Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-03-31
A Little of Everything.

large number of clerks on, of employ
ment, in New Orleans.
According to a recent de, ision Of Neapolitan
court, Priests may marry.
An exchange says promising young men are Of
ten those who do nothing else.
A good way to find young lady out is to call
on her when she is not at home.
Advice to the brigade of Office seekers lying
around Washington-Go to Cuba.
Seven hundred pole cats, and perhaps more,
have been killed in Chester county this season
A young lady, q lad and number of dogs have
been bitten recently by mad dogs in Norristown.
young Bostonian has been all through Web
sterss Dictionary trying to find a"spell, wealth
er."
A son of the celebrated Davy Crockett died in
Kentucky, lately. He rebel officer during
the
The railroad ticket office at Port Matilda was
robbed, one night last week Loss over two hun
dred dollars.
Many new houses going up in New Orleans
as building material is said to be cheaper than
before the war.
of the United States leaves but two regiments of
colored troops in the service
The Methodist book establishment, at Cincin-
natl injured on Friday morning last TO the
e1tens of fifteen hundred dollars.
Timothy Creedon of Cincinnati, died of hydro
phobia, on March 25th. He was bitten nine-weeks
ago, but was only bad for one week.
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ed by heavy rains, which have caused immense
destruction to property in some parts
The policemen of the new city of Altoona have
been uniformed, their dress being the same ss
that worn by the policemen OF Pittsburg.
Hon. Edward Bates. ex- United States Attorney
General under President Lincoln, died in St
Louis, on Thursday afternoon. March 25th.
willamsport claims to have man hale, active
and strong aged 81, whose father, by no means
decrepit, is living in Maryland aged l20 years.
Arrangements are in contemplation in Phila
delphia, to send large numbers of laborers to the
country-being unable to procure work in the
city.
two story house was being moved rollers
at Fall River, Mass, last week, when a child was
born in it. This is regarded moving Incl
dent'
Wealthy Cubans are betraying their distrust
of the stability of affairs in their native isle. by
sending their vaIuables to New York for safe
deposit.
The new appointee for Assessor of internal
Revenue for the Twenty first Pennsylvania Dis
trict, Is Joseph r. Smith Esq editor of the Indi-
ana Messenger.
southern paper says If the street commits
sioner delays its removal much longer the dead
dog at the corner of capital street will dry up
and blow away"
AdVices from st. John, n. B., state that the
snow there is six feet deep a level, and that
the Canadians deserving the fats, as they fear
a destructive food.
Michigan cheerfully asserts that all her timber
will be cut down in sixteen years. If such be the
case her people would do we'll to bssin
TO plant some more
Last week Mrs Patterson. residing near the
Lsckawanna mine, Luzerne county went into the
woods to hunt her COW, which she not only failed
to find, but froze to death.
A Louisville minister executed large matri
monial contract recently-no less than the mar
rage of dozen colored swains to a dozen dusky
virgins the same evening.
A man who passed twenty four hours in the
sewers of New York, emerged on March 25th with
a bag full of watches and jewelry. and other val
uables. So says exchange
japanese dentists have peculiar way of ex-
tracing teeth. They give the offending ivory
blow two with mallet until it is loosened and
tn extract it with the fingers
A newspaper article has been going the rounds
of the press of late, headed, .sWhere is your boy
at night" An urchin suggests another article
on, Where is Daddy at night?"
The State of Iowa may be regarded in an
excellent financial condition. 1t does not owe
one cent, and has surplus of six hundred and
thirty nine thousand dollars on hand.
Kaufman, the fend who shot little boy for
looking in at window at his shop in Pittsburg
was found guilty of murder in the second degree
on March 24th He won't get his full deserts in
this world.
A tract of land in Logan and adjoining coun
ties, in West Virginia, containing 10000 acres.
was recently sold at IS cents The land
is of the finest quality, heavily wooded and some
Of it plain
The bill for the establishment of the Irish
Church passed the British House of Commons
on March 23d by lls majority. The result occas-
ioned great rejoicing. and the House Immediate
ly adjourned till the frst of April
Mrs. Fanny Morse, of Now Hampshire, is over |
one hundred years old, and attributes her longev
ty to tho fact that she has been married three |
times. The longevity of her three husbands |
seems to have been cut rat her short.
A man stepped into a lager beer saloon, in |
Syracuse, bought two glasses and threw down a ten
cent SILVER coin. The Teuton exclaimed: .'Mein |
iott IN himnil dis is der sreschie payment vat |
read SO many dings about, und nefer no |
time pefore.'
a dispatch from Des Maines, Iowa says five |
millions dollars of the first mortgage bonds of |
he Iowa and State Line Railroad Company will
loon be issued by that Company. with }. Edgar
Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad,
Is the Trustee.
In York the other day man named Thomas
Cromwell. we'll up in his sixties, married a Mrs
Esther Oliver, over one hundred years of age
They were both of the colored persuasion. aud
inguiar to relate they never cav each other but
'nce before their marriage
a letter dated Cons tantinople, February lIth
ays the little band of Greek volunteers which
Iept up the game of An insurrection in Crete, |
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