Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-24
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.

Editorial, Condensed and Selected.
Ne'o Coraterfeh-Erchange Bank Of Pitts.
bnrg.-i's aud rs, altered with pen from Tow
anda Relief notes. The genuine are signed w.
James, il or J. B. Murray, Clerks, with the names
Of Prcsilcn, and Cashier engraved on the LIFT.
The debt Of Great Britain, in silver. would load
coo, ESQ wagons, allowing each to carry ZOO lbs;
and allowing each team 80 feet, would fern line
over 700 miles in length. If reduced to cents, it
would load sss7 500 wagons, and form line
twice round the globe.
Tie Last Lie.-Thc London Morning Chroni-
Gle saws. Shareholders in America make practice
Of feeding swine with the dead hodies of their me-
groes,'
Joel Io,chkiIs of Gulford, Conn, was recent.
iy fined slO0, and imprisoned six months for ,chp.
ping his tcife. Certainly not rery severe for the
ofierce.
a gentleman Of Kentucky is about 10 cu'tivute
Indian corn for sugar. He says 1000 pounds OF
sugsr can he obtained to the acre.
Castor Beans are selling sbou, Alton Of 371 40
cents per hushei. Last year they brought a dollar
TO dollar and half bushel. ii Is the manuiac-
tured article fallen in like proportion, If it has,
babies look out--your careful mothers will double
| tho doses.
| An aged Eei-An English paper relates that
farmer residing of the highest hills in the
Ards in clearing out well. found eel alive and
kicking, that he had placed there 40 year. b. fore.
To sat the Timss-- is stated that the low
prices of produce, and competition, have reduced
| board in Washington from gin and St5 a week 10
| SO and 81 at which price many OF the members
are sad to have contracted for the wmtcr.
Nt,r York Bible Socieiy-l0,O00 Bibles have
been distributed by this socfety during the past
year. Receipts s5,son, being about 3,OOo less
than last year, This decrease is attributed to the
pressure Of the times.
The Savannah Republican of Dec. 18Th, says;
The first shal of the season served up at the
Pulaski House, yes'erday morning.
Hemp in Mssourh-Mr. David Myerly, former
ly of Phlajephis, srn,es that there are about "oC
farmers in Missouri, engaged in wa'er-ro',ing hemp
and they will produce from 400 to 500 tons.
STANDARDIZATION Stewart. convicted of PERU
~, swearing to be worth $500, in order to bai
Wa, L. Ross in the sum of $1,000, was sentence'
to the State Prison for two years.
Books-A modern writer who probably hene6t
ted by experience says "Oont lend books. Or
this point be nexornbe both to friends and foes
Borrowed books never ge, fair play. They are ei
ther lost, damaged, or kept.-Not one person in fl
ty returns them to their owners in the state in whic
they were given out"
, No Reciprociiy.-It is a curious fact that Will
+ portraits of Napoleon have been extensively purch'
sed in England, no instance can he found, aiIe
careful inquiry among the prin, and book SELLER
: Of a single portrait Of Wellington ever having bee
e sold in france.
a The Hon, DANIEL E. HuGEN has been eecte
s by the Legislature Of South Catolina TO the lutte
States Senate, to fll the vacancy occasoned by II
resignation Of Mr. Calhoun, who rtres after tt
: 4lh of March next
g Icr.-A dealer in Cincinnati during the col
i nap of the FIRST Of December laid in more ice TIN
he was able 10 collect during the whole oil Ia
> winter. IL was seven inches thick, clear ar
BRIGHT
4 T0,ca ia WlscOssis. Milwaukee contains
present over 3,5CO inhabitants,
a. The Louisville Journal states that ihcIc are no
in eight OF ten cousump,ives in the nammo,h ca,
A. IN Kentucky, who des' sn remaining there for ,
TO wI"'e'' lh' Proprieors Of the Cave have annou
* eel ,ha, they will not be able to accommodate a
o. other ior me time to come.
Ir Practical Benerolence.-The New York Co
to meicial Advertiser mentions that Mrs JLCOB SH'
A. on, of that city, has contributed to the Orphan
f; lum at Bloomingsdale less than six bundled a
u fifty pairs Of yarn stockings, all her own han
Nok,