Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-12-22

--chambcrsburg IL 10 have water
works costing SsS, 900.


Nine conylcts wcru scnt from
Bradford county 10 tho eastern pentcn.
tiary, hat week.
'--"Swcct spirits, hear my prayvrl'
is tho "c'oolsed" whisky meI's iavoritu
hymn, just now.
--Donnldson's body IA believed 10
have been iopnl in tho woods near
Manl-tee, Michigan,
Fourteen thousand lrampp wcro ac-
commodntel at the Young Meas Home,
in Pittsburgh, Inst year ft
IA Willinmsport man has contract
70 deliver $500 ionso lccto the Penn.
sylvnna railroad company.
Tho Brllclonte Iraichnmn will AZ
pear inncw clothes. from top 10 toe, the
first week Of thn now year.
The peach trees arc all blooming
over IN Southwest Georgia, and the
climate Is balmy ms spring
In the a~ylums aai jaiIs Of tho
province Of Ontario, Canada, there nrv
confined l,l79 lunuiics and idiots.
"A Swedish school house, for oxhi.
blilon At the Centennial has been ship.
ped from that country to Philadelphia,
Mrs, Wood, the widow Of General
Wood and daughter OF prosldont Zach.
airy Taylor, died II, Badcn, Germany,
ON tho 81 inst, agod O. years,
The successful ralring of hnc qual.
iiy Of tobacco in tho western portion
cf North Cnrolins is tbt latest .ilyricul.
,uril achievement 10 TINT State,
-~sonuturJohcs, ofNcvadu, has had
private car built Tor tho exclusive use
Of himself 1t ID " richly furnkhed
hpusc OH trucks, and cost 81 1000,
---Congrcssman Randall's petition
for the repeal Of the check stamp act
is an eighth Of II mile long. Thirty
thousand names are appended TO it.
"A glossy paragraph, Six million
dollars worth of silk worms eggs ar.
rived at New York from San Francisco.
in single consignment, last Tuesday.
Ono hundred i.nd eight workmen,
consisting Of shipwrights, caulkers,
oiners, boat buildera, etc, have been
discharged, from the Washington navy
yard.
The original hemlock log founda.
tions of long wharf at Boston were un.
carthed few days ago, and found to
be as solid as when first put down, l64
years ago.
"A cacl;leating man at Dover Del,
has u contract to supply the Philadel.
phia hotels with eggs during the Cen.
tcnnial, and viii have 10000 fowls in
the hcnnery.
Oregon gives mn annual premium
TO the man who kills the most squirrels
in the course Of the year, and il went,
this year, to an old chap OF over sew.
cnty, whose tally was ! ,53s.
The cabinet shops of the Wheeler
and Wilson sewing machine company.
at Bridgeport, Conn, were destroyed
by fire on the night Of the 18th inst,
Loss $500, 900, insured for $500, 900.
"A mammoth steer from Oregon is
( already cn.route 10 the Centennial
/ II stands nineteen hands, or six feet
four inches high, mcasurcstwcnty feet
from tip to tip, and weighs 5, pounds.
MANY ofthe Collicrics in the Schuyl.
kill region are stopping operations ON
account of the markets being over
stocked with coal. A large number Of
people are thrown out Of employment.
DR. Abraham B. Hartman, a Tor.
mcr resident Of Lancaster county, was
murdered recently by two desperate
characters in Miami county, Ohio. AZ
ter being killed he was thrown into
the canal.
According to the New York cen.
sus returns, just published, that State
has 7I3,07S native voters, and 1895, ,2i5
naturalized voters. New York city
has only S9,907 native to III ,202 natur-
allied voters.
IAN international game OF chess be.
tween French and English players, to
be commenced soon, will last two years,
the moves TO be made by telegraph.
Such trial of skill occurred in 1886
the French winning,
Fred. Dellavcn, q teamster, OF Clarion
county, was recently found dead on the
| pike. 1t is supposed that he went to
sleep on his wagon while intoxicated
and fell over the lock bar, Bis head
striking the spokcs of the wheel.
DIR. $. II. Van valsah, of Belletonte,
treated an arm which had been bitten
by vicious horse. The injured man
claimed that the physician had been
guilty of malpractice and prosecuted,
him, and the jury rendcrcd',a verdict for
the plaintiff for $500
"A Boston rcstaprantenr serves up
: corn-cobs tried in lard and sugar to his
customers, and they like EN- By.and.
by American genius will roast, slice.
and serve up TO hungry men, old hitch
ing posts and work benches, and wen
be as happy as the day is long.
The United Stmes Circuit Court
of New York has just decided that o
, firm going into involuntary bank
ruptcy, and giving notes in payment
, of indebtedness cannot proceed with
business alter these notes fall due and
remain unpaid, 1t Is . sound and SEN
sible decision .
Ninety mechanics and artisans
: with their families have emigrated from
Pennsylvania and settled on Hood
, River, Oregon, and over 300 will fol
low in the spring. They intend build.
Ing college, . woollen mill, a grist
mill. and othcr educational and indus
trial establishments.
The pearl fisheries of the Gulf Of
: Caitorpia threaten tobc entirely ruined
> unless thc gqvcrnglppt shnls down on
, the Wholesale use.qi sgbWaripe prmor-
l.asi year they yiel'lcd about 500, O0e
wo,lh Of pearls md s2Q0,000 worth Of
' shells, while this years operations will
hardly pay expenses
1T is said that Stokes, who Is In
!. prison for the killing of Fisk, is con
) fined to his bod with Asthma and
/, cbil,s spg isyor bis hair having turned
whitcnnd lis constellation DpaAen down
His timc for imprisonment will expire
: next September, but ah effort Is being
made to have him pardoncd.