Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-04-30
CLIPPINGS AND scRIBBLISas.

/ OfTHE FoUKTEEs Presidents of the Uni;ei
States, not one was citizen of great city.
The WATER of Lake Ontario is said to h,
six inches higher than it a; this time La,
year. 81 go
iSs. .Ix LAscAsTE COUNTY the court has DECIDED
on nIicensing lsftavcrns, SO OF which are to b,
in the city.
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An ARrEsIAs WELL is being bored at Paris,
to be :, 500 feet deep and over feet diameter,
TO supply ornamental lakes with water.
The ST. LOUIS DEMOCRAT is confident that
! IOO, 900 persons will be added to the popula-
tion of Kansas before the close of 1886.
| GRIEF is bad for digestion. Lose pocket
book containing two iftics and a ten, and you
will not care for food for the next days.
CoL ". REYSoLD has been convicted Of the
murder of g. d. Satterfcld, il Patrick couu-
ty, Va, aud sent to the penitentiary for ten
years.
The LEGISLATURE of Ohio has just passed
law limiting the taxes levied by incorporated
towns and cities for local purposes, to mills
! on the dollar.
THE PEonIA, Illinois, Republican says that
the peach trees generally, and many most val
liable and hardy apple-trees, were killed by
the severe cold last winter.
WnES Mr. Alexander Gun was dismissed
from the Edinburg Customs the following en-
try was made in the books GA Gun, dischar-
gcd Tor making false report"
TnE ToRSADo.-The recent storm is said TO
have extended over thousand miles of terri
tory, through which it passed in a few hours,
doing an mcafculable amount of damage.
\ YAxxEr has just invented suspender
that contracts on your approach to water, SO
that the moment you come to puddle. it lifts
YOU over, and drops you on the other side.
TuE EXTREME cold weather the past winter
froze the water in the pipes in Reading city
and burst them in many places, so that many
Of the citizens had no water in their hydrants-
The low REPUBLIoAS says there will be five
! eclipses this year-two of the sun-two of the
,noon-aud one of Frank Pierce. The latter
will be visible all over the United States in
November next.
OREGoS is taking measures TO be admitted
into the Union The population is said to be
now, over fifty thousand, 'swith more wealth
than any other community of fifty thousand
people on the globe
Az IR1sn PAPER says that extensive T'rcpa-
rations are going forward in the northern pro-
vinces Of ireland, for The cultivation of pota-
I taas ,i.a ensuing season, and ,hat in 1866. one
million acres were planted.
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TnE MryIcIPAL rLscrIox in PhiIadelphia
takes place on the 9Th of May. ThcAmcrican
candidate for Mayor Is Henry D. Moore. and
that Of the Locofocos is Richard Yaux, and
the contest is becoming very spirited.
THE Washington Sentinel says that, Wit,
the exception OF Pierce,-i viii support any
nominee that the Democratic Convention shall
deem, after fair canvass of the qualifications
OF al, the most suitable for the coming contest.
TnE TRIAL OF the Wakeinanite's IN Atw Ia-
ven Was brought to close, quite abruptly, on
April Il; the insanity Of the prisoners becanls
SO apparent that the States Attorney refused
to proceed. Verdict rendered MOI guilty on
account Of inssnity.'
4 METHODIST Preacher has arrived in the
Crimca to minister TO the Mcthodists among
the English troops, and Lord Panmure has
given him an order Tor rations during his stay
There are already Episcopalian, Roman Cath
| ole, and Presbyterian chaplains there
\ WIDOW, residing in the village OF. Douchy.
France, committed suicide, recently, by shut
ting herself up in a box. When found, she
was carefully wrapped in linen. She was up
wards Of 50 years af age. Disappointed love
IS said to be the cause of this set of despair.
PuBLIc SrMPAfHY.-The Bridgeport (Ct.)
Standard contains the call for mass meeting
OF Citizens, in reference to the personal en-
harrasSlnents of i. I. Barnum, and to extend
to him their sympathies, etc.
G5-The poor prince of humbugs! Let him
alone. he viii look out for number one.
When the editor of Mississippi paper
threatened, in print, 'sto put full stop over
each Of the eyes OF the editor of the Louisville
Journal Prentice replied 'sWhile he is put
ting full stop over our eyes, we will put his
nose in a parenthesis.' 1t is hard getting the
advantage Of Prentice.
ROYAL CANDoR.-Geo II being informed
that an impudent printer was TO be punished
for having published spurious kings speech,
replied that he hoped the punishment would
be OF the mildest sort, because he had read
both, and as far as he understood either of
them, he liked the spurious speech better than
his own.
A VALUABLE PATEST.--Itis announced that
Yankee has invented machine to extract
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