Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-16

ly injured, while examining eo.n shel
Ter, their fingers having accidentally caught
By the c,g-wheels.-A camphene lamp
having as is supposed nearly burnt out
exploded in Miil.Een's store one evening
but fortunately little injury resulted, ex'
ccpt that it caused an alarm of fire and
the hauling out of "tLe machines fol
iic--A whiskey fight at Yeagertown,
in which one man was SO bruised that Ii
was doubt full whether be would recover, and
another had several severe cuts in his arms.
The chief aggressor was bound over to
Court in the sum of S500-but-who sold
the liquor which was the cause Of the mis-.
cLief?- THE Railroad Bridge over the
Juniata shcrt distance above Lewistown,
was destroyed by fire about one clock on
Sunday morning,4ih inst. The sparE took
from locomotive; there was q watchman
on the bridge, but the water was so cold
that it froze without abating the flames.
The bridge was GO feet long, and will be
Immediately rchuilt. Carl, for
nerly Of Lewistown, while at work on a
scaffold in Harrisburg on the 81 inst, fell
and injured himself So That he died on
Monday
CLINTos.-A Jersey Shore paper states
that FIRE in Lock Haven destroyed the
Arcade, owned By Mrs kiu'zing.-Prof.
Isaac \. Loomis, while engaged in lum 5er-
ing, cut one foot very severely with au
axe, but is supposed to be out of danger.
LUzERYE.-The Furnace below Wilkes
Barre has been blown out for some time
past.---A cute Yankee liquor seller in
Wilkes Barre, sold on Sunday, but early
Monday morning informed upon himself
ard paid his fine without troubling any of
his ncighbors about the m matter.-A man
was Knocked down III the street and beaten
by brute Of afellow to whom be decliued
giving credit a year ago a four year
old Durham, weighing nearly 1000 lbs.
on foot, was slaughtered at Pittstcn. 1t
was raised BY Judge Laporte Of Bradford
county.-A new Democratic paper, the
Spirit cfde Valley, has been started a,
Scranton by Allegar ( Adams--The
Wilkes Barre Times reports thermometer
l. degrees below zero at sunrise in the open
air on the 9th inst-NIiss Harriet A..
Underwood, is missing from Forty Fort,
and her friends are fearful she has been
fOully dealt with. 1t is some weeks since
she disappcarcd.-A campheuc lamp
exploded in the Wilkes Barre post Office
without doing material damage
CHEsrEE.-Thc two Wing papers have
made an arrangement by which each gives
news only from the date Of the other
making substantially scmi-wcekly paper.
The Village Record appears on Tuesday,
the Register & Eean,iaer on Saturdays
Farm sales reported week before last, va
ricd in price from s63 to Sl0O per acre.
Fox hunting is becoming quite n nui-
sance to the staid cd farmers Of Ches.er.
-Two farmers in Kennctt, each having
places worth abou. $50, 600, made a srap
after consultation Of four minutes. One
had waited upon the other to get gift of
the right of way for railroad, and said if
it were his farm he would grant it, the
other then bantercd him TO trade farms
. I'd they traded
LYcoMING-The Press has a lengthy
account Of the efforts to make some great
thoroughf.re from Philadelphia (via Sun
bury to Erie, and states that Canal was
projected in 1852. We hope the Centen-
NAL Anniversary Of that conception will
bear witness Of the birth OF the Railway
connection The Macs LITTER denoun-
ces indecent and swindIing advertisements,
and advocates more rigid tariff on all
medical a4vertisiug-Mr Gibson has
drawn View of Jersey Shore, which the
Republican recommends to have litho-
grarhcd, (FoLKMAR can do it for You. }
Washington correspondent Of the
Williamsport Press states tha: Col. John
F. Carter has experienced another streak
Of luck, By which lie realizes a handsome
sun" "-The churches of Williarsport
have established home Mission-W. II.
Field, agent.-The Jersey Shore News
Letter notices the death Of "Cat:y," or
James Smith, at an advanced age. He
was black man of Herculan strength, the
News Letter alleging as fact that in one
of his river trips he carried a weight of
fourteen hundred pounds of iron from the
beach to the wharf lat one load 2 "A
ire at Pernsvillc on Wednesday night
Of last week destroyed the Store of Tho
mas A. Warner and Millinery shop own
ID BY Thomas Mcconnell. Warner was
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