Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-04-03
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Palpitation of tho gizzard 10 dcpop.
ulating the hon roosts In many places.
Harrisburg is excited over a triple
murderer end partially decomposcd
infant found In an ash pile.
What we know about farming. II
10 too early yet for planting corn or
sowing turnip seed.
The President has mustered enough
of courage to signthe bill repeating the
tax on mustard. What n thrust at
the revenue
The application of Shaffner, con.
victcd Of murder in tho first degree, in
tho Dauphin county court, for new
trial, has been ovcrruled, and the cul-
prit sentenced to be hanged,
1t is rumorcd that ono of the beau.
tiful county seats at Norwalk, Conn.,,
has been taken by the ox.Emperor
and Empress Of France, and will be
occupied bythcm noxt summer.
John w, Hulcn, late State Prison
Agent, who has been on trial at Jack
son, Michigan, embezzlement has plead
guilty, andreceived a sentence OF FIVE
years and half in the State prison.
The Philadelphia authorizes are in
vestigating the death of young lady
named Mary Shea, from Warren coun-
ty, who died on Thursday last from
an attempt 10 procure an abortion.
Near half n million of dollars has
been expended by General Grant in
maintaining feet upon the coast Of
Sam Domingo, 10 keep Baez In power.
This is ono portion of tho San Domingo
job.
The Brooklyn Eagle alluding to the
attempt of Grants offico holders to
control the Cincinnati Convention says
The Eastern rufiians who 20 West
next May as passengers will return as
freight. fa
Somebody tells the Scientific Amori-
can of way to cleara we'll OF carbonic
acid gas 1t is to lower red hot iron
to the water, so as TO produce little
stoam. The vapor instantly absorbs
the gas.
John Bullock, of Bristol, r. / will
be lob years old in juno next, and is
surprised to find that his head, the hair
on which has been gray for more than
half a century, is putting out new
crop, black as jet.
The number OF clerks who are seek.
ing employment in New York to-day
is lamentable. A gentleman met one
as car driver who formerly had
salary Of three thousand dollars in a
large Mercantile house.
Tho N. Y. World of recent date
has some startling statistics prepared
by DR.. j. NJ. Toner, showing that in
the Yankee States but three children
are born to each family; to eight
children in revolutionary times.
Gen. John c. Fremont, who has
been very quiet for several years past,
was at New York on Thursday, advo-
eating his Southern Pacifce rail road
scheme, which he says is bound to
supercedc all others.
On the night of the 2lst., the house
ofSandy Clayton,in Lawrence, Kansas,
was burned, and Clayton and his three
sons, aged fourteen, eight aud four
years, perishcd in the flames. Mrs.
Cayton and an infant were severely
burned.
Diversitics in bookkeeping is the
mild excuse offered by Secretary Bout.
we'll for the discrepancies in his &C.
counts, but will he persist in placing
his false statements before the people
concerning the reduction Of the public
debt ?
An exchange says it is fifty four
years ago this winter since a season
has run from November to March with.
out general thaw or break up. At
that time the scarcity OF water was
similar to that existing now. That
fellow has good memory.
A transcendant faith, q cheerful
trust, turns the darkness of night into
piller Of fire, and the cloud by day
into perpetual glory. They who
thus march on are refreshed even in
the wilderness, and hear streams Of
gladness trickling among the rocks,
The Louisville Courier journal TAX es
the Detroit Free Press TO task for
speaking of "thc colored people of
Pittsburgh" and says: AS the people
Of that coal-smokcd place are oil col.
orod, il the Free Press means tho no.
groes of Pittsburgh, it ought 20 say So
Two men having arranged to fight
duel in Rhode Island, the Governor
issued proclamation forbidding It,,
wbercupon one of the parties sent him
a note saying that ono of them would
stand in Connecticut and tho other in
Massachusetts,, and shoot over his mis-
cradle little State.
Salt Lake City seems TO be in exact
ly the same condition as Philadelphia,
under her fraudulent Election law
The Gentiles did not think il worth
while TO put u ticket in tho field, ii
was SO sure to be cheated--just the
case Of tho Democrats in the Fourth
district.
The Ohio Radical State Convention,
made up of Post Masters, Revenue
Collectors, Assessors and Grants rc.
lations, have instructed for him for
President and Hon. VIM. Dennison
forvicc. He was Post Master General
under Lincoln. This blow hits the
Smiler Colfax right between the eyes.
An exchange says: Tho coming
'spring bonnet is going to bo 1.-TWO
nice for anything" A convention of
millincrs will be held this month, to
see whether II shall bo trimmed with
ostrich plumcs or the more humble tail
feathers of a shanghai rooster The
price will be tho same in either case.
The preliminary examination of Col.
ID. u. Stanton, ex-Collcctor of Inter.
nal Revenue for tho Fifth Maryland
District, began at Baltimore yestcr
day. Supervisor Fulton testified that
an investigation of the accused's nc.
counts showed deficiency thus far of