Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-03-29
A Little of Everything,
Common sueTs-Lavyers.


Sumner is already announced as a candidate for |
the Presidency.
new counterfeit s2e greenback is being cir
culated in Philadelphia
They sell oysters by the po-nd in Newark, and
one oyster weighs three pounds
His forehead extended to the gable end of his
neck, means he was bald he aided.
Synonymous terms-Ku-Klux and Democracy,
according to the admission of Col. Tate
The Philadelphia Steamship Line bids fair to
become reality. The stock is all taken.
young lady of Cincinnati last year made
81, 200 profit out of her sewing machine.
Good resolutions are like ladies who faint in a
lecture room-they should be carried out.
Th. St. Paul (Minny Pioneer Democratic, pro-
tests against the removal Of the income tax.
The New York Herald thinks Senator Sumner
is establishing reputation as a good hater.
Lloyd Britton, the darkey who murdered Jacob
Bay, was hung in WilliamspOrt on March 22d.
The French General Durrien had both feet fro
zen off during the retreat of Bourbaki's army.
The Salt Lake Theatre is running "The Lonely
Man" 1t don't mean Brigham, for he is
ried.
The great Columbia basin isover 400 mile, long
and l5O miles wide. 1t is immense grazing
plain.
Innocence is like m umbrela-when once we
have lost it we may never hope to it back
again.
The new Spring bonnets the prsttiest little
things im.ginable-,malI in size bat large in
price.
The Pythian sisterhood is order for fs-
males They have Supreme Pavilion some
where.
st. Petersburg reports that the Emperor. Alex
ander is confirmed drunkard past all hope of
reform.
All the biographies of the great and the good
show that not one of them had fashionable
mother.
The sur got across the vernal equinox without
accident according to latest advices, Tuesd .y,
March 2lst.
With the exception of six infantry regiments
the whole French army will be dissolved and then
reorganized.
An agricultural friend has discovered that the
best wgy to raise turnips is to catch hold Of the
tops and pull.
Easter comes OF the second Sunday in April
the 9th day viii the hens be good enough to
scratch down the date9
Kentucky is we'll supplied for the coming po-
litical campaign she has stock of 2,352.io5 gal
Ions of whisky on hand.
Canada is reported to be increasing her debt
at very rapid rate. Reports of impending
bankruptcy current.
Defiance Ohio has family containing fveidoc-
tors, father and his four sons. each of the fvs
being over six feet in hight
The Marquis of Lorne, Scottish nobleman.
married the :1st Instant, to the Princess
Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria.
A little boy, upon whom his m other inaict-
ing personal chastisemcnt said, ''go on, old wo-
man you haven't made me good yet
The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that
note given for money lost at gambling is void
even in the hands of an innocent third party.
During the year 1879 Roman Catholic churches
and institutions in New York received from the
municipal government the sum of s73o,7s2 "a
The Wyoming papers say that the people of
that territory about to abandon woman suf-
frage as both mischevious and mpractisabEe."
Baltimore is agitated about Jones' Falls. We
suppose Jones must be drunk or he could scarcely
have enough falls to agitate great city like Bal
timore.
Decidedly ''wickst'-tor gent to stake his
clothes on n fashionable outdoor game, when he
ha, rent in arrears" But-:'you know how it
is yourself father.
In Chicago, recently, after inug man s. for
drunkenness the justice imposed additional
fine of $40 for tearing the pantaloons Of the po
liceman who captured him.
A wag, seeing door nearly of its hinges, in
which condition it had been for some time. OBJ.
served that when it had fallen and killed some
one it would probably be hnng
An eccentric woman. Mrs Mary Gaines who
had been unfortunate in two marri ages recently
took third husband without legs, for the reason,
a. she alleged, that he could not run away from
her.
a dutiful son of Detroit has killed sixty seven
of his neigh bors' cats TO get money to buy his
mother set of false teeth. He ha. made quiet
neighborhood where once was a bowling wilder
ness.
The Washington Star tells us that the ladies at
the Capital have, to great extent, banishsd
wines from their parties, and are now begin ming
a crusade against cigars in the gentlemens dres-
sing rooms
A writer in the New York TrfbHR> says that
the Turkish bath has been successfully used in
Great Britain antidote for the cravings of
the drunkard, and has proved itself as the most
effective remedy yet known.
A pet goat belonging TO an Irismaa in Macon,
Ga, ate up seventy dollars in greenbacks, which
he found in an open trunk in his masters room.
The Irshmen gave the goat round beating and
dosed him with castor oil, but didn't got back his
money.
An old soldier, having been brought up to vote
at election at the expense of one of the candi-
dates voted for his opponent, and when reproach-
ed for his conduct. replied ''always quarter upon
the enemy, my lads; always quarter upon the
enemy
The man ''who so wondrous wise" about
the braHble bush apparently lives in Michigan
Forty years ago he blinded himself by letting
chip q y into his eye while he was chopping wood
and last week he reganed his eyesighi by sim
liar operation.
The Boston Post and other Democratic papers
still busly engaged in printing tales of the