Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-01-30

t1WUlc tIAAtN't ~ ti f'si''lI IN " FIlF-
horse town Of Ohio, absq1 .'nh.ei af-er
drawing in all bis cash frr New Years
Addresses. and started - set Up scouf-
deuee" shop in New York or PhI'aie'yh-
ia. Two esnecial consiablcs, q ball dog,
and his wa.herwomau. are "af.ar" him Il
is supposed he plea of insanity viii be
interposed 10 hi. behalf.
A larga E'L weighine upwrrls Of three
hundred pounds WAS captured alive last
week by J .mes Morrison. Jtcob G4mbl:,
aud Others, ou Kettle Cre,k-tbe horns are
two fe-t lorg. This is an animal tha.
doe. not frequent those regions in these
latter days, and bis capture has excited
great deal Of curiosity. A large one was
shot at the same place few days prior TO
the capture Of the one now spoken of.
We learn from one Of our New Orleans
papers, that an inquest has just been held
upon the body Of Dennis Donovan, IA
tive Of Ireland, found dead in the Charity
Hospital It appears that the unfortunate
individual had been run over, and bad died
from the injuries received. Thejary rem
dered a verdict of death By an aakao'e.
cart"
A handful of Northern disunionis,, had
pow wow recently at Worcester, lNas-)
and freed their minds, much to the grief
of those Uuion-saying Editors who are not
at all vexed at the hundreds of disunion
meetings and thousands of democratic
Nullifers at the South.
The Point Pleasant VA Republican
states that the slavehol:ors Of Western
Virginia find it Is so d.ii,ult to prevent
their negroes from running away, that to
guard against loss they are selling their
property, SO that it can be carried beyond
the reach of the Underground Railroad.
NASHUA, y II; Jan 9-Three men,
named John Sullivan, VIM Jauuders, and
John Uriine. were arrested for intoxica-
ton, and locked up under the City Hal.
They set fire to the building daring tie
night. and were all smothered The build
ing was slightly damaged,
The records Of marriages in all the large
cities. during the year 55, show a decrease.
This Is sOGlewUar .o..-.---.',o, r.0ai '1o
fact that it was ''leap year" Truly modest
young ladies' prefer some gear when they
Will not be suspected Of being ''too anz-
ious"
The editor IF the Alexandra Gozc1s
has been presented with candle made Of
Camel coal. 1t was manufactured a.
the new establishment for the purpose in
Kanawha county, Va. The candle il
nearly Transparent, resembling wax, and
burns with 4 beautiful clear light.
All the leading Democrats Of Pennsyl-
vania-G7v. Porter, Gen. Brawley, Gov.
Bigler, &e. &e.-havs in their day "bolted
regular Democratic nominations" at home
or in Harrisburg. Their friends have no
business to denounce Lebo / Co.
/ The New Orleans Delta, Secretary Da-
Wis organ, comedies that Kansas viii come
in as Free State, and calls upon the De-
mocracy to Insist tina, it shall not he adj
mi.ted unless a Slave State Is admitted at
the same time.
4 HINT FOR BoNBA-'I will believe"
said Algernon Sidney, sin the right Of one
man to govern i nation de>poticaliy, when
I find man born into the world with boots
and spurs. and a nation born with saddles
on their backs"
CHEMIsrRY AND AGRICULTURE.-The
Connecticut State Agricultural Society, at
its anpual session, appointed chemist, az
a salary of sI00 per aunum, for the pur-
pose of sualyzing manure.
There were $3.50 arrests by the police
Of Philadelphia last year. OF these, H.
4S5 were natives Of Irland, 1l,273 AmerI-
can born, I,527 Germans. S6S English,
and 33l from other countries.
On Thursday of last week two servant
girls at New York, lighted charcoal fire
before retiring to bed, and were found
dead mex; morning, having been suaocatrd
by the poisonous gas during the night.
We are told life is a journey-and to
see the way in which some people cat, you
would imagine they were taking in pro-
, vision enough to last them the whole
length of the journey
, Thomas Downing, colored man, Of
New York city, has retired from the Oys-
ter business, in which he acquired suflc..
ent wealth to be styled millionaire"
; Judge Pearson of Harrisburg, and Jos
j Lewis, of West Chester, are urged fol
Judge of the Supreme Court, in opposition
to the Administration candidate.
Eight persons, all residents of the eoun-
try on the line of the stage road from pn'
Iu..ua 70 InU, Citv ware frozen 10 death