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    Hetro'eu.ti Centre Daily Record
Vtiu Outre, I'B.i Tucudny Oct, 1 1.
nivlne Service
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHrjROU
Services every Snbhatb at 1 1 A. M. and
i P. M. Sabbath School nt 12.'J P.M.
eats free. A Cordial invitation extend,
el to all.
Kev. T. Graham, Pastor,
FRESIlYTKRiAN CHURCH.
Preaching at II o'clock A. M.. anl 7
o'clock P. M., by the Pastor, W. C. Btincii
arb. Sabbato Sohool at directly
after forenoon service.
Prayer Meeting ami Sabbath School
Teacher's Meeting Tuesday evenings ol
each week.
Petroleum Centre liodse, Ho.
T15, I. O. of O.
Regular meeting nights Friday, nt 7
o'clock. Signed.
8 H. KOOKER, N. G.
J. C E. IIaKthan, A Sec'y.
t??"Pluce of mooting, Main St., opnosite
ilcUlintock Ilotiso.
A. O. of li. W.
Liberty Lodge No. 7, A. O. of U. W.,
meets every Monday evculng at 7 o'clock,
I II Odd Fellow's Hull, Petroleum Gentle,
Penn'it.
Jamks Wilson, M. W.
Jambs S. WniTK, K.
I. O. of It. M.
Minnekaimee Tritie No. 18J, I. O. R. M
of Petroleum Centre, meets every Thursday
evening in Good Templar's Hall.
ZZ) Council fires lie hied at 7 o'clock.
U. HOWE, Sachem.
C. L JUKES, Chief ol Uecords. '
Gold at 1 p. ui. 1U84
Orft Union' School. Notwithstanding
the dullness uf the limes and the removal, ol
many families fiom town, our Uoiou School
Is crowded from cellar to garret, The
rooms are crowded aod our ''little people '
are put Into all corners of the room that can
be found for' Ibora. The average attend
ance is about 180 in all three rooms, and
as a matter ol course the teachers bave their
bands lull. Under the able management of
l'rof. Alcorn, the school la in a moat pros
parous condition and rapidly increasing in
lumbers and "prosperity. The Board ol
Education of Coroplaoter Towoship are live
and energetic men, and spare neither time
nor paiut to labor Jo behalf of our school in
terests. The Board have secured a good
corps of teachers who are also alive to the
interests of the youog and under their man
agement have brought tbe school up to its
high standard In eduoatlonul matters.
Among the gentlemen composing (be Board
who have labored zealously for the cause ol
education, and especially lor tbe schools in
this eud uf tbe tuwnship, is Mr. J. P. Bar
croft, of Columbia. To him our people are
In a greet measure entitled for the excellence
of our present school system, aod be is cer
laiuly deserving tbe thanks of our citizens
and tax payers for bis efforts In Ibis good
cause.
We bad tbe pleasure this forenoon ot an
introduction lo Mi. Samuel Pbipps, of
Clinton township, this county. Mr. P. is
78 years of age, and for over seventy years
ol that time has resided la Venango county
In 1844 be was elected Sheriff of the county
and served one or two terms. lie baa an
excellent memory and relates with great
accuracy incidents of pioneer bistory that
transpired in this section over fifty years
ago. D bad not visited Oil Creek for
a number of years and as a matter of course,
was somewhat surprised at the changes that
Lad been going on in the meantime. -
As we predicted yesterday, 'tbe election
in passing off very quiotiy to-day. The
vote is "xoeedlngly light, as it undoubtedly
will be throughout tbe township.
Local option is in force for one day only.
Tbe Oilman's Journal of October 10th,
after roviewiog tbe whole lower dlalriot
comments as follows:
The oil market tbis woek has been a lit
tie better, baviug an upward teodeooy.
From present indications at tbe (root we do
Dot anticipate a sudden rise in tbe market,
nor do we look lor another decline just
now. Tbe market is rather firm at the
present price, and will in all probability
remain in tbat condition for some time with
perhaps very light fluctuations. Large
strikes are not so numerous and there is a
gradual falling off in tbe production of the
several districts at tbd front, while but few
new strikes are expected soon; all of which
lo our opinion argues well for tbe future.
