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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-03-28

Vy,HE Subscr hers. having bought the old stan
i II II. Warner, intend charging the businc
and will keep slways on hard the best the mark
0fford.. We will do WHOLESALE d RETAIL
trade in the following products:
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-03-28

a, station for jamestown, N. y, and connection
with A. & G. W. trains east aud west. Connects at
Warren with trains east and west on the p. IL 4.
RR ID. THAYER Gen'l Supt.,
Dunkiri, New YOk.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-03-28

a,sieEVtErsATD DEPARTURES OF
TRAINS ON %. g. q A. n. 10.
On and after Sunday, Feb l6tb, 1878,
trains will run as follows:
NORTH NO. g. No. l. 10. 7.
Leave irvine. 12,l5pM 5.2OP NJ
Leave Oil City GOO A NJ. $50 M. $50 N
'' Pet.Cen $50 3.37 /" S.33 "
I" Titusv. 7.l0 q" 4.25 " 9,l5 "
Arrive Cory, $50 800 4" 1910 q"
No e-AccommOdation Freight.
Leaves Oil City $50 A NJ; Pet, Centre,
1913; Tilusvil!e, ll.o5; Ar. Gerry, II, 4Opm
SOUTH. NO, 2. No. 4. NO. 6.
Leave Cory, 1885 A NJ. 6.lO A N. 6.20PM NJ
Titusv. IL, POI NJ 7,3O 7,3O 4"
" Z. Cen. 1.20 SIT S.l5 "
Arrive O. City 200 900 i" 900 I"
4" Irvine. 500 ll,3S "
No. l0-Accommodation Freight.
Leaves Cory 30 p NJ; Titusv. 2.55; Pc!
Centre. 3,5j; Ar At on City, 4,30 p IN.
! sfa~ No. 5 and i r1r on Sunday
LI3 Commanding Nv Sd trsiSs will run
by Philad.lpbia time. which is TEN MIN.
uTEs FAsTHR than our time.
J. j LAWhENCF, Gen. Supt
G.. J. HEpErhH. Asa mpi.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-14

would be o.. We therefore propose TO
charge 81 a column for ordinances, escp
more than the sun. Now, ii during the
year the city were to enact ana puoiish
tweDty-eight columns of ordinances, etc"
-four pages Of THE BULLETIN-the city
would pay the TnE BULLETIN, Mt fifty
cents SQUARE. sl96 more than it would
nav the sun for the same amc unt of mat
ter at fifteen cents square--just s. more
than il would lose on the council proceed.
ings.
The only other question to be de.
termined Isl Will the council pass that
amount Of ordinances 1t cannot do SO
unless 1t should devote all its time to the
business of grinding out ordinances. If nll
the ordinances in the present ordinance
book we're put into The BULLETIN, they
would not fill more than twenty-four
columns. Does any one suppose the
present council will grind out a volume
of ordinances as large as the volume Of or
dinances now in the pamphlet containing
the charter, ordinances, etc? To do
SO it would be compelled TO
enact two columns and quarter Of ordi-
nances month. In the whole year the
council will not pass more than six col
umns Of ordinances--half q column a
month on an average. Last year from
! May to Maya greater number, at least
a greater amount of ordinances, were
passed than in any preceding year for
many years. The city was reorganized
under the new charter, and this change
rendered necessary many and very
lengthy ordinances. But, nevertheless,
only eight columns of ordinances were
passed during the whole year. This year
we think there will not be half as many
But let US say that six columns will be
passed. On each Of these six columns the
council would save 81 by giving the
printing to the SUM- si2 in the aggre.
gate; but, at the same time, the city would
lose on the council proceedings Slss-s
net loss during the year on council pro
ceedings and ordinances of SAC.
Besides the city would lose in the jol
printing it might have to do. The Sun
cannot do the work. 1t could not prn
the license and order books to save its lit
tie soul, and would he compelled to hav,
them printed in st. Louis, whatever i
may say.
We have written thus because Charlie
Flyupthecreek Nellis, Esq, either igno
rantly or maliciously has been misrepre
senting our bid. We don't care what
done, but, if the Sun is to have the prin,
ing, let Mr.. Nellis boldly avow his de
sire to give it to that paper because h
loves Domosthenes Lafayette better tha
, he loves us.
: We have heard of juries. empanelled t
convict. Itlooks to us, in our innocence, a
: If Mr.. Nellis' committee was constitute
for the purpose Of giving the Sun what
wants regardless of every consideration
We hope We are not correct in this SUI
mise. But time will tell.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-14

WE intended to say yesterday, in the
article--"wsnted,a Duel" that the odor
Of the institution Of slavery still fingers
around the shattered vase, but the prin-
ter made US say shattered rose The
difference is not perceptible to a man up
q tree, but to ordinary people is quite dis
tinct We intended to say yesterday, in
the local item on Harris, that Ichabod
was written in the tomb of the old Demo-
cratic party, and may our right arm for
get its cunning and our tongue lose its
ability to swear at the fellow if tho prin-
ter didn't make us say that that outrageous
word was written in the tenets of that
party. Why should any printer when we
desire to be poetcal, make US assert a fact
40 melancholy?
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equally important.
CHARLES +. NELLI5, ESQ, ALDER
MAN.

