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

AUALTER BARRETT, Attorney at Law, Clear
w field. Pa. May I3, 1858.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-08

A W. WALTERS, ATroRSEY AT LAW.
"A. Clearfeld, Pa Office in the Court House
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-08

ND w. GRAHAM, Dealer in Dry Goods Groce-
IA ries, Hardware, Queenswarc, Woodenware
Provisions, etc, Market Street CIearfeld. Pa.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-08

N niVID g. NIVLING Dealer in Dry Goods
4 Ladies' Fancy Goods, Hats and Caps, Boots,
Shoes etc. Second Street, Clearneld, Pa. sep25
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
The Grain SpeculatOr.

THE Chicago correspondent of the New
Orleans Republican writes a spicy letter to
that paper on the subject of Chicago grain
dealers, from which we clip the following
"The grain speculatOr is a rakish-loOk-
ing chap, anywhere from twenty-five to
fifty, wears the tightest and most striped
breeches, mounts nobby tile and sports
the gayest necktie out; drives team, very
natty and fast always-(who ever saw a
grain speculator on foot y tools down in
the morning to the Board, and tools up
in the evening to hear Molly twank on
the piano; lunches at 'Delmonico's' and
after dark-let me whisper it very LOWS
seen going into the European with
Molly on his ARM another bottle for
No. 6o-or is seen coming down stairs very
late from the neighbOrhOOd OF 'Aiken's,
muttering something about his great lack
of foresight in not 'coppering that there
ace
"Whence comes the grain speculator,
and whittier he goes when he has played
himself out, no mortal man knows. He
appears suddenly, resplendent in jewels
and striped shirts, and like comet dashes
across the horizon of the grain market, and
disappears as rapidly after short, and
sometime brilliant career, as he came. The
grain speculator is indeed wonderful
man. His rooms are magnificent and are
always filled with mirrors and tobacco
smoke. He loves with love that is more
than love, all games Of chance, and no one
ever need spoil for a bet while the grain
speculatOr liveth, as he will stake his bot
tom dollar whenever he has one chance in
fifty He has travelled this wide world DER,
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12

ooes everything for living always has
money and diamond pin, and wouldn',
De simple child of nature for any con.
slderation. He is first seen seated in an
Office in the rear of the Chamber of Com.
merce, with a wonderful gilt sign an
nouncing to the ignorant public that his
name is Smith, and that he is prepared To
buy any amount of grain, make ruinous
advances, sell and buy on anv terms. and
at the shortest notice. BY II in the fore
noon he emerges from his office, and Ioins
group of ten or dozen other grain
SPECTATORS and talks with an astonishing
yolublllty of shorts, and longs seller
July seller August etc. Pretty soon
Brown comes along. Brown wants to
buy. Smith wants to sell. Smith, by the
way, hasn't bushel of grain in the world !;
he has only handful in little box on his
office desk. Brown wants 10000 bushels
OF wheat on the first day of August at
sixty cents. Smith agrees to deliver 90
OOo bushels at that price, and on that dav.
Bargain closed. Smith and Brown, like
two gamecocks about to fight, eye an i'm
aglnary grain of corn that's the fuctu-
atlon OF the market-and when the 1st of
August comes along, if grain can be
bought at any figure below sixty cents,
Smith buys and delivers 10000 bushels
and pockets the difference Should grain
go up and be worth seventy cents, Smith
don't buy and don't deliver He only
busts Gf he has no funds to compromise
with Brown, who takes his chances, tool.
and gets put off the Board In plain
English, Smith bets Brown that grain
will be less than sixty cents on August 1st,
and Brown bets it will be more. Heads,
win; tails, you lose.'"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
An Indignant Damsel.

