Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-12-05

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Mutt murder trial is to begin at Union
town to-day.
For the holidays see E. Grieb, the jew
eler's new card, and inducements offered t
purchasers.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine of any make at L. Grieb's Jewelry stor
One of our storekeepers, who lately shipped
car load OF buck wheat to Pittsburgh, says n
lost 20 cents a sack on it.
Thanksgiving day, this year, was clear anC
pleasant. Last Thanksgiving day it began u
snow-the first heavy snow of the season-ano
we had good sleighing for six weeks.
MIR. J. r. Grieb, the jeweler, has in stock
for the holidays fine assortment OF jewelry
watches. etc. Read his new card.
The Uannahsto VII Mutual Fire Insurance
Company will hold their annual election on
Saturday, January II, 1884. See notice IL
another place.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machines
Jos Niggle G. Bro. Agents, Butler, Pa. tt
Morris tobacco store, in this town, was
broken into last Wednesday night and robbed
of cigars, etc. to the value of about ten dollars.
For sheet.m 60 to the new music store
The hearing of the Murraysville murder
and riot case began at Greensburg Monday, and
was continued during Tuesday. The result, at
this writing is yet unknown.
The new well on the McCalmont farm,
near Bald Ridge, is not yet completed. Up to
Monday evening she was but five or six feet In
the sand and was still flowing at the rate of
about 100 barrels per day.
Go to II. Biehl & Co., for Phosphate
Grain Drills, Plows, Fruit Evaporators, &c.
Mr.. Harry Hyland Is drilling well on the
Anthony Thompson farm in Centre township.
He has about thousand acres leased and
hopes to "strike it rich." The well is already
down about 1000 feet.
Col. Archibald Blakely, formerly of this
town. was arrested at his home, in Sewickly,
last Friday. for completely in the Murraysville
riot The Colonel is said to be a partner in the
firm of Weston & Co.
Mr.. D. L. Cleeland has received large
stock of silver-plated ware, watches, clocks,
jewelry, spectacles, etc., for the holiday trade,
and warrants all his goods to be just he rep
resents them. Read his card in another place.
If new inventions had never been given a
trial where would this nation be to-day? Why,
it would scarcely be termed a civilized people.
So it is with Days Soap. We want our readers
to learn of its value to them.
MIR. o. NJ. Haymaker, the man who was
murdered at Murraysville lately, had some oil
interests near Petrolia, this county, some years
ago. 1t is to be hoped that his murderer will
meet with prompt punishment.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
of all kinds, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store.
An eastern paper wants the girls to show
some judgment as well as taste in designing
their Christmas notices, and not harrow the
feelings of their best young men by presenting |
them with notices reading Honesty is the |
best policy" Repent, for the kingdom of |
heaven is at hand" etc.
The verdict ina case tried week before last |
was for the plaintiff for damages to the amount
of fire cents. Six and a fourth cents damages
carries costs with it, but the attornies we have
inquired of think that five cents does not, and |
that the plaintiff in this case will have to pay
the costs of the suit.
Rev. L. F. Staufer, will, in few days,
open Music Parlor in connection with the
music store, where instructions will be given
on piano and organ, by Prof. Z. S. Hassler and
formed. Terms reasonable. Apply to teachers
or at music store.
The town has been divided into sections
and committees who will call upon the people
to contribute such articles as they can for the
supper at st. Paul's Orphans Home on Tues
day evening. Let all contribute who can. 1t
is a freewill offering to the orphans. Let it be
in by all.
COMMITTEES will canvass the town during
the week for the sale of tickets for the orphans
supper. The cause is good one. If you can
attend, well; you will enjoy yourself; if not, it
will be contribution to worthy cause. Tick
Its for the supper SO cents, children % cents.
The Etna Iron Works Company, of Sharps-
ourgh, are drilling new well for gas on the
Samuel Anderson property, in Clinton town
,hip, about halfa a mile below the well on the-l
William Harvey farm. Some of the wells in
hat section that have been supplying their
Mills with fuel for some years, failing and |
he object is to increase the supply.
The Water Works men shut off the supply 9
rom the Court House and Jail last Saturday
They claim that the contract between the COM S
'any and the county has expired and want g
90 more or $3.50 in all per year. This the
refused to pay, and claim that {
he old contract is yet in force. The matter
viii. l.haye.to be. settled by the court.
"A large number of our citizens-probably l
hree hundred or more-got on tie special ex-
ursion funeral train on the s. d A. Railroad,
ast Sunday, and rode up to Mercer and back. /
he train consisted of six cars aud by the time
reached Mercer all the cars were crowded, | i
he cheapness OF the ride-50 cents for the :
ound trip-was the principal attraction,
hough there were few persons ON the train
rho really went for the purpose of attending n
udge McDermitt's funeral. For the rest it
7as but a Sunday holiday excursion enjoyed f
nder rather peculiar circumstances.
"A man named James Williams was com
lifted to Jail last Saturday, charged with the
ate robbing of Rhodes S Christy's store in | "
unbury. Williams and another man have d
ltely been selling hardware very cheap in New
righton, Beaver county, and were arrested on 81
lspicion. Word was sent to Rhodes & Christy a.
the arrest, and Mr.. Christy went down and cl
lentifed the hardware as being his and Will
ans was committed but his partner, who had CT
hearing on another case, before Mr.. Christy
rived in the town, was discharged. u
During the year 1884 the Agricultural de-
artment of the Pittsburgh Weekly Commercial
azette will be of inestimable value to the
rmer and husbandman. Mingled with this &C
rm news and notes he will get reliable pollti- in
j information, Republican reasoning and the th
ews of the world. For the family there will W.
the fashions, the household selections and NJ
e best collection of miscellany possible to be 90
lthered into the space OF newspaper of COM ga
anding size. Subscription price of the Com.
crcial Gazette is S1.25 per year.
The Nation seems to be passing through j,
epidemic Of murder and suicide, and several hi
ven cases of each were reported in last weeks -
lpers. The worst case of murder was that re- Ia
,rted from Laconia, N. H., where a man
lmed Salmon murdered his mistress, mar 7
ed woman named Ford, cut her body to pieces
ID put it in trunk and wheeled it to his r,
arding house, and being detected that night
trying to dispose of it, murdered the family
boarded WITH piled their bodies on the floor,
Il a mattress over them soaked the nIattrasS | o. I,