Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-05-11
A Little of Everything.



again.
sumpter.
The crop reports thus far from all parts of the
country are favorable.
In California the Japanese have set out 800, 900
tea plants at Calistago.
Philadelphia has raised $500 and Baltimore
nearly 5000 for the Richmond sufferers
A Connecticut wrestler recently broke enc leg
in four places in his athletic practice.
A little Ohio girl wanted to see how strychnins
tasted, and found out. She isAow no more
The Germantown Telegraph announces John
w. Fornsy as its candidate for Governor to
ceed Gsary-
| The Salt Lake saints think they have discov-
cred GENTLE plot the assassinste Brother Brig
ham.
Gimanton N. H. has snow drifts twelve feet
deep, yet the people are modest and unassuming
| about it.
Frank Blair announces that he will not leave
st. Louis. The of the world must ma mage to
do without him.
Highway robbers are active, and their special
branch of industry is fourishing finely in the
ncigh oorhood OF Cham bersburg-
Tho inst victim to the new medical law of the
State was arrested at Erie the other day, for
doctoring without license.
The Boston Traveller predicts that Grant will
be rselected, and that this year there will be
other earthquake in California.
Vsrmonter, on a bet has agreed to harness
himself in . sulky and draw a man weighing 100
! pounds q 10 ile in fifteen minutes.
Josh Billings reckon. among the Lost Arts
! Pumpkin Pi, Rum and TanIy, Honesty, and the
art of getting up in the morning.
An Indian, near Fort Scott, recently traded two
mules for a set Of false teeth, aud proudly wore
them, necklace-fashion, around his neck
Associations Of capitalists and landowners are
being formed in various parts of Mississippi for
the purpose Of encouraging immigration.
Illinois has a preach er who gets his eongrega-
ton in church. locks the door, and breaches to
them until the deacons collect specified amount
Kerosene oil has been tried in Texas to kill
bugs on plants. 1t was sfectaal-indeed, rather
too ofectual-tor it killed the plants well az
the bugs.
Four hundred and sIty-esht RATS. of lumber
were out of the Mahoning so far this spring.
|
of Redbauk.
Boston saw a wonder few days ago-a woman
seated pile of rubbish hard at work, with
several ale com panions chipping of the dried
| mortar from old bricks.
Killed-A son of Mr. Senior, Beechwood., JEFF
ferson county, while rafting Sandy Lick
| Greek. He had taken hitch to a tree when the
| tr &c broke and struck him.
During tn firing of a salute in Pottsvillc on
Monday, a cannon exp ioded, blowing to pieces a
Sun all boy med Theodore Johns, and severely
| injuring another boy named Williams.
During the past month the receipts at the Phil
adelphia custom house amounted to S1,o5l,79s,
which is the largest realized at tn at port
in any month with but a single exception.
The first appointment of q colored man to Office
yet made in Pennsylvania is now to be chroni-
cled. The heGovernor as ommissioncd one of our
new electors Notary Public in Philadelphia
Young Drum, convicted two years ago in the
westm oreland court ofkilling a man in Green's
burg, and sentenced to the penitentiary for q
term of years, has bson pardoned by the Cover
nor
A gentleman in Craig county, Va, writes that
the ice in Sinking creek is from four to twenty
inches thick, and that at the time of writing
april 18TH it showing, and had bsen for
three days.
The Maine forests have been well stripped
that not tree of old growth is to be seen in
them. The white pine i. represented only by
sap!ings, which will not be of any service as
Ium Der for years.
An Ansghany county, New York man, who
died recently, left his wife cent his brother
a few dollars and SIS 600 for the erection of a
monument, but his wife should be permitted to
furnish the inscription.
A country exchange has a story headed Love
: warm ed over" If it is anything like the hash
that is warmed over in boarding houses, would
prefer it in its original purity 1t is apt to get
scorched when warmed too much.
The heaviest b all storm for years visited Gle
burne, Texas, on the 10th. Some of the stones
were as large as hen eggs, land came with such
force to break through the roof, of the houses
Nearly all the fowls exposed to the hail kill
led.
Tho champion temperatures K. Moorhead,
of New Alexandria, Westmorsland county. His
proves in the art the past winter has awarded
him with two offers, ten mink, four foxes, twen-
ty-eight coOus and forty nuskrats -GresnsbMrg
Argms.
During the delivery Of lecture by Mrs. DR..
Mary Walker in Illinois few days ago, proco-
cious youth in the audience cried out Are you
the Mary that had a little lamb?" NO" was
the ready reply, but your mother had little
jackass
The Mayor of Meadevils offers reward Of one
thousand dollars, and commissioners of Crawford
county another thousand dollars, for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer murderers Of
Christian Richard, whose body was found last
week in French creek.
General Sherman has prohibited the use of
violet and all the various 'scolored' inks in Of
fetal correspondence and records throughout the
army, except carmine or red ink, IS generally
used in indorsement ruling, or in record books.
The New York San lately published report
that a Presbyterian minister, Rev. DR.. Smythe,
had made lot Of reporters drunk on gin and
milk at restaurant in that city. On Wednesday
last at the trial. which the article provoked, the
reporter who wrote the article swore that it was
untrue in every particular. fair illustration
of Dana. paper,