Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-02-16
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Can ia.
Indications OF speedy eruption
of Mount Vcsuvlus urc steadily incrcas
ing. 4 E
The Mexican government has or
dered rciniorccmonts TO the Tcxa,
border.
Senator English has turned ovci
all his back pay to Senator Fcyy',
widow.
Tho foreign exports Of PhIIadel
phia, last week, amounted in value tc
s732 ,OO7.-
delaware proposes TO establish
sugar making as u regular homo in.
dusty.
Pierre Sebastion Laurentie, the
French author. is dead. He was born
in 1893.
1t Il generally believed that the
Cclcsllals are bent on fighting England,
sooner or later.
War is imminent between Guate-
mala aud San Salvador. Both coun-
tries are arIning.
brooklyn is TO be lighted with oil,
because Of tho exorbitnnt charges of
the gas company.
= They are trying in Philadelphia
TO raise n party OF one thousand mon
TO 90 to the Black Hills.
--Of eighteen furnaces in Bcrlss
county, Pa, eleven arc out of blast
Three Of the idle ones are in Reading.
"A Mormon missionary is about TO
begin operations in Boston. Now we
shall see whether the girls feel hubby.
The magnificent residence OF the
late Mr. Ralston, in San Francisco, is
now occupied by Budd Doblc, the
noted horse trainer.
philadelphia claims the palm "for
the greatest religious meetings over
held on this Continent" Now for the
fruits.
--Grasshoppers don't modest sheep,
and hence a good many Kansas people
are going into the wool business this
year.
Judas lscario. is the only hard
money man mentioned in the Bible.
He wanted the proceeds of his sale in
silver.
In New York and vicinity there
are upwards Of FIVE hundred florists
with an aggregate invested capital Of
$40 100000.
st. Joseph, Missouri, is all aglow
with satisfaction over tho discovery of
extensive camel coal beds within few
miles of that city.
--Gcrmany is going TO send over
here several officers of the mining de-
partment, with instructions to study up
our mining industries.
Italy is so pleased with Great
Britain's idea of heavy artillery that
she has ordered n hundred ton gun TO
be cast for naval service.
There stands on Jacobs creek,
Fayette county, the crumbing remains
of furnace stack built in 1892, by a
Frenchman named Turnbull.
lieutenant Camerons recently
completed African exploring tour was
a great success, every member of his
party but himself having died.
Besides a population of 5Sl ,156,
Kansas has "a, 900 dogs, and they killed
last year $3.50 sheep, or about five per
cent Of the number in the State.
Tho Emperor of Brazil Is to arrive
in Washington in April, and, after Wis
iting the Centennial, will travel through
the country for about three months.
The Prohibiiionist cons sentlon ib
Hartford, Conn, has rcnominatcd the
State ticket Of last year and chosen
delegates to their National convention.
Last year the town of Winter,
Cal, was a wheat field, and crop was
gathered from it. To-day it has l 200
inhabitants, and town lots are worth
5000.
"A Chester county couple celebrat-
cd their wooden wedding last fall, and
have been using no other fuel than
clothes pins and potato. Washers ever
since.
"A Few days ago the barn of Henry
NJ, Englc, of Marietta, Lancasterc county,
was destroyed by fire, and twenty-ninc
head Of cattle, worth $4,000, burned to
death.
The latest reports from the pork
packing districts show that very little
business is being done at present at
interior points. Lard will be short,
this year,
The Congregational churches and
preachers invited to partake of Ply
mouth Churcb's coming feast Of filth
don't seem particularly inclined to soil
themselves.
"A. w. Mccullough, well known
oil broker Of Pittsburgh, has disap-
peared Forgery on the East Brady
Bank and other crimes are charged
against him.
The Rothschids are said to be
worth only s3,4O0, ,0o0,0 900, and dis.
charge servant girl about once week
for throwing away ashes without siii-
ing them,
"A Nebraska paper says that the
kind of settlers they want out there is
those that have big families Of girls, as
there is great scarcity Of marriagea.
bic females.
"A bill TO forbid Territorial ooun-
tics, pltles, and towns TO ipQur indebted
ness in aid Of railroad companies or
other private corporations has been in
troduced in Congress.
Tho Republican Treasurer of st.
Lawrence county, N. w. not TO be out
of fashion, has absconded with the
funds. 100000 from his bondsmen
will balance the books.
Last year the importations OF raw
silk Into the United States, reached the
large aggregate of l,390,4s2 pounds,
denoting rapid growth of the silk
manufacturing industries.
The fire in the old Baltimore
mines near Scranton, this State, on
which the steam from forty boilers has
been forced for two yenr mast. have