We heard good joke on a resident of
Dog Creek the other day. The party re-
ferred to is a bachelor and lives on the
wagon road. A few days ago an emigrant
wagon from Oregon came along and
camped near our friends place. The head
of the family soon made himself acquaint-
ed with the proprietor of the premises, and
asked him why he didn't have woman to
keep house for him. The answer was that
he intended to marry just as soon as he
could find woman willing to enter the
bonds of matrimony. The Oregonian re-
marked that he could find him partner if
he would take her The bachelor said that
was right into his hand, and the emigrant
invited him into his camp. The emf
grant called upon bouncing damsel of
about twenty years, and informed
her that the gentleman accompanying
him was ION the marry" and willing to
take her for better or for worse. the dam
sci, delighted with the prospect, advanced,
and, seizing our friend by the hand, assured
him that she was glad to see him, and was
ready to marry him at the "drop of a hat"
while the old lady hastenedup to congratu
late her darter" on her good luck. Sur
prised and alarmed at the serious turn mat
tiers had taken, our friend, who is constitu-
tiOnally opposed to the institution of mat
rimony, endeavOred to explain by saying
that he was only joking and did not want
to marry. At this the Oregonian became
indignant, and the would-be bride request
ed her father to take his rifle and "drap
the varmint in his tracks," At this affec-
tiOnate suggestion the bachelor left for his
Notifications, the last thing he heard being
the voice of the old lady consoling her
''darter" with the remark that it was best to
let the blk go."-Shastd, Cdl., Courier
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12

mow.nt ntt .has ..s iaS contraction marks the
vest;@n rn' Ina ina. ecparates life from death No
tain :; u life how remains, except in Ger.
af. ,ssues> which, even for some time
..sf 1 death, retain organic properties; the
Saehlafles are contracted, so As to
drive into the veins all the blood
they contain; the irritabilitv of tho
muscles Is demonstrated when placed nm
der the influence of the yOltaic nile
These last phenomena of life soon d;par, pno
pear, then the blood decomposes. its linnid
parts Initiating the tissues, and its spi;J JiJ
elements being deposited either on the
heart heart or on the sides of the vessels Then @
lo'lows decomposition, which slowly and
mysterlously reduces the whole to water der
i, Garbonic acid and ammonia being the ' nro,
mattsul uutts INTO which ars resolved all animal
,matter atters IN IN stat.e of putrefaction. these
uis tho ;un vi complex composition return to
the .rganic combinations which enabled
~, plants to elaborate them; thus the
study OF putrefaction, at first so revolting,
acquires sperial philosophical interest,
while revealing to us chainwork of phe-
nccmeha admirable ON account of It's beau
tiful simplicity. Journal.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
A Word for Local Newspapers.

We clip the following from the NewYork
Tribune; it is true, and we commend it to
every one who has interest,where he re-
sides:
Nothing is more common than to hear
people talk of what they pay newspapers
for advertising, &c, as so much gioea in
clarity. Newspapers, by enhancing the
value of property in their neighborhood,
and giving the localities in which they are
published reputation abroad, benefit all
such, particularly if they are merchants or
real estate owners, thrice the amount
yearly ofthe meager sum they pay for their
support. Besides every public spirited
citizen has laudable pride in having a
paper of which he is not ashamed, even
though he should pick it up in New York
or Washington.
A good looking, thriving sheet helps
property, gives character to locality, and
in many respects is desirable public con-
venience. If from any cause the matter
in the local or editorial column should not
be to your standard, do not cast it aside
and pronounce it good for nothing, until
satisfied that there has been no more labor
bestowed upon it than is paid for If you
want a good readable sheet it must be
supported. And it must not be supported
in a spirit of charity either, but because
you feel necessity to support it. The
local press is the power that moves the
neOple
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
Death from q Scientific Point OF View.

