Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-06-06
CLIPPINGS AND scalssL,Ncs.

~Going up-another Lager brewery.
- WAbont-Rice, the ssOld Seven-Day.'
~Down-the chap who fell into gutter.
URising-the water in the Susquehanna.
D-Growing hnc-the trees in the south
park.
DNot among the Post Office sReturns''-
the return of Fowler.
0VGetting drunk, is now rendered, e:Guil-
ty of voluntary ill-health."
~Died-Theodore Parker of Boston, at
Florence, on the 10th of May.
rAmusing--the performances of the sstan-
gle-foot' boys, on Saturday last.
~Out-several hogs. Keep your eye ON
Andy, piggy, or you'll be cotched.
UAsserted-that lead is an animal produc-
tion, because it is found in sspigs.''
GS-Good improvement-the ditch on Mar
ket street. The water runs both ways.
gVMr. Everett's Campaign Motto. Hang
out your Bonners, &c ~ (Shaks: mprored).
Refined-the young lady who never says
''blackguard,'' but thinks there are some ssAf-
rican sentnels.''
~Heavy-the expenditure for military and
naval defences of England, in 1860. The esti-
mate is $159,000,000.
UDiscontinued-th Indiana, Pa. hide
pendent. There were too many papers in that
county, for the size of it.
Wishes to know-a lady, if we can throw
any light on kissing. We don't want to the
thing is done just as well in the dark.
UMade-enough maple sugar in Vermont
during the past season, to sweeten the coffee
once of every coffee drinker on the globe.
DyAn Iowa paper says, elf you would be
happy, love the Lord and be Democrat
That's impossible they're not congenial:
UUGives notce--an Illinois editor, that
there will be no paper this week, as his wife
is using his scissors to half-sole his cassimeres
with.
UFact-if you invest your money in strong
drink, 1t is the same as turning hungry hogs
into a growing corn-field-ruin will follow in
both cases.
~ssI say, John, where did you get that
rogue's hat? ssPlease your honor said John,
.'lt's an old one of yours that mssus gave me
yesterday"
GvTells good one-a Cincinnati lady Just
returned from Europe. She says an aristocra-
tic Englishman asked her elf Cincinnati was
slave State.''
TA tall man--Mr. Buskirk, delegate to
the Chicago Convention. He is fine speci-
men of the genus Hoosier, measuring sir feet
eleren inches in bis hose.
OTCheering-th prospects for abundant
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Canada the grain and fruit crops give similar
evidence of bountitul harvest.
EGovernment has contracted with the A
merican Colonization Society for the return to
Africa OF the negroes recently found on board
of the slavers Wilfire and William.
EUgh Thomas Brochy was recently ar
rested in Adrian, Michigan, for having mar
ried six wives; one of whom was a negress,
and two squaws. Quite menagerie, that
UWas held-a special election of an Al
deIihan in the 4th ward, Newark, on May 29
The Opposition candidate was elected by ma
jority. Last year the Democrats carried it.
WSharp-the Maine editor who says that
pair OF tight boots which he received as
present came very near making him Univer-
salist, because he received his punishment as
he ,rem along.
~Argued-that Abe Lincoln, the ssrail
canddate," is the strongest man the Opposi-
tion could nominate, from the fact that he can
bring so many over to his support who have
heretofore been on the fence.
~A Toledo merchant at a tea-table of
lady, who took him to be pious, responded to
her call. He opened and went ahead after the
following fashion ssOh Lord, have mercy on
this table, world without end. Yours, respect
fully. Amen.''
WOut of fashion-the Coal Scuttle bonnet,
in the East, for the reason that they cause the
fair wearer to look much older than she should.
That's final, of course; the bonnet must go,
and he who can invent one to make the wearer
always look young will make his fortune.
~The Missouri Democrat says ssThe Re-
publican banner waves its folds in tranquil Sc
curity over our noble city, while tens of thou
sands round the borders and in the interior OF
the State hail it no feeting meteor, but as
the unquenchable and enduring day-star off
their lives"
CJ-The Springfield (Mass) Republican gives
a most felcitous definition of ssIlonest Old
Abe.'' 1t says "He will make what we have
not had lately-an honest President. He is
neither trickster nor time-server, but |
straight t-forward, manly, able man, who believes |
in the principles he represents. He is in fact
the Republican platform in Boots.''
y FAMOUS PIsToL.--It is stated that the pis- |
tol which the friends of Mr.. Fowler, late post
master at New York, found under his pillow |
the night previous to his flight, was the same |
weapon which was presented to him by Hon. |
Robert j. Walker, and with which Fowler acci-
dentally wounded Samuel F. Butterwortb |