Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-29
CLIPPINGS AND scRIssrlNcs.

~ Down-the river.
w+Ditto-iilIis stock.
sSWon't work-the Atlantic cable.
sls~ An artist out west uses team to draw
pictures.
sYwiIl be elected-Chapin Hall and the Peo
pies tic'set.
~ Hon. Augustus Drum. of Westmorcland coun
ty died last Friday week.
10 Right side up again-the young lady who
knocked down by feather: coming from
camp-meetng.
IL The Queens Bench in England have deci-
ded that ill health is sufficient excuse for breach of
promise of marriage
sgA horse in Wilmington, Delaware was re-
Gently stung to death by bees from a hive near
which he was grazing.
ESS Rev. John Strait aged one hundred wears
preached in Gallipolis, Ind. on the 3lst alt He
was soldier of the revolution.
70 Kit North says it is wonder that women
love cats, for both graceful and both domestic
not TO mention that both scratch
~ Among the marriages in Cincinnati lately
was Mr.. Moon to Miss Shine. In this no
one will deny that marriage is moon-shine.
~ At New Haven, Connecticut the 23d G eo.
Mercer an Englishman, was killed in an amateur
prize fight with Vim. Houston, also an English
man.
sS The Cork Tree is being extensively cultiya-
ted in the neighborhood of Cincinnati. Ton thou
sand cans of the acorns have been ordered for
planting.
Eg Failed-the Lecomptonites in re-nominating
DR. Ali in the York district. The conference ad-
journed with resolution to submit the matter TO
the people.
Advices from Texas state that Gen Twiggs
had ordered expedition of four companies of
cavalry and fifty infantry, provsioned for three
months, against the frontier Indians.
sg- Fhe Sioux Indians are about trying the ben
efts of civilization As evidence of their sim
cerity. it ID said that they have petitioncd the A.
gent 20 of shears and elm off fhair
hair
~ Much excitement exists in New York in con-
sequence of steamer having been seen on fire in
mid ocean the 18th. The inference is that it
was the Austria and that her passengers have been
saved.
Ey The Yellow Fever continues without mate
rial abatement at New Orleans. The disease. we
see, is beginning to spread in the country round
about. Fourteen deaths are reported at Calves
/ ton, Texas.
| 20 Beaten at last-Morphy. our great American
| chess-player. He has more than met his match at
| Paris-a Frenchman there having beaten him on
| the first trial after three hours play. Mo-phy
would have done better to stick to England where
| he was supreme.
| ~ The mint has got up specimen cent.
with an Indian head in place of the buzzard We
would suggest TO the Director to get one up with
Liberty and its goddess on one side and Slave
ry and nigger- head on the other This would
Dc both north and south.
ig'The black tongue has seized upon the deer
| rs NeIl as upon me horned cattle. the eastern
part of North Carolina 1t is said that in the coun-
" of Beaufort there cannot be found living deer
within circnit of twenty miles They are found
i'll numbers dead in the woods
| TEA Canada paper says that gentleman re-
Gently turned five horses into field of rusted oats
and they were all found dead the next morning
Rust IS supposed to he caused by very minute in
sect which lives on the juice of the straw and the
rust is its poisonous secretions.
l-Y The Hopkinsvile Ky Mercury says, that
| the mortality hogs Davies. Mut1 lp nbur
| NJ Lean and adjacent counties, is astonishing In
some places the dead piled up by hundreds
| the air is black with crows ravens and buzzards
and the stencil is overpowerng
| sSA German paper says the quickest rate of
locom otion after the electric spark. light sound
and cannon balls, is ascerained to be the flight of
| the swallow. One of these birds. liberated at
Ghent made its way TO its nest mt Antwerp, in II:
minutes, going at the rate of ! miles per minute.
| ~ DRED SCoTT DEAD.-Tbis rather celebrated
parsonage died in St Louis Friday, after long
illness of what rs termed 'inegro consumption.''-
| Dred was free for some time prior to his death.
having been manumitted by his owner, the Hon.
Mr. Chaffey. not long after the decision rendered
in his case before the L. $. Supreme Court.
20 I'm consequence of complaints of persons be-
ing employed in the care and conveyance of mails
who are not qualified the Postmaster General has
ordered regulation to be pu blished reinforced
| that all employees of the Department take the
oath of Office, and that person under the age of
| sixteen be employed rs clerk mail carrier.
sg@Tn St Louis. last week a brute named Dan
iel Dcvine, quarreling with his wife. put out the
| light. and rushed TO the bedside to hite off his
wifeis nose, but seizing the nose of his innocent
child by mistake, bit it entirely off. He was fin
ed 500 for disturbing the peace, and will proba-
! bly, serve ten years in the Penitcntiary for the
hem of his poor little daughter
| - Wonders will never cease. English himself
author Of the Kansas bill, by which his name is
made mmortal has turned traitor to his own ban
| tling and to the Administration, and in the hope
to increase his small chance of reelection. has de-
.Iar fnaa Il Of
| Kansas without regard TO the population English
takes this position openly on the stump
| ~ The town of Troy. No has hcen long noted
| for its abounding wickedness and drunk enness
| gambling lighting and Sabbath breaking had h cid
undisputed sway, until the first Sunday in last
May. when protracted meeting was commence d
| in a Presbyterian church. which resulted in the
hopeful conversion of nearly seventy persons, in
cludiDg some Of the most hardened characters In
| the place.