Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, June 22, 1870, Image 2

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CLEARFIELD,PA.,JUXE 22, 1870.
Gold sold at 112 in .New York, on Satur
day last
Jerome Bonaparte died at bis residence
in Baltimore on Friday laL
The Rhode Island Legislature, on June
14th, re elected Hon. Ileniy B. Anthony
United States Senator for fcix years from
March 4th, IsTl.
United States Attorney General Hoar,
lir.ving; resigned his position in the Cabinet,
the President has appointed Hon. Amos P.
Acternian, of Georgia to fill the vacancy.
The Chicago Times asaerts that General
M'Clellan is being worked up in New York
as a Democratic candidate for President in
1872, especially to be used in case Grant is
renominated. Let it be so.
The Legislature of New Hampshire, on
Tuesday a-vreek, re elected Hon. Aaron II.
Cragin as United States Senator for six
years from March 4th, 1SG1, when his
present term will expire.
Several items', in our issue of June Sth,
seem to have stirred up the bile on our
neighbor's stomach wonderfully, judging
from the length of the diatribes written
thereon. A little ipecac might afford the
necessary relief. Better try it.
Some inquiring chap has heard that the
green on the new three cent postage stamps
is poisonous, and wants to know what he
shall do if he licks one and is made sirk.
Our advice would be to go immediate around
and lidc the Postmaster General.
Whisky yielded, last year, under the old
ratio of taxation and a Johnsonian plan of
collection, a revenue of but $12,000,000.
Under the preseut reduced rate, and with a
ibore faithful administration of the law, the
revenue from that source will be nearly $52,
000,000. The ring now proposes to increase
the rate again, plausibly suggesting that
there can be no failures in the collection un
der President Grant. The suggestion is
good, but the proposal will fail, as a higher
rate of taxation would only stimulate the
"ring" to commit greater frauds upon the
government.
The N. Y. Tribune says : "The fact has
been developed iu the testimony in the Alexander-Gardiner
case that the $1, 200 left
by the dead man to pay for a lot and njnu
ment for hiin in Greenwood Cemetery has
been given as a fee to the lawyer now engag
ed in trying to exclude his heirs from their
rightful inheritance. 'Mean enough to
steal a meeting-house' was once thought to
be a mere Yankee figure of speech. 'Mean
enough to steal a tombstone' 13 hereafter, it
seems, to be an accurate description of at
least one of our New York lawyers."
Experience seems to teach no lesson to
the Democracy. They cling to prejudices
and follies with a tenacity that is inexplica
ble. In Tecuesste they presist in a disor
ganizing policy, the result of which will
sooner or later Le Federal interference in
some form. They have also become the
apostles in repudiation in matters directly
affecting the State credit. Again, in West
Virgin'a, they reassert the old dogma of
white superiority and supremacy. PoorDeni
ocrscy ! When will they lesrn to accommo
date themselves to passing events !
Ti'eTitusville Herald, of June 15th asks :
"How is this for High?" and then relates
that "at a Treasurer's sale of unseated lands
in Forest county, a tract of 411 acres in
Kingsloy township was bid of! foito5,(XX),
000, and 290 acres in the same township for
$53,000,000. It is refreshing to know that
in every case the taxes were only about
$60." We know of nnthiug that conies
ery near being as "high" as that, if the
figures are correct ; and, we opine, if tlie
debts on the lands were proportionate to
the reported bids, the Treasurer's eLance
for payment in full would be rather slim.
Oregon had a Democratic Stats Govern
ment last year. It elects the ticket of the
same party this year by a very considerable
reduced majority. The last Legislature was
Democratic by seventeen majority on joint
ballot ; in the next Legislature, the sauiu
party will have a majority of rot more than
tight. This is not truch of a Democratic
victory. Moreover, it suggests a pertinent
inquiry. The convention wL'ch nominated
the ticket now successful, endorsed in its
platform the policy of repudiation. 9uerJ" ?
Was the reduced majority of th-2 pan73t
the recent election due to tbaten'Jorsciuct..' .
or in spite of it ?
The-New York Standard gives circula
tion to rumors relating to the purposes of
the New York Democracy in opposition to
the Fifteenth Amendment, and the recent
legislation of Congress in connection with it.
Our contemporary alleges that "the election
law passed by Congress, by which it is in
tended to secure purity in elections, has
thoroughly aroused the Democracy, and the
leaders again talk of resistance to the Fed
eral authority." A special session of the
Legislature, with this end ia view, is spo
ken of as one of the steps contemplated ;
the object being to pass measures which shall
bring to a square issue the contest between
Federal and State authority. Sensational
. the story may seem, says the Times,
iiiii:h i on record to invest some portious
frf it wirh plausibility.
Homestead Law.
A bill proposing a very important amend
ment to the Homestead law, for the benefit
of those who served in the suppression of
the rebellion, lias passed the House of Rep
resentatives, aud is now awaiting the action
of the Senate. It provides that every pri
vate soldier and c-ffic-r who has served in the
army, and every seamen, marine'ofEcer or
other person who served in the navy of the
United States, or iu the marine corps or
revenue corps, during the rebellion, for 30
days, and remained loyal to the Govern
ment shall, without payment of any fee or
commission to registers or receiver of land
offices, be entitled to enter one quarter sec
tion of land, not mineral, or alternate re
st rved sections of public lands along the
linco of all railroads or public works in the
United States, wherever public lands have
been or may be granted by acts of Cougress,
and to receive a patent therefor under and
by virtue of the provisions of the home
stead acts, and on terms aud condition there
in described ; and all provisions of said acts,
except as herein modified, shall extend and
be applicable to entries under this act. This
secures free homesteads for all soldiers and
sailors on those lands by reason of settlement
aud improvement, ft is to be hoped that
the bill may become a law, and that it may
be of practicable benefit to the former sol
diers of the Republic.
