Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-08-19
NEWS ITEMS.

the Oth INST
Cambria County Fair commences
September 20, at Johnstown, and con.
tinues four days,
The contributions to the Pittsburg
and Allegheny sufferers by the late in
undation, amounts to over $4,000.
The first artificial ice made in France
cost 81 cents pound. Ice can now be
made, il is said, at cost of as cents n
ton.
General Howard has left Washing
ton for Oregon, TO succeed General
Davis in command of the department
of the Columbia.
Booths theatre in New York rents
for $50, 900 n year, and as the season
il only eight months, the rent is 81, 500
per month, or about $500 per night.
The residence of VIM. NJ. Tweed, ON
Forty-second street and Fifth avenue,
New York city, was sold at auction by
the referee, ON the 9TH, for sl95, 900.
Corn and cotton are suffering in Al
ALBANIA from drouth. Good crops of
both are made, but the decrease in
acreage in cotton is fully 20 per cent
James A. Bryan, native of Centre
county, and for several terms Treasu.
rer of jackson county, Iowa, has come
to grief for embezzling TO the amount
of 1900.
On Saturday, the Sth inst, Mrs. Vie
toria Woodruff, Tennie G. Claflin, Mrs.
Claain, Mrs. Woodhulls daughter and
Col. Blood sailed for Europe in the
steamship Lafayette.
Adjutant General Baker, of Iowa, rc-
ports great suffering among the home
stead settlers in the northwestern part
Of that State, in consequence of the
invasion of grasshoppers.
G. l.. Bowman, Esq, has been elect
ed President of the State Bank of Har-
risburg by the board of Directors, TO
fill the vacancy occasioncd by the
death of George Bcrgner, Esq
Six young girafies, an alligator eight
feet long, and West Virginia rattle
snake, with eight rattlcs on, have been
added to the geological collections in
Paramount Park, Philadelphia
The Ipdiono De,oocrot saws Mis- Fno
J. Baer Of Iar;mer's station W.,
morclond copnty bos hrnmnh, s,';, u'
AGAINST Dr John Rawr car ai ai,o''ad ou,i
breach of nrom;sc Iar;na hav w. danaass'o'' soa
nj son OO0 '7 M
r, o :,
at Sbipnensburg Pa last ~eeL rras
both proftoblo and ;ntoros,;n W."
large humber Of the mos, nro,1; nan,
educators of tbe State woro ,roson,
and tool, mart in the ovorc;scs
At meeting OF the creditors Of
p;,,shmrs. v w IN l"'',oau, neIu Ut
s;,;on S.en ~ ,ha osuay pnnns''i,.' ,as.' propo,
60 Ioasa IN H. An Ano,.Ln' & Ws,,n ,y"ria i",,roaa i,
w. ,."s. w -An' sn1ny 'aiey ra''roau
""' 'o'o' upon anu "ccop'eu'
The Treasury Department has issued
a circular forbidding supervisors and
.Invou1,s u internal revenue 10 employ
NV, ",sos VI ii'liio, oiliurcn Us CLERKS
.neiIoy NV, lncIe',sl'ig ~, .neir own compensa-
w" '''onu 'no minus a'ioweu py mw'
Jacob Rupp, of West Earl township,
Lancaster county, is fattening two
steers for the Centennial Exposition.
,ano. nnu i'a.eu = oooo M we'gh' ~ measure ,,Y
,,nan';. ~ DoVv o poan'' 'atnI anu oo'n
aJni,,' ino;,.h, ~ '"'''"so 'o'n III S'~e anu
nj" ms
inc grassnoppels are reported TO
nave deVoured AL the vegetation IN
nor'nerh M,, ana southwestern hansas ana
neorasSa' .Nl ,see 'nS,r % ravages pelng greater
the region visited bv them IL said 10 be
DESTROYED,
Tbe cone,doro,o conoro,s II, ,,a,
,;na haol 80 o;,';, ,',,.',,;,a a,'J a. 81
coS pnax,on D., P"'ouh na ~"
ed cbief eng;neor ~ tbe @ Cnlf cdlpradn
and Snnta Fe Railroad and viii com
mence n survev NJ the l;nc sho,,ly With
corps Of one hundred men.
The blackberry crop. which Il now
in its prime. il the largest ever Gather.
ed in Pennsvlyania The hills every.
where are swarmine with parties of
volunteer gatberers. wbogo armed with
all the buckets they can carry. and AL
WAYS return well laden.
Samuel Thatcher of BANGOR Me
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