Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09
CLIPPINGS AND scRIsBLincs.

u Libcral-the chap who asked So for
live turkey.
0y- Ex-action-the lawer's claim when the
Action is over
O-forty-three horses were burned at Oswe-
go, N. Y. on Monday night a-weck.
u Delightfnl-the weather, We have reg
uiar ''lndian Summer" here at present.
@A gentleman who spoke of having been
struck by lady's beauty, advised to kiss
the rod.
GTClosc Fote.-Mr. Waggoner, Democrat.
is elected Commissioned of Cumberland coun-
ty, by one vote.
OyThe aggregate taxes of the estate of the
late EbeBezer Francis, OF Boston, have this
year reached $50, 900.
GgMrs. Smithers chastised hef husband last
week with boot-jack for using her corsets for
vest. Poor creeter-sich is life.
WPlenty-apples in the Clearfield market,
Notwithstanding the June '.frost." PticsS
have ranged from so cents to 81 per busbel.
O-A lady in Indiana entered complaint
against last week for laying his hand
upon her-cotton. She doesn't like men of
feeling.
TThe Republicans Of Kentucky will meet
in convention, November 14th, at Newport, to
organize in the State and form Presidential
electoral ticket.
man, is stnmping 1t in Kansas, and regaIing
himself in the interval of political labors, by
chasing buffaloes.
EThe Dublin correspondent of the New
York Evangelist estimates that, at the present
time, full one half of the entire population of
Ireland is Protestant.
Gy~A fellow entered German ballroom in
Galveston the other day and went to kicking
the seats about the apartment. After getting
his own kicked, he left.
GE-The yellow fever hasn't been killing the
people of New Orleans this season, and, what
is more strange, they hayn't for a few weeks
past been killing each other.
~The Freemasons of San Francisco have
purchased a lot on the corner of Montgomery
and Post streets for $4,000, and will erect
building worth 100000 on it.
~An editor. who had been fined several
weeks in succession for getting drunk, cody
proposed to the Judge, that he should take him
| by the year at reduced rate.
C-Alfred Robson, of Hartford, Conn, has
! in his possession a Hebrew shekel, which is
/ supposed to be more than 5000 years old.
They are said to be worth 500 each.
| ~Thc Albany Erenfng Journal says that
! when Old Browns sons were murdered by Mis-
/ souri, Border Ruffians, his daughter, who wit
messed the murder, became maniac.
| ga young Miss, named Sarah Jane John
| ston. was lately arrested in Detroit, for steal
| ing five dollars from one lover, to pay the Cler-
! gyman's charge for marrying her to another.
| UAlways precede lady in going up stairs
| This maxim is a lag-i-See from maiden aunt
| who knew what was what and always manifest
ed great reverence for the rules OF propriety.
| IA chap in Iowa says, that when two
| dimes meet together in his pocket, they are
| such strangers that. out of common politeness,
/ he is compelled to introduce them to each
| other.
| ~St. Ambrose says that Idleness Is the
/ DEVILS pillow; wherefore many good Chris
/ riau's who think the devil deserves none, take
| it away from him, and put it under their own
/ heads.
UEA man in Kalamazoo is training an elk
/ to trot on the race conrse. The elk has al
| ready trottcd against horse for purse of
seven hundred dollars, winning the prize by a
/ long distance
~WiIIiam l.. McPhail, acting Mayor of
the City of Baltimore, was shot on Sunday eve
ming a-week, in 4 melee, Toy J. Marshall Han
Ia, reporter for the Baltimore Sum. McPhai
is not expected to recover.
GA fearful accident occurred on the Sd.
on The Chicago and North Western Railroad.
4 train consisting of thirteen cars ran of the
track, and eight persons are reported to have
been killed, and number badly injured.
GA small steamer has been built in Eng
land of steel plate One-cighth of an inch in
thickness. She is seventy feet long, twelve
feet broad, and six and q halt feet deep, and
measures twenty tons. She has proved TO be
admirable sea boat.
GI-An Iowa paper states that some German
tanners are paying SIS ton for a plant very
common in this country, and generally known
as .sdog fennel.' 1t is said to be good sub
stitutc for oak bark, and can be extensively
grown where that cannot be obtained.
CESamuel N. Scott Of Dallas, Texas, late
~ finished threshing his crop of wheat, which
amounted TO upwards of four thousand bush
els averaging more than sixty-four pounds to
the bushel. H. says that had it not been for
the hail and birds, the crop would have been
much larger.
uyA Dead Shot.-In New York, a woman
named Margaret Donald obtained glass of
liquor al one of the Ninth Ward porter houses,
which proved to contain more than the usual
proportions of strychnine. y spasnl ensued
shortly afterward she fell from her bed to
the floor and expired in agony.
Gas an instance of the admirable manner
in which counterfeit half-dolars made to
resemble the genuine article, it is stated that
one of the banks at Washington city received
a box full of the bogus coin on deposit, and
that the City Post Office there also received
large quantities OF the same article.
All Neuralgia affections relieved in from
five to thirty minutes, and soundly cured by
the free use of Du Vall's Galvanic Oil. Price
90 cents per bottle.
Common sense rules the of the people,
whatever the misnamed and misanthrOpe phlloso-
pher may say to the contrary. Show them good
Thing let its merits be clearly demonstrated, and
las, iva tt,aIr a