Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-30
CLIPPINGS AND scslssL,ncs.

~ b''eo-tic CEap lnat feN down.
u Meets-Congress, on Monday next.
u act-the shortest way to u mans heart
Is down his throat
yMr. Ward, American Minister to China.
has gone to Japan.
u Slnteresting-to see boy in the street
smelling at a black bottle.
Oy-Awkward fix-for full hooped lady to
ma herself upset on hillside.
QyThe aggregate debt of Virginia on the
LIST OF October was $50, 10000.
Burned-the Episcopal Church in Ouin-
cy, Mass, recently. Loss, $4,000.
0SForty EIGHT Indian squaws were recent
ly arrested in a house oil iIl-fame in Montreal,
Canada. Ugh!
05-Fred Douglas states that the slave hol-
ders hunt their runaway niggers in the South
with dogs, and in the North with democrats.
UMohammedans say that one hour of JUS
tice is worth seventy years of prayer. One
act OF Charity is worth a century of eloquence.
Oy-Noisy-a couple larks, who were ale ing
pretty strong on Saturday night. They s.elc-
waited the ancient Henry" generally on the
street.
UThere is place in Georgia that the land
IS SO poor that when they bury any one, they
put IN a little guano as to raise them in the
last day.
GA man having asked how many dOg-days
there were in the year, was answered that It
Was impossible To number them ssaS every dog
had his day
UThe quantity OF wheat brought into La
Crosse, Wisconsin, is great that there are
scarcely enough freight cars on the road to
carry it TO Milwaukee.
T-Thomas F. Marshall. of Kentucky. has
been lately lecturiug in Dubuque, Iowa,
with an irrepressible tendency TO pronounce
the word Constitution .'costoo- shun.''
C~The Hartford Times says, sixty spots in
the can now be seen with good telescope.
Such AN extensive. eruptiop Indicates that some
| thing is out of order in thes solar system.
O-It is said that Immediately after the
| death of Kit Carson was known by the Indians,
| over whom he exercised great influence, they
commenced hOstilities against the whites.
~-The loss to the proPrietors of The steam
/ er New " Orla, growing out of the recent sink
/ ing of that noble vessel, will be not far from
| 100000 No insurance on the property.
| "The young lady who was so delicate that
she had TO have her strawberries pared de-
! clared that her husband shall live at least one
block away from ner. Guess she didn't mean
it, though.
| VGov. Seward was presented in Alcxan-
| dria with three superb Arabian horses, which
will be shipped to Ibis country. Two of them
will be presented to the New FORK State Ag-
ricGltural Society.
CCQuery !-How comes it that the side
walks on ID street, the Diamond, are in
such bad condition, whilst the owners OF lots on
| back streets were forced to make theirs! viii
the borough fathers explain
C|The editor of one of our down east pa
| pers gives an account of his office having been
for many years haunted by louncer who had
sat there SO long that when he died shadow
was found fixed upon the wall.
| W~A young man of Silver creek, N Y, on
his way home from sparkling fell into well
| with four feet of water and srad till day light.
He WAS son OF Baptist clergyman, but did
not approve OF immersion just then.
| Oyrhe doomed Brown was approached by a
! minister OF the Presbyterian persuasion, IA few
days ago who wished to advise him spiritually
Brown repeled him, saying that they did not
worship the same God. The minister was Il
| STAKEHOLDER.
GIThere is a newspaper issued at Tamaroa,
Perry, county, H., called the Egyptian Spy,
| which is printed on the first type that ever
| came 10 lllinois-:he same which printed the
laws of the State while The OF government
| was at kaSkaska
GE-An Irishman, on enlisting, asked by
the recruiting officer, Nv hen you get into bat
! tie will you fight or run 2" .'Ah, faith re-
piled Pat with comicai twist of his counte-
nance. s.I'I be after doin', yer honor, as the
majority OF yc does
| "Jerome Bonapartc, of fillmore, who
| recently returned hume, has, to his honor, re-
| fused the dignity OF senator, which Prince Je-
| rome, his father, rendered in order to retain
| him in France. He preferred the simple title
Of citizen of the United States.
VParsonBrownow of Tenncssce,i in conrse
| OF conversation with gentleman in New Ork, D.,
! a few days ago, remarked that .:tbe Loco-F "co
party was, without doubt, the most corrupt in
! stitution this side of - very hot place,
which the parson mentioned by name.
OyOue of the assistant female teachers in
one of the public schools in Cincinnati under
! took to chastise little urchin, few days ago.
when the little scamp raised her garments and
| took refuge beneath her hoops. She Was COM
pcIIcd to agree TO a truce before the impudent
I LITTLE. chan WOuid come