Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-06-30
CLIPPINGS AND scRlBsLINes.

sTHot as .'blazes"-the weather
sg gPrevailing-the spring fever.
ESTAt hand-the strawberry season.
sSThe wheat in Virginia will yield m aver
ago crop.
S0ut of dozen of the largest towns in Cali
fornia, the Lecomptonttes have carried but one
Stockton.
Eay Elan Rakestraw has been appointed post
master at g len Hope, Clearield county, vice VIM.
X. ickinson.
tB The rate of taxation in San Fracisco for this
year is $3.50 every SI0O valuation. pretty
high rate, that.
iSA gold boulder weighing "A lbs and valued
Mt $4,000 was exhibition at San Francisco ut
% cents a sight
esone hundred and fifty officers serving in In
dia have rendered their designations TO General
Sir Colin Campbell.
sTGold has been discovered between Lafa yette
and Terre Haute, Indiana. Garnets said to
exist in the same region.
10 Slim outft-that of the young lady who
when asked whether she wore skeleton skirts said
she wore ''nothin else"
CSThe London Times Paris correspondent saws
tnat there Is more commercial distress in France
than At anytime since the revolution of IS4S
I1gT The St. Paul M;nnesotian defines a Work
ing Democrat" democrat who can poll the
largest number of votes with the fewcst men ~
sy Mrs. Margaret Douglas Southern lad was
imprisoned in the common Jail of Norfolk Va for
the crime of teaching free colored hldren read.
70 Preston s Turley, highly respectable
man, and minister of the gospel, has been found
guilty, IN kanawha county, Va, of the murder of
his wife.
ESGsorge W. Clark the well known murderer
of Barber. in Kansas. has been rewarded for his
eminent services, by being appointed Purser in
the Navy.
ES The Bank of Tekamah, of Nebraska anoth-
er bogus bank, has 'busted'' One hundred thou
sand dollars of tho trash circulated in Indiana
and Illinois
rY-The editor of the Portland Gazette saws that
there is nothing OF the monk about him We
have been disposed to think him little nsouky.
Lou. Journal.
sS1In the thirty three y>ars of its existence the
American Tract Society has realized from sales
one million dollars in profits above The costs of
all the publications sold.
70 The supply of new Treasury Notes is quite
large in the New York market, and small sales of
the 4; per cents are being made at per cent pre-
MUM At this rate the A per cents are worth on
ly par.
fornia bids fair to be the richest irefhe world.
One mill was grinding out 50, 500 per day the rock
yielding gold at the rate of 5000 to 500 per ton
of rock
u According to Monsieur Genin, a French
sacaHf. the sex OF eggs can be distinguished. All
eggs containing the germs of males have wrinkles
on their smaller end, while female eggs are equal
ly smooth at both extremities.
t15 The editor of the Bedford Ind) Iudepeudeut
hasn't high opinion of the whiskey sold and
drunk in bis town. He says that it is made up of
strychnine cockroaehes tobacco juice fish berries
logwood, and divers other Ingredients of equal
merit
Eg>The New York Bourd of Aldermen has or
dered the words Fernando Wood, Mayor" to be
erased from the Worth Monument, and the SEN
tepee Honor to the Brave" to be substituted for
them. The two expressions, in the opinion of the
Board of Aldermen, are not SYNONYMOUS.
A. n.,rl 80 d.. II.
mare, Il few days since in singular manner. She
was addicted to kicking, and while induiging in
that spirited exercise, she broke her own back =
the spine becoming disjointed, the middle,
! from the sheer violence of her exertions.
.YThe Washington Union violently abuses
those anti-Lecom pton Democrats, who dare to COM
| plain because they are prescribed by the Admin
istraton. DR. johnson said that as he was once pas
sing fshmonger in the act of skinning live eel,
he heard him curse the thing for not lying STILL
| IL The Democratic Senate passed bill near
the close of the late session. raising the threecent
postage on letters to five and ten cents The mea-
| President and his Cabinet. There is no end to
their devices for extorting money from the people
| to support official corruption.
| igThc eruption Of Vcsuvius continued on the
| 18th of May, with more threatening aspect. The
liquid fire was pouring from the several craters,
| and had converted the entire valley of Atno into
| mass of flames. The inhabitants of the villages
were fleeing in all directions and the destruction
| of the town of Portici is apprehcnded.
rS-Prentice thinks that stop should at once be
put to the swil milk trade in New York. yet very
| cooliy adds But were it quite certain that the
present of babies in New York would, if spar
ed to grow up. make no better men than a large
proportion of their fathers are the suppression of
distillery milk would perhaps not be important u
| ~ The Louisville Journal is responsible for the
| following One portion of the Democratic par
ty belongs to Buchanan, and the other to Douglas.
But, if whip portion, guess the other
will feel the blows. We have heard of little boy
and girl, who agreed to share a kitten between
| them, the boy being the proprietor of its long
beautiful tail. Shortly afterwards the kitten was
heard mewing dreadfully. What is the matter
with our kitten? !? screamed the little girl. oh
said the boy. Il trod on my part, and your part
holiered. ="
The Cincinnati Enquirer gives an account of
a merchant of that city, who went east to set
tie his accounts, and received his balance in
gold, some $4,000, which he put into his
trunk. On his way home, he took Washing