Democracy naturalization.
We feel called upon, says a contempora
ry, to express sympathy with the Democ
racy on acount of the perverse obstinacy of
Congress in afflicting them with a rigid and
not very easily evaded naturalization and
franchise law. The Senate was severe, but
the House is severer. It has actually de
termined that false swearing to secure natu
ralization or a vote is perjury, and requires
it to be punished as such, and this not by a
mild Democratic judge, whose sympathies
might run away with his judgment, but by
the United States court. If it furnished a
clear case for appeal to the people, as in
volving "centralization of power," "tramp
ling upon the rights of the people," and
the like, there would be some vent to their
feelings. As it is, the New York TForM
calls it a law "with a stump speech in its
belly." But the unfortunate fact is, the
"stump speech" is in the interest of hones
ty, and hence not quotable. We really in
cline to fear that for once even Democratic
ingenuity, in duplicating votes, is at fault.
Coffee Vots, repeaters aud the like, will be
at a discount, unless some new method of
evasiuu is discovered. Why not raise a
fund and offer a reward at once for such a
discovery? Without it, we fear those great
victories promised next fall will not be real
ized. Economy and Eefom.
The determination of the National Ad
ministration to carry out fully the policy of
economy and reform to which the Republi
can party is pledged, is made perfectly clear
by the reduction of force and expenses in
the different departments. Take, for in
stancy, the Treasury Department, Since
Secretary ucutwell assumed office, the num-.
ber of employees ii. that department has
been decreased three hunured and fourteen.
In the printing bureau the amount of labor
performed has increased fifty-eight percent.,
while the working force has increased twenty-four
per cent. This increase was in con
sequence of the department undertaking
the printing of the currency. The net sav
ing in the engraving bureau from March 1,
1809, to March 1, 1S70, was $352,910. Not
withstanding the work in this bureau has
doubled, the working force, since January
186$, has decreased from seven hundred and
twelve to three hundred and eighty-nine
persocs. It is such facts as these which il
lustrate the systematic economy of the ad
ministration an economy which extends,
in a greater or lesser degree, Jto every de
partment. A Census Difficulty.
We commend to the attention of our rea
ders, the remarks of the Newark (N. J.)
Courier in reference to a difficulty which the
takers of the census are likely very often to
encounter and which, if not in some way
provided against, must greatly retard their
progress. The Courier observes: "The
cen. us-takers find but little trouble in pro
curing from the woman folks at home
prompt, intelligent and satisfactory answers
to a large majority of their questions. On
ona- point, however, they experience some
difficulty that which relates to the value of
real estate, a subject upon which it is hard
ly to be expected that women are generally
posted. It is suggested that if the head of
the family would estimate the value of this
property and put it iu black and white up
on paper to await the call of the census man,
it would save the latter a vast deal of labor
ad relieve the mistress of the house of
many unanswerable questions. Our prop
erty owners should take enough interest iu
the present general enumeration of liie
nation to do thai, much for the country, by
serviug which they also serve themselves."
How is Tuis? The Titusville Herald
says: "1 wo rattlesnakes were killed (last
wt-tk) at Faguudas City, one with seven,
the other with nine rattles. Much fault is
fouud with the city authorities, who will
not permit liquor to be sold on the farm,
and in case of snake bites this inhuman pol
iey will result in fatal consequences. Shoo
flv beer will act a an onM, k..f .....
quires a barrel te obtain the effects of one
.-tink of benzine." The liilian u.-
arc lrm belicters in the efficacy of whisky
as an a.Midote for the poison of the rattle
?ake. l.ve the people ia the oil regions
the ame faith ?
The N". Y. Tribune says : At last we
hear from Ro;ne of adoption of the
dogma of Infallibility. The remarkable
"t niggle experienced in the attainment of
this long sought result js the best evidence
that it does not tend to promote the harmo
ny of the Catholic Church. Of its political
effects it is too soon to speak ; but unless it
be passed by as of no practical significance,
which would perhaps be the wisest course,
it seems sure to produce complications,
more or less serious, in scvetal European
countries.
The President, last week, issued a mes
sage relating to Cuban affairs, in which he
expresses himself as adverse to an acknowl
edgment of indeoenJence at .this timA
What action Congress will fake in the pre- !
mi sen remaius to te seen.
English. Frea Trade and Poverty.
Those who seem to bo desirous to bring
this country down to the level of England
by the adoption of the policy of free trade,
may read a profitable lessou, if they please,
in the following extract from the New York
World! (free trade organ) "own correspon
dent" across the big water. The letter is
dated at London, May 28, and may be found
in the World of the 12th of June. Here is
the extract :
I left the cottage and walked down the
road that leads to the village of Denham.
Seated on the ben ches before the Plough
inu were groups of peasanU.iu smock frocks,
corded trousers, aud hobnailed bhoes. A
locg the road, at iutervals. were a few cotta
ges, all of them very old, very dirty, very
substantial, and still very picturesque. Pre
sently the road took aturu and wound down
a ravine aud over a little stream of water
clear as crystal As I stood lor a moment
on the big bridge two men approached me,
aud, taking off their hats and making an
awkward scrape with their feet, said :
"Master, wud ye bestow on us a penny or
so to buy us some bread?"
"What is the matter?" I asked.
. "We can get no work to do," said both
the mcu in a breath.
One of the men was very old, and the
other was young. They had clothing en
ough to cover their nakedness, and that
was all. The old uiau had a stick in his
hand ; his few white hairs were matted to
gether with dirt ; his eyes had a weary,
yearning, hungry look.
"W hy," said I to the old man, "you
cculd not work if any one should offer to em
ploy you."
