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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
Gold vt | p. IN. l1534
Our staple.

Trade. like tue tide, Gibbs aud flows
Prosperity Is periodical; adversely also.
When large communities depend on one
commodity for daily bread these tidal waveA,
lead on 10 fortune to oil while their reces/
sion only leaves exposed the Stands Of beg
gary. In Australia wool. 10 China silk
and tea. In France aud Germany the
grape. 10 our own South cotton, sugar or
tobacco, varying with the locality. 10 the
West grain. 10 the Northwest lumber and
grain form the s,apIss Let these tail any
where to bring good prices and whole com
nunities iaoguisb. So with US. Crude Is
cheap, because It Is plenty, and plenty be-
cause high pricea stimulated development,
aud while It 10 to be hoped that the pres
ent prices may lead to new uses fer petro-
leum, aud to wider and better demand,
yet for the present business lies prone and
PROSTATE.
That the depression 10 our trads has
reached its limit none need doubt. The
drill 10 surely stopping No new wells are
being contracted for BY anybody ct any
point 10 the region. The boundaries Of th.
lower oil Geld are now mapped out. 1t
probable cspacity aud bearing on futur,
production Is capable Of estimate and tha
falls fat below previous conceptions lndse,
tbe lower oil field has hitherto been deem.
cd inexhaustible. This is not 60. Th
present drilling when completed will go fa
to deplete this territory 10y pumping til
next Spring) of its oil. lis great depth an
growing uncertainty will deter drilling eve
then, 90 that we are on the eve OF bette
prices and better times. The mass of th
operators. including the leading ones abou
whom 90 many malicious rumors are go 10
dustriously circulated, are 10 good shap
and will continue 20. Much has bee
learned -less0ns Of caution and of econom
and there are lessons Of wisdom for I
oil.
The time 10 coming when the oil regior
will furnish at o fair price TO oil concerne
our staple just as the consumer wAnts 1t '
For illumination and for lub,icating ii
work will be done here at home-at ou
own relnesIss-aud II gas companies, ste
works and others want crude IL will b
worth three and half to four dollars p,
barrel.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

New WELL On Saturday last q new
we'll was struck on the Brown farm, Cher.
rytree Run. which is yielding 20 barrels
per day. Pumping commenced on Sstur,
day evening and for the first twenty,four
hours the yield was % barrels. 1t is own
ed by ". II. Hall, of Woods farm. The
sand found in this well was of q very due
quality. The Brown farm is not played ou
yet.
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Net earnings

One Nettis Wallace, y frail creature liv-
ing at upper end Of town, was taken with
At yesterday afternoon. 1t appears she had
beeu drinking to excess laetIy, probably to
drown sorrow, and the flt was the result
Poor creature. The same oft told tale.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

New VERSION OF THE "PRcDIGAL
SoN."-A stranger ofiiciatsd at one of the
churches at Belchertown on recent Sab
bath, 10 the absence Of the regular clergy
man. His Afternoon discourse was q new
version OF the "Prodigal Son, unique and
novel. The reverend speaker represented
him when leaving home as arrayed in the
height of Parisian fashion-"in silk hat,
brosdcloth coat, kerssymsre, kid gloves and
French calf boots, !" and alter q Lie Of UNI
parelleled ex travagancs, dissipation and
sin, conspicuous among the fruits of which
were "tbe graves Of two bsautifui maideus,
bis victims, bis property being spent and
his servants dessrting him. be was seen one
morning out In the middle Of lot, on
rock, bis silk hat knock 10, broadcloth out
at the elbows, French calf boots out at toe
kid gloves gone, hogs all around bin, and
he chewing the pods!"-CNorthampton (R
I.) Gazette.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The popular theory as to the gigantic
size attained by whales is upset by . distini
guished naturs ist, who declares, from actu/
al observation aui measurement, that the
average whale seldom exceeds 70 feet In
length.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The New York World says that conveD/
ton Of young men who part their hair in
the middle is shortly to be organized for the
consideration Of the question as to whether
they have no rights that are 10 be reapec.
led.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Our old friend and fellow townsuap, Mr..
J. ID. Forrest, leaves next week for Modoc
City, in the lower oil field. TO work for the
Phillips Bros. He does not Intend remov,
log bis family away. The best wishes of
many friends will accompany Mr.. Forrest TO
his new location.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

