Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-04-24
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drawn in Clinton county.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is teach
ing olocution in Chicago.
George P. Marshc, tho American
Minister TO Italy, is seriously III at
Romo.
Montgomery county has fourteen
nowspapers-ninc English and five
German.
Tho Liberal Republicans of West
Virginia favor Chief Justice Chase for
tho Presidency.
A. Il. Stewart has bought the Union
Hotel, Saratoga, for s532 ,00O--proba,
bly, TO give to Grant,
A Chinese journal can boast Of bc-
ing 1000 years old, but not OF having
an original subscriber
The big organ building for the iubi-
lee at Boston, in juno next, will DO
worked by n steam engine.
The crop ofmaple sugar this season
will be light, on account of tho severity
and length Of the winter.
The backwurdness of the spring has
detained farming operations in the
southern part of the state.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
adopted resolution of respect to the
memory Of Professor Morse.
The Quarterly Convention of Good
Templars will bo held at Norristown
on the 9th and 10th Of May.
The bill to give .slOo bounty to all
eaiisted rnlnniaars hafare Inly %.
1861, has passed both Houses.
Tho salary of the Governor of Cali
fornia is. ten thousand dollars per an.
num--tho largest in the Union.
A marriage certificate one hundred
and eighty years old, swells the Ches.
ter county pile of ancient relics
The Mormon Conference, by unan-
imous vote, has ro elected Brigham
Ycang President of the Church.
Tho law against swcaringis enforced
in some portions of our Statc-and the
fines imposed arc styled sin-tax.
The season for catching shad in the
Delaware river has commenced and
will continue until the 10Th Of June.
Sheep dogs are said to be doing o
thriving business in strewing Jefferson
county with lamb and mutton chops.
The Mormons generally have little
hope in the success of their application
for admission into the Union as State.
The month of March throughout
Pennsylvania, is admitted to have been
the coldest within the memory of man.
A granite monument is to be placed
over the grave of William Gilmore
Simms by citizens Of Charleston, S. G.
They have wonderful doctor in
Bedford county. lie advcrtises that
he "by universal treatment cures uni.
versal disease"
A citizen Of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
has fallen heir to an estate in Germany
valued at sl6,0O0,000,000. The fall
didn't hurt him.
Troops have been sent from Fort
Brown and San Antonio, Texas, to oc-
cupy the crossings on the Rio Grandc
and prevent cattle stealing.
Ten bodies have thus far been re
covered from the wreck of the Oceanus
on the Mississippi, and were buried at
Cairo, not being identified.
!, has been calculated that the com.
bined mouths of the $4,000 singers at
the Boston Jubilee will form cavity
of over 1856 square ieet.
case M'GS,'W as WAsdsSs' WAs ss'EiEe EiE GSSSpy
hundred and fifty cases have been re
ported there at one time.
1t is computed that during tho past
thirty years it has cost 81 500 TO print
the word daughter" in tho Coagres
siondi Globe.
The Iowa House of Representatives
has passed bill totally aboiishing the
Death Penalty, by the decisive vote Of
66 yeas to 22 nays.
A Philadelphia firm wants young
man of Is or 20ycars for book keeper,
at salary of $500 year, He must
be expected to steal his clothes.
The boy O'Connor, who attempted
to shoot Queen Victoria, has been sen.
fenced TO twelve months imprison
ment, and to receive twenty-five ashes
A committee of the State Agricul
tural Society havo gone to Erie, to
ascertain the suitnbleness of that city
as place for holding the next State
Fair.
The Borough Council of North Wales,
Montgomery CO., have fixed 81 as the
price Of getting drunk in that village,
and If the party is short Of funds, 4S
hours incarceration.
Hartranft, in his speech of accept.
anco, had good deal TO say about the
"Great Flanker" He will himself ap
pear as the "Grcat Flunkcr," next
FALL Boston Post.
Ono beech tree in Indiana, from
which ten men have been hanged by
Judge Lynch, is still alive, with the
boughs swinging vigorously in the
wind.
A now church at Clifton, Delaware
county, recently dedicated, was broken
into few nights ago, and robbed of
carpet, the organ cover, and the Bible,
amounting in value to about $40.
Bonner, being importuned to "write
an article" favoring larger pay for
said hc would write very
short one. Ho did, and handed it to
DR.. McCosh. TWAS check Tor 81, 900.
Until lately, tho barbcrs in German
cities have received one and half
cents for shaving, and three and half
for hair cutting They lately struck
for five cents and two and half ro.
spectively
The Clinton county papers are
crowded with advertisements, by all
manner Of merchants and all manner
of business men. When they have