Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-07-12
A Little of Everything.


The President las returned to Washington.
Erie has an oil well-like the at Clearfeid.
Paper is now used for the lining of water cool
ers
Think of Florida cabbages weighing nineteen
pounds.
A circular taw-the who ''saw around the
corner"
There was SOS eco fire at York. Pa, on the
7th inst.
recipe for a revolving post hole is peddied
out West.
One tho usand emigrants month are pouring
into Oregon.
The most steadfast followers of our fortunes
creditors.
If you wan, to bring on the cholera, eat plenty
of green fruit
waynesburg has five base ball clubs. Unhap-
py waynesburg'
A tornado passed over parts of Ohio on the 9th
inst, doing arch damage.
A Western town is sadly disconnected at fin ding
itself with out graveyard.
New potatoes in market, but they are SO
high that can't reach them.
Franklin county reJOlceS over maShlhcent
wheat crop. 30 do Clearfelders
Our imp judges how hot it is by the number
of paper collars he wears in a day.
The n. Y. IVorId calls the Pennsylvania Rail-
road bankrupt corporation. Ugh
Bleomsburg, Pa. enjoyed S25 900 FIRE on the
5th inst. 1t was caused by a fre-cracker
| Iowa stands at the foot of the list OF whisky
!
lady advertises in the London Times for
accom- plished poodle nurse Wages Ell per week.
| Part of the income of the royal family in En-.
| gland is derived from the tax 100000
mines.
1t stated as a curious fact that female lee
turer was invited this year to deliver Fourth of
July Grafton.
! man named Mearea hung by mob at
watseka, III. the 9th inst, for the murder of
little child.
A Minnesota boy played saloon" and mixed
his liquors carelessy that he ruined his busi-
ness and health.
The new Masonic Temple in Philadelphia is
! going up rapidly. 1t will cost, when com pleted,
about 81 100000.
Bogus ten, twenty-five and fifty cent notes are
abundant. All fractional ,urrency should be
closely examined.
down East editor says that since the recent
rains the farmers smiling like new shingles
on patched roof .
The Forest Republican notes the killing of a
rattlesnake having eleven rattles on the ezt1sme
htpI end of his tail.
An Arkansas dressmaker made bridal trous
sean the other day, which contained three hun
dred yards of calico
AtHyannis, Mass, the Univorsalist Church was
struck by lightning the 9Th inst, and entirely
consumed. loss $4,000
Rev P. COombe gave the dpplers a pretty ss-
we're 'comhing' last week. lie lectured six
nights, in the Court House.
The penalty of selling prize package of any
kind to a minor in Connecticut is fine of Sl0O
or six months imprisonment.
A California paper suggests Chief Justice
| Thompson, of Pennsylvania, the Democratic
candidate for President IN 1872.
7 n pound turntP seed oo..,..t-- ~ re. bundr.d
thousand, two hundred and eighty-eight seeds
If you don't lieve it count them.
a deck of cards and keg of beer are said to
moons, on Cemetery Hill. How is it?
| Hon. D J. Morrell. cf Johnstcwn, was thrown
from carriage, and had his skull fractured and
back sprained. His physicians think he will re-
cover.
Chicago policeman poisoned a dog. His
master-the dOg's-twisted his ear-the police
man's-and he now wears his eye-the man does
in a sling
Gen. George 2. Mcclellan advises the Tamma-
ny Democracy to accept the negro" George
didn't like the negro much when soldering on
! the Potomac.
Rather too juicy=the afternoon of the Fourth
to permit the displaying of 'starched store
clothes in the grove. Naughty providence 10
| interfere with the amusement of ..our set''
! young chap called on his girl the other eve
ming, and found her nursing the baby while the
old folks were out. To get rid of the little dar
ing' he picked it up toted it of to its grand
mothers.
! Unfortunate-the gent who took a sctoIe lady
to the picnic, last week. and had only haLf one
returning home They will do those things
sometimes, although the proceedings may not be
! quite legal.
1t is asserted that dog, belonging to a certain
Democratic politician in town. is habituated ts
having tinware tied to his tail that whenever he
! sees tin kettle he backs up it and waits for
somebody to tie it on.
Oil City policemen shoot all unmuszled dogs
and drive all perambulating porkers to the
pound By the way what is the reason that our
high constable does capture the drove of
pigs that have been running loose for the past
two weeks
The latest thing gents hats, is paper wind
mill that keeps current Of cool air constantly
passing over the face An attachment can be ad.
| justed to the lever jaw by which man get
away with more boarding house hash at one meal
than during week by the old process.
How astonishing is the conduct of some of the
editors of modern literary papers One of them
recently made the following unprecedented
nouncemcnt I'VE respectfully decline A Young
Maidens Kiss" The fellow must have been
crazy. Another was positively inhuman hear
him: My dying Mother" cannot be admitted.
The wretch we withhold his name for the sake
ofthe profession. third startliagly announces
The Golden Bible" is rejected fourth, with
beft taS Stp hntr aNrs