Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-05-12


s4 GOO eco, school houses woltl SAC, COO, and |
20 county buildings worth S600,0GO.
The banks of Alexandria Va, resumed
specie payments early last week, and all the
Virginia banks on Saturday.
OyMr. Green, the celebrated submarine
diver. is about to make explorations of nu-
merous sunken steamboat wrecks in Lake
Erie.
NThe health of Senator Sumner is declin-
ing, and it is reported that he will again visit
Europe. and withdraw, for a time at least, from
public life.
GgA free negro named Noah Price was
convicted at Elizabeth city, North Carolina,
on Thursday, of whipping his wife, whereupon
the judge ordered him to be sold for $3.50.
| WThomas R. Branagan of Westmoreand
Co., Va, hung himself in the woods the other
day, for the sake of fair, cruel maid who had
declined becoming Mrs. Branagan. She was
wise.
"The city of Lowell, Mass, has been
compelled to pay Miss Morrison, girl fifteen
years of age, the sum of five hundred dollars,
for damages received from defect in the
highway, whereby she was crippled.
| ~The Legislature of Ohio have repealed
a law which gave to trustees the possession of
Church property. By this act Archbishop
Purcell becomes the owner in trust, of all the
Catholic Church property of Ohio.
%On the 4th of May, Tuckerman, the
mail robber, having been brought before Judge
Ingersol, of the United States District Court,
was sentenced for the space of twenty-one
years, at hard labor in the State Prison.
~Mayor Tiemann, of New York, is max
ing a vigorous and successful onslaught upon
the policy dealers who infest that city. O.
yer six hundred of these violaters of the law
have been arrested by the mayors officers.
| UEJacob Swipes, a German butcher, resi-
ding near Detroit, eloped with the wives of a
farmer named Fulmaer and man named Sny
der, en- the Goth ult He, doubtless, thinks it
is cheaper to steal sheep and calves than to
buy them.
"The California papers have adopted the
English custom Of publishing births, as well
as marriages, and also add truly American,
or rather ss yankee" popularity, by giving the
weight of the newborn citizens. A very
good idea,
Uy-A few days since, n farmer, living near
Galena, ILL.,, carried q load of potatoes to that
place to sell. The highest offer he could get
was ten cents bushel, and rather than sell
them at that rate, he tipped them into the
Fever river. The result that he was fined
S14 90 for obstructing navigation.
Ug-A terrible whrlwind visited Tuskegee,
Macon Co., Alabama, on the Goth ult. The
house of Joshua Willis, was totally destroyed,
five or six of the inmates seriously injured,
and a negro s.blown away" and killed. Sew
eral other houses were unroofed, the inmates
of which were iniured-two or three mortally.
ia correspondent from Minnesota writes
to his friends in Indianapolis for the character
of the Bank of Dover Hill, Indiana, saying
that certain parties in the Territory had Slo,-
900 of its paper, which they were putting into
circulation. The response is that there is nc
, such bank in existence, and that it is the wild
est kind of sswildcat'' concern.
I UyTheodore Parker says that when rea
revival of religion takes place, efforts will be
n turned into public gardens, ships of war into
penny posters across the sea, jails into hospi
D tails black slavery and white slavery done
. away with, there will be no more murder, NJ
: more prostitution, no more crime or drunken
. ness-not an Irishman will be drunk, nor ever
a member of Congress-
f CyTwo Vagabonds were arrested in Pnt
$ nam Co., H., recently, for trihing larcenes
The magistrate let them off on s'straw bail.
/ The people, not liking the proceedings, seizet
l.. the principal, fogged him, gagged and hun:
| him to a tree till he was nearly dead, and thel
O released him and his companion with war
d ming to leave the county Immediately, or ex
pect harsher treatment. They made tracks.
Is CyGo in, Lemons "A Virginia paper re
h cords the marriage of Miss Jane Lemons an
Mr. Ebeuczer Sweet; whereupon our deri
IS moralizes as follows
lie How happy the extremes do meet,
In Jane and Ebenezer;
~ She's no longer sour, but Sweef,
And he's Lemon squeczcr!