Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-08
A Little of Everything.

lis consumption contagious ?"
A velocipeds has been running in Hong Kong,
to the amazement of the Chinese
The recent cold weather seems to have prevail
ed throughout the whole country
The overnnent has over one thousand millions
of acres of land yet undisposed Of
The first ship of new line between New York
and Rio Janerio arrived last week.
adams and liberty to get drunk ~ is the war
cry of the Massachusetts, Democracy.
Charlotte Cushman, the great American TRACE
dienne, is dangerouIy ill in Edinburgh.
JEFF Davis is being lionized in Scotland The
Scotch might be engaged in better business.
The Gar of Russia is about Introducing trial
by jury, and is contemplating still greater reforms
There is four times much capital invested in
Railroads, in this country than there Is in banks
1t is said the new Mrs Commodore Vanderbilt
doesn't eat green corn gracefully. What pity )
Mrs Stowe has stirred up a hornets nest with
her Byron scandal, and is getting stung on every
side.
nephew of Patrick Henry is under arrest in
| Iowa for dealing in cattle and hogs without IL
| cense
The Democracy is angry at Gen Grant because
he bathes. The practice is prohibited by that
party.
The Treasury Department saves Sl5O,O0O per
month by the late dismissal of unnecessary
| clerks.
Philipsburg has had burglary, but didn't
quite catch the scoundi els. They made narrow
escape.
The payment of invalid army pensions at the
Philadelphia agency will not commence until the
llth inst
1t pretty generally admitted that Cuba win
| secure her independence. and that the struggle
will be ended within three months.
Packef is very miserable because the thing
costs so much, and the MMulin crowd is very
wretched because it don't cost him more.
Ten cents make one dime, ten dimes make one
dollar, ten dollars make one eagle, ten thousand
eagles made one Dem ocratic nomination
The Irish Republican Association of Wilkes
| barre mum Der, over one hundred members. Mi
ners and their friends won't vote fer Packer.
The achampiOn old woman, just now, is an
! Indian m alden, Pee kwa-no. of III summers VIII o
| has IS children. She resides at Sioux City Iowa
! A destructive ire at Cape May, last week, de-
stroyed the United States, American and Atlantic
hotels, with a number OF cottages and other
| buildings.
The late Andy johnson is getting his remark
able car eer to music. 1t is said to have stri-
| king resemblance to that familiar 'tune the old
cow died on.'
Why did Packer bolt Judge Barrett's nomina
tion in 1855, and vote for Bell, the Know Nothi
candidate? VIII the Judges Clearfe:d friend;
enighten us
| There is good looking young man in Cleve-
laud who now says his mission is to marry the
..Widder Vanderbilt when the Commodore passes
/ in his checks"
Rosecrans is going to build a railroad from the
! city of Mexico to Acapulco, on the Pacific coast
Pendleton had better follow his example and
make tracks too.
Gov Bigler is TO deliver the Agricultural ad
dress at the Centre county fair. The Governor i.
quite farmer and can give the results of prac
toal experience.
Senator Scott has taken the stump for the Re
publican ticket He is one of the best speaker:
in the country We hope he will be at our meet
ing on court week.
Tho Chicago people going to run another
! tunnel under the lake, at expense of one and
a half millions of dollars. 1t will require three
years to complete it.
Mrs Stowe promises a broadside for the critics
| of her Byron story on both sides of the Atlantic
She had better take good that tho recoil
doesn't annihilate h"r.
Brick Pomeroy says Belmont must go under
and under the Jew will have to go, for Brick and
his Irish friends are Irresistible. Their behest
| is a law unto the Democracy.
| The Republicans of Centre county expect TO
elect their local ticket We sincerely hope their
expectations may be realized. If they go ear
nestiy to work it can be done.
A comet is said to be visible, after midnight
| in the Northern part of the heavens We have
not seen it, and cannot vouch for it. 1t requires
habit of very early rising TO which we'ro not
addicted
Asa was we'll ducked in the Lehigh in 1si3, by
his own workmen. In 1869 he will be ducked in
Salt River and it will be done so efTsctuaiy that
he will hide his diminished head in shame, for
all time to come.
The Republican meetings held throughout the
State are well attended and it is evident our
people fully determined that the Common
wealth shall not be quietly handed over to Cop
perhead misrule.
Pershing seems to have returned to his original
obscurity. Neither party has anything to say
about him. He go with his Justice of the
| Peaae suits in Johnstown un0isturbed. He'll be
permitted to remain there for all time to come.
Old Rosey's letter is bitter pill for our Clear
! field leather heads. They cannot understand
that kind of Democracy and invariably choke on
universal Suffrage They'll have to come to
it, nevertheless, and may as well take it easy II
is fixed fast.
| The life insurance excitement still Keeps up al
Swoope's office. Our people seem determine to
| provide for their wives and children and our
young men are resolved to lay up something for
a rainy day. We are glad to see it, Every man
! ought to insure.
The Quakers are a success among the Indians
of Kansas, according to the Lawrence Journal.
The great secret before they are chrstianized, is
| to feed them we'll. Texas beet and bacon, sugar
and coffee, and a generous supply Of tobacco, are
| great civilizers i"
! New highlander. residing near Crsseo, Iowa,
| whose knowlsJ1e of rattlesnakes consisted in