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Mew Advertise meins To*D«ySituation Wanted—Poatoflica Boil 355-Tlie FuMic Library Agnla.W* presented in Tuesday's iasne a lint of thdj books recently purehaaed by a Committee o? the Y. M. 0 A, as a contribution towards the formation of a library for the toomu soon to bo opened in Ihe Second National Bank building,and for tbe uae# wo suppose, of the community, under certain, needful condilions and regulations*This movement wbioh now promises so-well, and with ©Tory reasonable guarantee of its entire eucoess, on permanent foundations, is not tho first or cnly on© in the same direotion. Many of our readers will well remember tbe Culver library Association which bad rooms, in 1864 5 and ’6, over tbe present Titusville Savings Bank. They wore very pleasant room?, and a favorite resort with many of our young moo, clerk?, mechanics, otudent*, after business hours. In turning back to the Herali of those days, we Sod it ettttod that there were at ono time thirty dies of newspapers on its tables, and that it was well supplied with many popular periodicals. Hon. 0. V. Culver, at that period our Representative in Congress, and ridiog on the top wave of popularity, the leading banker of this country, gave tbe asaooia’ion tbe usa of these room-* —rent free, (whtn. the annual rental o* suoh quarters there would build a very respectable dwelling houso to-day,) and Judge Chafe, we believe, donated tbe set uf Appleton’s American Cyclopedia to tbe association, and wo believe cl«o assumed tbe deb!a resting upon the former society.But tho natural tendency ti deoay, which belongs to all things human, began to manifest itself in this society, after a ysur’s lapse. The tluxh times absorbed the most active spirits. Iis would have been cold indeed, who failed to catch and was not swept along tho momentum of that whirl of speculation.It would not kavo been bard at that timo to have taken a subscription paper rjund and have rcnliz;d a handsome endowment fund for tho city library. Chnrokas were built then, and organs furnished, and debts wiped out, and city improvements carried on by the* liberality or advances of private individuals, who woke in tho morning to dcd tho parse of Forfcu-n-.ttus in their grasp.1 Ob, Fortune, fortune, U m-. n call tkee riekl?**'And the spoiled favorites of fortune in tbe oil region have reason to call thee no. In March, IS lid, new lito was breathed into the dry bones of the society, now fire wa* struck out of its debutes. Donations of books were made by our citizens, and Mr. B. N. Hurd was authored to make siino addition?, which footed up to ov€T $300. The following waa the Ymx;One Dutch Republic (Motley;) ono Ab-bott'a Napoleon; volumes Bayard Taylor Te Travels. One Blithe Dtle Edmuncee’ one Tanglcwood paper**; one Dina’s Book of Poetry; one Twice-Told Tale*; one House with Seven Gable*; one Scarlet Letter; one Set Hume's Ragland; six. volume*; one set. Roll in’s Ancionfc Hi story, two voiumQes; one Democracy in Auieri-cj; one Literature and Fine Arts; oneHol-land'd Life of Lincoln; ono Coleridge, otc « ono Longfellow's Poem?, ou© Whittier’s Poem*; ono sot of B mcroft's UoitcdjStatefl, eight volumef; oqo eat Mucauley, five volume*; ono set of Prescott's Works, fifteen volume*; one sot Irving’s Work^ twentv-two volumes; ono aet Waverly Novels, twelve volume?-; ono set Caper's Novels, thirty-two volumes; one set Dickered Novels, eighteen volumes: five vol-uisuh of Gail Hamilton; four volumes of Titcomb; ono volnmo of Titeomb1* Lttor«-; one Bitter-Sweet; one Renan’s R-jligioua Cmioiain ; ono History of liberty, four volumes; ono Napoleon’s Ciewr; ooe Froo Govern meni; one Bramble's Travels in Ada; Thttok-eruy’d novel*1, nine volume*; one Amenities of Literature (Disraeli), and one Curiosities ot Literature (Disraeli).Tbe Culver Literary Association subsequently changed ice title of designation, and tho library was removed to ihu Board of Trade R)oma in Lho Wat to (qow Kingland) Block. Hero tbe books were kept till the Board of Trade was dissolved, and then the Library was transferred for *afo-keoping to the Good Templar Hali; now it cud be found, or what reraaioa of i*, in th« law ifiiia of W. S. Morris,Many books are dilapidated from use, maoy sold are broken and volumen missing, but it is long fioce tho old Society bad a mooting, or any organization, and, we presume, the fragments of tho old library, which onoe numbered ovor three hundred volumes, will be ut tho service of any Literary Society, wbioh will hold them for t.ha public ti?o nnd benefit.ACCIDENT TO A FREIGHT T It AIN.— Freight train No. 11), on the 0,0 A. R.
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Titusville Herald
Titusville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1872
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