Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-04-19
A Little of Everything.
The hire class-laborers.
The lore class-sch GLARS


The magic mirror-a beautiful face lit up with
smiles.
There seventeen colored congregations in
Philadelphia.
Victoria woodh ull'' is the title of new brand
of Pittsburgh whisky.
AD artesian well is to be sold at auction-the
purchaser to remove it.
Mr. johnson, Michiganders extirpate. snakes
by biting of their heads.
The Princess Louise, though recently married,
is already call for Lerne"
Adding insult to injury-trusting man and
then asking him to pay you.
A drunken man can rarely walk In straight
line. He's more used TO rye-tangle
There were 900 building permits issued in Phil
adelphia during the month of March.
A Michigan paper publishes marriage notices
under the head Of Melancholy Accidents
amy Richardson, of Iowa, weighs 532 pounds
No man will marry her for fear of big Amy.
The closest study-auy study where the win
dows haven't been opened for many months
The people cf Huntingdon Monday, voted
in favor of borrowing 800, coo for water works
New York has strawberrie. from Charleston at
two dollars and half per quart, with the stems
| on"
Reading Pottsvilie Lebanon, Carlisle and Co.
Iumbia have pos:mistressss Instead of postnas-
tiers.
There is many q man whose tongue might gov
srn multitadss if he could only govern his
| tongue.
II am net mad, but incen.sd,'' said dandy
smelling Of muck He was not muscular, but
smeit strong.
Virginia, says the New York World, reports
Timothy as promising good crop, but says moth
ing about Paul.
A paper called the Tobacco Plant has recently
been started in Liverpool 1t must be a good pa
per for ''puffs -
A very wicked fellow. who desires to torment
housekeepers, predicts tremendous supply of
| flies this summer.
Out of4 ,342 769 passengrs carried over the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad in 1870, only two were
killed by accident.
York has a man who claims to be st. John, the
Evangelist, .nd quotes Scripture with great ra-
pidity and correctness.
lately returned the verdict of death from hang
| ing-ar0und a tavern"
Pennsylvania has the largest assessed valua-
! tion Of real and personal estate of any State In
the Union-Sl, ,6342is 1856.
| A Patterson servant girl tried to melt the bull
| let out Of a metallic cartridge to solder up her
boiler. Thirty five carriages followed the hearse
On Monday afternoon Mrs. Charles II. Swan, oi
Cochran, used coal oil in kindling a fire. She
was twenty-si years old, and leaves husband
and one child
During this war" says an exchange, "Frsnce
produced no Marshal Murat" And yet she ate
cavalry horses enough to have produced even
| martial neigh.
A Bennington paper reports that prisoner in
the county Jail fell out while leaning against tbs
wall. and that the institution is to be papered fol
| better security.
An Indiana paper notices the death of an olo
| SUBSCRIBER, and touchingiy 1--WE are .orr,
| to hear of the death of any of our subscriber
| who prompt about paying up"
Postage stamps of the denomination of sever
cents have been issued by the Government. They
are designed especially to prepay letter, to Ger
many, being the rate to that country.
The Mt. Pleasant Journal truthfully says: Th,
devil has got pretty firm grip on the seat of {
mans trousers. who will take his county newspa
per for one or two years and then refuse to pay
Tor it.
An old lady who troubled by the prospect
of the introduction of gas in her village and the
consequent di.use of whale oil, asked with much
earnesIness: What is to become of the poo.
whaIes?'
Lehigh county boast. of the oldest postmaster
| in the United States His name is John f. Sci
berling, and he is eighty four years of age. lie
received his commission In 1920, and has retain
ed it ever since.
/ Trail Green, NJ D., of Northam pton county, ]
l. Atlee NJ D., of Lancaster county, and ID. W
| Gross, of Dauphin county, have been appoin ted
trustees of the Pennsylvania Lunatic Hospital at
| Harrisburg, for term of three years each
! The bay window season is upon US again, says
the Titusyille Herald One architect recently
completed a desis tor a barn and hen house vi tn
! six bay windows each. Carpenters now con-
tract only for the bay windows, and throw in the
| rest of the house.
On the door of the Chetopka House, in Kansas,
emily posted the following noice: This
hotel Is CLOSED on account OF dlHeTenc between
| the proprietor and cook, which was settled with
pistols and sent the proprietor to the grave, and
the cook to the jail
| The fact is asserted that a man IN Delaware
kept negro girl in slavery up to week before
last, when, she being too sick to bo made use of
| by him, he gave her her freedom, and ten cents
to take her TO New Castle. She died there in
twenty -four hours after her arrival.
The Columbia Is. C) Uniom, approves the
proposition that the ballot should be accorded onl y
to those who read and write, remarking that
there are as many white men, in proportion 10
their numbers, in South Carolina tho can neither
read nor write, as there are colored-"
| The recent explorations in Jerusalem have ex-
cited the greatest interest among the Masonic fra
tsrnity, on account of the discovery Of what are
believed to be 'Mason's mark" on a conside rable
| number of the immense foundation stones recent
| ly uncovered under the debris of the Temple.
| The assassination of Mr. Q. Dickcnson, in
Mariana, Florida, just made public, marks the
death of the last leading Republican, in county
in which sixty Republicans have been murdered
| in two years. He was shot for other offence
than that of being Republican and an Office
| x~;u taxa Som h.