Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-08-25
CLIPPINGS AND scRIsBLlNos.

E-y Oyer-our court.
Gg@Quite cool-the weather.
Izg~ Clever-the chap who steals our chickens.
sE- Ditto-the man who is peddling humbugs
s3- Decidedly bad-thc Mexican County Bank
- killed-the English BILL by the Kansas
people, at the late election.
EY-Wil be killed-BiIl English bv his constit-
uents, at the coming election.
10 Horace Greey is spoken of as a candidate
for Governor of New York.
- Dangerous beyerage-water Specially if
mixed with little strychnine
- To be sold-the great ship Leviathan to
another company, TO pay expenses
f-s'-A short subject-the short shoemaker of the
short shoe shop. See his short advertisement.
10 'Fact-there has been considerable s.wire-
pulling 6ettrecN England and the United States
lately.
IL Precarious-the Crawford County, Tioga
County, Shamokin, Warren and Lawrence County
Banks.
EzBr7The cost of ths army of the United States.
for the last fiscal year, see it stated was over
100000.
Eg+PhiIadelphia was visited by severe storm
on Wednesday last. The rain fell in torrents, ac-
companied with hail.
ESgTerrifc-the fight early on Monday morn
ing, between '-smart Robert and the 'pizing sar-
pient, on the hillside.
l-g The apple crop of Massachusetts will be
large one this year, while that of Pennsylvania
anu Ne" Jersey Is d ldiiuFe
sgA hens egg recently found in Lawrence
county. Pa, firmly embedded in the sand thirty
three feet below the surface. a--
Some statican has figured the egg crop of
the United States to be IS 250 900 00O and eight
cents dozen to be worth Si2l COG 666
- YSomewhat mixed-in name and nature the
newspapers in St Louis. The Republican is dem
ocratic and the Democrat is republican. 81.
ET-A Lawyer asked a Dutchman in court what
ear-marks pig had that was in dispute. well,
he has no ear-mark except very short tail.''
sy"The receipts of the Patent Office for the six
months ending June 30, 1853, were SlO0525; and
during the same period about 1900 patents were
issued.
E5gA very dangerous counterfest the York
Bank, Pa. OF the denomination of ten dollars, has
recently made lis appearance and is being extern
sively circulated.
i-g 1t is great peach year down in South Car
olina and Georgia and the finest specimens of that
fruit sold in Augusta. in the latter State. at
from 30 cts to 81 per bushel.
E8"What stingy fellows they must be in New
York exclaimed fine country girl sour Sallie
says she could never get buss there without pay
ing six-and-a-quarter cents for it ~
- The family of James Musgravc of Stillwat-
er Wisconsin. was poisoned few days since by
eating toadstools for mushrooms. Two children,
aged respectively seven and ten years, died.
ES-The value of the coal annually mined in this
country is nearly equal to the yearyl production
of gold in California, and at the present rate of
~SN,A ~
value.
IVA Magnetic Ticket for the Presidency in
1860 is run up by the Lancaster Express, which
proposes Professor Samuel Morse as the Peoples
candidate for President and Cyrus w Field for
Vice President
l5sTIt is stated that the London Times is about
to be printed on paper made from the beet, at
saving of two cents per pound, which, on their
Sl0U,000 year.
- Smart-BoyIe editor of the Elk Reporter,
In speech, at the Brooklile Democratic Con.
gressional Conference, he gave the Buchanan Ad-
minstration all the credit for the laying of the At
lantic Telegraph. Vice la hNm5ag, uipe la Boyle.
l-gA notorious rogue has been appointed Secret
Inspector in one of the ports of Maine. The Port
land Democrat justifies it on the principle, "set
thief to catch thief" We believe the Admins
traton acts upon this principle in nearly all of its
appointments
- At the celebration July 4th. in Lexington,
the following toast was offered Hoops an3 Tight
PaRtS-the unqualified representatives of financial
extremes. May the charms of the ladies be
boundless as their skirts and may the gents never
get rs tight as their breeches."
sYThe editor of the Wisconsin Democrat says
that he has hitherto been the political associate
of W. 5, Wolf" but tha he now distrusts him An
old injunction is, 'if you have a wolf for a COM
paniOn, carry a dog under your cloak but the
Wisconsin editor carries dog enough in his face
and disposition.
IY'The product of the California mines since
their discovery, has amounted to 5000 900; of
the Australia, to S6l5 ,000. 900. 1t has been es-
mated by Mr. Snowden, the director of the United
States Mint, that 81 400, 100000 have been added
within the last decade, to the stock of precious
metals existing in the world.
" The editor Of the Washington Union exhorts
the American editors to walk in the paths of
titude and honor No doubt he thinks they may
be troublesome to the Administration and wishes
them to keep out of the way Well, if they tread
the paths of rectitude and honor, they will be
far out of the Administrations way as 1t is posi-
bic for a human creature to be-
Eg The BombayG Geographical Society announce.
in their proceedings, that they have received
specimen of the walking leaf from Java, with eggs
and young; and, what seems more curious still, a
walking flower described as creature with
white body pink spots and crimson border.-ts7,
We have, in streets, great many beautiful
walking flowers. They grow on twin stems bare
their white bosoms to the light of heaven and the
eyes of sinners and expand tremendously