Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-06-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New tomatoes in market.
Railroad business is active.
Read the new advertisements.
Wool is selling in this market at 90 cents
per pound.
The lumber business is having quite a
boom here, also the brick business.
-Dakota's wheat crop this year gives prom
ise of reaching 100000 bushels.
The trade dollar is not at par yet, the bill
for its redemption hangs lire at washington.
A mixture of coperas and lime distributed
in places infested with rats will drive the
rodents away.
1t is now lawful to catch bass with the
hook and line but by no other means.
"A valuable property in Zelienople is for
sale. See advertisement.
Last month was the month of flowers, and
this is.said to be that of freckles.
There will be temperance convention at
Martinsburg on the oath, inst, an extended
notice of which will appear. in next issue.
Natural gas is giving trouble in some of
the rolling mills in which it is used. 1t es-
capes from the pipes and takes fire at very In
convenient and dangerous points.
Where are the locusts? Where was Moses
when the light went out? Where is there room
for all the liars who didn't vote as they prom
ised at the primary?
johnny Grout, now with Jos. Horne & Co.,
ofPittsburgh, in their retail department, will
be pleased to see his Butler friends, when In
the city.
The school board of this town will select
teachers for the ensuing year on Monday, July
7th See notice in another place.
A Mercer countyi:.f :.faImer last week sold
fourteen head of three year old cattle, ayerag-
ing over fourteen hundred pounds, to Sharon
butcher at six cents per pound. Eighty-four
dollars per head isn't so bad.
The report of the borough auditors is a
very satisfactory one; About hve thousand S"isa
remains in the hands of the borough treasurer.
The entertainment given by the students
of the Witherspoon Institute, in the Court
room last Thursday evening was very enjoy
able and successful one,
ALI students of the Witherspoon Institute
should be present at the opening next Monday
in order to get the benefit of the whole course.
Prof Waldron will give instructions in pen
manship.
The residence of David Benson of Petrolia,
together with his household goods and 81, 100
in money was destroyed by fire last Friday
evening. The house caught from the kitchen
stove, which lodged in the roof. No insur-
ance.
The Grand Jury found true bill against
r. s.. Montgomery alias Chas. Johnson, Of
Cherry township, for passing counterfeit coin.
Montgomery is said to haye made confession
duplicating several persons up about Petrolia,
but the matter was, in some manner hushed
up.
Bishop Whitehead will visit st. Peters
Episcopal Church, preach and confirm class,
Saturday evening, June 14th, at 7:30 On
Sunday orning at 1890, in ST. Peters Episco-
pal Church, the Bishop of the Diocese of
Pittsburgh, will ordain Mr.. Laurens McLure,
to the Diaconate All are cordially invited to
attend these services. Seats free.
AT meeting of citizens of this town in
in the court room last Tuesday evening, it was
resolved to raise money to put down gas we'll
near or within the borough limits, in the hope
of drawing manufactures to the town. Per-
cons wishing to subsiribe for stock should call
on w. A. Stein, who carries the subscription
paper. $4,000 divided into 300 shares of $40
each, is wanted.
An Alabama man branded his wife with
red hot poker because she put too much saler-
atus in the morning biscuit If his example
were followed there would be a glut in the
market for museum curiosities and the peniten-
tiaries would be full, for it is mournful fact
that he received year in prison for this mark
ed expression of his disapproval Of bad cooking.
Washington county is excited over an al
legged silver find. The story goes that while
digging we'll on the Hamegar farm, near
West Alexandria, at the depth of about 100
feet the precious ore was found. 1t has been
assayed and found to contain five dollars to
the ton, which is considered an excellent yield
The Hamegars propose to have the well drilled
to greater depth.
When the Penn Bank closed 1t was in
debted to individual depositors 81 ,466, ,205.05
The total amount of overdrafts is 81 25O, ,953.99.
Thus, if the money paid out to those who had
no claim upon it, and in violation of law, had
been guarded as it should have been, the bank
would have been solvent and the depositors
made secure. A million and quarter of over
drafts, and the directors, as board, unaware
of the fact.
MIR Baily, the Pittsburgh architect, and
Messrs. Pallisser, Pallisser & Co., of New
York, have laid in almost similar plans for a
new Court House, and both plans are very
good, the best yet presented to the Commission
ers for their consideration. All the plans con-
template larger and better building than the
old one, and though the Grand Jury recon-
mends a $4,000 dollar building, it will likely
take double that amount to build by any of the
plans yet received.
The following ticket was nominated by
the Prohibitionists at their convention in But
Ter last Tuesday: Congress, Rev. E. Ogden;
Senate, J. w. Brandon: Assembly, j. W. Orr,
j. C. Moore; Sheriff, Jas. P. Robinson; Pro-
thonotary, J. r. Moore; Register and Recorder,
J.N. Meals clerk; J. n. Rose; Treasurer, w. Bo-
vard Commissioners, Harvey Campbell, A.
Stewart; Auditors, H. s. Daubenspeck, Christy
Robb; Coroner, P. W. Conway.
The Supreme Court of this State has de-
cided if qualified elector is not registered two
months before the election there is no method
of curing the defect except that prescribed in
the election law. He must swear to the fact of
his qualification, and fortify his testimony by
the oath of another qualified elector cognizant
of the facts. His vote, even if accepted at the
polls without required proof, cannot be count
ed. So it is a very important matter for every
voter to see if he is registered in time; and if
he is not, to see that the evidence of his right
to vote is made complete.
The commencement exercises of Prospect
Academy will be held in Critchlow's Grove,
just in the edge of town. This is one of the
most beautiful groves In Butter county. Re-
freshments of all kinds will be on the grounds,
and everything possible is being done to make
the occasion one of pleasure and profit to all
who attend. Col. Balm, Of Kentucky, will
ddress the audience in the afternoon, and
acture in the evening. Exercises begin at 1
le. NJ.
An exchange in speaking of the incursions
by outsiders upon the business interests of a
town, justly says at is a wrong to the mer-
chants, q selfimposed wrong to the purchaser
aud decided detriment to the village In gen
eral to buy goods of an irresponsible travelling
man representing no house and claiming
not even the abiding place of fox. They
never leave cent in the town, but make a
point by inveigling few innocents into buy
ing their clap-trap stuff, to draw what loose
on change they can lay their avaricious clutches
away. Give them the slip every time, and show
confidence in your own merchants by patroniz-
ino than