Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-10-13
CLIPPINGS Aso scRiasi;ses.


TRising-the price oc -four.
'Nuisanee-dead cats, in the streets.
~Comfortable-a little fire tfrSe days
Uigh-apples at ore dollar bushel
g"Colnpletei-the Baptist meeting house.
y-Feli--somc snow, on Friday the sth inst
-y-Neat-the new sisn OF the CiedrGe!d House
izy Firstof the aeason- ice on Sunday morning
~ In fashion-over-coats and blanket shawIs
EF-Creditahle irnpro7e1ue uent-Leitzinger new
pottery
w-Fizzled-Our wool-pile Who'll bring the
next load
E-Long coming-the Turkeys, We had the
promise of.
UHss our thanks-Thonas Mills, for some
fine grapes
g-Caught wood chucl'-smart Robert, on
~ Everybody in Sha1s new row. advertises in
the Joac77lGI.
Cg-out-somc pigs Take care the police are
on the qtg iiUs
E-s'-Gona east-severai OF our II erchants Watch
for the new goods
- Doing good business-the Borough Consta-
bic, in the hog line.
Wanted-sUme bueiSheat and rye, in pay
ment Of subscription.
EY-Up-the frame CT z. c MCulioughs new
house, on second street
1ver--the agony. Will soon know who's
elected to stay stu hum
70 The interest 6c annually OF the public
debt of Great Britian is Sll7 s65O00.
- TalI-the chesaut trees in the green woods
Have to cut en- down to get the nuts oil
- Big affair-the tail of the comet. May be
this is the one that is TO give us brush.
10 Good job-the filling in the street in front
OF Mr.. NriSley property. Who's next.
sY- EXcclient-thc pscan-nut crop of Texas, this
year. The export viii amount to about 100000
E-sS'A great spelIer--the man who spells crock
cry, thus '-Kreaugh ughkearreighey-' Phonetic sys-
tenn, eh
three hundred and forty-two bales Of cotton, on
the 10th Of September.
ES-It is stated in the German journals that the
ladies Of the Court of Wurtemburg have resolved
no longer TO wear crinoiinc.
s5-Describing late duel, an Irish paper says
Zone Of the eombattants shot through the
t'eSAy part Of the Lligh b0zlC.'
sJ7 Dark prospect iiIustrated-a black woman
looking down black alley of a dark night, for a
black baby hid under a stack of black cats.
- Scveral papers have published article
should like TO be informed how he got up there.
~ Stated-that fourteen tribes or bands of Tn-
dians have declared war against Texas Wonder
ii SOME suckers amt only fsas2g for fat army
contract
/ 5]@A "i'at and Lean Base Club has been or
ganized in Buffalo. Nine of the members are
pussy as Faistaf-the other niue are as spare as
John Of Gaunt.
II writer in the Troy B4dges says one dol
lar worth of sulrhurtbrown upon the fire in tho
foreeastlo, would have saved the Austria and her
living, precious freight.
-y'Some Of the farmers in Maine have raised
such immense quantities Of eabbases aud squash
ing lands 10 store them on.
sgAppears-the following, in a western paper
San inquest held on p1TL Of q hRntaH b5Ry
consisting of skull. arm, the thigh bones
and t1c0 Eo0tst" W-h-e-w!
10 "CuTcy, why don't you kick that dog p
What de use of kicking every cur what sn.rls
at you! Don't you know dat am de way he wants
you to bring him into notice -
~ There is said to be a boy at Worcester who is
4 prodigy in chess playing / wear since he didn't
games ct the same time while hindfoided.
~ Decidedly "fast'-the ladies Of Iowa. On
the lSth ult race between ladies on foot came
of ut Iowa City, for the prize OF silver cake bas
ket- The prize was won Icy Miss Handy.
IF79 There is printing office at Zabagcn, in
Mulcmburg, in which all the compositors and press
men, amounting to one hundred and sixty, are deaf
and dumb. There is talking politics love- or
religion there.
Eg= The French have successfully tried the ex-
pertinent Of slicing aud drying potatoes for future
use. II is done by machinery. If this shall prove
generally successful! and co0Igrl icaI it will be
80 i patent was last week awarded to Dr.ChGs
?. Page of Washington. D. e.. for pillow or rest
fUr the bead, which enables travellers in railroad
cars TO sleep comfortably. This Improvement il
attached 70 al umbrella.
- Some Of the Southern papcrs e;rurn5Ie be-
cause 1t ail cost OIr government some : 200 each,
to send the Echo negroes back 10 Africa. That is
Just one per cent OF the cost Of sending South
Grn negro back fTom Boston.
.y>Tbe Governor OF Now Hampshire has ap-
pointed Thursday, November 2jth. a day Of
Thanksgiving. Il is the frst appointment made
this ycHr, and the day selected will doubtless be
generally chosen by other Governors.
There arc many christians who like. about
once in twelve mont rs, to have good revival in
their baarts. They think that. like the year, they
can make up for freezing and showing all winter,
by period OF intense heat in summer.
E5B~ Mr.. Branson, of Brand ywne manor, Chester
the largest raised in the Union. They are
TO be fed until February next, which time il is
calculated they "i! weigh $500 pounds
.S@At FIRE in Cincinnati a short time since
the company of the steam fire engine Citizen :
Gift hitehed horses, two squares laid out $50
feet Of hose, firing up in the meantime, and put
water on The fire IN four minutes from the tap of
the alarm bell.
- The first section of the overland stage route
to C2liI0rnia-s0me 600 miics-has been tTaversed
in than day less tha0 the time called for
by the schedule. II the gain holds through at the
rate. San Francisco will be reached overland.
in twenty-five days time.
y horIid mystery has been nosed out at Sy-
racuse, y. I. In the examination Of an emp