Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-09-30

me beAt step is-LeWlspurS, ScNtre
county, and Spruce Creek, and the COM
munleaiion is direct and complete from
St. Louis to New York city.]
! Liquor lNTELLfGENCE.-The vexed and
important question whether len cents or a
shilling shall be the established price of
aglass of grog is still agitating the drinking
circles of New York city. A meeting Of
the propretors of saloons and grcggeries,
has just been held, in which the momen-
tcus question Was discussed pro and con
without any lefai'e conclusion arrived at.
The '7mperance people in the same city
are rCisuing system Of tactics by which
they hope to overcome King Alcohol
They make eoop.aint at the Mayors Of
flee Of all parsons selling liquor wiihou'
license. Warrants for the offenders are
iminediatci, issued, arrests follow, and
heavy iaes, Wa. bonds for the future OBJ
I servauce of the law, are the result. Al
| thCUgh tni~ docs not .I.ect the wants III
TIE rroL.bisory men, yet it gives the law
now existing the appearance Of sOuc;hiug
ike elhcie-cy.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
last week decided that no tavern keeper
can legally sell liquor to anybody on Sun
day. All the taverns and groceries We're
accordingly closed up in Pitisturg on
Sunday last.
At the Nontour Court week before last,
ten Indictments were preferred against the
keepers of tipping houses. Most of them
plead guilty, aud we,e fined from $50 to
slGU.
GONE TO THE PENITEATIARY.-Sher-
III Thomas, Of Bradford county, last week
took three convicts to the Penitentiary,
viz:-Lawrence Gordinier, year; joseph
Gregory, = years; VIM. Cummings, ) years.
Sheriff Snyder, of Columbia county, last
week deposited the following named per-
sons :; in the Peniteptiary and House of
Refuge Henry 5. Warner, - years,
Stephen c. johnson, - years; John
WhippIe, l! years; Hug Mcdonald (bcy)
House of Refuge.
PiTTsBuRG, Sept. Ca large num-
Der of persons have already arrived here
to attend the State Agricultural Fair,
which opens here tomorrow. The rail
roads are TO run extra trains, and an i'm
mense concourse of strangers is expected
tomorrow aud next day. The prepara-
tions at the Fair ground are on the most ,
extensive scale.
PIrrsBuRG, Sept 26.-Ashland, the
home of Henry Clay, was sold on Tuesday
last, pursuant to previous notice, at public
sale, to the highest bidder. James b.
Clay, Esq, was the purchaser, at Sll0
per acre. The tract contained 337 acres.
PITTsBURG, Sept 26.-The Kentucky
papers report white fros.s in that State
The corn and vegetables were affected, and
fears were entertained for the tobacco crop.
Mrs. NJ j Thompson a widow lady has
at Bardstown, Ky, for SANDER.
alt fact," says the BonJay Ga-et,e,
nat the entire population of India DO
uot spend sixpcuce per head in a year in
clothing"
They are building new Court House
in Montgomery county, which is to cost
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars,
to b. paid by a County Tax.
A correspondent of the Boston Trarel-
Ter, writing from the Summit House, Mt.
Washington. Sept. 18th, says: "As sit
down to inform you of the weather here,
the snow is whizzing about me right mer-
rily. aud the thermometer stands at %
degrees. 1t is utterly impossible for
man to stand erect upon the summit now,
where the vad has fair sweep, without
any thing to oDs'ruct its force"
The churches of Boston contributed
near six thousand dollars last Sunday for
the relief of Mobile. Very creditable in
deed
The election in Maine has resulted in
no choice for GovernOg-the Whig caudi-
date receiving more votes than last year,
aud the regui4r democratic candidate less.
The legislature is but little changed since
last year-the Maine Law III ijority is con
sidered stronger.
There were seventy-two towns in Mas
sachusetts, in which the population did
not increase from 1910 to 1850. They
we're all agricultural towns, not enjoying
railroad facilities. A number of these
rural places contained more inhabitants in
1880 than they did in 1850.
The new city of Waterbury has refused
to license grog- shops, ten-pin alleys, and
theatrical performances. 1t will flourish
all the better for such legislation.
Letters from the White Mountains state
that those frozen regions were touched aud
melted by the late hot weather. A letter
from the Alpine House, at Gorham, says
"The thermometer here on Friday stood
at 50 degrees; the oldest inhabitant' new
or knew such weather for more than day"