Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-06-15
CLIPPINGS AND scRlssLlnes.

S-Commences-Court,n next week.
Sold-25, 900 barrels of -four, in Pitts
burgh, last week.
WA beauty-that bonnet s:pictur'' in the
Lock Haven Wafchnaa.
WSproufing-th chap who planted him.
self upon his good intentions.
10 Forty-one years ago, on June 4th, the
first steamboat hoated on Lake Erie.
UInvented-indelible marking pencils,
for marking clothes indellibly without risk of
blotting.
DLeased-the main audience room of the
hrst Presbyterian Church in Chicago, for
Billiard Room.
NStruck by lightning-an emigrant who
was on his way to Pixies Peak, near st. Jo-
seph, Missouri.
Gy~ssThat's part of the sinking fund.- as a
chap said when box of money went to the
bottom of the river.
0Ekilled--a black snake, by couple OF
young men. last week, above town. 1t mea-
sured feet in length.
UAnnouneed-in Paris, that not a single
newspaper correspondent will be allowed to
enter the camp of the allies.
GSThey pillow with cameIs in Alabama.
The animals, it is said work steadily and well,
are docile and easily managed.
EInvented-al lock, by some Yankee, with
out any key or key-holes. If key holes are
gong out OF fashion, what will the poor Paul
Prys do?
U"Law!' ~ said Mrs. Partngton, swhat
monsters these cotton planters must be. 1 am
told some on 'cm have as many as one hun
dred hands,
~Why is the Ohio river like drunkard
Because it takes in the Momongohela, goes past
Wheefing, gets Licking at Cincinnati and
Falls at Louisville.
GyIt is thought to be quite creditable to the
disciples of Faust that there is not printer
in the New jersey Penitentiary, and only one
IN the Legislature.
Gy Stated-by German writer, that all the
streets are divided into two classes, those
where the roast beef of life is to be earned, and
those where it is to be eaten.
gLearns-the Perry Freeman, that black
snake, measuring 19 feet inches, was recent
ly killed in Carol township. A whopper-
either the snake or the story.
"Sentenced-in the Essex county Mass
Court of Common Pleas, Abraham Norris, to
live years Imprisonment III the State prison,
for biting the nose OFT woman.
W-Caught-a pickerel, with squirrel in its
stomach, recently. Query Did the squirrel go
into the water after the pickerel, or the pick
erel go up tree after the squirrel
UFashionable-wifc murders, all over the
cities. Within the past week, four cases of
this horrid crime have been reported.
TBoasted-a man in public speech, that
he could bring an argument to pint as quick
as any other man. ssY GU can bring a quart to
a pint good deal quicker replied wag.
WReported-tha the English Government
is entering into contracts with the different
manufactures of Leige, for the supply of 200,-
0OO rifles, which will cost I0,000,000 francs.
O5-Indicted-Ed. Langsford af the late term
OF the Circuit Court of Lawrence county Miss,
for selling hoop-skirt to negro without per-
mission. He was fined 500 and costs of suit.
uLaughs-Sam Slick, at the alleged pow
er OF some people to weep on all occasions,a land
defies any man to do so sswith pretty girl be-
side him. pocket full of cash, and no corns
his toes.'
~The wife of Livingston, the Missionary
explorer, has given birth to a daughter at kur
man, near the Cape OF Good Hope, that the
distinguished gentleman has now an African
in his family.
0yTo carry through a single mail from st.
Louis TO San Francisco requires the use of l66
stations, l64 changes, 81 drivers, and 7l5 hor-
ses. The total number of horses required on
the route is about 500.
Cg-On the ID instant, at Pottsville, a vivid
flash of lightning and deafening peal of thun-
der SO alarmed the wife of George w. Potts,
while standing at her door, that she fell back
and died in few moments.
GyA lady in New York. quite overcome 10y
a visit from the renowned chess champion,
wishing to do the agreeable, said, 'sWill Mr..
Morphy take seat on the sorpby and accept
cnp of corphy ?' Wh-e-w.
rBaptized-three convicts OF the Peni-
tentiary at Washington, in the Potomac River,
on Sunday a-week, by minister of the Bap
tist faith. Who shall say that members Of
Congress are beyond all hopea
TAsserted-by a Texas correspondent,
that that State is the best wheat growing State
in the Unions and that the crop of the present
year is the best he has ever seen, the wheat
weighing from IS to so pounds per bushel.
[UA Western paper says that a horse and
wagon was recently drowned in the Ohio. Now
isn't that awful What atale the tongue of that
wagon could have told had it been rescued
and what ssspokes'' the wheels would have ut
tered. Poor .felioes. they are gone
UEThe Greek Slave, which is now made to
ornameRt the dry goods store of Stewart OF
New York, has been placed there, it is said,
not fer ornament alone, but as model figure
for the trying on Of hooped skirts-ladies al
ways desiring to see how they will fit before
making purchase.
OyFirst tstudied-Astronomy.by by the Moors,
and was by them introduced into Europe In
1901. The rapid progress of modern astrono-
nav dates from the time of Copernicus. Books
OF astronomy and geometry were destroyed, as
infected with magic, in England, under the
reign of Edward vi, in 1862.