Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-05-08
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on Tho 9th ult. IIc may live thirty
years yet in perfect obscuri'y.
The Philadelphia and Reading car
shops, at Reading, mako ono passenger
car and ton freight cars per week.
General Kane, of "Bucktail' fame,
announces himself us candidate for
scat in tho Constitutional Convention.
Tho "Pap Suckers" is what they
call tho oflice.holdcrs who are to NOM
inato Grant in Philadelphia in June
next.
A Texas editor contends that
member of Congress from that State
has a right to his ,cat because "he
bought it,"
II was Radical delegate TO tho
State Convention that dubbed Hart.
ranft, Dthe Evans duo bill candidate
for Governor.
The Philadelphia Post give advice
to Democrats about supporting the
Cincinnati ticket. Not good source
10 scch uuNico iIVh'
Tho Easton Free Press Is the only
Republican paper in the Eleventh Con.
gressional district OF Pennsylvania
that gives Hartranft an unqualified
support
The property of Emanuel Schaffner,
the Dauphin county wife poisoner, vas
sold on Thursday by the Sheriff for
81, 500. George Schaffner was The
purchaser.
A man In Oregon has sued TO recover
s5, 900 from his parcnts-in.law for ro-
presenting his wife strong and healthy
when she has turned out sickly and
peevish. l
Tho nGen. Grant is the significant
name of a boat which collidod with
another boat on the canal near VIII
liamsburg, Blair courty, lately, and
was nearly destroyed.
The oiiicialvote Of Connecticut gives
Jewell the Republican candidate for
Governor, 2S majority over the Demo.
cratic, temperance and labor reform
candidates combined.
The Charleston Neps says that the
effect Of the Ku.Klux arrests in South
Carolina has been to render 00ploughs
idle in Laurens county alone, and pre-
vent the cultivation Of 10000 acres.
Mrs. David II. Porter, wife OF ex
Governor Porter, and mother Of Gen
cral Horace Porter, tho Presidents
private secretary, died in Harrisburg,
on Wednesday night, at an advanced
age.
Forty six ''patriots" announc them
selves in Mercer dounty as willing to
have honors thrust upon them at the
Republican nomination, and about half
the townships have not yet been heard
from.
The Republican State Convention Of
Mississippi met on Wednesday. A. s.
Morgan, a white man having n negro
wife, presided. The delegates were
about equally divided between white
and black.
G. Ii. PoGrce, Bishop OF the African
Methodist Church, member of the
Florida State Senate, and u Radical
politician, has been sentenced in that
State to six months in the county jail
for bribery.
Col. Rush C. Hawkins, a member OF
tho New York Legislature, has rc.
signed because he is disgusted with
the villainous conduct OF the House.
Both branches are Republican, and so
is Hawkins.
A great Joint stock company |. to
be formed TO pay the expenses Of the
centennial. AS everything in Phila-
delphia is run by rings, IL will be sur
prisng if this does not fall into the
same control.
OF the 357 electoral votes to be cast
in the coming Presidential election
New Englond and the Middle States
will have 100; the Western States,
l02; the Pacific States, II; and the
Southern States, 1871.
The California delegation to tho
Philadelphia Convention have been in.
structed to vote for Grant and Wilson.
This is sad disappointment TO Mr..
Colfax, who leaned trustingly upon
the vote of the Golden State.
Tho Pittsburgh Dispatch thinks that
the Cincinnati Convention is "a sweet
morsel TO the starved Democracy
II will prove dose OF strychnine u
bloatcd and diseased RadcaIism-so
there's the difference 'twixt this and
that.
Swift justice was metcd out to q
man named Metals in Philadelphia
last week. He had committed an as.
sault with the intent Of robbng, and
in seventeen hours thereafter he wa:
committed to the Penitentiary for sew
entcep years.
The Florida State Senate has decid
cd to set as high court of impoach
mcnt for the trial Of the carpet. bag
Governor, who has robbed and dis
graccd the State Should he be con
: victcd, he will, no doubt fec tho State
as did Holden, of North Carolina
It seems TO be conceded on all hand,
that Hon. James Thompson, The pres
ent Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court, will receive tic nomi
nation for Supreme Judge from th,
Democratic State Convention at Read
ing. No better nomination could bs
made. His eminent fitness for th,
place is universally acknowledged.
, Tho St Louis Christian Advocate 8
evidently unfit for circulation in tn,
Fifth district. At says ave do moi
| pretend to account for Satan. W,
can not understand tho propriety o
his existence any more than we car
that of General Benjamin Butler bai
both are facts in the world, which w
) receive upon competent testimony
Boston Advertiser.
. Tho enlightened Radicals and Know
Nothings are again ridiculing the Ger
mans. If there be still any Of tha
nationality eiunid enough To hano ID