SHUGERT & STARR Hww te XctataatlMth Co., Ilerohant Tailors! AKO.MUtBM.IM OtrtY Famishing: tiootfs, CtB. SPBINQ FRANKLIN 8T3. TITVSTiiLE, PA.lt VS Sethi SM Of BeeSt MMMMBti of VL01W& CA88IMERE8 ENGLISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN COATINGS, MSJTZD ANB 1TRIPED 8UITINGS FANCY VESTINGS Ber offered la tbe Oil Raftoa. ITDBNTT DIFFERENT STYLES OF SffJLTS Sc CAPS, All the Uteet aai Nobbiest Styles. A JTJLL MM or Bents Furnishing Goods, &c. Petroleum Centre Daily Record, Pat. Centre, Pa-. Saturday. March ! Virtue Aervlce. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services every Sabbath at II A. M. and M. Sabbath School at 12tf P.M. eats free. A cordial Invitation extend ed to all. Rev. O. Moorb, Factor. FRE3BTTERLAN CHURCH. Preaching at 11 o'clock A. M.. and 7 'olotk P. M., by tbo Patter, W. C. Buncn a an. Sabbatb School at 12, dlreoily after forenoon servioe. Prayer Meeting and Sabbatb School Teacher's Meeting Tneiday evenings ol each wee. Petroleum Centre Lodge, No. TIB, I.O. of O. F. Regular meting nights Friday, at 7 'loek. Signed. B. ALLEN, N. G ft. H. ReoiEit, A Seo'y. t HT"Place of meeting, Mala St., opposite MeOlintock House. o. of v: w. Liberty Lodge No.. 7, A. O. of U. W., meets every Monday evening at 1 o'olock, la Odd Fellow's Hall, Petroleum Centre, Peao'a. . A. Glenk, M. W. M. T. Connor, R. I. U. of It. M. Mlaoeiaanee Tribe No. 183, L O. R. M ef Petroleum Centre, meets every Thursday evening In Good Templar's Hall. W Counoll Bros Hunted at 7 o'olock. H. HOWE, Ssobem. ft. REYNOLDg, Chief ol Records. eld et.l p. m. 114 It la ne usa It attempt to secure marries women their rights. Only the other day in Cbloago a wile, whose husbaod bad been ar. rested for beating her, and against whom the wife produced tee testimony of tbelr son, the neit day etme into Jeourt and de elared ber boy bad perjured blmsell, fand thus lbs, p secured the release of ber Kur band. And La Crosse wile, whose hue band was convicted and lined for nnmerol fully beating ber, osme Into court and from ber own earnings paid the One and released ber husband so that she might have right we supposs to another licking. It Is terribly discouraging to the advo cates of woman's rights when women claim the right of being abused and beaten by tbelr husbands. Next to the old fashioned spelllngscbools to wblob every obap took bis girl and bis tallow dip the printers are the beet teachers nf spelling. Sign painters sometimes make fearful .work with spelling, while those daabers who deface faooss and dead walls, nod even eurb stoaes with tbelr grammar and tbelr spelling, would drive the spirit of Webster frantic. One ef.our correspond ante cites the case of this road ;side edver tlslsg, wherein two t's areiplaced in water wetter. Evenemoog "first class" dealer, aba mutilation of grammar is fearlul. We aae a aide walk placard wblob says: "pas tiles cures soldi; end a elgn on the side of a building reads that A. U. sells tea. Such victims of '-bed spells" should consult the printer, w.baa tbey procure slgnst or when Ibey poet paint pat advertisement. ' A London mlisiouary brought borne a Hottentot at considerable personal expense, nd the fellow went aud hired out ig t fit' fas tt ftr.t wek after his srr;al. Letter from North. Carolina. Sacmbubt, N. C, Fab. 11 Mr. Editor: What Is the matter up your way. There must bee further decline la prices. Something is wrong surely. Have not received a letter in a month from your quarter. After twelve days of ellle I have floellyjgot out of the ooze and scum of lbs sea bottom. Part of ibis no doubt Is due to yeur own genial travelling corres pondent, but I suppose the trip ilnelf wes suggested by the motives that provoked the loqulriee to me. If some poor devil like yonrs truly, whom an adverse