Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-05-21
CLIPPINGS AND sCRIBBLINGs.

tail OF time anu cries, Hait hat
THE ADVERTISING in the London Times, is
said to yield the handsome sum of So 900, 900
a-year.
THE NEXT Exhibition of the Pennsylvania
State Agricultural Society will be held at
Pittsburg.
THE TERMS of eleven Senators of this State
| expired with the late session, of whom seven
were Loco's.
CONGRESS has been in session nearly six
months, and has passed but eight public bills,
and very few private ones.
A BILL, to increase the capital of the Co
lumbia Bank, from S250,000 to $500, 900, pas
sed the late Penn'a Legislature.
THE whole number of Quakers in the United
States is stated in the Philadelphia Journal at
| 262, ,S53. They have IA meeting houses.
AN OTTER wa, killed in Warwick, r. l., by
S. FL. Luther, which was five feet long and
weighed 25 pounds. The skin is worth fifteen
dollars.
A DIVIDEND of four per cent, for the last six
months, has been declared by the PennsylVa-
MIA Railroad Company, from the net earnings
of the road.
"THE WHEAT CROP of Indiana and the great
Northwest says the Madison (Ind) Courier,
ssnever was more promising than at the pre-
sent season."
THE LONGEST Steamboat in the world is the
Isaac Newton. She is 40i feet long, and has
state-rooms sufficient to accommodate one
thousand persons.
CUSTOMERS WORTH HAvING.-One firm inI. on
don pays the Times S150,000 a-year for adyer-
tiSing. Several other firms pay over $4,000
annually for advertising alone.
A NEW Postage Stamp has been oy,lered, by
the Post Master General, with a head of JEFF
ferson, of the value of five cents, expressly to
prepay postage on foreign letters.
THE ODD FELLOWS had grand time at their
Anniversary, in Cincinnati on the 24th ut.-
The procession, four abreast, was three miles
long and numbered 1000 of the fraternity.
THE LEGISLATURE of New York adjourned
without passing the usual appropriation bills
through neglect or otherwise. The State Will
have to rely on its own credit to sustain itself
A LITTLE GIRL died lately at Boston from ex-
cess in jumping rope. She jumped about two
hundred times without stopping. Immediate
ly after, she took sick, and died the next day.
Ma. CHoArE, was recently asked, how he
thought the conversational powers of Samuel
Rogers would compare with those of Mr.. Web
ster. He replied, 'sas fiddle to two hundred
organs"
PoET, in e'doing the pathetic,' - began
stanza thus ssSorrow came and left its Traces
-whereupon wag inquired if the bard could
inform him how Sorrow had disposed of the
rest of its HARNESS.
AsroUSDlHG.-The Councils of New York
voted to add 1000 dollars additional to the
salary Of Mr.. Comptroller Flagg, which that
gentleman refused TO rcceire. Whoever before
heard of such refusal2
THE MoRMoSs are moving in the matter of
the admission of their State Into the Union
The subject of their admission will be vex-
ed one, and will occasion much discussion in
Congress and elsewhere.
NICARAGUA ExcrrEMENr.-The recognition
of Don Viii, by the President, as Minister
from Nicaragua. has given great impetus to
the Nicaragua fever at New Orleans, and many
new recruits are going out in the next steamer.
THE FREEMAsoNs of New York intend build
ing magnificent temple, which is expected to
surpasS anything of the kind in the world. 1t
is to be built of sandstone or marble, 100 by
125 feet, five stories high, and cost 100000. |
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT occurred lately on the |
railroad near Davenport, Iowa. An express
train ran off the track, while going at full |
speed, and was completely smashed up
Twelve persons were killed and great num-
Der wounded.
Accounts of the growing crops in Michigan,
Ohio. Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland, N. York
and PENNSYLVANIA, concur in representing a
very gratifying state of things, and it is pre-
dicted that the yield of breadstuffs the present
year will greatly exceed that Of last year.
ANCIENT RU1ss.-There has been discover
cd, in what is called the Big Thicket on the
San Jacinto, Texas, by 4 Mr.. Smith, some an
cient ruins Of great interest. The fragments
show that they are the remains of an edifce of
remarkable and magnificent architecture, con-
structed of material no where to be found in
that country.
AMERICAN MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION
Boston, May l4.-The anti-Fillmore portion of
the delegates to the American Convention
were in session yesterday till midnight. Six
ty delegates were present. A resolution was
passed repudiating on behalf of the American
party of Massachusetts,, the nomination of Fill
more and Donnelson, as inconsistent with the
Springfield platform and the principles to
which the American party stands pledged