"Oh, yes, master," he replied in an eager
voice, "I aui strong yet ; ain't I Billy I
could do a good day's work as any man."
"Well, why can t you get it?"
"Master," said the younger man, "the
country hereabouts is all in distress, aud I
do hear that it is no better in Berks, nor
yet in Middlesex. It is all among of the
large farmers and the machinery."
"And putting down the land in grass,
Billy," interrupted tho old man.
"l'es master, and putting down the land
in grass, and turning farms iuto game pre
serves. Where there used to be work for
a scuie, there is'nt work now for one, and
it makes it bard. This is the time of year
when we naturally look for work ; the old
man and I have been in the 'workus' all win
ter; but it is hard to be shut up between
stone walis when one thinks of the green
fields and the blue sky, aud five weeks ago
we came out aud sought for work. We
have ouly had two days of work all that
time."
"What do they do for you in the house?"
I asked.
"Well, sir, first of all you has to break
three-quarters of a yard of stone a day. and
if you come short of that you has bread and
water five ounces of bread a day and no
more. If you does your task and it is hard
toil you get six ounces of bread in the morn
ing, five ounces of meat and five ounces of
bread for your dinner, and a pint of broth
and five ounces of bread at night, and then
you sleeps en a board. That's what they
does for you in the house, master."
A police officer here passed by, and sharp
ly eyeing the men, grufljy ordered them "to
move on." I told him that I had asked them
to stop, at which he touched his hat and
begged my pardon, remarking that it was
his duty to prevent all "cadging" by tramps'
but that if the gentleman wished to talk
with them he had no objection. He knew
those two men, he said, and they were hon
est fellows, but the law did not allow them
to beg. If they begged they had to be shut
up ru jail for a month. Tho officer turned
his back and sauntered away toward the vil
lage ; 1 put Eonie money into the bauds of
the men, and hurried after him.
"Oh yes, sir," said he, when I had over
taken him ; "it is all right ; we shut our eyes
to it whenever we can, but I saw you were
a stranger, and .we must do as the law di
rects. Poor devils ' I don't know what they
told you, but they couldn't have told you
anything worse than the truth. The distress
is awful. I dou't know what we are com-
ing to. 1 lungs get worse aud worse every
jear; and only last week three rate payers
on this parish went themselves on the rates.
Talk of Ireland 1 Why, sir, if the poor here
hadn't all the spirit grouod out of them there
would be a rising such as Ireland has never
seen. The Government takes credit for re
ducing the national debt and diminishing
the income tax ; it is all right enough, no
doubt, but it don't help the people any.
They ink lower and lower every year. You
come down to our Union, sir, and I'll show
you scores of men who were rate payers a
fow years ngo aud who are paupers now."
When Secretary Stanton, who always did
the necessary thing aud took the responsi
bility, and who foresaw that otherwise the
traitors would have an opportunity to insult
the loyally of the nation and the moral sense
of the civilized world, ordered the secret
burial of the assassin Wilkes Booth in the
old Capitol prison, many thought that his
apprehensions were groundless. A subse
quent mistaken kindness toward the friends
of the murderer permitted the transfer of
his body to a Baltimore burial-ground, and
here the very thing apprehended by the
great war Secretary has "occurred. Certain
women of that city, assembled ostensibly to
decorate the graves of rebel soldiers', devoted
their fairest flowers in greatcsat profusion
to the grave of John Wilkes Booth. Such
an act is a profanation and desecration. It
testifies to tho malignity and fiendisbness
still latent in 'he hearts of ex-rebels and rebel
syuiphathizers. It is a grave insult to the
nation, which we hope to see emphatically
condemned by all, without distinction of
party.
The Ku Klux. On June Cth, Gover
nor llolden, of North Carolina, issued a
proclamation, in which ho describes with
frightful distinctness a series of outrawps bv
the Ku-Klux-Klun. During the pionth of
May a fctate beuator was murdered in open
daylight in a county court house ; a colored
man was murdered in the night ; twenty
one persons, both white and colored, were
"cruelly whipped and scourged;" two col
ored women outraged ; a colored man shot ;
another drowned ; two white men murdered,
besides many being wounded and otherwise
injured by the destruction of their property,
and a State Senator compelled to fly froin
the district to save his life. For eaeh of the
perpetrators concerned in any of these offen
ses a reward of $500 is offered. The amount
of terrorism exercised by their fiendish or
ganization may be judged of from the fact
that outrages so long continued and 60 fre
quent fail to be traced to any of the perpe
trator?. For a couple of weeks past the - waters of
Long Island have been literally, alive with
fish of all kinds. They came in at Barnegat
inlet last week, sweeping over flats and thro'
the channels. The bluefish Lave driven
millions of bunkers before them, filling the
coves, ditches and ponds. They continued
oo their course as far as Little Egg Harbor,
where they drove shad on shore in such
quantities that the natives gathered them
in wagons, .thousands of bushels of bun
kers have been gathered the past week, and
they have latterly smelled so dispustincrlv
that the farmers began forking them under
as a fertilizer. The bluefish were exceed
ingly rtnw.Fome of them welchinff tan noiinds
each. j
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A Little of Everything.
Iowa City has a deaf mute base ballolub.
At IndianoU, Texas, they are selling fresh
water at a dcl.'ar a bucket.
The Boston Jmurnat says Decoration day with
the ladies lasts the year rouni.
A Kou-mania story the insane account ot a
massacre which never happened.
To oure deafness tell a man you've come to
pay him money.' It beau acoustic oil.
A black bear, weighing 165 pounds, was killed
near Counellsville, Pa., on Sunday a-week.
A vein of lead ore has been discovered near
Sew Enterprise, Bedford county, said to be rich.
