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

USWe are authorized to state that John l..
Cnttle, Esq, will pay four dollars a bushel for
wild plum and wild sloe seeds, if delivered to
him in Clearfield borough, for any quantity not
exceeding ten bushels. They are designed for
planting on the farm belonging to the Farmers
High School, in Centre county.
TThe Presiding Elder for Greensboro
Circuit, Caroline county, Maryland, was recent
ly prevented by mob from walking around
the ground at the head of the coIored popula-
tion-a custom which had been followed for
many years at the close of camp-meetings.
Wone day last week a Mr.. Boyd, of Hop
kinsyille, Kentucky, administered severe ca
ming to DR.. Badger, a dentist. The wife of
Mr.. Boyd, beautiful woman, called at the of
fee 10 get some teeth extracted. Badger, for
getful OF the proprieties of life, kissed her.
She informed her husband, and he served the
amerouS doctor with Gaming.
gSThey are having strange trial OF
minister in Seneca Falls, New York. One of
the charges is that the gentleman hired a liv-
cry horse and wagon, was gone two days, ira
ded horses six times, and came back to the
stable with the same horse he took out, hav-
ing made one hundred dollars in the opera
tion. The best of the joke is that it is per-
iectly true.
There is big screw loose among the
Democracy in Ohio. The Locofoco State con
vention endorsed the Dred Scott decision.
Judge r. 3. Warden, an influential Democrat.
repudiateS. the party, and says that he cannot
allow his devotion to party or interest in poll
some rules of law, when all its constructions
in favor of liberty set aside, to make room
for perversion of the Constitution in the in
terest of the property in men, and adds that
he cannot worship this new idol of the Demo-
cratic party.
~Who is he 7-The Erie Constitution of
the 25th Aug. gives a story of ga Democratic
ex-Surveyor General of Pennsylvania who
had attempted to carry away the fascinating
wife of q wealthy German in New York, but
the parties were oyertallen by the husband
between Erie and Waterford, when fight en-
sued, in which the General was choked, the
Germans fingers bitten, and the wife rescued.
The General is said to have returned TO New
York, leaving the wife and husband to settle
matters as they could. Who is this ex-Sur-
veyo- General? The Constitution speaks of
him as notorious for debauchery and yillainy.'
2. s. We see it stated in another paper that
after Using porte. he gets rather brasrley.
A DRowsY DAasEL.-The Rockville Ind,
Republican says that some fellow entered the
house Of Mr.. Jesse Wright of that county, and
robbed the room of Mr.. W's. daughter, who
was sleeping in her bed. After plundering as
much as he could, be proceeded very coolly to
steal the earrings out Of the ears of the drow
sy damsei. Then he pulled the rings OFF her
fingers, and thinking still that he hadn't made
the robbery compile se, he cut all the hair off
one side of her head. And he accomplished
1t ell without waking the girl.
A ToAD IN A BOYS SToNACH.-A boy nine
years of age, named Jonathan Mieklethwaite,
son of William Micklethwaite, farm iaberer,
Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, New Jersey. one