Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-05-01
News from other Counties.

iiiSs iudt lHc piiitt5 dIc uO" tHSHSrN III
catching shsd The prospects for fishing
seem to be very good. They are selling
at from $40 to Sl2 per hundred. Mr.. @.
". Barnes, a. Carpenters Point, caugh.
at one haul, on the 9th 9ltimo, with his
seine, eight hundred and forty .hres.
They are selling there q. sl6 per hun.
dred.
Messrs Groves, of the Montour Iron
Company, at Danville, have taken leases
from a number OF Rush township farmers,
with view of searching for iron ore, Of
which there are strong indications. Some
heavy boulders which have been lying on
the top of the ground for many years, on
the farm of Peter Haughawou., have been
found to contain q large percentage Of
iron -!Sunbury American.
The Capital Stock of the Lebanon Wa.
ter Company is to be $4,000, with pow
er to increase it to $50, 900, TO be divided
into shares Of S15 each. The borough
through its Town Council, is authorized
to subscribe for any amount Of shares rot
exceeding 600, and to enable them to do
so, money can be borrowed to pay the
same.
Abraham Frymire, Of Upper Paxton
township, Dauphin county, hung himself
in bis barn, on the oath ult. The deceas-
ed was a man in good circumstances, but
in the sale and purchase of some land,
there were some difficulties involving the
title, which, preying upon his mind, eaus-
ed him to commit the rash act. He leaves
a wife but no children.
Morrow B. Lowrv, in speech that he
made in the State Convention declared
that he had "attended seventeen Demo-
cratic Conventions in his time, and in the
whole seventeen there was not as much
talent as there was to be found in the Re-
publican Convention" A very candid
admission and truthful declaration.
Judge Haines, of Delaware Co, Pa, has
decided that Judge Kane must stand his
trial for his alleged illegal imprisonment
of Passmore Williamson. Kane has en-
dsavored to avoid this, but We hope will
be brought iU tue oaI, auu gou~aas nc uas
long deserved-justice. The trial comes
off next summer.
John Daley, editor of the Warren, Pa,
Ledger, Buchanan paper, has retired
from that concern on account of dissstis-
faction with his party. He charges the
Democratic leaders of Warren county With
having tried to bribs him to endorse their
policy.
The German Reformed Congregation
of Bioomsburg are about erecting new
church the Methodis's also are building
a new church in the same town, and the
Lutherans have just finished one. This
is an indication of moral and religious ad-
vancement.
William Burnside, tanner, near Potter's
Mills in Centre county, recently commit
ted suicide by bleeding himself to death,
in his own barn. He bad borne a good
character, but was disappointed and wor-
ried about money matters.
Judge Hclfeustein has resigned the
Presidency of Philadelphia 4 Sunbury
Railroad, and is succeeded BY Mr. Biddle.
We understand that the Sunbury & Erie
company has taken the stock, and leased
the road for six years.
The debt of the borough Of Harris.
burg on the lst of April was sl43,96
The receipt. Of the past year in the Treas
ury were S27, 7,300-exceedlpg the expen.
diture by S29l. The taxes for the year
were SIS, 5,646,57.
The Potter County Journal thinks the
1900 families in that county have this
year made an average of III pounds Of
maple sugar-33l 900 pounds in all
worth, at 10 cts, Si9, $50.
Attorney General Black has appointed
Jas. F. Skunk, OF Harrisburg, to a clerk
ship in the Attorney Generals office.
Mr. S. is son of the late Gov. Skunk.
The East Penn'a Lutheran Synod pro-
poses to locate their literary institution at
Milton provided the SUM OF $4,000 be rails
cd for that purpose in the Borough.
There is some earnest talk in Dlnvills
about establishing a Ferry across the Riv-
er, if she Bridge Company should con-
clude TO advance the rates Of toll.
The Northumberland County Teachers
Institute had a meeting in the Court
House, in Sudbury on the 26;h, and con-
tinued in session three days.
A white raftsman named Crawford was
last week committed to prison in Williams.
port for stabbing a colored man named
HoIliugs. Both, drank.
Michael Long. of Fayc.te, JuDiata Co.,
committed srieide while insane from bod