Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-20
A Little of Everything.

An easy death-drowning IN tears
Eiected-Hall over Farley, for Assembly
Being roofed-tke new bridge, below town.
Fell-some snow on Thursday last, in this re-
gion.
Still open question-rhere shall The new
Jail be erected
The right man in the right plsce-a husband at
home in the evening.
Highly spir,tuali.ed-some Of the Democracy,
on Tuesday night of last week.
| Ex-Secretary Stanton has re turned to Washing
| ton with his health much improved
Admired by all-the Independent man who
boldly votes az his conscience dictates.
! For sale-a farm at the modth of Clearfeld
creek See advertisement for particulars.
| Oaly despised-the man who pretends to be
long to one party and votes with the other.
! Needs painting-the outside of the Court House D.
/ Why don't the Commissioners have it done
| Father Hyacnthe. Eve years ago, was so poor
that he thought of emig, atng to South America.
New York has commenced the construction of
Sta tie capital at estimated cost of s4 100000
AtMount Ararat, this year, II0 900 Mohamme-
dan pilgrims asssmbl for the annual journey to
Mecca.
| Survives the lady who said more persons were
afflicted with 'conralescsnce" than with any 9TH
er disease.
! Judge Andrews, who lately died in TsIas, was
member of the Texas Congress in the days of
the republic
Quite decentralization Thumb. because he
has found, in California, fellow four inches
! shorter than himself
Mr. Hollister, eur Minister to Hayti is under
the impression that he isn't wanted at his post.
and has returned home.
The Pope receive. an average SO 00O000 per
annum from Peters pence, which ought to cover
hi. little outside expenses.
Gen. Banks is said to be tho author of the Gu
ban Cons titutiou published in May. having drawn
| it up for the Cuban leaders.
fzzIe-the jumping match the Fair
! grounds, on Saturday last. The Jumper didn t
Jump down the stamps, aspsr contract
| Decsired-Earlsy, by the Democrats. Telling
| fas.hoods may go unpuni shed here, but old
scratch will have a word to ;ay hereafter
| An old bachelor seeing the words families
| supplied" over the door of a shop stepped in and
said he would take q wife and two children.
Tho interior of New Jssey is everrun with
game. Two Jersey City spertsmep returned home
on Friday, with two hundred and eighty birds.
! Fisk. modesty kept him back so mac h during
the late excitement in Wall street. tn it is pro-
| posed henceforth to call him the Rear Admiral.
The Boston Post thinks that the lady in the
woman's Rights movement who wears No Il
shoes should be selected to crush out all opposi-
| tion
! Gov Chamberlain, of Maine, will appoint the
Hon. Lot Morrill, to fill temporarily the vacan-
cy in the United States Senate caused by the death
| of Mr.. Fessenden.
The Eugene (Oregan) .TnnrnaL expresses it,
qualification that the skeleton man. and tha
bearded woman have bought land and to
locate in that vicinity.
Dr. Pagadi. Of Paris claims that he 'tele
graph moral .tudous disposition nto child
This is an i'm provement upon the method of dri-
wing such things in with stick
! Mrs. Partington has been reading the health
| officers weekly reports. and think. total mus
be an awful malignant disease since many die
Of it as OF all the rest put together.
Mrs Abraham Lincoln i. still in Frankfort Ter
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pretending quarters. She sees but few persons
and those generally American ladies.
Among the presents given to the Duke of Edin
burgh at Hawaii were $50 fowls of different kinds
l6o pigs, and a ton of sweet potatoes. The Duke
will have fne living for short time
AWaco. Texas minister went to the house of ct
insane man to baptize him. as he believed the
man possessed of devils" and the lunatic chop
ped tie good man to pieces with an axe.
little girl aged eight years, in New Hamp
shire, recently tried to smoke a pipe. She SCI
her dress Ere, and was badly burned tn a
she died in few hours. A warning to others
An Irishman, from Dublin, worked his way ou
to Jacksonville Florida. year or two ago, and
borrowed money to stroll up the st, Johns He
now refuses s20.0no for the place he settled upon
After all that has been said through the Reve
lUtion and all that has been done by Dickinson
Anthony. Stanton. Tilton, and other women, the
price of working in New York is still seven cent?
= shirt
| lady in Rhode Island subscribed for New
pert paper the other day, to be sent to a neigh
Dor who worried her by borrowing her own
That's right Some of our subscribers ought t.
follow the example.
young gymnast who killed at Cherry
Valley, Illinois, a few days since, by falling from
double trapeze. had promised his father TO qui
the business his engagement was fin
ished. of which that at Cherry was the last night
Some idea Of the immense quantity of peaches
consu med by our people may be derived from the
tcct. tn at LIS SEQ baskets shipped this yeal
by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bsltimor.
railroad, from the Delaware railroad line anG
from Baltm ore.
Dexter has been doing something wonderful
again On Saturday at Prospect course Brook
lyn. he trotted half mile in minute and foul
seconds Expsrie need horse jockeys declare th a
he would have made a mile in two m iuutes ant
eight seconds, if Bonner had not checked him.
Coal beds have been discovered beneath Provi
dence City. r. l., one "a feet thick at a depth o
I19 feet, ard another feet thick at depth o
l34 feet. Thomas S. Ridgeway, mining engi
nser, reports that the coal can be mined anC
brought to the surface at a cost of less than s;
| per ton.
Father Hyacinthe is his way to tn
J United States, where be purposes remaining 70
several months. His coming here under the pc