Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-07-14
A Little of Everything.

Who're to find milkmen-at the watering places
negro has been admitted to the bar in Flor
| Ida.
Cheap and nasty-a penny worth of EPSON
salts.
Peaches from Mobile bring eight dollars box
in Chicago.
Ships that in demand-clerk- ships and
court-ships
| Query-how a floating debt be paid out Of
sinking fund,
1t is in China that the lost tribes Of Israel have
been discovered.
| The Illinois egg and butter market is now par
| TALLY supplied from California
! Reports-the town CLERK of Hartford, the death
of one person from Ignorance
certain Miss Hart, of Troy, returns income
of more than $50, ,oO0-a Hart worth winning.
Fact-most roots and Lkark are now used as
medicines except the cube root and the bark of a
dog.
VIM. F. Fair, of Newark, N. j.. has been fined
$1,000 for using cancelled United States Reve-
nue. stamp
The Florida Legislature received a yearly sala-
ry. AT the last extra session they sat for but
| three days.
Lancaster has a white wood pecker with a red
head. Reading and DoyIsstown each have a
white robin.
Reported-that numerous camels, the offspring
of those originally taken there by the army now
roam over the western plains.
The Chinese in California are very skiIiful in
lcau fat,
good deal of the bogus article.
Paddy writing from the field to his sweetheart:
darling Peggy, write you with a sword in one
hand. and pistol in the other.''
In recent interview with reporter, ex Prcsi-
dent johnson said that he soften put his hands to
has head and wonders if he is sane''
seaside refection-ploughing the often
causes narrowing sensations in the stomach, the
deeper the farrows the worse for tho crop.
The younD man who asked the daughters hand
and got the fathers boot, had the consolation of
knowing that his wooing was not bootIess.
storm in Iowa carried four thousand feet Of
lumber a distance of three miles, tearing the
boards to bits as they few through the air.
Our 'devil' says if young lady would sack
him the sack she has on-contents included.
An Ohio editor lately betook himself to the
hardware business. He had served an appren-
ticeship to the hard-cear business previously
Richard Realf, Old John Browns Secretary OF
State, has been appointed Assessor of Int rnal
Revenue in the District of EdgefeId South Car
olina-
a narfv of al. 7 ...l. 9
school at Sunbury and robbed number of boxes
in which the classes had deposited their In ission
ary offerings.
A home missionary was asked the cause of his
poverty principally" said he with q twinkie e
of the eye. because L have preached so much
tcithout notes ~
Gail Hamilton is surprised that two people
have Kept n matrimony twenty five years in Hi
neis. Has not Gail kept oui of it twice as long
in Massachusetts,,
Oliver Wood, n Democratic lawyer IN Auburn
New York has taken young negro student into
his Office. viii not his friends have somewhat to
object to this niger in the Wood pile.
There are probably not less than a hundred
colored men now in Rome preparing for the Cath
oiic Priesthood. The majority of them will be-
come teachers Of the freedmen of the South.
A New York critic de.cribes fashionable music
as "a medium between a squeal and a Shrek
with enough piano agitation to make the whole
resemble fight between a calf and a hyenan
There were twenty casualties from fireworks
in New York on the 5th and ten in Brooklyn and
thirty fires in both cities. Philadelphia had forty
fires the Same day. The fires were not serious.
A Portland man has cured one of the most dan
gerous cases of cancer by drinking red clover
tea and applying rod clover compress and
thinks it will prove infailible remedy in all
cases.
mo, Josh, was neber drunk, but L was toxi-
Gated once on ardent spirits, an dat's enuf for
dis niger. De Lord, if my head didn I feel as
if all de niggers in de world was splitter wood
upon it,
Russia is somewhat alarmed at the number of
iron-clads Prussia has been steadily adding to
her well organized navy thus securing the actual
and undisputed claim to the supremacy of the
Baltic sea-
One hundred and forty-two tn ousand, two hun
dred and twenty seven immig rants have landed
in New York since Janu-ry 1, 1859, an increase
of thirty thousand over the corresponding period
of last year.
Texas editor thus laments: Fourth of july
Yankee Doodle p layed thy death march. Negro
equality is rocked in thy cradle, VIII lie we but re-
member with mournful pride thy past Ind glori-
Gus memories "
The electric telegraph in the United Kingdom
has oeen taken into the possession of the Gov
ernment and made part OF the British postal
service. The of this easure of public policy
was about So, 500 ,0O0
New Hampshire has refused to make nine per
cent the legal rate of interest in that State, and
has levied tax of one per cent on the business
transacted within her boundaries by foreign or
outside insurance companies.
The candidates for the vacant throne of Spain
are the Duke of Montpenser, the ex- King of Por.
tugal Prince Henri of Bourbon, the Duke of
Aosta, the Duke of Genoa and the Prince of As
turias, with the odds in favor of the latter.
Chicago plumes herself on having supplied
New York with the Ocean Bank robber and Yir-
ginia with Walker, the successful candidate for
Governor. Indeed, it is safe to believe that Chi
cago is everywhere well represented-e1cept, of
course, in heaven.
One Of the latest inventions for the destruction