Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-16
CLIPPINGS AND scRlssIiRcs.

u Down on the pavemeDt-a Peace officer,
yesterday morning-heels up!
EBcware of the man who loves not music,
howers- and the crying of child.
~The lady'S heart that swelled with indig-
nation, has been reduced with poultices.
OTLong words, like long dresses, often hide
something wrong about the understanding.
CTShonldn't be despSed-a coat out at the
elbows. 1t may enclose generous heart.
~Indisputable-tha Liberty without re-
gard to Right, would be a curse to any nation.
~Pretty idea-that the green turf is the
poor mans carpet, and God weaves the colors.
E"There's no place like home,'' except
the home of the girl you are after. That's so.
CULOrd Coke calls the law ga stately tree
1t may be very nice tree, but it does have
some very poor limbs.
UFifty-one new counterfeits have been re-
ported by Peterson's Counterfeit Detector
within the past two weeks.
ga country editor comes to the conclu-
sion that there are two things that were made
10 be lost, sinners and umbrellas.
NJohn 4. LETTERS, young attorney of Gin
cinnati. was killed while hunting last week, by
the accidental discharge of his gun.
WFavOrable-the last advices from Pixies
| Peak. The miners were generally doing well,
and some big hauls have been made.
TThere is one thing that the most sue
cessfnl man rarely succeeds in-and that is in
making others forgive him his success.
UCommitted Suicide-Lewis Jones,a clerk
in the Land office at Washington, by blowing
his brains out with a pistol, on the Sd inst.
~William S. Rees, famous in the West a
! few years since as street preacher, died at
! keokuk lately, leaving fortune of $3.50, 900.
| ~A few days since, Miss Maria Stafford,
at Syracuse, N recovered s., 900 off faith
los for Of
| ~Found-goId, in some of the cobble
stones brought from the mining district east of
| Sacramento, to pave the streets OF San Fran
/ cisco.
| OF Forming-vOlunteer military companies,
! in different sections Of Virgina-eSpecially in
/ the quarter lately threatened by Brown ard his
| associates.
| OIThe average Republican majority on the
! State ticket in Ohio is II, 800, and the nett ag
gregate majorties on members of the Legis-
lature is 81 ,526.
| W-In Oswego CO., n. Y, the farmers have
sold at least fifty thousand barrels of apples
within two months, at prices ranging from
Sl.25 to 50 per barrel.
W-The potato crop of Canada is large and
good, and in the Toronto market, sell out of
the wagons at twenty cents per bushel and by
retail at twenty-five cents.
| CTAn old man in the State of Indiana re-
Gently cowhided his daughter, nineteen years
| old, for wearing hoops. He ought to be hoop
! ed himSelf-oYer the back.
! TAn editor says that the only reason why
his house was not blown away during the late
| gale was because there was heavy mortgage
upon it. Wonderful, indeed
| ~Ncw ork is mighty city. No less
than 1O3, ,450 voters are registered there-this
being the first experiment of the new law of
I registration, throughout the State.
! O5-Mr. Adams, one of the Georgia miners,
arrived in Leavenworth last week. with fifty
pounds OF gold obtained by mining in the Kan
sas mines during the past summer.
| ia telegraphic dispatch from Utica, New
| York, under date of the 9th inst. states that
| Gerritt Smith has been sent to the Lunatic A
| Sylum, having become seriously deranged.
| GEA woman in Canada aged six.y-two
| years lately starved herself to death from a
superstitious belief that the Almighty requir-
| ed her to do so, in order to be saved. She liv-
| ed thirty days without food.
~In Quebec. few days since a man was
sentenced TO pay fine Of two hundred and
eighty dollars, or suffer Imprisonment for thir-
ty days, for having iron knuckles concealed
upon his person. Served him right.
~Fineen States have fixed upon the 2ith
November as day of Thanksgiving. This
will be bad news to the turkeys. By the by
yes-a -hem-shOuldn't mind If some clever
| fellow would pre-send US nice one.
Uy-There is spring on the route of the
verand mail, about two hundred miles east of
FL Paso, which is said 10 be one hundred and
fifty feet in diameter, which has been sounded
TO the depth of nine thousand feet without fin
ding bottom.
O-Consstent-over the left-for an editor
to complain of alleged personalities on the
part of another, and then, in the same article,
himself indulge in invidiOuS personal illusions.
Our neighbor of the Republican will please
stick pin there.
Wesley C.Simmons was arrested atRich-
mOnd, Virginia, charged with uttering sedi-
tOus sentiments in reference to the of
Brown. If convicted he can be imprisoned
one year, and fined five hundred dollars. He
is native of Maryland.
TSixteen Banks of Philadelphia have just
declared half-yearly dividends averaging lit
tie over four per cent. and amounting in the
aggregate to S405 ,SO5. The Bank Of North
America, Northern Liberties and Penn Town
| ship banks, are not included.
| GA short time since Mary E. Jones, of
Lawrence, Mass, who plead guilty to a charge
of manslaughter, in deserting her infant in the
woods of Haverhill was sentenced to twenty
years hard labor in the House of Correction.
She was only eighteen years of age, and had
been driven almost crazy by her husband de-
Serting her.
! TInvented-a new harp. Though it has
but a single wire, unlike the famous instrument
of ga Thousand strings it fakes all the Loco
foco editors in the country to play it. Their
| performances were highly applauded by their
party friends prior to the New ork and New
Jersey elections. Since then, however, they
make rather doeful music.
Common sense rules the mass of the people,
whatever the misnamed and misanthrope phIloso-
I a. Sl,atr- yharRa