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SHUGERT & ST.
ueMasore to MoJdaoCvBmlUi Co.,
Merchant Tailors!
AND.DEALSlW IN
(rents Famishing tiouds,
CO a. SPRING ft FRANKLIN BTS.,
TITUSV.IiliE, PA.
Bm pat la one ef the fleest assortments 4
VL01R8& CASSIMERES
ENGLISH,
FRENCH AND
AMERICAN
COATINGS,
MIXED AND
BTBIFED BUITINGS,
FANCY VESTINGS.
Ett offered la the Oil Bagton.
TVBNTY DIFFERENT STYLES OF
HATS Sc CAPS,
Ali tbe Latest snd Nobbiest Btjrles.
A FBIA LINB or
Gents' Famishing Goods, fcc.
-etroleum Centre Daily Record
f. Conlre PaH Maturdar, Sept. 14,
Sivine Hervlce.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Servicee every Sabbath nt 11 A. M. and
H P. V. Sabbath Sobool at U P. M.
ale free. A cordial Invitation extend
ed to all.
Kit. P. W. Soofiild, Pallor.
FRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Preaching at 11 o'clock A. M., and 7,
o'olock P. if.
D. PATTON, Pastor.
Petroleum Centre .Lodge, No.
Tl, I.O. of O. F.
Regular moating nigbta Friday, at 8
o'clock. Signed.
ALBERT GLENN, N. G.
E. 0'Fl.iHBIlTT, A Sec'y.
jajrPlCB of meeting, Me'n St., opposite
IHcCtiniock House.
A. O. of U. W.
Liberty Lodge No. 7, A. O. f IT. W.,
meets evorv Monday evening at 8 o'clock,
in Odd Fellow's Hall, Petroleum Centre,
Peun'a.
A. M. Klicimir, Jl. W.
J. II. Merrill, R.
Gold at 1 p. m. 113
NOTICE.
All snbicrlbers to Ibe Chicago Relief Fund
of last winter, are requested to meet at tbe
ofilee of S. Reynolds, on SATURDAY
EVENING, SEPT. HTH, 1872. Of tbe
amount subscribed at that time, $400 we"
tent to Chicago and $300 to tbe sufferers by
llin Michigan and Wisconsin fires, leaving a
balance on band ef $258 95. Thli meeting
in culled for the pmpoie ol disposing of tbe
remaining balance.
By Order.
t3TRv. J. if. Condit, or Girard, nil
occupy the pulpit of the Presbyterian
Cuurcb ol tbla place, on Sunday next, lore-
noon and evening. Tne Rev. gentleman la
epiken of at being a very talented and eloj
qnent divine, and the publie are cordially
' Ijvltsd to attend and bear blm.
We give pUoe lu-day to two cominunice
tlooa on tuhjccti ol Interest to the public at
large. The one in regard lo the tubject of
ground rami la of vait Importance lo our
cilicena. Evert ioob of ground In tbe place
li loaied, and now that timet are dull all
along Oil Creek, we to Irk II no more than
right that tbe Central Petroleum Company
aod other owners of property, should make
au abatement on ground rentt at the prel
ect time.. We tball bave more to lay on
this subject at a future day, and invite com
muoleatloni from tbe publio on tbe tame.
"The speolal traioa both to Titutvllla and
Roaieville, last evening, were crowded wltb
tbe admireri ol Grant and Greeley. Both
tralnt arrived back about 12 o'clock, all
parties feeling satisfied, no doubt.tbat tbeir
teipeotlve caodidatea aiood a better chance
of etectlaa than before tbe meetings were
bell.
Day before yesterday, during tbe preva
Itnet of tbe thunder shower, the lightning
alruck a large tret In front of tba residence
of Geo. Magrane, 00 tbe Upper Boyd farm,
shattering It to torn extant. Tba bolt fol
lowed the tret down to tbe ground and ran
a'oog side tbe fence tor tone distance and
finally spent lis fore In tbe ground near the
bouse. Mr. M's daughter pasted under tbe
tree but a abort lima before tbe llftlnlng
true It, and made a narrow estape.
An Utterly Innne OH Project.
