Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-03-10
CLIPPINGS AND scRIesLlNes.

@~Fell-a little snow yesterday.
- Ditto-hoops few evenings since.
70 High-candles and wood. Young persons
shouldn't do much sparkling" now.
70 Drap'd through certain 'gemmen, whilst
out skating last week. Shampooning. eh ?
20 Amounts-the total population of the Rus
sian Empire, to upwards of sixty millions accord
ing to the last census
E1Y Scarce article--servant girls, in Kansas A
letter writer says, that in Leayenworth, girls can
readily get Sl5 per month
- Elected-the entire Republican ticket at
the recent municipal election in Chicago by an
average majority of one thousand.
~ yAbout-counterfeit S2O's on the Strouds.
burg (Pa) Bank. The genuine note is tinted while
the spurious is not. Look out for them.
aP7ofered a kiss-a lady skater on Jamaica
Pond near Boston. to any one who would beat her
IN race. young darkey was the winner, and
received his reward.
~ Professed conversion-two hundred persons
during the late great revival among the Lutherans
at Middletown, Nd. Rev. Mr.. klink is the pastor
of the congregation.
y Before the Virginia Senate-an exemption
bill. Among the articles exempted is, Il Prayer
Book Bible, Nigger.' This shows that slave
ry is "a divine institution
tSS Stated-by New York paper; that in a GER
tain section of that city the people groDliug
good deal. 1t is suspected that there is a sausage
market in their neighborhood.
sy'Gets off the following hit-the Lodi. illinois,
Garden State: why is a Nebraska shinplaser
ike an lmpenitent sinner - Because it don't
know that its redeemer liveth."
10 VIII not cling-ivy. it is said, to a poison
Gus tree or other substance. What pity that the
tendris of womans heart have not the same
wholesome and salutary instinct.
se-Y Boasted-on the stump, vulgar politician
that he and Dan Webster orce stad all night at
the same house. 1t must have been a house of
entertainment for man and beast"
- Adopted-by the Massachusetts, Legislature
an amendment to the Constitution. providing that
foreigner shall reside in the State two years af
ter naturalization before he can be made a voter
e Sent-from Pari. to Egypt the full require
ments of printing office. for the ladies in the ha
rem of the grand pacha. The fair GeOrgians and
CrcassiaDs to set the types. do the press work
and all.
| u Have been held-meetings. in seventy coun-
ties in Illinois, by the Democracy, and resolutions
unanimously adopted disappearing, in the strong
est terms, the policy of admitting Kansas with the
LecomptOn Constitution.
sSMaSe a speech-Col Henry s. Lane of Indi-
ana, to the Republicans at st. Joseph, the other
day. in which he said that the Buchanan men had
| abandoned the CT cinnati Platform to stand upon
the Cincinnati DirectOry.''
SCalled up lately-the spirit of Daniel Web
ster, in spiritual circle in Northampton, Mass.
lie confessed he had made many mistakes in his
social and political life while earth. and in his
Dictionary That medium wasn't well trained.
~ Hung-a slave woman named Jenny. ut A.
lexandria, last week. for the murder of her mis-
tress. They had bottle of whiskey between
| them. were both drunk, when the negro pushed
| the white woman in the fire, where she burned to
death.
- The real object of education is to give chill
dren resources that will endure long life en-
dures habits that will ameliorate, not destroy
occupation that will render sickness tolerable SOL
tuie pleasant, age venerable. life more d dignifed
and useful, and death less terrible
! E-g- Decidedly the Supreme Court of the Uni
| ted States that Mr.. Thomas Green, present owner
of the Fauquier (Va.) White Sulphur Springs, is
entitled to tract of ninetythree thousand acres.
| and valued at more than two millions of dollars.
| Pretty fair sized farm for one man.
| ET7An Exchange says a dying man upon the
| galows lately affirmed that the hrst step in his
career OF crime that of not paying for 4 news
| paper" If it Locofoco newspaper, the fci-
| lows FIRST step in the career of crime was taking
| ii, and not paying for it was the SccolsE
tg~ Drawed on-thc editor of the Greenshurg
| DeRocrat, the third time, by publishing bogus
marriage notices. The scamps, who sent the noti-
ces, should be severely punished for their sport,
and, hope. that friend Ed will have the plea
sure of publishing the account of their conviction
| sg.Some men who were engaged in cutting ice
| in one OF the creeks attached to buffalo, on Tues
day a-wcek. actually sawed the body of a man in
| two. and the presence of the body was not known
until the parts were in the blocks of ice after
! they had been loaded upon n sleigh to be drawn
| to the ice house.
| s1~Durinp the last Presidential campaign, in
Pennsylvania Western orator opposed to Mr. Bu-
| chanan came down upon him very severely lie
psaid He is a tolerablc good so fur as intel
lee is concerned; he has good mind and clear
| judgment, but he baint got no heart-nafy Dill
| of in ards of that ere kind
| An old family-the Patterson's, in and near
| West Newton, Westn-oreland county. They are
| FIVE in number; James aged 81, Jane 81, John 81
| Mary IS, and Thomas ~, their joint ages being
| Alb years 1t is doubtful if there can be found
one family of like number, in the State, whose av-
| erage age will beat the above