Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-08-20

ihlnE. hecehtly, an excitement was go'
up; Robinson Il Co. were forced to resign
and assign and retire and remove and &C
away and quit and give up and clear out
&c; u dozen or so Of men in the count J
have signed new stock, $1,000 each, there
or thereabouts, which they propose to pay
in to redeem all the outstanding issues
aud gradually work into credit as an honest
bank. Samuel John is to be Cashier, and
Jerry Zimmerman to continue President
i, being necessary to keep him in while
to know how to work the sly things, bank
fashion. That was one side of the story
The other was that the whole thing is q
swindie; nobody knows how many thou
sands iu notes have been issued if the
new stock is paid in, it will not redeem
the old notes, and if it would there would
be nothing left to bank upon ; that Jerry
Zimmerman has only $50 stock in the
bank and that there should be new
organization throughout. A locker on
suggested that the less they knew Of bank
tricks the better, and the less they had to
do with city brokers, the better: what they
REQUIRED, was, men of 10th character and
capi'al-like Taggart and Priesty at Nor
,humberland, Badly and Frick at Danvil!e,
Cameron and Pollock at Lcwisburg-meu
who would do only an honest, safe, per
fcctly reliable home business; and such,
and such only, might, after some years,
put Shamokin into good company. But
iuding this conversation getting too much
like becoming interesting, l withdrew.
Now for good eight hours sleep-"balmy
sleep"-such as ale givo.h his beloved
windows open and doors unfastened-
not knowing if have three fps to lose,
aud not being afraid Of anybody or any
thing, anywhere.
Up among the hills Of Rush, Aug. II,
Refreshed 10 body and soul, and morn
ing light and sundry birds thereto moving,
my thinking machinery seemed we'll oiled
again, and reverted back to matters last
night unrecognized-to the Cable, Kansas
and various public and private matters
that after all do interest US liz this world
which find is still moving on.
My first trip sight seeing this morning,
was to the ancient Shamokin Baptist
meeting house and burial place. They are
on a small hill, not far from the railway,
within convenient distuucc fun. tio ....L,
which is crossed from the north by log
foot bridge (ShamoIin is name which
a hundred years ago covered the country
from the Broad Mountain to some distance
beyond Sunbury on the west. 1t is now
confined to a large township, the town IN
Coal township. the hills about it,the Dam,
the Ridge, and the Bank) Shamokin is
the mother Of most Of the churches in the
Northumber Association. Organized
in 1874, it enjoyed the pastoral care of
John Patten until 1910, when John VOL
yerton preached until 1922 making but
two pastors in % years-a specimen Of
"good old fashioned stability. DR.. Geo.
Spratt, George NJ. Spratt, Kiucaid, Hig-
gins, Passo, Saxton and WINS Hall were
subsequent pastors or preachers. Their
buryiug ground around the house of wor-
ship, am told, is the oldest in the coun-
try, and some of the rude memorials which
affection devised over the precious dust are
almost efaced, while doubtless hundreds
of grave mounds are completely levelled.
Among the names are those of Wolverton,
Furman, Vastine, Kelly, Campbell, Reader,
Moore, Stout, &c. The inscription upon
the tombstone of the beloved leader, who
was cut off, in the midst Of his days, the
year after the formation of the Associa-
ton, reads thus:
"IIere lies the remains of the Reverend JOHN VOL
VEETON pasture Of the Baptist church in Shamokin,
who departed this life May 18th 1872 in the 18th year OF
Li, age.
Lies here a husband. father, pastor dear,
Until the voice Of God the dead shall hear;
Then rise, ye dust, triumphant from the tomb,
Ascend TO God, and take the uper room
The house of worship is frame, with
fine planed boards, unpainted, unshaded,
but in its day was a superior structure,
we'll lighted. The high pulpit is abou:
level with the thrce-sided gallery (Which
holds nearly as many as the sharp-backed
seats below,) where my gray haired pilot
showed the seat be occupied more to ogle
the lasses in the opposite gallery than to
hear the Gospel. The exact age Of the
house did not learn, but it or its prede.
cessor was once blown down by tornado
which swept through the valley. In 1889
the congregation was divided, the new ono
in Rush erecting house to the north, and
the old one erecting new house in Irish
Valley on The south-tbus leaving the old
house without church. 1t was to-day
resort for the sheep which fed upon the
surrounding ground. Surely the descend
ants of the honored dead who crowd the
old Sbamokin graveyard, should keep that