Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19
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on exhibition in Cincinnati. He grew in Clin-
ton county, Ohio.
DR.. Snow, of Providence, R. T., estimates
the annual value of the products of the indus.
try OF that city at Sl4, ,5l3, ,l52.
| The HEBREWS late in session at Cleveland
have resolved to found University at Cincin-
natl, for the education of their people.
OVER twelve thousand barrels of whiskey. it
is stated, has been shipped for the South from
| Cincinnati during the first week of navigation
In NASSAU HALL, Princeton, there are 337
students OF whom 67 are professors of religion
oo candidates for the ministry, and % sons of
ministers.
| Col. GARLAND, Treasurer of New Orle ans,
has become defauIter and has been held to
bail in the sum of $500, 900 in default of which
he was sent to prison.
Mosquitoes grow SO large in Texas that they
hunt them with rifles. After they are slain,
their suckers are cut off and used by house
carpenters for augers.
An editor in Iowa has become so hollow
from depending upon the printing business o.
lone for bread, that he proposes to sell him
self for stove pipe.
keeper of saloon in Geelong. advertis-
ing his establishment, thus concludes-ssthose
of my patrons who may require it, shall be
sent home on a wheeibarrow gratis"
Fon EVERYTHING you buy, or sell, let OF
hire, make an exact bargain at first, and be not
put off to hereafter by one that says to you,
'swe shall not disagree about triAes.''
The FIRE and explosion of gunpowder at ST.
Martinsville, La, few days since, destroyed
property to the amount of 5000 900, and kill
led twenty-three persons. Most of them were
slaves.
On Saturday night, the 10Th, one OF the
Camden and Philadelphia ferry boats took fire
and burned up. There were upwards of 10
persons on board, of whom some % or so are
missing and dead.
An editor down east said that he hoped to be
able to present marriage and death as oriri-
nal matter in his columns, but unfortunately a
thaw broke mp the wedding, and the doctor
got sick, and the patient recovered.
TIE Crystal PALACE, the only Republican
palace, has recently been purchased by the A.
merican Institute for the permanent exhibition
of art and industry, for the sum of SI25, 600, |
less than one-Quarter what it cost.
GREAT activity in business transactions is |
noticed at all the large Western cities, conse- |
quent upon the re-opening of the princin,l |
livers. From Cincinnati South, the ice has en-
tirely disappeared. The prospects Of the SEA
son are regarded as very hopeful.
The HoGse Of Representations of Georgia,
on the 23d of February, passed by large ma
jority, bill setting apart the proceeds of the
tax upon free negroes as fund to be applied
to their removal to Liberia, or other places be-
yond the limits of the United States.
THE Nebraska City News says that land
fever is raging there. Claims OF one hundred |
and sixty acresss-within two and half miles of
that city, are selling at from $500 to $500
For one farm joining the city on the west the
owner has been offered $4,000 in gold, which
was refused.
Punch furnishes the last argument yet dis
covered against moustaches. He paints two
rough Crimean soldiers, with pipes in their
and thcket of hair all over their IA
ces, meeting, and one complains to the other:
'sI tell yer what, don't half like these NOUS
taches. They do mop up such Tot Of grog."
AN EXCITING and ludicrous chase after
thieving pedlar, who got away from the Sher-
iff at Thorudike, in the western part of Massa-
chusetts, took place one night. recently. The
sheriff pursued in sleigh, got overturned in
a snow bank, and finally found the pedlar in
hog pen hid behind large specimen Of live
pork.
THE Hon. Roger Sherman died at New Ha-
ven on the 4th inst, IN his S8th year. He was
a son of Hon. Roger Sherman, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence,
one of the leading men in framing the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and one of the
statesmen that our country ever pos
sessed.
TIE Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives, on the 5th inst, by vote of l03 to 80,
refused to repeal the act which confers upon
jurors the right of judging deciding the
question of the constitutionality of any law.
This is important to the people of the State.
SO far as it bears upon the enforce
ment or non-enforcemen. OF the Maine Liquor
Law.
THE EXPRESS train from Norfolk (Va.) to
Weldon On. Co. on Monday, went through
curve in the bridge near Marriottsville, killing
Messrs. Adams s. Co.'S express messenger, Mr..
Daugherty, mail agent, and Charles Neal, a
boy. The engineer and several of the passen-
gers were severely injured. The train, after
the accident, took fire and was entirely des-
troyed.
PETITION has been presented to the New
York Legislature, asking that a law be passed
making every alternate year ssleap year,