Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-10-31
NEWS ITEMS.

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Joshua faggart, a wcll.known dc
tective, died in Philadelphia Friday
night.
TAs 2spsbicans of Massachusetts,
need a provost guard to keep them to-
gether.
Thurlow Weed has withdrawn from
politics, aud he didn't hold Federal
Office either.
We do not suppose that the critics
have destroyed Anna Dickinson but
where is shey
Tho Presidents elbow ought to be
logged concerning that thanksgiving
proclamation.
The New Jersey Republicans talk
of running Grants Long Branch cot
tage for Governor.
Because Key started life as a ped.
agoguo is no reason why he should
close it as a demagoguo.
eTen years in He'll" is the name Of
a now book, which may be sequel to
"Ten Nights in Barroom."
What gloriously flush times were
those when New York State Senator
could command $4,000 for his vote.
The Bangor Whig is vory unhappy
about our dedication ceremonies, and
sobs convulsivoly for the bloody shirt.
General Longstreet, who is living
quietly in GAINESVILLE, Ga, is writing
an account of the battle OF Gettysburg.
A man has arrived in Pittsburg who
walked from tho Black Hills. lie is
h resident of Forest county, this State.
A little girl in Armstrong county
was gwen six shooter ns playtbing
The ball lodged in her mothers knee,
An English swain who had been
thirty years engaged to alady, recent.
ly Tilted her and married butchers
widow.
Ex- United States Senator Eugene
Casserly is mentioned as the Democrat
most likely to succeed Mr. Sargent in
the United States Senate.
Buffalo Bill, it is reported, will re-
tire from the stage after he has finish
cd this season, and become the head Of
a cattle rancho on the frontier.
Grant still fingers in Europe to enjoy
the bonors that crowd thickly upon
him. While the free cigars hold out to
our ex. President will not return
"The conscientious men" is what a
carpet bag Senator styles portion oil
the Republican party in Congress
There arc only few of them, how
ever
The Republicans say this is terrible.
They would rather be sassed by Gen
Butler every day in the week than to
endure the dull dread Of his ominous
silence.
General William Patton, the oldest
member of the Bradford county bar,
and for many years a prominent local
politician, died in Towanda, yesterday
aged rs years.
Senator Davis, Of Illinois, refused 10
act with the Democratic caucus. He
remained alone in the Senate chamber
while the caucuses Of the two parties
were being held.
That would be trusting the Prcsi
dent to discretion equal to adding
fifteen thousand men to the present
army. The present Congress is moi
likely to agree 20 it,
Professor Swing says: "Tbe churches
will generally stay about homo thi,
winter, and do many things that were
omitted last year on account of the
Centennial and Moody and Sankcy.'
Sergeantat-Arms French, of ihe
Senate, is now in trouble. He is &C
cused of ihdorsing dupIicatc pay ccrti
ficatcs, and will have an investigation
all TO himself when Congress gets dowr
to work.
Jennie Bolton, pretty l5-year olC
Kansas girl, eloped a day or two age
with 40.year mulatto. Thoy were
pursued and captured, and the abduc
tor narrowly escaped hanging. lie il
now in Jail.
It's pity the Jersey Republicans
didn't nominate Fitzpatrick TO rur
against Mcclellan. Fitzpatrick would
have then discovered what an immens,
jackass he is in the estimation Of BIZ
fellow. citizens.
The successful defense of Kars by
the Turks under Mukntar Pashs is ex
planned by intelligent military men OF
the hypothesis that the breechloadinl
rifle behind earlh-works makes up fol
disparity in numbers and deficiency
in discipline.
At Paincsville, o., recenlly,a n masor
went down into well fifty feet deer
to examine it, and just as no reached
the bottom the sides caved in. II wa,
fully eighteen hours before the debris
was removed, and strange to say The
man was alive.
Mr. Tweed confesses that he used t
love TO lie, but that since his vacation
in Spain the truth surges through hi'
manly bosom so that he says, II took
hack at your municipal cherry y-trce
| cannot-cannot-0h, do not ask me
to tell lie"-NeD York Herald.
The New York Tribune says: III
the Hon. Stanley Matthews had moi
taken pains to build up the Cleveland
platform OF Democratic financial and
communisiic hcrcsics, his Sentoria
hopes might not have been MS fiat
o-day as II the Khedivo's obelisk had
dropped on them
This is what Stephen Pearl Andrew,
says about it /: "Evolution is the ma
tural and orderly procession from q
unismal TO duismal state of existence
and thence by combination to n trim g.
NAL state; and thence, again, by re-
version and subsumption, TO u tri.un
ismal state or stage which is final oil
ultimate"
The Boston Journal says: "ThC
enemies of Secretary Schurz complain
that he is visionary thcorist Well
suppose he is SO long as he can bring
the expense Of his Indian council down
TO seven thousand dollars, when II cost
fifty thousand dollars under tho prac
teal Delano, by oil means let the wis
ionary theorist' proceed"