A fast trotting cew is training tor a race out
west. It is thought that the result will be but
ter. A North Carolina paper advertises for printers
who can read. It has had enough ef the other
kind.
A western compositor set up, "No Cross, No
Crown," "Xo Cows, No Cream." Truthful, but
inaccurate.
The American Protestant Association has voted
to strike the word white out of its constitution by
a vote of Z-i to 14.
A bee flew into the ear of a Cheater county
young man, and stung him. In less then half aa
hour he was dead.
The sqaws at the President's reception carried
off aa trophies Airs. Thornton's fan tassel and the
beads from ber sash.
A Mr. Jones, of Lock Ilaveo had a mess of new
potatoes on the 7th. June, which he raised in his
garden. How is that for earl y ?
Although bomeopathists giro little pills, it has
not yet been discovered that their bills are of any
lets dimensions than the old school oi practice.
William Williams, of Salbburg caught a cat
fish in the Kiskiminetas river, near that place,
lour feet tan inches long. It weighed forty -eigh t
pounds.
The name of the man killed by the railroad
accident at Wilmore last week was David Hester.
He was a drover, and live! at Philipsuurg, Cen
ter county.
It is now reported that the Spanish crown has
been offered to George Frascis Train ; but he
declines for the reason that he expeois to be King
of Ireland.
The census of 1860 showed the value of Califor
nia manufactures at $30,000,190. It is thought
that the present census will evidence au increase
in fully one-third.
A widow in Nebraska, who killed her foar
children in order to remove impediments to a
second marriage, has been arrojtoJ and aaked to
explain the matter
Kentucky cattic-brreders logically conclude
that their sheep wouldn't be ha'f so like! v to go '
to the dogs if they could keep the dogs from
coining to the cheep.
An Iowa farmer's harrow teeth scraped a rock
a few days ago, and revealed the fact that it was
a nugget of pure copper, weighing one hundred
and seventeen pounds.
A New York paper gives a list of sixty stores
and over -two hundred offees to let in Broadway,
below Fourteenth street. The nigh rates deman
ded leave them tenantless.
Henry Boll, of Altoona, lost SU lately. The
thief, accepting a; good the advice of the Demo
crats during the war, had papered his house wit h
greenbacks. It was a mouse.
A Minnesota school board, by a vote of two to
one, declared lightning-rods dangerous, as they
attracted lightning, and ordered one off the buil
ding over which they presided.
A Louisville man, who is a graduate of an eastern
college, and has practiced law and medicine, and
studied for the ministry, now drives a brick cart,
aad thus earns an honest living.
The Uulf of Siam must be a red hot place since
nearly all the Cayenne pepper in the world comej
from there. About 75.000.000 pounds ef all kinds
ef pepper are gpnsumed annually.
The postmaster of Peterborough, N. II., reports
twelve different ways of spelling the name of the
town, as observed by him on the backs of letters.
The worst "pe!l" was ,:Betterpurtroug."'
A great revival at Dayton, Ohio, has resulted
in the the addition of one thousand two hundred
to the different churches, oi whom two hundred
ana thirty united with the first Lutheran Church.
FerrysviJIe, Jefferson county, has the chtmpioa
mean man. lie destroyed the wreaths and stole
the flags with which the grave of the only sol
dier buiied in tbecemttary there was decorated.
Gen. Rasccrans deems it unnecessary to deny
the sensation story that be contemplates leading
scon a filbustering expedition into Mexico, nor
does he know of the existence of any such
scheme.
Tweniy tbree of the twenty-four repre-entives
iu Congress from Pennsylvania are candidates for
re-election thu fall. Mr. Covode is the only
member who doesn't ask bis coastituents to send j
Dim back.
Under the new apportionment bill the IIou.e
of Representative will coesiiit of three hundred
members. Pennsylvania will gain one, and pos
ibly two members Such at least is the preva
lent opinion.
The Toronto Telegraph proposes that the Uni
ted States shall pay four millions of dollars in
discharge of Canada's expenses through the Feni
an raid, the ameunt to be expended upon the'
vi elland canal.
An a-sistant marshal in taking the census in
Louisville asked a colored woman what personal
property she possessed and received the reply:
Nothing but dese threa ctiiliea yere an' they
ain't wuih much."
It is said that of all the Americans who joined
tbe Cuban army of liberation, at aad since the
commencement of the insurrection, bat fifteen or
sixteen remain, the remainder having either left
the army or been killed.
A man named F. Schnltx, a few dayssinae, sur
rendered himself to the police of Memphis after
confessing that he had murdered Mr. Perkins,
the iron founder, at Louisville, Ky , three years
ago. He' will be tried for the offence.
The probable failure of the French harvest
excites some speculation in our grain markets.
The upward movement is the more buoyant,
since prises have heretofore ruled very low, and
everybody seems to have been waiting for an ine
vitable advance.
Vermont seems to have become indignant over
late report that she had a sneaking regard for
woman suffrage. In her constitutional conven
tion the amendment looking to that consumma
tion was rejected without debate by a vote of 231
to 1, certainly a most uselessly ungallant way of
crushing it.
A Pennsylvania paper tells of a local preacher
who has received for salary this year nothing but
a enrryoomb, a keg of varnish and two dozen
clothes-pins. Whenever his children cry with
hunger he gags them with a clothes-pin, scratches
their stomachs with the cjirryoomb and lays on a
coat of varniib.
Indiana is agitated. The last Court refused t e
grant licenses to soil liquor in that borough, and
the hotel keepers, deeply incensed thereat, have
nnanimously agreed to close their doors and do
no business till their anoient right is restored.
Perseus visiting there wifl ba obliged to put np
at private houses.
