Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-01-19
CLIPPINGS AND scaiss,tsos.
wIn session-our courts.

WIn session-our courts.
DRather poor-the sieighing.
0Died of cholera-the emperor of Japan.
WGoing up-the Court Honse--e1eite-
ment.
~Going down-stryc chniue whisky and our
pile of "ding bats.
vA Baptist Church, to cost $40, 600, is a.
bout to be erected in Columbus, Ga.
GA scream -er-tbe train of cars that runs
between Shawsville and Bald Hills.
DThe individual who stood upon his own
responsibility" is to be indicted for infan-
ticide.
VThe gold exports from California for the
current year, up to the Goth Dec, amounted
to nearly S4S, 100000.
U-Acceptable-the plate of honey present
TO us by VIM. L. Rishcl, of Lawrence town
ship. Please accept our thanks.
0yHere is piquant paragraph "He kis-
| sed her and promised. Such beautiful lips!
Mans usual fste-he was lost upon the coral
| reef
| TGeorge W. Orr asks to say that he
would be much obliged by the person who bor-
| rowed two of his hammers, if he would return
| the same.
| NA Yankee, describing an opponent says:
! 81 tell you what Sir, that man don't mount to
! a sum in arithmetic add him up and there is
| nothing to carry"
/ CELicut. Brooke says a Pacific telegraph
can be laid between California and China, with
| out trouble. The Atlantic cable says ''nary"
word of ,car or peace. Amt that Pacific e.
| nough
rThe Republicans in Congress have deci-
ded to oppose the Oregon bill and to insist up
on the removal of the English restriction on
Kansas, so as to place the two territories ON
an equality.
n-The total claims against Mexico on the
| part of other governments or citizens OF other
/ governments is set down at SS3, 156, 80 40.
! The interest on this debt IN round numbers is
$4,000 per annum.
| Oy-One of the editors of the Boston Posi-
SAYS: s.We have enjoyed the world as much
as others, but have never been happier than
| when, as a boy, we found paItrdge's nest,
with eleven eggs in it..
U-During the past year, there were 261 fires
in the United States, and the aggregate loss
of property was Sl2.054 900. This does net
include those fires where the loss amounted to
less than ten thousand dollars.
UvA Land Slide, carrying down l00.0 900
| square yards ef earth and rocks, recently oc-
Cured near Hannibal, Mo. One man was kill
led His name was Fierray, and his body was
buried beneath thirty feet Of earth.
ByThc Legislature of Illinois, reelected
Mr.. Douglas to the Senate of the United States
next March, by vote OF 81 votes for him TO
/ i6 for Mr.. Lincoln, being eight majority.
"The Superintendent of the Mint in Phil
| adelphia states that the Pixies Peak gold dust
is shown by assay TO be worth very near twen-
ty cent, per ounce. So says an exchange. 1t
| must be poor truck, at that rate. Try again.
GIVE have just heard of fellow who, being
asked for the payment OF small debt, actual
ly filched from his creditors pocket ten dol
lar gold piece, and paid him out Of it. That
was certainly paving the creditor in his own
coin.
| D-Mrs. Swisshelm says it is marvelously
| strange how a Woman can think herself con-
taminated by the slightest intercourse with
the victim of a seducer, but cover her face all
over with smiles to receive the seducer HIM
self. True as preaching, that.
CgCharles Spofford, of Suagus, Mass, one
day recently, between the hours OF six IN the
morning and nine in the evening, heeled thlr-
tv pairs of ladies' boots. Franklin Rhodes. in
the same shop, made ten pairs OF ladies' heel
ed boots in the same time.