J in i -a,'. n Petroleum Centre Daily Record rat. Ventre, Pm., friday, April 86 Virtue Service. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services every Sabbath at 11 A. ' M. end ,X P. M. Sabbath School at 11 J P. M. euts tree, a ooruiut mutation extend' ad to ail. Bar. P. W. Scofisld, Pastor. PRESBTTERI AN . CHURCH. Preach inn at 11 o'clock A. II., and 7, o'clock r. m. D. PATTON. Pastor. Pet rolenm Centre Lodge, Xo T15, I. O. of O. F. Regular meeting Digbts Friday, at 7 O'cioci. Slgoed. ALBERT GLENN, N. G. E. O'Flahbbtt, A Sec'y. Plce of meeting, Main St., opposite McClinlock Houte. A. O. Of U. W. Liberty Lodge No. 7, A- O. of TJ. W., meets every Monday evening at 7 o'clock, in Odd Follow'a Hall, Petroleum Centre, Peno'a. A. Gx.es, M. W. 8. H. Kooser, R. Gold at 1 p. m. 112)$ At tbellatl session of tbe Oiand Jan. on lloaday, it was recommended by 'the jury that tbe County Commissioners be author ised to offer the owners of what Is known as ths Egbert Farm bridge, wbicb crosses Oil Creek at this place, a reascoaole price for tbe same, In order, that it may hereafter be free bridge. In tbe event of tbe afore said owners reluslog to ascept tbe offer, tben the County Commissioners were instructed to build a new bridge along side of tbe oth er one, tbe said new bridge to be tbe pro party of tbe couoty. It was slated tbat tbe old bridge was at least fifteen feet out of tbe road as surveyed by tbe couoty survey, ore, consequently the building of a new bridge would not necessitate tbe removal of - tbe old oae. The bridge Is owned, we be. - Have, by. lbs Maple Shade Oil Company. For week or two put a gang ot ruffians , have been prowling at unseasonable hours4 of the nlgbt among tbe wells on tbe Corneo & Beers, Columbia, Keenan, and several 'arms on Cberrytree Run, evidently for tbe' express purpose of robbery and pluoder. Several times recently these roughs have been caught in tbe act ot trying to get into tbe engine houses in. a surreptitious man ner. We have been requested by several ot the engineers on these farms, to warn these midnight prowlers to keep themselves at a ale distance, otherwise they are liable to "get a new pocket" made in tbeir vests. It would be well for our engineer frkods to be on tbe watch for these scoundrels, sod V tender them warm reception should they come around Digbts. The Verandah Saloon, of which tbose Whole-souled boys, Tom. Walt and Billy Pugb, are tbe proprietors, has recently un dergone a thorough renovating process Irom "stem to stern," and presents an elegant appearance. .It has Jieen newly papered, painted, varnished, and cleaned up, and is Just tbe place to enjoy a good cool glass or lager or ale, and while away tbe happy hours" by smoking one of their fragrant and delicious cigars. That ronowoed mixologist Bank O'Brien, is always at bis post behind tbe bar, ready to wait on tbe patrons or tbe Verandah. Call and see the boys. The Court granted licenses to tbe Collins House and tbe Alpine Hotel, on Tuesday. An Interesting letter from Pitbole will be found elsewhere. A veutrlloqulal entertainment will begiv n at tbe Opera House, lo-oigot. See ad vertisement. Pcmonal Our old friend, Cept l. Jsnee, .arrived In town from his recent visit to bis home In Boston, to day. He is look ing and feeling well. loeoraeroJ tree at aeons counts In Its orgaaiutlon at present every Piinie MlnH- er iu jsur.ope. Fiaa ax Cobrv. a nra brOkA Alii In thm building formerly used by tbe Allantlo & wm western Hallway Company as engioe house and sbop, about seven thirty yesterday morning. It is supposed It was set by Wil der ft Ca's locomotive. It. toon spread to tbe old wooden oil tanks on the opposlto side of the track, consuming about seventy five of tben. Tbe building was totally destroyed, also about one buodred telegraph poles and some coal. The cars were In dan ger at one time, but by the rxertlona of tbe Bremen and citizens were ail saved, and tbe track cleared at 8 o'clock. A New Slilford, Coun , parson, tbe other day, preached a sermon against divorced prsons marrying .g.io, ,Bd , ,DBn tea days married two couples, of which both grooms had beon tHrowed. Letters from the People. Notk. The manager of tbls journal, without endorsing the sentiments of con tributor, desires to oflV-r tbe.wilest possible latitude lor tree Mncnssion. it., is merely stipulated tbat communications shall coo cero matters of publU) Interest, be nut In decent Uuiiuage and accompanied with the names or the Titers, not for publication, out as a guarantee oi goou lane. For the Daily Record. Mr. Editor: A copy or your last Fri day's Issue, containing a communication from A Member, came to band on Monday, but circumstances have prevented an ear lier notice of It, There is so little in It wor thy or attention tbat I will try to be brier. I should net notice it at all, but tbat it gives me an opportunity to make an explanation. There is in it no diiect denial ot tbe truth of the statement I made in a former article. I tail to see, in It, nor, for tbat matter, lo anything I have otherwise beard, any