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Pet. rtmra, H,,Mnrilir June 8.
Divine Service.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CnURCIt
Services every Sabbath t 11 A. M. and
lU P. M. Sabbath School at 24 P. M.
eatafree. A cordial invitation extend
ed to all.
Kit. F. W. ScoriRLD, Pastor.
FRESBTTERIAN CntTRCn.
Preaching at 11 o'clock A. M., and 7
o'clock r. M.
D. TATTON, Pastor.
Petroleum Centre Lodge, No.
T15, I. O. of O. F.
Regular meeting nights Friday, at 8
O'clock. Signed.
ALBERT GLENN, N. O.
K. O'FunCRTT, A Sec'y.
' t9Placevof meeting, Main St., opposite
lloClintock Uonsa.
A. O. Of 17.
Liberty Lodge No. 7, A.
O. ofTJ.
w.,
meets every Monday evening at 6 o'clock,
in Odd Fellow's Hall, Petroleum Centre,
Peno'a.
A. Glik, M. W.
8. H. Kooua, R.
6old at 1 p. m. lU.'X
Odd Fellow Celebration.
The second anniversary of the Institution
of the Petroleum Centra Lodge, No.' 715,
I. O. O. F., will ba celebrated at Petroleum
Centre on Monday, Jane 10th. The Rev.
Mr. O'Nell, pastor of the Centre street M.
B. Church, or Oil City, will deliver ao ad
dresa on the occasion, and from the well
known ability of the gentleman an eloquent
oration may bo expected. An Invitation to
attend the celebration has been extended to
Oil City and Cornplenter Lodges, of Oil
City, and other lodges, which bas been ac
cepted. All Individual members of the Or
dor and their families and friend outside of
the Order are invited to attend. Permis
sion has been granted for the Lodge to ap
pear in regalia. The Columbia Cornet and
airing bands, and also a quartette of vocal
mundane will bo lo attendance. Below we
give the programme of the day:
Petroleum Centra Lodge No. 71S wl'l
sneet at ibelrModge room at 9 a. in., and al
ter Analog their regalia, led by the Col
ombia Band, will march to Sobers Opera
House. ' From thence the' marshal of the
day. Past Grand F. J. Keffer. of North
Liberty Lodge No. 17, accompanied by aids
and the band, will proceed' to the depot on
arrival 01 10:20 train, and meet Oil City
and CornplanWr Lodges or Oil City and
Petrolle Lodge of Rousevlllo, and escort
job to the Opera Dome. A committee
Will also perform the lame service for Demp
seytowo Lodge of Dampseytown, who will
arrive by carriage conveyance.
Immediately after the arrival at the ball,
the prooeision will bo lormed under super
vision of Past Grand Keller, assisted by
Ids from the several Lodges, and beaded
by the Columbia Band will take up the line
of marsh for Stevenson's apple orchard, on
the Stevenson Farm, the place designated
for holding the pio oio. At the grove tb
exercise will be -
1st Prayer.
Sd.
Mnsie by Columbia Band.
Remarks by Rev. O'Neil of Oil City
Sd.
4th.
Singing by Quartette.
Remark! bv Dlst Damitv T
6ih.
r Oil City and others.
6th. Muslo by Band.
At the conclusion of wblcb dinner will
be served up, the committee having the
commissary department filled to overflowing
with the good things of life wherewith to
ertlsfy the inoer man.
The afternoon will be devoted to amuse
ments of different kinds, such as foot bell,
croquet, it., and a social time in general
by the members of the Order and their
friends, muslo singing, eto.
Alter the pio nlo Is over .the procestioo
will be re-formed in the same order and
march to Sobers Opera ilouse. where the
visiting brethren will be entertained 'until
iDo departure or the train (probably a spec
ial) by Petroleum Centre lodge No. Ili.
J. Mooreead, S. II. Parker, E. O'FJaber
y, Benj. Allen, B. V. Ellis, W. B. Mont,
gomory, II. C. Holiday, D. C. Smith, E,
McLaughlin, Committee of Arrangements,
We are In receipt of a copy of the pre
mium list of the "Agricultural Fair am
Cattle Show for Chautauqua County, N
Y." The lair is to be held at Jamestown
N. V., on the 10th, 11th, 121b and I3ib
days of September next, and Is the thirty
Sixth annual fair held bv the soelctv. Th
pampbM Is very neatly printed at the
j ournat emce in that city.
