Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-05-25
A Little of Everything.

/ Joint acknowledgements
| Abstractionists-pickpock
| Needs painting-the Court House
| The ceming 'singist'-the mosquito
Handsome-the Shaw House omnibus.
| Flowed freely-benzne, show day
| Price of Journalist a year in advance.
The Stanton memorial fund has reached Sl4I,-
600.
Low-the chap who lay in the gutter last
week.
Plenty-butter and eggs, and at more rsasona-
bic prices.
Densrt.d-tbs show, and the sinners of some
needy persons
To be had-the finest of cemetery WORK at Mrs
Iiddelrs shop.
Chsap-the job work done at the Journal pow
or press job Office.
Secretary Boutwell, expects to reduce the debt
this month $4,000 600
On the Mississippi raft-ro wers get 81 per day
with return passage up the river
Cincinnati is said to have over Thousand ar
senic aters. chiefly young women
Mandarin Burlingame left nearly million
dollars worth Of California property
In New Jersey Just now there is difficulty
about drinking their own lightning.
/ White feather parasols Partisan novelty
Aphilanthropic tiger in India has eaten LII
men.
About 5,ooOssa trees are annually planted in
Iowa. Every other State should follow this sx-
ample.
! +ha al .yyh a
hustle and wore it for bonnet of the latest
style.
The minister who said he could preach best
| witho notes, owned that he did not refer to
greenbacks.
Ex-Governor Wells, Of Virginia, one of the suf-
ferers by the late accident in Richmond, is rapid
ly convaIescing
movement is on foot in New York to estab-
| Iish an organization of colsred troops who served
during the war.
offered as an excuse-the gal who stole pair
Of shoe. that it wa. the frat time she wa, in town
| and coul dn't help it.
The woman-sufrage people. it is said WIN
nominate Train and yallandigham for President
and Vice President in 1872 A strong team
The State Dental Association ha. resolved to
! ssdisappreve Of the use of rubber base for
artificial teeth and recommends metallic plates
The somi-annual whipping day resurred last
Saturday, ia Newcastle, Delaware, when five col
ored men and one white man were publicly whip
ped.
A Louisville gambler, having pushed run of
luck to the winning of S26,7Oo, has rsnounced all
the little games of the werld, the flesh, and the
devil.
virginian kills rattlesnakes by seizing them
by the throat and ejectins tobacco juice from his
mouth into theirs as their jaws open under the
pressure.
Wisconsin jenkins, describing wedding
says that during the ceremony the bride and
bridegroom took each other about the waist and
snapped gum
The Oneida Indians have 4 reservation in
Wisconsin of Il e0s There are but zee
of these Aboriginss, and they cultivate but 4,5os
acres of their domain.
BY an accident the LeavenUorth, Kansas
branch road Tuesday, freight train was smash
ed up, and ten colored and two white men seri
ously hurt, one or two fatally.
A Virginia judge has, ha6sasc OrPns, released
from imprisenn ent colorcd man convicted Of
murder by military court in 1865, on the ground
thatthe trial and sentence were illegal.
Fears are expressed hy some of tho warm per-
sonzl friends of Chief Justice Chase, that his
health is rapidly breaking down that he will
not much longer be able 10 sit on the bench.
A colored boy named James Jones, aged about
fifteen wears. while watching game Of baseball
on tins outskirts Of Chicago, on Sunday afternoon
was struck By bstted ball in the stomach and
instantly killed.
A gsntlem an from the ''roora! dsestrick" lately
wont into one OF our fashionable restaurants and
asked for dinner. The waiter handsd him the
hill of fare when he .reckoned he'd rather sat
before reading.
The Tariff bill being postponed the public Will
hereafter miss .ther usual sally Congressional
treat CT debates pig iron, railway frogs, old
type, ruta bagas, sugar of lead, ipeeach uans,
cudbear and divi diyi.
Stephen A. Douglas. Jr., who for the p ast year
has been residing with his cousin, Judge Settle,
of the Supreme Court Of North Carolina, was
made Secretary of the recent Republican State
Convention, and was also a msms ser Of the Com
mittee on Resolutions.
s'Manitoba, - the name selected for the rebel
liou. Northwest Territory, which is proving such
TO signify "the god who speaks" 1t is alse the
name of lake which FERNS the western bounda-
ry of the new province.
By the order of Secretary Beknap, issued last
week, discharging employees and ordering sales
of surplus property, the expenditures of the War
| Department on account of alaries has been
duced S674, 672, and the estimated proceeds Of
sale is $50, making total of 81 339, ,972.
Another of klep tomania has been revealed
/ in Elizabeth, New jersey. lady moving in the
most fashionable circles vas recently tried on
eight different charges Of shop lifting and found
guilty of four of them by jury composed of the
the pastor and four of the elders of the church of
which she is member.
In Newark, n. J., about noon on Monday a
| week, young woman. twenty years of age, nam
cd Jane Reynolds, met with shocking death
While endeavoring to accelerate tho light of the
fire she poured some kerosene oil on the wood
An explosion took place and axe uas fairly roast
ed alive. She lived only about FIVE minutes
The people of Richmond, Va, appeal to the
| benevolent people of the country for coutribu