The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-02-01
THE NEWS.

Boston is In ecstacies because she is to
have new grain elevator.
VIM. Shakespeare has been convicted of
bigamy in Michigan.
Hundreds of men are at work gathering
the ice crop of the Hudson river.
The Greeian bend has reached California,
but there it is called the Pacific slope.
Florida has eighteen million acres of land
subject to location under the homestead
act.
New York is getting ready to celebrate
the centenary Of American Independence,
July 4th, 1876.
The State University of Mississippi has
resumed its exercises with large number
of students
Mr.. Gladstone and tho new British Secre-
tary of War, Cardwell, were both born in
the same room.
Every room in every Washington hotel
and boarding-house is already engaged for
Inauguration week.
A writer in the Ontario. N. Y. Times.
proposes 10 stock Canandaigua Lake with
three millions of young fish.
A Rochester manufacturer has an order
for $60,oOO worth of lamps of different sorts
for The Union Pacific Railroad
An lndiuna wood chopper has become
suddenly rich. claiming to have found $780,
GEO which was hidden during the war.
Gen. Augur, who was the handsomest
man in the army by brevct during General
Roussean's life, now takes full rank.
The members of the Minnesota and Wis
consn Legislatures have agreed to 20 Oh a
grand combination iroiic to Milwaukee.
There are now nineteen light houses on
the Pac ilc Coast. and it is proposed to erect
sixteen Others, five to be- built next sum-
mcr.
| Down in Maine man is sentenced to
death for setting fire 10 his house while an.
other, who tried to kill bis wife, goes to
prison for ten years.
The report Of the Oneida Community
shows constant increase OF the cost of lv.
ing for several years, until it averaged four
dollars and eighty.five cents per week to
each person in 1868.
Deacon Andrews, the Kingston murderer.
is employed in the polishing shop at the
State Prison. Massachusetts, enjoying good
health. and is cheerful
In the seventy-two national cemrtcri, $
are inferred two hundred thousand soldiers
whose names pre known. and one hundred
thousand more as yet not identified.
y Berkshire girl. says the Boston Post
walked fourteen miles through the snow the
other day, to marry Il yonng man who
couldn't come to her house for fear of six
shooter which the stern parent carried.
Brigham Young has sent an order to
Springfield. Mass, for two knitting machines
saying that she thinks they would be Of
considerable advantage 10 his community"
Said IL ydhnssler in bis ger, Displaying
| "'" P"'|""'0 " o"sou' ititHU on tuH sldt.
walk: Two cocoannts for ten certs! that
Will make me sick tomorrow. and WON'T
have to 80 TO school,"
Thursday evening as the sheriff WAS lcck
ing the cells in the Jail at Quincy, Illinois.
SIX prisoners rushed upcn and overpowrred
the turnkey. They escal ed into tie jill
yard and scattered, but were all rtcaplured.
On wednesday last the Ohio Senate passed
with but five dissenting votes, bills exempt
ing from sale OH execution Il homestead Of
the value of one thousand dollars, and also
eXempting eight hundred dollars worth of
personal properly, in addition TO that al
ready exempted by law, when no homes stead
Is owned.
The London Mercantile Gazette bitterly
denounces Tie Alabama claims treaty. say
ing: ut is so fagrant!y one sided it is
difficult to Imagine that the American Sell
ate can seriously contemplate taking their
stand upon it. or that tho government at
Washington can believe that any settle
ment of outstanding claims could possibly
be accomplished.
The President OF TIE State CT Bolivia, in
view Of the impoverished condition OF the
treasury, and seeing the great necessity for
studying ccunomy during the present year