Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-06-29
CLIPPINGS AND scRIesLlnes.

0SOver-the June Courts.
0UHere-hay making time.
ODeclining-th price of -four.
GIHot-the weather, for several days.
OyGrowing ine-vegetaton, generally.
EAbout-4th of July. Eyes right, boys.
VRefreshing-thc showers, during past
| week.
| UClosed again-the Central Bank of Hol-
! lidaysburg.
~Discredited-the soundness of the Tio-
| ga County Bank. Hands off!
"Interesting-to see pair of gater shoes
| running chap through hog-wallow.
~Convicted-Wm III. Connolly, of FORGE
ry in Pottsville, for altering and re-issuIng
| township orders.
WSidney Smith says the Anglo Saxon race
was made for two purposes-to manufacture
calico and steal land.
"Divorced-five parties in Pittsburg, last
| week. Divorce suits are an important item OF
| OF court business, there.
0y.sUnion is not always strength as Sir
Charles Napier observed, when he saw the
purser mixing his rum with water.
~Poetic--Miss Fantadling. She says the
first time she locked arms with young man,
| she felt like Hope leaning on an anchor.
@Gen. Sam Houston has consented to ac-
cept the nomination for Governor of Texas,
which bas been rendered him by Convention
of Independents.
G%The Baltimore San arlvertises ga hand
some black lady or boys riding pony for sale.'
There is speculation for somebody in the
sshandsome black lady,"
Tried-a steam plow, near Philadelphia,
last week. 1t worked satisfactorily and was
practicable for farming operations. Itwas in
vented by Mr.. Fawke Of Lancaster.
gRcmarked-an Intelligent old farmer,
that sshe would rather be taxed for the educa-
tlon OF the boy, than the ignorance of the Dlan
for the one or the other | am compelled to be.
OThere is a talk about paying John A.
Washington, in full, for his interest in Mount
Vernon, by collections taken on the 4th day
of July next. John went grumbie at this
course of proceeding.
APPROXIMATIONS over the county should
make 1t object to obtain subscribers for
their own county papers. as they are allowed
out of the post office l0J cents for every coun-
iy paper received at their office.
UyMaqe big haul-a lad named Thomas
Cullin, while fishing in the Cohocksink creek,
near Philadelphia. He drew out a tin box,
the lid of which screwed on, containing
| between four and five thousand dollars.
rA late visitor to Cuba divides the inhab-
tantS into two cIaSses-0ne of which makes a
| living by manufacturing scgars, and the other
| by smoking them. No wonder that so much
putting has been done for its acquisition.
"Miriam 7 Heath, convicted at EastCani-
| bridge, Mass, about year ago, of numbering
| her father, was sentenced, last week, to i'm
| prisonment for life. Hef brother is now scrv-
| ing out life sentence in the State prison.
GVThe Post Master General is cutting off
| the post routes all over Pennsylvania, for the
purpose Of reducing the demands against his
| Department. This system of economy, il
is called, will find very little favor with the
| people.
GA man and woman, residing in Kinder
hook, n. Y, were stripped, tarrcd and feath
| cred, and ridden upon rail, on Tuesday night
of last week, accompanied by motley assem-
steal instruments. The man had forsaken his
wife and children for the woman who was his
companion on the rail. Truely, ssbitds of a
| feather, go together