Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-12-09
A Little of Everything.

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Minnesota has spent $4,000 on wolf
scalps this year.
An exchange aGvertises for "a good boy
to make devil of. p"
In their quarters-the new Prothonotary,
Register and Commissioner.
The snow is nearly two feet deep all over
the upper Mississippi country.
Napoleon is now supposed to be the read
lest man for war in all the world.
There are two women who are students at
the Agricultural College of Iowa.
New York and London are said not to pos
sess Jewish beggar among them.
People are married in New York at the
rate of one pair and a half per hour.
Five cents a round is considered good
price for venison in Western Missouri.
Pedestrians crossed the Missouri on the
ice at Omaha on the Goth of November.
A rarity-a man who drinks whiskey at all,
and then refuses to drink mean whiskey.
Still not in town-our railroad. When
will it reach here? Echo answers, aohenF
There are four hundred and twenty four
soldier clerks in the New York Post Office.
There are two sides TO this question, as
! the girl said when she turned buckwheat
cake.
At Ridgeway, N. c., several gentlemen
have started little peach orchard of 2O0, 900
! trees.
Ripe strawberries we're gathered on the
James river, Va, as late as the 9th of No
vember.
Three hundred women. graduates of med
ical colleges, are now practicing in this
country.
A Connecticut minister lately married
two couple and was married himself the
same d.y.
One editor in Paris is said to work but
seven hours every fortnight, and to get sl6,-
600 year.
Covered with snow-the mud holes in our
streets. We presume the Boro Dads have
no objection.
Sixty-fve years ago the ''stove pipe" hats
worn we're just the same style as those of
the presen, day.
Run off the bridge--the cars at Clearfield
creek. last week Certainly on to the
track on this side.
A Vermont editor writes obituary notices
of delinquent subscribers, and in this way
brings them to life.
Three millions of pieces, worth nearly half
a million of dollars, we're coined at the Phil
adelphia Mint last week.
The American College at Rome wants the
Catholics of the United States to send it
$500, 900 to keep it going.
A Louisville paper speaks of lawyer of
that place, who ''hung out his shingle as a
tinker of defective titles.
A young lady being asked why the noun
bachelor is singular, replied, because it's
very singular they don't get married.
The expenditures of the Patent Office
during the past year exceeded the receipts
by only one hundred and seventy one dollars.
where you can find any modern buildings
which have lasted as long as the ancient ones.
The tax rate for Philadelphia next year
has been increased from one dollar and forty
to one dollar and eighty cents on one hun
dred dollars.
A Democratic editor says ''al his shots
are directed at error 1t is all he has to
shoot at, for he never gets within gunshot
of the truth.
In Westfcld. Chatauqua county, New
York ten men, the total of whose ages was
more than eight hundred and fifty years,
voted for Grant.
The Washington damsel who married
Hole in-the day, the Indian chief, is now
penniless widow. seeking for chance to do
housework in Minnesota.
Eight thousand buildings have been erect
cd in Chicago this year, at cost of s25,-
900, 600. Among these were twenty FIVE
churches, costing 81. 900.
1t being mentioned that our members of
Congress, in order to ''retrench," intend
giving up the franking privilege, an exchange
says, then the millennium must be approach
ing"
Gen. Grant declines, it is said. to continue
the stay law in force after the first of the
year in Virginia So Northern men can col
lect their debts in that State and seize and
hold lands.
A few days ago, in the eastern part of JEFF |
ferson county, KY, gang of seven rufians
violated the persons of two negro girls, shot |
them dead and then threw their bodies into |
a creek. SIX OF the gang have been arrest
ed and committed to jail.
A newspaper at Salem, Oregon, says it is
called upon TO deny ''the rumor that the |
steamboat owners had employed street |
sprinkler to lay the dust in the bed of the
Williamet river, for one of the company had /
dampened his feet in walking from shore to |
shore in wooden socks
The experimental firing at Fortress Mon.
roe has been completed, and the reported |
result is that none of the targets had sufii