Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-06-07
a SSOCIA NO PRESs LETTER
PnlLADELPHIA, June 5, 1876.
POLITICAL.


POLITICAL.
The ncarness OF the meeting of the
Republican Convention, at Cincinnati,
is my excuse for writing of the condi.
ton Of political affairs in this city,rght
upon the eve of that important gather
ing. The most sincere friend and ad-
vocate of Senator Conl1ling, in the
Centennial city, is William II. Kemble,
cx-treasurcr of Pennsylvania. For
fully one year Mr.. Kemble has thought
the wisest thing the Republicans could
do would be to nominate Mr.. Conkling,
yet notwithstanding this, and bis pro-
test against passing the administration
of the State into Democratic hands by
the nomination of Gov. Hartranft at
Cincinnati, Mr.. Kemble was elected q
national delegate without opposition.
Gen. Bingham, lately post master OF
our city, is another delegate; his first,
last and only choice is Blaine and in
the event Of the Maine candidate win
ming the sceptre, Queen Victoria will
make the acquaintance Of the hand
soonest diplomat this country ever sent
to the Court of st, James.
Outside OF these two gentlemen, the
other ten delegates TO Cincinnati are
practical men true TO Hartranit who,
II they fail to make him the nominee,
will go down with him with eolors fy-
ing. When they come up-it will be to
make things lively, and to support only
that ticket which in their Judgment is
is most likely to bring victory in No
vember.
If the twelve delegates from Phia-
delphia had the framing of a Republ.
can ticket 1t would be thus For
President, Gen. Rutherford b. Hayes,
of Ohio, for Vice President, Hon.
Roscoe Conkling, Of New York.
CENTENNIAL JoTTTNGs.
Louis Victor Aunstead Henry, born
March 10th, l767, at Cherbourg,
France, and a veteran of the first OF
Napoleon's army, is the liveliest old
gentleman of 100 years now visiting
the Exhibition.
The jeweiry in the French depart.
ment is valued at s250,000.
There is u chandelier made of meer-
schaum and amber, in the German do
partment which cost $4,000.
Cotton bolls in full bloom attract at
tcntion.
The paying admissions on Decora.
tion day numbered 41,l1l, the largest
of any day since the opening,
A mosaic portrait of Gen. Washing
ton worth $4,000 is now in the Art
Gallery. 1t is the gilt of l.. A. Gal
andt, of Rome, to the city of Phila-
delpha.
What is to become Of the Centennial
leo cream saucers after the Exhibition
is over2 they are too small for cup
plates, and not deep enough for salt-cel.
lars.
The extraordinary demand for wood
cock at the French restaurant, by en-
lightened Englshmen, and cpicurean
Frenchmen, has created corner in
squads. The American diner on wood
cock is aware that fine OF $40 is i'm
posed for each bird killed prior to July
LIST, and he enjoys laugh at the cx.
pensc Of his French and English cous
ins, in their unstintcd praise of wood.
cock, alias young pigeons.
The EVENING STAR has these praise
worthy words, concerning the Exhibi-
ton They are so Just, that take it
they will meet the approval of every
fair-mindcd editor in the land
"Day after day the immcnsity,
grandeur and elegance Of the wondrous
aggregation of works of art and science
are more and more strikingly asserted.
No man possessed OF modicum of the
spirit Of fairness can speak in any
other than praiscworthy terms of the
Centennial, II p few errors have been
made-and II is not denied that such
has been the oaso-they have been
promptly repaired by the management.
As TAR as II is complete, II is, if not
absolutely perfect, at least so far supc-
rior TO everything Of the kind yet at
tempted in the world, that instead Of
finding fault, il should be tho cndcavor
Of every man who Claims TO be an
American citizen and who is possessed
Of a single spark of patriotic pride, to
aid in proclaiming the fact.
All who can should see II. II IL the
greatest school ever opened up to tho
American people. There is not q
single exhibit that has not an instruct
i've lesson for nearly every visitor not
q 'picoO pf machinery that docs not
teach something uscfnl not 4 work Of