Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1840-12-26
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Till TO abolish imprisonment for debt is now c
before the Legislature of New Hampshire. 9
PLEAsuRK IN Sropr.--It is announced in the
Evening Post, that talented and accomplished |
countrywoman, Miss SEpewrcK, intends to pub
lsh a sketch, &c, of her late visit t, Europe.
Lance CAsrING-An immense cylonder, weigh
ing thirty tons arrived in New Yok, the other
day, from England, in the Cambridge. 1t is for an
hydr uic press in that city.
TnIcK or THE JoBBERs.-I is stated, saws the
Philadelphia Spirit of the Times, ,ha, rumcr was
set af1oat in New York, previous 10 the departure
of the Great Western, that the United States Bank
had resumed specie payments. The news will of
course be taken to England, and exercise an inHu-
ence on the stock of the Bank, which may probably
put some thousands of dollars in the pockets of the
authors Of the device.
hIauon-A man by the name of Joseph Mo-
zccn, in Washington fell dead in a fit caused by
excessive drinking. He had only been half hour
out of the Washington city aims house.
| o. We yesterday saw, says the n. o. Picay.
une, "sure enough lennon, which measured no
less than "a inches in circumference, inches in
diameter and weighed within half an ounce of 5
pounds
GEoRsIA LEsIsLATUnE.--The House Of Repre-
sentatives Of Gearga have refused to repeal the act
to prevent the evils of private banking by vote Of
l43 TO 30.
A STRANGE BALLOT Box.-The Hawk Eye, Of
Burlington, Iowa Territory, says that the hallo, box
Burlington in the shape OF tin bucket, with
paper cover and was placed in The land Office O.
yer night before the votes count d.
THE InoSsIpEs, a Bristol iron ship arrived re-
Gently at Galveston, Texas, from Liverpool, with
cargo of iron, tin, dry goods 100 tons coal, fine P-
amos, &C., together with booded stock Of various
kinds.
DEATH rr CH.ncoAL-Mt Samuel Baldwin
aged 90 years, was found dead in his tcAd on Sun
day morning, the 9th December, in the house If
Pardon Barnard, Lcnnox, Madison CO, New York
from the effect of acid from charcoal, which had
been placed in the roum.
Wonrur OF rINrrATIoS.-Therei is gentleman
in Spinl field, Mass, who regularly celebrates the
anniversary ofhs marriage, by paying for his news
paper. The same gentleman celebrates the brtl
of every new comcr, by subscribing for new pa
Per.
4 DIsTI~GuIsHrD NisIruu.-Und the abov
heal. the ST, Louis New Era Of The 9th inst, state
that Hosea J. Lewis, late Cashier of the Schuylki
Bank, was in that city few days since. He regis
tered his name n. Miller, at the City Hotel. ii
did not tarry long; and is undeI stood 10 have ia
ie ken his departure for New Orleans, in the steam
boat Meteor.
:, MAIL RoBpEn AnnEsrEp.-The Chicago d,
f. mocrat states that a young man named Reube
,b Rose has been arrested and committed to Coo
Id county ,il (nois fol robbing the mail last wiz
Ter near Lancaster, Pa.
The police of New York broke up gamblin
establishment in that city, and arrested SO negroes
: a number of wtte girls of the town, and twenty {
thirty Others of both sexes, and all compile rions.
BESEvoLEScE.-Dr Franklin once said that
benevolent man was known by his spreading asht
before his house in win'er, to prevent passers
from slipping on the ice, and ,nlangerng the
IT, limbs and lives.
A bill before the Georgia Legislature for the a
clifton of capital punishment, makes the singul
exception of the crime Of treason. An execute
!, for this crime, never did happen in the Unit,
States.
Those Of our readers, says the Salem Gozeit
- who have the Mountain Ash growing on the
, premises may feel interested to know tina, the PEI
a. has been successfully grated upon that tree in
rope.