Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-06-08
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

the Church Committee.
Judge Pearson of Harrisburg, died
last Wednesday in his SSth year. He
served for thirty three years as Com
mon Pleas Judge Of Dauphin Co
and had a wider reputation than any
other President Judge in the State.
Two doctors engaged in slugging
match on the streets of GreeIviile
lately, the result of a disagreement re.
garding the treatment of a sick child
A gang of civil engineers lately
surveyed the vicinity of East Brady,
which has renewed the talk about the
airline railroad between New York
and Chicago.
An exchange says that the papers
in neighboring towns, shortly to be
visited by Wallace & Co.'s show,
might do their readers something Of a
service by informing them that there
is a very slick gang of swindlers
travelling with the circus We say
the papers might do this, but it would
do 10 good, People Ike to be swim
died and insist on being taken in and
done up occasionally.
j. F. Rayen, postmaster at Sandy
Lake, has been running short in bis
accounts for some time and last week
the bondsmen became uneasy and
sent for an inspector who found a
shortage OF 1884 The Office is now
in the hands of the bondsmen and
Hon. Fl. S. Blatt is acting as post
master 1t is stated that Mr.. Rayen
has left for the West
The Franklin NeUs narrates a
rather singular instance of the need
less suffering a child underwent, be-
cause its parents did not sooner have
medical examination. 1t says: This
morning a man and bis wife, whose
names we did not ascertain came in
from the country, bringing with them
little three year old boy who had
been suffering terribly from some
trouble in the nose since last fall.
They took the child to Dr.. Leaden-
ham, who discovered the cause of the
trouble to be a small acorn which the
child had put in his nose. The acorn
had worked its way up the nasal pass
age nearly to the eye. Dr.. L. sue
ceeded in graphing it with his in
struments and was not long in get
ting it out.
The New Castle Meacs of last week
said: On Wednesday Detective Brown
took Bert Heckathorne, one of the
Beaver Co. boys in Jail for being i'm
plicated in a half dozen or more bur-
glaries, to Fetterman, Beaver Co.
Heckathorne led the Detective to
woods and from under stump
brought out quantity of goods that
had been stolen out of a store at
Evans City. There were nine tea
spoons, twelve pocket. knives, two
pipes and two razors in the lot.
Heckathorne was then brought back
to this city and placed in Jail again.
He denies that be had anything to do
with the Evans City burglary, but
says that Pander, who is in Jail, did
the work. He claims that be heard
Pander tell where the goods were
hidden.
Barclay Nultor, ESQ, of Kittan-
ming, has fifteen months old calf
that gives half gallon of good milk
twice day, without having first be-
come mother.
The Derrick's Franklin correspond
ent says: The fools are not all dead,
and if the fool killer had been here
to day the Third ward would have
presented a funeral aspect tonight.
A carpenter to-day lost $3.50 in a
skin game at the show ground;
man from Bully Hill lost Sl5; an old
man from Plum twp tried hard to
borrow $500 on mortgage to invest
in "sure thing" and many others
dropped s. TO $40. Money enough
was lost to subscribe for 400 papers,
and thus learn the folly of being fool
enough to try to beat circus sharper
dt LIS oWu Sduio.
The Way ynesboro Record says tha.
few evenings ago rat attacked
child of Mr.. Luther Neal, in that
place, under rather peculiar circum-
stances. 1t appears Mrs. Neal left
her in ant, five weeks old, in the sum-
mer kitchen on u couple of chairs, in
care of her husband, till she could 60
to neighbors on an errand, but be,
man like, left the place to do some
work in the garden. On her return
she found rat with its head in the
baby's mouth, and the child's lips,
gums and tongue were severely Bit
ten. From the effects of the wounds
the infant was poisoned. and at last
accounts it was in precarious situa-
ton.
An employee of the Sharon Iron
Works, who formerly worked in a
sheet mill in Wales, is said to have
received cablegram recently asking
him if he could return to Wales by
the first of July, as the firm for which
he had worked was about to start ten
sheet mills that had been idle, in ex-
psctation of the Mills bill passing
Congress. Comment would hardly
seem to be necessary.
The Mercer Creamery has $4,000
dozen of eggs stored in their cold
storage room, kept at q temperature
of forty degrees. for the fall trade.
They were bought for eleven cents a
dozen and it is expected that double
that price will be obtained for them in
New York this fall
Great are the wonders Of the
telephone. A physician reports to
Gaillard's Medical Journal that he
was saved q two mile ride through a
driving storm the other night by hav-
ing the patient, a child, brought to
the instrument and held there until
it s:coughed. He diagnosed false
Group, prescribed two grains of tur-
peth mineral, and turned in for an
undisturbed sleep during the remain
der Of the night. He found the pa
tient in the morning doing nicely
under the care of another doctor.