Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-05-04
A Little of Everything.

A'oiiNe VIII IL tasseiins oos- 49, -
not having been planted, nyss
Sour strawberries from the South are sold in
New York for four dollars quart
Miss Peak, of Virginia, pssked into the other
world last week by taking laudanum.
In Iowa, women prisoners have the rights Of
men, They are set to breaking stone.
Juniata county has a buttonwood tree which
measures thirty feet in circumference.
They call it a rongh joke on friend at st
Louis to smash his sku II with slung shot-
Beecher says /. sCopgrsga gational ist is dry Bap-
tist, and Baptist wet Congrsgationalist
Georgia fruit growers are indignant that they
have been buying young poplars for peach trees
LADIES' fans are now made in the shape of pis-
| tolls and daggers Young men, "Beware, oh . be-
ware"
The official vote Of the Dominicans shows 5 ,2l0
| for annexation to the United States to -iio a
gainst.
The long dry spell has done great injury in
California, and the crops in portions of tho State
| will fail.
man in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is both liquor
| saloon keeper and an undertaken. One bu.insss
helps the other.
The young women who engaged in jumping
matches in different part, of the country seem to
have mistaken 1870 for leap year
One regiment at Montreal, which was ordered
out to drill, in anticipation of Fenian raid mus
tered thirteen officers and eight privates.
A bill has been passed by the Legislature Of
this State imposing fine oil 81 on boys detected
in jumping on railroad trains Look out, boys
The President having received the resignation
of Judge Field. of New Jersey, has nominated
ex-Congressman In Nixon to be Judge in his place.
1t is rumored that Brick" Pomsroy will be a
candidate for Congress in the district now repre-
sented BY Morrissey. worthy successor, sure.
A MuIatto sacseeds Gen Bragg in the control
Of the New Orleans Water Works, and the Dem
ooratic papers of that city are in great grief
thsreat.
The Memphis Avalanche says a number Of
young men, all Confederate soldiers, will start
from that city for Cuba in few days. to join Gen.
Jordan's army.
IF people knew beforehand all the misery it
brings,' says Japanese poet, ''there would be
| less going out with young ladies to look At the
| flowers at night"
keokuk Iowa) C0usfituttom, has fallen heir to a
'fat take, )" in the shape of large and valuable
farm in California,
| The editor of the Muscatine (Iowa) Journal has
horse pistol, which, he has bsen assured, is the
identical weapon with which Aaron Burr killed
Alexander Hamilton.
The new Democratic Mayor Of Milwaukee. a
| German, earnestly recommends that the Sunday
dance houses be closed and gambling be extermi-
mated from that city.
Four experimenters in new illuminating gas
at San Francisco assembled the other evening to
test it. Each left the room with a window sash
| hung around his neck.
| A wolf was shot on tn e mountain near Locke's
Mill, in Nifiin county, the other day 1t is be-
lisved to be a tame wolf that E. E. Locke owned
and lost several years ago.
On the 2sth April, the Lutheran church in
Wrightsville, York county was struck by light.
ming, and completely. destroyed. Loss about
! 81 600, and no insurance.
A Florida aIligator's post mortem revealed sew
ersl buttons, marbles and top in his stomach
and a neigh boring family thinks it knows where
its missing little boy went to-
Aunt Susan says: Suppose all the men were
in country and all the women in another with
big river between them. Good gracious what
| lots of poor women would be drowned ~
| Western youth who tried in the guise of a
ghost fright ten his rival from waiting upon the
young lady in question, has a fr ractured knee in
! proof of the other chaps marksm anship with q
! pistol.
| Rev. Jesse D. Jones, of Natick, Massaeh usetts
! says the day which it is announced that ths
! ballot has been given to women by constitutional
amendme ent will be the first day of the milIen-
| mum.
A colored delegate sat in the New York Repub-
| lican Convention to nominate Chief Justice nd
Judges of the Court Of Appeals. " hen he rose
to vote he was received with ''thunders of ap
plauso.'
The United States steamer Michis an has been
ordered to Detroit and thereabouts to watch and
prevent the transportation Of troops or war ma
terial from Canada into or across United States
territory.
The Piegan Indians, having been severely
thu sshed, now express themselves anxious for a
permanent peace. They have been convinced by
the only argument that would ever have convin-
ced them.
A Gsorgi. town greatly enjoyed the spectacle
of a negro artist hiving = migratory swarm Of
bees the other day. He sprinklsd the crawling
mass with water, rolled it into a moist ball and
seooped it into box.
French philologist has just published Chi
ness grammar, the study of which may be mas
tered by an apt pupil in ten years or So 1t is
rumored that an effort will be made to introduce
it into our public schools.
1t is said that Father Hyacinthe has been con-
vsrted to Protestantism by M. de Pressense, and
that he is about committing natrimony and taking
charge of Lutheran Church. The Rappef Of
Paris is responsible for this improbable story
Dyspepsia cured for two dollars" is the cheer
ful announcement emansting frsm that city Of
ideas, Boston The cure is indicated in two little
wood cuts. giving life like representation OF
wood saw and the saw horse. This treatment is
recommended to be taken twlce day. Sure
cure guaranteed, money refunded
special says that, at the Cabinet meeting last
week, the proprety of allowing British troops to
pass ever our soil or through our waters to the
Red river country for the purpose Of putting
down n rebellion was fully discussed, and it was
unanim ously agreed that such thing could not