Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-05-12
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Peach trees are blooming.
The dull thud of the carpet-beater il
heard in the back yard,
DIR. McCandless, of Cooperstown, has
built handsome new Office.
The tulip beds around the Court House
aud School Houses are very beautiful.
"A cattle-buyer complains that the
f.rmers are retaining more calves than
Usual this season.
The Fifth Congress Of the Scotch
Irish Society of America will be held al
springfield, Ohio, May IL to IA.
Walter L. Mains great Z. r. Circus
will exhibit on the base ball grounds, to-
morrow (Satnrdsy.)
-. G. Kelly, of Prospect, and Mr. Tete,
of Allegheny, were buying horses in the
vicinity OF Cenreyille last week.
A fashionable Butler women always
keeps very handsome night gown on a
chair beside her bed to wear in case OF
fire.
An eastern paper published an adver-
tisement asking for the return Of "a gold
watch, the property Of lady with an en-
smeled face.
1t il reported that there Is man in
Bethlehem, Pa, who can live three months
without food. Nature evidently intended
him for an editor.
George Maitland, Of Clinton twp, is
proud of his horses. And well he may be,
for he owns some Of the handsomest
Clydesdales in the county.
The house Of Joseph Gold, of Butler
: twp, was totally destroyed by fire Tues
day evening. but all the contents were
saved. There was no insurance.
The National Guards Of Pennsylvania
will go to Chicago for their annual en-
campment this year. All arrangements
have been made but the date ia not yet set
a. they are waiting for formal invita-
tion.
Why IL 1t dangerous to walk ont in
the early springtimef Because the bull
rushes out, the cowslips about. the flowers
all have pistiIs, and everything shoots.
-On Sunday last eleven people were
immersed in the Connoquenessing creek
above Reiber's mill dam by Rev. G. W.
Davis, Of the Church Of God, Of Institute
Hill.
The Free Methodists have broke
ground for taeir new church on the South
Side. They purpose building a church
32xA with al alcove N the rear Of the
building.
The first game Of base ball Of this
season was played on Saturday by the
Alerts of Butler and the Centreville club,
and resulted in IA runs to the credit of
Centreville and 7 for the Alerts
"A Neadyille lawyer was seen on his
knees On the sidewalk in front OF a saloon,
Saturday morning. p. She bad drop
ped coin In q crack in the walk, and was
trying to recover the Filthy lucrc"
Now that the Worlds Fair is opened,
you can 90 any time you get ready, or
whenever you can ''raise the wind. ,
While there read the CITIZEN which will
be found In the Penn'a State building.
With the advent Of spring comes the
swindlers. Somehow people in the spring
time will allow themselves to be swindled
by O scheme that. at any other time of the
year, they would at once denounce az
fraud.
The Kirmess, produced in the Opera
House last Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings was largely attended and pro-
nounced by many as the finest show that
mas yet been given in the Armory. All
the performers did exceedingly well.
The p. 8. IL L e. r. II. lease of Slip
7eryrock Park has expired aud that popu-
lar amusement place will not be open this
summer. The Park was very pleasant
place and will be greatly missed by But
lerites.
1t 10 said that when BENJAMIN Frank
lin proposed to start newspaper his
mother tried TO dissuade him from il be-
cause she said there were already two
papers In America and there was no room
for another
About $50 French Canadians are com
ing to this country every day; and the
statesmen Of Canada are figuring how long
1t will be before the whole Provence Of
Quebec will thus annex itself piecemeal to
the United States.
The printing Of envelopes by the
government for business purposes will be
abolished September next, and the $780,
900 annually paid for the work will here
after be distributed among the printers
throughout the country
The walters in the hotels Of New York
city struck for the privilege Of wearing
mustaches and whiskers, and they won.
We understand that the walters in the
Butler hotels have no intention of max
ing similar strike, but will adhere to tho
smooth-faced style.
An exchange truthfully remarks that
the homegrown hand spanked, ragged,
barefoot country boy makes better
fighter in the battle OF life than does the
psmpered, well-clothed city boy, the seat
Of whose pants are busted with golden
slipper. Give us the hand. spanked coun.
try boy every time.
The editor Of the Tifton, Ca, Gazette
scratched the following lines with his
poetic pen; backward, turn backward,
o time. In thy flight; give us July again,
Just for one night; give US mosquitoes and
give as the flies, but turn on the heat be-
fore every one dies; bring back our straw
hats and good linen pants; give us c hance
TO live, give us chancep
Use L4NAS' 6AhSAPA RILLA, IT'S
iDTHE KTNn THAT TIrUEQU