Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-01-03

Miss Mary + Hampton, sister Of
Gen. Wade Hampton, died at Colum-
bia, 5. c., last week
Our city is unusually quiet The
Devil is not among us. He is busy at
Washington.-PreHtice
Seth Kinman, famous old Cali
tornia bearhunter has been appointed
Indian agent for Idaho.
Davis Richards, an American circus
rider, was recently killed in Moscow,
Russia, by fall during performance.
A London paper says that the
Union built and cherished by Wash
ington and his Congress exists no
longcr.
A rich lead mine has been discov
cred in East Tennessee Gen. Thorn
as will be president of company to
work it.
Ten thousand head of beef cattle
passed Fort Scott, Arkansas, during
the last ten days, going north to
market
Otto Goldschmidt, husband Of Jen-
ny Lind, has been appointed vice
president of the Royal Academy Of
Music, London.
1t is interesting TO know that sci
encc has demonstrated that Donattfs
great comet will be again visible in
the year 1858.
Judge McCunn, at New York, has
decided substantially that a person
losing money in gaming is not enti-
tied to recover by law.
There are now 1913 inmates in the
Ohio Soldiers Home, which is the
highest number that has been in that
institution at one time.
New York city polled almost as
many votes at the last State election
as the entire State OF Massachusetts
only four thousand less.
Joseph Barker, who, it viii be re-
membered, was n leading iniidel in
this country, is now candidate in /
England for Holy Orders
If ladies appreciated the beauty Of
their feet as they do that Of their neck /
dan shoulders the would probably go
to balls barefootcd
A Mr. Bates, of Kentucky, twenty |
years Of age is seven feet eleven inches
high and still growing. lie is the |
"baby" of eleven children.
Richard Lawrence. who made an /
attempt 10 assassinate Gen. Jackson in /
1885, still lives and is an inmate Of the
Maryland Lunatic Asylum.
A radical exchange says: General |
Butler is good enough for our pilot. /
All right, says the Harrisburg Union,
but it ought TO be spelt PLATE.
The House of Delegates OF the
South Carolina Legislature has reject |
ed the constitutional amendment by a
vote of % to one.
There are $40 churches in Moscow, 1
and all the bells rung at one time on 4
the occasion OF the royal marriage |
The changing was fearful
The Three Rivers Canada Journal, /
on the authority OF the clergy, say
that no Catholic priest Of that place /
ever saw or knew Surratt.
At the late session Of the Legisla-
ture of Alabama six new counties were |
created, namely-Baine, Bullock, Clay, |
Cleburne, Crenshaw and Lee.
The members of the Presidents |
Cabinet unanimously favor a veto of
the District of Columbia suffrage bill,
with the exception Of Mr.. Stanton.
The fast trotting mare Lady Shaw,
owned by Mr. j. L. Maynard, of Bos-
ton, died last week. Mr. Maynard
paid $1,000 for the mare last season.
A young lady down East adyertizcs
for young man that "embraces an
opportunity" and says, "lf he will
come over to our town he can do
better"
Secretary Stanton has presented the
colored Episcopalions of Washington
ten thousand dollar church. No
white people will ever be thus reward.
cd by him.
Edward V. Murphy, for many years
one of the reporters in the Uuited
States Senate, has been appointed su-
perintcndent Of exports at the port of
Philadelphia.
The lVdtchman says that Messrs.
Bush Reynolds and Duncan have al
ready completed many of the arrange
ments for the erection of paper mill
in Bellefonte.
A Washington lady, who was dragg
ed some thirty feet BY horse car in
consequence of her "hoops' being
caught by projecting step hasrec
cred $1,000 damages.
The petition of six darkies of Ala
bama was presented in the Rump
House, the other day, asking the i'm
peachment of President johnson. The
world moves.
A Western paper says they have
preachers out there of the stern wheel
species, who are exceedingly light in
the head, but keep up prodigious
racket in the rear"
A lady in Saxony, the wife Of bar
rister, lately committed suicide in
order that her husband should get her
life insurance money and free himself
from debt, Very clever.
Prentice says the late failure of the
expected exhibition of shooting stars
wasn't owing to the want OF stars.
There were enough of them, but they
were too pcaceable to shoot.
Chicago is said to be worse govern