Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-25

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yer Falls was burglarized one night lately.
A Methodist congregation in Pittsburgh
wants to get rid of their preacher because
he goes fishing.
Clarion county's $40 900 Jail is poorly
patronized There has not been a prisoner
confined in it during the past ten weeks.
A duck got into queer fix near Roches-
| ter Pa. the other day. The ducks of that
place eat the acorns which are scattered
| over the ground under the oak trees, and
this particular duck ate so many that when
| the owner returned form work in the even
| ing it was lyiug PROSTATE, unable to walk
| or quack. He looked into the mouth and
saw that its throat was clogged with
acorns. He tried to drive them down, but
as he failed in this, he cut its head off and
nearly half peck of aeorns fell out of its
body.
While hunting back of DunmOre, near
| Pittston, several days ago, man came
upon a rattlesnake, and as he shot II q
wildcat made jump for him. His dog
| grabbed the wildcat by the hind legs, and
the wildcat whirled and sent the dog away
| yelping. Then the sportsman made
| fierce kick, which sent the cat out of sight
down deep mine-hole.
A Jefferson Co, man has written the
| following for his tombstone
Smile not, irreverent passer-by,
Upon the grave wherein | lie,
| must admit death got the scoop
| And left me sadly in the soup,
But We who now are flushed with pride
Must not this terror grim deride,
For soon or late, We child of sin,
Death and the grave will scoop you in.
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through the village of Woodrich, Clinton
county Saturday, and then hied them
selves to the woods, followed by a crowd
of Nimrods. Old hunters predict bears
will be unusually plenty this fall.
At Susquehanna, Pa, last Thursday
night, Mrs. William Conroy found a wild
parsnip in her garden. She scraped it,
placed salt upon it, ate a small portion
and gave some to her three children and
two children of Martin Griffin. All were
thrown into cOnvulsions. Mrs. Conroy d ed
in few hours. The children were saved
after hard work by physicians.
The work of disinfecting the flooded dis
| tricts in Johnstown was no small affair.
| Tbs dsinfectants used were as follows:
Lime, 20 carloads; chloride of lime, %
tons; Quibble's liquid, /, 600 barrels; rosin,
l40 barrels; pitch, 100 barrels; Bullen's
disinfectant, 10 barrels; Sanitas, 8 bar
rels; cOpperas, 100 tons; phenique, D bar
rels; muriatie acid, 3 carboys; carbolic acid,
100 gallons; sodium hypochloride 700 bot
| ties; Platt's chloride, 800 bottles; corros-
i've sublimate, 166 pounds; Werther's dis
| infectant, 100 pin ts; bromide, 1000 bot
| ties; nitric acid, carboys.
A queer scene is being enacted just now
| in the Reading Jail. Nine liquoI dealers
were recently sentenced to terms of inn
prisonment in the jall for violating the
Sunday law. The wives of these men
have come together and agreed to make
the prison life as can be done under the
circumstances. They resolved to furnish
their husbands substantial dinner a day,
| leaving the prison authorities TO furnish
supper and breakfast One wife cooks and
prepares enough for one dinner for the
| nine men and she sees that the food is
safely taken to the Jail. The next day an
| other wife prepares the dinner, and so on
until all have served a meal, when they
begin anew OF course each wife does her
| best, and in this way the prisoners are well
cared for, the Jail authorities allowing all
| food to be received.
Jacob Meyers, a distiller from Broadford,
| Westmoreland county, accompanied by his
wife and their three or four children, went
to visit Mrs. Meyers father, David Cramer,
| who lives on the line dividing Somerset
and Fayette counties On arriving at the
old farm house, and after chow de-do's"
had been exchanged, the children were
permitted to play in the fields. The older
ones returned to the house for supper, and,
when asked by their anxious mother,
"where is babyi" a three-year old little
tot, that had been placed in their care.
none could tell A search was at once
made Of the barn and outbuilding and the
meadows in which the youngsters had
been playing, but nothing could be found
of the missing child. The neighbors were
sent for and apprised of the misfortune
that had overtaken the visiting family, and
by dark party had collected to hunt for
the lost baby. The search was continued
throughout the nil ght and the entire day
following with discovering the slightest
trace of the child.
A stream running through the farm was
ged Sunday, and the water drained
from a mill dam, in the hope that the
body of the missing little one might be
found. The agonized parents, assisted by
a mum Der of friends, continued their search
throu ghout the week, until Friday noon
when the body of the poor little baby was
found, drowned in shallow pool hidden
in swamp some three miles distant from
| Mr. Cramers house.