I
SHUGERT& STARR
IHacceseors 10 McFarlaod, Health A Co.,)
Merchant Tailors!
AND DKALIKt IN
Cents' Furnishing Goods,
COR. SPRING FRANKLIN 8TS.,
TITUBViliIiE, PA.
llv put la ouo of too floMt MtorimeDia f
CLO'lHStSe CASSIMERES
NGLISU,
FRENCH AND
AMERICAN
COATINGS,
MIXED AND
BTRIPED SUITINGS
FANCY VESTINGS.
Jtver offend In the Oil Region.
TWENTY DIFFERENT STTLES OF
HATS 3c CAPS,
Ah the Latest and Nobbiest Stylo.
A FULL LINI OF
Gents lfnrnishing Goods, &c.
etroleum Centre Daily Record.
rit. Centra. P- wmnrJay, April 18
oivlne Hervlee.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Services every Sabbath at 11 ,A. M. and
P. M. Sabbath School at 13'i P. M.
aU free. A cordial invitation extend
ad to all.
Kir. G. MotRK, Paitor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Preaching at 11 o'clock A. M.. and 7
o'clock P. M., by tbo Pastor, W. C. Bntcii
am. Sabbath Sohool at 124', directly
after forenoon service.
Prayer Meeting and Sabbatb School
Teacher's Keeling Tuesday evenings ol
each week.
Petroleum Centra Lodge, No.
T1S, I. O. of O. F.
Regular meeting nights; Friday, at 7
o'clock. Signed.
W. B. MONTGOMERY, N. O.
C. H. BiirjtY, A See'y.
K9Place ol' meeting, Mala St., opposite
McUliolock House.
A. O. of V. W.
Liberty Lodge No. 7, A. O. of U. W.,
meet every Monday evening at 1 o'olock,
la Odd Fellow's llall, Petroleum Centre,
Peno'a.
A.Glinn, M. W.
A. M. Kleciskr, R.
i. o. of r. m.
Minnekaunee Tribe No. 183, L O. R. M
( Petroleum Centre, meeli every Thursday
venlng in Good Templar's Hall.
ty Council flrei lighted at 7 o'clock.
H. HOWE. Sachem.
C. L JUKES, Cblel ol Records.
Gold at 1p.m. 118
Yesterday we made mention of lb death
or a poor man named Bomrd, wbo resides
at tba month of Tarr Rnu, In Cherrytree
Township, and alao alluding to tba fact Ibat
tba family were actually suffering for the
barn necessities of life. In view ol there
facta, Mrs. J. H. TeoEyck. and Mrs. Bur
Cbard, wife ol Rev Bnrobard tbn Prssby
teriad clergyman, called on cor citlseos and
raised a goodly sum of money for this poor
family, n portion of which was devoted to
purohasiog elotblug fur tbo family, the
mother and each of tba plx children being
provided with n good ' suit of clotbes. A
requeitot those ladies we take pleasure lo
returning their thanks and that of the fami
ly, for the very generous aid extended them
In the hour or their distress. These ladles
certainly oarrled out the divine Injunction
"Thejgreetest or all tbeae is Charity,"
White everybody nearly is talkiog ol
moving lo Butler, it Is pleasing lo note the
faot that some lew propose to remain. We
would oall the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Samuels Bros., who
have just seoeived a complete slock of dry
goods, ladles spring bats and bonnets, lass'
dress goods, alike, notions, boots sad sbo s(
od a thousand and one other artioles, which
they propose to sell dirt sheep right here In
Petroleum Centre. They who are wise
will not go to Butler but buy dry goods a'
Samuals Bros.
Palmer, Ms sculptor, b as a very pror
epioioo or the talents or Ylnnle Ream and
Clark Mills, and considers Ibo. statue ol
Morse iu the Central Park "a disgrace and
an Insult to tbe memory of tbn great tsle
Tbo delightful spring evenings, are made
donbly pleasant hy strains of mnslo, and
sweet voloes singing the latest songs.
Strangers visiting onr town would be struck
with tbo learning or onr musicians, and the
variety of songs In foreign languages wblob
are heard. Tbo most popular onn at pres
ent seems to be "There sno plssb home,"
a song evidently or Hebrew origin. There
Is another thought to be Iron) the German
entitled "Wbrnil Rarfnr Mmhrneow."
