Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-20

hiNi VNs'hNa's
John Okoeic, member oi the
British House OF Commons for Dun
garoon, is dead.
AN Altoona party recently stole u
spring wagon load of hay from a farmer
in broad daylight
The inventory of the estate OF the
late Augustus Hemenway, of Boston,
footed up ss,s9l, 1885.
Twelve convicts from Lycoming
county were lodged in the Eastern
Penitentiary last week.
Ex.Gov. Curtin has been elected
President Of the King Mountain mining
company, North Carolina.
"A New York lawyer has sued the
Albany Ecening Journal for libel, lay
ing the damages at $1,000 900.
according TO the Gazette and Bulie-
TN lumber shipments from Williams.
port were increased last week.
Great damage has been done to
Western and Southern railroad and
crops by the recent heavy rams.
There are 6,I32 Sunday Schools
in Pennsylvania, with 629, ,54s scholars,
and 81 1886 officers and teachers.
An Allegheny county grocer ran a
mile the other day in four minutes and
thirty-fve seconds, on dollar bet.
The population of Altoona, &C.
cording to recent census, is l6, 1854.
This is an increase of l,G25 since 1875.
Mine rolls of silk, valued at 81 400,
were stolen from store on Market
street. Philadelphia on Thursday last.
The exports of produce from New
York, last week, were s6,02l, ,957,
against s6,5l3,296 in same week last
year
The Titusville Contemporaries that
nearly million and half barrels OF
oil will be shipped from the Pennsyl-
vania regions in June.
The seventeen-yearlocusts swarm
in the Delaware valley. The fish cpl
demic prevails just as it did when 10.
Gusts appeared in 1860.
Mrs. Appleton, of Boston, has
the flag that floated over Fort McHen-
ry, and inspired Key, the author of
the "Star Spangled Banner"
The membership of tho Good Ten
plars in the State has increased 1900
the past year. There are now 10000
Good Templars in the State.
The large door lock factory Of
Jacobus, Nimick q Co., at Pittsburgh,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday
morning last. The lossis about $685.
900.
The james Devor farm in Tus.
carora township, Perry county, con-
sisting of 800 10 900 acres, has been
sold TO nephew Of the deceased for
$4,000.
On Thursday Of last week a bridge
over the Connecticut river between
Northampton and Hadley, Massachu-
setts, was blown away and a woman
killed.
Tweed will not be released from
his cell in the New York prison. He
has taken steps TO confess judgmentin
all the suits brought against him by
the city.
The mayor Of New London Conn,
is victim Of thoughtlessness. He
ordered all unmuzzled dogs to be shot
by the police, and his own pet animal
was the first one brought in.
Not a single one or two dollar bill
has been printed at the Bureau OF En-.
craving and Printing since the first of
April last. The goycrnmentw will soon
run out of small change at this rate.
The borough authorities OF Cham.
bersburg have issued an edict that no
fire crackers, or discharge of fire arms
will be permitted within the precincts
of that borough on the Fourth of July.
"A large island in the Susquehanna
river at the point where the north and
west branches unite, containing about
three hundred acres, has been purchas-
ed by Hon. John B. Packer for 500, 900.
"A new cattle disease is carrying
CONSERVATION among the farmers OF
Montgomery county. The oxen and
cows attacked swell up and exhibit
many of tho symptoms of distemper
IN horses.
The Supreme Court OF Arkansas
has decided that the act under which
about sixteen million OF bonds were
issued in 1869 in aid of railroads was
unconstitutional, and that tho bonds
are illegal.
The judicial history of Blair
county has been prepared by Hon.
John Dean, and will be read at the
dedicatory services Of the new court
house at Hollidaysburg on the I'd Of
next month.
-Twenty-nine employees were re.
Gently dismissed from the New Or
leans Custom House. Gradually the
public departments are being rid Of the
superhuous clerks--a good result Of
Democratic economy.
Joseph Grecnborough, Scotch
man, aged eighty.ono, and worth q
million and a quarter of dollars, died
recently in jail in Edinburgh, where
he had been sentenced for one ycarfor
riotous and disorderly behaviour.
j. G. Payne, son of Bishop Payne,
oil the Southern Methodist Church. is
announced as a candidate for Sergeant.
alarms OF the National House. He is
a brother.in.law of Senator Gordon and
a classmatc of Senator Lamar and
Representative Chalmers, of Missis.
sippi
oil makes everybody and every.
thing got out Of its way at North
Warren. A few days ago small
building was moved TO make room for
an oil rig, and Inst week the new
school house was beingremovcd further
away from tho main road into the
field.
The Supreme Court has decided
to hear the argumentat the Pittsburgh
term on the writ of error taken out In
the case Of Patrick Hester, Hugh
Tully and Patrick McEugh, the Co.
lumbia county Molly Maguires, who
we're to have been hanged on August
9th.