Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-04-21
A Little Of Everytsing.

Should be removed-tho ash heaps along our
streets.
Got new sign-A. 7. Shaw, Druggist. 1t
] looks well.
Looks well-Ed Mack's show window, with
guilt lettering.
Blanchard's log drive passed this place yester-
day TUESDAY
The Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned siae
die, on Friday last
The United States Senate, will likely adjourn
to-day, Wednesday
sprightly-oIr IT merchants account of the
daily arrival of their spring goods.
Many deer, tired of the despotism of menarc h.
ial Canada, have fed into Vermont.
The nomination of Gov. Curtin Minister to
Ressia, was confirmed on last Saturday.
Awarded to Ed. Mack-the meerschaum pipe,
as the champion velocipedists in this place
Heat must be great traveer-it is never
taken; but cold is-we can catch cold
The new postage stamps as ugly as n mud
fence, srneared all over with ladies paint
Excellent-the arrangement and display of
books, etc, in the window Of the post Office.
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York when they ought to be fighting at home.
Three expeditions ;reinforcements for the insur-
| gentsl are said to have aude in Cuba recently.
The New York Senate passed resolutions ratify
ing the fifteenth amendment by vote o: IL to / ;.
| Somebody says the rules for volocip"dists are
three and simple, viz straddie paddle skedaddle
Increasing-thc velocipede mnnia,i in tn is place
! i,yip fra, abnu,
| the .'hanninai."
! Nashville. Tennessee. presents for the 'ch am
pionshp' widow lady, aged ia, who has over
400 descendants living.
| Two twelve year old girls of Abba, Icwa. com
mitted to memory eleven hundred verses in III e
| Testament in week
The French mission has cost General Dix SO 600
year more than his salary great is the ex-
pense of living in Paris.
Mississippi town has begun an extensive raid
| on profane swearers and has secured numerous
convictions for the ofcnse.
Mr.. S;llf. residing in Elkhart county. Indi-
ana. is one hundred and FIVE years old. His eld-
est living sou is seventy.
! very dsitru,ti-c i-e o,;ur,l in Pittsbur,
last week. Several oil refneries and tanks we're
| burned. Loss about $500, 600
| Senator Sprague is said to all of Rbod e
Island, excepting the Providence JoHsnaa and
Senator Anthony owns that.
The young lady who presiies the Rich
Postofice has decided that she is postun aser and
| not postmistress or postmiss
When the Massachusetts, Legislature was re-
Gently considering female suffrage the only pro-
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Judgment has been rendered in the United
States District Court, ST Louis against the Etna
Insurance Company, OF Hartford for s34 900.
blacksmith in Hudson City thrust hot iron
int can OF nitro glycerine, Wednesday. and
blew himself through the roof in several pieces
Mrs Patton. of Hampton Iowa. is one OF the
heirs of the Nicholas Alberson (Holiand) estate,
| worth S50, 900 600. The heirs are just looked
up.
In Kentucky the Executive Mansion is called
the .'GorerDor's palace, " and than S3l 900
have been spent in furnishing it duriug the past
year.
The ladies' of Be ellefonte are circulating a re-
monstranee in that place, praying the Court not
TO grant licenses for the sale of intoxicating Ii
quors-
Which has the most readers-a book or a news
paper? Decidedly the latter. Nothing as fresh
or as valuable as the newspaper, and nothing as
cheap.
The French Government has made a contract
with two houses in New York city for three thou
sand hogsheads of irginia tobacco, to be flied in
Richmond
Missouri likes the income tax 40 we'll that she
has started one her account and the
bava i1al, ,hatt th 10
constitutional.
occURREp-a destructive fire in Altoona. on
Friday last. Seventeen houses and some outbuild
ings. were burned The FIRE the work of an
incendiary, it is supposed.
The St. Louis Drn,ocrat OF Tuesday says There
Is now enough grain afoat for this city from
Minnesota alone to load thousand ears So
much for the grain movement
Net one-tenth of those who die and leave prop
erty in Indiana. leave a will. ] he law, it Is
said makes for them better wills than they would
be apt TO make for themselves
-Four skeletons were found while digging for
gold mine in Lafayette Ind, the other day. They
were the remains cf four wealthy land buy er who
were murdered in bagnio twenty five ears ago
A number of citizens of Newton county, Ga,
"HO ioi Shorily alter the war, nave
returned to their old homes, perfectly sstisf ed
with the anticipation of wealth and happiness in
another land
The Pope is said 10 entertain the intention of
comforting on the Prince Imperial of France the
title OF Roman Patrice, which destined
Tor the Emperor himself, and which last borne
by Charlemagns.
The Chicago Po't says: 4 msthoi of e,ioriz-
ing goldfish has been discovered. Now if soma
social chemist wiz discover method Of dec rdor-
'zing Goldfish aristocracy, the world will smell a
good dea sweeter
Our lady readers, interested in the prevailing
fashions viii bo glad to Kuow that "A frontier ball
recently, noted Indian belle appeared in a hoop
skirt ornamented with fox tails. and wsist Of yell
low iannei slashed with stripes Of buffalo hide
Collector GrInnell has consolidated two divis
IONS IN the Custom House under one Deputy Col
iector 1t is understood this change dispenses
with one deputy at SIS 900 year. and numoer
of clerks whose salaries amount to many thousand
of dollars
The Legislature of Illinois has passed law Civ
ing married women the right TO aud possess
the'r own earnings aud sue for the in
their own name free from the interference of Il