Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-14
CLIPPINGS AND scRiBsLINes.

Near at hand-ice cream time
20 Bad-some of the street crossings.
Y-Fell-Iarge quantities of rain, the past few
days.
sA tall -'seatterlofsticated." Whar' S
Webster.
on the Sth.
= Seriously ill-Thomas H. Benton, at Wash.
ington city.
.g gAbolished-capital punishment, i'll the State
of Louisiana.
s0pened-a large bed of anthracit coal, near
Atchison city, Kansas.
q Erected-a bridge of iron and stone over
the Kansas river at Tecumseh
~ Rumored-in Washington that there will be
a reconstruction of the Cabinet
- @Robbed-the Grafton Bank, ut Grafton.
Mass, of $4,000 on the Sth inst.
S7Left West Point-last week. a company of
sixty-four sappers and miners, for Utah
rEApplied-the appellaton of king James I {,
to President Buchanan, by some of the papers
- Dead again-Lecompton. The House voted
TO adhere to its amendment-yeas 49, nays 10.
= TCOntradeted-the report that n yankee had
invented machine to take the noise out of thun-
der.
Ey Punch says-in the shadow of a small waist
may be seen large doctors bill and the outlines
of a coffin.
y Signed the bilI-Goyernor Packer. for re-
charter of the Merchants & Manufacturers Bank
of Pittsburg
70 Concluded a contract-the War department,
to the Utah army.
70 Several fine cattle belonging to Mr.. John s.
Burns, of Dauphin county, were'seized with hy-
drophobia, recently.
- At the town election in Perkins, Ohio there
but democratic votes cast out of "a the
whole number polled.
20 Victorious-the anti=Lecomptonites in St
Louis, Mo. They carried their whole municipal
ticket by 1900 majority.
u Defeated-the standing army bill, but the
President is auth to accept the services of
two Regiments of Volunteers
- The first woolen-mill on the Pacific Coast
has been set in operation at Salem, Oregon, with
four hundred and eighty spindes.
sy Destroyed-Mrs. Swishelm's printing office
in St Cloud, Minnesota. by band of rufians who
| took offence at her editorial structures
~ The largest room in the world is the great
tobacco store at the London docks 1t is said to
cover six acres, and is under roof.
- Converted-at Ripley, Ohio, the proprietor
of gambling saloon, At his request a daily pray
er meeting was organized in his
p Convicted-G Martin, farmer in Geor-
gia, for whipping ono of his slaves to death, and
sentenced to be hung on the 7fh of May.
- Passed-by the Virginia Legislature bill
to permit the General Government to purchase GER
tain lots in Alexandria for a national foundry
p Died-in Pittsburs recently, Rev. DR.. Eaton,
the Advent. He was above eighty years of age.
EgRev. Laban Ainsworth. of Jeffrey, N H.
died lately. He was pastor of the Congregational
church in Jeffrey a years His age was 100 years,
months, and % days.
ySquatter sovereignty-The entrance of six
full dressed ladies into omnibus, and taking
elusive possession thereof, while eighteen spare
gentlemen are forcibly expelled.
.5-.'Six feet in his boots.'' exclaimed Mrs. Par
ting ton. What will the impertinencc of this
IL.
well tell me a man had six heads in his hat"
~ MorrisOn.to confinement
in the pente ntiary for 30 years. She had set fire
to the Ashtabula county, Ohio, Infrmary, by the
burning of which seven persons lost their lives.
EyS' 'Lucky-E. W. Gabanis formerly editor of
the Brandon (Miss) Republican. By the death Of
a relative, recently he fell heir to plantation
and negroes in Kinds CO., Miss, valued at $50 600
70 fixed fact''-the transfer of Mount Yer
non to the Ladies of the Mount Vernon Associa-
ton. The arrangements, as soon as the necessary
preliminaries are completed. viii be laid before
the public.
~ S%-Stated-that Louis Napoleon has exiIed thir-
ty-two thousand men. OF these. thirty thousand
have been pardoned The recent arrests are said
TO have been made almost entirely from among
the pardoned.
Celebrated-the 10th anniversary of the set
tlement of Ohio by the Pioneer Association at the
Burnett House. Cincinnati. A daughter of Simon
kenton, the wife of Gen. st. Clair, and other old
settlers were present.
f-Y Refused last fall-a stingy farmer at Brdg-
ton ILL., 81 IS per bushel for 5000 bushels of ch oce
wheat. holding to it. in hopes of getting 81. He
obliged to sell it off his hands for 7S cents per
bushel. few weeks since.
a If as the Lecomptonites assume. the Repub-
licans. Americans and Douglas men have, in voting
for the Crittenden substitute, "backed down from
their ultra position. why do the Democratic Sena-
tors refuse to vote for that substitute?
"a Made wager-Conrad Pleister, a brewer at
St Louis that he could upiift half barrel of beer
by his teeth Whilst endeavoring to do so he had
his upper jaw broken in so fearful a manner that
it is expected he will die Of his injuries.
70 yTurned out-about 700 watches per month
at the factory at Waltham, Mass, which said
to be fully equal to articles of the character
of foreign manufacture, while they are correct
time-keepers, and are much lower in price.
= 'Greater-the stagnaton of business and
dearth of employment in Lawrence. Mass, than IN
any manufacturing town of New England Twelve
months ago the population was reekoned at fifteen
thousand; by the first of May, it is said, it will
not exceed ten thousand.
Cy7Gcttng on his legs again-P. T. Barnum.
He has lately resumed the management of the N.
York Museum, and is laboring with extraordinary
vigor and skill to make it pay. He has recently
received S27 900 insurance on Iranistan and is
making preparations to rebuild it.
.g'It is said that the Earl of Rosse one of the
first astronomers in Europe, has told n gentleman
in England that he anticipates of the most in
tensely hot summers this year that has ever been
known. and he advises farmers to build sheds for
their cattle, by way of protection against the ex-
treme heat.
/ Ey1H Had their pockets picked-two ladies, whilst
attending noon prayer meeting in Chicago One
lady lost between fifty and sixty dollars. and the
other between twelve and fifteen dollars. The
der is how so much money found its way into a
church. Had it been Sunday, the thief would
not have found more than quarter dollar inten-
dcd for the contribution plate.
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