Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-02-04
CLIPPINGS AND scRlsRLlNGs.

DrA lively companIon-thei jumping tooth
ache.
VSharp--thc breath OF Jack Frost and
our scissors. %
DCTo be celebrated-the anniversary of
Washington's birthday at Philipsburg.
WGood Cough-mixture-a pair of heavy
boots and plenty of fresh air and exercise.
W~Wood was selling in Cincinnati week
ago at Sl4 per cord, and no coal to be had.
GyFixed upon-the 10th day of February
as the time for the Legislature to elect State
Treasurer.
B-CIearfield Bank.-O On the 26th January,
Mr.. Souther, of the State Senate, read in place
a bill to incorporate the Clearield Bank.
Uy-Mrs. McCliester, wife of E. McCiiester
of Indiana county, Pa, committed suicide on
the 9th ult., by cutting her throat with razor.
She was partially insane.
1y-We heard Young lady remark on Mon
day morning that the s'threemometcr'' was
down to s'squeeze-oh ~ We suspect she had
hept late hours the Mi ght before with her beau.
Cg-Mr. Slough, member of the Ohio Lee
from the House, on the 29th January, by
vote of 20 to 35, for striking Mr. Caldwell, of
Ashtabula, tor words spoken in debate.
CJThc St. Paul (Minn.) Times states that
''ire-wood is selling in that city, for 50 per
cord With fuel at such price, and the in
tense cold OF the long winter in that region,
Minnesota does not present much inducement
to immigration there.
D~Doubted by the ladies' the report that
it was so cold ono day last week as to break
of marriage engagement, by the freezing up
of the young gentleman's passion. The gen.
eral effect of cold nights is to bring the mar
rage fever to a crisis.
Cg-The Locofoco organ of Schuylkill coun-
ty says the newspapers that are lashng Messrs.
Lebo and Wagonseler for voting for Cameron,
might just as well mind their own business, as
a majority Of the democracy there would any
day prefer Cameron to Forney as U.S.Senator.
CZ-High Living-Thc Davenport (Iowa)
Gazette says that butter, at that place, is sell
ling at 80 cents per pound; eggs, 35 cents per
dozen; chickens p cents each; turkeys, 10
cts. to 81 .25; potatoes. 81 per bushel; coal,
l6 to IS cents per bushel wood, So to SIS per
cord.
Dr.sGin treat''-IIon. Simon Cameron,
on last Wednesday evening, to Il large number
Of his friends. The newspaper reporters, who
are thick as hops about Harrisburg, couldn't
come in,' and are down in the month about
it; but whenever Simon says 'wig-wag,' they
will all come right.
Gg-With the exception of few miles in
Virginia there is now connected line of rail
road all the way from Bangor on the Penob-
scot, to Montgomery, on the Alabama; ere
long the chain will be extended to New Or
leans, thence to be carried westward until it
reaches the Pacific.
GZ-Centrc CouDty.-On the 18th jan, the
house of Geo. W. ShafIer, of Benner tp., was
entirely consumed by fire. On the 18th, the
/ house of Mr. Mclaughlin, OF Bald Eagle Val
/ ley, and short time previous the house OF
Robt Campbell, Esq, in Half Moon township,
were also destroyed by fire.
| BrLal,c Erie is now one vast field of ice,
so far as the eye can reach, from shore to
shore. So says the CiereIaad Herald. Along
the shore the ice is fine, smooth and solid,
and covered at all hours witt! troops of skaters;
while further away it is covered with snowy
! crust, upon which the skaters never venture.
| CIThe law relative to depreciating Span
! ish quarters, levies and fps, has not yet pas
sed Congress, but in the meantime spectators
in the cities are already at work soaring peo-
pie into parting with them at 90, 10 and 5
cents. Our advice is, unless much defaced,
| to keep them, or part with them only for what
they are really worth.
IMissionaries in the Pacifc.-There are
/ now on the islands of the Pacific ocean, in
/ connection with the London Church Wesleyan
and American Missionary Societies, 119 mis-
,ionaries, 45, ,929 COMMITMENTS, 2S9, 800 pro-
I fessed Protestants, and 5i,70S pupils. The
/ largest single Protestant church in the world
| is on one of these islands. Christian missions
have had their greatest triumphs among the
heather Of this ocean world.
R-Isaac s. Shurlock, charged with the
murder of Philip S. Clawges, was acquitted at
/ Philadelphia, on Saturday last a-weck. There
was no question about the murder The act
was done deliberately and with premeditation.
! 1t will be recollected that Clawges had seduc-
ed the wife of Shurlock, who was his clerk
Upon his wife informing him of the outrage
committed upon her, ShurlOck armed himself
with revolver, stationed himself in the street,
and when Clawges came up to him, discharg
ed three shots into his victim. and then gave
| himself into the hands Of the authorities.-
The proyocstlon Vas great, md the Jury &C
! quilted hin,