Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-06-01
A Little of Everything.

An empty cart makes a loud noise.
The population of Pennsylvania is S.5OO,SOO
terrible bore-ths inside of a fifteen inch
gum
Imprisopment for debt has been abolished in |
England.
The best band to accompany lady Vocalist |
husband.
What is everybody doing at the same time
Growing old.
What harvssts of ruin have grown from un-
wholesome reading
The green postage stamps are like high spirit
cd BOYS They should be licked cautiously.
Two locomotives on the Lehigh Valley railroad
named the Bee and Amt weigh each sixty
five tons.
There are three thousand two hundred and
eighteen employees in the workshops of Minnes-
polls, Minnesota
The Pilatka Ella Herald says most of the win
ter visitors have gone north, and that many will
| return and settle.
! The Rev Charles W addell, the first white child
born in Ohio, has just died, after long service
| as Methodist preacher.
1t is stated that the Pope is about to create a
new bishoprick in Pennsylvania, to be known as
the Diocese of Reading.
1t is intimated that DR.. Hammond received
,5OO fee for testifying in the Mcfarland trial as
an expert touching insanity.
! The appropriation for the support of the army
is s29 ,257 900 FIVE millions less than the esti-
mate and four millions less than last year.
New Hampshire had Congressman who used
to open his speeches with 'sFelow citizens-I
was born in Portsmouth 1 always born in
Portsmouth,
Anexceedingly paternal man, living on Den
mis- Lake, Florida, aged eighty-seven, is the faith
er of sixty children, the youngest Of whom is
n inc months old.
No licenses to ellIiquor granted at the
the last term of the Jefferson county Court. tits
uncertain whether BrookviIle will have any IL
censed houses not.
In a recent lecture Anna Dickinson demanded,
'Why was born p" A thrill, and the question
was repeated, when a horrid boy in the gallery
sung out II give it up"
The Missouri has washed away about thirty
rods of the bank on the Iowa side at Council
Bluffs, this spring and left corresponding sand
oank on the Omaha side.
The fruit crop of New Jersey has passed
through the critical period of blooming without
harm, and the fruit is well set that an abun-
dant harvest is anticipated.
The New York Democrat says: "McFarlan
does not use sugar in his whisky. He sweetOns
ii with his wife's love etters-and then sell. the
letters for more whisky. Yerdict-not guilty
Three persons were killed by lightning on Sat
urday in Scranton, Pa. On the preceding night
Mr. Robert Merrifeld, a of Judg ge Merrifeld,
was also struck by Lightning and instantly kill
led.
The champion old man who is in the habit of
moving fifteen tons of hay per diem, has turned
up thus early in the in Indiana. They
are getting him organized for the summer sea-
son.
What is the matter with the Democrats, they
keep so quiet7 The Fifteenth Amendment
squsched them. Come, make light gentlemen;
you'll be more demoralzed than you arezalre ead y
if you don't
Governor Geary has gone to West Point in
charge of his son, William L. Gesry, and John
,, Glenn known the drummer boy of Chic1amau-
ga, both Of whom have been appointed to cadet
ships by President Grant.
The Columbia Ohio State Jor,7,aI anxiously
done with the beer? That is easily answered,
The beer must be put down.
e 4 Virginia negro cooked gun and blew down
the muzzIe to see if it loaded He didn't
state his conclusion, but the bystanders who saw
his head fly of, think it
Some of the miners in the Shamokin region
have agreed to go to work at 80 per week for out
side labor, and 10 for inside and sI2 for miners
In consequence of this agr cement On the part oi
the men, some of the operators there will resume
{ work
Fincastls Va, since the great fro, presents
saddeuipg aspect. For squares nothing is to be
seen but BACKED ruins, houseless chimneys and
smoulderirg walls. The Court House stand
alone in the center of the Town All around it lie
} the debris of fire.
G The northwestern correspondent Of the Toront t0
Il Telegraph says that on the day Riell heard tha
the Canadian Government were organizing al
expeditionary force for Red River, he got help
4 lessy Intoxicated, and ore he would massacre
n every Canadian in the settlement.
n The aborer. on the Kansas Pacific Rail roaC
t demand that they shall be armed for the protect
= ion of their lives and threaten that if their de
mand bO not complied with tkey will seize pas
e senser train and come in, thus sjeeting ehe pas
i sensers and leaving them TO the tender mereie
U of the sayages.
+ General Jordan, it is said has writton to thu
- Cuban Junta in New York, that he has met will
> little encouragement thus far in Washington, hu
does not despair of accomplishing something be
fore the close of the session of Congress. He at
tributeshis want ofsuccess to false reports having
reached the members of Spanish victories.
n Dying words arc s1m etimes strange Acolore,
C man who died in Jail at New Castle Delaware
the other day, said to his nurse, "You won'
n havo to wash any moro shirts for me - and al
:, old man whose feet were cut of on the Phiadel
:. phia and New York York Railroad, Wednesday
night, said it ''wo Id cost him less for boots
There are encouraging assurances that the
death penalty is to be abolished in Holland anC
Prussia similar measure has just been reject
II ted in Bavaria b. small majority The agita
tion OF this question in this country has tempo
= rarlly given place to moro interesting matters
but it is not to die cut until its aim is fnalll
. gained.
IF As man and his wife, resiIing in Kcokuk co.
Il Iowa, were returning one dnv last ryaat from, t