W. O Augustus, a Swede laborur on the
Titiitiville & Ptroleutu Contro Railroad, a
druuk Urn night, and 'undertook lo "raise
the de'il' on a small acjlo, but got raised
tun iuciLun dt nnii.... At.... .11 - - .a v,
JUU. HMO and fr,h
Speaking of the change of proprietorship
in the McCray Ilouse, and the sundry new
Improvements going on la the bouse, we
had almost forgot to mention that our old
time frieud and renowned mixologist, John
V. Bwlft, presided at the bar, ready and
willing to serve customers all the way from
plain and strait drinks to mint julips, sher.
ry cobbler, claret punches, egg noggs, and
soy and everything in the drinkable line.
Call at the McCray House, take a look st
Judge Swift, 'and find out "how ft Is your
self." Kuffced.
Skasjnaiu.e The lovers of a 'delight
fully col drink who aro anxious to be sure
of knowing ex ctly what they are drinking,
are advised to stop at the Drug e tore of
J. II. Christie s, and indulgo in a glass Of
his Inimitable lodti water. It is always
pure, refreshingly cool, and the syrupsjised
being of Mr. Christie's own manufacture,
my be relied upon as .being extracted di
rectly trotn the various fruits the flavors ot
which they pos3esi. Mr C. has aU in stock
a very fine selection of pure drugs and a
choice assortment of Imported perfumes of
the best make.
Ilere is the latest from Paris: At the
Theatre Frnncals Mile. D was, la the
presence of the author, repeating her part
In a comedy by Scribe. "My chil V eald
M. Scribo, "permit me to give you a bint
Ilere is the scene. Suppose you are in your
own room. A young man is at your own
feet making a passionate declaration of love
lo you; your husband suddenly enters.
"Now wtst would you do?'1 "I would tell
blm to go awsy again," replied the artless
maiden.
It bas been suggested that as a means 0
eradicating polygamy in Utah, vast quanti
ties of fas'utonable millinery goods should
be sent there, and the Gentile woman In
duced to array themselves in gorgeous style.
This will produce sue!) a competition on
the part of the Mormon sisterhood, and such
heavy bills for finery that tbelr husbands
trtll be glad to reduce the number of wives,
ao as to reduce the presure on their pock
ets.
Charles Wood, who was recently manager
of the Exchange Hotel. Faanklin, abscond
ed last week, tuning with liim about $1,000
belonging to Mitchell & Plumer, proprie
tors of tbo hotel, aud $500 belonging to his
wife.
A new mode evading tbo liquor law bas
been adopted la Maine: A larje manufec
turer of cider bss appointed a number of
agents for its sale, giving- tie in powers of
attorney, and they have disposed of large
quantities by tba glass on ttie giound that
Ibey are simply clerks or agents of tba man
ufacturer. A number of lawyers bold that
the sale in this manner is legal, and it Is
said that agents will be appointed in this
way throughout the State.
A destructive Ore occurred at Iogersoll,
Ont., last Wednesday night, destroying
seven dwelling houses, involving a loss of
over $20,000. Insured for about $10,000.
The business portion of the town was almost
entirely destroyed by tire last month.
The committee of anangements for the
Odd Fellows pio nlo, request us to state that
It Is given exclusively lor members of the
Order and friends whom they may Invite.
Leggett sold 2,500 of bis celebrated Valve
Cups, to-day.
Some one bas written a poem entltlen
"Smile whenever you can." It will become
very popular with a certain class tba fel
lows who believe "water is good for naviga
tion and to put out Ores,' but prefer soino
thing else for a "stiddy drink."
A game of base ball between the Muffin (
of Petroleum Centre, and the Scoopers o
Columbia Farm, at Columbia, yesterday af
ternoon, resulted in the Scoopers boing
scooped up. Six Innings were played.'
Soore 51 to 22.
An efleetienate Detroit man was sent for
tbe other day to remonstrate with bloslster
wbo bad been trying to take poison: be
knocked ber down aud dragged ber round
Ibe room by ber hair, and Qaiabed by tend
erly ss-urlng br that "if she didn't go to
work aud let tbe suicide business aloue, be
would break ber neck for her.'
Look at some of tbe spring' cblckene In
tbe market and tnille; broil them for din
ner; try to carve them and weep; make a
hearty meal out of tbe tender birds retire,
and you will pass through tbe first degress
of tbe Sons of Malta, with all Its horrors.
