The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-02-16
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'iCOmpound cathartic candy is an llli-
nois production.
When si,ka says ''out west" it means the
Aleutian Islands.
"Pangynsskean" was what some Grecians
wanted to christcn Mt. Holyoke seminary.
| The Home Journal now announces en-
gagements broken. 1t must have great
deal of space to spare.
The latest walking advertisement in
J Broadway, New York, is nan attired from
head to foot in greenbacka
Junction, Iowa, has been presented with u
select building lot in that city.
The New York Commercial Adver tiser
says ''sucide is the sickle with which the
Almi ghty reaps The harvest of fools"
The advice Of "a Pennsylvania suicidc to
his brother was. "Willie. don't 90 with tel.
lows who have mere money 10 spend than
you have.
A Connecticut farmer recently killed
| hul Aty tudt uuu ipHhu iusluS
of her eleven perfectly formed eggs with
perfect shells, and full size.
A dog lately jumped through plate
glass window in Geneva, New Y, rk, al d he
| owner of the dog offered to settle " giSin 6
the s,orekerper he animal.
The Alabama man tho offered bribs Of
81 900 600 for the assassination Of Prrsi-
dent Lincoln now humby prays Congress
To remove his political disabilities.
4 dsgus.ed woman, at Eldora, Iowa,
sues her husband tor divorce. because he
has bought her, during four years OF mar
ried life, only one prtsent-a y coral neck
| lace.
Ungratsfnl Boston, having achieved a
Cardiff giAut aud an Everett effigy, now
discards the models whereby its artistic
tastes were developed, and banishss tobias
couists statues from ills precincts.
A Pennsylvania Grm has rolled out
finely polished shest Of iron, three iset long
and twelve inches wide, and weighing b1t
thre. and half ounces. l. is thinner than
ordinary writing paper.
The bridal presents at . wedding in
Washington, Indiana, consisted Of dimes
worth OF candy and plug of tobacco. No
policemen were present TO watch The good
society in attendancs.
The Boston doctors have been holding
an inquest upon their "originul Cardiff
gant,"a Minority report affirming its an
tiquiiy, while the majority regard it as the
worst specinen Of modern seulp!ure ever
exhibited--eysn in Boston.
Thomas Campon Of Covington, Ky, was
killed on Friday by the explosion o! the
boiler of a locomotive on the Memphis
Branch railroad, betwesn Bowling Green,
Ky. aud Paris, Tenn. He was fireman
on the locomotive.
The jnry in the case Of Thomas Dickens,
j for killing Wade Bolton. returned YER
diet Of rot guilty, al Memphis on Satur-
day uisht.
Thomas W. Vsuscherry was run over and
killed, on Saturday, ut the St. Louis Four
teen th street depot Of the Pacific railro VI
by q switch engine.
The National hotel at St. Joseph, Miss
ouri, was burned on Saturday. Loss ON
building $4,000. insured for 1000; loss on
furniture $ll 600, no insurauce.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company 10
negotiating for property npou which to build
a large freight depot near the Ohio river
bridge now building near Cincinnati.
In the United States Court at Boston, 10
the case of Calvia A. Hill, charged with
Intending 10 paes q counterfeit 81, 600
Treasury note, the jury wero unable IL
agree
An Iowa gen ntleman sojournns 10 Cbica-
go says farmers in that State are coNpsIled
to borrow at twenty per cent. 10 meet their
oblig gations. The pressure Of hard t lines il
yerv severe.
Tie harness shop OF Troy and Lamer, dry
goods store Of +. Lamsr, aud Sherman
House, owaed by A. l.. Spring d Co., at
South Pass, Illinois, were burned oa Thurs
) day night. Loss about $26, 900; insured.
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