Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-06-03
A Little of Everything.


JEFF. Davis trial is to be again postponed.
Let us have PULL County Convention on court
week
L.aw Weld, Esq, has quit the mercantile bust
ness at Utahville
Clement c. Clay, the noted rebel, is practising
law in Nashville.
The jewelry and spectacle man was in town
last week, as usual.
Thaddeus Stevens calls Andrew johnson the
Offspring of assassination
quarry of beautiful variegated marble has
been discovered in Berks county.
Gen. Schofield was confirmed, by the Senate, as
Secretary of War, on Friday last
The Sherman House, at Chicago, fed 24o0 per-
sons per day during the convention.
Thomas Jefferson, the most popular of Ameri-
can Presidents, never made speech.
Grimes burned in efigy at West Liberty,
Wisconsin, on Tuesday, the 26th inst.
It is reported that Secretary Seward has ten
dered his resig gnation to the President.
Ex-Gov. Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts, died
Friday last in the eighty-sixth year of his age
a shaft is being sunk on the farm of John Cope,
East Bradford, Ch ester county, in search of gold.
Boynton 4 Youngs Machine Shop will soon be
ready for business The work on it is progressing
rapidly.
1t is time to work. Every man who wants
to see Grant and Colfax elected should prepare
for action.
The Cambria Iron Company has purchased the
Bennington Furnace property, in Blair county,
for $40, 600.
There grand spree in the White House
over the final vote on Impeachment. Andy was
"gel-orous.
The New Orleans Paraymue editor,ally advo-
Gates general amnesty proclamation by Presi-
dent johnson.
The lumaermen and lumber merchants have
nearly all got back. A good deal of timber was
sold on ''sow notes.
There wa 5 circus at Philipsburg on Saturday.
The Clearfeld fools were represented by '.re-
spectacle" delegation
A gentleman vas robbed on the cars between
Philadelpbia and New York, last Wednesday
| night, of $50 600 in U. s. Bonds.
Three hundred Zouaves with priest in atten-
| dance, started from st. Johns. Canada, for Rome
via New York, on Thursday last.
Auother Fenian excitement has been gotten up
in Canada, and the troops at st. Johns arc held
| in readiness for active operations.
Secretary Stanton is spoken Of in Allegheny
| county, a candidate for Congress We sincere
1y hope he will be nominated and elected
The town of Reno. on the Central Pacific Rail.
road laid out on the lst of May, now contains one
hundred houses and five hundred people.
| The Commissioners of Indiana county have
| adopted plan for new Court House. which
win be put under contract in a short time
Senator Ross is known in Washington by the
soubriquet of the ''Artfur Dodgern' The char.
aoter in .oliver Twist is disgraced by the com.
| parisop.
| Government of North Germany has abolished
Imprisonment for debt Progress and Liberty are
| contagious. Europe is learning rapidly from our
example.
Impeachment being dead and buried, Congress,
need not trouble itself about an epitaph but should
| go to work at ence and finish up the neglected
public business
The Copperhead papers complain of Grant.
writing Three years ago they complained OF
| his fighting. They are never satisfied with 6
man who was true TO the Union.
| On the announcement of the adjournment of III
Court of impeachment and the acquittaI of John
son, Hon E. M. Stanton informed the Presiden
that the War Office was at his disposal.
! The School Board of Lock Haven has contracted
for the erection of large and suitable building
for the public SO hools in that borough VIII,
can't we have good public school building il
| Clearfeld
/ The New York Herald says: s'The raiI-splitte,
and the tailor were a strong team but the tame,
and editor will match them" Bennett ALREADY
'snuffs Republican victory in the far off No
vember air.
| Just before the vote On Impeachment was taken
/ she brother of Senator Ross received $4,000 from
the Treasury Department for imaginary ser sices
in Florida, which abudanty accounts for the M i'll
| in that cocoanut
| WooIcy, the contum acious witness is a thorr
in Democratic flesh Washington. Ifhe is com
PEELED to tell what he did with all the money he
handled, there will be tremendous futter among
| the Copperhead ad thieves.
| The Reformed Pre- sbyterian Synod, in session
at Pittsburg, is in trouble about 'a girl with teeth
| Of pearl, and shoulders white as snow" The
Reverend gentlemen are making themselye,
rather ridiculous over the hymn question.
The dissolution of the political firm of Chase q
Greedy hasbeen announced, owing to the unen
durable disgust of the junior partner The bu.
siness will be continued, however, under the title
of Chase johnson, Office at the White House.
The ancient church of Mourom, Russia recent
| ly fell DEWITT altar alone remaining intact NJ
person was injured. This church was erected il
| 1852, by John Wasseiewitch the Terrible on tht