Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-09-11
NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.

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The bride explained that her papa opposed
THE marriage while her mama favored II.
The formers objection war principally on
the ground Of the daughter age, she being
10. She retaliaJed by saying her mother
was only 10 when her father married her.
That's all very pretty aud smart, but the
warrant or which she Is arrested charged
her with stealing 8 900 from her father s
cash box.
A green ily. which works on the horns OF
cattle, has made It's appearance in the VI
cinity of Rural Valley, Elderton, in Arm
strong cosnty. A farmer whose cattle has
suffered from the pest says the tiies appear
| in numbers at the base Of the horn, eat IN
to the center of it and from there penetrate
into the brain. killing the animal. Several
| head of cattle have died in that nelghbor-
hood from this cause. Pine tar plentiially
supplied at the base of the horn Will XIII
the fy and prevent others working. 1t Is
no means certain that the pest is confined
to the neighborhood mentioned, and we
advise farmers everywhere to examine the
horns of their cattle and apply the remedy
if necessary before it is too late.
Emlenton is to have an oil refinery, and
| new bank
The people of Norristown, Pa, are
alarmed and annoyed by the spread of the
italian itch.
DR.. James Speer, aged 90 years, died at
his home in Pittsburg last Sunday morn
ing.
The Meat and Milk Inspector of Pitts
burg had quite a number of milk peddlers
arrested last week for selling adulterated
milk. and ten Washington Co. dealers
we're fined $50 and costs each.
| A specimen of that rare reptile, white
blacksnake, was on exhibition at Clarion
last week, together with photograph oil
the snakes eye, in which can be seen dis
| tinctIy the portrait of the man-Farmer
Dulaney-Who narrowly escaped death
from the reptile.
A Swede, Alfred Barkhard, near Reno,
Venango county, was bitten on the fore
finger by a copperhead snake, Monday
afternoon, while turning over large
stone With dull knife the young man
sawed the finger off at the first joint, suck
ed the wound and removed the poison,
after which he captured the snake which
was over two feet long.
The report of the Auditors of Allegheny
| City shows Market Clerk Hastings indebt-
| ed to the City on the sum of $32, 900 for
stall vents.
Meadville has school house rumpus on
hands over the question of placing flags
on them.
A Wheeling woman fired seYen shots at
her husband in a saloon, and hit everybody
| in the room but him. Marriage is no. a
| failure.
! A Pittsburg letter carrier who was dis
charged for alleged irregularity has sued
P. NJ Gilleland and the P. o. Inspector
for conspiracing to defame his character,
and claims damages in 10000.
Yee Chin rich Chinaman of Pittsburg,
believes Yee Tang wants to murder and rob
him, and had Tang arrested. At the hear
| ing Friday, Chin Wee told the story OF the
plot to rob Yeo Chin's safe
A Percheron stallion at the New Castle
fair grounds, attacked Miss Mamaie Riley,
| throwing her to the ground Miss Riley's
escort, James Young, grasped fork and
threw the animal of, just rs the vicious
brute was in the act OF stamping on the
young woman.
A monster locomotive is being balt by
the Pennsylvania railroad company at the
Altoona shops. 1t will be about three times
as long as the average engine, with two
sets of driving wheels. 1t will be used for
the Limited when completed.
A man was lately caught in the act oftak
ing % pound bag of poison to the barn,
evidently with the intent af poisoning
horses. Several days ago five head OF
valuable cattle were poisoned for the Eco
nomities. The case was put in Officer
Lazarus hands. For several nights he
secreted himself in a cornfield on the farm
and seeing two men enter the barn, followed
them. After a sharp fight he arrested one
the other running away He was for sever
al years in the employ of the Economics;
but was discharged. 1t is held by some
that he was hired to do the poisoning.
Other developments will likely follow
While Mrs. David Foster of Wayne twp,
Armstrong county, was out picking berries
Saturday, her little -year-old child was
drowned Before going out Mrs Foster
poured some water into a tub, and while
she was away the little one tried to dip a
tinful out Becoming overbalanced, the
child fell into the water, aud no one being
near to pull it out was drowned 1t was
indeed, very sad affair.
Farmers should not forget that uader
the law they are subject to fine Of $50 if
prosecuted and convicted for permitting
Canada thistles to grow on their premises.
The industrious farmers OF various sections
of the county are complaining bitterly of
the negligence of their noighbors in this
respect, and threaten prosecution unless
the thistles are destroyed.
Be on guard against the Canada thistle
exterminator when he offers to sell you
bushel of ''exterminator" for So 80. Hes
fraud of first water.
AT Prohibition Park, near New York,
last Sunday Rev. Sam Jones reached the
climax of sarcasm on the subject Of Ian
guild, perfunctory sermonzing by saying:
you all know that certain type of
preacher who proceeds something in this
way: "Here am l, Jeremiah Jones, d. D.,
saved by the grace Of God, with a message
to deliver. Believe and be saved, or do
the other thing and be damned-aud
don't care;much which"
r The Hunt Family Reunion.
The eleventh annual reunion ofthe Hunt
connection to the number OF one hundred
or more met in Elliott's Grove near the