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MENT OF
Spring and Summer Styles.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CLOTIISJ
and CAWIMERKn, whirl) they rank up to or.
dvr on SHORT J.NOTICK. tiarlor In
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Perfect Natlaf action Always
tsaaranted.t
Dally tUcetrtng til the SotcIUm la -
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Titaavllfe. Pa.
etroleum Centre Daily Record,
felt Ceatre, Dions' ay. nay IS
(aT"Tb time-table or the U.C.iA. B.
B. will be fnnod under tba markets.
Gold 114.
Fcnia.n Movinq. Twenty men left here
tali morolofr, trader command ol Captain
Michael Covey, to Join tbe 7th Fenian
regiment at Buffalo. About 30 men were
expected to join bit command at Miller
Farm and Tilusvllle. There was a large
crowd or tbe friends or tbe volunteers at the
depot to bid them larewell. A company
alio left Oil City toll morning for Buffalo
to Join the 13th Fenian regiment. It teem
'to bopntty well understood by prominent
F jb syaipethliers In thia vicinity that a
movement or the utmost Importance ii toon
to be made, and man believe It was made
yesterday, morning. In regard to tbe latter
report we have heard nothing by telegraph
a yet, but that such a movement is on feot
we have ne donbt. Capt. Covey and most
of hie men are well known In this vicinity,
aod will carry with them the beet wishes ol
host or irienos.
Am Imxcnsi Yiild. The big well on
the Baliall Farm located at Petroleum Cen
to, on Oil Creek, is yielding a large1
mount; of oil than any well In the United
States. A tost was made for tbe tweotyfour
boars eading.et eight o'clock this morning
and by actual ooaut the well pumpe d three
hundred and lerty-nlne barrels otoll.
Pittsburgh Cbieniole, Tuesday.
It bae pumped very near tbe same num
br of barrels every dayalnoe. Saturday
and yesterday the yield was over 300 bar
rels dally, and many tblnk it is Increasing,
There is no falling oft in theorowd of visi
tors to the well. Too Chronicle Is right in
pronouncing it the biggest oil well in the
United 8tatea.
For the last seven days this wall has pro-
daeed by actual measurement something
ever twenty-one hundred barrels or oiL
Tbe governor has appointed Mr. Bobert
Venango county. Mr. M. enters upon bit
duties at once.
There was a large attendance ot citizens
at tbe fire meetlug on Saturday evening.
Tbe only business ef Importance transacted
wat the appointing of a committee of five
to devise means for purchasing books and
ladders to be used in case or Are, aod also
to organize a company or firemen, The
committee are to report at a mooting lobe
held at Subel's Hall, to-morrow evening.
A mad dog was shut at IV at&nivllle on
Thursday last. .Now that we are ezpeii.
euolng sucU .warm weather, wo would sug
gest to tbe police tbe propriety or killing off
a portion ot the dogs tbat are ruaatog at
Inrpe. There is great danger or hydropho
bia breaking out aning the curs that run
our streets, and means should be taken to
alny them. "An ounce of prevention is bet.
ter than a pound of cure.'
Tbe Venango County Commits loner
have decided to build a poor bouse. . We
have not teamed tbe location but have
berd Plouter spoken ct as thawost desira
ble point,
Kjfrfihlng sbeweis to-day.
On Thursday ovcnlnR, May 2(tih, there
is to be s grand opening ball, at Brown's
Hotel, Miller Farm, given by Mr. J. O'Neill,
proprietor. Among the honorary commit
tee we notice tbo names of our townsmen,
R. It. Taylor, I). Yanney, S. A. Woods and
J. Sherwood. The beat of music will bo iu
attendance, and a good time may be antic
ipated. This hotel bat only recently been
built, and opens under the mett flattering
auspices. Mr. O'Neill, the proprietor, it
an old landlord and thoroughly understands
the business In every branch. Any of our
citizens visiting Miller Farm should by 'all
means put up at Brown's Hotel.
A Card. I take occasion' to return tny
sincere thanks to Messrs. E. D. Drake, G.
