Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-12-07
CLIPPINGS AND scRlss,lnes.

" Learning makes man fit COMPANY for
himself.
ESate-the Union. Old Brown swent up'
on Friday the I'd.
UyFact-there is no better looking glass
than true friend.
G-John Brown and Governor Wise are rep
resented to be Masons.
Uy-Io be lighted with gas-the cars on the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
G-Many dashing fellow is like the golden
neece-a fine outside on a sleeps back.
GS-A firm in Boston advertise cloth made
from cotton cultivated entirely by free labor.
0GA great sbore'-the Subalpine tunnel. 1t
is over - miles long, and l below the summit.
GyFound guity-Benhoff, of murder in the
I'd degree, for killing Frank Weiger,a lat Dover,
Ohio.
[E"Don't fail to see the Sixth Annual An
nouncement," and brilliant offers, in another
column.
% Girls want nothing but husbands, and
when they have got them, they want every
thing else
ESome people use one half of their inge-
nulty to get into debt and the other half to
avoid paying it.
EsCaught in her own net,'' as the chap
said when he saw of the fair sex hobbled
in her clnoline.
N7A late traveller, in speaking of Austria,
says that one-halt of the people are under arms
TO keep the other halt in Jail.
GyConvicted- ebert Warrix and John S.
Sutcliff, in the U. S. District Court at Ceye-
land. Ohio, for counterfeiting.
CSTO be sold-nine churches in Cincinnati
for non payment of taxes. Religion must be
at discount in the Queen City.
~We believe in the stories of haunted
houses; we know of many old taYerns that are
haunted day and night. Ahem.
DTWe are sure to be losers when we quar-
rel with ourselves; it is civil war, and in all
such contentious triumphs are defeats.
CTMr. Douglas says that the blacks are an
inferior race. We guess he admits in his Sc
cret heart that one at Washington is an cxcep-
tion.
GA man went to judge to be qualified
for an office. Said he, ssIIold up your hand
iii swear you, but all creation couldn't quail
fy you.'
GyJones says he has way of getting a
drink of water at his boarding house without
asking for it. lie gets it by asking for third
cup of tea.
CIThe London clergymen are melancholy
over the fact, that of the population of three
millions in that city, there are only $50 900
cOmmunicants.
RA Mr.. Pea has been indicted for whip
ping his wife and children. n o doubt he thinks
it hard case that a man cannot be allowed to
thrash his own Peas.
Uy-It is better for man to send his chill
dren to good evening school than to permit
them 10 graduate at the schools kept at the
corners of the streets.
OvGoethe says that modern authors put too
much water in their ink. Some of our fash
ionabe writers, agreeing with him in opinion,
seem to substitute brandy.
GA man who won't take paper because
be can borrow one, has invented machine
with which lie can cook his dinner by the
smoke of his neighbor's chimney.
U.TreasonabIe'-fre speech, in Virginia;
at least three Ohio merchants were taken out
of a railroad car and imprisoned, for express
ing sympathy for Browns family.
"Any paper can publish the appointments
after the coming in of a new administration
but what paper in the world is half large G.
nough to publish half the disappointments.
TThe meanest man in the world is in Lon
don. He buttons his shirt with waters, and
looks at his money through a magnifying glass
to make half-dimes look as big quarters.
GEA prominent railroad official says the
resolutions passed by the Cleveland Conven-
tion against giving free passes s'have no more
binding effect upOn him than dose OF salts"
C~The Petersburg (Va) Express commends
Gov. Wise for calling out the State militia, as
there will soon be S'need for them to stand as
sentinels and fight against any and all who may
become inraders Of Southern COgfederacy!"
CJMr. SchoOnovcr, the Agent of the Up
per Sioux Indians, reports that the Yellow
Stone river is navigable for steamers nine hun
dred miles from its confluence with the Mis-
souri,, and that goods can be landed within four
hundred miles of Salt Lake City.
GyThe Indian captive, who returned to
Cleveland few months ago, having been a
mong the Indians, by whom he was stolen, for
twenty five years, has been identified. He
turns out TO be the brother of Mr.. VIM. Bray
ton, of Adrian, Seneca county, Ohio.
Cy-A Columbus paper says that one day re-
Gently there came over the Central Ohio Rail
road two hundred and forty German emigrants,
bound for Missouri. These are the people who
are to take the place of the disappearing slaves
An excellent substitute they will be found,
with their industry, frugality, and intelligence.
The use of Dr. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for
Dyspepsia FIatulence, Heaviness of the Stomach.
or any other like affection, is second to none in A.
merica or abroad. To be able to state confidently
that the iBitters'' a certain cure for Dyspep-
sia and like diseases is to the prOprietOrs source
of unalloyed pleasure. 1t removes all morbid
matter from the stomach, purifes the blood i'm
parts renewed vitality TO the nervous system, Civ
ing it that tone and energy indispensable for
the restoration of health. The numerous acknOwl-
edgements of It's superior excellence and beuef-
cent results have assured the prOprietors that IT
cannot but prove Il great cure to the afflicted, and
vitality to fhe thorough See au-