Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-11-21
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oItSndiH A7OunS mas seventy wlYas
/ Couldn't he beat Barnum on a baby show3,
H. % Eighteen newspapers are published in
Minnesota, though itcontans but GO, 900 peo
Y 70 Hon. Edward B. Dudley, formerIv
I Governor of North Carolina died at Whining
ton, October 30, aged 65 years.
r5fhe firing 1T the bombardment of Syea-
borg was heard at Kirbasch, which is Ie7 En-
gllsh miles distant from the fortress.
10 III the tobacco seized in England in
violation Of the revenue laws, lis sent for the
consumption of the troops IN the Crimea.A 4
II A California cotemporary,zspca OF
new saper, just started, siys:-sSit ouiy lacks
ability and character, to be influential :
! 70 The Norfoik papers speak or a graf tlfy-
| ing revival IN business there. The yariosis
ShlP7ysFes ;; are said to present asccae Of much
1 0y~ \ writer ID one of the Northern papers,
! on school Discipline, SAY $:@sW Without a lib
era use Of The rcd, it is Impossible to make
! boys ShRcrf. - al .=.e t1IlE - E"G e6i .et-g
u There is a man on Staten Island so ops
posed to assault and battery, that he had 8
| thundcr-cloud arrested the other day, for stri-
/ king his barn. -ss7.s H. s4.r,- ,.,-,,-i- 80
| ~ The ladies of Wilmington, Delaware.
have formed all association to raise funds to
! help their sisters in other states to purchase
| Mount Vernon.
! ~ Judge Stuart, of New York, is under
| trial, charged with accepting bribe> of $500,
| for releasing from prison notorious burglar
t known as 'sBudllo Bill.''
U- The Honesdale Democrat saws that a
! coal vein at Beaver Meadow is on fire. The
! fire originated from the outside dirt heap.-
| The mine has been abandoned.
| 10 An Eastern Editor, in an obituary on a
! young lady who had recently died, closed by
| saying-'.She had amiable temper, and was
1 nncOmmOnIV fond of ice. nfh doll
cacics."
u The Austin (Texas) State Gazette says
| Benjamin II. Green of that town, recently
! killed in twelve consecutive mornings before
dinner-fhirtasa bears, enc panther, ote triid cat
oId secea deer.
0y~ Washington correspondent of a New
\ ork paper says that the Hon. John z. Ken
| nedy is spoken OF as likely to be the success.
sor of II on. Thomas G.. Pratt as United States
Senator for Maryland
c. The New York Independent states that
it has information from Paris that the Roths-
ehilds have made a loan to the Car of $780,
100000 onRussian bonds at 50 tor5 per cents,
the money to be paid in gold.
Uy The Richmond Despatch mentions the
sale at Charlotte, G. H., of about 80 negroes
for S25, AGO. One or two boys, weighing 80
pounds sold for $3.50 each; so that boys are
worth Sl0 pound in Virginia.
10 In France the gigantic efforts of the
| Government to carry on the war, seems TO he
redoubled. Men, stores, material, surgeons.
sisters of charity, all in enhanced number and
amount, are proceeding TO the East.
% Belgium is the great glove manufactory
of the world 1t is statad that from one estab-
lishment last year, 40o .0e0 dozen pairs were
exported to England and America. There are
three thousand hands enaployed there. ~
Dy- The New York Mirror predicts thai
within twenty FIVE years the United States
the pure juice OF the grape, but viii become
the largest wine exporting nation in the wofli.-.
u fhe Boston Pilot, Roman Catlsulic,-
paper says: mo good government can exiss
without religion, and there can be no religion
without an inquisition, which is wisely design
ed for the promotion and protection Of t,l;
faithi''
60 Michigan having refused the use OF her
prisons to the Courts of the United States tvr
the Imprisonment Of slaves, the L. 5. District.
Court there has sent its Grand Jury to exam
inc into the necessity for the erection Of Jail
for such cases.
e. twenty-five years ago iowa was a will
derness, tenanted only by the savage. Now
she has civilized population, estimated at
about six hundred thousand, and constantly
increasing. The emigration to the State this
year las been heavy.
@ In Peru there is good deal eff excite
ment on account OF the bill granting religious
liberty. Four priests in Lima attacked one
of the deputies, MatUte by name, with yieg
TO aSSassinate him on account OF his ksopposi-
tion TO our holy religion - sa
G- n distinguished teacher defines s.geni-
u.s. TO be :Sthe POKER OF making efforts Il,
SO, the fellow who we reported as having
fallen down drunk and making sseff0rts' to
raise himself by feeling upwards for the ground,
must be 'san awful genius.
&C. The Kansas ssHerald" published a.;
LGwrence OF October p, states thai SsscTenty-
nine wagons, loaded with pioneers from Iowa
between Sunday and Wedbes lay ei last week.
destined Tor the Neosho.ia ~ r 5000
~ Hon Joseph Casey. has been appointed
by Governor Pollock, Superintendent OF the
Erie and North East Railway, which has been
forfeited TO the State, under the provisions OF
the bill passed by the last Legislature, and re-
Gently signed by the Governor
~ On Beaver Island, in Lake Michigan,
are eight hundred MOrmonS, mostly women,
who made up of absconded wives, disap-
pointed maidens, and such like. Strange, who
preside over the flock, commenced life as a
Philadelphia lawyer, and has a lawful wife IN
Wisconsin.
to Mayor Gross, of Milwaukee, issued a,
proclamation, on the eve of the late election
there, requesting the s'keepcrs of liquor sa-
looms and lager beer halls to close their re-
spective places on Tuesday, the 9th inst, and
all go TO the polls and vote the straight DEM
ocratic ticket -f--f --..
OD mesmerising lecturer having recent
" declared at Cincinnati, that he would bet
$1,000 that table could not be moved by spir-
itual manifestations, man named Wilson, ac-
cepted the bet, staked the funds and ssdid his
best in presence of a jammed audience to
move a table, but did not succeed.