Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-02-22
Little of Everything,

"Cash advances '--courtlng r1cn WIDOW
4 hint to Milliners-enough on that head
A dangerous character-a man who takes life
chcerfuly.
1t is rot strange that every body is down on slip
perry sidewalks.
A reward of $1,000 is offered for the arrest OF
the kensington bank robbers
Mercer county has more Farmers Clubs than
any other county in the State
The man who attempted 70 ''cioak his sins
could not find garment large enough.
The Old Mans Drunk Again. is the title of
the latest temperance song in San Francisco
Felt cheap-the chap who was deserted by his
gal, after taking her to spelling school, In
sleigh.
Funny-to see a mans heels desert him, and
have his smome tum'' suddenly arrested by the
ground.
"Jake, your wife is not pensive as she used
to be- no she has left that off and turned en-
pensivc."
mother in Westmoreland county smothered
her child by wrapping it up too closely while
sleighing.
The people of winiamsport. tired of high
priced meats going to establish a cooperative
meat market.
A citizen of Georgia writes that he has ap-
piled for a Postm astership,' and shall press it
with vigger."
Of doubtful propriety-the sell on "Justice."
Wonder if the perpetrator of the Joke" is a
judge of "frizzes?"
A Virginia boy sixteen years old died few
i Gar inter b
eating painted French candy.
There is hiry country up in East Tennessee
where the children look up the chimney to see
whether the cows coming down.
Nearly a quarter of the population of Paris
are reported be utterly destitute or dependent
partially the public for support.
s'ObseryationIstn in New York is defined by an
expert to looking round during the day to
observe what be could steal at night
The cost of the Constitutional Convention in
Illinois was $50. .I6i 90. of this sum nearly one
half is ased for printing and reporting.
Hugh Pollock, of Salisbury, Indiana county,
HIS disappeared from his home, and his family
making anxious inquiries concerning him.
At lecture given in Frankfort Indiana, not
long since the tickets read Blessed the pure
in heart for they shall see God. Admit one''
A prominent cotton n nd commission merchant
in Macon failed last week for 1000. His cred
itors also failed-that is, they failed TO find him.
1t is stated that the dowry voted by the
House of Commons TO the Princess Louise was
$50 O00 instead of three thousand as at first
stated
One of the banners carried by the Frisco Ger
IN .I.hr h.. g,n of in
scribed New dish-Frogs slnothered in Sauer
Krautn
There is 10 better remedy for cold feet than to
slap the leg briskIy above the knee after raising
the foot. The increased circulation induces i'm :
mediate relief.
A letter was received from Cana Ia at the Titus
vile POstofice, the other day addressed to Lain
| Farm Post Office, Titasville, Crawford county, P
| A, York.tate; Ohio.
| The Indiana Messenger complains that the pro
ject to establish a normal school there is not
| ing with the encouragement it deserves. Only
S35 COO has been subscribed.
The Democracy in Kentucky have one argument
only one, against admitting negroes to give cvi-
dence in the courts: What let Niger swar
agin white man Never
ompanying ladi es to a hop. to extend Invitations
before r NJ, otherwise they must expect re-
fu sal to attend So say the ladies.
From present indications there will be no legis-
laton in Congress the present session with rega I'd
to Utah, and poygamy will be allowed to flourish
there updisturbed for another session
The Liverpool Courier, of February II, says
that French transport, with twelve hundred and
fifty persons on board, has found cred of Cape La
Hague and that all on board were lost.
Out on a Fosci-a certain fellow, visiting the
| outskirts Of the borough. on Saturday night last.
He will make home rum by the next term Of
Quarter Sessions, if he is not cautious
A Tennessee temperance lecturer denounced
rum sellers as worse than murderers He had a
subsequent interview with The urbane and genial
hotel keeper, and wears his left eye in sling
A correspondent Mt of the North east Star says
ain glancng at report of Pennsyl vunia. find
that there rs 900 sellers, and 1880
school teachers. Cost of supporting schools,
s., sos: :729. Value CT liquor consumed. S3I ,4S7,-
$50.
There have been many defnition ms of gentle.
m an, but the prcttiest and ost pathetic is that
given by young lady. "A gentleman. Gays
she, sis a human being, combining q woman's
tenderness with mans courage"
The supposed gold mine on Leading Creek,
Randolph county, West Virginia, which caused
so much excitement several months ago. and re-
ported TO be worthless, has been pronounced by
geologsts to be rich vein of nickel.
This is the way Colorado lover expressed ad-
miration for his fair shes peeler, she is
She killed a bear when she was fifteen and n
Digger Indian when she was eighteen and now
she II whip her weight in wild CATS
Spotted fever is raging with fatal effect in
Schoharie county, New York. II is said that
there are $50 cases in n district less than ten
miles square. In village of 800 inhabitants
there were eighty-th deaths in th rec weeks
couple were married, the other day in Plain
field, otsego county, New York. partook of their
wedding dinner in Winfield nerkimer county.
took tea in Bridgerater, Oneida county and were
all the time under the same roof. The house
stands ''across the Ifne''
Plain hair is rapidly becoming the fashion.
How sorry for the unfortunate girls who
have ruined their front hair by loLg course of
hot iron and crimping pins. We wonder if false
fronts, such old ladies used to wear, will be