Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-03-17
a Little Of Everything.
Tennessee is growing tea.

i U. S. bonds quoted at s7i at Frankfort.
Easter comes on the 2Sth of March this year.
. Trains of cars now pass over the new bridge at
Columbia.
8 Miss c. Adelsberger has be en- appointed P. NJ
at Loretto.
The Sioux Indians call Gen Sheridan .Gener-
al Walk heap
Grants administration won't be stable until i
has a complete eab-in-it.
South Carolina was the tsnth State to ratify the
Constitutional amendment. +
Ex-Gov. Curtin, tits reported will likely be ap-
pointed Foreign Minister.
Hot house strewberrss, cucumbers and toma-
toes sale in New York.
Turnp Seed is the name ofa Georgia Legisla-
tor. He onght to be planted
seventy-eight prominent men have been sug-
gested for Minister to England
/ Diptheria, it is said, is prevailing largely in
the lower partof Centre county
Gen Howard, is urged the successor of Gen.
Sheridan, in the Indian country.
Why did A. J. stick so long in the Presidential
| chair2 Because he went in tight.
Gaulin, at the post office has all the late maga-
zines and literary papers for sale. Get one.
In Indiana minors are not allowed to play
| billiards. Can't say that much for Clearfeld.
Vermont produces 900 600 pounds of maple
| sugar annually. sweet place. that Vermont
| is.
Grant will "tolerate no idlers'' in public Office
People who seeking Office must remember
! this
! NJ aad firpa net. resi-
dent of Ansonvilie, started for Iowa on Monday
last
! Noah webster's heirs have annual income of
$4,000 from his Dictionary. No wonder it sells
/ high.
Fresh shad made their appearance in the Clear
| fold market last week. So much for the rail
road
Alaskan ice sells for FIVE cents pound in San
Francisco What does that benefit the govern
ment?
The velocipede mania has reached Chambers
burg. training school was opened there last
week.
San Francisco has strawberries and fresh falmon
the year round. The latter sell at nine cents a
| pound.
One citizen of Plttsburg is an applicant for a
| Consuships.
| Massachusetts, has had county Treasurer in
continuous service for twenty four years without
| a ''defalcation.''
A Washington correspondent complains of an
ex-senator for coming into the Senate with n
shocking bad white hat.'
Andy johnson in his sfarewelI.' used the word
"Constituton" thirty-one times and the word
CONSTITUTIONAL eleven times.
A juror from Wells, Maine, while attending
court this term, has lost his mother, father law,
brother-in-law and wife by death.
handsome set of plate has been presented to
Mrs Abraham Lincoln, by the admirers of her
| husband at Frankford-on the Main.
| Two thousand citizens of indianapolis signed
! the pledge at great temperance meeting on
New Years day. Eleven still keep it,
| The Siamcse Twins have Jared so badly in Eng
land that it is sa id they will be EN- barr assed for
need of funds to pay their passage home.
The State of Alabama gives five thousand dol
lars to the widow of each person assassnated in
that State. Husbands are getting anxious.
Here is concise but hopeful love letter, written
by Colorado miner: '-Laven years is rather
long to kort a gal, but lie have you yit. Cate.''
An old lady, her daughter and grandson were
frozen to-death, last week in Vermont, within
few rods of house which they attempted to reach
The "Prohibitionometer'' is an Instrument in
vented in Boston, by which moderate drinker''
can tell when he to be sober and is getting
drunk.
lady who writes to the Lsaepeudeut says that
the Judges of the supreme Court are chiefly re-
markabie for their grave faces and immense
stomachs.
There is but objection to having Boutwe II
and Cressweli in the Cabinet We have been suf-
fering with too much welles there for the last
eight years.
Some thirty business men, from Lock Haven
and Bellefonte, paid town visit on Friday
last. They remained until Saturday, when they
returned home
A school house set on FIRE and entirely de-
stroyed in Indiana county, on the l4th February
The directors of the district offer Fifty dollars re-
ward for the incendiary.
Mr. John Doersch, aged about 65 years on
Saturday the 9th inst fell out of wagon near
Indiana, and. the bind wheel passing over his
head killed b i'm instantly.
The citizens of Montreal are so well pleased
with General AveTill that they will ask the gov
ernment at Washington TO continue aim his ap-
pointment as Consul General.
George s. fwitchell. Jr., who is under sentence
Of death at Philadelphia for the murder of his |
moher-in-law soemniy aft rms is innoce nee. and |
says that it will be fully proved some day or
other.
man at Columbia has m ade one of the Lar gest !
hauls of fish record. On Saturday afternoon |
two weeks ago) he set his net, and the next day
Sunday be hauled up twenty seven hundred suck
ers and muilets
A gentleman who recently visited Lanesboro |
Minnesota, says that there was not a single house
in the place last July. Now thirty five thousand |
dollar hotel is being built. the public school |
numbers ninety five scholars, and the lowest fig
ure for business lot is thousand dollars
1t seems TO be understood that Mr. Murdock of |
Washington county, who was removed by Mr.
johnson from the office OF Marshal of the Western |
District of Penns ylvsnia will be restored by Pres
ident Grant. We presume that the appointment |
has been fully determined on if not already made
St George, Utah, dispatch says that large
body of Navajo Indians are on the south side of