Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-15

salaries Of teachers and Gle gymen are not liable to
nSa,on, under the &C, of lsii, levying a tax on
salaries.
Mr.. Dickenson. the Day Mill killed q, a sin.
gle shot. seven Turkeys out Of gang of nine. He
VI bai,ej trench for them. and his gun was Ioa-
dcd with squirrel shot. When picked, the seven
turkeys weighed one HUNDRED and thirty three
pounds--an average Of nineteen pounds each.
The profession Of mechanic is daily becoming
and more respectable, thanks to The good
and judgment Of the presen, age, and il can
no longer be thrown out q mark Of reproach,
"you are a mechanic, or the son Of mechanic"
A Millerte encampment is now in full blast
in Saem Mass.
1t was so dark at MONDAY in New Orleans,
on the DIST ult that business could not be trans
acted without lights.
A young man named David Chandler, has
been sentenced to the State prison in New
Hampshire for the third time. He is only 81
years old, and he has spent half of it in prison.
A boy, living with Mr.. Woods, at Carlisle,
has been arrested, and has confessed having set
several barns on fire. at the instance ofu black
man.
| A man in Illinois is preaching that the win
! ter weather will last a thousand years.
| Snow fell at Boston and its vicinity during
the month of March, Al times.
( 1t appears that by the recent freshet in the
Red River, 800 horses, 1900 hogs, and 1000
cattle OF all kinds were lost. In some places
the river was nine miles wide.
The ladies' in Boston are beginning to carry
canes.
The cattle in Michigan are dying off in
great numbers, ofsheer starvation. The uncom-
mon duration of the winter, has used up all the
fodder and there is nothing left for them to eat.
Twenty-Five Mormons we're baptsed in Dos
ton on Monday last.
7 The Legislature Of Maine, at its recent ses-
sion, passed law declaring that every person
of good moral character might practice law in
the State.
Mr. Bum, the manager of the Covent Gar
den Theatre. recently offered Fanny Elssler
~
which she declined.
A man named Hughes was recently exciting
the wonder of the good people of Cork, ireland,
by driving in the most graceful manner fifteen
r horses in hand.
. A London paper states that compressed horse
hair has been introduced between the soles of
D boo,s m erclude damnness
ntr The following account Of an interesting law
suit, now pend ng in court at New York, We
copy fr r,m the Tribune:
! "U>lr,p Srirrs CIncrIr COURT Before
Judge THOMPSON.
. BE j. Waldyon and mife Va. Cnrporaiion Of
First Baptist Church Nec York-rhs cause
(alluded to Yesterday wa. continued. Mr.. Wal
= dron is man in humble f-, butcher, resi- ling
{, Of the late Medef Ed,n the younger Of this CITY,
who Ell in 1919, leaving will beque thing his
y property to his three daughters, and making his
widow trustee, with power to sell such portions OF
T., the estate necessary, such sale being with the
or written consent and approval of Col. Aaron Burr.
Melef Eden, the elder, brewer, and died in
l7os, devizing to bis two Med'f and Joseph,
The whole of his estate with directions that feiher
died without issue before the other, the whole es.
tate was to dcvolve upon the survivor. Col. Burr
previous TO the ill.f,teJ duel wi h & n. Hamilton,
u and his going of to Europe. was acquainted with
" the father, and his disp ,si,ian Of the property. AT
ter his return from France he found that the boy:
en- had run through the estate, that Joseph was dead
er and Med,f the brother, poor. He ascSr'ained tha
MIR. a stor ha got out execution against Joseph
III and bought at the Sher's sale about 100 acres
land on the North River side, sNuth OF 42d street
la that property los Broadway, had plsse TO Dr. Par
in mele in tie same way-anl that the lots in Broom
street (uow again in sui) had heen purchased
49, under execution, by the b INK OF New York. Th
hrewery situated in the block bounded by Gold
~ Iohn Cliff aud Fulton sts.. and much other pro
H.. perty had all passed into other hans, Col.
conened that by the terms of the will the fee sim
pc rested in nei her of the brothers until after tn
death ofone ofthem-anl that Joseph diving with
out issue the whole Of the fathers estate fell, ire
and unencumbcred as he left il, into the hands
al Medcf. Action of ejcctment was brought sgain
ou the Bark of New York, and the subject carried
the Supreme Court of he u. s., which sustains
gh the opini Of Col. B.. and the Bank w,s oompe
700 led TO restore the property, which was held by Nj