Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-01-25
CLIPPINGS AND scRtBsliRos.

GyAt hand-tbe sugar-rnaking season.
rIncreasing-th interest in agriculture.
GgA brick-the boy that is older than his
father.
~Discovered-a new species of female
Santa Fe mail.
OyPeople die at the rate of nine minute, I
taking the whole world together.
mCharleston IN. Co. papers notice the ap-
pearance of fresh shad at that port.
rCarried off--George W. Orr's wood-saw
He wonld like to have it returned.
GA great many drop tear at the door OF
poverty, when they should rather drop sir-
pence.
ov.sThere's brandy smash,'' the wag
said when runken man fell through pane
of glass.
U-A Mr.. Lyon declined fighting duel and
was called dog, but live dog is better than
a dead Lyon.
| UTbe population of the provinces, Cana
da East and West, Is now estimated to be ex-
acty 8 900.
w-To he established-a new bank at Ports
mouth, Va to be called the Seaboard Bank,
with capital OF S2Oo, ,0O0.
| rFound-a package OF counterfeit bills, in
Newport, KY, recently S2,ooo was on the
Northwestern Bank OF Virginia.
rG-Cold-the weather at ST. Paul, Minneso-
q.
spirit ditto indicate fifty degrees below zeio!
rPassed-a bill banishing free negroes
from Missouri, by both houses of the Leg isla-
ture The Governor has, however, vetoed il.
| nvJ Edgar Thompson, Esq, has accepted
the Presidency OF the Southern Pacific Rail-
| road. He may we'll be called the American
Railroad King.
r-Henrv Meachen of Dickinson, Mass, on
Saturday a-week, in fit Of jealousy shot his
wife dead in the presence OF her parents, ana
, then killed himself.
~J A. Corey, of Burlington, VT, several
nights ago, lit a chaicoai fire in his room and
then retired TO bed. In the morning he was
found dead in his bed.
Gy-A popular writer says, that a ''woman
should be won by degrees" Ccrtainiy-win
first her ears and eyes then her heart, then her
lips, and then her hand.
UJThe season for partridge shooting in
Pennsylvania expired on the last day of De-
cemi,er, alter which time there Is tue OF ten
dollars for each bird shot.
TPbysicians in india raise blistcrs with
: red hot irons, and dress them with cayenne
D pepper Ii such treatment does not make peo-
Pile .ssmart'' We don't know anything else
| that would
l. Uy-Iu the last century the Queen of Portu-
;. gal had a team OF eight zebras, with which she
frequently rode about Lisbon, and one Of the
: royal stables in Lisbon is still called the
g bic of the zebras.
d Dg-A leading dentist of Chicago recently
o stated in an address TO his brethren. that tht
| value OF gold plate and leaf annually used il
: the United States for the replacing and repair
! of detective teeth, is 50, 500 000-fvo TONS
IS OyAccording to he last report Of the A
C merican Colonization Society, the receipts o
9 | the organization for the past year were nearl,
$16l 900, and the expenditures only SS4, ,000
y Three hundred emigrants were sent TO Afric;
+ during the year.
e O|The Legislature of Florida having pass
ed stringent law for the banishnlent OF fre'
negroes from the State, Gov. Perry prompt,
le vetoed it. Thus far Arkansas and Louisian
,s are the only States in which the measure ha
been enacted into u law.
C5-On some Of the western roads they ar
II now testing the experiment of placing prepar
g ed India rubber under the ends Of each ral
. with view to remove the noise and lattling
> so common on almost all roads. Thus far
has proven quite successful.
~ UrThey seized young teacher at Coum
rs bus Miss, Il short time since, tarred ana fea
r thered him, bound him hand and foot to log
c and sent him adTift in the Mississippi river
and he has not been heard from since. II
1T was suspected OF entertaining abolition tel
III dencies.
le rMiss Tennessee Gibson died recent
lg near Strangers Home, Lawrence county, ,Arf
She was passonateiy addicted to snuff dipping
so much so that she retired for the night wit
s. the poison in her mouth and in the mornin
90 she found corpse-with snuff adherin
- to her lips
- pyA daughter of Charles Flood, editor
u the Cleveland (Ohio) National Democrat, ha
ut been appointed to an $500 clerkship in til
IL Post Cffice,, to succeed a Douglas man, II
;; moved. There is not another Aaministratio
- man but the Postmaster in the cty-hence th
q, appointment of the young lady.
ad -----~- -
nd a. N. HILLs, Dentist, of this place, notift
his friends in the vicinity of New Washingto
'u that he will be at that place about the first
he February to spend few days professional,