Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-07-04
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS

WEsrMoRELAND CoUNTY.-A young man
named Nef, OF West Newton, recently moul-
| ded Eight Thousand EightHundred and Seventy
| Eight Brick in one day This will be ac-
/ knowledged an extraordinary days work.
/ but he is willing to undertake the moulding
/ Of Ten Thousand from sun-up till sunset.
/ On Saturday, Oath Of June, little son Of
! Thomas Copeland, of Sewickly township, aged
| about eight years, accidentally fell into the
Youghiogheny river, at Buena Vista, and be-
| fore he could be rescued was drowned. Every
| effort that could be made by diving to recover
| his body before life had fed was in vain. 1t
| was not found for about an hour, and when ta-
| ken out he was past resuscitation. On the
! 22d, Mrs. White, an aged lady, of Unity town
ship,while engaged in gathering some cherries
| fell from the tree, a distance of about eight
feet to the ground, and, in the fall, broke
| both of her arms. Mr.. Chris Shaffer, for
merly of Salisbury, now residing at Carpen-
ter's about thirteen miles west of Greensburg,
had for several years a negro man that was
notoriousy addicted to drinking. This negro
was out at some gathering about three weeks
ago and returned home at night very much in
tOxicated. He lay down as usual in the bar
room to sleep; during the night time he took
| fire, and before he could be awoke, all his
clothes were burnt off him, and the grease
| melted out into the board where he lay. When
he was pretty well into a crisp, he awoke and
made great noise, which raised Mr.. Shaffer,
but he was so badly burned that he soon died
| in great agony. Whether he took fire spon-
taneously or from matches he was in the habit
| of carrying in his pocket, is not known.
| The residence of Col. d. X. Marchand in
Greensburg, took fire on the 24th, and before
| the flames could be extinguished sustained
damages amounting to $500 or $1,000. On
| the 18th, severe hail storm passed over a
| portion OF this county. Mr.. Cyrus Caven,
about miles above Ligonier, had thirty sheep
L. 1ad hu Aoch of linht tnIn ,ar
the flock escaped.
CRAWFORD CoUNTY.-On Thursday the 21st
June, Thomas Moser, of Bloomfield township,
attempted the murder of his wife with an axe.
1t seems that Mosier, who had been married
but several months, had parted from his wife
that in short time they again got together;
that subsequently they parted second time,
she returning to her parents. On Wednesday,
he came to her fathers residence; staid over
night, ,and was about starting away in the NOR
ming. He had got as far the wood pile, and
was talking to her mother, when he saw his
wife sitting at the window. He then took up
an old axe, and going round to the back door,
entered the room. On seeing him, she tried
to escape, but he knocked her down with the
axe, and afterward, repeated the blows three
times on her head, injuring her so severely
| that no hopes are entertained of her recovery.
Mosier was arrested and lodged in JAIL On
the evening of the 21st an affray took place
on Chestnut Street, Meadville, between Mr..
r. FL. Guinnip, of the firm of Guinnip 4 Co.
and Mr.. Jno. w. Crocker, of Chatauque coun-
ty, New 7 ork, in which the latter was danger
ously, perhaps fatally wounded, by shot in
the breast. The parties had quarrel on the
day previous, but had been separated, and on
meeting the next evening, renewed the quar-
rel. Guinnip delivered himself up and was
admitted to bail in $4,000. On the 10Th,
a child of Mrs. Harrison, of Meadville, aged
about four years, fell into large kettle of
boiling soap, and was badly scaded that it
died shortly afterwards.
POTTER CoUNTY.-During the thunder storm
OF June 18th, frame house in Pleasant VAL
ley township belonging to A. NJ. Benton, Esq,
and occupied by his brother, Samuel Benton,
was struck by lightning and completely shat
tered, and yet not set on fire. The lightning
entered the upper plate of the building at the
north west corner and followed the plate to
the opposite corner where it seems to have di-
yided into three bolts or forks, one going down
into the buttery, another to the kitchen, and
the other passing down and out of the end of
the building to the ground, where it tore up
the turf for some distance. Mrs. Benton and
her children, together with Mr.. Benton's
m other, were in the kitchen; and Mrs. B.
was shocked so badly by the lightning that
she was insensible for several hours, and is
still very weak though going about the house.
The others were slightly benumbed. A f1rkin
ped of the hoops and slaves, leaving the solid
cake of butter otherwise undisturbed. A gun
standing in the corner of the chamber where
the lightning entered the building is supposed
to have attracted it. The building is COM
plete wreck. A shawl was set on fire but was
extinguished by man who was present.
CENTRE CoUNTY.-Jacob Kepler, of Pine
Grove Mills, whilst playing ball at Philipsburg
recently, took off his linen coat, in the pocket
of which he had S440, and laid in a desk in
the bar-room but when he came to put on the
coat, the money was missing. A young
man named Michael Canlan Was drowned at
Curtin's Ore Bank, near the<Boiling Spring,
week before last, whilst taking bath. His
body was not recovered until next morning. !.
The shoe shop of Jesse Gillespie, of Rellefonte,
was entered on the 18th, and pairs of new
shoes stolen therefrom. Two pairs of the
shoes were afterwards recovered. No arrests
made.
INDIANA CouNrY.-On the Goth ult., "a little
daughter of Thomas G. Hood, of White town
ship, was knocked down by passing wagon,
and had one of her feet badly injured by being
tramped by one of the horses, =. The weavil
has made its appearance in several localities
and some of the wheat fields have been badly
damaged by the de 4ctfve insect. .Mr.Mar-
shall, OF Indiana hugh, has shipped this
season from that place -four hundred car loads
OF bark to Pittsburgh. MIR. John A. Bar
clay, of Centre township, has calf, cross of
the common Durham and English Durham.
which weighed, when about Is hours old, one
hundred and five pounds
The Naples correspondent of the Daily Ne,cs
writes as follows ws:-ssEverything wears war |
like aspect here, and there is no lack of ener