Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-12-05
CLIPPINGS AND sca,sisl.ncs.


nvNot necessarily mad-,a dentist, because
he shows his teeth.
rThe differences hunter bags his game !;
a c0quette sacks hers.
WMotto for an anti temperance associa-
tion-"A little more grape.''
~Asserts-a wag, that all the Secession
shriekers belong to the Democracy.
~The democrats have not elected a single
member to the Minnesota Legislature.
UStill prevails-much excitement at the
Secession headquarters in this Borough.
~Fact- some people think that piano is
more necessary is a family than meat and po-
tatoes. < nfT EEA A
yBelieves-Slobkins, in humbugging peo-
ple out of their dollars as it is neither beg
ging nor stealing.
~Provoking-to dream that you are worth
million of dollars and upon waking up find
yourself an editor.
uSold for S5l, ,00O--the Tyrone and Lock
Haven Railroad, at the Philadelphia Exchange
on the 18th November.
DGone over--an independent Methodist
Church in Louisville, Kentucky, to the Epis-
copaians, church and all.
~Gives notice-the Governor of Virginia,
that nine Bell and six Breckinridge electors
were chosen by that State.
USure remedy --extravagant expenditures,
for hard times and tight money market. If
that's SO, keep the sshiners' moving.
0vThreaten-some persons in South Caro-
lima, to tar and feather Mr.. Brecknridge if he
comes there to make Union speeches.
DgFrom a town in Mississippi of only tour
hundred inhabitants, twenty five persons were
sent to the lunatic ASYLUM in one year.
~Remember-ify you would talk much y ou
should particularly endeayor to talk well he
always speaks too much who speaks i'll.
~Declare-a number of Southern clerks at
Washington, that they will not hold office un-
der Lincoln. We should think they wouldn't.
~South Carolina is still enrolling minute
men. Prentice says, sSuch minute men will
never effect anything unless they have sixty
seconds apiece"
"A Democratic paper says the key note of
Republican music is ssdar-key." An exchange
retorts that the key note of Democratic mu-
sic is .swhiS-kcy.''
WThinks it probable-Dr. Lancaster of
England, that the cessation of the plague in
Europe may be owing to the Introduction of
the potato an article of food.
~Prevailing-diphth in Steubenville,
Ohio. Since the lst of January, 1860, about
two hundred children have died, and probably
fourth that number of adults.
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partment of the Dollar Newspaper if any one
can inform poor man of the best way TO SAT-
little nursery. Certainly-get married.
UA romantic French chemist burned the
body OF his friend. extracted from il the iron
that was contained in the blood, and had it
made into finger ring, which he wore in
memory of his friend.
CA DR.. G. w. Graham, of Philadelphia,
after refusing to attend poor man unless he
was first paid S25 in advance, added careless.
ness and administered an overdose of NOR
phine, causing the poor mans death, a few
days since.
OJ~A train of cars were thrown off the track
and precipitated into the Lehigh river, by the
breaking Of rail, on the 29th Nov. Mrs. Far
ron and sister of Beaver Meadow, two Misses
Smith Of Mauch Chunk, and Robert Nichols,
the conductor, were drowned.
~The Williamsport Daily Times speaks of
their new Court house thus 'sThe dome looks
very well, but Miss Justice has the appearance
of badly scared woman in her night dress and
reminds one ofthc pictures of a runaway slave,
sometimes seen in a Southern advertisement
~Probably the oldest member of the Ma
sonic order in the United States, at least in
New England, is Ebenezer Mower, member
of the Morning Star Lodge OF Worcester. He
is now over one hundred years Of age, was in
tiated February lS, 1904, and has thus been a
Mason nearly sixty-seven years. -s
~Progressing-th revolution in Mexico,
and is evidently approaching crisis. All par
ties were preparing for change of govern
ment. Miramon's declaration of his inability
to defend the capital created considerable ex-
citement. The last accounts state that the
Consttutionalists had captured Tacubaya and
Guadalajara. 1t was believed that the capital
would surrender without struggle.
0yRich-the idea that exists among the
slaves, that the Republican party are
all "negroes." How did they get that idea
Not from Republican speakers or papers as
they have none there. Who, then, is respon-
sible for the excitement in the South What |
party advocates Secession Is it the Repub- |
lican party2 Will every intelligent, peacea-
BILE, Unon-loving citizen answer these ques-
tions for himself, and decide who are the crea-
tors of the present agitation.
The West Tennessee Whig estimates the |
loss suffered by the South in the depreciation
Of Slave property. owing to the current agita-
tion, principally occasioned by the Secession |
lists, at S75, ,00O, ,000 1t says the difference in |
he value al slave DrOpprfv hafween Sales |