Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-08-16

A petition is in circulation asking the
Legislature to pass law prohibiting per
sons from travelling over the public roads
with a traction engine between the hours
of o'clock am and o'clock pm. 1t
j. being industriously circulated in all parts
Of the State and largely signed by farmers
and others aud it is expected when the
Legislature next meets, to present the
names of many thousands of petitioners.
During church services, last Sunday
evening, the fire bells were rung, and con
rregations became frightened and began
leaving the rooms and the ministers
promptly closed the services The fire
| itself was a small affair though it was in
| a dangerous place--one of the little houses
back of Linns drug store The J. >
Campbell Co.-the new organization
were at the scene az soon a. any OF the
other companies.
An exchange says that every news
paper in the State should publish the fact
that burnt corn is a sure cure for hog
GUbltTd " 6hN niNt dicb'h'itb ~ tA'
burning Of pile of corn belonging to dis
tillery at Peoria. 1t was thrown to the
hogs and readily eaten by them. Before
that time a number had been dying each
day with the cholera, but the disease i'm
mediately disappeared. The remedy is so
simple that it can easily be tried.
The public school law now i'll force in
th;s State provides that the use of profane
or obscene language by pupil shall con
stitute good eau sc for expulsion from
school, also that any who shall cut, deface,
or otherwise injure school houses, fences
or other buildings thereof are liable to
suspension and punishment, and the par
ents of such pupils shall be held liable for
damages for the amount to be determined
by the directors and collected through the
court
All through the pike country the Hun
garians and Pollocks We're rioting last
week. During riot at the Moyer coke
works at Dunbar, Fayette county, last Sat
urday ESD Alex Duncan, brother of Co
Commissioner Duncan, who was helping to
guard the works, was attacked and brutally
beaten. The Esq. is a Justice of the
Peace, and also Burgess Of the town.
Com'r Duncan heard from his brother on
Tuesday lie is badly hurt, but not dan
gerously.
The Methodist Episcopal Church and
G.bn,I will nil AZ GltnnarVrnal-
Park on Friday, the 23d of August A
special train will leave the p. & W. depot
at about 9:15 am. town time. The excur-
sion will be accompanied by band. The
park Is in splendid condition, and any
friends who may desire to spend a day
pleasantly will be made welcome. Tickets
for the excursion will be for sale at Jack
son 4 Mitchelrs, J. II. Douglass and w.
A. 0sborne's on the North Side and Harper
Bros. on the South Side, at 40 and 20
cents.
Several more remarkable curos all
credited to the new Brown Sequard elixer
including one Of an old man who had been
suffering from rheumatism for years, and
who, after being treated with an elixer
made from the glands of a rabbit went hop
ping over the fields and nibbling at the
grass. If this discovery is all that is claim
ed for it, if it is going to make all the old
people young again, it will be a sad blow
| TO the undertakers business, and hereafter
we will purchase immortality at the drug
store at one dollar bottle. No case of
dead man being brought to life again by
the elixir has yet been reported
Go away from home for the news"
etc. A Harrisburg paper lately contained
the following item:-The associate judges
| Of Butler county, citizens and tax payers of
| that county, have overruled the law Judge,
who is not citizen and tax payer of that
county, in the matter oI the assessment of
unseated lanls, owned generally by non
residents. The law Judge held that the
commissioners did wroGg in increasing the
assessment; while the associates hold they
did not. As two are greater than one, the
assessment Of the commissioners will stand
and the foreign property holder will have
to leash up"
"A Pittsburg printer, whose home is in
| Beaver, tells the following story on Sena-
| tor Quay: At the close of the last com
| paign, when Quay had been away from
home for a long time, he returned and was
warmly greeted by his old neighbors.
Among the latter was young man, to
whom the Senator sail. "How is your
| fatherf' HE is dead" said the young
man, "he died month ago. lis that soa"
said the Senator, 'Pm very sorry to hear
it," The next day, in walking about the
| town Quay met the same young man, and
shook hands with him again, forgetting
that he had met tho day before, and again
did he ask the question: "How is your
fatherf" The young man looked at him
sadly: "He ia still dead f"
| Butler can boast of several young la
dies who are highly accomplished in the
equestrian art. Their fearless manage
ment OF untamed stceds, in cases of ex
tremity, would put to shame many faint
hearted dolts of the opposite sex, who
would faint from sheer fright if placed in
the same perilous situations 1t hardly
seems possible that these same beings who
| would climb u creased telegraph pole To
escape dimnutiye mouse, will with the
fearlcssness and grace of "a Minerva or
Joan of Arct, whip wild, vicious horse
into submission and then gallop away like
the wind. Such is indeed the case, for we
have witnessed il, and we have no doubt
that they would plung with n light brigade
into the jaws of death" with as little hes
itation.