Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-07-19
A Little of Everything.
Vegetables are in demand.


The worst pill in the box-the new tinker.
Eggs are pretty plenty. and the price 'od.
Accounts of 4h of July fires numerous.
Green corn is now sought after by epicures.
Getyour job work done at the JOURNAL office.
Williamsport is to have Hebrew synagogue
Potatoes are in demand, and sell at high prices.
Wisconsin abolished grand juries the first of
July.
postofhce.
The river continues low. So does pile of
greeubacks
The First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle is
IL years old.
Gaulin'. new building, on Market street i, pro-
crossing finely.
One Indian in Oregon was civilized-he hanged
himself for love
When Missouri doctors disagree they shoot one
another in the neck.
The present harvest in France will fall below
the annual average.
A fire in Marietta on Saturday a.week destroy
ed twenty buildings.
Letter headings and envelopes printed cheap
at the JOURNAL office.
Read the new advertisements They are of
interest to everybody.
Ducks are death on potato bugs. This is ne
"luack" prescription.
few fresh peaches have already made their
appearance in CleaFieid
What has become of the waterworks project?
Hope it has not died ont.
The flower thieves of Altoona appear to have
migrated to Willamsport
Two horses were struck by lightning Sun
day a.week in WilliamsPort.
Bills are plenty in pockets. Would like
to get rid of them. Who next?
Tho Elk Aduoeate says that ''Huckle-berries''
are selling at Is cents per quart.
A sharp earthquake shock felt at yisalia
! California on Wedu esday of last week.
$4,000 blank cards on hand at the JOURNAL Of
fee Who wants the next lot printed
Temperance, with an 'n'' before it seems to
be in healthy state of progressivsness-
| The days and weather will begin going to the
| dogs on July l7th. Which is why remark.
! Camp meetings will soon be fairly inaugurated
| of which the .eason will be exceedingly prolific.
Candidates FOR ofioe cannot do much in the
esctioneerng line during such weather as this.
Things that are never hurt by falling-prices.
| They fall so slow that they will never get smash
| ed
Running off with another mans wife i. called
larceny in St. Louis. Petty (coap larceny, prob
ably
Minute three wheeled. doll baby perambula
tors are the latest rage among little girls in Clear
| field.
Spurgeon thinks that some ministers would
make good martyrs-thsy are so dry they would
burn well.
The L. c. & 5 c. R. R from Tyrone to Lewis
burg is TO be narrow gauge road-three feet
| inches wide.
The homeliest young men in town can be found
loafng on tbs street corners every evening, from
| 10 III O'Clock.
The Connecticut House Of Representatives, by
a vote of ] 90 to 81, Thursday last, passed gene
raj railroad law.
We are glad for the popularity of our friend
Job that he bad not to live in these days OF su'
perIatve holiness.
Poor way to build a housekeeping brick in
the hat We saw a chap try it the other day. but
he didn't succeed very we'll
Greeley recently wrote an article headed8Write
me letter from home" but the printer set 1t up
Riding the elephant home
The books of the Internal Revenue office al
Washington, show that the orders for lager becE
stamps average forty thousand per day.
! Amusing-to see a chap carrying a heavy top
load, while ho is under the impression that 9TH
er. think he tastes drop. Ahem
They talk of passing law in some of the New
England States compelling every man to go to the
polls and vote. What next from that quarter!
The Young Americas in some of our ncighbor-
ing towns have organized societies for teaching
good manners. Clearfeld sprouts, please notice
chap in Fremont, Ohio, paid off sixty dollars
of the national debt, by hanging his vest, con-
/ tanning that amount too near burning brush
heap
They say' is the biggest kind of humbug,
and SANDERS more people through Ignorance and
thoughtlessness than a wish to destroy their good
name
The allowance of West Point Cadet in the
summer is twenty pairs of white pants week
with five other pairs in his trunk IN case OF
muddy weather.
/ Thomas Lincoln, the youngest son of the late
| President Lincoln. died in Chicago on the l9th
| inst. His disease dropsy of the heart His
| eighteenth birthday occurre ed in May
Arkansas is fea rfully excited over large hole.
| A tract of about 90 acres of Clinton mountain
has sunk carrying big trees entirely out OF sight
! and the hole continues to enlarge its borders
A love-sick youth who was singing, 81 m lone
! ly tonight, love, without you" under his fair
| one IS window, had little more company than
! he wanted when the old man set the dogs on him
The latest parody on ''Mary's little lamb =;
MARY had little corn,
Upon her little toe,
And everywhere that Mary went
! This corn was sure TO go"
! An exchange says: .sOne of the prettiest sights
! the human eye ever rested upon is gold IN IL
| quid state" Tho human eye in this vicinity
| would be satisfied if it could any of the met
al in a solid state.
The "hoop-skirt'' that was dropped on second
street one day last week was not stolen, as many
of the spectators believed, neither had it ever
been worn 1t had just been taken for fun, you