Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-08-22
CLIPPINGS AND scals BILLINGS.

UyMade Lincoln speech-Judge Bates of
Missouri, at Norristown on the 10th.
OgExciting-th discussions about fast hor-
Trot out the ponies, gentlemen.
Og-On the way-some 80 tons of silver ore
from the Washoe mines, to San Francisco.
CgEstimated-the cost of the buildings put
up in Boston the present season, at So 900 900.
UDiscovered-large veins of COPPER and
silver, within 20 miles of Athens, Tennessee.
GrRefuse to run-two of the gentlemen put
up as Presidential Electors by the Douglasites
in Iowa.
0rSon-s stru ck--a woman in Rochester, last
week. Her oldest boy knocked her down with
broomstick.
~Calculated-from the returns received,
that the population of the United States will
reach 32,O00,000.
WAsks the question: Western paper,
ssWhither does the Democracy tend ~ Up
Salt River, of course.
OERcady mode of determining horse pow
er-stand behind quadrnped and tickle his
hind legs with briar.
WTo strengthen the back bonc--apply mod
crate doses of hod carrying, when the mercu
ry is up to 95 in the shade.
U'A Philadelphia Grocer has gone thirty
days to Moyamensing prison for using false
weights. Served him right.
TQueer chap-the fellow who kissed the
face of nature; he says it didn't taste half so
we'll as the lips of his lady friend.
y-Created sensation-Miss Abby Fay, a
young American vocalist, at performance in
Florence for the benefit of Garibaldi.
rP. A. Karthaus. Jr., of Baltimore, who
was we'll known to many Of the citizens of
Clearfeld county, died recently in that city.
WArrested-by the Baltimore police, the
man who stole the japanese swords, and it is
asserted that he knows their whereabouts now.
vThe Southern Breckites are out against
the supremacy of the U. S. Supreme Court in
political matters. They begin to nose some
thing.
r"Lincoln is dead letter in this county,
says the Eastern Argus. Yes, certainly but
ssike other dead letters, he will be sent to
Washington.
TKilled- Barclay W ood ward, by a grizzly
bear, near San Antonia, Monterey CO., CAL, on
the 25th June. He was a Pennsylvania. and
aged 26 years.
~Much astonished-a Breck inridge man,
upon consulting his genealogical dictionary
to find that the name Breckenridge means, ssa
broken house,
UAvows-the Democratic party, its deter
mnation to Breserre the Union. 1t has great
| jar ! on hand but, the question is, can it do
| the preserving
| GyFound-by the census man in New Lon
don, Connecticut, woman who gave her own
age as % years, and that of her eldest son as
% She can pass.
~Asserts-an exchange, that s'the Demo-
cratic party lies at the point of DEATH" Bad
enough, il it can't give up the s'ruling pas
sion" at its demise.
0yDeclared-a war of determination against
the dogs in York borough, Pa, on account of
l1a;, It,n ,nA
One officer has killed 10 dogs.
WStated-by the philadelphia papers that
Fl. B. Swoope has been speaking against Andy
Curtin. Go it, Bucher-an open enemy is al
ways to be preferred to secret one.
~Sprung up-a lucrative trade, between
japan and the allied French and British forces
in China. Their principal supplies are ship
ped from Japan, including 1000 horses
rBoasts-a Yancey Breckenridge editor,
that his party is sweeping rapidly ownward"
in Tennessee. If it is in the rapids now, it will
certainly go over and be lost in the Fall.
~Reported-tha the Breck inridge men in
Syracuse, n. Y, are about to organize club
under the sanguinary title of the ssGiant Xii.
lers.'' All, then, the sscoven foot" will stick
out, occasionally.
~Getting rabid-the Douglasites in cer-
| tain parts of Illinois. They recently attempt
| ed to prevent some Lincoln men from cXereis-
ing the right of speech but got sound drub
bing for their pains.
"M Mortgaged--the landed property of Rus
sian nobility, to the amount OF S36S 900 600.
| OF this amount the Bank of Moscow has S154,-
100000 loaned on CO. estates; and the Bank
OF St.Petersburg LOG, 500 900 on 7491 estates.
OvThe Bell-Everett leaders say they are op-
posed to Lincoln, and are doing all they can to
defeat him. ssAnything to beat Lincoln,' is
their motto. Very Well-we are glad to know
where they stand, and we shall deal with them
| hereafter as they deserve to be treated.
"Occurred-a tremendous storm in the
| neghborhood of New Orleans, a week since,
| which caused immense damage to property.
| At Proctorville, the water rose twelve feet,
| submerging the entire place, and carrying a
way every house but one. Between 80 and 40
| lives were lost.
| rA Washington correspondent says, ssit
| is understood that much money and speaking
| talent are to be devoted by the Breckinridge
! Committee to the carrying of Pennsylvania" +"
| Is any of the Bell Everett s'speaking talent''
| to get share OF the '.money 20 The people
would like to know.
| A MAN who recently went with an excursion
| party from st. Paul to Lake City, becoming
weary yawned. In yawning, he opened his
| jaws wide that they became set and refused
| to come together again; he was therefore obli-
| ged to remain with his mouth painfully open
till he returned to the land, where somebody
| put him out of Lis tribuation.
|
EVEN THOSE who are in the enjoyment of per-
| feet health frequently need to have recourse to
tonics preyentives of disease We never too
we'll armored against the assaults of 'the ills that
flesh is heir to-" Such an inyigorator they may
find in Hostetters Bitters-a medicine that cannot
| bo taken regularly without giving vitality and e.
lasticity to the system At this season, particular
iy, the strongest man is not proof against the ma