Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-05-01
Coupom .1r,rs.

The population of Johnstown and
adjacent borough is l4,065
The Labor Reformcrs hold their
State Convention at Williamsport on
the 7th instant. NJ /
Hon. j. Clancy Jones, formerly
member OF Congress from the Berks
dissrict, has removed TO Philadclphia.
|, n. p. Seward, brother of cx.Secrc.
tary Seward, died on the 23d, Of ap,
polcxy, at his home in Florida, Now
York.
Don't speak all at once. There
lives blooming lass at Zanosvcllc, o.,
who will give sSS, 900 to any man who
will marry her. EI
A man who has Travelled through
New Jersey says he saw some land
there so poor that you couldn't raise
u disturbance on it.
Things begin to look so squally for
Grant and his present makers that the
Fifteenth amendments are going back
on them down South.
1t is announced in dispatches from
Washington that Grant regrets that
he ever became a candidate. He has
evidently got his eyes open. ai
Both tho Academy of Music and
Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, have
been secured for the sessions of the
National Republican Convention. ega
Chicago printers waiting for their
type ordered from New York the week
OF tho fire, kept up their spirits by
singing "ooino thon font of evory bless
ingp i7 A1ea nN.tN'N.
The constitutional Convention will
meet in Harrisburg on the second
Tuesday of November II will prob
ably remain in session for several
months.
A Dubuque woman, who claimed
that a married man in Omaha was her
husband, withdrew her claim in favor
Of wife No. 2 in consideration Of 500,
and went home.
The printed Ku Klux testimony ro-
ported by Senator Scott devotes 1919
pages to Georgia, 1879 pages TO Mis-
sissippi, and about 1900 pages to Ala.
bama and Florida.
A Mrs. Dunlap, rcsidnga nj Maplcton
was committed TO tho Jail of Hunting
don county tho other day, charged
with tho murder of her husbands
mother by poison. a
Paran Stevens, tho well known botel
proprietor, and the principal owner Of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
died on Thursday night at his resi-
dence in that city aaPNi lle
General J. b. M'Fcrrin, chief quar-.
tcrmaster in the department Of the
south, died very suddenly on the 25th
Of appoplexy, at bis headquarters in
Louisville, Kentucky.
The apportionmcnt bill, passed BY
the Ohio House Of Representatives., al
lows the Democrats FIVE and tho Re
publicans fifteen districts. Generous
Republicans, aint theyl
Senator Cameron has engaged a
private parlor headquarters during the
Radical Convention at the Girard lio.
tel. General Hartranft and State
Treasurer Mackcy will also stop there
Paul SchGppe, who was convicted
at Carlisle some two years ago OF
murder, has been at length granted a
new trial. The twenty-nintb of Au
gust has been fixed for its commences
mcnt.
A man must not keep his hat or al
place of amusement because il will
Inconvenience those behind him but
lady can pile tho Tower of Babylon
on her head, il she chooses, and no
one darcs to object.
The Radicals have districtcd the
State of Michigan so as to give the
Democrats | and the Radicals s Mem
bers OF Congress. A fair distribution
would have given the Democrats 4
and tho Radicals 5.
AT meeting of the Methodist Bool,
Concern on the 22d, the expert ap.
pointed 10 examine the accounts Of the
Book Concern, made report which,
it is stated, tends to bear out the allie
cations Of fraud in the binding depart.
mcnt.
Thaddeus Stevens left valuable
library of 1900 volumes 10 nephew
u. condition that he did not get drunk
in five years. Tho nephew got drunk
as fool, ana the executors Of the
estate sold the library Oh the lo,h inst.
for $4,000.
The Williamsport Bulletin says, the
river is so low that it is impossible to
run RATS. A large number Of RATS
are tied up above the schute. The
stock of lumber in the yards is less at
this time than il has been for n num-
Der Of years.
Adolph Il. Borie, ono of Grants rich
gilt.makers and his first Secretary of
Navy, heads the Republican Prcsidcn.
tial Electoral ticket in Pennsylvania
Nothing more appropriate. Hc is
now on tour through Europe exhib,
iting Miss Nellie Grant.
A "rebel" exchange says. Grant
ought to be willing not only to pardon
tho men who fred the first shot on
Sumpter, but 10 give them q good
Office TO boot, for it was n lucky shot
for him But for it he would still be
tanning leather at Galena.
1t is significant circumstance that
st. Louis, which in 1868 gave Grant
q large majority, at the late municipal
election went Democratic by 3,722
majority. Only ono Republican out
Of the twelve aldermen was chosen,
and he is an anti-Grant man. Z
A Mrs Ann Eliza MesscralI, of
Randolph township, Crawford county,
on April LIST, gave birth to three little
girls, weighing respectively A., S, and
7 pounds. We learn that mother and
babies are doing woll. We suspect
somebody was fooled that day.
A now Grant paper has been started
in Iowa. Itis called tho Gimtet, and
tho editor hopes to be able eventually
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