Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-11-17
CLIPPINGS AND scsresrlnos.

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~ -Hard-the freezing for several days,
"a Fell-several inches of snow, on Monday
10 Thanksgiving day-to morrow, (Thursday)
n The official returns of the late election in
Ohio, show an average majority for the Republican
ticket of 20,966.
y-Ought to be kicked out-half the petty cases
brought before our Courts and the parties bring
ing them fined.
~ To get rid of Spanish quarters at their full
value, drop them into the contribution box Sun
day, as it passes.
sBFThe last rain showed one ludicrous sight
an attempt TO crowd two fashonably dressed Ia
dies under one umbrella
tS The inquiry has been made of us as to the
amount of the Presidents salary. 1t is SIS, 900
year. or 100000, for the term.
10 A Yankee physician named Bates from Ash
field, Mass, has established himself and is doing
good business in Hakodadi, Japan.
q The Kansas Herald says that an immense a
mount of molasses will be manufactured from the
Chinese cane, in that territory, this season.
70 Fact-.the Atlantic Telegraph is at present
perfectly neutral As our friend Pat would say,
Its divil word it has to say ayther side
70 Beware of note. of the New England Bank
of Paramount, Maine. They are a fraud, and are
said to have been largely circulated east and west
70 Among the vows that a man has to make in
Japan when he is married. is one that he will find
plenty of tea and rice for his wife during her life
A book is expected from him next March or April.
Hawthorns generally put forth blossoms in the
spring
~ The Pittsburghers are about to celebrate
their one hundredth birth day, the 25th of No
vember, in a manner Deitting the fame of their
Smoke e-staned city.
g-y- Andrew shannon a we'll known and highly
respected citizen of Warren Jefferson county, o.
died on Tuesday a-week, from the bite OF rat.
which he received few days before.
is said that he cost If he SeDoy war is
beginning to excite alarm in England. 1t will pro-
baby add forty millions sterling TO the national
debt and create an annual deficit of six millions.
s9-Thc Indians in the vicinity of Laredo. Tex
again becoming quite troublesome. Some
thirty persons it is stated, have been killed within
a few months, together with numbers of ca tile,
horses, &c
TIA young man in Cincnnati,7 named Pike
having grown rich in the whiskey trade, has just
erected a magnificent opera house, the finest in all
the West was wants him TO call it Pixies
Aco-lIall."
.g-In Boston, lately, hasty pudding, which
had been set out to cool, was taken to the watch
house a charge of smoking in the street. An
efficient officer. no doubt, the policeman who
rested that smoker.
sB The notes of bogus concern, styled THE
Bank of the District of Columbia dated Novem-
Der LIST, 1888. and signed A. C. Hasey cashier and
Charles f. Russ, president, have made their ap-
pearance in the East.
l-g-The people of Dacotah have at last effected
Independent temporary organization of their
Territory State officers have been appointed,
Legislature convened, laws passed. and the Min
ncsota code of 1857 adopted.
E7y-Thc people at the late Wisconsin State Fair
much amused by entry of 'Darned old
Stockings" The truth of the exhibition was prov
ed to correspond with the entry, and the 'darncd
old stockings bore of the prize.
g" The Ps1tnsyIraXia,s records the death of
physician. who twas an ardent admirer of Mr.. Bu
chanan. and approved of his entire Kansas poll
cy." Such approval has been the death of many
OF Mr. Buchanan S friends recently
Ey-Wc tender our thanks friend Ben
Hartshorn for that apple cordial he sent us the
other day. We hope his shadow may never grow
less. and that he may always have little corat@l
comfort for his friends as well as himself.
.S-Two boys at Carboudae, few days since,
purchased quantity of whiskey, drank it and
were shortly after found by their father in an in
sensible state. One of them died the next day.
This should be warning to posondrinkers
l151The Washington Union of Saturday, has
leader on The distractng question of 1913
vived in the Democratic party in 1885, and fore
shadowing the exclusion of Douglas and all his
adherents, from the Charleston Convention of 1860
EVIhe PkaiWdealer announces eating match
in Cleveland. for the championship of America.
The two contestants are to go beyond the city linn
its and eat muSh and milk till on of them bursts
the one who does not burst to be declared the
victor
.y-The city of Jeldo is said to be without cx-
l-500.000 dwellings, and the unparalleled number
of 100000 of people. Some of the streets are 19
Japancsoris in length, which is equal to thirty
two English miles.
x Prentice, noticing the exhibition, by horse
trainer of an anti kicking bridle says, 1.-The in
ventor has sold out his patent to the President,
who intends to it on Douglas, Wise. Forney,
and others. who show a disposition TO kick out OF
the party traces
Ey-It is estimated that the expenditures of the
United States Post Office Department for lS5S,will
exceed the receipts some three millions of dollars.
There is already excess of expenditure in eve
ry State and Territory except Rhode Island, Con-
necticut. California, and Utah.
s-Y"One of our Locofoco exchanges remarks that
truth, though often hid for time always is sure
to burst forth at last in all its ssplendor We need
no better proof of the correctness of this than IS
given in the result of the recent elections. Truth
is bursting forth in all its splendor.
.-5-The Wabash and Western Railroad safe at
Fort Wayne opened with false keys, on No
vembcr lth. and twenty thousand dollars stolen.
Five Thousand new bills on the Frontier Bank OF
Illinois, and balance on other Banks IN ILLINOIS
and Wisconsin. No clue TO the robbers yet.
sy-TerribIe catastrophe.-Wc regret to learn
that the princely mansion of James Leamcr, IN
Burnside township. with all its costly furniture
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday the I'd inst We
sorry to hear that thousands OF lives were
lost the occasion, as only few bed bugs were
able to make their escape
r-y'The Washington Union calls upon the army
of Buchanan officeholders to charge This ad-
vice is unnecessary for they dent seem to take
the trouble to charge at all-they just grab the
money without ceremony. They don't trouble
themselves about any mysteries of single or dou-
BILE entry, except entry into the money boxes
y-Several dozen of Democratic editors who,
before the result of the Illinois struggle was known
we're non-committal, as between the Administra-
tion and Douglas, have made haste to nominate the
Little Giant for the next Presidency. Of course,
now that Douglas has carried his own State, these
halfway fellows think he's big toad in the
Presidential puddle, and accordingly jump in
MARRIED.