Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-05-11
CLIPPINGS AND scRlsBunes

Gy-Look fine-the growing crops.
OgR gRefreshing-the recent showers.
@Coming-Rivers x Derious' Circus.
UNeed draining-several of our streets.
EValued-the property in Cincinnati. al
Sll0, 600.
~Adrertises-a quack doctor out west
''thunder and lightning pills.
~In circulation-S5 counterfeits on the
Bank of Burlington, New Jersey.
GyThe Republicans have again carried the
City OF Quincy, Ill.,, by increased majorities
~Good at braying-the chap that stuck
his head out of certain window t'other nj ght
UTaken-l ,252, ,S76 bushels of oysters,
from the waters of Virginia during the last
three months.
THon. Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky,
has been nominated for reelection to Congress
by the American party.
GvA convention TO organize the Republi-
can party in the new State of Oregon was held
in Multnomah county recently.
UJohn S. Hollaad OF Kentucky offers $50
reward for the return to his service of Thos.
Whitlock, Methodist minister!
U-Characterizes his cat as black -leg-a
friend up town. He says she is all the time
gamboling; plays very high, but is not par
tial TO poker.
DTStates-a letter from Camp Floyd, that
quite number of U. S. soldiers Joined the
Mormon Church. For the sake OF Mormon
crinoline, we presume.
Gy~Mrs. Bloomer has recently taken up her
residence at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Whether
she still appears in the costume which bears
her name, is not stated.
UPlead guilty-six of the Oberlin slave
rescueis, OH the 9th inst, and were sentenced
to pay fine of 50 and be imprisoned for 20
hours. Bushnell was not sentenced.
gEscaped-from the Lock Haven Jail, on
the lst inst, George and Jacob Quiggle, who
had been imprisoned for passing counterfeit
money. $50 reward is offered for them.
WAdvertised-'key handkerchiefs, by
New York firm. They are named after what
Mr.. Graham called ssthe pirate fIg'' of the
Washington seducer. All who like can have
u blow at them.
g-In cutting garments for the British SOL
diers the cloth is piled up, placed between
boards cut in the shape of patterns and COM
pressed, and then sawed ont, thus cutting
hundred or more garments at once.
WA married woman, at Worcester, evapo-
rated recently. Singular enough, an actor was
mist at the same time. The husband has gone
after S'the parties,'' like very foolish fellow.
ssLet her went,'' should have been his motto.
UgGoes great way-politeness. Henry
Ward Beecher says, san impudent clerk can do
almost as Dluch injury to his store as the neg
lect of the proprietor to advertise his goods
Two undoubted and significant facts, which ev-
cry one interested will please bear in mind.
CEThe Canadian cents which have been
lately thrown of at the British mint, possess
a remarkable peculiarity. They are not only
tokens of value but also standards of weight
and measure one hundred cents weigh exact
ly one pound, and one cent measures l inch.
g-The telegraph in India has many special
influences which the lines in the
United States are not subjected to. The ele-
plants use the poles for scratching their sides
and the monkeys cnrl their tails upon the wires.
The lines are down more than half the time.
Qy~A correspondent of the New York Tri-
june challenges the scientific world to prove,
by any mechanical or mathematical mensura-
ton or law of angles and of planes, that the
suns distance from the earth is one fourth
part of the 100000 miles claimed in the
astronomical theories.
Qy-JOhn Lehman, at Urbanna, Missouri, af-
ter being sentenced to imprisonment for life,
for violating the person Of Miss Delilah Will
ierman, was convicted of horse steal ing and
TO eight additional! years. Wonder
Where John is to be imprisoned during the Pc
nod. of the latter sentence