Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-12-04

mention which kinds would be to write ha If the
names Of articles on the shelves Of a hard ware
shop. Hooks and eyes must be particular 'ze6.
enough to hook together all the ladies' dres sses
in the land. besides those of one half Qu,en
Victora's subjects.
But to return over TO Connecticut river, for
in our rapid fight we have already crossed it
twice, and in making our way into Tolland CO,
we enter the region of cotton and woolen. And
here, at the outlet Of beautiful lake, rendered
memorable by the Life Of poor Sarah,' who died
on its banks you must stop to see village ot
1900 people, grown up in the course Of dozen
years. having some six or eight mills making
| ssttiuetts and the incest cassmers in the coun-
try. IN other sections of the county are TUNA
ces, cotton aud WOODEN mile. machine shops.
Here, too, is town, and it is our own dear
| 'Mantua, with four or five silk factories. where
the great part of your tailovs obtain their f1uian
sewing silk and twist Here the screw-s~gur
was invented But time will fail to spenk es all.
Hard by, in Windham county, lie a popu'stion
OF 1900, making cotton cloth. In the eastern
part Of the county, in the valley of q sIngle
stream, in the space Of twenty miles, at icast
twelve cotton factory villages. Ia New Lon
don county is manufactured India.rubber in a
variety Of FORMS In Norwich, wool'en and
cotton mills abound. And here one single pa
per mill, the owner informed me, made $780,
600 worth Of paper pee annum. New I.opeun and
Stonirgon are growing rich out Of the whale
fishery. Lyme, situated at the mouth OF the
Connecticut. furnishes sea captains for the Lon
don and Liverpool packets, and seanrs 20 man
their yards. Sailing up that river, "sw filed
with seines for shad. you pass quarry OF free
stone. Then you enter shop, branch of a
large establishment located in Meriden, which
monopuizes the whole business Of mssusac,u.
ring ivory. Here you find ivory combs, piano.
forte keys, umbrella tips, dice, and ali kinds Of
ornamental work made Of elephants t.sks.-
Then you need not smile at . veritsbse esta-
b:shment for making patent ink stands, employ
ing thirty men. Next you will find shop ,ur.
ming out axe helves, next . screw factory. Then
you pass, on the bank of the river, another quar-.
ry, rich vein Of gneiss, splitting abou, as rea.
dly as chesnut timber, vein about twenty rods
wide, from whence have been sent vast quanti-
ties Of stone, to various parts Of the UniOn and
TO the West lndes. And then another quarry
} Of red sandstone, employing 800 lrsiMen and
} their overseers ! had almos, ioygoesoa whole
town, made rich by the manufacture st oil kinds
Of belle. each as sleigh, horse, clock end cow
bells. In this city it is no easy task totek what
is manufactured, excep, eoaehes, cloeks, intel
lect. theology, law and physic. Fa'rhanea fur
nishes the whole OF New England and some
portions Of New Yok with Oysters. Water
bury. with almost 1000 inhabitants, makes but.
2 tons, brass wire andpins by The ton. And shen
there is Birmingham end Aseaia, two coutigu-
Gus villages, making cutlery. pins and ha'd~sre.
: Just above them, . large establishment 'nGain g
3. augurs, chisels, and the like. Thence VOC will
E pass westward into the north part of Fainield
q county, and here you make an ac9uaiD:a nee
s with the batteries in abundance. here 1t is
r the superb hats Tor the New Workers are made.
TAXI SHooTIxG.-The editor of the Boston
Z Herald, tells a marvellous story Of the sbOssing
, exploits OF the late Col MARTY Scott, his person
al friend. He ssys-"We saw him throw two
potatoes into the air and bore them both ts the
: AIR with single bullet. We saw him dc this
with both rifle and pistol. We saw h1m take
: down five swallows successively on the wing
with his rifle, with single bail. We saw him
plant for successive balls in the centre, SO close
iy that but one hole could have been detected
At the fifth shot his rife hung fire. Neverthe-
less the half Of the diameter of the ball
within the hole. We saw hn sheet at liv-
Jog OBJ ects at least thousand tpres, but never
saw him draw trigger in vain, never knew his
: bullet TO vary a hairs breadth FROM the spot
where he had previously said he woald place it %
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