gf;e gUffentcro' ouvwrt, gfcrtrfiefb, ffit., gMoficr 12, 1870.
Raftsman's Jirantal.
.J. BOW, DITOK AJIO rROInIETOB.
CLEARFIELD, PA., OCT. 12, 1S70.
During the year ending Jane 30lh, 1870,
40.403 Canadians annexed tbcmselrcs to
the United States by emigration.
One Thousand Dollars worth of living
black bass are to be placed in the Deleware
river, in hopes of stocking that stream with
that valuable and edible fish.
For the first time in the history of this
country one of the States of the Union,
New Hampshire, will show a falling off in
population by the census returns.
Cotton-Picking is going on quite vigorous
ly in Texas. The crop is good, and there
are no complaints of a difficulty to obtain
hands. The usual price paid for picking is
seventy five cents per hundred pounds.
The juiy in the Superior Court of the
State of Maryland returned a verdict on
Monday compelling the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad company to pay $10,000 to
the widow of James Dougherty, who was
run over and killed by the cars on that road
near Sykesville, in October, 1863. This is
the second trial, the jury at the firft trial
bringning in a verdict of but $4,000
The Press says: The only deplorable
circumstance in the downfall of Napoleon
is the distress into which the poor wife,
Eugenie, is plunged by her husband' s folley.
A brave and true woman, she deserved a
worthier husband and a better fate. Her
advice to him in the beginning of tl e war,
as it is discovered in an intercepted despatch
breathes wisdom of the profoundest charac
ter. Had the Emperor taken that counsel
the Empire might Dot be a thing of the past.
The North China IJerall speaks of a trea
ty recently entered into between China and
Japan for the expulsion of foreigners. If
this be so, the logic of modern artillery will,
no doubt, be brought to bear in the premises
by the Western powers, in order to protect
the European and American residents in
the trading ports of those countries. The
horrible slaughter of the priests and nuns
at Tien-tain has not yet been atoned for,
lut we may soon learn that the l'nalisli am)
French fleets have exacted reparation.
The result of the plcbiscitum in the Eter
nal City was to be expected, but its glory
lies in the almost unexampled unanimity of
the vote. The Pope may indeed tremble,
and cherish thoughts of flight anywhere,
even to the shores of England's Malta,
when but fifty men, and they priests, could
be found iu the city to raise their voice and
pole a vote in his behalf. The unity of
Italy is nominally achieved ; the release of
Garibaldi and the lengthening of the people's
tether is all that is required to make it a
fact.
General Steinecker and Mr. Wolf, a
prominent German of Washington city, call
ed upon the President upon matters of busi
ness, and in the course of the interview the
conversation turned upon the European war.
The attention of the President was called to
the fact that certain papers had given what
purported to be his view, whereupon he
unhesitatingly said that all such statements
were unauthorized. He especia Hy pronou n
ced absurd the report telegraphed to a New
York paper that he had expressed a doubt
of the ability of the Prussians to take Paris.
He does not recollect having said anything
that would afford a foundation for the report.
On the contrary, he is of the opinion that
Paris must surrender if the I'ru.-.-ians con
tinue the siege any length of time.
With the surrender of the fortress of
Strasburg to the Prussians, we learn the
fearful devastation inflicted on the town,
one of the oldest and finest in the southeast
of France. The magnificent cathedral has,
contrary to former reports, been considera
bly damaged. Its grand old tower has been
6adly shaken, and its Gothic tracery, orna
ments and butiresscs generally injured
and broken. Still it is believed that the
body of the catherdral is unshaken. The
public library, with its quaint old specimens
of early printing, has been destroyed, and
the theatre and railway depots are burned
to the ground. The havoc among public
buildings and private dwellings has been
fearful, as also the distraction of bridges.
It speaks well for the brave inhabitants that
they are already talking of rebuilding their
city and restoring the cathedral to its former
beauty.
It is now reported that the Dominionists
have not improved matters be sending f roops
up into the Winnipeg country to suppress
Kiel's rebellion. Even the volunteers sent
there at so much expense are said to set the
laws at defiance, and Governor Archibald
has not the power to restore order or main
tain peace. Arrangements have been already
made to overthrow the present administra
tion, drive the Hudson Bay Company out
of the country and seize upon what there is
of power and spoils. One peculiar feature
of the present movement is the intense hos
tility displayed toward Americans, none of
wnom are permitted to live in the Manitoba
country. We do not pity the Dominionisls,
as they might have saved both the expendi
ture and expense by dealing fairly and
honorably wub the Winnipeg people. 15ut
the bad treatment ot Americans, should it
become a positive rcrsciut:on,should receive
prompt attention at the hands of our government.
THE FBENCH PRUSSIAN WAR.
What is Doing.
London, October 1. Advices from Ver
sailles, via Rouen, 30th September, con
tain the following news. Spade work, which
had been going on vigorously the past three
or four days in the Crown Prince's army,
was suddenly interrupted at six o'clock this
morning by a sharp attack of the enemy.