New Hampshire granted one hundred .asd
divorces.
"Oh for some lodge 10 . vast wilderness" !"
Kansas Odd Fellows boast Of LOG ofthem.
An OK killed Ly lightning in Iowa did not
have piece Of bone lett In his skin an insh
long.
A Michigan man finds that his farm !
..chock iuIl' of lead ore; yielding s3 per
cent. of the metal.
The Cleveland street car companies have
ordered conductors not to take up other pas
ssuRees when the ears are full. l.
= A Missouri women won house and lot
o. rsffie, and then she had 10 buy shot
gun to keep her adorers from wearing out
the steps.
A commercial crisis 10 imminent In Cuba.
Such an event would add to she difficulty Of
the govern ment 10 operating against the
patriots
A warm spring on the bank II . lake,
which was g'owlugiy described by Peoria
r.porter, proves TO be The mouth oi waste
pipe from neighboring brewery.
Passengers on the Manitowoc aud Apple
ton Railroad in Wisconsin Il 10 said, get of
and gather wild flowers, and then jog along
again aud catch up with the train.
One morning recently Chicago woman
borrowed $500 OF her husband, and in tbs
afternoon huttered under bis nose divorce
that had cost precisely that amount.
| A Vermont woman undertook to pain
the cellar stairs. She found q pail Of pain
and commemorate top, painting heruslf init
the cellar, ana had 10 crawl out Of the celia
window.
The exports OF coin from New York sine
January l, 1873, are stated at 5 35,O41, 1852
against $44, l45,0ll In the same time las
year, and S4s, 4O3, ,s9s In corresponding tim
the year before. -... q.
A recent visitor to one of the Islands o.
the coast Of Maine discovered . school q
forty scholars, oil Of whom were grsndchil
dren Of one man. He was put down % th
most extensive grandfather In the State.
The Louisville Council, having On eys
their own comfort, have passed 90 ordinaue
providing that when . policeman finds
man drunk on the street hs shall take hi
home instead Of locking him up.
A desperate American in Strasburg re
Gently exclaimed, "Don't ask me to see Il
sights! l am no longer seq sick, but sick
, sight. Pleais introduce me to someboc
who talks English, and who won 7 ask me
see anything"
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

-Pauley Jr. Of the Waynesburg Messenger
visited q dancing platform near bis town
and expresses his surprise at the muscle dis
played by the fair ones on warm day like
the Fourth OF July. He says:
""Dsucing is certainly invigorating and
strengthening, as we saw ladies, who are to.
tally unable to WELD mop, swing broom
or lift . skillet, tske their places on the
platform and apparently without an effort
whirl through the intricate "mazes OF th'
Dance" for half DOZEN consecutive sets,
with scarcely breathing spell"
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

OH City has colored band, which the
citizens refuse to let practice in peace. The
rink where the band was tuning up one
night, was attacked with bricks and stones,
aud tome Of the members injured.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Thirty New Haven ladies planned for q
nice little sail on Q steamer alone. A
strange sailor took them on strange craft
with cabin room for ten, and q storm arose
They reached home late at night thoroughly ly
oaked, andthirty husbands are indulgIut
10 provoking little smiles at their expense
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
Local Notices.

sE- The Post Office Newsro0m Sa,
Fountain is now running In fnll blasl,-
Call aud try a glass Of ice cool soda watt,
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The Odd Fellows Of Youngsville, Warren
county, have procured beautiful piece o.
ground near that place and intend 10 make
q park oil 1t.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

In Cumberland county there 10 woman
who swinge the grain cradle while her hus,
band rakes and binds.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The Valley Railroad bridge over the Al
Ieghsny st OH City 10 undergoing repsiy,
and Is said to be very unssfes "
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The house Of Hon. A. p. Moore Of VIII
miugton, Lawrence county was destroyed
by lightning, July 24th.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
A Speculative Investment.

The Titusville Sunday Press has reduced
the cost of drilling wells and the money they |
make after being completed. right down to
iacts and figures. Below will be fonnd the
figures
1t costs between So 600 and $4,000 to
sink on oil we'll 10 the lower district. and 9
sixty barrel well is considered a good thing.
There was time when il realized this exi
pectation, but that was 10 the days Of "a, 90
oil and $4,000 wells. The average opersi
tor OF to-day seems oblivious OF the fac
that between $ 100 oil and $4,000 wells
and $500 oil aud $4,000 wells. the odds
sre just four timss against him, snd 60
without any reflection he jumps at the con-
cusiou that an $4,000 we'll producing sixty
barrels of $500 oil is a valuable acquisition
Let us Hsnre 1t, taking q well of six mouths
duration at the liberal estimate of sixty for
be ensuing sixty days, and twenty barrels
for the ensuing ninety days, making total
production Of 5000 barrels Of oil in six
montbs-as follows:
One month-sixty barrels per day 1880
Two months-iorty barrels per day l.40O
Three months--twenty barrels per day l,sOO
Total pro duction six months, bbls 5000
One quarter off for royalty 1900
|
4,500
Gr o, earni lgs, 81, so per bbl. at the
we'll $3.50
$3.50
Deduct $40 per day expenses $50 days 81, 800
Net earnings s4,95o
10 q six months we'll at liberal estimate
for production, the operator has got re-
turn Of S4,s5O for bis $4,000 investment
II we take into account the cost OF break.
ages, repairs, loss OF time to the operator
himeelt, &C., we find that be has recovered
scarcely one.half of bis investmentr Ant
this is about the way the most successful op
} erattrs are "getting rich" in the lower dis
Y let. =
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The Temperance Society of franklin wa
organized Tuesday, July 22ud.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Beaver Falls hss sixty-six fresh Chimes
and more coming.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The apple crop near Connsautville wi
be only . fair crop.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
Dickens "Hoz,,

