Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-12-08
A Little of Everything.

The piece festival-a quilting party.
The best thing out-an aching tooth.
Exists-a financial stringency, in the West
Works admirable-our new Gordon Job Press
Gives general satisfaction-the decline in gold
Subscribe for the .Jouynai If you want 4 good
paper.
good way to find a woman out-cali when she
isn't at home.
The St Louis Democrat calls hanging Legal
lied murder"
II you want to sell goods, advertise in the
Journal.
Read the prospectus of the Pittsburgh Conn
mercraI in this issue.
A tabks of interest-the dinner table especi-
ally when a fat turkey bedecksit
There is some talk of dividing the State of
! New York-a thing not likely to occur.
The Presidents message it is said, will be un-
usually short. This is good news to readers
Michigan havi.g g a county named Paw-Paw, it
is proposed to name a rival county Leg-LeS,
man in Cincinnati advertises for a situation.
Work not much an object good wages"
1t is said that A J. proposes to spend the winter
in Washington, though Senator he cannot be.
job work of all kinds neatly and expeditously
done at the Journal off and at reasonable prices
Jay Cooke has been presented with an ornith-
ologicai curiosity in the shape of white wood
cock.
/ Has subsided-the "disease" among poultry,
since Thanksgiving. 1t will reappear again about
Christmas.
The Philadelphia oyster trade is rapidly in
creasing, and now employs some three hundred
and sixty vessels
The Titusville Soldiers Orphan Home has one
hundr ed and seventy inmates. The children is,
sue weekly paIer.
Red Wing Minnesota, is named after defunct
Dakato chief named FIah-pa-h -doo-ta, signi-
| flying Wing of Scarlet.
An unpaid note given in 1925. by Morgan. the
subject of the anti Masonic excitement, has just
turned up in Rochester.
Ex-Minister Harvey, to PortugaD whose salary
Congress stopped, has received back pay TO the
amount Of 50, 600, gold
| The Penn q R r. Co. have erected snow fences
along its Ineat all points where the snow is liable
to drift into deep cuttings
Advertising wss not inaptly described by a
late eminent man of letters as being to commerce
| what steam is to machinery.
Wisconsin gives Gov Fairchld s,I~l majority.
as appears from the official figures This nearly
double his majority of two years ago.
John Onion is the name of a local editor an
| Illinois paper. No doubt he brings tears 10 the
eyes of his readers every time he Peels himself.
Called .'let-uppers''-the Republicans in West
Virginia who are willing to remove the political
disabilities from the recent rebel hang -upPers
The contribution boxes in one Of the Boston
churches were passed around on Thanksgfvi n!
day by the father and grandfather of the preach
| er.
Brooklyn has an association for preventing
frauds at elections This i'll have a bad effect
on the coffee eoored'' naturalization papers
! trade.
Apples selling for ten cents a bushel in
Crawford county. Indiana, and sales dul at that.
They would sell for ten times that price in this
place.
a child died recently at Vinton, Iowa, in fit.
to which it subject. A post Inortem exami-
nation revealed good sized living snake in the
| stomach.
A petition to Congress, asking that body to
recognize the Cuoans as belligerents, is circula-
ting in Philadelphia, and has received 10000
| signatures.
The Earl of Zetland for twenty-sir years Grand
Master Of the Masonic Order in England, has re
signed on account of infrmities. He is sevcnty-
FIVE years old.
Gen WooI's death leaves Major Mordecia Ny
ers of Schenectady. the only surviving member
Of the Ei gh tn Regiment of 1912. The Major is
| 90 years of age.
The Charlottesville Und.) R>ris,c announces
that Lizzie NJ. Boynton VIII be candidate for
Congress from that district of Indiana, in oppo-
sition TO Lew. Wallace.
! Some of TIE Canadian papers are filed. day
after day. with abuse of the United States and its
Institutions. little annexation talk, think,
would ease their minds.
1t is said Brigham Young is not frightened by
the Pacific Railroad because with his private
family and those of one or two elders, he can
start respectable colony anywhere.
Said astronomer to a bright eyed girl, when
talking of rainbows. "Did you ever see a lunar
| bow, miss?' II have seen beGN1 by moonlight
sir, if that is what you mean, ," the sly re-
joinder.
One employment bureau in Richmond adverti-
ses for ten thousand negro laborers to go to the
| South. The Democracy, therefore, need have no
further fears of the North being overrun with
this class of citizens.
The postal money order system, recently inau-
gurated between the United States and Switzer-
land, works very smoothly and satisfactorily and
proves of great benefit to the poorer classes in
the remittance of small sums
DIR P. schoeppe, in Jail at Carlisle under sen
tence of death for numbering Miss Steinecke has
written letter to Gov. Geary reviewing his case
and trial, in which he asserts before God his in
| nocence, and that be is the victim of prejudice.
A young lady out west, who had been attentive
| to a gentleman while i'll at hotel where he was
temporarily stopping, without knowing his an
tecedents or means. surprised to learn of h is
death. and that he had bered her in his
| will SIC 600 worth.
Since the adjournment of Congress the Presi-
dent has suspended about one hundred and TWEEN
tyfve postmasters in yari Gus sections of country.
A list of these susp ensions will be submitted to
the Senate, for its action, i'm edately after the
opening of Congress
A German living in Rockford, III. while bank