Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-07-29
CLIPPINGS AND scRrssLINcs.


Appear-seyeraI additional Sherif-s Sales
10 Waste of the raw N material-two ladies kiss
ing each other.
gS Delicious-the raspberries and cream we in
dulged in on Saturday evening
. On the deeline-four at Pittsburgh Cincin-
natl, and other prominent points
fJ The census of Kansas, taken by the mar
shals appointed by Governor Robinson makes the
population $4,000.
Ey7G Good-the crops in the upper end of the
county. We were told the weevi had done but
little injury to the wheat.
gMr. John Beck, late of Marion township.
Centre county, was killed in affray in Kansas,
on the 18th of July.
Kept busy-our farmers making hay be-
tween showers, which interfere considerably
Some grain, we hear, has been cut.
E59-A school teacher named A. L. Morrison, has
been arrested at kakomo Indiana, for having
eight wives. More than his share, that
u a great instituton-the western mail stage.
We get the mail scm-occasonally, il somebody
happens to come along that will carry it.
sT'old Grimes is dead. samuel d Grimes
died in Pike county, Alabama, recently, aged 1lO
years ''We neer shall see him more
E5''old Mr. singlestick mystified tea party by
rcmarkingythat are facts When pressed
to explain, he said, "facts are stubborn things''
syThere is an individual about town. who is so
sharp that he uses his shadow to split fre-wood
He is the same chap who is so long headed that it
takes an idea six months to get behind his ears.
- This is truly progressive age we live in.
There 'littlc girls now. The sex jumps
from infancy into young womanhood and hoops.
They talk of marriage at ten, and have families
at fifteen.
EyPumpernickle says, woman's heart is the
''most sweetest thing in the world in fact per-
feet honeycom5-fulI of sells. Bce-1carc Pun
perniekIe, the bees will sting you if they ever
catch you.
= Mrs Helen NJ. Dodge has commenced a civil
suit against dry goods merchant in Albany, for
kissing her against her will, laying the damages
at $4,000. Rather high-priced luxury, we should
think, for everyday
,g-There is great deal of poetry about ':dy-
ing for ones country the glory of death bed
on battlefield" " and all that but statistical re-
turns show that the majority of soldiers die of dys
entery, which must be very different affair.
70 In irculation-counterfeit Five's on the Ex-
rettc has couple haf-nude females the name Of
the bank is at the top of the note, and there
figures the ends of the note, which is well cal
culated to deceive.
-1gTFour men died recently in Lebanon, Ohio,
from drinking whiskey with strychnine in it. The
Star says that tens of thousands of fish in the
stream below the distilIery have died. Two tons
of dead fish have been taken out, a mill race be-
ing literally choked with them.
~ Good Tidings-The Cincinnati enquirer
notes sales of crop potatoes for future deliy-
cry, in that city, at 25 cents bushel. The Cleve-
land Herald" notices sales at similar rates in that
city. This looks little more favorable to cheap
living than the prices of the past two years.
- Governor Medary, of Minnesota, has again
telegraphed to Washington for permission TO enrol
five companies of volunteers to act against the hos
tile Indians Additional troops have been order
ed thither and special agent has been sent out
by the Secretary of the Interior to whether
there is any necessity for calling out volunteers
sf In Minnesota the Republican majority of the
constitutional Convention still continues in perma-
nent session, day and night, to keep possession of
the Legislative Hall. 1t has gone regularly to
work, appointing officers, committees, and cut out
the plan of procedure, while the Democratic mi
nority is doubtful and hesitating, meeting daily
but doing nothing
| E5y@On the 22d inst twenty children pos-
| oned in Cincinnati by eating lozenges which had
been scattered along the street by man and two
! boys. One of the children died. The lozenges
| were analysed and found to contain arsenie and
it seems are designed to destroy rats. The perpe-
traitor Of this horrible attempt life is German,
and was drunk at the time.
syRecent instructions in Italy are said to
have been the result of vast conspiracy, comPre-
hendng all the despotic States of Europe and hav-
ing its centre in France and the several monarchs
of those countries appear to have been previously
aware of the whole machinery. Mazzini has been
terribly deceived in his expectations evidently by
parties in the interest of the tyrants, who joined
| in the scheme for the purpose of betraying it.