Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-07-28
A Little of Everything.

Thirty cents day will keep Texas family
John C. Heenan the .Benecia Boy is dead.
The dearest little things-babies and diamonds
senior wrangler-a wife older than yourself
The sort of horse for baker-a thoroughbred
Advice to young men-if you'd be just, fear
knot.
Floating capitalize heiress bathing at Long
Branch.
srufing the balIot-feeding the freedmen on
barbecues
Seaside sentimsnt-the Atlantic oeean-lOng
may it wave.
A favorite tune of the milkmen-"Shall we
gather at the river2n
The old State arsenal at Meadville built in 1877,
torn dow last week
Fifty-doilar parasols, with watches in the han
dies, are the latest agony.
Henglishman wishes to know if the children
of Am Hamerleans?
workmen are busiIy engaged in putting on the
roof of the new Jail, at Hollida ysburg.
An iI-bred man is said to be like lightning
because he doesn't know how to conduct himself.
An enthusiastic Democratic paper in Pennsyl-
vania calls Asa Packer 'the noblest work of God. ="
Ugh,
contemporary says, with a long draw; "a
sengerfest has been appropriately held in Ba(w)!
timore.'
A dandy inquired at fruit stall, care those
apples fit for a hog to eat?'' Try one and see"
said the woman.
Sheridan gives the following humorous dcfini-
ton: Irishman-a machine for converting pota-
toes into human nature.
During the present season Lehigh county boasts
that gushing damsel of that section picked and
sold SlOS worth of cherries.
The President has issued proclauations for e.
lections in Mississippi and Texas TO take place
on the 30th of November next.
lad named Miles had his leg cut off by a
moving machine, while working on his mothers
farm, at Miles Grove, Erie county
A little girl, named Katie Pitt, has received a
premium in Platte county Mo- for committing to
memory 1856 verses of the Bible.
The Chicago Times says: "one reason why the
Erie Railroad does much business is, that it
has a dead sure thing passengers
During the late tour of the Western Editorial
liquors were omitted from the bills of fare
Horace Greeley is improving in agricultural
knowledge and produce. His turnips last year
cost him only one dollar and twelve cents each
At Mercer boy fifteen years old. named Chas.
W Arnold, was killed by the back stroke of a
81 edge hammer, with which was driving
post down.
Vallandigham says the honest men of his party
are obliged to take back seats This, however,
will not damage yallandigham clear title to the
very front pew.
to live single when there not woman on
earth, how guilty are cid bachelors, with the
world full of pretty girls
Tom asked an old temper cent? what he
wanted to accumulate so much money for, Says
he, You can't take it with you when you die and
if you could it would melt"
The trial of Mrs Shugart, of Butler, for the
murder of her husband by administering poison,
has been concluded The jury rendered a verdict
of murder in the first degree
The New York Woyzd says: Andrew johnson is
looming up as a candidate for United States
Senator. Does the World wish us to understand
that A. J. is in weaving way p
One of the delegates to the late CoppGrhead
State Convention, publicly stated in the COnveg-
! ton that he never met so many thieves and vii.
Iatns, as were in attendance. before.
August Belmont, a bloated Democratic non
bondhoIder. has been compelled to disgorge
$40 600 belonging 20 the Fenian organization. He
striving to come by it honestly.
| The Buffalo EEpress says. Asa Packer is old
and infirm But it makes no difference. 1t is
not Packer who is running for Governor of Penn
sylvania-it is his twenty millions"
An exchange prints that the valuation of taxa
BILE proper ty in Nebraska is S42 600 600, six time:
greater than in 1862. of this, IS 100000 is the
| property of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Harry. you ought not to throw away nice
bread like that; you may want it some day
well. mother would I stand any better chance
of getting itthen if should eat now ~
The latest undergraduate joke at ale College
| was the transfer, by midnight, of florists sign
New Haven Nursery''-to a conspicuous posi-
| tion on fouri shing young Iady's seminary.
A Cincinnati man who recently visited Main,
wrote home that it credit TO the peOplr
that they were temperate class, since thei
water good and their whisky poor.
The fact that Asa Packer is a man of high per
sonal character is not mantle wide enough t
| hide the disafection and prsfigacy Of the Demo
cratic eaders who nominated him for Governor
Visitors to Niagara Falls notified that
new Treasury re sulation imposes duty of forty
five per cent in gold. on all fancy articles pur
chased on the Canadian side and brought owe
the river.
The Democratic papers, forgetting Buchanan
| trips on the Harriet Lane and Andrew Johnson
excursions the Wyandotte, are abusing Prcsi
dent Grant for going to Long Branch th
Tallapoosa.
The heroes of ''the White STAR and all 9Th
boys in blue can have no feeling for Asa Packer
They might have followed Hancock, but the
cannot rally to a man who never had any sympa
thy with them,
Leading citizens of San Francisco have forme
an organization to protect the Chinese from tn
rude attacks of men and boys, which being con
strued means, from the consequences of Demo
cratic teachings.
Every enlightened monarchy on earth is yield
ing to the progress of republican principles, an
the Democrats of Pennsylvania adhere to tn
dogmas of the old essionists, even after tn