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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-08-25
NEWS DEPARTMENT..

We receive .tclrcraphic dispatches up to 4 p. M
and present them 10 readers every evening, EN-
bracng news Of great interest from all sections of
the country. Ne have made special arrangements,
whereby we receive regular Petroleum, Stock and
Produce Market Reports every evening by telegraph
from New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburg, which
together with Editorials and Local matters, make 1t
one of the most desirablc newspapers published in
the Oi Region AS Gn
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-08-25

AGyerllSe III Ihs HsU0Rp,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13

TIE VIENNA SCANDAL. - Exporting
official abuse is not likely to help the re-
pute of our model Republic on the Euro
pean continent therefore, every honest
citizen must feel mortified that so much
suspicion of irregularities" on the part
of the National Commissioners to the
Vienna Exposition has arisen as to COM
pei the State Department to suspend them
and order their conduct to be investiga-
ted. If they have gone into truck and
dicker business and become the paid
agents OF parties with axes to grind in
the way of trade, instead of being honor
able representatives of their country,
they deserve the most serious condemna'
ton and the speediest punishment. The
nation cannot afford to have its character
bought and sold at the Austrian Paris
aud shrewd Yankee deception must moi
there be allowed the slightest degree tc
mar the fair fame Of America won al
Geneva. The scandal, if there be foun
dation for it as feared, is shameful in thu
extreme, and the reputation of the au
thors of it, when shown to be guilty, ii
the most emphatic manner should b.
Indignantly demanded by the people
Questionable lobbying and beating trans
actions are bad enough at home but tia
men assumed to be above reproach shoul'
seek high positions to carry rascalit.
abroad where it will be conspicuous as
national disgrace, it is crime who's
enormity is increased by its bad faith an'
treachery-Boston Transcript.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13

Breach of Promise Cases are fairly
kaleidoscope in their variety, and here is
one from the Norwich assizes, in England,
which is notable for its novelty. A ship
captain put into Yarmouth for repairs,
and landed just in time to see fight.
During the progress of the fracas he ex-
pressed an opinion as to its merits, which
was echoed by girl at his side. Turn
ing to her instantly, he asked if she was
engaged, and when she replied in the neg
ative, he proposed at once and was accept
ed. Subsequently he called upon the
girls mother and secured her consent,
when he started for South Shield to pre-
Pare for the wedding. There his friends
reminded him of the trifing circumstance
that he was already married, and would
not let him return to execute his rash
and bigamous purpose, but instead sent a
message to the girl at Yarmouth stating
that he was dead. The bereayed female
thought it only proper that she should
attend the funeral and accordingly pro-
ceeded to South Shield. Finding him
alive, she brought suit for her disappoint-
ment, and the jury gave her verdict of
$500. This suggests, among other things,
the question whether married man may
be mulcted for failing to keep promise
to commit bigamy.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13
Lines.
ny MRS. NJ. A. HOLDEN.

Respectfully dedicated to ono who so kindly
bestowed upon the writer boquct of beautiful
flowers, in mid-wintcr, to cheer the solitude o
the sick-room.
I thank thee, gentle lady, for thy gift of flowers
Bestowed upon stranger.
Sweet, precious flowers,
They tell me of heart that beats in sympathy
With them that suffer. That thou wouldst gladly
Lay some offering at the feet of Him,
Who, whic hero on earth, loved to relieve
The suffering; and badc us follow Him.
That like Him,
Thy heart is ever open to take the stranger in.
Flowers, bright flowers,
Most precious gift, how much It's priced
My words but ieebly tell.
The invalid alone
May know, to whom the days, weeks, months
And years bring little change.
'Tis not alone of earth they speak,
For while upon their FORMS in beauty wrought
| gaze, dream of far off happy land
Where sickness never comes.
Where flowers immortal
Bloom; sweet theme for meditation given,
1t leads the heart away from earth, to seek
Its rest in Heaven.
Again | thank thee;
While crave acceptance of the Offering bring
As from virtues iairest blossoms, | twino
A wreath for thee, and set with the gems
OF truth, faith hope and love, that
These may form garland round thy brow
While life shall last
Growing the whole
With prayer asking that He, whose presence
Alone our pathway to the tomb can cheer
May light the darkcned valley,
When for thee the messenger
Shall call.
And more than this,
pray, that while the
Ceaseless eyes of eternity roll on,
Thou maycst permitted be, DER celestial
Fields to roam, mid flowers of fairest dye,
And crown of glory bright receive
At Gods right hand,
Middlebury, Vt.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13
"we'll stand the storm,
1t won't be long,
We'll anchor hv-anl-h


