Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-02-02
CLIPPINGS AND sca,ssl,ncs.

DSunshiny-the weather during January
~eTurned up missing'-the snow that
We should have had this winter.
DThe ssMite Society," meets at Mrs. DR..
Wilson's next Tuesday evening.
GgAppear-the Receipts and Expenditures
of the county, in another column.
wPienty to do-Hall, the sspictur'' man
across the way. He takes likenesses good
and cheap.
G|A good officcr-the Luthersburg consta-
BILE. So say the citizens of that town. None
like him in the State.
~1nteresting-to see couple gentlemen
chase lady up timber road. Had better
''look before they rum" next time.
UThis is "ground-hog day. If his pork
ship should happen to see his shadow, he will
soon play shob' with our fine weather.
IRich affair-the relative triangular sssct
to" in Lutbersburg on Friday night-street
awfuly muddy, and two or three fellows trying
to make it bloody
O-An awful chap--the fellow that ierked
off his lightning splitter to knock the squire
higher than raven flies to :. 1t would be
difficult TO hold him now.
~There is a maiden lady in Connecticut
so modest, that she turned off her washer-wo-
man because she put her clothes in the same
tub with those of young man.
WIn Boston, January 2Sth, VIM. H. Pres
colt, the historian, died very suddenly, from
paralysis. He had been enjoying his usual
health up to the moment of his death.
~The Warren Bank appears to be standing
on q sandy foundation. Amount Of specie in
the vaults $72, ,46, notes discounted $4,000.
OF these $2l 900 arc under protest. Rather
sickly.
~Huntington, the New York Wall street
forgcr occupies himself in Sing Sing by col
lecting a library, reading up the classics, wri-
ting critiques on the poets, and otner kinds of
:sllard labor.''
oyThe new "cigar- -shaped' iron steamer,
built by Winans, of Baltimore, has been tested
by trip down the Chesapeake Bay, and made
II knots an hour. The trial was in all res
poets successful.
W-ln North Carolina they have discovered
method OF breaking refractory horse,
which outdoes Rarey. They send the animal
to Democratic caucus, after which he obeys
every nod and beck.
DA census of the population Of Rome
has just been completed, from which it appears
that the total of the inhabitants is about $50,
357-a figure at about which the city has re-
mained for the last $50 years.
Gy-The disease with which the villkge of Lu-
thcrsburg has been for some time afflicted, has
somewhat abated, and there is every prospect
of speedy recovery of all those who have
survived the affliction to this time.
"Obedient-the Squire in a certain town,
who bantered his neighbor out in the street TO
fight, but finding the latter was ready to spitch
in he asked the constable If he might fight,
and when the officer said, No Sir /! he stopped.
WOn the borders of Green Bay, Wiscon-
sin, there are thirty saw-mills, with an ag-
gregato capacity for running 400, ,000, 900 feet
of lumber annually, and this does not take
into account the shingles, lath and timber
manufactured.
UTbe Havana papers Of the 10Th publish
the statement that General Reneau had offered
Governor Concha SIS .000, 900 to declare Gu
ba independent. Threats were being made to
massacre any American conspirators who may
be discovered.