Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-08-12
MISCELLANY.


The Locusis have entirely disappeared from
Virginia.
A canal boat arrived at Rochester, n. Y, from
Buffalo, with $500 bushels Of wheat.
Senator Tamadge and family are in Wiscon.
SIM and think of settling near Milwaukee.
Willis insists that D'Orsay AMI Blessng,on are
in this county. Who killed Cock Robin
The editor of the New Haven Daily Herald has
pears, taken from a tree full two hundred years old
BounfifR DOnatiOn.-A messenger, says the /
Christian Waterman. entered the rooms of the Ge !
neral Assenbly's Board of Foreign Missions in New
York, and counted out fen one thousand doildr
bank notes. saying it was for the mission to China,
and no questions were to be asked to the donors
The New York Express SAYS that the owners
of the steamers Portland and Fairfield, are to re-
ceive $4,000, for towing the U. S. ship franklin
from New York to Boston,
Lemonade Sugdr-An establishment for the
manufacture of this article has been opened in New
York. This sugar, with which the acid juice of
the lemon is chemically combined, needs only 10
lie pu, into water to make exceIlen, lemonade.
A grocer of Cincinnati was recently mulcted in
$50 f,r kicking a man, named Buny, out Of his
store. The defendant, remarked tha, he thought ii
hard hs, he should be fined for using his foo, as a
BungSidrfer.
Paying Dem--A leading member of the
French Chamber of Deputies, asserted in late de.
bate that the death of each Arab, in the war u, Al
giers, had cos, France thIiy>th men and one
bundled and fifty thousand francs.
beggar, GO years old, was recently arrested
near Paris on whom $4,000 francs in gold were
found.
Wooden clocks, manufactured in this country,
have ready sale in England. Ttco thousand
were taken to Liverpool in one vessel recently.
Every time a beautiful woman looks into mir
ror, she breaks the second commandment. She
makes likeness ofhersef and worshps it.
The officers of The u. S. ship Levan,, have a,
/ bolishcd the use of wine and the crew have stop
! ped their g,og, Excellent.
A flash oflgh,ning irel two guns and exploded
a powder flask, in the house Of Mr. j. B. Dawson,
of Talbot county, Md.
Seveniy.iw of the crew Of the U. S. steamer
Missouri, have signed the pledge of total abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors.
Mr.. Cushng's Coat.--Thc Washington cor
respondent of the n. York True Sun, says that
coat did not cost S7OO-slO5 was the price paid
exactly.
Lady Bessing,on has said ,ha, ga love match
is an alliance formed by people who pay for a
month of honey with life of vinegar" Yes
doubtless, in her case.
The ship Berlin just loaded at Boston, for N
Orleans. carries ont the largest cargo which ha,
ever gone from that port during the past three
years! Estimated value, $3.50 900.
Broad as il is Long-Dixon II. Lewis, said tC
be the broadest man in Alabama, is now running
as democratic candidate against Col. Henry e
Lea, the talIest man in the same state.
Among the new enterprises recently started il
Cincinnati, are three establishments for the ma
nufscture Of linsed OIL which turn out 1900 gallon
per day.
London.-The average number fdeath In Lon
don per week, is about 900. This average is oh
tanned from the official report Of the three year
past.
Two jet black dogs, without particle Of hair re
! Gently arrived at n. York, from Canton, and ar
, spoken OF as great cuiosities.
The drough has been so severe in the Connect
cut Valley, that some Of the farmers have been c
blged to feed out hay to their cattle, there bein
!, no grass in the fields.
c The Scottish seeding clergyman cannot be a
i cused Of interested motives, Il Is stated that II
= value Of the revenues they resign is eslmstod at
# million and half sterling annually.
: Finaneial.--Ihe specie in ,he vaults of Il
Banks in Baltimore exceeds two millions of dollar