Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-11-05
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Thursday Morning, Nov, 5, 1863

his ticket in the State.
Postmaster General Randall will
issue an order next week requiring all
mail carriers to wear a uniform.
The Columbia bridge across the
Susouehannarver is nearly completed,
and will be opened to travel within
ten days.
The passenger train on the Hudson
River X. r. was thrown from the track
on Friday night, and some forty per-
sons killed and injured.
A bet was made in New York city
Saturday of 1925, 900 TO $4,000 that
New York State would give Seymour
over twenty thousand majority
Seth Slocum, at one time the bosom
friend and agent of Johnny Steel, well
known in the oil region, is dead.
While Johnny had plenty, Seth lived
fast.
A vigilance committee recently
hanged a man for murder, in Iowa,
before the victim had died. 1t is now
said that the victim is likely TO
recover.
A vein of lead ore has been found
near Hollidaysburg, by Mr.. James
Malone, piece of which was smelted
by F. B. Isett, and found to contain
about 60 per cent. of lead.
The President has pardoned Jones
Atkinson, who has served fifteen
months of term of fifteen years
imprisonment for counterfeiting, on
account of old age and infrmness.
The dry goods store of Brown,
Thompson & Co, Hartford, Connect
cut, was burglariously entered and
robbed of silks TO the amount Of from
eight TO ten thousand dollars on
Wednesday night.
Says the Detroit Free Press: ole
that humbeth himselfshall be exalted
Chandler's stumping the State for the
man who horsewhipped him upon the
streets of his city, makes him deserving
of the mission to Hayti.
A roll of bills Of $3.50 was recently
found in "a rats nest in Twenty seventh
street, New York, for the supposed
robbery of which a young man was
sent to prison, which caused dissipa-
tion and paupcr's death.
Mr.. Boyle, Democratic candidate
for Auditor General, received major
ity of lO2S-tho largest majority ever
given to any candidate-in Fayette
county, his home. His vote is 81
larger than Ents Good for Fayette.
An advertisement appeared in
German newspaper in New York for
fifty men at six dollars per week, and
noless than five hundred men appeared
at the place appointed, the next morn
ing. Thel circumstance develops
great scarcity of work.
A freight locomotive while working
at a gravel pit on the Ohio and Misss-
sippi Railroad, eighteen miles from
Cincinnati, exploded Thursday night,
killing the conductor, fireman and
three boys standing near, and woun-
ding the engineer and brakesman.
A Harrisburg CORRESPONDENT of the
Erie Republican urges Judge Scofeld
--"our own" darling Glenni W.-for
United States Senator, and that paper
editorially seconds the suggestion.
Toolate, Mr.. Republican-Bill Kemble
and Cameron had that little matter
"fxed' months ago.
1t is said Edwin Forrest has sent
his check for sixty-five thousand dol
lars to Mrs. Danforth, formerly Cath.
arine Sinclair, Mrs. Forrest, &C. This
is in settlement of the judgment of
the courts. Mrs. D. has married
fancy young man, and is living in
style on Staten Island.
The conscience fund" in the U. S.
Treasury received seventy five dollars
more last week. Pity shoddy con
tractors and Radical Congressman
are not afflicted with conscience. In
that event our National debt would be
paid Immediately by the restitution ofI
theirill-gotten wealth.
There was quadruple marriage in
Indiana the other day. A man mar
ried his third stepmother, who had
three children by his father, and three
of his cousins, brothers, married three
OF his wife's sisters. At last accounts
the parties were trying to find out
what relation they were TO each other
The citizens of Southwestern Vir.
ginia complain to the Federal govern
ment that all the criminals they
convict and send 10 Richmond are
through some mysterious influence.
pardoned and again turned loose on
them OF fcourse. What else can be
expected from carpet baggers in
powerl
Those orators who give us much |
noise and many words, but little argu. |
mont and less wit, ard who arc most |
loud where they are the least lucid, |
should take lesson from the great
volume of nature. She often gives us
the Lightning, even without the thun.
der, but never the thunder without
thelightning.
a dlstnrbanco IN n fashionable board |
ing-house in St. Louis, which was al.
most scandal, was quieted when it
was found that theindiscreet chamber
mad was runaway boy dressed in
female apparel and the presumably
wicked clergyman, in whose room the /
pscudo-iemale was found, was the
boys brother.
Five men attempted TO rob the
National Bank Alton, Illinois. early
saturday morning While thev were
at work drilling the vault, NJ. II. Fuller
private watchman, arrested one of the
parties, who was outside watching
when the remainder of them assaulted
him, cut his head dreadnullv with a
steel bar, and shot him througb tbe
heart. He died in a moment The
robbers escaped, but left all their tools
behind. One thousand dollars reward
is offered for the murderers
The now eablo that is TO connec,
us with France will be very similar
70 the Atlantic cable of 1866. but stron.
ger having breaking strain of | 900