Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-06-22
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.

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EDITORIAL, Condensed and Selected.
The PUBLIC L,NDs.-The sales of the public
lands during the last calender year amounted TO
1000, GA acres, and produced more than 81 ,OOO,
600, exceeding the procreds of sales for the pre-.
vous year, by more than 100000.
1t is estimated there is 500 tons of anthracite
coal consumed daily by the boats the North
River lG to 10 tons is the quantity consumed
each trip by the boats burning coal.
Ex-officers Sweet and Walker of New York,
received $1,000 each for the arrest of Daily, and
the recovery of the O,OOO. Quite clever
haul, just as they 90 out of office.
Mr. BExTox-Mr. Benton, in letter TO A. V.
Brown, speaks ofthe Texas annexation project
as "a scheme, on the part of some of its movers,
to dissolve the Union-on the part of some others
intrigue for the presidcney-and on the
part of others Il only speak of prime movers, not
the millions whs follow,) as land speculation
and job in script"
! FENCE Posrs-A practical farmer informs the
| Hartford Times that in taking up fence that
| had been set fourteen years he noticed that
some Of the posts remained nearly sound, while
others were rotted off at the bottom. On look.
ing for the cause he found that those posts that
were set limb part down, or inverted from the
way they grew, were sound. Those that were
set as they grew were rotted off. This fact is
worthy the attention of farmers
| MAPLE SUGAR AND BEEswAX-The Hannibal
! Nfo) Journal, Of the lst inst, says, merchant
of that village, in packing down a barrel of bees
wax, few days ago, broke one of the cakes, and
found it was a cake of maple sugar covered with
wax. He then broke others with the same re-
suit The perpetrator of the fraud, however, has
been discovered, and will be punished,
"WESTwARD," &c-A wagon load Of emi-
grants, says the Milwaukee Herald, passed our
office to-day, who were bound little farther
west than any pioneers we have heard oflately.
Their baggage was marked to "Sundown," which
we suppose must be near the jumping off place
| QUIeK TRAvELLING--A gentlemTn left Ro-
chester, n Y, on Sunday evening, at O'Clock,
and arrived in Boston on Monday evening, at
o'clock, distance ofl5O miles in % hours. So
much for Railroads.
The PRIcE.-Dr. Bascom is preaching at n
York, TO audiences who pay fifty cents each TO
listen TO the sermons The proceeds are TO go
towards building Methodist Mariners Church.
BY census just completed it appears that
Lowell, Mass, now contains 25,li9 inhabitants,
being an increase of 4i53 since 1910 There
are several large mills now in process of build
ing,
How TO CLEAN FowLING PIECE.-Stop up
the touch holes by means of little wax and
then pour quicksilver into the barrels, roll it a.
long them fora few Minutes The mercury and
the lead will form an amalgam, and leave the
gunas clean as the first day it came out of the
shop. Strain the quicksilver through piece of
thin washleather, and il is again fit for use for
the lead will be left in the strainer
Cardinal Woolsey declaimed against the art OF
printing, as that which would take down the no
nor and profits OF the priesthood, by making the
people wise as they-BaXter.
When Sir G. Murray attempted 10 excuse him.
self from taking office under the Duke of yelling
ton on account fhis nexperience in public spea-
king-''Pooh boob - said the Duke, ''do as |
do say what you think and don't quote Latin
1t is said that there are some folks who write,
talk, and think so much on virtue, that they have
no time to practiee it.
A CooL SuIclpE-At Cincinnati a few days
ago, man named Ketchum, of Newark, Ohio,
deliberately took or his coat and hat, and placed
his head under the arms of the fly wheel of the
steamboa, Lancet, while her engine was in mo-
ton. His head was literally crushed, No cause
assigned.
JOE Smith IvDIcTEp.-The Louisville Cour.
ier states that seven indictment have been found
by the Grand Jury OF Hancock county, H., against
Joe Smith, the Mormon Prophet He is charged
with perjury, larceny, &c.