fortuoa has driven from bis scegstomed oeeupellou,eka how to rough it a Utile on the road to bu tane, I am right there. I beva been all over the road, know all the change bouses and bow to slip the turnpike gates. ' The soil hereabouts is divided loto ham mock lend and pine ridges, and the whole country le Interceded with cteek branches, fresh water Inlets and swsmps. The pine ridges are bill land of secondary quality, eesy te clear and producing sweet potatoes, cotton, cow peas, Ac, bnl no oil, yet rich In other minerals, such as gold, silver, toil and limestone. Upon these the unthrifty "cracker" is settled content to live on peas and potatoes, and to purchase bis coffee, oalleo and tobacco by the well shaved pro file of bis cotton patch. He baa a drove of "razorbaoked shoals'' that can climb a stake and rtdared fence, Urink out of a jug, or swim a like witb equal ease. A bonne dog and alltgater are needed to guard your gardea patch, but then lb,e alligator will eet the dog instead of the sboat," The woods are full of wild game and the streams I flib, but be has no money to buy gun or Bsblng tackle, and Is to) lazy to usi Ibam if be bed. As a rule tbey do not bunt or fled. The hunters are a class and sometimes a low ooe developed Into the cow boy of whom you have 'beam tell." With Ibem It Is well to be oi one's guard, and not trust to opinions that are probably anything but Impartial. More anon, JMV. I. (Here Is a quuitiyn fur lha lawyers. A jqry is composed of twelve persons we mean a petit jury in an ordinary law suit in a court ot tecord. We suppoie a verdict would be set aside should it appear that there were but eleven jurymen. And by the came argument lha verdict found by a jury of thirteen would uol be good. Out I o Wyoming womeu serve on juries, and a defendant wbo was found guilty by a jury of men and women, now asks tv'feevx the verdict set aside because oue of the jury women bad her baby wilb ber during t) dellb- rations, thus tbe jury room bad in it thirteen persons.woeu only twelve should have been there. Our press collapsed tbia lutenoon. Fear ful swearing eniued among the printers and ine aevil. News Is somewhat short iu eon sequenoe. McKloley & Gross, the well known machinists, are emitted to the oredil of repairing the same In time te get the p per out. George W. Kiug, Sr., wbo some two or three weeks since moved away from the Ceolte, with the regrets and well wishes of the entire couimuuliy, baa returned to ejs again. He bed just got fixed in bis new borne, tbe Adams House, St. Petersburgb, wneo Ike Dre Send swept everything away irom him. lie look away with bim three or four ear loads el stuff and returned wilb a half load, on a wagon and "av kourse" the 'woir dog." We are all sorry foiyour hard luck, Pappy," but It makes us feel good to see you take your losses so good natured, and although your ease Is not just like tbe 4 prodigal eon," nevertheless wc ate willing u am iw "laiieu call. Roboicd. Yesterday, "Lager Beer Pete'' to decide a bet, drank one hundred and eeventyoix glasses of beer Inside of eight hours, aod when asked If be .thought leger was an intoxicating drink and would come under the baa of ibe -Looal Option Law,' said be did not think it was intoxicating uoltss a man would make a ''bog'' of bim self, and lu that case it might intoxicate. Wbila under tbe snolbing influence of so much beer, some oue robbed bim of his watcb, alter wblch be fiat so highly elevated tbat be welked around all the evening with a thermometer banging on bis ear, so thai tie friendscould get Ibe benefit of bis eleva lion. Tete might bave lelt comfortable, but be looked lor all tbe world like a wet shirt hanging on a clothes line, and blowed full of wind. 4There ate twenty thousand members of tba Order of tbe Patriotic