Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-13
yEJr,s ITEMS.

"A bronze statue Of Robert Burns
Is shortly to be erected in Central
Park, New York
--Caliiornia's honey exports for last
year Amounted 10 nearly half q million
pounds.
king Kalakaaa is on his way to
California. He was IN Chicago on
Monday last.
There are eighteen Shaker vii
lagos in the United States. numbering
6,OOO people in all.
The extensive tannery at Enpo-
rum, Cameron county, recently dcs-
troycd by fire, is being rebuilt.
Judges Woodward and Paxson
were sworn in and took their seats
on the Supreme bench at philadclpa
last week.
Under the auspices Of Mr.. Henry
Bergh, society has been organized in
New York for the prevention of cru
city to children.
Tho next exhibition of the Western
Pennsylvania Poultry Society will be
held at Pittsburgh, January 18th TO
Goth inclusive.
"A California farmer claims TO have
crown 90 bushels of wheat To tl,e acre
from GO hounds of clean white Ans.
tralian seed.
There nre iif,v.tour widows of
Generals and two hundred and seven.
teen of Colonies on the pension rolls
of the Government
Hon Jomcs II Uonl,i,s of pitts.
burrh has been chosen Grand Com.
mander of tbe Grand Encnmnment Of
KNIGHTS Templar Of the limited states
-.
cd n iii in tGe Tinted states uouse 10
amend tho revised slatutcs SO as 10
eycludc chinese from notnrolization
49,.
,uenerm sullivan Amory Mere
Harrisburg during n norton of the
war died NJ Buffalo N Y ON the
o6th nil
~,
-, the rent ana sale oil pews IN the
riyihouth Churcb, last year. produced
enrol hv ,ha anc,;o, or tho now ,h;s
wear amounts to s7oa1o
-,
-Inc new speaker oil the Penn
sylvan'a iiouse; MI fa''erson; Is a
heavy set gentleman OF gray beard,
mnch vonnger than Go vcars w
-, 4
The United States House Com
mittee on Appropriations has agreed
toa pill approprlating $4,000 for de-
iraying the expenses OF entertaining
'"' mug VI 'nc ''"hu"ich is'"nus'
Horace Binncy, the Nestor of the
Philadelphia bar, celebrated his 95th
birthday on Monday. lie is the only
surviving alumnus Of IIavard College
who was graduated in the last century.
The Chicago pork packers, up to
the 4th of December paid out slO.-
600, 600 for hogs packed there since
Nov. lst The packers have in the
time named paid for 100000 head of
hogs.
!, Labor strikes in England are nu-
merous. The number of shipwrights
now on strike will aggregate 10000.
Twenty-Five shipyaris are idle in con
sequence, causing much depression in
trade. e
Tho poad;n. ro.J ro,,,.a 40
cording to its promise, has reduced the
price of anthracite coal fifty to sixty
cents per ton to consumers, The com
pany has in its yards 10000 tons of
coal.
Sam sherpIey whose real name
was Samuel Sharp. the famous min.
strel, died at hIs residence in Provi-
denco, hhode Island, ON New Years
aay- aged 10 years, lie was born in
rhiiaue'phia IN 1881.
"A postal treaty between the Uni
ted States and Canada will eo into
effect the first of next month, which
provides that letter postage from any
part OF the umted states ana Canada
ana vice versa snail DC but three cents.
The Titusyillo Courier saws that
the production of petroleum in western
Pennsylvania during the year 1874
would fill canal thirty feet wide Mt
the top fifteen feet at the bottom, sew
cn ice, ueeP anu over seVehiy-hve
mics 'ohg
Robert Bonner has purchased of
Richard Preston, of Lexington, Ken
lucky, his famous thro0 year old mare,
Lady Stout, paying 5000. At last
fall meeting at Lexington, the mare
made the fastest time for three year
olds on record then.
Tho chandelier for the new Acad-
emy of Music in Baltimore, made by a
Philadelphia firm, is said to be the
largest In tho country. Its total height
is twcnty.soven feet, and greatest di-
ametcr Is sixteen feet. II has 240 burn
ois, and weighs about3,500 pounds
coor,,o K;n,o, Ina hoo, ro,n
ono;n,eJ .,o;, master c"r ,ha M;ldlo
| division Of the Pennsylvania n,iirpad
at Harrisburg, by Superintendent Nc
Crea. Mr., Kin.er has been in the SER
vice of the PennsylvanIa railroad Cor
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