Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-03-16
CLIPPINGS AND scRiBBLINos.
rApproaching-flittin't time.

IL Here-sprlnS and bad roads.
0J-Be wise, and attend to your farms.
0y-Ditto-to your orchards and stock.
uG~Our Legislature will not adjourn until
some time in April.
U~Fact-whisting girls and growing hens
always come to some bad end.
OOEvery rose has its thorn You never find
woman without pins and needles.
UvLabor lost-an organ-grinder playing at
the door of a deaf and dumb asylum.
~To prevent flies from getting at your ba-
con in sunnmer-eat it all in the winter.
UThc whole number of Indians at present
in this country is estimated at 100000
UyIt is now said that an extra session of
Congress will be called in June or July.
CgGood employment-fshing on Sunday
especially just after a severe spell OF sickness.
UySomebOdy defines character as ''the on
ly personal property which everybody looks
after for you."
CD-A daily line of stage coaches will be run
from Leavenworth city TO Pixies Peak after
the first of April next.
UTwo white men, named Clayter and
Coleman, were hung at Barnwell, S. c., 25th
ult., for stealing slaves.
CgEconomical--the man who twenty
dollars worth of tobacco, year, and stops his
aper, because he is poor.
ECol. G. W. Gholson, of Mississippi, has
been appointed Governor of Washington ter
rtory, vice M'Mullen, resigned.
rQueen Victoria will be pettioned by the
Canadian Parliament to cross the ocean, and
open the first Parliament in Ottawa,
TWho We often hear of man s'being
in advance OF his age,' but who ever heard OF
woman being in the same predcamentl
TThe New York sJournal of Commerce
l L I. 81
city contemplate leaving forAfrica this spring.
CyReported-ths new silver mines have
just been opened in Arizona. Lead, copper,
iron, alum, gold aud silver ore abound in the
territory.
TThe Rev. Mr.. HOgc, of Va, has been in
vited to become the associate miuister of Rev.
DR.. Springs church, at s. 900 year. 4 nice
salary, that.
~The city auditor of Boston estimates the
expenditures of tn city for the next fiscal
year at 50, ,9S2, $50, while the receipts viii be
only $704, ,129.
nrPrenticc saws that John Mitchell, who
made his escape from Botany Bay, should re-
member that when he abuses fugitive slaves,
! he abuses himself.
| 0vItis said that the Israelites OF New ork
| CITY are about to build temple that will rival
| in extent and magnfcence Archbishop Hughes
proposed cathedral.
orThe Court House in Clarion, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on the 10th March. All the
public records were saved. The loss is about
| S12, ,000-insurance 81 600.
| ~Dr Joshua Webb, a clergyman of Salem.
Michigan, has been arrested for counterfeiting
ON an extensive scale More then Sl2,O 600 il
spurious money was found in his possession.
! DEIndiana has lost about SIC GOO by the IL
| legal reissue of scrip, that has been PAID a
| ba neglected
| cut them with the cancelling hammer as tho
law required.
| OIThe military force of Austria numbers a
present four hundred thousand men, but II ne
cessary, an efficient, well-disciplined force o
double that number can be placed in the heie
at two weeks notice.
nvBlood has been shed on the Paraguay
expedition A seaman, belonging to the Fat
mouth was killed in a drunken row at Bueno
Ayres. If he has a,family they VIII be ate
q pension in few years
w-A man in Orange, Mass, was married OF
the 9th ultimo, became father on the loth
and advertised his wife on the 1lth, caution
ing all persons against trusting her on his ac
count. Fast people, sartin.
cyOne of the dry goods dealers in Reading
is too refined to use the terms ''shirt am
chemisette; 20 he calls them s'male and femai
envelopes We should think such maj
would be too modest to sell ladies' hoops.
, g-Lately, lawyer gave an insult to IN
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, at Lo
gansport, Ohio, while on the bench, ,whereupo
the judge got at once from his seat, ana, 60
/, ing into the bar, gave the chap sound drna
bing.
, ~A serious riot occurred at Elizabeth
town. N. j., on the 9TH. The laborers on tn
Delaware, Lackawana and Western Raliroa
had struck for higher wages, and when lot
new hands were brought on from New YORK
} the strikers interfered TO prevent them goin
I TO work Twenty persons were Wouhaea-
none killed.