Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-06-23
CLIPPINGS ano scslsaLlnes.


-Warrn-the weather. for several days.
A nuisancc-anonyuious scribblers-
l5g- g-Ditto-the stuff generally called poetry.
..g-Institutes Of health-the mud holes on the
streets
E3-FIour is selling in Ncw York as low as 1886
per barrel
sy Fierce-the III indoo- wid-do-alF' who pitch
cs into things generally.
sy@ At work-the street commissioner. Hope
he do things up brown.
Ey Great affair-the market lot Would be an
excellent place to raise tad-poles if attended to.
- France is adding to her national debt at the
average rate of fifty six millions of dollars every
year.
iY7Good cxcrcsc-romping with couple of
femenines, and getting yourself tied in 4 double
bow knot.
"The'Athcns (Tenn.) Post learns that engage
ments for new wheat have been made ut sixty-fve
cents per bushel.
sy'Thc COS. of the vessels of war now building
for the British Government, is estimated at TWEEN
ty millions of dollars
-g-The Buchanan Congress which has just ad-
journed, appropriated about SS0,0OU,O0o Eco
noInical administration, eh
C1y-Put together again--the young lady who
burst into tears She now wears hoops to prevent
n recurrence OF the accident
9Some say that the quickest way of destroy
ing weeds is TO marry widow. 1t is no doubt
most agreeable species of husbandry
10 duel was fought in Mississippi lately, by
Mr.. r. Knott and Mr.. \. w. Shott. The result was
that knott was shot, and Shott was not
Ey=Punch says he father knock down
his beloved boy, and thought it the most striking
illustration of .'son down" he ever beheld.
The Regulators, they call themselves, of
Tampa Florida, have recently hung five men, and
whipped two women-wiite- women of course.
Hon John P. Hale has been reelected to
the United States Senate by the Legislature of New
Hampshire for six years from the 4th March next.
Egy1The newly elected Mayor Of New Orleans,
Col Gerard Smith is practical printer and is
one in every respect worthy Of the honor confer
red upon him.
E-y-Private letters from Sonora represent that
the dominant party there have determined to de
clare independence, and apply for annexation TO
the United States.
--gT=A Moravian mission church was recently ded-
cated in Providence X. l., i'll which some seven
hundred Of the German population Of that city
design to worship sf |E-7
g-Several fields and patches OF wheat grown
the present season at Montgomery, 'labama, have
been harvested recently, and the yield was fine,
and Of the best quality.
r-5s'Farmcrs should MOI be discouraged about
the corn crop. An old farmer Informs the Spring
field Jonr5,aL that he has raised fifty bushels o t
corn TO the acre which was planted on the 2lst OF
June.
rg-A farmer said to barber that he ouhgt TO
reduce his prices now that corn was cheap No
sir-cc.i said the shaver, for when corn Is low,
farmers make such long faces that l have twice
the ground to go over"
sg'A Southern Methodist miuister. detailing his
experience a certain circuit, counted twenty
six children who had been named after him, and
added. that during the year he received as COM
pensation for his labor ''Si3. ="
.rv' Prentice Of the Louisville Journal objects to
the five minutes rule in the Newly ork prayer NEE
tiugs. He says '.imagine, for instance, old Ben
nett of the Heraid confcssing his sins in the ri
dicuIous space of five minutes
rY@A very destructive fire occurred in Evans
Vile Indiana, Saturday night a-week, lnyolv-
ing loss of 100000. The Canal Bank was dam
aged to the extent of Sl,500. The office of the
Evansville JourUut was completely destroyed
- Pcnnsylvani does not own single mile of
canal or railroad. a little over thirty years ago
she commenced a system of internal Improvements
and She now owes little sh ort of forty millions of
dollars as the result of her experience IN making
canals and railroads
--y~rhe French Gazette Medical states that
chareo oal has been accidentally discovered 10 be a
cure for burns. BY laying piece of charcoal on
the burn, the pain subsidies at once: BY leaving
it on for an hour the wound will be healed. 1t Is
certainly worth a trial
E-Y-A new material for paper is said to have
been discovered in the fibre OF the beet-root which
remains after sugar making and distIllatlon 1t
is twenty per cent. cheaper than common paper,
and has been used in cartridges at W oolwich arse
nal 1t is to be introduced and tested III this
country.
ry-There is an organized gang of swinding
land croakers in Northern Iowa and Southern Min
EeSota who are bound together by secret oaths and
passwords They rob the emigrantS by selling
them counterfeit titles to land In Iowa there are
already detected sales of land TO the amount OF
90 coo under these fictitious titles.
cy7They have strange institutions in Cincinnati.
4 married lady was severely bitten ny large dog.
the owner of which. in his great regret called
upon the husband of the lady, and avOwed his will
Iingness to kill the dog if desired 10, never mind
nv wife. but if you value your dog look TO him.
If he don't die after that operation, he may con-
slider himself darned lucky cur"
3@An extraordinary and disgusting exhibition
took place in Cincinnati recently. man made a
bet that he could kill dozen rats in less time tn an
a dog could kill the same number; a large crowd
| assembled. The contest exciting one. The
man would snatch up the rats with his hands, and
biting them across The back of the neck and spine
1 and thus kill them at once. The man completed
his dozen as the dog finished his tenth.
THE Caops in this county look remarkably
well, with the exception OF corn, which was