Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-15
A Little of Everything.

The Iowa Democrats have family fgbs.
The Great Eastern is to be painted white.
Attending strictly to their bt--the mosquitoes
To get out of debt, pay up; to keep out, pay
down.
Gen Sherman has been commissioned as Sec
retary of War
Fifteen cents is the price of a bdsbel OF toma-
toes in New York.
ANDY johnson is still at Nashville laying pipes
for the Senatorship.
John Allen once the wickeiest n,now keeps
a temperance grocery
The Dent party in Mississippi is called Con
federate Republican ~
Kate Field has fifty engagements in New En-
gland-to to lecture, mind.
There are nearly four thousand unlicensed IL
quor shops in Philadelphia.
Chase says he is SICK of politics He ought to
be- Politics is sick of him.
More than twenty-five millions of cigars were
made las, year in Baltimore
Jenny Lind has become quite poor Her hus-
band has squandered all her money
Wien Forney is of the editors of the Belle
fonte National. He is forcbls writer.
A correspondent says that IN boarding houses
''hash is a great leveler of proud spirit"
man who has been continuously drunk for
| six years was recently arrested in Minnesota.
chap iii Kentucky says he is of Anna
Dickinson by her first wife. lie is lunatic-
The virtuous William delivered his essay on
Boosters and Pinchers,' at Clarion. last week
N Of
torof Medicine in Paris-one being an American.
son of John Tyler is reported as drunken
inmate of a charity ward in Washington hos
pital.
| wealthy German merchant in Indiana has
insured his life for the benefit of the poor of the
town.
Extensive preparations are making for the
| State fair to commence the 2Sth inst, at Har
rsburg.
A little son of S. S DiehI of Bedford. was re-
Gently poisoned to death by overdose of worm
lozcnges.
Mrs Mules says it is ''drc'fu hard to lose a
husband She never got used to it until she lost
her fourth.
A Berlin clergyman boxed the ears of a bride
whose demeanor didn't suit his ideas of propriety
and he is now in Jail
The New York Express thinks it is about time
our southern brethren had got done receiving
that FIRST bale Of cotton"
-'Unripe fruit is dangerous" said an old maid
10 ber young nece. 80 is decayed fruit, aunt
replied the impudent hussey.
The oil region has been under water from the
overfowing of the Allegheny and its tributaries
Much daInare hns been done.
If we should have another war, we want Gov
ernor who will not run off to Europe with hi:
sons, as Packer did few years ago
The bridge over the Ohio, at Louisville, wa
completed last week. 1t has span thre'
hundred and seventy feet in length
Tie Brooklyn Union thinks that tights giv'
dandy legs the general effect ola pair of trusse'
drumstiek. good sized gobbler"
We think the papers DO wrong to diseourag
Mrs V by saying the Commodore is well pre-
served aud good for twenty years yet
1t is said that that the widows, orphans ant
others who were dependent the miners kille
at Avondale number near one thousand.
/ 1t is said that the japanese clergy pause ever
fifteen minutes in their oiscourses and say t
their egations, Let us take smoke D"
! Mrs Evans, one of the sufferers by the Avon
dale disaster, loses eight of her family-her faith
or, husband, three sons, and three brothers.
A fol- tune wrong out of the sweat Of other me
: does not carry with it any great merit, hOweye
it may be in buying Democratic conventions
George Wilkes of New York, is said to be tn
r person selected to succeed ]. Ross Browne
2 Minister to China. Wilkes is in Europe.
| young lady in CIearfeld suffering from tn
ear ache, was completely cured by young ma
whispering 4 few words into it the other evening
young physician asking permission Of la
dy to kiss her, she repliod, mo, sir L neve
could bear to have doctors bill thrust in m
face
letter came to the Evansville, Indiana. Pos
Office last week addressed, ITO the good and kin
man Jesus" 1t is to be feared he was not res
7 ident.
Mrs Eliza T Janney, Virginia lady, distiu
guished for her brave loyalty during the war ,ha
been made Chief Clerk at the Omaha India
Agency
, The miners of Nevada designate the member
of the Cincinnati commercial party as ''them fe
lows who have grease their legs to get thei
breeches on"
The late Democratic convention In MississiI ?
contained seventy-ive niger delegates. Tha
: much wool would choke all the CopperheAd
in Clearfeld
The Cops call Packer ''The Pride of the Va
ley" The last time the Pride before th
! people he was beaten for town councilman b
fifty majority.
, An Ark ansas editor says the temperature
: his sanctum last week to ll9 degrees. Th
accounts for hot-tempered editorials firing th
Southern heart.
I Mutchler hasn't announced himself. We mis-
Sweet Williams Napoleonic bal letius. Mutcl
e Ter runs it on the sly. But sly or otherwise he
run ii into the ground.
St. Louis claims the champion sleepist an
snorist. He sleeps four days at q stretch, an
snores at such rate that people in the vicinit
think il is the putting Of a steam engine.
The Pennsy ylvania X hailroad officers have dec
ded to remove their shops from Patterson The
will be closed after the Ist October. 1t will be
serious loss the Town and TO Juniata couuty-
: drunken man in Dayton, few days ag
made desperate effort TO keep on the side wall
but failed AT last be started out into the stree