Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-05-25
News Jicms from Other Counties.

Pennsylvania Medical College. e.-In the
storm of Thursday, llth inst, number
of trees around The Presbyterian meeting
house in White Deer Valley, Washington
Tp., Hycouing Co., were shivercd by
stroke of lightning, and several pains OF
glass broken from the onse.
NATIONAL VEDErrE" is the title of
very handsome looking paper, just started
in jersey Shore, by Henry and Lewis
Cummings, and devoted to the advocacy c!
American principles.
THE FIRST IRON manufactured in Will
iamsport, was run off at the blast furnace ol
Messrs. Bingham & M'Kinney, early yes
terday morning.
Ga Monday, Jacob Wolf, of Armstrong
township, was brought before Justice Ul-
mer on the complaint of George W. Hart
ranft, and fined four dollars and costs, for
laboring on the Sabbath. - Wmspors Ga
sette o3R inst.
/ We are informed by Judge Colley, Of
Cherry township, Sullivan county, that the
snow recently fell to the depth of fourteen
inches in the neghborhood where he lives.
Rather a wintry intcrludc in the smiling
month of May.-lb;
Last Friday two children Of about four
years of age, one the child of Mr.. Caldwell,
the other Mr.. Cowden, while playing on a
platform erected over the race of the mill
of Messrs. Caldwell and Crane, fell in and
were nearly drowned. They had foated
some rod or 50 before they were discovered.
Their clothes not having become entirely
saturated buoycd them up.-Jersey St0rc
EedeHe
Last week we recorded the death by
drowning of Mr.. James Reed, of Williams
port, since which time the body has been
found 1t had foated nearly mile down
the river. lie was buried the following
Monday by the Masonic Fraternity. The
deceased was 4 respectable and much es
teemed citizen. So says the Gazette
The passenger train on the Sunbury Il
Erie Railroad made the trip from Milton
to Wil!iam>port (twenty-scvcn miles one
Thursday, in twenty five minutes-over i
mile minute.
s@-Thc Jersey Shore leaene says they
are rebuilding the burn. district. Some
scamp tried to break into the house of Da-
vid Eickcrs, and shortly afterwards stole
a horse, which, however, being too lame
to run, was left on the tow-path.
wGThc Williamsport Gazette wants a
good pressman AMI job printer.
CoLUMBIA.-A Post Office is establish
ed at RUPERT, the station on the Catta-
wissa Railroad nearest Bloomsburg, (The
Democrat argues that for public convent
ence the station should be called Blooms
burg - Monroe & Harmau have estab-
lished a Forwarding and Commission
House at Rupert Station.
Rev. Mr. Schcnk is not the Principal of
the Boalsburg Academy, as we published
a week or two since. He made an address
at late examination, and hence arose the
error of supposing him to be the principal.
Rev J. G. Austin still retains the position
Of Principal
sZ-Thc new house for the German Re
formed Church, Sunbury, is finished and
dedicated. Rev. r. A. Fisher has beer
its pastor for twenty years.
The Sunbury Water Company of Sun
bury have offered lots in their new town
plot for the Depot of the Sunbury & Erie
Railway, and the offer was acccptcd.-A
canal boy from Sunbury, named Wolfgang,
was drowned in the Chesapeake, "a few days
since.-Several volunteer companies have
performed their annual training at Mort
cumberland