Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-10-31
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

4 Westmoreiand county school teacher
received the following note from an angry
parent recently: "0etuber the ls60 when
my Boys are Stang away from School |
/ have Work for them. and when they are
home, that is non OF your Business, you
haint rening Ny Silently not by dem SIDE
at my home"
\ Beaver Falls church has chime Of
bells that cost $500. and the congregation
was rather startled to hear "Suwanee
River summon them to prayer meeting
the other evening The ringer had the
wrong music.
Sixteen cases tried in the count of Arm
strong Co. last year, were appealed and
heared at the late session of the Supreme
Court in Pittsburg.
A monster 1agstone, the largest, per
haps, ever quarried in the State, has been
taken from Bradford county quarry. 1t
is IT feet long, feet wide and Is inches
thick.
At Craig's Meadow, Monroe county, on
Wednesday night. young Sam'l NanBuskirk
invited his wife's attention while he stood
before her and fired bullet through his
brain. He died within a few hours, and
his suicide is not yet explained.
A Pittsburg lunatic imagined that he
married a wealthy Allegheny girl last
week. and he had a marriage notice insert
ed in the papers, and ordered swell
wedding supper.
At the meeting of the c. P Synod at
Greensburg last Thursday. Rev. Wilson
of Mt Pleasant created a sensation by
introducing a resolution as follows:
"Resolrcd, That this Synod investigate
the report which has been circulated that
ruling elder of W estmoreland county was
at present living with the sister of his de-
ceased wife, to whom be had been married
10 years ago"
Mr. Wilson further stated that the afore-
said elder belonged to one of the largess
congregations in Westmoreland county, OF
which the Rev. Dr. J. n. Dick was for a
number of years the pastor and knowingly
permitted such a state of affairs, notwlth-
standing the fact that he so bitterly de-
nounced Dr. Ewing for the same offence.
Mr. Wilson held that since the Synod had
decided that DR.. Ewing had committed IA
great crime by marrying the sister of his
deceased wife, and that he was now living
an incestuous life, it (the Synod) could not
therefore in the face of such action, sanction
the same crime (in the eye OF the Chureh)
in this elder and allow him all the priv
ileges of the Church, which action, as the
Rev Wilson decared. would be Furnishing
one person for sin which IN another
person would be sanctioned as perfectly
legal.
The resolution was declared out of order
by the Moderator. This created intense
excitement for a while, the ruling of the
Moderator being deemed arbitrary.
An extraordinary scene occurred in the
Court room at Mauch Chunk Pa. few days
ago a young man who had killed young
woman was convicted of involuntary man
slaughter and sentenced to but six months
Imprisonment whefeupon the aged mother
ofthe girl went fairly wild in her diSappoint-
ment with the sentence, and her attorneys
were powerless topacify her. The unfortun-
ate woman gave vent to her pent mp feel
ings, and lost entire control of herself. She
sprang TO her feet and with arms raised on
high, in loud, shrill voice called out:
"God Almighty, come down and do justice.
| am not satisfied to see my dead daughter
slaughtered in cold blood and him (point-
ing her finger at the prisoner) have only
six months in Jail No! no! God Almighty,
come to this court house and do the fair
thing. OH come down. OH do justice to
this case"
Every time aH deIeHiPt was hauo "
pacify her she would break out afresh and
exclaim, 'Let 60; God has sent me to tell
the truthl'' She cursed judge, counsel for
the defense and every one whom in her
frenzy she thought responsible for the easy
manner in which the slayer OF her daughter
got of She finally sank to the floor ex
hausted and tainted away. A cot was
brought and the distracted woman placed
upon it and carried out of the court room"