Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-22
A Little of Everything,

Two burglars have escaped from the Erie JAN
The Republican majority in Vermont is 2o,oSi
The Avondale Relief Fund will reach 100000
Colorado has gone Republican by large ma
jority.
There are $50 Jewish synagogues in the Uni
| ted States
The lurn Der in the Boston Coliseum is valued
at 900.
Locust bark poisons horses. Be careful where
you 'hitch.''
| Clark Mill. is to make a bust Of the late Sec
retary Rawlins.
Fairmount park in Philadelphia, will have an
area of 2.506 acres.
Nebraska has given largely increased Re-
publican majority.
Packer i. said to be the champion euchre play
| er of Msuch Chunk.
Henry Clay's cradle a dough trough on
rockers, instead of legs.
| heavy vein of fine black marble has been
| discovered in Lancaster county.
Isn'tit most time for the Clearfeld monkey
show'' to start on its annual trip'
Herdic's National Horse Fair at wilIiamspor.,
! in October, promises 10 be a success.
A storm is brewing in the East. The Sultan
and Viceroy getting into trouble
There win be dropping peacock tail for sale
cheap, in Elk county, after the election.
Let it not be forgotten that the township and
borough officers to be elected in October.
George Smith, colored preacher, is making
sensation in Savannah. He is learned Uaek
Smith,
Asa Packer had blow out at Towanda, the
other day. Only hundred and fourteen bottles
of cheap champagne!
Geary's majority olymer in 1855 was II l2s.
The golden calf will be overthrown by
jority thrice great.
The Czar won't let his prelates go to tho Pope's
great council. The Gresk church will have
nothing to do with it
Don't forget that Gov. Geary viii be a. the Re
publican meeting, in Ciearaeld, Wednesday
evening, September Goth.
KsntucKy that loyal State, has presented bill
to the Government, for tolls for the Union army
passing her turnpike.
The Monk who wrote the note to the Cracow
police, informing them of the noted convent out
rage, died four days afterwards.
post mortem examination of the body of
Senator Fessendsn shows his death to have been
caused by perforatioh of the bowels
George Peabody is still piving. His last pres
ent is $50 900 to the P eabody Institute making
a total of 100000 to that institution.
The i'll health of Napolsan has been produced
by the excessive use of Tobacco 1t would kill
the devil if it only had fair chance.
Mutchler finds Jordan a hard road to travel,
Asa's tax record don't suit him, and the Registry
Law has plugged up that "cofee-pot."
During the present month there have been four
teen cases of murder and suicide in Phil adeIphia
What glorious thing is Democratic police
. Ex-Secretnry Seward has been rusticating in
Alaska, looking at his purchase. He expresse:
: himself a. entirely delighted with the country.
The Williamsport lumbermen complain that
there is sale for boards They are rushing
the thing too stl ong. They will have to hold VI
, or .bust up''
The last dose of Earleys pills has given Wal
/ laces man Johnny a severe pain under the
vest He will bo thoroughly reduced before the
? Doctor is done with him.
The imported sparrows have all flown away
, from Philadelphia. No wonder. Nothing limo
cent could stay in the vicinity of its corrupt and
rotten COpperhead police
4 The Philadelphia Sunday Transcript
| ocratic- called the head quarters at Ninth ant
l Arch, "a gambling hell" Go in Green, yot
E ought to know all about it.
g The question is What's become of Mutchler
the Packeronian chairman?' Is he hunting al
Asas old carpet bag that he brought from Con
necticut, to carry his "cOtfee-pot' i'm
r The Ha Iite's and Earleyites are having gay
and festive time. Johnny is not popular with th'
C!earfeld Democrats, and will be badly cut They
haye idea that he is entirely "too big for hi'
boots y
In reference to the great noise the Democrat
are making what ,hey call their 'Caiforni,
victory" an exchange aptly remarks that it WA
e nothing but the corpse of the old party turning
in its coffin.
baby has been sold at auction III Pittsburg
1t was pretty little bIue-eyed girl-a founding
left on door step. The price" has been invest
ed, and is to be given to it when it becomes o
age, as a dOwry.
The McMullinites, greatly disguised will
the change in their city ticket 1t is said tha
Bill thinks it is hardly worth while to run tht
risk of getting his head smash he'd to elect (compar
atively) respectable men to ofhce.
/ Minister Sickles is making things lively over
in Spain. The Spaniards much alarmed a
his intimation that our Cover ent will rec
e ognize the Cuban Fati lots, They are makins
desperate efforts to reinforce their Captain Gen
t eral.
Mrs. Margsre. Forney, mother of Col. J ohm W
Forney, died in Lancaster, last week, at the age
of II. She was. in many respects. remarkabl,
woman, and the record of her long and usefu
life is of which her descendants have jus
. reason to be proud.
5 Nabby, one of Brigham Young's numerous
| daughters, undertook to elope with that distin
e guished individual, John Smith. But old Brig
I ham too wide awake. Nabby nabbed
by the 'perlce, chucked into her old dads car
, riage, and ignominiousy sent back home
The remains of a Mastodon, the largest eve
discovered have been found in Salem county New
! Jersey Its ribs are five feet long. 1t is two anC
, ha'f feet between the eyes. What hoge ami
NAL it must have been. How the very eartt
, | must have tren nIad hanaath mi ty tread