Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-08-25
A Little of Everything.

Empire.
The news from Cuba looks we'll for the patri-
otic
General Fremont has gone to Denmark with
mis- family.
Bayard Taylor has been elected Professor in
Cornell University.
Six million tons of bituminous coal were mined
in this State last year.
The Mormons nticipating big split We
hope it will come
Stanton is rusticating in New Hampshire, and
his health is improving.
Rote.on ha. gone a trip down the Southern
| coast Robson cruise, 0,
| A Saratoga correspondent writes thot that place
has ''coiored grecian bend"
twenty-five ladies have been admitted to Cam
bridge University, in England
Gov Geary spoke in Greensburg last week to
| large and enthusiastic meeting.
Men slip on water when it is frozen-and Dem
ocrats on whiskey when it isn't
Chase is still maneuvering for the Presidency.
He belongs to the 'evergreens."
Judge Dent is making fool of himself He
beats the famous Buckley all hollow.
Every man who is in favor of Reputation is
also Free Trader. They go hand in hand.
1t is not SO Rosey in Ohio lately yet the De-
mocracy insist that every thing is lovely there.
Two hundred Cath olic priests are coming from
Rome to labor among the negroes of the South
An exchange thinks that the Chinese, for an
industrious people, have a great number of ,diss
! BuckaIew has been nominated for the State
Senate. Wallace will have to 'stand from under. >
Albany entucky. has lady Of one hundred
and nineteen who is "alive, healthy and able to
| walk
The Labor Congress politely invited Miss Susan
B. Anthony to take up her bag and walk and
she mizzled.
Almost every mu rderer who has been hanged
for year past. confessed on the gallows that rum
caused his misfortune
Andy johnson and Emerson Ethridge are the
rival candidates for the U. S. Senate, in Tennes
see "Bad's the best"
Tho water supply OF Philadelphia is giving
out Some other means to get wntcr must be de-
vised in addition to Farm Mount.
Secretary Seward is gazing sereneIy on th'
ST 200 600 worth of iceberg. and mountains h,
bought for this glorious country.
A Connecticuter invested a dollar and half in
a rattlesnake, opened show at ten cent? head
and cleared about six dollars day.
How poor is the man without money? Yet how
much poorer is the man with nothing but money
whether it be thousands or millions,
A negro, after gazing at the Chinese, exciaini
ed: ''If de VIII lite folks is dark dat out dar,
wonder what's de color OBJ de niggers."
Tobacco smoking is unmItigated nuisancs
ltis offensive to everybody but the smoker, an
sooner or later will be the death of him.
| Scene at Long Branch-wifs: 'Ths horr
surf makes me keep my mouth shut" Sarcasti
husband: Take some Of it home with you"
The Harvard crew in England rising i
public estimation. The victory of the o1for
men is not now regarded as absolutely certain
jeff Davis is swinging around the circle i
Scotland, in company with Mackey who wrot
? the lying letters for the London Time, durin
t the rebellion.
An American who broke his ankle by a railroa
a accident in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. in Jun
{ last was paid $4,000 gold, damages by the raj
road company.
, If the Chinese accomplish other good
/ this country, they at least make way with th
cats, rats and dogs. They exceedingly fOn
[ of pups we'll cooked.
S Democrats ought to know what is coming The
they say that no in his sober senses doub
e the election of Packer-a shrewd way Of sayin
the Democracy pretty generally doubt it.
. The great Colorado canon, lately explored.
u five hundred miles long-a subterranean rive
with rapids and cascades f,wing between wal
y of rock from two to three thousand feet high.
{ The British Government has taken possessio
. of all the Telegraph lines in the British Kingdom
; The cost of telegraphing will be so much reduce
that it will be within the reach of everybody.
The Democratic party will not suffer from tn
;, drouth, and it does not complain of it. The eu
4 bers avoid the use of water a beverage, and
n is their boast tc be numbered with the Grea; u
! washed.
0 In the United States the coffee consumed ann,
! ally, averages seven pounds TO each person. 1h
does not include the quantity used by Democra
u ic committees for manufacturing ecoffee- colore
papers"
q The Luzerne county Germans have left Il
. Democratic party in disgust at the frauds perp
n trated by the Irish Democrats in the County Co
J. vention, and have formally united with the K
y publicans.
y In the parish of st. Bernard, Louisiana sew,
Cinnamon have been allowed to vote. HaviI
1 Irish wives they voted the Democratic ticket
u course. Miscegsnaticn and Dem mocracy-one ar
inseparable.
n An old gentleman of eighty seven has been a
T. rested in Missouri for defrauding the
e a soldier under the great Napoleon, and b
r a large number of children, the eldest being 81
" ty and the youngest two.
Four rufian in Tennessee rushed into 4 neg
II church, near Carthage, and deliberately sh
/" dead the minister. Thomas NJ Clellan. as he W
II engaged in prayer with several persons who hi
- gone o the anxious seat
d II cannot imagine said Alderman, owl
e my whiskcrs should turn gray much soon
E. than the hair of my head because" obser
ed wag, s'you have worked much hard
It with your jaws than your brains"
l. In China everything is upside down. T
~ Chinese are introducing their topsey turvey c,
&c toms to California, and read of San Fra
= ciscan boy having reproved his faith er for profa
ity, and finally ending up by having him arreste
Petroleum v Nasby announces himself as