S. Morgan, G. B. Morgan, Jas. Robinson
and others, for their valuable assistance. In
removing and returning my goods during
tbe fire on Friday evening last.
J. W. Bkattv.
Important to Tax Payers. Tbo Ve
nango Spectator says: The County Treas-
urer commenced his annual tux-collecting
rounds on Monday last. People who pav
at tbe time aod places designated for their
several districts will be allowed an abate
ment ol five per cent. Mercantile and bil
liard licenses for 1870, should be paid at
tbe same time and places as tbe other taxes
are paid, or - at tbe office of the Treasurer,
n Franklin, before tbe first day of July
next. All licenses not lifted on that day
will be sued on tbe second day or July next
without respect to person. St says the
Treasurer.
Tbe discussion of Spiritua Hem at James
town between O. P. Kellog and A. N. Cratt
or Erie, is said to have resulted In tbe anal.
hllationof Mr. Kellog, the advocate 'of Spir
itualism. A new well was struck on Shaffer Run-
near Oil City, a day or two since. It is
owned by'Oil City parties, and is reported
as yielding 15 barrels per day.
Tba Wallace Sisters are performing in
Erie. It Is understood tbat this excellent
company are soon to appear in this place
for a lew nights engagement Tbelr well
known reputation as first class performers
will secure them crowded bouses during
their stay here. .
On Wednesday next tbe M. E. Sunday
school of Bouseville will bold a picnic at
Byndfarm. The Columbia Cornet Bund
wilt be present, and should tbe weather
prove pleassnt the little opes are anticlpa
ting a day of pleasure. May they nut be
disappointed.
Notwithstanding tbe fact that this is tbe
dull season or tbe yesr for oil refiners and
manufacturers, tbe Corry Keroscoe Oil
Works are safferlng no diminution in trade
tbelr shipments for tbe last two months
equaling those of any two months hereto
fore. Corry Republican.
A match game of base ball is soon to be
played between tbe Oil City Base ball club
and a Jamestown club, for a purse or $500.
The gama will be played at Jamestown, and
mitoh Interest it beiag manifested In tbe re
sult. Quite to exciting match game of bate
bail wat played on tbe Story farm, on Sat
urday lat, between tbe Columbia club aod
tbe Alltboute club. Nine innings were
played, the Columbia's scoring 88 to the
AUsbouse'i 25. Tbe Columbia Cornet Band
was present and discoursed some excellent
music which added largely to tbe interest
of tbe occasion.
Tbe oil ware house of Morehouse, Free
man A Crumb, at Cleveland, was destroyed
by fire one day last week. Loss $30,000 to
40,000.
Emlentos Oil Fikxd. Tbe Bennett A
Crawford well, an the Bussed farm, was tor-
nodoed last week. It bad been yielding three
parrels per day, but Is now doing twelve
barrels. Ven angoJSpec ta tor -
The Corry Blade learns that when Jay
Gonld was in tbit section a few days since,
be bought tba controlling loterestjin tbe in
cipient Union A Titvsville Railroad, aod
tbat tbeoontract for building it will shortly
be let. .
A mao whose nome we did not learn was
ran over and Instantly killed by a freight
train on tbe A. & G. W. Railway, near
Bono, on Saturday evening last.
Bead U. Freeman's special notices.
Extensive preparations are making for tbe
meeting of the International Typographi
cal Union, to begin on tbe 6th of June In
Cincinnati. Delegates will be present from
all parts of tbe United States and Canada,
Two ladies will be present as delegates from
New Yotk.
An eloping cuuple on Long Island were
pursued and captured by tbo girl's mother
last week. Sbe pommeled the young man
soundly and carried homo her daughter.
Lemont, tbe Arctic explorer, sailed from
Scotland about a month ano on a now ex
pedition to the North polo lorni the eastward
of Spitsbergen. Th impression It gaining
ground that small expedlllons are more
likely to succeed than largo ones. Sir
George Back expressed himself to thot ef
fect before the London Geographical So
oiety. A lady in Bangor, Me., who directed a
servant to take out and clean tbe windows
in an upper story, was intensely disgusted
when, on making a visit for inspecting, she
lound tbat Bridget bad removed every pah e
ol glass from tbe sashes, and neatly washed
and piled them on the floor.
