Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-05-19
CLIPPINGS AND ScRissIiNGs.

~ flenty-lager DecT-
In session-our courts.
Busy-the hotel keepers
tyDull-thc flour market.
Active-thc whiskcy business
SYHere-the ice-cream season.
-Ditto-Wm. F. Irwins new goods
EJ-A great --institoot'-thc town council
6Likewise-the 'frec whiskey'' act.
TS-A perfect brick-the hard shell preacher
I}Numcrous-countcrfei notes Look out for
SIIumbugs-progrcssive locofocoism and gift
lotteries.
y-Fashionable-the white feather" as bon
net trimming.
EyOn a sfuke-thc shoemakers, in Cincinnati
Won't the pegs catch it now
fg-Query-Can n doctor by looking at the
tongue of a wagon tell what aiIs it,
rg-Quoted-cggs, at three cents 4 Dozen in Mt
Carroll. ILL., That's the place to live.
ES1Weil attended-the prayer meetings, in the
hose and engine houses, in Philadelphia.
fY-The man who courted an investigation says
it isn't half good affectionate girl.
ryThere are twenty-seven theatres in Paris
twenty-three in London, and ten in New York.
CgHas rcsigned-General Concha. the Governor
General of Cuba, 10 prevont his being turned out
EY'Cses high pressure engine-the fellow who
snoIes so loud that he can't sleep in the same room
with himself
L
an opinion of himself that he imagines he is a
church steeple.
YBanked up-the city of St. Paul, Minnesota.
1t has only I3 banks within its limits 'Spect they
are all Jriid cats.
.ySupplied with icc-San Francisco. from Slit
ka in Russian America as New Orleans is with the
article from Boston.
sg@In town-Hon Geo. Taylor, Col. A. e. Cur
tin, Hon Jas T. Hale, Samuel Linn Esq Gen.
James Irwin, and other celebrities.
ii Il
income to be announced at the British and Foreign
Bible Societys May meeting Is S163,0O0.
ryRecommended-by Gov. Weller of Califor-
mia. the appointment of n night watch to guard the
State Treasury. 'chKe TIE Legislature IS IN
LOcofocOs, are they
English, in 1880. The result is known to the world.
Buchanan's compact with the EnSitSh in lo5o,wiil
result in equal disaster and disgrace.
u NOTES.-THE Southern Era. the marriage of
Mr. John II Strange to Miss Elizabeth A. Strange,
all of Albemarle county Va That's very Stranee,
but we presume the next important event VIII be
u little stranger.
.gTProposes to build-a Yankee. an establish
ment which you may drive sheep in at one end,
and have it come out at the other as four quarters
of mutton, a felt hat, pair Of drawers, leather
apron, and quarto dictionary.
EYrShOws-the result of the Philadelphia cleo
tion that Buchanan has lost Pennsylvania to keep
South Carolina. To retain Florida and Texas, he
will loose Indiana and Illinois. Great is Buchan-
an, and English is his prophet!
g-She ought to be ashamed.-In Il recent des-
cription of a counterfeit an exchange paper
saws that. on 'sthc right end is n female with a
-ake'' We don't dispute the fact, but really con-
slider the female lost to shame to appear IN public
with such a disreputable character
tVSoIid truth.-"They pass best over the world,
aaid Queen Elizabeth, '.who trip over 1t quickly
for it is but bog-if we stop, we sink. We
sleep but the loom of life stops, and the pat
tern which was weaving when the sun went down
is weaving when it comes up tomorrow"
gRumored-that Mr.. Rarey, the American
horse tanner. n file of Congressional speeches
TO subdue the refractory animals put under ms
charge. After reading about quarter of an hour
the quadruped gives in, promises entire amend
ment of morals and manners if he will only stop.
B'The Patterson Democrat says: ''Never was
party so completely non-plussed as has been the
Republican party by the late passage of the Eng
Iisb Conference Kansas bill" Yes, in Philadel-
phia they hardly knew what to do Out in Indian
apois they were in the. dumps, but in both places
thew roted Ueyy 1ceH. We expect to be on- ptHssea
more net this fall.
rgsTbe Richmond South describes the beauties
of the English Kansas bill as follows 1t a.
chievcs Congressional recognition OF the LecomE,-
ton constitution 1t arms the principles Tor whlch
tbe south has contended throughout the struggle.
1t admits Kansas into the Union as slave otate'
and thus consolidates the victory OF 1890; IN
tce as well as principle it is now estabishea 'a'
federal prohibition will avail to restrict the
pansion of pro-savery power.
u Big Baft-The largest raft OF timber that
ever loated on the Mississippi left the mouth u u
Black river, near Lacrosse, Wisconsin bound 70 .
St Louis, Mo 1t was manned by twenty-four req
Shirts and measured $50 feet in length, 2oO.feet
in width and contained fully 0000 900 feet OF lun-
ber The deck consisted of 250, 900 feet OF lath,
and 25O, 900 shingles. We have seen some pretty
tall RATS floating down the Susquehanna, but we
rather think the Mississippi monster is a leete a.
head.