Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-09-14
CLIPPINGS ANo soRlssLlNes.

UChangeable-thc weather, during the
past week.
WStoop -generally-persons who are
over anxious TO rise.
~St. Joseph, Missouri, has already pop
uiation of 1000 souls.
NRefuses-Vermont,t to allow a travelling
circus to desecrate her territory.
UAn eyesore-the abrupt pressing of 4
fist between the organs of vision.
~Good eating-over the left-seed cucum-
bers. Look out, boys, you are known.
0JPair of beauties-the b'hoys who fought
near the camp-ground on Sunday night.
EThe surest way to loose your health is
20 very frequently drink that of other folks.
GyMade its appearances new counterfeit
$40 bill on the Bank of Commerce. Baltimore.
U.4le-ectary-a form of medicine, which
exerts singular infuenS3 on the mental fac
ulties. NJ
Interesting f.Tht, almost, on last
Saturday night. That right arm is great in
stitution.
WFunny-to see young lady with both
hands in soft dough and mosquito on the end
of her nose.
"Fornenst jewelry-the chap, how never
wore any gold rings except brass buttons on
his trowSers.
GyCol. r. A. Stewart recently sold his Oak
Lawn plantation, in St. Bernard parish, La,
for $240,000
gThe blackberry crop of Indiana is est-
mated to have yielded nearly half million of
dollars this season.
~Fact-a person who puts aside religion
for worldly pursuits, is like one who takes of
his shoes to walk on thorns.
9-As indianapolis, recently, a man drank
eight. gallons of lager beer on wager. He
can beat our pigs drinking Swill.
DyAn Arkansas paper says that many of the
girls in that State grow six feet high. They
must be unc0mmouly well cultivated.
CgA young lawyer in Chicago was recently
sent to the Penitentiary in that city for ten
days for the crime of stealing ten cents.
Show-the returns of the assessors in
Kentucky, that there are this year ,309, ,492
hogs an increase Of SO, 600 over last year.
DReported-tha Stevenson, the celebra-
ted English engineer, received S225 900 for
the plan of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal.
wWas sucd-a man in Pittsburg, because
he kicked anOthcr's shins. The conrt should
order the damages TO be paid in shinplaSters.
DELondon is about to spend $50 ,000 600 on
draining her streets, to keeping filth from flow
ing into the Thames, and OH saving it for ag
riculture.
GyAn Arkansas editor says that the Daugh-
tcrs of Malta are similar to the Sons. with
ssslight variation" The new society has not
yet heen organized in this place.
GIJonathan E. Meredith, Esq, of Arm
strong county, has been unanimously nomina-
ted as the Peoples candidate for State Senate
in the Indiana and Armstrong district.
GEJohn Henry kimball, who was worth
$500 900 in we'll aecured real estate in 1850,
is now in Jail at San FranciscJ yaSrant-a
victim to wine, women, and the gaming table.
oial of tIn
Austrian Government, just published, the to-
tai loss of the army in Italy in killed wounded
and prisoners, is l64 officers, and As 800 men,
Uy-The London Field says it is calculated
in the Ring that Mr.. Ten Brock is richer
man by forty thousand pounds than when ne
landed on the hospitablc shores of England,
in 1857.
!" Stated-that ssthe British send fifty.mil-
lion dollars worth of opium year to kill the
Chinese, and maintain 4 host of missionaries
to save the souls of the victims of that infi-
nous traffic.
GTThe Convention in session at Carson Val
ley had framed constitution for a Provisional
Government, declaring CarsonValley indcpen-
dent of Utah, and give the name of Nevada to
the proposed Territory.
GA 1oman in St. Louis recently impru-
dently lighted charcoal furnace in close
room, and laid her infant in low couch. The
CDilU IN tiit COuTSc OI TWO ,N3S ObcEpON-
cred by the fumes and died.
O5-An Englishman, named Edward Hum
phrcy, who, it is alleged, is defaulter TO the
amount OF f40, 900, has been arrested in Bos-
ton. Humphrey is the clergyman who cloped
with another mans wife from England.
CTGives an account--a California paper,
of Il miner who took out OF his SluiceS, on CO.
vote Creek, near Vallccito, one lump of gold
and quartz weighing Il ounces. After scpc-
rating, he realized 40 ounces of pure gold.
GvThc editor of the Kittanng Free Press,
states that MANY persons were badly frightened
by the auroral display. Some imagined that
the world about to end, and declared that
they smeH briHlstOne May be they had good
reason for it.
UNew and very dangerous three dollar
spurious notes, purporting to be the trne issue
of the Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine,
have just made their appearance. Some of the
notes have pink tint, very dangerous and cal
culated to deceive.
JArcSted-Patricil MulhoIand, an old
State prison bird, in New York, for the mur
der of Nike Walsh. He was known, it is al
legged, 10 have followed Mr.. Walsh on the night
of his death. He went to Kansas day or two
after the tragedy, and has recently returned.
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