One of the Irishman said to those who
looked at this hideous spectacle, "Shure
he's anchored already" You have au
antidram shop party in this state. It's a
grand fzzle. Why, the President of it.
last convention was nincompoop. 1t Is
not worth the powder to blow it up. Ii
is a sick calf and will require great nurs'
to keep it alive. Let the church arise il
her might and give bounds to this terrible
evil of intemperence. She alone can dc
it. We resolve in conference to preacl
temperance once year. God save us
| never think of preaching a sermon
without getting temperance into it. l
is Just as necessary as it is to get Chris
in it. | would have prohibltory law /
| could have such one as | wanted.
want law making the offense of selling
liquor punishable with death. That
radical, is it? Was it radical to han,
Foster? He was half drunk when he mur
dered Putnam. He knew just enough t
tell Putnam he was going to give hir
hell The man who sold the liquor t
Foster murdered Putnam. The man VIII
sold Booth the brandy he drank just be
fore he fired the fatal shot murdere
Lincoln. Am radical when | ca
for the hanging of these men ? But tall
brethren, is cheap, especially so with
man who has got such a pair of below
as | have. 1t requires courage, thougl
to fight the monster. God help US
stand up straight for temperance.
The reporter adds that opipions were d
vided among the ministers as to the prC
priety of such speech,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13

LIFE UNDER THE OCEAN WAyE.-As
every man carries within himself an in.
ner self, hidden life, that casual ac-
quaintances know nothing Of, so the ocean
has within Its bosom lile which is new
er revealed except to long acquaintance
and an almos, loving familiarity. 1t has
life more multitudinous, quite as Won
derlul, and not less beautiful than that
Of the land Its mountains rise higher
than Mont Blanc. Its valleys and gor-
ges are unequaled by those Of the Leba-
non, She Pyreuees, or even the linalays.
1t has great 'teppes and immense plains,
which rival laose OF North America OF
Ceatral Asia, 1t has vast and illimita.
BILE forests, which the eye Of man has
never dscerned, and never shall, in theiI
entirety-iorests that are fuller by far
of busy life than the most prolific Of the
tropics. "The terrestrial forests" says
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13
Prot. Fowicr's Greatest Work.

The National Publishing Company, Of
Philadelphia, have just issued very
important work, by Prof. o. S. Fowler,
on Manhood, Womanhood, and their
Mutual Interrelations Love, Its Laws,
Power, etc. 1t is a mastery exposition
OF the laws which control the relations Of
the sexes, and their duties towards each
other.
Know thyselfn was the profound iu-
junction of the ancient sage, and it is the
neglect to comply with this precept which
causes nearly all the misery and sickness
OF the world. 1t is astonishing to find
how utterly ignorant men and women,
otherwise accomplished and intelligent,
are concerning themselves. Husbands
and wives constantly feel the need Of
more light on the subject of their rea.
tions to each other, especially concern
ing the great duty for which marriage
was instituted-the begetting and rearing
Of family.
1t is for the purpose of diffusing this
knowledge that Professor Fowler has Civ
en- to the world this work on Sexual
Science which is simply an explanation
Of the laws which govern the sexes in
.heir relations to each other. He points
out the duties Of husbands and wives and
discloses facts of which no true man or
woman ought to be ignorant. He let's
US into the secret Of preserving female
health and beauty far into old age, and
shows how mothers can avoid much Of
the suffering of bringing children into tho
world-a subject in which every woman
is interested.
His book is pure and elevated in its
style and ideas, and furnishes pure and
practical solution of many Of the most
perplexiDg questions of life. 1t touches
upon questions and discusses them thor
oughly, in which every married person
is interested The terrible practice Of
regulating the size Of Of families, which
prevails in many parts of our country,
is shown in its true light and we com.
mend the chapters concerning it to every
husband and wife.
Those who seek information upon the
curious and tragic features of domestic
life, those who would study human ma
ture stripped of its marks and DISCUSSES,
will find this volume the best handbook
in existence.
The low price at which it Is issued
brings it within the reach Of all. 1t is
sold by subscription only, and agents are
wanted in every county.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13

