Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-07-22
CLIPPINGS AND scaiee,lhes.

day the 18th August.
~Receding--the comet, tho it is yet visi-
bic in the eastern heavens, before daylight.
UMade their appearance-cherries, during
last week. We have been unusually Plus
ever since.
~A little tired-the chap that was feeling
the sign-post to find the door-latch, not many
nights ago..
UUp-the military spirit in Curwensville,
on Saturday evening last, SO high, it is said,
that it reached their hats.
|W-u-g-hl- but we have had some warm
weather recently. Ice-cream and other arctic
like arrangements are in demand.
G-Life is now defined as consisting of mo-
ney, fast horses and fashionable wife. So,
s'ga-lang" at two forty, or '.bie buster.''
~Col. Cumming, of Missouri, appointed
Governor of Utah, will take his family to that
territory and make it his permanent residence.
GyIn circulation-counterfeit fves on the
Honesdale Bank. The vignette on the spuri-
Gus notes represents man, anvil, forge, &C.,
which is unlike the genuine.
aware State, circumstance, says the Will
mington Republican, which has not occurred
before within the memory of the Oldest in
habitant.
~One county alone in this State-Schuyl-
kill-has harvested from the coal beneath its
soil the immense sum of S190,G00, 600. There
is nothing in tie boasted wealth of California
comparable with this.
~The Republican members of the New
Hampshire Legislature held meeting before
the adjournment of that body, and nominated
John c. Fremont as the Republican candidate
for President in 1860.
~Rev. T. S. Simpson, Paster of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church of Allegheny
City, is trial for the seduction of Miss Salle
Henderson, young lady placed under his
charge.
~The people of Peru a4e so indoent that
they open pea pods with oyster-knife. In
| driving horses they always have two to each
quadruped-one to hold the relns, and the
other to cry sswhoa."
AN exchange paper says that a wreath of
black walnut leaves, suspended in a room, will
drive out flies, and that they will not enter the
room again until the wreath is withered. The
experiment is worth trying.
! W-It has been thought that people are de-
generating, because they don't live as long as
in the days of Methuselah. But the fact is,
provisions are so high that nobody can afford
to lvc very long at the current prices.
~The papers are Dragging of an invention
by which leather can be tanned in ten min
stcs. That's not much. We have seen the
| human hide tanned in five minutes, and some
schoolmaster's can do it in less than two.
| GA mob in Cedar county, Iowa, on the
night of the Sd, broke into the Jail, and not
withstanding the desperate resistance of the
| Sheriff and guard, took two prisoners named
Gleason and Soper, charged with horse steal
| ing, and hung them.
UThe Boston Courier states that gen
tleman of that city has lost member of his
family every 4th of July for the last four years.
| His two sons and his wi fe have died on that
day in successive years, and on the last 4th his
little daughter, aged five years, was seized
with commissions and died.
| GvCol. Thomas Hite and other citizens
of Jefferson county, Va, set free eighty of
their slaves on Thursday the 9th inst. The
| Colonel, as the agent of the owners, accompa-
MED them to Middleburg, Pa, when handing
| each individual forty dollars in money, and
equippng them all with sufficient clothing,
they were set at liberty.
| U0n Monday morning Mr.. Warn took up
his gill net, which had been set on the previous
Saturday in t,centy fathoms, or 100 feet Of ira
ter, and took therefrom one hundred and .fif1y
ducts. Many will, no doubt, think this is a
fish story, but it is true, and shows the immense
depth which these birds dive in quest of food.
OakriiIe Sentinel.
~The Kansas correspondent of the ST
Louis Democrat says that Brown of the Herald
Of Freedom, has lately gone over to the Bor-
der Ruffians with mis- paper, and is about tc
early day. This explains the tenor of the ar
ticles in the Herald of late, which have tiekled
the Locofocos so much.
DyThe Minnesota Constitutional Conven
tion met at the Capitol, St. Paul, on the l4th
Fifty-nine Republicans were present. The
Democrats, A in number, organized separate
Convention for drafting Constitution. The
Republicans intend to remain in session nigh
and day in order to retain possession of the
Hall.
LIB. T. C. Morgan, of Pittsburgh, one Of
those ssintense Americans who could moi
vote for anybody but Fillmore and who, as
member of the ssStraigbtout'' State Commit
| tee along with John p Sanderson sold the