Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-10-31
CLIPPINGS AND scRrssl,nos.

~Getting muddy-the roads in this re sion
| ~Finshed-the brick work 0. the Ccur
House.
~Cones off-the great Presidential race
on Tuesday next, Novem Der 9Th.
WThere are 381 gas companies in the U
nion, with capital of nearly S50O00,000.
| CUSlobkins says he thinksit is ,come,, and
not their wrongs, that ought to be re-dressed.
| "Flowers fling their wealth upon the va.
| cant a1r-and rich men often fling theirs upon
| the vacant heir.
1.-The human mind is like a carpet bag
| with good packing it will contain any amount
| of useful Contents.
UPaid SS00-the Prince of Wales, for the
special train from Albany to Boston. A fast
boy, that Prince is.
WGov. Wise declares that the time for
talking is past. That's bad news for him. His
occupation is gone.
~Ascertained-satis that ducks
enter the water for divers reasons, and come
out for sun-dry motives.
GgA co0web marriage is thus noticed by
one OF our cotemporares: sMarried, last week,
John Cob to Miss Kate Webb.''
GyFunny-to see the vulpine wabble of GER
tain democratic politicians, in their endeav-
ors to retain a hold upon the public crib.
H-Lct youth who stands at the bar with
glass of liquor in his hand, consider which
he had better throw away-the liquor or him.
self.
~The wholesale dealers in Chicago are
selling more goods in day time than they can
pack at night, as the result OF the last heavy
crops.
@The Ginseng excitement in Minnesota is
equal to that of last year. Twenty-Five tons
Of the root have been exported from the State
this fall.
GyMr. M'Tabish, the grand son of ssCharles
Carroll of Carrollton,' who lives near Balti-
more; and who owns over sixty slaves, is for
Lincoln.
URecently, a handbill for Douglas meet
ing at Syracuse invited ssladies without dis
tinction of sex,'' to attend. Delicate, wasn't
it very.
NFined-two young men in Allentown,
for tearing down handbils. Boys in this town
will remember this, as such doings are contra
ry to law.
VAsserts-Professor Gardner, the New
England soap man, that his soap will take out
all stains except those OF the Buchanan Ad-
minstration.
OUThink of city containing seven thou
sand widows and fourteen thousand orphans
and you have an idea of Beyrout as it was at
last accounts.
U"Democracy' grave is Doug" is one of
the most concise, it is one of the truest.
notices that We have noticed during the pres
ent campaign.
N-Gen. Harding, wealthy gentleman, re-
siding near Nashville, Tennessee, has a park
of 500 acres, in which are 800 deer, so buffa-
loes, and herd of elk.
ESince the October election, it has been
ascertained that the nameiOf the Democratic
candidate for Governor, when given in full, is
Henry D-efunct Foster.
~Upwards of eighty colored residents of
Pennsylvania have applied to the colonization
society of this State as emigrants to Liberia |
and have been accepted.
~Atwood Kerfe was fined $50 at Mobile, !
on the Sth inst, for associating with negroes |
and saying that he thought them as good as |
whites. Served him right
GIT was said in the olden time, that the |
body was more than raiment but now TIE raj !
ment is often a'great deal more than the body |
in value. land full five times as much in circum- |
ference.
Mr.. 1ancey thinks the election of Hon
est Abe will be sure TO build up the Repubi- |
can party in the Southern States. That is ex-
actly our idea; its princit les are Conservative
and will prevail.
~J. j. Mechi, the renowned scientific Eng
lish farmer, says that pigs are very fond of
fatted on board floors they should never be
left without them.
0EThe Memphis .4ppeal predicts, in view
of the October ..Waterloo,' that in six months
The Yancey faction will be consigned to meri-
ed oblivion-'sreturning to the vile dust from
whence it sprung.''
QyThe man in Mercer county, Ohio. who
put strychnne in his water mel Ions, and thus
killed five persons who ~ere depredating on
lis vines, has been indicted for mansaughter
Stealing is dangerous.
I-Our Devil says We will soon have to quit
iliing up every nook and corner with politics,
md take to poetry, as the ladies don't take
my notice OF him, now. Well, we'll take his
dvice, and quit politics next week.
UAt the late election in Maine, Mr. Ralph
arham, the sole survivor of the battle of Bun
,er Hill, now one hundred and four years of
ge e,walked six miles to cast his vote. He has
'oted at every Presidential election since the
doption of the Constitution.
1t is said that effort is being made to in
luce Judge Taney to resign his place as Chief
ustice of the Supreme Court, that Mr.. Bu-