Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-12-27
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.
Daniel Gregg, aged 20 years, of nea
Grove City, fell dead last Thursday.


Daniel Gregg, aged 20 years. of near
Grove City, fell dead last Thursday.
Alfred Almstead and Wilson Morse
were struck by train, near Freeport, and
both badly hurt.
After a heated discussion lasting for
nearly twelve hours, the Steubenville
Presbytry decided for revision.
Rev. Johnston, presididing elder of the
N. E. Church at Blairsyille, Pa. suddenly
became insane last week.
Mrs. Arthur Dumnout, wife of a French
glassworker of Tarentum, ran away with a
young glassworker named Camille Demau-
emil last Thursday. Detectives Coulson
and Demmel arrested the pair at Union
station, in PittSburg. in the afternoon, as
they were about to depart for the East.
At the Central station the runaway wife
positively refused to go back to her husband
and clung to her lover with passionate af-
fection. They were locked up for hear
ing this morning.
Alne Dumnout, the erring wife, spoke
English fairly well. She said that she
had been a school teacher in Normandy
and had married Dumnout, and they had
emigrated to America. At Tarentum she
had met Demauenil, who was sick. She
miniSterei to his wants. They fell IN love
and Dumnout, becoming jealous, ordered
his wife not TO 90 to DemaueniPs house
any more. She then left her husband and
eloped.
So strong is the feeling against toll-g gates
in Cambria county that at Grubtown, two
miles south of Johnstown, one of these
gates is constantly guarded by officers.
Many people have refused to pay toll, and
when the gate was closed on them they
tore it away or chopped it down, neeessi-
tating the guard. 1t is not hard to under
stand this feeling of the people. Few
toll roads give any return for the money
they expect to extort from the public. Be
sides toll gates are a relic of past age,
and should be relegated to the past.
Erie is bothered by person who writes
scandalous letters of the county and town,
without the least foundation in fact.
Maurice Dinstein, druggist of Alleghe-
nv City, felt drowsy and laid down on a
folding bed to take a nap before dinner.
His weight caused the bed to close with q
snap. enclosing him in its embrace. His
clerk was a witness of the affair and went
to his employers assistance but was una
bic to rescue him. He became alarmed
and rushed into the street for assistance.
The services of two men were secured and
il took the united efforts of the three to
open the bed. A physician was summon
ed who found that no bones were broken,
but the shock Mr.. Dinstein received turn
his hair white.
The following verse was found on O
young lawyers desk at Brookville by Q
gentleman who called at his Office and
found him absent:
Whereas, know a pretty maid
Who divers tracts of land possesses,
I'm frank to own the aforesaid
Is worthy of my fond care sses.
Therefore resolved, though love be blind,
For her effects I'll straightway sue.
In other words the undersigned
Is going forth to wit, TO WOO.
The body of Peter Livengood, who was
buried at Johnstown in 1860, was taken
fro.A the vault last Friday, and is reported
to be perfectly petrifed-completely turn
ed to stone. Such reports are frequent,
and if true would be indeed wonderful
Although these stories receive popular
flesh does not petrify-that its decomposi-
ton is to rapid to admit the silica, which
takes the place of the decomposed flesh,
to restore the disintegrating particles At
fast as they are dissolved. 1t is at least
remarkable that no museum has yet been
able to secure, at any cost, an attraction
of this kind
Something unique in mortuary matters
occurred recently in McCalmont township
Jefferson county. Solomon Hines, an old
citizen, who spent most Of his time in the
woods with dog and gun, became alarmed
about two weeks ago on account of the
prevalence Of typhoid fever. One of his
old neighbors succumbed to the disease,
and old Hines made up his mind his turn
would come next. He accordingly took a
mattock and q shovel, selected a spot on
his farm which lac thought suitable for his
final resting place, and proceeded to dig
his grave both wide and deep. After this
he talked in a nonchalant manner about
his obsequies, saying, in his drawling way,
that he really would have preferred TO
live, a while longer, because, as he express
sed it, "a man has such gol- DANCED long
time TO be dead"
As Hines was an exceedingly robust
man his neighbors laughed at his eccen-
tricites and whispered around that ''Sol
Hines was getting a little out of his head
But in the course of week Hines was
down with typhoid fever, and when the
doctor came he said: There amt no use
in running up doctors bill, when a man
knows he is going to die" and not NOR
sci Of medicine would he permit to pass
his lips. In few days more he was dead,
and his body now rests in the grave he
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