Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-07-25
CLIPPINGS Ano scaisau.acs.

GA labyrinlh-love, in which every man
is miss led
uRefreshing- showers of rain during
the past week.
rAsserted-that one of Joe Lanes letters
from Mexico is dated tery Croose.
USharp-the Irishman who proposed to
awake" over the ssdead of night"
GITo be changed-W heatland, the name
of Buchanan's home, to Bucl;- -wheatland.
UAmounts-the Texas school fund, to a.
bout three millions of dollars, at present.
UBrownlow calls the Seceders' assembly
| at Baltimore the Rumpiaridge Convention.
OrssDeath loves shining mark.'' Gentle
men with branded noses will take warning.
Sold-somc land in London, recently, at
the rate OF 100000 an acre. Good price, that.
0gMay be fond of music--the Douglas and
Breckinridge parties, but they caaf hare any
concert.
UThe Prince of Wales is about to pay our
country visit, and is now on his way in a
steamship
-Intimated-that unless Foster comes ont
for Douglas, that party will nominate another
candidate.
UFact-an unruly boy generally leaves
school as locomotive leaves the depot-with
tender behind. SO says Mr.. Carboy.
yFound-some gigantic human remains,
in Minnesota. One thigh bone measured three
feet That beats ''Lengthy's" little.
TCautioned--the farmers, by some Dem
cratic papers, TO s'keep sharp lookout for
their rails.'' Is Postmaster Fowler about?
DyThe phrase, sfighting on his own hook
is now more elegantly rendered-sswaging war
upon the individuality of his personal curve"
~Ex-Senator Foote, (ncknamed ssHang-
man,') now resident of Tennessee, goes for
!
gThe road ambition travels is too mar
row for friendship, too crooked for love. too
rugged for honesty, and too dark for science
| U-Rather feeble-thc three cheers, propos-
ed for Breckenridge at the ssdouble- headed"
meeting at the Town Hall, on Thursday eve
ming last.
1yArrived at New Y York- John C. Heenan,
the sBenicia Boy and has been received with
honors almost equalling those accorded to the
japanese.
UReminded- Democratic friends, that
their platform, if they keep so many roosters
on it or over it, can't be fit for decent people
to stand on.
wA negro slave who had been whipped
severely by his mistress, in Gilman county,
Ga, during the night cut two of her children's
throats and fed
| TNeed be at no expense-the Breckin
ridge men, for lights at their night meetings.
They always have an abundance of homemade
moonshinc on hand.
| IStated-that wet sponge. or even few
green leaves. carried in the bat, is a sure pre-
ventive of sun stroke. Siobkins thinks good
sized bricis might do as well.
OTEnded-the Berean war, in Kentucky.
The fire eaters have abandoned the attempt to
drive off Cassius NJ. Clay ,and some Of the wan
dering Bereans have returned to their homes.
0yCrossed this year--the Atlantic ocean,
by the largest and smallest steamer that ever
crossed 1.-THE Great Eastern and Seth Gros-
venor, the latter being vessel of only 60 tons.
GvAn unhappy young married woman in
Hartford, took strychnine to Kill herself. AS
she began to straighten out, lobelia was freely
| Administered. ard through its influence her
life was saved.
gShpped sos ,077 GIG in specie, from
New York, during the past year. That's the
way the :sGolden (aduaiorem) Tariff operates
in advancing the interests of the working peo-
pie of Pennsylvania.
CyComplain-the Ohio papers, of blight
on the apple trees in certain sections OF that
State. 1t resembles the fire blight that affects
the pear, and seems 10 fall only upon trees
which are full of fruit.
C~Mayor Saunders, of Lawrence, Mass,
has Just received as a present 4 service of
plate, valued at $500. 1t was given him in re-
turn for his exertions in behalf OF the sufferers
by the fall of the Pemberton Mills.
CY-Dan Rice, the well-known jester Of the
circus ring, has very generously handed over
to the young ladies of the Presbyterian Church
at Girard, Erie CO., Pa, donation of s 900
for the purchase OF library for the church.
UFell in love-young Puddleford, the O.
ther day. He says he felt like barrel and
half of new maple sugar sliding down on
rainbow, creased with butter al forty cents
pound. pod soon after left to get his life
insured.
UWe chew tobacco, and the Hindoos take
lime. The children of this country delight in
candy, those of Africa in rock salt. A French
man s.goes in' fried frog, while an Esqui-
maux Indian thinks stewed cankle the cli-
max Of daintes. Thus folks differ.
ga bedstead has been invented, by which
person can wind it up, lie down on the couch,
and it will run a given number of hours with a
fan constantly in motion over his face and
body to keep the flies off and fan It's occupant
to sleep in q cool and pleasant breeze.
DWeslcy Ham, the fat man of German
valley, Morris CO., n. j., was buried on the
27th June. He middle-aged man, and
weighed about 500 pounds. II took $40 feet
of lumber to make his coffin. He leaves wife
weighing about 500 lbs, and of very large size.
uvGot swindled-a stout fellow, six feet
two inches high, in Peter Funk auction room
In Newly orls, on a watch. 1t was only eigh |
teen dollars, but he shut the door of the room,
took off his coat, and after thrashing halt a
dozen swindlers, recovered the money and re-
tired.
"The New York Metropolitan Hotel bill, |
for entertaining the Japanese embassy, footed |
up S9l 900, and the others to more than $780,
900. Among other items were ten thousand
bottles of champagne consumed at the ball, or