Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-01-06
CLIPPINGS AND scaisslines.

I A Poor-the sleighiDg.
T.Decreasing-our wood pile.
s-Y Increasing-our subscription list.
EyRather moderate--the weather, for winter.
1Sound-Douglas, on the Kansas Question
sY-Prevailed- -strychnine fever, on New Year.
ESTHad good time of 1.-THE skaters on last
Saturday.
70 gFizzled-all Buchanans pledges to the peo-
pie of the North.
Es@Down-the thermometer below zero on Sat
urday morning
70 Ditto-some of the b'boys, who imbibed
little too free, the evening before.
9'Easy-to write original communications by
copying somebody else's production.
II Have downward tendcncy-hoopcd skirts,
when the draw-string breaks.
BGrand-the concert of the Saxe-horn Band
at Curwensville, on New Years evening.
lYFine-the sleighing along the Narrows.''
Snow rather scarce stones plenty, however.
ESArriyed at St Louis--sx eight of the men
wounded by the Cheyenne Indians and Mormons.
sy-In session-the County Commissioners and
Auditors, making the annual settlement with the
Treasurer.
EYRich-to hear the way some of the Locofoco
papers puff ''our own Bgler." Webster, Clay and
Calhoun are mo whar.''
ly7Was to meet yesterday-the Pennsylvania
Legislature. We expect to give the Governors
Message in our next issue.
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on a log-sled on New-Ycar's day. otriag tc too
heavy load of strychninc.
- Plenty-gold and silver in New York city.
The papers say there is more in circulation now
than was ever before known.
Now in kansas-thirty-iive companies of T.
nited States troops. to aid the pro-savery frority
to govern the Free-Statc majority
- -Indiguant-the Southern free eaters, on ac-
count of the arrest of fllbuster Walker. 'Spect
they III dissolve the Union, now
EY7Dcstroyed by fire-the old mill and screw
factory buildings, at this end of Philipsburg on
last Sunday night So informed
"a Capacious-the stomachs of eertain Locofo-
cos, who can at one gulp swallow the Lecompton
Constitution and all the Southern niggers.
- Didn't 'sdiskiver'' any-the feminines who
went ont t'other night to see if a couple gentle
| men were making merry with the 'spirits."
| eY An important fact-that yaller dog has
| four legs and a tail. This discovery made by
a western editor through personal observation.
| - 1mproving-the people of Memphis Ten
nessee. They won't allow horses to be hitched to
trees or awning posts, nor negroes TO be sold in
| the streets.
- Unpopular-the Free Trade policy of the
Buchanan party Hard times are bringing them
| to their ''pheelnks." No nation can prosper that
will refuse to protect labor.
| Wanted his gun sent to him-an Indian. in
Texas, hung for the murder of his child, and who
said. when on the seaffold, that he was going to
| Arkansas. queer way of going to Arkansas.
| we should think
| II SensibIe-the editors of Kentucky. They
met in Convention at Frankfort on the 10th Dee,
and agreed to adopt the cash system after the lst
| of July next. The editors in Pennsylvania ought
| to do the same thing.
| scS Funny-to a chap, who imagines him
self on tow path, laying out worm-ience on the
| pavement and hallooing to his companion tn e
opposite side of the street to bring him boat TO
| cross over the raging canawl."
| sF Decidedly Judge Coon. of California, that
under the statute of th hat State there is law to
| prohibit women from. dressing in male attire.
This decision has given great satisfaction to ladies
| who wish TO wear the breeches."
| tY.Is before the South Carolina Legislature-a
bill which provides that all professional gamb-
| lers found guilty of gambling shall receive 80
| lashes in addition to former penalties" This
| should prevent polite stealing in that State.
| ~ Up to snuff.-It is estimated that there are
four millions of female snuff takers in the United
States, using an average two pounds each pei
| annum, or eight millions of pounds. at an expense
of two millions of dollars. Just think of that.
w Doesn't look like hard times-when horse:
begin to wear jewery. man in Chester county
| went to get his horse shod. and when the horse:
foot lifted. large gold ring, worth IS. wa:
discovered safely lodged in the frog of the foot.
.y-"Doctor, vat ish in mine mouth % Doctor
| looks in and says, Il see nothing. Look NOR,
| agin. far pehind." Doctor looks again and see
nothing. .'VelI, L shust tells you, doctor. vat
dere ish more as fifty bairs of boots down da
place, und can't you der sthraps sthick up?"
B@Gets some hard digs-''our own Bgler.'
One calls him Buchanan man, Friday" An ex
change does him up in poetry, thus:
Quoth Bigler: I'm Buehanans dog,
He speaks through my bow-wow;"
But Douglas pulled his collar off,
| And said w hose poodle you now 2'
The chap who perpetrated that had better keel
a sharp look out