Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-04-25
CLIPPINGS AND scRlBsllncs.

corn-tread on their toes
Co Taken in-the chap who swallowed
glass Of coal oil, thinking it whisky.
&C. A new counterfeit S5 bill on the Com
mercial Bank OF Philadelphia, is in circuIa-
ton.
GO Gen .Cass now in his 18th year, said to
have yet to taste the first drop of intoxicating
liquors.
To- Old Bucks political credit, never the
most untainted, has been utterly lost, since he
| lcent 10 protest.
~ writer from Pixies Peak advises i'm
migrants to bring plocs, and we take it that
the advice is good.
~Found-a flask of sstangle e-foot, - in our
coal-pile yesterday morning. Can any one
tell who is the owner
~ A pretty face and handsome dress
often make great belle; but an enraged bull
sometimes make great telLer.
0r On Good Friday, III persons were con-
| frmed in the Lutheran Churches of Reading,
and SO in the First German Reformed Church.
10 A bachelor friend of ours is willing to
| unite himself in matrimony with any eligible
| young lady who has large fortune and
cough,
| Og 1t is mistake to suppose that time is
| money. We know of one or two railroad
companies, tina. make first rate time-but no
| money.
10 Potter and Pryor have botL been arres.
| ted by the authorities of the District of CO.
| lumbia, and held in bonds of $4,000 each to
| keep the peace.
Co Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright and
shy. If we strive to grasp it, it still eludes us,
and still glitters. We perhaps seize it at last,
and find it rank poison.
Oy A new kind Of leather has made its ap-
| pearance in the eastern markets, said to have
| been made from the skin of the white whale,
| found in the river st. Lawrence.
o. Speaking of the vote upon the Anti
Polygamy Bill, Parson Brownlow says be is
anxious to see the names of the 90 sixty men
of easy virtue who approved the cause of poly
gamy!
D Notes of the Central Bank of Tennes-
see, an exploded institution, have been altered
to the Central Bank of n New Jersey, and are in
circulation. A sharp look out should be kept
| for them.
% A Williamsporter was recently robbed
of his gold watch valued at $40, in Phila-
delphia, while in the company Of two frail
young ladies. The women were arrested, but
the watch wasn't.
G-Late California papers state that thirty
| tons of silver ore, from the Washoe mines,
| recently smelted at San Francisco, yielded an
average of over three hundred dollars per
ton, over 100000 in all.
10 The New Orleans Delta says there is a
plethora of money, epidemic OF extrava-
gance, and tendency to luxury in that city.
1t small lot of strawberries, about two
quarts, sell for $14, and caulifowers for 50 so
piece.
TThe Jail of Chester county, is crowded
with prisoners. Fifty-three persons are con-
fined therein-mostly tor petty offences.
There forty cells. One cell accommodates
three prisoners, and in several others two are
confined.
~The Charleston Mercury, in reviewing
the Connecticut election, says: ssIt is impos-
sible, after such result, under such circum-
stances, to doubt that the policy of the black |
republican party is the policy of the people of
the north.''
GyFrom the commencement of the bur-
ricane of the night of October oath last, which |
swept the coast of England and Ireland, to
the 9th of November, three hundred and twen- |
ty-fve vessels were wrecked, and seven hun
dred and forty eight lives were lost.
OyArchibald Frazier while eating dinner at |
his boarding house, in Savannah, Georgia, on |
Tuesday, suddenly became speechless, and |
died in two minutes. post-mortem exami- |
nation revealed large piece of beef fastened |
in the wind-ppe, and checking respiration.
Uy The Bath Times thinks it is a bad sign
for bachelor lawyer, who gets up to speak
in court, to draw a woman's nightcap from his
pocket on which to wipe his nose, thinking it
a white handkerchief. The strings are apt to
be noticed, and to awaken unpleasant suspi-
cions.
20 DR.. Brent who lately murdered at
Santa Fe, left property valued at $50, 900 to
100000, all of which he bequeathed to Miss
Nellie Shoemaker, to whom, it is said, he had
been engaged in marriage, as had been his
brother, Preston Beck, before his death took
place.
GS~A raft, with a woman's Dress hooped
skirt, copy of the book, SO Out of the Depths,''
a pocket-book containing drafts to the order
of j. Hart, and love-letter addressed to the
same name, and signed Fanny Clanson, was
picked up a few days since in New York
harbor.
AGRICULTURAL Nj MEETING.-A meeting of the
Clearfeld County Agricultural Society will be
held in the Town Hall in Clearield Borough,
on Monday evening, June 18th, (court week }
The several Vice Presidents are requested to
make return to this meeting of any monies
they may have received; and their presence
is especially desired, as it is proposed then to
take action about holding Fair the coming
Fall. ELLIS IRWIN Prest
HE GREAT DRAWBACK to persons emi grating to |
the extreme south and western country is the fear
they have of the Fever and Ague-the most dire
ful of all diseases. Every day we hear of per-
sons attacked by this disease and made helpless in
q short time, without any means of affording