Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-12-23
CLIPPINGS AND sCRisBLiNGs,

CLIPPINGS AND SCRiBBllNGS.
SEf-On hand again-the Tyrone Herald
~ Better-lean liberty than fat slavery.
sY Pleasant-the weather, during last week.
10 4 fact-feed pig and you will have hog.
~ Is turn cOat-wine; first friend, then an
enemy.
;y-Isn't worth an ounce of Iove-a thousand
pounds of law.
fg-W What kind of doctor would duck make
quack doctor
20 Is seriously ill-General Tom Thumb, who
is now in France.
sSWon't work together-strychnine whiskey
and temperance speeches.
~ Sound on the turkey question-,ce are. Got
pair of nice ones in our coop.
ISSpoils the charm-meeting a debtor, when
on the way to see your lady love.
tyA wrong inference-to suppose every man
with Truck in his hat is n mason.
Confscatcd-all the property of Louis Kos
suth, by the Austrian government
Ey7D1wn-the mercury, at st. Paul, Minnesota,
on the 4th, to y degrees below zero.
7Charity-going to concerts, theaters and
balls, and leaving the poor to starye.
Falling-the price of flour at Cincinnati. A
few days since it sold at 1913 a barrel
re- Getting plenty-Shanghais Judging from
the cr0Icing in the streets the other night.
.TWas found-a lump of gold worth $500, at
a mine in Cabarras county. North Carolina
EgTQuery.- drapd 'sumthin' on Parson
Weavcrs door steps, on Saturday night a-wcek.
cg-Destroyed by fre-the College buildings and
libraries, at Bethany, Virginia. Loss, 100000.
yHas been presented-Benedct Arnold's sill
yer watch, to the Connecticut Historical Society.
.S@Commences-the next term of the Clearfeld
County Courts, on Monday the 18th day OF Jan
uary.
Ey'Is destroycd-the fine hoalty color of ma
ture. whenever man imparts to his nose the col
of brzWdy.
E-g@Modern Dcmoeracy-depriving the people
of the right of suffrage, when you know they will
vote against you
~ Have a good market-the Clarion folks :;
nothing offered nothing sold, prices dec lining So
says the Democrat.
eV>Ought to be cIean-that butter for it took
Sal and Nam at least two hours to pick the hair
and notes out of it.
- Costs twenty-six dollars an hOur-the gas
to light the new hall of tho House of Representa-
tives at Washington.
E-y-Win be heId-on the 81 Monday of January,
in Philipsburg. an election for officers OF the y
rome and Clcarfeld Railroad
ly7Why arc potatoes and corn like certain sim
ners of old Because having eyes they sec not.
and having ears they hear not
E-gr'In circulation-a large quantity of counter
felt five dollar notes of the Philadelphia Bank.
They said to be we'll executed
- Raised 5000 bushels potatoes-Christophe
Shearer, of Berks county, the past season. He
sold 500 bushels at 30 cents bushel
~ Destroyed by fre-thc steamboat Col. Ed
wards on Sunday a-week, on Red river. Fifteen
or twenty persons perished in the flames.
[Y7A wboppcr-the Indian who at the At
lanta Fair on exhibition. He is Is years old, I
feet inches high, and weighs 400 pounds.
~ Positivey-the only way TO cure boy of
staying out at night is, to break his legs, or else
| get the calico he runs with to do the housework
| E-y'Arc reminded-persons who are in the habit
1 Of beot iu,a Will feet on the floor
| churches, that the stamp act was repealed many
! years ago.
| ALWAYS runs well in his own district-a GER
| tain politician. He, however, beat his best rMn
| the other day. when constable was after MIN
| with icIrTaHt.
| .T=A young lady asked to join division
| of the daughters of temperance She replied, III
is unnecessary. as it is my intention to join one
| of the sons SOON
! ,@@The greatest prod ucer of peppermint in the
world-H. &. Hotchkiss, of Lyons, n. Y. He cul
tiyates 300 acres and sells from $4,000 to 100000
! worth of oil annually.
rS~Contains a population of 3,500-Omaha Ci
ty. the capital of Nebrask Territory. Three year
| ago. the town site was favorIte camping grouhc
of the Omaha Indians
IL The total shipments of specie from n 1orl
| TO Europe during the present year amounted &
s4I .3434I6 This equals the average yearly ylei'
of the California mines.
tSHung herself-Miss Olean Taylor, near Co
| lumbus Ohio She was about %, beautiful ant
| accomplished, and had large fortune IN her Owl
| right. Cause, not known.
y@Sharp-Dow, Jr. He says that the reasol
| WHY man was made after everything else. was, ina
I had he been created first, he would have annoyet
the Almighty with endless suggestions OF I'm
| proyements.
Ey'Is said TO have produeed-the State of Hi
nois during the past season, 20S, 100000 bushels
grain more than six bushels to each man. woman
| and child in the United States. Wonder II ther
| isn't one figure to much to that string
EgWere assailed-two men. Joseph Sparks am
! Oscar Flint. in the suburbs of Baltimore q shor
time since, by gang of shoulde r-hitters FL! II
| was knocked down and robbed, but his companio
escaped by flight. When the scoundreis mt flin'
| Sparks ReIr.
sg-Consistencv-tellingt the people of Pennsy
yania that Kansas actH be Free State, when, a
| the same time, you are party to an agreeinen
that the Constitution. which is to regulate thel
own domestic affairs, shall not be submitted 10
their approval.
,EIs published by the y Y. !Suu-a portrait o
! Fernando Wood. 1t has been recognized as tn
portrait of celebrated criminal. But this Is moth
ing against the accuracy of the likeness, as ther
is no good reason why the faces OF two person
shouldn't resemble each other as well as thel
actions.
,1A subscriber inquiries of us why Moil
| MoG,ire has become so much in love with Repub
lican papers one nights courtship as eommo
rule should suffice, but it appears In many lhstah
ces weeks hugging is little enough o,a anu SOM
times they are entirely squeezed out OF existence
'Spect some Molly has been .nooKlhg ou
. friend 5 paper
r15-May Christmas, dear patrons,
Bring you all good cheer
/ Mince pies and plum pudding
Good coffee and beer,
With pig goose, and turkey,
The best that can be-
And we hope that your victuals
And stomachs Will agree