Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-03-21

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the degree Of Doctor Of Medicine on
fifteen lady graduates
The telegraph companies have the
reduction of rates mama, and the busi.
ness public is enjoying the fruits Com
petition is doing the work.
The Pennsylvania railroad is hand
ling large increase Of Western hound
lrrights this month, III the shape OF
dry goods aud boots and shoes.
Seth Green says that last year
1850 900 young shad were turned
loose in the Hudson river nj the hatch
ing house few miles below Albany.
Londonderry township, Bedford
county, has II boy twelve years old
who stands xix feet two inches and
weighs one hundred aud eighty-seven.
THE Baldwin Lor omolive works
OF Philadelphia, have an order ior the
construction OF ten nariuw guage 10.
comotives for the Philadelphia and
Atlantic City Railway Company.
The First National Bank, Of Allen
town, Pa, is to be wound up. lts
officers give no reasons Tor this move.
ment, but say that the dupusilors will
not lose any MONEY by the operation.
Franklin Hail. an old man, fifty.
eight years Of aye, was arrested al st.
Louis on Wednesday last, and u large
lot Of dies for making all denomiua-
tons Of silver coin were found on his
person.
The coal miners near Mt. Pleas
ant, Weslmoreand county, are, il is
said, preparing to strike on the 18th
inst. for an an increase OF cent
bushel. Coke drawers will also dc.
mand so cents.
In Chambersburg an infant child
Of Mr.. Shatzer, while asleep, was at
tackled by u rat. When the mother,
awakened by the child's cries, went to
its relief the rat had already bitten ii
IN ten different places.
W. "'s" w Wi,' Ju'".u " u'a'"
night last week The building is sup
posed to have been set on fire. The
Two men were sleeping in the store
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Crop reports from all portions of
'nV il'e''o' =, oa''o,n'a suow o"' Ut
TIC eh"hsc 'r1,n ,he prospects TWO
weeNs ago. Az over 'ne olate gram
's III an eNceheht cohui'ion' ana an
aoniuao' harvest 10 almost certain
"A new mill TO contain forty thous-
aud spindles will soon be built ut
DoVer new hampshire ~ WIN give
em'P'oy men. W Two .nousahu nanuN'
ho 'own au'hori,'cs voice 10 exempt
'nc "'''' mum 'aAa''oh 'or ,ch years
The Baptists claim to have 56l
churches aud 62263 members in this
State about one.tillh OF the popua
''oh o' 'hc oa'c: Last year o'oi'
pers"'s ~ero o"p',~eu--an ,hcrcaso o'
'"e membership vi "oou' ~ per cent
Two men in Bcrks county de-
scvnded into u Iimekiln and accidently
stirred up two polecats, who greeted
them with AN aroma which almost
Sni1c",cI 'nem' incy scrambled out
"i 'he kun W very exhausted con
dit'"n'
Mark Shriver,a young man residing
near Waynesburg, Green county, was
found dead on Sunday last not far
from his fathers residence, and as he
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".'D's ,".''' -, - ~ N"' '"'s "'
was P'''''
Some Of the citizens OF Schuylkill
county adhere to the opinion that gold
rs to be iouni IN the Mahanoy Valley,
and II few of beinriners in that locali-
" have, in consequence Of the gold
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on wells are being drilled on the
John L. Thompson aud Smith farms,
IN Brady township. This Is about nine
miles northwest OF Butler, and west oi
the old Mercer turnpike. Should this
prove oil territory new and large
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MIR. Henry Young, an old and re-
spectcd citizen OF Somerset county,
was found dead IN his bed last week.
Mr. ioung was one OF the earliest set
tiers IN the nelghoorhood IN which he
lived, aud at the time OF his deceasc
was III his elghty-eighth year.
The ship John Dc Costa has been
chartered by the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company TO take
out 10 San Francisco from Philadel.
PIMA cargo Oi twenty-five hundred
IONS o' coal' Inc shipments TO the
Pavlhc coast OF this corporation are
rapidly increasing
james b. Alexander, ex.State
Senator IRON Philadelphia, died of pul.
molary consumption on the 18th. He