Tbe bank and fixtures of tbe Allegheny
Trust and Banking Company, at Oil City,
bave been sold to F. W. Mitchell of Frank-S
tin. Mr. Mitchell will remove bis Rousevilla
bank to Oil City and consolidate it with
tbe other.
Our reSnurles are running to their fullest
saptoity. .
Ladies traveling through Canada by rail
are often greatly annoyed by having their
liiugiRO unnecessarily Beached, but ono ot
the officials recently got his deserts It
happened that a Yankee school loachpr on
her way from Kansts to Vermont passed
Ihrougti tbe Dominion, with a trunk pack
ed to bursting with nothing contraband.
When the officer demanded her key, sbo
t.egged him not.to open It, curing him
that It bad c.imo through from Kans, con
tained simply blotheB and books, and was
so full tuat It would be very troublesome to
repack it. But he sternly demanded ihe
key, nnd maliciously pulled everything out
to the "very bottom; then finding her as
srtlons true he returned h-r the key and
advised her to "hurry up and get Ibn traps,
back," as the train would soon rr.ovo.
'What is that to me?'' said the quick wit
ted woman; "I bave a check for that trunk,
and bul l the Grind Trunk Ralllway respon
sible for i s fof t delivery, I will not t I;o tho
key, and you may do as you pleaie with the
trunk." Report says that oBiJial was very
v rary and red In the faco and rather pio
Ijr.e e?e hi flii'hod packing that trunk.
Tub liEdiuit os Hosskiiack. "Cool Oil
Johnny," says tbe Sioux City Journal, is
tbe plagiarized pl-nauio given a young
soldier named Forrester, stationed at one of
the upper for Is. Ho recently fell heir lo
twe utj-.'lve tuousand, and ot the amount a
remittance was made to him of tbree thous
and dollurb. lie got a furlough aod went
lo Yankton, where, for the last three or
(our weeks, he has been Imitating, to tbe
best of bis nbility. ''Coal Oil Johnny," of
Pennsylvania lame. He bas beou making
it very interesting lor the boys, spending
money for their benefit wi'b a prodigal
hand. Ha drinks but little himself, and is
not known to bave b.en intoxicated at uuy
lime, but be has no objection to bis friends
getting druuk as lords at bis expense, so
often as their constitutions will permit.
His delight is to drivo a four-lu-band- aud
give everybody a ride; and be makes pres
ents with number, and but a f.-w days since
sent a Yankton belle, on tbe occasion o!
hor birth day, a two bundled dollar organ.
Perhaps ibe best instance, however, ot bis
disregard of lucre was shown when be
bought a team tbat struck bis fancy for
seven bundled aud thirty dollars. Ills
three tbousaud dollars is ueurly gone, and
when be bas run through that, be says be
is going to settle down alYauktoo, buy a
livery sstabla and become a prudent aud
decorous citizen., 11a is in the meantime
hoping, through tbe influence of bis ducats,
10 securo bis discharge f rum tbe servico.
fuom rut; Fiso.vr :
Modoc Citv, Oct. 13.
Tbe well on ths Starr Farm, nx.tr Modoc,
owned by Culver, Bullock & Co., ol Renoi
and purchased by them whiln drilling, for
twenty thousand dollars from ISrotks Mer
cer & Cj., alio of Bmiio, proves a success.
It baa boon reported dry, but after tubing
and pumping a large quantity of sail water,
it beg to flowing inroiijh tha casing, and is
pumping at tbe rale of two hundred and
fifty barrels per day.
The oil market here is $1,15 for Butler
line; one tianaaction at lhat figure. Old
wells are (ailing olf, sod everybody Is ex
pecting a qniet aud dooidd advance in
prices.
Rev. liurchard returned f:om New York,
wbilher be bad been in attendance on tbe
meetiog of the Evangelical Alliance, this
morning.
