Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28
CLIPPINGS Ano scaiasLrnes.

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. Fell-snow, on last Saturday
y Imp ported-cotton from Africa reeentIt
% Abont-the borough Constable Eyes right.
pigs.
Soid-stawberries, in Augusta. Ga, a weel,
since. Tr-tszl
E5-In New York-thirty practising female ply.
scians - r'
Y father called his son into crowded coach
-''Ben-jam-in
= APpeared-cucumbers, in the Savannah
market, last week
Flattering-the prospect for good fruit
crop, In tennessee.
u Adjourned-the New York Legislature. ON
the 10th inst sine die
Ezs-A beanty-the siPhotograph'' picture in the
Blairsyille 1rWs Amercal, y
s Killed-a Big Qer) Black Back by Leeomp-
aon Twas too strong dose.
2 In session-the Editorial convention. May
1t result in benefit to the craft.
p Passed-the bill, to sell the State canals to
the ;. 4. Railroad Company llsd
BHail stones-said to weigh Il Ibs-fell re-
Gently at New Braunfels, Texas.
q Hung himself-James Burns, hackman in
Baltimore. Cause, loss of money.
% VIII exceed 20,000-the majority in favor
of five million loan in Minnesota
Appointed-by the Pope, young Lucien Bo-
naparte as one of the Ponti6eal Prelates.
70 Cheering-the news concerning the wheat
crop from all sectionSof the country.
ig Destroyed by fre-a large amount of tim
Der IN the mountains near Wikesbarre.
y funny request-a Hotel keeper asking
naval officer permission to board his vessel.
Tall-the wheat in Talbot county Md. It
has already grown to the height of 20 inches.
q Is now trying to spin mountain top-the
man who ate his dinner with the fork of river.
s-Y>G OF ENTHUSIASTICALLY. the Leviathan from
bnr rings bnfyy hai, J.,.
aged.
syHas become convert-Hon Thos F. Mar
shall of Kentucky, Ito christianity and temper
ance-"
sy1wiTI cost-the transportation of -four to the
Utah army, $40 to $50 per barrel 1t is so official
ly stated. ss.-.-s .r.---=.-E Es. g.
~ Have been ordered into active service-all
the midshipmen who passed examination lately at
Annapolis.
gA queer fellow-the man who caried ont
his moral resolutions. He forgot to bring them in
again, however.
- G ood at imitating-the man who painted a
shingIe so much like marble that when it fell in
the river it sank
Ey1Changed-the name of the Post-Ofice at
Pennfield. 1t is now called Tyler, and d. Tyler
Esq, appointed Postmaster.
u Plead guilty-Pullen, the custom house rob-
Der at Richmond Va. He was sentenced to the
penitcntiary for eight years.
Confrmed-by the Z. S Senate. JoiYn Cad
walader Judge of the Eastern District Court for
Pennsylvania, vice, Kane deceased.
rY9Are in the habit-some landlords of laying
extra fork across the plates of their delinquent
boarders; as much as to say, ''fork oYer.p
. In the funeral procession which attended the
remains of Col. Benton to the grave at St Louis
there were ., 100 persons and 12O vehicles.
EyArrested-J. Zimmerman and J. Thurin-
ger, at Buffalo, on 4 charge of enlsting soldiers
for the British service within the L. States.
-Noticed-by the Savannah Republican, the
arrival of seven vessels at that port within two
days, all of them loaded with ice from Maine
iy@ Died suddcnly-Judge Stevens, one of the
oldest residents of indianapolis, the goth inst
He was Il brother to Thad. Stevens of this State.
Novel Prayer Meeting.-The passengers on
the c. o Railroad Express train east, on Thursday
of last week. held prayer meeting at Newark o.
% Are like the Artic pole-many human hearts
They have open sea around the centre, but on
ly reachable through an almost impossible desert
of ice.
EY-The receipts into the U. S Treasury are each
week half million less than the expenditures
Wonder if Lecompton has anything to do with the
deficit
Now stationed-eighteen British gun-boats,
along the coast of Cuba to prevent the landing of
slaves Several American vessels have been search
ed by them.
rySpeaking of Balaam's ASA theological pro-
fessor said 1t is wrong to doubt that the spoke
like man, when We hear every day so many men
speak like asses"
Ey1The three female slaves of the late William
BOdman, of Baltimore, who were lately sold by
Charles Bodman, of Cincinnati, have been repur-
chased by him, and set free.
~ AIlotted-the Borough printing to the Re
pnhiicz1 Office. So we understand Wonder how
this comes when both our propositions were exact
Iy alike. We will pay our respects to several of
the council at some future time.
Many a man elbows his brains OUT with a
brandy bottle. They think that if they ''go off =
but aifcocked there is no danger, but experience
has proved the reverse There is suicide in n
rnm-barrel as well rs in pfStot-barrel-
r-5@BadIy drifted-Th roads in the interior of
Iowa are rather muddy. A citizen of Burlington
who has just returned from a trip west, asked
if the mud was deep. "0h, not very" said he, ia
bout three feet on an average, but badly drifted
in some places"
CY'A correspondent of the n. Y. Tribune in
sists that the Minnesota Constitution, now before
Congress for acceptance. and passed the Senate,
through some blunder makes tie present RepTeSe1i-
tatiUes an tie Legislature members for tte, and
provides no mode of filling their seats even after
their death.
E5S7The Columbia Democrat, of the 18th, con-
tains the following: SThe Devil has the sole
charge of the Democrat this week" We would
infer from the above that the DevH is a perma-
assistant of Col Tates and that this accounts
for the course the democrat pursues in relation
to the Lecompton swindle.
E.g79The Strasbnrg Clock-Calignanis says: ''The
famous astronomical clock of the Cathedral of
Strasburg reproduced. by means of its machinery,
with perfect accuracy, the various phases of the
recent eclipse of the This clock, as is known
in addition to declaring the time. presents the
heavenly bodies and their movements.
MARRIED:
In Philipsburg, April Goth, by the Rev. E. W
Kirby MATTHIAS BLASk to CHARLOTTE DoRRY, all
Of Philipsburg, Centre county.