Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-11-11
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBLINGs.


priated $50 900 tor the relief of the poor.
yParrot himself is on Morris Island SUI
perintending the firing of his six mile shells
0THon. John NJ. Boits, has been again ar.
rested by the rebels and sent TO Richmond
prison.
GC-At a coin sale in New York lust week a
silver dollar of 1874 brought the absurd price
of S2S5.
UJoseph Detweiler. farmer of York
county, is on trial at Philadelphia for evading
the income tax.
GvThe Selinsgr?ve Times calls the Provost
Marshal's soldiers 81 dogs" This is decided
ly the latest democratic invention.
GA Youth of sixty years has been arrest
ed in Rhode Island Tor whipping his mother.
He said the old lady'S morals were bad.
GTGen. Garfield, while sps,aling for the
Union, in strong slave e-holding locality, in
Mary land, was mobbed by crowd of copper
heads.
~Over 500 900 worth of property has
been condemned and confScated by the Uni
ted States Court at Nashville being the prop
erty of rebels.
0VOne man in Poughkeepsie has been
very unfortunate during the past few weeks,
Within that time he has been drafted, married
and burned out.
CIT is said that Woodward has been en-
gagged by Artemus Ward to travel with his
show and sing the pathetic ballad, ''Oh I'm
a Used up man.
GA Frenchmah wishing to say of young
lady that she was gentle as lamb, thus
expressed himself; ''She be mooch tame, like
the petite mouton.''
Gg-In Newport, r. I, poor man found
$500, and upon restoring it To its owner a
wel-to-do farmer, the generous man gave him
the eXtraord lnary sum of fire cents
GA confederate dollar is now worth only
six cents on the gold dollar. and at the pres
ent rate of depreciation, will not soon be
much more than two cents on the dollar.
G5-An English laborer and his wife poi
soned themselves with Prussic acid and left
an explanatory epistIe. saying: :: we were
too lovin' to live together in this world"
~The Zanesville Courier says an order
was sent to that city the other day for a tomb
stone for William Dunbar, late of Waterford,
Washington county, Ohio, aged one hundred
and twelve years. He was an old Revolution |
ary soldier.
TMaj Gen. Butler has been assigned to
the command OF the Department of Virginia |
and North Carolina (Gen. FOster'sl This |
change is believed 70 Indicate disposition to |
prosecute the war with renewed vigor in that |
especial section.
"Another of the nc BILE family of Ellets, |
who have so distinguished themselves in con
nection with naval operations on the Mis- |
sissippi, is dead. Charles r. Elet, comman
ding the Mississippi Marine brigade, died |
on Thursday last, at Bunker Hill,
Illinois.
UThe largest fire in San Francisco, for
many years, occurred there a short time since.
The loss was about $3.50 900. without much
The business part of the town of
Big Oak Flat, Tuolumne county, was destroy
ID by fire on the Goth ult. Loss about
$4,000.
0y-An immense amount of counterfeit fifty
cent postal cure ncy notes is being manufac-
ured in the State of New York. These
TO the amount of $40 000 were
n Buffalo two weeks ago, ana the officers of
hat city are on the alert for the yenders of
he trash.
0SThe London court Journal says: at has
that Lord PalmcrSton came to
london and had an interview of two hours
luration with Prince Napoleon who before
le left England, also saw Earl Russell at Wo-
'urn so that there is no doubt that. after all
he Princes mission political.''
0y-It is Officially stated that 600 refugees
rom northern Alabama and Georgia have ar
ived in Nashville since last August, and been
ariously provided for by the Government
lost Of them have been sent North. They
'ere in depIorably destitute condition, hav-
ng been robbed OF everything by the rebels.