Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-19
a Little everything.
The cattle plague is ting.

Mrs 1rum bull died a2shington, on SATURDAY
On the ine-e,where-Seymour and
Blair STOCK.
Go to the Grant and fax Reading room in
the evenings
Cholera iufsntum isevalent in the eastern
part of the State
Our friends should h:work. Eternal vigil
lance is the price of lily
Lost Cawsr-the crog of the Coppearhead
cocks over the Kentucklection.
The conservatives Maryland are deserting
Seymour and going rant.
Mr.. Seba Smith, the einal JACK Downing
died at his residence DONG Island, last week,
aged rs years.
The COpperhead maj,y in Kentucky is about
10000. Uuion men seeto be rather ''sKeerce'
in that Rebe State
The COpperheads of Gton County have nom
mated A. Mackey fopngress- He is rene
gade Know nothing.
1t is said the Democr contemplate adopting
the apple blossom a npaign badge. 1t viii
be worn on the nose
One of the Pendletoncort is said to be wander
ing in the Rocky Mouains- Poor fellow ; he
shouldn't take on SO
In 1860 the Southernre- eaters threatened Sc
cession if they failed In 1868 they threaten
revolution if they succd.
Seven thousand doghave been taken to the
pound in New YORK ,thieason. Bologna sausage
must be dog cheap in til city.
Seymour boasts that never held dollar of
the public debt. somedy says he has in his
life held great many his own debts.
The annual report of c County Superintend-
ent of Common Schools as unavoidaby crowded
out this week. 1t will aoear in our next.
The Schenectady Evemg Standard puts Sey
Up our and Blair at the lad of its columns, and
directly underneath say"The Road to Ruin"
Mr.. C Shank, of How'd township. Centre CO.
has a corn stalk. which ieasures iS feet inches
| in hight. Genuine Grar and Colfax corn, that
President Johnson KotucKy friends have sent
him five barrels of Borbon. That certainly,
| should keep his spirits to the end of his term
| The New York Heroidgoes for Grant on the
| Republican ticket.aRd fr Blair on the Democrat
ic ticket Bennett has cockney's penchant for
| alf-and- 'alf
/ Mr.. Pugh said of the ,ubIic debt, in his recent
Cincinnati speech, that'nobody considers it sa-
cred, except the man wlo has got the evidence OF
it in his pocket
Some of the seditiou Southeruers declare il
Seymour is not elected they wall leave the coun-
try. That is one of the strongest arguments tor
the election of Grant.
There is one difference between the speeches OF
Grant and Seymour. The former always speaks
to the point; the latter sreaks along and make;
no visible point at all.
Democratic paper says. lat in order to secure
Seymour's election they must get out every Dem
ocratic voter Can't 10 it. for some of them are
in for number of years.
The Ebensburg AEfeehaniau after n suspension
of five months has again made its appearance
ne + ,nns ys 2; sns E do good service in the
character. Tennessee paper says when they g,
out TO kill Union man, they carry picks anc
spades along to bury the corpse
An account of the Kansas State Democratic Con
vention says The rebel flag actually hung in In,
hall during the entire session of the Couve ntiun
Such is the latter-day Democracy.
We hardly know which will become insane frs
Seymour or Frank Blair. Seymour inherit.
madness, and Blair has such horror of water
that he is likely to become mad at any time
PamphletcOpy of the proceedings of the Tam
many Hall Convention, printed for circulation II
the South, bears on its cover, in large tyne
stand by your friends who have stood by you ~
Every Union soldiers grave is an eloquent
speech against the Democratic ticket. which was
nominated by the men who initiated and carried
on the war in which our boys in blue we're slau ch
tered.
The Democrats imported rebels from the South
to stump the North against Lincoln and initiate
rebellion. They are now importing the same class
of men to stump the North against Grant and
initiate revolution.
When Wade Hampton left Columbia. at the ap-
proach of Sherman's army, he annor need his in
tentIon of going to Texas heli' He didn't
go to Texas. and as to hell-well, he has Joined
the Democratic party.
What uniform do you suppose I wear? Do you
think L have begun to the gray ,'' said one
of General Hancock's staff officers, when asked if
he would vote the Democratic ticket. Many a
soldier will repeat the question.
The demolition of the old Court House in In
diana, preparatory TO the erection of a new one
was commenced on Monday a-week Rev. Blair
preached the first sermon in the house after its
erection, and on Sunday the 9Th, he also preach
ed the last one.
The spirit OF imitation is strong, even with
Presidential candidates 1t is said that when
the intelligence reached St. Joseph, Mo, that
Seymour was last seen on his farm putting in new
hay Blair, who was in the place, i'm lately
put in little old rye
Albert Pike, the Rebel poet, in the Memphis
dPpeaf, gives this devilifh advice to his readers
so on. boys; swear TO murder Northern Huns,
Arm yourselves and organize, and be ready to re-
spond promptly when called on, and fight brave
y even if you get killed
The Milwaukee Sentinel having described a
grand Democratic ratification meeting in that
'ity, concludes with the following "As specu-
aton by the pToprietors of the bar at the Rink
X was success; funeral it doubtful, aud
Is a ratification meeting it was fzzle -
The Chicago Times gives up Illinois to Grant
'ut claims Indiana and Ohio. In Indiana the
democrats claim Illinois and Ohio, but give up
indiana In Ohio they claim Indiana and Hi
iols but give up Ohio; and that is the kind of
iguring that is resorted to in order to defeat
irant on paper.
The Wheeling hitsiiigsRcer speaking of Tn ur-
nan speech in the Convention there says: Thur
nan asked his friends what they should do with
ne Radical soldiers when they (the Democrats
tot into power - and ,ba rebeI crowd cried out