The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-06-29
CRUDE AND REFINED.

"Samho, did you ever see the Catskill
Mountains?" "No, sah, but I've seen nm
kill mice"
A St. Louis census marshal reports that
one woman told him to call again In o day
or two, when she could promise him lar.
ger list.
Tho language has recently been enriched
by the. term ''stealage," to describe pro-
cess by which Indian appropriations are
diminished.
Iowa City has ''national game" club
composed Of deaf mutes; though how people
who can't speak attain proficiency in bass
bswl remains a mystery.
The libel suit for 100000 brought
against the Buffalo Com mmercial by the Hon
D. S. Bennett, has been, OF his request,
postponed until October next.
A backman at Newport gained the GUS
tom Of the Friends, at the late yearly meet.
ing. BY saying "thee," but ruined his
chances by asking, "Where's thou's bag.
gags!"
One of the Beecher girls used to say that
the had three rules to guide her In copying
her fathers MSS: Ifs letter was dotted it
was not an |; if letter was crossed it
wasn't t: and If q word began with cap
ital letter it didn't begin sentence.
Dan Bryant, the minstrel, intends build
inga magnificent minstrel hall in New
York.
Rudolph, the billiardist who was recent
ly defeated by Dion, wants to play another
game for $1,000 q side.
Thaddeus Stephens preferred burial 10
an obscure burying ground, rather than in
either Of ethe two beauti full cemeteries in
Lancaster, in both OF which he owned lots,
because colored people could not be buried
there; and over his grave in bis obscure
resting place is q plain marble with his own
inscription: ''l lie here because the earth
is free to all. Thaddeus Stephens"
A few days ago the people of Benton. III. +,
were horriled BY the announcement that ].
K. lRessler, a ci tizen ofthat place. had been
shot and killed by woman, in Spring
Settlement, abont five miles west of Benton.
Resslsr called on Mrs. McFee, and after
some conversation, threw hsr down and
outraged her. Immediately afterward she
went into an adjoining room and procured
a loaded pistol, and returning, shot the de-
ceased, who ran out of the house into the
yard, where be fell down, and the infuriated
woman shot him again in the back of the
head. while be was lying on the ground.
1t is understood that Red Cloud, under
the advice Of the Great Father aud Secre-
tary Cox, will Immediately establish an
agricultural college on hisl reservation, and
that he will offer Horace Greeley tho chair
Of "Wbat know about Farming"
Already the summer fashions are sp-
pearing upon the streets OF the Indian vii.
lagos 10 Wisconsin, and they are attracting
q good deal OF attention. One OF the Wis
cousin papers describes suit worn by q
boy five years old. 1t consists ofa garter
tied around the left leg.
| Gen. Mulligaus diary, which will soon
be published, contains the following, undel
date Of March %, 1860: The occasion o,
this motley mass was the closing speech oil
Judge Douglass upon "Kansas." Mrs. D.
sat just in front of me with her mother il
the reporters gallery. For three hcur.
Douglass thundered in the capitol. Hi.
sarcasms we're vitiroi, and his arguments
like twice.told tales. He plucked the ad-
ministration by the beard. He stabbed il
with envenomed blade. He scorned aud de-
fed it. Wheeling upon South Carolina in
one of it's Interruptions, he thrilled the
Chamber with grand retort, delivered
with the pomp of Greciau tragedy and th.
fire of the Scotch Douglass.
Frank Thorn is to receive $4,000 for hi.