good reason to change the opinion therein ex pressed. He himselr says tbat the cards of invitation were Injudiciously wcrdid. I in fer from tbat he admits tbe fact tbat said cards did not convey upon tbeir race a cor rect impression regarding tbe members' In tention or tte real objecj of -the donation party. (I hope, Mr. A Member, tbat in saying tbls, I have not put an ''injust con stitution" upon your words, nor "paraded' tbern "prominently and maliciously" in a "false light.") If I am right in tbls infer ence, I bave nothing to retract. If tbe statement I made was false, or, it being a true one, I committed a heinous oflVnce in making it, I repeat, I fall to see it. But I may say bete, tbat If it can be shown that I bave given publicity to a statement which is false, I stand ready to make soy admission or acknowledgment of error In my power to . make: and, further, I will use every exertion to bave such acknowledge ment published in every newspaper which can be found to bave published my article or a part of it. I am open to conviction, j shall be glad to be convinced tbat I was wrong, and will labor earnestly to repair the injury. Bnt I may also add, on tbe other band, tbat my article was not written unadvisedly. One of the members of tbe M. E. Churoh of Petroleum Centre, when asked in plain terms, whether tbe money raised at tbat donation was applied to the payment of tbe pastor's salaty, plainly promptly, and unequivocally answered, Yes." A Member will probably find enough to do in settling tbe question at borne. (By tbe way, the name A Member is evidently an alias. Why don't be come out, like a man, over bis real name?) He s ijB tbe money was handed to Mr. Ecbofleld without a slogle word as to bow it should be applied. Was there, or was there not, any thing said about it beforehand? There Is one other matter not mentioned in A Member's article, to which I wish to refer. Ever since my article appeared it bas been constantly alleged tbat . tbat article emanated from tbe Petroleum Cen tre Lodge of Odd Fellows, and they seem to he held responsible tor it, individually and collectively. I wish to correct tbat impres-, slon. I deny it, emphatically and entirely Because I happen to belong to that body in no evidence tbat I am a catspaw for It. I here distinctly affirm tbat no Odd Fellow, body of Odd Fellows, nor any other fellow, bad anything whatever to do with Instigat ing me to write it. I did not write it as an Odd Fellow, nor in tbe interest ot Odd Fel lows; because they contributed tbeir funds at tbe donation, or did not do so. I wrote It as a member ol tbe community at large, considering It my rlgbt and my duty, as it Is tb at ol every man, to expose and eon demo tbe wroog, even though be find It in tbe church; and tboso who know me beat, know whether I would be likely to be actu ated, by malicious motives lu so doing. II I was wrong, let tbose who cousider them selves aggrieved burl their anathemas at me, for I aloue would bear tbe blame, but, in the name of humanity, let them spare tbose who were entirely iunocent of even the knowledge of my aol, until it bad been fully committed. . - For what he doubtless considers tbe bitter pills, in tbe shape of hard names, harsh epithets, Ac, Ac, which A Member bas prescribed for me, and not in homeopathic doses, either, I bave no use. Tbey don't suit my case, and therefore I decline them wilb mauy thanks, hoping, however, tbat ir be likes mem, and tbey agree with bim, be may swallow them himself, for good things won't hurt bim. 1 was absent from here at tbe time tbe said donation pai ty was beld, and bad no opportunity ol contributing thereat. Had I been there, doubtless my dime would have been found alongside of A Member's dollars He oow politely asks me to donate some thing directly to Mr. Sobofleld. No; tbank you, I am not in tbe habit of doing suob tbioga merely lo the sake ofeffect. Indeed, I mistake the Rev. gentleman's cbaraoier it be would not refuse a gift asked for in tuch a manner. J. IIOQBBZU). Letter From Plthole. Pitholr, Pa., April 24. 1872. , Ed. Record: 1 have , not seen yon In Plthole lor some Hire. Where have you been? You have not spent an ounce of Ink on our oil belt It seems strange we don't get a worthy word from your valuable little paper. It comes every day aqd eiery- body reads it, just for tbe sake of bearing from Petroleum Centre, wby, therefore, is your reporter so dilatory about our no thriving borough. He can't certainly be angry at us, for we never done bim harm. We bave beard little or Pithole fur several week,andts we lake your paper liberally we naturally feel jealous of the omission of new strikes, new tins, new billiard rooms, new stores, new Councilmen, new ale, new whisky, and new arrivals, all or which bnvo been numerous within tbe lust two weeks. But enough by way of preface. Tbe Has kell well No. 2, on tbe Morey farm, is pro. ducing sixteen barrels daily and Increasing, and what we call tbe old well above it aiill produces 65 to 70 barrels per day. Tbe United States Petroleum Company bave leased