Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-09-27
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Three inches of snow fell on the tops Of
the Allegheny mountains, last Thursday
night.
DR.. W. f. Mccormick Of Franklin, Pa,
committed suicide, last week, by shooting
himself
At one of the churches of Meadyille sun
day morning. the minister said: "The reg
ular prayer meeting will be held Wednes-
day evening. you are not in attendance
I will take it for granted that you are at
the circus
\ wrecking boat, with diving apparatus.
is searching the Allegheny from Kittan-
ming to Pittsburgh for pig iron and other
material, with which it is supposed the
river bottom is lined. Large quantities of
pig metal are known to have been lost;
some of it twenty years ago.
Aiken Thompson of Mercer, has Lang
shan and silver-spanged Hamburg hen
that laid an egg every day for 222 success
i've days, without clucking At this stage
of the game he shut her up to save his to-
matoes After a few days of confinement.
the hen shut down on production.
yes" said the Pnnxsutawny man with
sigh. .this is a mighty awkward season
of the year for Us. It's most too cool for
beer and not cold enough for whiskey.'
And he took a swig Of both to avoid a mis-
take.
\ correspondent of the Harrisburg Tele-
graph says he has seen an ear Of corn four
feet long and weighing thirty six pounds
in Ida county. Iowa. When there is
premium on liars that correspondent should
be on hand
Johnstown's new business directory
shows 50 grocery stores and 81 saloons
open in that place. It's strange that 50
many saloons let even SO comparatively
few groceries get money enough out of the
town to do business on.
Wealthy James Sampson, ofNew Castle,
and his wife, after nearly one years airing
in court of their domestic difficulties, have
reached an amicable understanding. Mrs.
Sampson is to leave the homestead, taking
with her share of the household goods,
and is to receive from her husband the sum
of $2l per month The children can go
with the mother or stay with the father
just as they choose.
Miss Mary Zook, an Amish German girl,
of Wilmington township, Lawrence coun-
ty, eloped with and married her fathers
mill hand, James Cummings, of Geneva,
Crawford county. The rules of the Amish
church forbid the members marrying out
side, and this act banishes Mary from COM
munion, which is the principal source of
distress to her people.
The Crdgtord journal says: that about
half the wooden bowls sold in the United
States for the past fifty years, have heen
made at Townville, Crawford County.
The Meadville Gazette rather cynically
remarks: Miller q Sibley have engaged
the celebrated horse trainer Stinson, at a
salary of $4,000 year That is more than
any school teacher in the universe is get
ting. A horse is worth more in the mar
ket than a man, and very few parents ex-
pect as much financial return from a boy
as they do from a standard bred colt. Pos
sibly it is because they realize the differ
ence in the sires.
The Grand Jury of Wayne county have
created a regular sensation by bringing in
a presentment against the Warren County
Fair Association, for permitting gambling
on the fair grounds. The preSentment re-
cites that the ground had been leased for
wheels of fortune, chuck-a luck, &c, and
requests that the Court direct such pro
ceedings as may result in the arrest and
punishment of the officers of the Associa-
tion.
A live stock train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was wrecked recently at Pome-
ROY. and car containing ninety nine pigs
was torn open and the pigs allowed to es-
cape The porkers galloped through fields
and meadows for miles, and the mystiied
residents conclued that there had been a
shower of pigs. The next morning the
railroad hands were set to work and after
securing the country succeeded in recov-
ering every one of the truant ninety
The funniest incident of the season, for
those who are noC directly interested,is the
big feud that has been started in the town
of Manchester. Ohio, over the award at
the county fair for the ''best loaf Of salt
rising bread" There were two hundred
competitors, and the regular judges feeling
themselves uneqal to the task, appointed
a committee to decide. Whether the com
mittee severally cut and sampled each one
of two hundred loaves is not known, but
they finally made an award, and the fun
began. 1t was discovered that one of the
committeeman was relative of the sue
cessful bread maker, and the kick that was
made caused n new deal. Then all awards
were declared off, and the bread premium
of fifteen dollars was thrown out entirely.
But the competitors were going to stand
any nonsense like that. Finally they came
to blows and now the whole neigborhood
is in ferment Old friends do not speak.
The children of quarreling families fight
each other in the streets, and the disturb
ance has got into politics and even into the
church One wedding, to have occurred
soon, has been permanently postponed.
There are factions in the schools and whole
classes make faces and spit at each other.
So serious and and widespread is the trou-
bic that it is said there will no fair next
year. .'What fools we mortals be!'
By the action of the Pardon Baard at
Harrisburg last Thursday B. /. Brady of
Venango Co. was set at liberty and walked
through the exit of the Western Peniten-
tiary a free man. Barney who had been
the organizing agent of a number of Bo-
hemian Oats companies, was convicted at
the January term in that county on Il
charge of conspiracy, the prosecutor being
Sebastian Wilcox, of Sugarcreek twp, who
had given Judgment note for oats to an
association formed by Brady and others,
and which had stipulated to buy from him
double the amount of oats purchased by
him. but failed to do So Messrs. W. II.
Cowan, Chas. Keyes, a. p Miles, VIM.
Crispen and John Duncan, all citizens of
good standing and of business experience,
were members of the association and were