Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-08-10
A Little of Everything.

The turning point Of battle is said to be the
baysnet.
The high price Of peaches is disagresabie to
Philadelphia.
New potatoes are quoted at thirty cents a bush
sl in Danville.
There are four thousand American boys study
ing in Europe.
Trout fishing has gone o.t and squirrel hunt
ing has come in.
The Tyrone Blade has been enlarged and 9TH
srwise improved.
When a married m an bscom ss g sorned" should
his wife pull his ears
The German paper in Burlington, Iowa, floats
Prussian flag over Its once.
young nan in Illinois has elOpsd with the
second wife of his ow. uncle.
Gen John C. Fremont and family have been
spending the summer at Mount Desert.
All barbarsu. countries are free trade protsc-
tion is the result Of education and conviction.
Hon. ". H. Armstrong was re-nominated for
Congress, by acclaim alton, in the Lycoming dis
trict
friend of ours says that Napolean is bound
abiz."
Mrs. Bradford of Uniontown. has q coffee mill
that was mads one hundred years ago and is still
in use
The striped snakes have come out as public ben
efactors in illinois, and eat up the potato bugs by
Thousands.
The Texan State Prison runs a cotton factory
by convict labor, which pays all the expenses Of
.hs Institution.
About seven hundred tons per month of silver.
gold, copper and lead ores are received monthly
in San Francisco.
Revenue stamps receipts fer money will net
be required, under the new tax law, after the
first day Of October.
Christian vanpool, who died sometime since,
in Half Moon TOWNSHIP Centre county, mad reach
cd the age of ia years.
A SALISBURY brewer offers a new bonnet to the
woman who will drink the most beer in his sa-
loon for the next three months.
census marshal reports that he found an old
lady in Forest county, 1o7 year, old. When he
rintsrvis~sd" her she was chopping wood
Thirty Cincinnati lawyers have been taken be-
fore the United States Com u ssionsr, for neglect
ing to pay the government license of ten dollars
mike, they tell me you've got twin brother -
! "Yis So It's Ne brother Pat 10 twin to msself
| only he's born in Ireland and ne in the States.
Robert Toombs attempted to cowhide Mstho-
dist preacher in Macon, Ca, recently, but emily
succeeded in getting choksd until he was black
| in the face.
The Philadelphia Press has sent around to its
| S;st,p nj
a neatly Autographed war map printed on tine
glazed paper. sa
A man who went fshin: in a private pond in
Boston suburban town omplains that he only go
one bite, and that was from q dog whose master
owns the pond,
tits expected that 81 o 900 worth of raspberris
and huckleberries will be sold along the line q
the Pennsy lvania Railroad between Crssson and
wilmere the present season.
A Connecticut farmer s1psrimented with deat
dies as chicken food the other day. The dies die
no hurt but they had been poisoned on hy-Pa
per, and that 81 aged the fowls.
A Southern editor finds it necessary to remin,
his readers tn al the prasss done come" and .don
gone" are more simply and correctly express e.
by the words come" and gone"
I
and her groom with folded arms behind, thong h
that niger must pay that nice looking girl
pile to drive his carriage for him"
Gen VIM. Terry, comm andsr of the Stonewal
brigade in the last of tho war is the Dem ocrati
nominee for Congress in the eighth Virginia dis
trict with gsed chance for election.
A St. Louis Frsnchman has been renting stor
room to a German fer 81 500 year, but the con
tract for next year is, that if the Prussians uhi
the French the rent shall be but $1,000.
Only on one other occasion within the m en- or.
of the oldest inhabitant-and this dates back t
1898 the mean temperature in July in Phil
adsIphia so great a, during the last month.
A negro boy in Coiun bus, Ohi,, rashly went il
bathing the othor day and was drowned. Hi
mother said it served him right for taking up ne'
tangled notions. He nsbsr was washed befo'.
The people of Nassau, n. P, the blockade run
nsr's hsadq quarters, lived high during the war
but only man Of them saved his li-gotte'
gains. and be i, living in princeIy style in Lon
don.
If French frip psries and fashions could bs sx
tingui.hsd in the war many a hard working m al
in America would sleep more soundly at nigh
and succeed in laying up competence fer hi
children.
John wylis, of Glover, Vermont, has IN hi
garden a cherry tree that blossomed at the usua
time in May and has continued to do so up to thu
present time. 1t has now blossoms and green and
ripe cherries upon it.
Wild sat attempted to take baby cut of it
cradle in a cabin near Mankato, Minnesota, but 1
little black and tan dog attacked tho eatamo.n n
and fought it until the mo thcr came in and drov
the wild beast out with a brand Of frs.
IxHESsr SAILS or LAsp.-The aggregate sale
of Union Pacific Railroad lands for the year end
ing July 2sth, 1870, was s94S ,s3l; average price
4.se per acre On July 10th, the receipts To-
sales of land were upwards of $2o,soo for tina
day.
A csnss.taksr recently asked a servant girl il
the vicinity of Bosto. how many regular, stead,
bs.rders there were in the house She Informed
him that there we're fifteen boardsrs IN all, "bu
not mors'n four Of EN- is steady the rest is Dim
mscrats ~
An indianapolis German had occasion recent,
to bury large wife, and SO squabblsd with tn
sexton about the fee "Dat ish not big grave,
said the discsnsolats husband. "Not big gravel
| indignantly resnona ad ,he ssxton, why hang il