Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-12-15
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBelINGs.

B BHigh-provisions generally.
observation-disclosures. So say the youngsters.
CT-WeiI cared for-the fre-hooks and ladders
g-A sweet snger-the famous bird called the
"owingale -
rS-Nayigablc-som of our streets, on Monday
for mud-scows
Hight of impudence-taking shelter from a
shower in an umbrella shop.
IBNo just scale-prosperity. Adversely is the
only balance TO weigh friends in.
DS SO upright in all his dealings-a man in New
Orleans, that he won't sit down to eat his meals.
B-The man who undertook to blast his neigh
bors prospects, used too short fuse, and blown
up himself
p BThe Belgian journals record the marriage of
four brothers to four sisters celebrated at the
time, at Mons.
syChange able-the weather. Snow, rain and
shine, freezing and thawing, all in one week Glo-
rious, amt it!
tY-Col Fremont's Mariposa mine yields from
81 800 to $4,000 every week. The quartz mill is
worked by steam.
Ey-One of the members of the Indiana Legisla-
ture is named LnscAead He ought to have good
head for legislation.
CgA shipment of ''mess beef" lately arrived at
California from Australia, proved on examination
to be ''pickled kangaroo F"
Ey~Thc estate the late Ebenezer Francis of
Boston, is found amount to ,4S3 900: of which
sum 81, 200, 600 is cash on deposit.
Ey~"Robert the DeviI' was performed lately at
Paris, for the four hundredth time. The 'devil,
without Robert has been performed there much
oftener.
F-AJ Jew, atW orceSter, Mass named Louis Lew
son distributed to the poor of that city
giving day, ,S72 pounds of lamb, and 1000 loases
of bread
.-y-Hon. John Leteher has been nominated by
the Locofocos of Virginia as their candidate for
Governor This is defeat of the Wise and Doug
las faction.
sy@The Bishop of Buenos Ayres has cxcommu-
nicated all Freemasous, and declared their doc
trines incompatible with those of the Roman Cath
olic Church
ey-A boy only Il years old was arrested at the
Girard House, n Y. last week, where he was living
| in style on the proceeds OF a robbery committed
on his employers.
Eg@On Friday last a-week, a messenger of a
Boston Bank lost SIS, 600 the street. The mon
ey found by young man and Immediately
returned to the bank.
sS-Bilious Cholic and Cramp in the Stomach
can be relieved in ten minutes, in every case, by
| using from FIVE TO thirty drops of Du Vail s Gal
sanic Oil. See advertisement.
| ES-At least one thousand tenemenis mark
| ed ITO Let in Lowell, Mass Its population, i'll
| two years, has fallen from IS 600 TO 3jOOO Most
| of them have gone to Minnesota.
| tS-A colorcd convict in the New York State Pri-
son at Auburn, died last Thursday, while under
going tire punishment of the shower bath. 1t caus-
| cd great excitement among the other conyicts.
| .SIn Wisconsin they call a bribe ''pecunia-
| ry compliment - and in Mississippi Slavery is
| spoken of as economic subordina ton" These
are nice phrases with which to hide ugly things
| s-G The Courier and HiY'arsr says Brooklyn is
| the third fourth city in the United States in
| point of pOpulaton-it being computed at $50
900. The editors had better give the .'mersheen''
| another turn.
tF The public expenditures for the current fs-
cal year estimated by the Secretary of the
Treasury at s7S,2l7, ,9a. John Quincy Adams was
ousted from the Presidency because his admins
/ tration spent SI2, 100000 year.
| syThrec thousand six hundred dollars worth
of goods were stolen from store in New York, on
| Sunday evening a-week. hole was made in the
| wall in the sixth story of the house adjoining,
| through which the robbers entered
| .F Bulldog attacked General Tom Thumb S
ponies lately, be was riding TO the Teutonic
Hall, at Liverpool. The ponies ran at great speed
and 1t was with difficulty that the General was res
| cued. His valet was knocked down and INJURED
| one of tho ponies seriously wounded and the
| carriage broken.