Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-08-11
A Little of Everything.

How to meet bankrupt-take no note OF him.
There are three thousand carpenters out of en-
ployment in Chicago.
The Democratic majo rity in rebel Kentucky Is
about 40 0Oe, or 80 coo less III last year
pitch darkness has been so improved IN ist
ter times as to read .bituminous obscurity"
Two Whites are wanted to receive million and
a half inheritance in Ireland. Whites would
like it.
The BelIefonte Nationai has been sold at Sher-
if7s sale No wonder they could so cheap JOB
,cork''
A landlady in Boston, it is said, makes her bis
cult light that her dodgers can see to go to bed
by them.
"It's a great comfort to be left alone" said an
Irish lover, especially when yer sweetheart is
wild ye.
The New York Sum predicts that Mr.. Seward
will be the next President and Horace Greeley his
Secretary.
Olive Logan is said to be the best swimmer at
Long Branch. Miss Reed has the honor at At
lantc City.
Mrs Partinston m axes Shakespeare say, ,'Sweet
are the uses Of advertisements Its so, whether
he said it not.
do you call this a trunk ?,' growled detected
porter. 1t only needsa lightning rod TO be mis-
taken for boarding house
The lately appointed Territorial Judge of New
Mexico has been there, surveyed the field, be-
came dsgusted, and returned.
The Emira Adpe,tisrr says there is young
lady in that place so refined that instead of say
ing blackgu she says African Sentinel.
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of sixteen. is clerk of the court and secretary of
the city council and teaches school besides
Some Partisan gourmands lately dined on rats.
and expressed themselves delighted with the do
licious and succulent properties of the flesh.
Money is scarce in Arkansas, but she expects
to make $50 900, 900 her cotton crop this year,
which will place her financially on her feet again.
To such state of cleanliness has Cincinnati
been reduced. that a firm in the West End have
been compelled to put up sign of Dirt Wanted.
man in Connecticut seyenty-eight years Of
| age and in6rm, has read the Bible through sew
ensy- four tim since his confinement TO the house
A reporter describes a suicide thus: He laid
himself down, and shot himself with his big toe "
1t is suggested that the weapon was loaded with
nails.
| Inc cape Goa b01tpe Hah Tesiui"S a.
Marston Mills, Barnstable, has three sons. three
horses. three cows, three calves three hogs, and
three broods of chickens.
The county Jail at Mercer is without single
occupant. The Dispatch says it is the first time
Sheriff Black has been without boarders since the
CONNIE ment of his term.
Not long ago n young married lady in Illinois
was found dead in her bed, and Coroner's jury
rendered a verdict of 'died of commissions aided
by tight lacing" Ladies beware.
A young man in Jefferson county, Indiana was
taken sick about two years ago, and fell into a
decp sleep, from which he only awoke few
weeks since demanding his breakfast
Henry A. WISE that chivalrous Virginian who
caused John Browns body to dangl. in the air,
expresses himself jubiantly, concerning the re-
suit of the recent election in the Old Dominion.
A Connecticut railroad conductor waited with
his train for a man 10 swim across the Nausatuck
river the other day the bridge having been swept
away by food. Truly an accommodation train
The Boston Adpeyt,s.r well says: THE issue of
the political contest in Pennsylvania the coming
fall is one of dollars and sense The Democrats
have the dollars and the Republicans the sense "
The New Bedford Standard says q lady in tina,
city recently appsa; ed in church neatly dressed
in calico and concludes that it would not be dan
gcrous to lend the husband of such woman
money.
At one of tho ragged schools in ireland cler-
gyman asked the question, What is holiness %
A poor convert, in dirty tattered rags, jumped up
and said, '.Pl lase yer riverence, it's to be clane
inside"
; With all his immense wealth, Asa Packer
! point to a single liberal gift made by him in bt
half of his imperiled country during the late
{ war; No wonder he is favorite with rebel De-
mocracy
. Gen. Harrison Allen, of Warren county, wa
nominated for State Senator at Franklin, on th'
Both ult Gen. Allen has a military record which
is as brilliant that of any person in Western
Pennsylvania.
The hopeful Democracy rejoicing to-da,
over a great victory" achieved in Kentucky, a
if it was an unexpected event. Poor fellows, the,
are only rea lizing the proverb, drowning mel
grasp at straws.''
| man in Danvills Vermont, in his eighty-fftl
year, who never rode in a stage car nor atten
ded circus lecture in his life recently wake
to Hanover, New Hampshire, distance of on
0 hundred and twenty five miles.
New Yorker at Mt. Desert says she Sunda,
c Indian pudding there lis like mixture of oat
: and molasses 1t is well adapted for boardin!
J. house purposes, for human being in his sense
n would ask to be helped second time
$ The Chicago Post says the Democratic journal
II of Pennsylvania in a muss about their sand
dates name for Supreme Judge; some of thcI
printing it Pershing and some in accord anc
f with tho eternal fitness of things" Perishing.
- An Iowa girl, described a pretty, taikativ
laughing, bright eyed brunette, lately got int
Omaha in the evening, introduced to a youn
man next morning went to picnic with hin
! and brought him back and married him befor
= supper.
T. western paper announces the illness of il
l. editor, piously adding "All good paying sui
= scribers requested to mention him in the
ia prayers The others need not, the prayers
\ the wicked avail nothing, according to good Al
thority''
y The Cuban prospect now is br ghter than eve
y What with the recent success of Qussada the
tinucd troubles in Spain. and the seizure of th
Spanish gunboats building in the United State
r. the enemies of Cuba at present in a yery n