Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-02-21
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.


but the schools soon became 50 demoraliz
ed that the order was revoked.
An Irish woman at Everson, Pa, gave
birth to four baby girls, few days ago.
Mrs. Annie Gray and Miss Jennie Ken
nedy, sisters, living at l72 South Avenue,
Allegheny, were arrested for shop lifting
in b. & BIS store last Saturday, and the
officers who searched their house found
several thousand dollars worth of new
goods stored in it.
ON the invitation of nearly two hundred
of the best citizens of Johnstown, General
Hastings and wife visited that town a few
days ago The people turned out by the
thousand to do honor to the man who
spent nearly three months of incessant
labor in their behalf at time when they
most needed assistance. Speeches were
made commenting the noble qualities of
the General and denouncing the under
handed methods adopted to cheat him out
of the delegates from the county. The re-
ception clearly indicated that at least nine
out of every ten inhabitants of the Cone
maugh valley were the warm friends of
General Hastings determination was
manifested to right the wrong and the
right men are at the head of the movement
to make the effort successful.
That the sheep breeding and wool grow
ing interests of Washington county are in
a fourishing condition and likely to con
tinue to be well cared for, is shown in the
reports submitted at, and the proceedings
of, the annual meeting of the National De
laine Merino Sheep Breeders Association.
The harmony of action and unity of inter
csts that prevail among the breeders are
sure to bring about profitable results and
Washington county will continue To main
tain her reputation as a sheep raising and
wool growing district.
\ Natrona man has received a letter
from New York green goods man. AZ
ter citing the hardships of a life without
Doodle, and plenty of it at that, the writer
goes on to explain his way of doing bust
ness, inviting the Natrona gentleman to
call on him at New York. '.When you
arrive here" says he, II will show you my
entire stock and you can make your own
selections. Ifmy goods are not rs 7 claim
| will give 81 900 in gold Ny price list
follows: $500 gets So, 600, $iO0 gets 81, 600,
$3.50 gets $40. 600 or | will agree to give
he exclusive State right
The writer then goes on to warn the
Natronite not TO address him bat 1T the
;ame time gives Instructions how TO com
nunieate by sending a telegram to &C.
:" Adams street, Hoboken n. j., and
,lso giving him a password.
Samuel Roop, the teacher recently ap-
pointed by the School Directors Of Clay
mont, Pa, to take charge of the school Mt
hat place, has introduced some novel
Methods of punishment TO control the wild
md unruly boys that come to him for in
truction He does not believe in the use
# the rod but some of his methods ofpun-
shment are hardly less severe
He found that the use Of profane Ian
yuage was general among the boys who
ttended his school, and he determined to
,ut stop to it. Any boy caught swear
ng is now brought mp before him and after
chool his mouth is washed ont with a
ponge and water, and after that the te lch-
II scrapes the swearing tongue with a
lnife. Nearly every night after school
loses Teacher Roop has half a dozen or
more mouths to wash out and tongues to
crape, and one of the Directors says: The
practice is working we'll and the new
eacher gives satisfaction
On Monday last Judge Mehard, of Mer
GER county, granted ten licenses and re
used seven. Eight of the houses licensed
Ire in Sharon and the other two at Sharps
vile. All the Greenville applications
we're refused.
eve have 20S bones in our body" said
/ teacher of physiology in Il twentieth
street Philadelphia school. Up went a
land, and the owner, little girl, said she
lad 209. GLOW is that p asked the
teacher "Why, swallowed ish-bone,
Charles Harvey, a wealthy farmer, of
Midway, Washington county, has been
sued for $40, 900 damages for alternating the
affections of the wife of William Ii. Meyers
4 well l-known box maker, of Pittsburgh.
The suit has been entered in the Wash
ngton County Courts, and will be tried at
the next term.
Harvey is over 60 years of age, and is
w Washington county In the bill filed by
Meyers he alleges that Harvey visited his
home on Jones avenue several times dur
ng his absence and succeeded in enticing
old Mrs. Meyers from her husband.
Harvey makes Il general denial of the
charges, and says that Mrs. Meyers came
10 live with him because her husband
treated her cruelty
The will of the late George Wilcox has
uhJ DceH uleu Ill lnc DTuulOIu county
court. 1t is a remarkable document He
left a fixed sum to his grandsons on condi-
ton that they support the Democratic
ticket, State and National. His grand
daughters in order to inherit any of the
wealth must either marry Democrats or
remain single; failing this theif interests
in the estate is forfeited. The deceased
lived and died in the Democratic faith.
Rev. L. X. Black, of the Disciple church,
n ew Lisbon, o., had an experience Sun
day evening which he is not likely to for
get. lie was preaching from the text
Excuse Ne" and was enumerating and
trying to explain away the various excu-
ses for not go ing to church. The parable
Of the rich mans feast furnished iilustrat-
ions. When he came to the excuse, '.No
good Clothes" he grew eloquent on the
responsibility Of poverty, and warming to
his work made this remarkable statement:
"God knows you're welcome to come to
this house without any clothes" There
was first blank stare, then broad grin,
a snicker in the back seats and at last
roar that would have made first class
comedy company feel proud.
The Markets.