Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-05-31
NEWS ITEMS.
--Tom Thumb has gone into the or.
angc business in Florida.

under seizure in Virginia and North
Carolina.
Railroad men confess TO much dis
appointment in the volume of Ccnten.
NAL travel
The Berkshire Wooden company,
Of Great harrington, Mass, has failed
for 100000.
John Kit, of Chicago, is one hun
dred and eight years old. A very old
cat, We should say.
General Mcclellan will deliver an
oration, on the Fourth Of July, in Bing-
hamton, New York.
Bricks are very scarce In England,
and their importation from japan is
being undertaken.
The German steamers are taking
large quantities Of agricultural imple.
nicnts from this country.
--Dallas, Texas, has increased its
population of 1000 in 1871, before q
railroad touched it, TO 1900.
Dom Pedro Benner is the name Of
Reading Centennial baby, born May
10, weighing fourteen pounds.
The writing desk of John Alden,
that came over in the MayHowor, is
on exhibition at the Centennial.
"A shrewd Philadelphia business
man advertises his Centennial goods
in sixty-four different languages.
The Bessemer rail manufacturers
of the country still report good in.
flow Of orders; they are all running.
--California promises 50OOO,0O0
bushels wheat for 1876, against 30,-
24s,57l, in 1875. A houry prospect.
Two workmen on the Centennial
grounds have been sentenced to three
months imprisonment for stealing some
spools of silk.
Among the bids for furnishing
Philadelphia with her Fourth of July
display Of pyrotecbnics was one from
firm in England.
Judge Davis is having l776 white
oak trees set out around his residence
at Bloomington, ILL.,, all on account OF
the Centennial.
Prussia has $500, 600 acres of for
est and woodland; France, 100000;
Austria, 2,23O,0OO Bavaria, 3,294, 900,
and England, 1896.
For the first time since 1862 there
is diminution in the number of de-
positors in the New York savings banks
as compared with the previous year.
Martin Van Buren was the only
President who travelled outside Of the
United States during his term OF Office.
He visited Kingston, Canada, in 1889.
The Centennial wheelbarow idiot
from Missouri has reached the Eastern
part of Ohio. He says he will go
through as easy as dose of castor oil.
Reports from the Minnesota tribu.
taries of the Mississippi river state that
the total drive Of logs soon TO move
down stream comprises 1900, 900 logs.
Nearly all trading between the
New York and London markets
in American Government stocks is IN
suspense and has been for almost a
fortnight.
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- rVe new naro,o a,o. Da,'ulgs W W VIZ r
lege on their grounds at Philadelphia,
so that the institution will accommo-
date 800 pupils.
oron;nan, sc;or,;sc oon,lomar
ofOh;o nroJ;ots that ho,waen Mov os,h
and Jnne All = boavv frost viii i;II all
,ha tr,;, and raco,o;;or no,th ~ lo,;.
tude forty degrees.
ola Co.., u o.rnon,or -
Tro,,on was orro,od to bu;ld a fance
oni was corsnlta5 e to,ho he's, material
Snr nos,s M,ocrs, msdom iocnst.
I've tried nm twice :
.or;ons aunos;,;o, - II aSra;ss;on and !,
= nv, on;,d @ oa,,o;,, tha, ,ha n.o,,ia w;Ii
oo,abrad,a - 10 Tan,ana;ai no,;nr
tbemseivss in in Inlv
Moro weddings IN high life. One
OF the FIJI cannibals that Barnum i'm,
PUa.sL Plhav,i, 'Uua @ a,s ~ ~ ~ ~, a a,hn.a
sa,har as - s = a;lt.r shnn;n &C., eGn,ham
Vs. 'P
The one hundred and eighty thou
sand Methodists of African descent in
the Southern States, think that that
number should entitle them to elect q
elshop; Memorials ior that privilege
nave pech presented 10 'hc "enerai
conference al baitimore'
The petition for writ of error in
the case of the Commonwealth VS..
Ralph ROLAND and b. johnson, the
Cbambesburg Bank robbers, has been
allowed, ana the nearing VIII DC nau
peiore lne oeprene Oolr' ~ harr's-
ourg some '''ne next Week.
"A new cotton mill to be erected
at Columbus, Ga, will contain 600 looms
and 20 900 spindles, and will be the
largest mill in the South. The con-
sumption of cotton is placed at about
o,VVo ,ud ya'.o Pe' ,aI oa aIu :. 'eo eon '
VI ' " W :" WV
The General Assembly Of the Pres
byterian Church Of the United States
convened in Brooklyn, N. Y, on the
18th inst. The statistics Of member
ship exhibit total of SO synods, 173
presbyteries. 4.706 ministers. 1899