Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-09-21
CLIPPINGS AND scR,ssLrass.

Ito prevent fish from smelling In hot wea-
ther-cut their noses of.
UFinished enty-eight miles of the s.
and E. Railroad eastward from Erie.
UOn strke-the shoemakers of Lynch
burg, Va, for higher wages. Lynch-law, eh
~Modest-the young lady who wouldn't
wear q watch in her bosom, because it had
hands on it.
RMisnomer-c calling a certain neither gar
ment between five and six feet in diameter, a
spetty-coat.''
skirts in New York, per year. That's a hoop
ing business, sure.
@Fact--it is more respectable to black
boots than to black characteristic sew shirts
| thar to SOW strifes.
| yContrary-the borough hog law. One
day, pig in; next day, pig cut. Coon, Jo
| seph, it's all right.
0TMade clean sweep-the Republicans of
| Vermont, at the late election. Not grease
| spot of locofocoism is left.
| efficiently killed.. J. Courtney Dep
| uty U. S. Marshall, in an afray with Col. A. ].
| Walker, editor of the Birdvill Union, Texas.
| ~Has published-the Washington Consi-
fulton, very elaborate article in reply to Sem
ator Douglas article on squatter sovereignty.
| "We tender our thanks to Mr.. Samuel B.
Jordan. of Lawrence township, for a basket of
| delicious apples, which were snot hard to AXE
~sOld Bullion'' once said, ssDouglas can
| never be President, Sir His coat tail is too
| near the ground, Sir too near the gronnd, Sir!
ESQ short-thc memory of 4 man in our
| town, that it only reaches to his knees. Per
consequence, he has not paid for his last pair
OF boots.
I'VE wonder, that, among all the titles
bestowed upon the moon, none Of her poetical
o6 mi haU nup of hnra GO
rene Highness.
WPoisoned-a family in New York, by u
| sing adultcIated cream of tartar. 1t is said
| that the pure article is never obtainablc at re-
| tail in that city.
~.sHiram Woodruff q fine race horse,
owned by Philip r. Clark, of Delaware, died
on Monday. Mr.. C. had refused $4,000 for
him, and asked 900.
"Te be sold-one hundred and twenty-six
thousand acres of land, next month in St. Lou
| is, by the Pacific Railroad Company. The
lands are located in Missouri.
~A queer article-a wide spread and ra-
ther short hooped skirt, on windy day.
20 wad some power the giftie gle us
To see ourselves, as others US
UFRemitted to Oregon-lll 600 dollars,
per the last steamer by the United States In
dian Office, to dctray the Indian expenses in
that State during the present fiscal year.
W mat was DOrTlUie aIIdlr-Ine lnufOer OIL
Dean, and the sealing up of his remains in a
tin box ssWhat Dean 2'' asked half dozen
voices at once. sWhy Sardean, of course.''
UCame of-a Great Spike Case at Sar-
| atoga, recently. The cost for ,17O interrcga-
tories put in the case, was Sl4, 900, or 81 80
| each. That case was well spiked, certainly.
rssFolks say, Mr.. barkceper, that l can't
be trusted out of sight, but I'm in sight now
can't | have a cocktail p - ssNo, but Won IL
dor. Oh;
~Jesse Richardson, of Henry county, Va,
being in love, and having just received fog
| gng from his father, walked out and hung
| himself to a beam in the barn. What a fool.
| UArrested-three thousand and twenty
| four persons in Philadelphia, during the month
| of August. The greater part OF these arrests
were for the addiction to intoxicating liquors.
| GTWishes to know-thc Colonel who has
| been obliged TO visit the dentist, if the carous
and precarlous teeth which he has inherited
| from his fathers family might be called pater-
nal achers.
GyHas been entered-the English steam
| ship Great Eastern, the eighth wonder OF the
| world, at the Custom House of New York and
will arrive at that port in few weeks, should
no accident occur to her.
~Discovered-al large and rich silver mine,
on Col. Fremont'S tract in California. He is
| about to erect machinery which will work one
| hundred tons of ore per day, worth from twen-
| ty to thirty dollars per ton.
| ~Asserted-th 800 of the N ork chur-
| cbes have been closed during this month, the
pastors being in the country taking an airing.
| 'Spect cold Nick' has full sway among the
| focks, as the spasturs' are short.
| "N Nominated-Alex. II. Coffroth, by the
| Democrats of Somerset county, for Assembly.
| Geo. G.. Walker, the Opposition man, being
good ,oalter, will give his opponent .a-itcl that
will make him cough froth severely.
"Produces-No orth Carolina, more turpen-
| tine than any other State, and it is claimed
| that South Carolina, in proportion to her pop
ulation, produces more poultry. So the two
| Carolinas may be called tar and feathers.
GEThe Indians in Oregon have been again
numbering emigrants. Late news from that
section of country states that six men and one
woman were killed near Raft river-their wa
gons were robbed and their stock driven off.
~Gov. Chase, of Ohio, who knows how to
| say good thing, recently remarked that the
| ssPricst and the Levite who passed by on the
| other side, leaving the man who fell among
| thieves. were Democratic Observation-Disclosures
GA little boy about three and half years
| old. drank half pint of New England rum on
| Friday a-week, in Boston, and although three
| physicians worked twenty -four hours to restore
| him to consciousness, he died in commissions
| on Saturday.
u-A most valuable discovery of diamonds
| has lately been made at the foot OF the Oural
Mountains, Russia. One specimen brought
the lucky owner sec, 800 There is every rea-
son to believe that mine of ineXhaustible
wealth has been discovered.
MARRIED
| On Sunday Septem Der 18th, in the Catholic
church at Grampian Hills, by the Rev. Father
| Hl H., IL