Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-11-28

John Van Buren, was the authOr oi
the now popular phrase "Note early
and vote often"
In Detroit woman recently placed
sealed tin can OF tomatoes upon the
stove, and was killed by an explosion.
Emerson Ethciidge Is mentioned as
the Democratic candidate for Govern.
or Of Tennessee, to succeed Brownlow.
The New York Ncios pitics the
Massachusetts negroes who have been
elected to represent such mean con-
stitucncies.
A six hundred pound bear was kill
ed at Stoneham, Mass, on Monday
week The spoils and State bounty
nettcd his captors one hundred dol
lars.
The Chicago Republican, after call
ing President Johnson traitor, says
that General Sherman is far more
dangerous man than the President.
There is loyalty for you.
James Dawson, of Fredericksburg,
Va, while fixing a rain gutter during
the late storm, was struck by light
ming and has not spoken since. Ills
wife standing by him was unhurt.
The Radical majority in Massachu-
setts at the late election shows loss
of about twelve thousand on 1864.
This was owing to the large number
of Yankees sent into New York State
to vote for Fenton.
In n campaign in Louisiana party
of Confvderates marching through
swamp, were ordered to form two
deep. A corporal Immediately ex-
claimed, '1m 800 deep already I'm
j TO the middle"
A recent census develops the fact
that Mississippi has lost in population,
since 1860, about 5000 whites and
81 900 blacks. War did for the former
what Yankee philanthropy, with large
doses of the Freedmen's Bureau, did
for the latter.
In his Lancaster speech, Mr.. Thad-
E deus Stevens said that whoever is gov
erned by the laws has light to make
them. We suppose, Thad., that you
meant to except the Sothern white
people Didn't you?--LOuisUlie Journ-
0l
What is the reason that men never
) kiss each other, while the ladies waste
. u world of kisses on the feminine
+ faces said foolish gent to Il lively
girl the other day. The young lady
! answered, because the men have some
= thing better to kiss, and women
! haven't. The gent saw itimmediately'
1 A large portion of the Baltimore
Presbyterians have withdrawn from
the General Synod. A large meeting
: was held in that city, on the 23d and
= new Presbytery formed. This new
movement is an attempt to keep poll
tics out of the pulpits, as in the days
of the fathers.
A breach of promise suit was com
menced in st. Louis, on Monday
: against the Consul of the Netherlands
by Miss Purcell, who prevented his
marriage in fashionable church by
e fol bidding the bands publicly. The
Consul was subsequently married by
= = a magistrate.
SERIOUS AFFRAY.-Dr. George Is
Peters who killed Major Gen. Var
Dorm, in 1868, and James o. Lusby
u Esq, of Council Bend, Arkansas, me
"a near that place on Monday, the 18th
IA when an affray ensued, in which th'
latter received a cut in the neck, th'
O. result of which, it is feared, will prov
r. fatal.
" The CorroS TAx.-The New Yorl
DC Chamber of Commerce, at a specla
3 meeting on Thursday, adopted tn
report of its special committee, recon
y mending the abolition of the govern
IN ment tax on cotton, and memorallzini
n Congress to that effect The groun,
If taken is that said tax is both uncor
Id stitututional and oppressive.
Tue SAND PATCH TUNNEL.-Th
le Sand Tunnel on the Pttsburg an
le Connelsville railroad is at last Gu
re through. Its total length is 4,7O
n feet being 1000 feet more than tn
Or long tunnel on the Pennsylvania Ger
trail railway through the Alleghenie
m between Altoona and Cresson. 1t
rs intended for double track, and
a % feet wide and to be 10 feet !
ed height.
O. SrAdYATIov OF TRADE The Chic
90, Cincinnati and other Wester
es journals speak quite despondingly
le- regards trade and trade prospects OF
rn there. "Nothing doing is the un
ly versal remark. Nobody likes to trui
he the future any more than can be he'll
ed. The radical threats TO remove Il
of President. it is alleged, are at Il
,w bottom of this want of conhdenc
,ct stagnation in trade and business en-
at barrassments.
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