Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-07
LOCAL AND GENERAL

March came in like menagere.
Spring poetry has been withdrawn.
-Pittsburg has painter named Lynn
c. Doyle.
The new red-stamp has not yet arrived
in Butler.
And now the New Workers have dis
covered that they didn't want the fair.
Eight men are imprisoned in burning
coal mine near Wilkes Barre, Pa.
A pension has been granted to Catha-
rine, mother of George A. Garner Of Whites
town.
Rhode Island Prohibitionists have put
up State ticket. A perfect example Of
homeopathy in politics.
Butler needs q hospital and if some
wealthy and philanthropic citizen will en-
dow one he will perpetuate his name in
local annals.
When the new minister is handsome
and unmarried there is almost sure to be
revival among the young ladies of the con-
gregation.
-Sunbury Academy has just closed a
prosperous Winter Term, and notices re-
garding the Spring Term appear in this
paper.
There will be services at the Baptist
Church of this place, next Sunday morning
and evening; Rev. John Owens will con-
duct the services.
While Mr.. and Mrs. J. n King, of
Donegal township, were away from home
lately, their home was partially destroyed
by fire,
New Justices of the Peace, in writing
their acceptances must write their names
in full, state whom they succeed, how the
vacancy occurred, and designate their dis
triet.
That season is near at hand when "the
young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of love-" and when the old man wonders
how long this house cleaning racket will be
on.
We are sorry to be compelled to cur
tail our country correspondence this week.
The Auditors Report is unusually long
this year, it came in late, and all hands
were kept busy putting it in type.
Some citizens of Freeport, Natrona
and other towns are again agitating the
formation of a new county out of parts OF
Butler, Armstrong, Allegheny and West
moreland counties, thing that will be ac-
complished when the 'pigs blossom"
--one of our agricultural exchanges last
week, contained an advertisement of th {
celebrated stallion, "The Lord Chief JUS
tice," and one of our county exchanges
started its agricultural column with an ar
ticle on stock hogs and followed it with
one headed "What is model wife,"
-'I believe il impressions" said mar
rs ho ran his eye over the paper. ~ rec
ollect years ago predicting that the little
son of one Of my neighbors who used tt
kick my dog would never come to any
good end now see he il mentioned fol
the Legislature"
The Democratic County COMMITTEES
met in Butler, Monday, fixed Saturday
June Z, as the time for holding thci
primaries, selected Lev. McQuistion, W
A. Forquer, J. E. Bard and JOS Timmony
as delegates to the State Convention, ant
adopted a set of resolutions favoring tarif
reform from their standpoint, and favorin,
W. A. Wallace as their candidate fo
Governor.
Joseph Adrian, q Belgian, who ha
been about Butler for some years, fel
dead in the house of Sam. Miller, on Yves
Clay street, last Saturday afternoon, an
the Coroner's Jury came to the conclusio
that he died of heart disease. He was a
industrious man, was single, and formerl
worked at Brady's Bend, where he ac
cumulated some money, but lost it by tn
failure Of Pittsburgh bank.
Tine clue to the murderers of Mrs
Rudert, of Tarentum, seems to be com
pletely lost, or rather no true clue wa
ever found, and it remains to be see
whether or not murder will out" in thi
case. There have been some remarkabl
cases OF murder coming to light years atte
the preparation of the deed, and the mos
remarkable we ever heard of was the re
suit of discussion over the expression
"mnrdcl will out" Many years ago in
farm house in Ligonicr Valley compan
of women were discussing n recent muI
der, the perpetrator of which was III
known, and one of them, young lad,
repeated the saying ''murder will ou
even though the rooster has to dig it OF
oil the dung-hill." One of the older ladie
OF the crowd combatted the truth of tht
maxim, saying that she herself knew of
case that did not come ont, and during III
discussion she acknowledged that she ba
killed her husband twenty years befor,
and she told where she had hid him. Thi
statement was proved to be true, and ii
woman was arrested, but what W;
done with her, our informant, a lady
Butler, whose mother was one of Il