One young lady bas studied the Hottaolot
language), and renders one of their songs ss
follows.'' "Methmehst tgat wentbklock
strka nigh n n ." ' And she ends up
with a squeal, a yell, and a smash on tbe
piano that makes tbe lights flare and scares
every young m m wbo bas drawnnear and
makes blm lerl invoiutary for bis scalp
"Aug yah Lawab," Is another Importation
from a foreign shore and ''Sham pain
Charts," Is a translation Irom Handel done
over Into pigeon English." With a little
more study our musicians will bo able to
singes Chinee mucbee,'' or warble Japan
ess with as much eclal as if Ibey bad been
born wilb shaven beads, and ohop slicks lo
thalp tlnnfla
Si itlataAafiil Rahl tfw.tr tkl.e Ait Wash;
Ington street, between cousin Eliza
Part, or whiskey reoown, aud Mrs. Mack,
alias "fatty Mack." For twenty mioutes
they mauled and puaimeled each otter with
tin palls, buckets, shovels, skillets, pott
mops, brooms .and pokers, until outsider,
bad to step In and separate them. - Mrs'
Mack, from a searlet red is now a basutilui
blue, tbo effect of a bucket ol Indigo water
slapped Into ber face, while Cousin Elite U
now, as we write, with clsoohed flats, die
shoveled hair, half clad, countenance pale
and distorted with rum, dancing a gin ret
on tbe aide walk in front or tba Post OOoe,
a frlgbtlul example of the demoralising el
whlskey and a lasliog shams to tbs paraslts
that sold ber the rum.
iri.vis Slavics. Rev. A. Gaily, of In
diana county, will preaeb at Sobers Opera
House, tomorrow (Sunday afternoon, at
3, p m. Tbe Rev. gentleman is accounted
one ol tbe finest speakers In Western Penn
sylvania sod (boss wbo attend will have a
rare literary treat. All am Invited to at
tend.
Our townsman, Mr. James Mask, for tbe
past seven yoars connected wltn tba Oil
Crack Railroad, In tbe oapeelt of yard
master at Ibis place, has changed bis bass
and is now acting as verd master at Oil
City. There Is no batter man, or one mora
conversant with the duties of bis position,
on tba Oil Creek Road, than Mr. Mack.
Wa wish him success.
The engine house at the Lady Sill well,
MoCray larm, was destroyed by Bra yester
day afternoon.
According to the cable advices, tba Pope
is still sdrionaly i.l, and many are fearful
that be will not recover. He was .born al
Siolgeglie, In 1792, and on tbs 13tt of next
month, if be lives, will be 81 years of age.
Ha is regarded as tba 258 Pope, and not
ooa In all Ibat catalogue bad so long and
eventful n reign. During bis lifelima be
has witnessed many changes. He bas seen
a Republic in tbe streets of Roma, and tbo
dream of Italian unity cbanga into) reality
wltb Viotor Emanuel ruler In the Eternal
City. Ha bas seen tbe asgles of France
bitting tba dust before Kaiser William's
armies, tbe empire itsell dissolved by a re
public; tba consolidation of Germany and
its newly acquired martial prowess Napo
leon III. a prisoner, an exits, and dead;
and America advanced Into the front rank
of nations. Hs msy bava years yst before
blm, but it cannot be long at tbo farthest
era Pins .IX. must be 'gathered to bis
fathers," and tba PonllOcata pass to an
other.
Fires, floods, freshets, fevers, frauds,
fleeoiog. forgery, lighting, flirti eg, flunkey
ism, and flattery arc among tba chief evils
and amusements of tba tins.. Famine,
fortunately, is ss yet star off.
The sap is lo tbe bough, the bloom .Is in
lha blood, '
Tbe earth's beginning now in ber veins to
feel lbs blood.
Rural papers severely condemn the eon
duct of "tba bens that are standing around
barnyard doors doing nothing wbl la eggs
are selling at fifty cents a doasn," and sug
gests that, although purely a lay question,
it Is ooe of wblob lb Clergy mlgbl well test
tbs efficacy or prayer.
In Montana Ibey bava a "society lor prr.
taction against call la and horse thieves,'
with a central council and brancbas for Ibe
administration of justice. Tba branches ara
located from ten to twenty feet from tbs
ground.
The British lobabitaois of ibe Dominion
ol Canada disdain tba title of,"C4s4toA'
which Ibey rathsr contemptuously apply to
their fellow subjects of French dsaeeol.
