Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-01-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LUOAU ANU u1NIIsAH
Natural gas for fuel is not complete sue
cess during cold snap.
S. B. Snyder, Esq, was sworn in as District
Attorney, Monday.
Robert Trimble, Esq, of Middlessx town
ship. has been appointed Mercantile Appraiser
for this year.
The comet can now be seen plainly during
the early evening in the northwestern SKY.
Sewing Machine attachments and repairs
of all kinds, at F. Grieb's Jewelry store.
-Rey. w. A. Nolan has returned home from
an extended European trip.
The election for County Superintendent
will occur on the first Tuesday in May
-Kleber Bros. E Stauffer have on hands q
No. second hand organ, which they Will sell
cheap.
We are under obligations to the Phiiadei'
phia Tines for copy of their valuable almanac
for 1884.
The vool-growers, Of this county, VIII
moot in convention in this town tomorrow. The
meeting will probably be in Miller's hall.
Go to III. BiehI Co., for Phospha te
Grain Drills, Plows, Fruit Evaporators, &c.
We are under obligations to the Philadel-
phis Record and New York Independent for
their handsome almanaas.
-conmunion services will be held in the
Presbytsrian Church, of this place, On naEt
Sabbath. Preaching on Saturday previous az
2 O'Clock.
Communion at W. o. Spring Z. P. Church
nm Sabbath. 18th inst. Rev. J. u. IImmons
will assist Services every evening during this
week.
A. T. Black, Esq, received telegram
affirmed the decision of the court below ~ th6
case of McCandless VS.. Young.
According to the Pension List as published
last week, s, ,352.25 is the amount tnat comes
into this county monthly, or $40, ,227. .OO yearly
for pensions from the National Treasury.
The Mother Superior, of the Beliyilla Cop
vent college, who perished in the flames last
Saturday night, was q sister of Mrs. Andrew
Leibler of Butler township. Her maiden name
was Heyle, and she vas born In Pittsburgh.
Light running Domestic Sewing Machines
Jos Niggle & Bro. Agents, Butler. Pa.
Mr.. D. L Byrer. of Dubois, paid Butler
visit last week. He speaks in glowing terms of
the growing town in which he has located,
and where he is doing large merchant tai
loring business.
We direct attention to the ns~ cerd of FL.
Biehl & Co. They handle all kinds of agri1ul-
fural implements and house furnishing goods.
and their payl0r heating and cooking stoves
cannot be beaten,
A Young mao named James Mcclellan
Turk, of Karns City, this county, was killed at
Parker, on December 2Gth last while coupling
cars on the p. & W. Railroad, in the employ of
which he was at the time.
1t is reported that bears are committing
numerous depredations upon the farmers in
the vicinity Of Jones' Mill, Westmoreland
county. Alarge number Of shaep have been
recently destroyed by them.
Among the law cards this week will be
seen that of j. B. McJunkin and j. NJ. Gar
breath, two very worthy and responsible young
attorneys, who have entered into partnership
under the firm name of McJunkin Galbreath.
Their Office is on Main street, opposite the
Willard House.
For toilet purposes 1t cannot te surpassed,
the ingredients composing the Days Soap are
of such a nature as to be healing in their appli'
cation to the skin, besides being free from any
0fthe poisonous colors and perfumes that are
put into cheap toilet soaps in order to make
them sell.
Have you made up your mipd to try the
new and genteel method of washing clothes
If 20, purchase from your storekeeper one cake
of Days Soap, aud use it on next wash-day.
After that one trial you will have no further
use for your horrible and nasty old wash boiler,
you will cry pitch it ont
Dear Madam, our own family has tested
the marked qualities of Days Soap with entire
satisfaction to themselves, and we do not hesi-
tate to endorse all the proprietors claim for It.
Once tried, it will always be used and you will
pause to think of how you ever managed to get
along without it. Fact.
Send or leave your order for Sewing Ma
chine of any make, at f. Griebs Jewelry store
The girls have already formed their plans
for leap year. To the bashful lover they'll
say. "Do you like homemade bread?" fhe
says yes the reply will be, "well / bake"
Then if he doesn't take the hint they are to
seize both his hands, fall on their knees and
put the question direct.
The mercury in this town, last Saturday
morning, ranged from to 100 below zero. On.
Monday morning it was from to A. lower, but
did not seem so cold a., there was no wind. AT
Rockford, ILL.,. on Saturday morning. the ther-
Inometer indicated 43o below zero, which was
the lowest reported from east of the Mississippi.
The Kaufman Bros. the great clothing
men of Pittsburgh, inform us that ticket num-
ber IFS won the horse and phaeton, 29.579 the
piano and AZ, ,7s7 the furniture, and that if the
above tickets are not presented by the 18th
inst, numbers q, ,456, 2O.54S. 4S9, 1888, of
the horse and phaeton; 1890, 29,236, 1928,
5000, of the piano, and Is, ISL, IS ,64S, 49, $40
1888 of the furniture tickets will, in the order
mentioned be next entitled to the prizes.
Last Friday some officers of Allegheny and
Armstrong counties succeeded in arresting
Alex. Askins and Charles Tarr at house near
the mouth of Pine Creek, in Allegheny county,
and on the following day arrested Jacob Young,
at Valley Point, near Kittanning, three men
who are part or all of q gang of burglars, who
have lately committed series of bold bur-
glaries in towns along the Allegheny river. A
large lot of stolen goods was found at the Pine
Creek hou.,e.
The consolidation of the Citizen and Inde-
pendent Press of Franklin, under the name of
Press, and control of E. w. Smiley
Co., removes, for time at least, Mr.. II. NJ.
Irwin from the ranks of the editorial profession.
We are not personally acquainted with the
gentleman, but have been constant reader of
his interesting paper for some years, and should
he take hold of another country paper we will
be pleased to exchange with him.
TO those of our readers who are thinking
of subscribing for city daily or weekly we
can heartily recommend the Dispatch, of
Pittsburgh. The daily Dispatch is large
eight-page paper, always full of news
and is printed every day of the year. 1t COM
pares very favorably with the New York Tri-
bnne or Herald, is better paper than the
Times, is a credit to Pittsburgh, and would be
to any city in the Union.
"A very sad accident happened at Greece
wy 10y oh shoo.;~ at Is .,o r;,h ro rooIr,n sJ. ny
William Hutchison thought he would take a
shot. The revolver was handed to him and he
was warned to hold it down while cooking it,
as the spring did not work right. He did so
but the trigger slipped from his finger, the
nstol was disch a roed and the hall struck little