Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-04-29
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.
Green Pens were in blossom al Germantown

Green Peas were in Blossom at Germantown on
Saturday last.
Catfish have heen caught in the Mississippi,
weighing one bundled aud fifty pounds
High mass was performed at New Orleans, on
the 10Th ult., for the repose of the souls of the
victims by the late earthquake a, Gaudaloupe.
Can i, be possible that some people are more
concerned about the payment of the State debt
than they are of their own.
A young man of IA, lately married girl Of l3,
at Quebec. The boy imposed upon the clergyman
by wearing false whi,kers, and the girl by small
quantity Of the article suc> sssiully employed Ivy
General Jackson, as breast works at New Orleans
ION the glorious Eighth"
The banks Of Philadelphia have balances in their
favor in the banks of New York, to the extent of
s70O,000.
Chopped Hands-After washing, drop few
drops of honey, and rub the hands together ill the
sickness is entirely removed
Wordsworth has written new poem, Of which
Grace Darling is the heroine.
Washington Irving has prepared for the press
an extensive view of the expulsion Of the Moors
from SPAN.
! 4 Useful Hint-Instead of suffering the wash
erwoman to throw out the soap suds about the
kitchen floor, make her pour them, as made, into
a barrel in your garden, and water your plants of
all kinds with them.
Siugs may be prevented from getting into fruit
trees, by tightly tying a bit of har.clo,h round the
stem of the tree They can never get over it.
The Mount Vernon estate is now in the pos
session anI residence of Mrs John A. Washington,
widow of o nephew of General George Washing,
ton.
A negro man named Joseph, belonging I o Mr..
Wider, Of Chowan county, n. C., died few days
since aged Is years. His wife, sill living is
years old. They have lived together 7s years.
Charles Comp,e de Misles, who had twelve
thousand men under bis command in the nrmy OF
the garrison of the city of Rome, is now in Nash.
vile, Tenn, teaching school,
The splendid mansion of the late Chancellor
Sanford, at Flushing, Long Island, which cost
more than a hundred thousand dollars, was sold 81
auction on Wednesday for SIS 400.
A gold mine has lately been discovered in the
neighborbhood of Fort Gaines, Georgia. An iron
one would be more valuable.
High pGter-Petty's Island in the Delaware
about a mile from the city, was overhowed last
Monday for The first time in sc years. Numbers
of muskra,s were disloged aud killed.
new motive power has been invented and
patented hy Mr.. Basgs, of Cheltenham. 1t con-
siss in the substitution Of csrbonic acid gas for
seam. The Cheltenbam journal speaks of it as
being Of equal force and immensely cheaper than
steam."
A seamstress in London, ii appears, is paid
l I'D. for making sailors shirts. BY working very
hard "and finding her own needles" she may thu,
earn AID. a day. The price of the cheapes
q uartern loaf she can buy is 5Id.
The use of tar in the Eastern States, for wsgsor
and coaches, is now, or soon will be, entirely SUI
perseded by the Introduction of composition O
hogs lard and wheat flour. To prepare the mix
,ure, the lard must be melted gentle hrs, and