Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-03-23
MISCELLANY,
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.

Editorial, Condensed and Selected.
1t is only seven years since the first mile of
rail road was laid down in Georgia and now she
has upwards of4oo miles Of road in daily use.
A late writer says "a Greek would have
formed a god TO place under the arch of Niagara
Falls; an American is satisfied with erecting
paper mill above it,"
The song of 80 fly not yet" has been arranged
as "bird waltz and dedicated TO Mr.. David
son, the flying machine man"
A VETERAN AccoucnER-The we'll known
Doctor Dwight, Of Portsmouth, n. H., stated to
one of his patients some time during the last
summer that he had attended the evening before,
the birth Of the .fre housandM child.
new and handsome edifce recently erected
in Savannah, Georgia, by the members of the
Lutheran congregation in that city, was dedicat
ed to the service of God on Sunday, the Sd inst.
Judge Kent was, some twenty years ago. re.
moved from the New York Bench, by constiu.
tional provision limiting the age of Judge to
sixty years; and he is still consulted. from all
parts of the land of the ablest urists in it.
/ The public debt ofMcxco is estimated at $50.
600 600 and bears an annual interest of - 900
/ 600. The actual income from all sources of re-
venue is about $4,000 900, and the annual cx-
pcnditures of the government are little over
this sum.
Opp FELLows.-They number 30, li3 in the
! United States, have a revenue Of : ls3ls5; paid
out $50 900 for relief of members in lsl3 to wi
/ / 20 -,
4 Mr. Monk Mason, of London, has invented
an Archimedean screw OF oiled silk. attached to
frame work of wood by which balloons are
novigated with as much facility a ship at sea
Mr.. F. C. Delavcn. the distinguished friend OF
Temperance, is about to erect large Hotel on
the corner of Broadway and Steubcn street Al
bany and on the site of the present Delayan
House
MorE RorE-Mr George J Weaver of Pha
d,phia has Just completed rope for one Of thr
inclined planes on the Allegheny Portage Rail
+ road a mile and half in length, and eight inch
= es in circumference. This is the largest rope
yet manufactured in Philadelphia.
PERISco's group of statuary for the capitol a
d Washington brought from Naples in the L. 5
ship Delaware, represents the landing of Colum
i bus in the New World 1t consists oftwo figures
+ one of Columbus, and another OF an Indian cir
II whose steps arrested by curiosity, and /
i whose face depicted timidity and wonder.
THE RAZOR SrRop Man was arrested in Mobil
on the Sth inst, for peddling without licens,
He attempted to evadc the law by sharpening
knife for fifty cents, and giving away the strop.
4 CLERGYMAN IN BUFFALO received goldc
! sovereign the other day, with the wish that a
though there may be Church without Bishol
J" there may never be priest without sovereign
SIX MoNTH's SLEIGHING.-ln Vermont the
. have had sleighing for five months past and hay
now prospect OF its continuance for month
= come.
:, A CuoCr.w Towv.-An Indian town, call,
Doakvillr in the Choctaw nation, contains
church, two tavcrns, eight stores with heaN
~ stocks of goods bakeries and tailors, saddlcr
" carpenters, wheelwrightS and blacksmith shor
II sc. ranged in order upon streets, as in 9th
- towns The stores, &c. principally Carri
III on by natives who are said TO be civil orderl
:, :. and sober.