Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-08-14

but Is lvIqS near Saratoga lake.
President buchanan, Vice Presiuca:
Breckinridge, and Gen. 'Cass and Howell
Cobb, Of the Cabinet, are said to be Free
Masons -..-.... ......... .-.-..a..-.-
Thomas McElrath, of'the New Tpra;
Tribune, has met with reverse of for
tune'in consequence of lending his credit
to western railroad speculations.
The South newspaper is quite confident
that Mr.. Buchanan will prove right"
on the .fllibuster policy. IL says: I'VE
have no fear that he will betray the spirit
or the policy Of the Ostend report. His
administration rW gioe rs Cuba"
At an American State Convention held
at Dayton, Ohio, on the 9Th, Col. p. Van
Trump was nominated as candidate for
Governor; N. T. Ash, for Lieutenant Gov.
erncr; Jonathan Harshman, for Treasu-
rer; John r. Arthur, for member of the
Board of Public Works; John Davenport,
for Supreme Judge, and c. C. Allen, for
Secretary of State.
YANKEE PENALTY FOR SUNIDE.-A
Hartford paper tells a story of woman
finding man banging by his neck to a
beam in her house. She cut the rope,
threw him down stairs, held his head in a
pail Of water until life was restored, aad
then larruppcd him sOundly with astrsp
Afterwards he went into her room aud
began to show fight, when she attacked
him with rolling pin, drove him into the
room and locked him in.
CoMMENDABLE.-Gen. Iolickoffer, of
Tennessee, lost his wife few days ago.
He was candidate for Congress, and in
the midst of a canvass His competitor
generously proposed that they should close
their appointments to speak, and let the
sovereigns do as they pleased The prop
ositior was, of course, accepted.
THE CRops OF OHIo.-The crops in
Ohio are estimated this season as follows
Oats, twenty millions bushels; rye,
one million; barley, five hundred thou
sand; potatoes, six million five hundred
thousand-making an aggregate of 2S,-
/ 100000 bushels, and being an average OF
forty per cent. increase on the crop Of
1850
A fash of Lightning lately ran down a
stove pipe in bar room at Oranoco, Miss,
and upset man who was leaning back
with his feet on the stove Being pretty
we'll picked with rum, he was proof
against all merely electrical fluids, and
was unhurt We would not recommend
the use of Intoxicating liquor as a protec
tion against lightning, however; for elcc
tricity is quite apt to follow any kind of 4
liquid, and is just as likely to spli: a run
cask as anything else.
THE ToNGUE-A white fur on the
tongue attends simple fever and infama
ton. Yellowness of the tongue attends q
arrangement Of the liver, and is common
to bilious and typhus fevers. A tongue
wildly red on the tip and edge, or down
the centre or over the whole surface, at,
tends inflammation of the mucous mem
brane Of the stomach or bowels. A white
velvet tongue attends mental diseases. A
tongue red at the lips, becoming brown,
dry and glazed, attends typhus state. The
description Of symptoms might be extend
ed infinitely, taking in all the propeusitics
and obliquities of mental and moral condi.
tion. The tongue is a most expressive as
we'll as unruly member .Scicat,fc Amer.
ican.
DR.. Stats says that delirium tremens
is becoming much more manageable than
formerly. He attributes this to the i'm.
mense amount Of strychnine used in the
manufacture of whiskey at the present
time. by using this poison, Gis,iIlers get
about fifty per cent. more liquor than a
bushel Of corn than they formerly did In
Ohio, the use of strychnine in the manu-.
facture of whiskey has become SO great
that the Legislature, short time since,
had to pass "a law, making the offence a
crime punishable by two years confne.
ment in the penitentiary.
OLDEST NAN IN AMERICA.-A CORES.
pondent of the Cassville, Ga, Standard,