Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-12-26
Clippings and Scribblings.


nA-Fresh shad are tickling the palates of
eplcures In Savannah
Sa5Butter in Montpelier, Vermont, has
declined from fifty two to twenty five cents
pound.
AOn Dec. 10th, a Mr. Lowenhaupt was
robbed, on hoard a steamer on the Missis
sippi, of SOS, 900.
n@-It is rumored in New Orleans that
Ortega intends instituting suit against the
United States for false imprisonment.
A6The South Carolina Legislature has
passed resolutions expressive of their SYM
pathy with JEFF. Davis in bis confinement.
IaMr j. Dearborn, of Hampton, N.
H., has lost within about two months seven
of his eight children, all dying of dyptheria
nA-Nearly 100000 bushels of wheat,
including wheat reduced to flour, have been
shipped from Minnesota during the rast
season.
s@-D. r. Locke, of the Toledo Blade.
announces that he is the only petroleum
Y. Nasty in America. Good thing for
America.
B9-Slidell is in the best of health and
circumstances in France The Confedera-
cy was not a losing operation to this polish
ed traitor.
nRSecretary Seward has presented the
colored Episcopalians of Washington with
brick to build church. The value of the
gift is over $4,000.
s6-Advices from Fort Scott, Kansas,
state that over 10000 head of beef cattle
have passed there during the past ten days.
going North ts market.
H9rM Members of the 'coniugal relation"
will please notice that the penalty in Paris,
for selling ones wife, is eight years hard
labor. Better put up with her.
rAChas. p Rub, of Hudson county, n
j., was sentenced to one year in the State
Prison. Mr.. Rub had been convicted of
bribery in the New JerseyLegislature in 1866
rA-Boston-the "hub of the universe
and proprietor of the big organ-has ar
ranged for a big hotel, FIVE stories high and
800 rooms, to be located on Washington ST.,
opposite Franklin.
IHThere are thirty iron manufactures in
Chicago, several of which are almost exclu-
sively engaged in preparing railroad iron,
and tOe ether do a business amounting to
50, ,500,OO0 per annum.
nea-Secretery McCulloch's expense col
umn don't look as if the Radicals meant to
reduce President johnson to his last shil
ling 1t contains an item of S2l6, 200 for
fixing up" the Presidents house.
Eay~It takes three columns of French
journal to give full particulars of how girl
in Paris was miraculously cured of mortal
disease by having her eyes rubbed with a
piece of the Pope's petticoats. Queer that
these Parisians never before thought of the
virtue there is in petticoats
HeAIn the Indiana so-callcd Conspiracy
cases, in which military commission SEN
fenced to death Mulligan, Rowles and Hors-
ley, but who were afterward released, the
Supreme Court of the United States has de-
cided against the legality of military COM
missions for the trial of civil cases.
nG-About $45,OO0 are paid monthly to
the employees of the Freedman's Bureau.
The total expenditures of the Bureau have
been 81 ,500,0 900, and during the ten months
to March last, it had issued 5000, 600 ra
tions-two thirds of which were to South
crn ''chivalry," who are always ready for
favors, if not for ''subjugation.
na-The death of remarkable rabbi of
the Jewish Church of Germany is announ
ced. M. Frank was native of wilma, born
in the year 1885, so that he had attained his
lOSth year. At that advanced period of life
he was without any of the infrmties of old
age his bearing was perfect, he read with
out spectaces, and took long walks up to the
last week of his life.