Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-02-23
CLIPPINGS Ano scRlastlnes.

~Iligh-thc river.
@-Ditto-provisions
Anoat-some timber, on Sunday.
G Also-counterfeit money, but no other.
NPoor-the prospects of procuring ice for
summer use.
~Peach and pear trees are in bloom at
Augusta, Georgia.
UElected-some candidates on last Fri
day-some sswa'nt.''
URev. DR.. Springs new church, on MUIR
ray Hill, New York, cost S230,000.
~Warlike rumors continue to agtatc Eng
land and the continent, but they very con-
Trajectory.
WThe New York Chess Club are to pre-
sent Paul Morphy with set of gold and sill
yer chess men.
WHave been sold-S4G75 worth of skates,
to ladies and gentlemen in New Haven, Con-
necticut, this winter.
WThe, late speech of the Queen of Eng
land, at the opening of Parliament, threatens
| the use of force against Mexico.
U-It is stated that the Russian war, for a
single year cost over S250,O00, 900, no small
amount spent in shooting people.
GyMr. Smith drew the short term.as Sena-
tor from Oregon. 1t will expire in II days.
Lanes term will expire March 4. 1861.
WA gentleman of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, re-
Gently purchased horse whose height was
twenty hands and weight 8, 400 pounds. The
price paid was S 1, 600.
W-The old Hall of Independence in Phila-
delphia canght fire the 10th. LUCKILY, it
was observed in time to extnguish the flames
before serious damage was done.
WAn old Dutch proverb says, ssstealing
never makes man rich.'' The simple old
Dutchman who got up that proverb knew lit
tie of the exploits of office holders in the u
nited States.
~The minutes of the Pcnnsy lyania Bap-
tist convention show that there are $50 Bap-
tIst churches in the State, with 81 ,527 mem
bers; 4.314 were baptized last year. This is
large increase.
~.sTaking the one with the other,'' said
the Rev. Sydney Smith, 81 believe my con-
gregation are the most exemplary observers of
the religious ordinances: for the poor keep all
the fasts and the rich all the feasts.''
Uy-During the past year Mrs. a. Z. Flint
raised on her plantation in Louisiana, 800
hhds. sugar, 4, 900 bbls. molasseS and 400 bales
of cotton. This is the largest crop ever pro-
duced on single plantation in Louisiana.
WA writer in the New York Tribune for
wards to that paper twenty dollars. as a bonus
for the benefit lie derived from an advertise
mcnt which received two days insertion. He
says ii was the best investment he ever made.
Sensible man, that.
W-The Haytien fugitive Soulouque, though
driven from his empire, has managed, during
his term, TO lay an anchor to windward. 1t is
stated that he has $500 ,000 securely invested
in Europe, and owns more than a hundred
houses in Hayt, besides having large a.
mount OF money and valuabcs with him.
Drrhc Wrightsville Stgr admonishes the
fraternity of Odd Fellows, throughout the State
and elsewhere, to beware of u pcregrInating
scamp, who styled himself John Brown in that
place, James Black in anothcr,-White at an
other, and so on; and representing himself
as member of various lodges at different
places.
0TWe were considerably amused at a little
trick of our friend of the Clarion Democrat.
In his last paper he tries to palm off his own
photographs, before and after the election, for
those of Il Democrat and Republican on the ad-
mission of Oregon. That kind of thing wont
do al all, Co!oncl-the likcnesses are altogeth-
cr too striking TO pass for anybody else where
you are known.