We notice by the Oil City Derrick ol this
morning, tuat C. E. Bisnop, editor and one
of I bo proprietors of that paper, bas with
drawn from the firm. Tub paper will
hereafter be issued by W. il. Longwell &
Co.
The force of men, composed of tbo fore
mm aod one hand, at work on lue Tl'us
ville, Culver and Franklin Railroad, bave
been withdrawn, and tbe work is suspended
An Indian Summer day.
An exchange has made au important
discovery by means of which every isan can
be his own ''Old Probabilities." This Is
how ills done: If you wish to know
whether it is going to etotm or not, nil you
have to do is lo I'm 1 the storm vorttx and
sea which side ol it Is the U'ost moist. Mul
tlply this by Ibe square of the latent beat,
subtract iho time of day and divide by the
weatbeicock. Tbe result will be tbe tatifi
cation plus tbe lliermometrio evolution, of
tlie nort'i pole aod then a way luring man,
though a natural kuowooifiiog, da till
what will follow." How wonderful, and
yet bow simple, is tbe economy of nature;
'I want you to pay me tbat thirty-dve
cents you owe me.' roared an Indignant
news boy to a bootblack on State street yes
terday morning "Haven't got the curreu
ey, Jatnesey, replied the buralsber, but I
cao'give you a certiOed check."'. Colutu
bus Jourca!.
OfJTOIIi.il.
There comes a month In the weary year
A month of leisure ami healthful rest;
When the ripe leaves fall nnd tbo air is
cie ir;
October: the brown, the crisp, the blest.
My life bas little enough of bliss:
I ling tbe days of the odd eleven,
Counting the lime that shall le id lo this
The month that opens tbe hunters' hea
v .
And oh! for the mornings crisp anil white.
With tbe sweep of the bound upon tbe
track;
Tbo barkroofed cabin, the ctvtnpfire'e
light,
The break of tbo doer r.n,l iho ride's crack
Do you call this trifling? I tell you friend,
A life In the forest is past ail praise.
Give me dozen such months on oml
You may take my balance of yuars and
days,
Forbrcks and mortar breed filth on 1 crime
And a pu'so ol evil thitt throbs and lieu I;
Aud men go withered before tneir prime
With lliecursu pared in on tbo lauos at.d
streets;
And lungs are choked, and shoulders
. nrr Ijowed
In Iho furthering reek of mill and mine
And Death stalks iu on tbe struggliug
crowd,
But be sLuns the shadow of oak aud
pine.
And of all to which the memory clings,
Tbero is uaugU so sweet as lbs sunny
ois
Wbero our shanties stood by tha crystal
springs,
Tbe vanisui'd bounds, and tbe lucky
shots.
From the Aldine for October.
. XOTtoa OF 'JTiJii MAY,
Bass ball at Now Yoik yesiorday Mu'
luals, 18; Atlautlco, 7.
Nina jurors have boa obtainod to try
Stokes, who, it will be remembered, is al
leged to bave shot ouo Fisic sums years ago
in New York, if we ore not tnistukflu.
John Crawford a physician, formerly ol
Pittsburgh, attempted suicide iu Fuiiadtl
pbio, Sunday night.
Tbe Emperor ot Austria will visit the
Czir at St. Petersburg duritij tbe C'liriat
mas holidays
All emigration agents aie to bo expulled
frcin Germauy.
li is said Don Alfonso a id wile bave re
orossed tbe (tootle; iuto France.
Case bull at Bonica yeaiorti.ty Eostcs?,
29; Cdltimoi'jj, 11).
It is reported that ex Governor HiuTuim
will be nominated I) I us Doiuocm's lot
Couple: ud successor lo J a a Crooks.
Fx-President Jjhnaou is iu V,'a;lilfib
tou.
Colonel VVm. II llussell, formerly Henry
Clay's privates ii-urydied la Wasuiug
ton yesterday aged tii) years.
Baseball at Philadelphia yesterday
A'bielics 11; Pbiiadflouius (i.
Capt. Jam.'s 11. Aver:!l, one tbe oldest
sea and lake Captains, Cied suddenly Iu
Buffalo yesterday.