The French in force made a sortie from the
city in the direction of Forts d'Isay nod
Montrouge. They attacked the sixth Corps
occupying the right of the Crown Prince's
army, at that time another large force as
saulted the coniniaud of General Purott.
The object of the attack was evidently to
interrupt the works of the investing force.
The French force drove the Prussians from
their positions and occupied them before
reinforcements could come up. Immediate
ly alter the attack commenced, the Crown
Prince and staff hastened from their quar
ters at Versailles to the field of action. The
French troops advanced under cover of a
heavy fire from their forts, the advance
posts of the Sixth Corps meantime falling
back to the main line. After nearly three
hours' hard fighting, during which the
Prussian lines were unshaken, the French
gave way before a heavy fire of artillery,
retreating toward their forts. As soon as
the backward movement commenced by the
French the Fifth German Corps took the
offensive, vigorously following the French,
cutting off their flight and capturing many
prisoners. The French troops behaved bet
ter than on former occasion?, but they were
compelled to retreat in disorder. The Prus
sians loss is roughly estimated at four or
five hundred. Over four hundred priso
ners were taken. Every day increases the
strength of the Prussian position.
London, October 2. We have news that
the national guards of the army of Ilouen
had their first brush with the enemy yes
terday, near IJounierres, about forty miles
from Paris, in the forest of Rosny. The
national guard behaved very gallantly. For
two hours it had the advantage, driving the
Germans back through Mantcaiwhere many
were killed in a desperate conflict on the
bridge over the Seine, and nearly to Mczy,
where reinforcements of artillery and cav
alry came up to the Germaus from Man
heim, and these in their turn regaining the
offeusive, drove the French back iu consid
erable disorder and with heavy loss. At
the latest advices, the Germans occupy
Nantes, the bridges over the Seine, the
Magny and the Faubourg of Liuiay. Com
munication is reopened, however, by Am
iens, with Rouen.
The siege of Siossons continues. Sorties
of the garrison have been rer. ulsed by the
Roudsburg, Waidenburg and Frank tort
Landwher and the Thirteenth Corps. The
French have asked a truce for the burial of
dead. The losses of the Germans have
been trifling.
Dismark formally denies that any dispo
sition exists on me pan of I'manla in make
France a second rate power. The occupa
tion of Strasburg by the Germans was sol
emnized on September 3Jth by religious
services in the church of St. Thomas. The
Germans took 170 guns, valued at 2,000,000
francs. The property in the bank is esti
mated at 8,000,00-) francs and there is an
immense quantity of muuitious and cloth
ing. A dispatch from Colinar, Sunday, says:
Another body of 80,000 Germans have cros
sed the Rhine and are movin? on Mu!lioiie;
another body hi near Schletadt and Neuf
chateau. Loxtor, October 4. Advices from
Bitsche represent the condition of the town
as distressing. Before the bombardment
the mob plundered shops, and the popula
tion, takinglrefuge in cellars, were either suf
focated or burned to death.
NEt FdiATEAC, October 2, via Toms, 4."
It is rumored iere that the body of Von
Mokke was in the lead coffin which recently
passed through Toul. Von Moltke is a
native of Mecklenburg.
Tours, October 5. Dispatches just re
ceived here from Chartres, dated to-day,
contains the following: The Prussians gain
ed some advantages ntar Eperon yesterday,
which opens that place to their arms. They
bombarded Ejveron, and for a time the Mo
biles and francstircurs fought courageously,
but were unable to contend against the vig
orous artillery fire of the enemy.
It is reported here to-day that there is
fighting going on near Orleans.
A dispatch from Belfast says that the
francs-tireurs had defeated a detachment of
the new Prussian army which recently cros
sed the Rhine near Colmar.
Fontainebleac, October 5. A detach
ment of Prussians, several hundred strong,
made an attack on the francs-tireurs, near
here, and were handsomely repulsed. The
Prussians retreated towards Challey.
Berlin, October 5. The French make
unsuccessful sorties from Metz almost daily.
The Prussians are invariably warned by
their vidcttcs of the approach of the French
and the latter, in every instance, are imme
diately assailed and driven in. Their los
ses, consequently, are heavy.
Torus, October 6. The battle which oc
curred near Chateau Caillaud, on the 4th,
has been productive of important results.
The Prussians were defeated and forced to
re'rtat. The position taken by the French
was one that necessitated the evacuation of
Pithivirins by the enemy. The Prussians
abandoned that point with so much precipi
tation that many cattle and a large amount
of forage, etc, were left behind, all of
which fell into the hands of the French.
Amiens, October C On Monday the
French made a brilliant sortie from Sios
sons, drove back the Prussians a considera
ble distance, burned their supplies and shel
ter, and having effected these exploits re
tired within the Siossons gates.
Another column of Germans, marching
to Fouuinebleau, was ambushed, routed
dnveu back with serious loss to Chailley,
1 he Germans now occupy Beauvais in strong
force, and are threatening Ronen
Tours. October 6.-News has been re
ceived h. re that the Prussians have now
completed all the arrangements for the
shelling and attacking of Paris, aud that
their guns aud mortars are iu position. The
spirit of the population, however, is un
daunted. Advices received show that the
garrison are prepared at any moment to
second such an attack as the forces outside
the Prussian lines may make. The French
are aware that some time must elapse ere
an offensive movement can be made, and
they use the delay in drilling and arming
the Mobiles.
