Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-01
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are employed for that purpose.
A half bushel Of superior peaches were sold a,
Boston for 81, while ordinary peaches were selling
a, $3.50,
Sever numbers of tho Petersburg (ya) Tn,elTi.
gencer of the 22d inst, were printed on paper
made form the leaves Of morus mulicaulis.
Counterfeit Half Eagles are in circulation. We
should be glad to see almost any kind in this quar-
ter.
We learn from the Phtsburg Gazette, that the
Brownsville Iron Works which were recently bur-
ned down, have been rebuilt, and are now in sue.
cessfu operation. The paper states that the
Birmingham Iron Works will commence operations
this week.
AT Cincinnati, on the 10th instant, Fl,ur was
selling a, the Canal at s2,6s s2,7O per b,rrel.
The Sangamo Journal states that Joe Smith and
o. p. Rockwell are now outlaws they having esca-
ped from the officers Of Justice.
COnrc,ion-In Pike County, Indiana, Noah
BcauchamF was, few days since, convicted ofthe
murder of Geo. Mckleury the 9TH Of july
1870, and sentenced TO he hanged on the 9TH Of
/ Ocoer. After the murder, he fed to Texas, but
! was pursued and brought back about a year af-
/ ter.
I The Burglar who recently robbed the jewclry
shop of Mc Joseph S. Gipn, of Maysvie, of a
bout three thousand liars worth If watches, &c,
has been caught. His name is John Hart.
/ Gen Walker of Minwaukie has recently had
his claim confirmed by g,vcrnmen to what is
known as Walkers Point. 1t is valued a, $780,
600.
There were in Cincinnati in 1910, l4l 63 Ger
mans; in the county ne ny $4,000. 1t is estima-
ted there ale upwards of 20, 900 Germans in Phil
adeph;a.
The number of deahs in New York last
week was l79 SO men, 81 women, Ga boys and
58 girls,
Great Wesiera .Yeamsr.-For rheiwo days pre-.
vious TO the sailing of this vessel from Liverpo'l,
she Wa open to the public. Tire f,es for admis-
sion amounted to Gl00.
Despaich-An order fr goods from New
York house, cn house in Sheffield, Eng. sent out
ty the Great Western, fulfilled by the return of the
steamer the goods were received in thirty-seven
days from the date of the letter.
The Wiskons on Whig states tia, it is conem-
pl ,red to sink two shafts in the mines at Mineral
Poin, and Dubuque, each l.5ee feet deep to test
tic question in relation TO the un'ter bodies OF
mineral supposed to exist in The mineral region.
A Irorhc, On a small scale has established him
, a, RIM Ia onS uiJI dou htless soon collect he
levers. He speaks in this wise Buffalo will be
burnt, lSi3, on the 9th of January, in is43 at l
o'clock in the mornng.-Take notice. Given un
der my seal j. Koburd"
T. ". UhHe Es9-We deeply regret t.
harm that Mr. White, eitor of the Southern Liter
airy Messenger, a visit to New York, has sus
tainrd paraytic stroke that may make him an IL
valid f,r the taIance of his hfe
Snoring ogthjs Mortal CoiL-Yes,erday afte
noon, saws the New Orleans Bulletin, your
lady residing somewhere in the lnwer end OF Can
street, discharged risto, loaded with buck'h
into her own bosom. Reason-unreQuiled love-
very considerable amount of European Goo
have recently arrived in New York which will
= returned withou, heing Landed this is in con
quence of the Tariff. i, is to be regretted Il
D., any los, or Inconvenience should accrue TO indvi
Il, ais, but il is no serious lnss to the country.
!, 1t is said ,ha, the NJ ,rquis OF Westminster 81
It to each Of l,s grand daughters, lately mau
: GlO0, 900.
r. A prolific vein Of golI, extending nearly tive
e miles, has been discovered near the Bay OF
, Francisco, in Upper California.
e Mr.. Welster's carriage has been shipped to
v ton. This may he sign, that he must follow
Hard 10 Beat-Two young men, by the nj
, of w tsel and Chadderdon, in the city of Al
laid sixteen hundred feet of boring in seven
and half. Beat it if you can.
!. A negro woman, belonging to the Mess:s.
:. mcrs, of 1nnes's Buff Sumter Co, Ala was
n mitted To the Jail of that County, on o char
having hung her own child girl about IL
n cid.
TIE Indian SporfS-Consistng of gan
bali between the Senecas and Tuscaroras,
the Buiiilo Com, c Ime oil on Thursday last
fore large number Of spectators, who had ass
IN bleI Notwithstanding the rain. In 10th 8
played the Senecas won the feather,
at The Catsk mountain, i, is said, was co,
IN with snow last week,
Strawberries of the second growth and exc,
nd favor, were plentiful in the. .C.ncnue,, make,
eA week, at 10 10 l2l cents peT ,uo,,