Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-06-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


New potatoes will soon be making their
appearance.
The small boy and the big boy are now
chock full of base ball.
The "Jim and Jack" clubs will be organ
izing soon.
A white plume would be an appropriate
thing to wear IN campaign cap.
The Democrats of the county will hereafter
nominate by the popular vote.
And so poor vennor is dead? What shall
we do for weather now?
Duffy sold $1,000 pounds of wool to Buffa-
10 parties last week.
The date of the Karns City teachers ex-
animation has been changed from July IA to
July 10.
Mr.. "A, P. Stewart was the good natured man
of Mondays convention, and made an excellent
clerk.
Philip Hilliard, Esq. has some property
at billiards Station for sale or rent. See no.
tice.
A reporter of the Pittsburgh Telegraph, in
writing up the Westinghouse gas well, spoke OF
the full moon as being in the West IN the even
ing.
Thirty four gallons of ice cream, made by
Morrison, the baker, were disposed OF at lhe
PRESBYTERIAN festival last Thursday and FRIDAY
evenings
We direct our readers attention to Mr.. Walkers
card He has opened real estate and loan
agency, and has his Office with Doc. Byers on
Jefferson st.
Parents should scrupulously refrain from
placing their boys where they may meet with
a misunderstanding garden for instance
while the base ball season is at its height.
The Commonwealth has begun suits against
number of registers and recorders and their
sureties throughout the State to recover State
tax on writs, alleged to be due.
A travelling auctioneer opened up shop in
Grove City and commenced to sell his wares 10
the people Some of the merchants who pay
rent and taxes the year round had him arrested.
He was fined $35 and costs. Not liking the
atmosphere of the Messer diocese he packed
his goods and left to find greener community
pailful of water, applied with a fountain pump
or syringe, and also sprinkling with water
mixed with lamp oil, is recommended as
remedy for the apple-tree aphis or leaf house,
which is doing great injury to the young trees
this year.
A few days since two young men of Craw-
ford county, named Blair and Weir, waded be-
yond their depth in the Shenango river, while
hauling seine Blair, who was good swim.
mer, went to Weir's assistance, and both went
down. The bodies were recovered, and when
found were locked in each others arms.
AT the sale of the Court House debris last
THURSDAY afternoon the old brick brought S1.80
per thousand, the old iron 80 cts. per 100 pound,
and the flag stone under the portico 8 to cts.
per superfscial foot The old iron fence was
$1S62O. Three Pittsburgh junk dealers were
present at the sale.
Small worms, somewhat resembling mag
gots, are said to be waging destructive warfare
against the young cabbage plants, which are
attacked at the roots, and we have never
known the young growth of the apple and
cherry trees to be so crowded with green and
black bugs as il is at present. Any person
who knows of remedy for the last named
nuisance should make it known,
A singular accident occurred at Titusville
few days ago. A seven year old lad named
Van Solver was running along the street when
a sharpened slate pencil droped out of his
pocket 1t struck the walk in such way
that the point stuck up as his foot came down,
and the pencil was driven almost through the
1OOt. A surgeon nau great III e4IrdcL-
ing the pencil its brittleness preventing the
use of plyers to pull it out.
The two Dukes Jurors who sued the Repub-
ican Standard of Uniontown for criminal IL
bel because of its pungent criticism on their
course in the murder case, were sat down upon
soildly by the grand Jury of good and true
men recently in Fayette county, their bill
being ignored and prosecutors saddled with
the cost. The healthiest thing the Dukes
Jurors can do is to allow themselves to sink in
to obscurity.
The bridge over the Allegheny river at
East Brady fell into the river last Friday even
ing. There were a number of persons on the
bridge at each end at the time it fell but none
on the central spans. The structure was built in
1868 and had been condemned as unsafe some
time ago. The bridge was built by the Bradys
Bend Iron company, and for number of years
was genuine bonanza to the stockholders and
trustees who foolishly allowed the structure to
get out of order, never painting or making pro-
per repairs. The receipts were enormous DUR
ing the early days of Butler Co. oil excitement,
before the narrow guage was built to Karns
City. 1t is likely the bridge will be rebuilt,
as the bonds are in the hands of the Valley
road.
The Farmers and Breeders Mutual Live
Stock Association, of this place, has already
paid out nearly $500 in losses. New policies
are coming in every day and the Association
is in fiourishing condition. Stock raisers all
over Western Pennsylvania take kindly to the
idea of insuring their valuable stock, as there
is no telling when they may lose them. A. j.
Haws, proprietor of the Tucker Stock Farm,
in Mercer county. had three valuable horses
killed by lightning on Monday night of last
week. They had been turned out into pas
ture and were not found until Tuesday after
noon. The field in which they were was an
open one, and the horses were lying some dis
tance from any tree or other object which
draw the currents. One of the beasts was the
celebrated mare, "Fanny H" for which Mr..
Haws had refused s., 600. The other horses
are also of high-bred stock. The loss is
severe one for Mr.. Haws, but it is likely he
had some insurance.
While a clerk in one of our drug
stores, was preparing some horse liniment last
Thursday evening, the stuff efervesced and
Part of it was thrown upon the face and neck
of Elmer, Graham, severely burning him.
The clerk rubbed the burns with castor-oil and
and Graham soon recovered from the shock,
but had the stuff reached his eyes, he would
likely have been permanently injured The
liniment contained oil of vitrol which was the
last thing put into the bottle and the sudden
addition of which caused the efervescense.
Oil of Vitrol added to any alkali will generate
gas and cause an effervescense. similar to that
made by Seidltz powders and if the mixture is
confined, as this was, in bottle, it shoots out
from the opening pretty lively 1t is oil of
vitrol that generates the gas in the Babcock
Fire Extinguishers and in soda water foun.
tains, both of which are made strong enough
to resist the pressure. Soda water reservoirs
are made strong enough to resist a pressure of
from one to two hundred pounds to the square
inch. This is the first time we ever heard of
the oil being used for medicine for either man
or beast but perhaps the horse-doctor who
prescribed it knew what he was about.
Another terrible accident happened in the
Bald Ridge oil district early last Sunday
morning, by which Mr.. Richard Walker,
colored man was killed and his son Newt,
aged about 16 years, was badly injured. Mr..
Walker was in the employ Of the Bald Ridge
Oil Co., and had charge Of wells Nos IA and I5
On the Smith farm in Forward township,
which are pumped by the steam of one boiler
About two o'clock that morning while he aud
Newt were in the boiler house, the boiler ex-
ploded. burning and scalding him SO badly
that he lived but few hours, and scalding and
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