Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-23
CLIPPINGS AND scRlsBriNes.

sy'who was it that died for want of i wig?
Can any one tell
.5y'Niec-those radishes presented rs by our
friend Bob on Monday
s8sIt is 4 degree Of impurity in woman to
love sensual man.
= Fine-the hop at or friend Allen Mitch
ellis on last Thursday evening
- Snook's wife loves to make bread. because it
leans her hands beautifully.
5Sy'What utility is there in killing hogs if they
are cured directly afterwards?
- yPleasant-to be eanght in an .soriuI'' rain
and wind storm on the way to party.
ES-Dont forget-that trro members are to be e.
lected to the Legislature from this district.
g-Excellent-that corn soup at the Mansion
the other day tits rather agreeable to be coy,l-ed
in that way.
5y'An oven which will cost $4,000, and is to
bake 500 barrels of flour per day. is being erected
| al Chicago.
E=Y-The total population of India is stated, by
Parliamentary return just published, to be
$50 sS4,797.
- The man who ';moved to tears"
plains of the dampness of the premises, wish
es to be moved back again.
sY'Prepare the griddles The prospects for
plenty of buckwheat good. Can't some
of our subscribers bring us "a few"
g-There is a girl in Maryland who weighs O.
yer four hundred pounds. A nice armful for some
body. bat rather too much ocziss flesh for
II a conservative says Douglas Jcrold, sis
a man who will not look at the moon, out of
respect for that ancient institution-the old one"
t-5'Two Chicago ladies went to a ball the other
evening in a furniture wagon-no ordinary car
riagc could contain the immense dresses they
wore
lzy1A Detroit paper mentions the arrest of
man in that city with nothing on her person but
love letter and daSuerrotype." Rather Il cool
| arrangem MT, should think
ET-A late number of the San Francisco Adro-
cate says that Ex-Governor John Bigler and fami-
ly left Sacramento, the 26th July, for Chilli, to
which place he COOS as American Minister.
7Gt is estimated that the decline in the mar
kct value of tailroad Stocks in the last months,
| amounts to aggregate of sixty millions of dol
lars. Aud yet the country is no poorer for it.
.g-Correcs-the solution sent us by Mary W
d. of inscription in Welch church, viz -
PRsvRYrRFcrMS, vRKPrusPEcPrsTS. "Persevere
ye perfect men, ever keep these precepts ten.
I-y-out-Robert Matson, of jefferson county,
for the Legislature. Bob" is good fellow, is in
the square timber business, and will, if elected,
make good Representative. See advertisement
.Y-~Call that kind man ?" said actor,
speaking of an absent acquaintance "a man who
is always from his family and never sends them a
farthing! Call that kindness.' URremittiMg
Kindness" chuckled a wag.
EE-.Gcn. Packer. the poor mans friend is the
heading of article going the rounds of the Dem
ocratic papers. Judging the man from his past
career, suppose he wants to keep them poor,
especially in Clearfield county.
E-5S-An ilI-humorcd wife, abusing her husband
for his mercenary disposition told him that if she
was dead he would marry ths dis eldest daugh-
ter if he could get anything by it. THAT is true,
replied the husband but the worst of it is, cam
not marry two sisters!'
sS-By way of Cleveland we have the following
| from Buffalo The Plaindealer says: THE break
ing of Banks bankers, and business men in BuTa-
10. is terrible Last Sabbath, two churches
shut up. the off ciating clergymen finding them
selves unable to meet their engagements.
| EY'N. V. Jackson, of Coudersport, Potter eoun-
ty. Pa. shot young grey eagle within the bor-
OuSn iiDilts on tue itu II measured rect lncn-
es from tip to tip of wings few weeks before,
Mr.. J. r. Randall of the same county, after wound
| ing. captured young eaglesof the species.
| TIA German priest was walking in procession
at the head of his communicants cultivated
fields, in order to procure blessing upon the
| crops When he came to one of unpromising ap-
| pearance he would pass saying, Here prayers
and inging viii avail nothing until it have
| nure-''
| Eg-Gen- HASKELL prominent politician of Ten
nessee. announces through the Memphis papers
| that he intends assuming the character of a lite
rary lecturer, giving portien of his proceeds to
| the Mount Vern IN fund. If literally encouraged,
he says he ito lecture in England, Austria
liza and the Sandwich Islands,
/ ~ The man who is living beyond his means
and who is in fact squandering the money of 9TH
ers that he may crafty silly vanity and keep up
/ appearances. is fool. and very unhappy fool
/ into the bargain. The wretch knows that the
smash mustcome--that just sure as he lives long
he s walking, in high style to be sure to the poor
| house.
| BLOODY TRAGEDIES IN TExAs.--The Dallas
/ Herahi, of the 29th August, gives an account
/ of John Robins son, of Tarrant county, on the
/ 21st, deliberately shooting dead George and
/ James Anderson, brothers of his wife, then at
] tempting the life OF his wife, and failing in
! that, proceeded to old man named Sublett,
| distance of miles, and while the old man
| .l..o@t l.; Il ,oI