Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-06-09
A Little of Everything
A good paper-the Jopraai-

a good paper-the Journal
Secret of success-advertising
Going up-the new depot buildings in this
place.
There are still 400 lines of stage coaches in
America.
Appear-several new advertisements to-day
Read them
"Beauty is only skin deep" Well, it looks
first rate as far as it goes.
Gentlemen engaged to be married are now po-
litely termed husbands BY brevet-
Money is somewhat like manure-it does the
most coed when liberally spread broadcast.
An exchange thinks limbs of the law should be
clothed in breaches of promise. We suggest leg
al habits
That un pfau-tunate Plan, the pfau-rnost man
in his professionals not altogether pfau- hav-
ing had another pfaul.
After several cont bats the forces under GEN
Jordan have succeeded in joining the Cnban ar
tillery with I,7OO rifles.
The young ladies of Mount Pleasant. Iowa, OBJ
ieet to the bachelor editors of the State holding
convention at that place.
to have penehant for making purchases when
the merchant isn't looking.
Two Louisville policemen the other evening
tried for some time. but unsuceessfuily, to induce
cast iron dog to take poisoned meat
Gen Grant is credited with the epigrnmmatic
remark that 'ofiee-seekins fast becoming
of the industries of this country"
school committee man down east writes ave
have a school house large enough to Accommodate
four hundred pupils four stories high
\ henpecked, unfortunate says the most
rem arkable organ in the world is the organ of
speech in women. 1t is organ without stops.
still improving-our town We observe sever
al buildings in course of erection, among them
the fine residence of John W. Wright, en- Water
street.
An English clergyman who is obliged also to
ofIiciate as organist, is using the new electrical
action, having the keyboard Tilted up in the read
ing desk.
Bond Onion, aged IS, one of the brave men in
the garrison at Fort McHenry when bombarded
By the British, in 1914, died in Baltimore on Fri
day a-woek.
The story that Ned BunIine has fallen from tenn
perauce grace and taken to faro banking is un-
true, and was started in California to bring him
into disrepute.
The ci:y of Des Moines Iowa has voted Sl2 to
III that beer and wine shops shall not be licensed
in that city. The vote was light, and every wa.d
voted for prohibition.
A nuisance-the accumulated filth in one of the
drains on Market street The Boro Dads should
see to having it removed lest it be the means of
causing sickness in its vicinity.
The Terre Haute ,Ind) Express asserts that
there lis man in Indianapolis who has so many
children he has been compelled to establish a
roll call morning and evening"
President Grant and Senator Ross, between
whom there was said to be "bad blood' some
weeks ago. had pleasant interview on Mon
day a-week at the White House.
A st. Louis court has fined 500 for
shooting dead boy who was picking each
from his orchard. Boys surely very plenty
and peaches very scarce about st. Louis.
Last Friday evening the town of Shipman, Hi
nois was almost completely destroyed by tor
nado. The loss of p opcrty is estimated at $780,
coo, and several persons were badly injured.
series of savage attacks in the Philadelphia
renom nation, are attributed to the pen of Col
Mcclure, the man who didn't persuade Grant.
An Irishman went to live in Scotland for a
short time, but didn't like the country. Il was
sick all the time [ there" said he, land if
had lived there till this time I'd been dead year
ago"
On Monday evening a-week Baltimore was Wis
tied by severe storm of rain and hail. Five
new houses, nearly completed. thoroughly
demolished and several other houses uu-
rooted.
Two men in the Michigan State prison. con-
victed f burglary, last winter, by the positive
evidence and Identification of twenty witnesses,
have lately been released by the confession of ,he
real criminals
Toom bs. of Georgia whSkoasted that he would
call the roll of his slaves from Bunker Hill, the
Chicago Post says is now obliged to call for his
letters at the hands of the colored postmaster al
Macon, Georgia.
Laporte, Indiana, farmer sold ninety bushel:
of potatoes the other day, and received for them
just enough to pay the dressmaKer for making
two ladies suits-one for his wife and the other
for mis- daughter.
! On the day of his jubilee, the Pope received Z
! telegram from the frozen regions of Lapland, th'
bearer of which had to traverse 500 miles in ordel
to reach Helsiugfors, the extreme telegraph of
fee in North Europe.
member of the Nova Scotan Parliamen
speaks of Annexation Starvation as thu
policy of the United States with reference to Brit
ish America. The annexation resolutions had ne
yet come up in that body.
a Berlin burglar has invented machine which
appears to open safes as easily as knife does Al
oyster Both the invertion and the inventor ar
in the hands of tie police. The invention, i
seems shuts up the burglar.
Among the names mentioned as likely to be th
Democratic candidate for Cover nor of Wisconsin
is that of Gabriel Bouek. Blow your horn, a
brieIi for in a radical State like Wisconsin yo'
are not likely to be heard of after the election.
A jalor in St Louis had received strict order
not to keep any prisoners in solitary confinement
Once, wi hen he had but tive in charge, one escaped
and he was obliged, in consequence TO &5'6 IL
other ost O. Joors, TO comply with the regulations
Minister Dix has made his speech of farewell
to the French He justly said that the America
policy not war or aggression but improve
mept. That Improvement We trust the promo
ters of the imperial enterprise in Mexico hav
felt.
1t is reported that Gen. Grants Quaker agent