Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19
,THg RAFTsmAn's JOURNAL.
GLEANINGs.

a kUSSO-CHISESs HoO, weighing 14oU IDS, Is
on exhibition in Cincinnati. lie grew in Clin-
ton county, Ohio.
De. Snow, of Providence, RI, estimates
the annual value of the products of the indus
try of that city at SD, ,5l3, ,152.
TuE 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 81 are professors of religion,
so candidates for the ministry, and % sons of
ministers.
Cor GARLAND, Treasurer of New Orle ans.
has become defauter and has been held to
bail in the sum of S500,000 in default of which
he was sent to prison.
Mosquitoes grow so large in Texas that they
hunt them with rifles. After they slain,
their suckers are cut of and used b. house
carpenters for augers.
An editor in Iowa has become so hollow
from depending upon the printing business a.
lone for bread, that he proposes to sell him
self for stove pipe.
a keeper of a saloon in Geelong, advertis-
ing his establishment, thus concludes-ssthose
of my patrons who may require it, shall be
sent home on wheelbarrow gratis.''
For EVERYTHING you buy, or sell, let oil
hire. make an exact bargain at first, and be not
put off to hereafter by one that says to you,
s'wc shah not disagree about tribes"
Tue FIRE and explosion of gunpowder at ST.
Martinsville, La, few days since, destroyed
property to the amount of S200,00 aud Kill
led twenty-threc persons. Most Of them were
slaves
On Saturday night, the 18th, 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 30 are
missing snd dead.
An editor down east said that he hopedto be
able to present marriage and a death as origi-
nal matter in his columns, bat unfortunately a
thaw broke up the wedding, and the doctor
got sick, and the patient recovered.
TIE CaYsrAL 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 S125,00o,
less than one-quarter what it cost.
GREAT activity in business transactions is
noticed at al the large Western cities, conse-
quent upon the re-opening of the principal
livers. From Cincinnati South, The ice has en-
.,==is, disanpeared. The nrosnects of the sea
TnE House Of Representatives Of Georgia,
on the 23d Of February, passed by a large ma
jority, bill setting apart the proceeds Of the
tax upon free negroes as a 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 a land
fever is raging there. Claims of one hundred
and sixty acres, within two and a half miles OF
that city, selling at from $500 to $780,
Fer one farm joining the city on the west the
owner has been offered So 900 in gold, which
was refused.
PUN0u furnishes the last argument yet dis
covered against moustaches. He paints two
rough Crimean soldiers, with pipes in their
mouths, and a thicket of hair all over their IA
ces, meeting, and one complains to the other:
81 tell yer what, 1 don't half like these nous
taches. T.ey DO mop up such a los Of grog.''
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 q large specimen of live
pork,
The Hon. Roger Sherman died at New Ha-
ven cn 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
soundest statesmen that our country ever pos
sessed.
TIE Massachusetts House of Represents
tives, on the 5th inst, by vote of lo3 to 14O,
refused TO repeal the act which confers upon
jurors the right of judging or deciding the
question Of the constitutionality of any law
This is important to the people of the State,
especially so far as it bears upon the enforce
ment or non-enforcement of the Maine Liquor
Law.
THE EXPRESS train from Norfolk (ya.3 to
Weldon (N. C.) on Monday, went through
curve in the bridge near Marriottsville, killing
Messrs. Adams & Co.'S express messenger, Mr..
Daugherty, mail agent, and Charles Neal,
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