Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-11-10
CLIPPINGS AND sckIssl,nGs.
In session-our special court.


past week.
s-ST-Bustcd--thc aa-sced Senate Rather un-
popular, the late officers.
20 Hungry-the chap who stole c. D. Lanich's
turkey, on Thursday night.
SsF Cincinnati papers say the principal epidem-
lc raging in that city, is thirst for strong drink
sF'An Irish friend of ours remarked that ihe
is never quite sober until he gets about half drunk
% S-The New York Express says million of
coin has been sent South to aid in the movement
of the cotton crop.
~ Although one swallow will not make sum-
mer, stiil pin maliciously inserted in chair
will make one spring.
iBMr Dallas, our Minister to England, has
written to the President, intimating his intention
10 return In the Spring.
81 Flustrated-the young Miss, when she dis
covered that she trailing of her hoops a.
long the street. Better luck next time.
Ia Eighteen thousand bushels of wheat and
eight hundred barrels OF flour, destroyed by
FIRE, at Dover, Kentucky, on the 22d ult.
sEQuery?-How does it come that whenever
the people want to get rid of hard times they de-
sert the Democracy! Should like to know
s-3-Four white women and one white man, tried
for vagrancy at Louisville, Ky lately. have been
ordered TO be sold twelve months into slavery.
eSZadoek Pratt of n. V has according to his
own account tanned one million hides" and is
said now to be worth the same number of dollars
;g-A fish having feet. caught few days
ago, at Peach Bottom, the Lancaster side of the
Susquehanna river We opine. that that story is
certainly fshy.
ESReported-a further decline in the mule
market, since the of the Novem Der elections
1t is also stated that the price of niggers for
portation has fallen considerably.
s9A A little girl weighing Go pounds was one
of the attractions at the Connecticut State Fair
She amused herself by handling South Ameri-
can boa constructor, II feet in length
- The Union Bank, of Philadelphia, incorpo
rate by the Legislature of 1857. obtained letters
patent from the Governor on the 9th October. The
bank will go Immediately into operation
II DIR. Franklin, speaking of education, says.
IF man empties his purse into his head
can take it away from him. An investment in
knowledge always pays tho best interest
70 man who had been confined in the Vir-
ginia Pcnitentiary, was recently pardoned out by
the Governor. but he refused to leave the institu
tiOn until his place as cook could be supplied.
f-Y Somebody has said but VIC cannot vouch for
the fact tn at Adam spoke irish in Eden and wooed
Eve in Welsh and scoldcd her in GueIic when
driven forth, and taught Cain Brctcn and Abel
Cornish.
gY 1t is said that on the morning after the Pres
sident had discontinued The Press he sent round
TO one of the news offices at Washington to see if
the withdrawal of his subscription had broken
Forney up.
~ A man being assured that the never rose
in the west, said it was very strange, he had n
cousin in Iowa who was always writing how plea
SAINT 1t was in that district. He concluded il was
all ms moonshne.
rg The proprietor of the Troy iAIabama) I4ae-
pendent Arasr7can. congratulates himself upon hav
ing new pair of brecchcs-the cloth cost him four
'bts" yard. His wife thinks they arc so hand
some that she wears them herself
70 hand-biN posted, it is said. in tn
streets of Leavenworth, Kansas a few days ago,
advertising a runaway negro. who took off with
him dark bay mare, with long tail which was
sucking colt" queer tail, that
fF A Young man stepped into book store and
asked for "A Young Mans Companion" Sir"
said the proprietor II cannot obige you at this
moment, but If you will call upon me this evening
L will introduce you to my daugh ghter-"
TEA letter from Gcauga county. Ohio states
that an epidemic dysentery has ragged among the
young children in that section. ravaging every
home and proving generally fatal. In the town of
Chester, it is stated but few infants have been
spared by the pestilencc.
sPNcver be so rude to say to aman There's
the door, but say. Elevate your golgotta to the
summit OF your pericranium and allow me to pre-
sent to your ocular demonstration, that scientific
piece of mech anism which constitutes the egress
portion of this apartment"
u Recently of the police officers of New
York, while registering the voters of that city,
found in one tenant house fiftyonc families, COM
pIisinS one hundred and sixty seven persons, and
in another house forty families, umbering one
hundred and eighteen persons.
sS-John Leghorn. Peter Lee, Wesley johnson
and Isaac johnson were triod at Elkton, Md. last
Gen. Cadwailader: on Bush river. found guilty,
and sentenced each to fourteen years and months
in tho Maryland pcnitentary
E5'A portion of the policy of the Adminis:ra-
tion which is very suggestive is set forth in the fol-
lowing line of the Washington correspondence of
the New York IsDatv, written Friday a-week
THE drafts issued each week nearly three
times great as the weekly revenue"
~ Tho publisher of magazine advertised tn at
his work would contain three steel engraving
When it came out there were three clumsy wood
engravings-onc of n fox running of with n goose.
one of man picking pocket and the other of a
fellow running off with a pig These his
three steal engrayings-
-yDavid 5. Dunham, editor of the Lock Haven
IVafehn.aW, was married to Miss Mary A. daugh-
ter of Capt Nath. Blake. of Portland, Maine, on
tho 10Th Oct "econgr"tnlate Dave and wish him
all kinds of good luck. The happy couple will
doubtless live well, they will always have plen-
ty of DUR-tGm in their house.
EgQucry What has become of that magnif-
cent Democratic pyramid that some of tho Loco
Foco papers published before the October eIec-
tions2 ? Have the figures upon which it was based
become unpleaslng to the eye, or where is 1t We
should like to have sight of it now that the No
vember elections also over Trot it out, friends
tsfHThe house of Hiram Robinson, about eight
miles from Grand Rapids, Mich, destroyed by
fire few nights since, and Mr.. R., his wife and
two children were burned up. Nothing was known
of the fire by any one until morning, when the
neighbors discovered that Robinson's house was
gone, and on rallying at the spot found the bones
eff the four.
rS-The Lancaster Union says Son Sunday
evening the fish pots ut the mouth of Pequea creek
emptied and found to contain throe cart loads
of cells. Some of them were of extraordinary
large size many weighing upwards of pounds
This our informant states is no fish story but a
veritable fact. No fish story Well, perhaps8ot
but it's rather eelish.
Cy-A remarkable exhibition recently took place
at the Hopkinsville (Tenn.) Fair. Ten brothers,
named Brown, all mounted fine gray horses
rode into the amphitheatre, and displayed their
all heinp pOod ridars The eldest