Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-05-27
CLIPPINGS AND scR,BsLlncs.
WBusy-the farmers.

0JBusy-the farmers.
DGetting home-our raftsmen.
DyAdjourned-the Legislature, on last Fri
day. The sslog bill'' failed.
DZOrnamental--to have the sidewalks fill
ed up with boxes, barrels, wheelbarrows, &c.
rHot--the weather. The past two or
three days have brought on the 'spring fever
O-The tobacco-chewer is said to be like
goose in Dutch oven-always on the spit.
OEvery woman is born with a MASTER
mind-that is to say, with mind to be mas
ter, if she can.
DIMaj. Benjamin Mccullough declines the
Governorship of Utah, which was rendered
him recently by President Buchanan.
UEWm. Mellon, raftsman from Crawford
county, Pa, was drowned near Cincinnati last
week, in attempt to save a raft.
OvThe sum of $4,000 has been subscribed
in South Carolina, during the past few weeks,
to send emigrants to Kansas.
Oy-The Weekly Indianola, Iowa, Visitor,
says that cattle are dying by thousands all over
that State, Of actual starvation.
OIAbout twelve thousand negroes left the
United States for Africa during the last year.
NJ ore than half of them were emancipnted for
the purpose.
O5-A certain gallant editor thinks when
single gentleman can't pass a clothes line
without counting all the long stockings, it is
a sign he ought to get married, and the sooner
the better
D-MCKM's DEATH WARRAST.-Gov. Pol
lock has issued the death-warrant of David
Strnger McKim. He will be hung on Friday,
the 2lst of August next, at Holiday sburg,
Blair county.
~Prevailing here--the western fever. l.
saac Graham, James Hamilton and - Thomp-
son left our town the beginning of this week,
for the west. E. S. Dundy, Esq, will also
leave in few days.
~Eggs, can, it is said be better preserved
| in corn meal than in any other preparation yet
known. Lay them with the small end down,
and if undisturbed they will be as good at the
end of year as when packed.
Dy-The Erie Observer says A young man,
named Knox, printer, has been troubled with
a sad bereavement. An uncle, whom he had
never seen, died the other day and left him
| 5000. Mr.. Knox has our entire sympathy.
DyMiss Mary ]. Stedman eoped last Friday
a-weck from the Auburn, N. Y, Female Sem
mary with a small, Insignificant fellow, and a
married man, with two children, at that. The
romantic Miss was taken in custody at Syra-
cuse, but her seducer escaped.
GA very singular disease, of a contagious
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be prevalent among cattle in the neighborhood
| of Lower Canada West. The disease first ap-
pears in the legs, causing swelling, then an
4 immediate aud total rot of the hoof and legs.
! OZ-At Cleveland, Mississippi, the even
ing of the 10th inst, Mr.. W. ID. Mckree, prin-
cpal of Georgetown Academy, in that State,
was married to Miss Mary Roberts, and at mid
night, during the rejoicing of the bridal party
present, he fell dead in their midst.
IVA Kansas correspondent TO the Rich
| mond Dispatch speaking of Mr.. .Staunton, says ::
Mr.. Staunton, the Acting Governor, has taken
| hold, and promises to become popular, if he
can make himself satisfied to remain though
| never saw a man who looks more like "curs-
ing and quitting"
OIThe Clarion Democrat says :-"Some
man whose conscience troubled him. recent
" returned ten dollars to the State Treasurer,
as money belonging to the State. He does
not take the Democrat" We presume, the
editor wishes us to infer that if the man had
taken his paper, his ssconscence" would have
induced him to retain the money and cheat the
| State out Of it
u-An old maid recently died at Newton,
n. H., who left property to the value of nearly
$40, 0,000.-She was all her life time getting
ready to DC married, and had stored up 1S2
sheets, 63 coverets, sc blankets, % beds, with
1920 pounds of feathers, 54 pillows, 45 hand
kerchiefs; while the whole amount of her
wearing apparel did not exceed ten dollars in
value.