Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-07-18
THE JOURNAL.
PENCIL NOTES.

Eayly.-They are luxurating on ripe peaches in
Virginia.
Losc-the river, and tfe state of our finances
just now.
Horo to be happs-shbscribe for the Journal, and
pay for it in advance.
Just reestvea-a lot of new novels at the Clear
field Book Store in Shaws Row. Call and see them.
Slightly dilapiaatsd-Black Sans unmentiona-
bles and potato patch since the hogs were in
II.
Where arc shsg ?-the men who were going to
make the Tyrone and Erie Railroad year ago I?
Echo answers where?
;Stong-a hogs appetite for potatoes, and the
butter we got the other day at sixteen cents a
pound.
>At ucork-our farmers, getting in their hay, The
grain will soon be ready to cut, and promises an
abundant harvest
Grand hUnsJug-the hog law or the officers
whose duty it is to enforce it, and we don't know
exactly which.
Dsad,-The venerable English Admiral Boxer,
died of cholera on shipboard at Balaklava on the
I'd of June, after short illness
Interchangeable candidates for county offices
among our Locofoco friends. They have ardent
desire to their country.
Gramd-the pyrotechnical display the hill on
Saturday evening by some of the youngsters
Their Roman candles looked well.
Coming doqcn.-At Steubenville, Ohio, wheat
has declined from two dollars and fifty cents to
one dollar and eighty cents per bushel.
Searce-eggs at shilling a dozen, and items
this warm weather Won't somebody knock some
hody doIyp kicly mn,
Tall timotAy-Mr Rheams. cut timothy on his
farm on Lick Run Hill, last week, measuring five
feet six inches in length Who can beat it?
Thamks--to our young friend R. ]. Wallace
for bowl of delicious raspberries, Robert is a
sound egg, and never fails to remember his friends
Going aaoay.-We will be absent from home
for some days. Those who have business with
can have it attended by calling at the printing
Office
TIE dtfsysnce.-Some sharp follow says the diff
ference between girls and lemons, is that the latter
get most of their squeezing in the dog days, and
the former don't.
'.Speckled beauties We are indebted to Gen.
A. NJ. Hills for a plate fine trout, for which he
will accept our sincere thanks. The General never
forgets his friends.
Election i,s Louisville Ky.-Mr. Alexander Du-
vall the American candidate, was elected Traas-
urer of the city of Louisville, Ky, Saturday
last, By vote almost unanimous.
Dslightfui-writing items with the perspiration
streaming from every pOre,-your inkstand plug
gcd up with flies, and the mercury going up at
the speed Of abont 24O on a plank road
Fig it up.-We hope those of our subscribers
who are going to discontinue take the next vol
ume, viii let US know at once, that We may COM
mence on the first of August with clean books.
Leti fo1o7a-our friend Walton of the firm of
Conrad and Walton, who has bean paying US
visit for some days past. We sorry he's gone
and hope to hear from him when he gets to the
w est.
Nstc Post OBfcs-We are glad TO announce that
the Ccarfeld Bridge Post Office has been re-estab-
Iished Esquire Sloan has been appointed. Our
subscribers there will now receive their papers
regularly
TAX about it-We understand the Americans
up Chest Creek, are talking about holding an
American Harvest Home sometime in August
We think it decidedly good idea, and have no
doubt ClearfeId and Curwensyille, would send
large delegation
Wholesome aEterat5on.-The law of Libel, II
Connecticut, materially modified by an act OF
the recent Legislature. by which the defendant
may show the intention with which he made tho
publication and the plaintiff must prove malice
before he can recover damage.
attempted PoisOmimg.-FO negroes have been
committed to Jail, in Wytheville, Va, for attempt
ing to poison the family of Mrs. John b. George.
Arsenic was administered in coffee and bread, but
in such large quantities as to cause vomiting
which probably saved their lives
Testimonial We learn thatthe students of the
Cleareid Institute the close of their session,
testimonial of their regard, presented to their
Principal, Mr.. Campbell, fine white hat, the re-
ceipt of which he acknowledged in an appropri-
ate manner We have not room for the proceedings
at length.
A Tunnel 1lnaer Niagara R5uer--It is propos-
ed to dig a tunnel for a railroad track under the
Niagara at Black Rock, near Buffalo, n. Y. It's
length will be 2400 feet, descent of grade each
side IS Ieet per mile cost S500,O00. The river is
20 feet deep at the proposed locality. and its bed
of solid limestone.
Omtrageo1es.-If the accounts we have been re-
eeiving lattterly from Now Washington be true,
the conduct of two three locofocos there towards
aelergyma an, is outrageous and detestable in the
highest degree. We only awaiting full par
ticulars, upon good authority, to show them mp in
the manner they deserve.
Il floral c1uiosity.-There ST now to be seon at
Savannah, Georgia. an aloe tree, otherwise called
century plant twenty-sx feet high and containing
moro than a thousand buds all of which are ready
to bloom This remarkable tree is native pro-
duct of Wilmington Island Gifts history the first
6fty years Of its existence we are not informed
Since 1874 when IL was transplanted upor tho