Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-10-26
CLIPPINGS soalaslIncs.

UCirculating-c So bills on the
ssCatasauqua Bank Look out for them.
WFormidable affair-the Chinese navy. 1t
consists of two vessels, mounting ten guns.
rStilI i'm EXISTENCE map of China made
thousand years before the birth Of Christ.
~J. Edgar Thompson has been elected
President of the Pacific Railioad Company.
~Scarce-unhooped ladies', disinterested
friends, common honesty, and irst-rate butter.
UContradicted-the statement, that Pres
ideDt Buchanan intends to prosecute Forney
fo- libel.
~Appointed-by Gov. Packer, Thursday
November oath, as day of Thanksgiving in
this State.
UM iStaken--we were about that chap Ben
ton. he beats Boyer ssphew'' votes, which
elects him.
Walking wires-a s'Professer'' Price, i'm
Tamaqua, Pa. He stretches the wires from
house tops.
Wrong--the majority for County Sur
veyor, as given in our last. 1t should be 356
instead Of 456.
~Remember-the poorest education that
teaches sef-control, is better than the best
that neglects it.
WHard to beat--that bunch of celery pre-
sented us by DIR. Hills. May he always have
plenty OF the s<same sorts
UrHad his left eye shot out-a noted duel
ist in the South. He can take aim here after
without the trouble of shutting it.
~Fact-a man might as we'll try to sit still
with crooked pin under him as to run with
the girls and not learn to love them.
OTThe Governors of New York and Rhode
Islard, have appointed Thursday the 9th of
November, as day of Thanksgiving.
~AsserteG-tha some of the villages in
the West are so healthy that the folks have to
shoot to start burying ground.
OyOn exhibition-the autographs of John
Milton and his wife, recently bought in Eng
land for S215, by citizen of Philadelphia.
~Recent aGvices from Nebraska, report
the prevalence of terrible malady among the
Omaha Indians. Numbers are dying daily.
~A grocer lately got painted two large Us
on his chimney, one black and the other green,
to intimate that he sold black and green tea.
rTheodore Parker says that ssa grain of
corn is better than diamond" Every barn
yard fowl in the couEtry would agree with him.
GvAt the close of the horticultural exh ibi
tion at Louisville, some OF the peaches which
had been on exhibition were sold ats l 80 apiece.
GEEasily obtained-a Hosegay, nowadays.
Four brandy toddys day for few mouths
will give yoa e1lc that will astonish all your
friends
GTTen thousand cigars are on their way
from Havana 10 L dIIS, lOI ptlh dlO
of the Emperor. They cost three hundred
dollars a thousand.
0yThe Queen OF England has received
petition, signed 10y 460 clergymen of the Es-
tablished Church, praying for permission to
revise the Liturgy.
Dy-Held meetng-the 'colorcd people of
Canada, to consider the expediency of seeking
u new home. They propose to emigrate to ia
maica, West Indies.
Cy-A preacher lately said in his seEeaon,
sslet women remember while putting on their
profuse and expensive attire, how narrow are
the gates of Paradise.
NTNot satisied-La Mountain, with his last
balloon trip. He is going try it again. The
top of that Mountain will hit steRe some day
and knock its brains out.
DEA singular reason is urged against beil-
ding Railroad in Northern Michigan il is,
ssthat the flies and mosquitoes will render it
almost Impracticable in summer"
UY-A man who don't believe the world is
growing better, says the tine may come when
the lion and the lamb shall lie dewn togeth-
er, but if it does, the lamb will be inside of
tie lion.
0~vThe capacity of the Great Eastern is
81 600 bales hence this vessel clearing once In
each month would, in 1920, have carried our
whole cotton crop, but weuld new carry but
one fourth of it.
VA publisher of newspaper out West,
in the first issue of his journal, returns thanks
to those who loaned him the pecuniary means,
and gratitude to Heaven that there is no law
in the State eatorcing Imprisonment for debt.
QrA popular writer says it is not the drink
ing but the getting sober, that is SO terrible IN
drunkard's life. Some persons, inauenced
probably by this important consideration seem
to have deliberately resolved never to get sober.
rvIf YOU have any sore or painful disease,
purchase bottle of Du Wallis Galvanic Oil.
1t will give you relief in few minutes. Two
bottles will cure the worst case OF PlieS, ana
three bottles will cure five cases out OF seven
of Rheumatism.
n@yThe antipathy of mad dogs to water is
nothing TO the aversion OF Democratic journal
lists to Election Returns about these days. lou
can hardly coax one of them to print the word
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, or rMinnesota-mnch
less give any figures. What is the matter with
them
GTA young lady daughter of Mrs. Pearse,a
widow of Schenectady, N. Y, went for rae
into the country on Tuesday. On returning
home to her mothers house in the evening,
she ran up stairs, when on coming down again,
she tripped, fell, fractured her shuH' ''"
broke her neck.
o-Tbore is n new cause cf trouble in the
domestic affairs of Tippecanoe county. Indiana.
There is a surplus of $4,000 in the treasury
and there is a great deal of discussion and dl-
versity of opinion as to what ought 10 De uohe
with it. 1t is very doubtful If any other coun-
ty has similar affiicton.
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novel case was tried in Baltimore on the
18th inst. Two men, cousins land both named
Augustus Alback, were arraigned, charged
with voting on each others naturalization pa
pers. 1t turned out that both had procured