Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-11-25
A Little of Everything.

They say that Bonner has given Dexter
to Grant.
General Early still wears his gray uniform
in Canada.
Suspended work on the Presbyterian
church tower
Philadelphia has raised about 81, 500 foI
! the Swiss sufferers.
On the decline provisions, everywhere
except in Clearfeld.
GreenbackS are very scarce ia San Francis
co, but gold is plenty.
Amusing-to see one drunken man lifting
another out Of the mud.
A submarine cable is proposed from San
Francisco to Hong Kong.
Wisconsin Indians have inaugurated trial
by jury among themselves.
Harrisburg claims to have doubled its pop
ulation in the last five years
Espartero made S400, 600 Of his great for
tune by gambling in Turkey.
Two towns in Maine have been named
Grant and Colfax respectively.
Very nearly million postage stamps are
used daily in the United States.
Several letters by Martin Luther have
lately been discovered at Marburg.
Isabella : personal fortune is said to be on
y 20, 600 600 francs Poor Isabella.
People are married in New York at The
rate Of one pair and half per hour.
\ curious person asks what is the relation
| between side ,caik and a front gait
American rifles are very popular in Cuba,
10th with soldiers and the insurgents.
The girls who make Manila cigars in Ma
nilla receive seven cents i day wages.
Without counting Alaska, the United
States has | 800, 900, coo acres OF land.
Had to walk back-the young lady who
was dJirea to distraction, We pity her.
Impolite-for little boys to SNOWFALL a
gray headed man. Remember this, boys.
A Democratic exchange says Grants Sec
retary is in Badeau- dor with the office seek
ers
Independent--the chap with the ring
streaked shirt, when he has cigar in his
mouth.
In Nevada mahogany is so abundant that
it only costs 50. 50 per cord, and is used for
frewooi.
Lucky-the chap that shot the deer, on
Saturday l-st Wouldn't mind to have a
piece of it.
In bad condition-some Of our streets, just
now. Jack Frost, however, will soon i'm
prove them some.
The latest myth which has been demol
ished is the Maelstrom, which it seems has
no existence in fact.
Gen. Sheridan says he saw few weeks
ago herd of buffalos ninety Eve miles long
aud twenty-five miles wide
The presents at fashionable New York
wed ing last week were worth three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
The Papal Nuncio at Madrid is said to
have acknowledged that by the revolution in
Spain, Rome will lose Sc, 100000 year.
Two million FIVE hundred thousand acres,
more than half of the improved land in that
State, are offered for sale in South Carolina.
Torchlight fishing is said TO be successful
III Massachusetts. This is one way in which
the recent political torches can be put to
further use.
The citizens Of Harrisburg and the towns
upon the Susqushanna river above that city
are making arrangements to stock the river
with black bass.
The cause Of Train protracted imprison-
ment is disagreement as to the terms of
his release. John Bull wants $4,000 and
Train offers $4,000
Belligerent-severalr railroaders, on Satur-
day last. Cause; the free use of the con
tents of a jug. A little more Juggling
wouldnt have done any harm.
The daughters of the late Chief Justice
fancy, it is said, earn their living in Wash
ington, by copying reports aud papers for
the Secretary Of the Interior
The Council of State of the Canton of
Obwald, Switzerland, has forbiddes all per-
sons under eighteen years of age to smoke.
\ heavy fine is the penalty for the non. OBJ
servance of this law.
A little boy of thirteen, having placed a
penny on the railway track at Brunswick,
Maine, to see the locomotive crush it. one
of the train hands threw stick OF wood at
him and he was instantly killed
Mr. Seward denies that Great Britain has
given up possession Of the Island of San
Juan, in the Pacific. He also denies that
the President of Paraguay has put Ameri-
cans to torture as has been reported.
If the top of carrot be cut of, at this
season, or later, and placed in saucer of
water with a few bits of charcoal to sweetcn
1t, it will form a radiated fcathery plant. by
no means unworthy to grace lady table.
A letter from Mr.. Colfax, dated Nov. Il
Is just published in the New York Tribune.
pronounclng the speech alleged to have been
delivered BY him in 1854 or 1855. against
foreigners, as a wicked and N Malignant libel -
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