Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-06-01
MISCELLANY,
EDITORIAL, Condensed and Select,


FATHER MATHEW, the great Temperance Re-
former of Ireland, may be expected here in the
course ofthe next month, in one Of our New York
Packet ships.
The oNE-DAY ELECTION The bill before Con-
gress to authorisc all the States 10 vote for Pre-
sidential Electors the same day, fixes the
Tuesday next after the first Monday of Novem-
Der, as the day of election 1t is the day on
which the n York State election is held.
OuR MINISTER, Mr. Everett, has entered
complaint at the London police office against one
of his servants for threatning to assnate him.
The fellow had been discharged by Mr. f., with
out character on account of drunkenness.
A GIRL was struck by lightning in Cincinnati
on Wednesday week She was on the roof of
house, and had hold of a feather bed at the time.
The application of ice water was successfully Y ap.
piled and restored her The bed saved her life
The Savannah Sun says runaway negro be-
ing holly pursued, yesterday evening, lcaped from
the third story on one of the Bluff counting
rooms and broke his neck
Fifty Counsellors and eighty odd new Attor-
neys were created in New York at the late term
of our State Supreme Corut.
GRANT Two or three spoonfuls of strong ley
made of oak ashes and mixed with molasses, are
recommended as a positive cure for cramp.
A thunder storm passed over Richmond, Va,
on Thursday The lightning struck in eight diff
terent places No lives lost
FoRr WILxlss-The new post at Copper
Harhor, on Lake Superior is 10 be called Fort,
wilkins, in honor OF the Secretary of War.
Governor Roberts of Liberia, arrived in New
York in the Atalanta, from Monrova, accom-
panied by his wife and little daughter
A colored servant girl, was burnt to death at
New Orleans on the l2rh instant, by the explo-
sion of a camphine lamp,
FRUIT IN ENGLAND Peaches were recently
sold at Covent Garden Market London, at GO
shillings per Dozen and cherries at 40 shillings
per ID,
The OLDEST PRISrER.--George Goodwin, OF
Hartford, aged S. and the Oldest printer in the
| United States, died on Monday last
| 1t is stated that the visit of Ex-Gov Davis, OF
/ Massachusetts, to Europe, is in relation to the
| debt of Illinois, which he will doubtless salts
faetorily arrange.
STocK SPECULATION are thriving hugely al New
York, One paper says, that the rise in stocks
has made the fortune Of many bold spectators
/ Three persons at least who were on the list o
bankrupts have cleared or 500 900 dol
lars by the rise of stocks within short period
One hoase has honorably paid up losses on Nor
wich and Worcester to the amount of one hun
dred thousand dollars others are following
suit
More than one thousand emigrants arrive,
at the port of N. York, from Europe, on Thurs
day and Friday last.
To get rid OF mosquitoes, take few hot coal
on shovel or chahng dish, and burn upon ther
some brown sugar in your bed rooms and PAL
lors, and you efiectually Danish or destroy ever
mosquito for the night.
New York paper announces a, Pese
Museum, an orphan family, consisting of ia
ther mother and seven children"
An inhuman wretch, named Frost, resldin
in Whitehall, in the State OF New York, mul
dered four Of his own children last week.