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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The official figures of the traffic over the
Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railroad
show marked iucrease, the spring busl-
mere thus far giving assurance of u success
full year. List years business was much
interrupted. The oil product of the. region
ia over 10000 barrels per day, notwitbI
standing the efforts OF those in the trade 10
keep it down. and the railway reports carry,
ing nearly 2oS, 900 barrels per month. The
cash receipts for the month OF March were
1928, $40, Of which over $4,000 were from
passengers alone. A large coal traffic over
The road bstween Pittsshr9b sod Buffalo Il
rapidly springing up. Tbis will BIZ eratifyI
iug news to the many here who hold small
amounts as investments Ledger.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05
Local NOtlce,.
DISSOJUTTNN

The copartnesship here,otu,e i. in.
tween Scbermerborn 4 Ten F,c.A A"', y
ed By mutual conseni. "a'
3. p. SCHEnxsRBo,v
}. A. TEN EYcx
Parties indebted to the sbovs A.
st' and settle up and save ,roubls
Dated Petroleum Centre. April q ~ !,
FOR SALE. %
One l5- horse Tiff b. Ter 10 con,,.,
der. Ona 8-botse Wood & Mann suoi' pt,
boiler 10 ccmpla,e order, 275 t.rt -
tubing, extra heavy, 500 ieet lara !,
rods, l Shows Paup.
J. A. TsyE,
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

Billy Spear, every body Knows him. las
rented the stand formerly occupied by A. S
Smith, and this morning opened fresh
water sa loon under the local option low -
He will keep the best Of sandwiches, cigars,
pop, lemonade, and the purest of wafer
His many irieuds will Of course drop in to
see bin 10 bis new quarters next TO Siu-
mons drug store.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The San Francitco Bulletin says: "An
Infatuated youth WITH . banjo opened q
strain Of impsssioued Diostrslsy. last night
under the windows Of Q boarding house. on
Clemsntins street. He was suddenly In
tsrupted 10 the midst OF ''Sweet Spirit hear
my prayer" oy person 10 tho third story,
who bad to empty ase,t.le full OF aches. A
poIicemso who passed the scene Immediate
" after The incident asserts that It wss the
rongbsst praying no ever beard In bis life. "
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05
The Petroleum Report Tor
ERrGi..


The following report OF the production 0!
the Penrsylvania OIL Field. is condensed
from the Pennsylvania Petroleum Reporter
In the Sixteenth District the number o
barrels on hand at the wells ct the close OF
of the month was sl,777.
The production for the month was $3.50
barrels decrease from the production OF
the month of February OF over 5000.
The average per day for the month OF 81
days, was 1904 barrels.
The number of wells producing during
the month were $780,
No wells we're drilled during the month.
The total amount Of oil held 10 the dis'
trict was l20, $50 barrels.
The total production o: the oil fields Tor
the month, was 665, sos barrels.
The ,o.st shipments were G6s,374 barrels,
about 5000 barrels greater than tie pro
dnction for the mouth,
Total stock. l,244, ,G57 barrels.
With the exception oftbe the three lower
districts, the combined production OF which
was 377. GOA barrels, the production of the
Sixteenth District exceeds all Others by sow
eral thousand barrels.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

OIL NEws-Phiilips Bros, well on the
Klinssr farm, struck April 22nd, Is doing
IS barrels.
Crnm wen, on tbc FiIman farm, owned
BY Oliver Crum, is doiog 7 tsrreIf.
The Fanny we'll, on The Fi'nso farm' is
stifl doing 50 barrels.
Hulines well, on the KIinger farm, is de-
log 8 barreis.
Spruce we'll. owned by Knight, Pierce Il
Co., on the Will fern, is pumping II bar!
rels.
The Lowe we'll, on the Leaemsn isIm,
beyond Doetown 1. down 1850 ieet.
The Main OIL Company's we'll on the
track bought ofLora, is down 1000 feet.
Emlentou Pipe Cos we'll on The d. Mas|
ters farm, 10 down 200 ieet.
The Kribbs well, ~ Edenburg, has ssi/
tied 10 . regular production Of six barrels
Petersburg Progress.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The EigbiyItnird Reg gimrnt will hold it,
annual reunion at Meaduille on the 10th
Of September. The One Hundred and For
ty-ffth. and the Second Cavalry have bere-
tofore beld their reunions with the Eighty
third, aud willprobably do go this year.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

