Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-05-16
CLIPPINGS AND scs,Bel,ucs.

~All the rage among the boys-sparring,
resulting now aud then in an ugly nose.
U-lf man is bitten by dog, he is most
likely to get mad, whether the animal has the
hydrophobia, or not.
UThe New Planet of DR.. Lescarbauit re-
wolves round the sun in nineteen of our days.
Rather short year that.
UAt Norfolk, Va, on Tuesday, one hun
dred guns were fired in honor of Heenan, and
MOrrissey, ssthe traitor,' was burned in effigy.
uOycr three hundred cases of insanity, in
the Ohio Lunatic Asylum. have been traced
directly to the use of modern alcoholic poi
sons.
WA two-story dwelling-house in Chicago
has been moved to q scow, and taken to the
town Of Bridgeport, where it will be re-estab-
lished.
~The oil fever has extended to Cleveland,
Ohio. The papers announce that parties are
engaged in boring for the grease about mile
or SO from the city.
Maine, has had all his liabilities promptly met
by the Republican leaders of that State. The
last dollar has been paid.
UTwo negroes fought duel with mus
kets, at night. near Columbia, South Carolina,
last week, and one of them shot the other
through the head, killing him instantly.
% man named Burgess, living in Flor
ence, Missouri, has had four children left at
his door in the last year, with notes. stating
they were all his. Burgess must be Turk.
UThe Louisville Courier Guthrie organ
says: There is no use however, of thinking
| about electing Douglas. He can't be elected If
he is nOminaied. The South will not vote for
him.
~London is 16 miles in diameter; it's
streets measure 1900 miles. "The shops
open on Sabbath. day." says DR.. Thompson,
.s if put in double row, would make street
| go miles long,"
~Tbe Parkersburg, Va, Neus estimates
| the damage at that point, by the late rise in
the river, at from S25 900 to $4,000. The
water rose Iffty-eig feet six inches above
| low water mark.
Gvlt has been predicted by the disciples
We will be favored with superabundant ap-
| pie crop this year, because the trees are in
open blossom in the full of the moon.
~There are three children of family in
Cumberland county, near Fayetteville, whose
aggregate weight is 1853 pounds. The boy is
| Ia and the two girls II and 18, all three of
whom it is said, average 35l pounds each.
~The Crockett, Texas, Argus, states that
| within the past month, no less than sixty mur-
ders have been committed by the Indians on
the frontiers of that State. Six families were
murdered at the same time in NJ Lehman county.
| % There are symptoms of whiskcy in
surrection in Minnesota. The liquor dealers
burned down church in St. Anthony, and
the members thereof warned them to leave the
| town. This they decided not to do, and both
sides were heavily armng at last accounts.
| ~It costs something to be profane in
| Worcester, Mass. Joseph S. Hill was fined
three dollars and costs, amounting in all to
| SIS 10, for "profane swearing.'' If some
people this way were to be fined after that
style every time they swear, they would very
soon reach pecuniary ruin.
Up. I. Barnum offers 500 for live,
speckled brook trout, uninjured, weighing
| four pounds, at the rate of S25 per pound for
all that it weighs over four pounds-the trout
| to be warranted to live one week in running
stream of water. A large price will also be
paid for trout weighing three pounds each.