Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-09-20
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

\ skeleton with two bullet holes III lue
skull has been unearthed under a county
road at Newbury, Clearfeld county. 1t is
supposed to be that of a peddler who mys-
teriously disappeared in 1857.
A man named Turner living IN
Mercer Co, has, it is said, an old hen
which is raising three pheasants, one chick
and two blue jays, while four garter snakes
crawl under her protecting wings o night
William ]. Fry, young man of Pitts
burgh ras sent to Jail for five days Tor
drunkenness On the day following his
commitment, he was found dead on the
floor of his cell An examination showed
several holes over his heart a.:d blood
stained black lead pencil on his person.
Fry felt deep sense of shame while inn
prisoned and urged the jailor not to let his
parents know of his disgrace. His sense OF
humiliation evidently caused him to take
his own life.
The editor of the Huntingdon Local
Ne,cs was struck with popularity in an
apple handed him by Joseph Mccall, OF
Grafton. 4 bite taken from one side of the
apple was sweet and palatable, while an
other taken from the other side ofthe same
fruit was so sour it made his eyelids culver.
Mr.. Mccall has a tree loaded with fruit of
this kind, the popularity (which he thinks
was caused by grating.
ten year old son of Lewis Worrell,
who lives near Jackson Centre. Mercer
county, went up stairs last Friday morning
call his four year old brother. He had the
family gnn with him and told his brother
he would shoot him if he did not get up. He
then raised the gun, and the contents were
discharged into the little child's body, kill
ing him instantly. The elder boy is fran
tic with grief, and says that he was only
in sport.
Some eastern counties suffered greatly
by the floods this summer Huntington
county has borrowed $40, 900 to be used in
replacing bridges taken away by the high
waters.
Wool thieves have been operating with
great boldness in some parts of Washing
ton county, and some farmers have lost
| entire clips. The mode of operation is for
a light spring wagon to drive up noiseless-
" at night and gather up the wool, which
is then spirited off to some distant point
and shipped.
A new industry in the shape OF a skunk
cry has been started by Robert Hartman,
near Dempseytown, Venango Co. He is
raising skunks for their skins, which now
range at about 81 apiece in the market with
a prospect of an advance in price in the
future. lie began about six months ago
with one female, and the stock has now
increased to IL. As the animal is noted
for its fecundity, the enterprise may prove
to be a paying one If Mr.. Hartman would
come to the county seat he might obtain
few fair specimens for his collection,
though one of our best skunks lately got
away .-NecS.
Franklin, Pa, has a minister that one of
the papers there speaks of ''mass OF de-
composition"
Jacob NJ. Boyle, of Cranberry twp, Ven
ango Co., died on Tuesday Of last week
He was the father of Mrs. NJ. f. McCol-
Tough of Murrinsville.
David Barclay Esq, one of the Oldest
members of the Kittanning bar, died at the
home of DR.. Morrow in Freeport on Mon
day of last week.
A romantic city girl spent several weeks
of this summer in Mercer county, the
guest of a lady friend. She had made sew
eral inc ffectual efforts to get up Irritation
with the son of neighbor. He was not
particularly bold and so one evening, as
she swung in a hammock, she coyly asked
him. 'What is Gods best gift to manF
He pondered a moment, as the rich blood
mounted the fair maids cheeks, and then
slowly drawled out "a hoss?' The young
lady jumped out of the hammock, SAID the
nights were getting damp, and that she
must go right into the house.
At the meeting of the Erie Presbytery
at Cambridge last week, Rev. G. b. Wake
field, of Greenvile, excited considerable
interest by an address in favor of revising
the Confession of Faith. He said new dis
coyeries had been made in science and
Biblical history, and the church ought to
keep pace with the new thought. The old
Confession of Faith suited him personally
well enough. but certain articles, especial
" those on predestinatioE and election,
were beng continually misinterpreted, and
should be made plain and to accord with
their received Interpretation among Presby-
terians. To accomplish this he would IA
vor a revision of the Westminster Confess
ion. but that could not be done without
dividing the church. Therefore, on prud-
entail grounds, he favored new short ad-
ditional Confession, with Christ as its cen
ter.
In Brownsville, Schuylkill county, the
other day, some senseless young man, in
want of lark, soaked a lot of corn in
whisky and flung it to a flock of geese An
hour later the woman who owned them
found them comatose, and believing them
dead, picked their feathers off and flung
the carcasses down mine breach. Dur
ing the night they slept OFF their de5auch,
and next morning were found huddled at
the gate in a naked and prodigal condition.
Our citizens are warned to be aware of a
picture swindler, who may call upon them
some of these days. He has succeeded in
securing $50 from the innocents of New
| Castle as the following ARTICLE in the
| CoardRt will show:
"About six weeks ago a man visited
number of families in the Fifth ward solic
iting orders for enlarging photographs.
| He secured a number of orders. His mode
of procedure was to take an order, then
get the original photograph, and at the
same time secure some money as guaran-
tee that the pictures would be taken when
he would come to deliver. The prices ask
I ed were exceedingly small and many per-
sons gave him orders. He promised to be
around with the pictures in week and at
the very outside not more than two weeks.
| Since then not a word has been heard from
the man, and the money and the pictures
are both gone. 1t is thought the man Sc
cured about $50 in money, besides large
number of photographs Many of the peo-
| pie who invested are willing to lose the
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