Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-12-01
CLIPPINGS AND scarssu.aas.

| ~ Exciting-the potato FL ght in Curwcnsyile
few days ago
| sR>WilI be takeu-corn and buckwheat on sub
scriptions to Journal,
~ Plcnty-snow. About feet fell on Sat
| urday night and Sunday.
| II Amusing-to see hoops suddenly drap' to
to the floor, whilst dancing. Hold on, Jack
e On the 18th ultimo, the vaults of the banks
OF New Orleans contained SI3,O25,5 ,591 in specie.
| p Much needed--a good, strong adhesive plas-
ter to make busybodies stick to their business
~ Fine sport-hunting deer. Several sports
| men, with knapsacks on, started to the woods on
| Saturday.
gWhat is the difference between a cooper and
| lady? One hoops mp the slaves, the other staues
| np the hoops.
| EX-SENATOR Douglas has written to Washington
a letter announcing that he will not be there un-
| til the 18th of December.
TPlueky-a Democratic editor away down
| South. He has hoisted the flag of Mr.. Buchanan
! for reelection to the Presidency,
gYNearly fifteen million feet of sawed lumber
| have been shipped from Ottawa (U. c. TO the A
mercan and other markets during the past season
| 10 Herc-the season for Furs, Shawls, Over
coats, Buffalo Robes, &c. If you want to know
| where to buy them, consult Kratzers advertise
ments.
E Among the orders allowed at late term of
the Circuit Court. at Evansville, Indiana was one
of S2,75. for washing and perfuming one witness
one day.
| w Mrs. tantadlIng says II II were not intend
ed that women should dri,e their husbands, why
| are they put through the 5ridie ceremony! Who
| will answer!
gBThe wife of Mr.. John Crosby, of Woodford
county, Ky, eloped last week with young man
| only three weeks old.
sy@Robert Hall wa. once asked what he thought
| of an elegant sermon, which had created a great
sensation. Very fine, SIR he replied but a
| man can't eat flowers"
eE"T I'm I.ondon there has recently died q woman
ninety-two years OF age, who was born in the
in which she died, and never slept ont of it for
night in her long lifetime.
,J The Commissioners en- ployed in running the
boundary between Nirginia and Tennessee. find
the line crooked that they have all become
eyed and subject to fits of vertigo.
fR-.'An Asatic Turkey by telegraph, Well,
that beats me" Exclaimed our friend sagaeity,
on hearing the foreign telegraphic news read re-
counting the disturbances in Asiatic Turkey.
~ Gen. ,Jackman, of Lock Haven was relieved
of his porte -monnie, in the cars at Reading last
week by some of the lght-fngered gentry. 1t
contained Sl75. some valuable papers, safe key &c.
EV Henry Star residing at Rohrersown, Ian
caster county whilst in the act of uncoupling
freight cars. at that place, Friday, 10Th ult =,
| was accidentally run and his body literally
cut to pieces
.S-George D. Prentice ESQ. the accomplished
editor of the Louisville JoHr1,al is spoken of
the Opposition candidate for Governor of Ken
| lucky. better or more popular selection could
scarcely be made
70 Rev. Daniel Downcy. of Staunton. Virginia,
the Roman Catholic priest who arrested some
time since for killing man, has been convicted
of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for eight years.
JThe Washington Union says the President
will sustain those who suffer through devotion TO
him. If he does. it will take more extensive
almshouse than the Philadelphia and cost more
than the revenue derived from sugar.
Ey'Invcnted-a new pill by distinguished
I r. g..
| quail proportions, and is to be taken with cold
water three times day" We like it but think it
will be unpopular where ''strychhne' abounds.
| .Y-A man named Albert Parson, fell upon the
sidewalk dead in Boston, Massachusetts,, on Thurs
day. In his pock ket was written request that his
| body might be burned lie died of disease of
| the heart and had carried tn" request alluded to
| in his pocket for several years.
~ Mrs Agnes Ida Iielbing of Nashville Ten
nessce, and her husband. have brought suit against
| Philip L. Rohlen, for breach of promise of
riagc made years before. Although she has since
| married another man, she es Inmates the damage
| to her young affections AZ 100000.
| ly-The Detroit Free Pres. says there is n sur
prising number of bears infestng the woods in all
parts of the State that they into the settled
parts and readily killed. The editor says he
is sorry for the unfortunate people who live in civ
ilzed regions and can't get bsgr steak
~ The Boston city fathers have before them
proposition to flood portion Of the Common with
water this winter in order to make public ska
years ago they had to cut n channel IN lie long
through the ice, to get ste amer to sea.
S-Onc of editorial brethren says there is
piece of road not two miles from where he lives
| $50 narrow that when two teams meet, they have
both to get the fence before either pass -
We have seen roads in Clearfeld that n single
team had to turn out to enable it to pass.
| t-g- Somebody says woman politics is like
| monkey in a china shop-she can do no good, and
| may do good deal of harm. Rather than
| women turn statesmen would them turn
| somersets. They are about as well calculated for
| one the other, if not great deal more So
| s-Y-A Down East paper can't conceive where all
| the present numerous friends of Judge Douglas
contrived to keep themselves before the Illinois
| lection Nothing palmer. They were on the fence
and the tread of the ''littlo giant" as he march
| cd over the prairie State, has shaken them off.
.E'A Cincinnati paper has come to the conclu-
sion that 'sif score of the cowardy wretches, who
| 90 about town beating unfortunate women. were
respectfully killed, it would be well for the COM
munity in general, and retributiye justice in par
tieular.'' 'Respectably killed is good phrase.
Cyclones came home glorious" and took it
into his insane head to try cold soup, the remains
of his dinpcr, before he went t. bed. His wife
heard him fumbling about for a while, in vain
deavoring to find it. At last he said, "Wife is
tina soup tied up in anything, or is 1t lying
around loose ,"
70 1t IS little singular slightly so, that while
adherence to the LecOmpton doctrine is presented
to the North a test of Democracy Gov. Ham
mond does not forfeit his standing by speaking in
the most contemptuous manner of the whole Le
compton policy, and calling it as ''reeking with
blood and fraud"
MARRIED.:
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