Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-07-15

10000 boxes of glass to be shipped at
the rate Of two car loads per week.
The English Lutheran Church, cost
ing $4,000, was dedicated at Lock
Haven on the 5th inst The dedication
sermon was preached by Rev DIR. Con
rad, editor of the Ltdherqa Obs9rv.
Hon. II. J. Jewett, of Columbus, o.,
one OF the Vice Presidents of the Penn
sylyania Company and Manager of the
Pan Handle Division, has accepted the
Presidency of the Erie Railway.
The working time in the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company's shops at AL
toona has been reduced to five days
each week. Until further orders there
will be no work done in the shops on
Saturday.
Mr. G. G. Irwin, an old and respected
citizen of Lock Haven, died very sud
denly, while walking the streets in
that place, on the 2sth ult He was a
brother of Jacob Irwin, residing in
West Clearfeld
Mayor Havemeyer of New York
City, in trying to initiate Grant in re
appointing convicted public agents, is
likely to get into trouble. Movements
to impeach him have been inaugurated
which can hardly fail.
The State Government appears to be
running itself The Harrisburg Patriot
announces that the Governor, Attorney
General, Auditor General, and Secre-
tary of the State, are all absent from
the Capitol. 1a
Mrs. Eliza Schefiey, an old lady 65
years of age, fell down into well about
twenty feet deep, at the residence of
her son-in-law, at Crooked Hill, Mont
gomery county, ON the I'd inst, and
escaped with a badly bruised arm and
leg.
Over one hundred houses were de-
stroyed by fire in Allegheny City on
the 4th inst, involving a loss of $780,
900. The fire originated in a carpen-
ter shop, il is thought from firc-cracker
thrown in by boys at play in the neigh
borhood,
Lewis Rosentinc and John Moody,
both negroes, were executed on the
scafiold at Harrisburg, on Friday last,
the 9th inst, for the murder of Abra-
ham Behm, an old and respectable
farmer of Dauphin county, on the 14th
of November, 1873.
A locomotive set fire to the wheat
field of Peter Fry, lying along the rail
road, short distance above Limerick
Station, in Montgomery county, on
Tuesday, the Both ult., and before the
flames were subducd consumed the en-
tire patch, consisting of nine acres
The five mile rowing race between
George Brown, of Halifax, and William
Scharff, of Pittsburgh, for s., 900 side
and the championship of America, was
rowed ON the Connecticut river, oppo-
site Springfield, Mass, on Wednesday, |
the Stb inst The race was perfectly
fair throughout and an honest trial, in
which Brown proved himself the bet
ter man by three seconds.
On the 4th of July, hurricane
passed over Lcwistown, Pa, demolish- |
ing the Juniata river bridge at that
place, and killing six persons and
wonnding five Others, besides unroofing
a number Of houses blowing down the
steeplc Of the Lutheran church, and
doing much damage to crops, etc.
Much damage to property was also
sustained in Washington City, from
storm on the 4th.
While the International Circus was
parading the streets at Van Vert, Ohio,
the tigeF, which was riding on top of
wagon, became enraged at something,
and made terrible attack ON its keep
er, Mile DeGrancrlec, badly lacerating
her hand and limbs and tearing her
clothes into shreds. She retained her
presence of mind, and succeeded in
keeping the beast partly covered until
it was secured, when she tainted.
At the Republican primary elections
In Indiana county held last Saturday
d week, the following nominations were
made. President Judge, J. p. Blair
Congress, Harry White; Senate, ID. S. |
Porter; District Attorney, s. Cunning
ham Assembly, J. X. Thompson and
W. T. Kinter; Register, Sam'l Lewis
Commissioner, Frank Mahon; Survey
or, Il. Page. Whites majority was
1873; Blairs was over 300.
An accident occurred on the Shore
Line Railroad, near Stony Creek, Con
necticut, ON the 9th inst, by which a
baggage car and five passenger coaches
were thrown from the trestle-work
down to the meadow below, distance
of fifteen feet, killing one and injuring
between seventy md one hundred per
sons. Superintendent Wilcox, who
jumped from the train, was killed by
the cars falling on him and breaking
his neck. irrIa'II n Hi fr
The annual meeting of the Pcnnsyl-
vanin State Teachers Association will
be held this year at Shippensburg, IN
Cumberland county For the infoima-
tion of the teachers who may desire TO
attend the annual meeting, we make
mention of the fact that persons having
orders from the ticket agent Of the As
sociation can procure excursion tickets
over both the Pennsylvania and Cum
befland Valley Railroads. For orders
apply tstamp encloscd) giving railroads
and name ofstations, before August 1st,
1874, TO j. Fletcher Sickel, German
town, Pa. 'rNN ,l1'lnNf m. |
Tho National Lumber Associationl
met IN Williamsport on the 2sth Of
June. Thirteen States were repre-
sentcd. The session was one Of great
Importance and interest, tending to.n
union of the diversified intcrests per
tanning to the lumber business. Ono
|of the principal acts Of the Association
was to protest against tho Rcciprocity
| Treaty, which proposes to admit Cams
dian lumber to the United States free
|ef duty--a treaty which was not rAti.
fed BY the last Congress, and should
mot be by any future 90, q the peo-
|Plc Of tho United States will be losers
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