Two gay old chaps, brothers, aged 53 and 60
years, living in Westmoreland county, lately
fell in Iova with the -same woman aad
fought about it. The senior is now looking fur a
finger which he lost in the encounter, while the
junior is '-chawed up" U tbe extent that he is
scarcely recognisable by his most Intimate
frieads.
Proceedings of Court. .
Below we give an epitome of the business
transacted at the June session of our Courts:
QUARTER 6KSION3.
Com. vs. Andrew, 'Margaret and Eliza
Lisner. Assault and battery, lrue bill.
Acquitted; but to pay one-third of costs.
Com. vs. Wm. I'. Stewart. Fornication
and bastardy. True bill. Settled.
Com. vs. Jesse Dillen. Selling liquor
without license. True bill, bettled.
Com. vs. Jesse Dillen. Selling liquor to
minors. True bill. Settled.
Com. vs. John II. llysson. Fornication
and bastardy. True bill, llecoguizance for
feited. Com. vs. Thos. Larrey. Fornication and
bastardy. True bill. Nolle Prosequi.
Com. vs. John W. Funk. Seduction.
True bill. Nolle pros, ou payment of debt
aud costs.
Com. vs. Robt. Craven. Fornication and
bastardy. True bill. Nolle pros, on settle
ment with prosecutrix and payment of costs.
Com. vs. Jas. Fuhner and Chaa Simp
son. Larceny. True bill. Recognizance
forfeited Fulmer not appearing. Simp
son tried verdict, not guilty.
Com. vs. S. MoFailand. Selling liquor
to minor". Ignored, l'rosecutor to pay costs.
Com. vs. Geo. lioss, et al. Kiot. True
bill. . Jury sworn. Ross pleads guilty the
other defendants not appearing. Seutenced
to pay a fine of f 5 and costs, and four mouths
in county jail.
Com. vs. Gilmore Shirey. Assault and
battery. True bill. Pleads guilty. Fined
$1 1) and costs.
Com. vs. James It. Bloom. Larceny.
Ignored.
Com. vs. N. Rousolot Duturbius; elec
tion. True bill.
Com. vs. James L. Curry. Selling liquor
on Sunday. Ignored prosecutor to pay
cost.
Com. vs. J. L. Curry. Selling liquor to
minors. Ignored prosecutor to pay costs.
Com. vs. S. McEurland. Selling liquor
without license. ignored prosecutor to
pay costs.
Com. vs. Israel Grippey. Selling liquor
without liceuse. Ignored prosecutor to
pay costs.
Com. vs. Wm. Aglarand A. Carbaugh.
Libel. True bill. Tried. Verdict, guilty.
Agler sentenced to pay a fine of 5 and costs,
aud twenty days in county jail.
Com. vs. John Crisswell. Warrant to
compel deft to maintain son. After a
hearing def t discharged. It may be prop
er to state that def t is old and crippled. and
scarcely able to maintain himself, aud hence
his discharge. ED.
Inquisition on body of John II. Hoover.
Approved by Court.
Inquisition on child in Knox township.
Approved by Court.
Upon petition. John P. Dale was appoint
ed Supervisor in Pike township.
Upon petition, Jesse Goss was appointed
Constable in Decatur township.
Upon petition Wm. Mahaffey was ap
pointed Constable in New Washington lio.
Upon petition, G. R. McMastcrs was ap
pointed Supervisor in Che?t tp.
Upon petition, Henry Straw was appoint
ed Supervisor in Furgnson tp.
CIVIL LIST.
John Cambell vs. K. Williams and J.
Ko-jser. Ejectment. Verdict tor defFts.
Cecil Bank vs. James White. Summons
in assumpsit. Verdict for Plaintiff for 1,
2i)1 47.
Klisba Elliot vs. Wesley Nivling. Eject
ment. Verdict for plaintiff.
Jos. Cullensworth, use, vs. Wm. Bell.
Summons in debt. Verdict for plaintiff
JIDSal
Dan. Albert vs. J Heaser anil J. Hile
man. Summons iu trespass. Verdict for
plaiutiff, 6 cents.
J. Elliot Kratzer vs. Pike twp. Run.
Case upon promises. Verdict for plaintiff
t'i.i L..
Jas. T. Leonard vs. Fitch and Boynton."
Case upon promises. Verdict for (lefts.
A. L. and J. W. Hickock vs. C. 1.
IlowlesanJD. P. Morrison. Capias. Ver
dict f jr plaintiffs $44 OO damages.
Dan. Wallace vs. Jared F. Irwin. Tres
pass on the case promises. Veidict for
plaintitu $111 15.
David Smith vs. Jas. Irwin ct. al. Sum
mons iu debt. Verdict for plaintiff $506 33.
0AD MATTERS, F.TC.
Prrmoxs. For a road tfovn near Mrs.
M. Butler's to road from Clearfield to Ridg
way, at or near M. Otrden'sin Lawrence tp.
Viewers, W. D. Bigler, Jos, Owens, J. B.
Sbaw.
For a road from M. Walker's farm to near
Beaver Run bridge, in Decatur township.
Viewers, Thos. Henderson, Rich. Hughes,
S. F. .McClo.-ky.
For a bridge across the mouth of Mosqui
to creek, in Karlliaui tp. Viewers, W. D.
Bi-ler, J B. Gruham, L. Flood.
For a private road from near Pennficld to
Radebaugh li Bowman's coal bank, in Hus
ton tp. Viewers, David Tyler, II. Wood
ward, . Uonway.
For a bridge across the Susquehanna riv
er, in Bell township. Viewers, Mr. Boiee,
Amos lilies, Joseph Moore.
For a review to vacate and supply road
from forks at New Washington to liurnside,
in Btirinidj tp. Viewers, S. F. McCiosky,
H. II. Roads, Wm. Owens.
For a county bridge over Susquehanna
river oa public road from Curwensviljo to
Ansonilie, at or near liioom and ililes' in
Pike tp. Viewers, T. W. Moore. Clark
Brown, Jas. B. Graham.
