Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-04-04
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

The Park Opera House, Wilson's store.
Garvin & Newell's plumbing Office, the Of
fee of the DR.. Wallace and the old Wal
lace homestead in New Castle were de-
stroyed by fire early last Sunday morning.
Jacob Bupp, the Allegheny rope-maker,
| is making ropes for the execution of nine
murderers, next Wednesday.
That missing Harlansburg girl, Annie
Pettigrew has returned home. She was
John Deans in Scott twp.
Sheriff Bell, of New Castle, made anoth-
er careful examination of the Jail one day
last week, and found "a files and saws hid
del behind loose brick.
! Congressman Bsyne Of the Allegheny
district, will have opposition for the Re
publican nomination in the person Of
George Shiras III.
Senator Lee, of Franklin, is a candidate
for Congress.
| Adolf Welsh, young machinist of New
Castle formerly of Butler, has invented
new lawn mower.
Several hundred children of the South
Side, Pittsburg, are down with the black
measles.
1t does not pay to give boy drink OF
liquor. Judge White, of Indiana county,
sent "Dick" Lydick twenty days to jail
| and fined him 800 and costs of prosecution
for giving Charley McLaren drink
Messrs. Ash and Speer of Oil City have
been retained by citizens of Yenango Co.,
to test the charter of Turnpike Co. in
| that county which is putting no work on
its road and yet continuing to collect toll.
A syndicate of Pittsburg capitalists has
purchased the timber on 5000 acres near
Johnstown. 1t is estimated that 10000
| 900 feet of lumber will be produced. The
price pail will approximate $3.50, 900. 1t
is the intention of the purchasers to erect
logging railroads through the property, to
construct sawmills, and put the lumber in
the market the coming summer. There |
was never known in this locality such a
scarcity of pine lumber. Canada and Mich |
igan are shipping more timber of all kinds |
in this territory than ever before, the prices |
are higher than at any time since the war. |
No. dressed pine is worth is worth $40 |
per thousand. The trees will be felled by |
electricity.
Mr. Chas Reed, we'll known citizen of
Sugarcreek twp, Armstrong Co., fell dead |
r-bi Ia IN of u &, Ga11 Of
last week. He was in the 68th year of his |
age.
The discovery of rich bed of aluminium |
near Cory, this state, and the formation |
of company to manufacture it, is report |
ed.
An old farmer, named Rahauser, living |
near Beaver Falls, was adjudged insane and |
taken to the hospital last week. His in
sanity is said to have had a strange origin. |
Several months ago he read an item in a |
Pittsburg paper to the effect that recent |
meeting of body of French savants, one |
them in the course of an address to his as
sociates, asserted that by a proper diet it |
would be possible to make hens lay eggs
with colored shells. Now he was possess |
ed of large flock of chickens, and he had |
no sooner read the item than the idea seiz- |
ed him to try the experiment on his fowls. |
aud if successful he would be->bie TO reap |
profit from the eggs, especially at Easter |
time.
He at Onco began experimenting in a
cautinus He con fpad hi m calf m ri |
ing the chickens purely vegetable diet, |
so while he accomplished no result in the |
way of colored gg-shells, yet he did no
harm to his flock. For orange or yellow
colorsd shells he fed chopped carrots, mix |
ed with cornmeal; for red shells he gave |
beets and blood; for green he procured |
grass from a swamp near by, and gave them |
a green grass mash; for purple, he tried |
the skins of purple strap leaved turnips, |
and for pink, he got harmless dye stuff of |
that color from druggist, mixed it with |
-four and fed it to the chicks, but with no |
avail. The eggs were just as lovely a
white, or as pretty reddish brown as ev-
er.
He grew morose, and from hearty, |
bluff, good d-natured old German farmer, be-
came peevsh silent, and ill-natured. One
day last week, however, he seemed to tire
of his vegetable experiments, and mixing |
up strong decoction of cornmeal and
paris green, and vowing that he would
make the hens either lay green eggs or
bust, he fed it to them and killed every
chicken in the flock. After that he grad
ually grew violent, and finally had to be
taken to Dixmont.
| The first snake story of the season comes
from Pittsburg and is as follows: On last
Thursday evening large setter dog be-
| lon ging to to William Hayes, an employe
of the Crescent steel works in Lawrence
vile, died in great agony. For some time
previous to the CANNES demise it had act
ed strangely. Mr. Hayes decided to hold
a post mortem to ascertain the cause of
death and when on the same evening the
dead dogs stomach was cut large black
snake was taken therefrom. The reptile
was dead and when stretched out measur-
ed exactly seven feet in length. 1t was
spotted on the head and tail. II is suppos-
ed that the dog swallowed the snake when
quite young and that it lived and grew
while in his stomach. A reputable Law
renee physician is authority for the story.
Now that the Chicago Fair has been
postponed till 1898, New York is talking
.of holding one in '92.
THEY are telling great joke on cele
brated man, who is.now fishing in Florida.
Somebody told him that green frogs were
the best bait for night lines. He set his
lines went to bed and in the morning
found all his bait squatted on the bank
looking reproachfully at him.