Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-08-04
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tS Growing fine-the buckwheat and corn erops
- In town-Hon. George R. Barrett and Sena-
! tor Bigler.
Good cholera nedicine-grccn apples and
! cucumbers.
70 Sold-iu Chicago on Monday a-week, rs, 900
| bushels of wheat ut 81 cents.
| 70 An improvement-the newly laid side walks
| Hoops can spread 4 little more, now.
| 70 The postage charged in Russia on a single
newspaper from the United States is 45 cents
EyA At Bedford Springs-the Rt Rev. Bishop
| o'Conner, of Pittsburg. in pursuit of health.
! - Notes.-The lady, who refuses to a
watch in her bosom because it has hands on it.
| .Y'In eirculation-brass dollars nicely giIded
to initiate very closely the genuine Califor-
| MIA dust.
| yTo make good and excellent jam-squceze
| six or eight women, now-a-days into Il common
| stage coach.
70 Receyed-in San Francisco. several hun
dred tons of silver ore, from the Sopor silver mine
| in Arizonia.
| - Reported Gov Wise will visit Penn
| sytvania in short time. For what object depo-
| nent saith not.
- Rusticating-Presidcnt Buchanan. at Bed
ford Springs. Wonder if they keep any of South's
| old rye there.
| destroyed by fire Gen. Harrison s residence
ut North Bend famous Tor its log cabin associa-
| tlons, week since.
- The product of goId-in Australia so far this
season is $4,000 ounces in excess of that of last
| year to same period.
E55-Ordered to Washington Territory-fresh
troops to reinforce Col Steptoe, who recently
defeated by the Indians
Y@The Austrian journals complain that Prince
Frederick William is going to make himself the
head of the free masons in Germany.
ly7 On strike-the Coopers in Cincinnati, for
higher wages. Several of them have been arrest
ed for striking others who refused to strike.
EY Was asked-a witness, whether the defen-
dant "StOOu the detcDSiye2' ~ mo. SIR said
he, ''he stood on a bench and fit like the dell"
70 Jumped over a chid's head-a horse, while
running away in Boston, ths other day. The child
was years DID, nero baby. A baby jumper, eh
EY7There are now in the United States a hun
dred and twenty-fOur colleges and universities
with an aggregate number of students of fourteen
thousand.
iy-At democratic meeting in Madison Indi-
ana, Mr.. Ryan said he born adopted Citi-
zen" 1t is not necessary to state that he is an
Irishman
"a Estimated-that each Indian killed in the
| inevitable Oregon will cost the Government
$1,000. The Florida war is taken the basis of
the estimate.
of the London Times. and that is sent to Paris in
sealed envelope from BouIogne, especially ad-
dressed to Napoleon himself.
10 COmplains-an Arkansas editor that his
town, for some time past, has been filled with fish
crmen and loafers," and wonders what they are
after" After loaves and fishes, no doubt.
70 Says letter writer-Washington is as dull
as as country village with the women all asleep and
ington a country village or city yillaSe2
!-S Stated-as a fact-that the contract to make
the iron pipes for the new water works at Wash
ingten city, has been given to British company.
ReasOn-there is no iron in Pennsylvania
sST The Washington correspondent of the BaIti-
more Patriot advices James B. Clay to least the
beam out of his eye No doubt he would if he
could sell it for walking g-canes-Lo~. jour.
sg'The Harrisburg Telegraph notices the fact
that a lawyer who had received nine cents too
much change at market, returned it, The court,
1t is said, has his suspension under advisement.
s15'A man in Kentucky killed COW, few days
since in whose stomach were found a large brass
ring hair pin, and quantity of hooks and eyes.
'.Brndle, it is supposed, had swallowed the milk
maid.
~ The Mexicans gravely assert now that the
reason why the North Americans. as they call the
Yankee nation want more territory, is because
they need the room to accommodate their wives
and daughters.
l-5'Ias been invited-Hon Stephen A. Doug
las, by the board of managers of the Pennsylvania
State Agricultural Society to deliver the annual
address at the forthcoming State Fair. He has ac-
ccptcd the invitation.
l-Y'Ten thousand people have left California
within the past two months. for the gold dig
gings Frazer river, and the exodus still contin
As a consequence the gold deposits at the
mint have greatly fallen of.
E-7~Lady Lytton Bulwer has been confined in a
lunatic asylum-a place devised for the special
service of English gentlemen who may be desrous
of Kidding themselves of marital membranes.
Lady B. will test her sanity in the courts.
ts71A Scent customer who persisted, tho warn
ed several times by the pOstm aster. for using pos
tage stamps second time, was arrested AT Earl
vile, Ill. The penalty of this offence is fine of
500 That's big price for Bet. freedom pictur."
E-5 The Douglas men and the BUCCANEERS had
little fun in fixing up the preliminaries, IL Cleve
Convention.
by preconcerted movement, organized all the
meetings at very early hour, and attended TO the
business before the POstOflce folks knew what was
going
TEA woman at Fayetteville, has recently filed
application for a divorce, the ground that
her husband has lately opened grocery or retail
liquor shop-and that no man who will sell mean
whlsFey by the drink, has soul enough to entitle
him to the enjoyment and warm affections OF
confding wife.
"a The Elkton (Md.) Democrat says that Mr.. n
Wolfe, of Kent CO., has sold the fruit of of his
peach orchards on Sassafras river for 81 0O0 TO be
delivered on the shore. Mr.. Reybold, proprietor
of the Cassidy peach farm in Sassafras neck ex-
poets to realize over $50, 900 from his peach orch
ard this season.
sgHA married resident of Bristol, Conn, has
been fined six dollars and costs for pinching his
wife when in-pgd. His defence that she threw
her leg that way and hit boil from which he
suffering, and that he merely struck out to
himself Two lawyers on each side were cngag-
ed. This is of the Boston Irareler's stories.
- Sam Johnson who does the heavy articles
for the Washington Union nowadays, pre-
sented with pair of strong boots, years ago,when
he lived at Grand Rapids, Michigan. They
presented by an old fellow named Rix Johnson
who, in the hurry of presentation, forgot to take
them off his own feet. They were presented end
wise.
- Gen. VIM. Walker (El Fillebustero) is out in
a letter exposing the attempt of the Administra
ton to induce him TO interfere in the affairs of
Mexico, with a view to producing a rupture with