The examination of the Polaris turvi
vors continues, but is still conducted se
crotly.
Fire at t'clroliu.
Pkthoma. 0:t, 13.
A fire broke out in this place about 3
o'clock this morning destroying ithe dry
goods and grocery stuto of J. B. 1 ill and
residence of Mr. B;ysiou. A large por
tion of tbe towu was gieally endangered
and some of the adjoining bitildingB were
burning briskly, but a wo II directed stream
of Water from one of the Fairview Pipe
Line Pumps near uy soou brought tbe fire
under control. Loss, about 5,000; fully
insured.
An inveutor baa demonstrated that It
is not necessary to grove a rifle barrel
along lie whole length in order lo get good
results in shooting. About four inches at
the wuzzie are grooved; all the rest is
smooth, by which tha initial velocity of tbo
bullet Is much greater tnan In a barrel
grooved from breech lo muzzle and the
flight of the bullet is more direct, or, as
shooters say, it has a a titer trajectory.
Chestnuts Tha best way to get chesl.
ouisjroui the burrs la to run the burrs
tuiougn a oorn sheller. Tbe corn shelter
can be set so that most ot Ibe, chestnuts
will be separated from burrs, and few chest
nuts Injured.
Sbclleld late President of ihe Merchant's
National Bank of Dubuque, bas made up
the amouut of bis defalcation by surrender
ing nil hi property, including bis homestead,
w!wiwuiywf.V""'."r-
"t Now York Sun tells of a prudent
newsboy In ragged jacket and 'one suspeu
der who confronted a teller at nn of the
savings Imnks the other day, nnd demanded
to know i! "sho wns all rifhi" meauitip
tho bank -became if she whs he didn't
mea n to bo scared il every oe else was
The teller acsured bim tbo money was ready
lor bim at any motrenf Nuf said 'leeii
gentlemen; but I dou't want It.'' and with a
Sf ltf itivlie.l :r be Walked out of the bank.
"It site uood ?" cried two or Ibree newstyv.-,
aw iltttigtlie result at the doorstep. "Yes,
sir-e. ; -s'couil as wheal. Catch ciir bank
to stop! Y co? ot:gbt to rec.1 the gold I fe.d
in the sale. Moi'u I ouso full. An' yoes
don'l ketch tbis feller making a fool of bis
sell atnl diuwln' It out. 1 ain't fo green,
I atu'i."
St. Lou.". .Mo., October 1.1.
The Evening Difpuoli lias a speci .1 from
Currollion, Mo., giving an account of a ter
rible tragedy oncted neur there. It np
peurs that Robert Austin, a young tanner,
residing about eight miles fiom C-uroillun
fins some lime suspected tbo inlid-lity of II I
wife, and Friday ijorn lug lust left lu iue,
saying Le was gong ti; tti" St. Louis Fair,
and would bo angi-nt tever.il days. He weul
lo Ihe depot, but returned bvime alter dark,
secreted hiu.sell iu u clo?et in his wife's bed
room, tinned with a doublctiatrnl shot gnu.
His wile retired and shortly alterwards
Elijah Haley entered the room, undiessed
himself, and just vs be was geitiug into bed,
Austin sprang from bis concealment and
lired at bim, but missed bis uiui, tho shot
entering his wile's abodomen. AuBtin li ed
again at Haley and killed kirn instantly.
Tbo aifatr croat-d an intense excitement by
reason of the prominence of all parties con
Cerned, young Austin being a sou of Colo
nel Austin, one of the oldetl aud wealthiest
farmers iu Carroll county, bis wile a
duughter ol Dr Flotuuay, a prominent
citiZrtQ of Fayette county, and young Haley
n brother ol Thomas and Elder Haley, both
prominent in the Christian Chuicii. Mrs
Austin died Saturday morning, and Austin
I urende e 1 to the authorities.
5jt:ijxi!iei Suicide ut llubyloii.
