Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-05-02
Nous liems from Other Counties.

Teachers OF Freeburg Academy, gave al
address on education, much commended
in the "Journal." One correspondent
of the Journal reproves the young folks
for want of sociability and friendship on
equal terms and another pronounces,
"Gen. Lewis Cass the best statesman
America can boast Of" $500. Early on Sa-
turday morning last, the large steam saw
mill of j. II. APP & Co, just above Be-
linsgroye, was found to be on fire, and was
principally consumed. Loss about 81 900,
partly covered by an insurance Of s2,4oo
in the Union County Company. A crazy
woman in the habit Of smoking, was IN
the neighborhood the evening previous,
and had not been seen near there since
it is supposed she may have communicated
the fire, and perished in the flames.
NoRrHuMBERLAND.- "A steam boat is
running between Suntury and Dry Valley
1t is rumored that the S. & Z. II. Il.
Co. offered to build the Northern Central
Il. X. to the Trevorton Bridge, with the
vilege of running their cars over the
whole road to Baltimore. ..... Rev. Il. A.
Fisher has resigned the charge of the Ger.
Ref Ch. Of Sunbury on account OF impair.
ed health Rev. ID. Y. Heisler is spoken
of as his successor.I is stated that
Judge Jordan will license no liquer seller
who breaks the license law before the spe-
cial Court .J +. Wol6nger, Esq, in
long article in the Millennium, exposes most
thoroughly the careiessuess and inconsis-
tencies Of the Assessors Of that county, 10y
comparing and analyzing the Triennial
Assessment Of 1856 with the two previous
assessments.
MoYroUR.-The Montour Iron Compa
ny paid up some sG0, 900 to their hands,
for work done, and on the promise OF
monthly pay hereafter, all ''goes merry as
a marriage bell" The Lutheran Con
ference held session in Danyille. ..... The
public schools and the gas works there are
"going ahead" "A house of worship is
to be erected this season by the Lutherans
in Cooper townsLip..The Presbyterian
meeting house in the Grove, Danville, has
been very nicely fitted up for the new
congregation. go. The Sheriff offers $50 for
the appreLep. On Of two petty thieves who
broke jail.
CLINTON large number of lumber
men have resolved, at a public meeting,
to use the Long Reach, instead of Lock
Haven, as the place for delivering lumber
.... Three men went over the dam with a
raft at Lock Haven "big scare" was
the only evil to the men,. Rev. S. A
Gayley's connection with the Lock Haven
Presbyterian church is Dissolved at his re-
quest The Tangascootack steamboat
has resumed her trips between Farrands-
VILE and Lock Haven.
BLAlR-John F. Lowrey, Esq Of Hol-
lidaysLurg, was accidentally killed on the
Portage Road, 23i nit, by the overthrow
of a Jones History Of the Juniata
Valley is out.
/ SusoUEHANNA.-E B. Chase, who has
been libeling Judge Wilmot, personally,
Professionally, and politically, for year
or two back, having been indicted for the
same by the Grand Jury, has made q full
wholesale retraction of the same......A sow
Of Reuben Harris, of Jackson Up, brought
% pigs at one litter. Two roguish boys
in jackson Township dressed themselves
up like black girls, and presented them
selves, in different parts of the township,
as runaway slaves. The feelings of the
people Of all parties were instantly in their
fvvor. The Post Master, old-line Demo
Gratis, and even the "Union savers" (i
there be any there) were ready to protect
them, offered them home among them,
and acted as honest hearts will act toward
fugltives from oppression, without any re-
gard to the fug'ttvs ela'o law or tho dam
age they were doing to the "Union-saving
crockery.
COLUMBIA One Sunday night, last
month, Keturah, aged 80 years, a daugh-
ter Of Edward M'Henry, committed sui
eide by jumping from bridge into Fish
ing Creek. Her body Was found on Tues.
day, She was deranged.. There are 43
applications for License. The editor Of
the Democrat lost "a female pig some
twelve months of age"
LYcoMING. Michael Shaffer is ap.
pointed Post Master a. White Deer, Union.
town THE Crescent p o. is discontin.
ucd.. THE Jersey Shore News Letter
complaints of the increase of drunkenness
there, altho' no liquor is sold openly.
The Independent Press, of Williamsport
is revived, on the "Cash" and go-ahcad
system, Mr.. Barrett, the Editor, having
, secured the copartnersbiD of Mr. C. III