Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-04-14

sive nail factories located ut that place
IA treaty has been concluded with
tho Kickaloo Indians under which
they viii proceed TO their reservation
in the Indian Territory,
The trial of John d. Lee and 9th
ers at Bower Utah, charged with par
ticipation in the Mountain Meadow
massacre, has been postponed.
"A box for the Iowa grasshoppcr
sufferers, marked "rho Lord loveth q
cheerful givcr,T containeda n lot Of fozen
potatoes and pair OF old boots.
-Thc Sheriff Of Bcrks county has
seized tho Wilmington and Reading
Railroad, and will sell the Same at
Reading, Pa, on tbs 22d day of April.
'a--One of the Baptist papers states
that $4,000 of the members Of Baptist
churches have adopted liberal or open
communion ground within the last
year.
Col. Jefferson Davis and Capt.
Ulysses S. Grant are invited TO re-
union of the officers Of the Mexican
war in Austin, Texas, on the 9th Of
May. ''F''
An Erie firm has received an order
for ten car loads of pine lumber for
Cuba. 1t will be shipped to Philadel-
phia BY rail, and thence by sail-vcssels
to its destination.
FLORIDA is said TO DO the best tim
bered State in the Union, there being
in il over thirty million acres of timber
land. More timber, than anything
else, probably m
Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, of New
York, has donated $4,000 for the cs-
Establishment of u Home for Aged and
Infrm Persons ofthc Evangelical Luth-
crn denomination.
ten. Mcclellan will remain abroad
with his family until August. They
have been up the Nile, and especial at
tentions have been paid them by the
Khediye of Egypt,
Sheridan says hc is going to send
Colonel Grant up the Yellowstone tC
the mouth of the Big Horn as soon as
I the ice breaks. The Colonel won't oh
jcct totbe Hbig horn' part of it,
\ .-Governor Parker, Of Tennessee
I has pardoncd cx-State Senator McKen
ma, who was recently sentenced to fly,
years in the pcnitcntiary for marrying
his former wiie's granddaughter
"A bee tree, discovered in Schuyler
county, in New York State, shor
time since, yielded one hundred anC
4 oigty-six pounds of solid honey, ant
scventeen pounds of comb and honey
4 lion. Ebert Herring, oi'New Yorl
city, who has recently celebrated BIZ
! 98th birthday, is the oldest lawyer il
this country, and pcrhapsin the world
He was admitted TO the bar in l70s.
! Eli Crozier, an ancient citizen o
!, Delaware, swore thirty-onc years ag'
TO wear the hat he then wore unit
Henry Clay should sit in The Presidcn
tial chair. The venerable beaver still
crowns his wrinkled brow.
---lnhe Mutual base ball club OF Mead
willie, who claim to be the champion
of western Pennsylvania, viii start OF
q tour on the 9th OF July. They viii
play at Pittsburgh, Altoona, Harris
! burg, Easton and Philadelphia.
The commission of Mr., John {
| New, Of Indiana, recently appointe'
Treasurer OF the United States, to tax
effect from June 80 next, was signe,
I. by His Excellcncy the President ol
the 9th inst, and forwarded TO Indian
4 apolis.
The second Wednesday in Apri
\ sdeyoted TO tree planting in Nebraska
and is known rs Arbor Day, tn
practice Of setting apart one spccia
day each year TO tree planting is
t good one, and should not be confnc'
to Nebraska alone.
The ceremony OF unveiIing tn
monument 10 the memory of the lat
Emperor Macmillan took place il
Trieste, Austria, on the 4th inst, il
the presence Of the Emperor Franci
Joseph, the Archdnkcs, the Ministers
and an immense concourse of people.
IS. L. Clemens, mark Twain !
put down among the heavy taxpayer
Of Hartford, Conn, paying taxes OF
sS4 ,450 OF course this does not rep
resent his entire property, as there ar
many exemptions. Marshall Jewel
figures IN tho same list with s102, 1870
i Mr.. r.Gold'scclebratcd trottlng mar,
, Steel Grey, Of Birmingham, England
trottcd on the 9th of March at th,
Royal Oak Park TrStting Track, nea
Manchester, ten miles in twenty-nin,
minutes and forty-fve seconds, finish
ing apparently none the worse fol
her journey. fs
The Erie Observer reports ON tn,
authority of Congressman A.G Egbert
that Col Curtis has abandoned the con
test for the seat of Representative from
that District. IL seems he neglected
TO file his papers with the Sergeantat
arms before the close Of the late session
of Congress, MS is required by law.
John G. New, the coming United
States Treasurer, has signature mort
wonderful even than the present in
cumbcnt His autograph locks as IL il
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