Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-08-07

bloodshed.
The Wheat and Rye Crops in this VI
cinity,with very few exceptions, have been
gathered and the harvest has turned out
an abundant one. The oats are ripcDing
rapidly, and also promise heavy crop.
So with corn, which, Notwithstanding the
unfayOrable weather early in the season,
has picked up amazingly, and now looks
as flourishing as it ever was at a similar
period.-ReddiAJ DdiIy GG-eth,
The friends Of the Lewisburg, Centre
and Spruce Creek Railroad intend hold
ing meeting at Millheim on Tuesday
next. There appears to be a disposition
on the part Of some Of the Stockholders TO
change the route SO as to pass around the
end Of Nittany mountain from BUaIsburg,
aud interscct with the Tyrone road at
llcfonte-BeHe/oatc Whiy.
\ fire occurred at Johnstown, Pa, last
Saturday evening, which destroyed prop
erty.to the amount of SO. 600, principally
insured. The extensive Iron Works and
Rolling Mill Of Wood, Morrell & Co. sus-
tanned the greatest loss. The damage to
the works it is thought can be repaired in
time to re-commence operations in Sep
tcmber.
BUFFALO, August "A piece of rock,
of about hundred tons weight, fell from
a precipice CD Goat Island, Niagara, yes
tcrday, three hundred feet below the Brit.
ish Falls. Three persons underneath
were badly hurt. Mr.. G. W. Parsons, Of
Cleveland, it is feared, received fatal ipju-
rics.
SuGAR.-The sugar speculation has
reached its eliminating point, and price
are now on the decline. The probabili-
ties are that with the vast product this
year from the sugar cane, the maple tree
and the sorghum, with the stock unsold of
last season, We shall soon have cheap su-
gar as well as cheap bread.
The Berks County Press of Sd inst says:
We give in to-day's Press the proceedings
in detail of the American and Republican
County Meeting. Il ,r1s The laryest erer
assembled at Reading, and its action Of
such a character as will affect the onward
progress of the Shamoeracy most vitality"
NEW YoRK, August 4.-llrs. Cum
ningham, who has been rendered SO noto-
rious by her connection with the murder
of DIR. Burdell, was arrested to-day on the
charge of felony, connected with the "iic-
titious" birth Of an heir to the Burdell
estate.
NEW ORLEANS, August 4.-Alvices re-
ss;>.I fro~. Texas state .h"s Hon. Tho"-
as j. Rusk, U. S. Senator from that State,
committed suicide at lis residence on the
c9th ult., by shooting Himself through
the head with rifle. No cause Is assign
ed for the act.
John Beck, late of Marion township,
Centre county, has met with an untimely
death in Kansas, whittier he went some
six or eight weeks ago. We are not in
possession ofthe full particulars concerning
his death, but learn that lie was shot in an
ARRAY on the 4th Of July. This is sad in-
telligencc to his friends in this county
Belhfonte Why.
A Political Discussion was advertised
in Nippenose Valley, last month, between
Daniel Bower, Am. Rep, and VIM. A.
Ridge, Dem. Dan was on hand, but Ridge
did not make his appearance, [Ridge it
seems "follows Packer" in courage.l
The editor of the Middlcburg "Volks-
freund" states in his last issue, that he
has four corn stalks in his garden, each of
them measuring II feet, or together IS
feet and having II ears. Pretty well for
an editor.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-The U. S. steam
frigatc Roanoke arrived here from Aspin-
wall, this morning with upward of 200 of
Gen. Walkers men. Twenty-scvcn were
sent to the Hospital Immediately on their
arrival.
! There will be a sale on the 18th Aug.
at Albany, n. Y: of 2l0G articles Of bag.
gage, the accumulation of five years 1t all
the Stations of the New York Central
railroad. A'good chance for spectators.
/ A man named William Baugh was ar.
rested in Chester Co. Pa. for abusing a
colored man. He inflicted a horrible
wound with an axe upon one of the Off
GERS, and attacked the other officer, who
shot Baugh dead in selfdelence.
The people can not sleep o nights in
some places, because the growing crops
make so much noise
PHILADELPHIA, July 3l.-The wife Of
ex-Postmaster General Campbell died here