Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-09-05
CLIPPINGS AND scaIBsLlNos.


rsuggestive of two in bed and sespoon
fashion'-the nights lately.
rFast youths are now called young gen.
tlemen of accelerated gait.
rThe completed census shows that Gin
cinnati has a population of 156,85l.
uGen. Sam Houston has withdrawn his
name as a candidate for the Presidency
WModest-the young lady who thinks that
legs should be called abdominal supporters. %
GA strict observer of etiquette-the lady
who, being unable to go to church one Sun
day, sent her card
TWhen a Democrat begins to blow, just
ask him to define his position, and see how
quick he will dry up.
~ORR, of South Carolina, is in favor Of a
dissolution of the Union. 'sOr'' always was a
distinctive conjunction.
GTThe Postmaster at Iowa City, Illinois,
appears to be defaulter to the amount of one
hundred thousand dollars.
~The ladies of a congregation of fash
ionabie preacher in London are subscribing a
fund to procure him divorce.
OJAn exchange says that the Virginians
who chopped down the Republican pole lately
must have been troubled with the pole evil.
~The Bible speaks of man clothing him
self in curses as with garment. We guess
the Dsuuionists will appear in bran new suits
after the election.
1vA. r. Ross the engineer who superin-
tended the erection of the Victoria Bridge,
Canada, has became insane. and is now the in
mate of an asylum.
TWhy is Stephen A. Douglas like a little
boy who dislikes to learn the learn the alpha
bet {? Because lie is afraid of the ABE he
sees. CA B. C's.)
~Col. Forbes, who obtained considerable
notoriety by his connection with the Harper S
Ferry raid, has turned up in Sicily, wnere he
is in high command under Garabadi.
UrThe artesian well at Columbus, Ohio, is
| 262O feet deep, lacking only twenty feet of
being half mile. 'Twould be spring, in
deed to fetch water from such depth.
| GTThe President of the United States has
| issued his proclamation for the public sale of
$50 900 acres of public lands in Iowa, embra-
! cling some of the best agricultural lands in the
! State.
| OrThe yield of wheat is so large in some
localities Of Minnesota that owners of threshing
| machines are offering to thrash out the prod
uct Of some fields for the excess over thirty
bushels per acre.
ArLz-A Breckfnridge speaker. not hundred
miles from Clearield, the other day complain
cd Of the smallness of the audience The au-
dence, on the other hand, complained oi the
smallness Of the speaker.
1.-THE Louisville Journal, commenting up
on the result of the Kentucky election, says
that ':politIcally, Mr.. Breckinridge Is as dead
! as if he had lived before the flood, and had
| not been admitted to the AK
I-From the south we hear of terrible
| storms in louisiana and Alabama. The Mobile
and New Orleans papers are burdened with
| the details. In Mobile, especially, the loss OF
! life was great, and the amount of damage done
| very extensive.
OUTne census takers have discovered a
number OF antiquated individuals in various
| parts of the country. Among others deputy
| mars, al in Cherokee county, Ca, found
white man who had attained the respectable
! age of 1876 years.
~A physician named Friedlander died at
his residence in Chicago, H., last week, after
a most distressing illness, caused, as believed j..
| from being bitten in the face by fly that had
brought poison communicated from the car
cass Of poisoned dog.
GA Bostonje jewellers short time since, ,bor-
rowed money of all his most intimate friends,
| and as a token of gratitude for their kindness,
took their watches for gratutous cleaning
and repair, aud then ran off with both their
| time and money.