Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-09-30
NEWS ITEMS.
Apples are drug in Mercer coun.
ty ut 20 cents per bushel.

NEWS ITEMS.
Apples are drug In Mercer coun.
ly ut 20 cents per bushcl.
--Singcrly's new printing house at
Harrisburg will be six stories high,
jean Baptiste Elic do Beaumont,
the eminent French gcologist, is dead.
Hon. ]. r. wickersham will deliv-
er an address ut the Indiana county
fair, October 9Th.
The Huntingdon Globe, Radical,
refuses to support Beath for Secretary
of Internal Affairs.
--Barnum's season in Philadelphia
less than three weeks--ncttcd him q
clear profit Of $685. 900.
Hugh j. Jewctt gets 100000 per
year for attending TO his dutis ~ pres
ident Of the Erie railroad.
Mrs. Barclay, widow Of Presi-
dent Van Bnrcn, died suddenly at
Newport a icw dayr age.
The famous Emma mine has been
levied upon to secure the payment of
taxes amounting 10 e4,l00.
"A bunch Of Hamburg grapes,
weighing 20 pounds and O ounces, was
lately exhibited ut Belfast, Ireland
Tho williamsport Rubber Com
pany makes 1000 pairs Of shoes daily,
and employs large number of hands.
"A Miss Ralston, of Cherry Tree
township, Indiana county, has read the
Bible through fourteen times since so.
Those stormy pctrcls Of social
Woodruff and Clafilin-are back
again. Now for the next unfortunate
N. Y Herald.
IS. j. Tilden, the Democratic can
didato for Governor of Now York, ia
sixty-one years old bnt he is still n
hale and vigorous man.
"A. Il. Stewart has determined to
erect n mammoth hotel in Philadel-
phia in time for the Centennial The
ground will broken in March next.
p. T. Barnum's Great Roman
Hippodrome will open At Union Park,
Allegheny city, on the 29th of Sep
tembcr, and will continue for ten days.
Hon. Joseph Pomeroy, President
of the Juniata Valley Bank, died at
his residence at Academia, on Monday
morning week, in the 10th yearofhis
age.
The TweDty-second annual exhi-
bition of the Pennsylvania State Ag-
ricultural Society commenced ut Eas-
ton on Monday last, and will continue
five days.
John p. Cochran, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Delaware,
is Master Of Grange at Mdidletown,
and is one of the most extensive peach
growers in the State
notwithstanding the declination
Of Mr.. Chase, the temperance candi-
date for Judge of the Supreme Court,
the temperance party have refused to
withdraw his name.
"A fire on Monday morning, of last
week, in West Pittsburgh, besides de
stroying number of buildings dam
aged the Pan Handle railroad bridge
TO the amount Of $4,000.
Tho father of little Charlie Ross
has commenced a libel suit against the
proprietors OF the Reading Eagle for
an alleged deiamatory article publish
ed in that paper on the 18th of Sep
tember
---Lieut Fred Grant, son of the
President and present member of Gen.
Sheridan's staff, il to be married on
the 10th of October next to Miss Ida
Honore, daughter of II. II. Honore
of Chicago
Commander Charles l., Franklin,
of the United States navy, died OF
yellow fever at the Pensacola navy
yard ON the 18th instant. He had
been in the naval service nearly twen-
ty years.
The Money Order Department Of
inc ros,vmvc IL one Uf ia. ,uvst urv
ful, and the extent 10 which it is en-
ployed is shown by the fact that last
year nearly s75, ,OOO,O 900 of orders were
issued.
The Republicans Of Elk county
have nominated the following ticket
Assembly, d. c. Oyster; Sheriff, II.
II. Wcnscl; Commissioner w. II. Os.
tcrhout Auditor, J. J. Taylor; Cor.
oner, c. W. McVean.
The Democrats of the Erie, War.
rem and Venango district have nomi-
mated DIR. g. A. Egbert, of Venango,
for Congress. Col. Curtis, present
member Of Congress from this district,
is his opponent
AT Harrisburg, last Friday u
week, platform used in the enlarge
ment Of the hall of the House Of
Representatives gave way and pro.
cipitated five men from n height Of IF.
teen feet, two of whom, John Beatty,
a marble cutter, and George Fetter-
man, were seriously injured. n
The Democratic Congressional
Conference of the 18th district, com.
posed Of the counties Of Huntington.
Juniata, Perry, Snyder Franklin and
Fulton, in session at Newport on Fri
day week, nominated VIM. s. Stem
ger, Esq, prominent attorney Of
Franklin county, as their candidate
for Congress.
AN accident occurred on the 22d
inst, three miles below Phillipsburg,
n. j., on the Belvidere and Delaware
Railroad, caused by an open switch
The passenger train collided with the
freight which was on the side track,
killing one and wounding six or eight
persons, A Mr. Myers, from Harris
burg, was the person killed.
"A train Of six cars, on the Selma.
Rome 4 Dalton railroad, went through
a bridge on the Waxahatchie creek,
last Thursday morning, falling sixty
feet The engineer, fireman and sew
cral passengers were killed, and nearly
all th.f remaining passengers are
manv danoerouslx, Han