The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-06-16
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A RELIGIOUS association Of Boston has dis
solved because. though the ''poor heard
She gospel gladly" they didn't feel like
paying for it.
rThe Philadelphia Press ierlingly sug-
gests it would be worth trip across the
Atlantic to SEQ Dickens remains deposited
In Westminster Abbey.
Z A Minnesota school hoard have voted
lightning rods dangerous, because they
attract lightning, and ordered one of tho
building in their charge.
EiA coun,ryman 10 Detroit factory bet
the engineer dollar that he could seize
the iiy-wheel and hold it, and was picked
up on a pile of bricks outside the buildiag,
with window sash for necktic.
y little girl in Brooklyn fol! and broke
rum bottle which sue was carrying, and
was killed Shy piece of the glass pierre
ing her to the heart. The palpallo moral al
this is, always send your iafan after whis
key with q bag.
The man who owns the Duluth Minneso
,ian has Seen :hirty-fve pound trout
caught in the lake at that point, and he
has seen man who says he has seen an
other trou. which weighed uino,y pounds.
Wen believe i. for years subscription in
advance.
W. Il. Barry, the Troy, \. ", student
who ran away with and married q Miss
Converse, accosted that ladys brother in
the street, the other day, with "lIal!o,
brother,' and '.brother" thereupon truck
him severe blow in the face. Bystanders
prevented fight.
There has been some Nnpleasnntness be-
tween the young meu and young ladies' Of
Oxford, Benton county, Iowa, ond the la
dios now march ronnd the town accompan-
led by fife and drum, Independent Of ;hsis
masculine frieuds.
a Rev. Mr. Grant was indicted in 1900,
in England, "for that he hath affirmed that
be bad rather hear an orgsn (ten TO ouc)
il the church than singing of Psalms,
which scoflng!y To called Hopkins his
jigs."
DR.. Cuylcy says tnat ':hslf OF the New
York churches are dying Of too much dig
nity aud too much amen"
a strawberry train Of 20 cars. and weigh.
ing over 100 tons, arrived in Chicago over
the illinois Central Ry., the other night
An Irish servant girl named Scott. who
has been washing dishes at tue Irving
Hotel, New York, for three dollars week,
lately fell heir to legacy Of $50, OOO by the
death OF an uncle 10 New Orleans. There
is vacancy III the dish washing corps Of
the Irving.
AT Sunday school in Ripon, a teacher
asked little 10y If he knew what the ex-
preston ''sowiDg tares" meant! "Courth l
does" said be, pulling tho scat of bis lit
tie broeches around in front. ''There's a
,a,e my ma sswed. ! feared it sliding down
hill."
"Can you steer the main mast down the
forsoastle stalrs!" asked see captain Of .
new hand.
"Yes sir, ifyou will stand below and
coll it up"
The captain didn't cateehise that man any
more.
Said youngster 10 high glee, displaying
his purchases to bosom'friend on the side.
walk:
1.-TWO cocauuts tor ten cents! that wi II
make me sick Tomorrow, and r won't have
to 20 to school,"
The Bradford Argus relates tha following
incident 10 the career of q brave engineer:
Edward Stephens, ON engineer on the
locomotive Lamoks," which runs between
Towanda and foot OF the plain, saved a
miners life recently in the following mirac.
ously manner. The train coming towards
Towanda on Saturday evening last, was
running on down grade, when Stephens
thought he saw log on the track, some two
hundred feet ahead. Supposing the engine
would throw it off easily, lie did not stop.
But on coming nearer be discovered it to
be man with his head directly across the
rail, and his feet off on the outside. He
wbistled "down Breaks" but saw it was
imp ossible to stop the train in time to save