Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-02-10
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.

PREPARED FOR THE SsRAFTsNAN's JOURNAL.
CAMBRIA CorsTY.-A meeting of iron man
ufacturers and workers was held In Johnstown
on the Esd JAM, for the purpose OF eliciting an
expression of popular sentiment IN regard 70
a change in our present tariff laws. Robert
p. Linton, Esq, presided. Speeches favorlng
Q high protective tariff on iron, especially,
were made by. A. Kopelin, Esq, and Hon.
George S. King. Resolutions to the same ef-
feet were adopted. The Cambria Tribune says
In consequence of the inability to obtain con-
tracts at paying prices, because of the large a.
mount of foreign railroad iron thrown into the
market of this country by foreign capitalists,
the lessees of the Cambria Iron Works have
been compelled TO offer their workmen the al
tel native of a further reduction OF ten per
cent. in their wages or the stoppage OF the
works entirely. The steam Saw-Mlll OF
Lloyd, Holiday & Co., in White township,
known as Bangor Mills, destroyed by fire
| on Friday night, 22d ult. 1t is supposed the
Mill was set on fire by some one. We do not
know the extent of the loss, but it must be
heavy, as the Mill was of the best kind.
-. The residence of Mr.. George Bruce, of
| Allegheny township, with all its contents, was
also reduced to ashes on Tuesday morning of
last week. Mr.. b. had four hundred dollars
| in specie in the house, which was fused by the
| fire.
| LANCASTER CoUNTY.-A young man pre-
sented himself on Thursday last, at the coun-
y ",
and representing himself son of Commo-
dore Stockton, had a draft fer $50 on the Bank
| of America, n. Y. cashed, which afterward
! turned out TO be forgery. Mr.. Frantz.
living near Millersvile, had his barn burnt
down on the night of the I'd inst. Last sum-
| mer Mr.. f. had barn burned on the same
SITE 1t was the work of an incendary.
The Ma5ietian, of the 9th, says :-s'We met
an intimate acquaintance a few days since,
who informed us of having just seen Bible
| three hundred and fCenfy-serea gears old. 1t IS
in the family of DIR. Andrew Kaufman, resid-
ing near Landisville, in this county. 1t was
printed in Zurich, Switzerland in 1851. :
On the 31st ult., q German boy, aged Is, liy-
ing with Mr.. j. NJ. Whitehil, near Donegal
| church, was attacked, knocked down, and
otherwise abused by two men. The parties
are known and will be arrested. The boy had
, ordered the men to quit the farm by order oil
Mr.. Whitehill. :. :. Frederick BauSman, OF
5 Lancaster, a bachelor of about So years of age.
committed suicide on Monday evening last, in
his own garret. 1t is said Mr.. B., was labor
ing under depression of spirits owing to o
difficulty in paying some money on the prop
erty in which he lived.
f NORTHUMBERLAND CoUNrY.-On Thursday
a-week, three Irishmen, hands working on the
Northern Central Railroad, below Sunbury
got into fight, while in town. They batter
2 ed each others ysages considerably, one o
them using pair of new boots in his hand
for that purpose. The streets were muddy
and the mixture of blood and mud did not ado
much to the beauty of Pats physiognomy.
: constable took them to Jail, where they com
menced breaking the stove, windows, chair
| and table, for which unmannerly conduct II
return for the kind hospitaities rendered them
= they were kicked out of the establishment
J, The Sheriff was not at homo at the time, o
they might have fared worse. A two sto
= ry house, belonging to George Miller, s mile
from Sunbury, was burnt down. The hous
e was occupied by Henry Haas and family, VIII
| had barely time to escape. The house @
y Nathan MartZ, in Sunbury, caught fire las
. week, but the fire was put out before muc
damage was done. Peter burst, of Sun
c bnry, has dug, within the last IL years, 46
e graves in the Sunbury, and 10 in the Hunte
grave yards. Must be grare man, that Peter
SOMERSET CoUNrY.-The house of Jaco
Humbert, in Milford township, was destroye
by fire on the 29th January. Mrs. Shoaff, q
n aged lady who recently had her leg broker
was with much difficulty saved from the flame:
% -. On the 2Sth, David Keyser, of Somerss
township, was missed, and upon search bein
made, he was found two days after, consio
n erable distance from home, in small ru
t. drowned, having evidently fallen in and PEI
\. ished during an epileptic ft.
CLINTON CoUNrY.-The se-called Gutta Pc
cha Pen man swindled couple of Lock III;
)" ven merchants out of 90, by selling the
m common steel pens for superior article
s, gutta percha pens. Merchants had better kee
a look out for the fellow.
LYCoMING CoUNTY.--By the burning of NJ
- F. P. Green's barn in Williamsport, on I'll
L 31st ult., eight head of horses, six COWS and
70 lot of hogs were consumed. The loss is est
,g mated at 81 900.
BLAIR CoUNrY.-The store of Ettinger & III
II man, of Altoona, was broken into on the 3lS
" and some small change, revolver, a pair
'n boots and vest stolen therefrom.
THE bad liquor of California has been Il
:. theme for many piquant newspaper article
that State and from the statement containe
in the annexed extract, We are inclined to b
- lieve that every complaint in regard to th
matter was we'll founded. Just think of al
- human being swallowing such poison as is he
=. described. Aqua forts would be refreshiI
beverage compared with such vile cor
pound:
n ssThe kind of liquors drank in San Franci
of CO is indicated by the following: The poll
lately seized quantity of liquor kept for sa
e. at several drinking saloons. The ssbrandy
y, was colored with burnt sugar, and contain
es one-sixteenth of grain of sulphdte of morphi
~ to every ounce of the liquor. The ssgin'' W
composed of forty seven parts of spirit al
- fifty-three Of water, with dash of sulphur
IL acid. The sswhiskey" contained strychni
us and creosote. The sspale brandy'' containe
"a among other poisons, Prussic acid.''
of s.Morphine,'' asulphuric acid,'' sstryc
NV Ill