Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-07-11

at Northumberland, unable to get be
low on account Of low water. Their,
was no flood in the north branch Of tn,
Susquehanna.
General C. F. Henningsen, wei
known IN years past in connection
with the Walker expedition 10 Cuba
died in Washington yesterday, aged
sixty.two years.
1t every day appears more evident
that if the Democracy in Congress had
/. stuck to Tildcn he would to-day have
been President and our bills would not
be so hard TO collect.
An article by Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe in the Spiritual Scientist lndi.
Gates her conversion TO Spiritualism.
Harriet is little like her brother Hen
ry--full of vagaries.
1t has been agreed to hold the State
fair at Erie provided the local com
mittee will make the necessary arrange.
ments but II is said Eric is not so
very enthusiastic over it.
Postmaster General Key docs not
propose to resign simply because Nor.
ton would like to have him do SO, that
Tyner could be made Postmaster Gen.
eral fol the whole country.
Sweet and fragrant are the ameni-
ties ofChicago journalism. The Times
describes Mr.. Joseph Medill, OF the
Tribune as zone OF the most canting
of Pecksniffs and dirtiest ofmoral pole.
cats"
Morton said in his bloody shirt cam
paign that President must accommo.
date himself TO the policy of the men
who elected him. twill puzzle Morton
TO tell what the party has made out Of
Hayes.
A moth.proof barrel in which clothes
can he safely stored is a late invention.
But this leaves the moth at large.
What is wanted is barrel in which
the moths can be kept and thus have
the clothes at large.
Secretary Sherman's peculiarly orig.
inal ideas of civil service reform have
led him to say that in short time he
shall have to demand the resignation
OF some more heads Of bureaus in bis
department "for political reasons"
The first shipment of pig-iron from
America to Europe has been made.
Five tons have gone from Pittsburgh to
Antwerp. Belgium is importing Amer
ican car-wheels, which seem likely to
come into extended use in that country.
The widow of the late Hallon B.
Holscher has sued Parker City for
$4,000 damages for the death of her
husband. Mr.. Holscher's death was
caused by injuries received by falling
into hole in an unprotected sidewalk.
Tom Ewing seems to be the coming
man tor about everything in Ohio. 1t
is now asserted that he is nominating
his friends all over the State tor the
Legislature and is going to be the sue
cessor of Stanley Matthews in the
Senate.
Joseph Grecnbrogh died recently at
Kirkdalc Jail, Scotland, aged eighty
one and leaving property valued at 81,
25O,O00. He was at the time Of his
death undergoing sentence Of years
Imprisonment for disorderly and riot
ous conduct.
The MeVeytown Journal complains
that letters from that place to Phila-
delphia have been opened and checks
and money purloined therefrom. The
best remedy we know of would be TO
turn out of office the Republican Off
ciais who handle the mails.
The Reading Eagle calls attention to
three ancient women OF Berks, daugh-
ters o, Abraham Kurtz. Elizabeth,
now the widow of Jacob Yoder, was
born in ITS Sarah Kurtz, just deccas.
ed, in 1901, and Cathanne, married to
q Yoder also, was born in 1893. Their
combined ages amount to 259 years.
Since P. T. Barnum offered $4,000
for the return Of Charlie Ross, he has
received great number OF letters from
people who know where the boy is,
and want $50 or $3.50 to send dcteo-
tives to get him. Mr.. Barnum has
consequently issued circular saying
that he will oxpcnd no money to work
out anybody's theories.
Mr.. Mullett's Post Office at Hart
ford has cost already sii5,000, and
will probably require $3.50, 900 moro to
finish. The building Of the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company, near by,
which is larger than the Post Office
and made Of better material, cost but
$4,000. IL is only government
treasury that can afford o Mullett.
Governor Cullom, of Illinois, Is said
to have written several bushels Of let. |
ters to the President recommending
tho appointment OF his friends to vari- |
GUS places. But none of his friends
got places, although in some instances
he had recommended two or three for |
the same position. Governor Cullom
has now gone TO Washington to sec
what they have done with all hislettcrs. |
The Supreme Court have filed their
decree in tho case Of White, Lontz 4 |
White VS.. the Susquehanna boom CON-
pany. BY this decree any persons who |
catch logs above the boom and desire
to pass them through the spar boom,
must first have them measured by an
authorized scaler and return the quan.
tity to the boom company. This brings
such logs within the charter Of the
company and subjects them to the pay.
mont of boomage as upon othcr logs
Dan Voorhees, will next year canvass
Indiana for the United States Senate In
TO Morton. The Louisville
Courier Journal says IL "wil attract as
much attention as the famous struggle |
between Lincoln and Douglass in 1858
On its result great things will depend
because, II Mr.. Voorhees, unseats Nor.
ton, finally rcdecming the State, lndi.
ana will appear at the front in 1880 as
the leading Democratic State in the
Union" This, with fow things that
have happened in the past few days
Of course means Hendricks for Prcsi.
dent