Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-03-09

of town to the tune of Sh 90 hy good bye John ~
measure for the establishment of Indian sui-
frage has been proposed in the Missouri Legsla-
ture.
Syracuse firm has forty dozen velocpedes
hand. They don't travel of fast they did
! once
The valentines sent to the roughs of Denver
were signed ''vig. Com" and read Travel or
hang"
A female physician in Lafayette, Indiana, re.
turns her income from her profession last year at
| $4,000.
Tennessee distiller complains of hav ing four
barrels of whisky ''stoe by ruins disguised with
Kraip."
The champion New York policeman measures
six feet nine. Hisclothes made by special
contract.
The Charleston Grand Jury find that excluding
negroes from theatre is a violation of the Civil
Rights bill
! Fifty girls wanted in a match factory at
| Oshkosh, Wisconsin,. You can't make matches
without girls.
/ The Boston Journal expects within six months
I to hear that all the GoId Boards in the country
have ceased business.
Philad elIhia has a claim to consideration in
the divorce business $50 couples having. been dis
| posed of the past year
| cotemporary speaks of the result of fight
between two women being that both were bad
| ly wounded in the toilette -
| Mr. rcelcy says that people only deserve hon
or among whom culture and good breeding rule,
and vulgarity is held in check -
| Maine aludcs with pride to the eighth article
of its consttution,saying it was written by Thorn
| as Jefferson. 1t relates to education.
A resident of Topeka. Kansas, marched with a
brass band to visit the State Legislature, by way
of celebrating his hundred;h birthday.
Julia Cofiubury has bee.1 made Commissioner
| tf Desls in Wisconsin. Her is suggestive
of transactions in small lots of real estate
The aliegators in swamp near Tallahasse,
| Florida dined on s. 600 camel and 81 900
pony from passing menagere the other day
Henry Ward Beocher says that the most perfect
des ription of gentlem an written is contain
ed the thirteenth chapter of the drs Corinthians.
A correspondent wants to know when tie ''ref-
uge for homeless dogs is established whether
husbands who live dogs life will be admitted
Ninety nine speeches delivered and nine Bish-
ops dead is the record of the Ecumenical Coun-
ell. So it only takes eleven speeches in Latin to
kill Bishop
Punch's lie smole CHASTITY smile and Many
a wink he wunk.' have been initiated by min
| streI wit who said, You snecxed snooze and
! said [ snosc it.H
A well known literary man says he has made
$1,000 by lecturing this winter and would have
/ - md I
door at the same time.
Superstiious members of the California Legis-
lature ascribe the earthquakes and the tremen-
dous res raging in the southern part of the State
to a Divine jGd gment for the repeal of the Sunday
laws
The Pope has 'ssccu larized" Fa her Hyacintho
This act releases the popular preacher from his
monastic vows, and throws him upon the world as
n simple priest The sec1larizat;on is said to give
general satisfaction in Rome
Two farmers ia Kansas recently hal law suit
about seven pounds of butter. When the jury re
tired they took with them the butter, procured
some crackers, ate them together, and returned a
verdiit of mo cause Of action"
The Boston Association of Banks for the sup
preston of counterfeiting. report that the coun
terfeiting for the past year has been mostly on
legal tender notes and postal currency, and very
little on national bank ency.
There are sixty-four prisoners in the Ohio Pen
itentiary under sentence for life. The veteran
is John Gall, from Stark county, thirty three
years a convict, seventy; mind long since
gone. and wanderer about the yard
Boston physician lately wrote prescription
for one drachm of morphine to be taken at short
intervals when he should have written one grain
Only that the apothecary saw the error at glance
that doctor would have murdered his patient
Silver mines of unparalleled richness have beer
discovered in Grayson county. Kentucky. The
ore is found. 10 contain a larger per eentase o.
silver than hitherto discovered The mines are
almost ine exhaustible. They will be developed
in the spring.
Died suddenly, on the 18th ult., while dressing
at the residences of her son, in Allegheny town
ship, Armstrong county. Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder
aged one hundred and six years. Her maiden
name was Painter and she was born in the vicin
ity of Carlisle
The New York World wants to know: "Nho i;
the Senator who had polished rosewood box,
which cost two hundred and thirty doiiars'charg
ed to the contingent account! And also, to what
ladies went the four dozen work-oexes that ap-
pear in the account ?"
Western Justice of the Peace recently setfied
.knotty case. wherein there was much conflict
ing testimony in regard to the ownership oil
spotted ea.i, by deciding thus: Il dismiss the
suit and pay the costs myself, if the parties viii
cry quits 10 one appealed from The decision
of the court
By hard labor, an industrious resident OF Alex
andria, Virginia had earned enough to enable
him to lay aside S3400 A designing woman re
Gently ascertained the fact, married him, and II
a short time decamped, taking the sS,iOO witt
her, and leaving him wifeiess and penniiess
Have men rights which women are bound t
respect.