Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-03-23
A Little of Everything.
Near at hand-fitting time.

Gold closed at 1924 in Now York on Saturday.
viii be in order-trout fishing, after April lst-
Improving-businsss with those who advertise
At st, Polten, Germany, man has just died at
the age of l2s.
scarce-butter and eggs. Both command
good price just
A soap maker has just given each member Of
Congress bar of soap.
Galveston disputes with New Irk the proud
title of paradise of murderers.
Always in order-the doing Of job-work at the
JOURNAL ofice Now is the time.
Resumed specie pa yment-in n small way-some
of the business men in this place
A western mech anic has applied for patent on
the Improvement of an opportunity.
viii be sent soon-bills for subscription: etc
to the JOURNAL. Look out for them.
Immense coal fields are said to have been dis
covered in the Great Wind River Valley.
Somebody has conferred upon Sunset Cox the
title of X. C. B. knight of the Carpet Bag.
The whner Trueiove, of England, is one hun
dred and sis, years old. True love can never
die"
Simpson Osborne, in Greene county, Indiana,
lost five children in forty eight hours from spot
ted fever.
An exchange wants the Government to issue
stamps for kerosene, inscribed, prepare to meet
thy God.''
Amajority of the shares of the old Thomaston,
Maine Bank, are owned by women, and they ran
the successful ticket.
An Indianapolis Indiana, school boy has been
hal h. b.;r To writ he rd
cow five hundred times.
There at the present time 24o lodges of the
knights of Pythias in this State OF this num-
Der 80 are located in Philadelphia
A New Jersey grocer when complained to about
selling bad eggs says: AT this time of the year
the hens sick and often lay bad eggs"
A little boy went home tho other day singing,
"shoo hy don't bodder me-" His mother let her
shoe fly at him, which 'boddered' him some.
negro explains the apathy in celebrating tie
anniversary of the battle of New Orleans by the
fact that aButlers bin dar since Jacksons bin
gone"
| Lancaster county school teacher has been ig-
ANONYMOUSLY dismissed for kissing the big girls
He said it the most eficacious punishment he
| could devise.
| One of the colored pages of the South Carolina
Legislature saved all his earnings that he might
mcguire an education at Howard University,
| Washington.
A Philadelphia justice has decided that when
nan mistakes his hat for spittoon or attempts TO
write with cork screw he may be called under
| the influence of spirftS Jsrmenti.
| W. FL. Traubel, Philadelphia ithogrnpher has
been arrested, charged with engraving counter
felt brewers stamps. Forty thousand dollars worth
| of plates and stamps were captured.
| Punxsutawney man named Staggers is mad
! because some fellows who were under the infiu-
cace of staggering whisky staggered into his shop
| and took unwarr BILE liberties with Staggers.
Brigh.m Young is making arrangements to set
out two hundred thousand fruit trees mt Salt Lake.
These are fruits of Brighamy to which no one
will object provided they be net Dead Sea apples
Tho New York Evening ro,t asks the editor of
| protectoast paper to investigate and SEQ if the
bleak March winds furnish material for con-
sumption, and if SO, what protection he proposes.
The New EngIanders have a new dish present
ed to them under the title of Baked Shad and
Shoe Fly" The ''shoo ey'' part of it consists of
small strips of potato, thin and fried hard and
criep.
letter recently passed throu III the Derby Line
! VERMONT Office bearing the following superscrp
tion This is for the man who has the Th1urow
bread Dearrum cattle am not seartin of the rite
enitio mis- of his name"
The Sioux City Times says young lady in that
vicinity, only fifteen years old, was married less
than year ago, and is now the mother of three
plump, healthy infants, all girls. That will do.
Go it while you're young
The income tax act expired on the 3lst of De-
| cember and. unless revived in some shape by a
new act, there will be 20 more income tax after
that for / S69 shall have bson collected "A prop
ostion passed the House, time lnce,t TO assess
tax for 1870, but it was killed in the Senate
The Supreme Court has rendered decision
which interests the surviving soldiers (and their
heirs who responded to the first call for troops
in 1851 Such of them as honorably dis
charged before tho expiration Of their term of
enlistment entitled to a bounty of slG0 each.
The Ku-Kiux are again rampant in Tennessee.
Southern Kentucky and Virginia. Some editor
recommends vigorous hanging for these scoun-
drels Hanging is too good for them" Put
them to work where thay will for once live hon
estly. That would hurt them much more and
terriIy tnose VINO may De simiiariy uisposeu-
The Spanish authorities in Cuba still continue
to report victories over the insurgents. Thus
Gen. Jordan is said to have been defeated near
Remedies, with a loss of tTenty-sevcn men killed
and superior force" of insurgents is reported
to have been repuised with loss from Fort Cha
reas. 1t is also reported that only eleven remain
of the Guircs insurgents.
Gen Sheridan says thatthe Santee Indians sing
| Watts hymns at their scalp dances. Imagine a
festiEe brave, full of bay rum driving white
oak stake through the stomach OF pale-faced
prisoner, and then, after building hre upon his
chest, waltzng around singing, Il want to be ar
angel" These simple children of the forest al
have immortal longinss, as well as weakness
for hymns.
The new law in reference TO change of alieg i
ance has been approved by the Federal Counc'
of the North German Confederation, and Is nov
to be presented to the Rsicbstag. Foreigners o
full age can obtain letters of naturalization
minor must obtain the consent of his father or
guardian. The provisions in reference to trans
fer of allegiance are more liberal than tn ey hay
heretofore been.