Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-24

Strub!e, met with horrible death il
Westmo.eland county, the other day. II
was engaged 10 some capacity or other .
the salt works, and while intoxicated, fcl
into vat Of boiling salt water. He wa
extrica,ed with all possible dispatch, aut
when taken OUT, presented horrible spec
tace The fe.h fell from his bone. il
large fakes, while be was so horribly dis
figured that be bore bu, little resemblance
to human being lie lived short time
suffering the most e1cruciating agony and
then e1pired-another victim to the de-
mon of intempcraDce.
POPULATION OF KASsAs-Judge Ar
ny, Of Kansas, has received from Hon. j
v. Robinson, Secretary of State under
the Wyandott Constitution, the census Ia
ken last spring, as fled in the Office of the
Secretary of the Territory, which shows
/ that there are 1926 souls. 1t leaves
more than hundred Of towns uureturned,
aud fifteen counties not returned. Mr..
Robinson says there are now ll0 000 in-
habiiants iu Kansas Riley County, is
one county Of which not word is SAID
AtcbisOn county is not returned Atchi.
son City alone has about 5000 inhabi.
tants. He says the Official election re-
turns for delegate, when received here,
will show that Kansas has over 100 900
inhabitants.
\ bill is before the Wisconsin State
State Legislature, to abolish all laws for
the collection Of debts. Judging from
the press uf that State, the people are IA
vorable 10 such law. The Burlington
Gdgene says, '.pass such law and bGs!
ness will at once assume ia proper Level
the cash basis. The creditor, instead of
enquiring Of his customers, how much is
he worth? p would ask the question Is he
honest 7?
TURNING A New LEAF-A Washing
ton letter writer, describing the scene Of
swearing in Members of Congress, says:
"rhe Members were then called up TO be
sworn in-fcur or five men at time, all
laying their righ. hand on the open Bible,
aud take the Constitutional oath. There
was some indications Of feeling when a
particular Member kissed the page and
passed the volume on to his ne!gbbo
The neighbor refused to kiss the same
page, but turned it over and kissed anoth-
er one. With this exception, everything
passed of harmoDiously."
The Liberty Ond) HerdH says that
school Ieach,r in UuIcn county was duck
ed by his scholars on the 81 Of last month,
because be did not ''treat" during the
holidays. They insisted that he should
treat, or take duckIDg. He refused, aud
they took him TO stream near by, cut q
hole in the ice, and put him in and pulled
him ou, about a dozen times. The teach
er had them fined, and it cost each one of
the young gentlemen s.. The teachers
name is Gard.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-Thc Repub-
lican Congressional Executive Committee
met tonight, and organized by elec;ing
Senator King of New York, chairman,
Hon. John Covode of Pennsylvania, Treas
urer, and George Harrington, Secretary.
The Democratic National Executive
Committee are sending out large num-
Der of political documents while the Cen
trail Executive Committee Of the Consti.u-
tional Union party, have commenced the
Presidential canvass by the extensive dis
tribution of copies of their address 70 the
people Of the United States.
A clergyman in Salem, n. j., says the
Standard, recently announced from his
pulpit that upon the next Sabbath eve
ming he would preach a sermon to "moral
men" Upon the occasion the house was
crowded in every part, and large proper
ton Of the congregation was made up Of
those who had not "darkened church
door, for years!
Hon. John Covode, from the West
morelaud district, ha, been appointed
Chairman Of the Republican National
Committee, at Washington. Mr.. COvode
is emphatically working man, aud no
better selection could have been made.
No matter in what position Mr.. Covode
may be placed, be will do his whole duty
With good will and willing heart.
FELo DE Sc IN CHuRcu.-Two Sun
days since a young man attempted to COM
NIT suicide in a church i'll Sumner, Hill
uois, BY cutting his throat with pocket
knife. He first severed the main arteries
in each arm. When first discovered be
was seen holding his head on his left arm
and the blood trickling down his neck and
arms.
A wedding took place in Detroit, the
other day, between an aged female Of six
ty-ive and a young man of twenty
They were cousins, and on uniting .hem-
selves in matrimony, became possessed OF
ten thousand dollars by request. The
donor of his money had, upon his death
bed, willed them five thousand dollars
each, under condition they married in the
family.
Daniel Ulmau, the American candidate
for Governor of New York few years
since, has joined the "Republican Cam