Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-03-20
CLIPPINGS AND scRIEpLINGs

Gv&lmost an impossible combnation-Dol
| lars and sense.
WThe Empire Spring, at Saratoga, has
| been sold for S100,0 600.
/ UHeight of bliss-stting on bed-rail
and scratching ones-seIf.
vThe Legislature of Delaware has refused
to renew any lottery grants.
| ~The Old Eagle gold mine in Virginia
lately yielded 81 ,020 in one week
/ % A lady sometimes gets much intoxi-
Gated at her glass as topper does at his.
| TThere is no truth in the report that Miss
Lane was married before leaving Washington.
/ ~Wine called Valerie, two thousand years
old, has been dug out of the ruins Of Pompei.
WThe fellow who got intoxicated with de-
] light, has been turned out of the temperance
! society.
UGov. Curtin has signed the bills COM
muting the tonnage tax on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
WThe people of the seeding tates stamp
on the U. s. laws and put U. S. stamps on
| their letters.
0@The bankers of Charleston have taken
81 100000 of the SIS 900, 900 loan adyertized
! by the Confederate States.
| EThe Shakers of Canterbury, n. H., have
just executed an order for 500 cans of their
| famous apple sauce for Java.
TThe Fowler defalcation at New York
was decided against the Government. The
securities are therefore released.
! EDelightful-the weather. ssCome, gem
tie Spring, ethereal mildness Gomez but take
care you don't get frost-bitten.
DEA little boy in Vermont, who swallowed
cent last summer, is dying slowly of copper
| poison His legs have become useless.
| UWhat if the worst fate befall South Car
olina.- Charleston Courier.
| Why then the worst will have come to the
| worst
| "The New York Times processes not to
! know what South Carolina is aiming at.' She
has talked for some time of aiming at Fort
| Sumter.
| ~The governmental property in Texas,
which has by the treachery of General Twigs,
| been surrenderded to the State, amounts to
| S 100000.
G-An Alabama paper says that the seces-
sionists looking to see what will turn up.
Perhaps their own eyes will turn up when
they do see.
N-Later advices from India say that bank
rates there had advanced to eleven per cent.
The monetary crisis ascrjbed to recent
opium. speculation.
UDon't pack the canary bird and the cat
together, and object very decisively to the
looking glasses being steaded with coal scut-
ties or smoothing irons.
GyThe Rev. John Heck, the pastor of the
Smithsburg washington county, Maryland)
Lutheran Church, died at his residence in that
town, on Monday the 18th.
GUThe Frankfort Commercial raises the
name of Mr.. Crittenden at the head of its col
umns as the peoples candidate for Congress
from the eight Kentucky district
GyFour years ago Col. Benton said that
fhn rln I,fM A lr,,f
would witness dismembered Union, Union
disintegrated by traitors in the Cabinet
Uy-It is said that Old Abe Euchered the
Baltimoreans; but, the facts are, that he saw
their s'hand'' and merely said ssI pass" The
Baltimoreans then gave him the .deal.''
~For the first time in many years the
Presidents mansion has young children in it
"a domestic Institution which ought to en-
courage the President to keep the peace.
! Og-Coal Oil is said to be sure DESTROYER of
bed bugs. Apply plentifully with small brush
feather in the places where they do most
congregatc. The cure is efIec,ual and perma-
nent.
0AmOng the articles sent to Paris from
China are said to be seventy-ive pieces of fur
tor the French Empress also, some beautiful
Coral, and Pearl Necklace of unparalleled
beauty.
OISpurgeon sometimes comes out with
good thing ssBrethren," be said, ssif God
had referred the ark to a committee on naval
affairs, it's my opinion it wouldn't have been
built yet
CVrhc Postmasters of the Border States
complain of the reception of letters from the
South with the postage unpaid. They are
prepaid only by the bogus stamps of the new
confederacy.
UThe Cincinnati Press says that Gov.
Floyd fulfilled one of the old prophecies with
a slight variation. He didn't turn the Gov |
eminent arms into hooks. but he hooked the |
Cove rnment arms.
GA woman named Anderson died lately |
in Scotland, SO years old, who never saw |
toll gate, (though she resided within two miles |
of one,) nor yet the sea, or a ship or railroad, |
or steam engine in her life.
Oy@Garibaldi is still at Caprera, from which |
retreat the extremists are trying to entice him. |
1t is said that Austria, by means other secret |
agents, is endeavoring TO urge Garibaidi not |
to wait for Italy to recruit and reorganiZe its |
strength.
A CARD TO THE SUFFERISG.-The Rev William
CosgrOve, while laboring a miss onary in Japan,
was cured of Consumption, when all other means
had failed by recipe obtained from learned |
physician residing in the great city of Jeddo.
This recipe has cured great numbers who were suf-
sring from Consumption, Bronchitis, SOrs Throat,
Coughs and Colds, and the debility and nervous
depression caused bv these disorders DESTROYS