Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-11-10
A Little of Everything
Always tired-a wagon wheel.

Always tred-a wagon wheel
Fog signas-coughs and colds.
Comes on Saturday-Chrismas this year.
They had good sleghing in Maine, last week
Hasn't aryfU yet-that turkey, for thanksgiving.
Seventeen men are said to control 80 900 miners
in this State
To cure corns-hoId your feet to the fire until
the corns pop,
United sta ties bonds were firm at IS; at Frank
fort, on Nov 3D..
Will never build a hou.e-a man who carries
bricks in his hat
Deer roam at large in Pike county without any
molestation whatever.
en-, Rosecrans expects to net s5,OOO,OoO IN his
California speculation.
Marrying and settling down is now called co
operative house keeping
Seven cents day and board is the wages of a
common laborer in Switzerland.
Among the various stations in life the least de-
sirable of all is the police station.
Lightning rod swindIers have been operating
in Berks and other eastern counties.
The reunions of Confederate regiments are at
tended with pork and beans banquets
Easily produced-a spring backwards, by IRE
senting a red hot poker to a mans nose.
In Kentucky criminals are yet punished by the
lash. Democracy still rules in that State, eh
Josh Billings gets $50 por week for spelling g
like an IDIOT and otherwise being semi hum orous
Gold at 1864 is an encouraging sign of the
times. specie basis is gradually approaching
1t is true of many men that their memory is
nothing but row of hooks to hang up grudges
on.
The three essentials for happiness something
to do, some thing to love, and somothing to live
for.
A New York damsel has reco,ercd s2,OOO dam
ages for eight teeth, kicked out by intoxica-
ted man.
crash is predicted in Wall street before the
holidays that will rival the effects Of the late
gold conspiracy.
TIL. m aterial of the Harrisburg State GRqrd
printing Office sold by the Sheriff. Satur
day, October %Oth.
Got the oil fever-sorne of the CIearfelders
We wish them success in their investments at
Parker's Landing.
Considering cx-Presidens Johnsons plebian
procivities. he must have been pleased to be de
feated by Cooper.
A moose weighing eleven hundred pounds. was
lately killed near Ottawa, Canada. He a
moose as big as an OK.
Gen. Sherman said of Mother Biekerdyke the
hospital nurse, She outranks mc-for her com
mission is from above
The Peori Illinois, Alderrn N a re paid 3 apiece
for each meeting. An alarming increase in 'spe-
cial meetings is reported.
George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal
calls George Francis Train "a cipher hunting a
figure to pass for something"
josh Billings says, 1T is statistical fakt that
the wicked work harder tew reach hell than The
righteous 10 tew git to Heaven"
Tits denied that Mr. Stanton would accept n
seat on the Supreme Bench. His health is too
precarious to admit of the thought
Rhode Island man, if feeling healthy, can
eat two bushels of clans at one bake beside
several potatoes, biscuit, liquor and ueh.
Potatoes are so cheap in Iowa that many acres
left undug. Pity they hadn't them in Clear
field whe they'd sell for one dollar bushel
a Texan writes that beef sells there at two
cents pound, and butter aud milk cost nothing
Wouldn't mind to have a little at tn at price, just
now.
The stone cutters employed on the Indiana
county Court House have again quit work on a
strike Thor wages had been reduced from 81 50
to S3.5o per day.
Peter Cooper, whose check would buy all the
chariots and ''lour- in-hRnd'' in Gotham. rides
down to his office every day in old fashioned
zone hoss shay"
The conundram of the day CHOW was Packer
with his millions defeated - By 1886 Ropubli.
swer we can afford
The store of Laughlin & Arnold at Leather
wood, Clarion county. robbed of S9lO0 OF
the 25th October. Wonder if California Jack
was in those diggins?
The Nav York World bows both Packer and
Pendeton of the next Presidential course Il
| says: They have done well, but it is absurd fol
/ them to aspire higher
! Alexandria. Virginia is a model city. Tt has
5000 people and not single billiard table, ter
| pin alley, roulette gambling saloon. Can't say
that much for CiearGeld
! man named Death lest $4,000 by the burn
ing of his distillery at Warsaw, III, the othe
| day. 1t was the first time that death ever los
/ anything by the whisky business.
Mark Twain says 1t is a darling country Il
live in, that Hayti. Board Two hundred and eley
en- thousand dollars month in the best hotels
and ice cream three hundred dollars saucer
The Seake plantation in Madison parish, La
containing $50 acres was few days since SOLD
by the United States Marshal for SIS 900 and ther,
were mortgages on it to the amount of s29o.On0.
George II. pendleton has accepted the Presi
| dency of the Kentucky Central r Railroad-tho hes
thing in the Presidential line that George will
ever get. Coniedrit Y Roads is the principal sta
/ ton.
The city vouchers of Quincy, Illinois, are worth
but fifteen cents the dollar and her day polio,
have recently been discharged for reasons of econ
omy. Quincy has long been under Democrati,
| rule.
Mr. Peak, acting Comptroller of the Currency
notifies the holders of the circulating notes of tn,
First National Bank of Nevada. that they will b,
| paid on presentation at the Treasury of the Uni
ted States.
lady was recomme lling to a gentleman I
medicine for the gout. Il know many who praise