Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-07-15
CLIPPINGS AND scRieslrnes.

~Heavy-the rain on Monday.
CFunny-to see hoops and crinoline get
ting over a fence.
UGoing up-the new Baptist church. The
brick work is progressing finely.
~Made recently-several new sidewalks.
Plenty of room yet for improvements of this
description.
CIOn our outside will be found an interes-
ting letter from our recent townsman, E. S.
Dundy, Esq.
"Should like to know-if the grading and
stoning of our streets has been ssdrapped. -
We hope the Sscity fathers will s:put them
through
0-Busy-our farmers making hay. Heavy
rains within the last few days have interrupted
them considerably, and may do injury to the
cut grass.
| ~The fruit crop, as far as we can gather
from the papers, everywhere promises well.-
The accounts from New Jersey indicate that
the prospect never was better.
! "Judge Laporte, OF Bradford county, says
good mule team would haul all the Packer
! will give Wimot six thousand majority!
WBack again-Senator Bigler from his
| tour to the west. He arrived in this place on
| Saturday evening. We understand he has had
| the ague, from which he has, however, entire
| ly recovered, and has good health now.
| UIt is stated that President Buchanan is
| greatly annoyed by the receipt of innumera-
| bic letters addressed to him, soliciting money
on all sorts of pretexts, in sums from $50 to
| $4,000.
0NThe Bridgeport papers announcing the
| departure of Mrs. P. 7. Barnum and family
| for Europe, state that Mr.. Barnum intends to
make his future home on the other side Of the
| Atlantic.
! OJTA car on the Marietta and Cincinnati
| Railroad, while crossing trestle-work lately,
was thrown from the track, fell SO feet, and
smashed to pieces, killing four persons and
wounding four others.
EyThe grasshoppers that have threatened
to destroy the crops in certain parts in Mime
sofa, have been killed by the recent cold and
wet weather. 1t is said that bushels of dead
grasshoppers, in masses, may be seen on the
prairies.
CE-A monster Mule.-Thc Athens (Ga)
| Herald, announces that there will appear on
| exhibition in that city, in few days, mule
that stands over twenty one hands high, (sev-
en- feet,) is ten feet in circumference, and
weighs over 5000 pounds.
TThe slim Crow' or s.side-door'' State
| Committee met at Philadelphia last week, tc
make arrangements for carrying on the cam
paign. 1t is not stated how many purchaser:
were on hand, but we presume Packer & Co
were the principal bidders.
GyAIl doubts in relation to the election il
Minnesota are at an end. Every county ha.
has been heard from. The Convention vii
consist of one hundred and two members, o
of whom fifty-nine are Republicans, and forty
three pro-slayery Democrats, leaving Re
publican majority of sixteen.
RyReed Bigler, of Clearield, son of Sen
ator Bigler, is member of the corps of engi
neers appointed to locate the wagon road from
Independence, Mo-, to California. He sailet
for California in May last, and expected t,
leave Sacramento for the mountains some tim
in June.
UThe Harrisburg Telegraph states that tn
deeds for the Main Line of the Public Works
will be delivered TO the Pennsylvania Railroa'
Company. on or about the 18th inst, when i'm
mediate possession will be taken. This vii
be an important event in the history of Penn
sylvania.
Dy-The packet ship Tuscarora arrived a
Philadelphia, last week, with living cargo O
five hundred and thirty aliens converte
to Mormonism. Their leader is Linconshir
mechanic named Richard Harper. About hal
are natives of Great Britain, the remaindc
consisting of Swedes, Danes and Norwegians
I~A lady in Carlisle, Indiana, left her in
FAINT, about month old, in its cradle, Will
she went cut in the field where her husban
was at work. When she returned, what wa
her horror to find that her child had been ste
len, and negro baby left in its place N
clue whatever, can be found OF the kidnappei
U-One of the F. F. V's.-The editor of til
, Southside (Va.) Democrat, has seen the las
female descendant of Pocahontas, and the OF
ly descendant in direct line, in the shape c
a tall, slightly Drowned female of 68 years, he
4 long rayen-black hair flowing over her shoul
y ders, while she calmly leaned over Yanke