Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-12-14
A Little of Everything.

! 10 be retakcn-the census or Altoona.
Southern Illinois has a post Office called
Steal Easy
! FeH-two inches of snow, at Concord, n.
! H., on the Sth
Have decided opinions--ducks. They
always come out fat-footcd.
Allison Wilson, of Lock Haven, was kill
| ed last week by the falling of a tree.
There is SO much whisky paper afoat
in Cincinnati that money Is tight.
A rag.picker. worth SIS, 900, was recent
! ly killed 10y locomotive, IN Cincinnati.
| Hon. John Scott has been mentioned as
fit person for Vice President in 1872.
Every reduction. of duties in England has
been followed by an increase In pauperlsm.
| The journeymen shoemakers Of Philadel-
t phia have started cooperative co manufac
/ tory.
| Boasts-Holliiaysb of its boys Clear
| field bows are bad enough without boasting
Of them.
! IF you want to live cheap 20 to Japan.
Good board in that delightful country for
two cents day,
Mttens are to be the style this winter.
| Generous young ladies give them to their
| gentlemen friends,
/ The Welsh clergymcn are holding love
feast in New York They call it the Dyw-
gywdgn Dyrdgwylge.
An old hermit, 90 years old, and worth
| $50, 900 was recently discovered at the foot
of the Fishkill mountains.
tl,.., &C
! young Canadian Indian recently ordained
| into the Christian ministry.
! A fine vein of camel coal has been dis
covered on the farm OF j. r. Blair, in Por
ter township, Clarion county.
San Francisco is eating green peas, Gu
cumbers, Strawberries, string beans, fresh
| figs, asparagus and green corn.
| Horace Greeley. in recent temperate,
| lecture declared that New York had six
Thousand rum shops How many rum suck
ers ?
Horace Greeley is spoken Of in connec,
! tion with the Vice Presidency in 1872.
| Grant aud Greeley would make a strong
team.
The supplement passed April 5, 1870, al.
ters the game law so that deer hunting now
ceases on the 3Oth OF December OF each
year.
The Catholics of Philadelphia held a
! grand mass meeting on Sunday, to protest
against the occupation of the States OF the
! Church.
A new experience is the religious revival
! at West Point, which has gone to the ex-
tent of semi weekly prayer meeting among
| the cadets.
| Virginia did not keep Thanksgiving Day
evidently not having much faith in the
| Yankee custom of thanking God for bies
/ sings received.
THE good are taken first" does not apply
at photograph establishments or barber
! shops Each must take his Or her turn,
good or wicked.
Jacob Casebeer, of Somerset county, made
this season 900 gallons of apple butter.
1000 gallons of cider vinegar, and sold 600
bushels of apples.
Died-last week in this place, several
! hogs with sore throats." The disease was
caused by the sharp edge Of knife in the
hands of butcher,
Farmers in the neighborhood of Titus
vile, Pa, report the woods unusually full
of wild game this season. The dear are
very fat. The dear, eh?
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has
| decided that 4 contract made and carried
| into effect On Sunday cannot be repudiated
by either party. A bad decision.
Some careful man has ascertained that
| the average head contains 10000 hairs.
| The average moustache contains about IA.
ride some Of the b 'hoys ct this place.
Lloyd Britton has been convicted in VIII
! Transport for the murder OF Jacob Bay.
| The verdict was guilty of murder in the tirst
degree, and Britton will probably be hung.
George w. Motter, of Buffalo township,
! Perry county, while returning home from
! Newport, was mistaken for a wild turkey,
and shot dead by Benjamin Albright, a
neighbor.
1t does not speak we'll for the Pacific
! Railroads now IN successful operation that
/ they should owe the government OF the
| United States over s6,000,0 900 interest on
their bonds.
The artesian salt well OF Lincoln Nebras-
ka, throws stream OF brine SIX inches in
| diameter to a height of over fifty feet. This
stream has sufficient volume and velocity 10
turn mill wheel.
! a lime kiln has been discovered IN York
county, about three or four feet under the
surface of the earth. The kiln was full OF
| lime, aud is supposed to have been buried
century or more.
There was an exciting race on the Warm
| Spring Mountain, Virginia, last week. be-
tween Ex-Governor Letcher and panther,
| in which. it is said, the Governor made the
best time of the season.
Arrested-Wilam Brockway, in New
York last week, on charge o. counterfeit
/ ing L. S. bonds. II IS said the Govern
mcut redeemed s2SO.Oc0 of these spurious
| bonds before discovering the fraud,
| Waterfall curls are becoming so fashiona-
ble that a gentleman friend OF our has ad-
opted the style He found curl attached
to the button on the side of his cap, after
taking an evening ride recently with young
| lady.
Three clergymen, in London, lately ad-
| vertised for wives C,ergymen, IN this
country, are more lucky. the only embar
rassment baing which of the numerous la
| dies to choose who aspire to the duties OF u
| pastor 5 wife.