Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-08-25
NEIY,S ITEMS

NEWS ITEMS.
The Queen of England is already
the grandmother of twenty children.
The yellow fever is slowly abatinp
in tho State Of Florida, and other sec
tions of the South.
Maj Gen. w. S. Hancock, accom-
panied by his invalid wift,is occupying
private quarters NJ Saratoga.
The Allegheny Valley railroad Is
laying steel rails wherever old rails are
taken up.
The Indiana Messenger, the Ro.
publican organ, refuses to support the
county ticket nominated by It's party
in Indiana county.
-Four hundred teachers were in at-
tendance at the late session of the
States Teachers Association, which
convened at Wilkes Barre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris, and the
baby, will sail from Long Branch for
England on the 2Sth inst, TO be absent
for three months. .s.
Mrs. John G. Breckenridge con-
templates moving from her old place
in Lexington, Ky, to Arkansas in the
autumn.
"A New Jersey agent for the Socie.
ETY. for the Prevention of Cruelty 10
Animals, has been arrested for beating
his wife.
During the past six months the
fire insurance companies in the United
States have sustained losses amount
ing in the aggregate to 26,OOO,O0O.
The officers of the patent Office be.
lieve Keely's motor to be q humbug.
No application for patent has been
made, nor caveat issued.
The now postal cards will he print
cd by the Morgan Envelope Company,
OF Springfield, ILL.,, and will make their
appearance in September.
1t is now proposed to extend the
Parker and Karns City narrow gauge
railroad to st. Petersburg, in Clarion
county, and probably to the county seat
Wisconsin has just taken a State
census and finds her present population
to be 1887, 166, against 1851, 500 in
1S7O--a gain of 1872, ,496, or over seven
teen per cent.
One hundred and sixty ministers
were present at the National Camp
meeting recently held at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa The attendance of people was
also very large.
"A new military post has been es-
tablished temporarily in the Black
Hills country to keep out the miners.
1t will be garrisoned by one company
of infantry and two of cavalry.
The Swiss government will erect
a chalet on the Centennial grounds,
and company Of 400 Egyptians in
tend to erect row of buildings in imi-
tation Of a street in Cairo.
Hon. d. NJ. Key, of Chattanooga, has
been appointed United Statos Senator
by the Governor of Tennessee TO fll
the vacancy caused by the death of
Andrew johnson.
"A Richmond (Va) music dealer
announces that he will receive confed-
crato money in payment for goods, and
only few days ago he sold piece of
sheet music to lady for s2,5l2 in that
currency. H
"A now grove of colossal redwood
trees has been discovered in California.
~ VI '"s"A eN'ir-ng oil that have been
discovered on the Pacific coast Its
circumference, six feet from the ground
is hundred and fifty feet.
Mrs. I. NJ. jackson, the widow of
Stonewall jackson, has received 80, 900
from the executor of Wado II. Bolton,
of Memphis, Tenn, being half the sum
willed her The personal property of
Mr.. Bolton is valued at half million.
"A new church will shortly be
erected in Boston for the congregation
of the Rev. W. II. II. Murry. The
land Uil which " IN W stunu mas Deen
purchased fnr $40 600, and the odifoe
itself will cost, when completed, sl75,-
900. .t
1t is a remarkable fact that while
not one ex-President is living, the wives
of five OF them survive-Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Filmore, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Lin.
coin, and Mrs. johnson. OF these
ladies one is insane and another at the
point of death.
Mr.. Andrew johnson, son of the
late Ex-Presidcnt johnson, denies all
knowledge of the reported insurance
on his fathers life, though he says he
has not yet been able TO look over all
of his fathers papers. The estate OF
the ex-President is estimated at be.
tween sl50,000 and $4,000.
The will of the late Judge George
w. Woodward has been admitted TO
probate in tho Register of; Wills office
in Philadelphia. This document was
made at Lexington, Ky, July 27, 1874,
and bears the testator's signature alone,
the names of no witnesses appearing
We have a poster sticking up in
the Era Office, which was printed on
Dec. 18th, 1874, and posted on the office
door OF Atkinson Mills, Mifilin Co., Pa,
where il remained undisturbed until
about three years ago, the writer re-
moved it toits present placc.-M. Union
{ Pa Nelc Era.
The American rife team, il ap-
pears, came home with sl50,000 which
they have earned by the perspiration
OF their guns. From this it would
seem that target shooting is more
profitable sport than base ball and as,
in addition to that, IL will kill off the
fools quicker, il ought to be encour-
aged.
Henry T. Helmbold, the great
"Buchu" man, has returned TO this
country, after an absence of three years
and half in Europe Shortly after
his arrival, he was examined by two
physicians, who declared him insane,
and in consequence he was sent to an
insane asylum in Philadelphia. 1t is
thought that il is only temporary, and
was brought on by excessive drinking.
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