Torus, October 6. Gen. Rigan reports
from Chevilly on Wednesday, that he had
reconnoitered toward Tours with three bri
gades of cavalry and infantry and a few
guns. He reached Chisses, surrounded the
village and took five Bavarians prisoners
and some guns. Ressayer's brigade turned
the village in the right, and the enemy s
cavalry, five hundred strong, supported by
2,000 infantry were obliged to retreat pre
cipitately toward Paris. The French pur
sued them three hours' march beyond
Tours. Gen. Rigan ascertaining the pres
ence, with their forces, of Prince Adelbert,
of Saxe Meinengen, and of Prince Adel
bert, of Saxe Altenburg. A drove of cat
tle was captured by the French.
Berlin, October 7. A dispatch from
Versailles announces that the French guer
rillas, who infest that vicinity, have am
bushed and shot the Crown Prince of Wur
temburg while he was riding in the Park of
St. Cloud. His escort was assailed with a
perfect rain of bullets. AH escaped except
the Crown Prince, who was wounded. He
was immediately conveyed to the village.
His injuries are serious. The escort wheel
ed quickly and rode into the woods, but the
assailants had vanished. The free-shooters
swarm in the Park and through the forest
of St. Cloud, and cause great mischief by
firing upon every Prussian soldier or sentry
in that direction. They attack the couriers
and harrass all communication between St.
Cloud and Versailles.
The Fourteenth German Army Corps,
under Gen. Von Werder, left Strasburg
and took up a line of march into the South
of France yesterday. They will probably
effect a junction with the army ot Gen. Von
Tresknow, near Belfort, and contiuue the
movement southwardly.
Torus, October 7. The villages about
Eperial are filled with troops. The Perfect
of Eperail telegraphs midnight on the Cth
to the Minister of the Interior that a com
bat took place yesterday between the towns
of Lain and Bruyeres, against 10,000 Prus
sians supported by artillery. The French
troops, aided by the National Guards, held
their position. A dispatch from Evercux
shows great enthusiasm "on the part of the
National Guard, who are rising en manse,
to resist requisitions.
The voyage of Gambetta from Paris to
day was full of adventure. The baloon
came down to the ground, just outside the
walls of the city, threw out ballast and
raised, passing slowly over the Prussian
lines ; came down again near Crell ; saw the
Prussians and were forced to throw out bal
last, traveling sacks and shawls. It rose
lowly Afwin &ol t allot juct graKod tho Hair
of Gambetta. Near Mt. Didicr the baloon
came down among trees and was torn. Gam
betta and party got a conveyance and went
to Amiens. Just the other side of the
woods in which they landed were the Prus
sians. Torus, October 8. Gambetta is here.
Nothing can be decided about the elections
until the Council meets to-morrow. We
have news from Paris to the 7th. Gam
betta is expected tbfre to morrow. News
from Chartres to the 7th states that the
francs tireurs were defeated at Abils. One
hundred and thirty Prussian horsemen cap
tured sixty of the French and many horses.
A dispatch received from the Mayor of
Arthenay states that eight hundred francs
tireurs had driven back the force of Prus
sians. The Prussians have attacked New Brei
sack. The cannonading is sharp, and the
besieged are answering vigorously.
Versailles, October 9. Afternoon.
Last night the entire garrison of Met, in
cluding the National Guard, made a sortie
to the North on both banks of the Mosselle.
Their attack was on the intrenched positions
of the Germans, which was repulsed, when
they returned to the fortress, with a loss of
1 ,500 men. The Prussians lost six hundred
men.
The killed, wounded and prisoners of the
French army, in the campaign, from Saar
brucken to Sedan, it is calculated amounts
to 230,834 officers and men. The killed and
wounded amount to 95,000 distributed as
follows: In the battles and retreat from Wis
senbourg to the Moselle, 30,000 men ; in the
battles around Metz, 25,000; and in the bat
tles around and at Sedan, 40,000. The pris
oners alone number 2.574 officers, and 132,
250 men, making a total of 145,824, of whom
32,000 were taken in the battles around Se
dan, and 2,325 officers and 81,450 men, or
86,765, at the capitulation. The prisoners
taken at Laon, Toul and Strasbourg, it is
calculated, will swell the losses to 250,000.
To these must be added the 70,000 men of
Bazaine's army, cooped up in Metz, and the
fugitive detachments, amounting to 5,000 or
6,000 men, which, escaping from Sedan into
Belgium, were disarmed and made prisoners.
It is, therefore, believed that of the stand
ing army ot 350,000 men which Napoleon
had at his disposal when the campaign com
menced, less than 50,000 able bodied men
are now in the service of France. The loss
es in materials of war are also immense.
