Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-06-22
CLIPPINGS AND scR,ssLlNes.


u lmproving--garfen vegetables.
OOn swell-the river, for several days.
UDitto-the chap with a stove-pipe hat
Remember-little minds like weak IL
quors, are soonest soured.
UNice employment young man peep
ing in at windows on dark night.
URemains unpaid-only thirty thousand
dollars on the Mount Vernon estate.
rPractical Democracy-kidnapping free
negroes and selling them into slavery.
WNot made-some of the plank walks or
dered by borough law. How comes IT?
UActive-the wool trade, at Washington,
Ia. Sales, at so a 65 cents per pound.
EInvisible joke-lcnding an umbrella for
just ssfive minutes on rainy evening.
EGood-that part of Second street which
is macadamized. Keep the stone a srollin'.'
GVOn exhibition large sized sselephant''
with yellow skin, at or near Pike's Peak.
ESold-ripe peaches, in Savannah, Geor-
gia, last week. Ahead of Cearfied, a little.
OgIn bad order-that portion Of the pike
near the south line of the borough. Look out !
rPleasant-to be sitting alone. Especially
when you have your sweetheart by your side.
UShipped- 100000 of specie, from
New York and Boston, since January 1st.
UDog cheap-wives, in Delaware. One
was sold, the other day, for seven dollars and
dog.
""Sir, how does real-estate sell in your
town 20 'sOh, it's cheap Dirt Salts
factory, that.
URich-the ssdiscussion' on family af-
fairs, which came off in one of the BARR
last Friday evening.
ySwarming-locusts, in ssEgypt,'' alias
Southern Illinois. The woods and orchards
are covered with them.
0VSharp-thc fellow who stole his own axe,
which he had loaned to neighbor, and then
demanded payment for it.
BIThe .4tlamtic Monthly says that sswoman
is a link between earth and heaven.'' SO is a
sausage tossed into the air.
EFact-which all grumblers at the wea-
thcr should remember-if we never had mud,
We would never have flowers.
V'sWhat church do you attend Mrs. Par
tington 20 s'Oh! any paradox church where
the Gospel is dispensed with"
OySells-a tobacconist at Cincinnati, up
wards of 200 pounds of snuff per month to la
dies.CO Up TO snuff, those ladies are.
rAre run by steam-sewing machines, in
Bridgeport, Conn. They average 1900 stitches
per minute. Beat our tailors two to one.
GReviving-the iron trade, slowly. All
the melting furnaces on the Schuylkill, between
GVThe Washington STATES say they shall
add Union'' tothe title of that paper, since it
has been repudiated by the Presidential organ.
"A fabrication-the story, that postage
stamps to the amount OF a million are counter
feited annually. 1t was started by Washing
ton news agent.
UOwns-the New York Central Railroad,
200 locomotives, and 1000 freight and passen-
ger cars. 1t averages 10000 passengers, and
takes in $4,000 per day.
EA salve made of the yolk of an egg and
rendered stiff with salt, is an infallible remedy
when applied to the wound of a ratile-snake
bite. Worth remembering.
VGreat institution-the ssTurn( t)pike''
between Clearfed and Curwensvillc. By hard
driving man go ON one town to the
other in three or four hours.
UThe Madison Times speak ing of the DEM
ocratic strife in Kentucky, says that the edi-
tor of the Courier .skeeps up his end very well.'
Certainly he does-but which
~Reported-that gentleman in Water
loo, Seneca county, New York, owns canary
which will warble ssHail Columbia without
missing note. Too much whistling, that.
UEAta hotel table one day, one boarder re-
marked to his neighbor, ssThiS must be a very
healthy place for Chickens "Why ?'' ask
ed the other. s'Bccause [ never see any dead
ones about
~Drnking fountains have been establish
ed in New York city, at which the wayfarer
can slake his thirst. Very truly has it been
said, that ssths is the best temperance move
ment yet started.'
EDanced a $500 jig-John Baughen, of
Maryland, for triding with the affections of a
Miss Herring, in that State He promised to
marry her, and then wouldn't. Herring fishing
amt very profitable, John.
URefuses to pay-the white man in Mis-
sippi who was fined 500 dollars for selling
colored lady hooped skirt, on the ground
that there in no law on the subject on tho
statute book of the State.
rWere fined-the editors of the San Fran
cisco Herald one hundred dollars for publish
ing the disgusting details of what purported
to be the confession of Mrs. Sickels. Never
a fine more justly inflicted
GEThc bridge over the Ticino, at Buffalora,
destroyed by the Sardinians, by blowing up
with gunpowder, was magnificent structure
of hern stone, over 1000 feet in length, and
cost even that country of cheap labor, nearly
100000.
GvThe day after the whirlwind in Morgan
county. ILL., a half sheet of letter, written by
a LADY Mrs. Route, to her husband, was found
50 miles from the place where it started, hav-
ing been blown thither by the storm which kill
led Mrs. Route and demolished her house.
OZA barrel of whiskey caught fire acciden-
tally in Mobile, Alabama, last week, and ex-
ploded with such force as to send the barrel-
head through the ceiling and roof, and shatter
every pane of glass in the building where 1t
was situated. a woman who was in the room
was almost instantly killed.
MARRIED:
On June Ist, by Isaac Lemon, Esq, Mr..
JouS MCMAHON and Mrs. MARY RAFFERTY,,