Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-02-02
4 Little of Everything.

charged from the Philadelphia Nay Yard.
A State temperance convention will BE-
held at Harrisburg, on the lth of February.
Orders were rec, ived Saturday tor the
discharge Of three thousand men at Charles
town Navy Yard.
The Bombay Gazette says that half
million people in India have starved to death
since September.
The earnings of the Union Pacific Rail
road for the six months ending December
last were S4,6ll, ,l6l.
The Salt Lake Reporter knows of one
Mormon family that ha, buried one hundred
and forty eight children.
Troppnlan, the French murderer, was gull
lotined on the 9th of January. The execu-
ton took place in public.
| The Apaches are industrious in Arizona.
/ They have lifted the scalp of one out OF eve
ry nine whites in the territory.
Mr. Burlingame must be having nice
time of it, getting S70,0 900 gold year from
| China for travelling expenses"
Wholesale dealers in Chicago return sales
in 1869 aggregating SAT- 900, 900, an in
crease of 81 per cent. over 1868.
The Pope's infalibility has 5ce7 put to
the test He prayed for and promised
! Prince to the Queen OF Naples. 1t was q
girl.
Sarah s. Stafford having . pious regard
for the religious welfare of New Jersey leg
| is!ators, has presented each Senator with a
Bible.
The President sent to the Senate, yester-
! day, the name Of Franz Sig!e as ASSESS OF
Internal Revenue tor the Sixth District,
| New York.
A female resident of a Tennessee TOW II,
appropriately named New Ruin, yesterday
presented her husband with twenty second
! little responsibility.
New York sewing women make balmoral
/ skirts for seven cents apiece, and they can
earn about fourteen cents day. Rather q
small allowance to live uron.
The forthcoming statement Of the public
debt, it is said, will show a very small de
crease for the present month, probably not
| over one and half or two millions OF dol
lars.
The Constitutional Convention of Tenn
essee has adopted an amendment limiting the
regular session Of the Legislature to seven
! ty five days, and called sessions to twenty
days.
The Methodist Church has grown vastly
in popularity with the progressive women
since it struck the word obey from the mar
riage formula and opened its colleges in To-
wa to girls.
The Wheeling, W. Va, municipal cleo
ton, on Monday week, resulted in the e
lection of the citizen ticket, equally Dem
ocrats and Republicans. The Democratic
ring was defeated.
Only FIVE hundred negroes fought at the
battle of New Orleans, but about seven hun
| dred aged darkeys are applying to the State
| for pensions for helping to knock old Pack
ingham out of time.
Judge Strong, the new United States Su-
preme Court Justice, is a native OF SOmers,
Connecticut. His father was the Rev. Wm.
5. Strong, once pastor Of the Congregation
al Church in Somers.
People who sigh when they read that the
orange trees of Florida are yellow with fruit
| Just now, should remember that the weather
down there is also propitlous for musqultoS
about three inches long
Among other religious movements for
which the year 1870 promises TO be noted,
must be included its celebration as the cen
| tenary year of Universalism as distinct de
nomination of the Christian faith in Ameri
| ca.
| In the vote on the fifteenth NEGRO suf-
| frage) amendment in the Rhode Island Leg
islature the Providence .joWrnat says that
! two or three Democrats voted for the II
mendment, and two or three Republicans
/ against 1t.
Hiram Fl. Revels, the new Senator from
! Mississippi, whose olive complexion has
! been the subject of comment Is from Nat
chez, where he has long been Il prominent
and influential citizen. He is graduate oil
Oberlin College.
A man in Iowa sold his wife in a load of
hay for seventy-f five cents-that is he had
her packed away in the load, so as to cause
an increased weight. His little trick was
discovered by the wagon and load upsetting
just after it had been weighed.
The United States Senate, a slow NOV
ing and digni6ed body, with an aristocraric
contempt for saving at ''the spiggot' has
reduced the number of its employees from
one hundred to sixty four, effecting a saving
to the Government of $4,000 per annum.
An enterprising journalist got into the
secret session of the Ecumencal rs an
Eastern Bishop in full fig. His Latin be
trayed him, and the papal police escorted
him to prison. The tailor that made his
Bishop robe was sent TO keep him compa
ny.
Colonel Jones, of Monmouth, n. j. owns
the original copy of the famous Lecomptor
Constitution over which the country hac
such wrestle. Ii Is on square yard o.
parchment was twice captured during the
Kansas troubles, and went safely through
the Sucking of Lawrence.
Mexico is looking up under the admins
,, tration of Juarez. Telegraphs are being ex-
tended all over the country and important
: railroad enterprises are being consummated.
, Education is also being encouraged viii
Zeal, and examinations in public and private
schools are conducted under tie personal in
specticn of the President.
The foreign bankers of Wall street whC
, pay no tax on the millions Of dollars they us
G are vet to receive the attention of ex Asses
sor Webster. August Belmont, who is
representative member of that class, lends
I il is said. millions of Rothschild's gold a
high rates of interest, but never pays tn
tax on capital in use. The revenue froil
this source alone will amount to millions o
dollars year.