Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-03-14
CLIPPINGS AND scRiBetiNcs.


~A subterranean vegetable-celery.
TAbout-hats of the hen's-nest style.
WGeneral stagnation-the nation presided
over by an sold Buck
U-If you want to have man for your
friend, never get the illwll of his wife.
Whiskey sometimes cures the bites of
snakes, but what will cure the bite of whskey?
rThe barber who dressed the head of a
barrel, has been engaged to curl the locks of
canal
City Post Office, letters tor ladies are deliver
ed by lady.
WssAre you Christian Indian ?'' asked a
person Of an adherent of Red Jacket. ssNo,''
said the savage, 81 whisky Indian.'
~Wm. B. Foster, Jr., Vice President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died
suddenly III Philadelphia, on the 4th March.
UThe Republicans of California and Min
nesota have declared their preference for Mr..
Seward for the Presidency.
UA small steamboat, on the Delaware
near Easton, exploded her boiler, on Tuesday
last, by which twelve persons were killed.
rA South Carolina paper notices the
death Of mule, whose age was known with
certainty to be sixty-two years at the time of
his death.
~The ninth day of May next. has been
fixed upon as the day for the meeting of the
National Conventian of the Constitutional
Union party, at Baltimore.
GyThe Dallas, Texas, Herald mentions the
death OF Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett, widow of
the celebrated Davy Crockett, in the seventy
fourth year of her age.
UgThe Americans in the Legislature of
Louisiana have passed resolution, pledging
themselves to support the nominee of the
Charleston Convention.
TThe Opposition of Kentucky held a con-
vention at Frankfort, Wednesday a week. and
recommended to the Chicago Convention John
j. Crttenden for the Presidency.
TRarey, the American horse tanner, lately
gave his exhibitions in the Cirque Napoleon,
in Paris, and the receipts of one night, it is
stated, lett him $4,000 clear profit.
EOne day last fall farmer in Illinois era
died three acres of wheat, and that night his
wife, not to be outdone by him, Graded three
babies. Enterprisng couple, that.
GyMr. Mccormick, the great reaper man of
Chicago, tried to get the Democratic nomina-
tion for Mayorality of that city and failed.
The great reaper reaped disappointment.
Gy-An old bachelor, who is very cynical on
the subject Of female fashions, says that people
could get out of church great deal quicker If
there was not SO much ssbustle'' at the door.
OTAn American dentist who went to Nice
to set the teeth of the Empress of Russia per-
formed his work so satisfactorily that the roy
al lady gave him diamond ring worth S12,-
900.
0S-A few weeks ago, chap who was ped
ding s'Helper's Impending Crisis'' in Yer
mont, was attacked by bear, and badly bit
ten. The bear soon after died-the peder is
living yet.
ugThe Sioux Indians, who have been al
lowed to roam through the woods in Minneso-
ia, have killed over 2, 900 deer this winter, to
the dissatisfaction of the sspoor whtcs'' in
those regions, who are fond Of venison.
U-Dr. George R. Winship, of Boston, the
lecturer on physical culture, few days since,
lifted with his hands ], ,l36 pounds, and is quite
sanguine that within twenty-nne days he will
be able to raise l 200 pounds.
B-On Friday, 24th ultimo, stable belong
ing to Ezra Sayers, in Waynesborough, Pa,
was destroyed by fire, and two sons of Mr.
Sayers, aged respectively two and four years,
were burnt to death in the building.
URedpath's recent ssLife of Capt. John
Brown says that at the commencement of
his career he s'failed IN wool speculation.''
The author might have added that he ended
his career by another failure in a ,cooL specula-
lion.
. CG-A ball of fire which recently fell few
yards from the PiuUier cutter, then anchored
at Brest, split the mast of the vessel and tore
part of it off in scales. The crew thought at
first that the hull of the vessel itself had been
struck by the electric fluid.
G5-Mr. Joseph Mabury, of Schuylkill Ha-
ven, with one striker, recently made go
horse shoes in 81 hours Of one day,viz sue
cessive hours in the forenoon, and 81 hours in
the afternoon. Each shoe was Smadc of new
iron, with double-punched holes.
W-An Irish waiter once complmented a
salmon in the following manner: 'sFaith, it's
not two hours since that fish was walking
round his estate wild his hands in his pockets,
never dreaming what pretty invtashun he'd
have to jine you gentlemen at dinner.''
CHILLs AND FEVER CWLLS AND FEVER Ono
of the ureatest rom edies that has ever hnn, lni