Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-05-13
A Little of Everything.

Bellefonte.
The Demi-John- son organ fights shy of the
Philipsburg frauds.
Mr. Bush is erecting a large hotel, at the De-
pot, in Bellefonte.
Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the French, was
sixty years old in April last.
The Virginia Republican Convention has in
structed for Grant and Wilson
Mrs. Bloomer is living at Council Bluffs Iowa.
and is strong minded Democrat.
The New York Delegates to Chicago have re-
solved to support Grant and Fenton.
The mail has been robbed several times lately,
between Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
The boating season has actively commenced on
the New York and Pennsylvania canals.
The State Central Committee met yesterday in
Phil adelphia, to organize the campaign
A majority of the Illinois delegation to Chica-
60 is said to be for Wade for Vice President.
The new fence around the Jail lot is quite
improvement A new Jail would be betterAone.
The people of Washington Territory will vote
on the organization of State Government in June.
There are 626 convicts in the Eastern Peniten-
tiary 291 of whom were received during the past
year.
The street crossings in bad condition, and
require the immediate attention of the borough
fathers.
The island of Alta yela received its name from
Coumb bus, and owes it to its resemblance to a ship
in full sail
At Delaware, Indiana, last week, boy killed
his two younger brothers with an axe and then
hung himself.
Twenty-seven Republicans and five Democrats
have been elected to Congress from the recon
structed States.
The time for the Treasurer's sales is drawing
near Persons who owe taxes unseated lands
should give the matter attention.
One Jack Campbell, Supreme Cyclops of the
Ku-Klux KIan at Memphis, is exposing the sin
stitution,' giving names, dates, etc.
The mill at Corain Forges Huntingdon coun-
ty, was burned few days since and several
thousand bushels of grain destroyed.
We observe that model sheet, the La Crosse
Democrat, lying around loose. 1t seems to have
an extensive circulation in this place.
The walls of the vestibule IN the Court House
are shamefully defaced. The Commissioners
should take some m easures to prevent it.
Thaddeus Stevens reported bill, last week.
for the admission of Arkansas. The Congression-
al plan of reconstruction moves steadily on.
We see shugart has got Office He has been
elected President of the Centre County Agricul-
tura Society 1t suits him better than the Senate.
There was grand rush to see the dog fight in
front of Wright's store one day last week. 1t is
wonderful how little it takes to create an excite
inert
Twenty eight causes have been put down for
trial at the court commencing the fourth Mon
day Of this month There will be no criminal
business.
Hon. Thomas Mich olson has no opposition for
the Republican nomination for Assembly in Bea-
yer county. He is one of tn most reliable men
in the State,
The town of Shanghai, Warren county, Illinois,
was completely destroyed by a tornado on the
4th inst. Three persons were killed, and large
number wounded.
Andy ohnson pardoned from the State prison,
last week, John H. Sims, the most notorious coun-
terfeiter in the country He would pardon the
devil if he knew how to get at it,
We understand that certain wealthy parties
contemplate starting a banking house in
Clea1nelO MS seems to be q good locality for
banks. Those we have thrive we'll
A new iron bridge, costing thirteen thousand
dollars has been constructed over the Conemauph.
at Johnstown 1t takes the place of an aqueduct
left at that point by the Pennsylvania canal.
The body of boy named George Funk, who
was drowned at Columbia last winter while ska
ting, was found in the Chesapeake Bay few
days since His skates were yet fast to his feet.
Charles Dickens expenses in America were fifty
thousand dollars, and his net profits enc hundred
thousand dollars in gold. He carried off three
large packing cases full of all sorts of presents
What jubilee the mules and horses will have
when the railroad is finished to Clearfeld Toll
ing through mud knee deep. for sixteen miles,
drawing ton at a load is not conducive to horse
happiness.
Rhode Island buried its last slave on the 26th
of April There is old colored WON an living
in Bradford county, who was slave in this State
the last link between the barbarism of the past,
and the civilization of the present
One of the members of the Ohio Legislature
who voted for the bill disfranch .sing students,
while travelling abroad wrote home that he had
purchased picture to adorn his 'palatial man.
SION called "An oshun Landscip." Verify, of
such are the elect
Mr.. Weed thinks it is to the honor of Senator
Wilson that "while other Senators have made
fortunes and bought expensive nsio ms in Wash
ington, he is the same poor man that he was
when, twenty years l, o, he left his workshop to
serve his country
The Registry Law passed by the late Legisla.
ture, establishes a new oficer-tha of Registra-
tion Commissioner. 1t is the duty of the Com.