Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-05-14
BUTLER CITIZEN.
WEDNESDAY. MAY IA, 1884.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Elm masses Moi macht fele gras und hoi.
-J.F Britain, Esq, has removed his Office
to the old Bredin corner,
Considerable corn was planted in this coun
ty last week.
-Koch's grocery store now runs a handsome
delivery wagon.
No County Superintendent of this county
has ever been reelected.
Our tanners are paying from So to s. per
cord for chestnut and oak bark, the only kind
they are buying.
A little daughter of W. d. Brandon, Esq :,
fell from a hammock last Thursday and broke
one OF her legs.
Harry Wilson, formerly of this place, but
now Of Du Bois, Clearfeld county, was married
u few days ago to Miss Mullin of Smethport,
Mexican county.
While Clarion county man and his fam
ily we're away from home lately, burglars en-
tered the house, blew open the safe, and secur-
ed cash and bonds amounting to over $1,000.
A few heavy frosts like that of last Monday
morning will injure the fruit crop. At present
there promises to be an abundance of cherries,
apples and pears.
A coIored woman named Waters had
Mrs. Howell, who lived near the depot, arrested
last week for keeping disorderly house. She
had hearing and was held on her own recognI-
Zance, but has left town.
Some changes have lately been made on
the time tables of the local railroads. The
evening train on the West Penn now arrives
at 5:25 instead of $40 as heretofore, and leaves
the City 20 minutes earlier and two Sunday
trains each way have again been put on the Z.
il w. K. L.
-Jno N. Apple was released from the Pen
itentiary on Monday of last week and was in
Butler Thursday. He is not looking well hav-
ing contracted bad cold in the new penitenti-
ary the lower story Of which was under water
during the late flood.
Charles Tebay, Of this county, was acquit-
ted in the United States District Court at Pitts
burgh last Friday, on charges of sending OBJ
scene and lascivious matter through the mails.
The evidence showed the prisoner had sent nu-
Inerous disgustingly obscene letters through the
mails to respectable young lady of Lawrence
county. The defense set up that the pris-
oner was of unsound mind.
ALI the newly elected Superintendents Of
Common schools 20 into Office during the first
week in June Commissions issue to them at
valid objections are made to the person elected.
As we stated last week, Mr.. w. 6. Russell was
elected Superintendent of this county and the
salary fixed at 1920. In adjoining counties
the following persons were elected: Lawrence
county, J. X. Sherrard, and salary fixed at
$1,000; Mercer Co, s. III. McCleery, salary not
stated in county papers; Venango Co., George
b. Lord, salary, Sl200; Armstrong Co., g. G.
Stockdill. salary not stated Beaver Co., J. S.
Briggs, salary, $1,000. There are more schools
in this county than in any of the coun-
ties named, and more directors were present at
theConvention here than in any Of the others.
The pulling down of the walls of the burn
ed Court House, and the huge stone pillars,
attracted a great deal of attention last week |
particularly by the boys. To pull down the
walls, a wire rope was passed through a second |
story window and over the top, the ends tied |
and to the loop thus formed, block and tackle |
was attached and pulled upon until a section of |
the wall gave way. Some sections we're very |
hard TO pull over. In one case the tackle was |
attached to a locust tree in front of the Weiser
property and the tree was pulled up by the |
roots. The boys took great delight in pulling |
the rope, but their pulling was not very reg |
ular, il was rather on the STEADY by jerks" |
principle. The pillars we're easily pulled over |
a rope was passed around the tops beginning |
with the north one and they were upset one at |
a time and they fell with heavy thud TO the |
removed. Some of the caps of the pillars were |
split horizontally by the fall and they may |
have been cracked by the fire. These columns |
cost about thousand dollars each, and it |
seemed pity to destroy them. Some of the |
pieces are over five feet in length and nearly |
four feet in diameter, and weight perhaps three |
tons. They were ali dragged on sleds over to |
the Diamond where they now lie. The stones |
for these columns were quarried at Beans run
South of town over thirty years ago. When
they were taken from the quarry they were
rounded and the ends cut square. Holes were
then drilled III each end and iron bars inserted
and fastened. A frame was then. built over
them, 10 which oxen were hitched and they were
rolled 10 town. When Bell reached the top Of
the hill South of town on the old pike with his
first stone, he met with an obstacle or rather
the want of an obstacle that he had not thought
Off he started down the hill with the stone
as it was. 1t would roll over his oxen and kill
them. A man chopping in the woods near by
suggested cutting down a big tree and attaching
it 10 the frame for brake or drag, and that
was the way they got them down the hill.
They were finished in front Of the building
and put in place with the aid Of Of a derrick.
the tackle being attached TO wedge ey inserted
in one end OF the stone. But one accde mt hap
pened in putting them up, when the cap for
one Of the middle pillars was nearly up to its
place, the wedge-key split the stone and the
cap fell to the ground and was broken. II was
an expensive accident, and the contractor in
vted the workmen over to the Mechling hotel
TO console with him. The columns were Ieyeled
with thin strips OF led, which the boys rushed
for last Friday, and would have stood for 'centu-
ries had they been allowed TO do so.