For a road from near Othello Smead's
gate to the road at Little Beaver dam run,
in Burnside tp. Viewers, Mr. iioice, J.
M. Cummings, J. F.Lee.
For a county bridge over Clearfield creek,
at Abr. Litz's, in Lawrence township. View
ers, S. F. McClosky, S. P. Wilsou, Jacob
Pears.
For a public Foad from Jacob Campbell's
barn to river road near John Rowles. in
Ferguson township. Viewers, S. F. Mc
Closky, Nelson Young, James Wiley.
To vacate part of road from Wallaceton
to Crammoudale, in Boggs twp. Viewers,
Wilson Hoover, John Beish, J. L. Cuttlo.
To vacate public road from Bloomington
to Susquehanna river in Pike township.
Viewers, S. F. MoClosky, Bishop Caldwell,
John Owens.
To vacate road from Curry farm to Wm.
Price's Hue. in Pike twp. Viewers, S. F.
Mt CIosky. David Brown. John Owens.
To vacate road from Big Run at James
Leech's to Bloomington, in Pike tp. View
ers, David Reams, Gainer Bloom, Benjamin
Hartshoru.
To vacate road from David Brown's to
Forest's shanty in Pike tp. Viewers S. F.
McClosky, David Brown, Harmon Rowles.
For a road from Saowshoe and Packers
ville turnpike to Oral, am ton and Kylertown
road near Wm. Johnston's, in Graham and
Morris township. Viewers, W. D. Bigler,
Conrad Kyler, M. V. French.
For a road from Reuben Hall's to road
near John Welch's in Pike twp. Viewers,
Geo. Hall, Jacob Hoover, S. F. McClosky.
CoNKiKrocp Absolctely. Road from
J. M'Dowell and G. Heitzenrather's lins to
near Moses Norris', in Pike township.
Change of township line between Law
rence and Goshen, beginning at A. B.
Read's corner, except for school purposes.
The annexing of Mia. L. Bloom's farm to
Lawrence township for school purposes.
Independent school district at Bridgeport
and vicinity.
Confirmed Nf. St. Vacating of road
from Mill Stone whnol house to Bejamin
Knepp's road, in Bradford township.
Road from James Johnson's saw mill to
Lewisville, in Bell township.
To yacate and supply road from David
Vorcey's to Mill Stone school house, in
Biadlord township.
To vacate and supply road from Wm.
Tate's line) to Wm. Tate's saw mill in Law
rence township.
A public or private road from P. Brady's
coal mine to Clearfield bridge road, iu Law
rence township.
Public road from near Jacob Ilummel's
to near Hartsfelt'a saw mill, in Brady tp.
Township line between Decatur and
Boggs.
Independent school district in Pike tp. ,
To annex the Geo. Hootman, Baibara
Snyder. Henry France, Charles flight and
Daniel Snyder tracts to Woodward school
district.
Road from Jacob Zimmer's to road be
tween II. Zillix and Geo. Ogden, in Brady
township.
Township line bt-tween Lawrence and
Goshen townships except for school purpo
ses. Road from near Jacob Ilumel's to Uart
felt's saw mill, in Brady township.
Advertisements xrtv-p inlmrgtypt,r ut mf flmtn
ttfU, mil te ehurgtidtuklt usual ratts. jV tuts
LADIES Tbe Eugenie is the saost Useful arti
ticle ever invented for vour use Circulars
free Mrs. Morgan. P. O. Box" 24e3. N. Y. Jo22 3m
INTLEMEN The Grant Cigar Tip is a novel
Jf ty and a pleasure. Samples 30 cents. A.
Orant, P O. Box 4390, S. Y Je 22-3m
fill A How I made it in months, with Sten
Ol 14: U cils. Samples free. A. J. Fulam,
N. I.
June 22, -Sm
l?OR SALE, The farm of John Spack
man, late of Girard Township, dee'd,
consisting of ahout one hundred and reventy two
acres of good farming land, (most of which is
cleared.) and having theieon erected a good
house and barn, and tbe ufuml conveniences of a
pleasant homo. For terms and further particulars
apply to T. 11. MURK Y,
Att'y for tbe heirs and persons interested.
June 22, '7o.-tf.
TEPORT of the condition of the First
" National Bank of Clearfield. Penn'a, at
the close of business on the Sth day of June, '70 :
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts,
Sll3.7fil 99
Overdrafts. : : :::::::
U. S. Bonds deposited with U. S Tr.
to secure circulation, : : : : :
U.S. Bonds and securities ou hand,
Due from Redeeming and Re
ceive Agents ::::::::
Due from other National Banks : :
Due from other Faults and Rankers,
Furniture and Fixtures
Current Expenses, :::::::
: 3,832 74
100,000 00
l,5s0 00
17.423 88
5,11s 67
7.A76 tO
1 ,2.i8 f.0
: 176 75
9s7 40
263 hS
: 33 30
: 870 M
Jaxes paid. :::::: : : : :
Stamps .:::::::"::
Cash Items :::;:: : : : : :
Rills of other National Banks : : : :
Fractional Currency (including nickles)
ISA 80
pecie
19 35
Legal Tender Notes : : : :
Total, :::::::;
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in, - - -Surplus
Fund - - - - -
Discount ------
Exchanges ..... .-
Interest - - - - -
Profit and loss ......
