Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-04-27
CLIPPINGS AND sceiss1lscs.


HLook seedy-farmers and gardeners, now,
that spring is here.
DSlron pavements are undergoing trial
In some OF the streets of St. Louis.
OyThe wealth of WIN. B. Astor. of Now
ork, is estimated at sixty millions of dollars
DyC Charged --often-politicians with sspipe
laying" Which kind +! Gas-pipe or biole-
pipe.
WAmusing-to see mikman looking O.
yer the 'sprices CURRENT to find out if chalk
| is lower.
To Baptised-sixteen Adventists, on Sun
day a-week, in the river near Newark, n. J.
Eight were females.
Dy James Buchanan, alias ssJ. b., Presi-
dent OF the United States, was sixty-eight years
old on the 23d April.
0y-A woman left Bangor recently, for Ore
gon: to marry person there whom she had
not seen for eighteen years.
Gy-Mr. o. Cube, of Indiana. lately had six
teeth drawn at one sitting. This, we suppose,
was extracting the cube roots.
5y~In Spain the women perfume their hair
with sulphur, and soak their black curls in ii
strong ley to make them red.
GEJ Jenny Maher, well known rs the public
gardener, appointed by Jackson died atWash-
ington, April 18th, aged sixty seven.
GgTo be leased at public auction-the O.
hio Canals, on the 10th OF August next, to the
highest bidder, for term of five years.
OVMr. Jessie Trammel, who is one hundred
years old, served the whole of last week as a
juryman in the Court at Grcenyile, S. C..
OyFact-roast beef, serenity of mind,
pretty wife, and cold water baths, will make
most any man ''healthy, wealthy and wise.''
I-John Campbell, convicted in Philadel-
phia OF robbing an unknown man of nine cents,
has been sent to the pentcntary for years.
Dy-A Mahogany tree was cut week before
last, on the farm OF ]. HulI in Adams co.. Pa
which measured feet inches across the
stump
GyThe tunnel built by Mr.. Haupt, on the
summit of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was a
more difficult work than the tunnel under the
Thames.
GyWithin the last year, card playing a.
m ong steamboat travellers in the West has di-
minished fully one half, and chess has taken
its place.
U-One passenger by the California steam
er, at New York, Cornish MINER has one
hundred and fifty pounds of gold dust, valued
at $50 600.
Gg-ln the Supreme Court at Rhode Island
on Saturday a-week, thirfy-two wives were di-
vorced from their husbands, and seven hus-
bands from their wives.
"Passed an act-the California Legisla-
sting 81 900 annually to the Washington Mon
umcnt at Washington city.
oTFanny Fern says: ssI Immediately love
the man who bluslics.'' She must love her
husband then quite often, if he reads Fanny's
contributions to the papers.
Gy-The National Road, over the Cumber-
land mountains, built by the United States En-
gineer Corps, is more extensive and durable
by far than the Appian way.
r
have passed bill to prevent persons, in whole
or in part, of negro descent, from voting at
State, county, or city elections.
uIIn Wheeling, Va, an old man named
McEiroy, who has long been supported at the
public expense, has been discovered to have
about 81 200 at interest III Ohio.
OG-The Illinois Central Railroad, built by
Col. Mason, is the longest line ever construct
ed by company, and in point of workman
ship is equal to any European road.
CgJ-A company of colored people, under the
lead of barber named Draper, are to leave
Cleveland for Liberia. They propose to go to
farming in the interior of the country.
-Stated-that there is a chap in this re-
gion with feet SO large that, when it rains, he
lies down on his back ard holds up one foot.
1t fully answers the purpose of an umbrella.
U7-A party of men recently gave rcspec-
table citizen of st. Ames des Plains, in Cana
"a. CHaFiFlrl SCEcLHfAS. anu tiitui-
selves so violently that the mans wife died
of fright.
UFThere is no medic ne offered to the
public that meets with so great success in re-
Iieving pain and soreness, as DuFali's Galva-
mic Oil. 1t relieves all pain in from ten to
thirty minutes.
Dy-The largest comb factory in the world is
at Aberdeen, Scotland, where nine million
combs of horn and shell, are produced a1nu-
ally The quantity of OK and buffalo horns
worked up is immense.
n-Buit-a steamer at Pittsburg, intended
TO navigate the Kansas river to within Ioo
miles of Pixies Peak. She has ample accom-
nodations for passengers, and is fitted up with
much taste and elegance.
ry-The Hon. Geo. NJ Bibb died on Thurs
day in Georgetown, D. C. Mr.. Bib was for
many years U. S. Senator from kcntucky,and
during the Administration of President Tyler
was Secretary of the Treasury.
EVThe recent destructive fire in the sugar
plantations in Cuba, it is said, burned over
district extending several miles, including
standing cane, the sugar houses, machinery,
animals, and in some cases, negroes.
nyJudge Thomas G. Smith, residing in the
vicinity of Lexington, Mo-, was the successful
competitor for the heaviest yield of corn, Oh
fered by the Lafayette Agricultural Society.
s-crop Welded one hundred and five bushels
and three gallons to the acre.
r-Mr Conkln's little daughter, while go
ing I'D the stairs of her fathers house, lately,
in Warwick, New York, with sugar bow,
stumbled spilled the sugar, broke the bowl,
and with one of the fragments cut her Juguiar
vein and bed to death in few moments.
OyOne of the engineers on board the stea-
mer Maryland, used for the conveyance OF
passengers across the Susquehanna. at Havre
~ t.,H HsJrici Ia " him.