Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-05-09
CLIPPINGS AND sca,ssLlNcs.


UWarm and sprinplike-the weather du-
ring the past four days.
UBeing erected-a fine brick office BY DR..
M. Wood, on Second street.
0S-For Sale-a couple good milk cows by
Jacoo irwin, Lawrence tip. Price SO cash.
Strawberries can be had in New York.
They are rosy, tempting and luscious. Only
So per quart.
UGen. Cass has conveyed to the city of
Detroit lot of land valued at fifteen thousand
dollars, for ssUnion School House,
DyGreen peas, says the Norfolk Herald,
brought to Baltimore from Edenton, North
Carolina, via Norfolk, bring So per bushel.
GA bad sign-to see man with his hat
OF, near midnight, explaining the theory and
principles Of the Democratic party to street
post.
CS-It is asserted as a fact that one thousand
barrels OF grog were shipped from Philadel-
phla to Charleston for the ssNational' Con-
vention.
UyT The seventeen year locusts are making
their appearance in Maryland, in small num-
bers. Millions of them are found about foot
under ground.
GgThe Kansas Legislature granted one
hundred and fifty bills of divorce in forty days.
what glorious place for dissatisfied wives
and husbands.
6yGov. Packer has appointed A. Boyd
Cummings, F. w. Knox, and G.. +. Kelly
Commissioners to fix the seat of Justice for
Cameron county.
EvPrentice says he has heard of but one old
woman who kissed her COW, but he knows of
many thousand young ones who have kissed
very great calves.
0yThe Rev. Mr.. Harden, who has been on
trial at Belvidere. N j for the past two weeks
fnr lnIC nrr,rp h 20 ,,r.f
of murder in the first degree.
0yCareful accounts from Maryland, Vir-
glnia and Illinois, represent the condition of
the growing wheat crops as quite encouraging,
and the prospects good for a fair harvest.
0yBy recent wreck, a man. lost in one
night, his wife, four children, his sister. broth
er-in-law, three nephews and all his fortune.
He has since been the inmate of lunatic
asylum.
~A young man advertises his desire for
wife-''pretty and entirely ignorant Of the fact"
Evidently he wants fool. Any smart pretty
woman knows she's pretty-she wouldn't be
smart if she didn't.
~In the district Of Erris, county Mayo,
Ireland, twenty thousand people are said to
be in a state of absolute destitution, and the
able-bodied of both sexes are running for their
lives from the famine stricken locality.
GvThe Covode investigating committee has
made some astounding revelations. No less
that S925,OO0 was found to have been used to
force the Lecompton bill through Congress.
Ii was deposited in one bank in New York ity.
rThe shoemakers strikes in the East have
subsidized. The overplus of leather fabrics in
the market have been drawn of, and many of
the best workmen have been set to work by
the manufacturers, at somewhat increased
wages.
GA clerk in a store was lately overpower-
cd by fastidious young lady, who wished to
purchase, Mr.. Thomas Hood 's-a-a "Song of
the-gentlemen's under garmen.!' 20 The clerk
at the latest accounts was well as could be
expected.
nEThe last note. Forty, sixty and eighty
rod whiskey will have to give place to new
brand-Boomerang, it is called-which kills
around corners, and takes people unawares at
all times and under all circumstances. Look
out for it.
GyA little boy tell into the river at Green
field, Maine, "a few days since, barely escaping
drowning. When asked by his mother what
he was thinking about while in the water, he
said he thought sshe should furnish an item
for the newspapers"
UThe Albany Journal says: Hezekiah
Dubois, who is about Is years of age, land now
confined in the Penitentiary, makes daily for
ty-three pairs of brogans with apparent ease.
The person who saw him on the bench at work,
says, ''that he appeared to blow the pegs from
his mouth into the shoe, and never made
miss while he was looking at him.''