Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-01-30
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

West Virginia farms tor sale.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many.
Be sad, and you lose them all
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink lifes gall.
The ground hog will soon see his day.
-Washington's birthday is the next holiday.
Trade prospects are said to be improving.
-sleighing promises to continue for weeks
to come.
Another cold wave is moving eastward
from the far West.
The cold weather has sized down the coal
piles materially.
The grain in the fields has been well pro.
tected- this winter.
An attractive advertisement is the best
thing to bring custom.
The ice harvest is almost completed and
the crop is gathered.
Our merchants are paying rs cents for
butter and 25 to % for eggs
Mr.. Peter F. Sowash has been appointed
postmaster for the Slipperyrock (Centreville)
Office.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
of all tinds, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store.
The spring election takes place on the
third Tuesday (1eth) of February.
-Heineman is already displaying his stock
of valentines.
The McCrea farm, south of town, is to be
perforated for gas.
Don't forget that DIR. Willitt lectures in
the NJ. Z. church tomorrow evening.
Grove City, Mercer county, has genuine
curiosity IN the way OF drug store where no
LIQUORS or even patent medicines are kept.
Regis ter Christie requests the person who
captured his patent paper fas,eaer during the
Court House fire to return 1t.
Go to FL. Biehl & Co., for Phosphate
Grain Drills, Plows, Fruit Evaporators, DC.
Farmers of this county report finding rab-
bit and quail frozen to death during the late
cold spell.
-Messrs Ritter & Ralsten have had cash
office built in their store room and will here
after make sales on the cash-check system.
Joseph Forquer, Esq, thinks that he will
remain in Montana. He dscribes Helena as
being city of about 10000 innabitants, with
street cars, electrict lights, and two daily news
papers.
One of the victims of the late railroad acci-
dent was Mrs. Kraer, wife of rg-builder
who formerly lived in Butter, and another was
Mrs. Fair, nee Stoops, of Freeport.
Summit township now has six school
houses and some OF its citizens want another.
Some depositions in the matter were taken in
town last week.
This is an cold fashioned winter" similar,
we suppose, to there of the thirties and fortes,
when heavily laden coal wagons could cross the
Allegheny and Monongahala rivers on the ice.
Lent begins the 9th of February, twenty
days later than some of our exchanges have
made it. This will give the devout ones an
opportunity to enjoy the festivities of the 22d
of February.
In carload of wheat which left St. Louis
Nov. 10 last and was handled at the Niagara
elevator in Buffalo, N. Y, last week, was
found the body of q man frozen stiff.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machines
Jos Niggle Il Bro. Agents, Butler, Pa. If
"A woman named Kane in Mississippi has
Just presented her husband with three boy
babies, each one Of which has heavy growth
of red hair on the head. This is the most ex-
tensive gold-headed Kane presentation on
record.
When the Williams hotel burned at Shef.
field. Erie county, the other day, girl jumped
from asecond story window into the arms OF
her lover. VINO stood on the sidewalk and
caught her as neatly as the catcher takes base
ball on the fly. 1t is leap year, you know.
Saturday, Feb. I'd, will be the last day on
which accounts for presentation at next March
Term can be filed at the Registers Office. 2t
The estimated value of school property in
this and adjoining counties is as follows: Rut-
Ter, S267, ,927. 90; Armstrong, $233, 10000; AL
legheny, S3,9l6.2 .2l6.00; Beaver, $2S2, $4,000
Clarion, $178,267 90; Lawrence. $196, ,7so. 90
Mercer, $339,O96.00; Venango, 1871, ,426. 90
Westmoreland, $472 $4,000.
Mr.. William Gibson and Hon. A. L
Campbell were in town Monday securing
papers for the Argyle Savings Bank. The
ann is held by the two gentlemen named and
Ex-Sherif Hoffman aud l.. N. Ireland. Mr..
Hoffman is temporary President, and Mr.
VIM. 5. Walcott is retained as cashier.
The barn of Mrs. Nancy Adams, near
Templeton Station. on the P. & w. r. R.,
Adams township, was, with all its contents,
consumed by fire on Wednesday last, tie 23d.
inst. All the live stock was saved, but there
was no insurance on the barn or crops. The
fire is supposed to have been caused by a
spark from careless nephew's pipe.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma.
chine, of any make, at E. Grieb's Jewelry store
The mercury in this town last Friday
morning ranged from "a to 80 degrees below
zero, and next morning was from to 4 degrees
lower. This is the coolest weather we have
had since '56, after the big snow of that winter.
That was the winter that rye was in such great
demand, and everybody was hauling it to
Pittsburgh in sleds. One teamster for John
Berg took in q load of $50 bu shells.
Our grocerymen have lately been missing
sacks of -four, hams and other articles. left
outside after dark. One groceryman who re-.
ceived dozen cans of maple syrup the other
day, had eight of them stolen from his store
door that evening. Bellas & Miller missed q
sack of buckwheat flour Monday evening. and
suspectiug certain young man of the theft,
went after him and caught him carrying il
home.
BY acts passed and approved last winter
the weight of bushel of coal was fixed at rs
pounds, and of ton at 1000 pounds net, and
the standred weight, of a bushel of potatoes
was fixed at 60 pounds. No other changes
were made. An act was also passed and an.
proved making it misdemeanor punishable
by hne not exceeding 5000, and imprisonment
not exceeding three months, to use or sell by
false beams, scales, weights or measures.
-Ady ices from Mobile says the late cold
snap caused immense damage to that section.
The loss to orange groves is estimated at nearly
amillion dollars and the value of vegetables
killed in Mobile county alone will reach the
same sum. Great damage was also done to
the orange groves of Florida, but many orange
growers, proftting by the Signal Service warn
ing: built fires in their groves and thus saved
their trees.