Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-04-18
CLIPPINGS AND scarssl,nos.
-Spare rils-nnmarried femaies.

ming on Sunday afternoon.
DManufactured-over 5000, 900 artificial
teeth, in this country, annually.
UImprisoned-nine of the Aldermen of
st. Louis, for contempt OF court.
CyA child was born lately in Washington
tp Jefferson county which weighed at its birth,
II pounds. A big baby, or big story.
DyIn bad condition-The bridge across the
mouth of Ogden's run on the Clearfield and
Curwensville road. Why is it not repaired7 2
wOver three hundred cases of insanity in
the Ohio State Lunatic Asylum have been ira
ced directly to the use OF modern alcoholic
poisons.
UFour men in Wyoming county have
been committed for maltreating Jacob Town
send and family, of Falls township, whom they
robbed of $50.
WSixteen gamblers were arrested in st.
Louis last Thursday, under the vagrant act.
If convicted they are subject to fine of from
$500 to $1,000.
~A supplement to the liquor law of 1858,
which has passed both branches of the Legis
lature, gives the court power to grant licenses
at any time during the year.
OIThe public are warned against the notes
of new sswild cat'' purporting to be the Bank
of Whitefield, Dalton, Georgia. 1t is pro-
nounced ga dirty swindle."
WThe Sons of Temperance at Ebensburgh
now number 225; rs of whom are females.
Female Sons are something new. We should
like to see one or two specimens.
OyA man was mobbed the other day on
wags positive assertion that his wife was daily
imprisoned in an iron cage. 1t turned out
that the cage was steel-hooped skirt.
OEThe fields of grain throughout Pcnnsyl-
vania are said to look remarkably well for the
season. The wheat seems well rooted, and but
little disturbed by the action of the frost.
lGov. Packer has issued his warrant for
the execution of Henry Pritts, convicted of
murder in the first degree in Somerset county.
The execution is fixed for Friday, June 22d.
vGreat injuries have been sustained by
the railroads and canals in the central portion
of Ohio by freshets. The public works have
been damaged to the extent of near $4,000.
CIT is vain to stick your finger in the wa
ter, and pulling it out, look for holes and
equally vain to suppose that, however large a
space you occupy, the word will miss you
when you die.
0yBucks county is entirely free from debt.
The Commissioners had a special meeting re-
Gently to meet the Auditors and pay off the
Indebtedness, when every obligation against
the county was cancelled.
"Advices from Vera Cruz Of April l, con-
| firm the raising of the siege by Miramon, ow-
1
| war. He had lost 1900 out Of 5000 men.
| The loss to the city was trfling.
UCrammond Kennedy youth of seven
| teen, is preaching for the Baptists in Harris
burg. He is prodigy of intellect, breaches
as coo.ly as any aged man, ,and has a head which
measures in size that of Daniel Webster.
UvThe body of Miss Matilda King, one of
the persons drowned in the Kiskiminetas, at
Salisbury, Indiana county, on the 1st March,
ina ON Of no wa q
at the Point at Pittsburg, the 18th inst.
UJ. II. Brown, who supports fihy-two
young Baptist theological students at Howard
College, in Alabama, at an annual cost of Sl3,-
600 has recently endowed theological chair
in that College by a contribution of $4,000.
UFrench silks are now admitted into Eng
land duty free. The working women of that
country can now wear fine dresses as their
rich arstocratic sisters, who know not how to
toll, neither do they spin-anything but
s'street yarn.'
CgIn the recent sermon upon the training
of children, Henry Ward Beecher gave the
following stern advice to parents ssNever
strike child upon the head Providence has
provided other and more appropriate places
for punishment"
wThe Marine Bank Agency at Columbus,
Ga, was entered with false keys on Tuesday
hight last and $40 600 stolen, about half of
WHICH WAS III Marine banh NOTES, anu tue re"
mainder Georgia and Carolina notes A re-
ward of g 900 has been offered.
G-A mandatory of friction matches has
just been put in operation at Cincinnati by two
wealthy citizens Of that city. The cost of the
building and machinery has been $3.50, 900,
and it is the most extensive match factory in
the world, except one in Austria.
rOld Senator Clark, of Rhode Island,
speaking of California, and the demands of DR..
Gwin and others upon the Treasury of the u
nited States, used the homely figure that that
Commonwealth reminded him of cross baby
1t was alternately crying and sucking.
"A Cross -man-as we'll as mean one
the fellow who stuck spar-raft on the rifle
below Cearfield, last Sunday, offered So to
have it taken off, and then refused to give any
thing to an old man who took several persons
to it in skiff, pried it loose and landed it in
the dam.
CIA suit has been brought in Chicago to
recover the board of Is men for l days who
were colonized in one of the wards by the
Democratic committee. The board was to be
90 cents day. 1t was shown in evidence that
the Democrats had 100 men so distributed in
three of the wards.
0y-It is asserted that the funds owned by
the Mormons now amount to the enormo Gus
sum of $3.00O,OO0, which is principally on de-
posite--S1 ,O0O. 900 in the city of London,
S500,000 in Liverpool, $500 900 in New Y ork,
and the residue in in Manchester. Glasgow,
Copenhagen and other places in Europe and
America.
The GREAT DRAWBACK to persons emigrating to
the extreme south and western country, is the fear
they nave OF the Fever and Ague-the most dire