Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-10-31
NEWS ITEMS.
Dom Pedro has never signed death

Gen. Howard Is called Dhy'hiter 10
morrow, by the Indians.
sigrs Of the times Gone to my
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I6e most snlItrsss tnlngIn tnls 0rlu
s a vassar College student taking
path.
Joshua Taggart, u well-known de-
Lective, died in Philadelphia Friday
night.
The Republicans of Massachusetts
need provost guard to keep them to-
gether.
Thurow Weed has withdrawn from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
The 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 n ped
agogue is no reason why he should
close it as demagoguc.
Ten years in He'll" is tho name of
a new book, which may be sequel to
"Ten Nights in Barroom."
What gloriously flush times were
those when New York State Senator
could command $40, 600 for his vote.
The Bangor Whig is very unhappy
about our dedication ceremonies, and
sobs convulsivcly 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 the Black Hills. He is
resident of Forest county, this State.
A little girl in Armstrong county
was gwen II six shooter as plaything
The ball lodged in her mothers knee.
An English swain who had been
thirty years engaged to lady, recent
ly Tilted her and married II 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 bead of
a cattle rancho on the frontier.
Grant still fingers in Europe to enjoy
the honors that crowd thickly upon
him While the free cigars hold out to
our ex President will not return.
"Tho conscientious men" is what
carpet bag Senator styles portion OF
the Republican party in Congress.
There arc only few Of them, how.
over.
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 prominent local
politician, died in Towanda, yesterday,
aged rs years.
Senator Davis, Of Illinois, refused TO
act with the Democratic caucus He
remained alone in the Senate chamber
while tho 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 not
likely to agree 20 it,
Professor Swing says: "The churches
will generally stay about homo this
winter, and do many things that were
omitted last year on account of the
Centennial and Moody and Sankey"
Scrgeantat-Arms French, of The
Senate, is now in trouble. lie fs ac
cused of indorsing duplicate pay ccrti.
ficatcs, aBd witt have an investigation
Tall to himself when Congress gets down
to work.
Jennie Bolton, a pretty lb-year old
Kansas girl, eloped day or two ago
with 4O.year mulatto. They were
pursued and captured, and the abduo,
tor narrowly escaped hanging. Ho is
now in Jail.
It's a pity the Jersey Republicans
didn't nominate Fitzpatrick to run
against Mcclellan. Fitzpatrick would
have then discovered what an immense
iackass he is in the estimation Of his
fellow citizens.
Tho successful defense of Kars by
the Turks under Mukntar Pashs is ex.
planned by intelligent military men on
the hypothesis that the breechloading
rife behind earlh-works makes up for
disp rity in numbers and deficiency
in discipline.
At Paincsville, o., recently, II mason
went down into u well fifty feet deep
to examine it, and just us no reached
the bottom the sides caved in. 1t was
fully eighteen hours before the debris
was removed, and strange TO say the
man was alive.
Mr. Tweed confesses that he used u
love to lie, but that since his vacation
in Spain the truth surges through his
manly bosom so that he says, IL took
a hack at your municipal cherry tree,
| cannot-cannot-- do not ask me
TO tell a c."-Neio York Herald.
The New York Tribune says; "II
the Hon. Stanley Matthews had not
taken pains to build up the Cleveland
platform of Democratic financial and
communistic hercsies, bis Sentoria
hopes might not have been MS aal
to-day as Il the Khedive's obelisk had
dropped on them"
This is what Stephen Pearl Andrews
says about it; "Evolution is tho ma
turnl and orderly procession from Q
unismal TO duismal state of existence
and thence by combination TO trim 8
NAL state; and thence, again, by re
version and subsump,ion, TO tri.un
ismal state or stage which is final oil
ultimate"
The Boston Journal says "Tb,
enemies of Secretary Schurz complair
that he is a visionary thcorist. Well
suppose he Is So long us be can bring
thu cxncnse of his Indinn conncil dow,