Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-22
CLIPPINGS AND scaissLiwes.

iF Up TO- September 5th. the deaths in Ncw
Orleans BY yellow fever. were ,1i2, this season.
LE At ST Paurs few DAYS ago. one James
Buchanan was badly whipped-but not the right
. The man who put up a stove-pipe without
an oath, expressed implied is soon to be exhib-
tied
- Wits brush wood. judgment is timber
Inc hrst makes the brighter lame, but the other
gives the most lasting heat.
~ By the last accounts from Fraser river nro-
visions were very scarce and dear. Dog meat as
selling at fifty cents per pound.
- Foote expressed the belief that certain
mi<er would take the beam out of his own eye if
he knew be could sell the timber
III Some writer says that the word ,ronid. in
Rufus Choatc's hand writing resembles a small
gridiron struck by lightning.
~ 1t is understood at Washington, that Gen
Denver has resigned the governorship of Kansas.
TO take place in the course of few weeks
ig Mr.. and Mrs. Brewer, of Wayne county
Kentucky. have twenty-five children. Theirs is
perhaps the most extensive Brewery in the West
"a Keep doing always doing. Wishing dream
ing intending, murmering, talking, signing and
repinIns, are all idle and profitess employments
~ 0re-tenth of the New York Tribune was
sold last week, for thirty-three thousand dollars
At this rate the whole establishment is worth
$3.50, 900.
20 lady in Philadelphia it is said, makes
her pies so light that her lodscrs see go to
sized piece.
II An auctioneer's clerk being directed by his
employer to insert in an advertisement copy of
fresco, by Raphael, wrote thus "A Fresh Cow
by Rafie.''
sE7- a fellow named Merrill. last week married
two girls. in Ohio. within the short space of TWEEN
ty- four hours and when found out, eloped for
parts unkn1 1wn.
~ The Paris Academy of Science has again
advertised its prizes. amounting to about $4,000
for
cure of cholera
IL Mr. Orr, of South Carolina profcs ses sim
cere desire to unite the North aud the South Orr
Is more likely to 6isjoin them. Or is diSjunct-
i've conjunction"
IL The latest freak of spiritualism has been an
attempt on the part of some believers in that doc
trine, in Orleans county, New York, TO restore
dead body to life
~ According to official returns 24.274 prosti-
tutes were proceeded against in London and
Wales IN the year of 1871, and 253, 7J3 persons
were convicted of crime.
10 The Albany Knic&erJocker, saws if an
American wishes to know how English oyster
tastes. all he has to do is to put little pepper
sauce on cent and swallow it.
= new ST VIC has been invented for the com
fort of travellers to be put under the feet. with
mustard plaster on the head, which draws the
heat through the whole system.
IL a skiIfuI worker in wood. whose name we
have mislaid. has sent the figures of two little
these babes IA tie Iro0a.-L0H. JoNr.
~ IF doggcs tail is kut awf entirely, will
it not interfere with his lowcowmOwshun!'
Not eggzactly. il might not effect his carriage
but 1t would entirely stop his Vaughn
ES The Shelby county Ohio Democrat saws
the Ohio corn crop will be abundant aud
thinks that the farmers who anticipate a contrary
result were more scared than hurt
Eg John Wilson. a school teacher at TaIladcga
Ala, his negro woman and Mrs LawIof all died
q sju tai, i'm uf
phlne which a'stupid druggist put up for quininc.
~ The mast this season. Is said to be unusual
ly abundant in Western Virginia. The forests
are full of chcsnuts acorns and other nuts, which
VIII indemnify the farmers to some extent for
their short crops of corn, oats &c.
fS PIcasant-To have n Biddy deliberately
shower you with pail Of dirty water as you pass
beneath a window, and then apologize by saying,
by me sowl, mis:her, was not afthcr knowing
that the like of ye thar
iy Found-A pair of Gold Spectaeles between
Curwensviile and Clearicid town. Saturday
last, which the owner can have by proving prop
erty: paying the printer. and leaving bottle of
brandy for the finder -lMiracnioHS.
~ All honor to Maine. The gallant Repub-
licans of that State have noby sustained them
selves-carrying their Governor by 10000 MAJ.
all six mcinhers of Congress, and both branches
OF the legislature. 1t Is 4 sweeping victory.
70 Queen Victoria at the Palace of Pot.sIam
was conducted by her daughter TO the rooms for
merly occupied by Frederick the Great, and in
which no alteration has been permitted to be
made since the death of that celebrated monarch.
- Last week old lady by the name of r oss,
who Is now cghty-two years old, walked from the
Chester county poor house to her sons in Chand-
lcryie, a distance of fourteen miles, in four and
half hours, staid over night, and walked back
the next day.
- vender of cement describing its action.
said it was particularly useful in mcnding jars =
witty purchaser asked him if it would mend the
jar of door. There is occasion for its in
sal he Her fpr Ia "
sound enough
p In tho Lehigh Valley one-half of the furna-
ces arc lying Idle. and the coal trade is langush-
ing Miners and furnace men, at some points are
receiving from % to 50 cents per day What Il
sad commentary upon the free trade" policy of
our government
- In Bucks, Chester and Montgomery
ties, Pa, and Mercer county, n. j., immense 1ocks
OF ployer have appeared and commenced destroy
ing the grasshoppers In Bucks, also. the grass
hoppers have risen into the air in great swarms,
anu migrated southwark
IL MilvilIe, is the name of borough
just erected in the vicinity of Johnstown,
posed OF the Rolling Mill and Flat, Minersvile,
Rhey's Furnace, the Pennsylvania Railroad Sta
tion. etc. The Concmaugh river is the Southern
boundary. 1t is expected that the first election
for borough officers will take place on the second
Tuesday of October.
II When Du Wallis Galvanic Oil was first in
troduced into the market, it never was thought of
being applied, by the proprietor, to Lung Uiseas-
eS- out It's DelHg appiicaOc TO almost every Otner
disease, the afflicted have used this preparation in
Consumption and, although it has never cured
purely consumptive patient yet it has saved many
who have been prone to the disease, from carly
grave See advertisement.
~ Tho Scientific american says that on ac-
count of the superior lightness, durability and
elasticity of steel over iron, ships of steel
being constructed; many are in course of con-
struction in England. The first steel vessel ever
built the small steamer launch for Living
Eton's Expedition up the Fam bee river in Africa.