A little busy "bumble bee" drove a pray
ing brother out of church at Indianapolis,
the other day, by trylog to extract oney
out ot bis shiny bald pale.
Tho widow of Richard Young, Washing-
Ion's overseer at Mount Vernon, is still lit.
Ing at Richmond. Iler husband is long
iuce dead, and the venerable lady torteif
has scurly reached n hundred years.
We coiiv the f jllowinj oil news from the
correspondence of the Kmlenlon Sun:
I have beard that the Chambers well has
Increased a little this last week and is now
reported at C5 barrels daily.
The Emlenton well back of town (Peters
burg) Is just la the sand, they Lave quite a
goodsbow; the sand iavorablo and six
hundred fret of oil la the bole.
Fertig & Hammond are starting a new
woll on the Eli Ritz farm about one mile N.
E., of Kcatlog's Furnaco. ITCulla also tas
one rig up ready for drilling on same farm.
There la considerable excitement in ibe
vicinity of the Kinghi farm on Turkey Run.
There is offe well drilling In the sand which
makes a very satisfactory show.
There bas been threw wells completed
withlo a week on the Dan Ritz farm oil cf
which are quite small wells. Ono of these
is owned by Watson & Payne, one by the
Term. Co., and one by Capt. Crowell ol
Warren, Pa.
The wells on Ashbach run continue about
the sairo, Andrews Ely & Co., have three
doing fifty-five barrels per day, and drilling
one. Tbe old Hulings well Is doing SO
barrels daily.
There is a well In the sand on the Rich
ard Neoly farm est of Turkey run which Is
making a very good show and cousing no
jittlo excitement In that direction. This
farm is located on top of the bill looking N.
E. from tbe mouth ot Turkey run.
Messrs. Treat, Portetfiold & Crawford
have commenced to pump a new well on tbe
Faust farm wblcb is doing 40 barrels per
day. Tbe same gentlemen have three more
drilling on the same lease oce of which they
expect to finish next week.
What tamo of Answering; u
Personal A Brother Falls in
JJove With His Slstci ,
Louisville, May 20.
Quite a sensation was produced at one of
our Broadway palatial residences today.
Last December an advertisement appeared
la tbe Clnolnnatl Enquirer entitled "Cor
respondence Wanted." A young lady and
Broadway musician answered, and so pleas
ed was the advertiser wbo, in the mean
time, had gone to New York with ber let
ters that an exchange of photographs was
made. Each was delighted with the oth
er's picture, which seemed to possess some
lamiiiar but unknown charm. Marriage
was immediately decided upon, and tbe
young man requested ber true name that
be might visit ber and produce satisfactory
references as to bis character. Louisville
boln his home also. Anxiously he awaited
Ibe reply, which came, d it-cloning the dart
ling fact that tbe lady was his own tieter.
Two year' absence bad Riled bis face with
whiskers, acd changed the school-girl Into
a beautiful woman. Tbe gentleman at
tempts to treat it as a good joke, but tbe
ady is almost Inconsolable that she should
have wasted ber affections upon ber own
tirnltior
... 7-.. -N
District fur May, 1872.
Bbls.
Economy Oil Company 87 8
Tidioute & Warren 226 6
N. Y. & A 145.2
D. R. & N. Y 159.0
Gillam 48 6
Allen 118 0
Triumph 953 0
Forceman 27.8
Cleland 6.1
Grandin 4 Green 74.4
Clapp Farms 200 6
New London 108.7
Total
Production lor April was
Increase SC9.1
The Increase Is on Allen, Triumph
Grandin &, Green, and Clapp farms, chiefly
The new Slggins' well, on tbe Maoross
farm, West Hickory, Is doing about ten bar
rels. Tbe well is on new territory. Com
mArfltnl
a . w. ..
N,
Developments la tbe lubricating oil terrl
tory in Sugarcreek township are being made
with great rapidity. The belt bas beeo
traced from the Point In this city, a distance
of three miles in a oortbeaEterly direction,
and cooflderablo "wild-eating" is being
done In the direction ot Cooperstown. We
learn that territory southwest of this city
will be tested this summer for lubricating oil,
and by fall our city will be surrounded with
oil wells.
An old well at Raymllton, drilled last
summer but which was abandoned ou ac
count of the stroog flow of water, bas re
cently been taken la charge by Raymond
Bros., wbo succeeded In exhausting tbe
water on Wednesday last, when It corn men
ced flowing oil at tbe rate of 60 barrels per
day.. Intense excitement exists la the
neighborhood. Raymilton is situated on
tha line of the J. & F. Railroad, 10 miloa
weM of this oity. Venango Citizen.