We admire downright unfair man
whose uniairness borders upon meanness,
and therefore we admire Mr., Nellis, Es-
| quire, alderman from the Fourth ward. He
couldn't be fair even if the improbable
event should ever happen that he should
experience the impulse TO try to be. lie
is rs full of prejudice as an egg OF meat or
vacuum of nothing. He hates THE
BULLErrs-hates it intensely and has
been of late communing in loving fellow
ship with the deputy sharif who ia also
seeking TO lift our hair. just now this
man, Charles Flyupthecreck Neilis, Es-
quirc, is championing Dcmosthenes
Lafayette Davis, Esquire, the gentleman
who presides over the columns of the sun
and &. +. goes so far in his zeal for D. l..
as to assert that Demosthenes Lafayette
has made a lower bid for the city printing
than THE BULLETIN. II G. f. knew
anything about the subject on which he is
seeking to enlighten the public, we would
charge him with telling downright false
hood, but we believe he is only ignorant
and prejudiced. We cant convince him
We know, but we can convince any other
person, barbarous or civilized, that TnE
BULLETINS bid ia the lowest
Sweet Chawles, look here. Let us rea.
son with you.
The bids arc rs follows for the council
proceedings:
The suns OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 5000 90
lHK BULLETINS. .................. II 90
suns over BULLETIN. ,.....,. SIS 90
The bids are as follows for advertising
THE BULLETINS, per square ......... Dec
he suns, per square ...,..........., ljc
BULLETIN .oyer suns ..,,....... 8jc
Now, in the first place, We must deter
mine what is square. In some offices
square is half an inch, in others three
quarters Of al inch, and ia others an inch
For instance, three-quarters Of an inch Is,
we are informed, suns square, while
an inch is BULLErlS's square. So the
Sun offers TO do three-quarters as much
for fifteen cents ~ We oh1r to do for fifty
cents.
But let US cay tina, a Suns square iss
BULLErrss square, and lie, Us see how
this matter stands then.
There are twenty squares in BULLETIN
column. Twenty squares at fifty cent.
square would be SO; twenty squares Al
sftssn cenu . square (the Suns bid
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-14

CHICAGO is itself again. After a lull OF
several weeks in which there have been
neither murders nor rumors of murders,
the Lake city had on last Sunday seri-
Gus s,sbbing ARRAY, and the attempted as
sassinsiion by jealous lover, of young
girl who persisted in smiling on other ad-
miring swains beside himself. Annie
Keenan, is seventeen years old and beauti-
full. On last Sunday evening, while sit
ting on sofa in her fathers parlor with
young man named Buckley, she was
dangerously and probably fatally shot by
James Brady, msdly in love and madly
Jealous. Brady has disappeared and the
young girl hangs between life and death.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-14
SPOTS ON .TuE SIN.

