Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-11-24
CLIPPINGS AND scRlseL.Nes.
? rScarce-genuine bank bills.

lne most graceful principle OF dress ls neat
ness-the most vulgar is preciseness.
EBWhy is a weathereock like loafery Be-
cause II Is constantly going round doing nothing.
Ey Three hundred thousand roses are required
to give yield of ounce of otto oil of roses
n Zen Denver, late Governor of Kansas. has
again resumed his position as Commissioner Of In
dian affairs.
city for violating the law against publishing lot
teries. Serves them right.
sg The debt of Russia is said to amount to $751;
00O,0 That of France is 81, ,2S4; ;OO0, 900 and
that of England to So, 295, ,000, 900.
IA Governor Packer has commissioned John NJ.
Read Judge of the Supreme Court. for fifteen years
from the first Monday in December next.
10 An American author says: "There is no wind
so i'll as not TO blow good to somebody" What
does he think of tn breath of whiskey drinkers?
EE'Dr Johnston being asked whom he deemed
the most miserable, replied, Tho man who can
not entertain himself with book on a rainy day
10 woman died few days since, in Cncin-
natl, Ohio, who had accumulated 5000 in the bu
siness of playing hand organ and singing thro'
tho streets.
EY-aAn improved apparatus for raising and
lowering the skirts of ladies dresses" has been
recently patented We suppose it is a high-draw-
lie machine.
YEA Quaker's admonition to a man who was
pouring forth voley of i'll language to him
Have a care, my friend thou mayest run thy face
against my fist.
CgThe opponents of the administration in the
Berks district have united in the support of Gen
w. I'll. Keim for Congress, at the special election
on the 3Uth inst.
EY-Tbe duties on sugar last year amounted to
sl2,477, 900. This duty is levied TO protect $500
planters, who probably are opposed in principle"
TO protecting iron.
tE-The Albany Statesman alluding to n candi-
date for office, who defeated in that city. says
he had such itching for Office that his friends
concluded to scratch him
EE'A young poet out west, in describing heav
en- says lit is world of bliss fenced in with girls
If heaven is such place wonder that every
body don't try to climb the fence
syThe editor of the PtatndeaLer, Cleveland
Ohio, says he is for popular sovereignty against
Congressional sovereignty, and for Douglas against
the world, the flesh and the devil
Eft is proposed to light the streets of viii
iage not thousand miles from Lewistown, with
| red headed girls. If we lived there we'd play
hpsy every night and hug the lamp posts.
EF=Not long ago. album leaf. on which Byron
had written few lines of poetry, was sold at We
nice and Russian gave 81 500 for it. There
but four lines-four hundred dollars a line.
- The author of 'Tristram Shandy,' who knew
human nature pretty well, says: "A sober man
when drunk, has the same k ind of stupidity about
him that drunken man has when sober
~ The Washington Union admits that the Ad-
minis'ration has appointed some rascally post mas
ters bat thinks ought to feel obliged to it for
not having appointed more. Perhaps ought.
of Mrs. Brown and kissed her without justification
johnson is tinker, and the court thinking he had
better mend his manners well as b is pots, fined
hitn three dollars.
rg-The vote of the Ninth Congressional district
of Illinois stands thus Republican 237l Demo
cratic 5.026. In one county, Saline. there were
polled ,095 Democratic votes and no Republican
Rather saline, that
sy.Makns shirt bosons for II cents dozen
and cloth pantaloOns for is cents a pair. They
made by machines. it is true but isn't it
king machine of n woman to require go much
work for so little money,
CY-There is a man on exhibition at New York
who breakfasts cobble-stones dimes gravel,
and sups on rocks. 1t is said he INDUCES in
other food, and drinks nothing but pure water
Hard food or hard story, that.
EF-The hog cholera is still raging in Sullivan
county, Indiana One farmer lost hundred
hogs out of lot of one hundred and twenty; and
another had lost ninety-ive hogs, for which he
was offered $1,000 few days previous.
EY-0nc hundred thousand dollars have been
rsiocd TO elect honest men to office in New York
city. A rather dangerous experiment, and we
doubt il any honest man wU@c'd be willing to risk
his reputation by holding Office in uotl.am
fT- Lafayette (Ind) Courier says that at
recent county fair in Indiana. couple of fashion
able ladies, attred in very low-necked dresses,
were much mortified because all the infants from
the rural districts cried after them. A-hem
10 Benjamin IL. CovngtOn is on trial in Marion
county, Ky charged by Miss Ray with breach
OF marriage engagement She cIalms SZU-UUU DAM
ages and has employed FIVE lawyers to obtain it
for her. If she RECEIVERS, they will be Rayly hea-
Wy damages.
~ On the 9Th instant, Rhnchart who recently
murdered man named DodelI, near Lexington
Minnesota, tax en- from the Jail in that place
by number of citizens who forthwith hung him
fearing that he might otherwise eventually escape
the penalty of the law.
sy The woman who was some time ago arrested
at Constantinople, with four millions of counter
felt Turkish money in her trunk. has just been
brought up for trial, but the prisoner demands
time to obtain testimony from the United States,
which has been granted.
EY'At the late election in Massachusetts,, the
town of South Danyers voted as follows for Gov
crnor: Banks: Republican, 444 Beach Democrat,
444 Lawrence, American. 444 That town
very impartial in its favors and determined
that no party should have to complain of it.
ES Ten negroes, five n three women and two
childrcnD in absurd pursuit of those gli ttering
generaiies" life and liberty. ran away from Nor
gantown, Va They had to fight against twenty
five men and the bred Scott decision, in Fayette
county. Pa, but finally escaped and in
Canada it is supposed
EY'The indianapolis Sentinel says that several
churches in that city which hold Thursday evening
prayer meetings. propose to commence their servi-
ces an hour earlier than usual to give their
bers opportunity to attend the theatre on the
same evening. Very accommo odating Christians.
IN that city, we should say.
sB-Mr. John Turner and Mr.. R. A. Barnewell,
two crack sportsmen, made a trip to Womelsdorf,
Berks county, about SO miles from Philadelphia on
cunning excursion. They out five days,
and returned to Philadelphia with 395 partridges,
| woodoock, number of iarks, 81 rabbits, and
| several other specimens of game.