Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-11-13


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Time Of Cars leaving Tyrone Station.
GOING EAST
Fast Line, s.17 P. NJ. Mail Train, 155 A. NJ
GOING WEST.
Express, $40 A N Mail train, $40 P. Al
6 NorIcE.-Persons having old style stamps
and stamped envelopes, are requested to call
on the Postmistress at Ansonville and exchange
them for new ones within six days from this
date-otherwise they will lose them.
Nov. 13. ELIZA CHASE, Z. NJ.
A SAD ArrAIR.-On last Wednesday even
ing, the 9th, the wife of Thomas Liddeii OF
this place, whilst laboring under temporary
arrangement OF the mind, committed suicide,
durinp a visit to her parents (Mr. Johnson's)
resr1;np in Jordan township. Mrs. l.. had been
,,nwe,, but under the treatment OF a physician
.os ;mnrovine. For several days she express
ed a belief that her child was getting poor on
account of her sickness, and said 1t would die /;
ard il is supposed that under this apprehen-
her throat with a razor. The family was alb
sent from the room at the time. A more afec-
tionatc family did not reside in the county.
The occurrence has cast a gloom over the
whole neighborhood where they reside and
all deeply sympathize with the parents and
husband in their sad bereavement.
WHAT is IN THE BEDRooM.-If two persons
are to occupy bedroom during a night let
them step upon weighing scales as they retire,
then again in the morning, and they will find
that their actual weight is at least pound
less In the morning. Frequently there will be
loss of two or more pounds, and the average
loss throughout the year will be more than one
pound. That is, during the night there is a
loss of pound of matter gone from their bod
les, partly from the lungs and partly through
the pores Of the skin. The escaped material
is carbonic acid, and decayed animal matter
or poisonous exhalations. This is diffused
through the air in part, and in part absorbed
by the bed clothes. II single ounce of wood
or cotton be burned in room, it will so COM
pletcly saturate the room with smoke that one
can hardly breathe, though there only be
one ounce of foreign matter in the air. If an
ounce of cotton b. burned every hour during
the night the air will be continually saturated
with smoke unless there be an open door or
window for 1t to escape. Now the sixteen
ounces OF smoke, thus formed, is far less poi
sonous than the sixteen ounces of exhalations
from fhe lungs and bodies of two persons who
have lost pound in weight during the eight
hours of sleeping, for while the dry smoke is
mainly taken into the lungs, the damp odors
from the body are absorbed both into the lungs
and into the pores of the whole body.
Need more be said to show the importance
of having bedrooms well ventilated and of
thoroughly airing the sheets, coverids and
mattresses, in the morning before putting up
IN the form OF neatly made bed. Perhaps
the worst of all bedroom evils is the feather
Jed-but according to the notion of some, if it
is old and dirty it Is 30 much the better-if it
was slept on by great-grandmother, and has
absorbed the exhalations of the body, the
disease and decomposition of three genera
tions, it is capital bed. grand mistake.
Being an insulation against the Tree crcuIa-
tion of the electric forces of the system, and
being body of constantly decaying animal
matter, feather bed is the worst of all couches
TO sleep upon. A person of good health and
vigorous constitution will never rise from one
without feeling weakness which takes hours
to recover from. The moisture and vitality of
the system has been absorbed without being
replaced by an equal amount Of life capital
and particularly when the room is poorly ven
tilated will the destructive and weakening in
fuences OF the feather bed be felt. Our ad-
vice is to discontinue their use entirely.
CAMP CRossMAN, Nov. 4th, 1861.
MR. 5. j. Row DEAR SIR We feel it |
our duty to write a few lines in regard TO our |
camp and Captains Ogden and Curby, and hope |
yeu viii do us the kindness to publish the |
same in the Journal.
We are daily receiving reports by persons
coming into camp and by mail, that Captain
Ogden had sold his men to Capt. Curby and
again that Capt. Curby had sold his men to
Capt. Ogden. Now, for the good of the cause
in which we are engaged, we wish to say to
the people of Clearfield county, that Captains
Ogden and CURLY are too much of gentlemen
10 be guilty OF such trick as is attributed to
them. This foul-mouthed trash only shows
To us that there is still sufficient Secesh in the
county to hatch up stories to hurt the good
cause. Some Of these even went so far as to
write to some of the soldiers at or near Wash
ington that Capt. Ogden had sold his men at
from 80 to 80 cents piece, and then went to
the Clearfed county Fair and took spree on
the head OF it. Now, we as soldiers, are con-
tdent that this ill-disposed trash does not in
]ure those that it is aimed at /; and we only re
gret that Clearfield county is the home of
those who are guilty of thus stigmatizing the
Characters of the men, who but few weeks
since bid adieu to all that is near and dear,
and have gone forth in defence of cur com
mon country.
Mr.. f. was in our camp a few days since
and complimented the Clearfeld boys as
though he was their warmest friend. Bui, we