Lewisburg chronicle, and West Branch farmer. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1850, 1850-02-13
Nems & Notions.

4 bill has passed the Legislature Of Wis
onsin. submitting the question Of banks
" no banks in that State tu the people.
There have been collected in Europe.
u 900 species Of Insects preying on wheat
exclusive Of cheat-aDd not including
be bipeds who eat. -r.s.rI
The Minnesota Pioneer 10 urging upon
he general government the building Of
national brids 10 span the Mississippi 81
St. Paul.
Daniel Sullivan, aged ~, vas choked
to death At Bostoa on Saturday week. by
a piece Of mutton lodging in his ~indPPe
while eating his supper. THIS is the second
fatal accide:., Of this nature in Boston, the
last month.
The ant; Annexation despatch from Id
Grey to Gov. Eisin, is condemned and
rijculed in Canada.
A man was recently sent to prison. much
intoxicated. why did NJ you tail him
ON, ?" said an associate. "Hail ha. oul
Why, ynu couidn', pump him out :" VAS
the reply.
Sixty folio volumes are filled daily 10
keeping the accounts Of Tho mammoth
Bark OF England.
A man at Charleston, Va. sNer having
disappeared for eight years, has suddenly
returned. His estate having been d;strlb-
uted BY bis administrators. hc has COM
rnenced suit ior iis recovery. Dr.Park-
mau's case may yet prove a parallel.
1t is estimated that Cincinnati viii by
the next census show population Of 1885,
900, and ST. Louis, 10000. Neither OF
these estimates include the suburbs OF the
cities. h:ch nigh, be included.
The Centrev,le MaryIandl Times says
the farmers in that section are ploughing.
preparatory to spring planting.
The NY. Eve Post states that single
manufacturer in Worcester, Mass, has
made 81 $4,000 by the sale Of six-bsrr'l
pistols for California. And yet. all the
California le,ter.writers say that firearms
are Of little or 10 use there.
The Medical Times says, "moustaches
have their uses and among the most i'm
poIisnt, they are considered 10 point out
;he idIes,, the vaines, and most self.con-
c.iled, f not probably the mos, dissolute in
their class. They are bescons 10 warn
others"
Two emierants died of Cholera in the
Cincinnati Hospital, las, week.
Corn is selling at Macon, Ga. for IS 10
50 cts per bushel. end coIn meal al 81,
so great is the scarcity.
Wrigh, ard Gilbert. the Representatives
elect to Congress from California. are both
Massachusetts men. Gilbert IL a printer
Ot' .he Two U S. Senators. Col Fremont is
q native Of South Caro!ina-Maj. Gwynne
was from Miszisslppi.
nre.Vrvuf o-i;"~ SO .o~ "'adc foT
children by immersion in phosphate OF
ma snesa. 1t will igni'e by contact with
Hane, but the Ere. instead Of spreading,
vii! 60 out Immediately.
Two hundred miles Of roads have been
added during the last seven years to the
city oi London. Villages which Jew years
since we're ten or twelve miles distant, are
nov part OF the great Metropolis.
In the Bank of Missouri statement, the
slsO,96I Of "iunds abstracled" was put
do~n a. part az its res0slrresi
American bats are much worn in Paris.
Douglas Jerrold Gays, Earth is so kind
in Australia. that just tickle it With hoe,
and she Iaoghs With harvest"
Practically, one quarter Of the French
physicians are only homeopathlsis. So
says The Uome Journal.
Tie .4merican Union.
A union Of lskes-a union Of lands,
A union Of States none may sever,
A union Of besris--A, union OF hands,
American Union for erer!
GEO. P. MoRRls.
Three hundred torpid snakes Of various
kinds we're found in one cave hear Muir.
3 by sburg, ILL.,. on Christmas. and were put
10 q box 10 be exhibited.
A society has been formed at Chicago,
Composed of Pennsy lvanians resident in
that CITY ,denominaled The "Sons OF Penn"
The only British war steamer on Lake
Ontario. the Cherokee. is 10 be laid up.
Her officers and crew are 10 be paid off
and sen. back 10 England.
We learn from the Stanton {Va.) Vindi |
Gator. ,ha, The con,ract for tunneling the |
Blue Ridge, was taken, on The 2ls, uIt bv !
Messrs. Kelly 4 Co. of Maryland for $780,. |
900.
To ascertain The le1Hh Of the day and |
night at any time Of The year, double The !
time Of the suns rising which gives length |
Of the night. and doubling the time of set.
ling, which gives the length Of the day.
1t is said electricity will revive persons
n no have taken too much ChOroio,m.
A steamer arrived a, New Orleans on
he 18th inst. from Arkansas, with fourteen
hundred wlld turkeys. |
TIE God Dollars coined at the U s. Mint
up TO the present time number 6Ss. .567.
|, is estimated that not less than ,OOO,-
300 hams will be cured in the Cincinnati
market this season.
A correspondent, of'he Plymouth Mass
Rock, in speaking Of a controversy be.
ween two members Of The Massachusetts