Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-10-09


Innocence abroad: Mark Twain IN
England.
Greeley is a type-settcr, and Grant
isa West pointer No wonder they
watch the game.
|. "A Michigander sncexed from his
nose Tho other day mimic ball that
had entered bis eye during tho war.
Hon. Charles X. Tuckcrman, late
American minister to Greece, has a
book In the press Of Putnam, entitled
"The Greeks of To-day"
Octoboris called, by one Of the pocts,
"monlhs OF the iris hues, and 6almy
air, when summer lends its sun with
softened glare" . i lilriI a
Blondin, who is still rope walking
in England, cooked an omelet on the
middle of u tivc-hundred-foot rope
raised eighty feet above the ground,
recently. laH
Saysthe New York Tribune; Break
tho Grant majority in the House o!
Representatives, and there arc at least
Eve present members who will no
more dare TO 90 back thcrc than Wm.
NJ. Tweed dared, last winter, to go
back TO Albany" M n
The Long Branch administration
has gone into winter quarters at Wash
ingion. Tho bull pups, horses, err
riagcs, Horace Porter, and all the rest
of the presidential train are announced
as having been expressed from the ,ca
shore to tho capital
The clerks in the Departments at
Washington complain terribly Of lleir
visitations. They have been called
upon and personally requested 10 pay
their assessments toward carrying on
the campaign II is like squeezing
blood out OF turnips, TO be sure, but the
blood has to come nevertheless. se
The Christian Mteiiigencer discusses
the extravaganza of public funerals as
"demoralizing nuisance" II asks
"Wbat can justify the custom vhicl,
now nnhappily prevails Of making the
funerals Of private and even Obscure
persons occasions Of idle display and
studied pompy'
A correspondent who saw the three
Emperors at Berlin, tho other day
during a review of troops, writes
ave noticed with some satisfaction
that all three of their Majcstics were
as completely covered with dust as wC
were, and ! have no doubt but that
they, too, were glad that the show
was over 4..nH .st1 M
10000 WAIrISo.-Mrs. Williams, ,o
Cincinnati, recently died, and loft
$4,000 TO her grandson and heir
Geo. Williams; but tho where about,
of George are unknown. He enlisted
in tho Twenty-second Ohio regimen
at the breaking out Of the war, ant
has not been heard of since shortly
after the capture of Memphis.
Hon. Willis b. Machen has beer
appointed by Governor Leslie, Of Ken
tuclSy, United States Senator, to I'll
tho unexpired term of Hon Garre
Davis, deceased. Mr.. Machen Is abou
sixty years old, was member of tb
Constitutional Convention, and ha
served in the State Senate and Hous,
Of Representatives. He is man o
sound abilities and high character.
Gambcta, the irreprcssiblc Gam
beta, is, it appears, by his Stun
speeches in France, building up
powerful party in opposition to th
present pro tempore compromise Re
publican government Of Presiden
Theirs. The ultimate view OF lb
partisans of Gambctta is to make thei
champion President aud Theirs, ,thougl
apparently secure in his place, is
very old man. No wonder, therefore
that Ga".L~s.~'- ~r--s,.-- -'S crcat'n
some alarm among the conservative
and business classes of France. An
other storm is brewing.