The official report gives the capture of 10,
280 horses, 102 mitrailleuses, 887 field guns
and heavy artillery, over 406 wagons, sever
al pontoon trains, large quantities of small
arms, ammunition, clothing, equipments,
forage and provisions. The French losses
in the retreat of McMahon from Woerth,
embrace 10,000 woolen blankets,40,000 bags
of rice, coffee and sugar; large quantities of
wine, rum and tobacco, the latter articles
being valued at $400,000. The losses of
the German army in killed and wounded,
thus far in the campaign, are estimated at
150,000 men, but King William has still
over 500,00t) soldiers at his disposal
A mad has been found at Oxford, 111.,
who was bitten by a rattlesnake seventeen
years ago and is still taking whisky for the
bito.
Tbb Virginia Flood. Accounts con
tinue to come in of the distraction of pro
perty and the loss of life in the lower valley
of Virginia, and are truly heartrending. At
Castlenian Ferry, Jefferson county, the
destruction is complete. All the bouses
sixteen in number were driven from their
moorings by the surging waves, and the
main building of a hotel and a storehouse
alone are left to mark the spot. The Bessy
Company lose heavily, the whole of the
trestle-work and all the bridges from Har
per's Ferry to Shenandoah City being swept
away. It is supposed that it will take at
least a month to repair damages and resume
the running of the trains on the Winchester
branch to Harper's Ferry. The mail train
now runs to Halltown, and mails and passen
gers are transported to and from that point
and the ferry in coaches and wagons. Every
building from Shenandoah City to Hall's
Works is gone, and from Hall's Works to
the old Shenandoah Bridge but few houses
are standing, tho whole number destroyed
in the vicinity amounting to forty or fifty.
John 1'. Lewi was drowned and his house
near the mill at Rockford was swept awsy.
The steam saw mill of George M. Eichel
berger, near the Clark line, was also swept
away. Joshua Myers' barn aud all his
buildings, except one, were destroyed.
Johnson's large woolen factory, at the mouth
of Bullskin Run, was submerged to the sec
ond story. The old ferry house at Shan
nondale, Walraven's saw mill and house,
the fine distilleries of Messrs. Avis & Co.,
with their still and fixtures complete ; also
the dwellings of Mary Van Vacter, Joseph
Starry, James Harris, Jefferson, fits., the
dye-house and other outhouses in Watson's
factory, were swept away, and the mills,
stock and machinery very considerably
damaged. The destruction of Key's Ferry
was complete ; the old mansion house in the
occupancy of Daniel AUstadt, who had
scarcely fucceeded in removing his family
before the house and stabling and farming
implements became common fogd for the
raging waters.
John G. Cockerill lost $4,000 in bonds,
which he had spread out on a table in the
house to dry. A number of lives are repor
ted lost between Harper's Ferry and Staun
ton. They are estimated at nearly one
hundred.
On Saturday evening Mr. Jesse L. Sav
age, a resident of New Haven, on a busi
ness visit to New York, sat in the reading
icg room of the Frankfort Hotel, counting
some fifteen hundred dollars he had that
day drawn from a city batik. After dark
on the next (Sunday) night Mr. Savage was
found by an acquaintance leaning against a
fence in a lonely spot in the city of New
Haven, with five or six deep cuts in the
abdomen, three in the neck, and three in
the arm, and with his pocket book rifled of
bis$l,5(!0. After counting his money in
the reading room at the Frankfort Hotel, Mr.
Savage, it appears, took the New Haven
boat Continental for home. On the boat
he drank several times at the bar with two
men unknown to him. When he reached
New Haven he immediately started for
home. It was about nine o'clock at night,
and his way led through a sort of lane.
Suddenly he was assaulted from behind,
and in the struggle that ensued he was cut
and stabbed as specified. He did not rec
ognize his assailants. It is not thought
that the unfortunate man will recover, nor
have the ruffians who attacked him been
arrested. This case should serve as a warn
ing. It is impolitic both to exhibit a large
sum of money in a public place, and to
form temporary intimacies with the people
met while traveling especially at a bar and
over a glass of whisky.
The utility of ballooning seems at last to
be demonstrated, now that the world is in
debted to this art for the means of commu
nication with, in many respects, its chief
city. The aerial trips performed by various
balloonists from Paris have had the most
practical ends in view, and have generally
accomplished them. M. Lissandcr, in the
last, succeeded in delivering 20,000 Paris let
ters at a postoffice within the French lines,
besides distributing countless copies of the
French proclamations, in German among the
troops of the besieging armies. All impor
tant inventions arise out of the exigency
which demands thero. The progress made
in the art of aerial travel has been slower
than in steam travel, because we have less
present need or desire to travel through the
air. But let a great city like Paris be beseig
od for three months, and aerial travel will
become a frequent and accustomed mode of
navigation. The Prussians, if they really
desire to stop all communication of news
between Paris and the outside world, will
have to send up balloons of their own to
capture those of the French, and this might
lead to new modes of aerial warfare, as well
as navigation, which would have a peculiar
fascination for the French imagination. If
it is glorious, on the dead level of mother
earth, to die for one's country, a height of
two or three miles above the earth, must bo
the height of glory.