Sons of America in this Mate. A Richmond man sauted borne a ptoto grapft ot an astiesa whioh be bad drawn In a lottery, .and bis wife put ooe of bis eyee-uudari the Impression tbat it was local affair. Rev. Mi. Uuberis Is pastor uf lha Cul Teisetist church af Kiilery, Maine. Never since the discovery oil la thli country has money been so toarce. Men doing business on a large scale, are transac. ting their businses entirely on paper. The paper system is rulnons to any community no matter what tbe business may be. It Is belter to sell one thousand btrrels ol oil st four dollars per barrel cash, than to eel) eight or ten thousand barrels at two dollais per barrel aod not handle any mooey, simply transfer paper that Is only available with a lew. It Is putting down the wages of laboring men, and keeping money on I 0 Ibe country, 'we will never be any better elf In this country until we get a few of tbe big operators out of it, and get oil tip to a living price. There will be a day of reck ooing In this country soon, and the sooner tbe better, for a gjeat many ot tbe 'business men, fot then we may sxpeol to see the oil buaineet reduced to some system. Bishop Simpson and lady are In Wa sh iogton. And now the factious cities bave attacked Wilkle Collins, wbo repels tbelr onset wilb disdainful scorn. Charles Reed is again uuhcpuy because of being deteoted In borrowing. Bret .Hurts vomplatBS tbai .newspaper men de not appreciate bis genius. A London dispatch says tbe Great East ero has Duw on board 2,667 miles of cable for tbe Anglo-Atobrlcau and Freoch cables which are expected to be laid and In worki log order by the first ol July. Indiana fanners iudiguaaliy repel tbe obarge tbat tbey wear weoden shoes, or any other kind ofaboes In some sections uf tbe Slate, much of tbe year. A man can be flued five dollars for tel Ing auolber Ibat be lies, in Rhode Island' Tbe only way lo put it is lo say tbat a man slightly mlstrkes the truth. . Tbe eating salouu at Kit Carson, Colo redo, on tbs Kansas Pactlic, baa been ex trenily fortunate. Only four proprietor? have hoenabot by passeuge.s whose leelings were outraged by tbe bolok coffee. 'Buslnesss Is business, what will you take for your vote;" is the way thy put it ia Kansas. Operators are begiunicg to look forward to a belt from Greece City to Scrubgreu, passing about three miles from Eralenton. Tbe Mersimer and Baokui well, tbree miles west of Miller-town, is reported a dry bole. & McKee struck a new well at Greece City toilay, It is making a show. Tbe Sutten farm, joining the McClelland farm on the North, was sold on Satti'dav, for twenty-two thousand dollars. The farm contains 120 acres. Tbree wells are golog down io lbs vicinity of Boydstown about two and a half mlWt below this point. We expect a railroad here within the next tbree months, as woik is golog forward rapidly. It will tan Irom Harrlivllle through bare. Fairview aod thence to Brady's Bund eul interseot the Allegheny Valley Railroad. .Kuileulon Sun. Mr. John Fletcher, a reliiel actor of over fllty years' experience, had a room In Concert Hall building, New Bedford, Mjsaa cnuwiu, auu uy me ourning ol that build ing, recently, lost not only his clothing and library, but tbe msnusdrtpt of a book wblob he was about lo publish, contaiulog bis antoolograpby. Professor liraoketl, of Bowdoia College has just received Irom England a new auto tnatio spectroscope for the college. It is said to be tbe best In the world, and coo slsts of six prisms through which' the ray of light traveses twice before it Is received by tbe telescope. John Browning, uf England, was tbe manulaclurer. Beacher has beea talking to tbo til. jLuuia scalpers about making money. David Colt, a veteran of the war nl isiv died at Bristol, Rhode Island, Thursday. Boston