Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-04-22
NEWS ITEMS.

"A paper OF pins cost one dollar in lsl2.
There is talk Of erecting gas works in th
town Of Brookville.
Tho Bellefonte glass works are now shippin
two car loads week.
"A skeleton was dug up from the cellar of
house at Ebensburg recently.
--Bellefonte has a handsome new postofhc,
with over FIVE hundred lock boxes.
Peach, plum and other fruit trees were broken
down at Ebensburg last week by the snow.
1t is proposed to transfer the Cassville Sol
ders' Orphans School to Upton, Blair county.
Out Of hfteen persons who we're indicted 70
selling whisky at Tidioute, fourteen were Repub
licans.
A new daily paper is to be started in Lancas-
ter to be called the Morning Rsriev. 1t viii b'
neutral politically.
BY late Act of Assembly, the bounty OF
wild cats and foxes Is two dollars on hal. grown
foxes only one dollar.
The Pennsylvania Sunday School Association
will hold its next annual meeting in Scranton
June 9th, 10th and 1lth.
--Carncross a Dixie's famous minstrel troup,
held forth in Altoona last week. Some of our
boys were over to soc them.
Two horses belonging to Cambria county
famer named John Brown, are alleged to have
died from starvation few days since.
The Philipsburg Journal man has been
"taken in" by a "directory' scamp. To require
advance payment is the best policy with those
fellows.
I'm Lancaster county the supervisors sell their
roads to the lowest bidder, to keep them in repair
for the year, and It is said the plan works very
satisfactorily.
The "Workingman's Friend" enterprise at
Houtzdac, has been indefinitely postponed. Our
information has been received from headquarters
Tyrone Herald.
-Traugh, of the Standard, is going to make a
reformation in orthography, commencing with the
word programme, which in the future he is going
to spell program"
--Ground was broken for the new Insane Asyl-
um to be erected at Warren, on last Thursday
week. 1t is to be an immense building, and il is
said that six or seven years will be occupied in
its erection.
Now that the ladies have gone into the re-
forming business, why not turn their attention
toward reforming the fallen ones of their own sex
But somebody has said, and We fear only too
truly, that women don't care for women--it's only
the men they are anxious about.-Er.
The first locomotive introduced and run In
America was upon the Hudson and Delaware
railroad in the year 1928. It was called the
"stouribridge Lion" was built in England, and
Of the most approved pattern. Its ruins are now
lying outside Of q foundry at Carbondale.-Er.
When Pharoahs daughter, sweetest girl.
Discovered Moses in the rushcs,
Across her face she drew curl
To hide her burning bushes;
For she was all in bathing trim,
And though twas but child,
Yet as he scanned each naked limb,
"The babe looked up and smiled"
The Clarion Democrat says that the fellows
who are hunting work, but hoping they won't find
any, are the loudest complainers about the hard
times. They are only exceed in grumbing by
the grocery and street corner loafers. Times are
always bad with the chaps who have fallen out
with hard work.
business in Johnstown is at a stand and ex-
tremcly dull Thousands of laboring men are
idle, and clusters Of thom gather on the street
corners and other places discussing the condition
Of affairs. II matters continue thus long want
will soon stare many in tho face with its mperous
demsnds-D -Democrar