Going to the houic of a friend to pass the
night seems to be a perilous undertaking out
in Ohio. A young man venturing to do so
at Sidney, in that State, recently, was shot
by his "friend," while quietly sleeping in
bed. He made tho visit in company with
his mother, and was assigned to a chamber
which was to be occupied by one of the fam
ily who came in late. On coming in, that
brilliant and courageous member of the fam
ily, finding some one in his bed, drew a pistol
and shot him. The stupidity of this pro
ceeding is not relieved by the explanation
that he thought there was a burglar in the
house. The explanation is more superla
tively stupid and silly than the deed itself,if
possible. The whole affair is an illustration
of the fact that those who are in the habit
of carrying pistols are cowards, and wholly
unfit to be trusted with fire-anus.
Father SufHeld, an English Benedictine
Monk, has left the Roman Church pa ac
count of the infallibility dogma.
Owing to the war, says an exchange.New
Jersey will have to furnish all the French
wine of the vintage of 1S70.
A Little of Everything.
Backgammon a lady's waterfall.
Every business man should advertise.
The Princess of Prussia makes her own dreasea.
They have been successful in raising tea in
Georgia.
Erie has 13,74! inhabitants, an increase of 9,419
since 1 87.
The best thing to gire to the poor give them
employment.
Baptism by moonlight is one of the latest nov
elties out west.
The inhabitants of New Jersey are happy
picking their cranberries.
All onr job work is warranted to give satisfac
tion. Send in your orders.
A raft of one million feet of lumber passed Co
lombia, Ky., the other day.
Pnnchinello calls cutting one s throat with a
scythe '-new mowedof suicide."
'Will my old overcoat serve me another winter?'
is the question just now with many.
The number of Jews serving in the Herman
armies amoanU to upward of 31,000.
Ten counties of Illinois have more than don bled
their population during the last decade.
In Dresden the American ladies have a Sewing
Society for the benefit of wounded soldiers.
The New York Cmmercial translates the Good
Templars' ' I. O. G. T.," as ' I Only Get Tight."
The railroads of this country are said to use
150,000 acres of good timber every year for sleep
ers. The equinoctial storm this year traveled thro'
the State of Minnesota at the rate of 200 miles a
daj.
A Newport couple have jist celebrated their
pearl wedding, having been married for seventy
years.
Some twenty Chinamen went to Mexico to gath
er oysters, but the people there warned them
away.
A North Carolina girl shot herself the other
day, beeause her mother wouldn't let ber go to a
picnic
In Winchester, Indiana, a bell is tolled every
half hour as a signal for the people to take their
quinine.
Somebody has discovered that iu forty years a
snuff taker devotes twenty-four months to blowing
his nese.
Murders in Denver are now forbid len by a mu
nicipal ordinance, on the ground that they ob
struct the sidewalk.
The public debt was reduced over $9,000,000
lal month. A heavier slice will bo taken off
this month, it is said.
A Wyoming nominee in the late election was
defeated by the opposition candidate, .who hap
pened to be his own wife.
A noted engineer in Glasgow, Scotland, has
made a steam engine so small that it can be cov
ered with a lady's thimble.
A man having been killed in New Tork by a
blow from a spade, a contemporary heads its ac
count, "Shoveled to death."
Texan ladies who leel aggrieved by anything
in the papers, go to the office and smear the edi
tor's face with printing ink-
A sweet potato, weighing sixteen pounds, has
been laid UDon the table of an editor out west.
A whop,.er the potato, we mean.
Bears are ravaging the oat fields in Osgood and
TemDleton. Canada, the late fires in the woods
having drivon them from their runs.
The late storm has dune much damage in Vir
ginia. Many lives have been lost and much
property destroyed by the raging waters.
A new Republican paper styled the Statu Jonr-
nal has been established in Jlarntburg. It is
lively in style and lovely in appearance.
In Decatur county, Ind., Mrs. tl. A. Crosby acts
as constable. Her husband is justice of the peace.
The New York Tribune is next year to build
itself a magnificent new office, on the site oi the
present one.
John Allen, onoo ephemerally notorious ns the
wickedest man in New York, is dead. We do not
know if he be the wickedest man in his present
sphere or not.
In Trenton a petrified eat has been found nnder
the floor of a church vestry. She was probably
starved to death while looking for church mice,
which were proverbially pour.
The wealthiest people in the world are the
Osages. The tribe numbers 3,000, and have, after
all expenses are paid. 160 acres of choice land
peroapitaand Sfi.080,000 in money,
"I'll commit you as a nuisance," said a polico
man to a noisy loafer a day or two since. "No
one has a right to commit a nuisance," was the
apt reply, and the fallow moved en.
A contemporary says that to prevent having a
red nose in winter, a good remedy is to bathe the
face in ice water before going oat, and to keep
the mouth sbnt for five minutes after going into
the open air.
The Strasburg cathedral is not seriously harm
ed. The roof of the nave is burned, and the
windows are pierced by shot; the spire has been
struck in several places; but the interior is al
most untouched.
The most fashionable marriages now a days
are the simplest. Several have occurred lately
in which there were neither bridesmaids nor
groomsmen, cards, receptions, or display. The
faihion is one of the most sensible of modern
times.
