Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-03-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The sweet note. Of the song sparrow are
nov heard in the land.
Judges Ewing and White are the License
-Miksoo. Of Allegheny county this year.
Eco Robert Mckee Of Butler twp. is ly-
ing dangerously i'll Of pneumonia.
Our grocers are paying l2 cents for eggs
and - fcr butter.
How NAV oat-nesl girls do you think
there are ir Butler county.
Why not double your value BY study At
Edinborc.
The ssnd on the ''hog-hsck" On the
Beatty fam near billiards is said 10 be suit
able nor grinding plate glass.
-wbre chorping rail timber on bi. farm
in F.ifys.w IN isi+ly, Mr.. ". P. Brown
Iesrly eicIped 81 enc Of his big toes.
-Mnvsng day, all fooisday, aud tie 6rst
Of April all come On Faster Sunday this
year.
Rev. NppsndoIf of this county will sue.
cred Rev Braun as pastor Of the German
Evangelical church of New Castle.
There is some talk ofa wheel barrow aud
wood ~.sk faetsry locating In Butler but
rolhing definite 10 settled.
And nov both Harrisville and Butler
are trying to steal that Normal School from
cen.erville.
Two Isrre store buildings have lately
- al fnx nf 4 ha in
north esfern part Of the town.
The two new big wells-tbe Bolard &
Greenlee in this county aud the Fergus in
wsshiDgton county-didnt break the mar
ket
Rev Olier. of Butler. will preach at the
rni.pvilie Presbyterian Church on Sunday.
March a5, at 4 o'clock y. INA.
Mr.. James A. Esgley left for Philadel-
pha "Wednesday to attend the great sale or
Hood. Bobbright q Co.'S old stock BY john
wAnxmsker.
The Msubev Mccullough property in
Worth twp. lately sold at Marshal's sale was
bid In by his sons
Mr. John Burns of Bourbon county.
Ksrsas q former citizen Of this county was
drwaed In the Narnaton river on Feb
18th.
-Ansshsr citizen of this county has beeu
p<turued to Court On . charge Of adultery.
ID the re any danger Of this thiag becoming
epidemic,
-Renfrsw has q wife-beater, who is
fhrpesened With Q coat Of tar and feathers.
alse ssme bad bsys wbo misconducted tenn
sslves a. the late Local Institute.
-Nn. stsyhen OfDsr Of Slipreryrock fp.
haA . strike of parsiysis lasf Thursday even
ing and r. lying very Low. She ID about 80
yean age
An Oil City man named w. p. Brow
nas. or Rowoan Ii reported 10 have died st
the home Of his mother in this county, last
vssk.
Mr. Ceorrs Slower. the foreman Of the
gang Ct men on the p 4 W. R. z. who fell
fruu the rrcks at Ncbley'- Point On Friday
she 9th inst, died on "Wednesday of last
week.
AT the erd of Bcb McClelIasd's trial in
Court Monday, his coussei raised a curious
point He claimed that though the prn.ecu-
tsnr btd rrcv~u that b b .old liquor on the
Diamond i'm Butler, they hxdn't proved that
Butler wss in Butler county.
The property Of Levi, Patterson near
Centervill. has been selec;ed Ne the place for
the n~u Ss-nSi School VI Pn.ersa1 sub
sc-ibed 81 and asked s2)ep fsr the g-rr7i
The committee bsr vsised Sl7 90 in all and
want 70 raske Z m even $2o.0
The pe~ Porsersvil'e encampment. I. o.
OF vii, br Instituted nv District Deputy
Grund Patriarch D r Watson. IN the 2sth
gsA. IL 80 81 x3nr In.
rised tn participate
-Going hosae from Butler on Wednesday
evening of last week. after the hearing OF the
Pesreiis liquor cases. Mr. Bell, the Millers-
town ccr .rsIic is ssid TO have been subjected
To corsid+rahle sbusr. They called him
pretty nsnes, sHd poured whisky over him.
Americans must have their joke. Dur
irg the blizzard in New York when the
s.sw was piled several feet deep on the grass
plots. scrne person stuck mp keep of the
grsEsr sign on one Of them. and other ridic.
alous signs we're set up all over the city.
--According TO the almanac the Sun cross
ed the equator, Wednesday, the days and
nirhts ere now nearly EQUAL, the Vernal
Equinox il upon NJ. and the PEOPLE Of the
Western States hold themselves In readiness
70 dive in'e their tornado holes" xt . mo-
Dents warning.
-Durisg the late snow storm there were
Fifty "desd" lccc motives on the tracks Of the
p r r., between Philadelphia and New
York, and on Saturday Of last week there
were twenty five thousand cars of freight on
the trseks in and about Pitmburg. These
were all started East daring the 6rst part Of
this week.
a. l.
sdveSsi~ed in the CITIZEN ;be merits of an
article he WAS introducisg In this c0mmunitv.
One Of cur subscsibers In Ohio saw the ad-
vsrtiseDent aud wrote regarding il, and has
taken the erency and has sold quite q num-
her Of the articles Advertising pays and the
best mediun through which to do il in this
counfy is THE BCTLER CITIZEN.
The Hart brothers Of this place are
drilling IN the John II. Mahon farm, on tha
line between Clinton and Niddlesex tups.
They reaches the hundred foot" last week
since wbi-h time the we'll has been
fcuirR about ten barrels dav, but they are
now drilling deeper. Hart Il tonkle drilled
thrse wells IN tha: vicinity thirteen years
ago. and rot snme oil and . great deal Of gas.
ard it is believed that there Is a good oil
fsld in that neighborhood.
I'm the Allegheny county Court on Mon
dey aod Tuesday Of this week l79 Applicants
Ew lieucr license were examined. many Of
whom ack ksowiedged TO having sold m Sun
day. In nine cssss out Of ten the applicants
swors they feed people. The majority swore
- feeding over one hundred people per day
a eare:ul calculation places the number ut
is.su2 people fed daily Ia the First. second
aad Third wards. not counting members Of
SaDiiier er the large hotels aud if the proper
sion keeps up, over four hundred thousand
people Will be shown to be fed by small no.
tsls and .e-tauraau ia Allegheny county
every day.
Two of laS; weeks jnries were on; all
night. The first was the jury the shoot
ing affair up the 5henAugo X. r.. which
happened some tiIn- ago. OF thi. Jury a
sninorify were in favor of f'uuishiny the man
0bo used his pistol 80 rick Iessly. but after a
confinement Of twenty-five hours they gave
in 70 the m~j"rity and put part Of the cots an
the X x Co The s-cond Was the jury ia
the cas> sf the Gonna n~esita " Albert
EIeberiinr where = min .rity probably had
sons doubts ~. ~ the mans guilt and favor.
81 acquif.1i. hut who after being penn-d up
over tw~n'y four h.ur- gave in to the o,hers
AID sgrs~d TO verdict Of guilty. wh-ther
or no f.rcisg q jury to agree. after they re.
port that they Cannot agree, Is in the interest
justice - question.
Mr. w II Ritter has returned from the
East after 30 ev~utiui hopping tour. tie
len tosn Gu Monday morning of last week
sud bic fret long stop was AZ Harrishurg.
Ireedsy When the blizzard WAS rayioY l.,