Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-10-14
A Little of Everything.


The Queen of Spain is now called carpet-bas'
ger.
Avoiding took place in the Mammoth Cave
last week
Quite large crop of sugar is promised this
year in Texas.
Lady Franklin, now eighty, as returned from
Asia to FIR anee.
Water is so scarce in Lowell that milk has gone
up a cent quart.
Canada in emulation of other and older nations
has whisky frauds, debts and taxes
A Young girl was burned to death last Friday
night in St. Louis, by lamp explosion
Waite rbury, Conn. has a watch which is 2l0
wears old. 1t has catgut chain instead of steel
one.
Robert Lincoln, son of ex President Liheoln,was
married on September oath to Miss Nellie Harlan
daughter cf Senator Harlan.
Gold sold at 1891 in New York last week. This
is the lowest figure Gold has sold at since the
nomination of Seymour and Blair.
The North German Arctic Expedition is report
ed to have been a failure probably from the diff
fculty of tic-ulation so far North
The popular tide for Grant is interrupted in its
few by great many dam(n)s, but it Immediately
rises above them, and flows light on
Seventeen millions of do liars in national bonds
are held in the county of Berks, and mainly by
its Democratic farmers and laboring men.
Last week President johnson said that "sey-
mour and Blair cou Id not carry over four States
Andy must have come to his sober second thought
In England Minister Burlingame's Chinese title
| is announced as Poo-au- Chen Chen Chi-choong-
| jen- taehen. Sounds very much like pr olonged
/ sneeze.
! Fillmore supports Seymour and Blair. He does
| this because through some strange inadvertancy
he neglected to come out as a candidate himself
! this fall.
! England has large crop of acorns this year,
VIII ich are being fed to the hogs and cattle. This
may be all right, but might produce acOrner in
cattle trade.
McHenry, the main witness against Commis-
| sioner of Internal evenue Rollins, has been ar
rested on a charge of perjury, and held for an
examination.
Report has it that VaIandigham has sold his
silver dollar, the hat he used to hold up when
haranguing Democratic audiences the ruinous
use of greenbacks.
Quiggins reports 'straw'' vote taken by him
on his way to the opera the other evening. 1t
esulted Grant ! Seymour O-sh owing that Sey-
mour's chances nowhere.
western paper says, Imagine Seymour Pres
| Ident'' That is a little too much. Not even
Democratic mag gination hereabouts, although al
most equal to any strain, can quite go that.
If Mcclellan keeps as quiet during this cam
| paign as he did along the Potomac one winter,
there will be very little damage done to Union
men by his presence in this country this fall.
There is reason for believing that plot has al
ready been formed by the rebels in Washington
| to assassinate Gen. Grant the event of his
election to tn Presidency. They had better not
Not single word of disapproval of the mas
sacre of Camilla, Ga has yet been heard from
| any Northern Democrat, while some of the Cop
perhead journals have even justified it. The
Northern Democracy and the rebels one in
principle and feeling.
The bulk of the debt of Pennsylvania was con.
tracted under authority of Democratic Legisla-
lures. They not only failed to tax the capital
represented in the bonds they put upon the mar
ket, but they carefully provided by law that the
bonds should not be taxed either for State county
or township purposes.
! The Catholic Synod in session in New York ha:
promulgated the decree of the Plenary Council al
| Baltim ore, urging the Immediate establishment
| of sch oos for colored children in the Southern
| States and also the establishment of orphanages
as there is strong reason to apprehend large in
crease of orphan colored children.
J The Pos tmaster General has accepted the hid
of Messrs. Leech, Piper 4 Co., of Kittanning Pa
at Sl94,e00 for carrying the mails from Fort Aber
| crombie to Fort Romein. 900 miles, three times a
week, in four horse post coaches. This service
opens up vast space of our north western terri
tory, connections being closely made with the rail
road service at St Paul and thence by daily and
| triweekly service to Abercrombie