Terrible as were some of the wounds Of
the rebellion, we doubt If a soldier on either
side was as badly crippled as one of tbe war
of 1812. lie is described as "tbe worst cut'
up man the country ever saw," He was
wounded In the fight known as Perry s
Vietnrv. During the enunuetnent he WUI
stooping to pick up9sonu'thing, when a
chain shot took off both bis arms nnd legs
tbe former below the elbows, the latter be
low the knees. , He afterwards adapted
himself thoroughly to bis shorn condition;
would run and dance on bis knees with
great agility, and taking a stick in his
elbow joint, would fence and defend him
self, parry and thrust, advance and rotrea
with great alacrity. Spared by tbe chain
shot, heat last met bisftte in an encounter
with tbat slayer of millions, Jubn Earley-
A braketnao on tbo Mississippi Central,
while' waving bis handkerchief to a'yotmg
woman by tbe wayside, foil under the train
and was crushed to deatb. Tbe young wo
man appeured before the coroner's jury and
testified to that effect.
When tbo fifteenth Pennsylvania CavaltJ
entered the town of Dnwsoo, Ca., in tbo
spring of 1SC5, among those who welcomed
them was a negro woman, whoso features
denoted extreme old ago. Impelled by cu
riosity, one of tbo 'boys' rode up to her and
asked; 'How old ore yon Aunlle!"
"Well, chile," sbe replied, "I don't 'zactly
know how old I is, but I was bura when
C'lumbus cum!''
The Wilmington (N. C.)Stnr is rcposl
ble for the statement that the names or tbree
gentlemen entered In succession upon a
hotol register la that city, on Thursday,
were Root, Hogg and Dye.
Nashville turns out o "Dirty Stocking'
base ball club.
Yung Can Sing is a Chinese doctor at
Sacramento. ;
A Colorado editor plainly pleads "Gosh
dang itl send us mora airls "
A New York proof reader mentions among
ludicrous mistakes made by printers one
occasion, when Greeley makes use or the
quotation:
"Tia true 'tis pity, nnd pity 'tis true,"
which was rendered by the types;
"TIs two, 'lis fifty, and fifty 'tis two."
Mr. Greely Is said to have indulged in
some profanity on reading tbat proof.
At Lawrence, Kansas, on Sunday, while
a minister was holding forth in tbe cburcb
a ctowd got up a cock-fight in the yard.
Tbe people who bad congregated to bear
"the word" went out to put a stop to the
fight, but waited until the battle was over
before objecting. Tbe minister locked out
of tbe window at the crowd and said: "We
are alt miserable sinners. Which whip
ped r
A gambling den was seized In La
Cross, Wisconsin, on last Wednesday even
ing, and twenty of its occupants captured,
Including, says the Democrat, some of "our
most respectable citizens."
A new painter, Benjamin Constant by
name, has executed a striking allegory.
Fortune and Renown kuooked at tbe door
of a poor wretch, extended expiring on hi1
miserable pallet. Deatb opens the door'
with tbit answer to the visitors, "Too
Into."
A New Hampshire man, who has a nice
sort of a wife to have about the premises,
was rudely made aware tbe other morning
of an attempt by her to strangle him. Shu
bad tied one end or the rope uronnd tbe
bedpost, and putting tbe other around bis
neck, got a good "bold." This rough treat
ment, however, awoko lilm, and tbo wife
insisted tbat she was fast asleep all tbo
time.
DEVII.LB'S Pt.TROt.eCM Burm.no Locc
motivbs. -Twe locomotives on tbe Paris
Strasbourg Railwuy have been fitted up
with Devilla fire boxes and draw heavy
freight trains. They consumo from 3! to
5 kilogrammes fur every kilometer of roud.
i. ., 12 to 18 lbs. per mile; uo rmoUe; no
waste; and no sulphurous gases and odors
In tbe tuuuels traversed.
liOeltl i4ltil!M.
