Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-06-20

about Parnassus on the Allegheny Valley
K. R, and the property will be used for
manufacturing sites. Another party has
purchased property near Rock Point or
the connoquenessing, and propose starting
a town named Ellwood. 1t is said that
they also propose damming the creek so
as to make lake, and building a large
summer hotel.
The new fishery laws of Pennsylvania
| provide that mo person or persons shall
cast, draw, fasten OF otherwise make use
OF any seine, drift net, fyke net or net or
nets of any other description, or use any
other appliance for catching fish, except
rod, hook and line at any time in any
year, in any rivers, streams or waters of
this commonwealth; provided that this
shall not extend to shad, herring or stur-
geon fishing"
A little incident not connected with
the oil producing business is reported from
Murrinsvile. Father Morris and a young
man named Mortland 20 t into dispute in
the church lot relative to some seats for q
Sunday school picnic; the priest became
enraged at Mortland and lcgan using his
cane upon him and M0rtland retaliated
with his fists; then the priest threw aside
his cane and started in with his fists and
as the men are both strong and well built,
it is said to have been a very pretty match,
with the outcome in favor of the priest.
AT the meeting of the Lutheran Synod
at Canton, Ohio last Saturday afternoon
the reading Of protest against the admis-
sion of Will Harley to the ministry created
quite a sensation. Will has lately gradu-
ated from the Theological College at Col
umbus, o., he is young man Of undoubt-
ed worth, bis character is above suspicion,
and this protest signed by his enemies in
Butler, is probably an outcome Of the or
ganization of the Gotta Society by the
younger members Of the German Lutheran
Church of Butler some years ago.
A man and his wife started reces.tly
| with their one child, from Whiteside mines
near Houtzdale, TO visit their old home in
Ireland, and when boarding the train at
| Tyrone, which was to carry them to New
York, thiefEstole.the lady's pocketbook
containing $500, all the money they had,
and the poor people, whose hearts had
been gladdened with the hope of seeing
friends in the old home, turned their
faces sadly towards their little home in
| fIaa rfi old y and Tho fris IN TraIan1
has been indefinitely postponed.
Judge f. NJ Kinlmel, of Chamber
burg, left the following model will: II
will, bequeath and devise to my wife, i.
Jane Kimmel, who has been faithful and
true, all my estate whatsoever, she to pay
my debts and execute my will She is not
to file an inventory, or settle an account"
There is no chance whatever for legal
battle over that sort OF will, and the
entire absence of legal verbiage is absolute
| ly refreshing, considering that it comes
from ripe lawyer and Judge
An Indiana Co. woman thinks that the
crows are all thieves. She says that it
makes no difference where the hen turkeys
make their nests the crows are sure to find
them and steal their eggs. She says that
the other day crow actually tried to
initiate turkey gobbler in the presence of
hen in order to gain the hens affection.
The crow was black, but had covered its
| head with red clay. 1t strutted, tried to
gObble, and did its best to make love to
fiddle on the nest, for no other purpose
than to steal the eggs.
The Liverymens' Union and Protec-
| tive Association, which now numbers one
hundred and eighty livery firms Of West
ern Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.
held its annual meeting at Sharon last
week, and elected b. Moffet of Franklin, Pa.
President and ]. W. Vaughn of Greenyille
| Secretary and Treasurer. The interes Is of
the Association were discussed and it was
resolved that any member of the ssocia-
| tion who should succeed in recovering a
stolen rig should receive 800 from the
funds of the Association. The next meet
ing will be held at Evansburg, Crawford
county, on the second Tuesday of June,
1891.
Some of the Census enumerators meet
with amusing incidents. When one Of
the enumerators of Butler asked certain
lady how many children she had been the
mother Of, she told him, and then gave some
particulars of her Inisfortunes in that di-
rection that are not generally spoken of,
and man in. answer to the question,
Whether suffering from acute or chronic
diseases, with name of disease2"
said: Consumption, heart dis
ease, pleurisy, bronchitis, diabetes, soft
ening of the brain, Brighfs disease, tuber-
culosis, and thirty-seyen other complaints"
He had been reading patent medicine al
manac, and thought he had 'em all
Pension Agent Barclay, of Pittsburg,
says; The appropriation for this district
Is short sl00, 900 and number Of the resid
uary pensioners will not be paid until next
month. There is a shortage Of funds at all
inc other agencies and we are getting our
share. All the regular pensioners will be
paid in full this month. and those who will
be compelled to wait until next month arc
the persons who have been recently added
to the list. The amount placed TO ,be
credits OF this office next month and far tbn
entire year following will be ample enough
to pay all hereafter Therefore the en-
barrassment will be merely temporary
Try US on silks and black dress
goods. We have some special bar
gains.
l.. STEIN & Son.