Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-06-19
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The st LInis Times thinks that
"Mr Hayes wishes he were dead
bradford, in the oil region, bud 500
inhabitants a year ago, and now It has
10000.
The Salt Lake Hcratd, the Nor
mon organ, wants Grant Tor President
in 1880.
There are one hundred and eighty.
eight candidates for Office in Butler
county.
-Fonr cenvicis !wrye. Sakcn. .som
Luzerne county to tho Penitcntiary
last week.
Michael j. Handy, n tax-collector
of Mahanoy City Pa, is Musings 49,.
900 short.
The return of Oranges from the
Florida groves will be unusually large
this season.
The peach crop promises to be
very large and the baskets much small
or than usual.
Snow TO the depth OF five feet
fell in San Bernardina county, Califor-
mia, two weeks ago
"A trout III, inches long was
caught in the Juniata river below Ty-
rome, the other day.
OF the forty-three students who
recently graduated from West Point,
nine are from Pennsylvania.
1T will take only three more boys
TO make a round 500 that Mr.. Ross
has inspected in his search for Charlie.
The real estate of the laic A. II.
Stewart, of New York, is worth about
s 1900, 5000 less than it was when be
died.
"A large number OF ministers arc
visiting Europe this summer, and Satan
will have a walk over during the
heated term.
Plank forthe Republicanplatform 4.
Resolved, That Samuel McIdn, James
Anderson and Elizabeth Tilton are no
longer worthy Of belief.
The officers of the National Bank,
Of Greenwich, n. Y, have squander-
cd 100000 Of the Banks money and
the institution has suspended.
Mr.. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, wants u practical sermon
preached out of the fact that the wo-
men residing at the Stewart Hotel re-
quired no bar.
The walls of two large brick stores
in Rochester N. Y, fell down on the
18th inst burying a number Of people
IN the ruins. Four were recovered
alive but badly injured.
"A son of Brigham Young is on his
way to West Point to be educated at
the Governments expense, making the
third of the dead prophets ons thus
honored in the past six years.
20. +. Ballard, late a member Of
the Pennsylvania Legislature, was con.
victed of embczzlement in Chester
county, on Friday a-week and sontcn.
ced to nine months Imprisonment.
Tho cause of education is lamenta.
bly, neglected in Russia. Places as
large as B%latoust, with l6,400 inbabi.
tants, Orsk, with $500, Belbek, with
1900, are entirely without schools.
DIR. George A, Christian, who fig
ured as a grave robber IN the District
of Columbia a few years ago, is said to
be the party who stole the body Of the
late John Scott Harrison in Cincinnati.
General Benjamin Harrison says
he is worth 500, 900, and has made a
solemn oath that every dollar Of it
shall DO devoted, if necessary, to bring
to justice the fcnds who stole his faith.
er's body.
The MHedn Miner is authority
for the statement that Gen. Kane's
taxes in Cameron, Elk and MKean
counties this year amount to the sum
of $4,000. When he expects to get his
money back is not stated.
According to the Washington Sun.
day Chronicle, the marriage Of Mrs.
Skunk, daughter of Hon. Jere Black,
to Mr.. Hornsby, a wealthy merchant
OF Louisville, Kentuckcy, is set for June
20, at York Pennsylvania.
"A Republican exchange says that
the selection Of Quay as Chairman Of
the Cameron-H oyt-T Ten Dollar state
committee insures an active, pushing,
aggressive campaign. oh yes, so far
as the Recorders fees a make il such.
Senator Bruce, the only colored
man in the Senate, will leave for Cleve-
land Immediately after Congress adj.
j%ourns, to marry u lady of that city,
and will then depart for a four months
trip through Europe and the continent.
-Willimantic Thread Company, OF
Hartford, Conn, which employs 1000
operators, paid off in gold last week.
A number of the hands had never seen
gold coin before, and many were un.
able to count it, and requested bills in.
stead.
The amount paid for stationary by
the Democratic Legislature of 1875 76,
was s25,305A1. For the Republican
Legislature of lS77-7S the amount paid
was si0,3l4.S9. These amounts are
the official records in the Audi.
tor Generals office.
The Altoona Mirror of Monday
$50 box ear loads of gram, en-
route TO Baltimore, were standing on
the track at different points on the
Middle Division, z. r. r. The eleva-
tors in that city being full these ship.
mcnts cannot be received at present.
Sheffield, warran county, possess
n gas well which not only furnishes
light 10 every house in the town, but
fuel also. A huge jet of gas burns
and day from q tall pipe, and H.
the whole neighborhood.
This gas is also death to flies and mus
q%uitoes.
DR.. Nobling. the would be assassin
Of Emperor William, ofGormany, is not
dead as was reported last week, and
tho Germans are doing all in their pow.
or to make him get well, in order that
they may bave the satisfaction of as
him of. In the meantime the
Emperor is recovering rapidly.
"A colony of Swceds have purchas.
cd a large tract of land on the Bhe
Mountains, extending from the Della.
ware Water Gap down TO the Wind
Gap, on which they n 10 settle