Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-02-14

WIS slf'NNsVVVs Nv lNhhNNi'h ihHt
year was $50, ,250.
John Staver, of Pine Run, Ly.
coming county, will put into the water
this season 100000 feet Of logs and
100, 900 feet OF boards.
Many Of the schools in Cambria
county have had to be closed on nc.
count Of the great prevalence Of dip.
iberia among the children.
The Americans are shellng Con
stantinople. A steamer carrying 15,.
100000 shells has just sailed for that
port from New Haven, Conn.
Rear Admiral Wilkes, United
States Navy, retired list, died in Wash.
ton on Thursday, February sth. IIc
had been in bad health fora long time
1t is hard thing to find an old
maid who doesn't look under the bed
Tor robbers, but still harder to find u
man who can run skating rink and
make money.
The largest woman in Kansas
died at Elk Falls, in that State, last
week. She was twenty-five years Of
age, and weighed three hundred and
twenty pounds.
The residents of Woodbine Har.
rison.couniy, Iowa, have been holding
Indignation meetings because a farmer
keeps nineteen dogs, which he allows
TO run at large.
The Governor has issued war
rant for the execution on the ith Of
April next, Of Thos. Duffy, convicted
in Schuylkill county Of the murder OF
Benjamin F. Yost.
Baron dc Werner says, through
the gratingoi Sun Francisco cell 81
dislike country where there is no re-
spect paid 10 social distinction" lie
had been swindling.
The Piutes are such inveterate
gamblers that n party Of squaws and
bucks in Virginia City were entirely
showed in the other day while playing
poker on a vacant lot.
-rhad. Stevens old desk in the
House of Representatives is the per.
sonal property of A. X. Mcclure, who
now writes his ringing editorial in the
Philadelphia Times uponit
Secretary Chadwick was inaugur.
atsd Governor Of Oregon, last week,
to succeed Grover, resigned Mr..
Grover will take his seat in the Z. s.
Senate after the 9TH OF March.
"A negro of Bozeman, NJ T., drink
ing a pint of coal oil with suicidal in
tent, the other day, the emetic convert.
cd him into petroleum well, with o
flowing capacity of four barrels day.
--Advices from Tuscon, Arizonia,
say the Legislature has passed a sup
Elemental bill exempting the Southern
Pacific road from taxation for six
years, instead Of four, as by the origi-
nal bill.
For good hard common sense give
us the Connecticut Legisturc. 1t con-
tains 1913 farmers, 40 manufacturers,
2l merchants and oily ~ lawyers, The
Maine House has forty farmers, 20
merchants aud Q lawyers.
Moody, the Evangelist, announces
that the contributions for the family OF
the late P. p. Bliss have been so liberal
that with the addition Of what he left
they arc well provided for, and the
collections should now cease.
Judge Poland, the profane old
cuss, says he "don't know anything
about the Electoral Bill and he don't
care damn That's frank acknowl.
edgement and il is put in terms that
are entirely understandable.
Captain C. V. Gardiner, of Dead.
wood, d. r., has just completed ar
rangements in Omaha, whereby smelt-
ing works of the most approved kind
will be established in the Black Hills
this summer Capital, s5O,00O.
Tho freight business of the Penn.
sylvnnia Railroad has diminished con-
siderably as compared with few
months ago, but il is much greater
than heretofore at corresponding pc
riod OF the year. This is the dull
season for railroad business.
The stockholders in the Keely
Motor Company are getting uneasy,
and il is rumorcd that the great in
vcntor will be called upon to show
some satisfactory evidence that the
money that has been put up Tor him
has been productive Of some tangible
results
The Cambria Freeman in noting
the death Of Mrs, Catharine Trotter,
in Hemlock, Cambria county, says that
good lady, who had no children of her
own, raised and educated no less than
twenty-one orphans. Her funeral was
the largest ever seen in the locality
where she lived.
Eastern statesmen should pattern
their action IN regard to the payment
Of school teachers by the statesmen OF
Nebraska, who, TO their honor bc il
said, have enacted law which pro.
vides that male and female teachers
shall receive the amount of compcnsa.
ton where the same kind and amount
Of work is performed. Good for Ne.
braskn.
The liabilities OF tho firms in New
York that have failed, assigned, or
been adjudicatcd bankrupts during the
past month Of January is estimated at
81, 900, 900. Thirty-sevcn firms failed
with liabilitiesof 81 900, 600, thirty.two
made assignments, their liabilities bc.
ing $3.50, 600, and nineteen were adjudi.
Gated IN bankruptcy, their indebtedness
being $3.50, 900.
1t is mentioned as striking illus.
tration Of the hard times among poll
ticians as well as other folks that
among the special police lately sworn
in at the capitol were two Ex. Govern
ors, ono Tx Judge, one Ex- Congress
man, and several prominent State pol.
iticiAns, who have been hanging about
Washington for months waiting for
something TO turn up.