Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-05-02
cl,PPlncsAno sca.eslimos.
IAN the rage-SI,akcr bonne,s.

UAll the rage-Sliakcr bonncts.
~P. I. Barnum is building another house
not far from his old Iranistan.
UThe Parker Mills, at Wareham, Mass,
are cutting 10, 900 kegs of nails per month.
DThe Chicago City Collectors office was
robbed of $4,000 in cash and checks on the
10th inst.
DOSome author tells us that ssmuch is said
about the tongue" True, the thing is in
everybody's mouth.
~Virginia Carson was killed in Mobile,
Alabama, last week, by negro with whom
she had been living in adultery.
DUIt is stated that 10000 Swedes and
Norwegians preparing to embark in the
coming summer for the United States
GvA woman recently got divorce from
her husband, in Illinois, because he insisted
(very like horse)in sleeping with his shoes on
UAt recent wedding in Rockingham
county, Va, James Devier, the father Of the
bride, was shot dead by one of a calathumpian
band.
Edward Reid, convicted at Charleston,
South Carolina, of robbery the highway,
has been sentenced to be hung on the first Of
June.
~In Clay county, Indiana, few days ago,
| woman obtained divorce from beI husband,
and married another man fifteen minutes af-
| terward.
| ~Week before last 2 ,2l4 aliens arrived in
| New York, making total for the year thus
| far of IL ,l40, against S,248 to the same date
last year.
~Lace shawls are said to be the rage of
the fashionable ladies of New York, and, as
they are Internally expensive, Of husbands,
too, no doubt.
| "REED, WEAVER Co., have just receiv-
ed large stock of seasonable goods, which
/ they are selling at reasonable rates. Adver-
| tisement next week.
OEA shark was recently captured in Mas
sau, N. H.. Harbor, and in the stomach of the
| fish was found mans hand and goats head,
with horns seven inches long.
| CyThe everlasting Burdcll case is up again
| in the New York Courts. The heirs now
quarreling among themselves as to the division
of the murdered dentists property.
~There is young woman living in AL
stead, N. H., who weighs over 700 lbs, and it
takes about 90 yards of calico for dress.
| What a whopper-.he lady we mean.
UA man in Rushville, Schuyler county,
| H. offers to bet $500 that be can eat and di-
| gest 100 pounds of beef in thirty-six hours.
| He should hire himself out for a boa constric-
/ tor.
~The announcement of the marriage at
| Auburn, New York, of Mr.. Edward Straw to
Miss Eva Smiley, suggests the probability that
| he tcklcd proposal, and that she smiled
consent.
| CVAlbert String has been found guilty of sup
| plying the citizens of Mobile with poisonous
water, and fined $4,000, he having used lead
| instead of iron pipes for leads in the water
works of that city.
0VA child in Wheeling, Virginia, lately
| bitten by rabid dog, has since become an
| idiot, and assumes the tastes, actions and bru-
| taties of dog, swapping at every body, and
| greatly distressing its parents.
~There is gas excitement at Mendona,
ILL.,, rivallng the oil excitement in Pennsylva-
MIA. People dig down fifteen or twenty feet
for water, and instead of that fluid find COM
bustible gas, apparently inexhaustible.
ga man calling himself Judge Under
wood has been travelling through the west COL
| lecting money in the name of the Ladies' Mt
Vernon Association. 1t has been discovered
that be has collected S2,100 in the State of
Missouri alone, and large sums in Indiana.
He is an impostor.
DThe Natchez, Miss, Free Trader, of the
18th ult., says The largest sale ever made
in this county was consummated yesterday.
d. d. Whittier sold out his place, in the lower
part of this county, (nne thousand acres of
land, with improvements, and five hundred
and fifteen siaves,) to John K. Elgee, of Louis
lana, for 81 ,001 200.