1t ia said that an old mountain hunter
has offered to take the contract of csptur.ne 9
and killing of the Nodoc, for less than i
cost the Government to fight them tor a sin
gle month. This shows the superiority oi
pr vale enterprise over Government monol =
oily.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The Grand Jury on Tuesday bad under
confederation the matter Of . new bridge
over Uil Creek ct the II. McClintock farm,
and recommend tbs, the sams should 10
built by the county.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The annual re.union Of the Tenth Rpci/
ment Z, nusylvanis Reserves will he held ut
New Castle ON the 4.h of July next. 1t ia
desired that surviving members shall st/
t-Id.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The local option law must BE- enlo,.
From and alter this date and mn M
day the local option law goes into ~,
will sell alIkinds aud brands o, vim,
liquor ut retail st wholesale prje,, =.
ock must be closed ont. Now i, N. }
so purchase > little vial for home mn.
OWEN GAFFNp
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

A new we'll On the Fee & KuDksl tract
commenced pumping on Monday last. ana
is now doing ~ barrels. 1t is owned by
oy Samuel Mitchell and William Mitchell.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCu.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Preaching at IL O'Clock A. NJ. and 7
o'clock p. NJ, by the Pastor, W. c. BuHcH
ARD. Sabbath School ut l214, directly
after forenoon service.
Prayer Meeting and Sabbath Schoo
Teacbsr's Meeting Tuesday evenings oil
each week. =
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

"Hsil! balmy Sprlng!" The Louisville
people had the bail on May-dsy to the
depth Of several inooes, but the ''bslmy
Spriug" wss not about.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

Hon ). D M"Junkin has s,,i his ! rope.
y 10 F'snkIIn, snd VIII reside in Butler
hsrr ah-F.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

There 10 a younx lady named Fargo,
Who nsrd 10 reside 10 Chicago;
Al Dnrkirk, New YWk;
She IN butcn ering pork,
And selling the hams by the cargo.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

This motto stands Ut ths editorial head Of
the Albany (Gs.) News:
1T Ia not rank, nor birth, nor state,
But tho get-up-and-get.npt that makes
men great"
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

Toe Methodis's OF PstersbNIg, are reaoy
I" receive bids for the building Of new
fhufca. ,i- q -'-
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

None of our jacks around here. claim XII
10 Capt. Jack. Chiet Of The ModOcs.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The new opera house u. Petersburg 10 be
ing built rA pid)y.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05
An nOunCemenls.
COUNTY TREASURER.

EDITOR DAILY REcoRp:-FID BISHOP
will ha . Candidate tot tho Office OF COUN-
TY TREASURER, subject 10 the Republic
Can Primary Election Nay Slst. 1873
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05
Petroleum Centre Daily Record.
Pet Centre, Pa, Monday. lMay 5
Divine service.

Divine service.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Services every Sabbath at II A. N. and
~ r. N. Sabbath School at l2H r. NJ.
eats free. A cordial invitation extend.
ed to all. ..
"'@ Rev. G. MOORE, Pastor.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05
WAGES

THOR oil who Rre willing to work. Anf s.om IN $40
10 $50 per week. At home day or eqonins,rv add any
by all Suitable to either City or Counu nity fOt
,on of the year. rni Is rare oPno, ,oey. ,o to
those who are OUT Of work. and out :" y. al being
required. Ow pamphlet NOW ~ Mae nal niecsips
LiVi isGI wing full instrnot,ons,, seq oMorr->
OF 10 cents. Address, A. BURTON q ~
ania. WestchesIer Co, n. y.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

A Pittsburgh grocery seeper nas maos
the sequa.ntapce Of a eenicsl yet snrewd
young woman. Sbs visited his store anu
after uvchssiog and paying Tot several sf.
ticles suddenly remembered that sbe wanted
some coffee. Two or three dollars worm
was weighed and poured into crock wn'cn
she held 10 her lap. Then she also sud dso-
~ remembered that her pouey Was exhaus-
ted-she would leave the crock and coll Tor
il later 10 the day. The grocery Keeper
kept open bis store until nearly ten O'clock
ia anticipation Of oblieiBg bis customer, ous
finally looked st toe crock aud found IL no'
only empty but without q bottom. The
,hrewd young woman had carried on the
coffee 10 her apron.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-05-05

The Beckwilh S0O POrsaDs0. trial;
mary advantages over :l Satisfaction ga,TasStfeesc sfec
or So, refund,d Sent complies, with go Rprosdvsy
tions. tbeckwith Sewing Machine ca 'oo]
NewlYOrk.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
A NEW SPECIES OF SLAVERY.

