Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-03-28
NEWS ITEMS.

The temperance excitement in
Pittsburgh has reached and passed its
crisis and is fast subsiding.
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sail for Australia on the 18th OF April.
All Me Sin, Chinese workman AT
the Beaver Falls Cutlery works, died
and was buried at Beaver Falls last
week.
"A Judge in Marshalltown, Iowa,
last week committed two Quakers TO
Jail for wearing their hats in the court
room.
The Lewistown Sentinel says that
about one hundred persons embarked
at that place for Kansas, one day last
week.
The Remove Record says the
freights on the Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad have been very light for the
past month.
Mark Jeffries died at the residence
Of his son, Rev. Cyrus Jeffries, at Mt.
Union, Pa, few days since, aged
ninety years.
james Whitmer, ofSnyder county,
Pa, raised 1900 bushels OF potatoes on
ten acres of ground last year, for
which he received 81 200
Thomas j. Lewis, an old resident
OF Johnstown, ate hearty supper
Tuesday evening, stepped out in front
OF his dwelling, and fell dead.
Hayes is letting his Southern
policy out on commission. II there
are any profits, Hayes gets them il
there are none he loses nothing.
Turkish agents are seeking to place
an order TO build fifty locomotives, and
the Patterson, n. j., Press Is hopeful
that il will be secured in that city.
"A Rcidsvllle. Va, negro recently
ate forty-iour hard boiled eggs at one
sitting. He then drank seven glasses
of water, and called for more eggs.
"A boiler in the saw mill of Hun,
ter Bros, at Washington, Indiana, ex.
plodcd one day last week, killing
twelve persons and wounding seven
Tho New York State Senate re.
rused TO confirm Gen. Mcclellan ioi
Superintendent of Public Works, on
account of his non.residence in the
State.
When the Vanderbilt will contest
came to its sudden end lawyer was
heard to remark dts highway rob
berry 1t robs the profession of ST.,
10000"
Philip Walker, of Hollidaysburg
shot swan with rife, while flock
of eight was passing over that town
II measured six feet FIVE inches from
tip to tip.
"A mine of plumbago or graphite
has been opened on lands OF Mr.. Long,
near Mertztown, Lehigh county. Some
twenty tons of it have already been
taken out.
-Jno. d, Lee, the Mormon elder
who was convicted of helping to muir
der party of cmigrants over twenty
years ago was executed on Friday last,
by shooting.
1t cost S. s. Grimes, OF Waynes.
burg, 1880 for what he knows about
the game laws of Pennsylvania in con
nection with squirrels. He killed nine
out OF season.
Tho bill providing for a tax Of
eight-tcnths Of one per cent. on the
gross receipts of railway companies,
has passed both branches of the State
Legislature.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has contracted for one hundred
and twenty-five refrigerator cars, to be
used in transporting meat from Texas
to New York.
The refuse of the Nevada mines
is to be worked over, and it is egpect
ed that millions will bereclaimed from
waste and added to the silver yield Of
that place yearly,
AN old man engaged in hauling
in Ashland fell heir to one hundred and
eleven thousand dollars some time ago
and on Saturday last he died, leaving
the fortune to an only son.
Two men in Thomas county, Ca
were after some wild turkeys, unaware
of each others pursuit. One saw, a,
he thought, turkey in the bushes and
fired. 1t proved to be the other man
He was killed.
"A thief in women's clothes stol,
ten thousand dollars from the pay
master, of Lancaster, Pa, cottor
mill on Thursday last. He wal
subsequently captured and all tb'
money recovered.
The fish of Wallows Lake, in Cal
ifornia, are blood red in color and very
fat. There are only four lakes knowr
in which this fish is found-Payette il
Idaho, lake in Maine, cne in Scotland
and Wallows Lake.
No one need be surprised at tn,
announcement that public school hal
been opened at Crook City IN tn,
Black Hills, II there's spot IN Amer
ica where the young idea should b.
taught how TO shoot, it's there.
-Geo l.. Whiting, bookkeeper in /
New York Bank, walked off will
$4,000 in bills, on Wednesday last
and cody informed the officers of th,
bank that he would divide with them
He was arrested and held for trial.
Hon. A. Oakley Hall, ex.Mayor o
New York, has been missing Tor sew
eml days. The detectives Of that city
have been looking for him, but no trace
of his whereabouts has been discover
cd. No cause is assigned for his vol
untary absence.
: Minneapolis (Minn.) is not yc
thirty years old. More than 100000,
barrels OF -four were exported from
that place last year, and moro thai
200 900, 900 feet Of lumber made. On
Touring mill has iorty-one run Of stones
capable of turning out 1900 barrels o
-four day
Mr.. James Irvine, the great sbecl
farmer of Los Angeles county, Cali
iornia, intends TO kill thirty-nine thou
sand sheep on account OF the droutI