Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-05-19
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drowned last week III the Little ChlqueS at
Mount joy. She, in company with Miss Mary
McNcal, ventured out upon the stream in q
skiff. The boat, unfortunately, upset ,.precip
itating them into the creek, which, at that time,
owing to the recent rains, was quite swollen
and rapid. Miss McNeal caught at limb and
supported herself until she was rescued. Al
ter dredging the stream for some time, Miss
! Culp's dead bod Y was found with herarms clasp
| de firmly around floating log and was loosen
ed with the greatest difficulty. The Lam
! caster Times says, on Wednesday, young
man residing in the vicinity of the railroad
| bridge, at the Conestoga, attempted to Jump
| from the cars, rs they arrived near that place.
| The train was going at the rate of thirty miles
! an hour and when last seen, the young man
| was flying down the cmbankment, performing
about twenty-five evolutions to the minute.
| Straps, dickcy strings and suspender buttons,
| flew of in every direction. ne NrlShtS-
| vile Star saws. as Mr.. M'Cunc oil Marietta was
| crossing Chestnut Hill. with horse and bug
| pv on Thursday evening last, he was stopped
| on the road by four men, ana roODeu OF eIeFch
| dollars, which happened, fortunately, TO be all
| the money he had about him at the time 1t
! is said that Marietta and Columbia are Infest-
cd at this time with gang of scoundrcls hail
| ing from Elmyra, called s'the Sharpers, " who
| came down raftsmen, and are playing their
| ayocation of gamblers, thimble ringers, pick
pockets and robbers, in the ncighborhood
| with high hand. The same paper details
/
| of Mrs. Wilson, of that borough, Of her
| port monnaic containing thirty five dollars,
| and the other a farmer, who came to town to
Sssee the elephant" and who got sight to the
tune Of seven dollars, being relieved OF that
amount at the circus.
| INDIANA CoUSTY.-A son of Mr.. Samuel
! Dixon, of Blairsvilc, aged about years, came
very near being drowned, on the Sth inst,
while fishing near Trecc's Mill. BY some
| cdent he fell over the wall near the dam and
| bad sunk twice, and was about going down the
| third time, when lie was rescued by some of
| the men in the mill. But for this timely as
| Sistcnce he would have been brought home
| corpse. We learn, says the Indiana Mes
! seHgey that some time since, as anumber of
persons were engaged at work on the farm of
| W. Hoover, in East Mahoning township, they
! discovered, under the roots OF tree or sap
! ling, large fat stone, upon which were inScrl-
| bed the figures l1l1 and on removing the
stone, bones in decayed state, supposed to
| be those of human being, We're discovered.
| This section of country, according to the
! most reliable history, not settled by any
| intelligent race OF beings until many years af-
| ter the above date, and consequently we are
| unable to give the name of the sculptor who
chisseled the figures upon the stone nor can
| we give or readers any information in relation
| to the person whose remains were found moul-
| dcring beneath. We give the facts they
have been stated to us and leave the mystery
for others to solve. On Monday morning
! the 10th. colorcd individual, named James
| M'Ginty, in the employ of John a. Jamison,
| OF Indiana, breathed his last, as was supposed
! by all persons present. The necessary articles
were purchased by Mr.. Jamison, and prepara-
| tiOns made for his burial, when, to the surprise
| of all present, it was discovered that the col
| orcd individual was not dead, but had been
| living in trance for couple Of hours. The
! preparations for funeral at once ceased, and
the supposed dead man continued to revive 10
| such an extent that hopes are entertained OF
| his recovery.
| JEFFERSON CoUyTY.-On the Sd inst. while
| the gunners attached to the RinggOld Artillery,
were exercising with their brass six-pOunder,
a premature explosion occurred, tearing a
! hand from Mr.. Solomon Uoch, setting fire to
| his clothes and otherwise injurIng him. The
| physicians cut of the hand above the wrist and
| the patient is doing well. The Brookville
JefferSonan of the 18th says, an Irish woman
| living in the suburbs of our town, who washes
and scrubs about town, and who is addicted to
| tasting the s:crittur'' occasionally, partool
rather freely one day lastweek and fell beneath
the load before reaching home. Her good
natured husband met her, loaded her into
! whcelbarrow and conveyed her home. The
scene is described by those who witnessed it
| as ludicroUS.
! NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY.-Tbc Shamokin
Journal gives the following notice of the
contemplated rollng-mill at Shamollin This
rolling mill will contain two steam Engines
one of 12O horse power, and one OF 80, and
| will have capacity to manufacture 6OOO tons
! of iron per annum The machinery will be so
arranged, as to turn out Railroad Iron of all
| sizes, from 20 pounds up to 10 pounds per
! yard. 1t will also be so constructed for the
manufacture of all sizes and shapes of Mer-
chants Bar Iron, Car Axles, Nail Plate, &c.
MIFFLIN CoUTY.-Strunk and Ambrose, two
of the parties charged with stealing meat, &c.
| in nf hn ms bpi
capped from the Lewistown Jail on Monday af-
ternoon, May 10th, at three O'Clock, by break
ing the lock of the yard gate, and before any
effective pursuit made reached the ridge.
The prisoners it appears were set TO washing
and scrubbing t heir cells, and these two per-
mitted to go into the yard when done, where
in open daylight they projected and carried
out their liberation.
CAMBRIA CoUxTY.-Three of the four Irish
men, arrested for assault upon Harrison
Gaghigan, were committed to Ebensburg Jail
by Esq. Douglass of Johnstown Monday
last in default OF $500 bail each. The other
entered bail. On Tuesday afternoon the
10th, one of the most severe storms of wind
and hail and rain that we ever witnessed visi-
ted this locality. Jerry Wagner was so
unfortunate on Monday last to have his right
hand badly crushed between two iron plates
at the Mill.
SNYDER CoUNTY.-Capt Jacob Hummel, of
Monroe township, kept an account of the lum-
Der that was afloat the Susquehanna on the
18th, 10Th and Goth ult., and sums up as fol-
lows 7S0 RATS and arks, with 23ll hands
cupied in transporting the same. On the Goth
he noted the canal boats passing and repassing
the point he occupied, and they numbered 30,
including 3packets with nearly 400 passengers.
A SECOND SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.-Eng-
lish papers say that company has been form