1T is law of nature that whatever has
a beginning must also have an end, the
idea of death itself being associated with
birth.
But this term of life, the moment that
reduces to inert matter the body which
life had animated, may arrive sooner or
later, accidentally or naturally.
Accidental death happens when one of
the essential organs of life, from some
cause or other, ceases to act these prin-
cipal organs being the brain, lungs and
heart.
The action Of the brain, however, may
be almost wholly suppressed, and vet life
continue; breathing may be for some time
suspended, and yet life linger within
but when the beating of the heart cease !:
then life is extinct
Accidental death, therefore, is all the
more rapid from its cause acting more i'm
mediately on the circulating centre it NAV
happen at all ages, although it is much
more frequent in the earlier than the later
stages of existence.
Natural death is much rarer: accidents
or disease almost always consuming life
before the period primitively fixed upon
by Nature.
1t may also happen at a more or less ad-
vanced age, according to the peculiarities
OF constitution, sex, race, climate, etc.
When the work of destruction follows its
usual course, life departs in an opposite
sense from the one in which it had been
developed: in the embryo life seems to
march from the heart to the remoter or
gans, but in the old man it gradually for
sakes his body from the circumference to
the center. Then the members, becom-
ing mOtiOnless, and obeying the law
of heaviness, lose their sensibility and
heat; and the muscles no longer obey the
will, even if the will exist; the skin be-
comes cold and dry, or is covered with a
viscous sweat; the face assumes o charac
teristic aspect, and appears emaciated /;
the eyes withdraw deep into their orbits,
the cornea is unsettled, the eyelids are
half closed by the lowering of the upper
one, the cheek bones become prominent,
the nose droops, and the discOlored lips
are parted and puckered. The voice, like
thought, becomes incoherent; the eyes
lose their powers of vision, and the Olfac
tory nerves are insensible to Odors; but
hearing is among the last of the faculties
that leave him. Tie abdominal and pee
tOral viscera cease to fulfil their functions,
drinks fall into the @sophagus as into an
inert tube; breathing becomes short, slow,
and irregular, now suspended, now re-
newed, terminating finally in the last gasp.
The pulse beats rapidly but fainter and
fainter, offering numerous remittances un-
til it ceases to be appreciablc. The heart
still continues beating feebly and irregu-
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
How Joe Lost His Dinner.

In the town of Newcastle, in England
there was man who went by the name
| of Patient Joe. He worked in Goa
mine. He was called Patient Joe, because
if grief came to him, he would say, "It's
| all for the best; those who love God shall
ind that all things work together for
| good"
If all things went well with him,
Joe would praise God; and if things went
| i'll with him, he would praise God still, and
say, God knows best what is for my good.
We,mu not judge of things by this life
| alone, there is life to come after this; and
| things that may not seem good for us here
may be good for us there.
In the coal pit where Joe worked some
of the men would jeer and laugh at him
when he said, It's all for the best" There
was man of the name of Tim, who would
miss no chance to laugh at joe
One day, as Tim and Joe were getting
ready to go down into the deep pit, Joe,
who had brought his dinner of bacon and
bread with him, laid it on the ground for
moment. Before he could take it up, a
hungry dog seized it, and ran off
Ha, ha ~ cried Tim, that's all for the
best, is it, Joe9 The loss of thy dinner is
all for the best, is it, man? Now stick to
thy creed, and say, Yes"
"Well, do say Yes" said Joe, "but, as
| must eat, it is my duty to try to get back
my dinner. If get it back, it will be all
for the best; and if don't get it back,
why, it will be all for the best just the same.
God is so great, that He can rule the
smallest things as well as the largest"
So Joe ran after the dog; and Tim, with
laugh and an oath, went down into the
coal pit. Joe ran long way, but could
not catch the dog. At last, Joe gave up
the chase, and came back to the mine
thinking to himself that the men would all
have a good laugh at HING
But he found them all pale with alarm
and awe What a narrow escape you
have had, Joe" said one of them "The
pit has caved in, and poor Tim is killed.
If that dog had not run off with your
dinner, You would have gone down with
Tim into the pit and been killed too"
Joe took Of his hat; and while his
breast heaved, and his cheeks grew pale,
and the tears came to his eyes, he looked
up to heaven, but said not word.-7he
Nurseru
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
What Allied the Telegraph !!

DURING the fortnight which ended last
Saturday night, the telegraph line between
here and Chicago was mysteriously inter
fered with-sO that no message could be
sent, and all dispatches were sent by way
of Racine and Savanna At first the
trouble was laid to the high water some
where, but after the various streams sub
sided, the trouble continued the same as
before In the day time, however, the
line worked as well as could be desired
After a week of nightly search for the
cause of the break, it was discovered last
Friday evening, in the shape of long
iron rod, which miner at La Sale placed
against the wires upon quitting his work
The rod was knocked down, and the line
worked well enough. The miner was
warned that repetition of such a dis
posal of his working tools would result in
trouble to himself as well as to the tele-
graph company. He was utterly amazed
at the power of his rod over the wires,
and thought the telegraph was mighty
quare thing to be sthOpped by the likes O.
that rod. ."-Daoenport (lo@a) Gazette, I'd.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
POETRY.
THE RE1PERS.
by NATHAN ID. URSER.

