Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-05-19
A Little of Everything.

rise.
Much sugar cane has been planted in the She
nandoah Valley, West Virginia
An exchange thinks corned beef is Of more use
than corned men, to a community.
| Mrs. Ellen Gibbs, of Indiana, is just l6 years
old and her husband is 20 years older.
| Six young ladies have been on trial at Clinton,
Kentucky, for disturbing public worship.
! Train and sprague make fine team. A noble
pair of disinterested, profound reformer.
One of the Philadelphia suburbs is declared to
/ be ''as green and beautiful Fenian BRIDE
/ The safe arrival in Paris of Mr.. Washburne,
American minister to France, is announced by
Cable.
The wife of man who died of hydrophobia,
] in Cincinnati, has sued the owner of the dog for
| S3,OO0
| An exchange says truth is mighty and will pre-
vail but it is mighty slow sometimes about pre-
vailing.
! Bescher says he receives about s25, 900 year,
and gives one third of it in charity and to appl-
cants for aid.
mans wife is his best adviser, his best coun-
sci, his best lawyer, and. also the cheapest and
most reasonable.
Some anxious inquirer want. Senator Sprague
to tell the difference in the prices Of serenades in
the various cities.
Peace reigns in the Chesapeake. Months with
out an "r" in them having arrived, there is
truce in the "oyster war;
The new three cent STAMPS, after passing thro'
the postofhce, are like pugilists emerging from a
I ,ta h1a.lr rI Foaa
The total value of the gifts presented to the
Pope on his recently celebrated ffteth anniver-
sary is estim ated at $1,000 900 in gold
A lawsuit involving $500 600 has just been de-
cided in New York Three lawyers claim $780,
600 of the amount for services rendered.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company announ
ces semi annual dividend of FIVE per cent, pay
able in cash. free of tax, on the 30th instant.
The New York San thus pithily sums up the
claims of the Lidspenaent: Sewing machines
and religion-such as it is-at $3.50 year"
Chief Justice Chase in opinion recently de-
livered in Richmond recognized the constitution
ality of the division of Virginia into two States
Secretary Boutwell, is a reformer. He intends
to prohibit smoking, chatting visiting and drink
ing among the Treasury clerks during business
hours.
Mr. Michael Scanion, appointed Assessor of
Internal Revenue for the Third District Of the
State of New York, is the editor of the Irish
| Repubhi,.
The tide of emigration to West Tennessee is
setting in. One town recently received an addi-
ton to its population of 200 persons from Penn
sylvania.
There are seven hundred and twenty nine occu-
pants of the California penitentiary and only two
hundred and fifty one of them were born in the
United States.
Silver and gold anklets for the ladies about
to become fashionable. They are to be worn out
side the stockings, and the dress will be short.
Wonder what next!
Senator Pratt, of Indiana, is said to have lost
hundred pounds of his superHuous weight in
Washington by the opportunities of an Office
seeking constituency.
A female witness in n case on trial at Tauton.
asked if she knew a certain party. know
him - said the witness. "Yes, I've known him
ever since he tcas hatched,'
Spains credit is rather bad. She has just ne
gotiated loan at twenty nine cents the dollar ;
that is she gets about three millions of dollars for
| ten millions of her obligations
| Annie Campbell lives at GIengary in Scotland,
aged one hundred and twenty six years. as active
energetic and ind Istrious when only sixty. She
| is natl e of the Isle of Skye.
clergyman in Ohio, who recently ran away
with the wife of parshioner, has brought libel
suit against the husband for telling of it, and ac
tually had him put under bonds.
Hon Ben Wade has been appointed Govern
ment director, not a commissioner, of the Pacific
Railroad The former is permanent ofice-the
latter special and temporary one.
The Boston Pos, gets off many sharp laconics
Here is the latest we have met with: The N. Y :.
Herald says, People not inclined to nurse the
devil We infer from this that Bennett is to be
| weaned -
On the 9th of April the scholars and teachers
of tho freedmen's school, at AndersonvilIe, G "a.
decorated with flowers the graves of the thirteen
thousand eight hundred Union soldiers in that
neghborhood.
Whats fool Train made of himself last night
says friend at our elbow. No, Train never
made fool of himself nature saved him all
trouble on that account. So says Western edi-
tor-and We are muchly of his opinion.
| Col. Francis Jordan, Secretary of the Common
wealth, has appointed James NJ. weakley, Esq.,
of Carlisle, Deputy Secretary, in place of Isaac
B. Cara, resigned. Mr.. Weakley is prominent
young lawyer of the Cumberland county bar.
1t is told of Lord Norbury that when passing
sentence of death upon man for stealing watch
he said to the culprit: "My good fellow, you made
grasp at time, but caught eternity" AS thief
of time the fellow might have been called pro-
crastinatfor.
Near Fulton, Ohio, recently, numerous fossil
serpents were discovered in a coal mine l30 feet
below the surface. They quite perfect and
about Eve feet long. Effort is being made to
cure group of two or three, which inter
! twined, without fracture.
The Pottsville Journal suggests-as the only
way to break up the Ring influence in our Leg
islature-a change in the State Convention, in
creasing the number Of Representatives to 100
say 100 Senators and 800 Representatives, elected
| from single representative districts.
contemporary hopes those patriots who are
just now SO anxious to get the country into anoth
er war; on account of Cuba o1the Alabama Claims,
Will not attempt to dodge the eonscription when
1t breaks out; or cry out against the taxes; or