Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-06-03
CLIPPINGS AND scRlBBLlNes.


and beautiful dress.
Oy-Better be smtten with young lady than
the rheumatism. Depends much on crcum-
stances, however.
O5-Don't crow before you are out of the
woods,'' is politely rendered, ''Do not jublate
prior to emerging from the forest.''
D5~Rev. Mr.. Roberts and 200 Welsh emi-
grants have arrived at Portland, in the Circas-
sian, their way to settle in eastern Ten
nessee.
UEssHow many deaths7 7'' asked the hospi-
tai physician. "Nine." ssWhy, l ordered
medicine for ten.'' 'sYes, but one would not
take it.'
DyFine afair-the ssMay Party'' last Thurs
day. Notwithstanding the shower of rain, 1t
passed off pleasantly. The refreshments were
excellent.
uvAbout three hundred artizans are now
employed at the government armory at 1lar-
per's Ferry, in the manufacture of the rifle
musl1et aud the rife.
G-"Sonny, does your father take a paper y
Yes, sir, two of them. One of them belongs
to Mr.. Smith, and the other to Mr.. Thompson.
| hooks them off the stoop.''
ny-It is stated that hail-stones, by actual
measurement nine inches in circumference,
fell two weeks since in Kinds county, Missis-
sippi. The general size was about that of
hens egg.
Literary.-Dr. Kane's heirs have been
paid S57 900 for the sale of the lamented ex-
n -l...
Prof. Longfellow, it is said, netted $4,000 by
the sale Hiawatha.
0yThe Governor has advertised the Main
Line for sale on the 25th June. The Locos
are trying to get the Supreme Court to issue
an injunction against the sale. The 'buzzards
are not yet satisfied.
Dr"Greene County Republican, is the I'll
tie Of new paper printed at Waynesburg,
Greene caunty. 1t is Republican in politics,
is spirited and interesting, and gives Locofo-
coism some hard thrusts.
07Mr. Secretary Stanton has been cxainin-
ing the Border Rufiian Laws of Kansas, and
has said, "hat some Of them are ddmnabie. -
He is more candid than his doughface breth-
rem in Pennsylvania.
1S-Gov. Walker goes to Kansas, backed up
by large amount OF Wallst. capital. pledged
to operate with him in giant land specula-
ton. So we may expect to hear of Indian Re
serve being bought out.
DTH Hester Simons, in Troy, has been fined
$75 for disinterring the corpse of the husband
of widow lady with whom she had a quarrel,
and upon whom she THUS vented her Spite
That's the latest invention of feminine cruelty.
0y-The iron horse now pursues his way,
without stop or important deviation from di-
rect line, from Bangor, Maine to Jefferson c.
ty, Missouri, a distance of little over seven
teen hundred miles, half as far as TO London'
in three days
05rThe Limerick Reporter writes in a tone
of alarm at the continuance Of the population
drain. The people, 1t is srid, are literally fly
| ing in thousands from the Irish shores. If
emigration proceed at this pace, the Limerick
| the soil.
0TYJudge McElrath, OF Decatursvillc, Ten :
nessce, publishes note in the Nashville u
nion in which he says "The Jail of this coun-
ty was entered this morning by some unknown
scoundre and three prisoners taken out Of
prison." This is certainly a new phase in the
crime Of burglary.
DyFound Guilty.-ln the case OF the State
| against Sam Gree, (free negro,) who was tried
at the April term of the Circuit Court of Dor
chester county, Md, for having in his posses
| sion abolition pamphlets, among which was
| "Unclc Toms CABIN the court has adjudged
him guilty and sentenced him to the peniten-
tiary for the term of ten years
nyThe Pittsburg and Steubenvile Railroad
has been leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad
| Company for the term of twenty years. When
the bridges necessary to be built on this road
will be completed, Philadelphia will have a
shorter and more direct route TO Cincinnati
and the chief points in the West than any O.
ther of the Eastern cities.
| nrLadies' Veils-A Caution.-Curtis, a
| celebrated writer on sight, says that the wear
| ing of wells permanently weakens many natu-
rally good eyes, on account of the endeavors
Of the eye to adjust itself to the ceaseess vi
brations Of that 100 common article of dress.
| Ladies then should beware of hiding their pret-
| ty faces with wells.
DyNew Jersey Pcarls.--The pearl-hunting
mania has extended to Newark, and the brooks
in that vicinity are overrun with explorers
| Several pearls have been found during the past
few days, ranging in value from So to $780,
Pearls of considerable value have also been
| found in Elizabethtown, Trenton, and at va
rious points in Monmouth county Y.1rfb.
o-Not IN ba Trusted at Iarre. Queer