Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-07-26
4 Little of Everything.

Hay is coming in rapidly, at $50 per ton
Whorteberries are selling at l0c. per at.
Poor weather for ice cream and soda
water.
Come to the JOURNAL Office for your Job
Work.
"Cheap' Bellcfontc Fatchmaas s
pun on our morals.
Cheaper-All kinds Of Job Work at the
Journal Job Office.
Parties are swarming TO the mountains to
gather whortleberries.
When do mems heads resemble their
dwellings? When they are covered with
tiles.
Reports from all portions Of California
slow I better wheat crop than was anticl-
patcd.
Eldorado, Kansa7, had terrible storm
last week. 0,000 worth of property de-
stroyed.
Put money in thy purse, as the pick
pocket said when he robbed man OF an
empty one.
All uniformed n .tional Guards of the
| State of Pennsylvania are exempt from jury
service, if they so desire.
DR.. Livingstone is said to he the only
traveller of renown who does not write let
| TORS or ma lp Snpe cbos
We want two or three tons of good hay.
Y ou can't find an ea~icr way Of paying your
/ Indebtedness to the Journal.
Curpensrale and Clearfeld ladies', keep
your eye skinned, there's good catch
/ in Clearfield worth $3.50, 900
The receipts Of the Patent Office during
the quarter ending juno 80, were SlSl sos,
and the expenditures, Sl49, ,4l6.
| A correspondent wants to know what is
the best thing for potato lugs. We know
| of nothing better than potato vines.
| An exchange, wanting to compliment
''live stock journal" says it is edited BY
man whose head is full of 1--we stock.
The municipal election for the city Of Par
is will be he'd on August 2l. The army
everywhere voted the Republican ticket.
In the Office of the Second Auditor of
the Treasury there are now 5000 claims Tor
bounty arrears, involving over $1,000, 900.
There are ST.; ministers in the Lutheran
synod of Pennsylvania who have labored in
the pastoral Office of that church from fifty
to sixty one years.
The friends of the Pope fear plots against
his life on the part of the Italians, and the
friends of Hyacinth fear the same for him
on the part of the Jesuits.
An Irish schoolnaster recently informed
his pupils that the feminine gender should
always be applied to all ships and vessels
afoat, except mail steamers and men Of
war.
That little chap who wanted to g snow
ball on the Fourth of July, so his hands
wouldn't get cold" might have had his
wish gratifed on the 23l of July, 1871, had
he lived hereabout-
A young gentleman inf rms US that some
of the young ladies' living in the country
near Phiipsburg have adopted the Hindoo
style of horseback riding straddte leg"
| If YOU know what that means
Mrs. Martin of Baltimore, lady in high
life has had two indictments found against
her by the Grand Jury for poisoning. 1t is
intimated that she is guilty of poisoning
| several persons within several years.
a Paris letter says: Business is gradually
coming mp Merchants and wholesale deal
/ ers who have been i1lc for year are full OF
orders; but there is more begging than
! have ever seen, in the streets of Paris
There are great many places in town
/ that smell of disease and epidemic, partic
ularly in the alleys. and swampy places, and
we adyise disiniectant or general clean
/ ing. Have our Borough authorities no
''seents" of smell?
Rev. Peter Cartwright, the veteran pio
neer preacher, is drawing nigh to the close
| or MS carlDly pIStimdSC. iiC IL Ho" Soh
| fined to his room in Pleasant Plains. near
Springfield, ILL., His strength is rapidly
filling, and it is feared he cannot live many
months.
/ In Titusville it is customary to speak of
the fashionable young lady as wearing an
'eigbty.sx barrel opera suit, and when a
boy wants to have his teeth plugged he gets
reauisition on the 'old man for couple
of barrels of OIL The system seems TO
work very smoothly.
The most foolish piece of extravaganza
we have heard of is the proposition to erect
drinking fountains in Washington, on the
streets. After Congress adjourns there may
be once in while man who will drink
water, but not enough to tax the capacity
of common syringe let alone a fountain.
Some of the moral young men who
we're swinging at Cabin Springs on last Sun
day afternoon, might have their morals con.
s;darobIy improved If they could be induced