Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-07-13
A Little of Everything.


Silver ore has been found near Lexington, Va.
lady school teacher in Dayton, Ohio, receives
salary Of 81 ZOO.
The Governor of Vermont works for eighty |
three dollars day
The Reformers and the Democrats have agreed |
on joint ticket for Indianapolis
There are forty-six men in Uniontown above 70
years of age, and thirteen above 50.
Why, asks exchange is woodchuck like a
sausage? Because it's ground hog.
A Georgia town is SO healthy that it is going to
cut up its cemetery into building lots
Methodist minister ST Lake county, califor-
MIA is bull ding church with his own hands
The wheat harvest in Virginia is over, and tho
yield generally is larger than was anticipated
A Troy, Kansas, paper announces that car load
of girls ould find early husbands in and about
that town.
By the falling of stone wall in Eric, three
little children instantly killed, and two 9TH
sr: badly injured.
At the organization of the new School Board in
Cincinnati on Tuesday a-week, all the Bible can
didates were elected.
| The New York SMa is disreputable and so
sharp paper that it has been suggested it would
| be better not to file it.
The latest marriage announcements read thus
No cards, no cake presents, no wedding trip.
no honeymoon. no divorce.
An incorporate pig at Covington, Ky, resently
| gotqdite drunk some brandy peaches that had
| been thrown into the street.
Red Cloud is on the Tongue River collecting
| his frihes war on the whitos Tho Ch eyepnes
and Arrapahoes going to war.
| The Treasurer of the U. S. cautions all persons
MOTTO receive U S. $40 notes series of 1869, of
number higher than ), 3,236, ,OoeF.
The eIndian graves of WEXFORD, r. l., have
lately been proven to be the burying place of ne
gro wants in the days of slavery.
An importunate census marshal reports that one
WON an told him to call again day two
when she could promise larger list.
The Ohio Congregationali.t: have refused, by
a vote of ffty-6v to ffty-three, to allow wemen
to sit delegates in the annual conventions.
A land turtle wa. recently found on the farm OF
Peter Adams. in Ephrata township, Lancaster
county, the she'll of which was caryed-''H.
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census taker in Davis county, Iowa asked a
woman at farm house the age Of her oldest
child and the reply was, 'You have come around
about q month too soon"
The practice of Kentucky distillery hands of
bathing after working hours in the vats of whisky
not only refreshes and cleansss the men. but adds
to the ''body" of the liquor.
western paper says the Government may as
well give up making treaties to confnc the Sioux
to their reservations The only reservation the
will ever keep is mental reservation.
The low Chinese Democrats of Pekin arc emu
latiug their paler brethren in San Francisco and
have butchered number of Frenchmsn, inc!u
ding consul and secretary of legation
The adoption of the new constitution in Illinois
secures minority representation in that state
The failure of this experiment in A
meric,n n politics will be watched with interest.
a deputy U. S. marshal. in taking the census,
has found resident near Shelbyvile, Indiana
ninety three years old. He can read any ordina-
~ print without spectacles, and has sound mem
| ory.
The 6rst flag cver made of American silk has
been sent to Washington from California, and is
now unfurled at the Capitol: 1t is an emblem Of
the range of our products and the versatility Of
our industry.
A couple of drinks OF ardent spirits, this wea
ther, will predi.pose anybody, tho har d-wo orking
man especially to sun stroke, apspleIy, or syn
| cope. Be temperate in all things, COED natured
and chs ssts, and fear not.
| An Ohio youth sitting in church, mistook the
gentle touch of the plume on the jaunty hat of a
| young lady for fly on his neck, and with the
energy of evaporation sent plume, hat and CHG
non flying into distant pew
The servant girl of the Mayor of indianapolis,
Ind. lately took fearful revenge him for
| scoldng her. She left his shirt bosoms and cuffs
| limp cobweb, and stsrched the lower extremi
ties till they resemblcd cardboard.
| At parade of the military in Norristown on
| the 4th CT July. Gen. Hartranft, Auditor
General, in the ranks carrying musket with
the morris Rifles, . the company of which he was
captain at the breaking out Of the war.
| To be legally married in Ravenna. Ohio, you
have only go before the Mayor, state that you
''intelligentIy, religiousy and spiritually love
each other, and declare yourselves 'relisiously,
philosophically and scientifically married" ;"
New Orleans man with bottle of muciIage in
his coat pocket. enjoyed the society of two lady
friends in a carriage, unconscious that the bottle
was broken. Whom they drove home they were
| STUCK together, and con$idcrapie sacrincc OF
| silks and doe-skin was the result.
| At the instance of Gov. Curtin, U. 8. Minister
at st. Petersburg, the Russian Government has
stationed Russian officers whs speak the English
language at tho frontier custom houses This
will be of great service to American and English
travellers who cannot speak the language.
man working on the railroad near Uniontown,
Pa, says that seven copperhead snakes crept into
his bed room the other night and man in Som
crset county says he found eleven black snakes
the longest of which measured seven feet, in his
bed. This isn't good year for snakes, either.
Public baths have just been opened in New York
and are popular success. Thousands of work
ingmsn visitthese places and under strict police
discipline, the best order is maintained. Bath
are furnished with towels as well as with water,
| and every preeaution is taken to guard against
accidents to swimmers
In Baltimore a jury has just found verdict of
/ twn thousand dollars in favor of an outraged
husband against an impulsve friend who kissed
his wifes hand The judge whose opinion of the
value of kiss differed from that of the jurors,
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