Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-07-18
CLIPPINGS AND scRisBLINes.

W Refreshing-the showers, yesterday.
TGood institute-the new bath house.
ODLooks well--R obins' new store room.
0yNot hard to take-Hays Morrow's soda
water-it's good.
0gThe deficit of the Postoffice Department
for the last fiscal year is 81 1913 900.
"Wrong-the date on our outside. 1t
should be July Goth instead of 18th.
WThe wife of Hon. Edward Everett died
in Boston on Saturday, the I'd July inst.
UAssessed-the taxable property of New
I fork for the present year, at SOL 1923 .l22.
"A nuisance-the hog wallow, on Market
street. Borough officers will please notice.
NReccivcd-in Chicago on the 4th, the
first car load of new wheat. 1t sold for 81 50.
OySeventy fugitive slaves recently
reached Canada by one train, from the interior
of Tennessee.
TJames Ronsay was hung by a mob in
Sandford, Kentucky, for killing James Old
ham in May last.
UThe boy Mortara has been ssconiirmed,' -
with great display, in the church of San Pietrc
and Yincula, ct Rome.
WA recent publication attempts to show
that Louis Napoleon is the seventh head of
the Beast in the Apocalypse.
OVNicholas Longworth, OF Cincinnati, pays
more taxes than any other man in Ohio, They
amount to over S37 800 year.
rRendered verdict-a jury in Cincin-
natl, of $3.50, 900 against street railroad com
pany for the use of the streets.
~An earthquake occurred Mt Erzreoum,
Turkey. on the ID Of June, and 800 persons
are said to have lost their lives.
~Paid-by the State Treasurer, on the
2Sth June, S44, 100 of the State debt. Also,
S3S ,070 SO of the interest due on July 1st.
n
paper of straw is said to successfully meet the
difficulties that have heretofore attended the
process.
GA gentleman asked negro if he would
not have pinch of snuff. s'No," replied the
darkcy, respectfully, 'sme tank you-Pomp's
nose not hungry
"Reportcd-that Hon. Charles Sumner,
now in Paris, is about to be married 10 Mrs.
Thayer, (nec Granger,) widow OF the late John
Ell Thayer, of Boston.
Gy-On the 4th of July there were three hun
dred and thirteen passenger cars running on
the railroads in Philadelphia, and the aggre-
gate receipts were $S ,ISI.
~A Knoxville paper says that wife in
that neighborhood has had three children at
birth. Her husband is entitled to a divorce.
She is very overbearing woman.
OyDrowned-on the 7th inst, the Rev. A.
X. oft, while bathing in the Raritan river,
near Perth Amboy, n. j. He was tile pastor
of the First Baptist Church, New York.
uThe best cough mixture in the world
consists of pair of thick boots mixed with
plenty of air and exercise. People who hug
the stove and grow lean will please notice.
OyMany people regard the feat of crossing
the Niagara tight rope, as achieved by
Mons. Blondin, pcrilous one. There was no
more danger to lum than there would be to a
cat on a fence.
0yThe farmers in Maryland have nearly all
rcapcd their rye and wheat harvests. The
Weld is abundant beyond precedent-not only
in the average per acre, but also III the qhan-
tity of land seeded.
T-Ellen Shaw, of Cattaragus county, New
York, gets cool thousand dollars, through
due course of law, from one Van Campen,
gay decever, who promised to marry her and
then proved breechy.
DEThe Huntcrdon ND Gazette says the
rum in that section of country takes the halr
off a dog in two seconds and Il half. 1t is Jer-
sey lightning, we presume, the Editor means
kills dead 1T hundred yards.
DEIn the savings banks OF New York and
Brooklyn there are now upwards OF $50, ,OO0,-
900 deposited, bearing interest at rates vary
ing from TO 6 per cent, which have been
made since the 1St of January, 1859.
CTThe grasshoppers in parts of Virginia,
are acquiring q bad habit of chewing tobacco.
1t is said they have eaten up the growing to-
bacco crop-the nasty things; by and 10y they
will be smoking cigars and drinking brandy.
Oy-An old bachelor friend, says that the
Young ladies who rejoice i'll a multiplicity oil
rings, chains, lockets, ETC., to the unparailel-
ed extent now fashionable, should be labeled
like, watches in windows-''warrantcd JuH
je,cefed-''
1vPoverty is only misfortune when wishes
no r,IrrSp string. Poverty the normal
condition of man neither banks, stock, dlvI-
dends houses, or rents were dreamed of IN E.
den Adam was happy and never saw check
book in his life.
oEAt war-the liquor sellers and lager beer
dealers of New York, with one another his
ky always follows lager in larger or smaller
quantities and the two together 1T is said, are
a capital mixture to get up hrSt rate case OF
dclirium tremenS.
l~The treaty now being m ade with Mexi-
CO, for the right of way through that Repu6-
lie, not only embraces that portion OF terrific
ry bordering on our own in Sonora, but any
portion from the Rio Grande to the Pacific u
cean. The concessions are most liberal and
important.
n~Made love-Miss Lizzie Wayt a fair fe-
male of thirtv-five summers, to the neat sum
of twenty five hundred dollars, the property oil
a gentleman who was stopping at the same no
tel with her at Wheeling, Va. Lizzie made
tracks, and the police have not been able TO
discover her whereabouts.
ANOTHER SOLUTION OF THE SLAVERY CUES
TIoN.-Senator Doolittle delivered an Grafton
at Buffalo ON the Fourth, in which he SAID
that the true solution of the slavery question
would be found in providing an outlet south
ward on this continent for the black race
Unless this be done, he holds that our Gun