no longer bows tu tbe Dhtlanthro plo geoim of Mies Faithful, since she epoke uisreipeotluny of the climate or tbe Hub. Two sotors. Aula Lacioix and Ella Feiv ding, were married on Ibo stage at the close of a theatrical Derlormaooe In Sianonn ney, Ind., on tbe 13ib lust., by tbe Mayor ol tbe place. "Bucbu" Helmbold is now earning bis liviog In Paris as an auistanl .in a large drug bouse. This, fur a man who appeared at Loof - Branch with a turnout ol six in band, and whose career was oieol lino rious display, is certainly a remarkable obaoge. The bodies ol two more girls bave been taken from tbe ruins of the Haoover street, Boston Ore. The Orwall cheese factory, Vermont, made 175,000 pounds of cheese last vear. whiea netted thirteen ceots a pound. ReDorle from Europe stats that tbeflrcat Powers have resolved to postpone I oltloo of the Spanish Republic lor eat. . Efforts to settle tbe strike in South Wale bave been made. A man In Oregon baa a calf with wings. He keeps II chained in orderjlo prevent a rise In veal. A sharp youud man courting a girl at Portland won ber hy lipping ber mother a fivrbottie caster. A sentleman telegraphed lo Vienna last week for rooms at a lending hotel for njs family during the Exposition. Hereceiv.d the reply; nouses here ful! untilt Novem ber. Try Drefden." Two thousand lUg', Ibe property of the New Denartment alone, bave been turned over to Ibe nio of tbe decorating committee for the Inauguration. There is no doubt tbel the ceremonies, espsclally tbe ball, will be dialtnunlshed Tor Its colors. A lodge of Hindoo Freemasons bac been established in Bombay. Tbe receipts uf ooilou at New Orleans last wei-k were vety heavy. New Haven, Connecticut, reports her old' est dead man at only IDS. Modest. A Michigan man feerte seven buibels of corn a day to bis 2,000 cblckons and lurk eya. , The Preiidenl has signed the bill lo allow 'he Northern Paoiflo Railroad lo bridge tbe St. Louis River. Tbe Indiana Senate bas passed a law prohibiting minors from entering billiard rooms, or to be employed la the mauulae ture or ssle of liquors. A price fight is on ibe tapis at Pittsburgh between Ha ry Hicken, of Philadelphia ami Byron Caaipbell,of Wllksbarre, the for mer being of Irish and Ibe latter f Welsh blrtb. The latteV Is also a coat digger. Tbe match Is for a purse of (2,000, aod the fighting weight of tba men is te be 130 pound!. Captala Jack iaa atartsd lo mset tbe Pesce Commissioners. Tbe Western Wool mauufactnre sre hold ing a meeting la Chicago. In the Albany Assembly yesterday, the N w York city charter passed. The lower 11 ue nf the Kaueae Legists tiire declarer Pumerov uowurtbv lha cnnrU deuce of the peup le. Wanted. A girl to do peters! bouse woik. In quire u xt dooi to American Oil Wurks ol flc. P. T. Shirkoy. Petroleum Centre, Pa., March 1 St T All Concerned. Oil City; Pa., Feb. 28. Please take notice that we have this day re voiced tbe au thority of James Ellis formerly fupenntenent of the "Coxton Farm" to act for os, -and that we will pay no bills of his contract ing after this date. J. B. Reynolds, F. A. Rockwell, Geo. P. Huh ill. NOTICE. Mr. JameaS. McOray having removed to Franklin, parlies baving com. miioication with bim on business or other wise, are requested hereafter to address their letters to tbat point. . St. Butter and cbesse are almost indispensl ble articles of food. . Properly used, tbey are nutritious and bealihy;but an inordi nate use of either causes indigestioo and dyspepsia. Owen Gaffney's Sunday Cora fort. Judiciously used will remove both af there trouble. New Goods. SAVE YOUt MOVE! ! And buy yow Boots and 8bcts at Mrs. M. Magrane's ONE PRICE BOOT & SHOE STORE ! I keen a vert lanre itaok nf all kind, an liana and .ell aa chaup aa imj other bonne In the OU. hiuwn. vouuuateo