Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-01-03
NEWS ITEMS.


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The Soushcm Provisional Governors
have been paid out ofthe War Depart.
mcnt fund, at the rate of 5000 per an.
nun, for their services.
John c. Breckenridge General Nc
Causclahd and Col. Harry Gilmore
are in Toronto.
Generals sherman and Johnson were
both in Memphis on the 10th, and had
Il very friendly meeting.
The New York stock Exchange ,vo-
ted Gen. Grant s5, 900 as present on
Christmas.
Bishop Rosecrans was attacked by
robbers, recently, near Cincinnati,and
slightly wounded in the leg, by n pis-
tol shot, but made his escape.
Mrs. G. C. Clay is again IN Wash
ington, interccding for her husband
The President has given her permit
to visit him at Fortress Monroe.
Gerrtt Smith has commenced his
threatened libel suit against the Chi
cago Tribune, laying his damages at
$4,000. Rather high price ter an
old mans character.
A delegation Of planters are in
Washington trying to obtain from the
government the rebuilding Of the le-
wees from Vicksburgto New Orleans
A military court at Savannah has
sentenced a mulatto-an cxsmember
of the Boston bar--to one years i'm
pf1sonmcnt, for seditious Language.
Mai Gen. r. Ransom has been cleo
ted captain of militia company at
Wilmington North Carolina.
The friends of General Grant in
New York have sent to Washington
a present for him, in the shape of
horse, valued at $1,000.
An Empress died in Philadelphia a
few days ago. 1t was Madame IIuate
de Iturbide, widow of the former En-
peror-of Mexico.
The Erie Railway has negotiated a
loan Of 81, SOC, Doom England, to con-
plete its double track.
General Stephenson, at Atlanta, has
issued and order allowing the citizens
to carry arms for their protection.
Resolutions in favor of negro suffrage
have been indefinitely postponed in
the Missouri House Of Representatives.
The Mills House, at Charleston, S.
C., was opened on Wednesday, for
the first time since the commencement
Of the war.
During the past season 800 marine
disasters occurred or the lakcs-a
number nearly double the average for
the last five years.
Brig. Gen. w r Peck, formerly of
Stoncwall Jackson's army, has had
his property restored to him.
Six men were sufiocatcd by an cs-
capc of gas in room of the Bremen
Hotel, Chicago, on the 25d. Five Of
them were dead when found, and the
sixth is thought will recover.
Two newspaper reporters wcrc
garrotcd a few nights since in Rich
mond, Va. The garroters made ten
cents by the operation.
Father M;tchel, of Covington Ky,
was knocked down in the streets of
that town on Sunday night the 24th
ult., and robbed of $500.
The Confederate Gen. John B. Hood,
was married on the 2Sth ult to Nellie,
daughter Of Mai. Gen. Preston of Co
lumbia, South Carolina.
During this year, 81 900, 900 letters
passed through the Chicago postofiice.
Chicago is the fifth city of the Union
in population, but its postofiicc business
is scconcd only to that Of New York
A fire in Shaffertown, Pa. on Christ
mas, destroyed ten stores, four hotcis
and all the dwellings, in the western
portion Of the town. During the
progress Of the fire man was mur-
dered
The Lincoln Monument Committee
in New York, have reduced the amount
required for the proposed monument
to $4,000. 1t was previously put at
$4,000, $4,000 have been raised.
Born on the 18th November last,
at Dresden, Saxony, Major General
George B. Mcclellan, ir. This will
probably explain why the Senior Gen.
cral did not sail for America, on the
lst of November, as had been an
uounced.
Secretary Mccullough Is isopposcd 10
the repeal Of the income tax. lie is
also opposed to the assumption by the
General Government of the State war
debts.
Fighting is constant between the
Indians and white settlers in Arizona,
Sevcnty-cight soldiers sent there from
San Francisco ON The LIST of November,
have not been heard of.