Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-05-21
THE REPUBLICAN.
.uisosffaneons Tfems.

John t. Given is the Democratic
candidate for Mayor Of Washington
city.
Senator Henderson, Of Missouri, is
about to marry Miss Mary Foote, a
belle Of Saratoga.
Thad. Stevens calls the President
the 'onspring of assassination" Re
port paints Thad's offsprings in very
dark colors.
A barrel marked "Hand Corn Shell
lers" was opened at the depot in Lou
isville, Ky, and in it was found the
dead body of negro.
Ben. Butler recently referred with
grave tones to old Thad 's''silverlocks." !"
If they were real silUer, Butler would
steal them sure.
A young lady in Maine was recent
ly killed by falling from a swing
which had been put up for her amuse-
ment only few minutes previously.
LESSON IN GRAMMAR.--Lo the poor
Indian lower the poor negro; low-
est the poor white man who is taxed
to purchase bread and blankets for
both the others.
Lord Brougham, the eminent
British lawyer, reformer, legislator
and ex-Chancellor, died at Cannes,
France, on the 9th instant, in the
ninetieth year Of his age.
A negro, charged with killing a
hog, in Mississippi, proved by negro
testimony that be was at three differ
ent places when the hog was killed
the heaviest alibi on record.
Young Jerome Bonaparte, of the
French army, has sailed for America,
to visit his parents and grandmother.
The latter is now in her eighty-sixth
year, and resides in Baltimore.
A woman in Brooklyn purchased a
quart of milk and found small fish
swimming in it. The milkman sta
ted he thought the COW must have
swallowed the fish. Rather watery.
A little four-year-old child, in Port
land, told his father be was a fool.
On being reprimanded by his mother,
and required to say be was sorry, he
toddled up to the insulted parent and
exclaimed: "Papa, Pm sorry you's q
fool"
Mr. Lemuel S Lowering, Of Phila-
delphia, who was thrown from his car
riage on Monday, died from the inju-
ries resolved, on Tuesday He was a
wealthy sugar broker. His Lowering
Syrup was famous throughout the
country.
A man in Minnesota entered q
newspaper office and paid for an ad-
yertisement of his lost dog. As be
turned to depart, the missing canine
met him at the door. Another in
stance of the marvellous power OF ad-
vertising.
The Ku Klux Klan can't be such a
bad thing after all. They warned
Butler to "prepare to meet his God" {"
which is the best advice he ever re-
ceived, and is q better sermon than
half the Radical ministers in the
country could preach.
An old gentleman died recently in
Massachusetts,, aged eighty-eight. A
few days before bis death he was ad-
vised by his physicians to use little
brandy as a stimulant, but declined
doing so, lest be "might acquire a
fondness for liquor"
The late Hon. John Magee, OF New
York, left fortune oftwolve millions
to his four children. The special be-
quests Of the testator are the following:
$4,000 to tho American Bible Society
and $4,000 to tho American Tract
Society, ofNew York.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says
the Union Pacific Railroad is now
open TO Fort Saunders, $50 miles west
Of Omaha; and states further, that
10000 men are at work, and it is ex-
pected not less than 200 miles of track
viii be laid this year.
"Why don't you get married p
said young lady the other day to a
bachelor friend. 81 have been trying
for the last ten years to find some one
silly enough to have me-" was the re-
ply. 81 guess you haven't been up
our way" she smilingly said
Tor.r Dnornr.e T. 1Qnn III.
individual owed two dollars and sixty
cents of the public debt; in 1865 each
owes about $50. In 1860, the expen-
ces Of the government were sixty-two
millions; in 1867 the Treasurer esti.
mated them at four hundred andtwen.
ty-fve millions.
A boy at Unadilla, Mich, fell upon
saw in factory. 1t cut his body
through the back, saving three OF
his ribs of thrice, opened his heart
case, saving both arms nearly off near
the elbow, and left cash in his body
nearly fifteen inches long. BE did
not die for several days
About s24,OOO,OOO were checked
from the Treasury on the 1st instant,
10 pay semi-annual interest on the
five-twenty bonds. This eats up the
ten millions of reduction Of the debt
reported for April, and makes il pretty
certain that the May statement will
exhibit an increase of ten to fifteen
millions.
A precocious specimen of Young
America got lost at a country fair IN
New Jersey, and went bawling around
much TO the annoyance of some quiet
people, who inquired the cause of his