Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-29
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed ana selected.


The Lowell Courier states that the Lowell
Manufacturing Company have begun new buid d.
ing for manufacturing purp ses in that town.
The Collector Of New York has seized 10, Of
watches, valued at io,cOo to $4,000 as smugs ed
goods.
A Judge Of the Supreme Court of New Hemp
accep, the sgency Of the Suffolk mills. His saa-
ry as JUDGE was only si4OO Miserable parsirno.
ny this on the part of State.
There are said to lie five hundred lrunkards in
the N W York Almshousc.
A gentleman a, Red Hook on the Hudson river.
recently sold twenty four hundred barrels of apples
all Of his own raising, for $4,000,
MIR Sickness. fearful; disease, we learn
RACES to some extent in the northern parts Of In.
diana. PeoI lie are taken with vomiting, which
continues until death. II is generally supposed to
he caused by the water being impreena,cd with
some mineral but this fact has nevc. been fully
asccrtained.
Bir hs in France, 7.O0O-Mauages, 267 900
just four babies annually, 10 each couple Pret-
" fair.
The Albany Daily Advertiser says-"We learn
tha, an attempt was made on Sunday afternoon TO
fire the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Broadway.
The sexton, about 3 o'clock, an hour after the
commencement of afternoon service, found one Of
The out-houses attached TO the church on fire, The
fe WAS eItinguished but ne, until the flooring of
the building was destroyed. The fire was without
doubt set by design
II is stated that the officers and workmcn Of the
Boston Navy Yard will lose 500, 900 by the failure
Of the Phunix Bank Of Charleston.
On opening vase lately discovered in the ruins
If 'llerculsneum, the learned Ahle Fsccolati
found oiange preserved in vinegar. II appears
that the Romans picked oranges we do CHER
kits.
Flour at Cleveland on the 18Th. 81 so to - sc.
Flour at Pusburg on the 2Oih IS 81 and SO so.
Cotton a, Columbus, Ga, on the 18th inst, to
61 cents.
The New Orleans Bee suys--"An shor,ive at.
temp, was made on S.turd,y night, sth inst. TO
rob the post office in New Orleans. The ,hiese-
did not, however, succeed in forcing enhance
The Red River Republican states that Thomas
slave belonging to the estate Of John Linton, has
! been convicted Of siahhng the overseer IN three
places. He is to he hung ,he 4th Of mex
month.
Two men who were bitten by mad dog, q
Northampton, Mass. in March last, have since die,
of by drophobia.
A Southern paper mentions q rumor that the L.
niteJ States have Offered 10 mediate between Tex
as aud Mexico.
The Missouri Reporter of the 7th says: at i,
rumorcd that Joe Smith has been arrested, and i
now in the hands of the proper officers awaiting
his trial.
Majr Beatty, Of Andrews county, Missoui
has upwards of fifty acres Of hemp this season.
In Portugal as in Spain, money cannot be raise
to carry on the Government
The King of Hanover, who is 70, has contrac
ed marriage with widow aged 40.
General Jackson.-The Nashville Wing c
Saturday week understands that Gen, Jackson II
cei,ed Painful injury in the forehead, on Thur'
day, by the upse,iing of a carriage, near the He
mitoge, in which he was riding out to vti, a sic
neghhor.
4 ConpHmem.-J Judge Marshall, Of Englan
in sentencing man for stealing patterns Of ptin
I'd goods ssI, in conclusion, "You meant, as yc
state, TO take Them TO America in my opinion Il
r most rascslly nation in the world, for they don
pay my diridends'"