Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1859-02-25

SERvFD HIN kIGHr.-The negro, who
committed the rape upon the person Of
respectable white married lady near Sere-
no, short time since, UlIer such aggra-
waited circumstances an account Of which
we published some time og2, We are glad
to learn has been convicted Of the crime at
Columbia county Court Of Quarter Session
this week, and sentenced to t,reire years
Imprisonment in the Peui'erfiary-the
utmost limit Of the law. TIf all the ,ehi,e
scoundieis who ravish bidck women we're
likewise punished, the Southern jail, for
i while wculd be full. hut il would teud
10 stop the truta!, wholesale araigama,ion
which Slavery always begets ]
SAD CASE OF DROWNING On the
10Th ult., Mr.. Bryant Garrick, of F7eder-
lex, Illinois, LEFT home TO visit his ia her.
a few miles distant, expecting to be Il IN,
again the same evening. Ia atteIDptin.
to skate up Sugar Creek he broke through
, the ice and was drowHed. His watch and
porte e-monnaie were found on the ice, near
/ the spot where be broke through, ,ani were
the means Of pointing out where his body
lay.
/ Among the Drugs used in tue adultera-
ton Of wines and spirituous liquors, are
sugar Of lead, prussie acid, strychnine and
arsenic. An Instance IS related Of per-
son who, to impart the nutty favor SO
much admired, to Ma1eria wine, put in a
bag Of cockroaches, until the insects we're
dissolved. Marryatt's recipe for making
Sherry is to soak IN old boot il eask Of
Madeira.
TIE FINE STALLION, " BLACK Morgan"
owned by Nr. \. C. Sto8ell, of Petersbam,
Mass, died on the "a inst The Lorse
was unwe.l, and his owner intended to
dose Lin with linsesd oil, but, through
some mistake Of the clerk in the store
where the purchase was made, the horse
got bottle full Of either rosin oil or spir-
rs If fayPeHhAe. The auima! died III
great agony il about seven hours.
The Presidents recommendation to es.
tabli-h military posts in Sonora aud Chi
huahua has been acted on by the House
Committee On Military Affairs, and deci-
dcd negatively. Guess that knocks one
Slavery game)
Five children of Vim. Covenhoven, of
Charlestown, Montgomery county, n. Y,
have died Of scarlet fever in less than five
days. Four Of the little ones, ali brothers,
lay side by side III death, and were buried
on the same day.
MONTREAL, Feb. 12.-The Assembly
passed the vote fixing the seat of Govern
ment at Quebec for four years, by ma
jority of 81. This viii probably result in
erument there.
TEsTIMoNIAL.-One hundred and four
members Of the 55th Congress, have pre-
sented service of silver plate of SIX pieces,
and waiter, costing five hundred aut
twenty dollars, to Mr.. Giddings, Of Ohio.
Mrs. O'Hearn in New York, jumped
from the roof Of a three story house to-
the ground with a child IN her arms Her
drunken husband vas pursuing and threat.
euing to kill her.
In the Massachusetts, Legislature an
amendment to the State Constitution was
adopted requiring 4 residence of two years
in tue State after naturalization before 4
man is qualified to vote.
The city Of New York consumes anuu-
ally /, $50, 200, 600 cubic feet Of gas, 81
80 per LOCO feet, amounting to no less
than s., So, GOO.
ALBANY, Feb. l2.-Georce Bqrtholo-
new, an employee in Thompson's Express
office, was this morning detected in the act
of robbiUg the mails at the Post Office.
The New York 0Jserrey charges twenty.
five cents each, for Marriage aud Obituary
notices aud if the obituary occupies more
than five lines, it has ten cents liue.
1t is said that the parties who have
bought the central bank at HolIidaysbure,
are the Directors of the Lock Haven &.
Tyrone railroad company.
A boy of twelve years, last month, ac-
cihentally fell into Niagara river, above
the Falls, and was carried over It and seen
no more.
Gen. Robes success makes the fifty.
fourth change Of government that Mexico
HdS tAttiltLSSu HI ALC 4Itl INK -SGhGu
years.
There are 122 Indians in Rhode Is
land. The own 1908 acres Of poor land
They are the remains Of the NArEagansetts.
A Richmond, Va, fee ncgress, has
been la,hed by the order Of Mayor Mayo
for failing to give white man the sideNalk.
The Congregational churches IN tho
United States contain go, 0UJ sae'abers---
an Increase Of about IL ,0J0 The past year.
Theodore Parker, in his Lectures puts
franklin first, Ai1ms next, Washiastou
next, and Jefferson fourth.
Ona hundred thousand hides month
are shipped from the La Platte River,
South America.
The official estimate of the cost of priu-
ting the Pacific Railroad Report is OHc
million dollars.
I, is stated that 10 Minnesota there are
among the residents 1000 more males
than females.
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