Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-04-09

masters.
THERE are 200 barrels of flour in store in
| Quincy, Illinois.
The CROP of maple sugar this year is esti-
mated at s., 900 600.
THERE are fourteen female physicians now
practicing in Boston.
CELEBRITY OR DEATH,'' as the rat said when
his tail was caught in the trap.
The wooL clip of Washington CO., last year
was 2,9is, ,92l pounds, worth 81, ,l35, ,s9s.
The fellow who slept under the ascover of
night" says that he came very near freezing.
UNTRUE.-The report that Ex-Goy. Bigler,
OF California, has been nominated as Minister
to Sweden.
The Dubuque Tribune says that five hun
dred good mechanics will be wanted in that
city the coming season.
MARTIN koszrA has married a rich widow in
Chicago, Illinois, and settled himself on a farm
for which he paid $4,000.
Co.. A. X. M'CLuRE has been appointed Su-
perintendent of the Erie and North East Rail
road, in place of Joseph Casey, resigned.
LETTER from Hon. James Buchanan saws,
that he will leave tor the United States, in the
steamer Arago, advertised to sail from Havre,
for New York, on the 9th of April.
a CoRoNER's jury in Columbus, Georgia,
lately held an inquest over the dead body of a
slave child of eight years, and returned that
it came to its death by blows inflicted by its
mistress, Mrs. Elizabeth Clayton.
A Mr.. ALTMAN, at Gallatin. Va, blew up his
house and store, killing himself and severely
injuring his wife, by accidentally dropping
lighted cigar into keg of powder which he
was passing. The accident occurred on the
2lst of March.
THE Montreal Advertiser says that some idea
of the snow in that region may be formed from
the fact that there are drifts in the neighbor-
hood of the esMile End' 90 feet high on level
land, actual measurement. A warm rain would
create a disastrous flood there.
DEsTrrUTIoS IN TExAs.-So shocking is the
condition Of the roads between Indianola and
the Gulf coast of Texas, that flour was worth
twenty-five dollars barrel at the latest adyi-
ces, and at some other places in that section
il could not be bought at all.
At Dexter, Me-, recently, the floor of the
Town Hall gave way during an excited cleo
tion of town officers, and two hundred and fifty
persons were precipitated int the room and
cellar below, and no one was killed or serious
ly wounded, though some appeared to be bad
ly MANNED.
PARLIAMENTARY VITA resolution offered
by Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, in the British
House of Commons, was designated by Lord
Palmerston as s.Much Ado About Nothing.''
laundering cheers followed the reminder given
to the Premier by Bulwer, that ssMuch Ado
About Nothing follows, in chronological Or
der, after the ''Comedy of fErrors.''
A SHoEMAKER received note from a lady
to whom he was particularly attached, request
ing him to make her pair of shoes, and not
knowing eXectly the style she required, he
dispatched written miSsive to her, asking her
whether she would like them 's Uround or Esq.
Toad" The fair one, indignant at this rich
specimen Of photography, replied, s.Kneethcr.'
THE number of bills which Governor Wins
ton, of Alabama, has regarded it his duty TO
veto, has obtained for him the name of the
'EVeto Governor" He has recently vetoed
two bills that purport to incorporate villages,
but which contain ssnot sentence to be found
going to incorporate either of them.'' The
only point in the acts is the regulation of the
sale of liquor.
In Y. Carolina, within six miles of Greens
boro,' Rev. John B. Marsh reports family
who had never heard any person pray orpleach,
had never seen Bible, or heard of Jesus,
Throughout ssthe Pines,'' where every body
is engaged in making turpentine, he found
similar specimens ofheathcnism not one half
the population according to his estimate, hay
ing ever seen Bible.
THE demolition of the Irving House, in n.
Y York, has been commenced. Its central front
is to be replaced with marble, and several ele-
CANT stores fitted up. II is stated that the
Messrs. Delmonico refused $4,000 for their
lease of one wing of this building. The Ir-
wing House was built in 1913, and was then
thought too far up town. Now, it is too far
down for hotel.
Hollo,oay's Ointment and Pills, certain Rem
dies for Rheumatism.-Henry Foot, aged 81,
Of Natchez, Mississippi, was severe sufferer
from this complaint and tried number of re-
puted remedies, hoping they would benefit
him, but he became so bad at last, as to be en-
tirely confined to his bed, and he was unable
to more hand or foot While he was in this
horrible condition, friend brought him a
1uantity of Holloway's Ointment and Pills,
which he Immediately commenced to use he
soon found himself gradually improved by
hem, and by perseyering with them for eleven