Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-06-02
CLIPPINGS AND scRissLI.es.

20 Muddy--the roads
| e LeQring-the oak trees
.Weeping''-the weather
tgT gTGreen-the grain and grass fields
% Ditto-the chap that pouts when his gal
! talks with another man. s
- contradicted-thc report that Jordan is a
| Uses sugar again-the man who tried 70
s"eetcn MS tea with one of his wife's smiles
~ In Switzerland, no less than twentv tbou
| sand women earn fair livelihood by making
watches manning
% Reported that Henryward Beccher intends
| spending few weeks in X ansas during the CON-
| ing GUNNER.
i-S 1t is feared-that the quantity of rain that
mas fallen, viii make a harvest for doctors during
the coming summer.
q Decided-that John Augustus Washington.
the huckster of the tomb of Washington is the
meanest man in the country.
eY In the town of Quindaro Kansas it is said
every man votes the free State ticket, except the
postmaster He is in a minority of enc.
ohio builtin 1857 22O churches worth saOo.
600; eight hundred school houses worth sim OO0.
ana twenty county buildings, worth $500, ,O0O
Query.-Why can't the captain of a yosSo,
keep memorandum of the weight of his anchor
instead OF weighing it every time he leaves port?
~ few days since were the recipient of
beautiful boguet of spring flowers, for which the
fair donor viii please accept our most grateful
thanks
- Are to arrest-the PHILADELPHIA Police in
pursuance of an. order from Mayor Henry. all per
sons found on the streets Sunday crying Sun
day papers for sale.
. No less than sixty couple were divorced by
the Oregon Legislature at its last session What n
happy country for disconnected husbands who are
tired OF matrimony.
ly Counterfeit s2a and $40 gold pieces are in
Circulation They well executed. but LIGHT
The ten dollar pieces are dated 1917 and have an
'@0'' under the eagle
20 The Pennsylvania Railroad COMPANY have
declared semi-annual dividend of three per cen
tum ont of the profits, clear of State tax Good
that, for these hard times.
- Mrs Gage said, at the recentW Woman.s Rights
convention that the next best thing about a house
to the cooking stove is husband. That's so, if
he's good for anythug-if not, not.
q An old topper overheard the other day
advising a young man to get married-sBecauss
then, my boy, YOU'LL have somebody to pull off
your boots when you come home drunk
CSCharles Sumner, Senator of Massachusetts,
sailed for Europe in the steamship Vanderbilt
which lett New 1ork on Saturday aweek He pub
ilshes valedIctory letter to his constituents
q In the tornado which recently passed over a
portion of Illinois, small two story house slid for
three hundred yards across the smooth prairie
with family inside, the house remaining upright
and uninjured.
ES man arrested in Hartford Connecti-
cut, last week, with bundle of counterfeit bills
under his arm amounting to SIS,O00 all fycs on
e.
admirably executed
rS7Would be much improved-the tone of con-
yersation, if Bishop Berklcy's rule was generally
followed Il resolve" said he, .never to speak of
a mans virtues TO his face nor of his funlts he
hind his back
r-yThe Court of Montgomery county has deter
mined that in no case will the publication of the
application for license, required by the act of
1556-to which the present license law is a suppIe
ment-be dispensed with.
woman naJouo-o
hogsed fellow very severely on the piazza of the
hotel, for seducing her husband to the tavern,
where the pair would indulge too freely. She then
offered her arm TO her husband and conducted
him home.
s1Y The 0scaloosa Hrrald. admitting that gold
has been found in Clark county. Iowa discourages
emigration thither by saying in the next para
graph that the amount is infntessimal, and that
thus far miners havo averaged only ten to tueAty
cents q dGy. Buchanan wages, that.
- Governor Wise, it is expected. will run for
Congress from his (AccOmac} district at the close
of his gubernatOriai term. and will make as an is
sue the course he pursued on the LecOmpton ques-
ton. lie denOunces the English bill as even worse
than the pure Leeompton bill
~ Fourteen hundred tavern licenses were gran
ted last week in Philadelphia seven hundred of
which were TO new houses. The first class hotels
which last year paid one thousand dollars for their
licenses now only pay from hundred to one
hundred and fifty dollars.
% Look out for altered notes. S5's. Butchers
and Drover's Bank; SOS, Atlantic Bank Brook
lyn; Sl0s, Bulls Head Bank; SIS. Hanover Bk
all \. I. banks are being circulated around New
York city, and We may expect to find the country
flooded with them. they are so well DONE that
both Banks and Brokers in New York have taken
them
5%Plcnty-Dcmocratic candidates. just now
The Sherifs office to be the most attractive
judg from the number of aspirants. The fol-
lowing named individuals we have heard spoken
of in connection with that office Mai. j. Will
helm, F. G.. Miller. Martin Luther. d. d. Hall G
W. ShOf, Jacob Faust, Edward Perks, Joseph Jor
dan, Samuel Clyde, James Thompson, John w
Shugart, VIM. NJ Bloom, W Foley. VIM. A
Bloom, James Bloom, Sr, and II. d. Rose For
the other Offices there also plenty of patriots.
MARRIED;
On the Goth May, by Rev. E. W. Kirby, Mr..