Just issued 10 paper cover BY the Pei,
sous. Price rs csDis, and for sale at n
Post Office Nswsro0m.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

In 1856 there were only six brick house
10 Scranton. Ii now bosts of 40, 900 inb abi
tants.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Rssding, . local option city, hes q, tenn
persnce garden, where nothing strsass, thal
ice cream 10 sold.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Base ball at Philadelphia, Saturday,
Athletics 80, Washingtons 10.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Trains were delayed this afternoon by .
land slide at Grsgg's Switch.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Corn and cotton crops in Texas promises
better than for many years.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The Franklin Water Company cnaree
only $25 per plug for supplying the city
with water.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The Erie Fire DEPARTING parades o
Monday, Aug. 4th.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Bishop OF the Derrick has an other libe
suit on hand.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Base ball at New York, Saturday-Mu-
tuals 7, Atlantics 4.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The machine shops of Erie are building a
large dredge to he used in DIGGING slips at
the hafhor Of AshNbuIe It VIII remove
onc t1ooeR0d cubic g5rI4s' csrlN ip day.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
Refreshing showers today.

OIL Creek 10 on the ''rise." Oil is not.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

A boy in the central part of the State was
bitten on his hand by q patato bug and fears
are entertained that the member will have
"a be gnputs,ed
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

In Indiana county the whest, corn andsot
crops ara very heavy.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Preaching ut IL o'clock A. NJ: and I
o'clock z. NJ, by the Pastor, ". G. 1uRcTi
ARD. Sabbath School ct l2z, directly
after forenoon service.
Prayer Meeting and Sabbath School
Teachers Mse!ing Tuesday evenings Of
each week. NJ r.l
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
Divtno Service.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Services every Sabbath at IL A. NJ. and
* p. ". Sabbath School at l2k p. NJ.
eat, free. A cordial Invitation extend
ed to all.
REV. G. MOORE, Pastor.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29
Two years and a.half is the time requir

ed to complete tbs tunnel under .bs Lsnish
mountain
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"Hardscrabble" is TO be the name of the
next oil town 10 the lower distriat. The
test we'll has reached depth Of 1900 feet,
and 1t is only half a mile further to the third
sand.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

There are four restaurants at Modo
City.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

Butter is worth but sixteen cents 10 Car
Isle.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

The people Of Meadville want new pos
master.
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There are 5000 miners in the Lehish re-
gion.
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Letters from the People.

NorE.-The managerof this journal. with
out endorsing the sentiments OF contributors,
desires to offer the widest possible latitude
for free discussion. 1t is merely stipulated
that communications shall concern matters
Of public interest. be put in decent LANGUAGE
and accompanied with the names OF the
writer's, not for publication, but as Q gna/
antae Of good faith.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-29

ASK FOR NOYELI.O'S EDITIONS
address, L. PETERS. 500 Broadway
New York, -
Agent for Novelties Cheap Music
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-09-11

AN INSTRUCTIVE ExPERIMKNT.-Thep rinci-
pies IN the circulation Of the waters of the sea
were beautifully shown before the Royal geo.
graphical society, recently, by q simple expert
ment. A trough with plste-glas sides, about
Elk rect long and a foot deep, but not more than
sn inch wide, was filled with water At one END
piece OF ice was wedgsd in between the sides
TO represent the polar cold while the tropic heat
wa represented at the other end by a bar Of
metal laid across the surface of the water. the
projecting end Of which was heated by a spirit
lamp Red coloring matter was then put in at
the warn end, ana the blue at the cold end so
that the currents could be traced. The blue
water, chilled by contact with the ice, imme-
diately fell down TO thefibottom. crept slowly
along, and gradually rose toward the surface OF
the ecu atorial end, after which il gradually re-
turned along the surface 20 the starting point
Inc red water crept first along the surface of
the polar end, then fell to the bottom Just as the
blue had done, and formed another stratum,
creeping back again along the bottom and COM
ing 70 the surface. Each color made a distinct
circulation during the half-hOur in which the
audience viewed the experiment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-09-11

