Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-01-16

On petition of the election board of the
First Ward of Butler, the court last Tuesday
directed the board to hold elections for said
ward in the building of Mrs Mitchell, on the
north side of the Diamond. next door to the
office of George p. White Esq, and on petition
of citizens of Butler township, the place for
holding elections for that township was fixed
at the office of Joseph B. Bredln, Esq, at corn
er of Main street and Diamond, Butler. No
petition has. as vet, been presented for the
Second Ward of Butler. The first place desig-
mated for Butler township was the office of the
Sullivan Bros, but that has been changed as
above.
Bob met Ike at the Bank corner the other
day, during snow storm, shook hands with
him, struck an attitude and held on to lke's
hand till he relieved himself somewhat as fol-
lows: "May Heaven bless you and yours-all
eff them. May they live long and be happy,
and always be your greatest delight, your
Supremest JOY. Name the girl after your
Wife whome she will surely resemble in grace
and purity, and the boy after yourself, than
whom no nobler man walks the foot-stool.
Ike, you have proved yourself good man, a
solid man, white man-white as the snow
that is being driven past u.s. man to be re-
spected and looked up TO, and-and-Ike, do
YOU know the only difference between me and
you?' Il do not, " said Ike. "Well, you have
money and havn't, lend me a dime to get
glass of beer with.
Cries of "murder" were heard on Main
street about midnight of last Tuesday night, and
a half naked man was seen running bare-footed
through the snow from the Nogeley House to
the Lowry House. At the latter house he
wanted the Clerk TO give him a room, but was
refused as Linn took him for crazy man.
But he was furnished with some clothes, when
he left for the Wick House where he was stop
ping. The man who erected this sensation is
a respected citizen of Sunbury, this county.
He had returned To his hotel, the Wick House,
late that night and finding it closed, went up
to the Eogeley House and got bed, and soon
after had a fuss with two SunbGry and two
Butler men who came into the same room
one of them having a bed there. Who started
the fuss, we don't know, as the parties give
different versions of the affair. Two of the
men are brothers-in- law and brother
in-law and his friends were too much
for the other brother-in-law, who
sought safety in flight, and who claims to
have been cut with a knife and otherwise
badly abused.
Whoever has followed the discussion of the
red sunsets must have realized by this time
that the limitations of modern science are mar
row; and that though even scientific men do not
like TO acknowl ledge ignorance perhaps, yet the
only absolutely truthful answer that can he
given TO questions as 10 the origin of the phe-
simp.e and obvious fact. We have ceased to
believe that red sunsets prognosticate war or
pestilence, or the death of great men, or the
rise or downfall ofdynasties; but We know no
more than ancestors did of the zeal cause OF
these occurrences. Our scientists suggest all
manner OF explanations but none of them are
more than conjecture, and some of them lack
the merit even of plausibility. And so we
founder amid theories of meteorlc dust, cosmic
dust, volcanic dust, coInetary bodies, vapor and
so forth but we do not know the origin of the
red sunsets we admire; and perhaps the greatest
advance in this direction OF which we can boast
lies in the fact that we are no longer afraid of
unusual phenomena, and have learned that
strange things may happen without portending
either good or evil to the human race.-Er.
The squabble for the control Of the Sharps
vile Mercer county railroad was argued be-
fore Judge Bredin last Friday night, Judge
Mehard, of Mercer county, having certified it
over on account OF his having been counsel on
the matter. Ross Thompson, Esq, Of Erie.
appeared for the Scott interest and Stranahan
and Griffith, Esq'rs, of Mercer, for the Pierce
interest. The following is Judge Bredin's de-
cision in the matter The number of shares in
this company is 900, of which Ala are in dis
pute, though standing on the books in the name
of Walter Pierce. This leaves $50 shares, Of
which :, ,302 are owned by Walter Pierce ct al,
defendants, and their adherents, and 1924 by
w. L. Scott, plaintiff, and his adberents. 1t
follows that under the cumulative system of
voting, which, it is fair to presume, both parties
we'll understand, neither party can elect more
than three of the six directors to be elected. As
the Pierce party have majority Of the stock
not IN dispute and the advantage of the books
in their favor as to that in dispute, it is but
reasonable that that party should select the
President. We can see no reason to apprehend
irreparable injury to plaintiff, and therefore the
in junction is refused
During recent cold snap when the lher-
mometer registered at zero and below, ninety
nine citizens out of one hundred had something
to say about "zero ;" but perhaps not in a
hundred could have told ofihahd why point
thirty two degrees below the freezing point on
Fahrenheips thermometer is called zero For
that matter, nobody knows. The Fahrenheit
scale was introduced IN 1920, and like other
thermometeric scales it has two fixed points,
the freezing point, or rather the melting point
of ice, and the boiling point of water. The
Centgrade and Reaumur scales call the freeZ-
ing point zero and measure therefrom in both
directions. This is very natural arrange
ment. Fahrenheit kept the principal on which
he graduated his thermometers a secret and no
one has ever discovered it, 1t is supposed,
however, that he considered his zero-thirty-
two degrees below freezing-the point of abso-
Lutte cold or absence of all heat, either because,
being about the temperate of melting salt and
snow it the greatest degree of cold tina
he could produce artifcially or because it was
the lowest natural temperature Of which he
could find any record The grounds on which
Fahrenheit put one hundred and eighty de-
grees between the freezing and boiling points
are likewise unknown.