Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-11-06
Clippings and Scribti.ngs.

B Coming--the railroad
Y- Ditto-Wiight's new goods. GI
ty Low-the streams in this county ass
v High-hutter and other marketing.
g Gong up-Shaw It Sons new ware room.
~ Under roof-the new Prosbyte rian church
v In demand-all kinds of produce !; and at
good prices.
h For sale-all the Literary Weekly papers,
at the Post Office. 30
II Condemned-the Hollidaysburg Jail, by
the Prison Inspector.
I axes, this orning, Nov 9th
the first of the season. -s 8
% Horace Greeley does not smoke, and thor
oughly detests Tn Weed d. 1. aeslR r
v To be executed-Lena Miller, on Wed
nesday next, November 18th.
Y woman in Connecticut has been divorced
from three men during the year. .--s- .s-..-..
ER- sorry sight-to see young man totter-
ing along the streets, under load of whiskey.
w Fond of fun-the young man who was
caught hugging a a"darkey gal" one night last
week. a s
V- Organized female brass band at Deca-
tur, Illinois What tremendous e!atter thatband
| will make. -s va
70 Increasing-the Temple of Honor in
this place. Right go ahead, plenty of ater ial
about the town. -tr. a- -x4
Ey Pleasant-over the left-to two men
sitting in the back part of house and talking
and laughing during divine services.
B Charming-the howls uttered by some
young stsrs on the streets Fully equal to the
music produced by "a pig under gate"
EY- Josh Billings says he don't care how m uch
a man talks if he only says it in few words.
Good idea for those who write to newspapers
1 eocKney says that the reason Garibadi
is SO intent entering Rome is that he is desir-
GUS of getting hold of ''vat-he-can." Vatican
V Some of Josh Billings ideas are truly po-
etical, for instance sThe Sun goin' to bed.
and all the Hevins was blushin' at the perform
anti --s
70 The statement of the Commissioners of
Emigration, shows that during the year end ing
October 30th, 1857 20S,42 emigrants have arrived
at New YORK. - s--.-.
CF Texas editor on being asked how he got
along with his paper, said thai he had written
editorial and shot three men in the previous
twelve months. are5
IL Wonders cluster thicXIy at one place on the
Yellowstone River. The water falls six
teen hundred feet precipice into small lake
which contains an island covered with boiling
springs.
Cy woman IN Chicago recently had man
bound over to Keep the peace because he proposed
to her too often. Everything seems reversed in
Chicago Proposing too often is not fault of the
men who live nearer the rising sun.
~ young lawyer in Paris was boasting about
his profound knowledge of French Jurisprudence
once at the Palais LAS to me- SAID he'll always
sit astride on the coas'' LOOK out, replied
bystander There is always danger to'sit astride
on an animal one does not know well - tFf
EF Josh Billings. in describing the horse fair
of the Bilingsville Agricultural Society, says:
There were two YOKE oy oxen on the ground sew
eral yoKes ov sheep. and pile ov carrots. and
some worsted WORK, but they didn't seem to at
tract eny sympathy. The people seem to hanKe-
for pure agricultural hoss-trOts.'
fY The following notice is posted in two pla-
ees in New Hartford: II here depose and say,
that |. Judge Lyman of Lawful age did hear Mar
tin Wilcox tell his Boys to Stone my Rooster off
his Grounds. and they Stoned the Noble Bird like
Stephen of Old Times Even Unto Death and he
lies in my Compost heap. Somebody must pay
the damage" .--
~ The CoWraUt was the title of the first daily
newspaper printed in the English language the
first number Of which appeared in London, the
lth of March, l702 1t was little half sheet,
printed on one eide only, and consisting of one
page of two columns. 1t continued until 1875,
mai tanning the foremost place among the many
limitations which speedily sprang into existence.