Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-10-06
CLIPPINGS AND scaIssLiNes.

s Here-the fresh oyster season.
vScarcc-apples and ding chats
tgPIenty-potatoes and candidates
tg-Mild and pleasant-the weather.
rY-Going up-M EEally's new house.
ET High-the wind, Sunday and Monday
s5T TDitto-some of the perambuating hoops
sFWith women warriors, there's no robbie
ry-all conquest
Election-next Tuesday. 'Spect all the pa
triots will turn out.
Said to be plenty-chcstnuts. Would bring
a good price just now.
sV VArrived-molasses of the new crop, in New
Orleans on the 10th ult
20 Comet-a great big star with a tremendous
taii running around loose
70 Fine fun-gathcrng nuts on Sunday. Some
of the youngsters we wot of tried it.
- The only way for the Administration to
maintain its integrity is first to get little
20 Still ss-ing-Atlantic Telegraph Boyle
of the Elk Reporter 'Whar did he git his arnin p
s-B-Worth twenty five thousand-a female pick
pocket in Philadelphia She made all in the tileh-
ing business.
E8"The Washington Union speaks of Douglas
friends in Illinois as '-kinderhOok philosophers
and Buffalo heretes."
AT concert. recently given in Hungary,
five pianos were made to play the same air togeth-
er, by means of electric wires
l-S Treachery to the Democracy is not severely
punished. for the prominent New York Van Bu-
renitcs of 1913 are now the chief magnates of the
party.
TEA fire broke out recently in a broken bank
in Illinois. The cashier smothered it with bank
rags. The flames were no match for their weight
in wild cats"
TEA Lccompton paper thinks that Mr.. Douglas
is in bad way He certainly seems to be sadly
in Mr.. Buchanan's way-and so. if not in bad
way, in the way of bad old fellow.
'Mary."-This name, by decree of Pho
Mono, can no longer be given to children on pain
of accommodation. He reserves il hereafter, eX-
ciusiyely for the Virgin of immaculate conception
EB-A great many of the collectors of the rcvc-
nue. charge twice as much for collecting as they
collect If it is right and proper for Locofoco col
lectors of revenue to do this. why shouldn Loco
foco collecting lawyers try ii
sS-Mr George Penniman, an employee of the
| Boston and Lowell railroad while saving wood
with a circular saw, at Witon n. H.. fell across
the saw, which struck his breast cutting his heart
| IN two. He instantly fell dead.
~ The Presidents recent visit to Wheatland,
his private residence was to get his razor sharp
encd by Mr. Williams a Lancaster barber If the
ample old gentleman could get his wits sharpened
| little it would be national blessing
sS-Mr. James Thorp. colored team ster Of New
ark, \. j., has had $4,000 left him by gentle
| man in North Carolina which will be paid over as
his identity eau be satisfactorily establish
| ed. Thorp is s. native of North Carolina.
| EY Miss Dubious says the first timo a pretty Goa;
sleeve encirced her waist she felt f she in
| pavilion built of rainbOwS, the window sils of
which composed of ;colian harps. That
young woman ought to have her feet soaked.
EPSix persons have been arrested in New York
suspected of being implicated in the murder OF
| Mrs. Ann NJ Mahon. of Newark. \. on the 18th
| ult. Among the prisoners are the husband of the
murdered woman, his two brothers and mother.
~ If the people of Blair county don't get 4
good Sheriff this fall, it won't be for lack OF ma.
/ tcrial to select from. There are now Eve candi.
dates in the field. Who's the next customer. Go
in. lemons Its free country and free fight
what's the odds if you do get squeezed
| Ey-If the Democratic party has always ruled
! the country, and is opposed to paper money, tar.
ifs, and the agitation of the slavery question-Why
| do we not have hard money, free trade. and do
mestie peace instead of Russell Major drafts
| Treasury shn-plasters, internal domestic strife
| and general depression of business,
| sF-The New York Day Book, complaining o.
the loss of money letters sent by mail says 1.-THE
| must be wonderful villains. who have the
handling of letters somewhere" The Day Book
of agrees with its brother Democrats of tht
Washington U,ltoA TO the atrociOus character OF
| the great bulk of the Buchanan Office holders.
| II Tho Washington Union publishes column
or two every day to enforce the position that it il
the duty of Congress to enact laws to protect Sav,
| Property in the Territories y Protect, eh Tha
| is, we presume to place standing army there, tC
| feed hungry partizans with fat jobs, and thereby
| rob the treasury and impoverish the country.