Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-02-13
NEWS ITEMS.

There is one drunkarG to-everysev-
cnty-four persons.
All degrading punishments have
been prohibited in the Mexican army.
Nearly 100 900 cheese boxes were
used in Cattaraugus county N. Y.
last year
Three thousand two hundred and
forty-one German papers are publish
ed in Europe.
The largest number of churches ev-
er erected in Pennsylvania were put
up last year.
Over a dozen cases Of death by
freezing are recorded in this weeks
Wisconsin papers.
Two men have been arrested in De
troit for forcibly robbing a one-legged
ex-soldier Of his pantaloons and boots.
Rev. Mr.. Williams caught negro
thief in bis smoke house, at Meridian
Mississippi, and managed to save him
for keeping.
The experiment Of stocking the
Connecticut with salmon, undertaken
BY the N. ii. Commissioners on fish
cries, is a success.
A Cuban is in Louisville looking for
suitable grounds for the establishment
OF the Spanish pastime of bull batting
and cock fighting
The wiIe of Mr.. Hamilton. the new
Maryland Senator elect, is daugh-
ter Of Hon Richard Jenness, Of Ports
mouth, New Hampshire.
The valuable property of the Amer
ican waterproof cloth company. in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, is advertised
to be sold at public auiion.
Thos Webb, confined in the Albany
jail, on a charge of burglary, on Sat
urday last, knocked down a fellow
prisoner and robbed him OF HIS breast
pin.
A lady, whose person was revolving
ly outraged by a negro at Pierceton,
Ind, received such injuries from the |
loathsome attack rs to result in her
death.
Reno, the Indiana burglar, who
robbed the Davess county treasury
some three month ago, was found
guilty and sentenced TO twenty-five
years in the Penitcntary.
The Helena Herald brings MS Mon
tana news to the 9th inst. From il
we learn that the weather in that
section of country has been remarka-
bly, cold-the mercury making from
30 to 40 degrees below zero.
An old man living near Blooming.
ton, Indiana, had one Of his feet frozen
so badly that amputation became
necessary--all because he would not
buy a good pair Of boots. He is worth
between $4,000 and 100000.
An Indian passing up the streets of
Naehez, a few days since, was asked
the relative position of white man.
negro and Indian. Giving the usual
''ughw he said: "Fore dc war. fust
cum white man, den niin, den dog.
den niger; now cum Ligger, den dog.
den injin, and white man last"
AN UeLY FAoT.-The public debt.
already teariully large, is still on the
increase. There never can be any
steady or permanent reduction of the
debt until the debt-creating party are
driven from Office. The country may
as well settle down 10 that conviction
first as last. The January statement
will show an increase oftUcn'y millions
Of dollars.
The Virginia papers have a story OF
venerable African named Pharaoh .
Glass, who, having voted the Jacobin '
.icket, tied twenty-five pound stone
o his neck and drowned himself-his
last words being "I Cub !
ie wrong vote-we all CUB de wrong !
'otc /" twill thus be noticed that :
wen the niggers have discovered their q
mistake already, while a large number y
II whites have been voting the same e
icket for years, yet they don't see it, ?
John Jacob Astor left Halleck. who
vas for years his confidential clerk, =
My two hundred dollars year.
inllock used TO often joke Mr.. Astor I
lbout his acoumulating income, and
perhaps rather rashly said "Mr As
or, Of what use is all your money to q,
'ou | would be content TO live on
ouple OF hundred year for the rest a
{ my life, if / was only sure Of it," \
The old man remembered that, and y
'ith bitter satire, reminded Hallcck .
{ ii in his will D
John ii. Surratt, who is soon to be p
gain tried as one Of the conspiritors @
gainst the life of President Lincoln. e'
'as permitted few days since to \,
isit a Photographic gallery, for the
urpose OF sitting for his portrait. s.
'om theprocced ofthe sale ofwhich he
opes 10 realize funds to meet the ex- \
enscs of his defence Whatever may
Q the result OF the trial, he may be II
'oked upon as accelerated personare. Z
nd as such he will doubtics realize 4
handsome from his pictures. d
seems a novel cxpedient To raise :