Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-06-05
Neus & Notions.

Monday Inc ID inst. was Inc LAY
fixed Tor the Nashville Convention TO meet.
We shall hear ina lew days whether
corporal's guard could be got together.
Blue and rose are the fashionable colors
in Paris this season.
The Lewisburg Va. Chronicle states
that the reported insurrec,ion Of negroes
in Monroe county was greatly exaggerated.
Some ..progressionis" in Ohio proposes
the following amendment to the ConsIitu-
| ton of lha, State: "No professor Of religion
shall hold any office except in the church. :"
Whiskey is great leveler. A Pi,tsburg
paper recently noticed the son of man
''wor,h two hundred thousand, drunk and
asleep in the same ditch with beggar."
Rev. DR.. Henry B. Bascom has been
made Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
Pressed hay is sent at profit from the
Hudson River country to ilonesdae, Pa,
and Owego. MY
Queen Victoria has named her last
child, Albert.
According TO revelations at Washington.
the plan OF Lopez was to proceed from
Cuba, if successful. 10 St.Domingo. and so
on through the West India Islands.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
decided at Harrisburg, that a promise by
a bankrupt, to pay de5t discharged by
bankruptcy, is binding, though not made
TO the creditor or 10 his authorized agent.
| Congress has appropriated $4,000 for
local improvements in Washington city.
els dis de end OBJ last month = asked a
liule darkey OF another. "No,' he replied,
"lt's de iust OBJ nex..'
A clever fellow, 10 the modern accep!a-
| ton of the term, is one who gets drunk
and squanders his money, lends TO his
| friends and never asks the money back
again, and cheats his tailor to enable him
10 do so.
Snooks was advised to get his l:fe in
sured. Wont do it," said he, "it would
be jus, my luck TO live forever. if ! should
Mrs. Shocks very meekly said. Jewell then
| wouldn't, my dear"
Summer shawls in Paris are now worn
OF black silk, with embroidered borders oil
the cashmere patterns. The borders are
twelve inches deep, the embroldering is IN
bright tinis, yellow predominaiing, giving
the etfec! Of gold.
A full grown glossy Ibis was shot near
Cambridge (Mass.) few days ago !,
! .nI,ol hot of fhoso hi rl.
found in the United States.
Mobile, May 25, ls5O.-The Rev John
N Maifi,. vel! known in New York aud
! vicinity. died here suddenly to-day. The
cause Of his death is unknown.
Hon. Franklin ii. Gilmore, U S. Senator
from South Carolina, Successor TO Mr..
C.lhonh,) died at Washington City. week
before last, Of consumption.
Col. Richard NJ. johnson is 4 candidate
for the Legislature Of Kentucky, in Scott
county.
Cholera among The emigrans. a dcs-
patch from ST. Louis, dated May "a. states
thai the cholera had broken out among the
California emigrants on the overland route,
and that i. had created much alarm.
! Indian hos.i,ilics. The Indians in the
! neig h5orhood Of the Rio Grande are rep-
! resented as siil very hostile and trouble
! some to the whites.
| DR.. Judson. The Burmah missionary,
vas very dangerously sick and not expect
ed TO live at the last advces from his resi-
| dence.
! Mount Vesuvus is in state Of eruption
again. aud has already covered fourteen
les square around it with lava fifty feet
! deep
| Shor! Session. The General Assembly
| Of Rhode Island, jus, adjourned at New
pot, was IN session only four days.