BIILows of shadow and brightness fleet
Over the seas of ycllOwing wheat.
With steadier glow where the white noon rests
On the fallen glory of golden crests-
While a livelier hue, a. the warm South blows,
With wave on wave to the orchard flows.
Far to the right brown-armed row,
/ see the stalwart reapers go
Their shoulders rising and falling free,
Lake swimmers that sport in summer sea
While here and there scythe blade blaze
Dips like dolphin. and round them plays;
And the jocund shout of the Harvest Home
Floats, mellow and deep, from the jasper FOAM =
Straight to the verge of our shaded path
In regular windows sweeps the swath.
Far behind il stretches away.
Plumed at the sides by tawny spray.
And opening, lengthening on to u,
Like the Red Sea path of the Exodus.
Through the Swallowing waves, as the gray -beard'
reel
Faster and fuller now swings the steel,
With fiery fash, as the sunbeams wIrthe
From tip to hasp of the sweeping scythe.
There. following, is the sheaf-piled vain,
With the steeds neck-deep in the golden grain.
Aud now. to breathe from their task-work sore,
The dripping toiers have reached the shore,
But a cooling draught from the bubbng spring,
jest, laugh and some bantering,
Brown foreheads brushed of the shining sweat,
Like jewels of honor there proudly set,
And then. with their backs to the shaven lea
Another plunge in the amber sea.
A lazy music pervades the air,
From thicket. and meadow, and near pdrterre
As If, the leaf-coverts and flowers among,
The sleepy soul of the sunshine sung.
From the velvety edge of this darlin. dell
Luxurious languors softly swell,
To lull the spirit and WOO the
To day-dream, sloth and Incidence.
But swecter, pleasanter far to me
Than wind, or bird, or droning bee.
That lusty shout, CHEEKY and blithe,
That ringing sound of the whetting scythc.
1t speaks Of laurels noby won
BY the good strong arm in the good strong sun
or energies heavenly seconded.
To wrest from earth's bosom the boon of bread
For wife and little ones-charity-
And the hungry myriads over the sea,
II sings song and an echo springs
Worldwide and clear, the scyth. blade rings.
Telling of man and his dignity.
His hope to be noble. his i~I,nt to be free
0f the Srsn .5 nod mis- bosom unfurled
= rdckard Monthly for August.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
KNO YOUs

Know You the hour when Phpbus steals,
From where Aurora blushing lies,
And mounts the heaven on glowing wheels,
And gilds the gray of dawning skies.
Know you the time when birds begin
To carol to the rising sun,
When from the woods their jocund din
Proclaims the reign of night is dones
Know you the moment when the dew
Exhales in silvery signs from blooms
Whereon it slept the whole night through,
Till Ph9bus the wrapt earth illumess
Know you the moment, time and hour
OF daybreaks Well, you do, mayhap.
Well, that's the time / feel a power
Of pleasure in that other nap
-FrO1u F5kn
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12

"A lady while out berrying at North
Granville, N. Y, came upon a corpse with
the throat cut from ear to ear. She
dropped her pail of fruit and rushed for
the villagers, who at once repaired to the
scene 10 hnd that the corpse had come
to life and run off with the berries The
clever rogue had stained his neck and
breast with berry juice. ''
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12

A JOKE ON HOTEL KEEPER-One
OF our Portland hotel keepers was not long since
victimized in the following manner A. B. went to
him and engaged board BY the week at $40 per
week. Now" said A. B.. 81 may be absent oc-
casonally; what deduction will you make for
thatr' Fifty cents meal and nfty cents a lodg-
ing" replied the landlord Time wore on, and A.
B. was sometimes there, and sometimes not. After
a while the landlord presented his bill for three
weeks board-$30. In short time A. B. appeared
with counter bill of deduction for meals and lodg
lngs missed. Meals eaten, three, &1.50; lodgings,
ssven $50; meals missed, sixty, $50; lodgings
missed, fourteen 81; balance In favor Of A. b., g.
The landlord. OF course, q little astonished at
the result OF the reckoning and therefore said not
word for the best of reasons that he couldn't
think of anything that would do justice to the sub
ject. Whereupon A. B., to relieve the landlords
perplexity. remarked with cool urbanity, "well,
never mind the -; I'll take II out i'm board" The
landlord couldn't see how to keep even with such a
boarder, and so the connection between him and
A. B., as landlord and boardcr, came to an end
Bhrflnnd Orn1Of,idn
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-12
Keeping q Secret.

