Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-04-17
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBLIgGs

| UFact-the quickest way TO make a tail
man short is to borrow all the money he has.
| UA bed of gold is a mi,le of wealth; but
boy whose father is very rich is minor OF
wealth.
90 Estimated-tha the amount of Northern
manufactures sold to the South in 1859, was
$240 ,000,00O
UResides-a colored man, in Charleston,
South Carolina, who pays taxes on $40, 900 Of
real estate and fourteen slaves.
~Mary Ann Lovett, convicted at Louis
vile Of throwing vitriol upon Mrs. Parrott,
has been sentenced to pay fine OF SIC, 900.
%U sed-iron, in making collars and wrist
bands. Gas articles of clothing" Iron wrist
bands is nothing new, but they are only worn by
compulsion.
Stated-that the wife and mother OF
family in Great Darlington, Mass, employ ed
in a factory there, has lately inherited lega-
cy of $500,000.
UReduced-the freight by the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company, three mills per mile on
all freight charges, in view OF the removal OF
the tonnage tax.
~Ex. Gov. Smith, and Roger A. Pryor of
Virginia announce them selves for reelection
to Congress. Both these gentlemen are fire
eaters in small way.
UIt is justly held to be a crime to steal a
,nigger or even muatto, and yet the secession
leaders of New Orleans, kidnapped Sloo,ooo
syellow boys'' at once.
~Have pledged themselves-the citizens
of Talapoosa, Alabama, TO buy no goods
from merchants who purchase goods In the
Tree States. Who caresl
CYAN Exchange publishes some lines which
it says s.were written by young man who has
long laid in the grave for his own amusement.
Strange amusement, we think.
UM Many public men consider themselves
the pillars of the State, who are more proper
" the catterpillars of the State, reaching their
high positions only 10y craving.
~Asserted-that the Coal Oil now pump
ed from the wells in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Canada, is good for the hair-a sure cure 1or
badness. Rather doubtful.
rThe deficiency in the cotton crops of
the present year is estimated at near million
of bales. All this comes from the tom m-foolery
and idleness incident to playing soldier.
"Expelled- Gibbins, by the Assem-
bly, of New York, for official misconduct
1t was proven that he permitted himself TO be
tampered with for his vote in favor of BILL
rLeft Detroit-about 800 tugitives on Fri
day and Saturday a-week, for Canada; and 80
left Chicago about the same time for the same
place. Good riddance OF bad rubbish no doubt
rHas agreed-the Penn'a Legislature, TO
hold three sessions daily from until the
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your money and receive it with clear con-
science. ~ stsal1 ass % ssaa .a
ODMr. Seward has replied to the Rebel
Commissioners, in courteous note, declining
to receive them in an official capacity, bnt as
suring them of the pacific intentions of the
President. a-E ai-sEs..ss
1yResigned-Maj.H Holmes, who had charge
of the fortress at Governors Island, N. Y ork,
last week. He is North Carolinian byb irth.
1t is very probable the army can get along
without his services.
uE.sWhat is shew bread, aunt ?'' asked Ike,
who was reading the Bible. Why, isaac. said,
Mrs. Partington, ssshoe bread is that which
people earn by the making of shoes. There
is plenty of it in Lynn
0UA Western paper says ssthat child was
run over by wagon three years old and cross
eyed, which never spoke afterwards" Well,
the age may bexght, but, as to the wagon be-
ing sscross-eyedr is doubtful.
WHe who is passionate and hasty, is gen
orally honest. 1t is your old, assembling hyp-
ocrite of whom you should beware. There is
no deception in bulldog. 1t is only the cur
that sneaks up and bites you when your back
is turned.
0yGraduated-a young gentleman, at Yale
College lately, with white head and whiskers,
who entered with auburn locks and no beard. |
The change took place in one night, on ac- |
count of the anxiety incident to a biennial ex- |
mination.
~There remains now not one foot of I'M |
organized territory in the Republic. The or
ganization during the last session of Congress, |
of the three new territories, to wit Colorado, !
Nevada and Dacotah, has wiped out all the ur- |
organized territory.
WWere sent-two copper-head snakes, re- |
Gently to the dead letter Office in the mail bags.
They caused considerable commotion among |
the clerks in the department, but were soon |
They came from Florida. Such |
acts need no comment.