Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-03-31

NusDls interest ~ INC lolcha
Biade was sold for si35 900,
Col. Icrncy and his daughtcr Mrs
Weiglcy, arc solopwning At Genoa,
The National Fire Insurance Com.
pany ofPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania has
suspended.
Joe Jefferson raised twenty bushels
of oranges this year on his plantation
In Louisiana. Oh lGlN
--iiecent high water has uncovered
the bones of the Union soldiers buried
on Belle Isle, Va
Ferry, of Michigan, the new Pres
ident pro ten. of the r. $, Senate is a
lumber merchant.
The Louisiana Legislature has
been called to meet in extra session on
the i4th of April.
lite NJ. Blitz, aged 20, youngest
daughter of Signor Blitg, died on Fri
day March 10Th, 1875.
--Forty-five dollars III grecnbacks
were paid in Helena, Montana Terri.
of csgs ' ~
9T a, ga, ,
tennial holiday, ut Ticondcioga N. Y,
in memory Of the seizure Of the fort by
Ethan Allen, in l775
Il 4
--Mr Ulysses ,. Grant, Jr, son Of
the PRESIDENT who has been In London
,o' so,oi"' , a"ys' n'ss ie'. 'or orowi'heriahd'
I" '"""' u 'o"f " 'na' 'oun''y'
"A Maine woman was true TO her
lover, and married him after he came
back from Califofnia.Aftcr an absence
of twenty years. N..rB. Ale came
back rich. ~
Tho paper makers say that the
rags they have received this year are
more threadbarc thari usual, which
they attribute to the general prevail
encc of hard times l.. flayst
YIN uu,rov and .rrodo,ic, Ma,
ers were convicted in The Allcghenv
county courts week before last, Of mur.
dering Gotthardt Wahlin on the Por-
rysville road, near Allegheny City, last
fall
"A fire at 1'ideoute on Monday
morning of last week desiroycd nine,
teen business houses. An The town
records were dcstroyed.- The loss is
estimated at 800 600 Insurance. 500.
WV
Ada Hancock, daughter of Major
General Winfield ). Hancock, Of the
United States army, died, IN New York,
week before last, aitcran Illness OF ten
days, OF iyphus icveh aged eighteen
years. Her rcmainswcrc inferred at
Norrlstown, Pa
The Secretary of the Treasury
has decided to return 70 the old method
OF redeemlng mutllated United States
currency, by which deduction is
made proportional to the part OF the
note that Is missing. 2 The change IS
TO take elect on the ist OF April.
Great trees have been found in
Australia which exceed the giants of
California IN height, though not in cir
culnierence. Vne iallen tree N we
toria measured 4so, while the highest
yet discovered IN California reaches
9nly foV iee'' me average beng from
Soo TO 4Vo'
Tho total dircc. loss in East Ten
ncssce by the foods will moi reach n
nali m''',oh dollars ihc disaster Will
hardly shorten crops by n single acre
the wheat land that got washed will
20 available, ior corn, ana y ana the
iest OF the bottom lands wlll raise q
oe''er crop iorhaV'ng been ovcrllowed'
During the late ice gorge in the
East, the city authorities Of Port Jcrvis
on the Delaware river attempted 10
move the accumulated mass of icc by
blasting with naptha and nitro-plycer-
Inc, two OF the most powerful agents
known, but without success, ten barrels
OF naptha being used at one blast.
Col. Lee Jordan. the great farmer
of Georgia, owns and cultivates 20 900
acres. the original cost of which was
s45OoO0 IIe has eighty laborers bnt
4 cradually adontine he tenant svs
ten. lie iaisestwicc as much corn as
ne needs. Six ovcrseers superintend
the plantation, and raise from 400 to
z,ooo bales Of cotton.
An Ottawa (Canadal ,lispatcb. of
March 23d. says, aTbelumbcr market
has been more lively during the past
few days than it has been for many
months previous, and considerable lum-
Der has changed hands Al present
there are about tj5 600 tjO0 feet on the
Ottawa market of which about 30.