THE Newport Mercury relates a capital
story of Stuart, the painter, which illus
trates finely the power which secret has
to propagate itself, if once allowed a little
airing, and to reach few ears. Stuart
had, as he supposed, discovered secret
art of colOring-very valuable. He told il
to friend. His friend valued it very
highly, and came time afterwards to ask
permission to communicate it, under oath
of eternal secrecy, to friend of his who
needed every possible aid to enable him to
rise.
"Let me see," said Stuart, making a
chalk mark on board at hand Il know
the art, and that is"
"One," said his friend.
"You know it." said Stuart, making an
other mark by the side of the one already
made; "and that is"
"Two," cried the other.
"Well, you tell your friend, and that
will be-" making third mark
Three only" said the other.
mo" said Stuart, it is one hundred
and eleven!" Q1D.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-09-23
Cur EfCkef.

We place the names of the Repub-
lican County nominees at the head
of our columns this morning with
pleasure. They make ticket we
can cheerfully and cordially support,
and urge others to support. While
the nominations are not all OF them
just the precise ones we would indi-
vidually have chosen, of course, yet
we are willing, as all Of us ought to
be, to forego personal preferences and
support good men when duly nomi-
mated. Where there are important
offices to be filled, there will be many
aspirants; and of course many must
be defeated. Let those who failed
this time, and their friends, remen-
ber that there willcome future years,
and rally now to the standard raised,
as they would have others rally to
their own.
We frankly confess that there were
some things in the County Conven-
ton itself with which we could not
feel suited; but they are past now,
and we donot propose toargue about
them. With all the nominees but
one, we have personal acquaintance.
All Of them, we believe, are old and
well-known citizens, with perhaps
one exceptions; and two of them have
been soldiers.
This paper will also contain the
names of the Democratic nominees;
but as they will only beobtained just
as we go to press, we shall have no
time to comment on them this week.
1t may be taken for granted that
they will be unanimously supported
by their party, without scratching,
whoever they are; and the Democra-
CIV will leave no stone unturned, no
possible effort untried, to secure their
election. The campaign this year
must be short, but our opponents
will make it venomous. Unless eX-
perience deceives us, we may look
for all sorts of false reports about our
nominees. We earnestly hope all
such reports will be credited to their
proper source, and considered accor-
dinghy.
Little room is left us this week for
argument. Next week, and until
election, we shall have further oppor-
tunities. But let us all remember
duly that the time is now short, and
earnest and united effort is necessary
if we would elect our nominees and
place our noble County side by side
with it's sister Counties in the onward
march of progress wherein our own
proud State of Iowa leads the van.
Come, then, united and firm, and
rally for the victory.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-09-23
GENERAL NEWS.

The Humboldt Centennial Anniver-
sary was celebrated with imposing
ceremonies at Berlin, Prussia, on the
l4th inst; and the cornerstone Of a
monument to the memory Of the
great Naturalist was laid.
It isexpected that the great Ecu
menical Council, to be held at Rome
in December, will proclaim the per-
sonal infallibility Of the Pope, and
that some Catholic Governments will
resist this assumption, for fear Of its
consequences.
NEW YORK, Sept. Is.
Gen. Jordan, i'm command in Cuba,
makes all appeal to the people of the
United States to send shoes, clothing
and medicine for the patriot soldiers,
and clothing for patriot women of
Cuba. They have plenty of men,
arms and ammunition, but the above
are much needed, and can be sent to
Francis Dorr, 50 Broad Street, New
York,
Heavy and long-continued rains,
causing floods and doing much DAM
age, in the region about the upper
waters Of the Mississippi, were re-
ported last week.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-09-23
Republican County Con-
Vpnffn:s

Pursuant to published Call, the
Republicans of Marion County, Iowa,
assembled in Delegate Convention at
the Court House i'm Knoxville at IL
A. M. of Monday, September 20, 1869,
for the purpose Of nominating candi-
dates and transacting such other
business as should come duly before
the Convention.
Called to order by Capt. Mathews,
Chm Rep. Co. Cen. Com.
On motion, Capt, Mathews was
made Temporary Chairman, and T..
v. Shoup Sec'y pro tenn.
On motion, Messrs. A. w. Rouze
of Swan Tp., DR.. Duncan Of Knox