Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-06-15

At the conclusion Of the usual services
in the NJ. L. Church, in WiiliamSpoT;, on
Sunday morning, about fifty persous were
admitted TO ful! membership.
Not long ago, two Jews called on Mr..
Eeinhart, in Penu's Valley, and made q
purchase OF some SIX head Of cattle They
stated that they were butchers and owned
large amount OF real estate 10 Lock Ha-
ven. They agreed to pay fre cents a
pound for the cattle, making 1915, paying
so when they took the cattle away. and
the balance in u short time. Mr.. Rein
hart has since learned that they own no
property, are not butchers, and that they
sold the cattle for four cents per pound.
Upon these facts lie made coml laiut
against them for swindling, and 90 Friday
last, Sheriff Mccoy arrested them, end
they gave bail for their appearance al
Court
Mr.. Clements steam ferry and tow boa,
makes regular trips from Sunbury to the
Snyder county side Of the tlSer, having a
wharf On both sides.
Messrs Wm Clark and John Wallower,
Jr., are nominated for Assembly by the
Republicans Of Dauphin county.
\ travelling "eorn 4 e'or" was arrested
iu MI.roy on charge OF rotbiog house 10
Beiletouye where he had been .'profcs-
sionaily."
Another paper, called the "Juuia's
True bem1era:, bas bten started IN Nif-
f.uiOwn by Green X Harris 1t is sup
posed TO be the organ OF the Crawford sort
Of Democracy, in opposition to the old
Register, and IS model Of workmanship.
j. Fl. Arnold has hung out his Law
single in Middleburg, Snyder Co.
Joseph II. Scranton, of Scranton, has
been elected President of the Llckawanna
& Bloomsbury Il. X. Co, in place Of Maj.
" Neil, resigned.
Edward T. Gay, the Superintendent Of
tbe Sunbury i Erie Railroad, selected a
piece of ground on Mr.. Cakes farm, ad-
joining the borough Of sudbury, for al
engine house, ,urn-tab.e, &c. The work
vii be connected immediately.
An Argument Court will be held for
Snyder county, .6;h and 9th inst.
The Berwick Gazette states that the
Wheat Fly is very destructive in that vi
entity.
Ga Monday las, man, who gave his
name ss Robert Clark, was arrested near
Tamaqua, brought to Bloomsbury and
lodged in Jail, for stealing a horse, be-
longing to Rudolph Sauman, Of Main
vile, Columbia county.
We see it stated in one Of the Wilkes
Barre papers, that Robert Shay, convicted
not long since Of the crime OF homicide,
has been appointed sut-jailor by the
Sheriff, and Is even permitted TO leave the
precincts Of the Jail and visit the saloons.
This, if true, is a culpable remissness on
the part Of the Sheriff that should be sum.
mariiy checked. lie has 10 right to make
such distinctions between those in his
charge, ana We hope this viii prove the
last time We shall hear Of such malteasauee
in ofiice.-.Serantoa RrPuJficon.
The Hest-Branch Bulletin is a neat,
spirited, six-colunned, mi-weekly jus,
issued in Wiiliamsfor,-Cyrus Jefries,
Editor and Proprietor; Bower & Fi,zscr-
aid, Printers.
4 fine new saE-mill has been erected
By Dela;e & Cilley, in jersey Shore.
Sterling Elrieks, aged sixty years,
resident Of Bolivar, VI WesimoIelaud county,
Pa, was killed last week on the Pennsyl-
vania Central Railroad, whilst chasing bis
cows of the track
A vast Aquarium is being made in
Philadelphia for the Continental Hotel
Is area is twenty feet square, and its
depth ten feet. Ii is to be divided into
two compartments, and it's object is to af
ford receptacle in which turtles, Holsters,
terrapins, &c, can be fatteued for the table
A. a. Church, late Treasurer Of the
Luzerne County Agricultural Society, has
a red Devon COW which yielded twenty
five pounds aud fifteen ounces of milk q:
one regular milking.
Il. p. Flenniken, of Pi,tsburg, formerly
of Faye'te county, has been appointed
Jud ge Of the United States Court for the ,
Territory Of Utah. /
Strawberries sell 10 Danville a, eighteen
cents per quart, aud new potatoes at thir-
ty-one cents per peck. O!d potatoes have .
fallen as low as twenty five cents per
bushcl, and not much Of a demand for
them at that price.
Ia Williamsport, last Sunday, E G omaz,
a Spaniari by birth, whilst taking ride
with bis little SOP in boa, Oh the river,
was accidentally drowned. The boy,
whilst reaching for something in the Wa
ter, fell overheard the father, unatla to
reach him, jumped in after him, but was
unable TO make the shore He leaves a
wife and two children.