Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-02-21
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and will soon report.
Tho Methodist Book concern, at
Nashville, was burned on Wednesday
night. Loss, $4,000,
The famine continues in Persia with
undiminishcd fury. Thousands are
perishing weekly.
IL has recently been discovered that
the Government is cheated annually
out Of eight millions Of dollars by the
Pension Bureau.
IL is stated that tho London Tablet
announced the very morning of his
death that archbishop Spalding was to
be made Cardinal.
Tho government has commenced
action to recover $4,000 deficit in the
accounts Of A. NJ. Wood, late Internal
Revenue Collector Of Brooklyn.
AT ball held at Bethlehem, recent.
ly, in public house near the canal,
two girls made their debut with the
smallpox scars still upon their faces.
Tho Grant and Sherman circus per.
formed at Rome and Naples, Italy,
on the 18th and 18th. II tho General
is not ashamed by this time, Fred.
should be.
impeachment seems to be as hard
on carpet. baggers and scaliwags in
the Southern States Us Courts and tho
Penitentary are on the loyalists Of
Philadelphia
Captain James Biggs, of Covington,
Ky, late Deputy United States Mar
shal, has been arrested and sent to Jail
at Louisville, on account ola deficit of
$4,000 in his accounts.
The Cleariield county Radicals have
instructed for Frank Jordan for Gov.
ernor This is little hard on neigh.
Dor White, who has got his eyes turned
that way.
A Scranton telegram says that the
wounded by the late accident on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad have compro.
missed with the Company and received
payment for their injuries.
Huntingdon county collected $1,000
last year of parties for shooting wild
turkeys out Of seasons. 1t would be
a long time before they could pay off
the National Debt at this rate.
Hon. A. X Syester, of Hagerstown,
Attorney General of Maryland, has
been requested TO deliver the next ad.
dress before the Literary Societies of
Franklin and Marshall College.
A young lady requested to bc re-
leased from her marriage on the ground
that whom contracted, she believed
her lover ''duck," but has since found
him to be an internal "goosc."
No wonder the war "paid' some
loyal scoundrels Out of one hundred
and fifty million dollars paid forvessels,
ships, etc, not ton millions, worth are
fit for sea to-day,
On former occasion, when Col.
Forney cried "haltp Grant appointed
him Collector As he is at the same
trick again, wc wonder what "the
government" will give him next
The House Naval Committee have
agreed to report bill appropriating
5000, 900 for the construction of ten
iron steamships. 1t is about time we
were getting some vessels aaoat.
The parents of the marriageable
young men of Atlanta, Ga, have agreed
to enforce as rule that young ladies'
paying attention to their sons must
not stay later than 10 o'clock at night.
Many Radicals who see the floods
rising, are now anxious to get into the
Ark of Reform. We are willing that
they shall repent and be saved, but
care must be taken that they do not
scuttle the Ark.
There is religious revival going on
in Helltown, California, at present.
If the name is any indication of the
character of that place, there couldn't
be better field for religious opera
tions.
The Radicals of Clarion county
want TO mako Gen Harry White, OF
Indiana, Governor and Hon. Isaac G.
Gorden, of Brookville, Supreme Iadgo
The latter is fitted for The position,
but tho former is humbug.
Tho President like that other gallant
patriot, Artemus Ward, is willing to
sacrifice every able.boded relative of
his wife's for his country's good, and
proposes in consequence TO abandon
the general.order business.
Hon. A. Oakley Hall, Mayor OF New
York, was arraigned before Judge
Cunning S. Bedford on Saturday upon
the charge Of gross neglect of duty,
and, in reply TO the accusation, stated
that he desired an immediate trial.
Gen. Harry White, the Radical
leader in the State Senate, showed bis
Activity on several occasions last
week in advocating the interests of
the "robber ring" He is lchiti, it is
true, but he has no right to be.
The West Virginia Constitutional
Convention has adopted several sec.
tions of the Bill of Rights, not mater.
ially differing, however, from the pro
visions of the old bill. A provision
was adopted prohibiting political test
oaths.
Julius I. Hartwell, convicted OF EN-.
bezzling government funds in conncc.
tion with the Ward Il Mellon case, has
been pardoned by the Presidcnt.r--
More health is wanted in that city,
and fa "Board" will produce it, send
il along
The 'sldbera Republicans of Mis-.
souri, mean business. They have passed
resolutions denunciatory OF Grant, say
they will "hurl him from power" and
have called n general convention TO
moot at Cincinnati on the first Wed
ncsday in May.
Mr.. Il. S. rhurlow, of Wilkesbarre,
was fortunate enough to draw from
tho Trenton bank, day or two be.
fore the robbery, some $4,000 worth
of Camden and Amboy bonds doposi.
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