Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-06-21
A Little Of Everything.

GIrls OF the perlod-female eomposltors.
Doing a cool business-the ic--cream men
WiIliamsporters f nd small fish in their milk.
Pit sburg and BrookviIle have the smallpox.
| The new Government loan is being taken rap
/ idly.
/ railroad is wanted from Johnstown to Som
erset.
Early training-lesving town on the morning
express,
Upset wagon and all to unload fsh-that's
handy.
The venango county Jail contains twenty-fou
prisoners
| others will
Hot house peaches are worth sixty cents each
| in New York.
Huntingdon has au ice wagon run by a man
named Summer.
| Must be bad-thc credit of the chap who could
not even borrow trouble.
! DR. R. V Spackman, of Luthersburg has been
| appointed notary public.
Elmira rats don't know much about farming
They steal shoe pegs for cats
| The crows down South are silent and in dis
tress. They are loohing for the lost caics.
! woman in Blair county caught wild tur-
/ key emily, which weighed twenty pounds
Edna Smell announces herself as candidate
for Superintendent of Schools in Nah aska county
Iowa.
! Seven cent postage stamps are being issued by
the Government, for the convenience of foreis n
correspondence.
| Announced-tho discovery of 2O-feot vein of
coal in Somerset county. That's whopper-the
/ coal yein mean.
/ A Russian named Octave Pavy, is about to
ganizO an expedition to the north POLE. He feels
confident of success.
/ Rather a ssefy joke-the dedication Of the new
/ park on Friday last Ahem it's out among EN-
/ boys. Call another
! Some Judicial dignitary has decided that mar
rying in jest, though actually and legally per-
formed, is not binding
Pie-Ncs are in order, now days. Like Josh
Billings, 1--WE don't know now whether we think y
they amount to any thing not.
The GLORIOUS Fourth" is approaching, and
Young America i. already boarding his pennies
for proper celebration of the day.
town in Coos county, n H, called "Success'
is a failure. 1t is twenty years old and has but
| five Inhabitants What's in na.Ae?
| The triumphaI entry of the returning German
army, took place at Berlin on the 10th June 1t
WAS grand and imposing demonstration.
The State of Maine has eighteen men who
want to be its Governor. About seventeen of
them will realize that il might have BEEN
Quieted down-tbe local politicians in this
county, since the close of the primary campaign.
How about investigating the alleged frauds?
While Prof. Darwin is bothering his brain
about the development of Species nearly
erybody else is trying to develope the specie.
A Toledo druggist refused to sign petition for
the improvement of a street. when told that it
would improve the health of the neigh hborhood.
Butler, Pa, has no licensed house, and but one
in tn county is licensed. Three breweries and
four whisky stills keep the town going, however
The girls of Athol, Mass, whipped the boys of
that place at base ball the other day. and now
recognized the coming women of that section
The fattest hog story of tho comes from
East Lynn, Mnss. Edward Merrill, OF that place,
found a diamond worth $500 in plate of pork
stew.
feIon is said to be a common boil formed
under the tough ligament next to the bone. To
cure it promptly plunge the lancet down to the
bone
The newest variety OF lager is called, "Aeeht
Importirties Branschweiger Dopesl Bier" and
will kill yeu almost as quick a Nitro Glycerine
torpedo.
Refreshing rains have fallen in this vicinity
within the past few days which have infused new
life into the hitherto sickly appearance of corn
ami things.
The following expressive notice is posted on the
closed door of Brooklyn cobbler's shop: "Thes
beznies Is closed fnr weak to elou the bos
chanz to be six
About the best thing that has happened to Mr..
Greeley, politically, is that Wendell Philips has
come out against him with rather unusual yio-
lence even for him.
pure white deer haunts the groves of Pierce
county, Wisconsin. There plenty of white
''dears" i'll Clearfied. considerable quantity
of the white is put on however.
huge measure of tangle leg whisky was seen
propclling diminutive specimen of humanity
along Second Street Saturday night. lie
should be kept in the house at night.
difficulty in obtaining the attendance of witness
es, and that the existence of Ku Klux in the
Southern States will be clearly proven.
"1nnoceneo abroad" says he was fooled over to
the park Friday. poor excuse is better than
none, Go home and get your spanking, sonny,
and keep Outof bad company hereafter
4 queer institution-Democrscy. Even their
primary elections are carried by fraud if We can
credit the assertions of some of the recently de-
teated candidates. We'll, chickens come home to
roost.
An exchange compliments a couple of young
surgeons for the skIlIfu manner in which they
performed delicate surgical operation, and,
though 'tLe patient died" predicts for them a
brilliant future
Preston, the Waynesburg murderer, has boen
convicted Of murder in the second degree. H..
D. s"ooPe, $50, was one of the counsel on the
part Of the prosecution. His closing speech is
said to have been mastery effort.
The snake season opens we'll. They are ex-
eeedingiy plenty, and imprudeat enough to
get into The hats of some of our nice Young men
when they are cut late at night without the con-
sent Of their anxious mammas