Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1873-08-27
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kcv.. u, y. Fornoy, pastor OF the
Church Of the Ascension, Norristown,
Pa, has renounced Professionalism and
gono over TO tho Catholic Church.
Miss Jerusha Spit6re, of Nashville,
Tenn, with the MD of marriage cor
tifcate and tho parson, has become
Mrs Willie Meekfan. A change Of
name anyhow.
The Utica Observer says that swind-
lers have commenced operations upon
railroad tickets. They buy q ticket
to station few miles off, cut out
the name of the station and insert that
Of another considerably farther Off
Vim. p. Miner, proprietor, of the
Record, wants TO be postmaster at
Wilkesbarre, and it has resulted in an
"onplcasantncss" with tho back-pay.
salary grab Congressman Shoemaker
and few other radical politicians,
even TO tho wrnging Of noses and
other pugilistic demonstrations.
AT the sale of the personal effects
of Jesse Root Grant, the bed in which
the great Ulysses was born brought
S5 so. The manufacture Of great men
in this country is as cheap as dirt
The Cairo and Fulton Railroad,
which is in rapid process of construc.
lion, will be finished to Fulton, Ark,
by the first OF September. This point
was tho original terminus Of the road,
but il has been determined 10 extend
it to Texarcana, twenty miles be-
yond, where il will connect with the
Texas Pacific road. Tho entire limo
i,Vill be completed early this fall.
AT last the Vienna scandal is at rest
Van Buren is shown TO bc guilty, is
discharged, and new and effective
commission is appointed in the place
Of that which, under him, brought dis
grace upon our national honor. This
is not pleasant subject for Ameri-
cans TO dwell upon, and we gladly
dismiss it, we hope, to oblivion.
Buffers campaign in Massachusetts,
is working like barrel of constabu-
larry beer. 1t is announced that 'the
Bay State will be politically crazy
next autumn, and that demagogueism,
chicancry, temperance and personal
aggrandizement will be strangely in
termixcd-"the devil taking the hind.
ermost."
Matthew Gaines, colored State
Senator in Texas, has been sentenced
to penitcntiary for bigamy. Had he
been q United States Senator he could
have chokcd off the first wife and got
certificate of character from Prcsi.
dent Grant, like any other moral
statesman.
Congress does not approve of polyg-
amy, and yet Oregon now furnishes a
Senator with two wivesand two names.
He left the one wife in Pennsylvania
and has another in bis new State
and his name in Oregon is Mitchell,
while in Pennsylvania it was Hipple.
The United States Senate will be a
very honorable body of men in time.
Two sisters named Elizabeth and
Martha Mcintyre were, as we learn
from the Greensburg Democrat thrown
from horse which they were Goa
jointly riding on their way to church
at Latrobe, and when within about
two miles of that place, on last Sun.
day week. Martha sustained some
slight injuries, but Elizabeth was SO
badly hurt that though medical aid
was called in thirty minutes, and
everything possible done, she expired
at 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning fol.
lowing. The principal injury seemed
to be in the spine, near tho neck, and
paralysis followed soon after the in
Jury.
Last week one night,say the Somer-
set Democrat, young girl living at
Jonathan Cunnigham's about l3 years
old, got up in her sleep, walked to
the open window in the second story,
and jumped or foil out TO the ground
below, u distance Of fifteen feet. Mr.
O. heard her walking in the room
above, when the window fell and he
heard her striking the ground outside
with dull, heavy thud. lie ran out
expecting to find her killed, when tc
his surprise, he found she was not in
the least hurt. Sho got up and walk
cd up stairs to bed again as though
nothing had occurred.
Governor Dix, Of New York, ha;
just pardoned burglar, sentenced tC
three years at Sing Sing, on condition
that he leave the State and stay away
for two years. This burglarious per
son is thus forced TO seek some Other
State for his branch OF industry, bu
where tho justice Of u pardon comes
in that turns u criminal loose, anC
compels him to go to New Jersey, ol
some other State, to rob, is beyont
our comprehension. We object tC
Europe sending her criminals to oul
shores; what right has New Yorl
to exile her thieves, even to Ben But
ler's neighborhood3
A hotel keeper at Long Branch ad
vertises his house as being at th,
aSummer capital of the Nation" Jus
so; Washington is only the "Winte
capital The Long Branch LANDLORD
will have to pull in his sign next sum
mer, as the capital is going TO remov,
, to Newport. Saratoga and Squedunl
will just I'll out Grants term, and thei
the people will permanently locate !
|, at Washington, and utilize the 500
600 stables they have built. TIL
! twenty horses of tho Treasury Dc
partment could be accommodated a
! we'll us not.