Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-07-15
a Little of Everything.

Trains now run eighty miles west OF Fort Lari-
mie on the Union Pacific railroad
The tax of one cent a box on matches. last year,
netted to the Government revenue of sl,Seo'Ooo
.'Let us have peace says Grant. "Let the car
pet bag State Governments be dispersed" says T.
P. Blair. Choose ye
It is thought the wheat surplus of California
for export this season viii, reach three hundred
and fifty thousaRd tons.
Republican boilers in Maryland have withdrawn
their ticket, and announce their determination to
support Grant and Colfax.
| On Sunday night last there was promenade
| concert at Tammany Hall fitting afterpiece
| TO the rag and tag convention.
| The erection of a telegraph line has been au-
thorized from Tyrone to this place, The work is
TO be comme enced Immediately.
Brick Pcmeroy walks into 'F rank P. Blair old
Blair. and the Blairs generally with vengeance
! Vide the LA crosse Democrat"
| Peter Cagger, prominent New York politician,
| was thrown from his carriage on Tuesday July
1 7th, and almost instantly killed.
| It is said that Seward will vote for Grant and
Colfax. Republicans will be sorry to hear it, for
| they are in no need of such help.
There are thirty thousand barrels of whiskey,
! in bonded warehouses, in Cevington, kentucky.
| This is good news for the Democracy.
| Chief fJustics Chase twice received half vote
in the Democratic Convention. Poor fellow
That's his reward for desertipg the Republican
| party.
| The copperheads here wofulIy respondent
| Their faces are as long as they used to be after
! news of Union victory. Coming events cast their
shadows before.
The numerous Corperheads dissatisfied with the
| Greyback Ticket talking of running Chase
as third candidate. Hendricks refuses to go
the stump for Seymour
! Iron ore has been found in great quantities near
| M'Veytown, Mifiin county, and no less than nine
! rich fossil ore banks, and five hematte have been
| opened within few weeks.
| Horatio Seymour's father shot himself with a
| pistol in the basement of his dwelling at Utica
in 1886. The son will feel like following the pa
ternal example after the election.
great celebration in honor of Martin Luther
and unveiing of statue of the great Reformer,
was held in Worms, Germany, on Thursday June
25th. Many Americans present.
Gen. J. D. Frazier, of the Confed crate army, is
in California in the interest of the Southern I'm
migration Society He says thousands are anx-
ious to go to that State from the South.
| The Pittsburg Post Office and Custom House have
| been condemned as unsuitable by tn Supervising
Architect. who recommends the sale of the old
buildings and the erection of ones.
The New York Convention having no nomina-
| ton to give that eminent patriot Andy johnson,
gave him its thanks. Andy is not equally CRATE
full He curses them sup hill and down"
Barger the valiant and fragrant assisted by
several equally enterprisng seym ourites, ,unfurled
the Seymour and Blair flag Saturday. The
ticket, like Barger, needs to be 'fumigated"
The delegates to the n. York Convention being
f4sR stESng repsdiaters Aq%hnh9r 9n9 Of their Bits
in advance. Wise mon were the Hotel keepers.
ADem ocratic Constable of this vicinity made
the following return TO n summons-"served the
within by leaving a copy with an adult-erous
member of Defendants family" Here was rich
ness,
The World tn inks the platform cannot mean
what it says because tbs iDconceivable that the
old hard money Dem ocratic party should promise
o uniform currency of bad ney." Anything
for office.
ger1:' I'VE like them very we'll 1t was the
carpet baggers who freed us; they carried their
carpet bags on their backs and guns on their
shoulders"
The Democratic Primary Election, on Saturday,
was slimly attended Very little interest seemed
be folt in it. The only excitement arose out of
the Shaffner Prowi-so' being candidate for
commissioner.
I'D LII l..
dilirium trem ems, last week jumped from one of
the upper windows of the Westmoreland county
Poor house, and killed himself almost instantly
sad warning.
Gov Big!er, on his return from the New YORK
Convention, was seized with sudden and severe
illness on the cars. lie was obliged to lie over at
Philipsburg. We are glad to learn that he is rap
| idly recovering.
With Seymour's friends burning orphan
asylums and killing "niggers," and Blairs
frieu ds dispensing the estate Governments in
the South, we should have lively administration
| if they were elected.
| An exchange says that the girls in some parts
of Pennsylvania are hard up for husbands
| that they sometimes marry editors, compositors
and lawyers. That fellow ought to be booted
| for his impertnence
1t is as hard for the Democracy to conceal their
I chagrin over the nominations of the Chicago
convention il is for the ladies dispose of their
/ old hoop skirts. Neither be sold, bartered
| nor concealed without good deal of trouble
| The Pendleton escort passed Altoona on Thurs
day morning, on their return from New York
/ with their band playing dead march. 'Verily
| IN the midst of life are in DEATH and "sat
/ of this J0i'd-age there is no redemption
! Our friends all over the land, predict an easy
victory The New York Convention secured the
| triumphant election of Grant and CoIfax 1t
/ will be the only blessing the copperheads and
Rebels ever assisted in confering upon the coun-
| try.
| The Seymour and Blair ticket is so destitute of
honor and honesty, that it is obnoxious even to a
decent horse We saw one refuse to pass un-
der 1t, as it hung suspended the street on
! Saturday evening. The horse about the only
thing it has frightened
Tell itnot in Gath publish it not in the streets
| OF Clearfeld, that there a ''naygur'' in the
New York Convention. James q Williams, a coal
black negro,was delegate from Tennessee How
Sweet William must have turned up his aristo-
cratic q nose. Its use, Billy shins will win.
The rag-and-tap had n inhiIee at OscaoIa ora,