A BEAUTIFUL FEMALE BRIGAND.-The Itai-
ian journals relate that the enyirons OF CatAn-
FARO, Calabria, are infested by band OF brig
ands under the command OF a young woman.
She - twenty years Of age, and OF great beau
y, with remar kable black eyes Her name 10
Maria, the widow Of Pietro Monico a bandit
chlei who was killed In an encounter with the
gtndsrmes. At his death she sci red his car
pine ana swore 20 avenge him. Sometime ar
ter, young man, the son Of a wealthy farmer.
fell in love with her and Joined her band in
order TO be able 70 prosecute his suit He
was, however, peremptoriy rejected, and, in
order to revenge himself, ne betrayed her 20
the authorities. She was arrested, tried, and
sentenced 70 Thirty years imprisonment
w lille undergoing her punishment, q warder,
becoming enamored OF her, favored her escape,
and accompanied her, but was stabbed 20 death
by her orders Immediately after she had re-
joined her command. Since that period she
mas become still more redoubtable, her audacity
and activity having redoubled, and she has
made herself the terror of the country. She
burns farms, carries Of cattle and levies forced
contributions. The slightest disobedience OF
her orders Is punishable by murder and fire.
Her troop Is numerous and always we'll in
formed by the peasants through dread Of ven
geance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-09-11
EVENING STAR.

How SIZE gAKKs THE TRArs.-She cone.
down 20 the depot in an express wagon thr,e
hours before train time. She insists on sittinr
on her trunk, out on the platform, 10 keep 4
from being stolen. She picks up her reticnle,
ian, psrasol, luneh-bzsket, small pot with q
mouse plant In IL, shawl, paper bag Of candy,
coquet (she never travels without ope,) small
eemeler and extra veil, and chsses HISTORICALLY
ater every switch engine that goes by, under
.ne impression that Il IL her tain. Her voice
uemots IS che presents herself at the counter
OF ohmers restaurant and tries 20 buy A ticket
sno she knocks with handle of her rarssoi AZ
me door OF the old, disased toOl-hOuse IN vain
hcpes thst the baggage man will come ont ana
cneok her uunk. She asks everybody in the
depot and on the platform when her train will
start, and where IL viii stand, and lockins
straight at the great clock. asks, awhat time 4
Il now?' She sees with terror the baggage man
shy her trunk into . car where two men are
smoking, instead OF locking IL mp by itself in q
large, strong, brown car with dad order,
shops, chslked on the side, which she has long
ago determined 20 be the baggage car, As the
only safe one In sight. Although the first one
AZ the depot, she II the last TO get her ticket
ana once on the cars, she sits, TO the end OF tue
jour ney In an agony of Apprehension that she
has got on the wrong train and viii he IsnssS
AZ some strange station, put In q close carriage.
uruggeu, and murdered, and 20 every last male
passenger who walks down the aisle She stands
up and presents her ticket, which she tnyarlshlx
carries in her hand. She finally Recognizes her
waiting friends on the platform, leaves the car
In burst OF gratitude, and the train il ten
miles away before she remembers that her reti-
Guile, fan, psrssol, lunch basket, verbena, tum-
bier, shawl, candy, veil and boquet are on the
car seat where she left them. or in the depot "a
Peoria, for the life OF her she can't tell which
Peoria Repisar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-09-11

ga prize baby show is announced at Wan
paca, Wis.
s%There is boys gambling house at Long
Branch.
~The Pacific railway now runs "honey-
moon car" for the use of bridal parties.
SDelaware city is eating butter that emits
fifty scents TO the pound.
81 police captain of New York is TO be tired
for blackmsiling abandoned women.
80 Tin shirt fronts are the fashion at Nor
witch, Conn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-09-11
Investment Bonds,

The Northern Pacific Railroad Company hsvfn
determined 10 close its 7,So First Mortgage Gold
Loan ct an aggregate not exceeding thirty million
dollars and thereafter to pay higher rate OF In
terest than per cent further issues Of its bonds
fhs hmtfsd REMAINDER of ths $40 loas ts soss
beiag disposed Of thu oneh the ususl agencies.
As the bonds Of this issue are made receivable IN
payment Of the Company lands ct I 10, they are
in constant and increasing demand for this purpose
and will continue 10 be AFTER the loan n closed-s
fact which much enhances their value and attract
iveness estment.
The Company has more than 800 miles Of M road
built and in operation, including the entire Eastern
Division, connecting Lake Superior and the nsvisa-
ton Of the Missouri river n has earned title to
nearly Ten Million acres Of Its Land Grant, and
sales Of lands have thur far averaged es per acre.
All marketable securities are received In exchange
fer Northern Pacincs.