'Pere Ilyacinthe is going to marry that Amer
ican lady whom he converted to Catholicism, .and
who has lately modeled a striking modallioa of
his handsome, stolid face.," So says a Rochester
paper If the rumor is true, the lady's name is
Merriman, aud she lives in Bucyras, Ohio.
At Hartford is being burnt at present the lar
gest brick kiln that has ever been burned in this
country. It contains one million of brick, and
the whole enormous mass is now wrapped in
flames. It is said that the burning of this kiln
will require one hundred and fifty oords of
wood
Children were once fed on plain nutritious
food, were given a bowl of bread and milk for
supper, and pntto bed when it was dark andei
the table. But at the board of their elders tbey
now expect to be served with all the abomina
tions, in the way of edibles, which we have in
vented for onr own poisoning.
The New York Na'ion makes one of the most
effective political hits of the season, in saying
that in their platform "the Democrats desire the
establishment of a rcpuhlic for Ireland on the
model of that of New York city, trhich is the first
Irish Republic ever estnbtished, and possesses many
novel governmental contrivances."
Mr. Peter Emfield, living near Altoona, recently
determined to have a new wall pnt around his
spring, and hired James Piper to do the job.
While Mr. Piper was taking down the old wall
he came across a nest of water snakes, forty-nine
in nnmber. Thirteen of the snakes measured
thirty-three inches in length, thirty measured
twenty-five inches, and six measured six inches.
The whole forty-nine were massacred.
Excellent jelly or glue is now made ont of old
boots, At a recent meeting of the Diberal Club,
Prof. Van derWeyde demonstrated the feasibility
of such a transaction. The leather being treated
with lime, nnder increased atmospheric pressure,
parts w;th its tannin and reverts tothefconditlon
of gelatin, when it may be either converted into
glue or cast in a mould for edible or ornamental
purposes. Think of boiled boots a a light diet!
The surrender of Strasburg has saved it
from a great peril. It has been declared on
o great an authority as the Manchester
Guardian that two balloons, held in tow by
suitable lines, were to be sent up over the
besieged town to a hight of one thousand
feet. Thence they were to drop nitro
glycerine bombs into the powder magazine.
A man named Walter is said to have been
the inventor and the intending operator of
this pretty infernal machine, which would
certain'y have been tried in a few days had
not Gen. Ulrich surrendered. Powder
tnigazines are usually protected by case
mates, or W)mething like them, and the
chances of a balloon, at the hight of only
three hundred yards escaping a rHn of
Chassepot bullets would appear to be but
small. However, it is quite as well that
the experiment in question was not tried.
Meetings have been already held, or are
announced, in all the principal towns of
Germany, to declare the resolution of the
German people to stand by the principles
enunciated in the Berlin address to the
King. Both North and south deprecate
all foreign interference or dictation as to
the conditions of peace, and pray His Maj
esty and his august allies to insist on such
material guarantees as shall secure Germa
ny for the future against the aggressive de
signs of France. Jlresden, Munich, Stutt
gard, Darmstadt, Hanover, Cassel, Bruns
wick, Mayence. Leipsic, Konigsbcrg, Stet
tin, Frankfort-on Main, and Posen have
already adopted the Berlin address, and we
hear every hour of new adhesions. North
German Correspomlcnt.
A droll story comes to us from Faris.
The autboritites having ordered, in view of
a scarcity of provender, that all "useless
mouths" should leave the city, great was
the consternation in elderly female circles,
and immense was the rush to the Mayor's
office, and plaintive and shrill were the in
terrogatories does the order refer to cats ?
dogs? parrots? canary birds? "Not at
all," responds the public officer; "for if
worst cornea to worst, these beasts and birds
can be eaten."
Settlement with our soldiers and Failors
for their bounties and payments advances
very slowly. Of the 200,000 black soldiers
who enlisted during the late war, only 60,
000 have received their bounties. It is es
timated that 100.000 yet remain to be set
tled with. One firm ot claim agents, who
have presented 12,000 claims for colored
soldiers, has been suspended from doing
business with the Bureau.
Three or four carpenters had a dance up
on the roof of a school house at Pittsfield,
Mass., the other day. They were shingling
the building, and in tearing off the covering
a big hornets nest was discovered, when
men, overhalls, shingles hats and insects
flew about hastily for a time. There was no
retreat for the men, and so they had to
fight it out on that line until the foe was
annihilated.
The wreck of a large vessel having been
found among the sands of the Yuma desert,
California, savans are propounding conun
drums to each other as to how it came there.
and how long ago that place was the bed of
the sea.
