Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-09-19
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DBright-Curtin and Patton's prospects :
| DLarge-the Douglas meeting in Goshen.
ssNary" man in attendance.
~Spirifed-the closing scenes of the Dem.
ocratic meeting at CurweEsville.
UThc population Of ST. Louis is l6l 900
That of Cincinnati, is $4,000.
wSixty thousand persons attended Lin.
coin mass meeting held at indianapolis lately.
WPrentice says that the Democracy re.
gard the country as great sheep-made to
be feeced. 6
~The town of Mount Vernon, Texas, has
been burnt by incendiaries, one of whom has
been hung.
oUThe census returns of Chicago show a
total population of 100, APO, The general es-
innate was that the population would reach
100000.
nThe Douglas party in Mississippi have
not yet been able to find seven men who are
willing to stand up and be shot at, as Douglas
electors.
HvThe Fincennes (Indiana) Western Sun
says The Hog crop will be good, much bet
ter than for several years, with abundance of
corn to feed them.
WAn exchange says: The breach in the
Connecticut Democracy is complete and un-
hcalable. The party is there split up like a
pair oil old breecheS.
OIThe new name which Mr.. Douglas has
given himself, ':The Little Sucker explains
the anxiety he has for some weeks past dis
played in search of his mother.
GTTom Sayers is said to have expressed
great reverence for the American flag. He
says that during the whole fight with Heenan
he felt the stripes and saw the stars.
0yWe are too often apt to forget that warn
ing which William Penn so strongly gave us,
against the folly OF putting our faith in good
laws, while we trust their administration to
bad men.
DThe total amount of salaries to city Off
GERS paid yearly from the Philadelphia treasu-
ry is S973, 3,8696U. The police department
alone costs 1870 ,000; school teachers salaries,
S336,050
gA philosopher who had studied out al
most everything, says he is satisfied that the
reason why girls pout out their lips is because
they are always willing that theirs should meet
yours half way.
~There are fools everywhere. Some dir
ty water left by the Prince of Wales in basin
in his apartments at Quebec, was bottled and
sold at four shillinss vial, to some of his
toadying admirers.
CGAn Illinois paper states that the peach
crop IL the lower section of that State is SO
heavy that district twenty miles long by five
to seven miles wide, will this year yield not
less than million bushels. Some of them
will be distilled.
UThe Yankees driving good busi-
ness out OF the dissolution of the Union.
They have supplied the arms that have been
ordered for Southern arsenals, and now it is
reported that the contract for building
the new State armory in Virginia, has been
given to Massachusetts, house, which Will
doubtless make more out of it than Virginia
ever will.
UOn the 14th an old man named Yager,
living in the Blue Ridge, Mauck's Tav-
ern, in Page county, Va, hung himself, whilst
laboring under the excitement caused by the
arrest of his son for horse stealing, and that
of another son who attempted to release his
brother from Jail. This announcement to a
daughter so prostrated her, that in short
time death relieved her of sorrow and trouble.
OyThe morals of Hayti, as exhibited by
statistics, are shocking. An official Haytien
document, giving the number of births. deaths
marriages, and divorces IN various villages in
different parts of the empire during three
months, shows that the whole number Of chill
dren born III those months was 1900, of whom
l740 were born out of wedlock In Port au
Prince, the capital, out of 420 children born,
only thirty were legitimate.