Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-03
News llems from Other Counties.
The now NJ f. Church 10 Shamokin is
to be dedicated on Sunday next.

to be dedicated on Sunday next.
The Scarlet Fever continues to desolate
the homes of people in various sections Of
the State. In one township of Jefferson
county, twenty-five children have died
within period of two months, aud the
disease, instead Of aba'iog, appears to be
increasing, whole families Of children be-
ing Frustrated with it.
The Pottery establishment of John
Hicks, in Bloomsburg, has been destroyed
by fire.
DR.. John W. Rhoads has opened a Drug
Store on Mill street in DanvIie.
Rev. Peter Cariright, the pioneer Of
Methodism in the West, recently leu;urcd
TO a large audience in Harrisburg.
KILLED.-A man named Jesse Glatfel-
ter, residing near York, on the line Of the
Northern Central Railroad, was recently
kicked by a horse on the head, about the
temple, aud Immediately killed.
CHILDREN BURNED In NJ filn coln-
ty, the house of Michael Carrie was
burned with all its contents, aud two chill
dren persisted in the flames. Two other
children, little boy aud girl, made their
escape by leaping from the second story
window TO the ground.
Col. J. p Coburn of Aaronsburg, aud
\. &. Touner have been admitted to the
Bar Of Center county.
HARRISBURG, JAN 2S.-The remains
of Prof. James Z. EsPy were brought to
this place, yesterday afternoon, from Gin
cinnati, and inferred in Mount kalmia
Cemetery. He vas brother OF j. S. Is
py, Esq, aud Was formerly resident OF
Harrisburg.
Tue Follmcr church in Turbut town.
ship, on the site Of the old house, Was d,d-
ica,ed on Sunday the 22d ult
On the l7lh ult., as Wilson Irwin, his
wife, and three children, were riding
around the bend of the pike, east If the
borough OF Uui1nvilic, by some msLap
the vehicle in which they were seated
was turned over the bank, and one child
instantly killed by hayiugits head crushed,
Mrs. Irwin seriously injured, and one Of
the horses badly bruised The bercavcd
family can only be coudolcd by the Giver
of every good and perfect gift, but will
receive the sympathy Of generous cum-
munity.
A Republican Club has been formed il
Midilcburg, Snyder county. (ALcad OF
Tuiop c,unrv tli- TINA y
VALUABLE PATENT-Our townsmen
Messrs VIM. Patton and Vim. Meyer,
have obiaiued patent FIR an Improved
Air-'ight Stopper, for Preserve Jars"
which is the best thing of the hind ever
yet invented. BY the use Of this article
all difficulties heretofore experienced by
the housewives in keeping fresh aud sweet
the various fruits, are obviated. 1t is a
most valuable invention, and must, from
its simplicity aud intrinsic merit, come
into general use. Mr.. Meyer is the pro-
prietor of the celebrated Stone Ware Man
ufactory of this place, whose wares have
already acquired wide reputation.-Nar-
risJury Sentinel.
Owen Finlau is in prison for breaking
into and robbing the Post Office at Tc-
wanda.
The people of Williamsport have been
moving in public for the promotion Of the
cause of temperance.
The whole amount of coal sent from the
two regions of Northumberland county, in
1859, was as follows:
Shamokiu 1S0,15
Trevorton l2i,.90
Total in tons, 3O5,0l3
Increase since 1858 e. ,46f
Woods M'Guirc, E>q late of NJ Ewens
vile, has settled III Chicago, to practice
law
PfoftqJ1e Evans Gift book advcr-
tisemeuts. We have inserted zen. at
least-in the stove-and shall serve all
similar tasors in the same way.-HyW-
iaysJuy Standrd.
PHILAD. MANUFACTURERs.-The Eve.
ming Express, paper published IN the
city of Savannah, Georgia, asserts that,
during the present winter, locomotive
building of Philadelphia has obtained or
lers in the South to the extent of fi!ty-six
locomotives for railroads in that section of
the Union.
Ga the 10th of January, Simon Beck,
IF Snyder,own, Ni,tany Valley, was enga,
,ed in threshing for Daniel Pealer of the
'ame place Whilst thus engaged, the un-
;ortuuate man observed that the strap was
dipping off the pulley and made an at,
empt to put it Alright with his hand, which
vas caught and drawn around the pulley,
racturing and mutilatiDg the fore arm in
/ most shocking manner, the bones being
,roken in such manner as to pass through
lis garments. 1t was found necessary to
lmputate the limb.
Two men were taken up in Muney, and
ent to the Jail in Sunbary, on the charge
If stealing jewelry and clothing from a
nan stopping at Reynolds hotel in Tur-
'utville
A party of hunters few days since
hot two wild cats in Sullivan county
)ne weighed 45 and the other So pounds.
On the morning Of the 2lst ult., a coal
rain near GoldsborOugh met an accident
" the breaking of a car, by which the [