There has been a party from Wilcox, Pa, here this week with a view of starting a livery stable here if they could get a location.  We are informed they have made the neccessary arrangements with Messrs. Boyd & Smith for the hotel barn and will start business.

Eugene McCarty, flagman on the local between here and Olean, met with a sad accident on Monday morning just as the train was pulling out.  He slipped in some way off the platform of the coach and struck his foot on the rail breaking his ankle bone.

F.H.  Reed has suspended business over his railroad and tied up his engine until the first of April.  He now busies himself in the erection of his new drug store.

Dr. I. E. Burt and wife were registered at the Bayer house on Monday last.  The doctor was sizing up the town with a view of locating here.

The work on the new coal shutes is progressing nicely.  This when finished will be a great improvement over the old ones.

The remains of Mrs. Geo.  Herzog, of Farmers Valley, were interred in the Clermont cemetery on Tuesday last.

The lumber is on the ground for a new blacksmith shop at the mouth of the Lyman mines.

Simon Meisel, of Renovo, was in town a few days this week the guest of his brother, John.

J.H. Tate now holds the reins of the Buffalo Coal Co's affairs at Clermont.

A.S. Burdick has bought a new team of horses.

We are still having splendid sleighing. 

Elections one week from next Tuesday.