In this issue of the CHRONICLE will be
found telegram from San Francisco, CIV
ing the prices at which certain Chinese
ladies, just imported from the Celestial En-
pire, were auctioned off to the highest bid
der. This, it will be said, is Chinese
custom, but what of that? So was the
sale of black men a custom of Africa, but
it cost us four years of war and three thou
sand millions of treasure to abolish that
heathenish custom in America. Is new
species of slavery to be tolerated upon the
Pacific?
In the city of New York, recent adver-
MISUNDERSTANDING a reward for the return
of poor little italian boys, led to an inves-
tigation of den at As Crosby street, where
the fugitives were to be delivered. In sew
eral cases the escaped little slaves were de-
scribed by scars or cuts on their lips. 1t
turns out now, through the investigations
of a reporter of the New York Times, that
a set of italian Williams make regular
business of kidnapping children, mostly of
their own countrymen, and treating them
with great cruelty. They are sent out in
the morning with threats that if they do
not return at night with certain sum ofmo-
ney they will be tortured inhumanly. The
money is to be begged worked for or stolen,
as best corresponds with their training or
best suits the talent of the boys. If they
attempt to escape they are hunted down
with rewards and special detectives hired
for the purpose. The Times writes of the
treatment of these young Islaves hunted
up by its reporter as follows:
Many of them wore a diagonal cut on
either the right or left side of the upper
lip, which had been purposely made and
sewed up again in rough manner, so that
the scar will always remain. Others have
their under lip split in the centre, and a
permanent scar is secured in the same
manner. These cuts about the mouth are
the most preferable brand, because to the
casual observer they present nothing I'M
natural, as the marks may be readily taken
as the result of an accident or a natural
hare lip. As all the slaves, however,
belonging to different masters cannot be
branded alike, many will be found to bear
the marks of knife or caustic upon their
arms or other part of their bodies, and by
this they are recognized.
These practices are done in a great city
where crime of every kind is perpetrated,
but now the authorities are put on the
track of the villains it is to be hoped their
punishment will be speedy and severe. In
New Haven one of these brutes was
caught in pursuit of four runaway boys
and he is now in prison awaiting his trial
and speedy punishment.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
THE GOOD WORK OF THE PRESS.

On the first appearance of the cholera at
Nashville and Memphis, the CHRONICLE
began publishing from the best medical
authorities advice as to the best measures
TO avoid the epidemic and the best means
for treating it. These articles comprised
about all the leading ideas that the best
scientific men of this country have advanc-
ed on this subject. We have good reason
to believe that the prompt alarm thus
sounded and the advice thus given through
the press, put this community and others,
upon the guard and aided in keeping OIL
the scourge which thus far has barely
touched us. In speaking on this subject
the Louisville Cottrier-JournaE truthfully
saws:
1.-The veriest carper at the daily newspa-
per press must admit that it has rendred
one Single service for the public good this
summer, which atones many times Tor all
its faults In the cities it has been, in some
sense. the peoples board of health, the
APOSTLE of sanitary reform. Its voluntary
earnest and gratuitous labors have helped
to arrest disease by arousing careless COM
munities to the necessity of cleaning W
and thoroughly purifying cellars, alley
and streets, opening sewers, draining
ponds of stagnant water, and removing
every sort of filth and impurity. 1t ha'
laid before the public almost daily the re
suits of the labors and experience of thu
ablest sanitary writers in this country anc
in Europe and taught the close relation
ship existing between impurity and dis
ease. The good work will still go forward
The laws of hygiene will be discussed
more clearly and copiously every year il
the daily newspapers, until the popula
mind shall have been educated up to thei
intelligent comprehension, and diseas
stripped of half its terrors."
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
IN NIEMORIAM.

