Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-04-18
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"A movement is on foot at oil
City looking TO the erection OF u more
commodous oil exchange.
Miss Lizzie Porter, the Admiral's
eldest, is to become the wife Of Lieut.
Logan, u. S. ~, on May 10th.
edward A. Howard, of Michigan
has been appointed Agent for the In
dians OF the Ponca agency, in Dakota
American mules pull the street
cara OF Glasgow, and flop their long
ears for one more look at these shores,
Nearly every Republican State
Senator in Iowa has been brought out
rs a candidate for Lieutenant Governor
--Shad are now being taken in Sar
Francisco bay. They were first placed
in California waters by Seth Green il
1871.
IL. W. Siggins fell sixty feet from
a derrick at st. Petersburg, Clarion
county, one day last week, and wa.
fatally injured.
Jacob Covode Of Sharpsburg, Pa
brother Of the late Hon. John COvodc
died at bis home at that place on last
Friday n week.
The Ohio Legislature has intro
duced a bill to compel railroad compan.
les to use selfextinguishing stoves on
passenger cars.
There are some iolks worse of
than we in the matter of weather
London had only seventeen hours Of
sunshine in March.
Mr.. Hayes will attend the opening
OF the Permanent Exhibition at Phila,
delphia on the 10th Of May, if public
duties will permit.
Gov. Hartranil spent several days
Of last week in Washington city, hob.
nobbing with Mr.. Hayes. No troops
wanted in Pennsylvania.
Once more we hear of Gen. Bel.
knap Washington papers announce
that Mr. and Mrs. Belknap will soon
leave that city for Iowa
Mrs. Custer has declined benefit
and paid all her husbands debts in full.
There is still a mortgage OF $4,000 on
the homestead, however
Wells a. Schoch's boiler shops at
Lewlstown, Pa, with other property,
were burned on Tuesday of last week.
Loss s25, 900; insurance unknown.
The pottcrs strike at Trenton, N.
j., which has continued for three
months came TO an end on the 18th
inst, for lack Of funds to continue it.
The farm house Of Mrs. Dithridge,
near Tioncsta, Pa, with all its furni.
turc, was destroyed by fire on the llth
inst. The loss is $4,000 insurance
$1,000.
-Thot sl,500,0 900 furnished TO the
Centennial show by the United States.
goes back again from whence il came.
This is disgusting bacxset to the
spectators in centennial stock.
The Rov. Dir. Muhlcnberg, who
wrote the famous hymn commencing
I would rot live Away" did live till
in his Slst year and died Sunday even
ing, April Sth, New York city.
Dom Piatt, whom Grant had ar.
rested tor publishing a treasonablo ar
ticlc in his paper has been dis
charged from custody, the District At
torney entering nollc prosequi in the
case.
Mr.. VIM. l.. Morris, of New York
city, has just been reappointed Com
missioner of Deeds, an Office which he
has held for fifty-nine years, having
been appointed IN in 1918, by Gov. De
Witt Clinton.
Gov. Tildcn narrowly escaped Sc
rious injury or death one day last
week. While out driving his horses
took fright and ran away. The Gov.
ernor escaped unhurt by Jumping
from the carriage.
-"Govcrnor Chamberlain Yields TO
the logic OF events says the New
York Herald. That's very pretty
way to say it, but be really Yielded
and Joseph A. Dean, Orville b. Jewett
to want of bayonots.
The Brachoes river in Canada
overhowed its banks last week, sweep
Ingoffa large number Of cattle and doing
much other damage. Tho water rose
twenty feet and the people along its
banks fed TO the highland for safety.
"A wealthy old gentleman in Nor.
wich, Connecticut, had made his will
leaving nearly all his property to the
Methodist Church, but he burned the
document in disgust when he read the
Of the New England Con.
terence.
The Cambria Iron Works at
lohnstown recently received and filled
IN order for one thousand tons OF steel
rails for the Rio Grande railroad, a
new route to be constructed this spring
rom Levata, Colorado, to the Rio
irande valley,
--Thomas Campbell was TO have
been hanged at Wilkesbarre, on the
10th inst, but writ OF error from the
Supreme Court stayed the execution.
He is generally believed TO be innocent
IF the murder for which ho was TO
have been executed.
The locomotives engineer of the
Reading Railroad do not take kindly
o the order of the Company forbid.
lin engineers to belong TO the Broth.
'rhood OF Locomotive Engineers, and
nearly all OF them will quit the EN-
'loy of the company.
AT a meeting held in Ottawa,
canada, recently, to consider the best
means of relieving unemployed labor,
memorial was adopted urging on the
nmentthe desirability of original.
ng and carrying on such public work |
IS may be necessary and in the public
interest, for the alleviation of the pres.
mt dcstitution.
The body of Solomon Castley, Jr,
'olored, was found in the woods ten
niles from Frederick, Nd, on Satur.
lay a week, pierced with bullet.
,astlcy bad been missing since the
Wednesday previous. Edward Cast.
cy, alias Dorsey, his cousin, aged
wenty years, who left his homo at the
inc ! Solomon disappeared, is suspected
e the murder.