We challenge denial Of this assertion,
that in our treatment IF the Sun of the |
levee, the luminaiy Of Antrim's garrett,
which sheds around light weak as fox
Ore, we have been gentleness personi6ed.
We have occasionly handled the SUM-
but with delicate touch. We know it
would not endure rough treatment
that it would break into athousand pieces
If itshould be tossed about with a reck-
less hsne.
And we did and d. like the Suns ed
itor. What should We do without him2
He is as necessary to our existence as
water TO fish, liquor TO confirmed topper,
Office to Louis Myers OF a religious at
mosphere about THE BULLETIN office
A gentleman he is Of strange
appearance, peculiar disposition,
and kind Of heart even unto fault, but
he Is soft Springfield mud, a downy
pillow, or the head of aa-',h..- pe"..-u
is not softer. Softness is indeed his mos
striking Characteristic.
He is liberal He has been known &
recklessly sqsander nickle twice m onth
in relieving the wants of poverty, and
has actually. on several occasions, when
local enterprises ofgreat pith and moment
demanded encouragement, encouraged
them by promptly putting his hand into
bis pocket, and remarking that he thought
they ought to be urged forward by
somebody else. But liberal as he is, he is
softer than he is liberal.
He is comely. In his person he com
bino. all the striking features of beauty
referred to by Hamlet when, speaking Of
his father, he said
"see, what grace was seated on his brow
ASPer sye ,ke Mars ' to threaten and com.
mahd;
a s.auoh IN w. me, s.u iiuaiu
A combination and form, indeed,
heie ever! eou uia seen, " SCI IN, ~"
Th.ra .ro,h;r, ,ackin. in this re,ord
n, n,nn;ng n, iudce in such matters
and hs has decided. Mr.. J. johnson i.
au fat ard he has declared the beauty OF
our Davis with the voice Of q trumpe,er
DR.. Casey is the best Judge Of persona
beauty in Illinois, and after careful e1
animation of all the points OF Davis, hC
has endorsed him with branding iron
on the proper place; "Beauty; perfect
Even the fastidious Mayor Wood has
been compelled to acknowledge that if
there is outside Of Scotland really hand
some man, that man is Davis. No one
can deny it. He IS comedy. But the
truth mus, be told, comely though be is, he
is softer than ho is beautiful
He is intellectual, Go away with your
Bacons in philosophy. Look at Davis!
Bacon be-fred Garry out your Shsk-
speAres and Byrons and Popes and Tenny.
sons and Dckenses and Thackerays
They amount to nothing while Davis
Sun eliminates the literary horizon
And as for editors-there Davis is at
home He outshines Storey, the greatest
as well as Bouton, the littiest-and Wat.
terson, and Reid, and White and Hal.
stead, and Bovle', and Hyde--al Of them
Beyond all doub, Davis i' an intellectual
giant. But We must adm'''hA' he ''sofIeI
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21
The Power of Admiration the Meas,
ure of a Lefty Soul.

Yoltaire was by birth n mocker and
light POGO curanto which disposition
his way of life confirmed into apredomi-
nant, indeed, all-pervading habit. Far
be it from us to say that ~solcmnity is an
essential Of greatness that no great
man can have other than n rigid, vine
gar aspect Of countenance, to be
thawed or warmed by pillows Of mirth !!
There are things in this world to be
laughed mt rs well as TO be admired,
and his is no complete mind that cannot
give to such sort it's due. Nevertheless
contempt is u dangerous element to
sport in; a deadly one if we habitually
live in it. How indeed, to take the
lowest view Of this matter, shall a man
accomplish great enterprises, enduring
all toll, resisting temptation, laying
aside every weight, unless he ~2ealously
love What he pursues? The faculty Of
love, Of admiration, is to be regarded
as the sign and the measure Of high
souls; unwisely directed it leads to
many evils but without it there cannot
be any good. Ridicule, on the other
hand, is indeed a faculty much priced
by its possessors yet intrinsically 1t IS
a small faculty, we may say the smallest
of all faculties that other men aye u;
the pains to repay with esteem. II IS
directly opposed to thought, TO knowl.
edge, properly so called It's noorlsh-
men. and essence is denial, which
hoycrs only on the surface. While
philosophers Of Noatka sound were
pleased to laugh mt the manGuyres Of
Cooks seamen, did that render their
manmuyres useless? and were the sea-
mon to stand idle, or to take to leather
canoes till the laughter abated Let n
discerning public Judge C0rLytc.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21

METHOD IN WoRK.-Do instantly
whatever is to be done take the hours
of reflection or recreation after business
and never before it. When a regiment
is undsr march, the rear is often thrown
into confusion because the front do not
move steadily and without interruption.
II is the same thing with business. II
that which is first in hand is not in
stantly, steadily and regularly dis
patched other things accumulate be-
hind, till affairs begin to press all at
once, and no human brain can stand the
confusion; pray, mind this, it is n Of
your weak points, a habit of mind it is
that is very apt to beset men of intellect
and talent, especially when their time is
not filled up regularly, but is left to
their own arrangement. But it is like
the ivy round the oak and ends by
limiting, if it does not destroy the
power of manly and necessary exertion.
Sir Walter Scott.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21
The Western Farmers Griefs.

