Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-01-30
Clippings and Seribblings.

Topeka has doubled its population in the
last year
BAn English lecturer says america is no
place for fools"
- Paper has begun to fall in England the first
decline being a cent pound
ES Next year is the seventh senri-centennial
anniversary of the Reformation.
| Eg The gold coinage at the mint in San Fran
| cisco during 1866, was SlS.O00,000
| EYAn OYSTER firm in Baltimore puts up weekly
one hundred thousand cans of oysters.
g7N. P. Willis died on the sixtieth anniversa-
ry of his birthday. He was buried in Boston
~ The Philadelphia street carried AZ,
22l 499 passengers last year, and received s.
| SoS.74I
EY@ Brownsville. Monroe county. Ohio. with one
hundred and ten inhabitants, contains six houses
! of worship.
| r-g@It is quite probable that the Tennessee Leg
slature will pa the colored suffrage and loyal
militia bills.
Y7Since the organization of the National Con-
gress. there have been i'll that body 81 of the
| Smith family.
L-Y=The trial Of Rev. Joel Lindsey, who whip
ped his child to death last June, is progress
sing at Albion, New York.
ryTwenty thousand dollars have teen appro-
priated by the Baltimore Councils for the educa-
ton of the colored children of that city.
ER All the courts of Missouri; in obedience to
the supreme Court decision, admit attorneys to
- Thirty ladies were tried at Greenfield, Ohio,
last week. for moboing several liquor dealers.
The jury returned verdict of S625 for the plain
tifs.
p The Supreme Court of Alabama has deci-
ded that the act of Congress, requiring stamp
upon legal processes is unconstitutional. Has it,
though?
Ey7A sport, of Detroit, bought a ticket on the
Crosby Art Association for 81 600, which he sup
posed was the lucky one, but which turned out
blank as far as prize was concerned.
p The crown of the Queen of the Beigians is
causing a sensation. 1t is composed of forty-fve
pearls, of forty magnificent diamonds of immense
size, and five thousand small brilliants.
Ecg-Horace Greeley. not the eminent journal
lists of that name, but negro of Charleston, ,.
c.. has been convicted of murder. John Bull. al
negro, his alleged accomplice, was acquitted.
E-57A freedman eloped to North Carolina with
freed girl whose parents objected to mar
riage and the couple spliced by a North
Carolina magistrate First instance on record of
''sich doings"
Ey-A "skatorial queen,' who has been turning
the heads of nearly all the slippery heels" of
Philadelphia by her q graceful and artistic ma
nipulations of the steels turns out to be an Arch
street jeweler named Davis.
sy- The clergy of Baltimore held a meeting
recently and resolved not to hold extended funer
al services over the graves of deceased members
of their iocks, till the weather moderates. Bad
thing to die in cold seasons.
s-s7 census has just been completed of At
lanta Georgia The figures follows of
persons over twelve years of age: White males
5496; white females. 5.444 colored males, ,206;
colOred females 5,0od; total, 0,225
~ There are in the District Of Columbia AL,
exandria, Fairfax county. Va, and five counties
in Maryland one hundred and ffty-siX freed
mems day and night sch hoos; one hundred and
forty-three tie eachers and six thousand and thirty
nine scholars.