Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-22
MISCELLANY.



The Bank of Pennsylvania resumed specie pay.
mcn,s on Monday last.
Snow to fec, in depth on the Ca'skil noun.
tain, on the lth inst.
Mr.. Webster has resigned the Office of sccrctat2
of State TO take effect on the L., ofMay.
At the late slide of the Reading Rail Road, TO-,
600 tons of rock and earth were deposited on the
road.
Hard Tfmes.-Ata recent Boston wedding the
bride wore jewels worth $4,000, lace veil worth
$1,000, and the whole expense Of the affair was
$4,000 How scarce money isl
The New York Taller says 1t has been disco.
vcred that the knots in the trunks of trees are or
gans denoting the character Of the tree.
! A writer swearing, says that an oath from
woman's lips, is unnatural and Incredible he
would soon expect bullet from a rosebud.
sturdy beggar taken up in New Haven,
on charge OF vagrancy. A belt was found strap
ped around him containing upwards Of s35 in small
change.
Bragging.- When you hear a man hrag of his
. NVu'"Sc' l'u u Sou CHuo'e, pun
with mpunity of his wealth, button up your
pocket But ifhe brags of himself, you may be
certain that no one else thinks well Of him.
Il Sco'chman's ddpice 10 public spedker.-
Nc'er speak till yc hn' something to s,y, 0nd sit
down ye ha' done
Arrived at New York from Havana, ,hiiy-thrco
baskets of tomatoes This is early for that e1cel>
lent vegetable.
an Enormous Snahe.-A large Serpent, 90 feet
long and of proporona'c thickness, arrived Lately
in New York from Laguira 1t has eaten nothing
since i, dovoured young bullock fifteen months
ago. II died few days after its arrival.
NeaIing FruH is not ahcays " Fun.'-At
Northampton, Mass, last week. four men
each sentenced to forty days imprisonment in the
county Jail for stealing wa,ermeluRs in August
last.
Every enlisted man of the Garrison Of For,
Ontario, Oswego, N Y. commanded by Cap. E.
X. Barnum, second Regiment of Infantry, i'
member of the Total Abstinence SOcicty.
It's reported in Petersburg, Va that father, in
by his son. The particulars Of the horrid affair
have not yet ,ranspircd.
h. The ST. Louis Reporter snys tha' family, con-
.is,rg of ten persons. recently drowned in
attempting to cross the river at Quincy, III.
A ST. Louis paper "gives warning, that, if the
Missour, slaves continue 10 he carried off by the
Illinois Aboli,ioni.,s the citizens of Missouri will
revenge themselves by burning the houses Of ,he
Illinois neighboTs."
A correspondent, informs US, says the New
ORLEANS Picayune. that the celebrated Dr.. Olber:
of Bremen, so far back as 1904, predicted the very
at comet, which is now visible in the heavens.
&c On the afternoon Of the - h ul. between . an,
3 O'Clock Col. Eworrh performed the feat Of walk
-. ing round the Common, at Boston, outside n,
:; railing, distance of one mile and an cicth, in
i, minutes IS seconds, for a purse of 800. Tim
., allowed s! minutes.
ng By an accurate measurement kept BY Profrsso
~ cleveland, of Brunswick. Maine, the snow is as
cerained to have fallen fifteen feet since the com
81 mcncemcn, Of cold weather.
nd The Indanapoli, Journal Of the 81 ul,. state
III that the Cour, House in Peru, Mama co.., wa
>, burned on the l 9th ult. The loss is more serious
lis as all the papers of the Clerk and Recorder
TO consumed il is believed that the evidence of frigh
VI rge portions of the rea, estate Of that seciio
:. " was thus lost.