Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-12-22
A Little of Everything.

There is Drake in Congress who is no goose
Kentucky mourhs over frozen tobacco crop.
In demand-butter and eggs, beef and money
Tea now reaches Chicago in fifty days from
China
Galloping consumpt ption-dnner at railroad
restaurant
Minnesota has paper called the Wabashaw-
Red-Headed Hsyala
EPitaph for one of the University crew-he was
Il gentleman and a sculler
Read the prospectus of the n. 7. Tri6wHe,p pub
lished in to-day's JoUrNAL.
A western justice of the peace sent an armless
man to Jail for picking pockets
The Supreme Court at Washington is said to be
two years behind in its business
There arc nineteen contested election cases to
be disposed of by the present Congress
man is now in Detroit with his scalp in his
picket. The Indians took it off for him.
Good exercise-shoveiug snow Of the side
walks. Oar citizens should remember this
Plain and ornamental Jcb printing executed
neatly and expedtiously, at the Jo~r~aE job Of
fee
A beauty-the chap with the white at who
howled Justify on the street on last Friday
night.
The Christian Ua,on raises the dreadful ques-
tion whether Methuselah was drowned in the
floods.
An Indian chief in Arizona is putting airs
because his wife cost four ponies-the usual price
being
In North Caroline the cultivation of the cork
{ has
ven a success.
An editor of an Ohio weekly, after weeks alb
sence says We'll, reader, are again upon our
own dung-hii."
Law is like a seivo-you may see through it,
bat you must be considerably reduced before you
ca n get through it.
There is an individual in ClcarReld who is in
clined Sc much to being alone that he fordids his
shadow to follow him.
Prentice advises If time passes seriously with
you, provoke some big fellow to knock you into
the middle of next week.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was the largest
wheat growing State in tho Union Now 1t is
, about the twelfth on the list.
Mrs White. OF Toledo sang II would not
live alway.' and proved the truth of her asser-
ton by dying five minutes after.
German astronomer says that soon to
have another moon, and that it will be nearer
the earth than present satellite
Envelopes, Lettsr.heads and Business cards,
printed on short notice and at low prices, at the
Journal office. Send in your.ord
prisoner was being examined in court and
contradicted himself. why do you lie so - ask
cd the judge; haven't you lawyer"
: The merchants of several of the largest conn
ties in Minnesota have voted to cease credtting
after January list and TO deal in cash thereafter.
a Du ChaiIlu sa " an African chief who had three
hundred wives and six or seven hundred children
Solomon in all his glory was never more blessed
Rather unpleasant-to be detected with pair
of stolen gum boots on your feet, and then being
compelled to pull them off and travel in your
s0cLs-
The Wyoming Legislature adjourned s'ne dtc
on Saturday. Governor Campbell signed the
a Womau's Suffrage bill, and it is law of the
Territory.
The new FIVE dollar notes will be Put in circu-
iation this week. Delinquent subscribers will
! hear in mind that they will be taken at par al
this office.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the bsgnipe i:
: the instrument that made to express nha
was left of sound after other instruments had used
, up all smoothness and harmony.
The manufacture of steel and steel rails. at the
Freedom Iron and Steel Company's works, near
Leqistown has been discontinued. and about sc
men are thus thrown out of employment.
Since the discovery Of silver in Nevada, in
1859, ne less than one hundred and fifty mills
have been erected and from the various mines an
3 aggregate Of sl3j 600 coo has been taken
3 When IN iil-naturcd fellow was trying to pier
q quarrel with peaceobc man, the latter said
. Il never had a qrarrel with but one man; he was
buried at four o'clock It Is now, half past three
Cornelius c Donaghue # TitusvilIe. has Oh
tanned verdi.tia The Supreme Court at Buffalo
n. Y against The Eric Railroad Company,of $50
! o00 for damages sustained At the Mast Hope dis
as;er.
! Another Just verdict has teen given by Ma
ryiand court jury has awarded six thousand
dollars damages to Mary striekh against tn c
Northern Central Railroad, for killing her hus-
band.
+ ~ wish yor wouId not give such short
weight for my money said custom er TO grocer
: who had an outstanding bill against him And
f
mine, said the grocer
western paper complains that the young men
in its town don't attend church any more; the
voung ladies 90 alone and sit alone, whiie the
.sboys" scufe and smoke cigars on the steps until
: they come out. Humph
Mrs. Gen. Sherman is reported to have replied
to question. NO, indeed cannot wear di"-
monds while hear in min- that mere are so
many soldiers widows and orphans deheient OF
the first necessaries of life"
The Sultan of Turkey is the son of CiFcassia n
slave, once noted as the most striking beauty OF
his fathers harem. His mother now an Old
woman, visited by the Empress Eugenie' on
her late visit to Constantinople
A poor woman in Worcester, Mass, who for
twenty years has waited to hear from her hus-
band, has just received a letter from him. saying
that he has amnssed fortune in California, aud
is waiting for her to enjoy its advantages with
him.
4 merchant examining hogshead OF hardware
on comparing it with the invoice found 1t all