The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-05-03
THE NEWS.

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incorporate the Danyille Gas Company.
II The Legislature will adjourn SINE die
on the 9Th of May.
n All the Fasbion-Raulesnake and
ckecker-board pattern pants.
IT Coz. M'cLuRE, Of The Chambersburg
Wing, gives the X. Ms. the cold shoulder.
E- Hon. JosEpH CASEY has left New Bet
lin, and in future will practice law in Har.
risburg.
The Opening Of the Erie Canal, New York,
is likely 10 be postponed till the I4lh Of the
present month, as The canal needs repairs.
T A Newspaper has been establish
ed IN the town Of Shamokin. So cay s a re-
port.
az" Six hundred passengers, bound for
Kansas, passed over the Pennsylvania Rail.
road one day last week.
u The prospect of an abundant grain
crop throughout The Union is very falter-
ing.
gzv- A correspondent of the Piusburg
Union, mentions Hon. Asa Packer OF Mauch
Chunk, for the mex, Governor of Pennsylva-
mia.
Sad accident. Angle, son Of Jno.
Angle, of Centre township, Columbia CO.,
was kicked by a horse las. week and killed.
Result Of the Credit System.-A man has
been arrested in New York for borrowing
another mans wife, and $500 Of a Bank Pres
ident, and decamping with both.
rr The large slone storc.house opposite
The Mount Carbon Hotel, in Mount Carbon,
was entirely destroyed by fire last Friday
morning. The Noun, Carbon Hotel escaped
with Blu, slight injury.
~ Flour must decline about 10 per Dbl
before any can be exported. The opening
of navigation is developing the fact that there
is an abundance in our country, for all its
wants for six months 10 come.
ESr We continue 10 have the best accouts
OF the coming wheat crop. From Iowa, Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan all
reports are ch~eering-lhe wheat fields never
looked better.
~ The New York Daily Times, edited
by Liet-Governor Raymond, is out against the
prohibitory liquor law. Last Fall and al va
rious times since then, MIR. Raymond has
been vife versa.
u Judge Mcclure OF Pitlsburg last week
decided that The Court could not grant licenses
10 operate longer than the LIST Of October, al
though the applications Were presented TO
the Court a month ago and since held under
al ment 10 await the action Of The Legis.
lature.
Er A petition is circulating in New York
pray ing The Legislature TO pass a law prohib.
ting the use of tobacco and strong tea drink
ing. The vegeiarians are also on the move,
aud intend sending up a strong remonslrance
against the brutalizing practice of eating an
imal food"
c~ Mr.. RICHARD McGRANN has entered
upon a very heavy contract, viz: To CON-
pelte the grading, masonry, Bringing and
blasting OF some thirty three miles Of The
North Pennsylvania Railroad. One cut of
solid rock will exceed $3.50, 600.
'Er MOI many months since, the Supreme
Court Of this State decided that two thousand
pounds weight constituted a ton. Justice
Grier, of the United States Circui, Court, re-
Gently decided tina. a ton was twenty-five
hundred and forty pounds. Who shall de.
eide when doctors disaareet
~ The extensive brewery of George Lau-
er al louisville was entirely destroyed by fire
last Thursday evening, together with a num-
Der Of adjacent buildings. The loss is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000, upon
which there was an insurance of $40, 0OO.-
The origin of the fire is not exactly known,
but it 10 believed 10 have caught accidental
ly.