Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-07-14
CLIPPINGS AND scRlseulmcs.

rredicteu-that the Delaware peach crop
will be short this year
20 General Scott passed threupb pbi,.doirh;
last week looking well.
8 An lmprovement-the embankments in the
streets. NO scarcity of water now. So
~ Sick-the chap who eat too much lemon.
ade and chicken on Saturday night
10 On foot-a movement in England, for send
ing out TO China one thousand missionaries
:, ~ Occurred-over fifty eases of sun-stroke, in
I'VE" 1ofk, since the hot weather CONNIE need
10 Lying round loose-ice cream the other
evening Wonder where imp No. was about that
time
20 -Discovered-by a grocers clerk in Wheel
ing IN a sack of coffee, purse containing sundry
Brazilian gold coin
10 Died recently-Lieut. Brooks, the last srr-
viving othcer OF the Kane expedition. He was a.
bout As years of age.
lE THAT motion is out of order, rs the chair
man OF meeting said when rowdy raised his
arm to throw egg.
p Miss Hail. of the Milesburg, Centre county.
NJ Il. Sunday School, recited 3 5U5 versus of Scr;
ture ID single Sabbath.
- Has planted-AIr. Shoecroft of White pi-
geon the great potato man of Michigan / 200 a.
cres for this years crop.
~ sentenced-fors seven years to the States pri-
SON. TWO men convicted of placing Instructions on
the Boston and Mama railroad
~ The uollidaysburg Standard saws there are
'myriads' of trout in the Woodbury. dam Who
counted the first (l0,000) myriad
tB LIvlng-at the present day, only six of the
fourteen Governors of Pennsylvania since the A.
doptIon of the Constitution in 1890 -
70 Recently caught-a milk white snake pear-
ly SIX feet long, in the town of Cooper kalamazoo
county, Michigan Its species is unknown.
20 Mr. Jacob Fox, residing near Easton. died
on Friday a-week from hydrophobia He was III,
ten last spring. but paid attention to the matter
= The Reading Gazette, the English organ of
Perks Pe county democracy, is down on J. Clancy
district 'A"
t-y eignlfled his intention-John O'FaIIon n ST
Louis millionaire. to donate S2ou0DO for The en-
dowment OF the oFallon Polytechnic School in
that city
been appointed By Gov Packer, Commissioner 10
revise the civil code. vice Hon {. r.. BuckaIcw
resigned. N"i0 W.
liza short time since a train on the Cattawissa
raiiToad ran into twelve cows who were upon the
track: killing them all Strange to saw the shock
was not felt blythe passengers
~ Issued-by the Government in June last
nine hundred and sixty three land warrants To
satisfy which, it will require over one hundred
and forty-two thousand acres.
tg- foundry boy at Milford Massachusetts
S-JS IN letter left Ia an old mail bag purchased
OF Post Office Department by a shoe IN manufacturer
1t had been mailed in Tennessee
"a About fifteen ships of war sunk in the bar.
Dor of SebastoPol have been destroyed and the
pieces raised- sixteen gun corvetee has been
raised whole and in good preservation.
u The st. louis EUeHito News saws. ..Wa
learn that sickness is rapidly on the increase in
the city. We fear the flood will leave us n Ieeacy
OF sorrow by the mortality it viii engender''
Would You not love to gaze on Niagara for
ever - said romantic young girl to her less ro-
mantle companion. ''0h nos said he Il would
not like to have a cataract always in my eye .
% The opinion at Lawrence, was said to be
nearly universal. that Gen. Lane charged " it'll
the murder of jenkins, would be acquitted. the
evidence showing 1t to have been case of ustifi-
bic homicide.
s-yQf the immigration that has gone into Kan
sas territory very large and industrious portion
OF 1t have been Germa' s. Many towns. occupied
IN whole or in part by them. have already arisen
and promise arapid increase.
"a May pay up his debts-every man in China.
at the beginning of the yoar, and also at the time
OF religious festival, about the middle of the year
If unable TO settle at these. times, his business
stops until his debts paid.
sY'Only the llth Division of Pennsylvania Mi
litia is ordered to the Camp of Instruction at vii
Transport in Septem Der, and will be paid Other
companies are only t'lUited and will receive no
pay. So says writer in the Penn Tezcgru1h
EZy From statement prepared by the General
Post Office. il appears that 1909 letters addressed
to bogus lotteries and other spurious concerns
since the lst of April, have been returned to Wash
ingson. The cash enclosed in the same amounting
to upwards OF Sy,1DU
~ Milwaukee is treading on the heels of Chi
cago in improvements and commerce. The NUN :
Der of new buildings going up the 1st instant
400, of which 2I3 were frame, and 2i7 of brick
stonc-total estimated cost, million one
hundred thousand dollars.
Within the past week the steamer Indian
Empire has arrived at New York from Galway.
Ireland. bringing with her the government mails.
This is the first direct communication by steam,
between America and Ireland Galway is two days
shorter sail than any port in England or Scotland
AN Outrage, of very gross character, was
perpetrated in Kent Co., Nd, on the 24th ult.
a party of ruffians, masked and disguised, /, en-
tered the residence of Nj. James l.. Bowers,
a worthy farmer, who has for some time been
party of the North, and dragging him out of
the house, put rope about his neck and con-
veyed him in carriage to spot about half a
mile distant from his home, his agonized wife
following after them and filling the air with
her shrieks and cries. 1t was the intention of
the mob to hang burn Mr.. Bowers, but
some of the more moderate among them pre-
vailed upon the rest to punish him otherwise
for his Abolition principles. Hewas accord
iDgly stripped, tarred and feathered, and set
at liberty, with the threat OF beBg hung if he
did not leave the State forthwith. His crime
was being opposed to the system of slavery,
and subscribing to the n. Y. Tribune.
a correspondent of the London Times, says:
ssAthehs is said to be the most fea-bitten cap
ital in Europe; whoever has been at Constan-