Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-04-13
CLIPPINGS Ano scarsst,nes.

| " flzzled-the Rappahannock Bank, Va
Progressing Sickles trial at Wash.
| ington.
@Exceeded s2,500-t1e Patent office fee,
| last week.
VFamily ties-a marriage Certificate and
eight children.
EWill go into operation-the Phoenix
vile Bank, shortly.
~Near Brattleboro', VT, the snow was IS
inches in depth, last week.
NHave time of 1.-THE Lecomptonites
Keeping their men in the traces.
10 At Paris-the brother of the King OF
Abyssinia. He is perfectly black.
oy-Said to have been landed-another car
go OF GOO negroes, on the coast of Florida
GA swhopper'-the hog, killed by F Bueh-
Ter of Williamsport, lately. Weight, I'll lbs.
WIncreased 43, ,398-the Methodist Church
South, during the past year. Total member
ship now, 699,l75.
U-Joe Brchfield says If the person who
carried off his mallet don't bring it back. he
will catch ssparticular fits -
UWhy are Adam and Eve to be regarded
as the Oldest sugar planters Because they
were the first to raise CAIN
W-Every family should keep kitten to a.
muse the children. They should also keep
children to amuse the kitten.
OS~The man who went into a Quake er meet
ing with hammer to break the silence. was
bound over to keep the piece.
Oy-It is said that $50 900 worth of the mar
BILE taken to Washington City for the Capitol
extension, is condemned article.
DA little girl in Cincinnati, playing hide
and seek, hid in a trunk The lid fastening with
spring. She was nearly dead when found.
TThe Postmaster General has lately dis
mi SS,.1 hirfyr aiaA,
thus effecting saving to the department of
$50 900.
TA Canadian editor SAYS they bad terri
ble winter there but with three tons of coal
and pretty wife had got through it very COM
fortably.
DA drunken couple in Norrstown, two
weeks since, forced nearly tGInbler of whis-
key down the throat of their cl6ld 1t died
the next morning.
OTA foreign paper tells about anew inven-
tion called the improved ''self-adjuaing vice.
We thought ''yice" sufficiently practical with
out any assistance
OEA man by the name of Jacob Karsletter.
from Sugar Valley, Chnton CO., was robbed of
50 600 at house of ill fame In Philadelphia
one night last week.
VAdvertises-a manin Litchfield county,
Conn, what he calls s.snal but comfortable
homestead" He says There is barn, but
no house on the place"
~Prof. 4. Bonnaffo1 we'll known dane
ing master of PittSburn. died suddenly at
Washington, Pa, on Saturday, a-week, where
he was teaching class.
UFell into a well-achild seven years old,
at kutztown, Berks co. Mr.. l. Sander fortu-
nately and researcher she was sink
ing. The well was IA fet deep.
DRumored-that tn, President has infor-
hat, loc foil c,l IN,
Europe. It must have cone with the Queens
message over the Atlantidable.
~Several small childen were playing a
bout an open door at Lafaette, Indiana, when
one, a child named Baker thrust his tongue in
the crevice, when anothelshut the door, ard
it was completely severed
U|Somebody advertise for agents TO sell
work entitled .'HymenaI INSTRUCTOR a con-
temporary adds, The bet instructor we know
of is young widow. What she don't know
there is no use in learnin.'
~A Western Paper, fter noticing a mel |
ancholy instance of Intoication-a man try
ing to cross street liz bull-frog-says
ave left him ruminatin upon the principle |
of horizontal propulsiOnwith scorn-juice' as
a motor.''
UTThe shipments of cid from San Fran |
cisco for the month of Foruary amounted to |
S2,042 ,S6S 10; adding Jarnry makes S3,737,- |
0fZ oU tOtal lof 1908, 9otcU,flU. Same Pc |
riod in 1859, it amountedo S7.95l 40 69-
showing a decrease of Sl,70,71O 43.
U-A ':dug out'' Fith freight of o.
yer six thousand pounds, crived at Charles
ton, S. c., few days ago.'t was fifty-sx feet
long, and was made from e solid trunk OF
yellow poplar tree. Not sgle knot or imper
fectiou could be discoveretabout the craft
0vA Kansas City correiondent of the st.
Louis Democrat says tina ,797 emigrants
had arrived there in As hou, by Missouri riv-
er boats, about one-half offhom were for the
gold mines. This is an ndiition of the rate at
which emigration is going up that stream.
ANOTHER MYsTERY-MIK WALSH AND THE
SICKLEs MURDER.--The Ne \ ork Times says