Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-05-05
CLIPPINGS AND soRissLInes.

l'tCISdsDlS- humber OF uo5S
s5S Garden sGss-cultiyated impertinence
~ Said to be farce-the new militia bill
s9 Much mixed-the weather during April
70 SCaught-seyeral hogs, by the town police
- g'Rathcr steep-a dollar for catching a pic
10 Getting easier-moncy matters in the east
Going up-the stables on the burnt district.
- Arriving-somc of w. T. Irwin's new goods
70 Running round loose-a hard she'll preacher
- Dyspepsia-the remorse of a guilty stomach
70 yWill rub out-scandal like dirt, when it is
dry.
f2S7Fine sport-playing alley-baI. Go it while
YOU
55g7 7Pleased-some persons with the ''free wbis-
key law.
Eg>Started-an anti-Tobaceo society, in our Bor-
Ough, last week
r5Souldn't go near the woods-childrcn. Rea-
son, the trees are shooting.
gE Have right TO yote-dogs. So say some
wiseacres; cause, dogs are taxed.
Whiskey-a key by which many gain en-
trance into prisons and alms-houses.
EyWishes TO employ-a Dutch Gardener,
journeyman cooper TO head cabbages.
yWanted-seyeral bags of oats at this Office
Can any of our subscribers supply US?
lY Attenton-inventors. A soap is wanted that
will enable maInas to get their daughters off their
hands.
ESofered-by the Adjutant General of Penn'a
to the Government: regiment of troops for the
Utah war.
EgResumed specie payments-aII the Banks in
the State. SO far as ascertaincd. Nary Lzmsdack
in the flock, eh
E1gReports-a Captain recently from sea- hay
ing spoken five vessels, each of which had daily
prayer meetings
Commensurate session of the East Penn
Synod of the Lutheran Church, at Easton the
9th of May inst
70 -Made-ffty-sev thousand applications at
the Post Office Department, under the recent let
tingS, for carrying the mails
Ey'Is assertcd-that the saving sthere is moro
pleasure in giving than receiving" applies chiefly
TO medicine, advice and kicks.
" In state of mental absence young man
demanded the hand of young lady, and only
perceived his error when he got her fathers foot
instead.
20 Fact.-There is a man in New Orleans with
such a tarnation wooden head that he is obliged to
use u jack plane whenever he is in want of shay
ing.
ty9Came of-a calico ball al New Orleans Iate-
y. Three ladies dressed in plain barege were re-
fused admittance. Calico the only possible
card of entree.
gThinks-a country editor. that Columbus is
not entitled to much credit for discovering Amer
lea, as the country is so large that he could not
well have missed it.
Ig~Died-in Trenty, y. J., last week Joseph
Clayton, aged over lO1 years lie was active
young man of % years of age when the Declara-
- Mi4ook-by PIacerville loafer globe
lamp with letters on it for the queen of night and
exclaimed We'll. I'm cussed if somebody hasn't
stuck an advertisement on the moon!n
10 Appointed-by the Governor, the Hon. Ellis
Lewis. Hon. G. r. BuckaIcw, and Hon J. c. Knox
commissioners to revise the penal code of Pennsyl-
vania, and the laws relative to corporations.
E5 Receved-a few days ago, by the Secretary
of the United States Treasury, $1,000 in Treasury
notes, from an unknown individual who states that
he cheated the n that a
Pierce's administration
To Was dcposit--ast week, in the Banks of
the four great cities of this country, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and New Orleans. no less than
Us 100000 dollars, an increase the previous
week of nearly two million dollars.
u sTLocofoco knownothing gism.-Amongt the acts
introduced into the California lie gislature is one
Ito prevent renegade Know Nothings from being
elected to Congress, unless they have been mem
bers of the Democratic party for twenty one years
ES~Felt hurt-Mr. English of Indiana, by some
pungent remarks of Senator BrOderick, concerning
his triekery, and called on Mr.. b. and asked him
to retract. Mr. BrOderick's response Get
out Of my way you puppy" Mr.. English obeyed.
Gs States-Ex-G overnor Bashford, of Wiscon-
sin, that he was offered Sl6000O to approve of the
first bill reported for distributing the lands grant
ed by Congress in aid of the railroads of that
State. With half this twenty-five members
Of Congress would have cayed in.
Seems to. be-bribery. the whole machinery
of the administration at Washington. Members
of Congress bribed with Offices &c. for friends
to get them to vote for the Lecompton bill; and
then the people of Kansas are to be bribed with
land to get them to vote for its adoption.
E-5Y-To be soda threshng machine in good
working order; has birch, cane and strap barrels.
Warranted to lick n school of fifty boys in twenty
minutes, distinguishing their offences into literary,
moral and impertinent. Only parted with be-
cause the owner has logged ali his school away
E5' 'iIas been found-at Kingower, Australia a
monster geld, by four old California mi
ners, name Robert and James Ambrose and Sam
uel and Charles Napier Its two feet four inches
long. ten inches wide at its widest point and eight
inches thick at the other, and weighs li6 pounds.