Died. at Tate Springs, Granger county,
Tennessee, on Thursday, July oath, 1873, Miss
Harriet Knox Tate, of congestive chill.
This widely known and estimable lady was
born in the year 1884 on the Dist day of April,
upon the grounds of the place where she died.
The sad circumstances surrounding her illness
and the sudden and unexpected determination
of it has caused many heart to swell with sor-
rowful emotion and full many eyes to fill with
tears. No one who ever knew Miss Tate named
her in other terms than those of the highest
praise and profound admiration. Her position
in the management of the famous Tate Springs
was one in which she made wide acquaintance
and host of friends. To her efforts are large
ly due the success of the resort. She was ever
SO kind TO the stranger, so gentle to the invalid,
so amiable and progressing to all who came
near her as to attract and hold their warmest
friendship. The dropping spirits she has rallied
into buoyant life, the depending hearts into
which she infused her own sunny and cheerful
manners, the dull eyes into which her encourage
ing words have brought the sparkle of bright
hope, and the pain-racked bodies that have
been eased by her ministrations, all yield up in
this hour an incense of prayer for her peace and
Joy in eternity more potent than any uttered
words could be. All over the South her friends
mourn her loss and feel that one almost as near
and dear to them as a sister has gone from the
scenes that knew her here but will know her
nevermore this side of eternity.
Miss late was Jealous and faithful Christian.
| Early in life she began to walk the way of
righteousness and TO prepare herself for simple
| Christian career. For more than seventeen
! years she has been q constant commitment at
the altar of the NJ. E. Church, South. During
all that period her interest in the cause of reig-
| ion and her faith in the promises of the Redeem
| er appeared to increase yearly, and many are
| the hearts and the hands which now lift them
| selves up in prayer for her who was kind, sym
pathetic charitable and comforting to them in
their days of darkness, distress and affliction.
| She was the first mover in the work of building
up Bascom Church, in the neighborhood of the
| Springs. To her efforts are due its successes.
| She conceived its establishment, collected and
| disbursed the funds for its erection and super
intended, as it were, the work from its inception
to its close. 1t is her proudest and most endur-
| ing monument. While she was thus engaged
too, in raising up this Bethel in the woods for
| the weary toilers in the fields, she was laying
the cornerstone of a beautiful mansion in the
city whose streets are paved with gold, whose
every gate is pearl and where the Lord God
reigneth in His omnipotence May she be now
enjoying her exceeding great reward is our ear
nest prayer-that we initiate her virtues and re-
ceive the mantle other faith, until we go hence
10 join her is our daily suppication. :. VS..
Tate Springs, July 20, 1873
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
Improvement for cabinet Organs.

With the annually increasing facilities
for acquiring musical education, but few
parents now neglect giving their children
every advantage possible with the view of
obtaining sufficient knowledge of this
universal, though oftentimes imperfectly
understood science, which in the ratio in
which it is understood, will oftentimes
prove of the greatest pleasure and even
benefit. Music in the family circle is one
of the most interesting features connected
with home enjoyment, but until late
years it was reserved for the wealthy alone
TO enjoy the accompaniment of an instru-
ment to the human voice, and the piano
having been brought to the highest state
of perfection, was generally the instru-
ment purchased, the high price charged
proving no obstacle to persons of wealth,
and it was reserved for the cabinet organ
to furnish an instrument in price within
the reach of many who were unable to in
vest in higher priced instrument though
they have not given universal satisfaction.
But the day is not far distant when the
musical world will yet find all that they
desire in their favorite instrument, when
improvements are added that will give the
variety and volume now wanting and it
is with pardonable pride that notice is
given of an improvement so long needed,
the result of the skill and ingenuity of a
huONNllle IuuSlCldI, MI. L1eIDSIJ II,
Hodgson. His invention is to add to this
variety and make the stops (as they should
be, at any rate) tolerable imitation of the
instrument after which they are called.
In order to produce the desirad effect,
Mr.. Hodgson uses in making the reeds
differentlelastic non-metallic material.
Alter many experiments he has discovered
that properly prepared wooden reeds
give tone scarcely distinguishable from
that of clarionet, while vulcanized rub
Der reeds more nearly approach the flute,
with its beautiful, soft tone, and reeds of
ivory emit a round, clear tone not unlike
the human voice. He has perfected his
invention so far within the past eighteen
months that the keys of these different
materials keep in tune with the brass reeds
used, in any weather. He has fitted up
the clarionet attachment to an ordinary
reed organ, which is perfect imitation of
that instrument and the inventor claims
that the introduction of these reeds will
add infinitely to the capacity of any reed
organ. The improvement has been salts
factorily tested in the presence of several
of our best musicians, who are sanguine
of the success that awaits the inventor.
Mr.. II. has taken the necessary steps to
have his invention patented.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
Serious Accidet.

