Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-03-21
CLIPPINGS AND scRrsslrncs.

| UAll the go-alligator shoes, in Louisia-
| ma. They made out of alligator hides.
Died-on the l4th, in Phiadephia Hon,
l.. e. Levin, we'll known Native American.
OHad knock-down-a couple log float
ers, one day last week, on Front street. Bad
whiskey got up the fight.
UCommenced again-the rush to the gold
diggings at Pixies Peak. Mining prospects
are said to be never so bright.
CIT is thought at Washington city that
Spain intends to interfere in Mexican affairs
in favor of the Miramon party.
GA resolution to adjourn sine die on the
third day of April, has passed both branches
of the Pennsy lvania Legislature.
~There are now nearly $50 temperance
societies in Norway, and drunkards are rapid
ly disappearing from that country.
10 Garrison's LiberatOr, the organ of the
ultra Abolitionists, has an article denouncng
the late speech of Senator Seward.
WA bachelor of our acquaintance, who has
a very pretty sister, recently wrote to another
equally fortunate, 'please exchange"
Victorious-the Republicans, in New
Hampshire. They have elected Ichabod Good
win as Governor 10y nearly 5000 majority.
~Pious-the old lady who objected to Civ
| ing her son collegiate education, on learning
| that s'prOtane history" vas one of the studies.
GyA Douglas paper tells us that the Little
| Giant is fixed fact Well, So are .jackasses,
on the score that '.fdctS are stubborn things.''
~Beauties-the two white male bipeds who
| took part in the ngger dance, the other night
| They doubtless ..love darkness rather than
| light.'
GA young lady who had lost or msled her
beau, advised to hang up her fiddle. She
said the advice did great violence to her heart
strings.
DMr. Buchanan may talk as he will about
manifest destiny, but We never knew any man
cr thing whose destiny more manifest
/ than his.
ny-A vender of medicines in London bears
the ominous name OF s.Churchyard.'' A wag
one day stepped i'll and inquired it the serton
was ut home.
W-If the Republicans go Seward in the ap-
proachng canvass they will probably have to
hsh without Bates, says some punster, to the
public unknown.
~Lord Ward, Earl of Dudley, has an in
come from coal mines OF about two millions
of dollars annually, and Yet he can hardly
make both ends meet.
~Lamb once said to a brother whist play
er, Martin Burney. whose hands were none of
the cleanest, ''Martin, if dirt was trumps, what
hand you wonld have.''
| hanCker-
chiefs, the recen: sudden changes in the wealth
er having given many persons bad cold in
| the head" Everybod nose that.
ia bill to license gambling is before the
! Legislature of Louisiana. The New Orleans
papers censare it strongly. 1t is to be hoped
that she measure will be defeated.
UEn church in Norfolk, Va, on Sunday
the llth inst, loaded pistol in the pocket of
boy went off. penetrating the leg of boy,
named Henry Brown, just below the knee.
D-F our hundred years have elapsed since
the disc7very of printing, yet books are not in
circulation over half the globe while the use
of tobacco became universal within fifty years
of its discovery.
GThe execution of Stevens and Hazlett,
the last of the Harper's Ferry insurrectionists,
took place last Friday at Charlestown. witness
ed by large concoursc of people. They ap-
peared resigned to their fate.
UAmong the late California items is
statement that Col. Fremont is sending down
from his mills to San Francisco ssa chunk of
gold about the size of Philadelphia brick, |
every week. How large's that?
GEThe Legislature of Texas has passed
bill granting five leagues Of land to all institu-
tions OF learning worth $4,000, for the pur
pose of endowing professorShips. Also, four
leagues to each county for common schools.
CyA word to the boy who expects to be |
President of the United States in A. ID. 1900 |
refuse all instruction concerning the points of |
the compass, since it is absolutely necessary |
that you should know no North, no South, no |
East, no West
~The lates, information from Mexico |
states that there were three American war yes
sells before Vera Cruz, and that all non COM
batants had left the city. The Havana cype-
dition had been declared piratical by the Jua-
reZ Government.
UMajor Robinson, a solo fifer, one day re-
Gently furnished the martial strains for two |
military companies in Dayton, Ohio. 1t was
estimated that they walked five miles, and |
were out one hour and a half, during which
time the Major never ceased playing.
OgThe hotel keepers of Charleston want to
make nice thing out of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention. They have concluded to
bleed the delegates to the tune of 81 per day
for board This is not well relished by those
interested, and there is talk of changing from
there to Baltimore.
GyThe Paris correspondent of the Courier
des Etdts URis says that when the Grand Duke
OF Tuscany came to Paris last year, he not on
ly begged Louis Napoleon to restore Tuscany
to him, but went on his knees and accompanied
prayer with tears and lamentations His name
should be changed to the Duke of Walls.
Cy1n order to avoid the skinning operation
through which the chivaric people of Charles
ton, >. c., contemplate putting the delegates
TO the National Democratic Convention, sJme
"cute Yankees are talking of chartering a
vessel to carry them down, and to remain and
board them during their stay. The idea is a
good one, for, as they are bound to go up Salt
River this fall, they will be that far on their
way, and can doubtless secure the vessel for
the remainder OF the trip at small advance.
CHILLs AND FEVER CHILLs AND FEVER One
of the greatest remedies that has ever been laid
hafnr m an,yhIi Iia for En 1