Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-17
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CARBoNDALE, Feb. 1.-THE city hall
took fire at thalf past ten o'clock this morn.
ing, and was entirely destroyed. 1t was
set on fire by a prisoner, named Owen
Higgins, who was burned to death
The engine house and the Harrison
House were saved, though 10 much danger.
The oil excitement in Nenango and ai-
Joining counties continues to Increase, and
has reached our legislative halls. A gen
tlrman from the West informs US that
'.oif" is the subject of conversation every
where, ana at all times-even "betwecn
meetings" on Sunday.
James Moody, respectable citizen of
Chapman township, Sny der county, died
very suddenly on Friday night of the Sd
inst. His wife awoke at night and heard
him complain Of pain in his head, when he
soon expired.
Lecture in Williamsport, last Tuesday
evening, was by Sam'l G. Wineard, E>q
Topic" Give the Devil his due" 1t is
to be hoped the orator was master of his
subject
INTERESTING CEREMONY Fourteen
persons, three males and eleven females,
were baptized Yesterday afternoon, in the
Delaware, at the foot of Reed Street The
three males were sailors. one of them a
Chinaman. notwithstanding the cold,
some two thousand persons were congrega-
ted on the neighboring wharves to witness
the ceremony. The rigging of the St
Lawrence, lying in the stream off Read
street, vas manned by the entire crew, who
viewed the proceedings from their elevated
positions with deep intercst.-Hdada.
Lclycr, 18th inst.
The Susquehanna Lutheran Conference
held meeting in Williamsport, last week.
t. A. Fink and b. f. Hursh, delegates
from Lewisburg. Next meeting in Espy-
town, first Monday in May.
The most magnificent Hotel 10 the
country, the "Coutincn'al," is now fnish-
ed, and this evening will be thrown open
10 exhibition to the stockholders. The
building is six stories high, is $50 feet on
Ninth street and 40 on Chestnut street.
1t is provided with every accommodation
which art, taste and science can supply
for the accommodation of its occupants, is
furnished, and contains ac-
for one thousand persons
1t is said by persons who are qualified to
make the comparison, that it is the most
and magnificent hotel in the /
untry.-Pilado. Ledyer, 18th inst.
There will be but little change among
our business men or firms the coming
Spring. Those in business can not well
get out, and those out have too much
sense to 60 .Selinsgroce Democrat
NARROW EsCApE-On Thursday night,
Turing the prevalence of the storm, while
Theodore Wells, jr, and Nelson Bruner,
If Muncy, were searching for the lost
,hild of Mr.. Russell, along the river bank,
/ tree was blown down, the branches of
which knocked them down and so stunned
hem that it was some time before either
,ould get up.
CHILD LOST AND FoUND-Tt was an
,ounced on Thursday evening last, that
lllIc VI lNusscil, VI uu-
y, aged about II years, was lost. She
vas sent to school in the afternoon, and
lot returning at the usual time and night
,oming on, inquiries were made for her,
when it was ascertained that she had left
he school about 2 o'clock, but whittier she
lad gone no one knew. She had been
een In the afternoon at the Muncy Bridge,
rom which she was traced to Port Penn,
hence to the outlet Locks, thence into the
Iuncy Hills, on the Watsontown road =
nd across to the main road leading from
his place to Milton, and was finally found
bout 3 o'clock on Friday morning snug
Y slowed away in a comfortable bed at {
he residence of Mr.. Kirk, residing near {
be Warrior Run Church, in Northumber-
md county, where she arrived early in
be evening, having travelled some twelve
r thirteen miles in about four hours, ]
nat terrible evening-cause, unknown. J
The Danville American speaks highly I,
{ Messrs Groves NV iron works in that ;