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

day for filing applications for license TO sell
/ liquor.
All the best makes of Bleached
and Unbleached Sheetings and Muslins,
all widths, at lowest prices, at
l.. STEIN & Sons.
Part of the Fair Ground fence was washed
away by the late floods and ice was piled upon
/ the grounds as far up as the Judges stand.
Two drovers from the East are in town buy
| ing up horses. They got pair of fine blacks
last Monday and paid about $500 for the two.
Mr. Josepeh Elliott of Je7erson twp, has
been appointed Justice of the Peace in the
place of Thos Martin, resigned.
A rubber factory down east was destroyed
by fire, and 1900 employees given the
! bounce"
Sewing Machine attachments and
repairs of all kinds, at Grieh's Jewelry
store. mavol-u.
When notorious sharp and thief was cap
tured at Dayton, o., the other day, it was found
that his boot legs were lined with fine steel.
saws.
We are requested to state that there will
be services in the Episcopal church OF this
place on next Sabbath morniny and evening
conducted by the Rector, Rev. Gallaudet.
At Griebs A handsome line of
Gold Spectacles for 'esents.
We are requested /. Ircf. L. VonMyer-
heff to announce that le Mi! return to Butler
on tho 1st of April next, f,t the purpose ofre-
suming the practice of his profession of music
here.
During the month OF January, more than
one thousand persons lot heir lives on land
and sea, by a series oi The most shocking
casualties thst have ever .eon recorded.
Hats, Caps, and Gents. furnishing
goods, at low prices, at j +. L. Stehle's
The evidence in the Lurting vs.. Belfour
and kennedy case was well r~p red Eastman
took it down for Lurtng, and FindleY for Bel
four and Kennedy.
Since last Thursday the fare on the West
Penn railroad from Butler to Allegheny city,
and to all stations on the West Penn between
Guyasuta and Allegheny city has been sl.25.
Since our last issue two more of John Man
ny's and one of Briaker Richey's children have
died. This makes four children each Of these
men have lost within a short time-a most ter
rible trial for them and their wives.
I have studied at several good academies
and at two Western colleges. Each has its
special merits But none is like the Normal
School, Ednboro. The surroundings there are
most favorable to study. The teaching de-
yeIops power. 1t quickens thought. 1t cultI-
Yates character. 1t inspires enthusiasm.
Several Congressional and Senatorial ap-
portionment bills are now under consideration
by the State Legislature. Representative
Nicholson's bill puts Butler county in with
Mercer and Lawrence, and Parcels puts US
with Armstrong and Indiana counties. Nichol-
sans bill, it is said, gives the Republicans
Fl fteen and the Democrats thirteen districts,
and Parcels, the Republicans seventeen, the
Democrats nine, with two in which the chances
are about even. The House committees Sena-
torial bill puts us with Mercer county. With
the House Democratic and the Senate Republi-
can pretty fair apportionment bill ought to
be agreed upon.
A correspondent of the Titusville Herald
places the whole production of the Bald Ridge
field at 395 barrels per day and distributes it
as follows:
Farm. Owner. Production.
Smith, Bald Ridge o. & 7. Co. ...... 6
Huselton Bald Ridge o. & 7. Co. 49,. 9
Weber, Bald Ridge o. & T. Co. ..... Go
Reiber & Co., Bald Ridge o. & T. Co. %
Hamel, Phillips Bros. & Co. ..... 25
Renfrew, Phillips Bros. & Co. -. -. 20
Dodds, Phillips Bros & Co. 80. -. $50
GrGver, Phillips Bros. d Co.
Weber, A. Shidemantle. :. 15
Weber K. Schmick. -. s
Wallace, Phillips Bros. & Co. ... -. 20
Sullivan, Sullivan & Co., estimated. J.. 50
The constable's notice for the election of
borough officers to be held on the Goth inst,
Tuesday, has been posted in different places in
the town. The officers to be elected are
Burgess. Assistant Burgess, two Councilmen,
one High Constable, two Constables, two School
Directors, Judge of Election and two In
spectors for each ward, one Assessor and one
Auditor. Our citizens should see to it that the
best men, who will accept the offices of Council
men and School Directors, be elected irre-
spective oil politics. The streets and sidewalks
of the town are, at present, in very bad con-
dition. Several candidates for constable are
already electionecring and our people should
remember that as constable is an officer of the
law, he should be a law abiding citizen. No
man whose reputation for vciousness is so
general that people allow him to impose upon
them, rather than have fuss with him is fit
man to be constable.
The arbitrators in the case of Newton
Lur;ing vs.. John Belfour, Of Adams township,
this county, and William Kennedy, of Pine
township, Allegheny county, for damages for
the assault and battery committed upon him by
Belfour the 9th of June, 1881, awarded
Lurting 81 ,0c0 and costs. The defendants have
the right to appeal to Court if they choose to
do So Our readers will remember the case
and that Belfour served a term in the work.
house for the assault and battery. There was a
dispute between Lurting and Kennedy as to
the title of six acres of land in Adams town
ship; Kennedy, and Belfour who was acting as
the guardian of Kennedy, he being minor, at
tempted to take forcible possession of it; Lurt-
ing came out with a hoe in his hand, an
alteration ensued between Lurting and Belfour
during which Belfour wrested the hoe from
Lurting aud struck him on the head with it
two more times Lurting now claims that
by reason of Belfours assault upon him he has
lost the use of one eye and is otherwise injured
physically, and brought suit for damages with
the result as stated The case was taken up
last Wednesday morning, occupied three days,
and was well attended by citizens of Adams and
Pine townships.
The itemized statement of the receipts and
expenditures of Butler county, for the year
1882, is published this week, and it shows the
county to be in very satisfactory financial
condition. There are over fourteen thousand
dollars in the county treasury, and the taxes
due the county for 1881 and 1882, yet unpaid,
Al