Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-05-22

Vice. President is o lightrkeeper at
Michigan City, Ind, at u salary ol
$500 a year.
The last Of the Fenian prisoners in
Candada was John Quinn, who was
pardoncd out Of Kingston pcnitentiary
on tho 1st inst.
II the pen bo mightier than the
sword, what's the use Of the Philadel
phia Conventions Grants defeat il
already recorded.
President Grants sons, Jesse and
Ulysses, are going to Europe in Juno
and return with Miss Nellie Grant NJ
tho end Of summer.
Scientific men tell us that pianos
should always stand North and South
The tone Of the instrument is said tc
bo improved by this position.
Tennie @. Clafilin has made pro.
posals to the Ninth regiment On. ~
to elect her colonel OF the regiment
rice James Fisk, jr., deceased.
Billings says: A Newfoundland dog
is good thing to have, only one must
get one or two children and Il pond
before he will be of any use.
William Lawson Barry, of Nashville
Tennessee, is the Oldest printer in the
United States. He began to learn his
trade in 1907.
Charles +. Lex, one of the most cmi
ncnt members of the Philadelphia bar
died at his residence, No. 2030 Chest.
nut street, on Thursday, the 10th.
Hon. W. ]. Baer, of Somerset, was
nominated by the Wiliamsport Labor
Reform Convention as Delegate nj
Large to the Constitutional Conven.
tion.
Mrs. Horace Greeley, is native Of
North Carolina. Sho was Miss
Cheney. They were married in 1886
His better half, therefore, belongs to
the South.
One hundred thousand tons of oil
are made annually in New Orleans
from cotton seed. Six establishments
employ q capital OF one and hall
millions,
The man killed in the tunnel above
Columbia o few days ago had in his
possession paper bearing the name
of "Robcrt Mellon, Caledonia, Elk
county, Pa"
Rev. Lyman Whiting refused To
permit one Of his church members in
Janesvile, Wisconsin, TO be buried
from the church, because ho was a
Free Mason.
An Illinois gentleman made wager
that he could undrcss, go to bed, get
up, dress and undress, and then go to
bed again while his wife was prepar-
ing for her couch.
Mr., Daughcrty, deputy postmaster
at San Francisco, has been twenty.
seven years in the Post Office Depart.
ment lie is the oldest man of letters
on the Pacific coast.
They have lately introduced into
the street lamps Of London strips oi
looking glass in the roof The reaec-
ton is said to throw threo times as
much light as the ordinary lamp.
Bets are offered in Washington that
Grant will be withdrawn. Grant has
sent out tho Dents to take all such
offers. What the Grants and Dents
won't take is beyond human concep.
ton.
Partridges are said to be moro nu.
merous in Lancaster county this year
than they have been for twenty years
Nearly every field is teeming with the
mottled beauties What pity that
we have none in Clearfeld.
The first female lawyer ever admit.
ted to practice in the District of Co
lumbia is Mrs. Charlotte Il. Ray, q
muatto woman, who was sworn in as
an attorney. at. law on Tuesday, 23d
ult. "The world moves p
The only money Grant has paid out
Of his pocket toward the reduction OF
the National debt are the 5000 which
he owed the Government and which
was discovered by clerk in tho De.
partment, who has since been removed
Tho Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
has been reported to the House 1t
appropriates something over Seventeen
Million Dollars. 1t is truly wonder.
ful what n vast amount of "sundries,' y
these economical Radicals in Washing
ton get away with every year.
An ex.proof reader on the New
York Tribune says that il Horace
Greeley had written the Inscription OH
the wall in Babylon, Belshazzar would
have been good bit worse scared than
he was, and that Daniel would have
required tho patience of Job to inter
pref it. 4H
Tho work Of whipping in tho rcfac
tory Republicans who want to 90 for
Greeley has been commenced by the fcl-
lows who hold Office under Grant. -
Thcy find il an uphill business, but
may succeed with an abundant use oil
money, Of which they have full sup
ply.
T. Buchanan Road, the poet, died
at the Astor House in New York city,
on Saturday last. Deceased was a
native Of West Chester, this State, and
had acquired brilliant reputation as
a poet. His most brilliant effort in
the poetical line being the production
Of dThc Wild Wagner Of the Allie.
ghcnics."
Says the Lancaster Infeliigenccr
"Rcports from different sections OF this
and adjoining counties continue TO rep
resent the wheat crop as failure. A
very large quantity was frozen out by
tho intensely cold winter, and much
Of that which escaped the frosts has
since been parchod up by tho long dry
spell
Immense dcfalcaions IN the Freed
mans Bureau at Washington, arc just
discovered, but it will take some days
TO ascertain tho full amount. AZ q
minority of tho peoplc seem TO be de-