Ret McCann, a young woman residing at
Babylon, one of taal class of wnom it is
said in Proverbs: "Hor feet go down to
death; her steps take bold oa bull," died
yesterday afternoon uuder circumstances
which lead lo tbo supposition tbat she Com
mitted eulcltls by the uso ol chloiofoim. In
trie abence of legal evidence we glean tho
loliowtng puriictilat'i. About noon she re
I'.red, and between tbrro and four o'clock
her brother went to call ber. Failing lo
receive un auswer ber psopie euieied ber
room and louud tbat Bhe was dead. She
bud boeu in the habit ol using chloroloim
and asnhe had becoiuu ai oi jecl of loatbiug
to ncrself, cl.e uudoubly luok Ibis poiules
uioo'u ol dropping iuto au uobonored rave.
Her e.-td is bitter as wormwood, sbaip as a
Iwo-rdMi rwurd. "
L'p to ttiu lime of tbis writiog the Csron
or iiuit held uo mquesi, tlaud solar aswa
an ic.ru tud uot u.'eu beeu notified. 1'n
luu la Journal.
Some ot tue New Orleans and Texas pa
.e:s soy tbat the "cutting away of tbe Red
liver rafts, thus uncovering vast quantities
oi decaying vegetable mailer to the ncllou
of Ihe sun und atmosphere is no doubt t lie
getmiuitl Ioicj winch has spread death aud
sorrow among Ibe stricken lubabitanls ol
Sbreveport. "
Tbe bad boys of Ale tndria, Virginia, h
consideration of free admission to a circus
which lias been perlormiog there for tbe
past lw days, furnished tbe wild beast
with all the old cats aod young kitiens, too,
lhat could be gathered up. Grimaikius in
1 bat city are now scarce.
There are over a hundred battle flog, 0f
lu-j.aua regimeoiB in the Stato Library at
Indianapolis. Many of these flags are ta
tered aod lorn lo such a degree tbat it is
only by eieroisiug Ibe greatest care thai
the pieced cm be held together.
A young man wou enj ,ys tne eoubrlquet
of Frunii, in parting; with a young lady tn.e
other night, eodoavored 16 exprest bis cus
tomary kiss, when she forcibly pushed back
his head and said, 'No sir, you don't The
franking privileg is ouw abolished.' Thai
70iing m itt don't live here live her now I
The produoiiou ol lutirioaiing oil la tt
I'taiiKiiu anirict is about eight hundred
burrels perdieai. The oil is '.behest uat
unl lubricator ever invented, and even at
.l.Ul 4 II I . ..
c-gumouora a oarrei would be much tbt
Cheapest.
Tbe capacity of tbe Ualeoa Oil worka at
franklin, is to be largely increased. Tb
oil manufactured jbere ranks high In tbe
mechanical world as a prime lubricator.
tenusyivania will have Ihe honor of be
Ing the first State in tho Union to resume
specie payment. On turdy noxt all me
miners aud laborers at the several collier
lea iu Scbujfcille county arc to be paid off
la gold.
McKinley & Gross,
Machinists,
Blacksmiths,
AND
jgoper fakers,
Egbert Farm, letrolvnm
li'ittrt, ia.
- 1 Q .'cviaiiiy,
RK FINERY STILLS REPAIRED
We warant all work done by ui to
b neatly as good as new when repaired
nn..i ..iui r.,P..,Di.u.i Q...t
..- - - o icaaoQ.
able.
Having bar! long experience in the hi
.IOSKIMI MrKlMLKY. SKHAMTlAJf 011088
l't:t rtilcii m Outre, Pa., Jn. 3. tf
DR. bARVIJN S LIXIR CF TAB.