The oil producers In' the Pennsylvania ol
regious have lately done tbe most unjust,
tbe most silly, tbe most short sighted thing
imaginable. That men ol gtaeral builnes
capaoity and of ordinary aagscily, should
attempt to put tbe knife to their own throat
on only be accounted for upon tbe supposl.
tioo that they have, for tbe time being,
taken leave of tbelr tenses. All who know
about tbe oil producing and oil refining in
terests are overdone. That Is, there Is au
over product of tbe crude oil, and jneoe,sei
lly, an over supply of rtfioed oil. 1 be great
oroblem of late, among men whose dollars
and cent! are Invested in tba oil business,
bat been bow to remedy ,tbe disaster that
lollowt low priCHi. There would teem to be
but one remedy a very elmple oneand
that it to curtail tbe supply or crude oil.
Tbe over-product of refined, oil it but the
oeoessary result of overproduction of tbe
crude atllole.' Tha produoert bave tbe mat
ter entirely wltbio their control. Cease,
putting down wells, and limit tbe product 0
tbe weilt already, down aod tbe matter will
soon And Its level.
But it would seem tbe oil producers are
insane enough to suppose they .can go on
pi oduclog million! of barrrelt jearly over
aud above tbe demaod, yet by destruction
of tba rrQolog Interests Id tbil country
bring crude oil np to a remunerative polot.
In earrylng out tbil Idea tbe produoert bave
lately held a meeting at St. Petersburg,
Pennsylvania, and there deliberately resolv.
ed that tbe refining of oil must be transfer
red from American soil to European eoll.
Could Injustice towards American luterests
go feriter? Tbe retolution lays:
Resolved, Tbat to give a wider market
throughout tba world lor petroleum, In en
hance lis price, and tu protect producers
from unjust combinations of home rrUuer,
a committee be appointed lo ark tbe repre
senalivea of foreign governments at Wash
ington to request tbeir respective ' govern
ments to put a proper tariff on refined oil,
and admit crude free Into tbe porta of tbeir
respective governments.
And a committee was appointed, whose
mission to Washington Is to enter Into a
league wltb representatives of foreign gov
ernments to aid in destroying Ibis import
ant branch of American Industry. The
names of the men wbo are willing lo engage
In the onslaught upon an American interest
cannot bave loo wide circulation. Tbey
are as fo'lows:
Tbos. McD'inough, Chairman; Jonathan
Watson, ol 'i'llneville; Jas. al. Bretlen, of
Kraoklin: Wm. Parker, of Oil City; S. D.
Kama and James B. Lambing, ,of Parker's
Landing M. E. Uesa and Wesley Chambers
of St. Petersburg; Richard Junu.ings, ol
East Brady.
Tbe complete insanity or tbls'mnvemeot'is
glaringly Illustrated in tbe fact ibtt ninety
seven per oent. ol tha refining of oil Is done
in this country. Now suppose tbe produc
ers persuade foreign goveromentt to lay a
tariff on refined oil, two or three years, at
tbe shortest, would be necessary before re
finer! abroad could do tbe present work of
Amerioao refiners, aod, meanwhile,- Wba'
would become ol tbe present generation of
producers? Tbey would be whipped out
used up ruined, and other men would step
in to reap tbe harvest Irom tbe ,aeed which
tbe present produceri towed tipoouelr own
rulus. Independent of tbe crime .these men
would commit against a very important
branch of American industry, tbey would
in the fall of tbe edifice bury themselves.
There are six million barrels of crude oil
produced annually; there are but one hun
dred aod elgbty-seven thousand barrels or
crude oil exported annually. Ai tbe mat
ter now stands a very large amount of sur
plus crude oil Is beld by tbe refiners and
should tbese short-sighted produceri suc
ceed In tbeir attempt tu build np a loreign
interest at tbe expense of an American one,
tbey not only would themselves be obliged
to "carry" the excess now carried by the
refiners, but besides tbat bave tbe entire
product thrown upon tbeir own shoulders,
aud thirty days would suffice to crush out
every producer above ground In three
months tbe entire geueration of produceri
would only be known lo history, aod Iben
by the record tbat being tick tbey applied
tba wroog remedy aod "here they lie."
Cleveland Herald.
Speaking of tbe above article a corree
poudeot expresses bis Ideal as follows.
Our correspondent's Ideas on tbe subject are
to tbe point and will be coincided in by tbe
prod ncert of this section. Here It It:
Ma Editor: I notice In tbe Cleveland
Herald flippant artiole, beaded "An utter
ly Insane project," aod written In the Inter
it of "the New Refining Combination" la
which tbe produceri are roundly abused for
a retolution patted at a meeting at St. Fe
tenourg, to trod a committee lo Wtthiog
ton to reqaes t miolitert of loreign govern
nentt lo make lucb representations at home
at might Induoe tbeir respective govern
menu lo establish a "duty on refioed end
pass the crude la free," to tbat at produoert
the markets of tbe world might be open to
os. , When tbe combination can secure lead
tne loiirn.la 1a .(tread hatnra tha nuhlfa nil
itded aod garbled statements to mislead
them, It become! necessary 10 any
for tbe producer! to thow tbe situation truly.
