Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-12-20

A man IN England was lately beaten
to death while boxing with gloves on.
A brother CT President Pierce is
making temperance lectures in New
Hampshire.
The colored ladies of Buffalo use
rouge to heighten the color Of their
complexion.
George Peabody has given $4,000
TO the Five Points House of Industry
in New York.
There are at this time in South Car
olina eleven cotton factories in sue
cessiul operation.
Mrs. NJ l.. Fowler, wife of Hon. j.
p. Fowler, Senator from Tennessee,
died on Friday night.
lmpeachnient does not appear to be
n very popular measure with the most
sagacious Republican leaders.
The authorities of Macon, Georgia,
are obliged to furnish from six to ten
coilins per day TO bury negro panpers-
Two years ago churches were closed
for not praying during service for the
| President. But now IL is changed.
This is Il Radical change.
1t is now stated that the female
Treasury clerks swillal be discharged
on the lst Of February, instead OF Jan
uary next as previously stated.
Said a genr,man on presenting a
lace collar to his idolitrada, "do not
let any one rumple it." No, dear, III
take il off, said the naughty beauty
The investigation OF the recent Par
liamentary elections in England shows
that in Lancashire alone, seven hun
dred ana seventeen electors had been
bribed
The Petersburg (Ya) Express has
arrived ut the conclusion that "thC
United States Government is the mOsl
stupendous and unprinclpled humbug
on the globe"
Ex-senator Oldham, of Texas, i,
now in Mexico, engaged in writing q
history Of the Rebellion, and running
a Photograph wagon, to raise th,
funds TO pay his boarding.
Among the curiosities to be showr
at the Paris Exhibition is the mode
of an oil well, derrick, tanks, &c., il
Illustrating the entire mechanical pro
cess Of developing petroleum.
/ Hon. John Bigler has been establish
ed ia the office oi the United States Us
SCISSOR for the 4th District OF Caliior
mia, his predecessor having been eje, [
ed by the United States marshal.
Crippled soldiers are constantly ar
irving in Washington, expecting t,
get into the Invalid Corps, but as IA,
more disabled men are received, dis
appointment and suffering are tn,
results.
The n. Y. Herald f,vors Greeley
election to the L. 5. Senate becaus,
it wants one Senator who can kcep
sober during the long night sessions
aud who will avoid "Forneys Bour
bon bottle
Ihad. Stevens wants one hundred
million dollars added TO the currency
and when gold goes up, IA it cohsc
quently would, lac would have specu
latlon IN II made a crime. Ihad is
queer Statesman, anyhow.
An old lady who had insisted on her
FHiml.4tsfHs- UF.fNIuR Tor ram ltlH HNl
oabbages cut up by hail storm, anC
on viewing the wreck remarked tha
she "nevcr knew him to undertake,
anything without overriding it,
Wendell Phillips is out in this week
| Anu-Slayery Standard in favor O
Fred. Douglass, the negro, as United
States Senator from New York. Do
place Of Hon. Ira Harris. As Harris
votes for the nigger, he might as wei
give him his seat.
There are nine million pounds o
| Pennsylvania iron in the dome Of th,
Federal Capital Notwithstandin.
,. the Yankees rule the roast. there /
no denying that the Old Keyston,
has some weight down there-even j
il is only in base metal
Efforts are now being made since
the arrest OF John Il. Surratt, to got
the periurcr Conoyer, released Facu
are gathering too fast to make il com
Portable Tor such loyalists rs Holt
Stanton 4 Co. Bribery and perjury
is coming to lightthick and fast.
Prentice speaks Of a brawling Ken
tuckian, who was Dragging about how
loyal he felt, and who. being asked
what he meant by it, replied 81 feel
as if | should like to shoot somebody
steal something, or berray my neigh
bor" This is about the beat definition
Of 'loyalty" we ever saw.
Perley telegraphs to the Bostor
journal that some thief has stolen th,
spoons of Mr.. Brace British Minister
he same dispatch says Gen. Butler
wasin Westinghouse Statesman
Mr. Bruce win certainly have n,
trouble to find his spoons, If he know.
where Butler stays.
Colonel Henry Wilson, of Mass.
with a party of friends. has availec
himslf Of the opportunity of the Con
grcssional recess TO visit the battle
hclds near Riohmsad. Tue Colono
never found an opportunity to visit
those fields when he raS a Colonel
and they 'oere battle-delds.
The Editor Of the Bogdoir says
"a millionaire of this city recent,
gave dinner at his elegant residence
to which forty guests were invited
one-hali Of whom were ladies. With
very questionable taste, a present
worth five hundred dollars was laid