Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-07-22
MISCELLANY.

Joe Smith has escaped from his csptors, and has
reached Nauvoo in safety.
The shoe business is now in a thriving cond
ton at Lynn. Massschuset,s--csuse--the,a tariff.
Doctor Appleton, the scoundrel who has swinded
so extensively in various placrs, and married new
wife in nearly all the towns where he has sojourn.
ed, has, we are very glad to hear, been arrested and
sen, to Jail at Harrisburg, Pa.
Wheai.-Contrac,s for new wheat, deliverable
in all August, have been made at Fredericksburg,
Va, at one dollar per bushel.
american Credit booking up.-OrJers were re.
ceived by the Great Western, from England, for
the purchase Of American stocks on foreign &C.
count American credit is reviving in Europe
generally.
Col johnson didkiH Tsc,tnisrh-He sail so in
a late speech at Springfield, Illinois, and told them
how il was jone-s sho, him with bullet and three
bucksho'. "Thus fell Tecumseh !"
An Arabian mare, valued at 80 900 rubles, be-
longing to the stud Of the Emperor Of Russia, re.
Gently became frightened in one of the streets Of
st. Pe,crsburgh, ran to the Neva, plunged in, and
was drowned with one of the Emperors grooms.
who was riding her.
Madame Mon,goife,, the widow of the Gle.
bra,ed savant who was the inventor of The first air
balloon called "Mon,golher"is still living, and has
just entered her llOth year.
The London Shipping Gazette, states ths, saw.
dust produced from mahogany, has been used in
the nducra'ion of coffee in that country, to the
ten, of 300 tons.
| A correspondent of the Washington, Pa, Re.
porter tells Of cat the mother of two kittens, who
has adopted into her family young rat, which she
nourishes ,enderly as her own offspring.
Disturbing The Dead.-The Bridgepor, Farmer
states. that during the vioen, squall on Sunday
last, ahcarse in a funeral procession, was blown
over, horse, driver and all.
They have queer showers in England as well as
this country. A few weeks since shower Of
lecches fell from the clouds.
The government Of France and the citizens o
paris, have contributed jointly about million O
dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the earth
quake at Gu,daioupe.
Hon. n. b. Borden, late member Of Congress
worth $4,000, has los, all his property by the lat
FIRE at Fall River.
The Hon. Daniel Webster has gone to Nes
Hampshire, 10 catch trout and grow f,'.
An exchange paper advises girls to avoid nigh
air and oil other airs.
a Tuh.-The way to make sober man
drunkard, is to give him wife who is Away
scoding or freting.
In the u s. Cicuit Court q, Newport. r. I
Miss Abby Buck recovered, last week, Of c. Da
rymple. $4,000 for breach Of promise.
An American Aloe is blooming in New Orlean.
thirty feet high, and contains five thousand bio,
, SONS.
An eel was caugh, in net in Conncc'icu
river, near MiJJletown, weighing II lbs, circum
, ference inches, length a feet.
The Pacha of Egypt, recently lost 5000 head ,
{ cattle by an epidemic.
About l6l persons of above 100 years Of az,
die yearly in France.
Queer.-A western pa,er, mentioning the dea,
, of an elderly woman. says, she was the mother
lOi grandchildren.
Another large dis,illery in the city of New Yorl
has been stopped by its owners, VINO decline an
longer to manufacture the "lquid spirit