The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-06-30

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''Tis the star spangled boom banner,
Oh long iuay 1t smash wave,
O'er The land Oi the bang tree,
And tho home OF the rip brave
Cheap Christianity.
I've been member of this church nigh
on to forty years." said pinched up libel
of Christianity, land it hasn't cost me six
and q quarter cents" God bless your
poor, economical withered mp old soul. .
said fsrvent brother 10 the corner.
The Duluth Minnesotian says John +.
Tracy now probably controls more miles Of
railroad than any other man In tho conntry,
viz; the Rock Island Il Pacific to Council
Bluffs, this old Company 500 miles; the
Chicago Il Northwestern, l,2OO miles; and
the Chicago Il Southwestern to Leaven-
worth, not yet finished.
There 10 at the Wsstchester Garden in
New York city, an occasional visitor, q
youth Of 22 summers, known as 'Heppels
Baby whsse capacity for beer 10 almost
unlimited. He measures one hundred and
ten inches 10 girt. lie recently drank In
one afternoon l39 glasses Of book beer and
turned the hay scales at the cwt notch.
The bodies oil Senator Droderick and Gen
E. d. Baker were buried near each other,
aud while Broderick has been remembered
bys suitable monument, Bakers grave IL
still neglected. An appeal has been made
in San Francisco papers for monument to
General Baker.
A young man in Towanda, few rights
since, who had imbibed too freely Of the
''cratur," had rather . curious ad venture.
He went to the Barclay railro ad basin and
disrobed himself Of bis clothes, and then
went home and retired TO rest. The clothe
being found next morning on the margin Of
the water. It was supposed some uufortn-
uate man had::soughiDrest beneath the wavel
The clothes were examined carefully, bu
no clue to the owner could be discovered
| Ou uCNt uOtothk suO OWuCg VI bus
babliments found on tho rivers margiu ga
astonished to find himself clothesless. II,
aid It to tn ieves. But It was no use, tn,
clothes betrayed him, and be acknowledg.
ed the joke.
The Lexington, Kentucky, observer says
young woman Of this city who 10 strug
Cling to lead . better life, met her betraye
sauoterins leisurely along one Of our street.
e the other day His unconcern and he
own misery walked the tiger in her, and sh
''let" into the scouudrel and gave bin sue
q drubbing % be had been needing for
long time. When she had thrashed biz
, till she got tired she walked of.
A case Of the Old fashioned, genuine sol
of spontaneons combustion 10 reported b
: L'Uniod Medicale, in an article from th
: pen OF Dr. Berthole. The subject of it wa
! q woman 81 years Of age. who was addie
ted to alcoholic drink. She was found |
, her room with thev scera aud some OF tt
, limbs consumed, the lair and clothes hay
I Ing escaped. The very miunte OF the dc
scription of the stale 10 which the decease
, was iound shows that ignition could II
I Lbave been communicated from without.
!. is vain to stick your 6uger in I,
water, and pulIiugit out. look for hoi
$ and equally vain to suppose that hewev'
large space you occupy. the world wi
> miss you when you have passed On.
A few days ago George X. Story, Will
: ploughing for corn on the fsrn Of
Leonard, in Elk township, Chester count,
turned out largo number Of Indian dar
and arrow heads. There were some ffty
sixty Of them, and they were oil found 10
bunch, % though they had been burie
together, probably on the grave Of chi'
or other high dignitary. They were mat
Of = foreign stone, Of a greenish tipge, q
!. nicely dressed, of uniform shape (beet
leaf, aud frnm three to six and bali inc