Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-04-28
A Little ofEverything.
Plenty-eggs AMI loaiers.
Prevalent-the spring fever.

Scarce-outter and greenbacKs-
Mud dled-the chap who fell in the gutter, the
other evening
Six dollars day is the price of board just now
in Imperial Rome
good advertising medium-theJo"r1raf Let
business men remember this.
1t has become fashionable for Parisian ladies
to wear wigs made of Aoss silk.
Ten Bishops laid their hands on the head OF
Dr. Huntington in consecretion.
Circulating issue of twenty five sent
counterfeit currency, in the east.
Executed-job work of all kinds, neatly and
expeditionsiy. at the Journal Office.
Amusing-to see fellow astride of fence and
i'm agining he is propelling velocipede
An exchange says the champion old man Of
the world has just led in Poland aged l3s years"
An Irish giant in Hudson City N. J., is six feet
| eight inches in height and weighs three hundred
pounds.
| Hon. C. H. stinson, of Montgomery county,was
elected Speaker of the Senate at the close of the
/ session.
! The Richmond Examiner says there is no bet
ter exercise for young woman's lungs than
! churning.
| The Earl of Zetland as held the Office of Grand
Master of the Free Masons of England for twenty
| five years.
! Massachus usetts has lad six Ministersto to England
| the two Adamses Bancroft, Everett, Lawrence
and Motley.
DR.. Livingstone is evidently reserved for a
great future. In spite of newspapers and savages,
he will keep alive.
The New York World gleefully anticipates the
day when ''the White House shall be the coal
hole of an emperor
A wag suggests that suitable opening for
many city choirs would be, 20 Lord have mercy
on us miserable singers"
Spangler and Arnold late of the Dry Tortugas,
assert their innocence of any completely in the
assassination of Mr.. Lincoln.
According to Boston paper, the recent appoint
ment of Spanish Minister by the President,
makes Mr.. Hale walk Spanish
The New York San thinks the abolition of slave
trade has increased canabalism the Africans,
unable to sell their prisoners, eat them.
There is a candidate for off sc in Covington, In
| diana, who copies names from the tombstones in
the churchyard to annex TO his petition.
British astronomer, after twenty seven years
| investigation, has proved that the fixed stars
warm us Ito a limited extent" No doubt
The New York Co numerical says the first ques-
tien that disturbed man the woman ques-
ton" and thinks it bids fair to be the last
Prentice is still unsuccessfuly trying to get off
a good joke on Grant The last eight OF ten at
| tempts are all about hause and lot and rela-
! tives.
Gold has been discovered the Dry Fork of
| Cheat, below the mouth of Red Greek. in Tucker
county, West Virginia, and at other places in the
same county.
Four women to be appointed to 81 200 places
| in New YORK, searchers Of female passengers
from abroad and there arc already 700 applicants
! for the positions
| ACleveland newspaper recently ad, ertised that
| it would send copy free to any person sending a
'.club of ten" young lady in the country sent
it the ten spot of clubs.
Two men, David and Austin Thompson. were
some days ago committed to theBlair county pris-
on for stealing abarre of sugar from the store of
Mr.. Grimes, in Altoona.
Philadelphia merchant got drunk one night
last week and found himself in the morn, in a
dissecting room having been taken by party of
| drunken students for stiff.
The Mountaineei ase Ball Club of Ebensburg,
have voted to contribute $3.50 of the funds realiz-
ed by their late 2 air towards the erection of
soldiers monument in Ebensburg.
A landlord, in Colum bia coanty. has the fol-
! lowing T honetic words painted his tavern
'SasaforiIIs, Miner Water. Lager Beer for sale
here" Democracy hourishes there too.
Major Hunsen the Norwegian giant, who stands
eight feet in his shoes and measures sixty-two in
ches around the chest. has arrived in New York.
The Major weighs four hundred and sixty pounds
Major General Fitzpatrick, United States Minis
ter to Chilli, sailed on Wednesday. He was ac-
companied by his wife and niece Many of his
| friends assembled the vessel to bid him fare
| we'll.
few years ago three four gold fish
! taken from the fountain near the Capitol, at
Washington, ana thrown into the Potomac, and
| now that river has numerous and glittering fnny
population
| number of Democratic papers in Texas have
| hoisted the name of A Hamilton tor Governor,
and are arguing with all their might and main
his election and that of the other conservative
Republican candidates.
THE dead Legislature is the name which the
Philadelphia Ledger gives to the one that has
just left Harrisburg. That paper remarks that it
is idle for the people to complain SO long as they
take no steps toward reform.
| A Harrisburg paper says that Township clerks
| are required to make out and publish a complete
statement of the financial condition of their town
ships. within sixty days after the annual cleo
tions, or submit to penalty of fifty dollars.
Information indicates that the red skins
template a raid upon the whites in the .erritor
| les more bloody than the West has yet suffered
Such being the case, it is scarcely to be wondered
at that Colorado longs to cease being territory
A lucky one'' from the mining district is
cutting an outrageous swell in San Francisco, not
unlike the performances in Philadelphia of John-
ny Steele The Croesus is spending money at n
terrific rate, and White Pine Billy is his name
The Bellefonte Jail m ust be good institution.
The Commissioners have lately expended some
$4,000 or $4,000 in the erection of a new Jail,
but for some reason other II will not hold pris-
oners, several having escaped lately. An investi-
cation is talked Of
1t is not what people eat, but what they digest,