Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-03-23
CLIPPINGS AND scslssL,Nes.

at Merrell < CaFter's, second street
R-A large number of the citizens of Low
ell, Mass, contemplate leaving Tor Kansas in a
few days.
Gg-A mad dog was killed in Harrisburg. ON
the 18th, after creating great CONSERVATION in
the village.
@Ripe strawberries were gathered from
the garden Of DR.. Philis, in Mariana, Florida.
about two weeks ago.
~ Some of the stearboats refuse to land
at HaWesviile, KY, until the murderers of
Lowe are brought to Justice.
UThe Catholics of Fort Wayne, Indiana,
are about to commence the erection of a cath
edrai which will cost $50 ,000.
G5-It is stated that segars equal to the best
Cuba brands, have been made from tobacco
grown on the lsthmus, near Panama.
0IThe increasing emigration to the west
crn gold fields has caused an advance in the
price of grain at St. Louis and other cities.
Austria is steadily preparing for the de-
fence or the italian possessions. The garri-
son of Vienna.is fully prepared to march at
short notice.
70 The Legislature has passed an act pro.
hibiting the license of any house for the sale
of liquor within two miles of the Farm School
in Centre county.
ia true census just taken OF Texas, shows
pOiiutAbiOt vi tOO,O-Ds against ~ IN the
year 1850, when iowa had but 102, 600, though
she now has over ,0O0.
U5~As early as the 18th of February. garter
snakes and graSshoppcrs had made their APP
pearance in Franklin county, Pennsylvania.
This is something unusual.
UT~rhe judges Of one Of the Courts in Phil
adelphia last week fined five jurors each one
hundred dollars for n-attendance when their
names were called 10y the clerk.
GC-The Duchess of Parma, Italy, has sign
ed treaty with Austria authorizing the latter
power to occupy all The forts in her domin-
ions with troops, in case of hostilities.
Cy-Two hundred and fifty-six medical SIN
dents graduated at the Jefferson College, in
Philadelphia, last week. And all these armed
with the lancet and calOmel. Horrible
Og Ten thousand persons, it is estimated,
have already arrived at St. Louis, on their way
to Pixies Peak. Yet they are but the first
drops of the great shower of gold hunters.
U~Quite progressive step has been taken
hy the Sultan Of Turkey. He has ordered a
reorganization of the Turkish schools, and
that provisions be made for the education Of
girls.
GyNeither of the candidates for Governor
in Virginia is running on his good looks. The
Richmond 'Whg' says that Goggin is forty
fold better looking than Letcher, and no great
beauty at that.
GgA young man, a member of an evangel-
ical church, advertiscs in New FORK paper
for board in piOus family where his Christian
example would be considered i compensation.
Modest, certainly
CTMr. Sweenv, the oldest man in Pennsyl-
vania, died in Butler county, on the 9th ult.,
aged 10 years. lie was i native Of ireland,
and emigrated to the United States when he
was 100 years old.
"Victor Ward, who some days ago shot
DR.. Cameron on 4 Mississippi steamer, was the
boy for whose chastiSement in school Mr.. But
Ier, the teacher, lost his life at the hands of
Matt. Ward, in Louisville.
Gy@The reductions of the army nearly
three millions in all, most for transportation
and forage. The aggregate of reductions npon
Mr.. Cobb'S estimate is assumed, in round num-
bers, at between seven and eight millions.
GA tavern keeper in St. Louis the other
day drank one hundred and fifty glasses of la
ger beer, from eight in the morning until II
o'clock at night, aud won twenty five dollars
by the operation, as well as the title Of brute.
CyJust fancy a Dahlgrecn gun hitting, with
Il thirty-two pound ball, the figure of man
at six miles Distant A gun at the Norfolk
navy yard does it nineteen times out o! TWEEN
ty. Hard to escape the pursuit OF such de-
tective.
GyA few days ago four hundred thirty
six slavcs-men, women and chldrcn-were
sold at auction in Savannah, GA. for the ag-
eregate sum of S303, $50 They are said to
have belonged to Pierce II. Butler, of Phila-
delphia
OrThe last advices from Paraguay state
that President Lopez had visited all his forts
and inspected his troops, who were eager to
meet the American forces. This does not look
as though Paraguay intended to yield without
u struggle.
CyThe present high water in the Ohio is
fast washing Evansville away; some eighty a.
cres about Pigeon creek having caved in, and
the papers down there are calling for help TO
dam the town. Mouse to call for hclp-your
town may be d-d soon enough without it.
DyCatharine G. Ogier, of Chester county,
has recovered fifteen thousand dollars from
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the
loss Of her husband who was killed by the
cars about a wear ago. There are some women
we wot of who would no doubt dispose Of their
husbands at a lower figure.
GJA husband and wife, while travelling
through the woods in haste, met with a mclan-
choly accident, which is recorded in the fol-
lowing felicitous strain:
And while retreating through the woods,
And through the tangled tern,
He tore his mustn't mention 'cms,
And had to put on hcrn
EETwo German brothers in Calhoun coun
", H.. married two German sisters. The ell
der brother fell sick, and the younger ran a
way with the sick mans wife. The GONZALES
cent brother then followed with the other wife,
and now wants to swap back, but his own wife,
who has tried both, says neither of the broth
ers is worth having.
A NEW MILITARY RoAD.-It is reported from
Washington that Lieut.. Mullin has been order