Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-02-11
CLIPPINGS AND scRiesLlncs.


Preston King, Republican, as
Us. Senator from New orl
@-Interesting letter of our correspon.
dent s.Oldtown." Read it.
D-"Riz''-the price of whalebone. The
great demand for 'shoops'' is the cause.
0S-Midas was SO great man, that every
thing he touched turned to gold-altered case
now: touch a man with gold and he will
change into anything.
0EHe who is not fair before 20, nor strong
before 30, nor witty before 40, nor rich before
so, is one upon whom hops and malt are thrown
away.
UIA man named John Cotton, who was
found guilty of manslaughter In the second
degree, in Yazoo, Miss, was sentenced to fffy
gears Imprisonment in the pententiary.
U-The stock of cotton in Mobile, on the
18th January, was 200, 900 bales. All the ware
houses and vacant lots in the city were occu-
pied, and still there was not sufficient ROOM
NyIn Fayette county, Pa, Mr.. Kennedy
Bryson, of North Union tp., shot an eagle, a
few days since, near the residence of his ia
ther, which measured feet between the tips
of the wings.
D5-A bill has been introduced into the Le-
gislature of North Carolina sSto encourage and
promote matrimony." Don't need such law
here-young men plenty, and calico always
ready to join.
Gy-A Sugar House in New York, lately sold
100000 worth of common brown sugar for
10 cents per pound-a higher price, it is said
than the same article ever brought in that
market.
GyCoal digging in Pennsylvania is safer
business than gold digging in California, and
pays as we'll. Our coal business amounts to
forty millions year, and California yields but
that amount of gold.
TGone to Cabinet making.-It is said that
Charles B. Huntingdon, recently convicted of
forgery, and sentenced to State Prison, has
been assigned to the cabinet-shop, where he is
engaged in planning and saving boards.
GIThe openers of dead letters in the Cen
eral Post Office, at Washington, found l 300
which contained money. The aggregate a
mount is S1l ,275. Seven eighths of this mo-
ney has been restored to its owners.
CIKilled-a panther, by a Mr.. Kunes, in
Goshen township, Clearfeld county, on the
9th January. Some more of these svarmints'
are in the neighborhood, but We haven't heard
of any other being shot.
GTThc rascals of New York have taken to
bagging their victims. The other night, two
of them drew bag over the head OF Thomas
Hanna, hauled him into cellar on the corner
of Irving place and Eighteenth street, and
robbed him.
C-A letter postmarHed Mountville, Pa,
states that the body Of an unknown man, ap-
parently so TO so years Of age, was found ly-
ing on the turnpike road between Columbia
and Marietta on the morning of the 30th of
January, with the throat cut from ear to ear.
vThere are tribes in Borneo who have a
terrible superstition that leads them to hunt
their fellow men in order to get their heads,
believing that the souls Of the beheaded will
be their slaves in another world. If they'd
get the souls of some people we know of, what
diminutivo slaves they would have!
UTWe see by the Hollidaysburg papers that
W. S. II. Keys, tried in the Blair county Ses-
sions for assault and battery with attempt to
commit rape, was acquitted on the second
charge, but found guilty on the charge of as
sault and battery. His counsel moved in ar
rest Of Judgment, and for a trial for rea-
sons fled.
CS-On Tuesday morning the Sd inst, man
by the name of James Kid was found dead on
the ice beneath theAllegheny bridge, at Pitts
burg. An inquest was held on the body, and
a verdict rendered that, the deceased came to
his death by either falling or being thrown
from the old Allegheny Bridge. The deceas-
ed was young man of fine promise.
A TTENTION REGULARS.-You arc or