The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-03-11
THE NEWS.


would be st. Louis yesterday.
Transr,s of real estate in St. Louis, last
week, aggregated $3.50, 800.
Greapreparatons are making in Detroit
for th, celebration OF St. Patrick's day.
Th vandalia Railroad has been compiet-
ed est, from st. Louis 10 Vandalio, dis
tanc of sixty-fye miles.
C,lonel Beatty, for the past six years Sec
retsry of the Chicago Board OF Trade has
vesgned that position.
ga woman named Dempsey, alias Turler,
alas Jones, committed suicide in Warsaw,
lniiana, Sunday night.
A large and enthusiastic Fcnian meeting
was held at Detroit on Monday. and was
addressed by General O'Neill.
There had been oishty-three days of un-
interrupted sleighing in Concord, New
Hampshire up to the first day Of March.
Almost nine feet of snow have fallen at
Woodstock Vermont, during the past sea-
son, and at present there is over four feet on
Il level.
The Chicago City Railway Company have
determined to abandon the present style Of
cars used on their routes, aud adopt the one
horse car system.
The arrange ments are completed for open
ing the new Detroit Opera House on the
Goth. 1t will be opened with a standard
comedy by a lirst-class company.
The difficulty between The Northern Cen
tral and Erie Railways has been adjusted,
and cars OF the former company make regu-
lar trips over the Erie line.
On the first Of March there were in tho
Boston elevators lOl. .26S bushels Of corn,
l24, AS of oats, 2.Gl2 frye, 2,6Ol Of barley.
1858 ofwheat, 4,723 of peas, and l6, 100
Of shorts.
The Traveller thinks the valuation ot
Boston may 90 mp this year to $3.50, coo, coo.
The appropriations for city expenses are
about $s,00o,OOo, or ~ per cent on the
valuation.
John c. Baldwin of New York City has
recently added $4,000 to his previous gift
of sl2, 500 to Midlleburg College, making a
total of $25, 800 for the endowment OF pro-
fsssorship.
AT Centralia, Illinois, Monday,J ohm Hop
kins, Independent candidate for Mayor, was
elected hy one hundred and tilty-three ma.
jority. over the temperance and bolter can
dida.es.
Negotiations ara pending in ST. Louis for
a new railroad passenger route east via.
the ST. Lons and Indianapolis Railroad
and the Illinois Central, by which TWO hou,s
time is saved.
The North Minnesota and other railroad
lines leading into st. Louis are making ar
rangcmon.s to have their track extended
along the levee, lor the purpose OF faciliat-
ing the transportation offreght.
The pcrpptrator of the horrible murder
of Mr.. and Mrs. Todd, near Lebanon. has
been arrested The motive fer TIE crime
was. to come into possession Of some proper
ty rs an heir Of the deceased.
At Drtrot Monday, Conrad Bogel was
released from military court martial sentence
by order Of Judge Wilkins. on writ o.
habeus corpus, on the ground that the Of
Tense of which LIE was convicted was moi
triable by court martial.
An axle on he tender of an express rair
on the Northern Railroad broke down nea,
Andover. New Hampshire, on Tuesday
night, and the train was dragged with it ol
the ground for forty rods. Nothing but th'
snow and ice prevented serious accident
The proposed fight between McCoole ant
Allen has fzzle,l. Aliens hackers received
telegram from Gallagher, expressing
anxiety to take the job of Aliens hands
wbcrenpon McCoole expressed intense dis
gust at the WHO'S crowd, and threa tened f
club any and every man who broached th,
subject to him again.
Gold was discovered short time since OF
the land of the Enleld Shakers, in Ney
Hampshire, and specimens sent 10 New
York to be tested proved to be worth SIT
to the ton. Last week workmsn commeno
ed blasting the rock and found it run onl
four feet one way by three the other, conse
quenily work has been suspended
FOR SALE.-The new building oDposit,