Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-10-23
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Wanted-a life boat that will float on q
"sea Of troubles" ....
We pity the family that sits down to
broil three times day.
Poverty humbles pride. A man when
he ia short, can hardly carry high head.
1t is quite natural that when woman
reigns she should'storm-and she always
does,
Why should the male sex avoid letter
A? Because 1T makes men mean.
The government has contracted with an
establishment in Trenton, N. j., 70: the
manufacture of seventy thousand musket
barrels.
The New York Commercial states that
the income Of tie Sheriff of that city will
be 100000 per year for some time to
come. ...-.
1t appears from the returns made by
the officers appointed to take the late cen
sus, that the population of Paris amounts
TO 100000 souls. r... a
A musket can, by turning screws and
losening springs, be separated into forty
seven parts. '
A man occupies in the ranks front of
20 inches a continuous line of $4,000
men therefore is nearly sixteen miles
long.
The following bill was lately presented
to farmer in Sussex: "To hanging two
barn-doors and myself seven hours, four
shillings and sixpenoe."
An editor, recording the career Of a
mad dog, says: ave are greved to say
that the rabid animal, before it could be
killed, severely bit DR.. Hartt, and several
other dogs' a.
A recent visitor at Fort Lafayette was
invited to see the legislature of Maryland
at dinner They were seated in an apart
ment at a PLAIN pine table. The food was
bread without butter, and coffee without
milk Each man had tin cup, but no
other table service The lack OF these ell
eganoies greatly annoys the gentlemen at
the Fort.
The owner of the ticket which has won
the prize of 100, ,O0Of at the Amies lottery
in France is resident at Havre but,
though he took the precauton TO write
down the number, he has nlislaid the ticks
ct, without the production Of which he
cannot, of course, receive the prize.
African savers have discovered a new
way Of reaching Cuba with their cargoes.
A few weeks since six hundred negroes
were landed on Anguila lsland,o of the
Bahamas, the slave ship burned to escape
detect ion, and the cargo forwarded to Gu
ba, in two trips by schooner.
Prior to the siege of Lexington, Col.
Mulligan buried S97S,O00 of the available
funds of the Farmers Bank Of that city,
and Gen. Price exhumed the deposit and
returned il to the bank. On counting
the money, it was found $4,000 short,
and rs there was no accounting for the
it was set down to profit and
loss But the history of part of the mis-
sing sum has been discovered in Chicago,
where one of Mulligan's brigade has re-
turned flush with the spoils Of war. In
one day he hod spent in f:olicking'
$500
Brigadier Gen. Pierce, late commando
ing at Big Bethel, Va, is now serving as
, private soldier in Col. Fletcher Web
,ter's regiment; thus giving the strongest
evidence of his devotion to his country.
Can't Pass OVER THE RvER.-Ciyilians
are not permitted TO pass into Virginia,exs
,ept in the most urgent cases. Noparent
Or relative of soldiers in the army should
cone to Washing with the expectation
Of crossing over to visit their friends, as
no passes to visit relatives or to Crafty
curiosity are now granted. This arrange
ment, though stringent, is absolutely ne
cessary, and is approvedIoy every intelli-
gent man in the community.
WAR FEVER Men cannot think or
write, or attend to their ordinary busi-
ness. They stroll up and dowrthe streets
hey saunler out upon the public places.
We confessed to an illustrious author that
We laid down the volume Of his work
which we were reading when the war
,roke out 1t vas as interesting as a ro'
nance, but the romance OF the past grew
,ale before the red light of the terrible
resent. Meeting the same author not
ong afterward, heicoufessed that he had
aid down his pen at the same time that
re had closed his book He could not
rite about the sixteenth century any
lore than we could read about it. while
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