Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-01-13
a Little of EVERYTHING.

George Francis Train is called ''Civis
Americanus Sum Pumpkins.
The safety of DR.. Livingstone is again
confirmed, by Gable dispatches.
Florida has INDUCED in ice an inch thick
this year, and com plains loudly.
Geo.B. Goodlander was elected clerk by
the County Commissioners, last week.
Fifty five more days and Andrew johnson
will be off our minds and out of the way.
Rosa Bonheur is painting group ofdogs
for the Car. She makes 80, 900 francs a
year.
In New York during Christmas week there
were 367 deaths, 333 births, and l56 we'd
dings.
We see mention made of an ear of corn
with "a rows, and containing over l 100
grains.
During 1860 there we're 80 murders in
Philadelphia-eleyen more than the pre-
vious year.
Andrew Shugart was appointed Janitor,
for the Court House, by the County Com
missioners.
A little child, off. N Stuart, of Morris
dale, in this county, fell from a bed, last
week, and broke an arm
The most bashful girl we ever knew was
one who blushed when she was asked if she
had not been courting sleep.
A L., L., L. Il i p,,{T, ,l.~
Iowa, to Davenport, a distance of ten miles,
the other day in forty minutes.
The editor of Vermont paper says he
had present on Christmas morning. which
was not piano, but it could yell. !"
An exchange tells us how to make noise
in religious circles-Walk into church late
with a pair of creaking boots, blowing your
nose violently.
A man, whose name we did not ascertain,
was killed by tree falling on him whilst
engaged in chopping in the woods near Os-
ceola, in this county.
Queen Olga of Greece walks the streets
of Athens, with her baby in her arms, stops
and talks with all the mothers she meets,
and compares babies with them.
A young lover near Ashland, Tenn, stole
the dead body of his sweetheart while it was
lying in its coffin at her father house on
Christmas eve and hid it in cave.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided that the seller is bound to make a
deed; as deed without stamps is worth
less, the seller is bound to furnish them al
so.
VIM. Ford, of Mansfield, Pa, was severe
ly injured, recently, by thrusting heated
poker into an old bomb shell, which was
used as door weight, thereby causing it to
explode.
One BILLY Barlow has written a letter
from Philadelphia to the Secretary of the
Treasury, enclosing ten cents as an annual
contribution toward the liquidation of the
national debt.
1t is said that the northern portion of
Westmoreland county is over run with mad
dogs, and that quite number have been
killed. Is it not rather uncommon for dogs
to go mad in winter?
An exchange says Jubal Early will take
advantage of President Johnson's amnesty
proclamation and return home, singing
''The year of Jubal E. is come; return, ye
wandering sinner, home w
A fracas occurred between some Welsh at
Kersey, Elk county, on Christmas, during
which two of the combattants were severely
cut with knives. One Jack Kelly was ar
rested as the perpetrator of the deeds.
Sometimes girl says no to an offer, when
it is plain as the nose on her face, that she
means yes. The best way to judge whether
she is in earnest or not, is to look straight.
into her eyes and never mind her noes.
A "a! pound wild turkey was shot near
Newry, Blair county, recently. Good size !;
but just little too large for one man to eat
and not quite large enough to satisfy the ap-
petite of two hungry men. So says Snooks
| A drunken Irishman, on Christmas day,
squared off at and pitched into an approach
ing locomotive, at Bridgeport. 1t was bad
for the Irishman, however, for the locomo-
tive struck him and knocked him into a
cooked hat
The body of Mrs, Mary Notter, who was
drowned at Lock Haven on the 22d Decem
ber, has been recovered. A hole had been
cut in the ice on the river, from whence she
was carrying water, but whether she fell in
accidentally, or drowned herself intention
/ ally, is not known.
The recent report of the Surveyor Gener-
/ al of Pa, states that the population of this
county, in 1860. was IS, 759, has an area OF
1,l90 square miles, and 76l, 600 acres of
land. The county was formed of part, Of
| Lycoming and Northumberland, March %,
| 1904.
The editor of the Hollidaysburg Register
saws that he has several turkeys which he
was allowed to take home, having invested
dime in each instance" He does not tell
his readers what was trump, but it is presu-
med that seven up" is lively game IL
that quarter, or the editor would not have
| gobbted so successfully.
The Tionesta Press laments that many
| Democratic journals are committed to their