Rhode Island is happy. In legislature
mot, trauBCted the necessary business to
keep the little State running, and adjourned,
all in four days,
SOBEL Sc. AUERIIAlM
1872 EW
Important to our Patron and the pullic at large I
SOBEL & AU E R H A I IY1,
HaTinj just returned from Now York we arc now
ramner
Ever brought to relrolotim Centre, comprising tbo latest stylos of DIOWB GOODS, .
BLASE, COLORED AND STRIPED SILKS. IRISH POPLINS,
Japanese Silks, Shawls, Ginipurc Laces,
Hosiery, Glovrs Ready-Made Linen iSuits,
AI?o, a very Cne snii-ctlon of
MILLINERY GOODS ! MILLINERY GOOLs
IjAIHE anl CEXTS FriCMSIIIAO JOOI)S,
Carpets, Oil Cloths, Trunks, Valises, Satchels, &c, &e.
rsfl'lease call early and examine lor yourselves,
deel" SOBEIj V AITKIIAIII.
The Oldest Established Dry Goods House on Oil Creek.
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Sime of tho politicals quote Shakespcre
thus: '-Now is tbo Summer of our discoc
tant, mado chilly winter by the Sonol Mas
sachusetts."
Edgar A. Toe was tho, author of the
phrase, ''Everything Is lovely," to which
modern slang users have added "And tbe
goose bangs high."
Ben. Wade taKes so little interest In the
Presidential canvas that to Is going uncom
mitted for poveral monttn, icjourn la tbe
Yellowstone valley, without leaving even
his Benny-diction.
It Is stated that Libble ;Garrabrandt, tte
New Jersey murderess, Is not in a condition
to be hanged, on account of the statute forbid
ding the taking the life of two persons for
tbe crime of ooa.
Tbe Indiaoapolis Journal says a bull dog
with sound teeth is the only thing a lightning-rod
peddler will not tackle and try to
persuade into buying a red.
Mosquitoes won't blto Ifyou nso a few
drops of a solution of carbolic acid in you'
wash water before retiring. Their 6'ingiDgs
may be tncdifUd by plugging up your eir,
with cotton.
A schoolmistress, while taking down the
names and nges of her pupils and the names
of the parents, at tbe tcgiuning of the term
seked ono little fellow:
'What's jonr name?"
"Ob, you needn't take down bis name;
he's too old to go to school to a Woman,"
was tbe reply.
A young girl In Sanilac county, Michigan,
tried to climb into a school bouse through
the window. The sash fjll on her neck,
and ber feet not touching the ground she
was held there and slowiy strugled to
death.
Tbe Pittsburgh Post says tbe laws of tbe
Stato having general application, as enact
ed.last winter, occupy but sixty-nine pages.
We have not seen tbe lull volume, contain
ing the privato legislation the geese that
have feathers but risk the opinion that it
will occupy above twenty times as muoh
spaco.
Going up oil.
The widow of a man who died quito rec
ently la Greenville Is prosecuting the tavern
keepers of that (own for tha death of ber
busbaud by selling liquor to him. Sbe
claims damages to tbe amount of $5,000.
Writs have been served on fiftern different
parties. Ao Ohio jury bas givon a wife
"7,000 against a liquor doalor "for tbe
A loss of ber husband's society for three
years."
Tbe principle of always keeping your
name and business before tbe public
will insure success and be who pro
claims to tbe publio that bo Is not alraid
of competition and anxious to do business,
must and will win.
An Englishman and bis wife, wbo recent
ly undertook a journey into the country or
the Bedouin Arabs, without a guard, were
robbed of tbeir baggage, tboir money, clothes
aud valuables tbe gentleman having to beg
of tbe robbers a copy of the Times newspa
per In wblcb to clothe himself and his wifo.
The husband returned to Jerusaleum In that
valuable journal, his wife being wrapped up
la Ibe supplement.
Tbe Emperor Napoleon Is described by a
recent visitor at Cbrlslohurst as looking sev
eral years younger than be did at St. Cloud
In July, 1870. lie Is said to bavo lately
mado tbo characteristic rematk: "When
you bavo such a recep'lon, such a continued
welcome as I have bad In England, you ilo
not tuucb beed the climate."
DRY GOODS. AO.
opening ot the I.AUG EST 8TWR of
.SEN Casmeres
Lioenl Notice.