While returning from a visit to the coun
try Wednesday evening of last week, Mr..
\. Hight, was driving two horse vehicle,
in which were himself and wife, Mrs.
Scruggs and two or three children. On
arriving within about one mile of town,
on the Fork Creek road, coming down a
hill, the horse became unmanageable, and
ran of, breaking the vehicle, throwing the
whole party ont. The upper bone of Mrs.
Nights arm was broken, Mrs. Scruggs
had a rib broken and one of her feet in
jured. Mr. Hight was considerable hurt
and one of the children, Freddy Scruggs
badly bruised and otherwise injured. 1t
was a remarkable narrow escape. 1t is a
wonder that any of the party ESCAPED with
their lives. Mr.. Hight has about recov-
cred, the other injured ones are recover.
.-.SWeett0ater Enterprise.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

WATTERsoN the editor Of the Courier
Journal, is in England. He has Brother
Jonathan's hat on and is given to prophe-
sy. A fourth of July Grafton on Bunker
Hill couldn't do the American eagle greater
homage than does this reconstructed Con-
federate, who now wants TO carry the stars
and stripes across an ocean of blood and
beard the British lion in his den. Hear
what he predicts is to happen before long /:
1t is written in the book of fate that be-
fore Lord Macaulay's prophetic heather
sits on London bridge and surveys the
ruins of ST. Pau's, the stars and stripes
shall wave above the Tower, whilst the
Prussians, remembering old Blucher's OBJ
servation, stuff their pockets with the ill
got gold of Lombard street, and disport
themselves amid the fineries of Belgrayia
and May Fair. / am sure, for my part,
that do not want to see brigade Of my
colored feslow-countrymen quartered in
Buckingham Palace, though if reports be
true, they could do it no worse damage
than its last occupants. Neither should
be glad TO have Westminster Abbey i'm
provised into a Methodist Church for the
temporary accommodation of Billy Will
son and his pious Zouaves. But stranger
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06

THE Groesbeck Liberal Republican
Democratic Convention, in Ohio, proved
to be fizzle. There are quite number
of very nice gentlemen in Ohio who think
themselves too respectable to be Democrats
and are not willing to be Republicans, be-
cause the front seats in that organization
are pretty well filled by very good men,
who feel so comfortable in their that they
don't propose to vacate at present. The
first class named have been trying for
some time to get the Democratic party to
hitch on to their little cork and pull its &C.
cupants into Office. But the Democratic
leaders want the first chance at the office
themselves, and therefore they object to
breaking up the cold organization The
Liberals have put ticket before the peo-
pie and proclaimed their platform. 1t
now remains to be seen whether the De-
mocracy will hang out their old banner
and rally the faithful, or take up the new
rag. 1t seems probable that they will
nominate candidates of their own, and
| make three-cornered night. No matter
which course they pursue, the reelection
of Governor NOyes, the regular Republi-
can candidate, the one-legged soldier, is a
foregone conclusion.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-08-06
EAST TENNESSEE
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
ATHENS, TENN.

NEXT TERM WILL COMMENCE THURSDAY
N August 9TH mot lIth). and continue 20 weeks.
Workmen are now putting the Building in complete
repair.
LOCATION
remarkably healthy. Instruction unsurpassed in thor
oughness. Government parental, but efficient. Espe-
eial attention will be given TO the English Language.
Morals and general habits carefully supervised All
required to dress plainly and nexpensively. Reports
to parents three times a term.
TUITION:
From $500 to $500. Board, So 90 per week.
For Catalogues or information, address STAMP en-
closed), j. S. MATHEWS, ESQ, Secretary.
Or. REV. JAMES A. DEAN, President,
vi6-u 1ncare of the Secretary,