Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-02-17
A Little of Everything.

Lady Kilers-the thin shoes IN now -a-days
Scarlet fever is prevailing at Indiana, and vi
cinity.
'veIocipede bat'' is the latest fashionable
agony
Carpets are bought by the yard and worn by
the foot
10000 Mormons and 5000 Gentiles live in Salt
Lake City
st Petersburg has been troubled with snow
twelve feet deep.
The United States uses daily, about one million
of postage stamps
One paper had the hardihood to nominate
Buckalew for Governor.
High prices are said to be the most efeetual
preventatives of consumption.
The cost of the Brookville Jail is estimated at
one hundred thousand dollars.
The standing army of Bolivia is said to consist
of eleven men, enc of whom is Captain.
The surface of the Great Salt Lake is said to
be rising at the rate of one foot year.
The question of the removal of the Cambria
county y-seat to Johnstown, is again agitated
Up at Lake Memphremagog the mercury has
stood at twenty six degrees below zero this winter.
One hundred thousand dollars and thirteen
| lives is the loss by the recent dam accident at
Danbury.
Vein Forney, with the advice of the Senate,
has been nominated and confirmed State Librarian
for three years
VIM. Albert a soldier of the war of 1912, was
| frozen to death in Greenfield township, Blair
county, recently.
The supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decid-
ed that The seller is obliged to make deed and
! furnish the stamps.
! The Altoona Tribute proposes that the Rephb-
licans of that place decide by an election the
que stion of postmaster.
Quite an amount of counterfeit fractional cur
rency just been put in circulation at ST Marys,
Elk county. Look out tor it.
For exercise the members of the Rhode Island
1t gislature walk home to dinner every day and
back again for evening sessions.
The dog tax in Massachusetts, is prod uctive
In Hampden county it yields $4,000 more than
the damage the dogs do the sheep,
Even the dogs in New York commit suicide
fine Newfoundlander killed himself the other day
by leaping from third story window.
A Boston paper states hat a man in that local
ity is ridin dog through the streets, as pre-
paratory practice managing a velocipede.
The building of branch railroad, between
Ligonier and Latrobe in Westmoreland county,
talked of. Go ahead, gen tlemen it will pay.
Camden, J., expects to build FIVE hundred
new and substantial houses during 1867. We need
half as many in Clearfeld; but how many will
be built?
The recent Democratic State leentioh of
Connecticut, ''Resolved, That we lew the pro-
gress of Radiealism with increa Stag alarm No
doubt oft.
white person died natu. al death recently
in the Yo Semitic Valley. This being the first il
stance of the kind on record the sensation was
marked.
Boston paper gives the latest "Greeian
Bend'-The acceptance of the proposition of the
the European Conference at Paris by the Grecian
Government
youthful wedding excited the attention of
many in Lynehburg. Va, recently. The united
years of the bride and groom were 100, he being
80 and she 10.
The Penn'a Railroad company offer 81 900
ward for the apprehension of the incendiary
who set fire to their repair shops at Altoona, on
January 2lst.
The reporter of the Quincy Ill) Wig draws a
comparison between a horse and velocipede
remarking that the volocipede is specially re-
markable for the "ease with which it lies down ~
Preparations maxim for the erection of a
large number of buildings in Tyrone, the coming
season That's the proper spirit. Build houses
you want a town to flourish. Will our capital
lists take hint
Captain Kidd's treasure has at last been found,
in the at Salisbury, Conn. An explorer re-
pnrss tha oe IL
tons, guns, pistols, swords utensils of various
kinds, gold and silver coin, rings, charts and
manuscripts
man. name unknown from whence be came
and without baggage, was killed by a train at
Lock Haven on Monday night a week His head
was crushed, and his legs cut off above the ankles
and ag ain at the thighs. He was horrible sight
when discovered.
Az exchange says "TitusFille is to have a
yelocipede school shortly, and the oil operators
are alt going to take lessons, wi h a view Of rid
ing them from well to we'll They hope thereby
to avoid the muiecipedes and old ho.sipedes
form srly in vogue there"
gentleman connected with one of the largest
business arms In st. Louis. entity called at a
newspaper office and left S6e0 advertisement He
said that he dreamed the night before that he had
uoH0 so' anu Ne iSil tnat ne ought to follow
the suggestion of his dream.
A ;rasy girl was arrested in the White House
on Wednesday She had gone there with an un- |
loaded pistol, for the arowed purpose of killing
JOIN son. Query If she had succeeded would |
President WADE have initiated his predecessors |
e!emeney, in behalf of the assassin
A Nerm onter, resident of Greensboro came |
near breaking his wifes neck recently by play
fully shaking herr Her neck cracked she be- |
came partially paraIyzed, and was confined to
bed for several days One more playful shake |
would have made the widower
Several persons were last week arrest ed in Ty- |
rome and bound over for their appearance at |
court for piacticing .some OF their reaks at the
Methodist church" during services Shouldn't
be surprised to hear of arrests in this place
some ofthese days. for similar conduct
silly deer, in its rambings, visited Tyrone
one day last week. During the excitement, re-
volVers and guns were bright into requisition
One ball passed thro gh mans hat grazing his
haiF and another received slight wound in |
the wrist The deer finally killed
domestic troubles and religious excitement |
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