Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-02-09
A Little of Everything.
A text for sinner-pretc1t.
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textfcr rsinners-pretoxt
U S. bonds at Frankfor, s2.
If you cant bite never show your teeth.
Side issues-the women of Salt Lake City.
The Stanton fonnd amounts to about si250oo
on Piatt calls Secretary Fish anOid sasdins
kind of misers that are penty-eccno- mixers
The Spanish Government will shortly propose
new candidate for the throne.
Wyoming offers to send Anna Dicken.on to
Congress if she will come out there and live
Nathan Matthews returns the largest income in
Boston, $3.50 900. He is a real estate specustor.
The mercury stood twenty one and half de-
grees below zero at Bangor, Maine, On Friday
morning.
One OF the devices to cure Carotta Of her in
sanity was that of setting her to work at sewing
machine.
Sixty-three members have been added to the
Tyrone N. Church, during the late revival in
that place.
!. The New York city tax levy for city purposes
for the next year amounts to SO S54 0o0-SIs0, 900
less than last year
Ex Congressman Cary, of Cincinnati, is lectur-
ing in Ireland; not on Fenianism, but quite the
reverse-Temperanee.
report is current that a portion of the Cam
bria Iron and Coal Companys works, at Johns
town, have suspend ded.
The United Brethren have added some sixty
five members to their church during the recert
revival in Holidaysburg
DR.. Holm IS says that easy crying widows take
new husbands soonest There is nothing like
wet weather for transplanting.
The accounts from Washington show that the
amount o. eating necessary to properly entertain
live Prince is positively appalling.
January, not having been very succesfu'
| winter month, there is a popular anticipation Of
more seasonable behavior in February.
The Topeka Advertiser says that not even Italy
can boast climate surprising in beauty, loveii-
ness and healthfulness, that of Kansas.
young son of U. s. Assessor Benfer, of Sny.
der county had his brains knocked out by fall
ing stick blown from the roof of a shed
DR.. Lands, of Philadelphia, has been SEN
fenced to one years imprisonment and hne of
$500 for the publication of obscene books.
According TO a bill in the Alabama LsgisIa-
ture, drunkenness.excepting on the part Of mem
bers thereof. is to be peaitentiary offense.
bill making drunkenness in public officers a
misdemesnor, ard punishable as such. has been
introduced into the Tennessee Legislature.
Grundy county lows. bought s2,7o0 safe
last month. and at the beginning of the year tb e
Treasurer had just eleven cents to put into it.
The merchants of Appleton, Wisconsin, have
an orgsnizatio to protect themselves aganst bad
debtors Those who do not pay at store are
| not trusted at another.
The "small sewing machine which some ras-
cal in New York sends to those people who re-
spohd to his advertisement BY inclosing him 81
| isl shoemaker's awi worth 5 cents.
Silence in the court room there thundered
police magistrate the other morning: "the
| SQUIRT has already committed four prisoners with
out hearing q word of the testimony
The oil product of 1889 was 4 500 900 barrels
The amount paid last year to owners of wells for
crude ell, is put down at s25, ,350;oO0, of which
| Pennsylvania well owners took S25,e00 900.
The sugar crop Of Louisiana disappoints the
expectations which were formed last summer and
fall. 1t is said that vigorous measures in pro-
gress TO extend the culture OF the in Southeas
tern Texas and Florida
Two enterprising gentlemen at Gold Hill got
into dispute One them suggested that they
pray, which the other imm lately proceeded to
make the suggcster do by the use of horse whip
over his head nd shoulders.
A California editor has been Interviewing a
| cinnamon bear He describes the conduct Of the
interviewed as touching in the extreme, so much
go that he was constrained to Ie-ve with him sew
eral locks of hair and his overeoat.
The revival in the Methodist church of Hunt
ingdon. continues with unabated zeal. Abou,
seventy five persons of both sexe, Lave sought
forgiveness of their sins of whom fifty ave
applied for admission into the church.
John P. Hale, Ex Minister to Spain is at Rome
in very poor health, and will not return unit
next June. Ho has lost pearly hundred pounds
in weight during short time his presen weigh
being less than one hundred and ffty.
The emancipation of the Serfs of Russia it il
stated, will become entire and com plete Oh Feb
ruary 10. 1870. From that date they will not b.
bound to reside in their commuues but will b.
peri itted to settle at will in any part of russia
Twenty seven families have moved from Stock
ton, the scene of the late mine catastraphe, I
Hszleton, fearful of their houses sinking. It i
said that general exodus is preparing. Seve
bodies still buried in the suuken mino an
house,
Josh Billings has issued a supplement to his ia
/ nous essay on the muIo Here it is in full: "Tb
mewl is larger burd than the guss or turky.
has two legs to walk with and two more to kic
with. and wares its wings the side of it
: head"
Never enter sick room in n moment of persp
i ration,..s the moment you become ceol your pore
$ absorb Do cot approach contagious disea'
. with an empty stomach. nor sit between the lie
and the FIRE because the heat attracts the vapo
Preventatives are prsferabls to pills or powders
', hat a spectacle, Three hundred tnonsan
women in the State of New York u,,Sout an
prospect of pairing off Such. in fact, is tt
( statement OF the Rev. Rowland Conner, in tt
l. late v oman Suffrage Convention Mt Boston. Th
n excess of the fair over the sex i. remark
= bic
. The Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Republican puts
thusly: ITO ono and all who voted for ii
righteous measure Q wisa to say that you wi
ever look back to that act the proudest of yo'
ce life, and your children will glory to be able
e say, My father voted for the fifteenth amen
AT ment"