III we are asked whether we mean to
say that there is nothing in the western
farmers complaint that n third OF then
crop is consumed in getting it to mar
ket, we answer that there is something
in it, but apparently not what they i'm
agine. If we are asked, farther, whcth-
er it is not a horrible thing that corn
should be used as a fuel in Iowa when
so many millions ofpeople all over the
world are short of food, we reply also
that we do not see anything particular
ly horrible about it. Distance is II
Of the facts Of nature TO be accepted
and dealt with like other facts Of ma
turc internationally. If a man chooses to
90 ont into the wilderness without
roads, wagons, or any other means OF
reaching a market, and plant ten times
as much corn as he and his family can
consume, and then, in the fall, begins
TO wall and lament because he cannot
find n purchaser for it, nobody pays
any attention to him, or people content
themselves with telling him that he
ought to have %bethought himself Of the
market before he built his house or put
in his crop. If he begins to weep and
asks whether he must use it for fuel,
they tell him unhesitatingly tkat 1t is
his duty and privilege to do 50, If he
cannot turn it into any better account
that he is no more bound to trouble
himself about the starving poor in Eng
land, and India, and China, than about
the houseless poor in New York, when
he is surrounded by Leagues Of trees.
If he were still to refuse to be comforted,
and were TO maintain that large mum
bes Of industrious people in the east
and in England, ought TO club their ia
wings and cut n wagon-road to his
house, load up his corn, and cart it oil
as far east as may be necessary to &c
cure him Il fair price for it, we should
simply laugh and walk off, And yet
the foregoing would be, with u few tri-
fling changes, u fair statement Of the
case Of the western farmers against the
railroads in the matter Of charges.
yHe N1tiOu.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21
- What Kind of Elastic"
From the Danbury News.l

A dry goods man, who is well known
for his politeness, has n father who is
an excellent citizen, but not n very
smooth talker. They were 80 busy at
the store Saturday afternoon that the
old gentleman was called in to help.
Among the customers was a young lady
who appeared to be waiting to trade
with him whose elderly appearance in
yitcd her confidence. Soon an oppor-
tunity offered, and leaning over the
counter as an invitation for him to do
the same, she whispered her order.
lie bent close to her, and said, What's
that ?" in n voice that started the per-
spiration to her forehead. Again she
whispered. 80 elastic said he in n
tone that could be heard on the walk,
and looking much pleased with his sue
cess. "What kind of clastic?' he nd
ded, bending his head closer TO the
burning face OF the perspiriug maiden,
Once more she tremblingly whispered,
For carriers, hey?" he repeated, even
louder than before, without noticing
the horror.sunek oppression OF the
almos. t~aiutiuS young lady, "Some-
:hiug fancy, l suppose" he went on to
sJY. 10 happy Oblivion % the s:ogeiul
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21
Carlyle as u Conversationalist,

Accustomed to the infinite wit and
cxlubornnt richness Of his writings, his
talk is still IN amaHcment and II Bplcn-
dor scarcely to be faced with steady
eye. He does not censurc, only hn-
rangucs. 1t is the usual misfortune Of
such marked men, that they cannot
allow their minds room to breathe and
show themselves in other atmosphere,
and thus miss tho instruction and re
frcshmont which the greatest mover
cease to need from the experience Of the
humblest. Carlyle allows no N II
chance, but bears down all opposition,
not only by his wit and onset Of words
resistless in their sharpness as so many
bayonots, but by actual physical supc-
riority, raising his voice and rushing ON
his opponent with II torrent of sound.
This is not in the least from unwilling
ness to allow freedom to others ON the
contrary no man would moro enjoy II
manly resistance to his thought but it
is the impulse of II mind accustomed to
follow out its own impulses, as the hawk
its prey, and which knows not how to
stop in its chase. Carlyle indeed is ar
rogant and oyerbearing, but in his AFRO
gance there is no bitterness, no self
love; it is the heroic arrogance of some
old Scandinavian conqueror, it is his
nature and the untameable impulse that
has given him power to crush the dra-
gon. You do not love him, perhaps,
non revere-and perhaps, also, he would
only laugh at you if you did but like
him heartily and like to see him the
powerful smith, the Sigfried, melting
tho old iron in his f%urnance till it CLOVIS
to sunset red, and burns you if you
senselessly go too near. He seemed to
be quite isolated, lonely as the desert,
yet never was II man more fitted to prize
n man, could he find one to match his
mood. He finds thom but only in the
past. He sings rather than talks. He
pours upon You n kind Of satirical, he-
roical, critical poem, with regular ca
d%ences, and generally catching up near
tho beginning some singular epithet,
which serves as u refrain when his s0ng
is full, or with which, rs with n knit
ting-needle, he catches up tho stitches
If he has CHANGED here and there to lot
fall n row. -Morgarct Futier.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21

