The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-08-06
OIL WELLS IN PENNSYLVANIA.


The somewhat outlandish name of Senecoleum
has been given to the oil that exudes from various
counties i'll Pennsylvania, on the shores of Seneca
Lake. But, however outlandish the name, the
thing itself is OF the marvels of the age. The
inhabitants of the oleaginous region have publish
ed Journal entitled the Oil Greek Reporter, and
the Philadelphia Bulletin wonders that some pun
ster has not already called that region the land of
Greece. The Reporter relates some surprising
facts. 1t says that on Oil Greek alone there are
from four to five hundred oil wells, and as many
as fourteen hundred in Northwestern Pennsylva-
nia large number of which are very productive
These oil wells, it is said, vary from to three
hundred feet, and the most productive yield from
to fifteen barrels Of oil day each, barrel hold
ing fifty gallons. One of these wells is described
the boring of which reached the depth of one hum
dred and ffty-three feet, when the pure oil began
to appear, and it flows in a continuous stream
over the top Of the pipe, filling twelve barrels a
day, which is equal to l74,724 gallons year.
The oil appears to be forced up in pulse-iike JETS
as if some great artery Of nature had been pier
ced. The only expense Of this well, after the first
outlay for boring, is the cost of barrels and the
hire of man to close them they are filled. In
one region abundance of oil has been obtained at
a depth of only sixteen feet from the earths sur
face and it is dipped out Of the holes dug to re-
ceive it by the pailtul.
he er describes Ille OH Obtained from
these wells as one Of the best llumnators in the
world. In "Galcs' History of Rock Oir' it is
stated that the same oil is found near Scottsvillc,
in Kentucky; in various places in Virginia, Ohio,
Western New York, well on the shores of
Seneca, from which it takes its name. 1t also ex-
lists in Canada West and several Of the West India
Islands; in the Duchy of Parma; in France; on the
shores Of the Caspian Sea; Rangoon, in the Bur-
man Empire. Some of these places have produc-
ed large quantities and for long period. The
wells in the district of Rangoon are said to num-
Der FIVE hundred, and from three hundred to
five hundred feet deep. These yield four hundred
thousand hogsheads annually, which is about L.
100000 barrels. Oil has been taken from them
for more than one hundred and sixty years.
Richmond Dispatch.
THE MCKENNA WILL CAsE-This case came
on for trial, on appeal from the decision of the
Ordinary: at Lancaster, on Monday, the 23d ult.,
his Honor Judge Glover, presiding. Three days
and-a-half were consumed in hearing the evidence,
and one anda- half in the argument of the counsel
Judge Glover delivered very able charge to the
jury, of one hour and a half in length, in which
he sustained very strongly the WILL Analysing, with
great power, the evidence, and applying, with
much ability, the points of law in the case The
record handed the jury at seven o'clock
on Friday evening. They returned into Court at
midnight, with a verdict against the will Notice
Of appeal Immediately given and the Court
adjourned.
The verdict against the Will was given for the
following reasons:
l. 1t was not duly executed.
2. Undue influence was exercised over the Tes-
tatUr.
j.. The Testator had an insane aversion to his
daug hter-in other words, was partially insane:
AS this case will probably be thrown and tossed
between the Appeal and Circuit Court for years
before its final settlement, it may not be amiss to
give some of the more important facts which have
been brought before the public by the evidence
in the case.
MIR Mckenna first turns up in Westchester. n
York, as travelling peddler and school teacher
He there married one Miss Cloe Fuller, about the
year 1913, but Immediately left her, came South
and settled at Lancaster. Four or five years after
wards he married again-a Miss Anna Cousart of
Lancaater, a young lady of large fortune The
rumor OF his previous marriage reaching her cars
they separated Meanwhile his wife in New York
four or. FIVE months after his marriage with her,
was delivered Of a daughter; and when this daugh-
ter was fifteen or sixteen years old, Mr. McKenna
went North, procured divorce from his wife there
got hold OF his daug liter, took her to Wilmington
Delaware, where she educated, and afterwards
brought her to his Southern home. The divorce
from his first procured his reunion about the year
1870, to his second wife. But she died chiIdless
in lS4o or 1919; and he married the third time.
Miss Ellen Quigley-hs present widow His
daughter married Mr. Mittag; and is, we believe,
his only child
;auusand dollars. 1t was wiled principally to the
Catholic church. By the present decision-were
there no appeal-it would accrue to his widow and
Mrs Mittag.-YorkriUe ENQUIRER.