Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-21
THE RAFTsMAn's JQgnNAl,

VILE, Sharon, ClafkSYllle, &C, all OF NHlcn
are attended with marked results.
NORTHAMPTON CoUNTY.-The next Annual
Fair of the Farmers and Mechanics Institute,
will commence at Easton on Tuesday, the 2lst
of September next, and last five days, ending
on Saturday the 25th of that month. The
barn of Edward Bell, in Lehigh township, was
entirely destroyed by fire Saturday week,
together with all its contents, consisting OF
hay, straw, grain. &c. 1t was partly insured
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THE HooP TRADE.-Douglas & Sherwood,
the hoop skirt manufacturers, turn out 1000
skirts every day, and constantly employ five
hundred hands, besides $50 sewing machines
so says the Journal Of Commerce. There is
used each week not less than one ton of steel,
to aid the ladies in spreading themselves
Several floors in large building are exclusive
" occupied to their full extent with persons
engaged in cutting cloth, tape, bone and steel,
and manufacturing small metallic pieces used
in constructing the Skirt.-for all of which
process cGnningy devised machinery is en-
ployed by those who are engaged in adjusting
these parts to each other. and bringing order
out of apparent confusion. Uoop-skirt max
ing is science, and one on which patient
study has been bestowed, till by successive
improvements, an article of dress has been
produced which is thought to be favorable to
health while it coniuccs to comfort and beau
ty To illustrate the difficulty experienced
in obtaining the exact desidcratum, rattan,
cord whalebone and brass have been success
sively employed and rejected, in whole or in
part as too brittle, too rigid, too flexible, ect.,
and of course, much valuable machinery had
to be thrown aside as useless, with each change
II troduccd. Now, kind of English steel s
substituted, after being subjected to high
heat, and suddenly being plunged into cold
oil and again transferred to bath of melted
lead to give it the proper temper and elasticI-
| ty. Such quantities of the material thus pre-
{ sIAh
| forwards the weekly instalment from Connect
! icut to the factory in New York, is yclept the
| .hoop train.'' and of course, is regarded with
| more than ordinary consideration. The fac
! tory, with its industrious population of 500
! young women, is an interesting place to visit.
THE LIQUOR BILL.-The following are the
main features of the Liquor Bill, as it has pas
sed both Houses of our State Legislature
Licenses to be granted in Philadelphia by
! the Board Of Appraisers, in Allegheny county
| by the Associate Judges and Treasurer, and
| in other counties by the Judges of the Courts,
with qualified discretionary power over the
applications.
The minimum price of licenses with sales OF
! over $1,000 to be S25, and under $1,000 TO be
| SIS. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the
| minimum to be $50. Hotels and taverns to be
| classified and rated according TO the sales.
| On sales of $4,000, the license TO be S40O ;
! on sales of $4,000, the license to be $3.50; on
sale of $1,000, the license to be $50, and on
| sales of $4,000, the license to be $50.
Retail brewers to be rated as eating houses.
Appraisers to be appointed to examine and de-
tcct aduterated and drugged liquors, and The
| sale of such liquors DrohIb bited and punished.
Licenses will be granted to houses without
limit-the Courts being required TO grant
them where the parties applying are Of good
moral character and give the required security
lFsrRF nf
the Cincinnati Inquirer, writing from Camp
Scott, Utah, says, on examining the wagons
| of the contractors for freight for the army,
there were found thousand pounds, OF
powder and other merchandise Intended for
the MormonS. and directed TO an agent OF the
Mormon church. The powder was carted
across the plains at the expense of the United
! States government for its enemies, and in the
! trains which were employed to carry proyi-
| sjons to the army which the government has
sent out to put down the Mormon rebellion.
This is taking advantage of government IL
berality with vengeance.
a ROMANCE or TWELVE LISEs.-Laura Lee
is Il daughter of wealthy farmer, near De-
troit for whom Thomas Barnes was plow boy.
Thomas, the rogue, stole Laura'S heart, ana
then herself. They ran away, and by legal
process got spiced. Old Lee offered $500 for
the recovery of his daughter. The young
couple concluded to go back and take the
money and the curses. When they arrived
home, they agreeably astonished to find
themselves heartily forgiven by the old man,
and awarded homestead and farm of sixty
acres. There was common sense all around.
FATAL MIsTAKE.-The Hon. Samuel Adams,
a member of the Massachusetts, State Senate,
had aconite prescribed as an external applica-
tion for rheumatism, a few days ago. lie
took three spoonsfull internally, which killed
him in few hours, although antidotes were
promptly and freely given him.
THE run of shad in the Delaware river has
been greater during the past week than for
many years past. 1t was so great on Monday
and Tuesday, says the Trenton Republican.
that some of the seines broke down under the
immense quantities of fish enclosed, and many
shad escaped through the rents.
1t is a curious and affecting circumstance
that infant grandson of Col. Benton, the
child of William Carey Jones, died in the
house of his grandfather, within few hours
of that grandfather's decease.