Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-04-06
A Little of Everything.

Iact-good sermons ougnt 10 DC shof''
On a high-the river, on Saturday last
: Ditto--the chap With the Flick neck tic
Brisk-hoop rolling among the small boys
Look promisiug-ths grain fields, generally.
Should prepare for planting-the farmsrs Now
| is the time.
All the go-"stovs pipe hats. Gents and edi-
tors wear them.
Popular medicine--Jam .cia ginger, with some
Of the Temple boys
Sixty millions of dollars in the Now FORK sa-
wings banks unclaimed.
| The cry of the congressmen, what ought to
be-my offence is sfrank.
There is no truer saying than that Sweet are
the uses of advertisements! -
| Napoleon calls the A., 900 schooimasters in his
EMPIRE" Pacific army of France"
Infrequency of the mails causes complaint in
Utah The females plenty enough.
The Nebraska plan of e1terminating the Indi-
ans is to teach the papooses ''shoo Fly"
lioness in Louisville has three little baby Ii
ons, which quite the lions of the city
A Baltimorean has encompnssed his death by
cncompassing quart of whisky straight.
Oescripeu-tne spring styic Vi ponhotss - souao-
thing like a sunfewer on top of brush heap,
A letter from Germany, just received at Wash
ingt,n, was only twenty-one years on the way.
A godo striker-the town clock. 1t struck ''for-
ty-two" times without stopping, last Saturday.
Think-some of the b'boys, that swearing is
manly, whereas it only indicates black guard
The Canadian exodus for 1870 has tegun- Large
| bar oF Loo fnr hi nj tad
States.
Hero and there in California storekeerer an
nounces that he will hereafter receive groenbacks
at par" ~
A Jerseyman, in reply to the charge hat W omen
can do no fighting in time Of war, says his wife
does nothing else
The missing steamer City of Boston, had fifty
Eve cabin and ffty-two steerage passengers, and
a crew of eighty four.
Should be more careful-the chap who tried to
get in at back window, the other night. ''Sich
dOin' s is disreputable.
Florida is ,antalizing us with accounts of beans,
peas, beets, strawberries and other luxuries which
in this region yet afar off.
A Maine man has found hat and a coat in his
house. Their former occupants burglar, wen,
out through a window when shot at
, a young man in EIdred township, Warren co.,
drank pint of forty rod whiskey at one swallow.
He won't drink any more-he's dead
Theman who shot Gen. Ashley. Of the Black
Horse Conf sdera,e) cavalry, is blacking boots a,
Vallejo. Cali fornia. He is very black himself
Maine travellers rendered hatless in passing
from car to car supply the deficiency at the next
y station by unroofng bystander as the trair
. passes.
q The PIeasantvine Ga.ilghf thinks that spring
4, isiar enough advanced to warrant the remova
of that ofice out of the damp cellar where it ha
spent the winter.
Frogs easily pleased...- a German profes.o
u has discovered that if you take out the brain,
e then rub a wet finger down the frogs back, tn
i creature will croaK With delight -
e very handsome young lady in Washington
says in reference to Secretary Robe.ons bach elo
r. establishment. IF the little house were a ship
, how charming to be first maten'
The town of Lyndon, washtenaw county, Mich
g igan, has been settled for than tn irty year,
h and yet it has neither church, ho,el store, pos,
Office, grocery; nor mail of any kind.
n Gen ames admitted to a seat in the Senat
e by vote of forty yeas to twelve nays Tho Re
| puuiiCIhs "uo NOAeu IN Inc negative were CarpeT
ter, ConKling, Schurz and Edmunds
~ The place to get all the leading literary D.
'e Hers and magazines, il at tho PostofHce Ais,
!. school books, letter and note paper, envelope
n pens, pencils, ink, etc always on hand. Blanl
it books iurnished to order.
r The Fifteenth amendment Proclaim at ationwasn M
|e in time for the Connect.cut election. The colo,
ed voters in that State numbsr between two an
three thousand, nearly all of whom. it is c:sm &c
will vote with the Republicans.
n nephew of the great Chiof Justice Marsh al
of Virginia, is said to be begging in the
e Macon, Georgia. Virginia may be everythin
that could be desired the mother of statesm en-
- but she is evidently not great aunt
j Associate Justice Strong has been assigned t
- the Third Judicial District embracing pennsylva
VI mia, New Jersey and Delaware: and Asso,iat
e Justice Bradley to the Fifth, comprising Georgia
)f Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas
t. Gen. Grants instructions to Collector Pleasant
It on just ppointed in place of Bailey in New York
direct it is asserted, a very general dismissal d
his subordinates, 'in order to put in men VIII
It have not been in atmosphere OF corruption ~
: Tennessee has adopted her new Constitution b,
10000 majority 1t is claim ed for the instru
J. ment that it presents the first popular endorse
?, ment. by direc. vote, of the doctrine of univer
!. sal suffrage. That is about the only merit tha
it has
n Methodist minister in the Sardinia District
Ohio had the parents of a child present it TO
baptism not long since. On being told that tn
: ehiids name was '.vallandigham." he refused t
bsptize it, with the remark that he could no
give any child the name of traitor"
a Having recently added large assortment o
, type to the job department of the Journal Office
:. We are prepared to execute all manner of plail
and fancy printing short notice and at reason
&c able prices Cards. envelopes, bill and lette
y heads, neatly printed, At less than city prices
n Give us call.
d MIR T. A. Comley, President Of tho North Penn
sylvania Railroad, has furnished the members o
the Legislature of the State with $50 ,76o worth
I, free passes, which the Philadelphia Inquirer con
siders as very uncomely conduct on his part ant
n hints that be only passes great Tom, Dick ant
Harry, condition that they should pass his Lit
tie Bills.