Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-04-13
A Little of Everything.
Back-manY Of the xatermen.

Back-many Of the waermen
A 'curl of the lip''--a moustache.
A rare IN mind-mind your own business.
good pilo.-the chap who runs the overland
route.
The city of Dayton will pay sS9o,oOo income
tax for 1853
Down--the b'hoy who was uptripped by ben
zine. !" the other night
Six men have died in Oil City in the last six
weeks from excessive drinking.
There are 500 applications for go census ta-
kers in the Southern Ohio District
A member of tho Kan.as Legislature rejoices
in the name of Gasaway sprishtly.
At Covington. Georgia when man gets drunk
his head is shaved by the authorities good
idea.
Ebensburg gains three votes and Cambria CO.
about thirty by the passage of the Fifteenth A
nendment.
A sentimental you says he prefers hanging on
the neck to hanging by the neck, bat that both
dangerous
The claim of Indiana on the General Govern
mcnt f'r abput si5l.eo0, growing out OF Morgsn's
raid. has been al owed
The Stock Exchange vault in New York con-
tsins every night securities valued at over two
hundred millions of dollars
Our navy is fast going TO ruin Not content
with dispusing of nearly all the iron-elads. they
nov selling the cadet.hips
Peek ReIub lean. has been elected to Congress
in the Tneio (nhio) district to Ell the vacancy
created by the death of lioss
nf he new Texas Senator, Morgan c. Ilamil
ton ii il said that lie never smoked a cigar or
took drink and yet he claims To represent Texas
The President is reported good authority to
have stated in conversation that be had no inten-
tion of Issuing an amnesty proclaim alton at pres
ent.
Dispatches received by last mail from Minister
Sickies ind ca,e that crisss is rapidly appr"ach'
ing in Spanish affairs lie does not despair h"w-
ever of yet bringing about an adjustment Of the
Cuban trouble
Commissioner Delaro has received an anony-
nous letter from Cincinnati. ohio.enelosips WINS
ky stamps valued at l55 50. which the writer CON
fesses were stolen from the Collector of the Sec
oud district of Ohio.
An Indiana paper tells of a lawyer there wh
charged u client ten dollars for collecting nine
but said he soIIi not press him to pry tbs other
dollar for few days, if it would be more conre-
nent for him to let il stand.
Samuel Harris Of Bristol had a brother in the
battle Of Gettysburg who was reported killed lie
found and buried, as he supposed. the body
| few weeks ago ne very much surprised by his
brother walking in alive and we'll
! ufficia. information has just been received in
Washington that the French Government has ar
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to ca ncc its exclusive concession for fundiug ca
ties from the United States on French soil.
II is stated in a recent report of the Prison As
socia,ion. that of fourteen thousand FIVE hundred
and Iinetysix prisoners con6nsd in the Peniteh
,iariss of thirty States in 1867 seventy-seven Del
cent or over ten thousand of the number, hat
never learned n trade.
FlintnS is caused by a want Of blood in tn
brain, when the cart for any reason fails 10 for
ward enough for its For this reason faint
ing person should always be laid down. as tn
circulation is more easily restored in that position
than in upright posture
The proceedings of the Legislature for the ses
sion of 1870 will make volume OF portcDiiou
size. very large number OF bills were intro
duceI and acted upon. Probably not much le,
than 2oa0 bills which originated in the House
and in the Deighborhood of 500 in the Senate
will be incorporated INTO the statute. Of the Com
monwealth.
The st Paul Dtaly Press states that Gen Han
cock has received orders from Wash ington to e;
tsblish new military post at Pembina. on th
borders of Winnipeg There may yet be se,iou
trouble grow wing out of the resistance of the Re
Riverites TO the diciaiion of the Hudson Ba
Company. the British home government and tb
dominion of Canada