A whole family were recently poison
cd in New Haven, Conn.,, in some way,
it is supposed by the cheese which they
had eaten.
The Massachusetts Legislature has pass
ed bill authorizing the annexation Of
Charlestown and Brooklin Boston.
1t now goes to the people
A Chicago Irishman who was recently
fined and put under bonds to keep the
peace for shading the optics of an esteem
ed neighbor, remarked, as he left the
court Av coorse I'll keep the pace, but
I'll have the ould woman bate the head
off ov him.
A wasp with yellow hustle is no ia-
signif SAINT agent in dispensing crowd
but nervous woman making through Il
crowd for the cars, with valisc in one
hand and an umbrella in the other, is
about as appalling an object as the hu-
man mind can conceive and maintain its
balance,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13

An editor whose brains were balanced
by bottle of Bourbon whisky lately wrote
up a melancholy event in the following
manner Yesterday morning at -four
o'clock. p. m, man with heel in the
hole of his stocking, committed arsenic by
swallowing dose of suicide. The inquest
OF the verdict returned jury that the de-
ceased came to the facts in accordance
with his death. lie leaves child and
six small wives to lament the end of his
untimely loss. In death we are in the
midst Of life"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13

HTGn WoRDs-Discussipg the rise in
gold and the fall Of American stocks, The
Sacramento Union uses some pretty high
language, 1t thinks that the price Of
gold. depreciation Of stocks, and the high
rate Of interest are all due to over-trad-
ing the balance Of foreign tradn Is
rcchvucd as S230OO0, 900 against Us.
Cousr,-s, however, comes in for the most
vigorous criticism from our California
cotemporary' Instead Of coming to the
relief Of the country, Congress added
s55, 900, 900, or 80 per cent. to The sum
it cost to conduct the Government last
year. These figures, however, are not
accepted by some Congressional authori-
ties. The Union sums up the case in
this fashion:
In addition to these causes we have to
add to the account sum of official and
incorporated vilainy such as no nation
has exhibited since the rottenest era of
the old Roman Empire. A thieving
shameless, Congress, guilty of many in-
dividual frauds which are morally worse
than ordinary ielonies, and of wholesale
robbery as daring and insolent as that of
Caesar when he laid violent hands on the
Roman treasury two great railway cor
porations planning by the aid of Com
gressmeu and Senator'S and by the tacit
consent Of the officers of the Government,
to rob the treasury of many millions and
iIl-suppressed rumDnhg OF a ulscohten,vd
and betrayed people, looking forward to
revolution as the only sure method Of re-
lief from the double tyranny of corrupted
lawmakers and corrupting corporations.
This is the true cordtion of the country
without disguise or concealment. Waste,
theft, fraud, robbery, treachery and in So
lence among the rulers and the rich.
Discomfort, heavy taxes, costs of living
all the while increasing and wages threat
ened to be cut down among the laboring
classes and the poor. Nine-tenths Of our
commerce done in foreign ships, more
than half of our national and other Sc
curities held in foreign markets; the
farmers impoverished by the railroads !;
the railroads owned in Berlin, Paris,
London, Frankfort what can we reason
ably expect from such vile mixture Of
plot and circumstances against US but
financial embarrassment and ultimate ru-
in, unless the honest mass of the nation
shall make up its mind to change the
character of its rulers and call the rogues
who are hurrying its destruction to a
T strict account.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-13
THE MUTUAL
Life Insurance Company
OF NEW YORK.
ORGANIZED IN 1912,
L. S WINSTON, PRESIDENT.
Assets, So Millions Cash.
NO NOTES,
THE OLDEST IN THE u. S.
LARGESTAND BEST IN THE WORLD.
Il. S WINSTON, PRESIDENT.
LARGESTAND BEST IN THE WORLD.

