Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-12-03
CLIPPINGS AND scs1pBL rYas.

/ OPlenfy-weddtngs and mud, during the
past month.
| ~SIppery-the plank side walks, these
| frosty mornings.
Scaree-tresh butter and the s.spondu
lix." W ould like TO have sa few.''
~The young lady who f66t tie gentle
mans fancy has returned it with thanks
WThe Cotton Mills at Lowell. Mass, em
ploy 1900 hands, only 200 less than in 1860.
~Nine Thousand horses are employed in
the hospital service of the United States army.
| "Don't take too much interest in the at
fairs OF your neighbors. Six per cent will do
| ~Aii the cotton and tobacco in Richmond
has been destroyed, for fear of the Union army
| ~THE raper mills of the State of Maine
are forced to stop manufacturing for the wan,
OF rags.
! ~it is estimated that Maine has paid in
bounties over 80 ,000,o 900, varying from $50 TO
$500 per man.
DOak is being cut in large quantities on
| California market.
| WGen. Butler, it is stated, will soon or
der craf, in New Orleans, to fill up vacan-
cies in hi: several regiments.
GA NEW volcano has been discovered in
mountain n Iceland, the top of which is
covered perpetnally With snow.
| ~While it is very unjust to say that every
| Democrat is traitor, it is tact that every
| traitor claims to be Democrat.
rA firm in Philadelphia are making Co.
i 600 waterproof Blankets in the form of Span
| ish cloaks, fur the Pennsylvania troops.
UFour train loads of the Fl ,rper's Ferry
paroied prisoners passed over the Penn'a Bail
road from the West, last week, od their way
TO Washington.
~We know good natured bachelor so
generous that, poor fellow, he would give E.
ven his heart away; if be could only find an
interesting object to take st.
U-Thc rebel papers are gratiied with the
patent democrats success in Pennsylvania. but
fear the rayy, knowing there are no '.politIcs"
in the firing OF its big guns.
0J-The Grenada ssAppeal" calls the rebel
troops invading Kentucky ''the arrows of
vengeance We guess that most OF Them
rows are in culver this.
gNine thousand Italian priests have just
presented petition to the Pope, in which
they entreat of him, in the name of reIig lon,
TO abandon the temporal power.
D-Mr. A, l understand yot said sold
you a barrel of hard cider that had water in t.''
4 a
sold NE a barrel of water with little cider
in it.''
Vanity Fairs advice to Brigadiers is ::
'sGo in, old boys go in, and lose your legs
Think of the facilities this will afford you when
the war is over, for stumping your respective
States"
n-REHARK by city scavenger :-s'When
dead horses and other garbage is left lyin'
loose around camp, the newspaper reporter
writes and says: ssOur army is again assuming
the offensive
Prentice say that the people ofthe reb-
81 cities point proudly to the long, rank grass
in their streets, as proof of the astonishing fer
tility or the Soutccn soil in comparison with
the sterile North.
- The Charleston Mercury says "the Yam
KEGS love the niger" Tie complexion of
large portion of the servile population OF the
South isa pretty strong indication that the
chivalry .'love the nigger.''
DIsrREssiN5 CAsUALrY-THgEE PRoTHERs
BURIED ALIvE.-On Friday morning, Novem-
ber 2lst, Jonathan Smeigh, OF Windsor town
shin York county came to their death under