Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-06-23
A Little of Everything.

GoIng up-seyeral new houses in town.
Texas is enjoying roasting of corn.
Florida has abundance of ripe peaches.
Not miss-a rich and handsome widow.
The snow is still two feet deep in Maine
loan-some place-a pawHbroKef Office.
The best illustrated paper out-a bank note.
| Coming down-the price of butter and eggs.
Sailor collars are the new fashion for ladies.
The orange crop of Florida will be very large
Americans are crowdng jerusalem this season.
There is but one licensed hotel in Tioga county
In Atlanta there is a woman who weighs 72S
/ pounds.
To be posted-read the JouRsAt. Price 50 in
advance.
Disgusting meanness-to tan c dogs hide with
his own bark
To be had-good cigars, at scholpp's, opposite
the Court House
Sessonable advice-take things cool-i- e ice
cream for instance
Fact-those who sell the cheapest goods, adver-
| tise in the JOURNAL
The principal difference between luxury and
necessary is the price.
If red d-breast comes into your fruit garden
! does he come there robbin?
Done-all kinds of job-work at the JOURNAL
| office, on short notice and at low rates.
| The State G~ard at Harrisburg has suspended
publication Temporarily, it is claimed, by its con-
/ ductors.
Strange as it may seem. the ardent wish of m ost
young ladies hereaway is to be buried-i. G.
| straw berried.
The New Jersey railroad is transporting at
present, two hundred and forty tons of straw
berries per day.
| One of our cotemporaries calls Mr. Garrett Da-
Wis, of Kentucky, old woman. This is unjust
to the old women.
Two boys tellin old we'll in the cellar of a
new building in Philadelphia, ON Monday, and
one was drowned.
The name of one creek the Pacific Railroad
Is Man wounded in the face woman killed by
| lightning-creek.'
stoned-part of Second street, by order of the
Boro' Dads Pitch in, gents, there is plenty of
room for more of the same sort
Some of cur side walks were drunk one night
last week, and cut up capers to the serious annoy
ance Of some of the b'hOys. O. the pesky benzine!
firm of England coach makers advertises that
/ 1t has imported wheels from America and is now
| prepared to build light carriages on our models
| Mormon missionary nearly lynched in
Norway, few weeks ago, by the friends of young
women whom he was enticing to Brig ham Young
| paradise.
Winking at pretty girl through goggles is like
doing business without Cd
newspaper. Tho venture is neither seen nor ap-
| preciated.
In order to be successful politician in Mon
tana 1t is said that man must either have the
poorest memory of any man living, or be one OF
| the greatest liars of the age.
Among the candidates spoken of for the next
Governor of Vermont is General Peter T. Wash
burn, of Windsor county. Peter is a good name,
aud is the rock on which the Church was found
| ed. Let it be Peter
"Tin Bear," the most venerable of the Canaan
che chiefs having lived on buffalo meat al his
| lie, can t make up his mind to eat corn meal
He is therefore teaching his people to cut up their
hoes into arrow heads.
The official dinner given on Monday evening
a week by the Union League of Philadelphia. to
!
OF the kind ever given by that organization to a
citizen OF Pennsylvania
Though Governor Seymour, who recently died
came to his end by reason of weakness and ex.
| haustion, it was not old friend Horatio. of
New York He is determined not to die until
after another water melon season.
An exchange says: "Mrs Livermore, when she
became mother, turned her face to the wall and
wept Lecause her first daughter was a girl.n-
why bless the woman, could she possibly have
thought her frat aanghter'' should be 5ov,
August Belmont and &. B. Mcclellan are anon,
the attendants at the Peace jubilee at Boston. IT
Is not exactly such peace jubilee as they pro-
posed to hold in the fall of 1864 while Tom bs call
ed the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hin
monument
Senator Brownlow of Tennessee, has given in
his adhesion to the policy of removing all politi.
cal disabilities growing out of the rebellion He
mas been slow IN coming to this wise and
conclusion; but he now accepts it with his natur-
la vehem ence
Napoleon is reported to be endeayoriny to sup
| press book on Mexico which Juarez is alb, ut to
issue In BRUSSELS. and which will contain all tn
secret dispatches sent by Napoleon to MaximiI-
| nan, with other very important papers which L.
n. prefers should never the light.
| ms Is the way they do things up in Bucearest
| brigand OF herculean strength about to be
| hanged for murder. He burst the straps which
round him like fax, seized the executiener and
! huhg b i'm before assistance could arrive. He was
| thereupon appointed to his victim Office
on the spot where Generals Grant and Pember.
ION arranged the terms for the surrender of Vicks-
oufg there has been placed ten inch columbiad
| win an appropriate inscription engraved upon
IT. The marble monument which was originally
erected there had heen seriously marred by relic
Pennsylvania has a Grim inal and pauper popu-
iauoh oil z4cOf-nne- -tenths from intem perance-
maintained at cost of 81 2599 ,66, or SIS so for
each voter in the State. The State revenue for
licences Is s3l7 1915, while the cost to the pso
pie Tor supporting Incorporate criminals and pau
pers is as above stated
they tell story about man ont west who h ad
NJ ilr-llp upon which be performed an operation
himself by inserting piece of chicken flesh. 1t
adhered, and filed up the place admirably. This
was all well enough until in compliance with the
fashion, he undertook to raise moustache, when
one side grew hair and the other feathers.