Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-09-14
4 Little Of Everything.

In Canada man aged LOG has jus eloped
with another man wife.
The populstion of Ridgway, Elk county,
is little over FIVE hundred.
A Lynx. FIVE feet and half long las been
killed In Northwood, n. H., much to the
relief of the timid.
President Grants administration pays
more of the public debt in one month than
Andrew JohDsons did in year.
A Gallant young gentleman informs us
that he is justified in calling his sweetheart
''houey" because she is beloved.
Poverty, ignorance, crime, sterility, and
popular degradation and misery are the curses
that free trade entails on country.
Chicago had a 81, 500, 900 fire on Sunday
night, IN which three persons perished.
The insurance amounted to 81, 500, 600.
The losses by the great fire in Calais, Maine
reached $780, 900, which is more than the
total valuation of that town ten years ago.
Any voter who changed his residence last
spring from one election district to another,
should see to it that he is properly register
ed.
Celery salad is said to be the most healthy
of all and is used with good results in cases
of jaundice, neuralgia and nervous com
plants.
Tn court at Easton, last week, William Ii.
Good was convicted on a charge OF practicing
medicine unlawfully. entenced to pay a
fine of 500 and costs. Look out ''quarks.
1t is noticeable that of the three candi-
dates for Governor before the New York
Republican State Convention, Messrs.
Woodford, Greeley, and Curtis all are edi-
tors.
A census taker in the District of Quincy,
Mich, ha. succeeded in finding a man who,
although married for several years. had never
been curious enough to ask The maiden name
of his wife.
A change has taken place in the nomen-
clature of the prize ring. The phrase dealt
him sumner in the bread basket, has been
superseded by fired mitrailleur in his
commissary department.
An original portrait of Martin Luther, by
Lucas Cranach, it is said, has recently been
discovered in perfec. preservation among a
mass ofrubbish in passage adjoining Pro-
testant Church in the small village OF Rich
enberg in Silesla.
Martin county, Indiana, seems to be ter
rible afflicted by that scourge, the ague.
They are building new court House, and
the contractor is required to put six grains
of quinne in each brick 10 prevent the build
ing shaking itself to pieces.
Its stated that at the battle of Woerth,
an officer of the cuirassiers had his head car
ried off by ball. Notwithstanding, the
body remained upright for short time, and
for about one hundred metres the dicapita-
ted horseman appeared as if he was charg-
ing the enemy.
A few evil disposed persons in Decatur
township, Clearfield county. are endeavoring
by unseemly conduct to break up revival
which is now being held in the Goss school
house. They may persist until they are
brought to feel the weight Of the strong arm
of the iaw.-Phiiipsburg journal.
LAND SALES OF THE UNION PACIFIC
RAILRoAD.-The sales of the Land Depart
ment of the Union Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny for the month of August were IA, 55S
"a 100 acres, amounting TO S1S, I55 90 aver,
aging - 40 per acre. The total land sales
of the Comp any amount to $l,042, 5sI II.
There is in Cincinnati a man named Fred
erick Becker, who Processes to have diseov-
cred how to make the patent Illuminating
powder, which is the secret of the success
Of the needle gun, and which the Prus.ian
government takes such care to keep to itself.
He proposes to sell his secret to tae United
States.
An enterprising husband in Minnesota
advertises his wife for sale He warrants
her to be gentle, affectiona.e. and devoted,
ard claims for her knowledge of human
nature which he does not himself possess
In short. he thinks that she knows too much
TO suit him, and he would like to find man
of better education who would be willing to
marry her after she has been divorced