Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-05-18
CLIPPINGS AND scRlRsLINes.
Slim-the Court this week


GIncreasiBg-the price OF -four.
O@Ditto = our subscription list.
.dle-ing-the chap that was bound to
sing on Monday night.
EWhat is that which flies high, lies low,
has no feet, and wears shoes Dust.
GyAccording to the late census returns,
China contains population of 465, 100000.
EThe eastern manufacturing companies
are advancing the wages of operatives-a IA
vorable symptom.
DvThe shoemakers on the ladies' branch
at Pittsburg and Allegheny City are on strike
for higher wages.
VAbout the only person we ever heard Of
that wasn't spoiled by being lionized, was a
Jew named Daniel.
GSA Grand Military Encampment is to be
held at Chambersburg, commencing May 3Ist,
and to continue four days.
GA building for the education of horse
doctors, is now going up in the city Of New
\ ork, at cost of 600.
GA salt-cellar of Henry III. pottery-of
which ware only thirty-two pieces exist-was
lately sold in Paris for $3.50.
"Ten steamboats, were burned at the
Pittsburg wharf Oh the 14th. Estimated loss,
Sllo,0OO; insurance, $4,000.
0IThe Anti Lecompton Democratic State
j
in the field this fall in Pennsylvania.
"A man named Stephen Grap,was recent
ly arrested in Lehigh county for passing
counterfeit money, ana committed for trial.
Cg-A ssScaIlawag. This new word now
used in New York, is defined by the n. York
Tribune as u compound Of loafer, black
guard, and scamp.
OGSA Snowman out West is exhibiting wax
figures OF the actors in the Sicklcs tragedy.
At Boston play has been produced repre-
scntIng the incidents.
EExtraordinary as it may appear says an
exchange, piece of brown paper, folded and
placed between the upper lip and gnm, will
stop bleeding at the nose.
USCAt farm house, near Ballymena, Ire
land, little girl was found by her mother
drowned in a churn, into which she had fallen
while taking milk from it.
U~Thc dog law went into effect in Phila
delphia, on Monday Animals found there
without muZZleS are now manufactured into
glue and oil in short order.
0yThere is an old lady living near Fostora
in Blair county, this State, by the name of
Myers, who is said to have attained the age OF
one hundred and six years.
OJThe story that lady in our town had
been injured by the accidental discharge OF
her duty, turns out to be untruc-no such
U-A New Yorker says that the sweeping
machines of the Broadway sidewalks are $50
yards of 81 900 silk, mounted on reticuled
frame of whalebonc and steel.''
UA Paris auther is about advertising the
Memoirs of Souiouque, the black Emperor,
who is expected III Paris. 1t is said his hero
will be thoroughly white-washed.
USir Charles Napier says that thirteen
thousand sailors have deserted the British
val service within threc years; and tLat, too,
with more than $1,000 due them.
OSThere have been cut during the winter,
100. zoo, 600 feet of logs in the Green Bay lum-
Der region, nearly all of which will be ship
ped 10 Chicago, during the coming season.
OyMost Of the pIundercrs' papers are pub
fishing an article just now headed s'Why am
a Democrat 2" They could in most cases ap-
propriately answer eBecausc it affords the
most stealngs.'
GEMuggins says he don't believe in the
appearance OF spirits in this world as strongly
as he does in their disappearance. He lost i
gallon of brandy and two baskets of campaigne
on the last election.
EYcars ago the significant letters, G. T.
Gone to Texas-were used as 4 means of
marking upon the ledger bad debts. Now the
initials g. p. P.-Gono to Pixies Pea<-.irc
used for the same purpose.
VThree first class trotting horses were
burned to death on Saturday afternoon a-week, !,
at the stables of William Shaw at the Union
Course, Long Island. They were valued at
over eight thousand dollars.
oS-A double execution took place 1T Chi
cago on Friday a-week. Michael Finn for the
murder of his wife. and Michael McNamec for
the murder of farmer. Both the culprits
were married and had children
Gy-A family in Manchester, New llamp-
shire, named Chamberlain, have for the last
five years, kept the corpse OF an infant in the
house as pet. They were forced to inter It
by the authorities few days since.
OyIf man fails to the amount of a mil
lion, it is all right-he is 4 gentleman but
let him fail to the amount of his board bill,
OH then, he is scOundrcl- Quite an epitome
of society. like an inverted cone-thc wrong
end uppermost ?
N-According to law passed by the last
Legislature, every Justice OF the Peace here
after elected, who intends to accept the Office,
is required to give notice Of his intention in
writing to the Prothonotary of the county IN
which he resides, within thirty days after the
election.
Clearheld Market Prices.