Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-12-15

6200,o90 pieces, of the value of s4,.
200, 100.
Massachusetts, with her prohibi-
ton laws and viglant conslabuary,
: last year guzzlcd 493, ,33s Barrels OF
beer
The next Centennial anniversary
Of Importance is that of Montgomery'-
unsuccessful attack on Quebec. Deem
her 81, l775.
Don Pedro, OF Brazil has hired a
marble.iront house on Chestnut street.
Philadelphia, for next summer, at the
figure Of $4,000
"A ilrc at Five Points, n. Y. City.
on Wednesday morning last destroyed
nino buildings, involving II loss of $500.
900.
Iowa has hciicr which reccnly
} climbed up ladder into u hay loll.
She was probably looking for the COW
that jumped over the moon.
The viccroy of Egypt has devoted
S65, 900 that was raised 20 erect mon
umcnt of himself TO funding a public
school at Alexandria
William Penn's Bible IL in posses
sion Of lincal descendant, Mrs. Mey-
lert OF Pennylvania. II will be part
OF the Centennial exposition.
The English and French thieves
arc counting on great takings next
year at the Centennial, and are COM
ing to this country in swarms.
Thirty Of the forty coliieries of
the Reading company have temporarily
ceased operations Five thousand men
and boys are thus thrown out. of em-
ployment
-Four girls, aged between II and
l6 years, confessed having set fire to
school honse in Greenfield, Mo, and
were sentenced TO two hours each in
jail.
Last year the total supply of lead,
including importations and sales by
the Government was 6S,5O0 TONS
The total supply this year is placed at
$4,000 tons.
-Barnnm's wild beasts are being
sold ut New York at great sacrifice.
rnc guat Aicxls, Tor when the great
Snowman is said to have paid $500,
commanded but $50.
Nathan Sprague, a son.in-law of
Fred Douglass, has been arrested at
Rochester, New York, for robbing the
mails. he being an employee OF the
postotlcc at that place.
/ "A cold-blooded New York genius
has just invented an apparatus for
freezing murdercrs to death, which he
claims that IL will do in less than four
minutes.
Two italian girls, one 10 years
and the other Is years of age, convicted
at Patterson, N. j., of passing counter.
felt money. have been sentenced to
three years imprisonment.
"A cake of Australian gold, worth
about $1,000, is to be sent to the Cen
tepnial Exhibition, A new and valua.
BILE gold field has been discovered in
the northeastern section OF So tn Aus
tralia.
"A little girl, twelve years OF age,
named Ellen Gilroy, left her home in
Browntown, near Pittston, Luzernc
county, to 20 10 store, in February
last, since which time she has not been
heard OF.
There was an excellent grasshop.
(, per crop in Blue Earth county, Mimi,
this season. The people gathered l5,-
766 bushels and is quarts, on which
the State paid bounties to the amount
of s3l ,255O6
-Falarcs IN business are still the
order of the day. There were seventy
thro failures in Now York during the
last month. They were not doing bus
mess enough to pay current expenses
$50 il is alleged.
The President Of the Senatc--Sen
atnr Ferry, of Michigan-is unmarried,
as il also senator Anthony, Of Rhode
Island, who was u candidate when the
former was elected to preside over the
Senate.
OF Charles OConor, who is now
lying at the point Of death, il is sand
that during half Century Of law
practice che has never been known to
mssiatp facts or 10 prosent unsound
propositions of law
Tho first piano ever taken west
of the Alleghcnics was one owned by
Miss Sarah Sproat, tho daughter Of
Colonel Ehenezcr Sproat, an officer of
tho iiovolulion, who emigrated 70 the
Northwestern Territory in l79s, and
located at Marietta, Ohio.
The remains Of "Commpdorc" Jas.
Stewart, n funny old colored man Of
Erie. were buried recently. Mrs. Sen.
ator Lowry once gave him half a dol
lar 70 kill q cat lie shaved tho feline
and sold il ~ Rocky Mountain est"
to the Senator, for ten dollars.
Tho largest -four mill in America
il owned by Hon. &. c. ashburnc, of
Minneapolis, Ninn. u j. seven stories
high, and crowded with machinery
from top to bottom. It's cost was
$500, 900, has forty run Of burrs, and
turns out | 900 barrels of flour pcr day.
III, II, Taylor who died recently
in Chicago, willpd haIfa million dollars
To establish in that city ~ charitable
institution that will do tho most good
and the least harm" Tho trustees
have not decided whnt to do with the
money. but doubtless will found hos.
pital.
Samuel Love, Of Butler county,
hns spent thifysight years of his life
In carrying the United States msils,--
During that time ho Travelled, ON tho
average, twcniy-cigbt mi les daily, and
in tho aggregate two hundred and
cigh,y.,hpep lhousund eight hunr'lcd
aud two niles
--ofcourse its merely ! coincidence,
but simultaneously w!lh ibe anpoupcc-
ment that tho Centennial Conimis-
siouers will sward premium for pure
bred jpckasscs ovsr six ysnrr. comes
tho thrilling Intelligence TINT srrRuaat
Bates has made hir cscnpc iron Canada
apd lrp#as pAcc mora bIT naiiyc hnd.