Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-11-28
A Little of Everything.
The famine in India is abating.

The famine in India is abating.
Spain is threatened with an insurrection-
The general Assembly of Southern Pres
byterians is in session at Memphis, Tenn.
-Fenians are crowding into Ireland. Tie
English Government has an eye ON them.
.-"Patrick, where Bridget?" ''Indade
she fast asleep, ma am, looking at the bread
baking.
John B. Cough says: "Cork-screws
have sunk more people than cork jackets
will ever save.
The man who eat his dinner with the
fork Of a river has since been attempting to
spin mountaln-top.
Louisville, Chicago and other cities
west ard south, are suffering from the dep
relations of burglars.
-Fenian sisterhoods, says a writer, are
much nioef things than brotherhCods, and
tar better armed for conquest.
why does father call mother honey?'
asked a boy of his Older brother Cant
tell cept it's because she has a large comb
In her head. .
"A bill, providing for Impartial Suffrage
and General Amnesty, was defeated In the
Tennessee House of Representatives by a
vote Of SO to %.
-Diagenes being once asked the bite of
which beast was the worst, answered, IF
you mean of wild beasts, tbs the slanderer !;
If tame, the fiatterer.
Two young bucks, aged respectively
seventy and seventy five years, are to run a
foot race in Indianapolis. Men of such age
should be tired of the human race.
six feet in his boots I" exclaimed Mrs
Partington "What will the Importance of
this world come to, | wonder? Why, they
might as well tell me he had six heads in his
hat. "
Vegetable pills ~ exclaimed an old
lady. Don't talk to me of such stuff. The
best vegetable pill ever made is an apple
dumpling. For destroying a gnawing in the
stomach there is nothing like It. F"
"A wonderful case of conscience has been
discovered in Milwaukee, A lawyer bor-
rowed book thirteen years ago from an ed
itor, and returned it last week. When
lawyers make restitution there is hope tor
the country.
"A very dangerous fifty dollar legal ten
der counterfeit is out. The vignetee, which
is the head of Alexander Hamilton, is gen,
uine, being cut from two dollar notes and
pasted on. The engraving and printing are
ceedingly good, and the whole work is SO
well done as to deceive all but experts.
"A whisky drinking Irishman was
brought before magistrate named Porter,
charged with being drunk and disorderly.
The magistrate committed the delinquent to
prison for month, telling him he would
give him time enough to curse whisky.
Eyes, faith, was tneprlsoner reply, and
Porter too.
The Philadelphians claim to have in
vented a method of converting sand into
beautiful stone for building purposes, which
rivals the old Roman concretes which with
stood the action of twenty centuries. 1t Is
very cheap, and if all that is said regarding
1t be true, we may be looking for a revolution
IN building material.
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of the Ro-
man Catholic Church in the United States
embraces ., 700 priests, three mitred abbots,
40 bishops, and arcirbishops- The for
eigu element sticks pretty closely to the
Church, and it must be admitted that up
wards of 1000, 900 is not a small percentage
for population of 32,000,000.
An Irishman, some time ago, was com
mitted to the penitentiary for a misdemean.
or, and sentenced to work on the tread mill
for the space of month. He observed, at
the expiration of his task, What a CRATE
dale of fatigue and botheration 1t would
have saved US poor craythurs, if they had
but invinted it to go by stame like all other
water mills"
Rev. James Prestley, pastor of the
Second United Presbyterian Church in
Pittsburgh, Pa, has been found guilty, by
the Presbytery, of maltreating his wife,
using profaue language, and otherwise con-
Quoting himself in manner unbecomlng a
Christian and minister of the gospel. In
consequence of this, he was deposed, and on
the 18th Nov, formally read out OF the
ministry His wife has made application
for a divorce