Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-07-02

BUTLER CITIZEN.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1884
New Advertisements.
Boots and Shoes-B. c. Huselton.
Coleman Busidess College.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
-Rocholl, the enterprising organ and piano
agent, sold two organs last Saturday and one
Monday morning.
The most trying circumstances under
which boy can be- is whep another boy Is IN
the alley winking at him and his father IS
offering him nickel to carry in pile OF wood.
"A careful observer remarks that now is the
time of year when the newly-fedged graduate
hesitates about becoming an editor right OFF or
going as a waiter in a summer hotel.
MIR. Aaron Hughes has purchased bar
Der shop at No. AZ, Ohio street, Allegheny
and has sold his shop in Butler to Joseph
Wagner.
We direct attention to B. c. Huselton's
notice of his Great Cut Down Sale to close out
all summer stock and make room for fall and
winter goods. Read it.
Rev. Ferguson has accepted the call to the
Presidency OF the Westminster College, sub
ject to the action of the Presbytery, which
meets here on the 9Th, inst. The Rev.'s many
friends here will be 10th to part him.
The Butler Gas Fuel Company has en-
gagged Yeagel and Miller to complete the well
On the McCrea place, south oftown. The hole
is now ,26O feet deep, is through the second
,,I ,ri1 he dri1lad IN he third N the
hope of obtaining oil.
During the late squeeze in the oil market
several large lots of oil in Pittsburgh, which
were bought above dollar, were thrown upon
the market, the owners being compelled to
close out at heavy loss. One lot OF 100000
barrels which was dropped represented loss
of about S250,000
There was Joy and rejoicing in the Sand
wich Islands over the nomination of Blaine,
and when Mr.. Thos. G. Thrum, the editor OF
the Saturday Press, of Honolulu, III. l., receiv-
ed the news he hastened TO send his congratu-
lations to his contemporaries across the water,
in the shape of printed postal card OF the
"Universal Postal Union" one of which we
have received.
One of the most remarkable sights to be
witnessed in Western Pennsylvania, or through
out the State for that matter, is at present az
tracing the attention of the dwellers along
the Youghiogheny river between McKeespo t
and Bradford. The river between the points
named is filled with dead fish floating with the
sluggish tide, or drifting shoreward, where in
the heavy grasses and shrubbery bordering the
stream they lie decomposiDg under the swelter
ing heat of the summer sun, tainting the sur
rounding atmosphere with foul odors. The
fish were killed by sulpher water from some
new coal mines along the river.
A strange looking animal was to be seen
on Jefferson street, near Jackson & MitchelPs |
store, yesterday, one that eats coal and drinks |
water and does the work of several horses. 1t |
was a Paxton Traction Engine which j. & NJ. |
have brought in for Fred Bauers, of Summit |
township, and VIM. Leithold of Clearfeld, |
who already have large thresher and who |
new propose doing all the threshing in that |
vicinity. The machine cost Bauers and Lett
hold 81 ,160. 1t has pole in front for horses
to guide it over the roads, but that can be dis
pensed with and it be guided by the man In
charge.