Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-05-05

stroyed, together with most Of its CON
tents.-Emlenton Ners.
The slipperyrock Signal of last week
said. "a man named McAndlass, from
Butler county, hired rig at ex-Mayor
Browns livery stable on Saturday and
failed to return. Word IVES received that
the team was at Sunbury. where it had
been abandoned by McAndiess."
A year or SO ago 20 ung welldressed
man hired q good team from a livery
stable keeper, at Rimersburg, Clarion Co.
The young man and the team disappeared,
and on the narrow guage train from But
Ter, north, last Thursday morning, the
Sheriff of Clarion c. sat facing the young
man, who had been captured.
Summer will soon be here; so get out
and get in your hammock; practice getting
in, lying in, and getting out of it that all
may be done with grace. And be thank
full you will not be compelled to wear
those big hoops. Just think how people
would stop and look, if you were reposed
in hammock, enjoying a cool breeze, ar
rayed in crinoline.
| Some engineers in the employ of the
| Penn'a r. r. were in town, Monday, sur
veying around the creek 1t is thought
that this company is contemplating the
building of road down the Connoque-
Messing to the Beaver, 10 connect with it's
| western lines, and thus make through
route for freight via the Butler Branch,
and West Penn to the East.
If farmers had put their wheat into
market soon after harvest, they would have
had better prices for it and saved all loss of
interest and shrinkage. As a rule the farm
er who sells his wheat without holding it
makes the most in the end. There are
| thousands of bushels Of wheat now held in
| the central part of the state which will be
| sold at much less than the price was just
| after harvest.
An exchange tells the story of a boy
| who was sent to market with sack Of
roasting ears and after lingering around
town all day, came home without selling
them. When his mother asked him why
| he had not sold the corn he said that no
one had asked him what was in the sack.
There are many merchants like that boy.
They buy a stock of goods and never let
| the public know that they have them or
| that they wish to dispose of them.
"A pretty little Incident happened
when the Liberty Bell train stopped at
East Brady. A big policemen guarding
the bell saw a mother standing on the
depot platform with her baby in her arms.
He called for the baby to be brought to
him and willing hands soon passed the
sweet little bundle of humanity up to him,
| when he took it in his great brawny arms
and placed the smiling, Growing infant on
top of the bell for moment. Other babies
were handed up to be similarly honored,
and the kind hearted policemen were kept
busy placing on the historic bell the
Smiling cherubs who gazed in innocent
wonderment on the scene transpiIing
around them.-RerieU.
W. Udlu 10 CbluplClC l4Oh-o-
days unless it shelters good wagon, bug
gy, carriage or cart. OF course it is not
necessary that the farmer should own one
of each, but he can hardly get along with
out one or the other. Vehicles of all kinds
are much cheaper now than they were
years ago, and they are much better too,
as far as that is concerned. When you
want to buy one you will of course want to
take advantage of all new stock and get
the best the market affords. To do this it
will be necessary to call at Marti courts
Jefferson Street Warehouse, where ore of
the largest and most complete lines ever
brought to Butler will be found. See
his advertisement in another column.
One of the features of the train bear
ing the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to
Chicago was the four giant reserves who are
to act as the guard for the bell while away
from home. Their instructions are not to
leave the relic out of sight of more than
two of their number at any time. These
four strapping men are proud Of their post
of honor. They, Thomas Gillingham,
William Search, George Matchner and
| George T. Benners, were selected because
of their long service and bravery on the
police force. Chicago will undoubtedly
have her hands full to fiud four compl-
ments to these stalward men in size,
weight, strength and personal appearance
If the four should be placed on top of one
another they would make a monolith near
| ly twenty-five feet high. They weigh half
as much as the yonderous Liberty Bell,
which weighs over 1000 pounds. They
can lift hundred-pound weights and toss
them about as they would dumb bells In
fact any one of the four would probably
make it very unhappy for any relic hunter
or vandals who might have the impuden-
ce to attempt to chip off bit of the old
Liberty Bell.
"A good-hearted preacher met with an
amusing adventure the other day that has
caused many smile among his congrega-
tion and other friends. Like all good domn-
les he is always willing to assist any body in
| uiohOo Oh thio OSOdolOu uC W do WdlhlUR
down street when he saw a small boy tug
ging at door bell and just around the corn
group 'ofsmall boys, apparently in hiding,
watching their companion. Seeing that
efforts the boy was making to ring the bell
were without result, the minister stepped
up to him and said good naturedly: Cant
you ring the bell, little boyl Let me help
you," and grasping the handle he gave the
bell pull that resounded all over the
J neighborhood. Now" said the boy with
fiendish grin on his dirty face, "you've
got tosrdn like the devil; that's the way
we do, and he and his companions disap-
peared around the corner. The minister
was too dazed to take the boys advice, and
a moment later when very excited and
angry woman with red face pulled the
door wide open and sailed out like a cy-
clone, all he could do was to explain and
apologize-an apology that was received
with suspicion.
The recent publishing of the auditors
report of the accounts Of the Overseers of
the Poor in the borough of Butler is excit-
ing some discussion amony the taxpayers
According to the report the receipts from