Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-11-26
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Last call for cleaning Main ct. the
weather closes in hard next week.
The employees of the Bottle Works |
were paid in gold coin, last Saturday |
night.
The first Ward Hose Co. has engaged |
the Boston Symphony orchestra for ben
eft concert on Dec. 10Th
With nothing else OF consequence now
to a.'ract attention, the weather man
threa. IL to turn on winter.
1t is said the best way to manage |
those who are impudent to you is to shun
their society.
The average man thinks his reputation |
as kind father has been firmly establish |
ed if the baby should cry to come to him. |
The man who didn't win his election |
bets ia at loss to know how his judgment |
wa; 20 much at fault There are Others. |
1t is said that the new railroad bridge |
or visduct over the Allegheny river at |
Denny Station is to be l25 feet above the |
level OF The river.
"A correspondent of 6 local exchange |
remarks: We fourisbed under the Nc |
Kinley bill; Now we shall flourish under |
Bill Mckinley.
The woman who reds the advertise |
ments carefully can furnish her house and
dress herself better on less money then one
who buys haphazzard.
The Elroy Stock CImpany entertain |
ed large audiences in the Opera House |
last week. Their rendition of Rider |
Haggard's "She'' was very creditable one
and was greatly appreciated.
-"Did you know" said the man who
was reading an article about the contrac
ton of metals, THAT clock ticks faster in
the winter than in summer 7" 'No |
never noticed that about a clock. l know
gas meeter does"
-"WeI," remarked the wife of the MAJ
who has changed his mind about being elec-
ted to Office, "y0u have clear con
science, anyhow" al know that" was the
wasn't what was running for"
AT the NJ. E. church. Tuesday night,
DR.. Crawford presented John Vickliff as
the Martin Luther of England. also as the
founder Of the English language He said
that Wicklif had hundred copies of the
Bible written for general use. His lecture
was strong and interesting.
Along towards spring the sound ap-
pies in barrel get few and wet and shiny
and hard to fiud. But il you think yo1
would like barrel of luscious ones next
May pick out some big ones now. wrap
each separately in piece of newspaper,
pack them carefully in barrel then head
them up and forget all about them for half
ayear, says neighbor.
cities for wearing live insects and reptiles
as jewelry is said 10 be increasing. The
latest victum to the fad is the Japanese ter
rspin. 1t is said the little reptiles are be-
ing sent out Of japan by thousands to meet
the demar in Paris and New York. This
can make ii otherwise than unattrsctive
and repulsive
An Illinois farmer, living in Jewel
county, has discovered that seed corn
soaked in coal oil renders the growing
corn cinch bug proof. He plowed up his
wheat and planted the ground in corn.
The seed OF five acres was soaked in coal
oil and the other forty acres was not. The
bugs ate up the forty acres and never
touched the five acres. 1t ia worth mil
lion If true.
Farmers that feed pumpkins to the
hogs should see that the seeds have been
extracted. At several points over the
country hogs have been dying off by the
hundreds on account OF indigestion, caused
by pumpkin seeds. Cholera was suppos.
ec to have been the cause of death, but a
post, ,mortem examination OF several hogs
disclosed the fact that the stomachs were
packed with undigested pumpkin seeds.
Our grocers arc paying l6c for butter
2Oc for eggs, zoe for apples, potatoes aud
turnips; SOC for parsnips, 40c for beets,
carrots and onions; 3 to SC for cabbage;
l0c pound for dressed chicken, 12 for
tuvkey an1 duck; 81 90 bu. for beans and
hickory nuts; 40c for walnuts 10 TO 12c
Tor honey. Eggs are very scarce, they
are being shipped here from Ohio via
Pittsburg, and are selling here at 22c.
Our grocers are selling IS pounds of stand
ard white sugar for a dollar or % pounds
OF German beet Sugar.
A nitro giycerine explosion occurred
last Sunday afternoon at Millerstown.
Allegheny county, causing the death Of
VIM. Porter. aged IL yeas, son of Pat
terson Porter. q well-to-do farmer of that
vicinity, The glycerine vas concealed in
the woods nearby. as the we'll where il was
to be used was not in shape for shooting.
As Willie was going through tho woods he
discovered the glycerine, and carried about
II quarts 10 the well. not knowing what it
was. 1t is supposed that he tripped and
fell, which caused the Nterrible explosion.
The tncussio1 was felt for three miles.
AT Pitisburg, last Monday, the con
tract for the tea miles Of the Butler and
Pittsburg X. r. from the big bridge over
the Allegheny to the Carnegie Steel Co.'S.
tracks at Braddock was awarded 10 Rogers
Hegqeman & Co. of New York for about
100000; the work TO be completed by Aug.
st. 1897. The contract includes one tun-
mel nearly 5000 feet long The big bridge
over the Allegheny will be over half mile
long and will cost about 100000. The
Shenango and the new road are to be merg-
cd, as reported, on a basis Of ten millions
OF bonds s1d ten millions Of stock. The
main line from Conneaut harbor TO Pitts
burg will he about 125 miles long.
"A very unfortunate affair occurred al
Klingler's elevator near the West Penn
depot last Monday night. Two employees
namsd Hiram J. Hilliard and George wag-
ner got iato a dispute regarding q belt or
some part Of the machinery; Wagner
elugged Hilliard and Hiliard picked uI
hammer and hit Wagner on the head
with it. Wagner iell unconscious, vomited
freely when he came TO, and was supposed
to be in a critical condition next day bu
was letter Wednesday. Hlliard wa