Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-07-21

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this year occupies surface Of about
9,O67, ,555 acres.
Dangerous counterieits Of the city
Of Erie water loan coupon bonds Of
1867 have been discovered in New York.
"A picture of Morse, the adapter of
lightning to telcgraphy, was recently
destroyed by lightning in New Or
leans. ....i..
With the assuring announcement
of plentiful crops in this country comes
the news of an improved grain market
in Europe. t4eqli
-Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address at
tho Lynchburg, Va, agricultural fair
to be held carly next autumn.
The cigar shop of the Connecti-
cut State prison has turned out half q
million cigars since last October. They
sell at Sl5 to slG per thousand. aa
"A New York lady, fond of music,
but with n constitutional dislike to per-
forming herself, has taught her pet
tom cat to play the piano by note.
In the Boston wool market new
Pennsylvania and Ohio heeces range
from 47l TO so cents per pound, and
are not selling briskly at this price.
Hon. Alexander l.. Hayes, for
many years associate law Judge in
Lancaster county, died in Lancaster
city, on the 18th inst, in the SD year
Of his age,
Five hundred and seventy-fve
Mormons passed through Harrisburg
last Friday for Salt Lake City. They
wero mostly Norw cgians and occupied
seventeen cars.
The great intercollegiate regatta
at Saratoga, which was rowed on the
l4th inst, resulted in favor Of the Cor
nell University crew. Time, 16 min
utes and 53l seconds.
Moody and Sankey, the American
rovivalists have bid farewell to London,
and are expected to arrive in this coun-
try before long and begin the work in
which they were so successful in Eng
land.
AN expedition of 100 or 150 picked
Welsh singers is being organized to
proceed to tho United States in July
next, on the occasion of the centenary
of the Declaration of American indie.
pendence.
The coinage for the fiscal year at
three coinage mints Philadelphia, San
Francisco and Carson, will approx
mate as follows; Gold, s34 ,000, 900
trade dollars, SO, 100000; subsidy silver
coin, s5,OOo,OO0; minor coinage, $3.50,
900,
Mrs. Wilson, nee Miss Augusta J.
Evans, the distinguished Southern au-
thoress, has just completed what will
probably be the last of her literary
works, as her husband has obtained
from her promise that she will write
no more.
The hay crop in New England is
reported as only three.iourths Of an
average; while out West the crop is
much better than usual, Taking the
whole State together, the hay crop Of
Pennsylvania for 1875 is very much
larger than the crop Of 1874.
With the departure of the grass
hoppcrs from Kansas, the State Relief
Society has been dissolved. The socic-
ty expended aboutsl35,0 900. From 9th
or sources about s4O0, 900 more was con
tributed for the 10000 grasshoppcr
sufferers, or about $40 head.
The Concwango Swamp, contain.
ing some $4,000 acres of wet farming
land, in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus
counties, New York, is about to be re-
claimed by drainage 1t is estimated
that by this means over $1,000, 900
worth Of land will be got under cult
walton.
Hon. Alfred Slack, of Allegheny,
and Gen. ]. M. Campbell, of Johnstown,
are the members from the western part
of the State, on the committee appoint
ed by the Grand Lodge A. Y. NJ, Of
Pennsylvania, to make arrangements
for the Masonic demonstration at the
Centennial tft3e
Another member of the Grant
family to be provided for arrived son
the beach at Long Branch" on Sun
day morning n week 1t is boy and
weighs 10l pounds, and tand its moth
er, Mrs. Charles Augustus Algernon
Nelly Grant Sartoris, are doing as well
as could be expected.
Judge Joseph b. Underwood, Of
Bowling Green, Ky, is sand to be the
only surviving resident of the State
who iran the gauntlet" in the early
days of Indian warfare. He success
fully performed the feat OF Fort Wayne
Ind, and now carries bullet in bis
back received on that occasion. The
Judge is more than eighty years Of age
ana IL stlll engaged IN inc practice o
law s,r.It
Barney McCuo is to be executed
at Williamsport, on Monday, the OH
day of August next, for the murder O
John Deter, in 1874. A warrant fol
the execution of McCuc was previously
issued by the Governor, but the case
having been taken to the Suprem,
Court said warrant was.rccallcd This
warrant is issued on re-sentence o.
McCue on June 8, 1875, by the Couri
of Oyer and Tcrminer Of Lycominl
county. N .ie
Tho pigeon shooting match be
tween A. II, Bogarduu, Of the United
J States, and George Rmmol, the cham
pion Of England, took place on the I'll
of July Mt Hendon, England, and wa
,unp aoatlx- h.. Tho ro,.,,or frto ,.rr