Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-11-21
Clippings and Scribblings.


sJ-The latest Paris crinoline is in the |
shape of coat tail.
a9-At st, Louis John Smith has been
lined $500 for profane swearing.
sSA property of $4,000 is lying around
loose in Montana, awaiting an heir.
gaSA chap in Pittsburgh Jail for bigamy
has been making love to girls opposite his
cell by means of placard letters
HssH Horace Greeley, for Congress. ran
about one thousand votes more in his dis
trict than Fenton did for Governor.
n9-A missing English baronet, Sir Charles
Tichbourne, of Tichbourne Park, Hamp-
shire, has turned up as butcher in Aus
tralia.
sg-The Virginia Alleghanies are swarm
ing with game.S A party killed tuenty-one
deer in five days-one buck weighing $50
pounds
Bg-Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who
announced herself candidate for Congress
in one of the New York dis triets, received
eight votes.
Bg~ Among the items of last years ex-
penses at the Buffalo poorhouse were 3d.
| 600 for tea, $500 for oysters and 5000 for
whiskey and cigars.
| BAThirty persons are in the state prison
| VI ANtSdud, diiu DIS d pfOOl tl tHclT
gence it is stated that every one of them
can play drawpoker.
| B9-A man who had won fat turkey
at rattle, satisfied his pious wife as to the
method of his obtaining it, by remarking
| that the Shakers gave it to him.
| Bp Gen Beauregard publicly declares
rail DAD of which he is President who has
not served in the Confederate Army.
Ba~Heenan, the prize fighter, has return
gambling saloon, and in a year or two the
Democrats will send him to congress.
Eay|At Atlanta, Ga, there is "a widows
and Orphans Manufacturing Company
they don make widows and orphans, but
simply furnish them with employment.
Ray-On the 18th, a train was thrown off
the track near Wesley, on the Buffalo and
Erie Railroad, which resulted in the death
Of five persons and the injuring of fifty
others.
BA-The unexpected arrival of about 500
Californians at Charleston, S. c., created
quite stir, as with great prodigality they
scattered their gold and silver among the
small dealers.
EsA-A Western paper says that the grass
hoppers have destroyed everything in the
Deer Lodge Valley except ''the grass
widows" But, then, the grass-widows'
are not green.
aas-The Dyspeptic and Rhuematics are
the titles of two base ball clubs, composed
of artists and engravers in New York. In
late match game Rheumatism got ahead Of
Dyspepsia.
BsaLThe Missouri Democrat chronicles
with pride the fact that on the day the
Radical victory In Missouri was annoul. eed
the Bonds of that State went up eight pei
cent. That is the financial estin ate of rad
icalism.
asaA man short distance out from
PIT tsburgh says no one need tell hlm that
advertising won't cause big rush, for he
advertised ten bushei of grapes for sale and
the next morning there WASH one left-the
boys stole EN- all.
bslThe Memphis Aralanche complain:
that there is not in the wide world so much
shooting, stabbirg and killing as in Shelby
county The wide world begs leave tt
remark that it considers it rather a cause
for congratulation than complaint.
BsAM AMcVicher & Meyres, of the Chicago
) Theatre, announce that they will immedl
ately tear away the PARTITION between the
white and colored portions of their audience
When the theatres do this and the Chicago
Times advocates negro suffrage, what won
happen?
na-A friend, who is musicaily inclined
is responsible for the following parody:
TT ere is calm for those who weep,
A rest tor Copperiohnsons found
They sefty He and sweetly sleep,
Luled by Salt River ripping sound.