Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-02
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Johnstown.
nyA Western paper, in announcing steam
boat explosion, says: Three persons were
slightly killed.
20 Sound-that cabbage and celery, that
our friend Stephen Graf sent US. Please ac-
cept our thanks, Stephen.
% wv. Cope has been appointed Judge
of the Supreme Court of California, vice Ter
ry, the duellist resigned.
CEThe Russian Government are about es-
tabiishing cotton factory and bank on the
Amoor River. The world moves.
0EWe know of very ugly and penurious
man who works in his own fields in the summer
months to save the expense of scarecrow.
g-Some one remark ed that Douglas squat
ter sovereignty paper in HdrpeF's Uecsiy is
sound Prentice says sit isn't anything eise.''
0~Dr. Theodore Evans, the Paris dentist
and professional attendant of Louis Napoleon
is on visit to Lancaster, Pa, bis native place.
Gg-Dying words of Broderck.-:sTney have
killed INC because | was opposed to the exten-
sion Of slavery and TO corrupt adminisira-
tion.''
0-In California the Cinnamon test brandy
by applying TO it lighted match, and if it
does not yield a blne flame, they pronounce it
''no good-''
Cy~Thc coppcr-toed shoe for boys is all the
rage in Boston just now. An editor says
pair of them lasted his perpetual-motion roys-
terer six months.
Gg-Capt. James Bell has retired from the
edtorship OF the Tyrone Star and is succeed
ed by NJ. Il. Jolly. May the brlliancy OF that
Star never be dimnIcd.
TAmoDg the recent regulations adopted
by the directors OF the Sunbury and Erie Rail
road is that of rendering to Cergymen living
along the line hali-price tickets,
DThe Chelsea Herald says young lady
in that town Is confirmed ether drunkard.
She inhaes the subtle fluid whenever she can
procure it, to satisfy her cravings.
~The Richmond Star says, another relic
was found in that city, being dog cellar sup
posed to have belonged TO Julius Ceasar from
the fact that it had his name engraved upon it.
OEDoes big Chicago there are
over 1900 saloons, of which 800 regularly
licensed. twenty-five gambling houses are in
one little circuit of tho business portion Of
the city.
GI-In the town Of Magowry, near Millina-
hone, Ireland, woman named Mary Smith has
given birth to her twenty fifth child there is
some hope now of perpetuating the ancestral
line OF Smith
C-z-The MilfoNian says, ave hear good
deal OF complaint of the potato rot among our
farmers" That's sad tbfSg TO get .samOng
the farmers - bad enough when it is confined
TO he potatoes.
GyA poor woman at Niagara Falls receiv-
ed letter from the pOst-Oiice a few days since,
continuing = draft for 81 500. Itwas part of
fortune left her by brother recently deceas-
ed at New Orleans.
GgA French paper prescribes most SIM
pie remedy for the cure of those most tronblc-
some observation-disclosures tn which some
people afflicted. 1t is Burgundy pitch,
auUlIgl a linen cloth to the tumDr.
GEReported-.h the young ladies of our
town ardS about starting an association to he
styled. ssThe Young Womau's Anti I oung
Man W aitiug at the Church Doors with lite
rior-Objects Society" Nothing like a good
title.
Cy-At the Chester County Agricultural Ex-
hibjtion, were three pumpkins, exhibited by
Lewis Mccullough, 0f Y est Goshen, weighing
respectively $50, 100 and so pounds. They
commanded the first premium, very properly.
Some pumpkins, that.
-::g~. party OF sporismcn, three in number
recently returned from days hunt in the
neighboThood Of Seymour, Ind, bringing in
two hundred and twenty squirrels, uinety-oHe
quails, and twenty pheasants, some pigeons,
sIipeS, and other small game.
UEClemcnt Marsh, Esq, son Of Joseph
". Marsh, of Greenland, \. H., has expended
$4,000 IN paying the debts of his father. who
nal says this is ga shining example of magma
nimity and flial respect.''
GA man named Lowe is constructing a
monster balloon in New York, with which he
intends to make the voyage across the Allan
tic. lie will be ready, in week or twC, TO
make the experiment. and has gone TO a vast
expense in making the necessary preparation.
UyThan4ful for small favors.-The Locofo-
CO papers are growing Justify over the fact that
BerkS county went Democratic by flUe!re hUn-
dTed majority 1t used 10 be thought by the
opposition that they done remarkably we'll If
the Democratic majority in Berks did not ex-
cccd ii, e thousand.
ia lady who makes but modest spread
of crinoiine was passing along the street in
Richmond the other day, when she was met by
a young man full of bad whisky, who, in stag
gering past, stepped on her dress. Turning to
the lady, he remarked, apologeticaiiy, '.Hoops
take up too much room," to which the lady
quietly replied, ssNot so much as bad whisky,
sir" and passed on.