Is recommended liy rcimlar Mml inl prnctitinnm
and A xpeidy cure gusri-iintet'd lor (.'old, fouyh,
Calarrh, Asthma, Hninchitis, Spitting Hluid, ( nnl
siunpilnn. anl all Hiilmonary Complaint', crni
Krysiiielas. DvsH-psia, and (leut It "ft tery, cho'i.
eramorbii, t'liolern nnd all liv.rnttd liowtl ,m"
nlalnti. Kldnry dlseiue an all aflvlion ml .kj
v. ...... p-...... m'-o utx-iri-m j,in.
eral or Alcoholic properties pleasant to tnkp arj
nevr known te fall I'rlce $ 1.00 per bottle, rnli
pnrticu.are with nitdxal testimony and rrtifl.
cate m-nt on nptiHcatiou. A-ldre? L. F. HYDE
A CO , 10."i Kvtme Avenie, ew York.
Girl Wiutte .
To do general housework. Ioou ire at finr
don's Hardware (lore
THE SEW
HEOTEDY
TlItE
rem hit.
A mojl Important tn-entlnn. gold by tha KliMIc
'I'rui Co , a" ilroaflway, N. Y. City II reulti
Hupture lolul.ly in mm and onmiort uiuM tt,i
day. at all tunen and under all circum.tan.n. wiik
out any xceptlon wlwm in any ca-e, and fhrnild
i rver ne iaKn on aiinng tn aaiin lime req iaiti to
effect a pei man t core. Went by nun . C rculars
tree. Any aruirgta' or I'hy.lcinn will oitVr Uiit
new friss for you without charge
FAIRY VOICES.
FAIRY VOII'FS.
FAIhY VOICES
KAIKY VOICKS.
FAlKV Ti'ICBS.
AIHY VOICKS.
faihy voters.
IfAIRY ifua.
THK NKW
TIIF. NKW
MUSIC BOOK
FOR SCHOOLS
I'Eit rozrs.
6 I'Kt 1)1 ZEN
till CfS. KACil.
POSTPAID.
SONG ECHO,
FOH SCHOOLS.
HI.(KOSil.I).
811,000 NO 1,1).
do OUO t'OLD.
PHICE. 75CT9.
POST-PAID.
17.." PE WW.
JFHKNTPEK
KXPKKSS.
Addrei., J. h. PETERS,
(6t Broadway. New Tor
G. F. KUK8TEK)
Flour k Feed jMcirliant.
PETROLEUM CENTRE, PA.
PRICK LIST.
XXX Whito Wh't Fl, (9,00 I Meal,
C'tlOD.
1,H0
Wheat Bran, 1,
scptetf.
Cats,
00
TO THE CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Your attention Is Specially inrltod to the fact tbat
tbe National Banks are now prepared to receive
subscriptions to the Capital Stock of the Centenni
al Board of Finance. The ftioda realized, from
this sonrca an to he emplojad In tho erectioa of
,he building for tha International Exhibition,
tha expenses connected with Ihe earns. It Is
fldeiitly bslleved lhat the Kerslone Slate will t
ropreiented by the namoof every cltlaen alWc to
patriotic commemoration of the ona huudreth birth
day oflho notion. The shares of stock are offered
for 1 10 each, and subscribers will rocoiva a band
somsly steel engraved Curt Ideate of Stock, snltaMs
for (raining and preiervr-tlou as a national -noia i
si.
Interest at tho rata of six per cent per annum
will ha paid oa all payments of Centennial Stock
from date ofpatmral to January 1, 187(1. u
Sulcrther who art not near a National Bun
can remit a check oi post-ottlm order to the aud"
slgntd. FHKDK PR ALKY, Trmsnrer.
VU4 Walnut St., PbtladolptU
AWV1CK FUII EVKItYMOPV
THAT COSTS AOBOllV
AJVYTHIiMO.
Lotions and cosmetics maks a euperflclal
coaling on tbe skin, give an artificial color
easily seen, hut are vilely destructive of lbs
color, texture and pliability of tbe skin II'
elf. Wrinkled, haggard and prematurely
old looking exaotly desoribed Ihe appear
anca of those who habitually "paint their
fsoei," If you would have the clear, trans
parent, healthy and soft tinted complexion
which nature gives, free from pimples, t
freckles or all otber disfigurements,
Hand Sapolio tbe most effective and f"
grant tiolet soap ever manufactured. S0la
by alljdealers at 10 and 15 cents per calc"