Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-11-28
CLIPPINGS and seribblipgs.

December
nArThere have been 1856 deaths by
cholera in Hungary.
BgThe temperance organization in Maine
Is said to include $4,000 members
aea-A colored woman and her child starv
ed to death few days ago in Mobile.
B9-The lumber business in Maine has
been unusually prosperous this season
sgThe Western farmers say it "goes
against their grain to use corn for fuel.
nA.In Black Rock county, California
there is petriied tree 700 feet in length.
Counterfeit 800 notes on the First
National Bank of Boston are circulating in
the oil regions.
seAThere are ia Baptist churches in the
State of Connecticut, with total mem
bership of lS,S00.
BgIHon John Morrissey is Sin training
at Willard hotel, Washington. Somebody
calls him the great ex-pounder.
Eas-The practice of selling their hair, long
prevalent among the female fraternity OF
France, has been prohibited by law.
sg~The Ashland (Ohio) Times reports
the corn crop IN that vicinity as enormous.
Corn is worth fifty three cents bushel at
that point.
s1The tobacco crop of Missouri, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Virginia pays nine
teen millions of dollars revenue tax to the
Government.
R9-In st. Petersburg, tipsy people are
lodged for the night at the police stations,
and in the morning obliged to do penance
as scavengers-
aea. Halls Journal of Health expresses
| the opinion that Buckwheat cakes contain
more nourshment for less money than any
other article of food.
asa-It is said that Hon. John Morrissey,
the member of Congress elect from New
York has, living in Chicago, bind sister
who is in abject poverty,
B1ARichmond, Ky, must be lively
place." I he other day more than twenty
men and boys were engaged in street hight,
all blazing away with pistols at once.
sg-The State of Georgia lost over $780,
600, 900 in real and personal estate b! the
wal, besides over $500, 900 900 swallowed
up in the various repudiated rebel loans.
Bg-In the event of the Pope being compel
led to leave Rome never to return, land 1t
begins to be apparent that such removal
is not far distant) he will make the ancient
city of Granada, Spain, his permanent abb
ding place.
reapThe message of Governor Worth, Of
North Carolina, has been sent in. He de
. clares that law and order exist everywhere
in the State and the Civil Courts are.sutf
cient. He opposes negro sugrage and the
amendment.
HapIt is reported the ground at Bayfield,
Wisconsin, was covered on the 9th instant
with two feet of snow His Honor judge
Clnnqh was unable to reach Superior City
and the October term OF the Circuit Court
was not holden.
BA- -John Read, Esq, the loyal postmas
ter at Huntingdon, has been ordered to hane
over the Office and its papers, to q. Ashmar
Miller, prominent Copperhead of tha
place Mr.. Reads offeDse was a failure tt
endorse the policy of Moses.
Bsg~An old lady of Columbus, Ohio
afflicted with dropsy, recently underwen
for the twenty y-sixth time, the operation 0
, removing the secreted fluid. This a yer.
remarkable case, as few stand the awfu
operation more than five or six times.
ea-Even the New York Times has kicl
to give President johnson for the reckles
way in which he is scattering pardons. [
don object to the pardon of rebels, but i
does object to the wholesale jail delivery o
counterfeiters and thieves which is going on
G9~Brigham Young is luxuriating in tht
honeymoon of his forty fifth bride, beau
tiful Danish girl OF seventeen. He has jus
lost his twenty fourth wife, who was burieC
without any ceremony or even notice o
her death. What an old reprobate Brig
ham must be!
ssa-We see by the London papers tina
Jacob Snyder, Esq, the founder of Phelps
vile, Sullivan county, but for several year
residing in London, is dead. He mad
some important improvements in breec
loading muskets, which invention has bee
adopted by the British Government.
asn-In P Philadelphiaon Monday, Nov. 9th.
young man named John Horribly took up
gun and proceeded to illustrate to his siste
how people shot themselves by carelessl
handling fire arms. While doing this tn
gun was discharged and he was instantl
killed He was much too practical in hi
methods of teaching.
3 Stephen III. Branch, who it seems, sti
/ lives" has the following card in New Y Yor
G paper: Il will teach members of the Priz
Ring, Municipal Ring and Church Ring