Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-11-17
News Epitome.

hoods ana earthquakes tnat nave prcVdi'eu
in various places, to the influence of the sun,
which, they assert, is in highly asltatsd
state. 1t is also asserted by them that the
body of magnetic light now shooting from
the sun in every direction will, by the be-
gining of next year, will have extended far
enough TO exercise material influence upon
the earth, and then it is said We may expect
that phenomena will be observable such as
have not yet come under the notice of the
human race.
The State Department has received an
official communication from Mr.. Bur!in
game that the Chinese Government has full
ly sustained the Burlingame mission in all
its official actions aud intercourse with the
United States thus far. and that the reports
to the effect that the ''Cclestials would re-
fuse to ratify and confirm any of the treaties
that the Burlingame mission has or may en-
ter into with this or the European Govern
ments, are entirely without foundation.
The new President of the Cuban Junta in
this country, Senior Aldama, is the wealth
lest Cuban on the island. His real estate,
consisting of sugar and tobacco plantations,
grazing lands, and fruit orchards, is valued
at ten millions of money, and his other pos
sessions at five millions His purse has
been opened constantly since his arrival in
the United States. He furnished SIPS, 600
tor single expedition, and in all upward of
a million dollars.
A few days since Captain Joseph W.
Coppage, while blowing in field near Ma
pies, Illinois, turned up pot of gold coin
He stopped his team, examined the glitter
ing metal closely, counted it, and found it
amounted to $4,000. However, doubt
depressed his soul He feared the metal
might have been deposited there by coun-
terfeiters and might prove worthless. He
took it to Winchester, and sold it to one of
the banks for s., 900 in greenbacks.
A mining story of unusually magnificent
dimensions comes from Davenport, Iowa. 1t
is said that several citizens of that place
have bought six THOUSAND acres of land in
the Boulder Valley, Colorado, wherein they
claim is a richer vein of bituminous coal
than that of Pennsylvania. The trac: is
near tie line of railroad to run between
Denver and Cheyenne, and only about TWEEN
ty mile. from the former city.
Pere Ilyacinthe proposes to harmonizc
the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church
es and to bring all the communicates thereof
into one common body, acknowledging lone
God, one faith and one baptism. Govern
or Hoffman, having material to work with,
proposes ito make the Legislature OF the
State of New York honest. The Tribune
suggests that Hoffman has taken the heavi-
er contract.
General Cespedes, with that hig III minded
earnestness which characterized him when
he burned his large Bapano property, now
| promises to give to each family of which
father or son have fallen for Cuban freedom
thirty-three acres of land, till his estate is
exhausted. AsCespedes was an exte nsive
land owner, the gift must be very consider
able, and its example of great effect.
1t is reported that Father Hyacinthe, be-
fore leaving for Europe, will issue pastoral
letter to the Catholics of America, calling
upon them to form u nucleus, around which
all literal minded members of the church
can rally, without forsaking the sacred rrln-
ciples of the Catholic religion. tie looks
| upon America to day as the cradle of reEg
ious independence.
! The Lancaster Examiner estimates the
| colored vote of Lancaster county at about
I. 900, based upon the census of $50, when
the colored population was 5, 49o, and the
! Lancaster Enquirer calls upon the Demo
cratic politicians to make their peace with
| the new citizens, or they will be defeated in
| the only districts in which they have a ma
| jorlty.
With careful picking and saving it i,
/ likely that the Southern cotton crop this
year will reach the hadsome figure of three
million bales This, at the moderate aver
age of twenty fve cents 4 pound is equal to
three hundred millions of dolars-a splen-
exempliGcation of practical Southern recon
.truction, on cash basis.
An able engineer estimates the loss in
horses, extra wear of vehicles, and extra
horse shoeing in the cities of the United
States, occasioned by black stone and cob
Bile stone pavements as follows: On horses
$4,000, 600; on vehicles, $50, 900, 900; ant
on horse shoeing. $2l, 100000. making /:
total of $50, 100000.
4 a New York paper states that since the
close of the war the Brooklyn Navy Yarc
has not been so excited or busy as it i. now
Three thousand mechanics and laborers are
at present at work reftting and overhaul
ing everything except the Java, the Colora
do, and the Kalamazoo. What does i
mean?
1t is generally predicted that We will har
long and severe winter Both East an,
West the weather is unusually cold for thi
time of the year. In Maine and Vernon
the snow is two feet deep, and it has tallel
very heavily as far South even as Virginia.
By the death of Admiral Stewart, Rear
Admiral VIM. B. Shubrick is the oldest OF
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