Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-02
CLIPPINGS AND scarsBLiNes.

| - anted-in payment of subscription, at this
office, wheat and other fodder
| - Acquittcd-ex-Gov. Robinson, of Kansas, of
the recent charges brought against him.
| - On "bust'-the Warren Bank, the Erie
! City Bank, and several banks in other States
! EyA French writer is represented as calling
| dyspepsia "thc remorsc ef guilty stomach
| E1g7In limbo the young lady whose beaux
hugs her three nights in the week. and half of
Sunday.
% Wrong-the date on the outside of a por-
ton of this weeks Journal. The correct date is
| September ID.
| I16-A woman made her appearance in the streets
of Poughkeepsic, New York, one day last week,
covered with mosquito net.
| G37Thc last nine Indian mail-packets, which
sailed from England, took specie to the enormous
amount of $4,000 coo.
- Money mania is what the lawyers mean
not monomania-in their defence of wholesale ras-
eality- It's sly joke Of theirs
! 70 Appointcd-by the Governor, Darius Bull
lock, Esq, of Bradford county, as Judge of the
18th district in the room of Hon. David Wilmot,
resigned.
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt her
self to the crooked policy and willy sinuosites of
worldly affairs; for truth, like light travels only
in straight lines.
EE71fn treating diseases of the mind music is
not sufficiently valued Inrasing the heart above
despair. old violin is worth four doctors and
two apotheeary shops
20 -Reeovcred-the marc of J. L. Cutie. ESQ.
The animal was found, in lame condition, near
Glen Hope, where, understand. another horse
was taken in her stead
| gY7We lately met grammarian, who had just
made a tour through the mines coDjugating or
rather cogitating thus Positive mine compar-
ative, miner; superlative, MINIS -
:-17Mr. Brostwick, late Secretary of State to
Gen Walker, says he can prove by documentary
evidence that no less than 800 flibusters found
their graves in Nicaragua.
Ig genius at Bellows Falls, with knife. file.
hammer and pegging awl has constructed a sta
tionary miniature steam engine, with a new kind
of valve The engine is perfect in all its parts
~ Gone west-Gen. Jno. Patton Judge Wright
D. G. NeyIing, W. W. Wright. Richard Mossop. J.
o. Lorain, Irwin Thompson Harrison Miller Dan
iel Baily, sr-, Robt. Porter and several others of
this county. for the purpose of prospecting"
| - Muggins says he don't believe in the APP
pearance of spirits in this world strongly as he
does in their disappearance. He lost gallon of
brandy and two baskets of champagne on the late
election.
E5~The best description of weakness we have
ever heard, is contained in the wag' query to his
wife, when she gave him some thin chicken-broth.
if she would not try to coax that chicken just to
wade through the soup more!
sS-Mr. Cough is engaged by the London League
AID the Edinburgh Temperance League, to deliver
four lectures week for three years, or six hun
dred lectures. Eight months in the year are to be
spent in England and four in Scotland.
IJ'Thc recent census of the State of New York
gives zoo, ,253 males, and ,7l4.653 females The
widowers number 35.S97, and the widows % lS2
Nearly equal number of males and fem ales
but 10000 more widows than widowersi
tg-What more precious ogcrillg can be laid up
on the altar of mans heart than the first love of
pure, earnest and affectionate girl with an un-
divided interest in eight lots and fourteen
three story houses? One with ten lots and TWEEN
ty houses, as a matter Of course!
Ezg-The chairman of the Investigating commits
tee, of the Busy-body Society," reports that the
following resolution was passed at special meet
ing of ladies :-"Resolved That if We the young
ladies here assembled, don't get married this year
somebody will be to blame
E0TA young man named Spencer in Broome
| county, New York, loved a fair danseI to distrao
tion' and because her 'parents-' moved back to
Connecticut he stole a. horse and buggy for the
purpose of following them; but alas for his mis-
taken love- he was arrested and has been sentenced
to the State prison for two years
~ burglar, a few nights since. entered tto
house of Mrs. Madden, in WILLIAMSBURG New
York. Having INDUCED some hat freely he helm
ed himself to refreshments, and falling asleep, re-
mained oh the floor till morning, when Mrs NJ
seized club and beat him 50 well that to escape
he jumped through the basement window.
LEA fast young man in Detroit, Michigan, took
a buxom seamstress out riding the other evening
and enjoyed himself so well that he proposed to
get married. She consented and the magistrate
tied the knot. Now he has repented, and says he
wont support her, declaring that she got him
drunk, and then 'undone' him. He has wealth:
She has Serves him right; he had no busi
ness to become intoxicated either with the LIQUOR
or with the lady
9y-Therc is dirty, mendacious sheet, call
ed the s.Dcllar Weekly News circulated gra-
tuitously in this county. 1t is an emanation
of the ssside-door'' leaders, and asks Ameri-
cans to support Isaac Hazlehurst, the Bogus
candidate, for Governor. 1t also abuses Viii
mot, and any person with three grains of COM
| mon sense ought to be able TO see that its OBJ
ject is to withdraw votes from Wilmot, and in
that way help Packer. Every vote that Ha-
zlehurst gets, is one less for Packer to over
come. We trust that not man in our county