Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-16
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBIlNes.


scarcc-local items.
ssPlenty-shen fruit Eggs-aetly!
RSlippery-eels and politicians.
Frightening IT'S prospects
EF-Rough-the road to Sinncmahoning
H-CooI-the atmosphere for day or two.
ErDown in the mouth-the Baeke7- organs
E-Appears-anotherl letter from ..Dundee :,
EyTwo and half million feet of pine lumber
were used in making clocks in Connecticut last
year.
Ey%At the Wcstboro Mass show, was exhibit
ted a Holstein cow, Jenny Lind, with big calf by
her side, named Barnun.
u'To cary Collins steamer from New York
10 Liverpool requires eight hundred tons of coal
enough o keep ordinary family forty years.
Justice King of Chicago has decided on an
application for a warrant, that to spit in man 5
face, knock him down and kick him, is not an i1-
sult.
g-What world of gossip would be prevented
If it was only remembered that person who tells
you of the faults of others intends to tell others of
yonrs.
vIt is said that the Southern Pacific Railroad
ID being graded at the rate of two miles per week
More than five hundred hands are employed on
the work
EE-A farmer at toxford, Mass, hung his vest up
on the fence, few days since, with S205 in one of
the pockets; pet calf along and ate up
the pocket, money and all.
EyeAn old, experienced editor says that there
are three things which effect mans spirits a dull
day, an empty pocket and being in love. We
know by experience that of these will.
x Habits easy caught as ''yalier birds y
yxet
half the boys in town win be throwing somersets,
and breaking their necks empty mackcrel
barrel
81 Mr. Henry String, of North Carolina, adver-
tised, last month, that gay young fellow had run
off with his two daughters. This is the most rep
rehensible instance Of tro strings to one bean we
erer heard Of
rFrDr. S. F Reynolds was bitten on the thumb
at New Orleans. a few days ago. by young rattle
snake He Immediately seized hatchet and cut
the thumb entirely off, before the poison ad time
70 extend
C3rThe Yellow fever is said to be prevailing
very y.scriously in Havana. Some three hundred
of the officers and crew of the Spanish line of bat
tie ship Isabel Teguanda, understood to have
fallen victims to it.
- Fhe Utiee Telegraph has an article headed,
"Why Old Maids Multiply This is something
new 1t has always been understood that they
are Just the who do not multiply, and re-
plenish the earth.'' -es.
9 Tie Richmond Examiner very pertinently
propounds the question: whether it is best for the
South to secure Kansas by swindle, or to secure
the whole Democracy of the North by the honora-
BILE observance of her plig hted faith %
B-The potato specuators are busy at Bangor
Ne, buying up potatoes at the rate of fifty to six
ty cents per busheI. The Mirror says much has
been s. id about potato rot but it is thought to
bs genera ienough to seriously affect the crop.
gB-It appears from the census of Great Britain
Of 1851, that in that year there in the coun-
try nearly six millions of women above 20 years of
age-of whom one million seven hundred and six
ty-sevsn thousand unmarried, and seven
hundred and ninety-hy thousand widows
Y-.Pa, didn't you whip me for biting Tom
my, Yes, my child, for you hurt him very
much" We'll then, pa, you ought to whip NAM
mas; music teacher too; for he bit her yesterday
right in the mouth and know it hurt her. be-
cause she put her arms around his neck ann tried
70 choke him ;,s
n The nail eifnched.-Last fall we asserted
that ccrt,in parties expected to make something
handsome by keeping up the Straight-out move
ment- If any doubts the correctness sf that
declaration, they requested to read the able
and ingenious defence of notorious political
trickster in the last Cieareia Republican. 1t has
been somewhat truthfully said that birds of
fssther flock together.n
Ar. Philip Clark, formerly of Iowa city, re-