Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-15
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed and selected.

NOmUoPStpy nus Ulaue oil IIuStTlouS convert
in England. The Duke of Wellington has given
a donation Of fifty euineas to Homeopathic
Dspensary.
Iron Urhs Desroyed.--T'he extensive Iron
Works Of Reeves, Whitaker & Co, located at
Bridgeton, N. ]. were destroyed by 6'e on Tues
day last. Loss s2o0Oo-psr'ially iusu'ed.
A son, aged three years, of Caleb r. DAVIS, OF
Detroit, lately fell into k ule Of boiling water and
was scalded 10 death.
Good Crop.-Mr. James Fitzgerald, living not
far from Jersey vile, ILLINOIS, raised during the past
year, from eleven acres Of ground, Sit bushels
good wheat, being a, III. rate Of IA bushels to the
acre. Mr. F, sowcd eleven bushels.
The stockholders of the South Bank Of Boston
have resolved to dissolve the institution and divide
the ock which is sad to be worth nearly par.
A locomotive made a, the Auburn prison is in
on the Attica Railroad.
/ poor widow named Mullen, was run over
and killed, Friday, on the Baltimore and Sus-
quehanna Rail Road
! Professor Dodd of the College of New Jersey, is
| preparing to publish the speeches, and a memoir
of the late Mr.. Southard
DR.. Hugh Caldwell arrested in New York
on Monday charged with mansaugh,er. He
the doctor who attended the fight aud lanced Nc
Coy's eye in order that he nigh, fight longer.
The Iri,h fellow citizens of the late DR.. Meme,
win of New York, about TO erect a splendid
monument, to his memory.
A Western paper states that they going the
whole hog in the matter ofllrd oil, and that the at
temp, To drcry in the East, is very like a whale
George McDuifie will probably he the Senator
from South Carolina, in place of Mr.. Preston,
whose term Of service expires on the 4,h of March
next.
A letter from Tampa Bay, dated Sept. llth, says
that Tiger Tail, with some of the Greeks, will go
west the present month.
A New Yo'k paper mentions a report that the
mother of Mccoy has become insane.
Green apples at PhtsIurg, 75c 81 IL per bar
rel.
The manufacturing establishments at Reading
are again looking up.
the port of Quebec, this season, ,35s emigrans,
leing 1850 more ,h,n arrived there during the
same period in lSil.
The 81. Louis New Era says that the crops in
that region more abundant; but the
pic, greatly reduced
Upwards Of IL, 900 barrels of flour weIe inspec.
ted in Baltimore las, week.
business has materially revived in the manufac-
turing establishments of Virginia since the passage
OF the Tariff Bill.
Specie at Mobile was a, 25 per cent. premium
on the 29th ult.
Deaths by consumption in New York, las, week,
,hirty-four
The New York Sun says that coIoed man is
now editing disrepu,able sheet in that city.
A son of C,leh F. Davis, of Detroit, fell into a
kettle Of boiling water, few days since. and was
scalded TO death.
Las, year the total decrease of consumption Of
wines in England, was 425s25 gallons.
The average stock of ulIion in the Bank of Eng
land, during the month Of August, was about E20,-
100000, nearly S5O,OoO0OO.
The Boston Transcript says: We understand
ths, the Rev. Df Essthurn has accepted both of his
late cans-,hai of the Assistant Bishop Of the Eas.
tern Diocese, aud the RectoTship Of trinity Church.
Pujury.-At the recent session of the Circuit
Court, sitting in Delaware county, n. y, Victor
Adams was sentenced to ten years imprisonment
in the Stale Prison, for the crime Of perjury.
A new Baptist Church was dedicated at Pitts
burg, on the ilh inst.
The number of church membes in the Sand
wich Islands, is 1920 being nearly one-fith of the
population. The number admitted during the year
ending Is, June hast, was 24i3. Number of chill
dren in the schcos rs, 900 to 10000. The king
has lately joined the Temperance Society.
During the months of April, May and June, the
editors of the London Times paid for duies on ad-
yertisemcnis, the of G3,995, nearly $40 900.
djca,eJ in Lei,,rsburg, Washington county, Md,
on Sunday.
An extensive he'd e CANNED coal has been recent
" discovered in Cole county Missouri. The niue
is very valuable.
The amount Of Treasury Notes outstanding on
" the st inst was it is officially stated, ss,s62 O70.
The funeral of,he Rev. Dr. Claiming toak place
in Boston on Thursday week last. The bells of all
the Unitarian and Roman Catholic Churches were
L., a.