Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

black ones.
Tho police of Vienna recently
threatened a lager beer seller to fine
him heavily, If no did not increase
the size OF his glasses.
Broad Street, Philadelphia, is eleven
miles and a half long in one straight
line, and one hundred and fifteen feet
wide.
Twelve National Banks have up to
this time, been put into the hands Of
receivers for an examination Of their
affairs.
There is a grocer in Yicksburg who
gets rid of his rotten eggs by putting
them in barrel near tho door, where
the darkies steal them.
A Democrat is elected to the Yer
mont Legislature for the first time in
many years, viz; Victor Atwood, Of
st. Adams.
A bet Of 100000 was recently
made at the Paris Bourse, that in less
than five years Gen. Grant will be
Emperor OF the United States.
1t is feared that the channel Of the
Mississippi will make Its way perma-
nently behind the island opposite Al
ton, thus rendering the lovees Of that
city useless.
Some convicz have disappeared
from the penitentiary at Michiga an
City, Ind, through sixty foot tun-
mel they had constructed under the
walls.
Lucy Stone said @There is cotton
in the ears Of man, and hope in the
bosom of women" Lucy made a
mistake, and got the cotton in the
wrong place.
Oberlin College, which claims to be
a model of liberality, gives all students
who are Freemasons an honorable dis
missal, but will not permit them to
remain.
Ex-President Fillmore has been
threatened several times with assasi-
nation by drunken fellow named
Sarsfeld Coyne, who claims that Mr..
Fillmore owes him = large sum of
money.
II is somewhat curious fact that
the author Of the Bankrupt Bill, the
Hon. Thomas Jenckes, was one Of
the first applicants for its benefit in
his State. The failure is disastrous
and said to be heavy.
A man in Alton, Iowa, has escaped
punishment for adultery because the
highly educated, prosecuting attorney
had charged him with "idolatry,'
which is not known as a crime in
Iowa.
Gen. Buffers now house at Lanes
vile, Mass, occupies one of the best
locations on the Cape. The first sto-
ry is Of w olfe Hill Granite The sec
ond is to be Of wood forming French
roof. The foundation is spoons"
b. S. Jannoy, a well known lumber
merchant of Philadelphia, was arres-
on Friday morning for swinding cor
tain parties out Of considerable sums
of money by fraudulent representa-
tons and by the use OF bogus checks
He stands fully committed for trial.
An exchange says that Hon. wm.
Montgomery, of Washington county.
advertises all his real and personal
property for sale, and it is said that
he and his family intend 10 leave the
country He has our sympathy in
the midst Of his affliction.
Josh Billings says, in his recent re.
port of a cattle show: There waz tew
yoke ov oxen on the ground, besides
several yokes ov sheep, and a pile ov
carrots and some wosted work, but
they didn't seem to attract emmy sym
pathy. The people banker for pure
agricultural hosstrots.
A new style of hoop skirt is shortly
to be introduced which will enable Ia =
dies and gentlemen to get into com
pany, and in fact, walk together,
should IL become necessary or agrcoa-
bic. A secret spring, operated quiet
ly by the wearer, opens a section of
the hoops, and the gentlemen can ap.
proach the lady. Inventive age
GREE I'm 1860 the
Black Republicans promised the peo.
pie If they would elect Lincoln evory
man should have free homestead !;
but instead Of that they made it diff.
cult TO keep the homes that were al.
ready paid for-the taxes amounting
to as much as their rental in Demo.
cratic times-and many exchanged
them for a proxy in the armies of
Grant.
CALLING UPON THEIR FAMruARs.-
Excess aud extravaganza of speech is
one of our American sins, and Just
now largely in the Radical line.
Thus, Gen. Logan, who is stumping
in Ohio on pay, said he wanted Presi.
dent johnson "kiclSed out of the
White House as the devil was kicked
out of heavenl" Senator Chandler al
so says, Il give him (Johnson) credit
as do the devil for rendering the
plan of salvation necessary % 1t is
Ben Wade's turn now.
WELL PUr.-The Louisville Jour
nal says:
The doctrine of the Calhoun school
of State rights Democracy is no lon
ger living question. But the doc
trine Of the Madison and Jackson and