Circulating Notes outstanding
Dividends unpaid. -Individual
Deposits, - -Due
to Nat. Banks - - - -
Total Liabilities - - - -
15. (lit) 00
SlCO.000 00
- 11 coo eo
- 3,0S 30
- 301 95
- 3,809 12
- 12 6.H
- 6.631 00
- - 8H 00
- 61,302 75
- l.SOa S3
J2oS"to2"39
I, Jena. Coyoton Pres't of the First National
Bank of Clearfield, do solemnly swear that tbe
above statement is true to the beit of my knowl
edge and belief. JON'A BO TN TON, Pres.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this loth
day of June, A. D IS70
Vf. BaDebacgb, N. P.
Attest :
Lcei .
J. B. M'Esaldv, )
Richard Moss .r, Di
D. C. NlVL19iO. )
ircctors.
June 22 .TO.
"DEPORT OF THE First National Bank
of t'urwensville. Pa., as liown by its
books at tho close of business on the Sth day of
June 1S78.
BESOl'RCaS.
Loans and discounts - - ... $178,128 97
Overdrafts - .... .... 1,162 6S
U. S. Bonds deposited with Treasurer
of U. S. to secure circulation - - 81.000 00
V. S. Bonds on hand - . .... 2.70 00
Due from redeeming and reserve agents41,72 79
Due from other Nat Banks. ..... 5,574 93
Due from other Banks and Bankers - 4.953 76
Banking House. : : : : ; : : : 2.58 CO
Furniture and Fixtures ..... 1.000 CO
Current Kxpeoses ...... .- 69 40
Taxes Paid 2.273 72
Cafh Items (including siampi) .... 40 ii
Fractional Currency (including nickels) 1.07t 73
Specie : : ; .240 00
Leg"' 'fender Notes lt.UC9 Oil
Total "i334S 4 :
LIABILITIES
Capita! stock paid in, : : : : : : SlCO.SCt 00
Surplus fucd. ::::::;;; 33.09 ou
Discount. Interest and Exchange : : 10 900 5a
Circulating Notes. ::;:::: 67,fcrt5 v
Due Individual Depositors : : : : 118,311 17
Due National Bunks, : : : : : : : 5.40S 6S
Total Liabilities :::::; $J347Fi5-4S
Ftatt of Pe7tylvjai, .
Comity of Clear fild, j " "
I. Samuel Aruuld, C i-hier of the First Nation
al Hai.k of Curwensvillo. Pi , Uo toltwnly swear
that the above statement is true, to the best ef
my knowledge and belief.
SAM'L ARNOLD. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16
day of June, 1670. Jos. K. laai.v, N P.
Correct. Attest : '
Jons Patto.
Jon-N P Ibvis, Di
Sam. Arnold. J
iroetors.
June 22.'7e-3t.
A DM INISTRATOR'S NOTICE. -Let-ters
of administration on the estate of
P. T. Johnson, late of Beccaria township, dee'd.
having been granted to the undersigned. ne--
lice is nerooy given tint all persons indebted te
s.iid estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment, and those having claims against the sani
will present them, properly authenticated, for
settlement to b. 0. PATCHIN,
June 15, 1670-fit Administrator.
To Carpenters & Contractors.
Sealed proposals will be received bv the School
Directors of Lawrence township, until tbe 2nd
day of July, for the erection of three Sobool
Houses one to be built at or near tbe Crooked
Run School Hous. one at or near the Mt Zien
School House, and one at or near John Dixon's.
Plans and specifications can be seen by calling
on tbe ui.dair.igned. By order of the Board.
June 15,'SQ. Lc. BLOOM. Pec'y.
CIXRKR SEWING MACHINES.
0 HLNKLEV KNITTING MACHINES.
The most perfect and simple machines oi the
kind etensventod. Both of the above popular
maokinek have been lately improved until they
stand without a rival Price of the Singer Fam
ily Machine from SS5.06 upwards, according tn
finish. HinkleyKiiitter9.S39.nl. Circulars aqd
samples mailed free on application.
STRAW A MORTON, Gen. Agfa.
No. 20 Sixth St., Pittsburgh. Pa.
Agents wanted for the Iliuklev Machine every
where, and for the Singer in Western Pena'a,
Eastern Ohio and West Vs., where there are none
already established. (Not. 24,'69-ly.'
THE
"BLEES PATENT"-
Noiseless, Unk Motion, Lock-stitch
SEWING MACHINE
Challenges .the world in perfection of work,
strength and beauty of stitch, durability of con
struction, and rapidity or motion. Call and ex
amine, and for agencies and circulars, apply
AT PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
023 Broadway, New York.
Jvno 15, 1870-3m.
TVZ WE AtN-TOl'RUOL:!E, ,.
at redueed prices. Opposite the jail. " '
attATZER
C. KRATZER.
Q AUTlp.V.-An person, are herebv csu
tiooed aeainst puri-haine or in
meddling with two GRAY MAKt gJ V
session of Isaac Uaines.ot Bra.lf.rt" tow" .h,,
tbesame belongs to me and have onlv b i "
with .aid Gaines on loan, and are s, Jj" ,0 '
orderatany time. J t0 m.
June 15, 70-3,p J0HS SMITH.
AD.M 1 N7'SJJH ATOR'S XOTICH-W
R;,h.8 a '""'fi-ation on the estate Vf
Richard A.heraft. late of Burnside to-n.hi'
deceased, having k.en granted to tbe und,"
ed. notice is hereby given that all p.rJ0L, a"
debted to said estat. ,r. reqoire1 .n,;' im
mediate pay ment..nd those hiving claim,
the same will present them r-ropeHr aeth.n
ted for settlement to ALEX. MctLW 4 E
June 1. 1870-6t. '.
; Administrator.
A G RE A T OFFe1T.
