Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-08-03
A Little of Everything.

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In the Connecticut valley now the staple crop
is said to be tobacco.
| Variegated Nara tiyes is the name spotted tail
/ goes by in Washington
lady is urged by Wysming paper as can
didate fer Delegate to Congress.
The negroes of Indianapolis have pstitioned to
have German taught in the public schools
! Nebraska is said to be the only State that had a
completed railway when admitted to the Union.
The lash that man does net object to have laid
on his shoulder-the eyo-lash Of pretty girl
An elegant gold mounted set of false teeth
was the prize in a rattle at ladies' fair in Toledo
Simon Cameron is the oldest member of the u
nltsd States Senate, being sevsnty-tws years of
age.
Very serious trouble is said to have broken out
between the rival Mormon factions at Salt Lake
City.
The Virginia State Teachers Convention has
tabled resolution isdsr,ing the Bible in the
schools
During heavy storm ON July 18TH two cows
were killed by lightning, Penns creek, Centre
county.
The New York Scandinarians are raising an
! International relief fund for the aid of the woun-
ded of either army.
very domestic and devoted wife say, she cares
more for her eccentric husband s income than .hs
does for his out go.
Cincinnati paper says Louisville has run
down, and Louisville Journal replies that Gin
cinnati has gone up.
whole village in Missouri has been destroyed
| by fre, except eighteen houses. There ware 10
houses previous to the fire.
Cincinnati is jubilant over the recent fri.Atfu
defeat of the White Stockings by the Mutuals in
Chicago, by 4 score os to ..
severe fight was fsu ght last week between a
herd of swine and den of rattIssnskes near Co.
lumbus. The former were victorious. 'n'
Tive thousand fish, it is said were caught in
the level at Curtin s Iron works below BslIsfonte
recently, BY drawing the water out of the race.
blind rope-vaksr is attracting immense
crowds all through the West. No stronger desire
has ever been srinced to see man break his
neck.
Prussia did a gracious and graceful thing in OBJ
serving Wednesday as day of prayer and fast
ing. Gods aid is more powerful than stron. bat
tailions.
Missoarian who tried to live in Minnesota
has returned disgustsd. he says they have nine
months of winter, and the rest of the year it's
very late in the fall"
A gentleman with green goggles is meeting
with great SUCCESS in Iowa, claiming to be blind
Methodist minister, whereas he is the retired pro-
pristor of Chicago faro bank.
San Francisco received the news Of the decla-
ration Of war by France at l:3o in the afternoon
| whereas it was not made in France until I:5e
which is very quick travelling.
The largest trout svsr caught in the Tay, OF
probably in any other river, was landed with the
net on one of Lady Gray's fish ing, near Perth,
recently 1t weighe 6fty pounds.
Our devil thinks that if it i, true that people
"sarn their broad by the sweat of their brow
they susht to have easy time of it this weather
for the sweat" will come without working
An exchange says In chasing an annoying
dog, the other night, a Portland man ran foul OF
clothes line, which widened his mouth and sx.
troctsd two teeth without payia', and he didn',
catch the cog.
| correspondent Of Hamilton, Nevada, is sure
Buffalo Bill is dead. He writes You bet he will
never take another scalp, white Indian.
was past his grave Sunday. His wife kaeps
restaurant at Eureka
| The Boston Post remarks that an Indiana jour.
nal istrying to promote pedestrian exercise among
tho students of the State by urging law to pro-
hibit the sale of liquor within three miles of any
institution of learning.
Hazzini and Garib.ldi it is stated are carefully
watchin. the progress of the war in Europe, and
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and capture that jewel and thuscomplets the long
wished for unity of Italy.
! The lost child of New Orleans, about whom
! Southern Democratic pap srs have gone into such
ecstacies Of indignation accusing negroes of hav-
ing sacrificed it in soms Voodoo orgy, has turned
/ ap all right in Canton, Miss.
The full extent of the loss of life caused by tn
fredamp explosion at the Silverdals Colliery, in
North Stafordshire, is now known. Nnetes n
/ bodies have been brought to bank" and it is
sta ted that most of them exhibited traces of in
tense suffering.
The ightning recently struck the powder msg
szine of Santa Spirito, at Venice, where coo, 900
| pounds Of that material stored away. The
conductor received the electric discharge. and its
| top literally melted away, and the whole length
| twisted, but no further damage was done.
! A portion of the ffth article Of the Treaty of
Prague tAugust %. 1867 provides that, ''if the
/ Inhabitants of the North districts of schleswig
de clare, by free vJte, their desire to be united
to Denmark, they shall be restored accordingly .
Because these Duchiss don't do so is one Of the
thorns in the French lateral spidermis.
1t would be only characteristic of tho crafty
and intriguing French Emperor if the runner
! that he has entered into secret compact with
/ Prim proves true. Prim to receive tho support
of France for the rulsrship of Spain and in re-
| turn to furnish Napoleon with prets for war
with Prussia, seems to have been the programme
/ long since adopted.
| This is the way they live in Canada: Beef, first
| quality, to cents second quality, to cents
veal, first quality 10 to IL cents second quality,
ts 10 cents mutton, first quality, to cents /;
second quality. to cents lamb. first quality, 3
to cents second quality, to 3 cents pork, first
| quality, 10 to IA cents; second quality, to 10
cents; -four, 81 IS per 100 lbs; bstter, 20 cents
per pound potatoes, As cents per bushsl; eggs,
Is cents per dozen.
The sditor-in chief Of the Bslietonts Rep"6tt-
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