Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-02-21
Progress OF fhs Greeley Reform
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insulting young girl in the cars.
1t takes more money TO run the
Freedmen's Bureau than il did the
whole Government under Jefferson.
A dispatch from Saco, Maine, says
that Mrs. Sweet has been convicted of
manslaughter for poisoning her hus-
band.
Hanson Bumgarder was hung at
Marietta, Ohio, on the 18th instant,
for the murder of John Il. Eabarke, in
last September.
The Boston Post says: "a feature
of the times is The steady withdrawal
Of money from the savings banks by
the working classes" Confidence gone
Edmund p. Rosseau, of Louisville,
KY, committed suicide on the 18th by
shooting himself with pistol The
cause was mental alteration.
Half bushel of counterfeit postal
currency was picked up in the street,
in Detroit, few mornings ago. 10y
atty furnishes employment for u great
many cute minds.
Lindsey, the child-whipper, has
been decided to be of unsound mind
by the physician at the Auburn, N. Y,
State Prison, and will be placed at an
avocation that is not laborious.
A boy employed by Sloman & Edge,
No. 10 South William street, n. Y,
was robbed, on the 18th, of $500 by a
man who enticed him into by-place
and threatened to blow his brains out.
Alfred Foss, of Limerick, Ne, was
way-laid on his return home from
Portland, on the 18th, by robbers, who
fired at and knocked him down and
robbed him of $3.50. Two men have
been arrested on suspicion.
Miss Harris, who shot her lover
Burroughs, in the Treasury two years
ago, and acquitted therefor by the jury
which tried her, has just been com
mitted TO the insane asylum. A fit
ting end to most dismal tragedy
Three men named Lee, Cofer, and
Home, were arrested in Chicago on
the l4th, charged with forgeries of
Buena Vista county bonds, State of
Iowa, to the amount of $4,000. A
preliminary examination was had to-
day, and the prisoners were held to
bail.
Henry Kenian, of Portland, Ne, a
sailor on the bark Mary E. Libby, was
stabbed to the heart by Charles John
son, a runner in Mrs. Robert Douglass
boarding house. The murderer was
arrested. The cause of tho murder
was an alteration on the previous
evening.
James Ryan, of Onandago county,
N. Y, was arrested at Binghamton,
on the sth, on the arrival of the Syra. !
cuse train, for the murder of his step
father, Jerry Denham. This morn
ing, on going to his cell, he was found |
dead, having strangled himself with |
his suspenders.
Major IL C. Ransom, of Hartford,
Conn, while laboring under temper
airy fit of insanity, threw himselffrom
a window Of his residence, falling a
distance of fifteen or twenty feet, |
crushing his skull and causing instant |
death. For several days he had been
in great trouble and peiplexity in con-
sequence of some disarrangement in
his business affairs, and it was observ-
ed that his mind was affected.
The house OF II. G. Dur, at Milton,
Mass, was entered on Thursday last,
during the absence of the family, and
a trunk, containing notes, mortgages,
&c, and about $40, 900 in United States
bonds, was carried off. The trunk
was afterwards found, but the bonds
had been distracted. The robbery
was committed by three young ladies',
who have been arrested and are now
in Jail The bonds were found on
them.
Clifton Harris, colored, and Luther
j. Verrill, white, were arraigned at
Lewiston, Ne, on the 14th, on war
rant charging them with being the
murderers of Mrs. Kensley and Miss
Caswell, on the 18th of January. Har-
ris pleaded guilty, and Verrill pleaded
not guilty. Verrill also waived pre-
liminary examination, ,whereupon both
prisoners were committed TO Auburn
Jail for trial before the Supreme Court,
on the 2Sd of April next.
"HEARING ABOUT Ira gentle
man who had spent much time in Tex
as during the past two years, was in
Springfield, few days since, when he
heard Freedmans Bureau man talk.
ing largely of the awful state of socie
ty in Texas. | have seen six negroes
shot down in day, said he, naming
the locality and this, he aveTed, was
no more than the daily average there.
The gentleman said this could not be.
have seen il said Bureau. My resi-
dence has been in that locality, said
the gentleman, and what You say
knolC to be untrue. Not one negro has
been shot there in year But, said
Bureau, | have heard that six a day
were shot down. "Heard p said the
gentleman, didn't you sec the shoot
ingi No, heard Of it, aud believe
it, said Bureau. But you just said
that you Sdw IT, No, | didn't see it
you misunderstood mel heard about
it, said Bureau, as he sneaked away.
Salem Statesman.
SHOCKING BARBARITY.-Ab brutal af.
fair took place in Pittsburgh few
days ago. Some bogsheads of sugar
were placed outside ofa grocery store,