Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-09-26
The public schools of this town have about
700 scholars enrolled.


requested not TO forget the convention which
meets at Sunbury next Tuesday, at r.M
See Trial and Jury List for special October
term, beginning on Monday the 22d day, in
another place.
The glass works at Parker resumed opera
ton on Moaday, under the charge of Messrs,
Wightman & Co., of Pittsburgh.
Work ON the P. & W. switch to the east
end of Cunningham street, was begun last
week. 1t will be great convenience to ship
pers.
A reunion of the 14th Pa. Cavalry will be
held in Pittsburgh, Lafayette Hall, Wood st.,
on next Wednesday, October 3d. Major Cen
.ral w. w. Averill will be present.
twenty-five unhappy married couples in
Erie county show by their applications to the
court that they want to be "tied loose" from
the bonds of holy matrimony.
Jack Grubbs accuses Abe Flick of knock
ing him down with q mallet and otherwise
abusing him in Nicholas 4 MeCrea's saloon
A warrant was issued for Abe.
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and Coalvile did not strike, and it is reported
that some of the Mercer county miners Eave
| gone back to work.
DIR. Stephen Bredin, OF this town, hes rent
ed house in Franklin, Pa, and Will remove
| to that town next week. He is considered one
of the best physicians in this town or county,
and has practiced here for many years.
Mr.. Edward Kelly, Of Pittsburgh, the As.
signee of the Ihmsen Glass Manufacturing Co.,
has something to say to the creditors and
debtors of that company, in notice published
in another place.
Young Pfaf and the Cromllpg girl were
arrested at farm house in the northern part
of the county, few days ago, and Pfaf was
committed to Jail by Esq. Bother, on a charge
| of seduction preferred by the father of the girl
The Mercer Press says: at is said that
young woman In this coGEty has married her
| brothers. wife's father. When last seep see
was busy with compass and dictionary trying
TO study out what relation she is to herself.
The New York Herald declares that there
are five thousand unemployed book ,keeEers in
New York city alone. This would indicate
that the branch of industry which grinds out
book keepers is slightly over-worked.
Dear Madam, our own family has tested
the marked qualities of Days Soap with en-
tire satisfaction TO themselves, and we do not
hesitate to endorse ali the propretors claim
for it. Once tried, it will always be used and
you will pause to think of how you ever man
aged to get along without it. Fact.
The reunion of the family and relatives of
Mr.. William Scott, Of LANCASTER township, this
county. is to be held on Thursday, Oct0ber I, |
and not October as published last week in
mistake. The reunion is to be held at Mount
vile church, Lawrence county, Pa.
The Presbytery of Butler ordained Mr..
VIM. Hazlett, aud installed him pastor of New
Salem church, Sept. 18th, and made arrange.
ments for his installation over the churches of
Nerth Washington and Allegheny He isto give
one-third his laboFs 70 each church, and is to
have salary of $1,000.
A boiler in the lange works of the Sligo
Mill, South Side, Pittsburgh, exploded last
Thursday afternoon, killing five persons and
injuring thirtssn, One of the killed and three
of the injured.were little girls who were playing
in yard adjoining the mill.
-"Buttered eggs' are the latest novelties
As soon as the eggs are laid they are dipped in
melted butter and the shell which Is yet warm
and suseeptable, absorbs the flavor of the butter
They are said to be very fine and bring from
go to so cents dozen in the city markets.
Mr.. Joseph Randlg, who has lease of the
Bredin coal bank, south of town, met with q
serious accident last Saturday. While under
mining coal in the bank large lot, twenty five
or thirty bushel, fell upon him and broke his
collar bone. The bone was reset and he is
doing well.
Mr.. Crawford Sankey, of Centreyille
hitched his horse and buggy in front of the
of the Whistler House, Mercer, few days ago,
and upon his return short time after, they
were gone. He recovered them at Waterloo,
venango county. where they had been left by
two strangers.
Sharon, Pa, has "Citizen's Committee"
who in advertisement in the local papers,
call the attention ofany parties wishing to en-
gage in the manufacture glass, nuts and bolts,
agricultural implements, steam engines or
pumps, or any other branch of industry that
they will hs cordially received there and that
the necessary ground will be given free, in good
location for shipping.
A sad accident occurred on the P. & w. r
R., at Gallery Junction, last Wednesday morn
ing. A brakeman named Wildermuth was
caught between two passenger cars and his head
was crushed between the brake wheel of one ca r
and the brake bar of the other. The poor fellow
never uttered sound after receiving the blow
and in ten minutes he was q corpse. His re-
mains were deposited in the freight dap9t
swaiting shipment to his home in Pittsburgh,
where his family resides. He was faithful
and willing man. but unaccustomed to railroad
ing, having been on the road but few weeks
He was filling Mr.. Lyons place, who was off on
q furlough.
The D. 1. Agnew well on the Green farm
is not yet completed. Wallace farm we'll No.
4, was completed last Friday, and has turned
out good. 1t flowed heavily at first and win
probably settle down to a hundred barrel pump
er. In drilling this we'll Hardman's crew
again come to the front for fast time. The
crew consists of a. v. Boyer and s. Phpps,
drillers, and John Layton and p. p. White,
tool dressers, and they drilled the we'll. 1861
feet TO the top of oil:rock, in 80 days. including
three days spent in fishing for tools. This
ought to convince anyone that well can be
drilled in the Bald Ridge district in a reasona.
BILE time, when you have the right kind of
men to do the work.
During drunken row in one OF the saloons
of the town last Thursday night one young man
foolishly exploded pistol, whereupon he was
set upon by a crowd who raced him up Jeffer-
son and dewn Mexican street to the residence OF
Walter Graham, Esq, where be took refuge
under the back porch The crowdd pelted hia