuesday
Smiths bondsmen asked the Court to
cancel or annul their bond. This the attorneys
for the prosecution objected to and presented a
and made liable for the damages or loss to the
prosecutors for time spent and expenses incur
red in prosecuting Smith, under the act of July
1S42, which makes bondsmen liable to be sued
in some cases for the benefit of parties injured
Smiths bondsmen emphatically deny that his
non-appearance Monday his fault
They say that he had been informed by one o.
his counsel that he could appear any day dur