Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-10-20
CLIPPINGS AND scaiesllSes.

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VDog Stealing in the Second Degree-Hook-
ing Bologne Sausages.
tzs7tThe yellow fever has almost depopuIated
Vieksburg, Mississippi
Eg Indemand-splints, to strengthen knee joints.
Scotch wood, preferred.
E3'Changed-the name of James Leeon,pt0n
ttillis to James Licked Gillis
Employed ninety clerks in the Chicago
Post-oficc. Beats few.
sYWere issued-l,007 bounty land warrants,
during the month of August
EyWcak at the knees-the Leeompton crew
Need something to stifen EN-
- Victorious-the People in the Blair district
Where is Cranberry now, Robert!
-Estimatcd-the loss, by the burning of the
Crystal Palace in New York, at 81 ,TSS 600.
tT-Orth thography-rcyised Democracy has
recently been rendered Dem knock ed-crazy.
u Numcrous-the wiseacrcs, who knew all a
bout the result of the recent election long ago.
s55-Made msdeal-the Lccomptonites. at the
last election The People held Ji'H hana that
game
f5@The last proposition is to lay gutta-percha
speaking tube along side of the Atlantic cable
What next?
,Y-A great Federal gull-trap''-Jamcs Bu-
chanan. The People lad it low on the 2nd Tues
day of October.
EBTMade good haul-IIaIl in the Clearfed
district. Old Bucks hOrlas gin out, and Gills
is dead sucker
Eg-"Cesar, what's become of dat darkey who
stole dc taller?': ..He has been taken up to de
sperm court to hab it tried
~ correspondent of the PicayHHe prophe
sizes an immense sugar crop in Louisiana this sea-
son-say 100000 hogsheads.
sg~The latest achievement of chemistry is the
conversion of coal into bread, equal to that made
of the best wheat W-h-e-w.
- Occurred-a tremendous Uale storm. in the
Centre and Clinton district. Twas very destruc
tive to Lecompton candidates.
10 Understood-that the Locofoeos about
organizing Il band In connection with the
old HorH-pipc they will the Scotch water
pipe.
g-Y-Mrs Partington thinks that old Mother o.
is better than she ought 10 be. else she
would not allow the Atlantic cable to lay in hor
bosom!
;y- -Remarked-a Berks county Dutchman SIT
ish a great pity dat Clancey Chones ish beat he
ish coot man he ish dc Committee on de Chair
of Mean Ways"
;s-The Scientific American says lockjaw in
horses can be cured by wrapping them in blank
cts which have been wrung out of water of two
huRdred degrees temperature.
IY@Wouidn't 90 down-thc story of the with
drawal of the Scotch waterpipe contract, with the
people. The English swindlc is too fresh in their
memory to be again deceived.
!3S- Did all the mischief-on Tuesday-the Tar
| if! the Tariff nothing but the Tariff So ex-
claimed '-our own Bigler." And ''LecOmpton;
doIefully chmed in one of the faithful.
Eg-Digby sal long time very attentive.
siderng cane bottomed chair. Al length he said
Il wonder what fellow took the trouble to find all
them holes and put the straw round them -
tyrone thousand sheep in fine condition. impor-
ted from the Sandwich Islands. arrived recently
in California. The amount of wool exported from
California in twelve months was 100000 pounds
.g~M Crepin, at Lyons, France, who fur
nished with two meals day. by an old widow, for
thrty-five centimes, has left his fortune tthree
millions of francs. to this guardian angel over his
misery. -..... -
t-y7At Crockett Texas. butter is ten cents Ii,
beef three cents, bacon twenty cents -four six dol
! lars per hundred pounds. Oats, two dollars the
bushel. They cat beef for breakfast, dinner and
/ supper.
! Eg~Five hundred bushels of potatoes were sent
! from Rock Hill, Conn to New York. one day last
week. The crop is SAID to have been so plenty. in
East Hartford. to sell for the low price of SER
| satsest ceHtS bushel.
| FY-The Milwaukee iSrHtinT. of 2Sth Sept. says
the freight in the Milwaukee and Mississippi
| railroad on Wednesday. consisted of oLs hnafTea
GHa 0Re r1rs. all loaded 10 their utmost capacity,
| and most of them carrying wheat
| Eg-At the recent fire in the State House OF Ohio.
| at Columbus, the only set of public documents.
| from the organization of the Territorial Govern
incnt the present time, in the possession of the
State, burned. The loss otherwise was trining
9-Ravari TAYLOR SAYS that .:offcial corruption
is prevalent in Greece as in the United States
Ahem guess that means they are getting TO be as
! fast bows in Greece as we are Shows there is
at least vanity yet left in that once classic
| soil.
| fS-Cool-tolerabIy. Not long ago married
woman in New Orleans cl0pcd with clandestinc
] lover. taking her three young children with her
and leaving note for her husband, saying he
need worry about the babies, none of them
| belonged to him.
! 20 Expccted-a rise in leather Two pair of
! shoes lately made by shoe manufacturer IN
! Lynn, to fill an order for southern plantation.
They intended for a slave. and it is stated nea-
sure niueteeL 0UH n haif inches IN length with
corresponding width.
! - The number of letters containing money. re-
ceived at the Dead Letter Office. for the year end
| in them was SCI ,239 ~; average of more than
| So letter Over nne-tenths of which has been
| restored to its owners.
| II The cost of a thirteen inch shell. it flies
through the air is from ten to twelve dollars. The
! estimate cost of firing thrty-six inch bomb is
nearly hundred and fifty dollars. These ig-
ures afford idea of the Smelling out 10
| which warning governments must submit,
! :-On hand again-the only really ind ependent
! publication in the United States, The Scaipef. If
! any of friends desire To read good journal.
! and that pitches into quacks generally, we
would advise them to send for the Seafpei. 1t Is
! mt II medical work. but that is intended for
| the People exclusively. Price 81 year in ad-
vance
! tY- Measures arc about being taken, through
the naval expedition TO Paraguay, to introduce in
to the United States. the utTte, or Paraguay tea
| also n valuable medicinal plant called 1lITd. be-
lieyed be a specific against the bites of ven
| omous insects reptiles; and peculiar kind of
honey bee, which builds on branches of trees, in
stead of in hives in trunks of trees as with the
| common bee
II IST OF JURORS, for the ADJOURNED
Ia COURT commencing Nov. SD Monday.