Cheapest because expenses far lower than
any other company, and dividends, which arc
paid annually in cash, are much larger than any
other company. Experience is the best test. In
sure your lives while in health in this grand old
company, the largest and strongest monied cor
poration in the United States.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York is the best possible kind of Savings lnstitu-
ton for those in health. If the insured dies soon
after paying few dollars in premiums thousands
of dollars are at once secured. If he lives many
years, it is a good investment in this Company.
such are its large dividends as will be seen by
the following illustrations Policy No. l4,47O,ior
IS, 900, dated April %, 1853, on the life of the
late Hon. HORACE GREELEY.
Eighteen annual premiums of S293.Ol
were paid, making in all S5,27i ~
The dividend additions to this policy n
mount to 6, los 81
Which is Ss33 Gj more than all the premiums paid.
The riginal amount insured $4,000 90
Has been increased by divid'ds {, los 81
Present amount of policy, Sli, los 81
Which is s., 1873 CO moro than all premiums paid.
The premiums on this policy,at
per centcompound interest,
amount to only 9,o99 W
Leaving profit, over and above
premiums and compound in
terest thereon. of S4,40S 3s
Another dividend, from April II, 1872, to date of
Mr.. Greeleys death, will be paid.
G7T- Office with Judge of Probate, in the Brick
Block, near the Court House.
NJ. A. MUNRoE, Agent.
Middebury, March |, 1873. 5O;u
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03

those agents in whom they can implicitly con-
fde. The sending direct to Castle Garden
he would not approve of under any circum-
stances. Mr. Gaines brought with him, on
his return, three hardy English immigrants
for Mr.. Spearman, of Newberry, and he now
has many other applications. He has secur-
ed the services of DR.. L. c. Duncan, formerly
of Barnwell county, in this State, an efficient
and trustworthy gentleman, now in business
in New York, as special agent in this matter:
Parties who desire to select immigrants should
forward their orders to Mr.. Gaines, who will
see that the agent sends such men as are want
ed, as the agent makes all the selections him
self. 1t has been found TO be necessary gen.
orally, in sending orders, to provide for the
transportation of the immigrants, as the lar
ger number of them are penniless. They are,
however, perfectly willing to have the expen-
ses deducted from their earnings. Twenty dol
lars is sufficient to defray the expenses of one
man from New York to this State. Wages
range from ten to fifteen dollars Columbia
Evening Herald, 9th uH.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03

luton passed at the last session of the Legis-
lature. The Clerks will furnish to the gentle
men selected series of inquiries with regard
to the soil, climate, productions, manufactures
and mechanical and mineral characteristics
of the section in which they live, and will ask
for such other particulars as will serve to car
ry out the object of the inquiry. 1t is expec-
ted that, in this way, trustworthy reports can
be secured from every county, which reports,
when submitted to the Legislature can be
collated and put in such shape as will make
them valuable as means Of attracting i'm
migrants to the State This has been done in
the North and West with excellent effect.
And what has been done elsewhere can be
done here, if we make up our minds to put
our best foot foremost-and keep it in front.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTIsEMENTs.