38cw lU'frttecmcntju
Advertisement setup i-ntaTgttype ,r tut iff p!ai,
ctirletll be charged double usual rates. Nmmts
r ORING'S Dollar Cox of Initialed French Note
I J Paper, mailed to yiu on receipt of SI. Ad
dress I.OKINU, Publisher. Uoston, Mass. Ocl2-lm
rrff MEN WANTED 100 percent, profit
t)UUU on three best things out. 50.00(1 club
and combination premiums to agents. Catalogue
and terms free. Address M. L. bYHN. t-0 Cedar
St., N. Y. Oct. 12. 70 In
A SSIGNEE'S SALE The undersigned
Assignee of James II. Hale. Bankrupt,
will offer at public sale, en lands of Frank Orcutt,
ON FllIDAY, OCTOBER 51, 1S70,
at 2 o'clock, P. M.,
A Portable Steam Saw Mill,1
the
property of said Bankrupt,
it I2. 70. E. A. IRVIN. Assignee
Oct
SAWS! SAWS!!
DISTON. CKOZS CUT.
MILL, DRAG,
AND CIRCULAR SA ir.s'.
LI'illTNINU SAWS.
PATENT PFKFOKATED.
KI.KCTRIC SAWS,
And DIST0X S SAWS of all kinds,
for tale by
-II. F. BIOLER & CO.
I ISTEI TO TUB MOCKTNiJ BIKD. The Prai
I J rie Whistle and Animal Imitator can be used
by a child. It is made to imitate the song of every
bird, the neigh of a horse, the bray of an as. the
grunt of a hog. Birds. Ileasts and Snakes are en
chanted and entrapoed by it. It is used by Dan
Bryant, Charley White, and all the Minstrels and
Warblers. Ventriloquism can be loaraed in three
days by its aid. Sent anywhere upon receipt of
IS cent ; 3 tor io eents ; i tor as cents ; la lor a 1
Address T. w. VAI.ENTISE,
OctS-lm. Box 372 Jersey City, N.J.
W E A V I N G !
Mrs. R. CALDWELL,
Having ensaged in tho WEAVING BUSINESS
at her residence near Logan's Mill, desires to in
form her friends and the public, that she has now
and will keep constantly on hand, a well selected
stock ot COTTON, WOOLEN and HEMP WARPS,
and is prepared to furnish to order Carpet ready
made, or warp and weaving. Weaving ot all
kinds done to order. If desired she can furnish
cotton warp of all kinds for linen or woolen fill
ing. Wool and rags taken in exchange.
Address, Mas. R. CALDWELL,
Octl2,'70-ly. Curwensville, Pa.
WEST BRANCH RESTAURANT
AND
Ladies' Oyster Saloon,
Of SECOXn ST.. BELOW MARKET,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
Constantly kept cn hand a selected assortment
of Candies, Nuts, Cigars, Tobacco. Ae. Also fresh
Oysters received daily, and for sale by the doxen
or hundred. J. M. MACOMBER.
Oct. 12.'70. Proprietor.
17OR SALE two second-hand air tight parlor
1 WOOD STOVES, and lot of good RUSSIA
PIPE Terms moderate. Inquire of D. U. Niv
Iing, Clearfield, Pa. Oct. 5, '70.
J A. BLATTENEERGER, Ctam asd Collf.c
. Tiox OrriCE, Conveyancing and all Legal
Papers drawn with accuracy and dispatch. Drafts
on and passage tickets to and from any point in
Europe secured. Osceola, Clearfield County. Pa.
October i, l870-3m.
CAUTION. My son, Charles Fremont Knox,
aged 14 years, having left me without just
cause or provocation, persons are hereby caution
ed against harboring or trusting him on my ac
count, or giving him employment without ren
dering to me satisfaction for his services.
Opt J,'70-3tp. P. KNOX, Kylertown, Pa.
BRICK FOR SALE. The undcr
has manufactured and has now on l,..i
for sale LSI) UIMI RRIfK -hinr, k. , " .11
, . . . " " uipo 0r
reasonable terms, in large or small quantit...
suit purchasers. J. A. TKPki
l.uthersburg. September 14 1870 6m
SAWED LU.MIJER.-Tlie unders!
near Osceola, Clearneld eountv. Pa., i, now
pared to furnish pin. board, clear and VIm
Stuff. Ac. Pine -t,., u '",l
and shipped on short notice. r
C. K. MACOMHER.
,.,,. ,, " Osceola Mills.
MT ? ,S.B9",f- Clearfield ee.. P..
"JJOTICE. Having purchased the interi
or J. A lJlattenU-rgcr. Esq., in the W
nesi i heretofore carried on under the firm nam.
of
... - ---- " - jiutj win DO Con.
lusted here&rtcr uniVr trh nam. . -
t.aii'1 aud La ruber Co , (tore)
H PHILLlXWroKD. JOHN LAWnv
President.
May U, T70.-tf.
Sup't.
FAIRHAXIvS
STANDARD SCALES. OF ALL KIXDS ALSO,
IMPROVED MONEY DRAWER.
Fairbanks, Morse k Co.,
M 30 6m . 102 Second A v.. Pittsburg. Pa.
T7XECUTOR S NOTICE. Estate of
Ann Westfall, deceased. Whereas,
Letters Testamentary on the estate of Ana
Westfall, lnfe of Chest township, deceased.
nave oeen granted to tne nniorsie;ned. All per
sons indebted to the said estate are requetel to
maxe immediate payment, and tbo.-e hirir
claims against the same will present them, duly
authenticated, for settlement
II.
