Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-07
CLIPPINGS AND scRIssLlNes.

GSTak Taken-in-slghtly-the stranger that
| footed a certain oyster bill one day last week.
1UFact-there is no person who lives so
much from hand to mouth, as Dentist.
D|Big-that Radish our friend Nat Rishel
left at the journal office. Weighs 81 lbs
~Windy-thc weather and that eight ham
ded ''editoriaP' in the 'sRepublicau'' of Sep
tember thirty-frst.
GRcported-that Gen. Packer had given
up the idea of making a tour to Venango and
has sent likeness and lock of his hair.
"Issued-from the Mint at Philadelphia
within the past three months, S,G00,000 new
cents, weighing forty-three tons.
| Within the borders of the United States
are O,000 schools, 5000 academies, 324 collie
ges, and $500 churches.
U-Has been selling-wheat in Cincinnati at
| IS cents per bushel, lately. The first time for
better than two years.
~..Industry must prosper,'' as the man
said when he was holding the baby, while his
wife chopped the wood.
GyAre focls-people who take cart loads
of medicine every day when they imagine they
are going to be sick, and upon whom quacks
| fatten.
USarah f. Shaw has just recovered eigh-
teen thousand dollars from the Boston and
Worcester Railroad, for killing her husband
A good lift for the widow.
~Who's ''Molly Mcguire p said vcrdant
| individual a few days since, in Philadelphia
"Why, she's the four wheels of the Locofoco
coach, and Democracy is the ifth,'' answered
an honest American Democrat
lg~Gocd-no doubt-ssSmith'sL Limitation
| if we could read it all, as the following ex-
tract will readily show:
''Ths Day is Bad and so is he
The night is also not plcasand."
There is said to be a scarcity of jour
| neymen mechanics in Charleston, S. C. Car
pentcrs are in demand at two dollars per day,
while blacksmiths and moulders command two
dollars and fifty cents.
CyFive cattle, among herd of some twen-
ty, were struck by lightning, near West View,
Augusta county, Va, on Saturday a-week ,and
instantly killed. The cattle were on the sum-
NIT Of high and bare hill, remote from tim
Der of any kind.
&C. You rascal! where did you come from p
inquired lieutenant of man war of a sal
lCr who had dropped out at the main mast on
the lieutenants head and Knocked him down.
''From the north of Ireland, to be shure - re-
piled the sailor.
U-Frederick W. Porter, for 80 pears Cor
responding Secretary of the American Sun
day Scnool Union, having general supervi-
sion of its affairs, has proved defaulter to the
Society, in the sum of eighty-eight thousand
eight hundred and eighty-three dollars.
"The Directors of the Bank of Middle
town. Pcnn'a, passed resolution on Monday
a-week, making themselves individually liable
for all their notes. The combined wealth of
the Board of Directors and Cashier is about a
million OF dollars, and their circulation is less
than two hundred thousand dollars.
DgThe Greensburg Herald of Wednesday
the 30th ultimo says that ssthe man whose
friends refused to let him discuss the Slavery
question with Wilmot, was here last Thursday
afternoon, and spoke just one hour and a half
on that forbidden subject. The fact is. if it
had not been for that, he would not have had
Committed made!'
O-Bennct, of the New York Herald, it is
said, loses s. 1000 by the failure of Persee &
Brooks, who were his bankers. sold Potosi''
has been striving long and hard to create a pa
nic-now he has his reward just as the Man
haitian Bank, which created the revulsion of
1897, was one Of the institutions most thor
oughly ruined by it.
D5-It is said that ex-President Fillmore is
about to marry lady in Montreal. The Port
land .Adrertiscr thinks this pretty business
for a Know Nothing. s'Americans must rule
America" and here we have the great chief of
the s.darlS lanterns'' submitting 10 foreign rule
and actually laying plans to increase the inn
migrationi
y
How THEY OFF IN THE WEsT.-One of
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