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

a Little OF Hvelythlng.
What stone struck the Democracy? Key
stone.
Bloated Bondhollers must be very nu-
merous.
Bottles of Horatio's tears will probably
soon be for sale.
Horatio's last appeal: ''Pity the SORROWS
of poor old man"
A western farmer has brought 5000 apple
trees over from Russia.
Montrealis said TO be afflicted with drunk
en- children on Sundays.
Australia has 600, 900 horses, 100000
cattle and SO, 900, 900 sheep.
The crops in the Southern States this
year are valued at s400, 100000.
Hayti has four Presidents. Think of four
George Washingtons all at once.
The present reigning family of Japan have
occupied the throne for 740 years.
North Carolina produces about half mil
lion dollars worth of gold every year.
In three hundred years Mexican mines
have produced So, 500, 600, 900 in silver.
Grant wanted peace and has gotten two
thirds of the whole, which is pretty big
piece.
Andrew johnson is spoken of as the next
| Democratic candidate for Governor of Ten
nessee.
Seymour ought to set up as a prophet; as
long ago as July he said, Your President
1 cannot be. -
Jackson county, Michigan, has produced
a champion corn husker who husked 100
bushels in hours.
In the Schuylkill county almshouse is an
Irish woman who has reached the age of one
hundred and nine years.
Ten thousand dollars is what the Water
street revival cost, and the amount OF good
done remains to be seen.
Some one says if Seymour has his eye on
the Presidential chair, ne had better take 1t
off or Grant will sit on it,
''Only one hundred and twenty four more
days of Andrew johnson, brilliantly shouts
a New Hampshire paper.
By a recent vote Miss Flint was declared
to be the prettiest girl in Quincy, ILL., Pity
that she's Flinty hearted.
The wines and liquors belonging to the
estate of the late President Buchanan were
sold by auction for 81 200.
The growth of Philadelphia attracts gen
eral notice Nearly five thousand new build
ings have been erected this year.
Why do preachers address their congre-
cations of both sexes as brethren? Because
the gentlemen embrace the ladies.
Cyrus W. Field came home from Switz-
erland to vote for Grant and Colfax, and
the next steamer carries him back.
The great question now is: Where is
Blair. ana is the Blair family going to try to
get position in Grants cabnet?''
Canada has young lady of twenty three,
who is seven feet seven inches TALL and
weighs three hundred and seventy pounds.
In Connecticut boy of 30 has just mar
ried widow of so who has seven children
The eldest is six years oder than his new
papa.
A citizen of Sitka, A Popoff, or perhaps
Popover, has taken the proper oath (if any
oath is proper and become a citizen Of the
United States.
Queen Victoria little trip to Switzerland
cost har oui.a fnrtpno Sho .bnrt
$50, 900 in Switzerland, and her expenses to
and fro were heavy.
1t has been decided in Kentucky that sell
ing horse to be paid for on the election of
certain candidates is bet,and that The debt
so incurred cannot be collected
The latest story about the Pacific Rail
way is that they find ''combustible sand
stone along the line. 1t burns easily, and
is thought to contain petroleum.
Spain will have to import $50, 600 600
worth of breadstuffs before the next harvest.
She may with all this get good deal of old
rye, but she has been exporting Bourbon.
Paint township. Somerset county, has
been awarded the prize banner offered by
Hon. john Cessna, for the largest increased
vote in October over that cast the same
month last year.
Judge Reed, of the Supreme Court, last
week delivered an opinion, fortified by law
quotations, that all the naturalization pa
pers issued from that court since September
lst, We're fraudulent
Mr. Seymour feels disappointed. He is
forsaken by his friends In the much
ness" of his grief he resorteth to his mel
on patch, and indulgeth in most n,eloncholy
reflections. 'Iow are the mighty fallen
Somebody wants to know fevery South
ern man has to marry negro, as Democrat
ic orators said they would if Grant sbould
be elected. We hope Grant will be leniept
with them and let them marry negresses
instead.
20, tempora O, mores T. or. in other
words, how sick the Democracy are. Tbev
are nigh unto death; and We feel il our dn.
ty to tell them that there is "no balm !,