Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-12-06
Vol. G--NO. Il--WhOle No. 27I.

now than 1t has been for a long series of years
past The cause is singular, and shews that
trade as well as law, is sometimes very uncer. |
tain The opening prices for the catch this
year were much the same as those Of last year,
and every hing seemed to be going on smoothly, |
when all at once there rushed into Boston bay
an immese school of very fat m1ckerel, OF very
small size and evidently Of a very different
family from those usually taken. The catch
of the fisherman was instantly quadrupled.
From this school an extra quantity was taken,
amounting. as some persons estimate 80 twenty
thousand barrels Although fat and delicious,
they wer., from their size, almost all ranked
as No. . aud 3, and the prices of their present
position The fall on No was four dollars
barrel causing n very severe loss 10 holders
who had purchased with the ordinary prospect
of profit. This new family of FISH have been
chiefly instrumental in causing the irregnlarity
in the inspections which we have already men,
toned. Some of the inspectors rated at No. l,
on account Of fatues-, the same fish whchothers
call No. y On account of size. For use It is
really OF very little consequence; for their ex-
ceent qualities rs inducing or best llvers
70 take thcrn for family use in preference TO
the common fish OF large size, which are ofvery
questionable quality, though selling at double
the price.--Jorr. Of Commerce.
A New FASHIONED HoLD.ovER.--A good
Joke is "goIng the rounds the hero OF which
is Mr. D,azon Smith, formerly of Ohio, but
now OF parts particularly unknown. Mr. Smith
did yeoman service to John Tyler, when that
ilustrious personuge was fishing for re.nomi.
nation and reelection, and in consideration
thereof was appointed consul, or commissioner,
or something else, somewhere among the Is.
lands uf;he Pacific Now that another man
reigns in John Tylcr's stead, it is resolved to
| recall Mr.. Delazon Smith /; but 10, he is not TO
be fuund. The Secretary Of State looks for
| him on the map, but there are 80 many islands
| in the Pacific, among which the functionary
| has a kind Of rowing commission, that as ye;
| no nissive of recall has been able to reach him,
and il is seriously apprehended that the chase
may be kept up for years with nc better sue
cess-N Y. Advertiser,
VAN SrErNHrRuI AND O'CoNNER. De!
aware Expr SIS says that when the news OF the
commua,ion Of their sentence was commnnl
Gated 70 them by the officer in charge, Var
Stccnburgh and O'Conncr danced about the
room in which they were confined lake couple
Of madmPn. This was more agreeable fan
dango than e dance in the cir at the end of {
rope
TcBAcoo.-"Gcrman Psychologists affirm
that of twenty deaths of men between the age
of eighteen and twenty-five gears, ten Originate
in a waste Of constitution by smoking" w
do not doubt this and we add that IT Germa
or other physioogis,s would extend their OF
scrva,iuns II deaths among men between tn
ages ut twenty-five and sixty, they would On
cover that large proportion originated in vast
OF consultation by chcpiae. German physiol'
grsts have paid especial attention to smoking
because excessive smoking Is generally, amo'
universally, habltual among the men of German
a, d common among It's mlddle.cged and elder
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''s'"u' o"" county "''e 0~'s
mosi exclusively American.
NEWSPAPERS AT 'iohh --'''' 'on'' iie's'"e
says, " all 'ne a'''s'"'''S '"a' 'a" pos''o
DC ""as,"'o ''' a "a'u'"o,N N"'s man, a''e.
days toll, or in it's intervals, there is nothin
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