Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-07-09
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have been credited to the ReSs. The
compositors will err, when the editors don't
The Opposition in Northumberland
county claim the Congressman next term,
and are proposing Robert NJ. Frick, David
Taggart and Samuel J ohm for candidates.
There is great division among the starv-
ing Democracy there, and change is not
improbable.
The voters Of Luzarne county, by di-
rect vote, voted ten to one against the
erection of County Poor House.
\ man named Yocum, between eighty
and ninety years of age, residing in Mil
ford township, Juniata county, committed
suicide by hanging himself on Friday last.
He had been afflicted with cancer for sew
cral years.
\ Military Encampment will be held
at FNEEBURG, Snyder county, commencing
on Monday the 30,h of August next, to
continue one week and to be called "Camp
Washington
Gen Cameron recently entertained, at
his residence, Lochiel, (ncar llarrisburg,)
Lord Napier the British Minister, Count
Sarliges the French Minister, Senator
Seward, Humphrey Maishall, and other
Members Of Congress. The whole party
afterwards visited Pottsville, the Cornwall
iron ore bank, Reading, the coal mines,
etc, accompanied by Mr.. Cullen the Pres
idcnt of the Reading Railroad, Mr. kort-
right the British Consul at Philadelphia,
Mr.Cummings of the Philad. Bulle.in,and
others. Lord Napier was astonishcd at
the dcsoatc look of the iron ard coal re-
sions, but " could nj see' as the Tariff had
anything to do with it-could n't possibly,
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Do, now.
The most important railroad enterprise
now projected in Pennsylvania, (thc COM
ple,ion of the Sunbury & Erie road ex-
cepted, is the extension of the Blooms
burg Il Lackawanna railroad to connect
with the Northern Central road, now com.
plated to Sudbury, and in successful oper-
alton. The distance between the two
points is about u miles -.yanJury Gu
=cue.
NJ j. D. Wilmington, has been appoint
ed Collector of Canal Tolls for the Sun
bury & Erie Railroad Company at Nor
thumberland
Last Sunday week, Mrs J Hammond
Mccormick, of Milton, sustained serious
accident In the afternoon she entered
her meloleon. While pressing down Il
stiff spring, belonging to the instrument,
for the purpose of fastening it, the spring
suddenly escaped her grasp and struck her
violently in the right eye. The sad mis-
hap caused her intense pain, and her ply
sician fears the sight of her eye is entirely
destroyed.
The Muncy Lunliaary states that the
new Liquor Law and two Circuses with
which that town has been cursed, has
brought into it an unprecedented amount
of drunkenness, gambling and prostitution.
Circus actors, gamblers, druukards, and
brazen harlots are drawn together by a
natural affinity.
The sunbury Gazette Straight Bucha,
nan and Lecompton)is down upon Ex-Rev.
Jchu Clancy Jones, old Buck S spokesman
in the House, from old BeIks in Penn'a.
'Iit him again." he deserves it
A woman in Lancaster, Pa, recently
got German, named Lochlin, to marry
her by giving kim s775. Ever since the
marriage the affcctionate couple have been
on a drunken spree, which resulted, on
Thursday night, in the husband throwing
his wife out Of window She is very
badly hurt
Dr. Dorsey, of Hopewell, Bedford Co.,
Pa, while in a stcte of intoxication, on
Monday last, swallowed dose of lauda-
mum, which produced his death in few
hours. His remains were forwarded to
Huntington.
The German Reformed Congregation at
Mausdale, have erected a very neat and
comfortable house of worship. Rev. Mr..
Wolf is the officiating clergyman. We
noticed very handsome Bible on the pull
pit, which was the gift of some ladies con-
nected with ueighboring congregation
DaRrWe Imericdn.
/ In the trial of a Lottery case in Phila-
delphia, a victim testified that he had lost
BY the purchase Of tickets over $4,000.
Mr.. Speiglemeyer, Of Farmauaugh Tp.,
was attacked by black bear one day last
week. Mr.. S. SO valiantly defended him.
self with pinc.knot, the only means Of
defence a. his command, that he put his
unwelcome visitor to flight. Some six or