Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-10-27
News Epitome.

bouts OF Dr. Livingstone, the lndoUltable
explorer, says that he is not only alive and
well, but In prosecuting hrs geographical
| researches has discovered that one OF the
sources of the Nile, emptying into the great
lake Victoria Tyanza, rises some ten degrees
south of the Equator This, if correct, makes
the Nile the longest river IN the world. A
fair idea of the long line of the Nile may be
formed from the fact that the distance be-
tween its last reported source and its delta
along the Mediterranean is equal to the dis
tance from Lima, in Peru, to the city of
New York, or from the City OF Mexico a
way up to Mount ST. Elias, the end of the
| backbone of this continent. IN Alaska.
A Washington dispatch states that Attor-
ney General Hoar, in conversation with a
friend few days ago, stated that he was
| not a candidate for the Supreme Bench, and
| would not take it if offered him. 1t turns
| out that Edwin NJ Stanton is the most
prominent candidate for any vacancy that
it may be necessary to fll in the Supreme
| Court, and the President, it is said, is not
| averss to hS appointment A very large
number OF letters recommending him have
been received from the most prominent law
yers Of the country. 1t may be stated, how
ever, in justice to Mr.. Stanton, that ne has
made no perSosal effort or application Tor
the position, but he is strongly urged by
his friends and eminent members OF the bar.
=, Female suffrage for municipal officers in
the boroughs and cities Of Great Britain
was confirmed by law of the last Parliament
About 300 female voters are now on the
register Of municipal vetsrs at Lincoln, Eng
land. At Stamford the number of female
municipal voters for the ensuing year will be
$50. At East Retford, out of 5i4 munici
pal voters for lS6o-70, sixty will be women.
At Norwich the municipal res lister for 1869
10 will comprise upwards Of 10000 names,
and about | 800 of the voters will be women.
At Liverpool, Manch ester aud Birm ingham
the number of female voters runs into the
thousands.
Gen. Sherman calmed the excited feel
ings of Committee of Washingtonians, the
other day by giving them his opinion the
capital will never be moved from Washing
ton TO the Mississippi or any other valley.
He thinks it would take one hundred years
to get bill for the removal through The
House of Representatives., one hundred
years to get one through the Senate, and
even after the passage Of the bill by both
be spent in discussing the most eligible
point in the Mississippi Valley to which the
capital could be removed
The petri6ed giant exhumed in Onondaga
county, New York, the other Gay proves to
be nothing but colossal statue, carved from
a species Of .trsti6ed sulphate of line known
as Onondaga gypsum. The features are OF
the European cast, and the sculpture is m
like any remains of aboriginal plastic artex-
tant. Hence it may be surmised that the
figure was executed by the Jesuits, who
had missionary stations in that part Of the
country two hundred years ago. If they
did not make it, who did?
1t i. rumored that Wall street is again
plotting to engineer Secretary Boutwell, out
of the Treasury. The particular device pro-
posed to this end is to be another mammoth
operation in gold. Those engineers have
been already once hoisted By their own pc
tard, and will show more courage than wis
dom if they try it again. The second ex-
plosion is mysteriously stated to be fxsd for
about the end OF November.
The gloves and mittens of buck, sheep,
L L IL a
in Johnstown, New York, amount to So,
900, OO0-nine tenths Of the entire product
of the United States being made there.
There are more than three hundred manu-
facturers engaged in the business, and fam
lilies for twenty miles around have pleasant
aud profitable employment in making up
the goods.
A couple of gay youths, forced to spend a
couple of days in country town near Gin
cinnati, dropped in at church where flu
neral was in progress, to see who they
were going to plant" They we're march
ing with the rest past the open coffin, when
one of them flung himself upon 1t and would
not be removed, giving away to the most
pDisbSbb zilCi. IL NAS his ioehOi'
The celebrated Foucault experiment to
proove the rotation of the earth was tried
Tuesday, in the rotunda of the Ohio State
House, by Mr. Mendenhall, of the city high
school. The pendulum had clear length
Of one hundred aud twenty feet, and showed
the motion of the earth in three minutes
after its starting The experiment was In
every way success.
The Rothschilds of Paris have been swim
died out of $50, 900 by a forger, who turns
out to be clerk in Vienna banking house,
and who, after purloining $4,000 from the
bank, forged the signature of his employers
to letter advising the Rothsehilds of the
draft upon them, which he eashed immedi-
ately after his arrival at Paris.
Advices from Nassau state that the steam
er Lillian, which sailed with an expedition
ary force from Florida for Cuba, had been
captured by the British gunboat Lapwing,
and taken into Nassau where she was releas-
ed by the authorities under the ruling of the
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