The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-07-06
OUR SCRAP BOOK,

The Baton, Louisiana, Gazette, Of III.
18th ult complains Of great drought in that
vicinity, no rain of consequence having fall
len for two months previous. We can spars =
them some from this section.
Mr. Phinney, Of Lexington, Massacbu.
sets, makes 8 or $4,000 annually by raising
pork, and he uses sweet apples as the prinsY
cpal article of food. He calculates that
whatever he gets for his pork is clear pro.
fiji, as he makes his hogs pay the cost Of
their keeping, by the manure he gets from
his piggery.
A convict, named Isaac Stagg, while at.
tempting 10 escape from prison, a. Black.
wells Island, short time since, was sho,
at by the sentinel and killed.
Flour at Cincinnati on the Goth ult, was
81 81 per barrel.
A hail storm passed recently through
some portion of Mississippi. The hail
stones fell to the depth of three or four in.
ches.
A New York paper mcntisns an Ok rails
GU III OObhOsoOO Cuuuty, III tHdt plale,
which is now six years old, and weighs
$500 lbs. He is said 10 be the arges! OK
ever weighed in Western New York.
The average price Of -four throughout
| the United States, is S5 81. The average
| price year ago was 50 90.
1t is stated in the Vicksburg Sentinel that
Judge Shattuck, Of Madison county, Mis-.
sissippi, recently made narrow escape
from Lynching scrape at Benton. lie,
it seems, had given offence to the jury, and
the mob was not disposed to submit to wha,
they styled judicial arrogance. A plan was
laid to catch his homecoming off the bench,
but he warily took the back ,oay-and thus
saved himself from Injury, and his country
from shame.
The d" British Queen" steamer, was to
have left Portsmouth, New York, on the
first of July. Her tonnage is put dewn at
2016 tons.
Nearly one thousand children are in at.
tendance at the public schools of Baltimore.
The Queen of England is said to have
greatly increased in popularity since the re-
call of the Wing Ministry.
The Chicago Democrat SAYS that a swim.
dIer by the name of Graen, late director Of
one of the wild cats in Michigan, undertook
to pass spurious bill Farmers Bank o.
Rome) with lsndlady near Rock Island
City, who was both smarter and stronger
than he took her toIbe. She, with her maid
and daughter, took justice into their own
hands, and handsawed him severely
1t was proved by the confession Of one o.
; the culpriis that the late disastrous and Ca
lamitous fire in Albany, which destroyed
: thousands Of property, and rendered many
a families houseless, was kindled by thre'
boys to decide bet Of segars which engln
: of certain three would reach the fire FIRST
!. No trace of Mr. Miller the confdensia
agent of Mr.. Steinburger, Of Baltimore, ha
y. as vet, been discovered. The money will
. which he was entrusted, has all been pro
y perly applied. Mr., S. is Of the oplnlo
# that Mr.. Mis- laboring under derangemer
i of mind.
i. Mackenzie, the Canadian patriot, was re
/. Gently tried at Canandaigua, n. Y. for
n breach of the neutrality law, and foun
II guilty. He has been sentenced to be in
prisonment for eighteen months, and to pa
a fnc OF ten dollars.
A Tender Wish--A beggar at Dubil
N had been long time IN besieging an oI
" gouty limpy gentleman, who refused b
/ might with much irritability; on which III
n mendicant said, " All, please your honor,
,e wish your heart was as tender as yo'
toes"
Mt A gentleman was at bankers when
lie observed little boy present check at Il
v counter. The clerk put the usual quesilt
nj to him. " How will you take il ~ TO whIt
y. the boy innocenly answered, " In N
a pocket, Sir"
~ ~ Tar for Sheep.-A gentlemen who kee
he a flock Of sheep says, that during the So
,H ,s, son of grazing, he!givrs his sheep tar at
cd rate of gill day for every twenty shee
NJ He puts the tar in troughs, sprinklcs lit
'bs fine salt over it, and the sheep consume
,re eagerly. This preserves them from wor
an in the head, promotes their general gro"
a and is supposed to be specific agalns'F II
te, Two children, one FIVE, and the other
he years of age were recently killed by liS