Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-03-04
MISCELLANY.


it. He was a man highly esteemed, of polished
manners and lofty social position.
A new fraud upon the Southwark Bank has Just
been pu, in circulation. It isa IS note altered
from the worthless Southwark Savings Bank, so
as to pass for a Southwark Bank note simply by
tearing of the word Savings which was a part Of
the title the top Of the note. F. Roberts, Cash.
icr p Bankert, President.
The editor Of the Western Weekly Review, has
lately been shown lamb, with only one eye in
Its head-the eye directly in the centre.
It is estimated that there are more than mil.
lion ofcounterfeit Mexican dollars scattered through
the State of New York.
This year began, and will end, on Sunday
making fiftythee days of rest to ALL save editors
and printers. They had their turn last year.
The cells under Joe Smiths temple, at Nauvoo,
are separated by walls several feet thick. It is
thought these cells are intended as lodgingrooms
for refractory Mormons.
A child having two heads was horn in Balti.
more on Sunday last. II survived but for few
hours.
The Military post a, Pilatka, Florida is to he
broken up forthwith A good sign Of returning
peace for the Territory.
The Slide at T;oy.-Fiftecn dead bodies
taken from the ruins-seventcen taken out alive,
more or less injured. Some are still missing.
Alta Charity Ball given in Baltimore, the sleep
ing tent used by Washington during the Revou.
tonary War, exhibited.
The hereditary Prince OF Prussia came very near
being killed 10y wild boar short time since.
"Foi Boy"-There is boy only eleven years
Of age, now exhibiting in Boston, who is five feet
! two inches high, and weighs eos pounds.
China Prize Money-T China war being
now ended, it is matter ofconsiderable interest to
military men (says the London Specla,or) to learn
what portion of the . 900 900 of dollars Of indem.
he made over prize money 10 those whose valor
has wrung this treasure from enemy.
| The Graud Jury in Indiana have presented the
practice of dunning nuisance. Capital
One Chance hf-It is now thought by many
tha, if Parson Miller persists in his design of de-
s,roying the world next April. President Tyler will
veto il.
| An old fashioned chap in Charleston has used
up three sides of leather in sapping his children,
| GoM-A rock vein of gold worth ten penny
weights to the huhel and easily worked, has re-
Tallopoosa county, Ala.
A man is nobody in old Kentucky, fhe hasn't
q handsome sister. A real pretty one is fortune
A hostess in Alabama. has on her bill Of fare
flour dongs," "chicken f,ins," and "egg arrange
ments."
The whole of human virtue may be reduced to
| speaking truth always, and doing good TO others.
! Insanity among other diseases has been cured
in Germany by mesmerism. So they say.
| There are at the present time 400 steamboats,
employed in navigating the Mississippi river
In England there are 1861 miles of railroad, a,
a cost of G5s, ,li9,l
The number Of barrels of Mackrre inspected
during the year 1912, in Massachusetts, is 75,543.
! RemarkaJh.-On the 18th instant there was a
| iall OF 'hall, very minute PARTICLES OF ice" at
! Cincinnati, 10 the depth of five inches.
Bishop Gris,ooM-It is stated that the late
Il shop OF Massachusetts,, in the course of his life
ordained no less than % P,iests. III deacons, and
confirmed l2lOI persons
4 Tagedy Two citizens of Holmes co., Miss,
nsmed Newman and Ssndford, quarrelied lately.
| Newman with a douhle bauelled gun shot Sand.
ford in the abomen. The latter in his last ago
MES lcvelled his gun and fired. Both fell dead,
side hy side.
a Heatless Robbery-In Boston on Wednes.
day, q man who was engaged on the wharf in ar
ranging the body of his brother. which had just
been found floating in the dock, had his pocket
picked of upwards of 1900 dollars.
TIE Products Of the United Sates-A state
men', prepared by the Commissioners of Patents,
estimates the products of fifteen articles only, which
were the growth of ls42, at nearly six hundred
million of dollars.
A Small Chance of Escape by recent order
OF the Emperor the punishment OF convicted in
cendsry in Russia is decreed to be the running the
gauntlet six times before 600 soldiers and, in the
event ofhis surviving (D twenty-one years labor
in the Siberian mines
A young widow who edits a paper in neigh
boring State. says-"We do no, hook well to