Horace Waters,
431 Broadway. New York,
will dispose of 0'E Hl'XDUED PHWa Vc
LODEO.NS and )Ki ANrt of six first el, m,k;
including; Chickering A Sons, at iitueilt iw'
PRirin roa cash, dckiso run uoim, or will t,
fium S to 825 monthly nmil paid 4-1 .1-'7iii r
LONGEST R 0 oT
in the Cnitel States is on Rinek s Son' Factorr
Eaton. Pa . one third of a mile long-and 'ii
covered with
KE.4DT ROOFI.WG
CHBAP, DURABLE and easily applied. F.ni
for circular and sample to the manufacturers
READY ROOf-INO Co
June 1-ap. 13. y. -No 64 Courtianj St X Y
T7XECUrOU'S NOTICE.-Il-tate of
AJ Jos. A. Caldwell, deceased. Whereas
Letters Testamentary on the estate of Joseph A
Caldwell, late f Pice township, deceived,
have been granted to the undersigned. All per
sons indebted to' the laid estate are requested to
maKe immediato payment, and tho-e bavii.g
claims agsinst the same will present them, duly
authenticated, for settlement
JOHN PATTON".
TUO.MA0' STiLOSa.
Jan. 1.1 S7c. Kxecutors.
r-AUTION. AH
person are hereby cm
tioned not to purchase a certain promi
sory note, given by D . k J. H Cruhsker to
Mrs. Susannah Thompson, ot t'nion tnwnbip. f..r
one hundred dollars Said note lias bean lost r
stolen, and having been paid, we will not pay it
again nnlers compelled to do so by law
6-l-3t.-p. D. K- It J 11 BRL BACEK.
FOR SALE,
White Lead. Zine Paiit. Linsetd Oil.Tcretclise
Tarnishes ef all kinds, Colers, in eil nil
dry. Paint and Yaruish bruikt..
ilARTSWICE A IRWI.t,
ClcarnoU.Pa-M . .
IMPORTED LIQIORST
trra as
BRAXD1ES m,ul nOLLAXD G.V.S.
PURE OLD GRAPK BIlAXDTES,
PURE OLD CAHIXET tt'IUSKLYS.
OLD GRAPE U'f.XKK.
AH the abcTe brands warranted pure sixi 10
excel anything in Ibis market fur medicinal pur
poses U EO. X COLlil R .X .
March 33.'70-tf.J Prop'r of hw llouu.
NEW TIN SH Or!"
Fred Sackktt,
Manufacturer of
TLX, COPPER mud SHEET IROX W.XE,
(nearly opposite the jail).
1IARKET STREET, CLEARflZLP, PA.
ROOPlNCi, SroUTIXG aif JOB WORK
done oa reasonable terns.
' April 6. 1376.
WHOLESALE
WINE & LIQUOR STORE-
I. L, 1JEIZF.NSTEIN,
DB1LIB 1JI
UVXKS AXJJ LIQUORS
ilAKKET STREET CLEARFIELD, TA.
A good assortment for medical purposes always
an hand.
April 8. 1870-tf.
A UDITOlt'S STATEMENT. -The ?u
pervisors of Iawrence nwiship. Clear
field County. Pa . in aeaauut with Roai Fund for
IS"'J, report as fjllows :
r.tBT'SH.
To am tof taxans d, S "!9 4T
To unseated land tax. 011
To bal. dae tp by Supervisors, IU sl
Total,
S2 2.iS 29
raipirOR.
By tm't of work done on roads, 81,
Ry exonerations, 2
By percentage. IDS 97
By ain't pd fur making Dup. k audi, aec'ts, 12 9
Jty ain't pd for making new road:. 421 J
By ain't pd for vjridgicg material, 4'
By ain't pd for tools. 4 M
By am't pd for surveying, 2
By iees td Prothoaotarv. 1
By minute book,
1 !
$'.2r 2i
Total,
Township indebteinesi making new roaii:
Catholic Cemetery road uear Clearfield, S"3 2i
One ariong Clearfield creek baUncs. 52) 14
Also a road in upper end of township
cot yet completed.
Attbst L. F. IRVI
June 15. '70. Claik.
PAY YOUR TAXES!
In accordance with an act of the General As
sembly of this Commonwealth, approved the 124
day of March, A. to. 1670. -relating to the eollaa
tion of taxes in the county of Cleatfiald." Not:"
is therefore hereby given te the tax-parers ra
siding in tbe distriots below Darned. that tbe aeun
tj Treasifrer. in accordance wiib the 21 auction f
said act, will attend at the place of holding ice
Borough and Township elections, on the folic
ing named days for tbe purpose of receiviaj tb
county bounty, State taxes and militia
ieod for 1S70 :
For Refctria, on Thursday, June 2iJ.
For Jordan, on Friday, June 2th.
For Knox, on atuiday. June 2-ih
For Bell, on Tuesday. June 2stb.
For L'urnvida An lViinL t Jnne ?:h.
For New WaahiDgten. on Thursday, June .JSih;
For Chest, on Friday, July 1st.
For Ferguson, on Saturday, Ju
!y 2d.
Citisens of Penn and Ferguson who Snd it more
convenient to meet the Treasurer at Lumber Cur
toan at their election houses can avail themselves
ol that privilege. Partiesean also pay thei taxes
at the Treasurer's office at any time from this far
ward. Upon all taxes paid on the days dssigDstai
there will be a reduction of Vive ftr Cent. The
balanee of tne districts will be announced in
time. LEVER FLLUAL.
April 13. ' ' Traerer.
SO f(( J" and expenses to agents to sell
.UUUtbe celebrated WILS SEWIV.
MACUiNtS. Tbe best machine in the world.
Stitch alike oa both sides. One Machine '!''?u.t
money. For further particulars, address J5 X fa
St , Pbil'a. Pa. I March 30.'70-3in
ED. PERKS k Co's flour, the best in market, for
tale by J.SHAWt
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