Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-07-09

successfully on the morning of the 25ih
VI. lhis establishment has been in oper.
alton little more than five years.
The Committee, appointed by the Le.
gislaturc at It's last session to inye,tioa,.
the affairs OF the Delaware and Updsor
Canal Company. with view to the 70.
sumption Of that portion of the work lvin,
within this State, commenced their labofs
at Honesdae last week.
The Harrisburg Telegraph states ,b,,
the volume Of public laws passed bv The
last Legislature is completed. and ne,,Iv
ready for delivery.
A late writer in the Culiiva,or saws ,b,,
whether scyihes hold their edge well. do.
pends altogether on whether the man works
by the day or acre. While the former
will be compelled TO "siop and sharpen -
every five minutes, the latter, he saws.
will slash away all day without once think.
ing OF grindstone. Queer, isn't i'll
Union CANAL.-The Lebanon Courier
states that the remaining 100000 Of the
eight per cent. on referred stock, JUS, 3.
sued by The Union Canal Company 4, r the
enlargement of the Western Division and
Branch Of the Canal. has been all taken.
and that the work is expected TO be finish
ed by next September, in time for the fall
trade.
Strawberries were selling in New York
last week at three cents per basket. The
receipts one day by the Erie Railroad
were $500 baskets. and it was estimated
by some dealers in The market that the en-.
lire receipts by the various conveyances
could not have been far short of half
million OF baskets.
A woman in Pil,sburg on Monday char.
Ged John Adams, an inn keeper with sell
ling liquor to her husband on the previous
Sunday. He was fined $50 by Mayor
Guthrie, but appealed.
A young daughter OF Daniel K. Schne.
der OF Berks county, was killed last week.
IN consequence Of a scythe used by her
brother. accld enlally penetrating her side.
The population of Marion county, Flor
ida, has nearly doubled since the first of
January last, the emi migration being mostly
from South Carolina.
NLw PoST-oFrICE A new Post-office
has been established at kIingers,own,
Schuyhill county, and John West ap-
pointed Post Master.
VIM. ]. Dobbns Of Schuylkill Haven,
Representative from this county in the
last State Legislature, has been appointed
Wood Inspector on the Columbia g. Phil.
adelphla. K. L.
RAsCALLY ACr.-An attempt was made
on Sabbath evening last TO fire The stable
of J. P. IluIins. Esq, in Lock Haven, with
lighted candle. The blaze was foriu-
na,eIy discoved by passer-by.-Lycom-
ing Gazette.
New York, Ju:y 3.-A gentleman ma.
med J. w. Stiles, Of Cherry, Sullivan Co,
Pa, who arrived here on Friday last, and
put up at the Merchants Hotel, has been
missing since Sunday morning. He is
merchant, and came here to buy goods and
as he had considerable money with him, it
is feared that he has met with foul play.
Ills baggage, &C., remains in his room lust
as he left ii.
Isaac Fisher, Es1., delivered an eulosy
upon the late Hon. Thomas Burnside, in
the court house at iIolidaysburs, on the
18Th ult. 1t is 10 be published.
An exchange parer speaking o. a sub
scriber who had taken The paper for mum.
Der Of years, and then refused TO pay
for it, says: d" He would steal passage
10 Heaven in n secret corner Of a streak of
and smusgIe gold from the streets
OF New Jerusalem 10 buy s,umps Of half
penny cigars"
Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, has We
toed all the Bank Charters granted BY the
present Legislature Of tina, State.
Dickinson College, at its late commence
ment, conferred the degree of LII d. on
Gerardus B. Dochar,y, Professor Of Malh-
ematics in the New York Free Academy;
also on Hon. Job B. Tyson, Of Philade-
phia. The degree Of d. ID. was conferred
on Rev. Charles Collins. President of EN-
cry and Henry College, Virginia. Rev.
Otis Ii. Tiffany, Of Baltimore, was elected
to the Chair of Mathematics.
Hon. Howell Cobb, late Speaker Of the
House of Representatives, has been unan-
imously nominated, by the Constitutional
and Union party, for Governor of the
State Of Georgia.
San Francisco has already grown to be
a city of $4,000 inhabitants, lO7 miles of
streets, and seven daily papers.
At the late fire in San Francisco abou,
81 100000 in specie was saved by the OF.
ficers of the Custom House, by throwing it
into well.
lfimproyed horses, cattle, sheep, swine,
and poultry were generally reared through
out the country, it would add several mil
lions annually 10 the value Of our agricul-
tural products.
WnIG NoMINArioNs-Thc Ohio Wing
State Convention, which assembled at Col
umbus, on Thursday last, nominated the
Hon. Samuel F. Vnton as their candidate
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