Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-06-12

| friday Evening at d.0U, ana on Saluruay
afternoon at ? pm.
Lightning killed two head of young
cattle for DR.. Hoover on his farm near
North Washington, last Tuesday; and
Matthias Bennett of Worth twp. had
eleven sheep killed.
Gen. Wiley, commander of the second
brigade n. G. P. has changed the location
of the site for the brigade camp from Ell
wood, Beaver county, to Arnold station on
the Allegheny Valley r. r. about 10 miles
above Pittsburg.
AT Communion services in the Presby
terian Church, at Centreville, Sunday,
seven werei admitted on confession and
two on letter The communicants now
number 22j, and the congregation about
400
The house of Monroe Donaldson of
Concord twp. was consumed by fiIe last
Friday noon. 1t caught from spark on
the roof, and tie family had time to save
most Of their furniture. Insured for 5000
in Excelsior Mutual of North Washington.
The greatest shipment of coal ever
made from Pittsburg was started down the
river Monday. During the day 92 steam
ers having in tow 156 coal boats, 524
barges, 2S model barges and 102 flats, all
loaded with coal, the total bulk of which
was estimated at fifteen million bushels
passed Davis Island dam.
The new Presbyterian Church built at
Gallery Junction, is now completed and
will be dedicated next Sabbath June 14)
at IL o'clock am. Rev. l. &c. Keller,
| President of Grove City College, will
preach the sermon. A special invitation
is hereby extended to the kind friends and
patrons of Butler to be present.
r. c. YATES,
Chairman of Building Com.
| The suicide of o. p. Hennon caused
considerable surprise among the officials OF
| the P. & W. X. X. He was careless
agent and for that reason was removed,
and the Auditor found slight shortage in
his accounts, but as both his and his wife's
folks are well off, and he had money
enough on his person to make it good
there was no reason for such desperation.
| Il. P. Walker has been appointed O
Notary Public and has an Office at his
dwelling house on Centre Ave-, S. S. and
at Postal Telegraph Office near the Post
office, where he will do acknowledging
and qualifying to oil papers as usual, and
will make out and execute Pension Papers
The postoffice department has adopted
designs for the new postal cards. There
are two sizes, one larger than the present
MANILA, and the printing on the address
side, including vignette ofGeneral Grant,
in the upper right hand corner is brown,
while the smaller one, which is white, and
is intended especially for ladies, has almost
the same design on its address side print
| ed in blue.
The Jr. 0. Z. A. NJ. meeting at Cen
treville, Monday, was well attended. State
Couns elor Collins presided, and Deputy
State Counsclors Morgan, Sechler and
Leighner were present. The procession
| numbered some three hundred and was
headed by the Harlansburg band. 1t
marched to the Normal buildings and hap
pened to be there just in time TO assist in
putting out the fire. The meeting and
banquet were in Ramsey's hall. and both
were enjoyed by all The lodge in Centre
vile was organized but two years ago, and
now numbers 100 members
AT the meeting of the school board
Thursday evening it was decided to elect
| teachers and Janitors on the 22d inst, and
Mr.. Robinson named the committee as fol-
| lows: Repairs-C. NJ. Heineman, Geo. Ket-
ter and l. J. McCandless; Supplies-Alex
Mitchell, X. Ii. Pillow and Ira McJunkin;
Text Books-S. r. Bowser, John Findley
and DIR. S. Graham; School grounds-H. H.
Goucher, J. e. Campbell and Geo Shiever;
Building-L. O. Puivis Alex. Mitchell;
J. NJ Galbreath. special committe con
sisting Of J.. o. Purvis, Alex. Mitchell and
Ira McJunkin was appointed to consider
the advisability of fitting the Jefferson
street school building with the Smeed heat
ing system.
The cool weather of last Saturday and
Sunday started folks talking of the wealth
er in years gone by and one lady told
us Of tie spring of 1s43, which was a very
forward season, with everything doing
well, till the night Of June I'd when it sud
IDENTIFY got cold and next morning, June
Sd, several inches of snow fell The apple
trees were laden with fruit, well advanced,
and this with the additional weight of
snow, broke down many of the trees, and
yet ii did not freeze and they had plenty
of fruit that year. That was in Cranberry
tsp. 1854 was known as the dry summer,
when everything was parched, and 1855
was the wet summer, not that it was par
ticularly wet that year, but it was wet
enough to make everything do well, for
which people were thankful The spring
of 1856 was also very forward one, and
by the 1st OF June the strawberries in
many parts of the country were ripe, but
on the first Saturday afternoon of the
month wind set in from the north so cold
as to drive men in from the fields, and that
night it froze hard When the sun came
out next morning everything turned black
t-almost all the grain and fruit was ruined
and there were many sorry hearts and sad
faces at church that day. A few days after
another frost took what little had escaped
the first one. Some amusing stories are
told Of the "great frost" A farmer who
lived few miles north Of Butler had a
grudge against neighbor named McCand-
less and the first thing he said after view
ing a ruined grain field Of his own was,
''Thank God, McCandless' will be killed
too" The corn that year down about
Zelienople was knee high excepting, that
of John Johnston, and John had the name
Of being six weeks behind everybody else,
but that year his corn came up just after
the FROST and he had the only crop of corn
in that neighborhood. The dry weather
undoubtedly saved our crops this year, and
though there was a slight frost last Sunday
night, we will yet have good crops Of every
thing this year, il We meat sgitth ~ gsaSs
bad luck.