Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-05-22
Menus & Notions.


Prof. Webster.-The Boston Journal OF
Monday says: So far as external dpPear-
ances indicate, this unfortunate man has
become reconiIed to his fale-calm and
'hotful, and occupying the greater part Of
his time in reading.
The Wing Slate Convention meels at
Philadelphia on the 10Th Of June.
The name of the Pos,-Office called
Boston, in Northumberland county ,has'been
changed to "Kauinchunk."
CIR Buckalew, ESQ.,, Of Bloomsbury. land
G. E.Wright. Esq, Of Doylestown, are the
Commissioners TO investigate The affairs Of
the late Susquehanna County Bank.
The possibility nf melting charcoal has
at length been satisfactorily proved by the
experiments Of NJ. I,espreiz, of Paris.
The receipts OF tho N. Y. & Erie r. R.
for April of This year were more than dou.
bic those Of April in las, year.
That was a true remark of an old lady,
that "lhose who know bu. litlle, will not
have TO account lol much"
A huge Indian skeleton was lately dug
up at HarsiTus, N. j.. among The oyster
shell! strata. it measured eight feet in
length. The skull measured two feet in
circumference, and Is inches over the top.
In the valley Of the Blackstone river
from Pawtucket to Mibury, a distance Of
thirty miles. there are lis cotton and
WOODEN factories, and | l olher large man.
uiaciuring establishments. What world
Of wealth and mine Of employmc
AT alprin,er's festival ,o!d bachelors we're
toasted as "Qgads-only fit to fill ou, the
blank iiues oil society,""
Mr.. O'Reily proposes Telegraph line
from S..LouiS 10 San Francisco-Govern
men: to establish line of s,ockades, " hich
shall serve as Telegraph stations. afford
protection TO Emis grants, and facilitate the
transmission OF the Mails. lGrade route
for RaI Road, first.
Roche a French Dronau,, recently made
an ascent u! Bordeaux. but his balloon hi,
chimney, upse, The car. and threw him
into The street, where he was picked up with
one broken arm and two broken legs
The cure for limidily, is knowledge.
Hard Cash-A key 10 everything 10
life, exccp, health and happiness.
The Horticultural Society Of Cincinnati
are about to issue certificates or premiums
upon samples Of superior wine produced in
that Stale.
A large meeting, without distinction Of
party. was held in Nashville, on Monday
last, 10 consider the proprieiy Of appointing
delegates TO The Southern Convention. The
meeiins by an overwhelming majority. de-
clared i, inexpedien, 10 appoint delegate.
In Houston (Ga,) Superior Court, a few
days since, a case was tfied for slander, IN
which The jury rendered verdict of 85,'
600 damages. The parties were Vincent
Calhoun IN behalf OF his daughter, Martha
Caihoun) vs.. Wn. Miller.
81. Louis, May l3.
A gentleman from Council Bluff. reports
the small pox among the California emf
grants, SIX had j~cd.
A gold mine has been discovered in
i'erks county. which yield fifty per cent.
Of pure metal, part gold, part silver. The
migration Of gold hunters to thai region
has not ye, put the inhabitants to any in-
or raised the Price Of Provis-
ions
Chas. J. M'Curjy. Of Lyme, Conn.,
has been appointed Minister TO Austria.
Rhode Island is a model Slate, for
prompincss aud economy. The General
Assembly just adjourned a, Newport, were
in session bu; four days.
The annual consumption OF sugar is es-
lma,et in the report Of the Patent Office at
one million tons.
Ground rents can not hereafter BE- made
perpetual ; bu, may at all times be paid off.
The new law is excellent. and not one
word eau be uttered against lis propriety
in a republican coun,ry.-Tunkhannoch
Democrat.
Henry Metcalf, Esq has been appointed
by the Attorney General, Deputy Prosecu-
ting Attorney, for Sullivan county.
The recen, fire on the steamer Belle of
The West, is supposed to have originated
from box of iocoloco matches in the hold. |
About eighty lives were lost.
The London Literary Gazette states
hat /, has beon proposed by the United
States Government that the Industrial Ex.
nbilIon shall. alter its close there, be re.
moved 10 New York.
A despatch from Buffalo, in the N. Y,
Herald, says the town OF Milan, Ohio, was
nearly destroyed BY fire, the 5,h inst. MI
an is Furnishing little town of about 1900
,r 1000 inhabitants.
There never was time, we believe, when
reghts we're SO ruinousIy depressed as at
he present moment. Several thousand
'a'es OF cotton have teen shipped 10 Liver.
ool. in British vessels, lately. Il: an eighth
ia penny per Pound.-GN. .. Delta, Eth
timo.
The New Orleans papers are acknowl.
ds'ng the recep, Of early CON.
A considerable amoun, Of sickness is at
resent prevailing On board the steamers
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