Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-02-20
CLIPPINGS AND scRieBllNcs.

past week.
WStill good-the slcighing, in this Sec
ton Of country.
~Invested-about 81 SOC, 900, in the bee
culture in Ohio.
O"Down outside,'' said the fiddler when
he fell out Of the window.
0TThe NewYork Ne,rs calls the greatWest
the 'bread basket'' of the world.
VWheeling, Virginia, has only thirty one
slaves IN population of 14,3l4.
OSWhat we knead-breadstuf. Suggest
ed as companion to sswhat we WANT
UThe 22d of February is to be publicly
celebrated by our State and National Govern
ments.
WThe Legislature of Kansas has postponed
! the election of two United States Senators
until April.
~The southern papers are urging the far
mers and planters to plant more grain and less
cotton this year.
UThe Siamese Twins are in favor of 'sthe
| Union as it is," whether the original compact
was right or not.
~Another SLAYER has successfully cleared
| from New Y York. She is fine clipper bark,
called the Griffin
| ~The house of Mr.. Michael O. Skelly, of
Summerhill tp., Cambria co., was burned to
| the ground on the Ist inst.
| ~Broken out-the oil fever. at Curwens-
| vile. Wonder if that town will 'secede' and
join the State OF Venango7
| TThe Peace Congress, it is said, has a.
greed upon the Guthrie Plan, which is SINH
lar to the Crttenden Proposition.
WThe Kingdom of Prussia, according to
the last statistical tables, contained ,178 ply
sicians and l ,526 chemists shops.
~Why is man looking at a smashed up
pumpkin like some of the Southern States
Because he is very likely to see seed.
| 0yThe amount of coal annually taken from
| mines in Ohio is estimated by the Commissions
| er of Statistics to exceed . 200, 600 tons.
CvMr. Lincoln was born on the 18th OF Feb
| ruary, 1909, and is therefore fittytw years of
| age, and in the vigorous maturity of life.
CYAN Abolition preacher, named A. NJ.
| Milligan, was burnt in etfigy in the vicinity of
Eldersridge, Indiana county, on the 1st inst.
"The immense appetite of London is fed
every year by about 270 800 oxen besides 30,-
600 calves. l, 100000 sheep, and 10000 swine.
WA little girl, daughter of Peter Magil-
| lick, of Burrell tp., Indiana CO., was burned
so badly by her clothes taking fire on the 4th
| February that she died three days after.
| UOn the llth Feb, man charged with
| being an aboltionist, was arrested in Marion,
| Smyth county, Va. He tarred, feathered
and ridden on 4 rail, and then put to Jail.
| GA Coumbiad is heavy gun, capable of
| throwing a solid shot or she'll, with large
| charge of powder, and at an angle of projection
| from degrees below to 30 above the horizon.
GA few days since, little boy son of
! Samuel Jarrett, of Abingdon, Montgomery
county, eat the ends off of several Matches
which caused his death in three or four days.
| Parents should be careful to keep matches
| away from small children.
"Thc family of Henry Brister, of Vienna,
| Ohio, has been nearly exterminated by dipthc
| ria. On the first of November last it mum ber-
| ed ten persons, the parents. four sons and four
! daughters. Now there remain only the faith
er and mother and one daughter.
~On Sunday week a sad accident occur
red to seighing party in Mercer county, IL
| inois by which seven persons lost their lives.
| The sleigh was being driven across a stream,
when the ice gave way and preciptated all
| into the water. Three persons were saved out
| of ten.
U-Capt. Morrison, who surrendered the
revenue cutter Lewis Cass, to the authorities
| of Alabama, has rendered his resignation to
| the Navy Department. Without taking notice
| of this document, the Secretary ofthe Treas
rolls OF the service.
| WAt Raymond, Miss, a. K. Beal. an ell
| derly man, blew his brains out with shot gun.
! Having been a volunteer IN his native State
| (Mary land) in the War Of 1872, he frequently
gave utterance to his strong attachment for
his country, and for the Union of the States,
and declared that he could not live to see
| sundered Union and civil war.