The LoNpoN MATINEE. Quite MI fat
is it to attend the concert matinees at
Floral hall, St. ,James's and other West
End resorts indeed, n matinee is a
a charming invention for the aristo-
racy for sometimes an afternoon, even
in m~id.season, hangs heavily, and then
il is pleasant often to meet old friends
without the necessity of appearing en-
granie tenue. The matinee is the
" up.dress' opera, socially speaking.
| verify believe that the matinee has
been the cause OF n revolution in Eng
lish dress. Certain it is that nothing
could be more in taste than the bright,
cheerful, easy, apparently unstudied
costumes which, Of an afternoon, you
see in tho West End concert halls.
Especially observable is the costume of
the men, with their short, bobby coats,
their neat linen and diminutive neck
ties, their union of abandon and scru-
pulous neatness and fitness. The matt
nee is the place to resort to after lunch,
and the opera after dinner the matt
nee is a sort of cosy, aggregate family
affair, and the opera a full dress display.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21
A Diabolical Weapon.

A man was hanged the other day at
San Francisco for murder with a weapon
of II peculiarly dangerous and for u long
time mysterious nature. This is n sand
club, formed by filling an eel skin with
sand. When the instrument was first
brought into are, the authorities were
greatly puzzled by deaths, apparently
from violence, yet NJ marks could be
found on the outside Of the body. A
burglar was finally captured with n sand
club in his possession, made out of an
eel skin stuffed with sand. Being
closely questioned, he explained its use.
When the victim is struck, for instance.
on the head he drops insensible and
soon dies from congestion of the brain.
Often the skull suffers no injury from
the stroke, and il the person struck re-
covers seusibility he gradually relapses
into a condition Of idiocy. Sometimes
aman struck in the body will be knocked
down by the peculiar force of the blow
and feel no inn ediatc results from it.
In n few weeks, however, the flesh will
begin to mortify under the line of the
blow and rot down to the bone. Heller,
the celebrated pianist, is supposed to
met his death in Mexico from a
troke Of this diabolical weapon:
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21

NATURE NEEDS A BoRDER.-Nature,
like art, seems to require n border in or
der to be finished. The dress-maker
hens and %runles the carpenter has his
beads and pilasters the painter never
rests till his picture is framed. If we
should say nature loves n bordering, as
it used to be said she abhorred II va
cuum, we might state the whole truth.
An uninterrupted plane, n continuity of
similar s%orface, vast, monotonous, silent,
is ~intolerable. SO n column must have
its cap, and n house its cornice so,
along the highway, spring innumerable
flowers, and, on its margin, the forest
is lavish of its foliage; 10 the sea is
terminated by the sky, aud we look ut
the sky through vistas Of embarked
and woolly cloud. Were you ever in a
fine grove, of n bright, moonlight
How different from standing
on a mountain, at such a time We
recommend to any n on an eminence,
to 60 back from the brink thereof and
stand in the forest, and look out through
the breaks and crevices. A moss.rose
is an instance in point, beautiful be-
cause it is bordered. So, n view
through half-raised window curtains.
and distant scenery through a long suite
OF rooms; 80 arc light on fairgrounds.
and shadows On backgrounds, in all
pictures. -SytrcSter Judi.
"A MYTH-Tlc "pentlenanIy hotel
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-08-21
Medicinal POisOns on the Wane,

The patriarchs took no mercury. no bIsmuth, no
iodine, no bromide Of potassium, no strychoria, no
%quinine. Happy old gentlemen! they did not even
know OF the existence Of these Specifies and
yet they lived until 1t seemed as IL death had for
gotten them. Their medicines were herbs and
roots. They have LEFT this fact on record, and the
world seems to be now taking note Of 1t and re
turning to the first principles of medication. Hos
letters Stomach Bltters, the purest and most eflca-
cious vegetable restorative of the day, is also the
most popular. Thousands Of persons who only a
few years ago believed implicitly In all the polsons
which figure In the pharmacppia. now pronounce
this p~alatable tonic and Alternative an allsunHcIent
remedy for dyspepsia. nervous debility, ~constipa.
ton. bilious complaints, headache, intermittent
fevers. and all the ordinary disturbances OF the
the liver, the discharging organs and the
brain. The time is not far distant when most of
the powerful and venomous drugs now so reckless.
ly administered by practitioners OF the heroic
school, In cases that might easily be controlled by
mllder treatment. will be utterly discarded by ali
philosophical physicians. As IL Is. the thinking
public, who are generally ahead Of the profc sion.
ais, have already put the dangerous preparations
aside and adopted Hostetter's Bit,ers In their
stead as n safe and excellent house hold medicine.
TO almost every except the organic
aud deadly CONTAGIOUS diseases. For more Lban
years this famous restorative and prtyen
tive has been annually strengthening Its hold upon
the public confidence and II now takes the lead Of
every advertised medicine manufactured i'm this
country.