Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-02-26
Lcius & Notions.

President fI'lmores father Is now On =
vi,.t at Washington. The gentleman Win
Taught Mr. Fillmore his trade as d cIa,be-.
new represents Cortland county in he
Legislature OF New York.
Oh Sunday morning last, a hay.rr.
and barn n Philadelphia were consumed
by fire, and with ii two men whl
had probably crept into il for rest. whose
remains could not be Identified. The FIRE
= lad TO incendlarles, but The wreIched vc
Inns may have communicated it by matches
or tobacco pipe or cigar.
There was one man 10 try at the lsle
session ofJhe Sullivan county court.
1t is now 100 years SINCE George
Washington received h,s first commission
IN The army.
A man named Wooisi5e was last week
lnveisled into he company of a woman
named Fell, IN PhIadelphla, where he was
assaled, II Is supposed by her husband
and his person manned 81 as to preciuie
the necessity ofauy future Jealousy aca.n>.
him. The PerPetraior Of the crime s
under arrest.
The Hudson, Mohawk. Lebiah. sud 9th.
er rivers were al great height BY late ac-
counts.
schooner was launched in the Susque.
hanna at Harrisburg on Tuesday last by
Messrs. Till & Main. She is TO he taken
down to the Chesapeake. The same firm
Is building steamboat 10 be used al Ciarh's
Ferry.
Justice Walworfh has decided in the ce,.
ebrated Wheeling Brii-e case, that it is an
obstruction to the proper navigation Of the
Ohio, and that it must be elevated 2S feet
above its present heIgh'-a decision, some
think, equivalent to the destruction Of the
bridge.
Com. Stockton, the richest man in New
Jersey. is elected US. Senator by the vote
o! 81 Democrats and , Wings.
Rachel Markle. child, was recently
burned TO death at Welch Hill, Dan,e,
by her clothes accidentally taking fre--lhe
second sad acciden, Of the kind in that town
the present season.
A New Post Office has been established
in l.ycomng county. called '.Texas," and
VIM. Fooie appointed Pos, Master.
John BigIer, brother of Cot. Wm.Bicer.
has been reelected a member of the Ca.-
fornia Legislature, from Sacramento CITY.
The Virginia convention has agreed to
adopt a clause in the new Constitution 10
favor OF Universal Suffrage- dispensing
with the property qualification.
Com. Jones Suspended The verdict
OF the Court Martial UPON Com. Jones IS
disclosed he is suspended for five years;
half that rlme without pay, chiefly for spec
ulaIins with The public money IN Cahior-
nia gold dust. The President approves lhe
judgment.
Jesse Hutchinson. Sr., father Of the cei-
ebra'ed hutchinson singers, died recently
al his home in New Hampshire, aged dS'
During last week, the river was higher
here than 1t has been known before IN the
present century. The piers 10 the new
bridge, which are 80 feet above low water
mark,were submerged.-(Piustou Gase''e.
2lst inst,
Martin f. Topper, author f"Proverbai
Philosophy" and other Poems. viii vi;li
the U. States within the mex, SIX months
The sale OF arden. spirits n, the Words
Fair has been prohibited. Good
A recent attempt 10 catch ruaa~ay
slave al Wilkes-Bdrre, resulted like alt
former attempts. .Aoncomaii5uS, u
.NIeeer HiHo.' A similar case occurred
al Pot:svile last week.
The Grand Jury OF Lycomine county
have recommended that tina, county fur,
nish stone for the Washington Nalionai
Monument.