Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-08-29
CLIPPINGS AND soRrssltNcs.

lie park.
| WDangerous ieveler-a man with gun i,
| his hand.
| ~At Saratoga-not less than 900 visitor
last week.
UStill ADORE water-the Liquor Dealers
| Association.
vNot much hurt-the lady who was strucl
with remark.
H Hlncreased-the population of Name, on
| ly 10000 since 1850.
Ex-senator Seward says, New ork will give
Lincoln $4,000 majority.
"Raging-the gold fever, at Springfield,
VT, gold having been found there.
OAmount-the pew rents in Henry Ward
Beecher's church, to 100000 this year.
killed-two boys at Albany on Monday
a-week, by the falling of Douglas pole.
OWhy is muf like fool Because il
holds lady's hand without squeezing it.
@Omnium Gatherum-Breck, Doug Bell,
Smith, Houston 4 Co. Oh s.what mix -
0VA Arrived-at the port of Newly ork, since
the first day of last January, 63 ,723 emigrants.
UQueer-that the editors of the ssHarmo-
nious Democracy" don't publish their plat
form.
VErected--a new hotel at St. Anthony.
Min, which cost S2l0,O00, and the furniture
sec, 900.
GA great ye-opener-ssthirty pieces of
silver" during political campaign So says
Slobkins.
rStated-by Family Fair, that the three
ages OF Senator are Mileage, Postage, and
Patronage.
~On trial-a boy named Finley, 10 years
old, at Carlyle, Ill.,, for the murder of his un-
Gle, Dr.Wren.
GyMiss Fantadling says, if she amt dead
she has lost her vital sparh-the man who used
TO sit up with her.
USent to Garibaldi-by a French armorer,
coat of mail dagger and bullet-proof. 1t is
gift, valued at 5000 francs.
GBurned down-the stable attached to the
State Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg, last week.
1t was the work OF an incendiary.
UFee ble-the Bell ringing movement. At
Greensburg they couldn't raise ssnary MANI
for an officer, for their meeting, last week.
0y-lt is said that an artesian we'll in progress
at Macon, Miss, is throwing column of water
some 10 feet above the surface of the earth.
G-How have the mighty fallen! Posters
announce that Gov Bigler will make his debut
at Mt. Joy school house tomorrow evening.
~Destroyed by fire-Bel's Tavern, which
for two generations past has been the stopping
place for visitors to the Mammoth Cave, KY
TReported-that John Bigler, now Minis
ter to Chill, is about to return to California and
run for the United States Senate. So SAYS the
Sacramento Union.
@-Overrated-the sufferings of the people
ot Kansas from the drouth. Late advices state
that there Will he enough food for home con-
sumption IN all parts Of the Territory.
NThe s.Kansas Valley'' is the first steamer
built in Kansas. She is 80 feet long, l3 feet
beam, with side wheels, and draws only foot
OF water. She was launched on July Both.
0VOminous-to the ckinridge and
Bell-Everett leaders in secret confabs and the |
former slapping the latter on the shoulder re- |
s.That's right stick to your princi- |
pies 20
W-Has returned-Miss Harriet Hosmer the |
American sculptress, from her artistic labors
IN Europe to comfort sick and aged father. |
She is spoken of as fine; dashng, black eyed |
girl of twenty-nn
"Professor Tischendorf, the discoverer of |
The oldest known manuscript of the Bible,
found in the convent Mount Sinai. has re-
turned to St. Petersburg. to superintend the
Du bication of this important work.
0yRemarkcd-b Prentice that between
Douglas fever and Breckinrdge sweat, office
holders have hard time generally. Their
feelings lie side, their bread and but |
er on the other, and they themselves lie gen.
,rally.
0VIt is said, that the wicked Mrs. Gurney, |
he English lady who ran away with her foot
nan, is at present in this country, living at
me of the fashionable watering places under
n assumed name. She is worth Is OOO. 900
terling in her own right!
HEstimated-that the negro population of
he South is, according to the census returns
eceved, 100000 This will give the South
rn States about 80 members of Congress, on
heir chattels; or, in other words, through
heir ''niggers'' the South elect as many men,
ers of Cong,ess as 100000 of whites do in
he North.