Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-07-22
A Little of Everything.

for Seymour and Blair.
The Republican convention of Centre county is
to meet on the 9TH of August.
So many cases of death from sun-strOKe have
never beer known in any one season.
The rebel papers South head Frank Blair'srev-
outionaTy letter, The True Doctrine"
The borough dads ought to get street sprinK-
ler The dust viii soon be insuferable.
GOV. Geary declines to call extra session of
the Legislature pass another Registry Law
Beecher is out in a letter denying that he was
for. Chase. He says he always supported Grant
If you want to rile "Sweet William" say Blair
to him. Itsworse than a red shir: to male COW.
The streams are getting very low. If the
drought continues water will become exceedingly
scarce.
The heat here has been excessive, in other
places. The Thermometer has stood l03 in the
shade.
The boarding train, to lay the track our
railroad, is at Phiiipsburg. The work has com
menced.
tits said that Buckner should by all means go
for Grant, because Grant went for him at Fort
DoneIson.
The 'Pitt,burg Commercial,'' one Of the best
papers in the State is for sale every evening at
the Post Office
Andy johnson says the New York nominations
like the small -pox-liable to kill hard to cure,
and harder to endure.
The Grayback convention adopted Greonbsck
platform, nominated a Holdback candidate and
a Turnback associate.
Heber KimbeI, the Mormon, left sixty-seven
widows. No wonder he died 1t would have been
enough TO sill the devil.
1t is said that more damage has been dOae by
lightning in Centre county this summer, than was
ever known in any season.
a democratic delegate to the Tanmany
ven,ic said hc was converted rebel, but liable
TO bacKsliae." So are they all.
Gen. Grant has great advantage over his op-
ponents. Il whipped them once, and will hence
find it easy job to do it again.
The Mount Union Herald, aCopperhead paper
of the rankest order, has fzzled out. It has only
anticipated its party by a few months,
Belmont, the .bloated bondholder and agent
of the Rothehilds, is still continued as Chairman
Of the Democratic National Committee.
1t is said that the why certain county
officer does not wash himself, is that be is afraid
the Democratic party would toss ground!
The Penn'a Railroad bridge over the Susque-
hanna, this side of Harrisburg took fire Fri
day morning, and five spans destroyed.
Itis said the Blair family is like the small -pox.
because every administration must have it
Grant has been vaccinated, and is out of danger
Hen. VIM. II. Armstrong, of Wiliamsport has
Lo,, s1,
candidate for Congress in the Seventeenth District
DR.. Jchn Kelley of Lock Haven, was drown
ed last week, while bathing. 1t is supposed that
ne had attack of heart disease while in the
water.
This New Gospel of Peace" said and now of
the Phadees he was called Saymore, because he
could say more and,pane less than any other man
livin''
The English express great satisfaction over the
appointment of Hon Reverdy johnson as Minis
ter. Ho is to sail from Baltimore on the first of
August.
Frank Blair graduated at Yale College by going
in at the front door and getting kicked cut at the
back He got his diploma on "sheepskin"-a
la pOsterioyj.
The criminal Court Bill foI Schulkiu county,
about which the Copperheads have howIed SO
much, has been pronounced Constitutional by the
Supreme Court.
The President has sent in q message suggesting
amendments to the Constitution Andy may be
good at pa tchins breeches, but he had better let
the Constitution alone.
Andrew Johnson has not been "a merry An.
drew since the n. V Convention. He is suffer
ing from pressure on the brain, the pressure
Of too much "benzine'
A Democratic ex-city official in Troy, n. Y.
lately corrected his wife with handle, for
a breach of etiquette in helping herself to butter
at the tea table with her own knife.
An exchange says JOB had tha bols, but be
was spared the Blairs. If he had them his wife
need not have urged him to curse imseIf and die
he wouifhave done il at once with out any advice
Thomas Huff, a boatman, of Lock Haven. was
shot dead, by ono Norcross, of Baltimore, at the
Muncy Dam, last week. 1t occurred in a fght
NOrcross fed, and has not since been heard from
Old WeIles is strongly for Seymour. He is
worse than Sindbad the Sailors Old man of the
Sea- and if anything had been wanting to kill
Seymour, Weles was sufficient. Horatio's doomed
Itisvery evident from Sweet Williams" ad-
dress that the COPperhead canvass is to be simply
crusade against the soldier. 1t is hard to tell
which Billy hates the most-the niger or
the soldier.
The Importers and Traders Bank of New York
was robbed Of $50 900 in bonds and cash while
the Democretic Convention was in session The
delegate who carried off the Pile has not been
disco, cred.
Clearfeld Copperheads can swallow anything
even their own words. After all their blowing
they will be compelled te vote for a ''bloated
bondholder' ard a Lincoln hirelingn Poor
devils, how they squirm
The Arkansas Vindicator," strong Democrat
ic paTer, says, Let the iepds (the RadicaIs) re-
member that the spirit of Booth still lives, and
the dagger Of revenge will pierce their polluted
carcasses when leas- expected" ;"
There is a serious dispute in St. Mary's. The
faithful are anxious to know exactly how much
money Sweet William left at the Convent on
his recent visit Perhaps Early viii raise in
vestigating committee aud enlighten them.
The other day an old soldier who had lost an
arm said :; Il am waiting to if the people of
this country are going to elect Horatio Seymour.
and if they do l will swear that lost my arm in
athreshing machine, not in defence my country ,
Ex Gov. Curtin has become President of the
East india Telegraph Company, which purposes