Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-01-13
cLIpeINes AND ecEistuWes.


syHigh-thc river
- Juicy-the roads
sChangcable-thc weather.
Y-Commenecs-Court next Monday.
EY@Dsappeared "suddntiy snow
~ Have hard time of it-hoons on a windy |
day.
- Easy told-a puppy by his whine and |
skunk by his perfumery.
% ySpread himself-the boy that fell into the |
mud hole across the way.
- How to find the Sherif-s oficc-evcry time
you earn five dollars, spend ten.
= Meets-thc Clearfield County Bible Society,
next W Wednesday evening. See notice.
EB-Lost-a $50 order. by the County Treasurer.
For description, consult his advertisement
~Dirccted-attention to the advertisement of
Gen. Jno Patton. who has bought out III. d. Patton
- Have abandoned-the American submarine
companies the attempt TO raise the vessels sunk IN
the harbOr of Scbastopoi
-Exeeuted-on the Sth. Donnelly, who killed
Albert s Moses at the Sea View House, Nayesink,
New Jersey, in August last.
~ Scarce-servant girls in California. House
girls wages in San Francisco are $50 to S35 per
month, and cooks s 10 to $50.
.gTCommitted suicide--a man in Westerly T.
l., by hanging himself two days after he married
a girl of thirteen years of age.
sgS'In tight place-"Finely'' of Buffalo. He
says ''the times SO hard that he hasn't been
bic to collect his ideas for the past five weeks
z5g7'Good arrangement-the sorrel horse ferry,
of the Iowa rivers. lie crosses three at
time-two on his back and fastened to his tail.
Dead--Miss Leslie. the authoress. She is
widely known, was native of Philadelphia, 90
years of age, and died the ID at Gloucester NJ.
ry7Expensive-the launching of the great steam
ship Leviathan. at London The cost so far reach
cs $3.50 900, s., 600 for each foot she has been
moved
E-y-Absent minded-the young lady that on re-
turning home from church bade the door good
night, raped her beau on the face, and went into
| the street
| .8@A Vermonter-Senator Douglas oy birth.
He is II years old Mr. Douglas learned the cabi-
netmaking business in his youth. but afterwards
studied law.
| - Observation-Disclosures Yonns's haren Of sew
entyfve wives, by adding to it fifteen young and
! lovely Indian squaws. Brigham doubt thinks,
variety is the spice OF life.
10 Mentions-the San Francisco BHlletiH. n
pear brought from Oregon; that weighs pounds,
and measures 2l inches III circumference. That 5
| Il whoPpcr-of pear, mean
! s Hogish-somc of the people of Holidays
burg and vicinity The Wig gives the weight
of 10 porkers killed there which aggregate 1913.
| or 409 lbs. piece on the average.
SoId-upwards OF $4,000 worth of lottery
tickets in Philadelphia the day before Christmas.
And yet they talk of hard times and Of the poor
starving. Queer people. the Phiadelphians.
~ John Randolph used to say that John Quin-
y
| of his fathers term. buchanan must be serving
| out the other four years Of Pierces term in The
same way.
sSAAn extensive Representative-IIon Wm. II.
II. Puscy. State Senator from the Council Bluffs
district Iowa. He viii represent twenty-three or
ganized counties. Beats our wildcat district
al hollow.
.g@Arrcsted at Boston-Trank Heath and his
sister Miriam, for the murder of their father, al
Dracut. Miriam has confessed that she first at
tempted to poison her father, and that Frank shot
him and burned the body. They seem to have bat
4 feint idea of the enormity of the offence.
The American Farmers and Meehanies-the
nobIcst type of American usefulness and Ameri
can civilization In them the true dignity of la
Dor finds most honorable illustration, and through
their agency and instramentality arc planted the
seeds of imperishable greatness and empire.
Stingy-..old folks in Kentucky. A cor
respondent of the Louisville Cossre says it is tn,
fashion now-a-days to refuse their consent TO NJ
, would be sonsin-law, not because they have any
real objections to --Chawles" but because 1t save
the expense of a wedding party when the young
sters elcpe.
- Had her neck broken-a Miss Prather o
Clark county, Indiana 4 couple weeks since, b.
being thrown from her horse. She had just beer
married and about going to the house of III
bridegroom, when Il party of screnaders sppearet
and frightened the horse which resulted In he
death as above stated.
20 Dischargcd--W Walkers men. at Norfolk, Va
from the Saratoga. by orders from Washington
, Many OF them wandering about the city des
titutc, poorly clad and moneyless. Southern chi
valry should be more grateful to these delude
men. whom they induced to follow the fortune
of Walker, TO benef. the peculiar institution