Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-01
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command Of the troops in Oregon territory
| E5~A political paper in Minnesota says the re-
tail price of Minnesota Legislator is $500
tSA poor lawyer hung himself in Milwaukee
last week Having no Cause he left no effects.
EB The latest novelty in female dress is a new
| style OF skirt, called the "Leviathan Crinoline"
| - An Irish society announced that its usual
July meeting, this year, would be held in August
~ A colony of white people has Just been set
tied in Florida, on the ground deserted by Billy
| Bowlegs.
u London has been city for nearly two tn ou-
| sand years. and contains population of two and
a half millions
| - Complaint is made in some parts of Alaba-
| ma and Georgia that the red rust is seriously in
juring the cotton
EyTThree things that never agree-two cats O.
yer one mouse. two wives in one house. or two low
ers after maiden
! SThe Mormons at Salt Lake city are still dis
satisfied and unruly. They insult the gentiles
whenever an opportunity occurs.
! ~ Bishop M'Gill, of Richmond Va, has re-
eeived from Archbishop Hughes, of n y, present
/ of magnificent pair of carriage horses
- According the Louisville Courier the pres
ent crop of corn throughout Kentucky, Indiana,
Illinois, and Tennessee, will be the heaviest ever
grown
| TT@An incorrigibIe wag, who had lent a minis
/ ter horse. which ran away and threw its rider.
i thought he should have some aid in spreading
the gospel.
ly'Miltary encampments have been ordered in
| WilliamspOrt Sept7th, Bellefonte Goth, Holidays
| burg 9th. and others in Snyder county, Aleghe
! ny and Dauphn counties.
| E-5-Of the forty-cight Senators who took their
seats in the Eighteenth Congress in 1923, only two
! survive Martin Van Buren, of New York, and John
Branch of North Carolina.
somebody thinks that because woman sent
the first word the Ocean Telegraph. it will be
talking all the time. We wish it would, and talk
little faster than it does now.
YEA slave case was tried in Madison CO., Ky.
on the tn and 18th of August. A white woman
who had been held in bondage from infancy more
than twenty years, was declared free.
ES-The papers quarreling with Queen Vic
because she addressed the President as 1.-The Hon
orable,'' instead of His Excelency" Titles a.
mong Democratic people! Fudge!
Iy7A Berks county farmer speaksin high terms
of the crimson clover-a new species of clover OBJ
tanned through the Patent Office. The seeds
sown the 18th of April, and ripencd on the 10Th
of July.
I-y-It is stated that Gov Wise, of Va, contem-
plates purchasing land and removing to Tazewell
county. This is in the extreme west of the State,
and it looks as if the Governor was going in for
free labor
r-y9A slave woman in Florence Ky, beat out the
brains of her born babe, the night of the
18th August, alleging as reason, when arrested.
''that she would raise up children to work for
others all their lives -
E-FThere is an ordinance in the city of London
requiring fve-eghths inch tube to be inserted
the ceiling in every room, for the purpose of
letting off the gas in of accident careless
ness. A good precaution
EsF0n the 9th August, at Cincinnati. man was
blowing in his gun to see if it was loaded, when
dog bounded playfuly towards him, struck the
trigger with his paw and blowed the mans brains
out, killing him instantly.
EF-Mr. Forsyth. our Minister TO Mexico. and
Mr.. Henry, who was bearer of dispatches, will re-
turn home on the sloop of war Plymouth. Orders
were sent not long since for that vessel to sail for
Vera Cruz that mission.
sg-In England, there is at present great de-
preston of trade-thc natural result of the late
panic. Great Britain has felt that unfortunate re-
vusion severely as ourselves. Like us 1t is now
dull and spirtless in business.
E5f-A distinguished Berlin professor has lately
produced paper in regard to the worlds pOpula-
tion in which he arrives at the conclusion that the
globe is at present inhabited by twelve hundred
and eighty-three millions of people.
Ey'Unparaellcd horror and tremendous excite
ment resulted in st. Louis from the finding of the
dead bodies of two fine looking children in box.
A Coroner was called, and jury scrapcd together
when the children were found to be wax.
TENT. Bell. editor of the Tyrone STIR. has pros
ecuted Mr.. Traugh editor of the Holidaysburg
StaRdard, for libel and the latter has been bound
over in the sum of 5000 to answer at the next sit
ting of the Quarter Sessions of Blair county.
10 Horse Radish, bruised and applied to the
wrist a kind of poultice, is said to give imme
diate relief in cases of toothache or neuralgia.
1t should be applied to the wrist that side of the
body which is affected by the disease pain.
E-9-A lady was taken by surprise in Mississippi,
the other day. At least we judge so from the fact
that John b. Surprise was married to Sallie A.
Stocks-s.fancy stocks" presume. They will
probably have little surprises occasionally.
TEA female correspondent. of ST. Louis paper
speaks of sight she saw lately, that made her
smack her lips. 1tseems pity that the ladies in
that city have to smack their own lips In this
latitude the men always ready to save them
that trouble
.S@A little boy 10 years old recently missed
by his parents and was found after some days in a
spring-lock trunk '.It closed with a spring and
his checks young bloom, was blanched in the damp
of a living tomb Who does not remember the
sadly sweet song of the ''Mistetoe bough."
rS7It is stated that the father of lady in the
vicinity of New Bedford Mass. recently presented
her with a check-good wheat'-for 10000, in
view of her matrimonial alliance. Truly such a
cteck-ered life that wOuldn' It be hard to lead.
We wish somebody would endeayor to ''check" our
career in that way.
E1g7A man in Allegheny county recently got
drunk and whipped his wife. She threatened to
leave him and packed up her kitfor that purpose.
He became repentant and gave her oeed in her
name for the house and lot in which they liv
ed worth Sl100. This at once ended the dispute o,
woman, thou art good at bringing to terms
70 Everything must have altered very much in
short time only few years since Gen. Jackson,
being seated between two ladies said he felt like
thorn surrounded with roses. v 5. NJ. says, a
few days ago, while riding in an omnibus, and be
ing seated between two ladies, he felt like stave
in hogshead of molasses, surrounded by hoops.
EF7The st. Louis Republican 1oco) states that a
census of the city is about to be ordered by the
s.Black Republican city authorizes. and maniess
alarm on the subject. This movement is thought
to have something to do with an intended expo
sure of the fraud by which Blair was defeated.
The Republican wants it put off to more eonve-
nient season.
Ey-The genius who perpetrated the following,
it Is said, tainted after the effort, and caI-
ried off shutter