Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-05-17


who has different beau every evening OF the
week.
ASwoope ha. collected more than million dol
lars for the Government, thus far. So gays the
! Gazette.
| The wheat crop continues to give promise of a
| rich yield. The dry cool weather has been of ad-
vantage.
The St Mary's Gazette is published by C.
W. Barrett. 1t adhcres to the Democratic school,
| in politics
The clergy of Chicago request that no notices
of religious services bo printed in sunday news
papers. Why
Hen and chicken partiel, to which only moth
ers with babes in their invited, are fash
| ionable now a. days
The Delaware peach orop of 1871 will exceed
that of 1859 about half million of baskets. So
say the fruit growers.
The Omy, Illinois. Democrat says: Tho wheat
is now two feet high. The first OF next month
harvesting commences.
The young gentlemen who stood about the
VI. L. Church door sunday evening have beau
tifui eyes-for staring
Judge Green sentenced fellow by the name Of
Snyd der to eight months the POt,srille jail, for
squirting tobacco juice on a lady's dress
The liquor dealers of Williamsport, Pa, have
formed association for protection against what
they call the eIcroactnenrs of temperance.
Reduced-the number of licensed houses in Al
egheny county, more than one half. The tem-
perance IN en- are after the liquor dealers with n
| long stick.
A Boston man. who saw no inclination on the
| part of the occupants of street car to give i'm
a seat, sat down the floor. Room WIS made
| for him then
The Coburn- Mace pummel was broken up BY
the Canadian authorities, last week. Right!
| Cruelty to dumb animals should be made a
penitentiary offence.
One of our talented young friends, thathe may
not be mistaken for ku-KiuX, sports the nation
al cUlers-red, white and btue. Forever float
that''-stTeaked hat.
The notorious John Bishop. alias Devil Jack, >
was recently seized, tried, and sentenced to be
hanged by u mob in Arizona. but he made his
escape and hanged himself.
Running regular-thrOugh trains on the Pitts
burg and ConneIlsviile road We congratulate
our Somerset friends their railroad commuui-
cation with the 'outer world"
An Iowa father pledged prospective child as
security for debt If il shouId prove to b" boy
1t is boy but the mother refuses give hi M up,
and a lawsuit is the consequence
The electicn ms f,r magistrates in Ketucky on
Saturday passed of quietly There is little po-
litfcaI signif cance attached to tho result. The
Republicans in Frankfort elected their ticket by
handsome majority.
PerpIexed-tbe young gent who cannot distin-
guish the photo of his lady love from that of
her sister for fear of making mistake he car
ries both pictures next bis he art. Ho had better
Lce-ve of writing to that gal"
The Madison. Wis, Journal says: ';A man
residing in Pierce county ate seventeen hard boil
ed eggs, thereby winning wager of 81 80 That
amount deducted from his doctors bill of s37,
still leaves him in arrears s5i 50.
The Steel works of the Cambria Iron company
are rapidly approaching completion. when in
fu opca ration at least five hundred persons will
find constant en- Pioymen: in adlition TO the four
thousand already employed about the Iron
Works.
A rather serious joke recently played upon
the North Carolina Legislature One of the
members died, and it was resolved 20 convey the
remains home at the expense of tho State; and
when they inquired into the after, it was found
he resided in Vermont.
a lady passed up Markc- street yesterday. du-
ring the entrse of the circus, looking like of
the escaped Partisan balloons with an unlimited
number of yards of silk buoyed up around htr
person by appliances know own only to the initiated.
She don't belong in ClearfeId
,o,,. rarv in town
yesterday. They came to see the elephant. bu,
persisted in locking through tho bottom of
inverted tumbler, often that they could scarce
Iy sec the side of tho Court Heuse-let alone
seeing small an animal as the elephant.
The anti capital punish ne cnt party has triumph
ed in Mexico at least for the present. The death
penalty is abolished. The experiment eff a mild
er code will be watched with interest. One thing
i. certain: affairs in the neghboring Republic
cannot bo much without capital punish
ment Than they have been with it.
Miss Grove has become associate e6fter Of the
/ Iloboken Democrat. We welcome her to the fra
ternity; III At won't do-to the sorrorterni.
ty, we mean, and that don't sound just right
Never mind; let her crow. .''-Jrrs~y Cir Journal
Here is a chance for the editorial fraternity to
make few remarks. Nay we ask, Is that crow
white or black
A writer in Texas paper relates that party
of miners in the mountains of FL Dorado, pros
pecting in isolated place where they were
without FIRE sh meats and vegetable fsod, were
afi icted with .curvy Sixof the ca ses were
planted in the earth up to their necks, and left
alone over right.with chew of tobacco apiece
The result of this attempt at earth cure might
have been happy, but for the fact that in tho
night coyotes came along and ate of all the six
teIls
The Dunkirk Journal says ia at curious indi
siduai was greatly perpleIed at the opening of
the Masonic rooms, the other nightto understand
the why's and whereforcs of three large candles.
which had conspicuous positions. lie viswed
them on all sides, thaugh;fuly summing up in
his mind The probable At last his patience
was exhausted, and turning suddenly about. he
made bold to ask Mason ~ hat those candles
were for2" Tho Mason, looking about him to
see that no one was near, and exacting most sol
emu promises of secrecy, got close up TO the ear
of his friend, and whispered The candles are
70 burn 80