Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-11-26

wife Of DR.. Chatfec, he was promptly freed
by them, and thought himself very dis
,inguishcd personage, "whose name was
in all the papcrs."]
! 1t is gratifying to observe that the in.
faencs Of Liquor in Elections is becomiug {
less, year by year. Tavern keepers gen
orally make poorer runs than in olden
time. In New York, the Liquor League
Association openly advertised themselves
in market, but no one offered bid. They
declared they could command so many
thousand votes in the city. No bid, still,
as is known but at last they announced
themselves (grasuitously it is thought in
favor of Judge Parker, the Loco candidate
for Governor, who is defeated.
A company of 20 gypsies, of all ages
and sizes, have been encamped, for the
past week. at the foot of Blue Hill over
the rivsr, about two miles from Danville.
They have seven good wagons, Ii Or Is
good horses, and donkey along with
them. In the day time they are prowliug
about the neishboring farm houses, aud
ir town, the women begging and telling
fortunes aud the men bartering and ira
dug horses, watches, &c. They are from
England.
The Union minority against Buchanan
in New Jersey is S,I4S. Add to this
Jones separate American vote in Camden
&c. and the majority is l2,000! The
Legislature i, Opposition, aud will Gust
Wright, the traitor Lccomptonite.
Lots of Locos, Editors, and even Post
Masters, who abused Douglas with all
their might until Election, are now tack
ing abou, to come into his support, leaving
the poor old President to hoe bis own row
as bcs: he can.
At Lysander, Onondaso county, New
York, on Sunday, John G. Forbes tied a
jug of whiskey about his neck ,and attempt
ed TO swim the river. The jug proved too
heavy for him, and he was found the mex,
morning at the bottom.
Inc asningtoD UatoH rrau, rIuy Jonn
Schwartz out Of the party, because he beat
the New Minister to Austria. The idea
of reading man out who goes to Congress
backed by a majority Of the old Berks De.
mocracy is a subject worthy the carica,ure
of Punch.
The fact that Angoulcmc pears have
sold 10 the Baltimore market this year, at
Sc 90 per dozen, may awaken the farmers
to proper notion of the great profits to
be derived from the cultivation Of this
fruit.
Judge Jordan, Of Sunbury, recommend
cd the Grand Jury Of Northumberland
county to favor a new Court House build,
ing, which they did but the Sunbury
Gazette does not second the motion, at
present.
In Flirmount, Virginia, last week, a
white man named John Barns received ff.
teen lashes on the bare back for stealing.
At Richmond, two "fellows" wero ordered
SO each for using ''impudent language"
Prof. Hart has resigned the post of
Principal of the Philadelphia High School,
which he had filled for sixteen years. He
is TO be the editor Of the publications. of
the Sunday School Union.
The alterations in the wall which sur
rounds Christ Church burying ground have
been completed, and Franklin's tombstone
can now be seen through the rallied open-
ing.
Over forty thousand d,lars have recent.
ly been subscribed in Brooklyn to build
new church, which is to be large enough |
to hold 6,000 persons, for Henry Ward
Beecher.
The Board Of Directors Of the Harris.
burg Cotton Factory Company, have re-
solved to start their mill on the 2Sth of
December. 1t has been closed for q year
or more.
Somebody thinks that because woman
sent the first word over the Ocean Tele-
graph it will be talking al! the time. 1t
appears, however, to be quite reserved.
1t is said lady in New York passed
a t.eo thousand dollar counterfeit bill up
on clerk at Stewart's. Do they issue
bills Of that denomination, in York?
Some of the farmers around Milton
warn all persons against hunting or in any
manner trespassing on their grounds.