8. G. Hemphill, Chairman-To Builders.
w. h. & J. P. Herndon-When You Come to
Town-No Credit-'Tis Known-Syrup--
No More Guano-Dred Bedtime and
ns-Beware-Mnllets.
M. Strauss & Son-Exclusive Noveties-NeW
Spring and Summer Goods-White Goods
Hats and Parasols.
T. Nj. Dobson & Co.-New Spring Goods-Corn
and lour-Bacon--Peas- s--Fish--Ready-
Made Clothing-New Orleans Molasses-
Sad Irons-Black Crepe-Ladies' Hats.
Slow Psyers-Buggy Umbrellas Minced
Meat-Damask-WeIl Chains-Dress Goods.
Adickes & Black-New Goods Arriving.
r. w. Turner, Chairman of Board State Orphan
Asylum-Notice.
A. H. Davega, President Chester and tenoir
Narrow Gauge Railroad Company-Meet-
ing of Stockholders
A. H. Davega, President Carolina Narrow Gauge
Railroad Company--Meeting of Stock
holders.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The Charlotte Democrat says large quan'
titles of pig iron are being shipped from the
iron works in Lincoln county to railroad shops
in Virginia and other points further north.
The papers published in the wheat grow
ing sections of the State report backward
ness and generally unpromising appearance
of the crop.
"A French vine-grower in Warren county
has received 100000 vines from the south OF
France, and few thousand cuttings of fig,
almond and olive trees.
- The Hickory Tavern Press says that 37l )
$50 pounds of freight-the farm products Of
that section-were shipped by railroad from
the depot in that town during the month Of
February.
The Greensboro State was wrongly in
formed in regard to the burning of Island
Ford cotton factory last week. A warehouse
was burned, but the factory building was un'
injured.
-Four negroes-one woman and three
men-have been committed to jail in Char.
lotte, charged with burning the barn of Amzi
Reed. 1t is suspected that the woman was
the instigator of the deed.
1t is understood that the guage Of the
Central road from Greensboro to Charlotte is
to be changed, in order that the trains can
pass direct from Richmond to Charlotte with
out necessitating change Of cars.
- The Roanoke Nevs, published at Weldon,
learns that Mrs. Branch, living in North
ampton county, induced her two sons to kill
her son-in-law, John D. Edwards, for the rea'
son that Edwards, who was suffering with
tooth-ache, asked negro in the house to pull
his tooth.
John S. Grant, residing about ~ miles
from Rockingham, Richmond county, the other
day undertook to enforce an argument upon
his niece with chair. The woman not Ii
king such violent illustrations, struck him in
the throat with knife, causing his death al
most instantly.
- During the prevalence ofa storm in Char
lotte on Saturday last, says the Observer, the
cupola of the Court House toppled over against
another building standing near, but after the
lapse of a few minutes the wind shifted to
another quarter and blew it back to its place
again. The foundation of the belfry will be
made more secure.
- The people of the State are to vote upon
eight amendments to the constitution at the
August election. Among other things they
strike out the clause requiring the Legislature
to levy tax to pay the public debt, provide
for biennial sessions of the Legislature, and
make Federal and State officers ineligible tc
seats in that body.
In Wilmington, on Friday, on complaint
of L. D. Childs and other creditors, Hon. G.
w. Logan, Judge of the Superior Court Of
the ninth circuit, issued an order restraining
and enioining the commissioners from selling
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03
THE FUTURE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

We make no pretensions to prophetic knowl-
edge. Certainly, no one knows anything
about what will transpire ten years hence In
the language of the Scotch poet, we may say :
Gall our views may come to naught, when
evry nerve is strained" Still, under ordi-
nary circumstances, any individual of accurate
observation, can form atolerably correct idea
of the general character of the changes which
will take place within a few years. These
changes, whatever may be their nature, give
indications of their approach. Sometimes the
premontory indications of the nature of these
changes are ambiguous and at other times
they are clear and unmistakable. Frequent
ly, the most shrewd observer is unable to de-
termine whether these antecedent signs betoken
good or forebode evil.
At present, great change in the state Of
things in South Carolina is evidently on the
eve of being ushered in. The people, all over
the State, seem to be awakening out of long
slumber. A spirit of enterprise, unpreceden-
ted in the history ofthe State, is being infused
into the minds of the masses. Men are STU
dying their interests and working to advance
them with an ardor and energy which is noble
and praise worthy. Agriculture is studied
and practiced to-day, as it never was before.
Not only so, but the minds of the people, gen.
orally, are deeply impressed with the impor.
tance ofdeveloping the mineral, manufactur-
ing and other internal resources of the State.
The minds of the people of South Carolina
are full of public and private energy and en-
terprise. Necessity, in our case is the mother
of invention. 1t is true that things are only
in their incipiency, but straws show which
way the wind blows. We feel encouraged to
say that in view of the facts in the case, a
better day is in store for South Carolina. All
we need is that what is begun be carried out
with energy and skill. Some of the States of
the Union, which are the pride Of North
America, are little better, naturally, than
barren glades when compared with South
Carolina. We predict better day for South
Carolina. 1t may be dream if so, it is
pleasant, and we are willing to dream on.