and are operating some four wells near these wells, and in close proximity to the Catbolio Church, two of which will be finished in a few days. North West of there is tbe WebsteriPetroleum Company's tract, on which Phillips Bro's. are about to com mence a well, and a littin South East ol tbe old U. S. Hotel there Is a well nearly down to the proper depth, but tbe general opin ion is it Is a little off tbe belt. Tbn Haskell and Tadder wells, on the Holmden farm, ,till cunlinue to pump five, seveD and twelve barrels each. These well were thn incen tives ol tbe present operations here. On the site of tbe old Kemp block, on Holmden street, Tadder it Russell bare elected a billiard hall, wbicb, for neatness and good tables, can get away with any thing in Petroleum Centre. There has been a new grocery and provision store opened in tbe old Hardware house ol Duncan & Clial fant. wbicb promises to be a paying luvcs ment. The Machine and Blacksmitt shop of Mtirpby it Co., ba s been moved from tbe Rooker farm, and is now In gooj running order on Holmden street, near where the old Rkcoru office used to be, and I think in this line of business we cm crowd thd Cen tre and even Oil City. In addition M. & Co. are opeoing a first class Hardware store. Last week there was an edict issued by C. n. Johnson, High Constablo of toe bor ough, to the effect that one ol tbegentlemen Councilmen bad removedj therefrom, hence an election was hel l for a new one, and Mr. Johnson received Tourteen out of twoetty four votes, electing him for the unexpired term. It is as much regretted, that our Ex-Bur. get's, Mr. C. II. Duncan, is about to leave us. He retires to Oil City. Having amus ed quite a fortune here, of course he retires to a higher sphere, tbe great centre Oil City where be bas purchased a large amount ol property and is largely interested in the Hardware business. Except our old Pioneer, Squire Keenan, no Burgess bad a harder road to travel than Mr. Duncan, and now tbat tbe land marks are made and tbe lines drawn, our new and respected Burgess, Mr. Bailey, appreciates tbe efforts ol bis predecessors. I'll close now with tbe expectation of a good well In the morning. Yours, Bass. A young man asked a young lady berage, and sou replied: ' times 7 and 7 times 3 added to my age will exceed 6 times 9 and 4, as double my age exceeds 20." The youog man said be thought she looked much older. The widow or a British vice-consul now lies bed -ridden and desolate at Athens. This may not seem a very remarKable cir cumstance, but tbe old lady was formerly Tberesa Black, aod to her Byron -sang, "Maid of Athens, ere we part." A dissuasion is going on between tbe press of St. Louis aud CU cago, as to wbicb of tbe two cities is tbe greater "Railroad Centre." St. Louis claims as grain feeders 11 roads, of an aggregate length or 2,982; wbicb figures are knocked out ol sight by a Cbicauo list ol 21 toads, with a total ol 6, 291 miles. . A military company was recently formed in Mercer, and organized on tbe 11th by tbe e ectioo or tbe following offiaers: Cap taiu, P. E. Bbipler; 1st Lieut., J. D. Moore, Jr.; 2d Lieut., A. P. Pew. There are eighty-four names on tbe roll. Tbe Woodbull women, baviug ruined tbe woman auffrane movement, is trying tbe same game with tbe American branch tf the Internationals, and apparently with muob succe-s Tbe Terre Haute Mail is responsible for tbe story that "an old. lady, living near Greenoastle, aged seventy-two years, is tbe mother cl a ten days-old baby. "She LAMM BRS, THE Another Combination Broken THE ONE PRICE CLOTHIER OP- THE OIL REGIONS 6 Spring St., Has broken the outrageous street has become demoralized. WHERE YOU CAN FIND ALL THE IAfl?HS3? SSLFSt'TiES. IS AT THE GREAT One Price Clothing Store! IS TaTlSVILIiE. In IN"obby Business Suits! My Stock contains ever raika of GjoJj. COATS AND TESTS. I have a larger assortment than any house outside of New York City. There it o donbt is ahead of anything in or FASHIONABLE WHITE am! CHEVIOT S SHUTS. I cannot le beat in this Department. MY Men's Furnishing Goods! I COMPLETE. Parties GOOD CLOTHING, Can Save Monev, By coming to my Store where there is everything new, and where you can buy 10 Per Cent. Less than Esewhere, And why, do you ask, because 1 have only ONE PRICE. Goods are all marked in plain n.,.a 1 1. n unu in .t.. - n .j r . MO Shirts, Suspenders or Collar,. to A child of tire years eao buy Wl cordially invite all Centre and vicinity to come PROMISING . BETTER GOODS t And Later Styles for Less Money!: Than Any House in the Region. TUB OSE PUll'E CLOTHIER ONE PRICE CLOTniEB, TITUSVILLE Clothing Monopoly. Chatham Shoddy Cloihiug is at a discount. 'lt, but tbat my Stock of ZF.A.ILTTS Araerka, either for quality style. HATS & CAPS ! lilXE OF in want of selling figures, and I sell wore - .n - .. i , I . Dn1 throtf ID make an extra profit no Clothing. as cbeap as a wan of OUy. my old customers in Petroled and purchase their Clothing at purch Store, promises, however, not to do to soy mote .
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