Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-03-02
CLIPPINGS AND scRIssLiNGs.


UURough-the roads.
0IDitto-to be brushed with broom.
VContagious-weddings and tattling.
WNumerous-petty thefts, about town.
~Singing mcrrily-several blue birds, on
Sunday last
W-Considerablc-the emigration from Tex
as TO the Gila gold mines
UTIIon. Wm. l.. GOggin, is the opposition
candidate for Governor of Virginia.
15-Grand-the change, from perpendcu-
lar TO a horizontal, in a.mud-puddle.
UEThe Senate of Missouri have appropia-
ted 50 900 to the Mount Vernon Fund.
TIntroduced-a bill, into the Vancouver
assembly to legalize the decimal currency.
ia man out west advcrtises saw mill for
sale, driven by the force of circumstances.
~The flesh of the hirpopotamus is the last
novelty in the way of Partisan gourmanderie.
0EIncreasing-the ssyellow fever'' in this
county. Pixies PeaR news is good specific.
Gg-A misery old fellow has hit upon an cx.
pertinent to save candles. He uses the light
of other days.
GyJust taken-a census OF Detroit city. 1t
has population of 81 loo now, while in 1850
it had only u ,O57.
Cy-It is said that Senator Douglas of Ili-
election to the Senate.
WTwenty- one prisoners escaped from the
Jail at New Castle, Delaware, last week. Six
of them were recapturcd.
G~The Washington I-n5on thinks no change
will be made in the tariff but recommends
revival of the tariff of 1916.
TThe annual expenses of The Philadelphia
High School are S2c, 900. The taxpayers con-
sider the Investments good one.
ia man named Skillings, died in n York
on Saturday a-week. whose weight was six
hundred and seventy eight pounds.
EPleasant-that oyster party we happen
ed TO s'drap'' into at the Susqnchanna House
in Curwensville, on Saturday evening.
DEZadoc Pratt of Greene county, N York,
in 1853 kept so cows, which yielded $500
pounds of butter realizing owe $ 500.
Cg-In town--the chap who knows what's
what. lie will be exhibited in COW yard. Ad
mittance nothin'. Children half price.
CyContradicted-the death of Sut Luven-
good. He only contcmplates the establishment
Of a 'sDemocratic" paper at Knoxville. His
death will ensue.
GyOur Southern friends are under the i'm
preston that should genuine Yankee, meet
s:dcath on pale horSe,'' he would banter him
to :'swap horses"
nj say, why don't you go to school
!
| thing now, | shan't have nothin' to larn when
[ goes to the cademy."
OgThc uglicst and most mSchirvOus Miss
we ever knew was Miss Government. We
know worser-Miss Fortune. And she is
said TO ssncver come SINGLE
DrThc best five acres of corn presented to
the Indiana State Agricultural Society for
premium produced S57a bushels of shclled
corn, or 17la bushels to the acre
~, i... H.,e f,fo -rJ 10
contribute about $50 900 to the Mount Vernon
Fund, provided the Hon. Edward Everett con-
sents to travel with his circus for single sea-
son in the capacity OF clown.
UVThe Bachelors of Delaware met in State
| Convention at Smyrna, on Tuesday a-week.
| Ninety-nine out of hundred of these old TO-
| gies had more or less buttons minus on their
| trousers. Who inspected them
CyA brace of WORTHLESS, who represent them
selves as having Il farm, near the Gap IN Lam
caster county, are going about selling lottery
| tickets. the farm being set down as a prize.
| The Harrisburg Telegraph sa's they are swim
| dlers.
| nyOfered-a reward of So 900, for the dis
covcry and arrest of the murderer OF george
| Millet clerk of the Union Bank at Jackson,
| Tennessee. The amount stolen by the muir
| derer is now ascertained TO be something over
| S23, ,000.
| The order oil TcetndSOHS III tiiC "OiiN -
! governed bv some Go Grand Lodges, OF which
| SO are on the continent of Europe, and 80 IN
| the limited States. The whole number OF Ma
| sons in teis Union is nearly 100000 divided
| into 900 lodges.
r~A South Carolnian, who thinks 1t best
! to let Cuba alone, proposes to cut snip cahai
! tbroucb the peninsula of Florida, and thus by
! making a great island for ourselves, create
| second Cuba. which shall hereafter command
the Gulf of Mexico.
| rIt is rumored that Chief Justice Taney
| and Judpe Mclean intend resigning their seats
| on the bench of the Supreme Court notn
| arc very aged, and in infrm health, the Chiei
Justice being over eighty years OF age, ana
| Judpe Mclean seventy-six.
nrReported-tha the copper lands IN MIN IN
| nesota bordering on the North shore OF Lake
! Snnerior. will be sold to the highest olddef !,
| during the present year. These lands arc no'
considered adapted for agricultural pursuits
| and contain rich copper mines.
| rrHow it Works The London Itmss
| savS that since the broaching OF the 'hilly
millions proposition, the Spanish Governnien'
| has increased it's effective force 10 e'sn't
Con-, thousand men, with the apparent vie"
| of throwing an offensive force INTO ou''
| r-Tbe report of the State engineer SHOWS
| .ho. thnre are in the State of New ork Two
hundred and fifty railroad corporat,Ohnso;o noo onn
amonnt of capital stock is over s9i ;oVo,9oo. w.
There we're only twenty passengers Kiiieo On
! the mast wear, ana one