The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-01-29
the NEWS.

South Carolina, Monday.
! Henry Lsndis committed suicide at Ir-
vingtou, N. s.. last Monday night.
John P. Cough leetured to crowded
houses at Detroi. on Monday and Tuesday
evenings.
The premium for the best vineyard in the
State OF Michigan has been awarded to Font
de Pearce Il Co. over six competitors. Die
drich & Breisacb, Of Detroit were awarded
! the second premium.
General Klapka, who played an impor-
tant part In the Hungarian insnrrection Of
lS4S, has published . letter lin relation to
the Eastern question, in which he shows
himself favorable 10 Turkey.
withom Block, in Columbia, Tennessee.
was destroyed by fire Monday night. A
young lady named Mclean, while eudeav-
oring to escape from the burning building.
jumped into o cistern in an adjoining yard
and was drowned.
Victor Hsgo has written letter, in which
bo says that the cause Of Crete Is the cause
| OF Greece. and the cause Of Greece is the
cause Of Europe. He calls diplomacy ruse
Of princip Piles against Gods logic, "but at a
given time God is right"
The recent convention of railroad presi-
dents, held at Atlanta, Georgia, resolved to
reduce the fare Of all persons going south
to prospect or examine the country to two
cents mile, and oil immigrants are allowed
to travel for one cent per mile.
A bar Of pure merchantable tin, weighing
eighty five ounls. has been turned out 10
San Francisco from ore from a tin mine at
Temessal. San Diego county, California.
A gentleman Of Houston, Texas, WAS
awakened by strange sounds the other night
and going ont to his garden, found three
npgroe. busily engaged. two in digging aud
the third in reading aloud from the Bible.
! They were after the pirate Lafittes gold.
sy- Large stock OF Gents Fnv0ishing
Goods. just recrivel at Lamuers & Aldens
Clothing Store j2S2s.
A drove Of 26O sheep sold in Jefferson
county, Iowa, en- tho 18th, Tor 81 head.
g. Horace Wilcox. OF the Rola Express has
been elected State pT.nter Of M.sfouri.
The County Treasurer of Jnneau county.
Wisconsin, loses $1,000 by late robbery.
There was received at the Land Office at
St. Paul. Minnesota. dulirg 1868, the sum
J Of $27S,242.
Dubuque is making efforts to secure the
construction of railroad from that place to
McGregor.
The gold business OF Denver, In 1868, was
$l.3Ol, 1866, not including sums exported in
private hands.
Rodolrs mile, on Mill Creek, Riehland
county. Wisconsin, were destroyed by fire
on the goth. Loss upwards Of $4,000.
A Mrs. Loman, of the town Of Bloom.
Richlaud county, Wisconsin, gave birth,
last week, to three children. The mother
died.
On Sunday evening the grocery stors Of
Allen Marshall, at Jacksonville. Illinois.
was destroyed by FIRE. Cause unknown. -
Loss 500
The Michigan Central: Railroad Company
Is urged TO build an airline from Ydsilanti
to Miles, saving twenty miles in distance.
Towns along the proposed route are voting
aid.
The State of Nebraska has located 26Sl..
07O acres Of land, and Of this 100, 600 acres
is to he disposed OF in some way by the
present Legislature.
The aged parents Of a young man who was
murdered in Columbus, Mississippi, boil
died within forty-eigh, hours after the!
heard of the tragedy.
Sunday morning, the large steam saw
mill of Samuel Bull, at Museoda, Wisconsin
3 was entirely consumed by fire. The loss i
, estimated at $4,000.
A Winona iMinn,) farmer. who "squu
ted" there, has 1000 acres under improve
meut, with extensive farm buildings, an,
will this year erect costly residence.
W. IL. Talbstt and the widow of jaime
Costigau. presented claim for work don
on tho northern penitentiary of Indiana
. amounting to $526, $50, with interest.