Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-04-04
CLIPPINGS AND scR,eBLrncs.

CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBLiNGs.
Uy -Feli-a little snow, on Monday.
gMoving-quite number of our citizens.
Brilliant-the northern lights last Thurs
day night.
LHRich-the fight in Curwensville, on Sat
urday evening.
ZAppears-the List of Retailers in our
advertising columns.
DgTwo individuals in Virginia are about to
fight duel on horseback.
UThe Small Pox is prevailing with great
violence at Lawrenceyille, Brunswick county,
Virginia.
U1t may be question-Which has the
most formidable horns, an OK, buffalo. or a
dilemma?
cost of the New York Central Park to he about
SIT ,000, 900.
ia destructive fire occurred at Indepen-
dence, Mo-, on the 29th March, the loss by
which is estimated at 100000.
GThe editor of an exchange says that he
has never murdered the truth. He never gets
near enough to do it any bodily harm.
~HENRY THE EIGHTH OUTDoNE.-A man
named Boatright was recently married in Coo
per county, Missouri, to his tenth wife.
~A little boy has been arrested in New
ork for setting fire to his fathers house three
times, in order to see the fire engines play.
GyThe Clarion Democrat states n ore lum-
Der was ready this season for running on the
Clarion river than has been known for years.
HThe number of persons driven out of
the South, as suspects, upon the negro ques-
tion, since John Browns affair, is over 200.
WA scoundrel in Columbus, Ohio, has
lately been amusing himself by cutting the
n Inl; l., Al
UJane Peter, a maiden of forty y-eight, de-
stroyed herself near Norfolk, Virginia, recent
ly, on account of a love affair with youth of
eighteen.
Gy-A bill has been introduced into the AS
sembly of Alabama. for transporting all ne
groes convicted of capital offences to Massa-
chusetts
Wisconsin has abolished the system of
collecting debts by execution. The State
must hereafte be considered the heaven of
debtors.
DgA foreign letter says :-ssR ONE is quiet.
Folks stick knives into one another on the
Corso in broad daylight, but peaceably and
without noise.3
~Hil Street, Huntingdon, is an inviting
place for beaux-or else il aint-for there are
said to be no less than sixty manageable la
dies there
VGeorge Hoffman was presented by the
Grand Jury of Culpepper county. Va, on
Monday last, the charge of having denied
the right of property in slaves.
EThe Chinese have an ingenious method
to pull off their boots. They place the boots
in vice, and apply yoke to the neck, work.
ing until the boot or head comes off.
WA woman died in Cincinnati last week
who was one hundred and six years of age.
She was twenty-five years old at the time of
the signing ofthe declaration of Independence.
Gy~The bridal bed, the prison and the grave,
were each represented on train of cars which
left Pontiac, Mich, last week. There was
bridal party, four prisoners, and funeral par
ty with corpse.
0y0ne hundred men could not carry the
amount of the national debt of England, count
ed out in ten-pound bank of England notes,
Notwithstanding the lightness OF the paper
they are printed on.
WFor seducing Miss Christie of st. Mary's,
G. W., under circumstances of an aggravated
character, Weir, the railroad contractor, has
paid $4,000 rs compromise to her friends
to avoid prosecution.
CSA friend of our acquaintance says he
has an antipathy to disembodied spirits. We
know he has, for he never comes across them
without taking good care that they shall not
remain long out of the body.
Gg-In Iceland saddles grow ready made.
The grass so interweaves its roots and mats
itself, that turf cut and dried forms the soft
est kind of a saddle, and the turf might pos
sibly be used to stuff mattresses.
GThe Appropriation bill now before the
House, at Harrisburg, shows reduction for
the next fiscal year of S69,75S as compared
with the last. This is another evidence of the
economy of Republican legislature.
CgThe young ladies of one of the villages
in Jefferson County, n. Y, have adopted
novel method of raising funds for charitable
and religious purposes. At late festival,
bevy of the prettiest girls in the room formed
a line, and for price paid down, permitted
the gentlemen to take running kiss of the lot.
HE GREAT DRAWBACK to persons emigrating to