Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-27
A Little Of Everything.

| In demand-good butter. Price 40 cents.
| Scarce-potatoes Now is the time to sell.
| Bad for the rats-the coming Of the Chinese.
An improvement-the crossings put down last
week.
Wet and nasty-the weather, for several days
| last week.
Appeared in market-some excellent venison,
| last week.
wsntsd-a load of good oats straw. Inquire
at thi. Office.
| Reported-that many ladies in New York get
drunk on bitters
The pride of the vslley"-Asa. Salt river
valley, we presume
Just opened-a large stock Of new goods, at
B. Graham Sons
Should be cut down-Market Street. in front of
the new brick hotel.
Should an old acquaintance be forgot? Not If
he has plenty of money.
HiIarious-the chap who INDUCED freely in
''bsnzine'' the other night.
Important to farmers-the advertisement head
ed 20 yes, o yes" Read it.
Needed good crossing at the Post Once. The
BorO Dads will please notice.
Politically perishcd-poor Psrshing, on the 18th.
Reason; scarcity OF coffee pots
An oil well in Pennsylvania is called ''olive
Logan" Runs olive oil, perhaps.
En- route for Salt r1ver-Asa when last seen,
with old carpet bag on his back.
Still improving-our town. Several buildings
have gone mp during the past week.
A good pair--a young lady with Grecisn bend
and a y oung mun who parts his hair In the mid
die.
A recent invention that ha. bsen patented Is
head rest sttachable TO peus, and called the sno-
rers companion.
The New York T'e!eerq-r thinks thai 81 Pack
er did not prove very successful las packer OF
election najoritiss."
II came near selling e y boots the other day"
had them half -solsd."
Jslly-the vearer of that dilaPidsted stove
pipe hat Shouldn't bnmp the hitching posts s"
hard, lest be might get hurt
A poor coffee e-potist-Mutchlor. If he'd been
half as good performer as William the rs
would have been right side up
piano maker informs the public that manu-
facturers make prOht Of two hundred per cent.
That's a lively srseIbaek waits
Everybody sIss having played out, some Of the
cities ars slebratius Christopher Columbus, It's
about time that Noah had salute.
Mr.. DsIrympls, the great MINNESOTA wheat
grower has finished th hrsshiug his crop OF wheat.
which this yssr amounts 70 over $4,000 bushels
Eight little girls in Boston have boon working
all summer srd manufactured articles enough to
hold fair in aid of the Children Hospital there
: One hundred and sfty two interviewing" re-
porters have already called upon Father Hya
eiuths Talk about the tsrrors of the Inquisi-
ton.
Tho Chicago rogues' gallery has only three
hundred and sixty four portraits The artists are
taking tho rest Of the population as FAST as pos
sible.
Premature-thed display Of poultry, by some OF
our Democratic contemporaries. over Packers
election. Never GROW before you are out oil 'ne
woods
A.etted-by the ST Marys Gazstte, that Hall
bought his election with chesse. lager and Pret-
1eIs. although good tsnplar. III atsrathsr Dad
on Johnny.
Texas papers say that IF "those eenfonn@ed
ereasers don't stop stealing cattle there II be some
chsuius ap done some night aLd it wontt be as
thaI'll be Bit"
Joho Gilman an Is an Initiative chap In this
country he drinks lager beer and makes Limbur-
ger ehees. and ,axssges take the place OF birds
nests and dogs
Chicago has two Fat Offices that make her local
ele,tions interesting The county clsrkshiP is
said TO be worth .34 500 annually and ths circuit
cIerkship s65, 900.
According to Gov Walker"What Virginia now
need. is plenty Of honest,industrious ard inteih
gent men" That's about what every other state
stands in neod Of
lot of extra -four wa. sold at the rate of 81 40
gold, per barrel, in Richmond, last week, and the
current rates were but little higher That secns
like the good old times
stated-that the larges. tannery in the world is
located at Wilcox, in Elk county Ithas SIX nun
dred watts In operation, and consumes 10000 tons
of hemlock bark per year.
man named alley, IN Bedford county Va,
has slain one hundred and twenty-siI bears. 1t
was tbs work Of life time, during which the
besrs We suppose, kept Talley."
The Altoona Vinai-a,or, Democratic. wants
live young man ct the head of the ticket next
certainly; give g eenafne coffee pot next time
The New York Herald, . well known religious
organ, proposes, with much earnestness Father
Hyacin.he for Pope OF America. advising the Sc
cessiou of American Catholics from the Church Of
Rome.
pretty woman, like grcst truth or great
happiness has no more right to bundle herself
under a green veil, any other abomination of
like character, than the has to put on green
spsctacles-
Some one wants to know if things haven't como
to a pretty pass when $500 is offered for the best
trotting horse, and only s. for the best twenty
acre field Of wheat? We have thought that way
for time.
The question why printers dc not succeed as
well \. brewers is thus answered Because print
ers work for the b cad, and brewers for the stom-
ach-and wbe,s twenty have stomachs, but
one has brains.
The W Washington Chrontels informs us that Beau
Hickman will be removed with the capital when
it is removed to ST Louis. 1t is far more than
probable that Beau will be a ''dcmni ton body"
long before the removal takes place.