Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-11-04
cLlppIncs AND scRlsBLlNes.

~Fine bed-fellows-Packer, Plunder and
Poverty.
WMust decrease-the importation of For
eign goods.
UMust be increased-the Tariff, to Pro-
| tecting standard.
Arrived-Mr. J. Frost He is rather
| cool these mornings.
USaid to be-times so hard in Bellefonte
| that physic won't operate.
0gWhy is venison like a lost friend 2 Be-
| cause it is the deer departed.
UCause of hard times-Banks bursting,
Buchanan and British goods.
QyFunny-to see our devil sstear''
! with the editors tile on his head.
~Elegant-the music of the CIearfield
Brass Band on last Thursday evening.
~Not quite so good-the music of the
''Horse-iddle'' Band on the same evening.
QTNew figure in a dance-to GO Bob bing
heels over head out of the door into a mud
hole.
10 yEna-barrassing-for young lady TO be
caught hugging and kissing her beaux on the
stairway.
D-If You never did enjoy the ecstatic
bliss of courting, you had better get little
Gal aa'-fry.
OTLookS suspiciouS-to see a couple stran-
gers prowling about town viewing the Jail on
every side
~Highly interesting see assMein-herr'
elected from ballroom and ssfotchcd" up a.
| gainst SnleII-er.
Suggested-that Pablic Plunder be Sec
rctary of State under Packer, as he is near
aud dear relative of his.
TProposed question for discussion by a
| debating club down east: ssDuz dress consta-
tute the moral part of wimmin %
| rraken by all the Philadelphia banks
the notes of the Farmers Bank of Lancaster,
on deposit or in payment of debts at par.
TWhy may ladies hoops be said to resem-
bic the present financial crisis? Because they
cause shin-pIasters to abound.
| TA mesmcrized druggist, on having his
| bump of adhesiveness touched, Immediately
arose and said he would spread plaster.
| URich-the performances of the chap lcot
drove through Curwcnsville one day last week,
fetching his horse up stGnling. va! she
| GTWrong-the report, that John Bare who
| broke BcllctOnte Jail, is confined in our coun-
ty prison, as stated in some of our exchanges.
| ByFashionable-for the leaders of the Dim
mycratic party to wear ,eOol hats. and little
under their hats. Dye smell anything strong? !?
"Not hard to take-those turnips that
Robt. L. M'Collim left US few days since,
raised from seed procured from the Patent
| Office.
GEMight have been scared-the boys on
s'Holly-eve" night, prOtridins that old gun
hadn't gone snap, snap, snap, instead Of 60
ing off.
EpAn old tradition says-to be beloved by
! everybody, a man whose hair curls naturally.
| Wonder if this includes the ssDimmycrats' of
the South.
~Sccne.-A small chap on the street with
a big hat on. Stranger sees him and cries
out: ssHallo, hat, where in thunder are you
going with that boy ?'
GI.sHave You hugged Molly a''-is the
question now put to American Democrats by
her Catholic dcvotccs. If you answer no, you
are not simon pure.
DyA Hard shell preacher discoursing of
Daniel in the lions den, said: s'There he set
all night, looking at the show for nothing; it
didn't cost him a cent?
| "Modest-the Philadelphia Banks, Gas
they were the first to suspenG,) in asking the
country Banks to furnish them with funds to
redeem the latter's notes.
U-N otes sale-the Louisville Journal, of
200 hogs, within few days, at S4 and on Sat-
urday go hogs were offered at that rate, when
purchaser could not be found.
TGrow ontaneously--nutmegs in the
mountains of California. They are longer and
more tapering in shape than the nutmeg OF
commerce, and superior in their pungent
| flavor
~The Bellcfonte Democrat, of Oct. Goth
on the Lock Haven and Tyrone Railroad is
false. The works. progressing rapidly and
will go until completed.
| G~Some unprincipled scamps broke into
the Huntingdon Journal Office, short time
since, pied the forms and cases, and stole the
pack book. The forms of the perpetrators OF
the mischief should be locked up in a Moya-
mensirg chase.
-By~A steamer from Prairie du Chen lately
presented the following spectacle: AT one end
of the long saloon, a clergyman was preaching,
in the middle gambling in busy progress,
and at the ether extremity music and dancing
was going on. Social company, that
DyA boy named Samuel White, aged II
years, who was engaged with a number of 9TH
ers in calathumpian serenade, in Lancaster
CO.. on the marriage of his sister, drank a
quantity of whiskey when invited into tie
house, and was found dead next morning.