Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-02-28
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The Disunionists Of Rhode Island |
have ronomi mated General Burnside
for Governor
Since January lst, So, 500, 600 in gold |
have been shipped from San Francisco
We wonder who gets it,
The last vcstigc of Table Rock, at
Niagara Falls, has fallen. This event
occurred on Tuesday last.
General Mcclellan is heard from at
ViIleneuve, Lake Geneva, where he is
still remaining with his family.
Nine hundred and eighty-nine love
letters were produced in evidence in
breach-ofpromise case in Liverpool
recently.
A man in Vicbsburg who assumed
to bul1esque the Freedman's Bureau,
was arrested for peddling swarthy In
dia rubber doll babies.
J. II, Rice, Democrat, has been
elected supervisor at Binghamton, n.
Y, by five majority, Democratic
gain Of 200 since the fall election.
There is a story afoat Of a widow
who was so inconsolable for the loss
of husband that she took another TO
keep from fretting herself to death.
A cotemporary, speaking of the re-
port that Thad. Stevens was "over-
come" by his exertions m the House,
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An act compelling the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to rebuild the Col
umbia bridge within two years has
passed one branch of the Legislature.
A New York shoe firm has pre-
pared sixty styles Of ladies' shoes for
the Paris Exposition-an American
institution likely to attract much at
tentlon.
Since Cameron has been elected to
Congress, it is said that Morrisscy
thinks of resigning, on the ground that
"evil communications corrupt good
morals"
Charles Dickens, they say, often
walks 2S miles before dinner. We
know men who would gladly walk
that distance after dinner, if they
could get it.
A crinoline manufactured Saxony,
during the last ten years, has made
863, ,7e4 900 hoop skirt springs-enough
to 90 round the world thirteen and a
half times
The best informed merchants in
New York are making arrangements
to do one-third less business there
than last year. If they keep up to
that they will do well.
1t is not probable that Mr.. Guthrie,
of Kentucky, will ever resume his seat
in the United States Senate. His
limbs are partially paralyzed, but his
faculties are unimpaired.
The heroes Of the next Congress
are, says the French Courier. John
Morrissey and B. f. Butler Morris
sey, says the editor, has the widest
reputation-Butler the worst ~.
The coolest thing out in the protec-
tive limo is a petition for a duty on
imported ice. 1t is wanted to protect
our Eastern cutters from Blue-nose
competition in the Southern markets.
Several Washington ladies are Wig
orously engaged making up clothes OF
baby dimensions for Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, who for some time has been
living at Fortress Monroe with her
husband
The dove was the first newspaper
carrier, when one morn it went out
= and fetched leaf for Noah. 1t con-
: tanned a paragraph on the weather,
notifying him that the heavy rain had
subsided.
Geo. c. Mclean has been appointed
Surveyor and Collector at Pittsburgh
as successor to Mr. Lowry, rejected.
He was the chief clerk under Batche.
! lor, removed, and was retained in the
same capacity by his successor
The value of quartermasters' sup
plies in store at New Albany, Indiana,
is stated at s56,000,G 600. The govern
ment furnishes two steam fire engines
: fully manned and equipped, to protect
) this immense amount Of property.
The Indiana Legislature has passed
a joint resolution protesting against
any further contraction Of the nation
al debt for the next five years. There
is loyalty for you We suppose then
they expect to rcpudiate the wholC
= thing
AT Honosdale, Pa, on Friday,whil,
a salute was being fred over the grave
of Captain Joseph Scover, of tho
3 Twelfth Pennsylvania heavy artillery
s cannon was discharged prematurely
f wounding three men, two Of then
S fatally.
@ The New Haven Journal says thai
the measels is now considered ono o
the classics. 1t has been introduced
n into nearly every class in Yale Col
:, lege within the last few weeks, and il
i now Stunned rs much as the hardes
+ Greek and Latin lessons.
1t must be an amusement TO 60 mar
9 getting in Texas, with prices like these
u Fine beeves are selling from fourteen
; to fifteen dollars each, for specie
!, sheep are selling at one dollar and
half per head, and pork at two and
e half and five cents per pound.
" Hon. Andrew Hunter, lately clecte
Senator from Arkansas, declines tn
n honor, stating that ho cannot accep
3, the position without injury to th
1t Church of which hc is a member
l.. a LARGO majority of those with whor