Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-08-03
CLIPPINGS AND scarsBllnes.
Cutting oats-our farmers.

day.
UGood--the prospect, for large Buck
wheat crop.
oUMock auction store-a place where the
buyer is sold.
OUAt worll-the committee on the North
ward public grounds.
~Has withdrawn-Judge Leonard as
candidate for the State Senate.
W-Bad sign--to see fellow wiping his
mouth as he comes out of cellar.
UBelieved-that the cotton crop of Texas
will reach 350, 900 bales this year.
rInk-a caustic which sometimes burns
the fingers of those who make use of it.
UStill open-the hog-wallow on Market
street. Why amt the nuisance abated?
0UMade recently-a number of good side
walks in different parts of town. That's right.
1g'sThe treasure we value most, we hide.''
as the man said when he was beating his wife.
~Put in circulation-seventy-t three new
couuterfeitS, since June 1st, in the U. States.
WA fire Is like pretty woman-neglect if
in the least and your reliance upon it is gone.
OStirring about-the Democratic candi-
dates, trying to secure the nomination. s.Let
'em went," say we.
UDetermined-Pau Morphy, to make N.
York his future residence, and enter upon the
practice of the law.
OEThe last Legislature of Texas contained
thirteen ssmen of mark Not one of them
could write his name.
I-An Indiana paper calls Mrs. Swisshelm
ssa fierce old hem Wouldn't be surprised if
she'd scratch that chap.
UManufactured-con quantities
of maple sugar, in California. So there are
saPpers we'll as miners in that State.
UThe Washington Consultation says that
Providence has preserved the Democratic par
ty-' Charming preserves it makes, to be sure
UStill unable to take up its paper-the
Central Bank at Holldaysburg. The Register
says ssit is now totally declined by many busi-
ness men,
OTIn Hamilton county, Ohio, during the
past year nearly $500 persons were naturaiz-
ed about 700 were Irish, ID English, and
1900 German.
~Noticed-by the Petersburg (Fa.) INTEL
Hgencer. the sale of crop of wheat of l3 ,00o
bushels at 81 20-to be delivered in August
and September.
CEThe biggest mule known, is now owned
by Mr.. Frost in Wayne county, Indiana. The
weight is given at ,835 pounds, height 49,
hands, which is feet inches.
EBobbing around-the chairman of the
Democratic County Committee. Some curl
osity is rife to know if he is electioneering for
any of the candidates, and if SO, for whoml
GgStung to death-a horse, by swarm of
bees, in Middlefield, Mass, last week. They
lit upon him, and soon rendered him insensi-
ble-IIis groanS could be heard for quarter
of mile.
"Asserted-that France is now moro Ii
centious and dissolute than at any time since
the first Empire. The motto seems to be,
sssociety melted into licentiousness is easiest
governed-''
UTwenty leading Democratic papers OF
Mississippi advocate the reopenng of the slave
trade and Mr.. Buchanan's collector at Vicks-
burg openly and Extensively urges it as par
ty measure.
~Lucky-Miss Sarah E. Lockwood, of
ed the handsome sum of one hundred and fif-
ty thousand dollars, by an aunt who recently
died suddenly in New York.
OTReceived lately-a letter, at the Chicago
office, directed esTo an Honest Man, The
chief clerk sent it TO the dead letter depart
ment, with the candid confession that the man
addressed did not 1--we in Chicago.
UHavc new brand-the Pixies Peakers,
among whom gambling and whisky drinking
flourish extensively. 1t is called sIdaglefoOi'
whisky, sells for % cents drink, and sswill
almost make man shed his toe nails.''
rEconomy in small things is the order of
the day at Washington. They dismissing
lighthouse keepers, custom-house officers,
mail agents, and other little fish, while the big
ones flap and founder in the undistnrbcd pos
session OF their bickings.
uTEnactod-a horrible tragedy, near Free
port Illinois, on Tuesday a-week. A German,
named Peter Arndt, killed three of his chill
dren by chopping them with an axe, and so
wounded the fourth that it is likely TO die 1t
is not stated what cause led to the dreadful
crime.
GTThe Lancaster Union says that the farm
ers of that county have just gathered the lar
gest crop of wheat that has ever been secured
in that county. 1t says the crop is an enor-
nous one-ssif we were allowed to guess, we
would not make the figures less than four mil
lions Of bushels.
cEA s:Hoosier Girl'' has recently been dis
covered in Knox county, Indiana, who is un-
der twenty, weighs 10 pounds, and followed
and kept up with cradle one day, neatly bind
ing one hundred aud sixty dozen large bundles
of oats. She said she could easily have bound
two hundred if the cradle could have cut them.
UA young man of the name of Gupp has
been diddling the Democracy of st. Paul ana
Taylor's Falls out of $1,000, which he took
with him to Chicago to buy press and mate
rials for the publication of a Democratic paper
He has forgotten to return, and his frienuS arc
anxious to discover his whereabouts. lie mas
a touch of the ruling passion.
~Durirr the storm on Tuesday a-week, a
stroke of lightning killed eighty five sheep in
one drove, ON Mud lane, near Belmont Avenue,
West Philadelphia. They were huddled under
a tree at the time. Only one of the sheep was
marked by the disaster, that being evidently
the first one struck, and it was hit in the side
and cut open in every direction.
On the 18th July, the attractive and hither-
to-respectable wife of Geo. T. Shaw, photo
eraphist of Louisville, deserted her home In
company with one Lloyd, and was pursued by