Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-06


Times in the country are gettin
no better very fast. Farmers complai
now that the tramps even steal th
coats and hats off of the scarecrows.
"A. X. Deitrick, Republican, wa
last week elected Recorder OF the cit
Of Williamsport. Out of vote @
3,Ol2 he had majority of 1856 votes
Pittsburgh has been enjoying
novelty in the shape OF baby show
There were eighty.two babies on OK
hibition, including eight pairs of twin'
"A mandatory OF pocket knive
has been commenced in Allentown
Fifteen men arc employed, with
prospect Of an increase Of the number
AN Armstrong county man ha
predicted that there will be frost il
every month in 1877, but that we will
have severe one on the 7th OF June
The Diogencs Of the period cal
90 out with his lantern and never fine
u single member of that "new party
which Mr.. Blaine organized the otheI
day.
The people of Titusvile refuse tC
consider favorably the proposition o.
Francis Murphy TO lecture for them
twenty nights at t@o hundred dollar
each.
"A little child of John Puller, liv,
ing in the suburbs of Harrisburg, was
burned to death on Wednesday, hav.
ing been left alone in room wi th a
stove.
"A Lock Haven young lady wore
pair Of gloves that had been cleansed
with some infammable fluid. They
caught fire from a gas-get and she was
seriously injured.
"A Methodist church in Colorado
has female directors, no debt and n
balance in the treasury. This is not
happiness, however. 1t likewise has
no male members.
Two Republican New York Legis-
latures have had sessions since the State
census of 1875, and each has neglected
to rcapportion the State, as directed
by the Constitution.
The Secretary of the Treasury
will Immediately issue call for sl0,-
900, 900 bonds for the syndicate, similar
to the last call, s6,00O,O0O coupon and
81, 100000 registered bonds.
Ono OF those rare occasions-a
diamond wedding-was celebrated at
Germantown, N. j., the other day, by
Hiram Gulick and wife, who are nine
ty.seven and nincty-four respectively.
-Depredators on Government tim.
Der lands may as well put up their lit
tie hatchets, and look for some other
business hereafter Secretary Schurz
has no liking for that kind OF loggers.
The hostlers in the Government
stables at Washington won't sleep in
the building any more Dom Piatt
slid around there the other day and
told them that Mullett was the archi.
tect
Hon. Hugh Young, of Tioga county,
resigned his Office of Representative
last week, and it is probable that the
Speaker Of the House will issue his
writ of election to fill the vacancy
thus created.
--lchiku Kuanroku, young Japa.
nese nobleman, aged twenty-one years,
died in Georgetown, Sunday a week,
of consumption. Mr.. Kuanroku came
to this country in March, 1876, to en-
ter the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The small silver three cent pieces,
coined in 1853, are coming back into
circulation in such quantities, accord.
ing to n Washington telegram, as to
prove serious annoyance to post.
masters in different sections Of the
country.
-Harman Kramer, aight clerk at
the Exchange hotel, Bloomsbury, Co.
lambda county, has been arrested for
attempting to destroy the hotel by
setting IL on fire. A loss of $4,000 was
sustained some time ago by partial
destrution of the hotel.
--Disheartening reports come from
California ofprevailing drought, which
threatens TO make the wheat crop al.
most a total failure and reduce nine.
tenths OF the farmers TO bankruptcy.
But II must be remembered that SIM.
lar reports have been circulated before
and proved TO be much exaggerated.
Samuel Keisingcr was arrested a
few days ago in Luzerne county for
furnishing tavern keepers with illicit
whisky. The United States officers
found Kcisinger hiding in a loft, where
he had drawn a revolver. He at first
sworc he would defend himself to the
death but soon surrendered 10 superior
force.
1t is stated that Hen Butler and
his son.in.law, Ex-Governor Ames, late
of Mississippi, are negotiating for the
purchase OF seventy thousand acres Of
fine land in Colorado, with the purpose
Of founding model colony Of New
England whitos and negroes from the
South, and that both Of these gentle
men intend 20 settle in Colorado.
Mr.. Dodge, the statistician of the
Agricultural Department, reports that
the losses occasioned by diseases of
swine have been unusually heavy dur.
ing the last twelve months, especially
In stock raising States that border ON
the Mississippi river or the Gulf of
Mexico. The apparent loss is equiva.
lent TO s20,000,0 900, or third OF the
value OF the pork products OF last
year.
--Reccntly the residence Of an aged
couple named Foley, In Cambria coun.
ty, was visited by two men who rep.
resented themselves as United States
tetives IN search of counterfeit money.
Foley denied having any money, but
his visitors insisted that he had and
the house found n trunk
under a bed containing over $500 In
gold, which they appropriated. The
owner being feeble was unable TO mako
any resistance, and the villains have
not been heard az since