Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-11-04
A Little of Everything.

Ou the Increase murders anu ciluo AZ
the South.
| The Canadians have subscribed SIS, 900 Tor
| d Arcy NJ Gees widow.
! Some of the Arch Duchess Carlotta' jew
elry Is for sale in Washington.
There was heavy fall of snow in Buffalo
on thursday morning, Oct 22d.
| Sacrament, California. has tomato vine
sixty nine feet in circumference.
a late Quarterly Review estimated the
population OF the world at $50, ,20O,0 0OO
| Brigham Young, it is said, is going to re-
tire to private life with the prophets-$3,-
! 600, 900.
| One of the survivors of Kane's Arctic
Expedition is helmsman of Cincinnati
street car.
A cow in Nashville, the other day ate a
farmers coat with $500 in greenbacks n
the pocket
| About $4,000, COO. were transmitted BY
the money order post offices during the past
fs "a Years.
The Queen of Spain now says that she
did not carry # the crown jewels s''-they
were her oaon.
An Iowa girl of sixteen recently killed a
large lynx with a corn cutter, after it had
whipped two dogs.
Delaware County, Ohio, has an old lady
of one hundred and FIVE years who can
walk six miles day.
Mrs. Mary Small, of Maine has one hun
dred and nineteen great grandchildren liv-
ing. -Malltama IN parro.
A New York jeweller has made gold
chain worth $1,000. which he intends to
give the next President.
Mary j. Bliss has obtained divorce from
Frank Bliss, in New Haven, for abandoning
his welded Bliss in quest OF illegal bliss.
A correspondent wants to know what kind
OF an agricultural product horse races are :;
they being the chief thing exhibited at az
ricultural fairs.
Colonel Carpenter, of the Tenth Cavalry,
had brush" with the Indians on the
10th inst, in which large number of his
men were wounded.
Deacon AIvah Ki,nball, prominent citi-
zen of Nassau, New Hampshire, died in
prayer meeting on Sunday night a. week, at
the age of sixty four.
Benjamin B. Rosenberg was held in $40.
OG0 bail by the United States Commissioner
In New York, on the charge of making for
ged naturalization papers
Brigham Young says he would be willing
to give up half Of his wives if he were GER
tain they would get husbands, who could
lead them to eternal salvation
Mr.. Seward has made grand contribu
ton to science in the purchase of Alaska
Over two thousand varieties of birds are on
their way from his new acquisition.
"A man in New Jersey has recovered
verdict OF $500 against another, because a
child OF the former was drowned in tub
which T. e latter had placed at his door.
Mother" Bickerd, ke, the famous bosni-
tai nurse of the Western armies during tie
war, Is keeping a hotel at Salina, one of he
stations on the Kansas Pacific railroad.
Longstreet is supposed to have certain
railway schemes on which he was to accom-
any Roseorans to Mexico Rosy not get
ting under way the Longstreet railway has
to wait Tor the wagon
Swearing on the Bible was first introdu.
ced into judicial proceedings by the Saxons.
about A. ID. 600. 1t was called corporal
OATH because the witness touched with his
hands part of the Holy Scriptures.
The Emperor of Austria has sent the
Pope magnificent Roman Miss al. on which
the best workmeu of Vienna had been ell
gagged tor several years. The cover is orna
mented with precious stones set in gold
Ihs total cost of the Government build
lngs grounds and improvements in Wash. |
inston, d. e., including the lighting and
cleansing the streets Of that city, up to June
oo, 1908, according to the appropriations |
made hy Congress, amounts it is stated to
Sll, ,534, $40.
An eminent lawyer in Wall street, New
fork, having lost heavily on the late cleo |
tion' received package last Friday He |
began to take off the wrappers. and when
he got the eighteenth off he discovered a
twenty i've cent bottle of Mrs Winslow's
soothing syrup
The ex-Empress Carlotte is quite pros
'rated and she only revives at intervals to
utter fearful cries. Burdened by two inva-
III children, one mad and the other diving.
the health OF the Queen of Belgium threat
'ns to break up. and she is only buoyed m
'y her maternal feelings
There WAS quadruple marriage in In.
Llama the other day. A man married his
.hlru stepmother, who had three children
~ LIS father, and three of his cousin $.
'rothers, married three of his wife's sisters.
At last accounts the parties were trying to
lnd out what relation they were to each
,ther
For destroying moths in carpets, plan
Shich has been found perfectly successful
;: Wet piece of muslin, ian old sheet
Viii answer very We y spread it upon the
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