Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-20
GLEANINGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


Mountains in search of food.
Wendle Philips says no Yankee is satisfied
with the truth, unless you prove it is worth
eight or ten percent.
The man who was frightened by the bark of
a tree, is supposed to have been of nervous
temperament.
Some people turn up their noses at this
world as if they were in the habit of keeping
company with better one.
The Allegheny Valley Railroad has been
completed to Kittannng, and trains have COM
menced making regular trips.
A great central sea in Africa has been
recently discovered between the Equator and
10 degrees south latitude. 1t is twice as large
as the Black Sea, and has no outlet.
About four weeks ago, a pair Of horses, with
an open sleigh, came up to the door of a tav
ern in the southern part of Minnesota. and the
landlord, on going out, found the bodies of
FIVE men frozen stiff in the sleigh.
1t is stated that the stagnation of business
in Cincinnati is SO great, that there are over
ten thousand applicants for relief from the
public charities.
The small pox is prevailing to a great ex-
tent in Philadelphia, n orristown and Whining
ton, m any cases have occurred, some of which
have proved fatal.
The Syracuse Chronicle says two hundred
fugitive slaves haye passed through that city
the past year, and thirteen within the last
twelve days.
They keep smart officials out West One Of
the postmasters wrote TO the Department in
quiring whether .sthem little pictur's Of Wash
ington'' would pay postage
The Cincinnati Gazette states that the five
leading offices in that county yield the follow
ing profits: Treasurer, $4,000; Clerk, S25,-
600; Auditor, s18,O 600; Sheriff, 900; Pro-
bate Judge, 1000.
A package of letters reached Falls Village,
Conn.,, last Friday a-week, which was mailed
at Hartford July 4th, 1854 In the package
was note of over $1,000, directed to the Iron
Bank.
Thomas J. Snyder, humane and intelligent
farmer residing in Delaware, has adopted the
plan Of strewing quantity of wheat-screen-
ings around the fences of his fields, every few
days, for the use of the birds.
Three young ladies, on going to bed at Mr..
Hunts near North Salem, Hendricks county,
Ia, few evenings since, took vessel of live
charcoal into their bedroom, and on the next
morning were all found dead.
a firm in Worcester advertise four thousand
barrels of -four, on consignment, comprising
the choicest brands, at from fifty cents to a
dollar less than current prices. This looks
like a premonitory symptom of a decline in
breadstuffs.
\ railroad passenger car, weighing eight
tons, left Washington City, on the 18th inst,
for Alexandria, drawn by five horses over the
ice on the Potomac. When last heard from,
more than half way to Alexandria, it was mo-
wing safely.
The Tyrone Era of last Thursday says-The
United Brethren have quite revival going on
at the present time, in that place There has
been upwards OF twenty converted TO God,
since the meeting commenced, and the pros
pect is quite favorable for as many more.
The New Orleans Sun tells of machine
which has been invented :Sout South,'' which
enables a man to tell when he is getting too
drunk. 1t is called a faddEeometer, and gives
timely warning by hitting q fellow suddenly
under the short ribs the moment he has got
enough.
Among the speakers at the Republican Mass
Convention at Concord, n. H., was Judge
BlaisdeII, of Lebanon, one of the main pillars
of the Democratic party from the beginning,
who declared that the ultra pro-slavery acts of
Gen. Pierce's administration had made it i'm
possible for him or other honest democrats
longer to act with that party.
The steamship Prometheus arrived at New
Orleans on the 18th inst, from California,
bringing with her three hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars in gold. Another battle had been
fought between the United States troops and
the Indians at Walla-wala, in which the for
mer had twenty-three men killed and wound
ed. The loss TO the Indians is not given.
The Boston Filtration, rendered tragic by
the death of young Summer few weeks after
the assault upon him by the aggrieved hus-
bands, has terminated in the acquittaI ofCoburn
and Dalton, who were charged with manslaught-
er. Physicians testified that he died from a
sore throat, caused by exposure to the weather,
and not from the injuries they inflicted.
Mr.. Edward Everett, in contribution of
mis- to the n. a. Review, makes honorable
mention of the department of Jurisprudence in
this country, and inquires,-s' What country
in Europe can produce within one generation
six names as distinguished in this department
as those OF Marshall, Story, Kent, Webster,
Pinkney and Wheaton, not to name some who
still live.''
.Amissionary of the American Sunday School
Union, in Iowa, writes, that during the intense
" cold season many persons have lost their