Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-06-13
Progress Of /" Grand Moral IDEAS. !

cd at Eric, Pa, on Tuesday, on the
charge Of cmbezzling $4,000 worth Of
rcvcnuc stamps.
A Vermont woman got q divorce
from her husband the other morning.
married another in the afternoon, and
IN The evening presented her liege
lord with son and heir
A young man and young woman
went TO Rondout on Tuesday, for the
purpose of getting married On the
way TO the clergyman's house the
lady stopped at n bank and drew
thereirom $500. This the young man
suddenly snatched from her hand and
escaped
PooR FELLOWS. III. W. Beecher
suggests the propriety Of granting the
Young Mems Christian Association
the privilege of keeping a billiard
table in their rooms, just for exercise,
as they are spelling for muscular de-
velopment. How would training for
a prize fight do?
An exchange records the fact that
another political parson has come to
grief. The Rev. james Davidson
Dyke, Of Indiana, was excessively
"loyal' during the war, and proved
his Orthodoxy and love of country by
melting several riots against the
"copperheads." A few days ago he
was arrested for horse stealing, and It
is said severalclear cases will be mado
out against him.
A New Haven clergyman recently
refused to marry a divorced woman
to man on the ground that the wo-
man had been divorced without sufli-
cient cause. The action of the clergy
man being announced 20 the mother
of tho divorced woman, the mother
died in fit brought on by the news.
In tho meantime the couple were
married by another clergyman, and
the pair attended the funeral of the
deceased mother as man and wife.
ELoPEMENT-We have Just been IN
formed of the elopement of Mrs.
Yates, Of this city. with Billy Emer-
son, a negro Snowman, connected
with Newcomb's minstrel troupe.
5hv ieft a note on the table of her par
lor, for her husband, in which she
said that it would be useless to follow
her, as she would not come back alive.
She left pretty little girl and only
daughter at play in the yard Of her
house, without, il is said, even bidding
her good bye, without so much as
klss.-GrdHd Rapids (Kich.) Dem.
On the goth ult., three deserters
fromthe Thirty-eighth Colored Infant
ry, at Fort Hays, Kansas, went to the
house ofP. J. Peterson, on the Smoky
Hill route, aud finding Mrs. Peterson.
aged fifty years, alone dragged hcrinto
the cellar and outraged her person in
most horrible manner. They were
captured after desperate resistance.
and confessed their guilt, but while
being taken TO jail were rescued by a
mob and killed, and their bodies
thrown into the river. Mrs. Peterson
is not expected to survive.
WHITE WOMAN MARRrEs A BLACK
MAN.--Somc talk having been occa-
stoned in this community, says the
Winchester (Ya) Times, on account
OF the reported marriage OF white /
woman to black man, we have
made inquiry into the matter, and /
found the report true. The happy
groom is black man, raised and for. |
merly owned by a citizen Of Winches. |
ter; the bride is a white woman, for
some time IA resident of Winchester.
but formerly of Ohio. The marriage |
ceremony was performed by a colored |
clergyman.
A"LoYAL" CIERGYNAN.-The New
port (Vt) Erfsress of last week. saws
that Rev. Horace Fowler, Methodist
minister at lrasburgh has been arres.
ted on civil process, in favor Of J. II.
Allen, Eq, of Newport, who claims
the sum OF $4,000 damage for con.
tnued and repeated outragcs upon
the person of his daughter, who Is
young girl only twelve years old. is
also niece Of Fowler's wife. and Since
the death of her mother, has resided
in Fowler's family. An investigation
has been commenced by the Presiding
Elder Of the district. Considerable
testimony has been taken, when the
hearing was postponed for few days.
The evidence thus far is very strong,
and brought TO light the grosest
crimes, too revolving to be made pub.
lie.
AN AMALGAMATIoN CAsE.-The
Of Stevens, Sumner & Co,
lre everywhere producing their fruits.
Last week in our criminal court John
Pheiier, a white skinned individual, !
who embraces The doctrines of the ,
Radical abolition party, was sentenced q
% imprisonment for assault and bat
cry with an attempt TO commit rdpe
IN Rebecca Watson, an ebony colored
Sench, of a not very prepossessing ,
whose husband is serving {
'ut term of Imprisonment in the a
county Jail. The facts as developed at Z
he trial are these:
John Pheifer is white man of +
amily residing in this borough, and
works at Derr's marble yard. Not n
atistied with his pale spouse, John /
ook a hankering after one of more i
otor. Having fellow feeling for .
iluering humanity without regard to y
he sought TO comfort Re. $
'ecca IN her loneliness, and repeatedly q
allied upon her under cover of dark.
ess. Rebecca it appears had no par