Lard Oil by bnirolor gallon t
uia2.1 If H. FimnMAS's.
Gas Pipo wholesale and retail at
H. Frkkman'8.
Nails wholesale and relntl at
II. Fmskmas'sj.
The largest stock or Gas Pipe in town at
II. Frkkman's.
We would call the attention ot our busi
ness men to the superior styles of job printi
log, both plain and fancy, at present being
turned out from this office. We sre prepar
ed to execute job printing of every descrio
tion in the latest and most fashionable style
of the art, and at reasonable rates. tf.
Soda Water and Ice Cream at J. W. Beat-
Buy tbe "Red Hot" Saddle, manufactured
in Titiisvllle expressly lor tie oil country
udapted to all kiuds or weather, at J. it.
Kron's. al2-tt
liifriigcmena Notice.
The subscriber bus learned that a certain
firm tn Titnsville, known as "Bryan, Dil
lingham t Co.," have commenced the man
ufacture of Suc'ier Rods with Socket Joints'
This is a Dire t Inlringeuient on his Rights,
as his claim is "connecting two sections of
rod by means of wedges, wedging sockets,
and double coupling bolt." Ilo does not
specify uny particular shaped wedge, nur or
what material it shall be made. All rods
made as above described outsido of his man
ufactory, are direct inliiugenu nts. This,
berefore is to
CAUTION OIL OPERATORS,
and all others, against buying or using sny
rods so made, except those of bis manufac
ture, as by so doing tbey will lay them
selves liable, aud will be dealt with accord
ing to law.
WM. J. INNIS.
Fioxbkr, April 9th, 1870.
Cold is a word wbicb Codiugtou & Corn
well propose render obsolete. For modus
eperatuli call and see them. marct,lutf.
Gold Fisb, Gold Fish at M. S. Simmon's
Drug Store.
Sparkling Soda Water at M. S. Sim
mon's, nil tf.
All kiuds foreign fruit at Felter, Fenncr
& Co.'s
Another fine lot of Plants at d Roses re
ceived to-dty at M. S. Simmon's, ml.tf.
Just received a large and well assorted
stock of shelf hardware at J. Rntherlord's.
tf.
Soda Water and Ice Cream at J. W. Eeat-
ty'-
Sosh, Glass, Doors. Putty Ac. Large
stock very cheap at the Furniture Store.
, tnlU-tf
I AUakindsaruign fruUt at Felter, Fenser
t Cos . V
. Fine assortment offjip'er and Cloth Win
dow Shades' add Fixtures, just ree'd at
u8il. Gripfks Bros.
SPECIAL NOTICE
The largest and finest stock
of Family (groceries, ever
brought to Petroleum Centre, is
now being received and offered
at heavily reduced prices.
These goods are bought in New
York at the piesent low prices
for cash, and we propose o let
our friends and patrons have
the benefit of low prices.
Parties wishing to buy choice
groceries at very low figures
will do well to call on us before
purchasing elsewhere.
8CIIOM1L071& WI G.
Soda Water aud Ico Crom at J. Vf. Dcat-ly's.
Soda Water and Ioe Cream at j7w u,,.
' . p27-'i.
Canton Kittim These celebrated hit
tere are recommended by physicians as far
ant erior to nny In use, They ere pleasant
to the taste and contain medical Ingredients
ltlnclnathem at toe hearinf.n i.i,. "
ufnottired. Try a bottle, tbey are for sals
at (be Drug Stoe of Grieffis Rio .'
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All kinds foreien frnltji l p.ii..
A Co.'s ' "UB,r
take: notice.-
PKTROI.RVH CXTnR, May n 1870
All bill, tor TarnadnM ... ...i
old on the tint dav nl J 11 aiiii k. 1. .. . V.'
Samuel Reynolds for collection. Walk ud '
tn the (lAntnin'a n(lle mnti ..nl. ti . "
or tbe Roberts Torpedo Co. ' ' f
ainJi' Ltvi Masu, ai
- Beautiful
Drug Store.