List or Truvnnun Jcsoas Draws ron
Focrth Monat or April, 1873. Frank
Stcpbeneoo, Emlenton; fbos. Wood, Canal;
A U Suttoo, John C Dewoody, Reed Stew
art, John MoAlteter, John L Mitchell, A
P Wbltaker, Franklin; Adam Deals, George
Turner, Wo H Welkal, R O Dunear,
Gabriel Priobard, Oakland; John F Tarr,
Cherrytree; Geo Cornwall, Oil City; Jona
than Harland, Robert Foster, Sandyoreek.
George 8 Duncan, Plumer; John Davidson,
Rick'.and; Ed. Burgwln, Jaoob Soliocu,
Rockland; James ;Msoo, Robert MoCetiley
James. Beaty, John McConatd, Jackson;
R R Moult, Frenohcreek, J 1) Bartlett,
Petroleum Centre; Richard Dempsey, Kane
City; Peter Beat, Scrobgrass, George Myers
J 8 Gibson, II I Beers. Ronsevllle; George
Camming, Allegheny; Albert Reagel, ilin
oral; Peter Iluey, John A McCntobeon,
AllerTucker, Cranberry; Van Bur en Welsh
Plum.
Mrs. Samuel Stewart, of Blngliampton,
N. Y., while making a pis last week knock
ed a paper containing some while odr oil
ol a shelf, some or which was scattered over
lira pie. - Supposing the powder to be 'cream
or tarter sbe scooped it off with a spoon.
Mr. Stewart was burled last Friday, but
Mrs. Stewart will recover. ' 1
Yet another loophole or escape for mur
derers has been fonnd out. Tbe latest
"dodge" la lo do tbs deed while asleep. A
boy baa been killed in Candia, N. H., and
a youth Is suspected or the deed wbo bas
been In tbe bsblt ol walking In bis steep
armed wltb dangerous weapons. The plea
ofsomnanbullam will be added lo tba long
list of 'defences."
Tbe Paris Le Temps says: "Sweden bas
produoed two great cantatrlces, Jenny Lind
and M'lls. Nilssoo.. Ireland is jealous f
Sweden, nnd bas now flashed to us a star,
M'lle. D'Ealna. Sbe has lbs voice, the
taste, lha talent, lbs tradition, a stylo the
most soiree I, and a soul essentially musi
cal."
A Nashville parent was reeding alond to
his family highly complimentary notice or
an "accomplished yonng lady" or that vi
Olnlly. "Accomplished young lady," I -
tempted ons of his small olive brioches;
"It don't take much lo be 'accomplished.'
then 1 1 know ber, and she says -I haven't
saw,' and 'I seen
The Idea ol offering a leitlmonlal from
lb American people lo tbe Rev. Mr. Ar
dent for hi gallantry and humanity In asv
ing tbe lives of our countrymen in Ibe wrack
of tbe Atlantic, is generally well received.
It Is not the function of government in this
cooofry but ol the people themselves lo
honor aod reward merit. The World and
tba Herald In New York, both acknowledge
the receipt if contribution lor tbe purpose
in view.
Wa found a m.jeetlo poem on our desk
this morning. - The paper and ink appear
ed to be above the. average. The author
does not givs bis name, butlhare isayming
man pacing the walk la front or this i.fllce
and occasionally looks np to tbe window.
". j. Dsn bury News.
Tm Nnw 'Stiaihr. We learn that the
oaw steamer for Chautauqua Lake is to I
laid this week, and Ibat it will be built hy
Mr. W. H.lWhltney, near tba taw mill jnst
below Bemus Pom U Tbe steamer Is lo be
120 feel in length, 18 feet in -width, slds
wbeels and plgb pressure engine. Work
will b poshed forward ss rspldly as pop
ribla to have ber for use during a portion
of lbs Summer months. Msyville Sent)
net. ;. ,
Psnama is opizootlosd. So Is Iheellv of
Mexico.
