Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-05-21
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

for sale or exchange
Superintendent Murtland says that ther'
are but 262 schools in the county instead o
269 as stated in the convention.
Mr.. John J. Reiber has purchased piece O
property on the fat west of town, and intend!
going into the brick manufacturing business.
Mr.. ]. T. Kelly has had the front of hii
store building on Jefferson street handsomely
painted.
Mr.. James Campbell, of Fairview town
ship. has withdrawn his name as candidate
for County Treasurer. See card in another
place.
There is now but one mail each way on
the P. & w. r. R.-the 1902 a. M. train going
north and the $40 p. m. train going south are
the mail trains.
jackson Mitchell have row of Cham
pion mowers and reapers numbering thirty,
two, standing along the Jefferson street side OF
their store.
-"Mugwump," is a word newly coined, and
is said to mean man who really isn't as big
as he thinks he is. There are mugwumps
everywhere.
The name of the station at Hickory Mills,
on the s. & A. r. r. has been changed to
"Keisters" to conform with the name OF the
postofiice at that point, and Burnett to Roy.
AT Beaver last Wednesday young man
named May attempted to hack young lady
named Miller to pieces with hatchet, be-
cause she would not marry him.
A new time schedule went into effect on
the s. & A. r. R., Monday. Trains now leave
Butler at 7:40 and $50 a. m, and 5:25 p. M,
and trains leave Hilliard at 600 and 11:4O q.
IN. and $40 p. m.
Howard Colbert had John H. Thompson
arrested for assaulting him in Linn's Drug
Store. Thompson plead guilty and Esq. Keck
fined him $40 and costs, which he paid.
ANY person wishing to canvass for a Home
and Agricultural work, a pictorial cyclopedia
of the farm, home, garden, medicine, etc,
will please communicate with us Immediately.
We direct attention to the advertisement
of Washburn & Hunting's grand aggregation
of natural wonders, which with their excellent
circus troupe, aviary, museum, etc, will exhibit
in Butler next Friday, the 23d, inst.
The Butler Base Ball club now solicit
challenges from any club in this part of the
country. Arrangements may be made for a
game on Decoration Day, by addressing Louis
N. Grieb, Box 1S4, Butler, Pa, Immediately.
AT meeting of the council of this town
last Tuesday evening the tax rate for borough
purposes-streets, water, tc.,-was continued
at mills, the same as it has been for the
past two years. previous to which for some
years it stood at 10 mills on the assessed value.
The peach trees are sprouting this year
at the foot of the growth of last year which
seems to have been killed by the unusually
severe winter. Much of last years growth Of
the grape vines also seem to have been killed,
and some vines of the more tender varieties are
dead altogether.
"A tall, very genteel, dark eyes and hair,
and killing way of saying eyes, lady"
young man, as described by one of his victims,
has been defrauding the ladies of Mercer coun-
ty, by taking subscriptions to the Young
Ladies' Fashion Journal, $3.50 year and 10
cents postage. He called himself George Brad
ley.
An amusing incident happened in our
Office last week. A young man called in and
bought paper, and when asked his name re-
piled that his maiden name was
but that he was contemplating matrimony,"
and further conversation revealed the fact that
he was under the impression that his approach
ing marriage would, In some way, change his
name.
in selecting a jury for a murder trial in
Chicago few days since, one man was excused
by agreement, because of the structure of his
head, which was pear-shaped, with the small
part at the top. Would he have been accepted
if the small part had been at the bottom, or
was it the fact of his head being pear-shaped
that made him ineligible, and how would it
have been if the shape would have been that
OF an apple or watermellsn, a pomegranate,
a lemon or banana? If eligibility for jury
duty is to be decided by the shape of ones head
the fruit standard should be settled upon i'm
mediately.
BY a collision on the B. & o. R. r. near
Connellsville last Wednesday, between a camp
train and freight train, fifteen men were
killed and many wounded. The two trains
came together at full speed on a sharp curve,
and the tender of one of one of the engines was
thrown up in the air and fell through the roof
of q car containing fifteen men, twelve of whom
were killed. The accident was the result of
carelessness on the part of the train dispatcher,
who has been out of his mind since it happen
ed.
e. Grieb, the Jeweler has lately received
an immense stock of silver ware, or rather sill
yer plated ware, of the very best manufactured
in the country. Some people do not use this
ware because they think it is expensive, but it
really is not A set of good silver plated
knives and forks, for instance, will outlast
three or four sets of steel ones, which have to
be secured at least once day, and counting
the time lost in so doing, and the greater dura-
bility OF the silver.ware, the latter is much the
cheaper in the end.
The failure of several firms of stock bro
kers in New York city, last Wednesday, and
also of two or three of the largest banks of
New York and Brooklyn whose officers have
hoovx lnksn -.
among the brokers of the Stock Exchange
who in their mad rush to realize in securities
held by themselves on their customers, sold
them for less than they are really worth
Western Union Telegraph stock was sold for
about half what ir is worth, and oil dropped
from 80 cents and over to 60 in New York and
20 in Oil City, but persons here in Butler who
tried to buy oil at 70 could not get their orders
nlled, and the Pipe Line took advantage of
the panic to put up the carrying rates to $500
per 900 barrels per day.
Allegheny county Republicans held their
primary election last Saturday. Monday was
contest day, during which the County Com.
mittee heard all contested elections and put the
papers in shape for the different County Con-
yentions, and yesterday was convention day,
during which the delegates elected to the diff.
ferent conventions met and nominated the can
didates, the by delegate system. Nineteen conven.
tlons containing in all nearly 5000 delegates.
met in Pittsburgh and Allegheny yesterday.
There was one convention for each of the
county ofhces.and one each for the different Con.
gressional, Senatorial and Assembly districts.
The principal fight in the county was for the
Sherif's o6ice-the best paying Office in the
county. The conventions to nominate county
officers will each consist of 329 delegates, the
Congressional convention about half that num-
Der, and the Senatorial and Assembly conven-
tons still less number. The political mat
ters of the county appear very much compli.
Gated to an outsider. For each county Office
there are generally but two candidates, the
machine" and the opposition. Chris. Ma gee
and his able lieutenants, dictate who shall be
the machine candidates, and the opposition to
have any show, must have but one. At this
writing the result is not definitely known, but
the machine men are claiming pretty gener-
al victory.