Attention Base Uall lMnycrs.
All parties Interested In the healthful tad
invigorating exercise of Base Ball play, are
requested to meet at tbe old ball gronod,
near the Oil Creek depot, for the purpose ef
organizing a Club. All lovers of the sport
will please meet at the above mentioned
place, on Wednesday, June 121b, at 2 r. &
sharp.
Br r.EQrEST or A Pi.aysb.
J 8-ld.
For Sale Cheap.
Two Wells and rigs complete on tbe Bit-"
chanan Farm, west ol Coliimblt Oil Com
pany. Two Woodbury Engines No. SJj
a id 3. One do B jiler No. 4. 1.500 feat
Tubing, 700 feet one loch Pipe. Apply to
CHARLES E.BART.
Petroleum Centre, June 8. 1372.
j 8-1 w.
Girl YVunted. . -
A girl wanted to do bousework lo a small
family. Enquire of
MRS. II. C JARVI3.
Petroleum Centre. I'd, June 3, 172.
juum 3-lw.
Take iUUr.
All parties knowing themselves Indebted
to tbo firm of Scbnrinerborn A Ten Eyes,
tl'iur and feed dealers, are requested to call
"at their store, on Washington Street, sod
settle tbe same immediately, as tuey inlena
to close out tbelr business.
ScrTERMEnnoRN & Tm Etci
Petrol enm Centre, Msy 21, 1871 if.
The House Wifo'i Comfort!
S. FISHER'S
Renovating Mixture,
FOR WASHING & SCRUBBING PUR'
POSEd J'
It wSvhis e'ean, and plven a very clear ana beso
Will app.-atance lo the fahrle, and will ict lb col
or In calicoes. Forcleanfng grease spot out or
c iriwls, limod cloth, washing linen sa eej.
guilds, and fur fcrubblng it cannot be nirpaM--It
saves a large amount of labor, and dort awsy
Willi crruuhiute bnishea . .
It docs not li.ju.ro tlw finest ttnre, for the mnj
pio renson that its affinity is for croae or oil,
eliaiiuinii llii-ra to soji, aud thus looienltig anj
tilitiuce with whieU they my be combined.
it is instant deutb lo bed bugs.
Petroleum Centre, Jnne A, IRS.
ITavIncrrled IHlierB ixtura I take pleaiure
rnmiimwndiiiK it to honsekoeners as nelir "V'
thlug Unit is claimed lor It. S- KBYNOLDS-
l'rcparod aud sold oily by , .
H. 1 1SI1KR, Bouse? 11;, T1
Fisher's Block. Main Street. J"4-
AllItlVAI, AND SJEPABTDBB Ot
TKAINS ON O. V. A. B. B.
On and after Sunday, Jlpne 2nd,
trains will run as follows:
vnitTii vrt. i. KO. S. t0. 1'
KO.S. KO.I.
11,45 AM. S,utr
. 2,27 PM. 6,15 r
3,10 ' 7,07 ';.
Leavo Irvine.
Leave Oil City 0,00 a m
.1 n 4 Jlk .1
1 CI.VBU li,ilW W, -' A .,
it nil. ,i i. t II 7.611 "
AUI1HV. I,IU " , -' ..
ii-rlro r.nrrv S ift 5.25 "
No. S Accommodation Freight.
Leaves Oil City 9,40 A m; Pet ,nlr
10,26; Titusvllle, 11,15; Ar. Corry, U.wp
souTn. no, 2. no. 4. ?" 'ir
Leave Corry, 10,45 M. ,10 . r"
'' Titusv. 12,10 r M. 7,30 V?
" P. Cen. 1,10 8,20 J.S5
.rriveO. City 1,50 ' 9,06 ' Vs
Irvine. 4,48 11.40 "
No. 10 Accommodation Frelgb.
Leaves Corry 1,15 p m; Tltnsv. 2,60, r
Centre. 3,55; Ar at Oil City, M P
EST No. 6 and 8 run on Sunday.
Dlaaolntlon Wotlce.
Tho copartnership heretofore ''"D
dor the firm name of Warner 4 VmP, V
prietors ot the Columbia Farm f.roce y
Store, Is this day (May 1st) d isso e a 7
mutual consent. All accounts h le jbe ia
firm will he collected by J. C. B?;,r ,W
all bills will be paid by him. HereafM
business will be conducted jj,
m!.w3. J. O. "BUMP.