Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-02
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS
Erie struggles along with thirty
three base ball clubs.
New hay sold at nino dollars n tor
In Johnstown last week.
Tho Newfoundland cod fishery
promises an average catch. f1
Pennsylvania has spent $4,000,
900 for soldiers orphans since tho war
Chicago talks Of lighting her stree,
lamps with kerosene ut ono.sSth th,
cost of gas.
Western farmers arc inclined "a
keep back their grain for more remu-
ncratve prices.
Eighty tons of fresh meat from
New York are now sold in the London
markets every week.
Progress of civilization. A wo
mans hustle was recently found in q
deserted Sioux camp
The entire yield Of the oil wells in
the Mexican district docs not reach
1000 barrels per day.
Seven hundred clerks in the vari.
ous departments at Washington are
shortly TO be dismissed
"A national coniectioner's convcn.
ton is in session in New York. The
deliberations arc candicd.
New York city is soon to have d
mammoth elevator, with capacity OF
1900, 900 bushels of wheat.
Among the Indian relics at the
Centennial is an Indian mummy found
in a salt cave in Kentucky.
"A Local Option State Convention
will be held in Pittsburgh, on Tuesday
the 18th of September next.
Tho cheap and economical sum.
mer resorts are overcrowded. But its
exceedingly difficult to find them.
The new slang term "crooked" is
defined as "the act of a man who bends
his energies in the wrong direction"
The Piutcs are the only Indian
tribe that have increased since they
have come in contact with the whites
"A heavy food has occurred on
the Southern Mississippi, and the loss
of crops and stock has been immense
j, 4 G. Harris, the great Austria.
lian merchants of London, have failed
Liabilities, sl,500,00O; assets, 81 600.
900.
One hundred and twenty thou.
sand head of buffalo were slaughtered
on the Northwest PLANES during the
past year
There is TO bo a monster camp.
meeting at Ocean Grove, near Long
Branch, in August, in which Moody
and Sankey win take part
According TO the Baltimore Gd-ett,
there yet continues to be large trade
brought into that city by wagons from
Upper Maryland and Lower Pennsyl
vania.
-Aitor twenty-five years of digging
and drilling the Hoosae tunnel has
been completed. 1t cost over sl6,.
100000. The estimated expense was
s3,500,000.
Il
Immigration to California seems
to be steadily diminishing, The fig.
ures during the first six months of the
present year show 1924 gain agains;
26, li9 in 1875.
Recent historical researches have
revealed the fact that up to the revo.
luton no American had ever exercised
the office of general. The highest field
rank permitted to our country was
colonel.
Mill property is selling at panic
prices in New England. Stllman's
woolen mandatory, at Westerly
Conn, built in 1850 at cost of $780,.
900, was recently sold at an assignce's
sale for s28,eO0.
All kinds of crops but apples never
promised so well IN New England as
at present. The business dullness has
driven many to farming, and there is
corresponding increase Of acreage
this year over last
The Clinton Republican says thai
party from Williamsport have sunk
shaft in the neighborhood of Rauchs
mill, in Nippenose, and claim to have
found nickel and silver ore in paying
quantities.
"A little son Of Dennis Heber, Of
Cameron county, wandered away from
home, and got lost in the woods, and
spent four days and nights before he
was found. He lived on berries, but
hadn't a drop of water
William Emmerson Baker, the
eccentric Boston millionaire, has placed
in the hands of Ex-Governor CASTOR
and four other trustees farm contain
ing fifty acres of land and s5O,O0O for
the purpose of founding a college Of
cookery.
"A man who had been wounded in
railroad accident was denied admis.
sion TO hotel at Oakland California,
because he might keep tho boarders
awake and in the morning, the board.
ers all left because he had not been
cared for.
benjamin Jackson, an insane man,
was recently found dead under tree
in West Brandywine, Chester county
He had been dead three days. His
hand grasped demijohn partly filled
with poor whisky, and thlrty-onc dol
lars was in his pocketbook
Lightning has destroyed greater
amount OF oil this year than any other
agency, and the loss from that cause
has been far greater than ever before
during the same period, about three
months. The total amount thus far
ucs'royeu Ioots up zoO,zil barrels.
-Wrcckors are at work with steam
engine and drills upon the British
frigate Hussar, which sunk in the East
river, Now York, nearly a century ago,
anticipating rich harvest in the re.
covery Of the millions of sovereigns
supposed TO be on board the vessel.
AN electrical apparatus has been
invented for recording yea and nay
vote in Congress. With this instru.
ment the vote of every member can be
recorded and made known inside Of
three minutes, while the present cum.
bersomc method takes nearly an hour.
Dispatches from Bismarck con.
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