Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-06-29
A Littl e of Everything.

Ten cents . pound is the Georgia price for ice.
Wild cats are damaging many Maine sheep
folds
Blackbsrries are getting to be drug in Vieks
burg.
| Michisander died in the act of pulling
tight boot
Jurors in the United State, Courts are to
ceivs s5 day.
Women now enjoy their swn separate prisons
in Massachusetts,
Rather an n-gai-.nt trick, to fill a gentlsmans
| boots with candies
Rhode Island is to have a board Of female in
spectors for its prisons
Southern Governor vetoed bill for bad
spelling and grammar,
The Des Mone. Bnllenn announces births
der the head of Spring Chickens"
Shabby-to drink gents red eye" and fill
| the bottle with water. Ha, ha, ha!
A rascally batshelor calls the rispdship of two
women always plot against a third
Minnssotian is raising tame mink. Year
lings bring five dollars-more than sheep.
iris taking the place of ''cash'' boys in
many of the dry goods houses in New York
An Illinoisan finding it would cost him 500 to
cure jaundice, hung himself to save expense
What a naughty hat that was, to hide when its
owner was so anrious to 'vamose the rancho"
There is man in Wooster Ohio, who has had
eleven wives and been divorced from them all
| Ex-Governor w F. Johnston is talked of
cadidate fer Assembly from Armstrong county.
Two mules were .tung to death BY bees at the
village of Thoma,toun, Mississippi, few days
| since.
A Hoboksn editor, bein. challenged, sent word
in reply: When want to die can shoot my
SELF
Grateful Canada proposes to honor its volun
teers who eft into' the Feniaa war, with med
ais.
An economical New York lady always hires a
carriage when she goes shopping-to save shoe
| leather.
Got his thumb hurt-one OF the late excursion
lists. Should keep your thumbs out Of traps,
hereafter.
Gov Reed ef Florida, vetoed nearly all tho
acts passed by the Legislature at its recent spec
| ial session.
Forty one persons were admitted to member
N. L.
day a-week.
A Minnesota preacher supplies nine churches,
hi. circuit being I7e miles long. Last year his
entire salary S209 60.
Red Pear, the Indian warrior, says he thinks
the white squaus are very handsome, but they
have too much paint.
CINCINNATI is described during the Sasngsrfest
as gigantic beer garden, with a few houses in
terpsrssd here and there
The high hats worn by the ladies, adds cor
sidsrabIy to the size of the head, but does not
tend to improve the appearance.
A Justice at Rondout Iowa decided that livery
stable keepers must get cash down, they can
not recover for Sunday business.
Tho Mechanicsburg (P.. y Demscras, in politics
as well as fame, announces its candidate for
Sheriff. Prof Johnston, colored man.
To converse with the spirits-lay q ten cent
stamp on the table at = gros shop, and they'll
show themselves quicker than you can say beans.
On Tuesday the Pacific Express train east, on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, travelled from AL
toona to Harrisburg in two hour, and ffty-four
minutes.
A Nevada editor says that Olive Logan is "the
m o.t right up and .nappy ebulition OF womanly
getup and git that We ever had the pleasure of
meeting
A little boy embodied his thoughts on theology
in words, thus: Il don't see how tho devil came
to turn out when there other devil to
put him up to it.' -
All efforts to make hay by gas-lisht have fail
ed, but we notice that some of our young bloods
find no difficulty in sowing their wild eats under
it, benign and cheerful rays.
When Genera Banks voice failed him in his
recent Cuban speech, an outsider was cruel
enough to make remark to the effect that
Another Of the National Banks had busted
Frank Thorne is to receive $4,000 for his leap
from Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls on tho
| 18th OF August next We notice the fact merely
for the purpose of congratulating Frank's heirs.
The Memphis Avalap che has heard that there
we're Eve murders in Kansas City in one Sunday,
and it advocates thu immediate establishment Of
railroad communication to such lively and en-
| terprising city.
When Mrs. Stanton gets tho women dressed so
near like the men that you can't tell the differ
ence without a po;tnsrtou examination, won't
she leave a string of something hanging out to
avoid mistaks,t
At recent trial in France the foreman OF the
| jury, placing his and upon his heart, and with
q voice choked with emotion, gave IN the follow
| ing verdict: The accused is guilty, but We have
do.bts as to his identity"
Daniel Lyons has obtained vsrdctf FOR see, 900
in a suit tried at Binghamton, New York, against
the Eric railroad for injuries su.tainsd by him
in the Carrs Rock disaster, on the 18th of April,
1868 He claimed s5O.oos. The case was dcci-
dsd on Monday night
Rocky Mountain paper, noting the invention
by Chicago man ofs process by which dead
body can be petrifed as hard as stone, thinks the
| inventor ''ought to accompany our troop on tho
frontier, whore he could drive pretty good bu-
siness in petrifying indiars and selling them for
tobacco signs
| At hotel breakfast in New Haven, Baptist
clergyman asked his neighbor tho cause of tho
uproar of the night previous The neishbor
Mortified the clergyman by replying that he be-
lisved Baptist convention had been in session,
the parties ad been calling for water 81 nee
| daybreak, with which to immerse their parchsd
throats.