Gold Fish at M. S. Simmon's
Soda Water and Ice Cream at J w o...
ty't. 1
TlIC t'THiUIHS Of lllemliil .n. I .
Codington A Corn well's yard are perfectly
Fine assortment of wall paper at GrlftVt
Brot. .
All klndt foreign fruitt at Feltter, Fenntr
A Co. '1
All stylet light barneiM. cheaper than th.
cheapest, made from Moffat's oak stuck, and
warranted, at J B. Kroo's.
So da Water aod Ice Cream at J. W.Bet-
ANNOUNCE WENT
PRIMARY MKKTINOS, TtIRIAT MAT2 1171.
rONUHCM.
Vt'e sra rinerted to announce th. rme ot Vf ,
J. (tiill'rfttib as a CsndUla!. fnr ni.m erofCnngrr.
from It'. Mill district, anOJett to the iisaa T tli
H.puhicau paity.
Aesetnblr.
YV. .r. .n.tin.t- mA ft. h nm. ... V. nBM. n.
J. 1). Mi'.Intiktii ra a candidal for rrelfctioa t
tli Legislature, .abject to ttie UMjjr of tne Utuk.
lican part jr.
conniMioxER.
We sr. mitl ntii.'U ta annonne the aimr f It. B.
T! f xon. of (Vriip-antfr town-h p, a. a nuididstt fr
County ('ommlMianer, salijorl tn tbe nwi iof Hi.
Republican part; ai til. priutaijr weatiunt.
We aro aullirriao) to annoutic the nam of Vf-
R. I'llrJue. if R) nd farm, as a mndliht. Ik- ( odd.
ty dimmis'loner, .uhjuct lo the usage, of uu Kt
publlenu paity.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
JHOWN'S HOTEL,
AT MILLER FARM, PA,
Just opened. N.w and complete thronctinnt.
Extra accem modal lona (or traa.int and peraia.
lull guest.
I. CN-IIL
mnjrSMf. Proprietor.
For Sale or Trad.
IjORTAftl.R t'Nftmit, nearly new, (complete)
in excel leat older, at half e t.
CMBY, Arettonm,
mm-? 5t in v.
TROT IT ENG.
JUNE MEETING
OF THE
Oil-. OIT"5T
PAEK ASSOCIATION
IM.mlwr National Association
1
Will beheld
Tuesday J Wednesday
JiuieHtli and 15th.
PHEMIUMS $2,275!
FIP.8TDAY.
No. 1. "nro $400 for nonwe owuej in Venas-
ponud frawljrd counties sixty days prerioiis IJ
tlii':cln.liiR ol thaenirii, that lmo never inHteo.
oc'ttor than it.JS. $300 to the Ont, $l3jtotne
second and $75 to to third horse. ...
No I'umo $)0, fir puc r. $17.t to tin nril,
$83 to thcwainiJ, and $40 to th third.
SECOND DAT.
No. 3.-PIU10 $1,178. Free- fur all horses.
to thoftrst, V.o to tho second, $178 e ttie IJiira
and $li0lotlier..iirih.
NoT 4 I'urse (HMIfor horses that have ner
lten 4 1. l ll"0 first, W o the econ
and to tbe third.
All theahovo rares ar. aitla haaas, best tljwa in
livo, In liiinu-ss, nud will lw caa nicted "" '"
ruli's of the NBlioiml Aswielation for the promotion
nrtlinlnleraats of tlieAmurleau trol itl U
horso dlstauclni! the field abiill only be enlitli'd to
The entries w.ilcloso st Oil City on Saturoor
June 11, at tl P.M. jj .tk rhn,1. 0t
All Wines IO no nuurvamvu w
City, Penn.ylvanio. p R T1BKNAN, Prid.at.
A. D. BAiinoca, Bocreury and Trafiir.
inlu td-
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UFI AM, COBBY
CROSS-CUT.
Trains leave Corry.
Express, 0:15 a. in
Mail. 1:35 p. m
Trains sr. at Corry
Mail, 10:40 m
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