Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-07-21
CLIPPINGS AND scR,ssLlNes.

0Dangerous-to spark young lady when
she's powdered.
"In town yesterday-Brady, of the Brook
vile Jeffersonian. He is after the Democratic
nomination for Assembly.
GDTin is being used instead of gold to fiji
up teeth, and is said to be better and more du-
rable, as well as cheaper.
IFour brothers, named Persley, while
on sailing excursion on Sunday, near Balti-
more, were accidentally drowned.
0Free Democracy is the name assumed by
the Free State men of Missouri, who have
nominated Frank Blair for Congress.
U-A decision in one of the courts has been
rendered recently to the effect that Justices
have no legal power to issue capiasces.
WThe First Church of Hartford, Conn.,,
has never dismissed pastor, but all that have
settled there have died among the people.
~There are about 200 persons at pres
ent sojourning at Cape May, splashing in the
| surf, drinking mint juleps and eating oysters.
ia milk white snake, nearly feet long,
was recently caught in the town of Cooper,
Kalamazoo county, Michigan. Its species is
unknown.
IW Worth knowing.-A. F. Snow, of Bruins
wick, Maine, says that few applications of
castor oil will kill any kind cf warts on man
or beast, without soreness.
CLadieS' dresses to let for one ball, are
now regular matter of trade in Paris Sixty
francs night, if the dress is returned without
a spot. Wonder what next!
NThe City Marshal at Lexington, Ken
lucky, was killed few days since by man
named Barker, whom he was endeavorng to
arrest. a mob hung the murderer.
ga little daughter of james Rupert, aged
four years, while attempting to throw 4 cat in
to the mill-race, at Jefferson, Cambria county,
unfortunately fell in herself. and was drowned.
WFavorable accounts reach us from New
York, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, of the large
yield of the crops that have just been harvest
en-. In Pennsylvania, the crops are above an
| average.
GA double-headcd girl is now on exhibit
tion at Lexington, Missouri. She is seven
years old, and is possessed OF two perfect
heads, four arms, four legs, two hearts, and
| one well-foImed body only.
GEIn Kansas, two weeks ago, Miss Irene
Baker, girl of seventeen, married man of
seventy five, fIom admiration of one of his po-
Iitical speeches. This, says Prentice, is COM
mon saying verified-sspolitics make strange
bed-fellows.''
UTwo vessels of greater length than the
''Leyiathau,' intended for the navigation OF
the Indian river, have been advancing to COM
pletion in Liverpool, without the general pub
lie being even cognizant of their existence.
They are each 700 feet long.
Cy-A mother in Hartford, Conn. discover
ed needle sticking out of her child's tongue,
the other day, and, administering an emet-
ic, several needles were vomited from its stom-
ach. She don't intend to use the child for
pin cushion any more /; the pins are liable to
be lost in it.
ULow the ssTen Cent SYSTEM works.
| The Miners Journal says out of the twenty
one furnaces in the valley of the SchuylEill,
only four or five are in blast, and one or two of
those propose stopping, unless the demand for
iron improves. No wonder the coal business
is prostratcd.
CgMany houses are infested with cock
reaches and ants, and it is desirable to know
how TO get rid of these pesta. A remedy,
said to he a one, is this Take some si-
ces of pine apple. COR the outside of the rind
is better,) place it on your shelves, any
place which they frequent, and they will eyac-
ute the premises Immediately.
GrThe Free Love Convention at Rutland,
| VT, few weeks since, at which Mrs. Julia
| Branch asserted the right of every woman to
have children when and by whom she pleased.
has created quite a stir in the newspaper world.
! The doctrines of the ultras revolving
| that they are working their own cure, and
such Conventions can hardly be well attend
/ ed again.
| ~A French Lieutenant calling himself
Capt. De REVERE has carried off Mrs. Blount
and her daughter from their boarding house in
| New York, and Mr.. Blount is trying to recoy-
er them by aid of the Police. The Blounts
are from Mobile, where the Captain tried to
marry the Miss, but the father objects on ac-
count of prior right of some one else to the
title of Mr.. DeRevicre.
| CHERRY TREE LODGE ROOM. July II, 1858.
At a regular meeting of Cherry Tree Lodge No.
All T. o. of Q. F.. the decease of Past Grand Gid
/ con Kinports having been announced, p. Gs. Shaw,
Stiffie and Lyday were appointed a committee to
draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of the
Lodge The following reported and unani-
| mously adopted