Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-04-07
A Little of Everything.
Gold has been discovered in Texas.

Eight day watches are the present no'e'"es
Alaska is now said to have So 600 inhabitants.
There are 800 female type settlers in New York
city.
Young ladies are generally hOnest-but they
will hook dresses
Observation-Disclosures srose'' by any other name
would smell wheat"
Rat coup is one of the delcacies OF the Chi
nese restaurants in San Francisco
On Wednesday last. Eve million francs in specie
arrived at New York, from Hamburg
Twelve new furnaces are TO be erected during
the coming summer. along the Lehign
Queer, that Grant should put another Fish IN
his Cabinet When be has Adoiph in already
An exchange says ghosts are not very much
in repute but they re-spestre-bie beings|
A lot of freight caIs now being built in Illinois
bear the legend From 0cenn 10 Ocean-no trans
fer
Forty thousand BURN ans have become Chris
tians since DR.. Judson baptized the first one in
1919
In Salt Lake City suit of clothes can be bought
for six bushels of oats What, then is the price
of oats
Alexander H. Stevens, Vice President of the
late Confederaey. is on his death bed at Macon,
Georgia.
The snow in the White Mountains is said to be
1000 feet deep in Tuckermans ravine Rather
doubtful.
Age is honorable. still we would not advise our
readers to select butter. eggs and chickens for
that reason.
Forty houses being built in CORY, and two
hundred more are contracted for. Ahead of
Ciearield, that.
lady in Allentown passed spurious two
dollar note on a blind man. in payment for two
brooms. Shame.
Having been withdrawn as Moses" Mr.. An
drew johnson will appear hereafter until further
notice as Cato -
The pilots of the two river steam oats recently
destroyed by collision on the Ohio, to triedbe
fer manslaughter.
man in New York was on Thursday detected
in paying street fare with silver coin He was
adjudg ged to be insane.
new wooden mill is about to De erected al
Uniontown, Pa. Why shouldn't some of our cap
italists erect one here!
, Henry Ward Beecher says a Newspaper is a
|
is going on in the world.
case was recently tried a. Terre Haute, Indi
ana, in which the Justice, one lawyer and hal
the jury named Smith.
Concord, New Hampshire, gives partial recog
= milton to the political rights of women, by elect
ing two female school directors.
An exchange says ''though a brave and defiant
{ class, our Fire Department proverbially gets
alarmed at every conHagration."
Portland apothecary has placard in his win
, dow, announcing Twelve emetics for one dolla:
, not to be taken the premises"
If you and your sweetheart vote upon the mar
ringe question you for it and she against H. don
! fatter yourself as to its being a tie.
New York has machine that matches out on
chicken per hour If another to lay the eggs cal
be invented hens may be abolished.
new cell in the Lebanon county Jail, ia to b
S made of boiler iron, firmly rivited' together
. = rar.s .- - So~-tJ
lady in Watsrville, Maine, has recovere
r l64l from physician. in law sui t. for NAL
practice in reducing dislocated limb
! Ex President Johnson has been very i'll. but hi
recovery is announced. He suffered from a Sigh
stroke of paralysis with acu to attack of gravel
The democratic State Committee met in Harris
burg on Tuesday of last week. aad selected Jul,
18th as the time tor holding their State Conven
! ton
2 man in Independence Mo, was tried 70
stealing pig. The defence was that the articl
stolen was hos, and on that plea the prisone
/, got clear.
New fashioned shoes for young gentlemen ar
| m frec ia
Bends" Leather breeches and knee buckles will
be the next agony.
The Salt Lake papers are making ID erry over
, fight in the household of a Mormo Bishop. il
e which the '.saint' 7ot fearfully thrashed by sew
/ eral enragea wives.
r The velocipede mania has reached Altoona. 4
( FreIchman is going to teach a class, 10 a stable
in that city Wonder if the class will be compos
ed of men mules
. Greenwood has always been the banner Domo
cratic township of Crawford county. On Friday
: March 26th, the entire Republican ticket Q
leeted, by an average majority of y.
"hss your husband got naturaiized" inquiries
e an energetic politician of robust female "Go
s natural eyes !" was the response in an indignan
t tone, yes begoray, and natural tathe. too"
Y Tits grsvely hinted that the ammunition fire.
of In Senator Spragues speeches. is borrowe,
from the legal mind of relative by marriage
Judge Woodward seems to tn ink at ell events
There is an old English statute which prohibit
people getting married after certain hour o
4, the day because such a solemn obligation ough
to be entered into only when the parties du
ly sober,
t Bedford township, Bedford county, has Demo
cratic nominee for school director who Meth
er read nor write. He opposes the equal sufrag
amendment the ground that ''niggers to-
dumb to vote ~
An exchange says that a farmer cured hi
daughter of the Grecian bend by throwing waite
! on her, and then laying her in the sun till sh'
| warped" back to the old place again Afflicted
parents will please notice
In a letter to friend in New York, Gen. Di;
r says; Il know no greater nuisance in the United
States than speech making. and my greatest en-
joyment abroad has been in my exemption from
it" Reverdy sees it in a different illumination
An old lady once said that her idea of grea
man was a man who was keerfuI of his clothes
didn't drink spirits kin read the Bible withou
spelling the words. and kin eat a cold dinner
wash day to save the woml folks the trouble si
cuosin1r