Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-12-19
Clippings and Soribblings.
s@-Trichina has reappeared in Gerl

s9-Trichina has reappeared in Germa-
ny.
saGovernor Fenton. of New York. COM
menced life IN a saw-mill.
a9The newly discovered gold fields in
Canada are pronounced very rich.
RsALove's best arrow is tipped with gold
and his best quiyer is a casket of jewels.
sAIThe city of Meragone, in the Island
of Hayti, has been entirely destroyed by
fire.
s9-The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
secured lease OF the Ohio Central for twen-
ty years.
Ba-Twenty twoWisconsin banks are wind
ing up, and will be closed about the 10th of
this month.
a4Whipping school girls on the calves
of their legs is new feature of the Aurora,
ILL., schools.
ng-Recently, 400 shares of Dunkard Oil
Company stock, sold in Philadelphia at two
cents share.
esa-The Gazette de France is the oldest
newspaper extant. 1t is now in its two hun
dred and thirty sixth year.
Be4-Large numbers of emigrants contin-
ne to Iour into Missouri, Notwithstanding
the lateness of the season.
Bg-A murderer has been captured in
Missouri by means of fortune teller. y
novel, but uncertain means.
Bsg@The number Of soldiers and sailors
orphans, of all ages, admitted to the Penn a
schools during the past year, is 3,2l0.
ESg-A bill is before the Alabama Legisla-
ture to divide the school fund pro rata be-
tween the white and the black schools
~Spodgers, who has been under the
weather for some days past, says that of all
| disposiisons de-disposition is the worst
b<y~It is reported that bill viii be intro
duced into Congress giving the people the
power to elect Postmasters. Humbug!
nACollector Sloanaker, of Philadelphia,
recently seized four hundred barrels of whis-
Ky from firm in that city. 1t was illicitly
| distilled.
gag~ The work of thousand men for
| four years, is the inscription placed prom
inently on the new bridge over the Susque-
hanna at Havre de Grace.
g4g~A merchant having advertised his stock
| to be sold under prime cost, a neighbOr OBJ
served that it was impossible as he had ner-
tr paid a cent for 1t himself
nAYThe Cincinnati and other papers, are
warning persons seeking employment, to
keep out of the cities, as they are over
stocked with laborers of all kinds
Rsg@The Detroit Free Press says that the
last crop Of winter wheat in Michigan may
fairly challenge comparison as to quality
with any that was ever grown in that coun-
try.
GsgnIt is intimated by Pittsburg Feniaus
| that the Hayre line of steamships is to be
purchased by the Brotherhood and immedi-
ately fitted out to prey upon English Com
| merce.
aEA-A tailor lately replied to gentleman
who complained that his coat fitted badly
Il beg your pardon, sir, but the coat must
fit, for the measures right, and We always
cut on jometry principle.
BsAHon. John ". Forney. in letter to
Senator Worthington, of Chester county,
| announces at once his Withdrawal as a can
didate for United States Senator, and his
preference for Hon: Thaddeus Stevens.
nA-A bill granting s5OOO00 to the Knox
vile end Kentucky Railroad, $500, 00J to
the Cincinnati and Cumberland Gap and
Charleston Railroads, and 100000 to the
Knoxville and Charleston Railroad has pas
| sed the Tennessee Legislature.