Tbe S. I. C. passed away only in name
and form. Tbe old arrangement made some
serious mistakes. The new oue proposed to
profit by them, and at soon at by purchase
and partnership If hadteoured tbe great ma
jority of the refineries of Ibli country, and
all the pipe linei aod tankage!! wanted,and
bad arranged a rotary system of purchase
at different points, never buying at two
places on tbe same day Cleveland to.day,
Pitulmrirb to-oiorrow, &o. and tben only
enough to fix a price to suit them perhaps,
while certain days are blank eltogetber no
orders and tbat there may be literally
but one buyer, or ratber no competition In
prices oo Creek or river, enough it forward"
ed lo seaboard to thrash tbe markol and
keep It level.
According to tbe Herald's showing 97 per
cent, of refined oil it made lo thit country,
and at Joe Independent refineries are few
and far between, tbey can well afford to sell
crude oil to tbe export trade at cost or less.
On tbe otber band, If the produceri could
aot si a unil'ia self defeoce,tbe new combina
tion could effeot but little. But tbey do not
aot in concert unlets roused Into warmth by
passion. Tbey are kept apart by local jeal
outlet, honest differences ol opinion and by
a fear of losing tbeir Individuality and in
dependence. So tbe produoert, whose means and ener
gies supyly the material for speculators to
fatten on, by divided counsels fall an easy
pre;, and bold their property at tbe mercy
of a heartless corporation.
Tbe pipe linei and tankage where tbe bulk
of tbe oil is produced are bandied so si to
Incommode snd embarrass the proper run
ning and delivery or the oil, aod is always
tardy. The wooden tankage at tbe wells
fiaking aud evaporating usually runs over
before the runt can be made, and instead of
ten days storage has to be thrown at once
upon tbe market .Add to tbese minor diffi
culties the fact that too much oil it produc
ed, from the fact tbat many of the markets
of Europe are prsotloally closed because
there is a duty Imposed oo crude, and the
dullest person can see tbat tbe producers
are justified In making an effort to iuv'te
competition In prices.
At five dollars a barrel crude oil affords
tbe batit for the cheapest light in the world.
II Ibe maikets of Europe are free for
crude and taxed for reflued, each country
Will refine its own, which is right. A new
mpetus will be given to tiie business in
Europe, and light wl I penetrate as only
tableau where rush Hunts bave burned
heretofore. Europe will supply reflued
heaper lo tbe remotest points of Asia than
America can do. Russia oan buy crude of
us (tbe sea carriage is low) to cheap tba'
rcfluing would become one of tbe greatest
industries of tbat vast country. Tben with
tbe ports or Germany tod Russia open, 40,.
000 barrels will not supply the natural de
maod three years Irom now. Tbe bowling
about over-production will cease, and A-
merican interesti will not bave suffered.
but Ibe refiners combination will no doubt.
But tbe mooey spent by producers
over tne oil oountry lo drillers, lo laborers,
to machiuista and olbert, distributed to
points far and near, would do our country
more good tbao all tbe refiners la America
ouuld do.
"United we stand divided? we fait." Let
ui as producors, without passion or prejud
ice, com nine together lor one common pur
pose and act together with one common
aim, at any society should fur the common
good. Once organized, with officer! elected
and by laws respected, we can aot in coo.
cert without losing our individual Ideoity
or independence. We can tben if we wish,
restrict production. In various ways we can
effectually itop tbe gambling in oil by tc
fusing to do business wltb those engaged in
it. We can own refineries for domestic con
sumption. Send It to tbe seaboard, aod do
all tbose things round necessary to do to
thwart tbe purpose of any coalition against
our Interests, and insteid of baviog to sacri
fice our ptoperty, to a 'coospiiacy tbat seeks
to gobble up the oil country, change tbe
programme by gobbling up tbe aforesaid
coalition.
Every thing for defence, nothing for tribute.
CRUDE,
Lost. At tome point on Washington
Street, between Auerbam'i dry good ttore
and Second Street, yesterday afternoon,
uair BraoeMl, or value lo no one but tbe
owner. Tbe finder will be liberally reward
edon leaving Ibe tame either at tbil office
or at tbe office of Jas S. McCray.
