Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-11-21
CLIPPINGS AND scR,ssLlncs.

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| sons in this neck -O'woodS.
| w-To keep apples from rotting-place them
| in dry cellar with fifteen children.
| ~Reported-tha Mr.. Lincoln is in the re-
ceipt of half bushel Of letters per day.
CIV oudn't 60 the anything to beat Lin
| colin cry. Freemen wont swallow such stuff.
NReacting-the secession howl of our De-
mocratic friends. It's like an emetic, it wont
stay down.
vMuch alike-Disunionism and Diphthe-
ria in one respect. They are both diseases Of
the throat.
UMistaken-t Belites, in their vote in
Pennsylvania. Where's that II, ,000a Echo
| answers; Where?
Robbed-the New York and Erie depot
at Jersey City, of 1000 in bills an specie,
on Sunday a-week.
WMany writers profess to teach people
show to live" Culprits on the scatfold would
be glad of the secret.
USunk-s several oil wells, in M'Lean coun-
ty, Kentucky, which promise to be as rich as
those in Pennsy lvania.
~Earn annually-twenty- two physicians
in New York City, from $4,000 to 200
each. Four are homeopathists.
GA brother of Charles Dickens is employ
ed in the Land office of the Illinois Central
Railroad. He does little in the literary line.
UNovel-the idea to press all lawyers in
to the military service In case OF war; because
their charges are so great that no one could
| stand them.
UElected President-the People, not
withstanding the protests of Disunionists.
Threats wont do with free people who know
their rights.
~Asserted-that the old fogy who poked
| his head from sbehind the times, had it so bad
| ly bumped by passing event as to almost
| cause disunion.
UA writer from Washoe says that "Judge
| Terry, of Broderick notoriety, has the mark of
| a murderer upon him, and all his cunning can
| not take it Oft.
~Stated-by a correspondent of the Maine
Farmer, that grass seed should always be sown
in the Fall, and not in the Spring, as is prac-
tised by most farmers.
wThe Louisville Journal says Yancey nev-
er stood on platform that it could approve,
and ntimates that he never will until he is
bout to be hung for treason.
~A gay widow of 80, living in Stratford,
Canada, lately sued young man Of Il for
$4,000 damages for breach of promise OF mar
riage, The jury gave her $500.
UDr. Livingstone, the African traveller,
has been heard of. He was safe and we'll up to
last May, and reported that the natives of AT
rica evince less hostility to travellers than for
merry.
~Frank Spletz. run over by the cars last
week at Brownsboro' Ala, was murdered, rob-
bed, and then laid On the track. Two men,
named Hill and Ricketts,, have been arrested
as the murdcrers.
yProf. Agassiz says that the same kind Of
insects that are at this time forming the coral
reefs of Florida, built up Florida, and that
thousands of centuries must have been con-
sumed in the process.
O-IIas Just discovered-a man in Cincin-
natl, that he has been paying another persons
taxes for the last fifteen years. He Will prob
ably be $1,000 in if the city has any cash and
a proper sense of justice.
WGoing to prove-Douglas's Chicago or
gan, that the sittle giant was defeated in H.
linois by ':wholesale fraud and perjury" Bet
ter try to prove to his Salt River friends how
to vote slavery sup or down.
%A Richmond correspondent of the New
York Times says that Governor Wise is pre-
nounced insane by people in Virginia He has
frequently shown symptoms of disturbed in
tellcct during the last twelve months.
DAt Ocoquan, Prince William County,
Va. where few months ago some hot-head-
ed fellows. cut down a Republican flagstaff,
Lincoln received 55 votes, Bell 4S, Breckin-
ridge 81, and Douglas l. Well done for Oco-
quan.
~LcaviDg Charleston-some of the Quad
rooms, rather than submit to a new law compel
ling all colored persons to wear "a distinction
badge Pretty state of society, indeed, where
man must mark himself, SO that he may know
whether he is white or black.
DCausht-a small alligator, in the Passaic
river at AcquackaBock, N j., recently. 1t is
supposed that he was brought from the South
concealed in load of reeds that were lately
landed in tha. vicinity. A fugitive! Look out
for the marshal ye Aboltionists
W-In Clark county, Va, a vein of oil coal
one thousand feet thick, has been discovered,
in mountain on Hugh's river, tributary OF
the Kanahwa. The coal, when put on a SHOW
ell and held over the fire, melts into oil, SO that
the discovery is a most important one.
UA writer in the Atlantic Monthly, who
spent some time in the Portuguese island, Fa-
yal one of the Azores, in speaking of the ex-
treme indulgence of the mass of the people, |
says that he knew one old woman who boarded |
with poor family for five cents week.
~Hog cholera is prevailing again, and ia
tally, in portions Of Harrison county, Indiana |
the Argus says; and the Hessan fly is doing |
a good deal of damage to the growing wheat |
in that region. Hardly a farmer is seen but |
complains of its ravages as unusual for the |
season.
GA prize of 500 for the best essay on the |
effects of Sunday cab driving has been won by |
John Cochrane, London cab driver. At the |
meeting at which the prize was awarded, Coch-
rane told his audience that the essay consisted |
of 49, 900 words, and was all written in the O.
pen air, on the top of his cab.
SENATOR DoUGLAs's RECEPTION IN ALABAMA.
The Southern Con.federacy tells the following |
story GA gentleman, and member of the |
Breckenridge party, informs that he was
present when Judge Douglas arrived in Mont