Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-06-29
MISCELLANY,
Editorial, Condensed and Selected.

Hon. Geo. McDuihe has resigned his seat In
the U S Senate.
Congress has decided that corporeal punish
ment shall not be abolished in the Navy, and that
the spirit ration shall not be withheld.
1t is said the keepers of the Blackwell's Is.
land, n. York, skim the prisoners soup kettles
to get grease TO sell to the talow chambers.
Coach lace which formerly cost 30 cents a
yard, is now manufactured at Lowell by machi.
merry or Q
In France, the May weather was cold and raj
ny; in the South of Ireland there had not been
rain for nearly eight weeks.
The German authorities refuse TO give icen-
ses to marry to habitual drunkards or persons un-
able TO support wives
-Four stea m ships leave Liverpool in August
for this country three leave next month. Du-
ring the summer we shall have nearly a steamer
a week.
John Tyler; Jr., has published letter in the
Richmond Inquirer, charging the editor of the
Richmond Wing with being "a libeller, black
guard and scoundrel."
One OF Tue TEA PARTY that threw the tea in
to the Boston harbor, December 10, 1873, Sam
uel Sprague, died in Boston on Tlursdry even
ing, aged ninety-one. The only member of the
Tea party now alive is Col. Punktt.
1t is said that Crockiord, the celebrated Lon
don gambler who was very near his end at the
time of the late EPSON races, exhibited, in his
dying moments "a frightful anxiety as to the re-
snlt - London paper justly pronounees it a
fearful case of "the ruling passion strong in
death"
1t is stated that the chickens hatched in the
natural way in New York don't agree with those
latched by the new machine One of the former
lately told chicken of the latter, in moment
of passion, that his maternal parent was an oil
store
Gen. Almontc, the Mexican Minister, has re-
ceived despatch from the Minister of Foreign
Affairs in Mexico, stating in the strongest and
most explicit language that Mexico will never
consent to the annexation of Texas TO the United
States,
1t is calculated that the swallow frequently
skins through the air at .hc rate of mile in a
minute, and that, in the course Of the year, it
flies eight times the circumference of the globe,
or about 200, 900 miles,
CONDEMNED PRISONERS PARnoNED.- David NJ
Daniel and Thomas Towson, two of the prison
ers under sentence of death at ST. Louis for the
murder of Chavis, have been pardoned by the
President of the United States
DANCING DENouNcEp.-Dancing in promiscu-
Gus assemblies was denounced by resolution at
the late annual meeting of the General Synod OF
the Reformed Dutch Church, at Poughkecpsie
tcrfeit pennies, worth sixty-two cents per hun.
dred, are made by the thousand, in Att'eboroush
Mass. They may be detected by comparison
with the genuine coin, Half the cents in clrcu'
| lation are the Massachusetts issue.
TutNNNG Our.-Since an arrangement has
been made in New York, in consonance with the
| Mayors suggestion 10 compel the able-bodiec
/ paupers at the amshouse to work, more than TIVE
hundred have left the establishment.
A gentleman lost pocket-b book in the Bowe
ry New York on the 18th inst, and offered re
ward OF $40 for it. One 'Thaddcus" who writes
him, sends the book, but keeps the money, a. h,
lis in want" oft That is cool.
Clay stands poor chance in this game of Pok
! We shall have the four aces-New York, Penn
sylvana, Ohio and Virginia, the first hand.
The Jamaica Despatch predicts that the montl
of June will see the French Flag streaming from
every Fort and llarbor in IIayt The frencl
Admiral is now at anchor at Port an Prince, qui
etly watching the progress of events,
READING RAILROAD AND THE MAILs.--We ar
are informed that a contract has been conclude
beiweeu the Postmaster General and the Read
ing Railroad Company, by which the latter vii
cease carrying the mails on the Sabbath after tn
lst of July, proximo
The very best cure for a cough OF cold, is SAT-
TO be decoction of the leaves of the pine tre
sweetened with oaf sugar, TO be frccy dranl
warm when going 10 bed at night and col
through the day
Babe, the Pirate, turns out 10 be the son of rC
spectacle parents in New York, aud not foreign
er lie denied his parents long as he coul'
but nature triumphed. His guilt is also, nov
certain On repairing his late vessel the ru
was opened and there an axe was found, whic
doubtless had been used to destroy theliie of CaI
tain Dearbon, ifnot the mate and cook The il
strument had been hid away in the run, and WI
covered with stains of blood and knots of huma