Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-01-04

A party were threshipg whoa: on the
farm of Samuel Clefman, about a mile be-
low Mlllerstowp, Perry county. While
the machine was in motion, the driver,
(vho was the Oldest son Of Frederick
Rinehart, slipped from bis position aud
fell amcug the wheels below, in which one
of his legs was horribly maDgled, from the
effects of which be died in about n hours.
The Chief Of Police, of Philadelphia,
has been instructed by the Mayor to warn
the proprietors of public houses where
raf,iing for poultry is allowed, that the
practice is contrary to law, and must be
discontinued.
Col. Geo. W. Ryan, of Fredericksburg,
Lebanon Co., has bought the Washington
House, kept by Jacob \. Smith, a. Mid
deburg, Snyder CO. The Courier (Rep)
styles him "the right man for the lace"
Lorenzo Metler, Rush TIP, North'd Co,
oD Christmas day killed an insect, of the
pork persuasion, weighing .59 pounds
The property of the Trevorton Coal
and Railroad Company, including the rail-
road, bridges, coal lands, breaker, &c, as
we'll as the property in Snyder county, is
advertised to be sold in Philadelph'a, on
Wednesday, the 25i CT January, BY virtue
Of a decree of tie Supreme Court Of the
Eastern District. The railroad is about
l43 miles in length, including the two
bridges over the Susqueh anna at Port
Treverton, which are $500 feet in length,
with 400 fee, Of trestiing. The original
cost Of this property is over one million OF
dollars.
Samuel P Bates, graduate Of Brown
University in the class Of 1881, and a
native of Mendon, Mass, has been appoin-
ted Deputy Superintendent of the Public
Schools in Pennsylvania.
Henry NJ. Fuller, a noted politician, at
one time Member of Congress from the
Luzerne district, died in Philad. Goth inst.
lie was born in Wayne Co., Pa, 1920.
The bands in the Danville Iron Works
are again mostly on "strike" for wages,
the Rough & Ready hands inducing the
Mon,our workmen to follow their lead
These "s,rikes" in the end almost always
prove a great loss to all concerned.
The Lancaster Eraminer says: owe
have heard ofa project among some Union
men to buy Wbeailaud' from buchanan,
and ask as special favor that he never
return to Lancaster county again"
A Sheriff sale took place in Philsl. a
few days since, of watches from the seized
stock Of a"gift enterprise" concern, bring
ing only $50 per dozen-gold watches!
Henry Fashold of Lower Augusta Tp.,
was seriously injured by his horse, "a
stallion, while the blacksmith was shoeiug
him. The animal seized Mr.. Fashold by
the arm with his teeth, crushing the bones
md acsh in a shocking manner; he raised
Mr.. +. from the ground, aud throwing him
down struck him with hi. fore feet, inti,ct.
ing serious wounds in the head. The
man would most probs5ly have been killed
had not the blacksmith, Benz. kriegbaum,
knocked down the enraged animal.
Dr. John Locke, of Lewistown, while
hunting in the Clearfe!d region, ideuti-
fed 4 stolen horse, for which be received
the S25 reward offered. That was "hunt-
ing to some purpose
NJ. Meylert, Esq, of Sullivan county,
is fast driver, but he was last week
mulc,ed 10 $l5i 80, a. the suit Of Peter
B!lmeyer of Bloomsbury, whose hired
horse, it was claimed, he had driven too
fast.
Frederick Egleman, a native of Hano.
yer in Germany, died in Reading, last
week, aged % years. He was an organ
ist, and made the Astronomical ca'cula-
tions for most of the Almauacs, which he
had flushed up to 1862
One hundred guns were fred in Danvile
on New Years eye in hcror Of General
Scott and Major Anderson.
While two sons of Koras Powell, Of
Fisherville, agedtwelve and eighteen years,
were cutting wood, the Ak of the eldest
slipped and Gu, off one of tho feet Of bis
little brother. The force of the blow was
such that i: entirely severed the foot from
the ankle.
Rev. Dr. John W. Yeoma1s, Moderator
of the last O.S. Presbyterian General AS
sembly, has united in the Official recon-
mcndation Of Friday, 4th Jan. as day of
national humiliation and prayer.
Perry ". Sargent, Of Springfield, Brad
ford Co, on the 7'h inst, came to bis
death III the following manner. He, with
some other boys were a, play in black
smith shcp, when be. fell sgsins, an iron
jus, taken from the FIRE, the heated end
insertipga fatal wound, by passing through
bis body near the lungs.
Gov. Medary Of Kansas has resigned. The
Montgomery scare is there laughed at.
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tgFor the benefit of our business men, we
copy the following from the I,iiEQnsport Press: