Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-17
MISCELLANY.

Editorial, Condensed and Selected.
The average annusi amount Of coinage in the
world amounts to S7s 600
Hume saws, thc only discovery for which we are
indebted TO ti,e hacks, is the drum.
Mr. +. s Smith, Collector of PhiIadelphis, is to
make way for the Hon. George NJ. Keim.
The New Orleans Courier states that the amount
Of specie in the vaults of ten OF the Baaks of lha,
city On the Goth uh was SO so00:7.
Sweet potatoes aTe selling at 81 cent. per peck
in Charleston.
A rooster was recently hogged in Connecticut,
for growing on sunday.
Mr.. McDulie, it is thought, Will lie elected L.
S Senator fr,sn South Carohna.
There is q man in Buckingham County Va,
who has wife who weighs 37s pounds - Oh
Thunder.1
Nnety-four tons Of poultry were ,aken 10 the
Boston Market FROM RhJde Island abou, thanks
giving time.
A man named Daniel Smith, a native of Scot
years.
The Rev. Theodore Parker s1ys, eve are a
grave and very sober people; we have no national
amusement, except barking and the credit system.
fSidcncr Posittr.--As an evidence of AleIsn-
der's insanity it is said Ire paid man he was in
debtcd 10, whilst on board the steamboat, one hun.
L. Gao Ma Al,
rors now considers his insarity unques,ionable.
The Steamship Columbia, at Boston, brought
1912 900 in specie,
Farms in Ne,c Jersey-The Tten'on Gazette
saws: Land command. at this time in this vicinity
a fair picc, notwithstanding the times. Farms
have been sold lately few mikes from Trenton
value.
Mnp,ft-m SitbScripiions.-Fihy, thousand dol
lars have been subscribed for the Use of Amherst
College. Mr.. John TaPpan of Boston gave $1,000,
and others very considerable sums.
4 Fire Pct oh by Ladies.-The house of James
Kellogg, at Cleveland Ohio, caught fire lately, and
the flames were suhdued by number Of ladies'
who exered themselves in throwing water upon
them, whRe the men stood Idly gazing on.
In Eeuee prepare for Wv.-Mr. r. l. Stevens
is experimenting at Burlington or the means of
constructing and propcllng Aossiog batteries for
hsrhor detences.
The Cincinnati Outrage has undergone inves,i-
CATION by an ecclesias,icai tribunal. The III treat
men. Of the old lady AT the hands of her children
has teen proven report is soon to lie published
A Great M0t-A Cook, Esq, OF Williamsburg,
L. l., while on a cunning excursion one day last
week, sho, an eagle as it wss flying ever, with a
single ball, a, the enormous distance of 200 yards.
Tsere were 1886 lbs, or about "a tons of
turNics, chickens, &c. brought from Rhode Island
10 Boston, on the Boston and Providence Railroad,
about thanksgiving time, This poultry sold for
I25 cts. per pound or 81 3,596,37
Singular PnESoNESoS.-The Indianapolis
Sentinel ofho 2sth ult announces the following
occurrence which Parson Miller may very possibly
consider the beginning of the end
We are informed by gentleman who has re-
Gently visited the place. that subterrlnean fire has
J teen raging in Putnam County for several weeks
It has extended under space of some acres oI
ground, sbou, one and hall or two miles south o
Manhattan snl the timber had commenced fall
ing in every direction on the infected District
| Where the earth has fallen in it has left openine
through which smoke issues constantly. variou
causes for the phenomenon are given , but tn,
most reasonable seems to be that vein of coal
with which he country sbounds, has become ig
ni'ed from some cause, perhaps lightning.