Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-29
Menus auo Notions.

SrIRIr RAPPIYG MAcuINEs.-The New
York Journa! of Commerce says. manu-.
featuring house in that city is engaged in
making =" medium tables" for people who
live by their wits. The table is like an
ordinary one, with top formed Of thick
board; bl, connected within the cavity of
the latter, is small apparatus. with a
kind Of hammer, for producing the
craps" The hammer is so constructed
with wire running down through The ia
Dle leg, tha, the latter has only 10 be in
contact with nail head, or something o:
The kind, in the floor, 10 enable The opera
tor to produce the raps, BY means OF gal.
yanism.
Oven William. OF England has jus, Ia.
ken out patent for The manufacture OF
artificial stone. The following ingredients
are used ia preparing it, ls0 lbs. pitch
a gals. dead oil or kreosole, ls lbs rosln.
l6 lt.. sui phur, A lbs. finely powdered
lime, $50 lbs. gypsum, 20 cubic feet Of
sand, breeze scorin bricks, stone or other
hard material broken to pieces and passed
through half inch sieve. The sulphur
is a, frs, melted with about thirty pounds
of pitch, after which the rosin is added,
then the remainder Of the pitch with the
lime and g, psum which are introduced by
degrees and well stirred, and the dead OF!
is Fl, 10 be moulded into blocks. In order
TO consolidate the blocks, pressure is ep-
piled to them IN the mould.
DEATH OF VICE PREsIDsNr,.-George
Clinton Of New York. ~ho died in WASH
ing,on, April 2Oih, 1912, in the 73d year
of his age. was the first Vice President
who died in office; Ebridge Gerry. who
succeeded Clinton. and who died Novem.
Der 23d, 1874, aged 10, was The second;
and Mr.. King, now deceased, is the third.
The Charleston Mercury states tha, The
United States District Court 10 that city is
about 10 try the validity of the laws of
South Carolina requiring lheimprisonmen,
Of colored seamen. An action has been
brought against the Sheriff Of Charleston
at the instance Of the British Consul, to re.
cover 81 900 damages for the alleged
false Imprisonment. Of colored British
subject.
Gov. Ramsey Of Minnesota. says in his
exec !leni message to the Territorial Leeis-
la.ure, " In savage communities as well
as civliz d, n majority Of The wrongs com
mi;ted ma be distinctly traced 10 the in
fluence Of intoxicating drinks"
VIM. B. Messer, the Conductor who had
charge Of the train at the time Of the acci.
den, on The Central Railroad, near Newton
Hamilton, was tried in Lewis,own last
week, for the murder Of several passen.
gers. The returned verdict on Saturday
Of no, guilty bu, 10 pay the costs.
A case was tried during the recent ses.
sion of the U. S. Circui. Court in Savannah
which ought 10 be generally understood.
both by the people and the officials who
have charge Of the various Post Offices
throughout the country. The Postmaster
at Sylvania, in Scriven covnty, was ar
ranged and fined Fifty Dollars, for delay
ing letter in his Office.
The Milkmen OF New York have united
in an association TO supply the citizens
with pure milk, at an advanced price, ad.
mi,Ing, bv this act, that they formerly
swindlel them with vilainous mixtures
II is said that the ten thousand babies OF
that metropolis" abjure chalk and waller
and cry out for the pure extrac, Of COW.
There was great rejoicing in the city of
Mexico, on hearing Of The landing of San
ia Anna on Mexican soil. Guns were
fired, bells rung, and other demonstrations
of joy made.
Hon. WIN. A. Graham. was knocked
down by his horse, few days ago, eigh,
miles from HiIlsboro, N. c., aud consid
erably cut, bruised by the wheels of his
buggy passing over him.
The New York Crystal Palace, from
all accounts we can CLEAN from the papers
of that city. will probably not be ready for
the reception Of articles designed for exhi.
billion before The first of June or July.
Potatoes are selling in Ontario county
N. Y, for 10 and l2a cents per bushel.
Lsma'.ine is dying bis physicians hays
no bopts Of him.