Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-03-30
A Little of Everything.

Iounu IN spots
sheyboy gan, Wis, has had ls days Of contin-
uous sleishing.
Rain is about the only thing that falls great
way and isn't injured.
Cotto. spectators have sunk $500, ,ooo in Colum-
bus Georgia, this season
Money is close very close-but not quite close
enough fo- us to grnspit.
Westmoreiand county has two hundred and
eighty seven scho Il houses
Flour 81 per barrel. and beef ten cents per
pound. is the Minnesota quotation.
There are numerous ieebergs off the American
coast. All arriving vessels report them
The milk of human kindness is good thing,
but it is getting to be too much watered
The clerk of the New York Board of Police Jus
tices gets salary equal to s25 minute
A Nevada newspaper says some of the stream.
OF that State have "brook trout over Jour feet
long !"
A boiler exploded at Scranton, tho other day,
killing nine men and severely injuring many
others.
The biggest hog in the State was slaughtered
in Chester county, receItly. Weight. dressed.
o4o pounds.
A party well supplied with whisky and other
needful articles has Just killed huge California
lion in Missouri.
| Two Western girls decided the ownership of
| lover by duel with case-knivss. One lost CHG
non and the beau.
gold piece in n Wesferner's pocket wasn't
melted the other day when the lightning struck
and consumed him.
| Fall River is happy in the possession OF boy
who dimes steei watch chains He should be
taxed as consumer.
DAME, Straye., of Croyle township, Cambria
courty. Iost three children in three days by the
terrible scourge, scarlet fever The children were
| burisd in one grave.
! II you want to know what friend really thinks
of you riit him up little; or, if that fails, try
| to borrow some money of him.
Chicago boss,s of a Norwegian wedding where
the bii.sful principals aggregate thrteen feet In
| length, and asks How is that for high '''
All the rage-thc "Fleck neck.tie. 1t consists
of quarter of yard Of delaine, and costs ten
cents. All our -snobby swelIs'' wear them.
The New York Herald hopes that the designer
of the forthcoming ISSUE of Postage stamps has
pitched this time upon a stamp that will stick
citizen of Washington recently refused tc
| buy Mark Twain's book, because Tho man who
could not weep at the tomb of Adm must be an
IDIOT"
An old lady wentt to waynesburg G reene county.
few days, since to sell stocking full of gold.
and wanted fifty cents pfeu iun. day after
the fair.
A little boy named Bloom. in Mfin, the other
day struck boy named ScheIenburg on the head
! with stone. fractuiins his skull Young Bloom
was arrested Boys take warning.
Recently a little son OF Mr.. Gregg. of Green
wood Furnace. NiHifn county while playing with
little sister, a babe. lying in cradle. struck her
with a hammer, killing Ter instantly
The family cat taking small bite Os. Of =" pre-
sented turkey and dying in convdisioas immedi'
ateIy, was what I'D Indiana family from
being strychnined TO death last week
Don't count your chickens before they are
hatchvd" is now givenby a boarding school Miss
in this way Do not enumerste your juvenile
poultry at a period anterior to their cubation-
Mr. Siffney. OF Blairsviile, Indiana county
went up to the roof of house to repair chin
uey. lie remarked to the bystanders that he
should probably fall and break his neck and he
| did.
1t is hoped by some, and believed by many.
that fruit crop ha. escaped the effects of the
cold weather. This viii be gratifying news to
many as full fruit crop is better than rubies or
gold.
prof; und thinker says there is hardly gra-
yer trial in the ,nrg eatalouse of boy trials than
the danger that springs from going with Others
who have more money to spend than they them
| selves have
A Clergyman in Chicago warns the sinners of
L. IL. 4t.o
will go to the place of eternal uneasiness" As
that place is far from Chicago there will be
necessity tor removal.
The present colored population of Illinois is
estirn atcd at thirty thousand the numb,r of col
ored voters under the Fifteenth amendment a,
five thousand Most of them reside in the south
| ern part of the State.
Women enjoy military rights on the coast OF
| Africa, and an English naval officer says a rcs'
| ment of rife which be saw there, and
which contained single man, was equal to
any corps he ever met.
Seven merchants. all doing business on the same
street in Halifax lost in the steamer City OF
Boston. They had gone to purchase their spring
| supply of goods. and will never more return
Th. is sad aiiction. indeed.
The New York SIN ask: why shouldn't peo-
pie have more sense than tobacco in thea
tres churches. AMI other public places Tho wor Id
| is all before them where to chew,and they might
| be little more delicate i, the matter
Tho Tomah wisconsin, journal says; San In
dian woman passed by office the other day,
with quarter of venison and two rapooses on
her back. jug of whisky in one hand and a wig
wan in the other IIow's that for Lo 2"
On Thursday of last week Andrew crisweii, Of
Brushvalley township, Indiana county, killed 4
wild eat on the premises Of the Ito VIM
| Findley, near Yellow Creek. More cats of this
nature said to be in the neighbor hood
The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor estimates that
| immigrants at the rate Of thousand day will
6nd their way to Kansas during the next three
months. But will they stsy there or proceed
where The 81 etal is attractive 60 the gold
and silver regions in the Rocky Mountains!
The Southern States are beginning to cultivate
China grass, to be used a substitute Tor SILK A
machine and process for its preparation have al
ready been patented. The Louisiana planters
have raised the of this grass, but they sell II
In London, where it is worked into what are call
ed japanese silks