Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-06-22
A Little of Ererything.

At Indianola, Texas, they are selling fresh
water at dollar bucket
The Boston Journal says Decoration day with
the ladies last, the year round.
Rou-mania story-the insane account OF
massacre which never happened.
To cure dsafness-telI a man you've come to
pay him money. 1t beats acoustic oil
black bear, Weighing l65 pounds, was killed
near Conuellsvills, Pa, on Sunday s-week
vein Of lead ore has been discovered near
New snterpriss, Bedford county, said to be rich.
A fast trstting COW i. training for race out
~es. 1t is thought that tho result will be but
| ter
North Carolina paper advsrtises for printers
who can read. 1t has had enough Of the other
| kind.
western conpositor set up, NO Cross, No
| Crown" No Cows, No Cream Truthful, but
inaccurate
/ The American Protestant Association has voted
to strike the word aokits of its constitution by
vote of SO TO IA.
bee few into the ear of Chester county
young man, and stung him In less than half an
| hour he was dead.
Tho sqaws at the Presidents reception carried
of as trophies Mrs. Thornton's IAN tassel and the
beads from her sash.
Mr.. Jones, Of Lock Haven had mes, Of new
potatoes on the 7th June, which he raised in his
| garden. How is that for early?
Although hOmeopathists give little pills, it Ia,
not yet been discovered that their bills of any
less dimensions than the old school of practice.
William Williams, of Salisbury caught . cat
| fish in the hiskiminetas river, near thst place,
four feet tsn inches long. Itwsighsd forty eiSh
| pounds.
The name Of the man killed by the railroad
accident at Wimors last week was David Hunter.
| He was drover, and lived at Philipsuurg Cen
| ter county.
| 1t is now reported th hat the Spanish crown ha,
been offered to George Francis Train but he
declines for the reason that he expects to be King
of Ireland.
| The census of 1860 showed the value of Califor-
MIA IN ufactares at $50, 900, eco. 1t is thought
that the present census will evidence increase
| in fully third.
| widow in Nebraska, who killed her four
| children in order to remove impsdiments to n
! second marriage, has been arrested and asked to
explain the matter.
|
that their sheep uou!dn't be half so likely to go
to the dogs if they could keep the dogs from
coming to the sheep.
! An Iowa farmers harrow teeth scraped a rock
a few day. ago, and revealed the fact that it
a nugget of pure copper, weighing one hundred
and seventeen pounds.
| New York paper gives list Of sixty stores
and over two hundred ofces to let in Broadway
| below Fourteenth street The high rates deman-
| ded leave them tenantle,s
| Henry Bell, Of Altoona, lost sl4 lately. The
thief accepting as good the advice of the Demo
crats during the war, had papsrsd his house wit b
! greonbacks. 1t was = mouse.
| Minnesot. school board, by 1. vote of two to
one, declared lightning rod. dangerous, as they
Attracted lightning, and ordered one off the bull
ding over which they presided.
| Louisville man rho is graduate of an eastern
college, and has practiced Law and medicine and
studied for the ministry, now drives a brick cart
| and thus earns an honest living.
| The Gulf of Siam must be a red hot place since
nearly all tho Cayenne pepper in the world comes
from there. About 75,oso,OoO pounds of all kinds
of Pepper are consumed annually
The postmaster of Peterborough, n H.. reports
twelve different ways of cling the name of the
town, As observed by him the backs of letters
The worst spell" wss "Bstterpurtroug."
A great revival at Dayton, Ohio, has re.olted
.-in the the addition Of one thousand two hundred
TO the different churches, of whom two hundred
ana thirty united with the first Lutheran Church.
PerrysvilIe, Jefferson county, ha, the cham piOn
mean man. lie destroyed the wre.ths and stole
the aags with which the grave OF the only sol
dier buried in the csmstary there was dscorat ed
/ Gen Rasccrans deems it unnecessary to deny
the sensation story that be contenplates leading
soon flbnstering expedition into Mexico, ncr
does hs know Of the existence of any such
scheme.
Twenty three of the twenty four Representatives
| III Congress from Pennsylvania are candid for
re-sec ton this fall Mr.. Covode is the only
member who doesn't ask his constituents to send
him back.
Under the new apportionmsnt bill the House
of Representative will consist of three hundred
members. Pennsylvania will gain one, and pos
IDLY two members Such at least is the preva-
| lent opinion.
| The Toronto Telegraph propose. that tho Uni
ted States shall pay four millions of dollars in
N'SS--' 90 VI Nan~ds TX PeaSSs tac enl-
an raid, the amount to bs expended upon th e
Welland canal.
An assistant marshal in taking the in
Louisville asked a co'ored woman what personal
property she possessed and received the reply
Nothing but desc three chilIen yere an they
ain Z wuth much"
1t is said that of all the Americans who Joined
the Cuban army of liberation. at and since the
commencement of the insurrection, but fifteen
sixteen remain, tho rem ainder having either left
the army or been killed
A man named f. Schultz, few days inse, sur
rendered himself to the police of Memphis aftsr
confessing that he had murdered Mr.. Perkins,
the iron founder, at Louisville, Ky three years
| ago He will be tried for the offence.
The probable failure of the French harvest
exciteS some speculation in our grain markets.
The upward movement is the more buoyant.
since prices have heretofore ruled very low, and
everybody seems to have been waiting for an inc
vitable advance
Vermont seems to have become indignant over
late report that she had a snoakIng regard for
woman suh rage. In her constitutional! conven-
ton the amendment looking 10 that comsum ma