Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-03-04
CLIPPINGS AND scmBsLInes.

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OMarch came in .slike a lion''-we hope
| it will go ont sslike a lamb
ny-That bright little monthly. The schoolfel-
| lote, for February is on our table.
GgVery acccptable-the turnips which our
| friend Jacob Irwin brought us few days ago.
| u Good for Colds, Coughs, Asthma, &C.
Robins Expectorant and Compound Syrup of
| Wild Cherry. See advertisement.
VThe Boston Pilot, an intense blood and
fire Roman Catholic paper, has the annual ad-
vertisement of the Post Office proposals for
carrying the mails throughout the country.
vA resolution has passed the House at
Harrisburg. in favor Of appropriating $4,000
for the erection of a Gubernatorial Mansion
building much needed.
~The wheat crop of this State in 1855 wa.
| l8,250,00O bushels, being greater than any 9TH
er State in the Union. The whole crop of the
country was 1lS, ,53s, 900 bushels.
UBecoming acknowledgements in Ie-
| gislative bodies. They have got a little affair
of the kind on hand at Harrisburg, of which
our correspondent 'Cnjus' gives an account
See his letter.
WAaron Irely was found guilty at the late
term of the Clinton County Court, of stealing
horse from Geo. Custard in last October, and
sentenced to.two and half years. imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary, pay fine of $3.50
and costs of prosecution.
~A grocery kept by a man named Cross,
| in Wesleyrile, Erie county, was entered on
Saturday last a-week, by a number of men and
women of that village, and his liquor emptied,
bottles broke, and every vestige of intoxica-
ting drinks entirely destroyed
Impracticalle.-D Hall recommends.
by way of prevention against taking cold, that
persons going out of heated rooms into the o.
pen air should keep their mouths shut The
caution may be very wise and judcious, but
what are the ladies to do?
WAbsent-minded-th man who went in.o
a house for the purpose of talking seriously
with its inmates on the subject of their habit
ual intoxication, and instead of taking the
master by the hand, took hold of the brandy
decanter, and did not discover his mistake un-
til admonished not to drink the whole.
GSThe Ohio Farmer estimates the profit on
sheep in that State, the last year, at Sc ,000,-
coo, and the whole amount of capital invested
at sec, 100000. The number of sheep is esti-
mated at 100000 and the wool clip last year
reached 0,196,0 coo lbs.-one-fifth of the en-
| tire wool clip of the Union.
~Nicaragua.-The New York Courier and
Enquirer publishes letter dated San Juan,
Feb. Il, which it declares to be from reliable
| source, to the effect that the troops of Lock
ridge and the woman hunter, Titus, have been
defeated at Serapiqui, and that the end OF
Walkers career is at hand.
B|The Rural New Yorker reminds farmers
that the wheat fields will need their closest
scrutiny during portions of both February and
March. When the weather is mild and thaw-
ing, see that the surface water is provided with
the means Of escaping. Proper attention to
this now will be bushels in the gransry after
harvest.
U-Child stealing, the New FORK papers say,
is practised to great extent in that city. Pro-
baby, on an average, two children in week
are abducted from their homes while playing
on the sidewalk, and are detained until the af-
flicted. parents offer reward for them, when
the kidnappers bring their little victims to
light and receive the money. They ought to
! receive place in the State Prison.
: \ WARSISG TO CALIrHUMpIANs-A num-
Der Of young men who had annoyed wedding
party, in Chester county, with the outlandish
noise of calithumpian band, consisting of
shorse- -fddle,'' &c, were tried in the Chester
county court, week before last, for riot-were
convicted and fined each S25 and costs, and
| received a very wholesome lecture fromJudge
Haines. We are rather inclined to say, it ser
we'd them right.
~Talton B. Butler, timber cutter of Seri-
ven county, Ga, went to Savannah, to sell
timber, and was taken sick, and it was thought
died. There being boat about to leave, his
remains were deposited in coffin and sent
| home. On opening the coffin after its arrival,
he was discovered to smile. Medical assist
ance was Immediately called, and it is said
that he is fast recovering. He was in the cof-
fin nearly two days and nights.
WThe New York American State Council
finished session on last Wednesday at Troy.
| The Binghampton Platform was reafirmed,
with additional resolutions, declaring that un-
der every political complication the question
of Americanisna shall take precedence, and
that the American Party is unalterably opposed
| to the extension of Slavery into territory from
which ithas been excluded by the Missouri
Compromise, and opposing the of the
| power of the General Government to extend
| the institution of Slavery. All the secret ma