Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-12-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Gen. Grant has declined a public
reception in Boston.
The most troublesome fools are
those who have some wit
One establishment in Vermont turns
four cords of wood into shoe pegs
every day.
They want oxen in Oregon so bad
that 81 600 yoke is paid for them.
IL Hartford, chimney eighty feet
high, was moved thirty feet few
days since.
A man was arrested IN Portsmouth,
Virginia, last week, for stealing an
iron railing from around a grave.
The bodies ftwo thousand seven
hundred and eighty nine Union SOL
diers lie buried near New Albany,
Indiana.
Queen Isabella 10 growing bald, aud
they say the loss cfber hair occasions
her as much solcitude as the loss of
her throne.
An old gentleman in Nashville,
pitched his son out of the window the
other night, while suffering from
nightmare.
Many of the postage stamps that
have iecently arrived in Paris, on let
ters from Spain, had the Queens head
punched out on them.
The Pacific Railroad is employing
an army of fence builders, fences being
necessary TO keep buffaloes and other
animals off the tracks.
William Starke, black negro who
can neither read nor write, has been
appointed Postmaster at San Marino,
Dinwiddie county, Virginia.
A number of desperadoes recently
broke open five freight cars at James
vile, Wis, aud carried off large guam
titles of raisins, and other fruits.
The Democrat says some sly sinner
took ten Thanksgiving turkeys from
the premises of Mr. ia OBJ T. Collins,
near Elkton, Nd, one night last week.
Guilt is that which quells the cour-
age of the bold, ties the tongue of the
eloquent, and makes greatness itself
sneak and Turk and behave itself
poorly.
Mayor Bowen has bought tho house
at present occupied by General Grant
for forty thousand dollars, as Grant
will have no use for il after next
March.
S. S, Cox, member Of Congress elect
from the Sixth district, New York,
and Stephen ]. Meany, the Fenian,
were passer gers for Europe last week
by tue Bremen steamer Herman.
General Whitaker has written to
General Shackeford that General
Fitzpatrick will not spolOgise to Gen.
eral Forrest, neither will he fight him.
No particulars-but four generals.
The well known chemist, Schou.
bein, the inventor Of gun-cotton. and
the discoverer Of ozone and antoEone.
the two allatropio forms of oxygen,
has just died at Baden, at the age OF 60
The wife OF Gen. Frazier, of the
army, was found dead in
her bed at hotel in Alton, Ill.,, one
day last week. The coroners jury
rendered a verdict that she died Of
convulsion.
NuIsAScEs.-Cross eyed spinsters.
making women, grumhling
old bachelors, dilapidsted sidewalks'
children, frowny wives, dirty
postal currency, and a subscriber who
does not pay for his paper
The United States have entered
suit against y. B. Olmstead. late
Clerk Of the Postoffice
10 recover $50, 200. the
amount of his defalcation. A criminal
suit is also pending against him.
One hundred aud sixty barrels of
Ale were ruined in Buffalo last week
That amount had to be drawn from a
vat TO fish out an individual who had
allen in and drowned. Coroner's YER
ict-'dicd from too much ale
Col J. r. Rogers, United States
Of Miss uri, died suddenly ut
s. Louis on Saturday. The United
States district court. sitting there, ad.
burned on the announcement of his
lesth. He will be buried at Hannibal.
Mr. A. W. Norton, Q native Of
Ohio, committed suicide in the city Of
williamsport last week, by shooting
himself in his room At the American
Hotel. He was regarded as a peace
able and good citizen, and no cause
$ assigned Tor the act