Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-12-16
MISCELLANY.
EDITORIAL, Condensed and Selected.

In new fo'k, line large sheep may be bought ,
for twelve shillings.
Dickens has cut out one of his WISDOM teeth ,
trying to "gnaw fiIe'--of American papers. ,
The stecple of Trinity Church, New York, is
to be 237 feet high.
very large quantity of counterfeit Mexican
dollars admirably well executed, are in circulation
in New Orleans,
At New Orleans, Chas. r. A. Lannon, found
guilty of stealing slave, sentenced to six years
Of hard labor in the peniten,iary.
A sheet iron factory has been established a, Bron-
ton, NJ ]. 1t pays out 100000 annually to its
workmen.
An infant was recently smotherci in its cradle,
in England, by a cat making pillow of its tiny
face.
There are manufactured annually in Cincinnati
lssOOO bIs. Of 1our, aud about 1870 900 gallons
of lnseed oil.
There are 10000 persons in INDECENT circum.
stances in Paris, 10000 of whom are inscribed on
the public books al plicants for charity.
IINHB ~ DHVCH.-SlN notorious NllanS, con.
,ictcd of murder and robbeies were executed at
Havana OH the l4th ult.
An exchange says il is dangerous for willows
and lone women TO sleep in house without man,
these burglarious times. 1t is certainly.
The Philadelphia Police have discovered in that
city an apparatus used for coun'erteiting Bank
notes. The apparatus is believed to be worth from
! $4,000 to $4,000, and was stolen about three
| years ago from Mr.. Mason, bank uote engraver.
! Miss Farley, the Editrcss ofthe Lowell Onrring
says 81 should judge tina, abou, seventy of the
mill girls have written for the Offering since lis
/ comm cnccmcn'
Mr.. VIM. Spencer shot in Liberty county.
Mo, hcing mistaken by Of his ncighbors, for
| Wild turkey.
The English initiating American manuf,c
turcj cotton goods and stamping them with the
stars and stripes of our Union, with an American
manufacturers name attached TO them, in order to
get better prices for their fabrics in China
The he of an onrngcd cat will produce hydro
phobia without ever having been bitien-so says
late medical work, and proves the assertion, 10y
citing some frghtu inst ,nccs.
An Hours Sport by MgnEgh.-Mr. Thorp,
the elitor of the Concordia, La, ntelIgencer, moi,
long ago, killed by moonlight in hour, four
bears, one buck, aud wild hog.
A Bishop's Sairy Raised-The salary of
Bishop Onderdonk, of the Eastern Diocese of New
Nnrt AZ
meeting Of Trinity Church, from $4,000 TO $4,000
hy vote Of to 6.
The receipts Of ten nights of Mr.. Macready's
p performance in Boston, were something Ike $1,000
The number of letters received for delivery at the
Cincinn,ti Post Office, during October, 90,
1896, of which number ,3O9 were free,
, The Homeopathic method has been called hy
. many respectable persons humbug, and this, no
doubt has had The effect Of leading numbers to con-
j. denim it without further inquiry. But, says Bry'
h ant (,hc poet,) and one Of its greatest votaries
T. 'One of the worst of all humbugs, one Of the mos
/ dcplorablc delusions, is that which leads men IL
shu, their eyes to the truth"
If The CoH Mater Cue.-Thev about to ge
n up medical establishment in New York, uPor
= he cold water, or hydrophohia system. Some o
e the most astonishing record have been per
d formed in Europe by the Application of this sim
n pie element.
;. D! for Shame "A Cincinnati paper tells q
= Young girl in Wheeling. Va, who iriehtenS he
female neighbors by dressing in mems clothes an
going into their rooms Shle the inmates are asec
e in the night.
D. Capt Bertrand, son of Count Bertrand, dIl N,
Is sail in the Iowa, but remains in this country f
ID several months. lie has service in Algier
n, and has been badly wounded.
of Very Cheap hdeed.-The London Bookseller
a. advertise CHEAP edition ofthe Mysteries of Pari
a, at % ,hIlinas serrg, about Sc. Here the chea
a, editions so cents,
ty The total increase of the Methodist Episcop
r- Church in the United States and TeN,s, durn
dS The present year. as announced in the official repor
IL is l5i,62i.
All the manufactures in Lowell, Mass, are d
ing a thriving business Yards of cloth per wee
at 81 35 $50 bales of cotton used, l,O95 and $
ng 72O persons are employel-6,375 lemlIes and
us 3i5 males.
rr, That very tallest of humbugs, the Missouri Ma
re todon, has been sold TO the British Museum f
$4,000. The Mastodon specula tors are doing