W ara ready to believe almost anything
In the way of sunlight plolures, but a 'pbo
tograph of a fast horse in California stretch,
es our credulity somewhat. The Oceidtn1
' tbe famous trotter of tbe Pacifio slope,
tbogub be has tailed, as yel, to show bit
hsels to tbe fastest Eastern horse, and there
In the remark of lb San Fraaoisco Cbroi
ole, thai Ibe horse "drove every thing
before him last summer, "twaa true, so far as
Goldsmith Usld and Lucy were con.
cerned. But tba Occident aud . bis sulkey
were photographed when tbe home was trot
ting at lb rats of thirtyeight feet per
second over a whit clotb spread tupon tbe
ground. Experiments were made lor three
days before satisfactory picture was m
cured, but finally, by using doubla lentes
crossed, the real wa accomplished and a
picture produoed so perfect ss to give tba
spokes ol the sulkey wbeels as psrfaotly as
true venioie was at a stand. I ...
( A Maine man baa sucooedeil in making
vary fair artlBolal oyster out of flour,
paste, wpiooe, sail ana water. . The inven
tor places these to second hand ovater
shells, which are glued arouod the edges,
and wheo a half lotoxioeled customer call
for "a doten on lb half shell," he gals
them fresh from the shop.
n Xtwa Tha Shldemiinlie wells No''.
1 and 2 al Petrolia, are doing fitly burrels i
day. , s
Several wells are bring completed in
this
territory and we will kaow the iwult oon
Burchseld & Wilkin completed a wen
the Argyle district week before last. It
aiod for twenty-flve barrels a Hay.
A new d-rrlck bae been erecteu i
tbe
was
Jennings Evans number five which
burned several days ago, aod pumping
aumed.
Tha Harrington is Harrop well
near
Aroila la the best lo Ibat territory. It w
rJ t
struck last November and is yet prodnqtng
sixty-five barrels a day.
Will. F. Jordon Co , have abandoned
or will abandon, their new well on the Wtl
son farm.- As a dry hole, he bas no super
tors aod fow equals in this territory. - '
Millichainp Brothers will soon start i
tank shop at Bueoa Vista. Since the strike
nn . Trinitron (arm the demand for a tauk
shop al this plac has been very great.
The Seldeu Tiffany J5 uomus wen prom
ises to be terser than was thought when our
mnunt of Ibe strike was written. We offer
our congratulations In lbs fortunate ow
era.
The Swamp well, In to valley between
Ibis place and Argyle. is doing about litre
barrels a day, and tbe well adjoining u
pumped by tbe same engine, Is doing forty
Messrs. C. Bullock & Delan will oomplet
a -well on ft be Levi Campbell larm this
week. This well is near the largest In Ibe
Argyle territory, and a good one Is expect
ed. Petrolia Uity Reporter.
Tbs sutbors ol the Bank of England for
geries bavins, it is said, begun their career
in Chicago, Ibat cty now makes the sweep
log assertion Ibat nothing ol a moral or
erlmlnel character can occur either in En
rope or America, unless assisted by her
resources
Tbaclyol Boston bas cont acted with
General Butler's Cape Ann Granite Quarry
Company to furnish three million pavlrg
blocks before tbe first day of next Noven
ber. at the rat ef f 81 per thousand.
Thetroiely In Columbia, Obio, Is high
loned, If the following from tha Journst I
true: "Wh-y, y-o-n ofd saT'd-lwe,
s that you?" is tbe way a young lady in
titled another oo atw streets Ibe other day,
aod Ibe angel In dimity and blgh beeted
boots thus ddressed,meekly and poetically
responded. "You bet!"
An Indiana paper offers Inducements to
subscribers whleh sre liberal Indeed.
Every person sending $1 .60 le this geaer
ous sheet "wiM be preten'ed tree with tbe
shotce of eight cbromos, or a finely execa
led portrait or the Hon. Schuyler CUfax.'
This should fete1! th spone.
A ehool girl at Bangor, Me., recently
purobared a botile ol elber for her moll a,
wbi e on ber wsy to schools During tbe
surslow she passed the bottle around among
hr friends, wbo took such prolooged sniff
that several otlhem completely succombsd
ro me anemone, and Bad lo be asalsted to
tbelr homes.
' Oue of tbe meanest features of the Con
gressional Back py bill Is that tbe familie
ofmemhers rof the Forty-seoood Coogrest
decesaed previous lo tbo passage ol lbs bill
derive no benefit from It.
A Spirittialistlo burglar lo Springfield,
Hsss., plesded in deleooe Ibat "that tbe
gplrii of a dark haired woman controlled
his actions," and dlreoted blm when and
where to break through and steal.
