Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-28
CERTAINLY NOT.
lie could box and run and kick the ball
With fine athletic airs;
But he couldn't heed the family call
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The dispatches from Germany say that
the Socialists elected some twenty new
4 members Of the German Congress at the
' late elections. but just what the principles
ar aims of the Socialists are, nobody here
seems to know.
A year or so ago ". +. Stevenson of
} Centre twp. built a house for Henry Wag-
ner of n Washington ST., and Henry was
50 well pleased with it that when he met
Mr. Stevenson on the street Monday, he
gave him the job Of putting up his new
house on the adjoining lot.
by a recent decision of the supreme
Court. all limited partnerships or corpora
tions that fail to comply strictly with the
Act of Assembly regulating the same, be
come liable for al the debts and obliga
lions, the same as incorporated institu-
tons.
The editress of Il monthly fashion mag
azine says: Mine times out of ten the girl
who habitually keeps her hosiery well
darned will make a good wife" 1t would
be well for the young men who contem-
| plate matrimony to ask for samples.
| The Grip is leaving some of its victims
in bad shape. Al Heck has had the rheu-
matism in his left leg ever since the grip
| gripped him; one of Zeno Ziegler5 legs
swelled till it burst, and the disease has left
several persons in this town with serio US
bowel complaints.
The list of applications for license ap-
pears in this paper. There are thirty ap
plications this year, nine wholesale and
twenty one retail, and the only novelty
| shown by the list is that some citizens of
Allegheny county are applying for whole
sale license here.
The remains Of Robert MeClymonds
who died of typhoid fever at Beaver Falls
on Wednesday Of last week, were buried
at Portcrsville on Friday of same week. A
large number of his fellow workmen from
the Steel Mill assembled at the residence
Of deccased's sister, Mrs. Weymcr. at Bea-
yer Falls and accompanied the body across
the Fetterman bridge.
The paving Of Main street will cost |
about 800, 900, and as the petition to pave
is being signed by nearly all the property |
owners on the street,-bu two or three |
haying, as yet, refused-it is probable that |
part. at least of the street will be paved |
next summer Two-thirds Of the property |
owners and two thirds of the frontage must |
be on the petition to make it legal.
ALI teachers who expect to enter the |
examination for permanent certificates are |
requested to so signify their intentions by |
corresponding with the secretary, W. ?.
Jameson, Baldwin, Pa, at an early date,
as the examination will be held early in |
April, 1890 provided there are applicants |
enough to justify the committee in holding |
an examination; otherwise there VIII be
no examination during the year.
SECRETARY.
On Thursday last, Mr.. John laval
of Leasureyille sold four Of his thoroughbred
Clydesdales, as follows-"Glenree," stall
lion. to Henry Deer Of Butler; "Susy OF
ID "a
Hope; Insurance" mare, to Mr.. Faubel
Of the Hotel Yogely; and Darling Mont
gomery'' to George Miller Of Clinton twp. |
They all brought good figures and the sale
amounted to over $4,000. The two colts |
'fPride of Kirkdubright" and "IIarry' |
were not sold, and information regarding |
them can be had of Mr.. laval.
The publishers of Ow Dumb 4nfmdLs,
in Boston, on severely cold days of winter,
send out youth bearing banner on |
which is the device: "Please blanket yonr |
horses while stopping" When he finds IN |
front Of some great dry goods store a |
coachman covered with furs. and his horses |
standing without blankets, he stops
plants the pole of his standard on the SIDE
walll-a crowd gathers-and the good lady |
never forgets thereafter TO have her horses
as well as her driver suitably protected.
AT the meeting of Council, Tuesday |
evening, it was agreed to hire two men to
keep the street crossings clean; motion
to the effect that the former Borough |
treasurer, Mr. g. d. Harvey, pay to George
w. Ziegler some fifty dollars in his hands,
carried; the time for the organization oil
the new council was fixed for Monday,
March 3. at D. IN; some bills were ap-
proved and some board walks ordered, and
the council adjourned till next Saturday
evening.
DR. Ellsworth of Pittsburg says that
Annie Fish does not show any signs oil IN
sanity and that she is a victim of Temporal
nv alteration of tho mind. Annie was
found apparently uneon sciou5 in u hall
way in Pttsbure, tho other day, and says
she recollects nothing that happened her
from the time she went to bed the preyi-
GUS night to the time she opened those
beautiful blue eyes Of hers, that one OF the
Pittsburg reporters speaks OF, in a hospital.
The dam in Arizona that gave way
last week, thus flooding the valley below
and drowning forty people, is reported to
have been constructed OF wood, earth and
stone. and to have been 10 feet thick at
the bottom and 10 feet thick at the top.
Such dams are always unsafe, the little
hole that a crab is liable to bore through
one of them will start leak that will in
the course of time destroy the dam, while
the circular stone wall dams, if properly
built, will stand barring earth
quakes
The County Auditors finished their
work last Saturday after having been en-
gagged in their examination Of the county's
affairs for forty days. They made q
thorough examination Of every warrant
drawn upon the county for costs In Com
monwealth cases, and they itemize each
warrant in their report, a work that engag
ed their time for two weeks. They are
proud of their report, and claim that it is
full exhibit of the county's affairs, and
absolutely correct. The report is in the
| Courts hands which accounts for it not
appearing in the papers this week.
Some OF the Clarion county people OBJ
jected to the length of previous Auditors
reports, and this year the officers make
their report brief IN showing the oxPen-
diturcs Of the county they charge the
Treasurer with 'orders redeemed $41 900"
This is short enough to suit the hard listed