Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-08-16
A Little Of Everything.

Oyer-the trout fishing season.
The rest of the day-Sunday.
Smallpox is raging in Allentown.
Grapes are coming on in profusion.
Mr. Colfax has completely recovered
Pennsylvania has 9O2. 800 horses, more or
less.
II you want faithful servant, serve your
self
Should be stopped-boys playing ball in
the street.
The coming style of ladies' dress win be
dark cloth.
Refreshing-the shower of rain on Sun
day evening last.
President Grant will visit the Pennsy!va,
Ma oil regions shortly
Water melons, musk melons, ETC., are
plenty in our markets
A female undertaken is patronized by
fashionable corpses in Charleston.
The Millerites have fixed September Sd,
as the date of their newest departure.
Brown linen over lower skirt OF cash
mere is the newest idea fer travelling dres-
ses.
! A Lancaster printer named Charles Wea-
yer robbed his room mate one night last
week of $l75.
Where is Mr. jeff Davis portrait p
was asked by Southern lady visiting 1nde-
pendence Hall.
Up to lst August the wool trade has been
active and sums up 2l, All $40 pounds val
ued at sl2, $50, ,404
A number of barns filed with grain and
hay have been destroyed in different parts
of State during the recent storms.
A Massachusetts, hoy cut off his young
sister, golden curls while she slept, to get
money with which to go to the races.
Admiral Porter is sadly broken down in
health, and, it is said, is unable to leave
Washington to enjoy summer tour.
500, eco is being raised by the Democrats
to use in the coming election. $25, 600 is
said to be assessed upon the police force.
a huckster while belaboring his horse
numerically was asked by lady, Have
you no mercy ?'' "No, nothing but green's"
George Labar. residing within few miles
of Stroudsburg, Monroe county, has enter
e upon his llOth year, and enjoys his usu
al excellent health.
1t is said th-t bleeding partially blind
horse at the nose will restore him to sight
SO much for the horse To open man :
eyes you must bleed him in the pocket.
The water viii BE- conveyed in iron pipes
from Kittanning Point. distance of five
miles The work viii be finished by the lst
of January.
Jones, Dare and Thomas, the three mu-
lattocs who escaped from the Eastern Penis
-tentiary one day last week were all captured
near Harrisburg and conveyed to Philadel-
phia on Friday.
4 man who will come to town in the
morning and carouse around until midnight
eating corn out of jug and leave his
horse tied to post in the hot sun, to &c
home without feed or water, is brute.
The fellow who swallowed fly one
esening last week, and attempted to disgorge
1t in the alley opposite our off c, need not
r.,oot tho ox,ar;n,o,, g., on, Iopa6, W.
are satisfied, if he is. He wasn't drunk
a young lady, in Richmond, Va, who
intended to commit suicide, solicited the
presence of a reporter to witness the opera
tion, hut owing to the interference of some
friends, the attempt was Indefinitely post
poned.
Mrs. Colt, the pistol maker at Hartford,
having built $4,000 church in memory
of her husband, and in behalf of her work
men, is building $50, 900 school house on
her armory grounds for the children of her
employees.
On Thursday night last James Mounts,
grocer, living in Washington, Pa, cut a |
horrible cash in his throat and stabbed him.
self in the abdomen with butcher knife. |
1t is thought he cannot survive his injuries. |
This would-be suicide was crazed with rum. |
An Ohio paper says: ANY new subscri- |
Der to our paper Tor the year 1871 will lie
entitled to a free obituary notice if lie /
should happen to die during the year"
What an inducement for a stingy man to so
to glory. Out here we can't give them a
lift for less then ten cents a line.
For an unadu!terated stink get Mr.. eau
lin TO let you act p NJ on warm day If
the smell that comes through the windows
in the rear of the Postofficc don t make you
feel little 'squeamish" about the stomach
then we will give up The stables are built
entirely to close to the street, and the own
ers of them should be compelled to remove
them.
In New York, the Alonson Methodist