Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-12-15
A Little of EveIyt1ip 6.

IN tne JodTHGt-
In New York, on Tuesday.P. Burke was shot by /
d. Donohugh in political dispute
During the past year four hundred and thirty |
inquests were held by the Coroner in Chicago
1t is stated that Pere Hyacinthe has received
dispatch from Rome to come there Immediately.
Gen. Sheridan don't like the Indians, and
wants the Quakers to give him chance at them
Plain and fancy job work, done on short notice
and at low rates, at the Jou7sGi power press job
office.
Secretary Stanton lately said to friend, ''I
shall soon want nothing more than six feet OF
ground"
An eastern editor notifies correspondents that
IF we want stupid articles, We can write them
ourself."
New counterfeit twenty dollar notes on the
Tradesmen's National Bank, New York, are in
circulation.
The Augusta Comstii"tionat calls Beecher "the
sanity corporosity of Ossawattomie Browns ord
nance officer"
Mr. Simms says if it wasn't for the hole in the
hoop you couldn't put it on the barrel aud the
barrel would burst.
powder in the Stove to blow the SCOT out Since
then he has been blind.
1t is said that Mr. Richardson was worth SO
OCO His interest il the Tribune was valued at
$40 600. lie left no will.
New York pugilist, who does not read the
papers, hearing of the Cardiff giant, offered to
fight him for 81 900 a side.
There is purple half to the grape, a mellow
half to the peach. a sunny half to the globe, and
a better half TO man-woman.
Did anybody ever know one woman to pass an
other in the street without looking back to see
how her dress hung? Guess rot.
A woman in Connecticut bet $40 against
weeks board that she could eat bushel of roast
ed oysters, and she won the wager.
J. Ross Browne says that it Is common prac.
ticc among the Chinese to steal children AID cut
their eyes out for medicinal purposes
The King of Prussia has ordered that Martin
Luther's birthday shall hereafter be celebrated
as II Thanksgiving day in that monarchy.
james Fisk hss brought suit against C. S Bush
nell, Elihu Sherry and others for S50,o0O DANA
ges for instituting malicious suit against him
last spring.
The Spanish gunboats we're released on Friday
evening last by the S, authorities. Another
heavy blow dealt at Cuban freedom by the Amer
lean Government.
Judge Dent received only thirty-two votes in
his adopted county in Mississippi He has not
visited it since September. Gen Alcorn.reeeivcd
1900 votes in the county.
California wheat is so dry that in coming East,
through and into a humid atmosphere, it gains
greatly in weight by absorption. This is quite
element Of profit to the shippers.
Gold has been discovered in Lapland. Two
meu, who formerly work ed in the California mines
wandered last ssmmer over part of Lapland,
and, it is said, found gold in large quantities.
| Two milliontwo hundred and sixty-nine thou
! sand, sew en- hundred and nine dollars in Cun!eG-
crate notes and bonds were so ldein New York on
" .dnesday last, at public auction, for thirty-fve
dollars
Washawfampantove n chief of the Ari-
zona Indians, is dead. Poor Washawfampanto-
veumpoo! There are no Wash avian pan to veum-
poos left who possessed the good heart of this
| Washawfampantoveumpoo
Cotton, raised six miles from Los Angeles, is
noticed by a California paper. The balls are
large and the staple fine, and the cultirator is
confident shat cotton can he proftably grown in
tha region without irrigation.
''Who's that gentleman, my little man - was
asked of an urchin. The one with the spike
tailed coat - Yes was the response. Why,
he'sa brevet uncle of mime "Hows that" was
asked. cause he's engaged to my aunt Mary"
One of the most charming girls in Bo.ton is
about establishing female barber shop. Ten
sylphs are being put through tuiiionary course
of lather for the opening. sweet shave will
cost twenty-i FIVE cents, and seraphie shah poo
fifty cents.
John J. Eckels, after being told that he was
about to die, said that he had nothing to do with
the Burdell murder, but he told facts that poin
directly to Mrs Cunningham. 1t is said that Mrs
Cunningham and daughter were both present at
his funeral
Spain's lawyer in this country is Sidney eb-
ster. son-ir-law of Secretary Fish. His salary
| is $40 900 in gold. He hires spies and detectives
for tho Government of Spain, and is the adviser
| of contract purchases of arms, munitions of war
and commissary supplies.
Nicarauga dates state that the revolution a,
ended, and that peace has been established with
the rsvclutionists. The peace has been brought
about by Mr. Riolte, United States Minister in
Nicarauga, who was appointed a acoalriissioner to
see to the carrying out of its provisions
Democratic buzzards are gathering from fIE
and near to peck at the New York carcass. Mas
by" and Blair have both visited the various club
rooms of Gotham, and the meeting of the
Legislature we shall doubtless hear os Other
discounted leaders of their school gathering c
the prey.
The freight list of a small steamer that arrived
at Sacramento City on the Goth of Novem Der, ,ffon
Red Bluff. on the head waters of the Sacramento
river, in Thama county, included fifty sacks (6C
pounds each) of choice almonds, thirteen deer,
grizzly bear. and three hundred turkeys. The
almonds were raised in Butte county.
Mount Etna is en- record as an active and awe
ins ,iring volcano 900 years before Christ Com
pared With it, Vesuvius, seen of tourists, i
only hill Etna rises to a height of Ii O0o feet
and It's base is 90 miles in circumference 1t
lava streams five rifles wide, and 80 to Ice fee
deep, extend to a leu 9Th of is miles
ON cha is a city of great expectations ltPro
poses to build. in 1870 $50 600 hotel,a sl2O,oo
Masonic Temple, a s5O. .OOV opera house, slOo,
600 high school building, s6V,'"V gr"fnma
school building, 900 private residences and tw'