Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-12-05
Clippings and Scribblings.

Fes-Ion Thumbs income is s2,o76.
Democratic Coteges-lager beer
saloons
Ha-There are $50 convicts confined in the
Ohio PeniteHtiary.
PDiscoyered recently-new and rich
gold mines, near Poptapo, Chill.
BH-Closed- Navigation on the Upper
Mississippi river, by an ice gorge.
RA-The aggregate income of the working
classes of Great Britain is $2,O9I, 500, 900.
An American carried the first italian
flag into Venice after the close of the war.
DaN New is the time to look out for wet
feet, blue noses, aching teeth, and sore eyes.
DgThe Indians on the plains have taken
over three thousand white scalps this season.
mA-The prospect now is that meats will
fall to the low prices they were before the
war.
sg Minnesota has permanent school
fund of 81 326, S93 the proceeds of the sale
of lands 8
RayOf the 600 vessels in the navy at the
close of the war, there are now but 246,
mounting 2,563 guns.
Bs1-Some persons heads are like small,
cheap dictionaries you find everything
there, except what is most wanted. M
sas-A valuable cobalt and nickel mine has
been opened in Madison county, Me. This
ore is worth In England $400 per ton
aeaDCompeted- great Suspension
bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati 1t is
1852 feet long-the longest single span IN
the world.
Rsa|An exchange says: "A Mobile sa-
wings bank collapsed the other day because
the depositors withdrew the funds to attend
a circus.
sayThe number of British regulars in
Canada amounts to l4,000 men, which is
larger than has been seen In the provinces
since 1914.
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Tens e,-
see, choosing twenty-nIne members OF Con
gress, are yet to elect.
Hsn-It is significant that hundreds of
North Catolinians are leaving their State
this fall for the Northwest -Four hundred
passed through Raleigh in one week
p-Theesta of the late Senator Wright,
of New Jersey, is valued at 81 900, 900
His will, when admitted to probate. had
$500 worth of government stamps attached
thereto.
BA grand son of John Quincy A.lams
in Quincy, Mass, recently, and was defeat
ed by decapitated postmaster. Served
him right
-Returns to the general Lard Office
show that during the month of October D.
446 acres of the public lands were sold in
the State of Florida for actual settlement
under the homestead law.
Rg~The woman who was lately buried
alive at Quincy, ILL.,, and rescued in time to
save her life, says she knew all that took
place during her trance state, but was una
BILE to speak or move a limb.
HsAThe Albany Journal says the Demo-
cratic party cannot die because it is already
dead. Too true. The worst of it is, they
will not be able to muster enoagh respecta-
able people for decent funeral.
rea-The English Government has present
ed Captain Webster, of the revenue cutter
Mahohing, at Portland. with fine gold
chronometer and chain, in token Of his ser
vices to British seamen in distress during
last winter,
ReAThe Buffalo Courier, Democratic or
gan In Western New York, says Let our
colored brethren possess their souls in pa
thence. The Democratic party will see that
they have their rights. Ahem Colored
Jreihrent That rich; amt it
ma- Noah II. and Abraham FL Zook, of
Lancaster, Pa, were brutally murdered on
plantation twenty miles from Vicksburg
Mississippi, few days since. The broth
ers had leased the plantation and had grown
upon it crop of cotton, which they were
gathering when murdered.
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