This Is tbe graphic and idiomatto man
ner in which they deaoribe Incidents on tbe
Paoifio slope: "One Carrlgao carved a
gentleman at Plocba oo Marob 11. Carri.
gan was jailed."
An Innoc nl voubir aUn in Da trntn.
n oj me nev. iiammood, tba re
vivalists, if he was laboring for tbe goed ol
blS SSul. No." waa tha Mnl 11T
, - - fj 1 wuia
tor oiiiy Moore."
Chasok Tbe firm ol Mease k Armslrorg
vuM.gcu iu ins amir a oa ieea trade In
this place, havs disposed or their store and
business lo a gentleman from Tilnsvllle.wba
takes charge on Monday next. . We are sere
TV tO lose tbene ffentlnmen frnm Ih- K...I.
- - ". ... uiuiunji
Interest of the town, but are pleased lo learn
ma, it is uut i-jBir loienuoo to remove from
Ihia tilaoe. THmv Amrn m i. .......
sincere thanks to their patrons for tbe lib.
eral palrouags extended Ibem during tbe
past two or Ibrne year. Tbey also desire
us 10 request all parties Indebted to then
to
vi, uupvuwtiviici as ineir D0OKS
be balanced within ibe next few days,
mus
NOTICE. Mr. James S. McCray having
ivHivrcu tw jrnumin, parties oaving 3om.-
miiniCallnn Vllh him n hii.ln ..I
Wise, are reauested hAm.fiAr tn itit.au k.i-
letters to that point. . St.
GOLDEN TREASURE nir. at h.
Poet Office News Room. Somibing entirety
EVGAFFNEY keeDS cor.atanilv on
band Scotch Ale aod London Poster, a ana.
tally ror femrly nte.
Lortil Motlre.
V18401,UTION. "
Tb copartnership heretofore exlatln.i.
tween Senermerboto k Ten Evek I. ir
ed by mutual consent. 1
8. P. Pcmrsusbom
J. A. Tim hrn.
Parties Indebted lo tha above Urn
call and settle up and save trouble.
J. A. Taw Btcs
Dated Petroleum Centre, April ( tsn
FOR SALE. '
One 15-horse Tift boiler lo compete .
der, one 17-honw Wood i Mann eng,.!Ii
boiler In oompleie order, 275 fJ .r
tubing, extra heavy, 600 leet large
rods, 1 Snows Pump. "
J- A- ET.
For Sale.
A Smith's American Organ, as tool
new and complete In every reBotV
quit at this office or of D. B. PsVklBi v
bert Farm, Petroleum Centre, p, ''
prill7-lw.
S
NOTICE.
We expect all parties forfeit,
ted to this firm to settle their
bills before the 1st of May nest
and avoid unpleasantness, as w
iutend to close ont and leave,
(his town.
SOBKL & AUERIIAIKL
Dated, Petroleum Centie, Pa., March tOtk
IiOUK HEME.
Now I tb lime to buy ibe eelebrattd
Fox A Williams' Buffalo Ctesm Ale. at w
A. LOZIER'S as be Intends to doss " !
tba twenty fourth Inst Also, all those a
debled to the same will pleats essje ui
settle on or before said date and obliis tbe
undersigned.
VT. A. LOZIER,
Go to W. As L0Z1ER,
4th Strect,near It. U. track,
for yonr BENZINE, deliv
cred at the welh for &25
per Barrel.
Fsrrolewm Ceotr, Feb. Jtb-tt
Grand Opening!
CARPETS,
OH Cloths Motions, tc,
AT
SAIV1UELS
BROS.,
Washington Strict,
Petroleum Geatrf.
Atprent tbprvaellng topre of smtw
sallon aooears to "Dow soon are yon
going to novo lo Butler!" Ws dsiii
lo inform our patrons and tb j
public at large that we do not iofod l
or from Pa roOnn Centre, but prepmr
to "fight it ou, on tbi Ho ir ii
all summer," aod would respsethil:7 -I
invite all to coma and axamio J
enr stock of f
Snob as
Millinery Trinimiife
LACE GOODS, f
And acwmplete stock of ladies
llats and bonnets,
. Also, a Corapfcl. Stock f
BOOTS ti SHOES
Which will UsDld
' i t
tar lias tie tkml
Wrniva em a a. II ui exaais I"""
and price. . onBi
SAMUr.ua p"-
rei. uentre, April 19th,
Snndav Rnmfort atlll a