A curious case bas just beeo decided by
an English court Involving tbe legal recog
nition of ghosts. A tenant who wat troub,
led wltb ghosts on hit-premise! annulled
tbe contract of lease between himself and
his land lard. Tbe landlord look legal means
to secure tbe fulfillment of tbe contract,
but tbe court decided in favor cf the tenant.
Letters from the People
Note. Tbe managetof thli journal, with
out endorsing the sentiment of contributors
desires to offer the widest possible latitude
for free discussion. It is merely stipulated
that communications shall concern matters
ol.pnblic Interest, be put in decent language
and acoompanled with the namei of the
writers, not for publication, but at a guar
anlee of good laitb.
"For of all tad word at tongue or
pen.
The oaddeet I are Meee 'It might
bave been."
Mb. Editor: When tbe Boyd, Egbert
and Central farms were first opened lu oil
development, leasing for oil purposei was
tbe business of tbe hour. But as tbe terri
tory becsme exbaus ted and iptce was left
to build a town, tbe true policy of the land
owners was lo sell loll at fast ai tbe devel
opment! receded. Tbe continuance of leas
ing for building purpotet wat a crime, and
a sbort-tigbled, selfish and suicidal policy,
one tbat hat cost Ibe owneri dearly, for Ihey
might bave bad doltan where tbey have got
dimet Irom tbe sale Instead of the rental.
Looated In the very besrl of tbe oil trade
for years, with "wealth that outshone tbe
wealth of Ormut or ol lode"; with rlobet
poured into ber lap ten timet gteater than
Solomon in all bit glory ever possesssd, a
city riob aod populous, wltb great retourcei
ol meant and talent would be bere to-day
Instead of a tbaoty town denied corporate
existence, witbout form or comeliness, dew
titute of drainage, and whose health it only
preserved by a special csre of a pitying
Providence, our trade fettered by exactions
of every kind, it languishing and dying.
It was rumored on tbe streets, after the res
ignation of M. C. Martin, Etq., at Superin
tentlent, that (Japr. Hay, maimer or me
bank bere would fill b place. Tbie, if it
bad proved true wat in itself a sufficient
guarantee, tbat a just and generoui policy
woul'l be Inaugurated tor be It a man of
wide experience lo business wltb broad and
compreoensive views of duty, aod possessed
of quick dactsion, and rare judgment; ooi
aling under a somewhat brusque manner
a warm and generous nature.
But fields of greater usefuloesi and higher
honor are open to him aod bit aocepance
looks doubtful.
Let tbe citizens manifest tome intereit in
this matter. Perhaps the company tbat has
seemed as deaf as ao adder inay yet litten
lo tbe voice of reason. Tbeir policy, as
nncranglng apparently ea the laws of tbe
Modes and Persians, may yet give way to
something rational. Something may yet be
done for Hits place. If Ibe lots be itld In
f ;e or pay yeany rental on a 99 yetr lease.
Tben enterprise can assert iuoll, and as
here is plenty of good territory yet around
us, In a short time Petroleum Centre will
nier on a career or prosperity tbat shall it
crease as lime wears on.
Clod Uoitbb.
Oil News. Tbe Delo well Is doing 25
barrels per day.
The Hum mar well on Beaver creek It
pumping about 35 barrel! per day.
Tbe well near North Washington It down
over 1500 feet with no Indications of a third
sand.
Filteeo new wells are being itarted in
Ibe vicinity of tbe Jamison well near Boi
ler. Territory is in great demand In tbe new
field north ol Petersburg by Parker'! Land
ing pledge men.
Tbe Fertig & Hammond well on tbe Ely
Ritli larm eaat ot Turkey run Is down 1,000
feet, tbey bave every indication -of a good
well.
Tbe Fintey & Kribbi well on Beaver Is
pumping 6 barrels, per day. Tbil well
is suppostd to be a little east of tbe main
bell,
Verbacb and others have a well nearly
completed oo the Keating farm near Ash
baoh run. There Is 700 feet of oil la tbe
bole, elgbt feet lo tbe rock.
A new well was struck last week on tbe
Ely Rittt farm wbicb I understand It doing
fully 25 barrels per dao. It ii located close
to Ibe line of tbe Dan Rittt.
The Jamison well near Butler it flawing
about sixty barrels a day. Preparation!
are being made to drill it deeper Into tba
and and tube It properly when tbey ex
pect It will pnmp at leait 200 barrel! per
day.