wuu my bura la a Custom Department ! Anuiiiwrmn a perieci iw m an air went Tf .... IrlTU. MMtl. Jnu V.v. - "DIJ. Jewelry shore. Pctrolema Cleat ret Pa de-t tt TVTfriNf Til ITelayiW' I Go to W. A. mziEi in stTcc,noar k. il.tr, ered at the nells for per Barrels Petroleum Centre,' Feb. 6t tr. " BRASHEST SwHBMBflriMitj $500,000 OASHG i FTS y $109,000 for Only g(lJl Under authority or speoial legit,w of March 10,1871, the It ustees now anini,!! tbe THIRD UKAND GIFT CONCEktE tbe benefit of tbe l'ublio Library ol Km, lucky, to come off iu Library llail, u T'lMkday, April 8th, 1GT3. At Ibis Concert the best musical uui tbat can be procured from all partial iH country will add pleasure to tbe enlrrliu, meat, and Ten Thousand Caih Gilh, u. gregating a vast lolal of Ball a Hu Uol i bra currency will beldistrlbuted bj lot it Jblrr OF GU TS. One Grand Casb Gift, $100 (W One Grand Cash Gift, 50'ow One Grand Casb Gilt, ism, One Grand Casb Gilt, jgo Oue Grsnd Cob Gill, Jn One Grand Cash Gilt, 24 Oaf b Gilis ol $1,000 eiob, U,m 60 Uasb Gilts of 600 J5. 60 Casb Gilts of ' 400 " 42 Out 100 Casb Gifts OT Sti'J om ISO Casb Gills of 2t0 tO.OM 6'JOCasb Glftlor 100 ' 69,000 0,000 Cash Gifts of 10 " V,m Total, 10.000 Gilts, all Casb, fUMM To provide meeus for Ibis- msgoiStnl Concert, One Hundred Tboussnd Tickeia ouly will tie issued, a large portion of sue are eireaay soia. PRICE OF TICKETS. Thole Tickets, $10; Helves, 5; ui Quarters, $2,60. Eleven Whole Tlcim for $100.. to discount on less Iban $100 ders. Nothing could be more appreprlits to presents than Ihsn ticket to the baoqurtgf Wealth or more likely 10 produce gtmde lulletneKiry results. Tbe object uf ibS Third Gilt Concert Is the .enlargement idJ endownment ot tbe Publio Library of K lucky, wbich, by tbejspeclal acl e'ulbcmikj the concert lor Its benrtil, is to ,be fotfirt free to all cilizet.s of every stale. Tb'i Concert will be conducted like the tut ai ferond bretofi,r givm, and lull tariicilut of '.be mode ol drawing Ibe gifts aud pijl'l them and every lulng orcrsaary la t thorough undersundtUK nf ibe schemsttoa beginning to end, are now pnbliaued Is lbs foira of a circular, wnicu w.ll be lurniiM, Ire of cost, 10 any wko apply. Tbe entire management ol ibis ooderlit. ing baa been committed by Ibe truiiewli Hon. Thus. E. Brarolette. Isle Gnvrinottl Kentucky, to whom all eommuoioatia perlainlnu lo Ibe Gift Concert huld bat dreis. K. T. DrBKETT, Pre.'! W. N. Haluism, Vice rrnl John S. CAIN, Sec'y Publio Library ol Kf Frrmers's andDrovera' Baak, TrsasuM Tickets are now ready lor sale, and it orders for tbem or applications lor agists). Circulars, Into mat loo, eta., will meti" prompt attention wbea addressed lo below aireoiea. THO", E. BBABIXETTK. l.unievllle, Kr Agent Public Library kf. If yon .Want Salesman, Want a Servant Girl, Want to Sell a Horse, Want to Sell a Patent, Want to Lend Mooey, Waut to Bay Houee, Want to Hell a Carriage, Want to Borrow Honey, Want to Sell an (Ml Well, Want to Buy an Engine or Boiler, Want to Sell a Hoase and Lot, Want to find a Strayed Animal, Want to Pii'cbase an Oil Interest, Want lo Sell a. Piece af Furniture, Want lo Buy a Second-hand Carriif Want in Kll Tnhiriff. fTaalne. Gas Pipe. Want to Find an owner for eojltl Pound, edvertlw in the Ricona, as no l than lea thousand people read It weesiy. MagMinee. All tbe macaaines tor Sentsmkar. aw reaay. leerpes, Galaxy. Atlaatie, Lipptacefl'i, Eclectic, 'rransatlantle , Oliver Optic, Tounie Folk', Frank Leslie, . Children's Flows, Did and New. Gokey'a Ladies' Booty Lsitoyn Society, Peterson's ' Ladies' Friend. Arthur's Iltme, Peience lioutbly, Baliou's. Geed Word, w Kiiraery, Cbalterhor, MelMpolttad, Herald of Heairf. At tbsFOST OFFICE NEW SR W"
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