Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-13

mentioned as candidate for Secretary
OF State in New York this fall
Last year the wool product of
Australia was 100000 more than
four times as much as its gold product.
Bishop Fallows, of Chicago, has
laid the corner stone Of new Re-
formed Episcopal church at Toronto,
Canada.
-Jno. Tyler, Jr., son of the late
President Tyler, has been appointed
Inspector Of Customs at Richmond,
Virginia.
Three squares of business houses
at Galveston, Texas, were burned on
the 9TH inst The loss is estimated at
$4,000, 1000.
-Harrsburgis talking abouta baby
show. The recently married publisher
of the Telegraph had the audacity to
propose il.
Letter Hassenplug, son of the
Prothonotary of Union county, was
drowned in the river at Lewisburg
the other day.
The building of the Bellefonte
branch of the Lewisburg, Centre and
Spruce Creek Railroad is not progress
ing very rapidly.
The Ohio Democrats will hold their
State Convention on the 25th OF July.
The Republican Convention will be
held a week later
Has anybody seen anything of
Ben Butler lately? When last seen he
was engaged in reading note signed
Wayne MacVeagb.
The engineers and other employees
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad have ac.
cepted the ten per cent reduction, and
there will be no strike.
The Ohio State Fair will be held
at Columbus, Ohio, this year, com.
mencing on the 10th of September,
and TO continue for five days.
The men work six months on
each OF the marble window caps for
the st. Louis Post Office. A finished
csf weighs four tons, and costs 81 200.
An Associate Justice Of the Su-
preme Court of the United States gets
$4,000 year. The Judge of the
Common Pleas, of New York, gets
$4,000.
Bishop Wiley OF the NJ. L. Church
has been appointed to look after the
interest of the Church in China and
Japan. He will sail about the lst of
September.
The employees of the Bethlehem
Iron Company have been notified that
on July LIST reduction of from five to
twenty-five per cent. will be made in
their wages
Glover, Sanford 4 SoBs'ha factory.
at Bridgeport Connecticut, was burned
on Thursday evening, June 7th. Eleven
men perished in the flames. The loss
will reach about s250,O0O
The Freedman's Bank property
in Washington City was offered for
sale last week The property is worth
$3.50, 900 and the highest bid for il was
$4,000. 1t was not sold.
The nitro. .glycerine works situated
on the hills back of San Francisco,
California, were blown up on the 9Th
inst. The workmen were absent at
dinner, and hence no lives were lost.
Tho twenty street car companies
in Philadelphia paid 100000 in divi.
dends last year on paid up capital
amounting to s., 5,96l,33l. This indi.
Gates that the Centennial travel was
profitable.
The South Carolina House of Rep.
resentatives has passed bill to pro.
hibit the sale of seed cotton between
sunset and sunrise. The object is TO
prevent cotton stealing. by negroes.
Four colored Republicans voted for the
bill.
The Shenandoah Herald is on.
dcavoring TO create sensation with
the story that the Mauch Chunk Jail
Is to be attacked with the purpose Of
liberating the condemned Mollies. The
force on duty at the Jail has been
doubled.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Philadelphia took TO Rome as 0
special offering TO the Pope $780, 00O
subscribed in bis own diocese. This il
500, 900 moro than the Roman Catho
lies in all England sent to Plus TX on
his jubilee.
The Mayor of Pittsburgh has
scandalized the whole town by send
ing to the workhousc for ninety DAYS
q lot Of young roughs who belonged to
the first families. They had plenty OF
money TO pay fines, but fining such
fellows is no punishment.
| ALout Iftus UIunt, SUI Ot trencTtl
Grant, has been detailed TO select O
government mail route from the Mis-
souri, river TO the Black Hills. Hs
will be accompanied by an officer ap.
pointed for the purpose by the Gov
crnor OF Dckota Territory.
"A Paris Snowman, whose daugh
was recently married, presented to bit
son-in.law, as her fortune, an elcphan,
that danced fandango, q camel thai
went down on its knees with its head
TO the East at sunset, dog that rcck
oned up accounts and two canarics
that played cards.
With nearly 1000, 900 tons Of ice
In thor warehouse, the Now York 10,
companies feel abundantly prepared e
assist in solving tho problem ''How ts
Keep Cool" The price OF icc Is un.
usually low, and the prospects favor
cheap rates through the season. Al
the opening Of summer last year lcs
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