Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-04-16
GLEANINGS.

| OF the Amazon.
THERE is clothing establishment in Pari.
which employs sc sewing machines and / ,O0C
women and girls in sewing.
| A BROTHER of Santa Anna is in Louisville,
/ KY, and contemplates building saw-mill on
( the Beargrass River, near that city.
On LAST Friday night, fire occurred on 4th
and Chesnut streets, Philadelphia, destroying
property amounting to about 1868 900.
PARTISAN paper says ssit is mistake that
the (opposition) party plays on a harp of a
thousand strings. The organ of that party is
a lyre."
CHoLERA.-This disease appears to be still
raging at Pernambuca. For the days end
ing the lst March, the Board of Health repor-
ted 23s deaths.
The LOSS flcattle by the cold weather in
Texas has been immense. Not less than one
third of the stock in many counties, it is sup
posed, has been lost.
THE Alexandria (Ya.) Sentinel announces
the death of Mr.. George Wise, of that city, at
an advanced age. He was the last survivor of
the pall-bearers who oficiated at the funeral
of General Washington.
THE EXPORTS of oil, bone and candles from
the United States to foreign countries during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1855, as we
gather from the annual report, amounted to
more than three millions of dollars
THE statistical returns of Providence, R. l.,
show that two patent medicine establishments
in that city render the enormous product of
1000 barrels and 432, 900 bottles of medicine,
during the year, valued at S7Oo, 900. Horrible!
NoRwEGIASs.-The Madison (Wis.) Journal
learns that the Norwegian population of Dane
co. amounts to 662S persons. They constitute
the majority of the inhabitants in several of
the towns, and are Industrious and good citi-
zens.
The SWORD worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at
the battle of Marengo, il l800 was purchased
by the Emperor Nicholas in 1850, just half a
century after that eventful and bloody battle,
for the enormous sum of Mirfy-t,co thousand
dollars.
HoRRIBLE.-The negro who murdered M.
Capeheart. an overseer, at Mount Meigs Ala
bama, on the lst of April, was taken out by
the citizens, on the next day, and burned to
death. He acknowledged his guilt while at
the stake.
THE CLERK engaged in the robbery of Bail,
Black Co., in n. y, whose name is G.. W.
Hayden, was arrested on Tuesday Sth inst, at
the New Haven Depot, and the whole of the
booty recovered, amounting to about $40, 900.
He was committed for trial.
\ New ARTICLE of soap, made from cotton
seed, has been manufactured at New Orleans
1t is purely vegetable, and has the same pro-
perties as CASTLE soap; the color is dark, fer
the reason that it is made of the drtiest por-
tion of the seed. 1t is sold at cents per ID.
In Connecticut the forces opposed to the
Administration had four tickets in the field
yet they have five maj ority in the Senate, and
seven in the House-three districts to hear
from. There is no choice for State officers,
but the Legislature viii select men of the
right stripe.
THERE is a school mistress teaching school
in the town of Lisbon who stands in her stock
ing-feet six feet seven inches. Her name is
Wilkinson, and it is stated that she is the short
est of family Of four children, three women
and one man, whose united length is over %
feet inches.
CRors IN TEXAs.-The eNueces Valley pub
lished at Corpus Christi, states-ssthat Judging
from the very considerable number of new
farms that have been opened this spring in the
Valley of the Nueces, there will be at least
four times as much corn raised in this and the
adjoining counties as during any previous year.
WORTH HAvING.-An short time since
number of gentlemen connected with the Gen.
trail Orthodox Church in Lynn, Mass, made
call on their pastor, the Rev. Mr.. Sewall, and
when the company withdrew, one of the num-
Der placed in the clergyman's hand package |
containing over one thousand dollars (SIO25,) |
present to him from few members of his |
parish and church.
THE MISSING SrEAHER.-The shin Marenpo
arrived at New York On Sunday from Havre, |
after very boisterous voyage of 80 days.
On the 23d of February, being short of provi- |
sions and water, she put into Fayal, and hay
ing been supplied, she sailed again on the oath.
but she brings no intelligence of the missing
steamship Pacific, which had been then out 80
days from Liverpool.
The st. Louis Democrat of April I'd. saws: |
Some days ago terrible and prolonged storm |
visited large district of country bordering on
the Lower Mississippi, obliging numbers of |
steamers to halt on their trips and tie up along
the shore. During the storm, fire, supposed
to be caused by lightning, occurred in Napo-
leon, at the mouth of the Arkansas river, and
totally destroyed that part of the town 'front.'
ing the river.