Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-02-09
CLIPPINGS AND scRissLlNes.

Delightful weather.-Y esterday morn
ing was very cold here. To-day it is raining.
D5-A topper went into tavern in Baltimore
lately and asked for a glass Of ad ia 10 ruBi.
He must be free trader.
DRemcmber that the Human Constitution
is one that cannot be amended by two third
vote. Make a note OF that.
UThere is scarcely man who does not
inveigh against the scandal OF woman, but
most of them listen to it.
TPersons who have promised to pay their
subscriptions at this office in wood, are re-
quested TO bring it on now whilst there is
Shedding.
TAbout-the chap, who had his whisllers
''blocked out'' recently. They put us in mind
Of western village-extensively laid out but
thinly settled.
GgNo maiden ladies are allowed in Japan.
They must marry or leave. May be they
like some in this country-they would if they
had a chance.
WThe British brig Brill has arrived from
Gibralter, having been ninety days out. For
six weeks of the voyage the crew had but one
biscuit per meal.
~Why don't the 'sborough fathers en-
force the ordinance relative to clearing the
snow off the side walks? A portion of them
have the snow on yet.
|Gov. Packer has signed the death war
rants of Evans and Jacoby. the Allegheny
county wiio murderers. They are TO be hung
en- Friday the 10Th OF May next.
~The editor of the National Democrat, a
new administration paper started ct Cleveland,
| says his design is to purify the Democratic
| party. An awful work before him.
| ~A person named John Hartman, Just
| from the Mountain gold mines in Kansas, pub
| fishes letter in the Lcayenworth Times, say
ing that he dug $4,000 of gold in % days.
O-Note it when and where You will, the
children in a family where a newspaper is ta-
| ken will always be smarter and more inteIi-
| gent than those in a family where no paper is
| taken.
| U-J. T. Stone and Charles Buckman, far
mers living at Brdge-creek, Michigan, have,
| in three months, trapped and killed thirty
two bears, dcvoting only one day in four to
hunting.
UThe newspapers in Western New York
state that the peach buds in that vicinity have
all been killed by the excessively cold wealth
er which has recently prevailed in that sec
| tion of country.
GT-The New Orleans Crescent estimates the
product of the cane crop for 1858 at three
| hundred and fifty thousand barrels of molas-
ses, and four hundred and fifty thousand hogs
heads of sugar, and valued at SD 600 900.
U~Our friend, David Dressler, ESD, of T.
nion township, did very clever thing yester-
day, when he presented US those fine apples,
for which he will please accept thanks.
The apples were very palateable, and s'not
hard 10 take
OEThere are IL Massachusetts, two hundred
and nincty-four factories, with a capital of
thirty-two millions of dollars, and one and a
halt millions of spindles, which put into the
market manufactures worth thrty-four mil
lions of dollars annually.
| TAdans' express car was robbed recently
| Of about SAC, 900, somewhere between Mont
gomery, Ala. and Atlanta, GA. The money
was mostly in five and ten dollar notes, on the
Georgia and South Carolina banks. A re-
ward of $4,000 is offered for the recovery of
the money.
| HvHard run.-GirlS are so scarce in the
eastern part of this county that couple OF
young men, of = Mills, dressed two OF their
comrades in female apparel and took them to
church a few Sabbath evenings ago, where
they were seated among the ladies, and were
not discovered to be men till on the way home,
when the ciatter of four pairs Of boots on the
frozen ground betrayed the secret.