Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-02-24

Sell at 82-U S, Bonds at Frankford.
Getting plenty-mudd, on our streets.
For sals-the latest papers at the post Office.
The canal is beingwidsned east of Huntingdon
The Moravian mission'i in Greenland Ia 1856 years
old.
Gold sold in New York on Saturday last, at
| 1884
Terms of Journ 1.-TWO dollars a year, in ad-
vance
Lovers, like armies get along we'll enough till
engaged.
railroad was sold in Texas the other day for
| Eve hundred dollars.
Five hundred and seventy Methodist churches
were dedicated in 1863
There are eight million acres of unoccupied
land in the State of Maine.
Filling lamps is proper work for servants, be-
cause it is ssrUe-rle business.
| 1t took four bishops and sixty clsrgymen to
dedicate Mrs Colts Hartford Church.
The Republicans of " Westmoreland county favor
the re nomination of Governor Geary.
Chinese Sunday schools have been established
| in all the Methodist churches of San Francisco.
French vineyards give employment to eight
million people, not counting doctors and police
men.
The Chicago Post says "Mudd is clear which
| means hat the Doctor of that ilk has been par
doned.
| An Australian pb ysic ian has cured the bite of
serpents by.injecting ammonia into the veins of
| the patient.
| A haaa nf he
ing of a wild cat by little boy FIVE feet eight
inches long"
Mrs. Stowe says a great many young girls
minds are all washed away by constant dribble
of dish water stories.
Governor Geary has respited Gerald Eaton,
sentenced to be hung the 25h, bat it is not yet
known for what time.
The Republicans of Clarion county have in
sructed their delegates to vote for the renom ina
tion of Governor Geary.
| patent for a snoring preventive" has beea
applied for 1t consists in the application of a
clothes pin to the nose.
The Norfolk Virgiman claims an area of 64O,-
900 acres of "oyster rocks in Virginia. yielding
an annual revenue of $40 000.0
The Bedford county delegate to the coming
Republican GuberDatorial Convention has been
instructed to support Governor Geary.
Cory o'Lauus thinks that the Mexcans ought
to attain perfection in riding the velocipede, for
the more revolutions you make the faster you go
An Irishm an having been told that the price of
bread had lately fallen, exclaimed This is the
first time eveI rejoced at the fall of my best
| friend"
| An Indian boy from the West lately passed
through by cars to a Missouri town freight
having tag with his destination tied to his
clothing
| Oregon begs two hundred and fifty servant
girls to come and to do its house work; wages
SIS in gold per month, and from four to suit
each
Boston has ''lady ickpockets" who s'dress
magnifcently, 'and by "iainting away in gen
etboUks"
An exchange says that Brigham Ycung's son.
Joe, smokes good cigars, drinks good liz uor, gets
drunk, plays poker, lioks his wives and breaches
the Gospel
hat is being passed around in Kentucky for
Mrs John C. Brekinridgc, as though money could
mitigate the calamity of having such wretch
| for a husband.
New Hampshire lady, who recently offered
to sell silver dollar she had carefully treasured
| for thirty five years, astonished at finding it
counterfeit
prisoner on trial in Dubuque recently told
the Judge he lied" whereupon is Honor de-
scended from the bench and vigorously punch.
ed the cuprit
Ross Browne.our Minister to Ch ina, is in Pekin,
held hostage for the safety of the Chinese
ambassadors now with Burlinsame in Europe, and
10 forbidden to leave the city.
General Grant is said to call the entertainments
got up for him by designing politicians, pump
handle recep tions." However hard they work the
handle he Peeps the pump dry
The Republican county convention of Greene
county met on the 10th instant and eIec,ed Capt
John Rogers delegate to the State convention
and unanimously instructed for John W. Geary
for Governor.
Patterson, New Jersey had a romance. one
legged organ grinder away with a school girl
| He had made 81 o0G and house and lot in Chica-
&C, out of years business, and the stern pa
rients were mollifed.
Julia Adams, aged eighty years, was poisoned
last week. in Lewistown, by eating cheese which
had been charged with arsenic and scattered
round kill rats. Her life was saved through
the use of the proper antidotes.
On Sunday the 3lst of January. Mr.. John Cor
| ley. of Juniata township. Bedford county, while
ascending steep hill. slipped and fell and in
rolling and sliding together, bruised himself
badly that he died in few days,
| Judge Pearson at Harrisburg, on the 18th de-
clared the law passed in 1866 compelling the
Pennsylvania Railroad Companyto open suices
for the passages of fish. in their dams along the
| Susquehanna to be unconstitutional.
Chicago journal, alluding to Garrett Davis's
| resolution censuring Butler, suggests that ''in
case Butler is found TO deserve serers punishment
| he tie sent to the Senate to hear one of Davis's
| speeches" Suck proposition could only EN- anate
| from heart dead to human feeling.
For my part" said the late James Brady
! Il can s1y in all sincerity that l would rather
: feel sure that when come to die shall leave
friends to think OF me, after am gone, as poor
Jim Brady" than win the brightest name for
learning and for eloquence at the bar
SPEEDY RETRIBUTIoN-Ane exchange re-
lates that man living near New Castine.