Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-01-13
MISCELLANY.
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.

estimated at sl5, ,92G,32s.
A Washington lettcr.writcr mentions the ru-
NOR that President Tyler is about TO annex
unto himselfa wife.
Sir Robert Peel is in negotiation for the MIR
chase of a gallery Of paintings in Italy, for
which three millions of dollars are asked.
A Place TO Lipe Chedp.-Tn the vicinity of
Bastrop in Texas, corn sells for 12l cents bush.
cl, and pork one cent pound.
man whose name was not known presented
himself at the police Office in Albany. recently.
for the purpose it is supposed of soliciting relief
as pauper but before hc could speak dropped
down dead.
Chared up.-Dr. A. Petit, on scientific mis-.
sion to Ahyssinia, in crossing one of the branch
cs of the Blue Nile. was seized by crocodile
and dcvourcd. Ugh
Queen Nictoras example is setting crowned
heads in motion. Their maj ',tics OF Portugal ac-
companicd by the youthful princess are about TO
make royal progress through the entire province
OF Alcmtcio.
The Pcrsians give names to every day in the
month. just as we give them to the days in the
week
The Baltimore sun argues, that if money
i {. >ilvcr-be the root of all evil, =" shin-plas-
tcrs must be the karcs
hdirid"ai Enterprise Living at the expense
of the boarding house keeper, and dressing at the
expense of a tailor
The Razor Strop man has sold 81 300 worth
of Strops in Cincinnati.
lie that knows useful things, and not he that
| knows many things, is the wise man.
\ fiddler in New York is advertised to appear
at concert in t'ccn'y.f"m d.Ftrem oRitnd,s
| Nhaiebone-Now worth 80 cents a pound. was
, worth few years since but rents
Why is ole BuR like an Indian Because he
dra'cs he Jo,c 10 Kill
Mrs. Norton. the authorcss tits, said is about
10 ernigratc 10 America
Nr RvcS. of the United States senate, is
writing life OF James Madison.
Lucky--Thr Chester county Pa, Insurance
Company. has insured upwards of five millions OF
dollars and h,vr not had single loss Tor fifteen
months.
The 81 Charles Hotel at New Orlcans has up.
wards of five hundred boardcrs The receipt.
for wine and liquors for six months, amounted Ia
the sum Of fiity thousand dollars.
Two million of acres of land are said TO be re-
quircd to produce the wool used ill., this country
stll We import much of it.
PLact- BMing.-A party of gcm'"n of color
have got up ten pin alley in Cincinnati, on thcil
own hook No white folks are allowed admit
tancr.
Preserved POTATOES are talked about in som,
papers They are said 10 be highly nutrciou.
either as vegetable or pudding. We 20 for tn
vegetable.
Very great fears are entertained that the Mis-
souri, river. opposite its mouth. will in a irv
years, cut through the bank which separates th
Missouri from Long Lake Should this occur
il i said that 300 600 acres OF the finest lan
would be inundated and lost for all purposes @
cultivation.
The Midnight Cry Of the present week cor
taiuS prediction that the world will ccrtaiul
u come To an end during the present year.
: \ woman. by the name Of Matilda Sculdr
r aged about flty, was accidentally suti"cated h
r swallowing an orange, which lodged in h,
throat, in New York, on the 3d instant.
= \ Paris letter states that the auAultcraton
wine has been discovered 10 such an extent tn
several fthc official ta>tcrs (gnstateurs) have r
signed from fear of being poisoned.
~ IIarndrns Office is extending its ram6catol
all over the world, and his agents speak all II
-, different languages, including Chinese.
\ young man named Francis VI Magill fo
mcrly of Baltimore county, met with an ace
= dent on Thursday of last week in the houriI
h mill of Mr. james W Osborne, near Charlie
: town Jefferson county, Virginia. by which
lost his life in a short time afterwards. One
IT his legs caught in portion of the machinery,
d which it was literally torn from his body.
t. silk haudkrrchicis, dress patterns. sc, ofv
l. rious colors, have been manufactured in Ham
\, stead county, Arkansas, which are said TO be
IN quail in quality To the foreign article.
Q. Quick TareHiug Mr. Wells, of Pomcroy
30 Express, carried the Governors Message fro
=, Albany To Buffalo 32G miles, in ii hours and
minutes
=: Grocih Of PoasrRe.-Eighty new buildin
" have been put up in Pottsvillc within the p'
year The year previous there were seventy.