Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-10-30
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FRIDAY MORNING. OcT. 50. 1877
A pyERTIZE'-Nanufarturrrs Merchants. Mechanic
"A Public Officers in City aud Country, Publisher
all who ~rh 10 tuy sc-wnuld do we'll To- employ tn
columns OF the LcicsiUrg Ctrn.lcs which has lar,
r"i increasing circulation IN community containing
large proportion of active. solvent producers
aud dealers, any in the State.
u See New Advertisements
sen-Mr.W. MILES, Teacher of the Boys
Grammar School, Lewisburg, will perform
the duties of .Anctionctr, in Town or
Country, if required, on .Srfariays only.
Mr. Miles is well qualified.
say-Mr Robt Caldwell, from the upper
end OF Northumberland county, returned
recently after four years absence to
Australia.
sss-A Among the American Presbyterian
Missionaries supposed to have been murd
cred in India of late, are Rev. John l..
Freeman and wifc-thc latter, formerly
Miss Nredenburg, some time resident of
Danvillc, Ia.
JUDGE WILMoT arrived at his home in
this place, on Saturday last. He is in
the enjoyment of excellent health aud fine
spirits As his defeat was anticipated
from the beginning, he is not at all dis
heartcned by the result Of the election
T1,caada Icgas, 23d inst.
Coon NEws.-Gov. Walker and Sccrc-
tary Stanton, We are tclcgraohci from
Kansas, have decided to reject as fraudu-
lent the return Of votes from Oxford,
johnson County, were pretended major
i,y of Sixteen Nuadred was scored up for
the Democratic Pro-Slavery candidates.
This secures Free State Legislature, un-
less there be some juggle with the returns
from other Districts. This is the first
streak of clear daylight from Kansas that
We have seen.
\ Mass Meeting was held at Lccomp-
tou on the 18th, to protest against rcas-
scmbling of the bogus Constitutional Con
vention. 1t met nevertheless, in Kansas,
instead of Missouri, where it mi ght have
been welcomc.-N T. 7ribuac.
A man from Centre county, Of ratl or
respectable appearance when sober, was ar
rested in Lewistown, for being drunk aud
throwing stone at some little girls, the
stone breaking two glasses III street lamp
The wLiskey feat cost him "A hours con
finement in the Jail, and all the money lie
had, to pay fine and costs
SYRIAN WHEAT.-A gentleman from
Alabama received from the Patent Office
some Spring wheat, from the Holy land,
which he sowed last Spring. 1t came to
maturity in eleven weeks, producing
large, full head, with berry i'll every re-
spect equal to the original. This wheat
is reputed to ripen in Syria in sixty days
from sowing.
To prerem Potatoes from sprouiioy, the
old sea captain destroyed the germinating
principle in the potatoes. This he effect,
cd by simply boiling them five minutes,
after which they keep for months, aud
may be boiled as wanted. Might not 9th
cr vegetables, and even some fruits, (say
apples be treated the same way, and thus
be preserved better than now!
A "MARRYING MAN" ."-RevJ.S S. Dubs,
pastor of the German Reformed Church in
Allentown, has married since May, 1928,
fifteen hundred and strcy,throe couples
[Rcv. J. III. Gricr, of Jersey Shore, Pa,
has married since 1911, Jour hundred aaa
,iriy foe couples.l
We learn that horse, quiet, scdate,
buggy horse, the property Of family near
ShelbyviIle Ky, was scared to death the
other day BY seeing an elephant. They
met on the road, when the pony gave one
look of alright, fell down and died
A Danvers correspondent Of the Salem
Gazette says that several shocmakcrs in
that Place have bought land in Virginia at
one dollar per acre-so of some of the
manufacturing hands about Haverhill
Quaint old Fuller says: "Let him who
expects one class of society to prosper in
the highest degree, while the other is in
distress, try whether one side of his face
can smile while the other is pinched."
The sensitive actor who could not sit in
the same room with tea urn on account
OF its Kissing, has recently been so scri-
ously injured by a burst of applause, that
1t is feared he will not recover.
1t was never determined until recently,
who struck Billy Patterson. No one
doubts now that be was struck by the
Panic.
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