Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-11-26
NEWS ITEMS.

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One party is purchasing 20, 1000 acres.
The newest trade for the fashionable
world is thc hiring Of fruit for grand
banqucts.
An American is driving an omnibus
over the new macadamized road from
Jaiia to Jerusalcm.
Julius, did you ever sec the Cats.
kill Mountains Z No, Sambo, bat l'yo
seen the cats kill mice.
1t is stated that the widow Of tho
late President James X Polk Is in
Strengthened circumstances.
What is the difference between
bill and a pill Ones hard TO get up,
and the others hard to get down.
What is the slight difference be-
tween a warrior and an infantg The
one is in, and the other under, arms.
Young men are as apt to think
themselves wise enough, as drunken
men are TO think themselves sober
enough.
The Scranton Democrat runs up tho
name Of Hon. Asa Packer as its choice
Of Democratic candidate for next
Governor.
1t takes $4,000 initiation fee to
enter the regular board of the New
York Exchange. The fee heretofore
was $1,000.
James Curtis, under arrest for horse
stealing at Johnsonville, Tenn, was
taken from custody Sunday night by
a mob, and shot. He was bad man.
Gen. James Shields, the hero and
patriot, has been elected TO Congress
from one of the Missouri districts, by
a majority Of 5SS--a Democratic
gain.
In Australia they have fenced in
10000 acres whore ostriches are kept,
and it is found that the feathers of a
fall grown bird will sell for 500
year.
Down in Tennessee the negroes
voted labels of a "Rat and Roach Ex-
terminator," being told that the pic.
ture of a rat on the paper stood for
ratification.
The Louisville Journal says the
Ku-Klux is the last agonies ofdelirium
tremens. 1t represents the snakes,
scorpions and lizards of diseased
radical imagination.
As long as the Radicals could keep
Andy Johnson drunk, he was as good
Radical as any Of them, but as soon
as he got sober he returned to his
old love-Demooracy.
The Chillicothe (Obio) Gazette says
that two citizens Of that place have,
one twenty-three, and the other
twenty-five living children-each man
having now his third wife
"Doesticks" original of that
name--is police-court reporter for
Brick Pomeroy's New York Democrat.
His reports in the Tribune, some years
ago, gave him wide reputation.
Dunbar township, the alleged "faud-
ulent district" in Fayette county,
gives Seymour the same majority ac-
corded to Hon. II. ID. Foster, Thisis
poor comfort for the old "Alligator's"
charge Of fraud.
A Montgomery county (Ohio) far
mer, who wished to give a lot for
church and burial ground, had the
deed made out "to God Almighty, His
heirs and assigns forever" and the
deed is so recorded
The Washington Reuic,C notices the
vote OF George Kuntz, OF that borough,
who cast his siStieth ballot there at
the last election. He walked over
two hundred miles TO cast his first
vote for Jefferson.
Gen. Milroy, whose "exploits" will
long be remembered in the Valley of
Virginia, was candidate lately for
County Treasurer OF Carroll county,
Indiana, and defeated. He ought to
be in a penitentiary.
A carpet bagger now in the South
wrote TO his father in the North,
'Come down here, father, mighty
mean men get Office here now, You
could be elected United States Senator
without trouble"
A gentleman and lady became ac-
Quainted with each other on the
steamer ltasoa, running between
Kcokuk, aud st. Louis, on the 18th,
and on the fourteenth, before leaving
the boat they were married.
The Boston Journal breaks out:
Massachusetts, 10000 majority.
Match it," Well, Kentucky, 10000
Democratic majority. That is 10000
better. That Kentucky colt distances
tho Massachusetts, jackass just 10000.
General Grant took a walk along
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, on tho
10Th, visiting Independence Hall and
Square. He was recognized, and q
ihrong gathered, but after some delay
he succeeded in flanking his admirers
and returned TO the Continental