Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-04-20
A Little of Everything.

Love measles and constaoies are ca'onins
Evergreens-tho.e who don't take the papers
Muddy--our streets. More stone IS required on
them
Fred Douglas IL TO be a candidate for Congress
in New York State
Busy-the Democratic office seekers trying to
secure nominations
Done e1peditiousIy-job work, at the JOURNAL
power press job office
If you want to be happy read your own news
| paper and not your neighbors
Needs -painting-the Court House The Com
missioners should have it done
Omelettes are rare at Key West where eggs
only seventy five cents q dozen.
Envelopes-furn.hed and printed to order,very
cheap, at the JOURNAL office.
The City Treasurer of St Louis is said to be
dsfaultsr in tho sum of s1637e2 So.
Mississippi negro dug up some sSoo,ooo of
De Soto's buried treasure, on April lst.
Forty cent, on the dollar is all that the burglars
| of that Elmira bank ask for their bonds.
large stock of books, writing paper, envel-
opss, etc for sale cheap at the Postofhce.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL il you wish to be
posted In county affairs. Price-S2 in advance
Tho waters in the Mississippi are unusually
high this spring, and much damage is being done.
Con.igning England to the realm. of perdition
has cost an Irish soldier branding and imprison-
ment.
A Western paper states that Arizona would be
God s country If it we're not for the Apache In
diana.
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head paper, at the JOURNAL ofhce. Send in your
orders.
The Alaska Herald is sold by Agrapius Hone
harenko, the publisher, for three raxoschi per
annum,
Some of the Florida hotels have holes in the
floors instead Of going to the expense of ofspittoons
A new idea.
mine of petrfsd mud turtles" has been
found in Montana They should be used for nook
turtle soup.
The Houston Telegraph complains of the "Lot's
wife politicians in Texas. They are too much
inclined to look back.
ATelegram from Havana says the Spanish Bank
has loaned to the Government IS 900 900, without
interest to finish the
The burning of Jail in Gouge eye Gulch, Ne
rada recently compelled the removal of the pris-
oners TO Bobtaied Grizzly.
At Dayton, Ohio, a boy named Harris, in run
ming away from school, broke through an aban-
doned well and was drowned.
Business is mighty dull here said a New
buryport. Mass, undertaken; Il hsvn't buried a
living soul for over a week
A Troy merchant has placed on the door of his
safe card, saying to burglars, Don't waste your
powder; the key is in the drawer
Bedford county proposes to erect nine sch ool
houses this year, which speaks well for the intel
ligence of the people of that county.
The court house at Franklin caught fire
last week, but the fire discovered and e1tin-
guished before much damage done.
The Burlington tIowa) Ha1ck Eus seeing fur.
ther than most other eyes predicts that the wo-
men Of Iowa i'll vote for tAe eIt President.
6ards--a large assortment on hand, at the JoUa-
NAL office, which will be printed at the very low
est cash prices. All orders promptly filed on
short notice.
A Chinese cigar maker OF San Francisco has
gone to the insane asylum through trying to keep
the run of internal revenue decisions regarding
cigar stamps.
Caldwell, the drawback swindler who fed to
Canada for safety, says that his arrest and return
TO New York were the worst dr. back she had ex
perienced yet.
A man in Allentown recently made a bet that
he could drink four quarts of bonded warehouse
whisky at one sitting He the bet easily
His corpse looked quite natural.
Just rcceived-an assortment OF new and hand
some job type at the JOURNAL Office, which enables
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neatest style, and at low rateJ for cash
New York parssn lately mistook picture of
Feter Hamlet for some Christ blessing the null
titudes No wonder some Of them in New York
know less of the Bible than of Shakspeare.
The United States Government ha. allowed the
claim Of 81 .700 presented by the South Kentuck y
Fair GROUND Association, at Glasgow, for DANA
ges commi tied by the army during the war.
The Pottsvills Standard records tho finding Of
the body of Mrs Margaretta Whalep, who was
lost in a storm on Sharp Mountain on the
oath of February. She aged woman.
photograph soup is made by hanging chick
en- up in the sun and letting the sh adow fall on
the boiling water This is better than the old way
of making the chicken wade through the water.
At the Lake Superior copper mines last year,
| POunus OF mineral "efe iney
yielded %, 4S3, ,o79 pounds of fine copper. These
mines are not exhausted nor do they, as yet, show
any signs of giving out.
A number Of our Democratic friends seem to
| think the "nigger', should not vote One very
brave gentleman who declined serving in fight
ing capacity during The war, talks wildly Of s1-
termination. Ha. Ha,.
A thief in Turbit township, Juniata county
stole from . gentleman's chicken coop a large
! turkey. and left behind him oyercoat worth ten
| times The price of tho turkey. Unless that thief
is doing very large business he will break up.
man in Cincinnati whose wife had run away
from him poured two pounds of powder into a
box, Piliowed his head upon it and then applied a
match. The explosion scattered and took his
hair of without killing him He is likely 10 die
| however.
The demand for Indiana divorces 10 20 sIces-
sive since the decision Of their validity in other
States, that their market price has increased en-
ormousiy. The average cost of fair article used
to be about five dollars but last week the price Of
durable article in Clay county was s56l 10
Southern papers and people are enthusiastic