Tbe lrwln wen on tbe Edioger farm wai
burned on Friday. Feart were entertained
tbat a man who bad been at tba well a few
minutet previous to tbe bteaklog out of tbe
fire, bad lost bis life, but I think It ii only
coojeoture.
A new town bai been started on tba Halt
below the Jamison well on land of Mr. Hue
aelloo of Bailer, called Wyoming. There
are also otber laodt north of tbil and sep
arated by tbe Connoqenesstng oreek wbicb
bat been leased lor building purpotet and
many building! bave already been itarted,
There Ii a livery liable, lumber yard ba
kery and many other branches of bmlasss
already opened. Emlsoton Filead.
FIFTY YEARS APART.
Tbey lit In Ibe Winter gleaming:,
' And the fire bnrnt bright between
One his passed seventy Summers,
Tbe other just seventeen.
Tbey rest in a happy tilence.
And tbe shadows deepen fast;
One lives In a coming future,
And one in a long, long past.
Each dreamt of a rush ofmotle, '
And a question wblsper'd low;
One will bear II thit evening, '
One beard It long ago. ,
Each dreamt of a loving husband,
Whose brave heart It hen alone:
For one tbe joy It coming,
For tbe other Ibe joy bu flown.
Each dreamt of a Life of gltdntts,
Spent under tbe lunny skies;
And both tbe bope and Ibe mem'ry
Sbina In the btppy eyes.
a
Wbo knowi which dream it tbe brightest
And wbo knowi which lithe best!
Tbe sorrow and joy are mingled,
But on'y tbe end li reit:
Tbe oil well ol Capt. A. Dingley, u
Pleaaant township, two milet from Warrsn,
It now down lo the depth of about 900 feel,
aod Ibe rock he it drilling In smells strD
ly of oil. Tbe Captain's peneverinot
richly detervet success. Warren Ledger.
A healthy and otherwise intelligent mt
ried woman In Tennessee persists In tbe be
lief tbat ber legi are paralyzed, aod being
doomed to an endlesa punishment, She
tuffert Intense pain from ber ifQIclion, and
bat no indication of being nniound in niol
exoept In tblt particular.
liocul Notlcei.
For Sale - Cheap.
3 Produciug wells with ma- ,
chinery complete. Inquire of
HOWE & COOK.
Petroleum Centre, Pa Lock
Box.
CIGARS.
Lovers o' good cigars will find several en
tirely new brands, n VJr before inirodnew.
in Ibis place, at tbe Post Office News Boout
They are warranted pore Havanas.
The Victor Brand of cigars at the Port
Office News Room.
GOLD&N TREASURE cigars at the
Post Office News Room. Somlbiog entirely
new.
School Books. '
A complete ttock of School Books needed
at tbe Publio School cao he found at till
POST OFFICE NEWS ROOM.
Days Doiogs, New Vtrietiet, New York
Clipper, Wllk's Spirit, and all sporting pa
pers al tbe POST OFFICE NEWSROOM.
For sale
15.000 lo 20,000 fet of SECOND-HAND
TUBING, at from 25 to 35 eta. per foot.
Tbe Tubing it in first class order and til
ready fitted.
April 23. tt H. H. WARNER.
Magazines.
All the magszlnei for September, to
ready.
Ilarper,
Galaxy.
Atlantic,
Llppinooll'e.
Eclectic,
Transatlantic,
Oliver Optic,
' Young Folks,
Frank Leslie,
Children's Flower,
Old and New,
Godey'i Ladles' Book,
London Society,
Peterson's
Ladles' Friend,
Artbur't Home,
Science Monthly,
Bsllou't,
Good Words,
. Nursery,
Chatterbox,
Metropolitan.
Herald of Health,
At the POST OFFICE NEWSROOM.
Tbe bett Pittsburgh Lager at
GAFFNEY"
tyjosl received al Ibe JAMESTOt
CLOTHING STORE, a large a'""'
ol new and nobby styles of HATS 4 CAH-
HeT GREELEY HAT8 al the
TOWN CLOTHING STORE.
JAMBS"
For Pure Wines warranted as "CBbJ
Brotberbood of Brocton go to GAFtN"
GRANT llATSv at tbe JAUKSTOWf
CLOTHING STORE.
HATS AND CAPS in great
in all stylet, just received by "P""
New York. ! tbe JAMESTOWN CLOU
ING STOKE. Call aod look al tbttt.
August 12-tf.
Gtffoey eili.LsE.ee
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