Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-11-06

appears likewise tina, the English soon after fabri-
Gated the first clay tobacco pipes ia Europe.
In 1890, Schah Abbas of Persia, prohibited the
usc of tobacco in his empire; bat the pratice had
become so deeprooed among his subjects, that
many of them fed to the mountains, and abandoned
everything else to eaioy the luxuries of smoking.
In the beginning Of the seventeenth century they
began to cultivate tobacco in the Eas, Indies
In 1904, James l. of England cndeavorej by
means Of heavy mposts, to abolish the use oftobac-
CO. which he held to be noxious weed.
In 1910, the smoking of tobacco was known at
Consantinople. To render the custom ridiculous,
Turk, who had been found smoking, was conduc.
ted about the streets, with pipe transfxed through
his nose. For long time after. the Turks pur.
chased tobacco from the English, and that the re
fuse. 1t was late before they began to cultivate
the plant themselves
In 1918, tobacco began to be sown about A.
mersfor', in Holland, which afterwards bcamc ia.
nous for its cultivation
In 1915, the colonsts began 10 cultivate tobacco
in Virginia. 1t is not known whether the plant
was Indigenous, or whether il came from a more
southern country. It is supposed the seeds were
from Tobago. But it seems TO have teen in Use
among the Virginia Indians at the time they were
visited Ivy the English, and was called by them
pefun, or petum. Clavgero SAYS "tobacco is n
name taken from the Haitine language" Hum.
boldt alsc derives it from the same language, and
says that the terra used TO designate the pine
or instrument made use of by the natives in smo.
king the herb which the Spaniatds transferred to
the herb ITSELF aud after them the other nations of
the Ole world.
In 1919, james |. wrote his C0unterbLa,t in
Tobacco, and ordered that no planter in VIRGINIA
should cultivate more than hundred pounds
year. lie also prohibited its sales in England or
Ireland until the custom should he paid and the
royal seal affixed, 7ioeRty thousand pound,
were exported this year from Virginia to England,
the whole crop ofthe preceding year.
IN io2o, ninety young women were sen, over
from England to America and sold to the planters
for tobacco, at one hundred and t,oenty pounds
each. The price at first was one hundred pounds
King James issued proclamation restraining the
disorderly trade in this obnoxious article. In the
same year some English companies introdu.
ced the smoking of tobacco in Zittau, in GERMANY
and Robert Konigsman, merchant, brought the
tobacco plant from England 10 Srasburg
In 1922, the annual import of tobacco into Eng
land from America, for the last seven wears. vas
l42Cs5 pounds,
In l62l, the Pope published q decree Of excom
muncolion against all who should take snuff in the
church, because then already some Spanish ecces.
astins used it during the celebration of mass. King
James restricted the culture of tobacco in Virginia
and the Somer Isles, and forbade its importation
from any other quarter, considering England and
Wales "as utterly uniyt in ,espec, of the cyma,e,
to cherish the same Tor any medicnall use, which
is the only good to be approved in yt."
In 1851, smoking of tobacco was introduce into
Mlsnia, by some Swedish troops.
In 1884, tribunal, called the chamber of tobac-
CO, was formed at Moscow, which prohibited smo-
king under pain of having the nose slit; and the
Grand Duke defended the entrance of tobacco with
The nhction of the knout for the first offence and
death for the second.
In 1859, the grand assembly of Virginia passed
law that all tobacco planted in that and the two
succeeding years, should be destroyed except such
proportion to each planter as should make in the
who.e 10000 pounds, and that the creditors Of
the planters should receive 40 pounds for every
100 pounds due them.
In 1863, smoking began ia the canton of Apen.
zel Switzerland. Al first the children ran after
those who smoked IN the tr,ets. They were ike
wise cited before the council and punished, and
the inn-keepers ordered TO inform against such
as should smoke in their houses.
In 1861, the Po ice regulation of Berne, in Swift
zerland, was made, which was divided according
to the ten commandments, In it, the prohibition
to smoke tobacco, stands under the rubric, thou
shalt not commit adultery" and was continued in
force until the middle Of the last century.
In 1863, the crimes of adultery and forncstion,
were punished in Virginia by fine Of Gom 500
to 1000 pounds oftobacco.
In 1870, and the two following years, smoking
oi tobacco was punished in the canton of Glaurus,
by fine of one crown Swiss money.
In 1876, the whole custom on tobacco from
Virginia, collected in England, was $500, 900. In
the same year two Jews first attempted the cult,
walton OF tobacco in the margIavale Of Branden.
bear I'LL 1851.
in 1859, Jacob Francis vicarus, an Austrian
physician, invented the tubes for tobacco pi-