Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-09-28
CLIPPINGS AND scsrssl,aes.

" ne lnfIdeis announce a Convention IN
Pmladelphia on the lst Of October.
% Two mills in Kanawha county, Va, are
turning out 200 gallons of coal oil daily.
~The best method of getting teeth inscr-
ted is to go Hbox the fox'' where Watchdog
is on guard.
~We fear that ta.tlesnake bites will grow
frequent, now that whiskey is announced as
sovereign cure.
day, in cornfeld. That fellows worth half
dollar, Squire.
ECaptain Rynders is going to publish his
"Life and Times" He has had low eLife''
and high ssTimes.
~Douglas Jerrold calls woman's arms
"the serpents that wind about u mans neck,
killing his resolution
DTwenty Democratic papers in Mississip-
pi are in favor of reopening the African slave
trade; about three are opposed to it.
~Mrs. Susan Metevie died at the poor
house of New York last Thursday, at the ad-
vanced age of one hundred and fifteen years.
UUThe track-layers of the Sunbury and
Erie Railroad expect to reach the first fork of
the Sinnamahoning by the first of December.
~The man who won thousand dollars
on fight between a saw-horse and q hydrau lie
ram, recently lost all his money on a mill
race.
ovThree thousand ee.s were caught in a
fish basket in the Delaware some distance a
bove Easton on Saturday night, by some fish,
ermen.
~Mrs. Bowman of Newcastle, had two of
her toes cut off by the fitting of a plank,
caused by team which was on the bridge at
the same time.
~Miraculous A New York paper stated
that celebrated writing master taught law
yer in the course of twelve lessons TO read his
O,cn hand rrifing!
~The prevailing style of skirts allow la
dies in hot weather to sslay off everything else
and sit in their bones''-as Rev. Sidney Smith
once wished TO do.
WPlenty-religious meetings. BY a no.
tice in another column it will be seen that the
Adventsts are to commence a meeting next
Wednesday evening.
GA lady in Richmond, Virginia, whose
husband had offended her, undertook to fright
en- him by swallowing piece of chalk. She
must not s'try it on'' more than once.
GA nan whose appearance indicated that
he was labOring under the weight of a brick IN
his hat, being asked if he was Son of Tenn
perance, replied: 'sHic-no reiation.''
~The State Debt is gradually being ex-
tinguished. We observe that Gov. Packer in
a recent proclamation announces a further re-
duction by the payment of 81, ,l37, l56 SO.
GA large body of land, 50 900 acres, ly-
ing in the counties of Highland, Randolph,
and Pcndleton, Va, has been sold for sec, 900
to Northern Emigration Society who design
settling upon it.
~M. w. Hooker. convicted of mansaugh-
ter, in the Court of Blair county, some three
years ago, and sentenced to the pententiury
for ten and half years, has been pardoned
by the Governor.
UEgypt has 500 miles of railroad. The
first locomotive run, munmies were used for
fuel, making hot fire. The supply of num-
mics is said to be almost inexhaustible, and
are used by the cord.
rMr. Frederick Brenneman, OF North
Huntingdon township, Westmorciand county,
was choked to death on the 18th, in the village
took large piece of meat and in attempting
was extinct.
UThe Mariposa (Cal.) Star thus describes
the personal appearance of Horace Greely
He does not look like 4 vcgetarian--wears
Specs-declines to drink-never smokcs-sel-
dom swears-and, among other peculiarties,
seems to bc in q devil of hurry to get back
to New York
UMr. e. p. Shaw, who had a store at Ce-
dar Greek, u miles west of Bastrop, Texas,
committed suicide some time since by taking
laudanum. He had been drinking and some
persons had painted him all over with green
paint, and sewed him up in q sack. On ava
kening, and not succeeding in washing the
paint from his hair-mortified at his condition,
he committed the act.