August 17. 187-t.p.
II
1IVRD.
Executor.
CAUTION. AH persons are hereby cautioned
against purchasing or in any way mejdling
with the following property, now in possession ot
O. I. Michaels, of l'ike township, to wit ; one log
sled, one plow, harness for two horses one two
horse wagon, one cook stove. houiibo.d and kitch
en furniture, and one gray horse as the imi b-
lnfifr in mm n d ha- Anl Kaaii luff with if : .
chaels on loan, and are subject to my order.
yci.a, iu-jtp. JA.HIS IA X H(J AKT.
rTEACIIEllS W ANTED. The School
-1- Directors of Perm townshin wi.-h to cm.
ploy r I VE competent teachers to take charee oi
the sccools in suid township, the coming inter.
Persons wishing to teach the schools, will meet
the said Di'ec'.ors at Pennvile, on Saturday Octo
ber 22d. and consummate the agreement. Wages
liberal. By order of the Board.
Sep.2S.'70. JAMES B. CLARK. Secretary.
PACTION. -All persons are hereby cau
tion apainst purchasinc two solionl orlrs
on the Treasurer of Woodward school district
Said orders are as follows : No. 250. dated March
11. 1S70. for MO.00; No. 2 .6. dated April 7. l-iTft.
for 40,00. Said orders were given r,y the Wood
ward school boaid to Wm. B.Thomas, and . they
have been nearly all paid, they will not be ret. ail.
unless compelled by law so t do.
Sep. Z8, ?0-3tp. JS. SI. UiiASK, Treat r.
s
INGER SEWING MACHINES.
IIINKLEY KNITTING MACHINES.
The most perfect and simple machines ot the
kind ever invented. Both of the above popular
machines have been lately improve,! until thy
stand without a rival Price of the Singer Fam
ily Machine from SGj.flO upwards, according tn
finish. llir.kiey Knitters, S:0.09. Circulars aci
samples mailed froe on application.
STRAW A MORTON, Ocn. Agt's.
No 20 Sixth St.. Pittsburgh. Fa.
Agents wanted for the Iliiikley M ichina every
where, and for the Sinjrer in Western Penn'a.
Eastern Ohio and West Va., where there aie none
already established. I Nov. 24.'M I v.
N FW ME ATM A H KE F.
Tb undersigned hare opened a Meat Markt
in the room tormtrW occupied by Alex Irrin a
Market Street. Clearfield. a . aujiiniug Mowop'i,
where the intend to keep a fuU apply of
All Kinds of Meat,
Fruit and Vegetables,
and at prices to suit the times. Their shop will
be open regularly, on Tuesday. Thursday and
Saturday, and meat delivered at ary point A
share of public patronage is r:iecTfu!Iy solicited.
M. C IJKOW.N.
Aug. 31,-70 tf. E. W. imnWNV
Also continue to deal in all kinds uf improv
ed Agricultural Implnments.
QLOTIIINGI CLOTHING!!
GOOD AND CHEAP!!!
Men. Touths and Boys can bevuplpied wlthfal
suits of seasonable and lashienable clothing a
I. L. KEIZEXSTEIX S,
where it is sold ot prices that will indues the:r
purchaso. The universal satisfaction wLich Lis
been given, has induced him te increase bis
s'ock, which is now not surpa-sed by any tsb
lishnient of the kind in this part -f the btate.
I. L. REIZENSTEIX,
Sells goods at a very small profit. freu;
His goods are well made and fashienakle.
He gives every one the worth ef his msnej.
He treats his customers all alike.
He sells cheaper than every body else.
His store is conveniently situated
He having purchased bis stock rt redaeei
prices he can sell cheaper tl an ethers.
For these and other reasons person sheald kif
their clothing at
I. L. KEIZKNSTErVS.
Produce of every kind taken at the highsat
market prices. May I. If
C. KRATZER & SONS
are receiving a splerulM stock of
CAEPETS AND OIL CLOTHS,
LACK CURTAINS, WINDOW SHADES,,
COUNTERPANES AND QUILTS.
LINEN TABLE CLOTHS AND NAPKTSiv
LADIES SILK CO ATS AND OVERSK1RTS.
ELEGANT SHAWLS AND LACK TOINTS,
LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S TRIMMED
HATS,
DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS,
BEST KID GLOVES LADIES', GENTLE
MEN'S AND CHILDREN'S,
BLACK AND FANCr SILKS,
FINE BLACK ALPACAS,
UNEQUALLED STOCK LADIES' AD
CHILDREN'S SnOES AND GAITERS,
MEN'S CALF AND FRENCH KIP BOOTS,
nEAVT CALF BOOTS. $5.
MEN'S AND BOrS' FINE AND HEAT
SHOES,
BEST STONE TEA SETTS, $5,
CASSIMERES VERT CHEAPi
GROCERIES, FLOUR AND PROVISIONS
AT LOWEST RATES,
LIBERAL REDUCTION TO THOSE BAT
ING IN QUANTITY,
WOOL,, MARKETING AND COCNTRT
PRODUCE WANTED.
Clearfield, Jona 30, 1869.
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