Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-03-10
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Dried fruit Is being shipped from
Cortland, n. Y, to Germany The
other day fifteen tons Of dried apples
were sent.
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg,
now has an observatory, including n
valuable telescope presented by John
Il. Graefl' of Philadelphia.
The ice gorge on the Juniata river
extends forfourteen miles between Lew
istown and McVcytown, the height
varying from five TO fourteen feet.
Nine Senators ofthe Congress which
attempted to impeach Andrew John
son are dead. Twelve will serve with
HMM the coming Congress.
Bender, the Kansas murder, re-
Gently arrested at Florence, Arizona
has been fully identified, and Governor
Osborne, Of Kansas, has sent "A rcquisi.
ton for him.
IVY Ann Eliza hns made out her case
against brigham Young, and Judge
McKena awards her $4,000 alimony
and $4,000 n month for the expenses OF
the trial.
"A three cent stamp will now carry
a letter from any part Of the United
States TO n Canadian city, and n single
Canadian stamp win perform the same
service the other way.
Elk Postmaster General Horatio
King, OF Washington, recently "took
them all by surprise by marrying n
young school marin aged % No one
suspected il Of the old man, He is 70.
Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, who for
many years occupied the position of
Adjutant General Of the United States,
on the I'd died in Washington City,
Of congcstive chills, at the age of72
years.
AT Schoharie, n. Y, not long since,
a mouse crcpt into beehive to steal
honey, but was caught in the act and
stung to death by the irato bees, Soon
Mr. Mouse began to disseminate bad
smell, which bees cannot tolerate be-
ing unable TO remove him, they went
TO work and sealed him up hermetically
in wax, so that not the slightest odor
escaped.
The snow-drifts in Northern New
York, along the lines of the railways
through Oneida, Oswego, Lewis. and
Jefferson Counties are imnense-l5
feet in height in some places, and in
other places the snow pile is over the
tops of the telegraph poles Added TO
the natural fall OF snow, tho wind
dlihed the snow so that il had TO be
cut out in blocks by men who worked
at three elevations so that each shovel
iul was thrown from man to man un-
ill tho third--and last man--could
throw il clear Of passing ears,
The twenty,eighth annual report
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has just been given TO the public, show
ing state of prosperity most crafty
ing to the stockholders and the public
generally Since the panic the bust
ness OF all railroads has suffered TO a
considerable extent, the carrying trade
falling off greatly, while travelling has
not nearly approached what II previ
ously was The report of this comp
any, however shows net receipts with
in fraction OF as much rs the previ.
ous year, the net earnings approaching
sl0,0O0,O00,
The largest diamond in the United
States is among the glittcring objects
of interest in the show window of Col,
Andrews diamond palace on Mont.
gomory street, San Francisco, Cali
fornia Its weight is 81 Lie karats,
and il IL valued at $4,000. 1t was
found In Africa two years ago and was
taken to Amsterdam, where il was cut
and polished. Twenty-Five months
were occupied in subjecting it to these
processes. The next largest diamond
IN America is owned by Boss Tweed,
and weighs lsl karats. The late Jim
Fisk had one 10 karats weight.
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