Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-07-29
Little of Everything.

| Congress has taken recess until sep'eHOei
The Senate has ratified the treaty with
4 China.
/ lister TO Mexico.
/ ssmmes. the rebel pirate, is for Seymour, the
rebel sympathiser
/ Sheridan, the loyal horo, is for Grant the
country's defender
! Beauregard is in New Orleans eleetiOneering
] for Seymour and Blair
Isaac Swift died while working in an oil tank,
( nesr Oil City, last week
! Under the Johnsonian regime Texas averages
sixty murders per month.
Mrs Lincoln is at Cresson. She will sail for
| Europe about the Is: of August
The Republican letters in New York are g e.
! G-Grant, uriswOld and Glory.
This is a good market for 'new-mOwn hay 1t
| b rings SIS per ton, cut of the field
The cornerstone of the Forrest county Coart
House was laid at Tionesta last week
! Seymour has been a candidate for Office in New
! York five times. and was elected twice
FranE Blair has written himself down an ass
! both before and after the Convention.
{ q
tendants at Harrisburg on the Seth inst
Ind lana county is to have n magnificent Court
House 1t has been let ut SlI0,593,5S.
Our friend Archy Shaws Soda Fountain is now
one of the most popular Cearfeld institutions.
There has been destructive aood in Baltimore,
attended with terrible loss of life and property
! The painters are at work the ceiling of the
| PRESBYTERIAN Church. The work is progressing
finely
The super-structure of the railroad bridge
across CIearfcld creek is rapidly approaching
ompleti"n
Frank Blair accused Hendricks bitterly in
1860 that Voorhees, called him (Blairl the Prince
of blackguards,"
Grant having crushed the rebellion, the rebel
lion now seeks to crush him. VIII grateful
people permit it,
The first casting Boynton & Young's new
Foundry took place on Saturday. Everything
F.! worked like E charm.
The Tammany Convention was simply an ad-
jourued session of the Rebel Congress- with
few northern meubers.
Sunset Cox says of Seymour ''the more you rub
him the brighter he shines" So does bad / en-
ny and Frank Blairs
Frank Blair's synonom for Democrats,was hell
hounds" No wonder Sick William didn't men
ton him in his first address.
Hangman Foote regards the nom ination of Sey-
monr as lone of the most fortunate results that
could pOssibl have occurred"
| Joseph Clark an employee of the PENN Rail
road company, was killed at Altoona last week,
by getting caught between the cars
Sura to carry
lucky, Delaware, Brady Bradford, Knox the Five
Points in New York. and the Dry Tortugas.
Louisville had transparencies of JEFF. Davis.I ee
| and Stonewall Jackson in the rejoicing over the
nominations of Seymour and Blair. Why not?
A grand Seymour and Blair ratification meeting
is to DO held at Andersonvile. We suppose there
Will be plenty to eat and drink and dead line.
yrne 1sasnviife strongly -ror
| war. 1t eounsels armed resistance to the further
enforcement of the laws of the State Government
Surratt was lionzed by the Baltimore Democ
racy last The taint of assassination and
rebellion is a passport TO Democratic affec
| t1ons.
Our exchanges filed with complaints about
the post routes. The whole thing has got in a
dreadful max There's something wrong at head
quarters
The rag-and tag of Osceola will soon be alive
again. new supply of ~benzine'' arrived there
last week-a sure indication of Seymour and
Blair skizzle
The young folks who have been away at board
/ ing school all getting back for the summer
vacation. They look if they improved
and improving.
The 'colored gentleman next door must have
| learned the tune the old COW died on'-and no
other. His interminabIe fiddle, scrceching .on.
. forever on like an owl with sore throat is a
| nuisance.
We learn that thirty new subscribers to the ''La
Crosse Democrat'-Brick Pomroy's beautiful
sheet-were obtained here last week The Coro-
ner is 'canvassing agent He takes his percentage
out in pea nuts.
New York paper says that Blair takes whisky
for medicinal purposes The Hartford Post says
We are inclined to think it for medicinal
purposes'-to wit. for corns, He was dreadfully
oOrned all she time he here. ~
Mr.. Sam'l J. Tilden,in a moment of enthusiasm,
no doubt, pledged the State of New York TO give
$4,000 majority for Seymour. In 1864, Horatio
Seymour pledged the vote of New YUrk for Nc
Clellan. But we believe Mcclellan didn't get it
Chase's sOliloquy follows:
Ven thinks of vot / am,
And vot 1 used to vos.
l thinks [ We throwed myself away
Without sufficient cos.
They make great parade and blow about their
! .Saengerfests in the cities. But we have Saen-
/ gerfest in Clearfeli nearly every night The
dutch music and the lager flow simultaneously at
Entries nightly iEto the wee small hours ayant
/ the twal''
1t a sad thing, that going down to Jericho
and falling among thieves but poor Chase going
down to the Dead Sea of Democracy, fell among
fools well thieves and needs something
strength ening for his head well as oil for the
wounds he got.
/ 1t is said that delegate to the late Reb-Cop
Convention was stung the by locust
/ Immediately afterward the most horrible convul-
sions seized-not the delegate but the locust,
which died with all the SYM ptoms of de-
/ lirium tremens.
/ The new dollhouse at the bridge at Goodfelow's
/ is miserable nuisance. If somebody doesn't
/ get hurt there. shall be much mistaken. 1t
would take a corps of engineers get four horse
| team in out of the bridge Tie man who de-