Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-01-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Red neckries and white enamel shirt
studs are fashionable.
Butler Presbytery met at Grove City
Monday.
| Wonder what has become of the
| Soldiers monument fund.-
A gold coin depreciates 5 per cent of
value in sixteen years of constant use.
Edison is q wonderful man, but he
can't invent a new excuse for being out
late.
| The fremen will hold carnival in the
Armory building, beginning next Tuesday
evening.
We direct attention to the card of the
Harrisburg Telegraph one of the bright est
newspapers in the State.
-Tnc new Opera House is a success.
The view from all the seats on the floor is
| perfect. but that from some of them in the
| gallery is not so good.
-Messrs Ritter & Ralston had the con-
trac. for the carpeting and mating of the
| new Opera House, they being the lowest
bidder, and by working all night had the
room ready for the opening performance of
next evening.
AT congregational meeting of the
| English Lutheran Church of this place,
held last Sunday the Rev. Enoch Smith of
Bethlehem, Pa was unanimously elected
its Pastor, and call has been forwarded
him by the Council of the Church.
The Y. NJ. G. A. will hold reception
| on New Years day from 3 to 10 pm. in
their rooms in the Reiber Building.
musical program will be rendered and re-
freshments will be served by the Ladies
Assisting Committee. A cordial invita-
ton is extended to all young men.
Squire Bopp, of Allegheny, the maker
Of 101 hangman's ropes and the witness of
~ executions thinks hanging much more
humane than electrocution. He makes
his ropes three-eights of an inch thick, and
uses 112 strands, divided into four divisions,
says his ropes will hang man that weighs
500fbs., and advocates giving man two
and half feet of Drop
Christmas was celebrated in all the
churches in Butler. At the Presbyterian
an immense crowd assembled in the church
room on Christmas evening. The pro-
gramme was chiefly filled by the children,
and tableaux were the feature. Perhaps
the most enjoyable part was an instru-
mental trio by DR.. J. T. Balph and his
two daughters. At the Methodist Church
all was candy, good feeling, music, prayer,
and recitation. 1t was enjoyed by all of
the hundreds present. The English and
German Lutherans had elaborate and
exte ensive programs and their decorations
were beautiful. At the U. P. church the
usual treat was provided. The Catholic
churches paid as usual, chief attention to
the music, which was very fine.
1t may not be enerally known that
silver has lately been found in Scrubgrass
twp, Venango county, not in large
quantities, but in very convenient shape
for gathering it. 1t may be we'll, however,
in order to save rush of men to the scene
of this find, to state that the silver is coun
terfeit. 1t was found under the leaves by
some young men who were setting their
traps in an out of the way place, about
halt mile west of the stone Presbyterian
Church, and near what is called the "In-
dian Rock" About $21. in halves and
quarters was found, and it is supposed to
have belonged to men who formerly lived
in the neighborhood, one of whom was
sent to the penitentiary for dealing in such
stuff, and another accepted Greely's ad-
vice, 'Go west, young man, go west" C.
"A company of capitalists are at present
boring an immense tunnel from o point
along the Niagara river below the Falls,
through the solid rock under the town,
distance of mile or two, to point under
their property along the river above the
Falls, and at that point they will sink an
immense shaft and put turbine wheels into
it which are to be moved by water from
canal leading from the river above. By
SO doing they expect to gain force equal
to that of 100, 900 horses; with which they
will operate an electric plant capable Of
lighting all the cities and towns of the
United States, and also a compressed air
plant capable drumming all the engines
within distance of a hundred miles. 1t is
the reatest and most expensive enter
prise at present underway on this conti-
nent, and ifit is successful will revolution
ize the light and motive power business
of the country.
Few public events have been more
successful and gratifying to its promoters
than the opening of the Opera House, last
Wednesday night, by the Elks. The play,
"a Knotty Affair" was all that could be
desired, and the large number present ex-
pressed the greatest satisfaction at the sp-
pointments and fittings of the house. The
arrangements were perfect, the ushering
being done by herd of handsome "Elks,
and their work was done with the care of
'~s~'"Ao' luz OiOuCctla was, uuucI tut
leadership OF Prof. Lamb, and the music
was a prominent and most enjoyable
feature of the affair, and will prove great
attraction to the Opera House. There
was some great "hustling" done by the
contractors in getting the House in order
for the Wednesday night opening. Mon
day showed huge uncarpeted room with
everything in disorder, but by day and
night work, and united and determined
affort the Schenck Broth ers, and the others
engaged, succeeded in having things in
apple pie order by Wednesday evening.
The police OF Pittsburg and Allegheny
were kept busy on Christmas day on ac-
count of the number of quarrels, and these
were mostly due to drunkenness. Half o
hundred men were locked up for assaults
some of whom the police expected to hold
for murder. There was, also, one suicide
A German girl living at Fl. B. Boyd's
house on Beuna Vista St., Allegheny, CON-
mitted suicide by hanging herself in the
laundry, after failing to do so by slashing
her wrists. Her case seems to have been
one of religious fanaticism, as she was in
the best of spirits the previous evening,
visited her frieuds q nd m al n thar, nrasants