Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-06-15
A Little of Everything.

fhiiadelphia has early ripe Peacnes'
Evergrsens-peopIe who don't take the paper
Wheat and barley harvests have begun In Ten
nessse.
Brigham Ysung's income is not over sl5s,oso
ayear.
Nunsrous-Democratico Office seekers, last week
in this place.
Counterfeit, on the new issue of fractional cur
rsncy are out.
Andrew johnson, so his friends say, will run
for Congress anyhow.
Garfield, Republican, was elected to Congress
from Washington Territory
A farmer gathers what he sows, while \ seam
stress ssus uba she gathers.
Beautiful-over the left-the beehive hats
worn by the ladies nowadays.
Drowning men will catch at straws." So will
drinking men in the summer time.
Much needsd-a good Lookup, in this place
Why don't the borough Dads build ono?
1t is queer, but true that the later the sun goes
to rest the earlier it rsos in the morning.
There are several alleys in the borough that
need the attention of the proper authorities.
Somebody advsrtis.s as found, in Atlanta, G a.,
| 'an accomplished young lady's silk parasol"
Somebody says that women make very good
street swsepers when they are train ed to do it.
pretty white woman cares.ng a mulatto in a
| street car was New Orleans sight, a few days
since.
A great convenience the left-thc mud
hole opposite the JOURNAL office. Why amt it
| filled up?
The fv. great evils of life are said to be stan d.
ing collars, stovepips hats, tight boots bad whis-
key and cross women.
Named-nineteen Republicans in connection
with the next Governorship in this State. A live
ly time is anticipated.
Ten million quarts Of Strawberries have bens
brought into Norfolk this season. Most of them
have been shipped North.
A fotcL desd-arrestipg rooster and decapita-
ting him, because he attacked lighted lamp and
nearly caused q confagration.
The coal field. of California yield annually
S 900 GOO, the quicksilver mines 81 500, ,0se, and
the precious metal SO, 100000.
Extremes met in Columbus, Ohio, when the
Temperance and the Democratic Conventions as
semblsd in that city on the same day.
Returns from the Oregon election are msaser,
but indicate that Grove, Dem has been elect
| ed Governor by about four hundred majority.
An lndianian who laid down by molasss. bar
| rel in store, and went to sleep with the fluid
| running over him, was fined for disordsrly con-
duct
Wisconsin bsy tried to ride on a farm roller
few days ago but instead the roller rode on him
He was spread out go they had to bury him in a
sugar pan.
The Indians at Wash ington are crying for
| powder and ball. II some of them d ont conduct
themselves better the frontier they will bs &C
| msdated.
Thrty-ire Democrats in Congress voted against
reducing the taxes of the people sixty-fve mil
lions All the Republicans for the reduction
| Remember this
Within circuit of one hundred and twenty fl We
miles around the White Sulphur Springs of Wes
Virginia, there is more iron than in the whol'
Of Great. Britain:
| An Illinois reporter, in describing a gale o.
wind, says: "A white dog, while attempting tt
| weather the gale, caught with his mouth
open, and turned completely inside out,''
Going to waste-much valuable manure, in tn.
| alleys of this place. If tho owners don't Iemov
it, the borough authorities ought tosel it and ap
propriate the proceeds to repairing the streets
A ".ight Of hand performer, last week, sip
ped his traps out of Lssvys Hall, in this pl acc
and thsn slipped off on the train without paying
| hi. bills. That, certainly, was ''cute" trick.
Two little boys at Harrisburg aged six and min
years, left home one morning for school. but wen
| 6.bi dnF1 IN
was their bodies uere fshed out of the canal mex
day.
water spout recently burst in Transplant.
Germany, by which so houses were destroyed an
the dead bodies of 2l4 persona were found strewo
about in the fields, and taken out Of neighbor
ing river.
man in Indiana, last week, lost his wife anC
family physician on the same day. He is nov
searching for their remain, with double barrel
ed shot gun, with the int ention Of burying then
both in the same grave.
French physician $ ays that jealousy between
husband and wife is nothing more tn an zoanthrop
! c insanity. Nothing like draping common NAL
aides in uncommon scientific apPeilations-it le,
sens our horror for the disease.
A two year old, in this place, on rep eating hi
words, God bless father, ;ama let him bring al
grange" That young,ter will not suffer if ror'
in time and faith will prevent it.
An eminent physician says that the white rub
| Der used for nursing bottles and infants toys, il
very poisonous, causing mouth, skin erup
tion, decsyed teeth, spinal curvature and death
In Europe the sale is prohibited by law.
People who make notes, write love letters,
will be delighted with bit of information whicl
the Treasury Department gives that violet inl
| fades-some records written with 1t, and exposed
to the light, being now mere blank paper.
The editor of the New Orleans Pteayart wa
recently shown Il very remarkable phenomenon
in the shape of three roses growing on one stem
two of which were rcd and one perfectly white
The white rose occupied the central position.
Efforts are being made in India to put stop tc
the ancien. custom Of destroying female infants
and bill for this purpose is now before tn
Council in Calcutta. So general had the practic
become that in one native community of 1000
not one girl is to be found.
Indian names seem to be at discount in tn
far west. Towns, cities and counties are more FIRE