Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-05
A Little of Everything.

John Merissey Is betting MS money W
The Cholera has made its appearance IN New
York.
The largest Saw Mill in the world is at VIII
Transport.
Every Rebel who is still unrepentant,i is for
Seymour and Blair.
Organize your Grant and Colfax cIub at once
Delays are dangerous
Blair is stumpiug Kansas. He viii be stumPed
when he sees tAe returns
Mrs. Lincoln did not go to Europe on Saturday.
She is at Bedford Springs.
A man and two horses were drowned in the nv
er at WiIIamsport last weeK
The New York Herald still continues to pour
hot shot into Blair and Seymour
Hon Reveriy johnson, Minister to England,
sailed on Saturday from Baltimore.
Two prisoners escaped from the Bellefonte jail
last week They still at large
The Coroner Of Cambria county has his hands
full He held three inquests last week
Parton asks. viii the coming man drink wine!'
If he's Democrat he'll prefer "benzine."
Blair Guards is the name of cert ain Southern
Democratic clubs Otherwise ''Blah guards
Hon. Henry C. johnson. of MeadvjIIe, has been
nominated for Congress in the Twentieth District
The first prize for defamation at Harvard was
/ taken by a negro boy named Rich ard I Greene
/ Frank Blair denounced Stephen A. Douglass as
/ the most pernicious demagogue in the T. States
JEFF. Davis fell down stairs in Montreal and
/ broke three Of bis ribs. Its pity it was not his
meek.
! The seymourners have got the blues Being
unaccustomed to the azure they are hopeiessly
despondent.
Irishmen who want to take good paper ought
to subscribe for The Irish Republic" published
in New York.
A coal seam twenty feet thick has been discov-
cred in Alaska It is said TO be unequalcd in
quality aad extent
Grant is aged 46, Seymour 81. Colfax IS, Blair
as Hence Grant and Colfax are the candidates
of Young America.
1t is said that Gen steedman repudiates Sey-
mour and Blair We commend his example to
his Clearield relations.
During the war the Coppefheads were for
peace on any terms" Now that peace has been
restored they for war
Jno BeILwho got drunk and turned socessionist,
wants to live to see Seymour President John
wants to be a second Methusalah.
Jim Brooks is an original 'carpet-bagger-' He
was an Aboitionist in Maine a Know nothing in
New York. and a Rebel in Congress.
It a coprerhead lie that Gen. Grants brother
O. L Grant intends to support Seymour lie de
nies it in letter to the Hartford Post.
We observe the Doctors very busy splurging
around Is there more sickness than usual, or is II
only because the 'she-male Indian has left.
constitutional. lie made judge by cofeepo
voting, and like Seymour, STICKS to his friends
seymour's Physician suys he is likely to become
deranged He must be cracked already or h'
wouldn't have accepted the Democratic nomina
tion.
: negro named william Robins is making Dem
Ocratic speeches in New Orleans To the Copper
o. s--' '- '---fa-- ANY - tl- ~~-l
ley
Early whom Sheridan sent 'whirIing,'' is a
Niagara, and is out strong for Seymour and Blair
Ifthey elected he expects to 'whirr into ia
office.
Randolph, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of New Jersey was prominent Know moth
ing in 1855. But the Irish viii now swallow him
of course.
Three Adams Express robbers were lynched a
9 Seymour, Indiana What's in L name 20 Their,
seems to De nothing but rascality in Seymour s,a
ali events
JEFF Dayis has gone to Europe to lend his nam'
to a business fr.l 10 secure Sout them custom. Il
they don't watch hin he absquatulate in petit
coats with all the assets.
a negro named Alfred E. Les, lately died il
Georgetown, D. c., worth sIOOOO0 He was :
hnlf-brother of the Rebel General Robert r. Lee
How thav tirE Io
zen. Halpine miles oRielIy,) died on Monday
in New YORK, from an dose of chloroform
administered for neuralgia He was the editor of
the citizen Democratic paper.
Copperhead paper in the exuberanee of its
joy the nominations exclaims The goose
hangs high Wise goose that Knows its dan
ger when Seymour and his friends are about
Eallandinghnm, the traitor, made the Demo-
cratic platform in 1864 and the Democratic ticket
in 1858. Both badly botched and are f. ir
specimens Of the -'ten cent pauper's bungIing.
The report that zen. Eowley, U. 5. Marshal for
this district, removed, is a mistake The
President tried 10 him. but failed the SEN
ate refusing to confirm the norni inee Col r. Il Kerr
It is said that Nashville, Tennessee. has four
/ legged baby. Having produced so great an Ass in
Andy Johnson-we should have thought its supply
of humani- quadrupcdal material was exhausted
Seymour having declined the nomination four
times and not yet having written any letter of
accep tance, of the Clearfeld Copperheads
are naturally anxious to know whether he is re
( ally a candidate.
The Sussex N. J. Register says: cover the en-
trance to the county Jail in this town is now in
scribed the following: democratic Headquarters
ard Reading Room. Free to all. Walk in .
An appropriate place, certainly.
Dick Haldeman has been nominated by the
Copperheads of Cumberland county for Congress
Seymour is said 10 be going crazy. but Dick IS
/ crazy. The Cops seem to be unable 10 get anybody
but iunatics to accept their nominations
The rebel newspapers in the South hoist the
stars and bars over the Democratic ticket This
is eminently appropriate. Seymour will see stars
before he gets through, and Blair is already ac-
quainted with all the bars in the country.
Old Blair. the daddy of all the BIairs. has ar
ranged his little plan to get Seymour into the lu-
matte asylum and Frank into the White House as
soon as they are elected The papers are made
out, and Montgomery is to do the swearing