Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-06-15
MISCELLANY,
Editorial, Condensed and Selected

Among the l7S, 600 900 individuals who inha.
bit Europe, there is said to be 1900 900 beg. !
gars or persons who subsist at the expense of
the community without contributing to its re-
CENSUS OF LowELL.-The population eff Lo- |
well now numbers 80 ll9, being an increase since
ls4O, Of 1853.
Upwards OF 5000 emigrants have landed at
Milwaukee since the commencement of naviga.
tion this season, and the presumption is that the
population of Wisconsin will increase the pre-.
sent year at least 5000.
Isaac Long citizen of Anderson District s
c. died on Thursday, the 23d ult, from the bite
ofa spider. He lived only four days after being
bitten.
The celebrated opinm.ea who has publish
ed work as to his own experience in this per.
nicious practice, is said to have gone on from
taking few drops, to taking eight hundred drops
per day, which was equal to pint of laudanum.
The Trojans and Albanians are battling for
The control the Utica and Schenectady railroad
The Trojans have possession as yet
Sharp Shoo'ing.-A sportsman OIL the borders
of Canandaigua Lake brought down 70 plovers at
single shot. Another on the abutment of the
bridge drew on the remains of the whole convoy,
killing 81, making lO7 birds at two shots
Srdoge.-Wiliam Lee, skndresser, in Spring
Garden, vcmited from his stomach, OH Sunday. an
eel three inches in length.
They were luxuriatng on green corn, of open
garden growth, at Mobile, few weeks ago.
Six thousand Prussians have purchased a
tract of land in Texas.
A young lady in Allegheny City is making q
quilt to consist of 1900 pieces. To put it to.
geher, eight million stitches are required
R"ridiiy on Canals.-It is stated, in IIera
paths Railway Magazine, that an invention i:
about being tried, to make boats 60 on canasu
some thirty miles an hour.
The Rerenue.--The receipts of Customs al
the port of New York alone, for the first five
months of 1874, Gust closed, somewhat exceed
NINE AND HALF MILLoNs OF DOLLARS, a
gainst some -Four Millions in each of the tw
preceding years.
India Rubber Horse. Shoes.-A sample c
an India rubber horseshoe has been submitte
TO the Horse Guards, London, and appro, ed o
1t is intmated to test immediately its capabil
ty and durability.
Rapid Travelling MIR. Brunei last wee
proceeded on the Great Western railway q
the rate of o6 miles per hour.
MIR. Clayton who ascended the other da
with balloon at Cincinnati, intending to Wis
Baltimore, was only up two hours, having lar
ded at Nenia, 60 miles Off all safe. He will tr
It again. lie used coal gas, and with success
On the East Boston Cricket Ground the
have revived and established the cid Ergis
sports OF racing in sacks and with wheel-ba
rows-catching pigs by creased and soaped do
sal appendoges, climbing anonted poles for pr
, zes at the top, &c.
At New Orleans on the Goth ult an untort
- nate crazy man was brought before Record,
: Baldwin, who had on the Saturday before on
e bet, ate Miriy,tt0o hard 6oited eggs, shel
r and all!
p Hollinshend tells that in Henry Wits reig
y $4,000 criminals suffered the extreme penal
of the law, nearly two thousand year. 5
Thomas Moore tells that twenty were Oft
. hanged on the same galows at the same tin