Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-02-27
NE1oHBoRHooD NOTES


A dispatch from Franklin Pa, dated last
! Thursday, stated that Menard Hutchinson
joined the Farmers Alliance with the ur-
I derStanding that it was not secret society,
! and as much did not conflict with his re-
/ hgious belief as a United PRESBYTERIAN.
After being initiated into the mysteries be
/ had reasons to change his mind. and after
I rejecting over the mattor went before the
/ elders. and eonfe ssed that he had sinned
| against the ordinances Of the church threw
himself upon their mercy and asked that
he be forgiven. This mercy was extended
him providing that he recant. which he did.
Rayle township Indiana Co, was the
scene of an elopement last week which is
causing a good bit of a stir. = Peter Rooster
and Mrs. Wm. Smith were the principals
and they left for parts unknown. Rooster
is a man about 60 years of age and leaves
wife and five children, most of whom are
grown, and Mrs. Smith is about 30 and left
husband and five children.
\ leit-handed man was married to left
handed woman by left handed preacher
in Chester few days ago.
Cooperstown, Yenango Co. illustrated
womans rights in a sensible manner on
Tuesday by electing two intelligent ladies,
Mrs. Byers and Mrs Sweeuy, on the board
Of school directors
When Byrne & McCabe, the Pittsburg
undertakers, were removing the remains Of
Mrs. Jane Smith from the Troy Hill
Cemetery to the st. Mary's Cemetery, in
Lawrenceville, on Monday, they discovered
the body was petrified and weighed over
500 pounds. The face of the woman was
as life-like as if buried hardly "a hours,
and the lines of her from still held to their
natural swell and seemed chiseled in stone
Blocks and tackle were required to remove
the body from the grave.
Squire James Kelly, of Huntingdon,
disentanEled somewhat knOtty matrimo-
nail difficulty to the satisfaction of all the
parties at interest. A married woman and
a married man-not her husband-boarded
the stage coach at Cassville and made love
daring the whole trip to Mill Creek. The
couple embraced each other tenderly at
the latter place and parted. The woman's
husband was a witness to the amatory
leave taking. He took his wife home,
lectured her soundly and thrashed her
with the family switch.
The enraged wife sued her husband for
assault and battery and the hearing was
productive of much amusement After the
testimony had all been heard Squire Kelly
arose, and with great deliberation. said:
The. e..verdict Of the court is that the platiniff
retire to her usual place of abode and lock
the doors so that no strangers can be adj
mitted for period of six days: that the
husband, for the same length of time,
board with his best neighbor and sleep in
the barn, and that each party pay half the
costs and stand committed until the SEN
10 l,.aI Iyr~ith ha ND
of spectators nearly raised the roof from
the office by their vociferons applause when
the sentence was pronounced.
The girls of a neighboring town have
formed an organization and pledged them
marry man who is not intelligent, honest,
industrious, good natured, clean in person
and apparel, healthy, sober, and a church
member and total abstainer from liquor,
tobacco and profanity. We are afraid
some of these maidens are certain to live
and die old maids, for only newspaper men
possess all these qualifications and there's
not enough of US to go round
Blairsville has sensation on hand involv-
ing a school teacher, society girl and
society young man. The school teacher
received frequent letters, in which she was
WIFI stIlBuS outEStS. one
them over to her brother, and an inyestiga-
ton was made. The sender of the letters
claimed to be a man, but it was woman
who had been Tilted by young man who
has been paying attentions to the school
teacher. The authorities are somewhat
doubtful if the sender can be arrested for
sending obscene literature through the
mails, but if the postoffice inspector decides
in the affirmative the arrest will soon be
made
At Mcdonald, Station, Allegheny Co.
last Saturday two boys were playing mar
bles on top of q coke oven, one stepped
backwards to make shot, fell through
the charging hole and was burned to a
cinder in few moments.
Banker Zahniser of Stoneboro is under
arrest for embezzlement.
The Whistler House, Mercer, which was
closed for day or two because license was
refused it, has been reopened.
There are two thousand applicants for
license in Allegheny Co.
VIM. Miller, a fireman on the alley
r. r. was killed by an accident last Friday
night.
Four more of the men caught by the
flood in the coal mine at Jeanesville, on
the 4th inst. were rescued last Tuesday,
after having existed without food for nine
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